Chapter 72 Treasure Sword
Zeng Yiben felt that the key to his frustration in Guangzhou was that he was stabbed from the back by his own people.
Before attacking Guangzhou, he posted invitations in his fellow green forests on the sea, summoning people to attack Guangzhou Prefecture with him. Although Guangzhou Prefecture is rigorous in its defense, there are countless wealthy families in the city, which is extremely tempting to pirates.
For this reason, Yiben led the fleet to attack Chaozhou Prefecture and suffered losses, and then hired Japanese troops to attack Guanghaiwei. He also persuaded Li Mao and others to attack Leizhou, Qiongzhou and other places, so that Guangdong could disperse its troops on the long coastline under the guildlines to reduce the garrison of Guangzhou Prefecture.
In this case, he alone had no worries about conquering Guangzhou Prefecture with his troops. So what he most looked forward to was Lin Afeng and Lin Dao, who were also a giant sea bandit, and as long as their fleet wanted to eat this bite of fat, if any one of them came, Guangzhou Prefecture would definitely be captured.
They are pirates!
Cooked ducks are delivered to your mouth, so how can you avoid eating them?
Zeng Yiben never expected that none of these two people would appear until their lives!
It’s really not that Lin Daogan is on the way to come.
Lin Daogan, who had surrendered to the court, received Zeng Yiben's letter and handed it over to General Guo Cheng. He is now leading his fleet to support the war between Guangdong's garrison Zeng Yiben.
However, on the way, he met another pirate who came to join the alliance with Zeng Yiben, and got on the flagship of Xin Ji, the leader of the gangster, and then slashed the heads of the old and the old with a sword at the night when Zeng Yiben was about to break through Guangzhou City, snatched several warships and presented them to Guo Cheng, the general who was still in Huizhou.
As for Lin Afeng, who has seen the combat power of Qianhu Institution in Xiangshan, he knows more that Guangcheng is not as easy as others imagine. Instead of fighting a battle that will definitely lose, it is better to stay in Penghu and rest. Will it be more comfortable to send a fleet to capture Nan'ao when Zeng San Lao loses?
The night of confrontation was always long. Zeng Yiben retreated to Jiangxin Island and sent people to send letters to Guangzhou City. It seemed that it was like surrendering. The city sent envoys to Jiangxin Island to negotiate with Zeng Yiben, and at the same time sent people to stop Chen Mu's intimidation behavior of continuing to fire shells and bombarding pirate ships on the shore.
On the first day when Guangzhou was approaching by pirates, the horse explorer galloped on the official road. Governor Zhang Han rushed to Chen Mu's camp in the dark at midnight.
"Chen Qianhu, how about the garrison in Guangcheng?"
The boss's governor looked tired, but he felt relieved. The feeling of guarding thieves for thousands of days was not good. Now he was approaching Guangcheng, although Zhang Han was physically and mentally exhausted, but he didn't have to be prepared for his mentality. He walked into the simple military tent set up by two pieces of tents. Zhang Han worriedly said: "The warship has not been built yet, but the thieves have arrived in Guangcheng. I heard that there are three or four thousand troops. Now he seems to be willing to surrender. What do you think should be dealt with?"
What is surrendering? It is obviously a delaying strategy. Even if Zeng Yiben really wants to surrender Chen Mu, he would not want him to surrender. Guanghaiwei's injustice is still wailing on this land. Can't the corpses of the common people in Xin'an County be buried in peace, and surrender?
Chen Mu did not take this off, and first held his fists and saluted, then raised his hand and pointed east and then south, saying: "The Governor clearly observed that there is no need for generals of all troops. Our troops are very sufficient near Guangcheng! You can surround him to death! You can defeat him when the battle is over!"
"I once had a great thief who first captured Guanghai and then Xin'an, and his crime was unforgivable."
Zhang Han was worried that the warships built in Guangdong had not yet been built. As for what Chen Mu said was sufficient, he really didn't think it was sufficient. Instead, he felt that Chen Qianhu was talking big and asked: "How to have sufficient troops? Why do I feel that the troops were too short?"
"There is a battalion of soldiers from Fujian in the east of the city, with more than 400 people. The leader was Hu Liangpeng, who was a brave general. He sent people to the Beiyi camp earlier. In the city, there was General Wang and the Guangdong guards. Although they were not strong enough to fight out of the city, defending the city was no problem. There was a Beiyi camp in the southwest, and the camp was in the Xinhui Xinhui, Huang Dexiang's army had a total of more than 1,400 flag troops, and there were also the south."
Chen Mu found a letter in his backpack and presented it to Zhang Han: "Please check it out. There are written by Bai Jingchen, a thousand households in Qingcheng. In the evening, he had joined the garrison Chen Chaojue in Shunde and Dongguan. He gathered eight large ships of Xiangshan Institute and Chen Chaojue's headquarters, various types of fast ships, more than 40 fire ships, and more than 2,000 soldiers in the flag and military camps were waiting to be encircled."
"There is also Xiangshan Haojing. A few days ago, Yiben sent his thief Xu Jinmei to rob him. Beizhi led his army to attack his troops. Now Haojing merchants have repaid their favor and attracted Shang Li Dan, Portuguese leader Pereira, Quanshang Shi Xiaolou, Quanshang Lin Hongzhong and others gathered more than a thousand men and more than ten ships of all sizes. He entrusted the generals to hand over to the military gate, and just waited for the military gate to allow him to go out of the gate and go into the sea to fight."
Lin Hongzhong, a Quan Shang, was the last merchant who was allowed by the county magistrate Zhou Xing. He was also a very powerful person at that time and was also a merchant from Wang Baikegang in the past.
Zhang Han took a deep breath. Since he heard that Wei Yinbao rebelled in Guangxi, he seemed to have never been so happy. The already chaotic Guangxi and Guangdong that are about to be in chaos, and the terminally ill governor Xiong Jue made him feel that a huge rock was pressed on his heart. If he was not careful, Guangdong and Guangxi would explode.
Especially Guangcheng, the largest city in Guangdong Dusi, if it is broken by a rebel, he will probably be imprisoned even if he can't do this governor! So when Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan and Guo Cheng were transferred to the Linfu garrison, Zhang Han kept hanging in his heart, thinking that Chen Mu's flag army was superb, but he always felt that there were too few people and could not do anything big.
Suddenly, when Chen Mu said this, Zhang Han felt that he was worrying about nothing and murmured: "So many people."
This is not one or two thousand, four or five thousand troops! Not even the guards in Guangcheng who have never fought wars, Zhang Han finally found the key to the problem in Guangdong during this period.
Zhang Han turned around and walked out of the tent. He walked outside and nodded slightly to Chen Mu who was following behind to signal him to come out. Chen Mu was still stunned for a moment before he figured out the instructions of the Supreme Shangguan of Guangdong and Guangxi. He hurriedly came out the tent. He saw Zhang Han slowly paced around him under the light of torches. Finally, he shook his head and sighed: "It's not easy, it's not easy!"
It's all fooled Mr. Chen. You're not cool at all when you dance around me like this!
Making your heart shitty?
Chen Mu felt scared and clasped his fists and said, "Military, are you?"
Zhang Han shook his head, pursed his lips and looked at the sky with the bright moon hanging high, not talking to Chen Mu.
He finally knew what happened in Guangdong this year.
When a governor from the Cao Transportation industry is in a state of trouble, he always feels like the sky falls, and his heart is always heavy.
Yu Dayou knew the military, but Old Yu was just that. To be honest, he asked Yu Dayou for advice not once or twice. Yu Dayou never expressed his thoughts, but told him the orders directly, making the governor feel that he had become an official seal and just ordered.
Over time, he was unhappy to ask Yu Dayou for advice.
Who else can I deal with if I don’t ask Yu Dayou for anything in Guangdong? This is a vicious cycle where all the big and big military affairs are falling.
And this small Qianhu in Xiangshan has become a treasure, making the military affairs of Guangzhou Mansion no longer a big deal. No matter what it is, whether it is Haojing, the Japanese pirates in Guanghaiwei, or even the big thief on the sea once attacked Guangzhou City, as long as there is Chen Qianhu, it will be solved!
boom!
Zhang Han was about to consider the words and praise Chen Qianhu, and heard a loud noise in the direction of Guangzhou City Gate in the distance, which scared everyone in the camp, especially the Governor Zhang Han. The sudden fright caused the boss's face to change color. After a moment, the mood had not calmed down. The little man who ran down the hillside outside the camp made his face look even more ugly.
"The city of Guangzhou was blown up by a thief with a cannon!"
Chapter completed!