Captain Marty showed it to the British immediately after reading the letter, and at the same time, he made a suggestion whether he could take the opportunity to break out as a whole. It is too dangerous for them to be trapped in this narrow place and will be attacked by China sooner or later.

But the British refused, saying that even out of the city, if China people cheat, China people on the edge of the city may be more dangerous. The British warned the French to think about Parkes and others, and China people even took hostages. The root of such a thing is dishonor. Who dares to say whether this letter was cheated by China people? Hurd also came out to tell the French that Chinese people are good at deception and regard it as an honor rather than a shame to win the war by deception. Sun, a military strategist in China, said that war is a deceiver.
Captain Marty was fooled away by a group of British people, but he was very unhappy. He always insisted on breaking through. It was the British who kept saying that their reinforcements would come. Now he sent two armed merchant ships to make a sample and left. Marty believes that this situation is all caused by the stubbornness of the British.
At noon, there was a sudden loud noise, and the corner of the wall collapsed. It has been fighting with the outside of the city for a long time. Wuxianmen collapsed here. It is said that the Haizhu Fort and the East Fort have been attacked on both sides and collapsed until now. It has been said that the China people’s artillery skills are rotten, and the British people have driven coolies to repair the wall. It is also busy.
At noon, suddenly, the guns in zhenhai tower in the north rumbled and didn’t stop listening as soon as they rang. There were many guns in China, and the sound of guns sounded like foreigners’ artillery shelling all day. In the evening, zhenhai tower actually collapsed. I don’t know if China can capture zhenhai tower, but there are 200 French soldiers there.
At night, Marty got news from China in another way. The China people claimed that they had launched a final counterattack against zhenhai tower. If the French didn’t surrender, they couldn’t guarantee where the French soldiers would be safe. If the French were willing to cooperate, they were willing to negotiate with the French soldiers in zhenhai tower to let them leave there first and allow the French to send people to zhenhai tower to communicate with the French army.
To communicate with soldiers in the north, Marty didn’t reject it at all. Immediately, he sent someone with a white flag and an interpreter to lie on the wall road. China Xiangyong didn’t attack them, but followed them all the way to Guanyin Mountain, the northernmost part of the wall, and watched them over the mountain.
The officer who came back from zhenhai tower said that the situation was not optimistic. China people did not know where they got many guns with good performance. The number of guns was more than dozens and the caliber was also very large. It was not worse than the guns of Guanyin Mountain Fort, so zhenhai tower collapsed and suppressed the cannons of the fort.
Guanyinshan Fort has also been transformed by the British and French allied forces, and the artillery has also been replaced by British fortress guns, but the number is not too much, but there are only a dozen guns. Because it is relatively less important here than the Pearl River Haizhu Fort and the East Fort, damn it, the British finally believe that making the sea is more important, so they pay more attention to the Pearl River Fort.
China’s artillery completely suppressed the Guanyinshan fort, which made the French judge that they had firmly adhered to the stronghold of Guanyin Mountain. However, Guanyin Mountain and the south of the city are now divided by China people, so it is obviously impossible for those soldiers to break through the whole old town of Guangzhou.
Marty thought of China saying that the French in Guanyin Mountain should be allowed to leave first, and he felt it necessary to consider one.
So Marty seriously sent an officer out of the city with translator Chen Qixin to discuss with China people, which caused dissatisfaction among the British. Marty asked him to explain why he wanted to communicate with China people privately. Marty said that it was Guanyin Mountain, and the two hundred French soldiers were worried about the British, but he expressed the hope that the French would continue to hold their positions.
Had a quarrel and broke up in discord.
On the other hand, the French representative received a friendly reception from China Xiangyong, telling them that China people are willing to make friends with the French.
China agreed to almost all the conditions of the French.
Two hundred French troops from Guanyinshan took their weapons with great strides, and then came out of the small north gate. Finally, the soldiers in China were led to the north-east tinker outside Guangzhou and lived in the barracks where China soldiers stayed in the past.
Then the French army immediately asked the China people to send representatives to the south of the city to report their situation to Marty. They said that the China people arranged barracks for them and did not place troops around them, and promised that the Chinese would not attack them if they stayed away from the wall and attacked China.
China people guarantee that if the French army in the south of the city is willing to withdraw, they are willing to let the two French armies meet and will never attack them.
Section 61 One hundred thousand people and one hundred thousand soldiers
I missed two. I’m sorry. I sent one out. It’s four o’clock today
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In the face of Marty’s surprise, Zhu Jinglun said that he was not serious. He was a British translator and was caught by Xiang Yong. Now Xiang Yong is robbing the old city everywhere. It’s too uncomfortable. He doesn’t want to go back. If foreigners want to communicate with Xiang Yong, let them send someone else.
Hurd can prove this. Honestly, Hurd was also surprised when he saw Zhu Jinglun holding a white flag and a representative of China people appeared. For a moment, he was very angry because he never imagined that Zhu Jinglun was from China. When did it happen? Did he just surrender or did he always plant spies in China?
If it is the latter, Hurd will feel very sad. After so many days of contact with Hurd, he has already trusted Zhu Jinglun very much. It can be said that Zhu Jinglun is his most trusted person in Guangzhou. If this person is always a China spy, although he did not get much important information from him, the British definitely made a big joke, and he Hurd is probably the background figure in this joke.
It was not until Zhu Jinglun explained that he was not a regular representative but was forced to come here that Hurd’s eyes showed a relaxed look. It was not how much he valued Zhu Jinglun, but that he could not accept betraying him again. Now he is deeply humiliated and his psychological endurance is on the verge of collapse because of repeated failures.
If Zhu Jinglun was forced, he would feel much better. Hurd accepted Zhu Jinglun’s explanation at the first time because he knew that Zhu Jinglun had left the city with them and was injured by gunpowder from China. Now he is still wrapped in a bandage, which is not like what a spy can do.
So Hurd came out and personally explained to Marty Wei that Zhu Jinglun has always been a conscientious translator in the British army.
Captain Marty accepted Hurd’s explanation, but who should be sent to communicate with the China people? Frankly speaking, they also intend to continue to negotiate with the China people. He doesn’t want to fight this war, not because he is afraid, but because the situation is very unfavorable to them now. If the main force of the Anglo-French Coalition forces comes back from the north, they will never refuse to fight.
Therefore, it is necessary to send someone to talk to the China people and tell them that the treaty has been signed so that they can abide by it. If the China people do not receive the treaty information, the French will be happy to explain it in detail, and they will be asked to send someone to confirm with their emperor. The French are not in a hurry until the main force of the French army comes back.
The China people suddenly attacked them regardless of the treaty. In this case, Commander Marty is not going to care about settling accounts, and he will have to wait until Gro (the representative of France) returns with the French army. He believes that Gro will let China people know the consequences of breaking the contract.
What he has to do now is to hold his ground and wait for reinforcements to hold it, which is victory.
Then who will be sent to negotiate with the China? The China man looked frightened at present, and the other side pulled his coat watch. He was injured and killed, and he didn’t want to go. Moreover, he was a British translator, and he was not easy to mobilize. Then he could rule out the French translation. He was very impressed with a person who was very sensible. At least, he thought so. Therefore, he never gave him less gifts. The China people called it filial piety. This kind of thing has long been very common in the decadent French army.
So Marty didn’t insist on letting Zhu Jinglun leave the city, but sent Chen Qixin, a big French translator, to go out.
Zhu Jinglun didn’t want to go out of the city. He felt that he had more room to stay in the British-French joint forces. When he left, he had told Bai Gui about the situation and said that he would cooperate with others. He hoped that Bai Gui could help him when necessary. Of course, Bai Gui wouldn’t refuse to tell him to be careful. If it is not necessary, don’t take risks. When you talk, you can’t see that there is half hypocrisy than when you finish it carefully.
I said hello to Hurd and told Hurd that I still had to find a military doctor to treat me. I felt that my back hurt badly. Probably the wound was broken by China Xiangyong. Hurd had something to do, so he didn’t leave him. He told him to find himself when he was done. He arranged a place for Zhu Jinglun to live.
Zhu Jinglun didn’t find a military doctor, but went directly to the inn near Wuxianmen where Hou Jin lived for the time being.
Hou Jin said that he had bought 100 coolies who could kill British officers at any time to rebel with coolies, but it was not that easy. Zhu Jinglun didn’t let him take the risk because coolies were addicted to cigarettes. At this time, they no longer cooperated with the British. Even if the British killed several disturbances, they mobilized coolies, but they were dissatisfied. As a result, they gave everyone a reimbursement. As a result, some people escaped coolies that night. Now it is a bomb. The British are not, nor are they sending nearly 100 people to the coolies camp to guard against the coolies rebellion.
Zhu Jinglun felt that even if these coolies rebelled, they might not be able to beat a hundred British soldiers. On the contrary, they might as well let them make trouble like that and contain these one hundred British soldiers, making the foreigners’ troops even more stretched.
Yu Houjin has a lot of people now, and there are so many people around the gate that they are willing to do anything for money.
Zhu Jinglun ordered dozens of sheets to walk in the city that night. These sheets were written for Indian soldiers. Tell them that Indian soldiers will not fight China. How effective will it be if Chinese people don’t fight Indian soldiers? You know, the British control Indian soldiers is much stricter than coolies.
After parting with Hou Jin, Zhu Jinglun found a British military doctor to help him look casually. The other party said that it was no problem and the wound was long and good.
Hurd arranged for Zhu Jinglun to live in a private house next to Haimen, where most translators, including French translators, live, because it is convenient for the translators of the headquarters of British and French allied forces to work during the day at Haimen for the time being.
Zhu Jinglun was worried about the situation and communicated with Chen Qixin, a French translator. Chen Qixin was in a bad mood after he came back from Xiangyong. He told Zhu Jinglun that Guangzhou City could not hold on to Xiangyong, and that foreigners with ten thousand strong people could not fight.
I also learned from Chen Qixin that the French were very dissatisfied with the British, not only because the British promised that reinforcements had never arrived, but also because the British ventured to save Parkes. As a result, the army was wiped out and nearly a hundred French art of war were destroyed. It was the British who insisted on ignoring the overall situation that caused the current situation. If they had not sent a navy to save the British-French allied navy in Parkes at that time, it would have been impossible for the China to occupy the fort and cut off their posterior road.
At the same time, the French also hope that before the China people surround Guangzhou, they should break through with Chinese troops or the British should continue to wait for reinforcements.
It’s normal for the British and French allied forces to have differences of opinion, and brothers will fight. What’s worse, the two robbers will go their separate ways when this kind of joint robbery is good, of course, when you are good and I am bad, it’s normal to pass the buck to each other. If it’s not for the countryside outside the city, who knows if they will go their separate ways?
Zhu Jinglun thinks it is necessary to facilitate the contradiction between the British and French allied forces, but at the same time, he must put some pressure on them to make the French feel that they can’t escape without running, thus aggravating their differences.
I wrote a letter overnight to let Hou Jin secretly send it out of the city to Bai Gui.
One of the pilgrims in Baoguo Temple lived in the wing, and when Bai Gui read Zhu Jinglun’s letter, he burned it immediately.
"Fu Li, your horse is out of town to contact the ancestor squire of Shili Township …"
The order is pleasant, but the mood is more complicated.
The contradiction with Huang Zonghan is too deep.
Up to now, Huang Zonghan has arranged for him to live, and all military operations have not allowed him to finish, and excluding him has made Bai Gui more uneasy.
Zhu Jinglun’s advice to him is to mobilize the people outside Guangzhou to create a momentum. If those big clans are willing to cooperate, they will greet 100 thousand people.
But it’s not an hour to gather 100 thousand people. It’s unusual for the court to gather people in peacetime. What’s worse, I’m afraid it’s difficult to get together when it’s chaotic.
Suo Baigui finally told Fu Li, "If they want money, they must not say that I asked them to do it, just say that Huang adults want it."
This matter can’t be touched because it’s not only not a credit but also a disaster. Let Huang Zonghan fight if he can’t afford it.
Fuli didn’t act until dawn the next day. If he acted late, he might be arrested as a thief.
He rode a horse with money, and found the villages closest to Guangzhou with clans, heads of families, landlords, strongmen and gentry, and told these people to organize people to go to Guangzhou and tell them that Guangzhou has been surrounded by Huang’s adult, so that they can go to fight for Huang’s adult. No, they should clamor for everything in the back, and the bigger the noise, the better. It is said that one or two hundred taels of silver will be left for each family to prepare food for them.
It doesn’t matter how many people are willing to cooperate with Fu Li when they walk around the city in one day. He has arrived in Henan by dark.
Guangzhou, Henan is not a province, but a small place on the south bank of the Pearl River near the Pearl River Development City, a prosperous town. The British and French allied forces once occupied this place, but now they have given up and no soldiers are stationed here.
During the daytime, some villagers appeared one after another near Henan, and they wandered around the town with gongs and drums.
There are people with flags of all colors, and I don’t know whose quilt is tied to the hoe. They are colorful and colorful, and their appearance scares foreigners and Huang Zonghan.