This is the second time that the people of Xinhui have defended the lonely city for the Qing Dynasty!

I have to say that the people of Xinhui are really loyal!

Moreover, the situation faced by the people of Xinhui this time is more desperate than the last time. The last time Li Ding is surrounded by Xinhui, because of the domestic strife between Sun Kewang and Li Ding, the Southern Ming army suffered a severe blow in Hunan, and its vitality was severely damaged, and its decline will be achieved. The plotting for Guangdong can be said to be Li Dingguo's last attempt!

In addition, Li Dingguo led his army to attack Guangdong in May of the year before besieging Xinhui, but he had to retreat and leave after not being surrounded by Zhaoqing for a month. This also shows that Li Dingguo, who suffered a severe blow in Hunan, had not recovered his vitality and lacked ability to attack.

Nowadays, the third prince and son of Zhu San were in full swing. Moreover, Zhu San grandson possessed Zhuge Tianlei and the red barbarian cannon, and was particularly good at siege. Even strong cities like Macau and Guangzhou were easily broken by him. All the cities in Guangzhou Prefecture that were attacked by Zhu and Guan were all broken in a very short time without exception!

So the Xinhui can persist until now, which is really beyond the expectations of Tuhai, Kong Sizhen and others, and of course also beyond the expectations of the Qing court.

It would have been fine if Tuhai, Kong Sizhen and others and the Qing court did not know that Xinhui was still sticking to it, but they would have thought that Xinhui had been defeated by rebels long ago.

But now Fu Shazi has made it clear, and Kong Sizhen Kong Shazi protects Fu Honglie and Fu Shazi, not allowing Tu Hai to kill him to silence him.

Now the old fox in the officialdom like Tuhai had no choice but to arrange personal soldiers to escort Fu Honglie north to poke a hornet's nest, and send people to Zhaoqing and Huizhou to convene Sun Yanling, Yan Ziming, Shi Lang and others to Shaozhou to discuss how to break the siege of Xinhui to save the loyal "stupid people" of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the Siege of Xinhui was just to save the good people who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty. Everyone thought he was dead, so the monk's trust had nothing to do with this matter.

The military controversy was held in the lobby of the general's headquarters in Shaozhou City. General Tuhai, General Sun Yanling, General Dingnan, and Governor Jin Guangzu of Guangdong and Guangxi sat side by side. Tuhai sat in the middle, and Sun Yanling and Jin Guangzu of Jin and Guangxi were sitting on both sides of the lobby. On both sides of the lobby, there were Sun Sike, who had just been appointed as Deputy General of Kou of Ningnan, Yan Ziming, Admiral of Guangdong, Ma Xiong, Governor of Guangdong, Shang Zhidian of Pingnan, Shi Lang, Admiral of Xijiang Navy, Zu Zeqing, Zhang Guoxun, Miao Zhixiu and other generals, as well as Shang Zhijie, Wang Yongnian, Wen Chengren, Deng Guangming, Zhang Mengji and other several commanders and deputy commanders.

Tuhai also asked his aides to make a wooden plan to show the military situation of the four governments including Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, Shaozhou, Huizhou, etc., and placed it in the lobby next to the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Jin Guangzu.

Seeing the situation shown in this wooden picture, the civil and military officials present couldn't help but frown!

Because the word "official army" is written on the edge of Xinhui County in the picture, and a circle is drawn around it to show that Xinhui County is surrounded by rebels.

Although everyone had known that Shang Zhixin had brought a lot of troops to Xinhui, the Qing army, which everyone had a tacit understanding before, did not exist. Therefore, on the wooden diagram showing the situation between the two sides, Xinhui was marked as the territory of the thief.

But what happened today? How did Xinhui be labeled as Guan Jun?

The officials who were puzzled did not dare to ask, and no one wanted to go deep into Xinhui to save Shang Zhixin, so they pretended to be confused. So everyone turned their eyes to the General Tuhai sitting high above!

Tu Hai coughed and said, "Just just received the report, the people of Xinhui, led by the old commander Shang Lao, Li Changshi and General Wang of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, have been united in defending the city for several months. They have also repelled the siege of the rebels many times, killing countless people, and are truly loyal and brave."

There is nothing Shang Zhixin here!

After Tu Hai said this, he glanced at Sun Yanling again at the man who is Kong's fool! You can't stay out of the matter!

Sun Yanling was stabbed by Tu Hai with his eyes, so he had to speak expressionlessly: "The General's Mansion has also received a secret report. The third grandson of the pseudo-Zhu is mobilizing troops to attack Xinhui before the New Year. Once the Xinhui City is broken, the officers and soldiers in the city will be slaughtered. We are the officials of the court and are also the parents of the people. How can we stand by and watch the king's land fall and the righteous people be slaughtered? Therefore, I discussed with General Tu and decided to send troops in advance, use the method of surrounding Wei to save Zhao, and break the siege of Xinhui."

The King of Pingnan Shang Zhidian and the trapped Shang Zhixin were of course "deep brotherly love". They immediately asked: "General Dingnan, I wonder how to use this plan to surround Wei and save Zhao?"

"Prince," said Sun Yanling, "After discussing with Tu Zhongtang, I felt that I should advance to Guangzhou City and only Guangzhou City is a place where traitors must defend and rescue, right?"

"That's certain," Shang Zhidian nodded and sighed, "If Guangzhou had not been important, the former king would not have been attacked by the traitor's siege and attacked the aid plan."

"Prince," Sun Yanling said again, "Guangzhou is your vassal state. You must be familiar with the important things inside and outside the Guangzhou city. How to attack Guangzhou? You must be confident, right?"

"This little king does have some ideas." Shang Zhidian nodded. Since he was ordered by Kangxi to take over the title of King Pingnan, he has been thinking about this day and night. After arriving in Shaozhou, he also thought about it with a few brothers and uncle Shang Keai.

Shang Zhidian paused and said: "The terrain of Guangzhou is characterized by connecting the rivers and the seas, and the water network is crisscrossing across the water, especially the Pearl River in the south of Guangzhou City, which is extremely wide, like the sea.

Without naval forces, it would be impossible to surround Guangzhou City. It is also very difficult to cross Guangzhou to attack Xiangshan, Shunde, Dongguan and other coastal rich places.

In addition, north of Guangzhou, there are many waterways such as Beijiang, Liuxi River, Zengjiang, Longjiang, Epu water, waterside, and soaking water. There are countless streams and rivers in Guangdong. If these streams and rivers in Guangdong are placed in the north, they can be considered big rivers and are difficult to cross.

Therefore, once our army penetrates the water network near Guangzhou, it will be trapped by water and difficult to dispatch and respond. If we divide our troops and advance rashly, it will be easily defeated by the enemy."

"Then we won't divide the troops!" Tuhai said, "No matter how many ways he comes, I will only go all the way. Is this okay?"

"I'm afraid this is not possible." Shang Zhidian shook his head.

"Why can't it work?" Tu Hai looked puzzled.

"The waterway is used by the thieves," Shang Zhidian said, "The thieves can go, but I cannot go. If the army gathers together, then there is no problem with this journey, but the rest of the road will be lost! If our army cannot enter Guangzhou, and Zhaoqing, Huizhou, Gaozhou, Leizhou and other places are all lost. The thieves' army even went up to Shaozhou along the Beijiang River, what can we do if we do?"

Tuhai had no idea now, so he had to turn his attention to Shi Lang, the admiral of the Xijiang Navy.

Shi Lang led a group of defeated generals from the Fujian Navy to take over the ships of the Qing army in Guangdong and Guangxi, and recruited or forced a number of sailors to form the Xijiang Navy.

The navy that hastily formed the army is of course a mob and cannot take on the great responsibility. However, the Qing army could only rely on Shi Lang on the water surface of Guangdong.

Shi Lang frowned and said, "General, although the navy of the humble army is not yet refined, we now have fire thunder, so we can fight. However, the navy of the humble army is limited in strength and there are no big ships. If you really want to go deep into the Pearl River surface south of Guangzhou, you will also seek death. Therefore, the humble army can be secretly mobilized to Qingyuan first, and then the two northwest routes will advance. If the Sanshui city is strong, there will be heavy troops to defend it, which will be difficult to conquer for the time being.

. However, we can use the Xijiang Navy and the Land Division to siege Sanshui, and use artillery and thunder to block the Xijiang and Beijiang Waterways near Sanshui City. In this way, the navy who rebels cannot go upstream and go deep into Zhaoqing and Shaozhou. The army of the general and General Dingnan can also meet under Sanshui City, and then advance step by step along Liuxi River to the north of Guangzhou, cross Liuxi River and head south, and approach Guangzhou. In this way, Zhaoqing, Shaozhou will be foolproof!"
Chapter completed!