Chapter 287: Fighting
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Emperor He Chengzong should have left, and then a messenger came in to report: "The Governor has entered the city from the West Gate, and sent someone to deliver a message, asking Your Excellency to inform the Chinese military officials of the city to discuss the matter of retiring the thieves at the prefect's yamen." ā
Yu Baocheng patted his head, the governor finally came, but he has always been tough, and it is unknown whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to come to Guangzhou to preside over the overall situation.
In the lobby of the prefect's yamen, Wang Zunde sat on the Taishi chair in the hall, and Yu Baocheng, the original owner of the chair, sat in an inconspicuous corner at the end of the left side. The chief officials of the three divisions, including the political envoy, the inspector of the imperial history, the Haibei branch guard, the Hainan branch guard, the coastal defense staff general, and other civil and military officials were all present.
Wang Zunde glanced at everyone, his eyes were sharp, and he said loudly: "Everyone, the thieves have come to the city, but General He Rubin has no news, what is the war in Qiongzhou Mansion, I will send someone to find out." The top priority at the moment is to disperse the thieves and relieve the plight of Guangzhou. It is a great shame that hundreds of thousands of people are blocked in the city by a thousand thieves and wantonly shelled by a thousand thieves! ā
There is no shortage of peacemakers in the officials, and they do not reject the practice of buying peace with silver, or it is not bad to appease this group of thieves. Guangdong Zuobu political envoy Mu Tianyan has such an idea. He came out and said: "If General He is really defeated in Qiongzhou, then the combat power of this thief is not trivial. At present, there are not many troops in Guangzhou, and although there are hundreds of thousands of people, we can't let the people fight and die......"
Wang Zunde interrupted him unceremoniously: "Why not select Ding Zhuangmin to bravely defend his family and defend the country, and go out of the city with the official army to expel the thieves?" ā
Mu Tianyan was blocked back into his stomach with some words sprinkled behind him, almost choking, and stopped his mouth quite embarrassed. ćć
Wang Zunde didn't know that his tough attitude would affect the relationship with the officialdom in Guangdong, although he had the highest official position, but he also understood the reason why the sedan chair people carried people in the officialdom. However, now is an extraordinary period, the thieves appeared in Guangzhou City and kept saying that it was because they used their swords and soldiers in vain, and the rare news of shelling Guangzhou City in a hundred years forced them to the edge of the cliff, and the position of the governor was already crumbling, even if he appeased the other party, he might not be able to keep his official position. If you turn the tide, defeat the other party completely, and atone for your sins, there is still a glimmer of life in the matter.
"I invite you to come here today to discuss how to get rid of the thief. Do you have a plan? ā
Officials such as the Third Division of Guangdong and the Haibei Branch Shoudao looked at their noses and noses, and their noses looked at their hearts, and they did not say a word. They were reluctant to use the sword soldiers, they were not active in sending troops to attack Bo Fu at the beginning, but now Wang Zunde has stabbed the hornet's nest, and he has to clean it up by himself, not to mention that there is no way, and if there is a way, he will not say.
Gao Shunqin, the governor of the imperial palace, was one of the few hard-line officials, and he had strongly supported Wang Zunde when he sent troops to cross the sea to suppress thieves. He stood up and said, "There are only one or two thousand thieves, if you have the cheekiness to negotiate peace with them, how can the court have face?" Even if they want to be appeased, they will be driven out of the Pearl River and then appeased. I agree with what the system said, select Ding Zhuang and the people in the city, give the An family silver, and go out of the city to retreat the thieves. Under the heavy reward, there must be brave men, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, can they not help this small group of thieves? ā
Seeing Gao Shunqin's words of support, Wang Zunde stroked his beard and nodded with satisfaction.
Yu Baocheng scolded secretly in his heart, anyone can speak with empty mouths and white teeth, where does the silver come from, if you have the ability, you can let the merchants donate.
Seeing that the governor and the governor had a clear attitude and intended to behave, Xu Ting, the general of coastal defense, got up and said: "The thieves are coming from overseas, and the way to retreat is on the water. ā
Wang Zunde was quite interested, "Oh? How to attack in two ways? ā
If it was in peacetime, it would not be Xu Ting's turn to speak in front of the governor, and there would be guerrillas of the general army and other generals, and it would not be his turn to be a marginal coastal defense general. However, there are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains, and the powerful generals in Guangdong have all gone to Qiongzhou, and he is the only one among the generals who is qualified.
Seeing that the governor was interested in his words, Xu Ting was flattered and replied respectfully: "Etiquette platform, the land route will lead Ding Zhuangmin to attack bravely with the officers and troops of the guard, and I will lead people to attack the thief ship with fire boats from the river. As long as the thief ship is burned and the back road is cut off, the thief will be in chaos without a fight. ā
"Good strategy!" Wang Zunde's eyes lit up, this method is simple and practical. Without a ship, the thieves have nowhere to go, and even if they can't repel them, they will starve to death. If this group of thieves is completely annihilated and their heads are taken, then the defeat of the army in Qiongzhou and the political crisis caused by the arrival of soldiers and the bombardment of the provincial capital will be eliminated.
He immediately made a decision, and the prefect Yu Baocheng was responsible for recruiting Ding Zhuang, and the envoy was responsible for arranging the army of the guard to fight, and Xu Ting was responsible for the fire attack on the water. The attack must be launched within three days, and those who delay the military aircraft will be dealt with by military law.
Xu Ting happily took the order and left, and Yu Baocheng went to recruit Ding Zhuang. He has already started to do this, but it is just to speed up the progress, but for some reason, he always feels that this matter is not as optimistic as the master of Taiwan thinks.
After three days of peace between the two sides inside and outside the city, no offensive was launched in the city, and no one came out to negotiate. Xia Nan gathered everyone and had a brief battlefield meeting.
"This momentum is not right, two days ago, the prefect's staff went out of the city every day to talk, but there is no one in sight in the past few days, and it is estimated that there is something big in the pipeline." Summer Nan frowned.
Sima De said firmly: "It must be Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang, who arrived in Guangzhou, that the city will be so calm." Maybe they're already preparing for a big fight. ā
Xia Nan asked suspiciously, "Isn't there still a soldier in the city who can fight?" Aren't they all in Qiongzhou? ā
"It's true that the soldiers all went to Qiongzhou, but a city as big as Guangzhou, if you get together, you can always get some troops together - the Guangdong Guard Station is still famous, and it often dispatches people to suppress the riots of the Miao and Yao people. Besides, the city has a large population, as long as you are willing to spend money, it is not a big problem to raise 10,000 or 20,000 young and strong people. ā
Xia Nan was still puzzled: "What combat effectiveness can Minyong have?" It may be okay to defend the city, but outside the city and we will fight in the field, but I am afraid that we will break and flee after two cannons. Wang Zunde really wants to rely on the people to fight with us? Is he so miserable? ā
Wei Lianheng had been thinking about how the other party would make a move, and when he heard Xia Nan ask, he reminded: "You can't just think about land, maybe they will attack on the water." ā
On the water? Summer Minami was even more confused. "Could it be that a few broken sampans of the Guangdong Navy Division? Two cannons will sink, what use can it be? ā
Although Wei Lianheng is a hundred households in the guard, and he does not have much contact with the sailor, the tactics of the sailor in this era are no different from those of pirates, just those few routines. "Sailors, like pirates, have another trick in addition to jumping gangs, which is fire attack." (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.