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The arrival of Wang Kun's new force not only brought supplies to the defenders of Guangzhou, but also brought hope to the defenders. After the city knew that the emperor had organized a large army and would soon arrive in Guangzhou, there was jubilation. Most of the wealthy businessmen in Guangzhou are from Huguang, and these guys have been powerful in Guangdong in recent years, offending many Cantonese people. originally thought that he would be unlucky after the Guangxi soldiers were killed, so when he was defending the city, he assisted Feng Ziyong to resist desperately, which really required someone to ask for money and money. Now that I know that I don't have to die, I am naturally full of laughter.

The people in the city were happy, but Feng Zixin, as the new governor of Liangguang and Yunnan-Guizhou, was not very happy. The emperor has now promoted him to an official, but he has no intention of calling him back to Beijing. Guangdong is not bad here, but Guangxi Yungui is a poor rabbit who doesn't. The emperor appointed Feng Ziyong as the superintendent, that is, he planned not to let him go back, thinking of this Feng Ziyong couldn't help but feel depressed.

At this time, Li Dingguo outside the city had already packed up the defeated army, and he did not dare to act rashly when he saw the Ming army outside the city enter the city of Guangzhou, just now his army had been beaten by the artillery of the Ming army in Guangdong. Thinking of this, Li Dingguo was very annoyed, Guangzhou City is located by the river, the groundwater is very abundant, and all kinds of means used in the north to attack the city in the past cannot be used, and now it can only be used to attack. But just now the siege equipment was lost under the city, and Li Dingguo had no choice but to organize people to go to Baiyun Mountain to cut wood and build siege vehicles and other tools.

Ten days later, the new siege tools were built, and the army that had collected food from Zhaoqing had returned. With food in his heart, Li Dingguo was full of confidence and was ready to attack the city again. But who would have thought that the city of Guangzhou who got the news had the same hatred and hatred, and they didn't even touch the head of the city after several fights. In addition, the warships cruising in the Pearl River, the siege troops could only hide outside the range of the warships' artillery, and this kind of restrained warfare was boring. In the end, Li Dingguo was no longer ready to attack the city, and was ready to send troops to clear the counties around Guangzhou, preparing to besiege the city of Guangzhou.

In this way, the battle stopped and continued until February, and finally Zhu Hongsan's reinforcements came.

Zhu Hongsan set out from Nanjing on 15 December last year and entered Fujian through Xianxia Pass, taking the same route taken by the Qing army when it entered Fujian. Li Chengdong is very familiar with this way, so he walked quite fast. But after entering Fujian, the speed slowed down. In this era, there was no Beijing-Guangzhou Expressway, the terrain of Fujian was mountainous, and the army walked very slowly, and it was only on January 20 of the third year of Shenwu that it came out of the mountainous area of Fujian and entered the Chaozhou Mansion of Guangdong.

After resting in Chaozhou Prefecture for three days, Zhu Hongsan led his troops through Jieyang and Haifeng, and finally entered the territory of Guangzhou Prefecture on 12 February and came to Zengcheng County, a hundred miles east of Guangzhou Prefecture.

By here, it had entered the periphery of Guangzhou, which had been occupied by Li Dingguo some time ago, leaving 2,000 men to garrison. When these guys saw the Ming Dynasty army coming from outside the city, they didn't dare to contact it, so they quickly abandoned the city and fled, fleeing back to Guangzhou to report to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was also startled when he heard that the reinforcements had arrived, and according to his estimates, it would take half a year to travel from Nanjing to Guangdong, but he did not arrive in two months before the enemy moved so quickly.

After receiving the news, Li Dingguo planned to evacuate Guangdong before the enemy's reinforcements arrived. However, withdrawing troops is not something he can do, only Guangdong Governor Lu Daqi can make a decision.

Li Dingguo went to find Lu Daqi with the news from the front, explained the matter in detail, and proposed to withdraw the troops as soon as possible.

After listening to Li Dingguo's intelligence, Lu Daqi asked, "Master Hou, how many troops are there in Chu Rebellion?" ”

"Lord Zhangtai, the spies said that there are 100,000 people, and 10,000 are musketeers in red clothes, and the rest are ordinary soldiers!"

"Master Hou, Chu Shun only has 100,000 people, 10,000 musketeers, we still have 1780,000 left, can't we fight a battle?"

Li Dingguo heard Lu Daqi's question and hurriedly said: "Lord of Taiwan, although we have a large number of people, most of them are guards from Guangxi, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. The siege lords of the past two months have also seen that Chu Rei's army is extremely combative, if the new 100,000 people are so capable of fighting, it would be better for us to retreat early! ”

Lu Daqi twisted his beard and calculated the gains and losses, he is not a military strategist, but he is a politician. Politicians need to think holistically. Of course, the withdrawal of troops can ensure safety, but the trip to Guangdong was fruitless, and Ding Kuichu who returned to Guilin did not take the opportunity to make trouble? It's better to fight with Chu Rebellion, although they have strong combat effectiveness, but there are many of them! Whether or not we can win is still between the two.

After making a decision, Lu Daqi said: "Marquis Li, His Majesty the Emperor ordered me to wait for an expedition to Guangdong, and now Guangzhou is in front of us, but we will be scared back by Chu Wei without a fight, how to explain to Your Majesty when we return to Guilin!" Therefore, the governor decided that Hou Ye would lead the team to fight against Na Chu, and if not, we would return to Guangxi! ”

； Li Dingguo was shocked when he heard Lu Daqi say this: "Lord Taiwan, we have been fighting under the city of Guangzhou for more than two months, and our morale has long been exhausted, but Chu Rebellious's army is unharmed. There is still a battle to fight, but how to retreat if you can't fight? There is a sailor on the Pearl River, and we can only suffer the enemy on our backs, so the last general suggested that while the reinforcements from Chu had not yet arrived, we should go directly up the Pearl River, cross the river at a narrow place on the river, and go to Sihui and Guangning to return to Huaiji! ”

Li Dingguo's analysis is very in place, and now he is taking advantage of the fact that Chu Wei's army has not arrived, and he is calmly withdrawing with the army, so that even the enemy troops in Guangzhou City do not dare to come out to meet the enemy. If you fight a battle according to Lu Daqi's intentions, it is better to say that if you win, if you fail, it will be like a mountain of defeat, and it is not certain whether you can return to Guangxi at that time.

Li Dingguo was just about to persuade Lu Daqi, but he didn't know that Lu Daqi's face sank, and he said: "Master Li, this governor is the Guangdong governor personally appointed by His Majesty, and all the consequences of failure are borne by this governor, you go and prepare!" ”

Seeing that Lu Daqi had made up his mind, Li Dingguo couldn't help it. Of the 240,000 men and horses brought out this time, Li Dingguo's headquarters only had 50,000 people, and the rest were all guards from Guangxi.

Li Dingguo deserved to be an outstanding military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty, and after making up his mind to fight this battle with Zhu Hongsan's Ming army, he led people to choose a decisive battle site outside Guangzhou overnight. Finally, ten miles away from Guangzhou City, a place with flat terrain and a wide field of vision was selected on the east side of Baiyun Mountain. This place is the Shahe overpass in the later city of Guangzhou, where the Shahe River turns around and flows into the Pearl River. This river was just in front of Li Dingguo's army, and if Zhu Hongsan's army wanted to attack, it would have to cross the Shahe River, although the Shahe River was not large, but it could also delay its action. When the time comes, Li Dingguo will come and attack half-crossing, and he can win with one blow. Even if you can't defeat Zhu Hongsan's army, you can retreat and enter Baiyun Mountain, which is now densely wooded, and you can just use the trees to escape.

After Li Dingguo chose the address, it was estimated that the Ming army was almost there, and after returning to the camp, he led 150,000 of the remaining 180,000 troops to camp in the new location, leaving 30,000 and 10,000 wounded soldiers in the old camp to prevent the defenders in Guangzhou from rushing out.

Feng Ziyong in the city of Guangzhou was closed to news, and he didn't know that Li Dingguo outside the city had been transferred, and only after dawn the next day did he find that the number of people in the camp outside the city was much smaller. Feng Ziyong was overjoyed when he saw it, the enemy mobilized the army must be the emperor's reinforcements, and it seemed that Li Dingguo led the army to meet the attack.

Li Dingguo deployed defenses along the Shahe River, and 150,000 people lined up, forming a formation of more than ten miles from the beginning to the end. Lu Daqi rode on a horse, looking at his own soldiers in front and behind, his heart was full of pride, and he was just about to write a poem. Li Dingguo, who was on the side, shouted: "My lord, look in the distance, Chu Regent's army has arrived!" ”

It is now February in Guangdong, it is the season of sunny weather and little rain, Lu Daqi rode on a horse, put his hands on the pergola and looked out, and saw that a black line slowly appeared on the horizon, and with the appearance of the black line, the sky was full of smoke and dust.

Li Dingguo was born in Liukou, and he was a good hand at looking at Feng Wangchen, he looked at the size of the smoke and dust, and said to Lu Daqi: "My lord, it seems that there are 100,000 people on the other side, and it should be the main force of Chu Regent!" ”

Li Dingguo guessed correctly, it was Zhu Hongsan who arrived with reinforcements, but the main battle force did not have 100,000 people, only less than 60,000, and the rest were miscellaneous laborers such as civilian laborers.

After Zhu Hongsan entered Guangdong, he entered the nest and immediately took over the entire Jinyi Wei system in Guangdong, so he had a very clear grasp of Li Dingguo's movements.

Even Li Dingguo chose to fight with Zhu Hongsan on the bank of the Shahe River, and Zhu Hongsan knew it clearly, after reading the information, Zhu Hongsan asked Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County: "Old Li, do you recognize Li Dingguo?" ”

Li Chengdong is now in the hands of Zhu Hongsan, who dares to pretend to be big as before, and when he heard the emperor ask, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Xiao Wang doesn't know Li Dingguo, but I have heard that he is Zhang Rei's righteous son, I heard that he is very capable of fighting, and he is considered powerful among Zhang Rebe's godsons!" ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled secretly in his heart, you don't know history, this Li Dingguo is not simple, the two famous kings in history were fought by him, forcing the king of Dingnan Kong Youde to death in Guilin, and beheading Prince Jing Jing Aixin Jueluo Nikan in Hengyang, this military exploit was unique in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan knew that the Li Chengdong in front of him was not ambiguous, when Duoduo was unaccustomed to the water and soil after he conquered Nanjing, he returned to the north with the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and the rest of Fujian and Guangdong were all fought by this old boy, today I will look at this four-surnamed slave and the god of war at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

"Old Li, I heard that you are very good at fighting, today I handed you 50,000 troops, can you win Li Dingguo's 150,000 horses?"

The corners of Li Chengdong's mouth twitched when he heard the emperor say this, Li Chengdong was born in a rogue family, and he has always fought if he can fight, and if he can't fight, he will run, and he has fought with the enemy to the death. But now that the emperor has something to say, does he Li Chengdong dare to agree?

Li Chengdong had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Xiao Wang will definitely take that Li Dingguo's head!" ”