Chapter 126: Three Forks (1)
Time is like a hand, and soon, a month later. Chen Kai, Lin Dezhong and Lu Ruoji, who didn't have much experience in how to train soldiers, these three stinkers couldn't replace Zhuge Liang in the end. However, a month has passed, and there has been no qualitative change, but at a glance, the queue in terms of resisting the enemy and engaging in battle is much stricter than when he first arrived here, but I don't know if it will be maintained when it is really against the Qing army.
A month ago, Daozong got Chen Kai's order and made a special trip to Chaozhou to investigate. In the past month, Zheng Chenggong stopped his troops in Dongshan and Nanao, and Zheng Cai did not move at all, the strong enemy was on the side, and the Qing army in Zhangzhou simply responded to all changes with no change, so that the Taoist sect could not grasp any useful information.
A month later, on the eighth day of October in the third year of Yongli, Zhangzhou Yuegang, the port of Haicheng County, which is just the opposite of the word Chenghai, has not recovered from the province's commercial malaise due to the grain shortage in Fujian, and it is far from recovering, not even one-tenth of the weather.
There are a few small and large boats scattered in the harbor, and most of them are fishing boats fishing in the offshore waters. For the Qing army guarding the port, it seems that this day can be passed peacefully, and then go home, should beat the children and beat the children, should do some love things with the daughter-in-law can also do some love things, even those who play singles, even now can already divide some thoughts for the daughter of which family, thinking about when they can make up enough bride price, and then find a matchmaker who can speak well.
However, such a sweet dream was still shattered by the fishing boats hurrying back from afar—not because these local fishermen really had the courage to provoke them, but at this glance, the background of the fishing boats hurrying back was the sea and sky, and it was impossible to count how many sea boats were sailing back and were heading here like covering the sky and the sun.
"The Haikou is here!"
The wolf smoke on the beacon tower soared into the sky, and the carrier pigeons, which were impatiently thrown into the sky by the post guards, fluttered their wings in a panic, and there was no shortage of messengers who screamed and whipped their horses away, leaving the place as if they were fleeing.
The word Haikou, in this era, especially in southern Fujian, even ordinary people also know that nine times out of ten, it is even said that it is the people of the Zheng family who are here, and the difference is nothing more than that it is Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian, or Zheng Hongkui, or Zheng Chenggong, just such a little difference!
Since it can only be the Ming army, they can escape and have hurriedly prepared to flee with carriages and horses, and those who do not feel the need to escape simply close the door of the courtyard gatehouse, prepare the incense case, and just wait for the elders of Lizheng and the villagers to shout, and they can stage a drama to welcome the king, just like the year before last, Zheng Chenggong failed to attack Haicheng and was forced to move to Quanzhou, and the Qing army followed to take over the port. For those of them who are on the front line, they are already too skilled to be more skilled.
The army easily took Haicheng Port, but for the Haiqing army, it was already a rumor, and even a soldier of the Zheng family was busy closing the city gate without seeing it.
In this world, a few families are happy and a few are sad, when Zhangpu was almost besieged earlier, the Qing troops in Haicheng and other counties were all relieved, and now it is Haicheng's turn, with the report and the order of Wang Bangjun, the general soldier of Zhangzhou, spread throughout the green camp of the whole province, put aside those who had to respond, others can breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, a friend of the dead road is not a poor man.
However, just when the local green battalion was fearfully praying that the Ming army would come to attack the city later, at least when the reinforcements arrived, God really seemed to hear their begging, and was very kind. It's just that this kindness, with the passage of time and the scouting of the cavalry, soon turned into a strange thing that only surprised but not pleased those reinforcements - Zheng Chenggong's army withdrew.
"No, this is a diversion of the tiger from the mountain!"
As Wang Bangjun said, early the next morning, the Ming army rode the wind, and by the morning of the tenth day of the first month, they had arrived at the boundary of Yunxiao Town between Zhangpu County and Zhao'an County.
The army landed at Baita, Zheng Chenggong divided his troops, and advanced from the right and left with Shi Lang, the left vanguard Shi Lang, the aid to suppress the left town of Huang Ting, and the former Chong town Ruan Yin three towns to advance from the right and left, the right vanguard Yang Cai, the aid to the right town of Huangshan, the left town of Kangming, and the right town of He De from the right, and the commander of Rongqi Town, Ke Chenshu of Zhongchong Town, and Gan Hui of Qinding Town advanced from the middle and went straight to Yunxiao Town.
Yunxiao town was built in the Ming Zhengde period, after several overturns, several repairs, to the first year of Shunzhi, that is, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen city fall, along with the Ming and Qing dynasties, the local magistrate in a time without the mind to repair, so that although it is a military important place, but there is no city to defend at all.
In this place, there was originally a general military officer, also known as the general army of the left road of Fujian. The current chief soldier is called Wang Zhigang, a native of Wanping, Beijing, a subordinate of the former Xingping Bo Gaojie, and Li Chengdong is also an old brother who has grabbed food in the pot. However, this person has rarely been stationed in the local area over the years, most of them are in northern Fujian and Jiangxi to help suppress, the infamous Shao Wuzhi Tu is the handiwork of this guy, and later the Qing army suppressed the "Jiangxi Four Great Kou" also called it more powerful.
But such a place cannot be defended without soldiers. In this way, Wang Qifeng's old boss Zhang Guozhu served as a guard general here as a general in the clouds, commanding more than 1,000 troops. This time Zheng Chenggong's army attacked, Zhang Guozhu faced such an embarrassment, lest he die in the military law of the Qing court, and was unwilling to surrender to the Ming army like "candles in the wind", so he had to lead Qian Zong Xia Yi and Ke Hu to leave the city five miles to meet Zheng Chenggong's army, leaving only Yao Guotai, the Chinese army, to defend the town that was almost in danger.
Zhang Guozhu's department soon contacted Shi Lang's Zuo Pioneer Town, and the confrontation was several times, and Shi Xian, the deputy general of the Central Army of the Left Pioneer Town, jumped on his horse and raised his sword, and rushed straight into his formation. Zhang Guozhu was forced to fight, but he was beheaded by Shi Xian in just one round. When the Qing army heard that the commander had died in battle, they immediately collapsed, and the corpses were everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, Zheng Chenggong, who arrived later, led the army to attack the city. The defender Yao Guotai fought hard to defend it, but he was still broken through the city defense by Zhongchong Town and Zuochong Town, and Yao Guotai was wounded by the Ming army and fell into the corpse.
Zheng Chenggong took Yunxiao Town, heard the name of Yao Guotai, sent someone to find it, his body was wounded, and others were already dead, but Yao Guotai was undecided, seeing this, Zheng Chenggong hurriedly asked the best Lang Zhong to treat him, and finally picked up this life, and then sent it to Dongshan Island, handed over to the local magistrate to take care of and treat.
The clouds are down, and the next step is nothing more than to attack Zhangpu to the east, or to trap Zhao'an in the west. The former is due to the plan of diverting the tiger from the mountain, and because the distance is closer to Haicheng, it must be more closely guarded; The latter can not only achieve the effect of a surprise attack, but also seize its territory to connect with the occupied areas of Chaozhou, so naturally there is no need to choose.
"Country surname, our army is attacking Yunxiao Town, and the Tartars of Fucheng will send troops to help. Now our army has taken Yunxiao Town, but there is no defense here, and it is really not a place that can be defended. And Pantuo Ridge is the only way for the captives to enter the sky and Zhao'an, and the last general is willing to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to guard Pantuo Ridge and intercept the captives! ”