The agreed day for siege was three days later. Within these three days, Li Guodong did not stop siegeing the city. He ordered the construction of the siege project to numb the defenders in the city. At the same time, the Sezuo in the city secretly sent out the news that the pseudo Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang had already escaped.

Zhu Youlang fled to Wuzhou, and the news made the rebels depressed.

Gu Yuanjing has been making excuses to enter the palace to confirm whether Zhu Youlang is still in Guangzhou, but he is stopped by the Jinyiwei at the door every time. This made Gu Yuanjing, who had a keen political sense, realize that Emperor Yongli should have left the Guangzhou defenders and fled to Wuzhou. The rumors circulating in the army seem to be true.

The disappointed Gu Yuanjing knew that he could not defend Guangzhou and ran away secretly. He took his family to a boat on the Pearl River to escape to the Xijiang River and fled to Wuzhou.

Ren Zixin didn't know that Gu Yuanjing had run away, and he didn't have time to investigate the matter, because on the one hand, a large number of Ming army detailed works emerged in the city, and on the other hand, he had to find the whereabouts of Yang Mingjing, Liang Chaozhong, Liang Yan and others. These people were in the city, and they were worried about the war. There were still a few serious offenders who were preparing to destroy the nine clans, which was always a hidden danger. However, before these three people were found, Ren Zixin dared not execute their family.

What made Ren Zixin the most headache was the detailed works of the Ming army everywhere in the city. Those detailed works spread rumors everywhere and planned soldiers to turn against each other, causing a lot of trouble for the defenders. However, Ren Zixin didn't know at all, and most of the people in the detailed works of the Ming army were hidden in his Jinyiwei!

Besides, Su Guansheng naturally heard the news that the pseudo-Yongli Emperor had run away. He wanted to go to the palace to see Zhu Youlang many times, but he was stopped by the guards at the door.

The situation is already very clear. The Guangdong army in Guangzhou has no fighting spirit, while the Huai army outside the city is full of morale. Even those who have no brains know that Guangzhou city cannot be defended at all, and it is only a matter of time before it is captured.

The Huai Army outside the city shot a letter of surrender with a bow and arrow to the city, asking Su Guansheng to give up resistance and lead people to open the city to surrender.

"Li traitor! Wolf ambition! I would rather die than surrender to Li traitor!" Su Guansheng roared and tore the letter apart.

The next morning, the Huai Army's attack began.

In the Huai Army formation, war drums rumbled, horns roared, and flags were waving. Teams of soldiers walked out of the camp gate, arranged in neat formations, and lined up on both sides of the camp. Shield chariots appeared in the middle, slowly advancing towards Guangzhou City. At the same time, the Huai Army artillery arranged behind the Tucheng opened fire, and the whistling shells hit the Guangzhou city wall like hail.

The city wall was covered with holes by shells, the female wall squatting cracked, and gravel splashed. The Guangdong defenders hiding behind the female wall were hit by gravel from time to time and screamed.

It is obvious that these Guangdong soldiers are not good at defending the city. They do not know how to avoid the enemy's shelling. As a result, after being bombarded by the Huai Army, the defenders suffered heavy losses.

The Huai Army's shield chariot formation slowly approached the city wall, arrived outside the moat, and began to drop sandbags and fill the moat. At this time, the defenders at the top of the city shot at the Huai Army auxiliary soldiers under the city with bows and arrows and bird guns, and also shot many Huai Army auxiliary soldiers. However, the Huai Army under the city suppressed the city with rifled rifles, powerful crossbows, archers, self-produced muskets, turtledove-legged guns, three-pound cannons and other weapons. As a result, the losses of the defenders on both sides of the attack were much greater than the attacking party!

Under normal circumstances, the attacking party suffered much more losses than the defense party. As a result, this battle could achieve such a result. In addition to the Guangzhou defenders who were the defensive party, the most important point was that the Huai Army had excellent weapons and strong combat power. As long as the defenders showed up and shot, they would die by drinking bullets or be shot with one arrow.

Under the cover of the firepower of its own long-range soldiers, the auxiliary soldiers of the Huai Army threw down sandbags and landed the moat again and again. A group of shield trucks loaded with sandbags had lost the sandbags. The auxiliary soldiers immediately pulled the empty truck back and then pulled a batch of sandbags to landmas.

The progress of filling the river was very rapid. After a fierce attack during the day, three sections of the moat had been landfilled. When it was dark, the Huai Army could already kill the moat and attack the city head.

"Continue the attack!" Li Guodong gave an order to his soldiers.

Although some people acted as internal supporters, Li Guodong, who had always been cautious, did not stop attacking, but instead lit a torch and launched a fierce attack on the city wall overnight.

Under the city, soldiers on both sides fought at night, but attacked at night. The strength of the Huai Army's attack decreased a lot. Similarly, the defense effect of the defenders also decreased a lot. Both sides seemed to fight very fiercely, but in fact they did not suffer much loss.

"The Huai Army outside the city attacked the city overnight, just waiting for us to act. It's time for us to act! I'll gather people, and you'll wait for me here." Yang Mingjing said goodbye to Liang Chaozhong and Liang Yan, left their hiding place to gather people.

As early as five days ago, after Liang Chaozhong made preparations for the city sacrifice, Yang Mingjing secretly sent someone to contact his old subordinates to discuss the city sacrifice. The person found by Yang Mingjing was named Xie Shangzheng. The man agreed to Yang Mingjing, saying that he was willing to open the city gate and let the Huai Army enter the city.

"Lord, are we really going to open the city to surrender to the foolish lords?" asked a general of Xie Shangzheng's unit, "Don't forget, it was the foolish lord who killed our governor Yuan."

It turned out that Xie Shangzheng was the general under Yuan Chonghuan back then, and this person had no good impression of the Ming Dynasty. In the real history of the Guangzhou Battle, it was Xie Shangzheng who opened the Guangzhou gate and let the Qing army enter.

Xie Shangzheng sneered: "How could this general surrender to the foolish lord? Yang Mingjing's thieves wanted to offer the city, so we just took the trick to lead Li Laoer's men into the urn, then closed the thousand-pound gate, and trapped Li's thieves in the urn, so we could shoot them with random arrows and achieve a great victory!"

The general asked again: "Lord, even if Li Lao Er's men were introduced into the urn, he could only introduce three or four thousand people at most. If he killed Li Lao Er, he would not hurt his vitality at all."

"We are not killing and hurting many Li thieves. The key is to hold back time. As long as we can drag the Li thieves under the city of Guangzhou, when He Tengjiao's army arrives in Guangzhou, the Li thieves will be defeated! At that time, we will join He Tengjiao, help our Qing Dynasty as an internal supporter, and let the Qing army go south to capture Huguang! As long as the Qing Dynasty seizes the world, our glory and wealth will definitely be indispensable." Xie Shangzheng sneered.

"The lord is indeed a clever plan!" a group of generals complimented.

Yuan Chongyu said: "I dreamed of destroying the Ming Dynasty! Avenge my brother! If General Xie can succeed in this plan, he will be my Yuan family's biggest benefactor!"

Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Lingchi, but the Yuan family still left many people, Yuan Chonghuan's younger brother Yuan Chongyu, cousin Yuan Chongzu, and the concubine's posthumous son Yuan Wenbi and others. However, now Yuan Wenbi is in the hands of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty is not bad for Yuan Chonghuan's posthumous son, so he carried him into the banner and changed Yuan Chonghuan's daughter to Yuan Jia and married the bannerman.

Judging from the things that happened to the Qing Dynasty, it may be the Qing Dynasty's reward for Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong.

In any case, the bad influence of Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong directly led to several invasions and robberies by Huang Taiji. It was precisely because Mao Wenlong was gone that Huang Taiji could let go of his hands and feet and robbery without worrying about any worries; it was also because Mao Wenlong was killed that the Sanshun King was in trouble.

Next, the remnants of Yuan's army began to make arrangements, and Xie Shangzheng arranged it: he asked him to pick up Yang Mingjing, Liang Chaozhong, Liang Yan and others to paralyze Yang Mingjing's confidants. At the same time, three thousand archers and one thousand bird gunmen were ambushed in the urn city, and a part of them left to control the Qianjin Gate. Just wait for Li Guodong's men to enter the urn city, they put down all the Qianjin Gate in front and behind.

"Lord, Yang Futai and the others are here." While Xie Shangzheng was making arrangements, a personal soldier came to report.
Chapter completed!