"Report to the general, those rebel leaders, about 3,000 people, all escaped through the secret passage in the back garden of the city lord's mansion before the city was broken!"

"A brigade of the Marine Corps has already made a detour from outside the city to intercept it, and I don't know if it can catch up."

Zhong Jixiang came to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, and a team of scouts came out to report to him.

"I expected that these guys were pirates, so how could they not leave a way back for themselves!"

Zhong Jixiang was a little annoyed when he heard this, and vented and scolded, "Don't let Lao Tzu catch them, otherwise, they will be able to feel good as these traitors."

He immediately went to check the secret passage in the back garden, and found that this escape passage was not large, and in this short period of time, it was already the ultimate to be able to escape about 3,000 people.

No wonder they would abandon the 100,000 soldiers in this city.

If you don't give up, you may not be able to escape.

Therefore, when these big and small thieves fled, they definitely concealed those ordinary soldiers.

Otherwise, it will have to cause a mutiny or chaos.

These thieves have no choice, even if they want to escape with the soldiers, it is too late in time, so they simply hide it.

Then, naturally, the defenders in the city found that the officials were gone, so they hurriedly opened the city gate in a panic and raised the flag to surrender.

Now, we have to hope that the soldiers of the Marine Brigade who went to pursue and intercept the enemy have another way.

This place in Fujian is full of high mountains and dense forests, and if they escape this time, there is nothing they can do about it.

"Humph!"

Zhong Jixiang was full of anger and had no way to vent, so he had to curse secretly, "Next time, don't let Lao Tzu meet you again, otherwise you will be killed in heaven and earth!" ”

However, it didn't help, he just vented.

The reason for this is that I tasted the sweetness in the surprise bombing of a lively warship.

He originally thought that there would be a more fierce siege battle, and who knew that the enemy would either run away or surrender.

Now it's just a matter of getting angry.

What needs to be done, you have to do it, and then Zhong Jixiang is also in a hurry to work.

This fortified fortress has just been occupied, and there is still a lot of work to be done to transform it into a full-fledged naval base city.

Compared with these imminent work, the only 3,000 rebels who escaped are not so important.

……

Zhu Youxiao did not enter the city with the naval officers, and when he saw from a distance that the enemy had surrendered, he took a Leopard cruiser and left Moon Harbor.

Don't think about it, he also knows that this time Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang and other thieves will definitely not be caught.

After all, there was more than an hour of escape time before, which was enough for those thieves to escape, or to prepare for the way back.

If they didn't have a way back, they would have fled far away.

If there is a way back, there will inevitably be a 100% sure plan to run away.

Therefore, although some people want to meet the famous Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and others, it is impossible.

When the two sides meet, it will inevitably be the time when Zheng Zhilong and the other thieves are ambushed.

Don't forget, Zhu Youxiao is a hanger.

Once the two sides meet each other, Zhu Youxiao will definitely not let them go for this kind of meeting and killing object.

For Zhu Youxiao, these traitors are just clowns jumping off the beam.

Sooner or later, perhaps the next time they are discovered, it will be the day when these enemies will be beheaded.

The first step of the plan to occupy Moon Harbor has basically been successfully achieved.

However, the important thing is to control the area of Kinmen Island and Yuegang within a radius of 100 miles, and completely block the sea area of the Ming Empire while the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty firmly laid a nail.

Only in this way can we prevent the other side from initially weaponizing and avoid causing a large number of unnecessary casualties to our own soldiers in the future.

However, after this stormy blow, presumably those traitors of the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty should also be a little more determined.

It would have looked even better if Liu Zeqing from Beizhen had launched an invasion of Shandong as scheduled three days later. Swift Reading.com

Now that they have rushed to Shandong, Li Dingguo and Hao Shaoqi, are estimated to have been gearing up for a long time, waiting for Liu Zeqing to lead troops to the door.

There are two cavalry divisions of the Guards Army armed to the teeth, as well as two garrison regiments with a total of 240,000 horses, and against Liu Zeqing's 300,000 army, it should be easy to beat him to a bulging head and swollen face.

I just don't know if Liu Zeqing's life is hard this time, otherwise, the Shandong trip will be the last life of this famous traitor in history.

For Li Dingguo's command, Zhu Youxiao is one hundred and twenty rest assured, as long as Liu Zeqing dares to come, it will definitely be a fiasco.

Nine times out of ten, this big war will happen as scheduled.

In just three days, with the efficiency of the Southern Ming Dynasty, even if they learned that the Nanzhen army and the two major naval divisions in Fujian had been wiped out by the Royal Navy.

However, they definitely didn't have time to stop Liu Zeqing's 300,000 troops who had already set off from Yangzhou.

That's right, at three o'clock in the afternoon today, Zhu Youxiao received a secret report from the personnel of the Royal Military Intelligence Bureau.

According to the secret report, Liu Zeqing, this morning, had already coaxed 300,000 troops north and rushed directly towards Shandong.

Zhu Youxiao soon landed on Kinmen Island, inspected the large island, and found that the situation here had been completely controlled by a Royal Navy brigade, so he let go of the last trace of scruples.

"Well, there is still time, since the area around this Moon Harbor and Kinmen Island have been included in the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Empire, then ......"

Something big suddenly occurred to him.

If this major matter is not resolved, there will be no way to talk about the blockade of the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty.

That is where the nest of the Guangdong sailors is located: the Pearl River Delta region.

Around the mouth of the Pearl River Delta are Macao and Hong Kong.

If these two key places are not occupied as soon as possible, then Macau is still occupied by Portugal.

Although Portugal was annexed by Spain more than 40 years ago, it still retains a lot of autonomy and still controls Macao, that is, the trenches.

Seventy-five years ago, the Portuguese fleet came to the trench and leased the entire trench area for 20,000 taels of silver under the pretext of drying the goods wet by the storm.

In the past few decades, through the only foreign trade port on the surface of the Ming Empire, the silver earned is at least calculated in tens of millions of taels.

The famous Franc rapid-fire cannon flowed into the Ming Empire from here, and was copied by the Ming Empire in large quantities.

At that time, in order to force local officials to agree to lease trenches to them, Portugal led a fleet to open artillery on the coast along the Pearl River estuary, killing and wounding a large number of people in the Ming Empire.

The Portuguese, by half-intimidation and half-coaxing, succeeded in getting hold of the entire trench, and immediately after signing the contract, began to build a strong castle and a strong castle and a market, warehouses and other facilities.

Until now, this trench is still the only treaty port of the Ming Empire for trade with the outside world.

Ironically, the only treaty port was in Portuguese hands.

If Zhu Youxiao does not immediately control the Pearl River Delta estuary area, then Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and other bandits will inevitably flee here.

With the incomparably abundant resources and convenience here, with the strong support of the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty, they will soon be able to recover their vitality and be reborn.

In that case, it will undoubtedly become a joke to block the collusion between the Southern Ming puppet dynasty and the Westerners and cut off their contact.

"We must control the huge area of the Pearl River Delta estuary as soon as possible."

Zhu Youxiao is a person who does what he thinks of and doesn't like to procrastinate.

He first wrote two secret letters, called two big golden eagles, and instructed them to send them to Li Dingguo and Sun Chuanting respectively.

Immediately afterwards, a herald was summoned and ordered Zhong Jixiang to immediately lead 50 Leopard cruisers and 30,000 naval officers and men to join Kinmen Island.

The Grand Fleet set off overnight and rushed to the Pearl River Delta.

Now is the best time to occupy the Pearl River Delta.

Due to the annihilation of the entire army of the Guangdong Naval Division, the Pearl River Estuary area, which was originally the nest of the Guangdong Naval Division, is now not defended by any men and horses, it can be said that it is empty, and there are not even many small boats.

As long as the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet arrives, it will be easy to get it, and it is estimated that the officers and soldiers will not even be able to warm up.

The only battle that could be called a war was the battle to capture the trenches and beat the Portuguese.

After receiving the order of His Majesty the Emperor, the idle egg hurt, and Zhong Jixiang, who watched Xiao Guizi and Huang Jianjie go around to confiscate the spoils, was overjoyed.

He excitedly led 50 Leopard cruisers and 30,000 Royal Navy officers and men to hurriedly prepare the supplies and loading of the ship, and in less than half an hour, they came out of the Moon Harbor and joined Zhu Youxiao.

The Grand Fleet did not stop for a moment, sailing towards the south at full speed, and disappeared at the end of the blue sky and blue sea in a short time.