In the evening, Chen Wen had already arrived at Honghuagang. The defenders' will to defend here is far greater than the five previous villages. The information obtained from the prisoners showed that the defenders here were completely different from other places. They were the core force of Shang Kexi's command, one of the 10,000 troops that followed him south.

With this kind of defense, the city defense of the villages was even stronger. In just ten days, Shang Kexi used a large amount of building materials here. The city defense was strong, and there were a lot of artillery. In order to remove the villages outside the city as soon as possible, so as not to delay the attack on Guangzhou City tomorrow, Ma Xin had to use the siege mortar cannon and the red barbarian cannon.

The siege cannons and the Red Artillery cannons in the siege cannons and the Red Artillery cannons in the Biezhai did not last long. The Biezhai was defeated and the remnants of the defenders retreated to Baiyun Mountain. Only then did the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang stop the momentum of attack.

"From the future, the name here will be changed to Huanghuagang, and Honghuagang is a bit awkward."

After leaving behind such words that made the generals, the guards were confused and Chen Wen got on his horse and left Huanghuagang.

Chen Wen needed a forward base that was more suitable for launching an attack tomorrow. The auxiliary troops had built a new camp according to the plan of the General Staff Department of the Army. The army returned, and the main force had already taken the position in the camp for the final rest.

"In one day, six other villages outside the city were pulled out and prepared for tomorrow's attack. You guys did a good job."

After praising the Siming Division who attacked the village and the cavalry responsible for the aid, Chen Wen then arranged the next combat mission: "Tomorrow, the attack on Guangzhou City, Luling Division, Yuyao Division and the Minzhong Division will fight, and the Siming Division will wait for the next life as a reserve team. In addition..."

On the eve of the war, Chen Wen reviewed the plan made by the Army General Staff Office and issued an order to the generals under his command. The Siming Division carried out a series of attacks on the camp today, and the soldiers were more tired than the other three divisions. Although the commanders of the other three divisions, Hou Guoyuan, An Youfu and Zhang Zisheng, both led the troops to arrive in the afternoon, it was better to march than to fight, and the physical and mental consumption was less.

The generals received the order, and then Chen Wen looked at Zhao Qian, the commander of the army who was already qualified to serve as a battalion officer in the military ranks but was always in charge of the engineering forces, and immediately received a response from Zhao Qian.

"Please rest assured, the coach cannot be ready tonight. I will come to see you if you raise your head!"

Zhao Qian followed Chen Wen for many years, and from the earliest Nantang Camp, he was the captain of the engineers. However, in this era, the work of engineers was often done by auxiliary soldiers. Although engineers had made merits and hard work in all battles, the limelight was always covered by infantry, cavalry, artillery and even grenadiers. Even when he besieged the Guangxin Mansion Bastion. In those days, the officers were not high-ranking officials of the various departments of the Yue Palace, or the commander in charge. He was promoted slowly due to his military service, but he never hesitated at Chen Wen's orders, and he would exceed the task every time, which was very trustworthy.

"What I want is Shang Kexi's head. To recover Guangzhou, I will hold a banquet on the Zhenhai Tower. Your head will still be left to represent the engineers at the celebration banquet to drink the first glass of the bar that I respected."

"I will obey the order!"

The first glass of wine at the celebration banquet was usually toasted. Chen Wen gave him a first prize, and the temperature on Zhao Qian's face immediately increased a few degrees, especially his eyes were almost breathing fire.

After receiving the order solemnly, Zhao Qian left the tent rush and the military discussion here also ended. The generals returned to the camp, and Chen Wenze read the combat plan again before falling asleep slowly.

The hot weather in Guangdong is even better than Zhejiang. At night, the temperature drops, but the humid air is not only a torture for him, but also takes time to adapt to the generals and soldiers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the army.

Coincidentally, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army outside the city was difficult to sleep, and the defenders in the city were the same. Shang Kexi's troops, especially his core troops, came from the bitter and cold Liaodong. After following the army to fight south, they guarded this place, and the soldiers were inevitably reduced due to the disagreement of the land. However, after several years, the army had already adapted to the climate of Guangdong, and it was a huge advantage over the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army who had first arrived here.

This is a very important thing that Shang Kexi relies on to win. Sun Wuzi talked about the right time, place, people, and waves. Both him and Ma Xiong were as lacking as confident as Geng Jimao. After all, it was the brilliant achievements of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Just like when the Eight Banners Army had to fight, many Ming army would automatically lose in momentum.

However, if Chen Wen can be held back by relying on the city, the next few months will become more and more popular, which will inevitably affect the morale of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At that time, the interference of the imperial edict and Qin Fan will follow one after another. As long as he gives some face, Chen Laohu will have to return to the army for the time being, and he can use this period to integrate the newly occupied areas.

Shang Kexi's abacus was very good, and time did pass quickly. The marching speed of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was far beyond his expectations. It was a distance of more than 700 miles in just over ten days, and it traveled no less than 60 miles a day on average. This speed is unimaginable, but when you think back to the previous battle examples of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, you drove a hundred miles overnight and then went directly into the field to defeat the Eight Banners of the Han army, which was still in the upper hand, this is really nothing.

"This Chen Wenzhi is more powerful and overbearing, very domineering and very tough, but he is not spiritually sensitive."

Shang Zhixin knew very well who his father was comparing Chen Wen with. His grandfather and father had followed a great general. The general did not have any advantage in terms of training and field battles at that time, but with his sensitive strategic and tactical sense of smell, he could firmly tie the Eight Banners Army to a corner of Liaodong and unable to move. He was indeed an indispensable general in the Ming court at that time.

"Father, if Mao Shuai is capable of being in the face of the Emperor Ming Dynasty, Chen Wen was also plotted against by civil servants. As long as we defend Guangzhou as our father calculated, the court and Qin Fan will definitely not sit idly by the next step."

Shang Zhixin's comfort soon aroused Shang Kexi's nodding and responded clearly, and Shang Kexi even made the tricks clear: "After all, Chen Wen is too strong. The wood is so strong that the wind will destroy it. If Qin Fan does not mention it, the court needs a good general in the revival, not another Cao Mengde and Liu Xuande. However, after this matter, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, the knot will remain in each other's hearts, and that is not what we father and son need to take care of."

"What my father said is so much, our Shang family can get along well in these aspects in the future. Although Chen Wen is now so powerful and has a very good reputation, who may have the last laugh at that time."

While the father and son were chatting and laughing, an emergency military report rang out of the door. A moment later, Shang Kexi and his son rode their horses to the east city wall. At this moment, Xu Erxian was already frowning. Even when he saw Shang Kexi and his son coming, he could not relieve himself. However, there was no foreign general present, including Ma Xiong, Wu Liuqi, Huang Yingjie and others.

"Prince, please look over there."

Without Xu Erxian pointing, Shang Kexi had already seen it. The lights in the distance were so conspicuous in this dark dark night. Shang Kexi looked at it for a moment, but found that the lights seemed to be silent. He even took out a telescope that he forced to buy from the Taixi Haishang merchants and saw that they were just vaguely seeing some Ming troops rushing to dig.

“How long has this been going on?”

When Shang Kexi asked, Xu Erxian immediately replied: "Report to the prince, it has been going on for a long time. The enemy outside the city has been busy there before the sky has completely darkened, and there has never stopped at all."

Should I use the release of the disease?

If you occasionally have this thought in your mind, Shang Kexi immediately rejected it. There is a moat in the east of Guangzhou, which is nothing, but the city of Guangzhou is originally a water city. There is a moat outside the city and adjacent to the Pearl River. There are also six veins in the city. There are abundant groundwater resources. If you try to dig underground by using the method of venting the collapse, you will dig underground water veins. This is a delusion. Even if you dig along the way, it will not be easy to solve the problem of underground moisture prevention when you reach the moat. Otherwise, why would he rather besiege the city in October than wait for the red artillery to be transported to launch the general attack?

“You did a great job.”

Xu Erxian knew what Shang Kexi was referring to. The only one who could share the honor and disgrace with the Shang family was the former Pingnan Prince's Mansion. The later integrated Dubiao, and the Fubiao and other things were worse, not to mention Wu Liuqi and others. Even Ma Xiong, the general of Dingnan vassal, was more trustworthy than Wu and Huang.

"Prince, I originally planned to send cavalry out to investigate, but considering that Chen thief was cunning, he was afraid that this was a trick he used to trick the city gate, so he never dared to move lightly."

"It is right to seek stability. Our cavalry is less than Chen Zhe, and many of them were brought by Ma Xiong and others. In this dark night, the sight is unclear, and if you attack easily, you will suffer a great loss." Speaking of this, Shang Kexi stretched out his hand and touched the cold body of the huge red barbarian cannon beside him, and his confidence instantly recovered to his body.

"With these 10,000-pound red barbarian cannons, the Chen thief outside the city can only be beaten passively."

There were too few cavalrymen, and more importantly, they lack confidence in field battles. Shang Kexi and his generals could not have the idea of ​​sneak attacks when the movement outside the city. After staying on the city for a long time, Shang Kexi also generously invited Ma Xiong and others to discuss countermeasures. However, compared with Shang Kexi, Xu Erxian and others, Ma Xiong and others also believed that they should be safe to prevent them from being plotted by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

After struggling on the city for a long time, the generals went back to rest one after another, but Xu Erxian stayed behind, but he also retreated to a place close to the east city in the east, in case of emergency.

The defenders on the city were nervous, while the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army outside were busy. The night passed by, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army outside did nothing out of the ordinary. They just dug soil there, which made the defenders worry for nothing. However, when the sky was a little dawn, some sharp-eyed soldiers seemed to see some unusual things from the gradually fading darkness.

"Master, that's there."

When I climbed the city wall, I didn’t need to point out specifically. Xu Erxian could also vaguely see the fruits of the labor of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army outside the city that night.

Compared to the unobstructed area before dark yesterday, dozens of mounds were added to the plain ground that could be seen by the defenders, and there were actually Ming troops who were reinforcing it with bricks and stones from other villages. From the head of the city, the mound was not the general round, but the crescent-shaped mound, with the concave facing the east, facing the arc to the head of the city. There were even some small hidden places not far behind the concave.

These mounds look very strange, especially they are all exposed to the range of the 10,000-pound red artillery cannons on the city wall, and even the slightly smaller red artillery cannons on the city wall can hit there.

After looking carefully for a moment, Xu Erxian re-estimated the distance, and his face turned pale and almost no one looked. But when he had just sent someone to invite Shang Kexi and others, the Ming army camp further away seemed to have begun to move.

A moment later, Shang Kexi climbed to the top of the city, and the Ming army was slowly coming in the direction of the Ming army camp in the distance. The huge flag with the word Chen written on it fluttered in the wind. The famous general represented by this flag attracted almost everyone on the top of the city, but Shang Kexi's eyes had already paid attention to some other things.

"Let each artillery team load up quickly, don't worry about the enemy's array, aim at the back of the mounds and fight me to death. Also, let Yuyunlong prepare, I will use cavalry soon, hurry up!"

Shang Kexi has experienced a long battle formation. Once he climbed the city, he realized that the hills were not mounds of digging, but artillery positions of those mortars, and they were also bunkers specifically used to resist the shooting of giant red artillery guns with more amazing ranges like those in his hands!

Just as Shang Kexi said, the engineers and artillery had already planned their locations before the sky was completely dark. Zhao Qian, with the engineers of each division and a large number of auxiliary soldiers, spent a night digging out the artillery positions with bunkers left for these mortars. By the way, the road was basically leveled at night and transported the cannons behind the bunkers.

When Shang Kexi arrived at the city wall, the sky could see more clearly. The slightly exposed black behind the cover was almost without thinking about it and it was Chen Wen's mortars.

Xu Erxian couldn't see clearly just now, but he had guessed that it was these. However, it was still early and he couldn't see clearly whether the artillery had been transported into the bunker, so he had to prepare for each artillery group and aim for it after the sky was brighter. Therefore, when Shang Kexi's order was issued, the red artillery group members were busy.

After a while, the artillery aimed and loaded, and just after Shang Kexi gave the order, he could bombard the fortifications and the Ming army artillery group behind the fortifications. At the same time, the phalanx of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had already completed the array outside the range of the 10,000-pound red artillery cannons.

"The engineers are doing well, and the next thing depends on the artillery. Shang Kexi broke the city wall and attacked Guangzhou. Today, we will also let him see what the way of heaven is better."
Chapter completed!