Chapter 71: The Praying Mantis and the Yellow Sparrow (End)
Attacking the Jieshi Acropolis, although the city is large, the Ming army's offensive is so fierce that it has already deterred the defenders. They are all locals, the city wall is not protected, one by one they are busy taking off the trumpet, fleeing home and pretending to be good citizens, the Ming army quickly took control of the Acropolis and Tucheng, but the death of the last of the seven great Kou of the tide was confirmed until two days later - the disgraced Su Li, who is really not so easy to identify.
Speaking of which, Su Li was born as a bandit, and he should have been the most vicious of the seven great gangsters of Chaohai. In fact, before the relocation of the border and the forbidden sea, this person's style has always been like this. However, with the relocation of the Qing court in the last years of the Shunzhi Dynasty and the forbidden sea, Xu Long, Wu Liuqi, and other existences that are far more famous than him can only passively accept them, and even help them to abuse, but Su Li chose to fight angrily, and finally died in the process of protesting.
The mixed reputation is the evaluation of Su Li by some people later, but in the current period, Su Li is an out-and-out bandit and traitor, his presence and offensive in Jieshiwei contain a large number of troops and resources of the Fujian Ming army in the southwest of Chaozhou, and there are also long-term casualties to the Ming army.
After Su Li's head was confirmed, Chen Kai had it nitrated to ensure that it could be preserved for a long time. After completing the nitrate, Chen Kai immediately sent people to circulate the newly occupied places with the head, so as to shock people's hearts.
The capture of the Jieshi Acropolis and the search for gold, silver, jewelry, and antique calligraphy and paintings worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Suli's mansion, all of which he had searched for over the years. There is no way to determine the exact number, especially those jewelry, jade, calligraphy and painting antiques, the price of which fluctuates greatly on the market.
In addition to this, more than 100,000 stone of grain was hoarded in the granary of the Acropolis. These grains should be the military rations accumulated by Su Li, and if you do the math, it seems that due to the recklessness of the army, the local agricultural production cannot keep up, and even if it is exploited, it has not accumulated too much wealth.
However, more than 100,000 stones are enough for this heavy army group to eat until next summer's harvest, and it is more than enough. Once he thought of the food shortage of the entire Fujian Ming Army, Chen Kai naturally laughed at it. But he really couldn't arouse any interest in the weapons that were seized, so he simply collected them, brought them back to the furnace, and that's it.
Generally speaking, after some operation, there are benefits, whether it is to remove part of the threat from the southwest, or to expand the control area of two counties and one guard, it is an excellent thing for this Ming army. Especially in Yu, with Chen Kai's plan, the Ming army did not pay too many casualties in the process, and the local area was far from being destroyed because of the war, and the basic people's livelihood was generally preserved.
After a war, it seems to be devastating, and the key lies in proper planning, but the most important thing is that the strength of the Fujian Ming Army has been continuously improved over the years. And this time, it is nothing more than a better release of it.
It is undeniable that the Acropolis was a fortified city, but it was the standard of the Middle Ages. In modern times, with the increasing power of artillery, the walls of the Middle Ages are no longer as strong as before, and the war-torn continent of Europe is constantly renovating in response to this.
The battle between spear and shield never stops. And backwardness inevitably means being beaten!
After taking the Jieshi Acropolis, Nanao Town, Houwei Town, and Tieqi Town quickly returned to their respective defense areas and garrisons. The rest of the towns are all here.
From a geographical point of view, Jieshiwei is close to the coastline, at the angle between the rugged sand and the Tianwei ocean, and the Ming army stationed here can better threaten the coastal areas of Huizhou Prefecture. The Naluo River is a natural geographical barrier, and the further upstream the river goes, the deeper it goes into the Lotus Mountains and the surrounding hilly areas. Although it is not a natural risk, it is by no means a flat ride.
The Jieshi Acropolis is Su Li's lair, Chen Kai captured the county seat of Huilai, the Jieshi Acropolis and a series of points in between, the entire south of the Lotus Mountain Range, and the rest is nothing more than Shengjie and Haifeng County. However, Chen Kai was not in a hurry about these two places, but organized troops to deploy troops in Luohe, that is, the urban area of Lufeng City in the future, and had no intention of further recovering those two places.
Chen Kai seems to be conservative, but Huang Yingjie is much more radical. The army was still on the way, but the scouts sent by Huang Yingjie crossed the Lotus Mountain Range in advance. It's just that by the time they explored clearly, the Jieshi Acropolis had already fallen, and Huang Yingjie was still too late in the end.
The scouts returned, and Huang Yingjie hurriedly followed up with his troops. The situation was quickly clarified, and for some reason, the Ming army had obviously annihilated Su Li's main force and beheaded his men, but it still shrank the Line of Actual Control on the line of the Luohe River, instead of advancing Haifeng County and deploying defenses along the Lotus Mountains.
is so weird, Huang Yingjie is a general, and he quickly estimated a rough possibility. But this answer seems to be a bit absurd, and in the end it seems that there is no good explanation other than blaming it on paper.
"Into town!"
The army crossed the Lotus Mountains, and Huang Yingjie led the army to Haifeng County without hesitation. The guard Chen Wanquan is Su Li's cronies, and he was the pioneer of the earlier attack on Huilai County, and then Su Li himself sat in Huilai County, and he was transferred here, and now Su Li is dead, and he did not hesitate to fall to Huang Yingjie.
Originally, Huang Yingjie planned to give Su Li hope and let Su Li, Chen Bin and the Ming army fight desperately. In this way, by the time he arrived, the Ming army was exhausted, and it could be destroyed - both against the Ming army and the two so-called Qing armies. However, Chen Kai first designed, and then used the two auxiliary guns of the Linggong, both of which easily captured the city, and completed the attack on Suli before the arrival of the Qing army, which directly shattered Huang Yingjie's wishful thinking.
In this case, the rescue was not successful, and Huang Yingjie did not hesitate to share the only remaining wreckage of Su Li - regain control of Haifeng County and Shengjie Office, and let Chen Wanquan confess to him, which is a great achievement. As for Chen Kai's design, what dead ghost Su Li is, it is a trivial matter that doesn't matter at the moment.
A yellow finch used cicadas as bait to attract a praying mantis, sniffing the taste, wanting a piece of the pie but coming too late for another hungry yellow finch should swallow one of the former's left hind legs into its stomach, first a little food stuffed between the teeth.
As for the rest, let's talk about it.