In the big tent, the messenger cried blood and cried, truthfully telling the whole process of the capture of Zhangzhou by the Ming army. And this scene, accompanied by the messenger's narration, appeared in the mind of Chen Jin, who had been in battle for a long time.

The five huge cannons let out a deafening roar, and the swarthy cannonballs weighing about 20 pounds that would smash the surface of their feet even if they landed on the ground roared under the impetus of the huge kinetic energy of the gunpowder explosion, and directly hit the city wall of Zhangzhou City.

The outer masonry, parapets, and battlements shattered and flew under the tremendous force, and the hard, sharp stones splashed, and the defenders of the city were bleeding and embarrassed. Under the masonry, the rammed earth structure inside the city wall will inevitably be shaken into fine cracks by this huge kinetic energy. And under the bombardment of one cannon after another, the rift gradually widened, until it could no longer maintain the structure of the city. The next scene is a crash!

The next scene, without too much detail, Chen Jin can also make up for it. In the smoke of the collapse of the city wall, the Ming army bravely climbed the gap and immediately entered the city. As for the defenders in the city, because the Ming army was completely surrounded, they couldn't escape at all, and Rao was this messenger and an elite cavalry team sent by Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier on the left, so there was such a wounded Yongyi left.

It is no longer important that there are a few guards in the city who are loyal to the Qing court, and a few people who have surrendered to the Ming army, the important thing is that the capital city of Zhangzhou is no longer owned by the Qing army, and the important thing is that the Ming army that connects the central and southern control areas of Zhangzhou has no worries, and they can rest assured and boldly continue to launch a new round of offensive in other directions!

I can't remember how he waved back the generals, and I remember whether he appeased the messenger or not, the momentum of the Ming army sweeping through Fujian has already sprouted, and he has no way to stop it, and even the resistance that delays time is hopeless under such a huge artillery attack.

His heart was overwhelmed by sadness, and it took a long time for Chen Jin to slow down a little. Thinking about asking the Qing court to send Hangzhou to garrison the Eight Banners to Fujian to help, and thinking about asking the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan, which were entrenched in Guangdong, to launch a fierce attack on Chaozhou in eastern Guangdong. Whether it is to solve the problem head-on, or to encircle Wei to save Zhao, Chen Jin is to seize all the time to fight.

The excerpts were written one by one, and the letters asking Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao for help were also sent out as soon as possible. It's a pity that this is the only thing he can do, and then he can only resign himself to fate. Everything was done, Chen Jin was already dry, picked up the teacup, drank it all, only felt that the tea was cold, and looked at Li Jinzhong, the house slave who was standing aside, even if he was furious.

"Dog minion!"

"Dog stuff that doesn't have long eyes."

“……”

The angry shouts one by one, the whistling of tearing the air with the leather whip and the endless blood marks on Li Jinzhong's body after a blink of an eye.

The house slave curled up on the ground didn't dare to move, he had been by Chen Jin's side for a long time, he naturally knew Chen Jin's temper, he was whipped for anger at the moment, as long as Chen Jin's anger was gone, he could get out, but if it aroused his anger, then he could only pray that Chen Jin would let him go for the time being because of something else.

After a long time, Chen Jin vented enough, and he was indeed tired, so he waved his hand, and other trembling house slaves carried Li Jinzhong, who was already unconscious, down.

Chen Jinqi has the ability to do it, and he can get by with his subordinates, but if he has any problems on weekdays, he has to use the house slaves around him to vent. It's no surprise that things like this are so common today. And in the recent period, especially in the past month since the defeat of the Jiangdong Bridge battle, there will be domestic slaves suffering every day, and even sometimes, it is not new to fight two or three times a day.

"Hey, today, count me unlucky."

Duty is hourly, and in recent days, every time he serves by Chen Jin's side, it means that he may face Chen Jin's whipping at any time. After being treated by a military doctor, Li Jinzhong had already woken up, and in the face of a few good house slaves on weekdays, he had to consider himself unlucky, and there was nothing he could do.

"In the final analysis, the master is still because of the loss of Zhangzhou and the battle a month ago, maybe the court will punish ...... later."

Schadenfreude is not even half a point. With Chen Jin's temper, even if it was only this time, they were afraid that they would not survive it. This kind of thing is not unprecedented, and even Chen Jin's wife has complained in private, saying that Chen Jin treats his subordinates too harshly, and God can't look past it, so he doesn't have a child until now. Therefore, Chen Jin's wife adopted an orphan son of an anti-Qing righteous man as a righteous son, so that there would be a banner to burn paper money a hundred years later.

Thinking of this, the four house slaves all looked like ashes, as if the fate of being beaten to death was about to befall them.

………………

The city of Zhangzhou was broken, a few families were happy and a few were sad, as the victor, the Ming army had to put on a banquet to celebrate.

Speaking of which, Zhangzhou is no longer the first capital city recovered by the Ming army in Fujian, as early as a few years ago in Chaozhou, there was already a precedent. But compared to the outwitting of that time, this time it was to break the local and reinforcement Qing troops again and again, and to collapse the city in front of the Qing army, and then take the city in one go, which is incomparable.

The siege of Zhangzhou is relatively short, the people's livelihood in the city is relatively well preserved, the Ming army took the city, it can be directly taken over, without too much reconstruction and restoration, this tens of thousands of permanent residence of the city can be for the Ming army to pay food, pay taxes, the strength of the Ming army will also be improved.

The news of the recovery of Zhangzhou spread quickly, and Nanjing County, the only remaining isolated city in the middle of Zhangzhou, immediately chose to change its court. As a result, the ten counties of Zhangzhou, Zhao'an, Zhangpu, and Pinghe in the south, and the seven counties of Haicheng, Changtai, Longxi, and Nanjing in the central part of the country were recovered one after another, and the Zhangzhou Plain, which was known as the "granary of southern Fujian", fell into the hands of the Ming army and formed a large area with the control area of the Ming army in Chaozhou.

"The sin will be Lian Biao to meet the country's surname."

"I have heard the name of General Lian for a long time, and when I see it today, it is really mighty and majestic."

The battle of Jiangdong Bridge ended in a complete victory for the Ming army, and the county seat of Changtai opened its doors to welcome the surrender, and soon the news spread to Zhangping County, which was nearly two hundred miles to the north. In this regard, Lian Biao, the guard general of Zhangping County, immediately decided to take the county seat anyway.

Zheng Chenggong was delighted to see it, and immediately divided some of the war horses captured in the first battle of Jiangdong Bridge and the first battle of Zhangzhou, formed a chariot town, and appointed him as the chief military officer. In the first battle of Zhangzhou Fucheng, the defenders in the city, Wang Zhigang and Chen Shangzhi died in the chaos, and Wang Jin, the general soldier of Zhangzhou, led the remnants to surrender, and Zheng Chenggong also appointed Wang Jin as the chief military officer of Xiaoqi Town after breaking the city.

In this way, on the basis of the cavalry of the two towns of Beizhen and Tieqi Town, the Ming army suddenly expanded the cavalry of the two towns, which is not what it used to be.

"Our army can have today's prosperity, and it is indispensable to succeed."

In front of the generals, Zheng Chenggong praised it so much. Not only did Chen Kai collapse the wall of the Jieshi Acropolis with a vice-gun that triggered his thinking about the Zhangzhou capital city, but more importantly, the Guangdong battlefield presided over by Chen Kai effectively realized the strategic intention of the Ming army to defend the west and attack the east, and not long after he captured the Zhangzhou capital city, the news of Lu Feng's victory came from Chaozhou, and the Ming army thwarted the attack of the Qing army in Guangdong led by Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, with the two fortresses there, of which the feudal soldiers alone killed nearly 1,000 people, and countless wounded.

The Lufeng referred to by Chen Kai is now an area that belongs to the first line of the Luohe River in the eastern part of Haifeng County, which is a new geographical term. With the examples of the new Fengshun and Jiexi counties earlier, Zheng Chenggong thought that maybe Chen Kai planned to toss another Lufeng County. But before the words arrived, he didn't care at all. Even if it is here, he has handed over the military and political affairs of Guangdong to Chen Kai with full authority, and it is naturally up to Chen Kai to have the final say, and he can only fill in his name in the Shangshu that Chen Kai reported to the imperial court.

Next, it is nothing more than the army to continue to the east, according to the established strategy, priority to recover the second prefecture of Zhangquan as the goal, to ensure the Ming army's maritime trade center in the left of the blockage. This was discussed by them as early as last year before Chen Kai set off, and over the past year, Zheng Chenggong has always been implementing it step by step in accordance with this strategy. Now is a good time to further achieve the strategic goal, and at this moment, with the arrival of a team of fast horses, the news of Chen Jin's death was quickly sent to Zheng Chenggong's case.

"Chen Jin, is he really dead?"

After the fall of Zhangzhou, Chen Jin whipped the house slaves, and the long-term bullying led to an assassination incident, and the four house slaves around Chen Jin - Li Jinzhong, Lu Pichang, Chen En, and Li Zhong assassinated Chen Jin, and then fled. Under the pursuit of the Qing army, only Li Jinzhong fled into the area controlled by the Ming army, and was quickly taken to the capital of Zhangzhou to tell Zheng Chenggong about the facts in person.

"It's really the heavens that protect the emperor, so that this fang will die!"

Chen Jin's ability, his importance in the southeast battlefield, and his bloody suppression of the Ming army, the righteous army and even the common people over the years are all known to the generals, and there are even people like Zhang Mingzhen who have experienced it firsthand. As soon as this person died, the position of governor of Zhejiang and Fujian was vacant, and it was bound to be another political struggle, and the backbone was lost, whether it was the local Qing army in Fujian, or the Qing army that aided Fujian, it would inevitably fall in morale, which was a better thing for the Ming army.

A great opportunity, not to be missed, Zheng Chenggong immediately reassigned the tasks of each town and mobilized the waterway army: "Send troops to Tong'an, recover Quanzhou, in one fell swoop!" ”

Note: The assassination of Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, is a historical event, and the continuous fermentation of the Jiangdong Bridge fiasco. For this period of history, some of the remnants of the late Ming Dynasty and the official records of the Qing court are slightly different, one side says that Chen Jin's house slave Ku Chengdong assassinated Chen Jin, while the other side's interrogation records record that Chen Jin's four house slaves joined forces to kill Chen Jin. At this point, the author is more inclined to the latter, because the author of the first historical material with the name Ku Chengdong has not really come into contact with this historical event at all, and the historical materials of the Ming people who have actually come into contact with this historical event, such as "Congzheng Shilu", are roughly the same as the records of the Qing court, and the latter is more credible.