Dominate the Country

[Thanks to ‘There is a Green Onion’ 1888 for the tip]

Amidst the heavy artillery fire, a sharp whistle sounded into the attack position. A bald Fuhan Army officer suddenly straightened up from the trench, turned over and jumped out of the trench. Although it was unclear what he was shouting, he drew his sword and waved. The dancing appearance immediately aroused the ferocious energy of the Fuhan Army soldiers waiting for orders on the attack position. Two to three hundred Fuhan Army soldiers straightened their bodies, held their bayonets, held their spears, and rushed towards the barbican with hissing shouts. .

At this moment, the Great East Gate, the city walls, towers and the barbican outside have long been turned into ruins. The attacking soldiers stepped on the broken stones and rushed directly to the top of the city.

When they were still 200 meters away from the Wengcheng, the artillery began to shoot into the gate. The Qing army immediately rushed to the top of the city, and the Fuhan soldiers who rushed up on the gravel were like two red and green torrents rushing toward each other, splashing out fierce flowers of blood.

The two sides began to fight hand-to-hand, and the Qing army was certainly no match. Although they have strength in numbers. Facing the powerful, well-trained and armored Fuhan soldiers, no matter whether the Qing army or the civilians were brave, they were still no match.

The Fuhan army held the bayonet against the Qing army and captured the Wengcheng, and then the Dadongmen. The Qing army clearly outnumbered the Fu Han army, but they were retreating steadily.

The bayonets were sharp and the butts of the rifles were flying. In hand-to-hand combat, the Qing army was beaten back steadily. Corpses fell one after another on the top of the city. There were green camps, civilian braves, military training camps, standard camps and even flag soldiers. Large streams of blood spurted out from the stab wound, and you could even see the intestines flowing out of the wound.

Zenghai personally put on his armor and came to Yushan to supervise the formation. He chopped off the head of a defeated Green Camp general with his own hands, but it was of no use. If the Qing army could not withstand the Fu Han army, it could not withstand it. Zenghai personally supervised the battle, and the small touch and morale boost he brought to the Qing army could not save the overall situation at all.

"General, we can't hold the Dadong Gate..." Baozhu, the deputy general of Guangzhou City Guard Camp, looked at Zenghai with pleading eyes. If he continues to attack Dadongmen like this, all five battalions of his soldiers will be filled in.

Zenghai said nothing, clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white, and closed his eyes helplessly as he looked at the East Gate where the killing sounds were loud. They were no match for the Fuhan Army in hand-to-hand combat, not really! ,

The Fuhan Army only invested two batches of troops at Dadongmen, with less than 1,000 troops. They defeated the Qing troops at Dadongmen who were guarding at least 3,000 to 4,000 troops and retreated steadily. Zenghai also invested two battalions there. Reinforcements, but the situation has not changed at all...

After forty minutes of this hand-to-hand battle, thousands of Qing troops at Dadongmen were completely defeated and swarmed back towards Yushan. The battlefield ground was almost washed with blood, corpses fell to the ground, and red liquid flowed continuously on every inch of the land.

The Fuhan Army's offensive troops did not stop at all and continued to attack Guangzhou City.

Yang Zhengjie lay on the ground exhausted. Even though he led the team to the east teaching field and retreated to the east gate, it was less than a morning. The fierce and tense battle had already drained all his energy and strength. .

Even if he closed his eyes, Yang Zhengjie couldn't sleep. There are only about 500 people left in his team, which is half less than before. And these people are the most capable team in his hands. The entire Zhengzi camp is like a chicken that has been destroyed by the storm, and its soul is gone. Facing the Fuhan Army, Yang Zhengjie can still clearly remember a few faces full of excitement - such soldiers, happy to hear the battle, heroic and fearless.

If the Zhengzi camp is like a depressed chick after being devastated by a storm, the Fuhan Army is like the thunder and lightning clouds generated in the storm, getting brighter and brighter, condensing and accumulating endless power.

Yang Zhengjie could only hear the sound of artillery in the distance now, and could no longer hear the crackling sound of gunfire. The losses of their battalion were too heavy, so they were transferred by Zenghai to the South Gate southwest of Fanshan. That's why he was able to get over it in such a comfortable way. Yang Zhengjie didn't want to think about anything now, he just wanted to sleep comfortably.

On the road from Dadongmen to Yushan, the infantry team was gradually engulfed by thick smoke. The sound of grenades and small cannons was heard in the city, as well as the sound of intensive musket fire.

At noon, groups of wounded, soldiers and civilians carrying stretchers were moved from Fanshan to the South Gate. Subsequently, the artillery shells falling into the city became more dense.

"Mr. Yang, there's not enough medicine for the wound." Mr. Qian, a man in his thirties with a slovenly beard, said urgently to Yang Zhengjie.

"We don't have enough medicine for wounds. Is there any medicine for wounds? Why don't you report it to me quickly?" Yang Zhengjie glanced out and saw a wounded soldier lying on the wooden board with his stomach still bleeding. Yang Zhengjie could see The intestines in the hand holding the wound. This man must have been stabbed through the belly by the Fuhan Army's bayonet.

"The governor has a lot of medicinal materials in his hands. Go quickly. Those who can be saved will be killed by the delay. This thief Chen is suffering from the plague!"

Yang Zhengjie waved his hand and stared blankly in the direction of Fanshan. After a long time, he spat out a curse word with a bitter face: "The wok and the Xin family are shoveling!" This time the trouble was really big. Bannermen all over the city began to run towards the South Gate. They were going to take a boat to the west.

Because in such a short period of time, the Fuhan Army captured Yushan again. Yang Zhengjie was almost confused. The Fuhan Army's progress was too fast and too pressing.

"Fourth brother, now the governors and governors have given up hope in Guangzhou." Yang Zhengxiong said sadly next to Yang Zhengjie. On the entire Nanmen Street, how long has it been? It was already about to be overcrowded by the bannermen leaving the city.

Yang Zhengjie was speechless at his second brother's words. The banner men were about to leave the city, so it was obvious what the superiors wanted to do.

He drank to calm his nerves. A small pot of white wine was poured into his stomach, his head was slightly fuming, and the alcohol caused the tension to be driven out of his heart. But as soon as he turned around, Yang Zhengjie, who was pouring the last sip of wine into his mouth, was knocked to the ground by a terrible wave of air.

He felt as if his whole body had been hit by a charging bull.

The roaring explosion came next, and Yang Zhengjie's entire head went blank.

What a terrible explosion! The entire city of Guangzhou was plunged into dust and smoke. The buzzing tinnitus prevented Yang Zhengjie from hearing any other sounds, although he was yelling crazily.

Because he thought of the Guangzhou bannermen who were being transferred on Nanmen Street. "It's really over now." A deep sense of powerlessness mixed with dizziness made him lie on the ground dejectedly. There was a faint smell of burning in the air, and then there was a burst of explosion sounds, as well as miserable screams and cries during the explosion, and the panicked neighing of cows and horses.

Yang Zhengjie woke up. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a horse dragging a car with its roof lifted off and running past him not far away. There were obvious blood stains on the exploded car. . There is another horse beside him, just like him at the last moment, lying on the ground helplessly and making a dying cry.

Yang Zhengjie rushed into Nanmen Street like crazy. The smoke was like thick fog, and it was difficult to see who was who from three to five feet away. He could only hear endless crying and see dead bodies everywhere...

"Fourth, run away, run away..." Yang Zhengjie's second brother, Yang Zhengxiong, took his hand and ran towards the south gate. While fleeing, he shouted loudly: "When did this happen? Chen's artillery has pulled into the city, Guangzhou is over. You don't care about the life or death of their bannermen, save our brothers' lives first."

Taking advantage of the fact that the defenders of the South Gate also escaped, their brothers and the hardcore men in the camp also fled quickly. Saving your life is more important than anything else. Qing soldiers captured on the battlefield, whether they were officers, soldiers, green battalions or civilian warriors, as long as they were caught by the Fuhan army, they had to be reformed through labor. Who wants to be a coolie?

The Fuhan army attacked like a wave and quickly captured Yushan after taking Dadongmen. Zenghai had no choice but to continuously mobilize troops from various places to fill the bottomless pit of Fanshan, but how long would it take? The Fuhan Army's artillery actually entered the city. They didn't know that the explosion just now was caused by rockets. They thought it was the artillery group of the Fuhan Army coming in.

The few remaining Biao camp at the south gate could not suppress the Green camp's civilian bravery, which was ten times more numerous, and the Wei brothers also took the opportunity to escape.

When Bayan San hurriedly rushed to the South Gate with two battalions of supervisors, what he saw was the South Gate with the city gate wide open, and the tragic scene of the corpses of two to three thousand bannermen who had retreated here strewn across the field.

Bayan San regretted it. If he had known it, he would have asked these bannermen to retreat from Guide Gate further west. Just for the sake of speed, would it be faster to retreat separately, and let them suffer this disaster?

As for the green camp minions who had taken the opportunity to escape, Bayan San was so angry that he wanted to kill all the remaining hundreds of green camp minions.

Gongbei Tower is an important military location in Guangzhou. If you look at the entire map of Guangzhou, including the outer city in the south, Gongbei Tower is located in the center of the entire Guangzhou city.

This building was built in the late Tang Dynasty. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the building has been used as a military sentry. Since the Yuan Dynasty, a new function has been added. It houses a "copper kettle drip" timer, and a dedicated person is responsible for telling the time.

When the fall of Fanshan was imminent, Gongbei Tower was located close to the northeast corner of Guangzhou Mancheng [located in the southwest of Guangzhou City], and naturally became an important barrier to protect Guangzhou Mancheng.

But what Zenghai and Bayansan certainly didn't expect was that a quarrel of considerable intensity was going on in the Gongbei Building at this moment.

The Admiral of Guangxi, Xu Chenglin, looked at the Admiral of Guizhou, Bailing'a, and his eyes burst into flames. "Bailing, your soldiers are human beings, but my soldiers are not human beings? Your Guizhou soldiers are responsible for defense, but you ask my troops to fight back. You What kind of peace of mind do you have?"

"Xu Junmen." Bai Ling'a looked at him with disdain and said coldly: "These are extraordinary times. Be careful what you say. What do you mean by your soldiers and my soldiers? These are all Da Qingguo's soldiers. He is a soldier of the Holy Emperor. Bailing Anai is the governor of Guizhou in the Qing Dynasty, and he is not a traitor with no political agenda. "

Xu Chenglin's pigtails were about to stand on end with anger. At this moment, Bai Ling'a came to pick on the flaws in his words. He said, "Bah!"

"You damn boy are making trouble for me. Mr. Xu is extremely loyal to the Qing Dynasty and loyal to the Long Live Lord. This is known to everyone. It's not like you can reverse right and wrong by saying a few words to Ling'a. I am now I’m telling you, we can fight back, but we can send two battalions each. You want my Guangxi soldiers to be your scapegoats?”

Is Bailing'a a Manchu? Xu Chenglin is a Han, so in the past Xu Chenglin always gave way to Bailing'a. But you can't bully others too much. Bai Ling'a actually wanted to pass all the 'counterattack' tasks ordered by Zenghai to the Guangxi soldiers. How could Xu Chenglin endure this? If he had to endure this, how could he go to see the Guangxi soldiers?

At this moment, Xu Chenglin couldn't bear to look at the way he looked shorter than Bai Ling'a in the past. Pointing at Bai Ling'a's nose, he almost cursed.

"Xu Junmen, Xu Junmen, don't be so excited, don't be so excited. If you have something to say, talk to me." Li Xu, the commander-in-chief of Guzhou Town, Guizhou, has a good temper, and he also feels that Bai Ling'a is the real one. It's too much of a lie. But he had to make a living under Bai Ling'a, so he didn't dare to speak out and seek death. What's more, it was the Guizhou soldiers who took advantage of this matter.

The Qing army in Fanshan was about to be unable to withstand it any longer, and the army retreated to the whole city. This required the support of troops. As for the current city of Guangzhou, in terms of superior geographical location, there is no better location than the Qing army in Gongbei Tower. Moreover, this is also where the Qing army deployed its troops.

One-third of the 20,000-strong Guangxi and Guizhou troops are deployed here.

Sending troops from here can directly threaten the flanks of the Fuhan Army that was defeated in Fanshan. But obviously such an attack is extremely dangerous. Li Xu could only stir up trouble between Xu Chenglin and Bai Ling'a. At the same time, he was also very dissatisfied with Zenghai's order. Doesn't this mean that they will serve as scapegoats for Fanshan's defeated troops?

"You two military men, please speak slowly and speak slowly if you have anything to say. Is there any misunderstanding that cannot be resolved?"

Of course, Bai Ling'a also had a bad temper. If it were three or five years ago, if any general dared to point his nose at him, he would have exploded long ago. In the past two years, the power of the Qing Dynasty had declined. When he faced Han generals and Han soldiers, his temper had become much better, and his self-cultivation had to be much stronger. At this time, he still suppressed the anger in his heart and explained as calmly as possible: "Master Xu, I have no intention of killing anyone with a knife. It's just that the Guizhou soldiers are short of equipment. The less than 10,000 soldiers who left the province are equipped with automatic muskets. If they were to rush forward, the situation would be even more dangerous if they were defeated by Chen Ni and rolled back into the Gongbei Tower position.

No one of us can escape then. "Guizhou soldiers and Guangxi soldiers are guarding Gongbei Tower, an important piece of land in the center of Guangzhou City. They are like grasshoppers on a rope. No one can escape the consequences if something goes wrong.

As for the green camp Qing troops in the two provinces, when it comes to the quality of weapons and soldiers on both sides, Guangxi is better than Guizhou. This is an undeniable fact.

Xu Chenglin didn't listen to this at all, "We are both serving the country, and we only rely on the word loyalty, no matter what other reasons." Even if Bai Ling'a said it in a fancy way, he couldn't follow it.

Bai Ling'a immediately became angry after hearing this, his eyes widened, and he clenched his fists at Xu Chenglin. The two of them were about to really push up the bull, but Li Xu on the other side was about to cry. "Two military gates, two adults, Fanshan is about to be lost. The most important thing is to recruit troops quickly..." He had to call the soldiers to separate the two of them.

But just as Li Xu finished speaking, a rapid sound of gongs suddenly came from the top of Gongbei Tower, "Fanshan has been lost, Fanshan has been lost..."

The expressions of Xu Chenglin and Bailing'a, who were glaring like black cocks just now, changed at the same time. Neither of them expected that Fanshan would fall so quickly.

Zenghai's forehead was wrapped with white gauze, he was placed on a removed door panel and rushed to the rear. Not long ago, a rocket happened to land not far from him. The shock wave caused Zenghai to hit his head on a rock, and he fainted on the spot. At the same time, his banner was also broken by the explosion. The Qing army at the front saw that the banner of the general in the rear was gone. Zenghai's position was still deserted and chaotic. The remaining military morale also collapsed. Soon, the entire line collapsed under an attack by the Fuhan Army. …

Geshiha carried Zenghai and hurried towards Mancheng. The Qing army behind them was completely like a herd of horses that had let go of the reins, with no organization or structure at all.

Bailing'a's eyes turned red.

"Li Xu, hurry up and mobilize your troops, hurry up -"

Xu Chenglin on the other side did not dare to say another word about flowers and directly grabbed his deputy general who raised the bid.

"Don't worry, military men. I understand your humble position!"

The attacking troops were no longer four battalions. Three of Xu Chenglin's five battalion pacesetters were gone. Li Xun brought all the troops from Guzhou Town to Guangdong, more than two thousand people.

…

At this moment, outside Guangzhou, Chen Ming was receiving his 'old friend' with a smile on his face.

After Robert discovered that a large number of bannermen were fleeing from Guangzhou, he knew that the Qing government troops no longer had the will and determination to hold on to Guangzhou. The Fuhan Army may soon win this war.

He quickly contacted François Philippe Perrier, the representative of the French East India Company, plus the Macau Chardonnay, and then representatives from Britain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries arrived at the east gate of Guangzhou City in neat clothes. The Fuhan Army camp outside, begging to meet the future owner of this land flowing with endless wealth!

"Your Excellency, the Grand Duke, this is a small gift to express the highest respect for you and your brave and fearless troops on behalf of the East India Company of the Kingdom of Great Britain."