The geographical location of Zhaoqing determines its importance. It took 182 years since the 43rd year of Jiajing, the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi to Zhaoqing from Wuzhou, Guangxi to the 19th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

This is also true. According to the situation of the Qing Dynasty's troops, the more soldiers were stationed on the roads around Zhaoqing. There were sentry towers every two to six kilometers, with various flags floating on them, which looked very majestic.

In fact, there were only a few to dozens of green camp soldiers in the geography according to the importance of the geographical location, and they were led by the general and Qian Zong. Zhang Zhishan and others were the generals of the generals who brought these soldiers in the flood, so they understood the specific situation.

Green Camp is divided into town as the highest strategic unit and the most basic unit of camp.

The official ranks of the Green Camp are from high to low: Admiral (province/target), General (town), Deputy General (associate), General (battle), Guerrilla, Dushi, Guard (local), Thousand General (station), and General.1

The bandit suppression army walked all the way to Zhaoqing, and these sentry towers were either touched by the scouts in advance or surrendered directly. Seeing so many troops approaching the bandit suppression army, the defender was still stupid enough to prepare for the battle without the defender.

For the surrendered Xun soldiers, Zhang Rui's approach was to take them to Zhaoqing City. One way was to protect the news from being leaked so quickly, and the other way, if the siege was not smooth, they could still be taken over.

Due to the rapid advancement of the bandit suppression army, the defenders of Zhaoqing City only reacted until the bandit suppression army approached.

Zhaoqing City was once the "capital" and palace in Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and its defensiveness is naturally not bad.

The city wall was 742 in length, eight feet long, one meter and five feet thick, and two feet high. There were four gates in the city, namely Song Chong, Zhennan, Duanxi, and Chaotian.

The entire city wall is built with a moat, water gate, suspension bridge, urn city, city tower, enemy platform, corner tower, enemy tower, point-up platform, horse road, warhead, daughter wall, painted wood, ring collision, fork rod, flying hook and other series of city guarding equipment and defense facilities.

There are more than 20 large and small turrets and many military rooms on the city. There is a Piyun Tower in the western section of the north wall that can overlook the inside and outside of the city and monitor the enemy's situation.

At this time, the bandit suppression army came from the west. Before the school ground outside the city was fully reacted, it was captured by the bandit suppression army and captured nearly one thousand Green Camp soldiers again.

According to those captives of the Green Camp soldiers, there were less than two thousand defenders in Zhaoqing City at this time.

When the bandit suppression army approaches Duanxi, the west gate of Zhaoqing City, you can see a large moat, which is directly connected to the West River.

The speed of the bandit suppression army marched completely beyond the understanding of the Qing army. At this time, the deputy general of Zhaoqing, who was standing on the city wall and looking down, could not help but worry. Although the facilities in Zhaoqing City were complete, there were too few soldiers guarding the city.

"It would be great if there had not been a large number of troops to be drawn before. Even if these rebels come twice as many people, they would not be worried." Zhong Shengjia and hammered the female wall.

"General, it's okay. Although these rebels are powerful, they are just mud legs after all. They have no experience in siege and cannot withstand many casualties. As long as we can severely injure their troops, the danger of siege can naturally be solved." Li Guangli, the general who followed Zhong Shengjia, comforted him.

"Where is the governor Niu Fenfang? I asked him to find more people to help defend the city. Has he been looking for it?" Zhong Shengjia asked the people around him while looking through the female wall at the bandit suppression army gathering under the city.

"I have already found it, but the city wall to be guarded is too long, so the people I have found must be assigned to other places." Zhou Dasheng, another genital general next to Zhong Shengjia, replied.

"Where are others?" Zhong Shengjia was very annoyed that he had not seen Niu Fenfang.

"Go back to the general, Magistrate Niu went down to the City God Temple next to him to seek blessings. I guess I will be back in a while." Zhou Dasheng said

"Please be blessed? When is it now? Still..."

"Forget it, let's not talk about it. Let the brothers work hard. When the battle is over, all of them will be rewarded." Zhong Shengjia said loudly.

"General Xie."

The people around Zhong Shengjia knelt and thanked him one after another

"Well, please note that the thieves have taken action. After they get close to a hundred feet, let the cannons on both sides fire." Zhong Shengjia gave the order.

"Yes, General." The flag plaque next to him immediately replied, and went back to convey the order.

There are two towers in Duanxi Gate in Zhaoqing City, each with two cannons, a total of four. The cannons are fixed cannons and are difficult to move. Even so, they are still a rare weapon for defending the city.

General, the rebels seem to be wrong." Li Guangli pointed to the bandit suppression army outside the female wall and said.

Zhong Shengjia, who was already discussing with the people around him, heard Li Guangli's words and looked over. He saw sixteen large ladder trucks slowly pushing into the city wall, and then the ladder truck stopped about 110 feet away from the city wall.

Behind the tall ladder truck was followed by the shield car and artillery, and the siege car. Then the prisoners were preparing to fill the moat with soil.

At this time, the sound of drums from the bandit suppression army sounded.

A piece of the baffle on the ladder truck that stopped was exposed, and rows of muskets were exposed on it.

Because the distance was too far, Zhong Shengjia and others only saw the ladder truck of the bandit suppression army stop, and they also saw someone in front of them, but they just didn't know what they were doing and why they stopped.

"Dong..."

"Dongdong..."

"Dongdongdongdong..."

The drums began to get rushing.

"Bang..."

The musketeers arranged on the ladder truck made their first volley shot

When Zhong Shengjia heard this sound, his pores all over his body couldn't help but stand up. He immediately shouted nervously: "Everyone should pay attention to avoid it."

Just as Zhong Shengjia finished shouting, the musketeers of the bandit suppression army had already fired a second shot.

"puff…"

"Puff..."

"Puff puff puff..."

At this time, many defenders on the city wall were knocked down by bullets before they understood what was going on.

Many people only saw the ladder truck slightly taller than them that just stopped, and they were beaten to death.

Especially the gunners in the artillery towers on both sides, Zhang Rui called on them to concentrate their firepower and attack them first.

When the musketeers of the bandit suppression army fired the third rogue, the shield car was in action. As the shield car advanced one by one, the prisoners who were hiding down and advancing with sandbags found that nothing was as dangerous as they imagined, and nothing was shot at.

Indeed, since the gunners were hit by the bandit suppression army's musketeers, no one could load the guns and talk about the dangers.
Chapter completed!