Chapter 591: Catch them all
Yishan, who had calmed down, did not immediately attack.
He's not that innocent.
Or explain that the psychological shadow caused by the army to him is still too deep, and he must be cautious, but soon all kinds of chaotic news came, and although these news were chaotic, one thing was certain, that is, the British army had really landed, and the British army was really approaching Guangzhou, and the Ming army in Qingyuan had really been transferred away in large numbers, and even the people in the city were organizing militia teams to go south to defend Guangzhou......
Even the female militia and the Young Pioneers went south.
In other words, how dangerous is this Guangzhou!
After determining these, Yishan, Zhou Tianjue and Yiribu immediately understood that the time had come for them to achieve immortality, the time for them to leave their names in history, and the time for them to save the Qing Dynasty!
Immediately afterwards, the Qing army marched south.
In Shaoguan's Eight Banners, Huguang Green Battalion, Sichuan Green Battalion, Liangjiang Green Battalion, Huguang Regiment Training, and Northern Guangdong Regiment Training a total of 120,000 troops, in Shaoguan, Yingde and other places boarded a river boat, along the Beijiang River mighty straight down Qingyuan, this point of waterway is downstream of course it does not take much time, soon the most courageous Phoenix Town soldiers arrived at Qingyuan City, that night the Ming army in the city abandoned the city and fled, Yishan in those who finally waited for the widows of the king to cry in the cry of the swaggers into Qingyuan, At the same time, the news of the British army's breakthrough of Humen came......
"Did Yishan take the bait?"
In the Guangzhou General Staff, Emperor Yang asked his chief of the General Staff.
"Hooked, according to statistics, the total number of Qing troops in Qingyuan has exceeded 100,000."
Chen Liu said excitedly.
There is nothing difficult about this plan.
First of all, there will definitely be no contact between the Qing army and the British army, so don't say that the British army really landed, even if the British army did not land, Yang Feng can still lie to Yishan that he has landed, in fact, there is no need to deceive at all, just release a rumor casually and let the distance and time ferment, not to mention that the British army really has to land, at this time, there is no need for him to spread rumors, those old people who are looking forward to Wang Shi have already made it for him, they have imagined this scene countless times in their dreams, sometimes they can't tell whether it is a dream or a reality.
The Qing army was previously stationed in Shaoguan and Yingde, mainly relying on the mountainous areas to block the Ming army, as long as Yishan gave an order, they could board a ship together at any time and reach Qingyuan along the Beijiang River at the fastest speed.
The only trouble is the evacuation of the people of Qingyuan.
Fortunately, Yang Feng has completed his grassroots construction in nearly two years, and he only needs to order all reserves and reserves to be mobilized under the banner of defending Guangzhou, but those who obey his orders must be loyal, and it is not much trouble for them to take their families to Guangzhou by boat.
The same was true on the British side.
Under the banner of the Qing army's attack, he needed to call up reserves and reserves to defend Guangzhou, and evacuated all the people south of the Dongjiang River to Jiangbei.
He just used the Qing army and the British army to not know the situation of the other party, with the Qing army coming south to lure the British army to land, and at the same time using the British landing to lure the Qing army to the south, when the two families were all fooled, he then swallowed the two together with their strength, just when Pu Ding Cha thought that the main force of the Ming army was in the north to resist the Qing army, and Yishan thought that the main force of the Ming army was in the south to resist the British army, the Ming army of ten infantry brigades and two artillery brigades was already on standby around Qingyuan, and the same four infantry brigades were also on standby on the north bank of the Dongjiang River, and the three ships of Zhenwei were determined......
They are waiting for the God-Emperor.
"I'll leave it to you, don't let me down!"
Yang Feng patted Chen Liu's shoulder and said.
"Obey the order!"
The latter saluted.
"Let's go, it's time to meet the British!"
Yang Feng waved his hand and said to Zeng Tao and the three people who were waiting beside him.
How to encircle and annihilate the Qing army next, and how to launch a counteroffensive against the British army, he doesn't need to worry about it at all, whether the Ming army with 60,000 rifled guns and cannons will pack up the 120,000 Qing army, or the 20,000 Ming army will pack up the 8,000 lobster soldiers, all of them are purely crushed by strength, he doesn't need to care at all, he has only one goal, that is, the British fleet.
He's going to wipe out the fleet.
After he boarded the Weiyuan, the three ships of Dingzhen Weisan immediately set sail and went straight down the river to Humen.
Tiger Gate.
"Ming warship!"
Screams rang out from the Gao Huali.
"What are they going to do?"
Pu Dingcha and Balk looked in amazement at the three ships of Dingzhenwei that had rushed out of Humen, these three battleships had not appeared on the battlefield for a long time, and at this time the speed had reached the limit, and they were down the river and all the sails were open, and the steam engine that burned enough steam drove the propellers to rotate at full speed.
"Oh my God, they're at least twenty knots!"
Balk exclaimed.
"Prepare to intercept!"
Then he yelled.
The four third-class ships such as the Gao Huali, which had been cruising in this sea area, immediately set off, lined up in a horizontal line in the middle of the Humen channel, and showed their side guns to the three ships of Dingzhenwei approaching at full speed, and at the same time, twenty cruisers with a shallower draft also divided into two teams and sailed to the two wings respectively, forming a pocket together with the capital ship, and this pocket opened its mouth to the three ships of Dingzhenwei and waited for it to enter, but the latter did not pay attention to them at all, and a group of guys with a draft of four or five meters or even six or seven meters were in a notoriously complex hydrological and silted estuary. Blocking three battleships with a draft of less than four meters is a joke.
The three ships of Dingzhenwei immediately turned around, and in the sound of the British cruiser's salute, it plunged into a shallow area on the flank, and swaggered past the stunned eyes of those British sailors.
"Am I mistaken?"
Balk looked at the three battleships with a telescope and said, "I seem to have seen a man jump off the Weiyuan. ”
"Do you still care about their soldiers falling overboard?"
Pu Ding Cha was speechless.
What exactly do they want to do?
The plenipotentiary of the British Empire in China said, looking at the three warships shining in the setting sun.
He'll soon find out about it.
The breakthrough of the three ships of Dingzhenwei did not affect the blockade of Humen by the British army, and they were not originally to block these three warships, but in order to avoid these three warships from attacking and harassing the lone British warships and transport ships on the periphery, according to Balk's order, all the transport ships and escort ships on the periphery were transferred to the coast of Xin'an, and the battlefleet protected them. Forcing the British fleet to move closer in a denser formation.
In this way, they were squeezed by the Humen Fortress and the Dingzhenwei three ships from front to back, to a small sea area with Xin'an, that is, the modern Shenzhen wharf as the core.
Of course, they are not trapped.
Because if they wanted to leave, they would not dare to stop them with the three ships of Dingzhenwei, and even the three ships of Dingzhenwei would not dare to approach them, after all, there were more than 20 warships including four third-class ships, and there were nearly 1,000 cannons of various levels alone, and it was impossible to compete with them with the dozens of cannons on the three ships of Dingzhenwei.
But......
"They forgot that there was another God Emperor!"
On the sea shrouded in night, Yang Feng said with a smug smile.
After saying that, his right hand pressed on the hull of the Branham, and then his four fingers silently inserted the plank, and then his body went up and stretched out his left hand at the same time, and inserted it into the hull of the Branham in the same way, and so on his hands continued to alternate, and he went up as quickly and silently as if he were climbing a rock, and soon he showed his head on the side of the ship.
A vigilant sailor on deck walked around with a gun in the dim light.
Suddenly, his head fell eerily.
He collapsed in a shadow on the deck as blood spurted.
Another patrolling sailor not far away glanced at this side, and he didn't notice anything abnormal, he turned around and walked to the stern of the boat to pee, he didn't know that a ghost had reached a meter behind him, Yang Feng's right hand energy knife stretched out, and instantly made his head also fall and the dead body fell into the sea.
"Who?"
At the same moment, there was an exclamation above his head.
Yang Feng raised his head and looked at the observer who was raising the gun on the mainmast with a weird smile, and at the moment when the gun sounded, he went to the backmast, and the energy knife in his right hand slashed diagonally very casually, and a slanted scratch appeared on the mast that was as thick as a water tank, and then like along a landslide, the mast dozens of meters high slid down with a terrible crashing sound, relying on its huge weight and plunging straight into the deck, the observer screamed in horror, holding the rope with both hands and trembling in disbelief, watching this scene in disbelief, just at the same time a gust of wind blew, The mast slowly fell to the side with the sound of crushing planks.
And at this time, Yang Feng appeared at his feet.
The observer crawled down like crazy.
But Yang Feng just swiped diagonally on the main mast like a feather feather.
Then the mast slipped down to the desperate screams of the observers, but instead of penetrating the deck due to the interference of the wind, it fell straight down, and slapped right in the middle of a group of sailors who had just rushed out of the cabin, and the unfortunate sailors were immediately splattered with flesh and blood. And the captain of the Branhan also rushed out at the same time, he watched this scene dumbfounded with a short gun in one hand and a sword in the other, and suddenly roared like madness and pulled the trigger on Yang Feng, who had already reached the foremast, the bullet swept over the broken mainmast and a mess of the deck, and then bounced directly on Yang Feng's titanium alloy plate armor.
"You, who the hell are you?"
His Excellency the Captain roared in grief.
"I, I'm complicated!"
Yang Feng said with a wicked smile at him.
Then he waved his right hand casually.
The energy knife instantly cut off the last mast of this more than 2,000-ton battleship, and the giant ship that was originally spanning the seven seas suddenly became disabled with both legs broken, and then his captain jumped up in his sad and indignant gaze, and fell into the sea with an elegant posture comparable to that of a diver.