The defeat outside the city led to the right governor of Guangxi, Dong Yingkui, who was watching the battle at the top of Wuzhou, Zhang Zichang, the left governor of the governor of the Censor Xu Wenxiu, the inspector of Zhang Suyang, the Wuzhou prefect Zu Zebin and others were frightened. Seeing the return of the troops, the Han army and the Green Camp were massacred by the Taiping Army, but there was no way out.

The inspector Xu Wenxiu was cruel to take the remaining more than a thousand battalions out of the city out of the city to rescue the defeated troops, and to support the commander Dai Liangchen and other troops back to the city, but those battalions dared not leave the city. Xu Wenxiu believed that there must be brave men under the heavy reward, but the battalions were not moved at all with the boxes of silver placed in front of him. The silver was good, but they had to be killed. The battle outside the city was so miserable that they would not have many lives to bear it.

The soldiers in the city did not dare to leave the city, and the soldiers outside the city were defeated again. Dong Yingkui even thought of his own fate after the city was broken. Zhang Zichang and others might be able to save their lives and surrender the Ming army, but he was born in the Han army's yellow flag. How could it be better if he fell into the hands of the Ming army?

The inspector Zhang Suyang was also from the Han army flag. He was also very scared at this moment, but he was not as desperate as Dong Yingkui. Instead, he gritted his teeth and pulled the Zu Dashou clan's son. Wuzhou magistrate Zu Zebin took the city to the top of the city and seized the time to mobilize the people of the whole city to come to the city to help defend. Now there are more than a thousand soldiers in the city. If the young and strong soldiers are not organized to assist the city, once the Taiping Army attacks the city, there will be no enough troops to defend the city. In order to get the people to work hard, Zhang Suyang and Zu Zebin sent people to promote the Taiping Army as bandits everywhere in the city. After entering the city, they will slaughter the city. At that time, no one will be left, and no one in the old or young will be allowed to live. Under their deception and intimidation, the people in the city had to organize the young and strong soldiers to help defend the city, so that thousands of people could be added to the top of the city.

Outside the city, the Taiping Army completely wiped out the defeated Qing army. In the evening, the Taiping Army finally withdrew its troops, and the only troops who fled back to the city were the troops of Dai Liangchen, the commander of the Han army, and some green camp soldiers, which totaled less than two thousand.

The Guilin soldiers ruled by Li Bensheng were wiped out, and he himself was not sure whereabouts of the riots. The soldiers in Xunzhou were prepared by Zhang Jizeng, the garrison of Liuzhou, and the deputy general of Nanning, Liu Guangen, and other generals were also killed and killed by the Taiping Army. More than 10,000 Qing troops were killed and captured.

The victorious Taiping Army did not immediately attack the city, but began to clear the battlefield and forced the prisoners to start digging trenches. It seemed that they were planning to siege Wuzhou for a long time, which made the Qing army on the city relieved. They were not afraid that the Taiping Army would be besieging Wuzhou for a long time, because the food stored in the city was enough for them to defend for more than half a year. In this half year, reinforcements could arrive. They were only afraid that the Taiping Army would take advantage of the victory to attack and not give Wuzhou any chance to breathe.

Dai Liangchen, the commander of the Han army, did not see this. He looked at the Taiping Army who was cleaning the battlefield with torches in the night, and at the defeated soldiers who were desperately digging the soil with shovels sent by the Taiping Army, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley. He did not believe that the generals of the Taiping Army outside the city would be foolish, and would make plans for a long-term siege after severely damaging the main force of the Qing army in Wuzhou, because their purpose from Guangdong was to serve the king and rescue the Ming emperors in the southwest. Time was very precious to them, so they would not waste their time on any siege. Therefore, they drove the prisoners to dig trenches and had other intentions. But Dai Liangchen did not expect this intention for a while.

Ma Xiong's death made Dai Liangchen the highest general in Wuzhou City. Although there were two governors in the city, they were civil officials, so Dai Liangchen could only be responsible for the city defense of Wuzhou. Dai Liangchen's only hope now is that Guilin's governor Chen Weixin could immediately send reinforcements after receiving the news of the defeat in Wuzhou, and at the same time sent a 800-mile express report to Guoan, the admiral line entering Yunnan, asking the line supervisor to lead the troops back to the rescue immediately. In this way, the war in Guangxi can continue to stalemate. As long as the Taiping Army's road to serving the king can be blocked, the Yunnan side will be able to decide the victory or defeat at most half a year. As long as Zhu Youlang is captured, the Taiping Army will be defeated by then.

On the contrary, if the Taiping Army captured Wuzhou, the entire province of Guangxi would collapse because in order to defend the important town of Wuzhou, Ma Xiong drew 70% of the remaining troops in Guangxi. If Wuzhou was lost, the other prefectures in Guangxi would not have enough power to prevent the Taiping Army from advancing westward. After obtaining Wuzhou, the gateway to Guangxi, the Taiping Army could not only directly attack Guilin by land, but also attack Xunzhou and Nanning by water. Once these three prefectures were lost, the entire Guangxi territory would be lost. After occupying the Taiping Army in Guangxi, it could use several prefectures as a springboard and appear directly behind the Qing army entering the Yunnan Province. In this way, the war in Yunnan would change.

Dai Liangchen has not yet figured out how many troops the Taiping Army soldiers were, but judging from the combat effectiveness shown by the vanguard soldiers outside the city, even if the main force of the Taiping Army trains to support the king is only 20,000 to 30,000, it will cause unpredictable consequences in the battle situation in Yunnan.

The Taiping Army is really too capable, but no matter how hard it is, Dai Liangchen must bite the bullet and defend it. Wuzhou must not be lost!

As soon as the next day dawn, Dai Liangchen's worries happened. The Taiping Army did not make any long-term plans to siege, but immediately organized an siege.

Qi Hao, the commander of the cannon town, personally directed the shelling of Wuzhou City. The navy on the Xijiang River also transported the Folang cannons on the ship to the shore, driving the prisoners to push the cannons weighing thousands of pounds to the city little by little. The captive Qing army gunners were all picked up by the Taiping Army. Whether they were willing or not, at the moment when the long sword was placed on their necks, they had to fire at their comrades in the city.

Hundreds of large and small cannons lined up along the trench dug by the prisoners last night. The gunners set up their cannons, built civil fortifications, aimed the black holes at the head of the city wall, and then a Florian officer took the tools in his hand to measure the head of the city wall, and finally ordered the gunner to fire the first shot for the test fire.

With a "boom", the roar of artillery shells sounded at the top of Wuzhou City, which shocked the Qing army on the city.

Dai Liangchen's face was also extremely ugly. The Taiping Army had too many artillery. I really don't know where they got so many artillery. The black muzzle made people look numb.

After the test firing, the Taiping Army's artillery began to attack Wuzhou City. All the cannons were fired, and the auxiliary gunners carried the solid iron balls back and forth.

The continuous roar did not stop, and artillery shells kept falling to the city, overturning the Qing soldiers hiding behind the female wall, or smashing the battlements with a "bang". Iron bombs hit the city wall, making the Qing army standing on the city wall a little unsteadily, and they could clearly feel the vibration from the city wall.

The Taiping Army's artillery bombardment did not kill many Qing troops because the shells were fired completely at the city wall. However, no matter whether these cannons caused many casualties to the Qing army, it would be a huge blow to their morale. The young and strong men who were hurriedly pulled up to the city were even more frightened and stood or squatted, and ran around the city. They just felt that the city was shaking and seemed to collapse at any time.

There were also artillery on the top of Wuzhou city. After being attacked by Taiping Army for a while, the Qing army also began to fire artillery counterattacks. Although the number of artillery was not as large as that of Taiping Army and the momentum was not as strong as that of Taiping Army, the artillery fired on the city still gave the Qing army a little comfort and inexplicable hope.

The soldiers of the second town who participated in the siege were all squatting in the trenches dug last night, and letting the cannons jump around above their heads. No unlucky guy was hit. Gradually, the Qing army on the city finally understood why the Taiping army had to dig those trenches. The Qing army's gunners also wanted to hit the shells directly into the trenches, but if they were allowed to operate, the cannon could not fall.

With a "boom", a big iron ball hitting from the city was in the middle of the city. Under a huge heavy blow, the cannon immediately flipped up and rolled in the air a few times, then hit an unlucky Qing army gunner, which separated his upper and lower body. The unlucky gunner screamed and wanted to climb out of the cannon, but he couldn't climb. In the eyes of his companions, there was another scene. An unlucky guy with a broken body was scrambling out and crawling out.
Chapter completed!