open sea

Chapter 167 Precious Sword
Zeng Benben felt that the key to his frustration in Guangzhou was being stabbed in the back by his own people.

Before attacking Guangzhou, he sent out invitations among his comrades in the green forests on the sea, and gathered people to attack Guangzhou Mansion with him. Although Guangzhou Mansion was well-defended, there were also countless wealthy families in the city, which was very tempting to pirates.

For this reason, Zeng Yiben did not hesitate to lead the fleet to attack Chaozhou Prefecture first, lose troops and lose generals, and then hired Japanese to break up troops to attack Guanghaiwei. Coastline, in order to reduce the defense force of Guangzhou government.

Under such circumstances, it is not safe to say that he once captured Guangzhou Mansion with his own troops, so what he looks forward to the most is Lin Afeng and Lin Daogan, who are also sea tycoons, as long as their fleet wants to If you eat this fat meat, if you come to any one, Guangzhou Mansion will definitely be captured.

They are pirates!

The cooked duck is delivered to your mouth, can you not eat it?
Zeng Yiben never expected that none of these two people would show up!

It's not like he won't show up, Lin Daoqian is on his way.

Lin Daogan, who had surrendered to the imperial court, received Zeng Yipeng's letter and handed it over to General Guo Cheng. Now he is leading a fleet with his subordinates Zhu Liangbao and Mo Yingfu to support Zeng Yipeng's defense in Guangdong.

However, on the way, he met another band of pirates who came to form an alliance with Zeng Yiben, boarded the flagship of its leader, Xin Lao Xin Ji, and then cut down with his sword at night when Zeng Yiben was about to blast the city of Guangzhou. The new and old heads seized several warships and dedicated them to Guo Cheng, the general soldier who was still in Huizhou.

As for Lin Afeng, he has seen the combat power of the Xiangshan Thousand Households, and he knows that Guangcheng is not as easy to chew as others imagined. Instead of fighting a battle that is bound to be lost, it is better to stay in Penghu and rest. Now, wouldn't it be more comfortable to wait for Zeng Sanlao to lose and directly send a fleet to capture Nan'ao?
The night of confrontation is always long. Zeng Yiyi returned to Jiangxin Island and sent people to send a letter to Guangzhou City. It seemed that there was an intention to surrender. The city sent envoys to Jiangxin Island to negotiate with Zeng Yiyi and at the same time sent people to stop it. Chen Mu's threatening behavior of continuing to bombard the pirate ships on the shore.

On the first day when Guangzhou was approached by pirates, Tan Ma sent orders to gallop along the official road, and Governor Zhang Han rushed to Chen Mu's camp in the dark at midnight.

"Chen Qianhu, how is the defense of Guangcheng?"

The old governor looked tired, but he was relieved. The feeling of guarding against thieves for a thousand days was not good. Now that Zeng Yiben was approaching Guangcheng, although Zhang Han was exhausted physically and mentally, there was no need to be on guard again. Zhang Han said worriedly: "The warship has not been built yet, but the thieves have already arrived in Guangcheng. The old man heard that there are three or four thousand troops. Now he seems to intend to surrender. What do you think?" disposal?"

What is surrender? It’s obviously a tactic to slow down the army. Even if Zeng Benben really wanted to surrender to Chen Mu, he would not let him surrender. The ghosts of Guanghaiwei are still mourning in this land.
Chen Mu didn't accept this. He clasped his fists and saluted, then raised his hands to point east and then south, and said: "The governor is clearly aware that there is no need for the generals of the various departments. Our troops are very sufficient near Guangcheng! Siege, we can siege him to death! Zhan, Can beat him!"

"Zeng Yiben, a great thief, fell into Guanghai first and then into Xin'an. His crime is unforgivable."

Zhang Han was worried that the warships built in Guangdong had not yet been built. As for what Chen Mu said about sufficient troops, he really didn't think that the troops were sufficient. Instead, he felt that Chen Qianhu was talking big. Sufficient, why does the old man feel that the troops are stretched?"

"There is a battalion of soldiers from Fujian in the east of the city, more than 400 people. The leader is Hu Liangpeng, a courageous general. He sent people to the humble camp earlier; Although we are not strong enough to fight outside the city, it is not a problem to defend the city; there are low-ranking officers stationed in the southwest, and there are more than [-] banner troops from the Huang Dexiang Department of the Thousand Households of the Hexinhui in the camp, and there is still the south."

Chen Mu found the letter in his backpack, and presented it to Zhang Han: "Please take a look at the military gate. This is written by Bai Jingchen, a thousand households in Qingcheng. In the evening, he has joined the guard Chen Chaojue in the waters of Shunde and Dongguan, and assembled eight large ships from the Xiangshan Institute and Chen Chaojue's headquarters. There are more than [-] fast and fire boats of various types, and more than [-] banner troops and battalions are waiting to be encircled."

"There is also Xiangshan Haojing. Zeng Yiben sent his bandit Xu Jinmei to set foot on Haojing to plunder some time ago, and led the army to attack his troops. Now Haojing merchants reciprocate, attracting business Li Dan, Portuguese leader Pereira, Quanshang Shi Xiaolou, Quanshang Lin Hongzhong and others assembled more than a thousand men and more than ten large and small ships, and Tuobei handed over the manuscripts to the military gate, and they will leave the gate and enter the sea to fight when the military gate permits."

Lin Hongzhong, a merchant from Quanzhou, was the last merchant introduced by Zhou Xing, the county magistrate. He was also a very powerful person in Haojing at the time, and he was also a former Wang Baikegang merchant.

Zhang Han took a deep breath. Ever since he heard about Wei Yinbao’s rebellion in Guangxi, he seemed to have never been so happy. The already chaotic Guangxi, the soon-to-be chaotic Guangdong, and the terminally ill governor Xiong Wei made him feel like a huge boulder was weighing on his heart. , whichever place is a little careless, Guangdong and Guangxi will explode.

Especially Guangcheng, the largest city in the capital of Guangdong, if it is breached by rebels, let alone an old man who is a governor, he may be imprisoned!So when Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan, and Guo Cheng were transferred to Linfu for defense, Zhang Han kept thinking about Chen Mu's banner army's superb combat power, but he always felt that he was too small to do anything big.

Suddenly let Chen Mu say this, Zhang Han felt that he was worrying unfoundedly, and murmured: "There are so many people."

This is not one or two thousand, four or five thousand troops!Not counting the guards in Guangcheng who had never fought, Zhang Han finally found the key to Guangdong's problems during this period.

Zhang Han turned around and walked out of the tent. When he walked outside, he nodded slightly to Chen Mu who was following behind to signal him to come out. Under the light, he walked slowly around him twice, and finally shook his head and said with emotion: "It's really not easy, it's really not easy!"

I've confused Mr. Chen, old man, it's not cool for you to dance around me like this!

Make your heart hairy?

Chen Mu felt panicked, clasped his fists and said, "Junmen, who is this?"

Zhang Han shook his head, pursed his mouth and raised his head to look at the sky with the bright moon hanging high, not talking to Chen Mu.

He finally knew what was going on in Guangdong this year.

The governor, who was born in water transport, always feels like the sky is falling when faced with things he is not sure about, and his heart is always heavy.

Yu Dayou is a good soldier, but Lao Yu's temperament is like that. To be honest, he asked Yu Dayou not once or twice. Yu Dayou never told his thinking process, but told him the order directly, so that the governor felt that he had become an official seal. Just order.

As time passed, he was unwilling to ask Yu Dayou for advice.

If you don't ask Yu Dayou for the affairs of Guangdong, who else can you blame?This has led to a vicious circle in which all military affairs, big and small, have collapsed all day long.

And this small thousand households in Xiangshan has become a treasure, making the military affairs of the Guangzhou government no longer a major event, no matter what it is, whether it is Haojing, Guanghaiwei Japanese pirates, or even the sea thief Zeng Yiben. It doesn't matter if you attack Guangzhou City, as long as there is Chen Qianhu-the solution will be solved easily!

boom!
Zhang Han was about to consider his words to praise Chen Qianhu, when he heard a sudden loud noise in the distance from the city gate of Guangzhou City, which shocked everyone in the camp, especially Governor Zhang Han, who was shocked by the sudden shock. The face of the old governor changed color, and after a while, his mood was still not calmed down, and the little man running down the hillside outside the camp made his complexion even more ugly.

"The city of Guangzhou was blown up by the thieves!"

Wei Balang ran down the night flag army on the hillside, and ran straight to the artillery position in the camp. Kill them with a cannon!"

(End of this chapter)