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When the defenders of the city gate saw this, they were shocked and quickly dispersed the people and closed the city gate. The tall and heavy gates creaked and slowly closed, and the frightened people ran into the city, and even those who were about to leave the city turned around and ran back, but the officers and soldiers could not stop them.

The officers and soldiers who fled back scolded from a distance: "Lose your mother, don't close the door yet, wait for Lao Tzu to enter the city." "Fortunately, the men behind did not follow the pursuit, and there was a gap in the city gate, so they were able to enter the city.

Someone invaded the city of Guangzhou, this is a great event, Guangzhou prefect Yu Baocheng's face turned white after learning about this, there are people of unknown origin with guns and artillery coming to the city, no matter what the consequences are, they will not be able to eat and walk around. There was no full-time governor in Guangdong, and the governor who was also in charge of the governor was far away in Zhaoqing, so he hurriedly sent someone to deliver a letter to the governor's palace and reported the matter to the three divisions in the city.

As he expected, when he heard such a tricky matter, the third division didn't think about how to deal with it, and first of all, he set aside his responsibility. The Yamen of the Political Secretary sent someone to reply that they were only in charge of civil affairs, and that the defense of Guangzhou was none of their business. The commander of the envoy is also very straightforward, except for matters related to the garrison of the guard, don't come to me for anything else. As for the judges, they are only in charge of the criminal name and supervision, and they have nothing to do with it.

The reply from Zhaoqing would not arrive for a while, and Yu Baocheng came to the city wall first to see who was so bold. When I came to the city wall, two miles away, a group of people were fiddling with some iron guys who looked like cannons, and they were busy.

He asked the general in charge of guarding the city wall, "Who is the other party?" Why fight Guangzhou City? ”

The generals are submissive and can't say it.

Yu Baocheng was furious: "Everyone has hit the door, and I don't even know who the other party is." Hurry up and send someone to investigate. ”

A brave soldier was sent down the wall by a hanging basket and ran to the opposite side to inquire. Perhaps the other side adhered to the principle of "the two countries clash, do not cut the attack", and the soldier came back unscathed.

"Your Excellency, these people said that they were from Qiongzhou Mansion, and they came to Guangzhou to ask for an explanation because they were dissatisfied with the governor's order to send troops to suppress them and also sealed their shops. If they don't give them a satisfactory answer, they will bombard the city of Guangzhou! ”

It turned out that this was the case, Yu Baocheng participated in the military discussion of attacking Bofu and knew the details. But knowing the details, he was in a worse mood: the chief soldier He Rubin personally led the army to cross the sea to attack, not only brought elite battalions such as the superintendent and the town standard, but also brought more than a dozen newly cast Hongyi cannons, which can be called lions fighting rabbits, and no one thought about whether they would lose the battle. And now that the thieves have swaggered to the city of Guangzhou, isn't the army crossing the sea more auspicious?

As for the defense of the city, he was not worried: Guangzhou was not only well-defended, but also had a large population. When necessary, a large-scale levy of Ding Zhuang and the mobilization of 100,000 Ding Zhuang to the city are also an instant thing. Although most of the elite soldiers of the battalion were taken to Qiongzhou by He Rubin, there were still men and horses of Xu Ting, the general of coastal defense, inside and outside the city of Guangzhou, and there were also garrisons in Guangzhou and the surrounding guards. These troops were gathered to three or four thousand people, which was enough to serve as the core of the defense of Guangzhou.

However, as the prefect of Guangzhou, he had to consider not only how to defend the city without losing it, but also if he could not drive the other party away and let him bombard the city of Guangzhou, its political influence would be even greater, and officials at all levels, from the governor to the prefect, could not escape responsibility.

The head of the city guard asked: "Do you use the cannons in the city to drive away?" "Although the artillery of the Guangzhou city wall is not as good as the capital, because Guangdong undertook the task of casting the cannon of the Ministry of Industry, there are still several Hongyi cannons on the wall, and there are as many as hundreds of large and small Fulong machine guns.

Yu Baocheng thought about it, but still shook his head: "I'll talk about it when the order of Lord Tai arrives." "At the moment, the other party hasn't done it yet, maybe it's just to go to the city to make a show, it's best not to fight, once the cannon is fired, the news that Guangzhou is being attacked by thieves and soldiers in the city can't be covered, and it has a big impact on his career. It is better to send troops out of the city to drive the other side away.

However, at present, the governor's order has not yet arrived, and he cannot mobilize the battalion to fight out of the city, not to mention that there is no formed battalion in Guangzhou at the moment that can be used, and everything that can be fought is in Qiongzhou.

Yu Baocheng stared at the thieves under the city for a long time, thinking about it, even if the thieves could block the attack of the sea-crossing army, and their combat power was amazing, but there were not a thousand people in the full battle here, and they would not all have three heads and six arms. If you gather the troops in the city where the coastal defense generals and guards are located, plus Ding Zhuang, thousands of people will be pulled out of the city to fight the thieves, and they will be able to fight each other no matter what.

"Someone, go and invite General Xu to the prefect's yamen, and say that there is something important to discuss."

Outside the city, Lin Weiye looked at the faintly visible cannon port on the city wall, and said worriedly: "This distance is a bit embarrassing, the cannon at the head of the city can hit here, which will cause unnecessary casualties, but if you retreat too far, the range of the mortar cannon will not be enough......"

Xia Nan nodded: "I'm also thinking about this." But why didn't the defenders open fire? Could it be that he didn't receive an order from Shangguan? ”

Lin Weiye shook his head: "I don't know about this." He estimated, "The cannon mounted on the city wall can hit farther, but the disadvantage is that there are large dead ends." If we advance to within 200 meters of the city wall, which is the dead end of the city wall cannons, the other side will not be able to help us. ”

"Then push closer, take advantage of the fact that the cannons in the city have not fired, and act quickly."

The defenders at the head of the city watched as this group of people carried a pile of iron lumps to the city, which was close at hand, but they did not dare to fire the cannon because they had no order, and the bows and arrows could not reach it, so they could only watch the other party in a hurry.

After the 10 mortars were ready, Lin Weiye asked, "Can you fire the cannons?" ”

"Fire!"

The defenders at the head of the city saw these people fiddling with iron bumps, and with the sound of a huge cannon, fire came out of these iron bumps, and then black shadows rose into the air, passed over their heads, passed over the city walls, and landed in the city. They looked at each other, is this an artillery bombardment? Why is it all empty?

Then the louder explosions showed them how naïve they had just thought.

Most of the 80-pound bombs that landed in the city were successful, and the force of the impact made the civil structure houses fragile, and many houses were shattered by tiles, beams were broken, and many walls were cracked, and doors and windows were blown off. The most unfortunate was a restaurant, an explosive bomb smashed through the roof and fell from the sky, exploded in the private room on the second floor, several businessmen who were drinking and listening to music were killed on the spot, and one person was shaken out of the window by the shock wave and fell on the street, so frightened that the pedestrians who were stunned by the explosion scattered and fled. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.