The Jinfan army chased Geng Jimao all the way, forcing him to give up all military supplies and heavy equipment. Especially on the Zengjiang River, a team of the inland river fleet led by Gu Rong raided the floating bridge ferry built by Jingnan Fan by sampan alone. The seven floating bridges burned five, greatly reducing the ability of the Three Hanfans to cross the river, which could not help but destroy the entire army. The Three Hanfans even abandoned the war horses and asked the soldiers to cross the river to Guangzhou first. The Jinfans seized more than 17,000 war horses on the east bank of the Zengjiang River.

In mid-April, Liu Wenxiu and Du Yonghe joined forces with Sanshui County and surrounded Li Qifeng, the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi. Li Mingxun and Li Dingguo personally led the Allied troops to the north of Guangzhou. In half a month, the Allied troops gathered more than 80,000 elite troops around Guangzhou, and the hostile Sanhan vassals and the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi had less than 60,000 people. The anti-Qing forces gained the dual advantages of military strength and technology.

The siege in Guangzhou has not yet begun. The army concentrated heavy artillery to support Sanshui, first captured Sanshui, and united the Allies. The Navy, together with the navy of various Ming army, cleared the Pearl River channel, creating the lowest cost and the most convenient and rapid logistics means for the siege in Guangzhou.

The Qing army was still fighting back. What troubled the inland fleet was no longer the Qing sailors, but the local water ghosts and the fire attack ships released by the Han vassals. The Qing army recruited water ghosts among the fishermen. With a heavy reward, many fishermen applied for recruitment. Water ghosts holding chisels and hammers lurked in the waterway and sank warships. A sampan could be exchanged for fifty taels of silver. Shang Kexi offered a high price of one thousand taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,000 taels of 1,00

Fire attack ships are different from those used in naval battles. There is no one on these fire attack ships transformed from fishing boats and rafts. They are filled with combustible materials and ignite them downstream. Most of the time, they cannot cause damage. The ships will use heavy sock-up shells to hit the fire attack ships, while the small sampan boats either dodge or push them away with long poles. The unlucky ones are the local residents living by the water. Many of their ships and houses are ignited by the river. They are ignited by the fire attack ships traveling around, which makes the public resentment.

Huang Fei, who was still ruthless in dealing with the water ghost, sacrificed a magic weapon with great rewards. If he dragged a fire attack ship to the shore to destroy it, he could receive twenty taels of silver. For a moment, hundreds of civilian ships appeared in the main channel of the Pearl River, waiting for the fire attack ship to float out of Guangzhou.

The Han vassal state had no tricks and had to retreat. Huang Fei led the inland fleet to head north and attacked the Liede Fort. This vassal state was stationed by nearly a thousand Qing troops, mainly green camps. Before the Marines took action, the Liede Fort surrendered. When the landing Qiongfan navy saw that there were not many artillery in the fort, most of the artillery was sent to Haizhu and Haiyin. It was the last line of defense downstream of Guangzhou.

Both forts were both Jiangxin Islands, and they were not sandbanks, but huge rocks from the Cretaceous period. The Qing army built city walls around the islands and laid out forts on the reefs. There were reefs hidden under the water and various shoal whirlpools around the two islands. Not to mention sail warships, even fast crabs were easily approached. The two vassals of Pingjing guarded a fort, and it was definitely not possible to persuade them to surrender.

The army dispatched engineers to participate in the attack. When heavy artillery could not exert its power, blasting was the only road. The first one to be attacked was the Dongshui Fort on the sea seal stone. The engineers blasted the walls of the island while night. Because they used the Qing army gunpowder, the amount was sufficient. Not only did they collapse the city walls, but they also collapsed the Haiyin Pavilion built during the Wanli period. A large number of Han vassal soldiers died from the shock waves and loud noises caused by the explosion. Even the city of Guangzhou caused riots. After the explosion, grenadiers waited on the fort and killed the Qing army in chaos.

The blasting of Haizhu Stone was not so smooth. The Qing army strengthened its vigilance, but Haizhu Stone was only 100 meters long and the widest part was only 50 meters. There were not many soldiers stationed. Each unit used feint attacks and blasting and other means to harass them. Each time the hunters attacked and sniped the Qing army. After half a month of attack, the Qing army was killed and injured, and there was no support. In the end, they were flooded by the Qiongfan sailors. The Sanshui County was also attacked with Haizhu Stone. In this way, the target was only Guangzhou, and the Pearl River Waterway was completely open to the Allied forces.

After completely gaining control of the water, various armies gathered together to besiege Guangzhou City. At this time, the first major disagreement occurred between the Qiongfan and the United States.

According to the agreement, as the vassal of the Jin vassal state, the Jin vassal state should be the main force of the attack. Now that the Jin vassal state has more than 30,000 troops gathered under the city of Guangzhou, it can also assume the responsibility of the main force. Obviously, taking on the main force must bear the greatest casualties. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Li Dingguo advocated persuading the surrender of the Three Han vassal states.

Li Mingxun did not object to persuading surrender, but in terms of conditions, the two sides had a great difference. According to the laws of the United States, all of them were traitors from the vassal kings to the ordinary vassal soldiers. They were both traitors and their families were judged. Generals above the ranks would die, and the rest were punished for labor reform and exile. Of course, if they surrendered in the war, they could redeem their sins. Ordinary soldiers would only be confiscated.

For the green camp, if the conditions are much more relaxed, you will gain freedom by actively surrendering and protecting your wife’s private wealth.

Obviously, this condition could not allow the surrender of the Three Han vassals. Li Dingguo's conditions were much wider. Surrender avoided death to protect his wife's safety and his family's wealth was as good as before. As for the Han vassal generals, they could also serve in the Ming army. Even the Geng and Shang families could obtain a territory in Yunnan and Guizhou and be hereditary.

The conditions between the Jin vassal state and the United States were too great. Fortunately, neither side could leave the other side to deal with the Three Han vassal states alone, so they did not break up. In the end, Lin Shizhang came to mediate from Qiongzhou Prefecture. Lin Shizhang took retreat as an advance, and regardless of the conditions of both sides, he directly sent people to Guangzhou to contact the conditions of the Three Han vassal states.

The conditions proposed by Shang Kexi at the beginning were very arrogant. He could surrender, worship Yongli as the emperor, and declare his allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, but the whole province of Guangdong needed to be a vassal. Of course, he could also swear allegiance to the United States, but the condition that the whole province of Guangdong was a vassal remains unchanged.

The Three Han vassals had no sincerity, so they could only fight to the other side. The Allied forces began to attack the city and placed heavy artillery at the big east gate of Guangzhou City. During the Song Dynasty, there were three cities in Guangzhou, namely Zicheng, Xicheng and Dongcheng. The three cities had independent city walls and moats. By the Ming Dynasty, the economy developed and the population increased, and all the city walls in the middle were demolished. After the three cities turned into one city, they expanded on a large scale to the north, forming the current old city.

Due to the accumulation of silt, the docks of Guangzhou City continued to migrate southward, and commercial trade allowed Nancheng District to develop rapidly and became the economic center of Guangzhou City. During the Tuolin Town mutiny during the Jiajing period, Nancheng, which had no walls, was looted. The Portuguese helped to quell the riots. Guangzhou built a square wall to protect the commercial area, which was called the new city at that time.

Looking down from the sky, the two cities in Guangzhou are like bronze bells. The south and west of the city are close to the Pearl River, and the attack is difficult to expand. The city wall on the north is built on Yiyuexiu Mountain and cannot expand its troops. There is a moat transformed by the tributary of the Pearl River in the east. Although it is wide, it is much better than the west and south. The only suitable for attack is the city wall of the northeast section. The moat here is 35 meters wide, which is the narrowest place. However, outside the northeast section, there are rice fields of local farmers. The army's heavy artillery that can often be three or four tons falls into the field and falls into the mud. Outside the Dadong Gate, there is the original school ground. The terrain is flat and unobstructed, which is most suitable for siege cannons to exert its power.

The Guangzhou city wall was eleven meters high, the base width was also eleven meters, and the top width exceeded six meters, which was worthy of the name of the Lingnan City. This city wall tested the strength of the Army's heavy artillery battalion. The army was not sure and asked for help from the Navy. The Navy used the inland fleet to send 60 heavy artillery pieces at one time, 24 pounds for forty, and the rest were either thirty-two pounds or thirty-six pounds. In addition, the army's two heavy artillery battalions and one siege artillery battalion, a total of 108 heavy artillery pieces were bombarded. The Navy also transported the mixed red artillery cannons on the Qing army's artillery, increasing the number of heavy artillery to 150, and can shoot more than two tons of shells in a single volley. Not to mention the Three Han vassals, all the Qing army had never seen such violent firepower.

One hundred and fifty cannons were divided into three artillery clusters, the Cannon heavy cannons were placed in front, and the mortar cannon and the red cannon were placed in the rear. The cannon group selected the target for the old city of Guangzhou. After the Han vassalms entered Guangdong, the royal palaces of the two vassalms of Pingjing were all in the old city, and the corresponding generals and soldiers gathered here. There were about 140,000 people in the old city, either relatives of the two vassalms or merchants and gentry who were attached to the two vassalms. Bombing them was much better than the innocent merchants and people in the new city.

The two cannon groups shot directly into the city wall at the northeast corner at a distance of 600 meters, and the mortars behind them bombarded all buildings in the old city with the maximum range obtained by the maximum elevation angle. The same was true for the red cannons. The gunners were all captives of the Qing army, so they were asked to use molten shells. All kinds of burned red shells flew into the old city, causing one fire after another. The artillery bombardment took place for three days. Shang Kexi sent people to negotiate again. The demands of the vassal states in the province were reduced to Guangdong Province, except for western Guangdong and Hong Kong, both the Jin vassal states and the United States, and continued to shell.

After two more days of shelling, the northeast city wall had collapsed. The collapsed city wall even filled some moats. The ramp formed could allow soldiers to rush in directly. Shang Kexi's envoy came for the third time, and this time he handed over Chaozhou, but he still was not satisfied.

Jinfan and the army carried out a cooperative feint attack. The army placed thirty twenty-four-pound howitzers at the forefront. Jinfan's jumping elite troops launched a feint attack on the collapsed section of the northeast. Hanfan could only use their troops to stop it. They were hit by grenades and mortars. The Jinfan's impact was to go back and forth, not crossing the moat, forcing the Three Hanfans to stand at the gap in the city wall to get shelled.

The soldiers of the Sanhan Vatican were indeed strong and showed sufficient fighting will. However, in the face of black gunpowder and steel, the will and body of human beings were extremely fragile. The mortars and howitzers were like hammers in the hands of giants, knocking on the rotten iron of the Sanhan Vatican one after another. After each knocking stopped, there would be a long sound of trumpets. Next, there would be either a trench filling team composed of prisoners or a jumping soldier carrying bamboo rafts. The soldiers of the Sanhan Vatican were sent to the gap by the generals with their backs of their knives, and then the sound of howitzers and the explosion of grenades.

Guangzhou also has artillery, but only small cannons such as Folang machine and victorious cannons. The red and barbarian cannons seem majestic, but they have no place to use their skills on the city wall. The red and barbarian cannons are three meters long, plus the cannon truck and support structure are five meters long. The back seat will always exceed four meters each time. The six-meter-wide Guangzhou city wall is really unavailable, and the Han vassal dare not station outside the city. The red and barbarian cannons can only be thrown into the city and eat dust.

The Han vassal found that defending the city wall was a loss of money. He was blown up to pieces, but he couldn't even touch the corners of his opponent's clothes. He was completely unilaterally massacred. However, he was really unwilling to give up the city wall. Shang Kexi used his magic weapon to negotiate again. At this time, he knew that Guangdong and Guangxi were already vassals of the Jin vassals and Qiong vassals, so he did not seek extravas, but only asked that after surrender, he could be king by the Emperor Yongli. Shang Kexi only asked the King of Shu and used Sichuan as his vassal and took it himself. This requirement was not high. It can be seen that Li Dingguo, who had seen the ability of the United States to attack the city, was he unwilling to do so. He said to the envoy of Pingfan: "I have already asked for the position of King of Shu for Wenxiu. How could I promise you again? Wouldn't it be sowed my brotherly relationship?"

Shang Kexi, who received the news, chose to fight desperately. He ordered the soldiers to retreat into the city to start street fighting. Guangzhou city was big enough, and there were three rivers in the city above twenty meters wide in the east city. They were not afraid of not having support. After Pingfan retreated, Li Mingxun stopped Jinfan from entering the city, but chose to slowly plan, engineers crossed the river and blasted the city walls on both sides, expanding the gap that was only 100 meters to 500 meters. Light howitzers and small mortars of the Marine Corps, hunters and grenadiers were arranged on both sides of the city walls. Three artillery bases were built at the gap and twelve and six-pound field artillery were arranged. Because the East Moat was very wide and a tributary of the Pearl River, if the trenches were filled, it would cause flooding. Therefore, the army used the boat bridge camp and built two floating bridges and a heavy wooden bridge in four days. In this way, the Allies completely controlled the gap.
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