Chapter 248: How many enemies does Shang Kexi have?
A large number of people lost everything during the migration process and became refugees. They could only gather outside Guangzhou and rely on begging to survive.
While providing Guangzhou with abundant cheap labor, it also greatly damaged the public security of Guangzhou city!
The refugees crowded together and hid under the city wall, eating, drinking, and taking care of themselves on the spot!
You can imagine how dirty this neighborhood is!
As soon as they see a kind and wealthy person passing by, a group of people will rush forward, praying and kowtowing, hoping to exchange for a full meal.
People often show up in front of the refugees in a arrogant manner, dropping half a bag of grain and taking away a young girl, or a boy or girl who looks very smart.
The families of these children have to kowtow in front of them and express their gratitude!
No matter where their children are taken, even if they are treated as slaves and sold into a brothel, at least they can have food to eat and survive.
In any case, it is better than praying outside Guangzhou and being starved to death at some point!
There are people who honestly become beggars and refugees, selling their children and daughters in order to survive.
There will definitely be people who steal, abduct women and children, and make a living through similar means.
The recent city of Guangzhou is really not peaceful!
The Qing troops guarding the city impatiently drove away the refugees crowding at the city gate to make way for the merchants and people entering and exiting the city.
The soldiers of the Qing army who collected city fees happily counted the copper coins, with expressions on their faces smiling like flowers.
It made his face, which was so ugly because of his money rat-tail haircut, look a little cuter.
At this moment, several cavalrymen came running from a distance.
The powerful war horses galloped wildly on the official road. The knights on the horses were wearing Eight Banners cotton armor and waving their whips desperately.
The war horse under his crotch is galloping at full speed!
However, the originally majestic Eight Banners cotton armor has now become tattered.
The cotton armor was full of traces left over from the fire, with many parts missing and even several holes showing through, stained with black blood.
The knight on the horse looked pale and shaky, his lips were chapped and bleeding, and he was in a very miserable state.
The Qing soldiers guarding the city were on alert!
However, when the cavalryman was still some distance away from the city gate, his vision went dark, he completely lost consciousness, and fell off his horse.
The Qing troops who were guarding the city stepped forward, filled the city with water, and found people among them. Only then did the Qing cavalry slowly wake up.
"Tanzhou Town was defeated!"
"The seven thousand troops were completely wiped out, and His Royal Highness died in battle!"
"The Ming...Ming-British coalition forces are preparing to attack Guangzhou!"
Originally he wanted to talk about the Ming Army, but then he thought of the British Union Jack flag flying over Tanzhou Town.
The moment the words came out, the Ming Army was changed to the Ming-British Allied Forces.
"Quick...quickly go and report to the Governor!"
"..."
After saying this with difficulty, the Qing cavalry tilted its head and fainted again.
However, while he was speaking, a group of people gathered around him.
The news spread faster than anyone imagined!
Before Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, received the news of the defeat of Tanzhou Town and the life and death of Shang Zhixin, the news spread throughout the entire city of Guangzhou.
In an instant, the city of Guangzhou became panic-stricken!
But in general, the people of Guangzhou are more happy than worried about this piece of news!
Because almost all Cantonese people are enemies of Shang Kexi!
In Guangdong in this era, if a few people from a family died at the hands of Shang Kexi, they could not be considered serious Cantonese.
Although the people of Guangzhou may not necessarily have a favorable impression of Ming Dynasty!
But you also have to compare with whom!
Although they were afraid that if the Ming Dynasty came back, it would bring war to them again.
However, the people of Guangzhou couldn't help but be happy when they thought of Shang Kexi's death of his son!
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Jin Guangzu overturned the table in front of him, his wide eyes filled with disbelief.
"What's going on? How could I lose?"
The Qing cavalry in front of him still looked embarrassed, but after having half a piece of old wild ginseng stuffed in his mouth, he regained some energy.
Then, he began to tell Jin Guangzu about the battle in Tanzhou Town.
"We easily defeated Sanxiang Town and then continued southward!"
"The one blocking our way forward is Tanzhou Town!"
"Under the command of His Royal Highness, we launched a campaign against Tanzhou Town. We conducted several fierce attacks but failed to achieve results."
"Later we learned that Xiangshan had been captured and our escape route was cut off!"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered the troops to be withdrawn and prepare to attack the Ming thieves coming from the north to the south!"
"We fought fiercely with the Ming thieves all day long, and the battle was at a stalemate. But at the critical moment, the Ming thieves' supervisor personally led his troops into the battle, and then we were scattered!"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was beheaded by the Ming thief's supervisor, and the entire army was defeated!"
"And because Tanzhou Town, Fenghuang Mountain, and Qianshan Waterway are blocking us from three sides, we can't withdraw from the battlefield at all!"
"A large number of soldiers were surrounded and annihilated by Ming thieves!"
"Only a few people managed to escape from the battlefield!"
Jin Guangzu asked.
"Are you sure that the Ming thief and the British country are colluding together?"
Jin Guangzu had more contact with Westerners, namely Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries.
I have no impression of the country England at all!
He couldn't understand why a small Western country dared to offend the Qing Dynasty?
The Qing soldier nodded and said.
"Yes, Lord Governor!"
"The British Empire colluded with the Ming thieves to ambush our Qing heavenly soldiers in Tanzhou Town!"
"I saw the flag of England and a lot of yellow-haired ghosts on the battlefield!"
Red-haired Dutch people are red-haired ghosts, and yellow-haired British people are naturally yellow-haired ghosts!
After hearing this, Jin Guangzu waved his hand and ordered someone to take the Qing soldier down to rest. His face was full of worry.
The Ming and British coalition forces won a great victory in Tanzhou Town, wiping out 7,000 Han Eight Banners soldiers in the first battle.
The city of Guangzhou is really empty at this time!
If the Ming and British coalition forces take the opportunity to go north to Guangzhou...
Guangzhou is in danger!
"Send an order for the troops reinforcing Humen to withdraw quickly!"
"Gather the soldiers and horses near Guangzhou, shrink the troops, and return them all to defend Guangzhou. Guangzhou must not allow any loss!"
"Send someone to pass this bad news to King Pingnan and ask him to return to Guangzhou as soon as possible!"
"..."
Jin Guangzu made many arrangements one after another to prepare the Qing army in Guangzhou to strengthen the walls and clear the country.
Use this to deal with the menacing Ming-British coalition forces!
Moreover, he sent someone to send an eight hundred-mile dispatch to the capital to report that the British had colluded with the Ming thieves to invade Guangdong.
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At the same time, the Ming army continued to advance towards Foshan.
Along the way, we fought several scattered local defenders of the Qing army!
The Qing army collapsed at the first touch!
The Liberation Army took down cities one after another effortlessly.
Zhu Hongyu was very decisive in his work. Every time he captured a city, he ordered the local people to move to Macau.
His Northern Expedition was just for the sake of population!
Even if you don't care about anything else, you still have to sweep away everyone, and leave no one on the mainland to cause trouble to the Manchus.