On the evening of the same day that Fangnan arrived in Guangzhou City, He Yan's troops arrived in Zhaoqing Prefecture City. Ten thousand people's army surrounded Zhaoqing Prefecture City. The battle broke out tomorrow. He Yan sent someone to send a letter of persuasion to the Ming army in the city.

The letter of surrender must be written in traditional Chinese. The simplified Chinese characters mainly used by the People's Army were basically unable to understand. Instead, those who know simplified Chinese can roughly understand the content of traditional Chinese characters.

The content of the letter of surrender is very simple: You have been surrounded, quickly throw down your weapons and surrender. Guangzhou City has been occupied by our People's Army. Wu Wenhua and Ren Jianxiu have been killed by us. You cannot defend Zhaoqing Prefecture City. Surrender quickly and let you die.

Faced with the persuasion of the People's Army, all the Ming army officers who expressed their opinions expressed their opinions did not surrender, but this was only a few, and no one with other ideas spoke. After all, you cannot talk randomly about surrendering to the enemy. If anyone dares to say this in this situation, he will be ordered to be executed by the commander.

There are really people who want to surrender among the Ming army officers, but not a few. Zhaoqing Prefecture City has been surrounded by the People's Army. Although there are more than 7,000 Ming troops in the city, it is basically impossible to defend the city and wait for other Ming troops to come to support it.

Whether reinforcements are one thing, and whether they can come before breaking the city is another thing. What is more important is that the officers and commanders know more about the combat effectiveness of their soldiers.

There were only 6,000 Ming troops in Guangzhou City, but there were many elite troops, but they were broken by the enemies outside the city. Even the two adults died. Their more than 7,000 Ming troops seemed to have more troops, but their combat effectiveness was much worse than that of the six,000 Ming troops in Guangzhou City.

In fact, many officers and commanders do not want to stay in Zhaoqing Prefecture City. However, their own masters want to stay here. They can expect that the next battle will be a tragic battle. The officers and commanders will not come forward. The soldiers will be in trouble. I don’t know how many people will die in this battle.

With a new day approaching, the offensive and defensive battle in Zhaoqing Fucheng has begun.

In order to break the city as soon as possible, He Yan used all the remaining grenades in the third mixed brigade in this battle.

The artillery bombarded and the tiger-headed gun shot. After hundreds of people were killed or injured, there was a loud "boom" sound, and the east city of Zhaoqing Prefecture was blown away. The soldiers and grenadiers first took the lead in rushing into the city.

The city gate was blown up, and the Ming army around quickly rushed to support. Facing the gathering Ming army, the grenades hiding behind the soldiers of the camp, lit grenades and threw them into the pile of enemies.

Grenades exploded one by one, causing a large number of Ming soldiers to overturn. The Ming army, who were not injured around, was also stunned by the explosion. Looking at the People's Army soldiers rushing towards him, they didn't even have any fighting actions for a while.

"Put down your weapons, and those who surrender will not kill them!"

Hearing the words of the People's Army soldiers persuading to surrender, he knew that the city was about to be broken, and the Ming army, who did not want to die, threw down their weapons and surrendered.

In less than an hour, Zhaoqing Prefecture City was captured by He Yan's army, and the number of casualties in He Yan's army was less than 800.

I have to say that the explosive pack blows up the city gate, and the tactics of the grenades first joining the camp to cooperate with the attack are very suitable for breaking the city. However, such tactics can only be used in the short term in the short term. Once this tactic is known to the Ming army more, the Ming army will be able to think of ways to crack the tactics.

The easiest way is to block the city gates. Even if you blow up the city gates, you can't rush into the city. You can only choose to blow up the city wall or climb up the city wall.

After this battle, He Yan's army could no longer use this tactic in a short period of time, because the grenades were almost exhausted.

However, after taking over this Ming army of more than 7,000 Ming army, there were even fewer Ming army in Guangdong, and basically no Ming army had more than 5,000 more people, which would not affect He Yan's troops' next attack on the eastern and western Guangdong areas.

In the city of Guangzhou, Fang Nan began to deal with some things that needed him to make decisions, such as dealing with Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and others who defected to the People's Army.

In the government office, Fang Nan summoned Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and the other two knew that they were the "leaders" of the People's Army. When they saw Fang Nan for the first time, they suppressed their surprise and respectfully shouted "Grandmaster" to Fang Nan."

Those words seemed very sincere, as if they were already a member of the People's Army.

Fang Nan did not ask the three of them to sit down, and said directly to the three of them: "You three helped open the city gate when our People's Army attacked this Guangzhou City, reducing the casualties of the People's Army, which is considered to have made great contributions to the People's Army..."

Hearing this, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin showed joy. What they were most worried about was that the People's Army did not care about their merits and directly searched their homes. As long as the People's Army remembered their merits, they would have a high probability that they would not die.

"...But you have been bullying the people before. I don't know how many family wives and children have been separated. Logically, you should have been searched like others, but you need rewards to make great contributions to the People's Army. It's not good to search your house.

If you have more than merit, you will not have any reward and you will have to accept punishment. The punishment I give you is that you find the people you have bullied and give them compensation to get their forgiveness.

As for those who cannot find someone, you can take out half of your property and buy food to send it to ordinary people who lack food.

By doing this, you are a member of our People's Army and are protected by the People's Army.

I wonder if you are willing to accept this punishment?"

"I'm willing, we're willing." As soon as Fang Nan finished speaking, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin replied quickly.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin must be very dissatisfied with Fang Nan's punishment, and even resented Fang Nan's resentment to the People's Army in his heart, wishing they all died. This punishment directly took away most of their wealth.

No matter how dissatisfied they are, they have to accept this punishment. If they don’t accept this punishment, it is very likely that their fate will be to be the choice of life and death. They cannot choose to die, and they can only choose to use most of their wealth to buy the lives of their family.

Even Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin did not dare to curse the People's Army in their hearts to be wiped out by the Ming army. If the People's Army was wiped out by the Ming army, they would die, and at most they would flee overseas.

If you can choose, no one wants to escape overseas where you are unfamiliar with your own place.

After all, they can continue to live for the time being. Compared with the powerful and powerful people who were confiscated, there are some who are hostile to them. Now they are all cold, either dead or locked up by the People's Army.

After spending most of their wealth, the three of them can still leave a small amount of wealth and allow the whole family to live a wealthy life. This is a very good result.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin left the government office, looked at each other for a few times, showing a painful smile.
Chapter completed!