On the battlefield, anything can happen. Man-made disasters are small things, and if they catch up with natural disasters, it is called despair.

The most famous of these is Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, who was known as the "son of the plane" in later generations, and his luck went against the sky to the extreme, what "meteor fell into the enemy camp", what "suddenly the wind flew into the tiles, the torrential rain was like an injection, and the water soared", as if God was helping him. In the Ming Dynasty, there has never been such a situation, the most famous is Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, during the Jingjing period is also a variety of situations, it seems that even the banner of the counterinsurgency has been blown down by the wind more than once.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was as if luck had run out. Tsunami, plague, Xiaoice period, fancy famine, all kinds of bad things have hardly stopped. Don't talk about it far away, just say that Zheng Chenggong has been tossed by all kinds of winds and waves all his life, and the fleet has almost been wiped out several times, and there are many soldiers who cannot be delivered in time because of the unsmooth wind direction and current. Even just said that in the past few years in history, the fog on Pantuo Mountain and the sudden wind on Fengchao Mountain, if it weren't for the chain reaction brought by Chen Kai, these two times alone would be enough for Zheng Chenggong to return to before liberation, how could there be today's weather?

Originally, at the beginning of the explosion, Chen Kai thought that it was a small outbreak of character saved by various unlucky things in the past few years, and he was complacent about it. Unexpectedly, this emotion did not last long, and soon all that was left was a helpless smile.

The time of the celebration banquet was not long, not only the next day to continue to pursue to the west, but more importantly, after the hard battle of this day, most of the soldiers were exhausted, and they went back early to rest when they were full of food and drink.

By noon the next day, the harvest was finally counted, and the total number of beheadings in each town was more than 4,500, among which there were many auxiliaries, but there were also a lot of Qing soldiers, and it was even possible that there were more. More than 13,000 people were captured, including soldiers, auxiliaries, vassal soldiers, and green battalions. Among them, Huizhou General Huang Yingjie and Dongguan General Zhang Daoying were killed, these two towns were almost wiped out, the left wing general Xu Degong was wounded and captured, but the right wing general soldier who approached the command of the frontal attack on the fortress was successful, and at the time of the defeat, he showed a hundred battles from the corpse mountain and sea of blood in Liaodong to kill his excellent escape skills in front of the battle, and disappeared without a trace, which is most appropriate to describe with an unreachable look.

"I guess if Xu Degong hadn't been stunned, I'm afraid that he would have to run faster than Lian Decheng."

In the big tent, the generals burst into laughter when they heard the words. Geng Jimao ran away, but all the belongings brought by the Qing army were lost here, weapons, armor, and thousands of war horses, pack horses, and more cattle, donkeys, mules and other cart-pulling livestock, and even the pigs and sheep slaughtered last night were brought by Geng Jimao, and now it is cheaper than Chen Kai.

The only thing that made Chen Kai feel a little dissatisfied was the explosion, the original Ming army destroyed more than a dozen artillery pieces of the Qing army during the fire, some of the artillery trucks were broken, and some of the barrels were deformed, and the remaining artillery Geng Jimao didn't want to take it away. Now it is true that one has not been taken away, but the damage to the artillery in that area at that time should not be underestimated, especially those wooden artillery carriages, even if they were not completely blown up after the explosion, they were basically on fire, and the only thing that really fell into the hands and ensured that it was intact was only the 29 Hongyi cannons that retreated from the south side of the main position of the Qing army to the rear at that time.

"General, what about the rest?"

It's good that the gun carriage is destroyed, it's nothing more than to build a new one, and the carpenter's work doesn't cost too much, but if the barrel is deformed or cracked, no one dares to use it anymore, after all, it is at the risk of exploding. What's more, the crews of these guns no longer exist, and if you want to use them, you have to retrain the crews, which is not something that can be done in a moment, and it is really troublesome.

"First transport these scrap copper and rotten iron back to the warehouse on Nanao Island, and when there is a suitable opportunity, melt it, and then cast a few auxiliary guns."

While sorting out the capture, the army was heading west, and this time Chen Kai decided to take back Haifeng County first. When the army arrived, Tanma reported that the Qing army had abandoned the city and fled, not only the feudal soldiers, but even the old Suli department that stayed here, and later switched to the Chen Wanquan under Huang Yingjie, who also ran away without a trace, leaving only an empty city for the Ming army.

The people in the city were basically pulled by the Qing army to fill in the trenches, and after the first Lufeng Twin Fort Defense Battle, the Ming army dug a big pit on the east bank of the Luo River and buried the people who were killed. This time, too.

Without a fight, the Ming army had already controlled all the areas east of the Lotus Mountains, and the Qing army, especially the Qing army on the southern front, fled in embarrassment, and it was also panicked all day. For this reason, the generals asked for help again, but there were also more Zhou Quanbin singing a counterpoint here.

"After this battle, the Jingnan Domain was broken by our army, but the Pingnan Domain is still there. The reason why our army was able to win is that the fortress consumed a large amount of the captive division's vital strength, and our army relied on the tactical core around the fortress to contend with the captive division. ”

Chen Kai agreed with Zhou Quanbin's opinion, and the excitement in the hearts of the other generals gradually regained their composure after Chen Kai said this. It's just such a big victory, just to recover a county seat, well, plus a city of thousands of households, it's really a little unwilling. However, this unwillingness stems from the disparity in the overall strength of the two sides, with such a gap, the Qing army can be defeated once, defeated twice, and even defeated ten times or eight times can slow down, but the Ming army will lose its previous achievements as long as it is defeated once.

"If the surname of the country can lead troops westward......"

At this point, Du Hui couldn't help but shake his head. In today's situation, Zheng Chenggong is in the east and Chen Kai is in the west, back-to-back against the Qing army. If Zheng Chenggong's army marches westward, what will happen to the sabers and spears of the Eight Banners of Hangzhou garrison on their backs?

The disparity in national strength seems to be frightening to the Ming army now, but looking back at the Qing army, before the Qing army entered the customs, there was a strategic decisive battle that did not lose once and face the risk of extinction. It's a pity that the Ming army didn't win a single battle at that time, and it forced the Qing army to develop to the scale and strength it is today. And now, Chen Kai also needs to be steady and steady, at least he can't spit out everything he swallowed earlier because he is greedy for cheapness.

Of course, not crossing the Lotus Mountain Range does not mean that Chen Kai has done nothing. On the second day of recovering Haifeng County, Chen Kai entrusted the military affairs to Du Hui and returned to Chaozhou City overnight, and on the northern front, the news of Hao Shangjiu's attack on Sanheba came, and Chen Kai asked the messenger to rush to Sanheba with Huang Yingjie's head.

By the time he rushed back to Chaozhou City, the news of the Qing army's withdrawal from Sanheba had arrived. Chen Kaixuan immediately wrote another letter, sent it to Chengxiang County, and handed it over to Hao Shangjiu.

“…… The new Taibo must know that the victory of the king division and the inability to sweep Guangdong is not unwilling, but it is actually the reality that the master is powerful and the king is weak. However, this year's captives used Hangzhou to garrison the Eight Banners and Fujian and Zhejiang provinces to attack Quanzhou, and repelled the national surname; The captives attacked our Chaozhou with the soldiers of the Jingnan Domain and the two thieves Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying, and they were also defeated by the Wang Division. The offensive and defensive trends are gradually unfolding, not to mention the great victory of Guilin in Guilin, where the king of Xining forced the Confucian thief to kill? ”

In the letter, Chen Kai analyzed the current situation changes in Fujian and Guangdong provinces to Hao Shangjiu, and this year the Ming army recovered the territory of nearly two provinces in southern Fujian in one go, repelled the Qing army, and basically preserved the fruits of victory. In Guangdong, although it was in a strategic defensive posture, it twice repelled the Qing army, crippled the troops of the Jingnan Domain, and even floated into the sea to control the mouth of the Pearl River, and drove the fleet under the nose of Shang Kexi.

"Kai is unwilling to be strong, the new Taber is willing to belong to the court, and Kai welcomes him; If you don't want to, Kai thinks that there is no need for our two armies to meet each other, so as not to let the captive master sit on the fisherman's profits......"

Chen Kai's tongue was like a lotus, Hao Shangjiu looked through it carefully, hesitated again and again, and it was not until a few days later that he summoned a messenger and sent an unsigned reply to Chaozhou.

After receiving the reply, Chen Kai laughed while reading it, and finally casually threw the letter on the case: "A self-defending thief is a self-defending thief, and the two ends of the rat's head are the most suitable adjectives." ”

However, having said that, Chen Kai still solemnly wrote another letter, and through the letter, he further finalized some principles of mutual market between the ore of Chengxiang and the goods produced in Chaozhou and southern Fujian.