As soon as Zheng Hongkui died, Zheng Jun, who was already extremely depressed, suddenly had sufficient reasons to surrender, and had no intention of fighting, so they followed Shi Lang, who knelt down, and abandoned their weapons and armor together, and bowed to the Tang army to surrender.

Such a result is much smoother than the persuasion process imagined by Li Dingguo, Zheng Chenggong and others.

The death of Zheng Hongkui alone in exchange for the smooth surrender of all Zheng troops is definitely a quite satisfactory result.

It's just that Zheng Chenggong didn't have any joy on his face, only indescribable sadness.

Uncle and nephew, but in the end, it ended up like this, how can it not make people sigh.

In the end, Zheng Chenggong sighed and ordered his subordinates to bury Zheng Hongkui in order to fulfill the friendship of uncle and nephew.

Next, Li Dingguo ordered to collect all the surrendered Zheng troops on the spot, and asked Zheng Chenggong to send a message to Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai, so that Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai, who were still overseas to assemble the Zheng Army's naval division, immediately led all the naval divisions to return to Penghu as soon as possible to accept the reorganization of the Tang Army.

When assembling a fleet overseas, after the two received Zheng Chenggong's letter, Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai were both surprised.

Both of them never expected that in just a few dozen days, such a major change would occur in Zheng Jun, which can be called earth-shaking changes.

Zheng Zhilong died in battle, Zheng Chenggong surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Hongkui died righteously, and the Zheng family's forces have fallen in pieces, and they are no longer what they used to be.

What's even more regrettable is that now Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui are dead, and all the soldiers and horses of the Zheng army have surrendered to the Tang army.

So what do you have to do next, is it right?

Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai made different choices.

Zheng Caiyuan was a person without opinions, he saw Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui all die at the hands of Tang Jun, and knew that it would be difficult to make a difference with his own strength. After thinking about it, he finally decided that, according to Zheng Chenggong's request, he led more than 500 ships under his command to return north to Penghu and accept the reorganization of the Tang army.

People live in the world, and survival is fundamental, Zheng Cai's move can be regarded as a lost return.

On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong's third brother Zheng Zhibao, after receiving Zheng Chenggong's letter, was furious and tore Zheng Chenggong's letter to shreds in a few clicks.

"Grandma, Lao Tzu doesn't want Tang Jun to be a grandson. Brother is not, Lao Tzu set himself up as king! Zheng Zhibao roared.

Zheng Zhi decided to stand on his own, and together with several generals, he coerced more than 600 ships and nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command, and went south to attack the country of Boni.

This country of Bo Ni, speaking of which, is also a country with a long history, and Chinese historical books call it Bo Ni, Buddha Ni, and Borneo.

By the 13th century, Bo Ni had jurisdiction over 14 states, and its capital, Brunei, had 10,000 residents. The economy is dominated by agriculture. Rich in dipterocarp. The people "boiled the sea for salt, and brewed rice for wine." In the 14th century, the people of Boni "worshiped the Buddha statue only strictly". The central government has a minister in charge of the country's finances and taxation.

At the end of the 14th century, it belonged to the kingdom of Machabacher. At the beginning of the 15th century, it submitted to the Kingdom of Malacca. At the same time, it began to be greened. Soon after, independence was restored and the Sultanate of Boni was established. At the beginning of the 16th century, the 5th Sultan Borkia came to power, and the country was prosperous, and in addition to most of Kalimantan, some islands in the southern Philippines also belonged to Bo Ni. Historians call this period the "Golden Age" in Brunei's history.

In the country, feudal rule has always been practiced, and the Sultan has four ministers and eight deputy ministers. The Sultan held the land of the whole country and divided it among his ministers, who rented it to the people for cultivation. From the middle of the 16th century to the present, due to the decline of the country due to the strife in the royal family, rebellions have occurred one after another in various places, which has given Zheng Zhibao and others an opportunity to take advantage of.

Zheng Zhibao collected pirates from all walks of life along the way, and gathered thousands of outlaws with high-ranking officials, and marched south to attack Brunei, the capital of the Boni Kingdom.

Zheng Zhibao and others suddenly attacked, the originally divided country of Boni, where could withstand this sudden blow, King Boni under the protection of the remnants, embarrassed to escape from the capital, finally saved his life, immediately sent a messenger, north to China to ask for reinforcements.

Soon, the envoy traveled all the way north, and after arriving in Guangzhou, he immediately asked to see Huang Degong, the mayor of the ninth town of the Tang Army, who was stationed there. After receiving the envoy's letter of assistance, Huang Degong immediately sent a message to Beijing Feige, conveying to him the news that Zheng Zhibao was attacking the country with all his might.

Li Xiao received the news that Zheng Zhibao was going to attack the country of Boni, so he immediately discussed with his staff Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang in the living room.

When Chen Zilong heard the news, he was overjoyed, and immediately suggested: "King Tang, Zheng Zhibao didn't dare to surrender, but he went to attack the Bo Ni Kingdom, although it is very hateful, but his actions like this are also a great opportunity for our army to further expand in Southeast Asia." ”

"Oh? Why did Wozi say this? ”

"Tang Wang, I think that Zheng Zhibao's attack on Bo Ni this time is really a great opportunity for our army to wedge into Southeast Asia.

"Oh?"

"King Tang, in my opinion, it is better to sit back and watch Zheng Zhibao destroy the country of Boni, and then our army will attack it with the momentum of the Yellow Crane behind. Our Tang army issued a letter with King Boni's order for help, sent a righteous army, sent troops to fight, and made every effort to eliminate Zheng Zhibao's troops. And if Zheng Zhibao's troops are defeated, they will definitely scatter and flee, and it is very likely that they will flee to the surrounding Southeast Asian countries, and our army can exterminate these countries in the name of exterminating Yu Kou, and take the opportunity to unify the entire Southeast Asia. When Chen Zilong said this, his face was full of joy.

"That's right. It is a pity to think that our army went from Shaanxi to the southeast, and there was no war all the way, and many soldiers and horses went south to Guangdong and Fujian, but there was no place for it, which is also a pity. If there is no war like this, it is not appropriate to order them to return to their respective stations, or even the Manchus, Koreans, and Japanese soldiers and horses to return to their own countries. In my opinion, they can be sent to conquer Southeast Asia, one is to help our Tang army destroy such Southeast Asian countries as Bo Ni, Java, Aceh, etc., the second is to consume the strength of foreign armies, and the third is to fight for the whole army and soldiers. Jiang Yueguang agreed repeatedly.

The two of them saw that Li Xiao was very much in line with Li Xiao's wishes, he nodded, and said loudly: "What the two of you have seen is very good. The arrow is on the bow, and Encore does not send it. Zheng Zhibao gave Lone a good opportunity to use troops in Southeast Asia, and it was not easy to grasp it. And after the destruction of the Southeast Asian countries, it is not too late to send troops and horses back to China. ”

The idea was set, Li Xiao immediately ordered, and the whole army waved south, all the way to attack the country of Boni.

The Tang Army's naval division, the original more than 800 ships, plus the surrendered Zheng military naval division, and Zheng Cai's more than 500 Zheng military naval divisions, a total of more than 1,500 ships, the ship covered the sun, the sails and shadows covered the sky, with a mighty momentum, swooping towards the mud on Kalimantan Island.

And the soldiers and horses brought by this naval division, including the soldiers and horses of the four towns of the Tang Army as the main force, the 100,000 Qing troops as auxiliaries, 50,000 Korean troops, and 50,000 Japanese troops, with a total of more than 200,000 troops, can be called a boulder for the soldiers and horses of Zheng Zhibao's army, which is no more than 10,000 people.

Carrying so many soldiers and horses shows that Li Xiao's ambition is to sweep the whole of Southeast Asia, and he is not afraid to pay the price, but also to resolutely and completely swallow this rich and fertile tropical land.

The Tang convoy was moving forward mightily, and there were occasional Spanish, Dutch, or British ships on the sea, but when they saw that the Tang army's sailors were so strong, they all became frightened birds, and immediately fled in a hurry, disappearing without a trace.

Such a situation was completely unexpected by Tang Jun. Moreover, according to the calculations of Chen Zilong and others, when the Tang army set off at this time and arrived at Bo Ni, Zheng Zhibao estimated that he would just swallow Bo Ni into his bag, and it was the most exhausting and weak time that the Tang Army launched a surprise attack again, and it was the most appropriate action to give them a praying mantis to catch cicadas and yellow finches.

And among the Tang troops whose morale was like a rainbow, in the cabin of a Tiger Roar-class ship, the commander of the Qing army, Azig, stripped off his stripes, but he was still sweating.

At this time, he was standing at the door of the cabin, constantly fanning the wind, his thick eyebrows were locked, his face was irritable, but his heart felt even more inexplicably sad.

In the hot and humid cabin, it was as if the air was coated with a thick, salty salty liquid, which made it uncomfortable to breathe. What's even worse is that there are a lot of mosquitoes in the cabin, buzzing and hovering in the air into a black mist, which is very annoying.

Moreover, the tropical mosquitoes are as big as fingernails, and the bite on the body is a huge round bag, itchy and numb, scratching endlessly, making people irritable, and making this group of Qing troops from the white mountains and black waters, completely unsuitable for the tropical climate, suffer enough.

100,000 Qing soldiers, the last elite of the Qing Dynasty, since entering Guangdong, the number of sick soldiers has increased day by day, and now when it is almost to the mud, there are nearly 10,000 Qing soldiers, or died of epidemics, or sick on the road, and there are less than 80,000 soldiers who can fight.

Azig had thought countless times that he would quickly help the Tang army finish the battle against Li Zicheng and immediately rush back to Shengjing to recuperate and recuperate, but now it seems that this is an increasingly distant and completely unrealistic fantasy.

I really didn't expect that Li Xiao's ambition was so big, after defeating Li Zicheng's Dashun, he kept urging the people to go south to defeat Zheng Zhilong, who was entrenched in Guangdong and Fujian, and then he had to cross the sea to prepare to annex the entire Southeast Asia in the name of eliminating Zheng Zhibao.

It is a pity that the 100,000 Qing army, as the servant army of the Tang army, has no right to speak and autonomy at all, and can only completely follow the instructions of the Tang army, conquer the east and fight the west, and dare not resist a little. Eventually, I went all the way south to this Southeast Asian area.

And to fight in this hot, humid and mosquito-ridden environment was a nightmare experience for the Qing army from the bitter cold land.

In particular, Li Xiao's gang is ambitious, and it is not enough to take down Bo Ni, and he insists on taking the whole of Southeast Asia such as Champa, Java, Aceh, Johor, etc., you can imagine how long this battle will last, and how many people will die because of war and disease.

Thinking of this, Azig suddenly had a terrible intuition in his heart.

That is, the Tang army is very likely to not care about the life or death of its own soldiers, and only treat them as chess pieces or bargaining chips to win, even if the remaining 80,000 Qing troops are all lost in Nanyang.

Yes, it must be so!

Li Xiao, a thief and prisoner who killed the heavens, must be so vicious and ruthless, and he must have regarded the Qing army like a mustard like this, on the one hand, he used himself and his subordinates to attack the entire Southeast Asia, and on the other hand, let the 100,000 Qing army be exhausted in the non-stop conquest, so as to not only kill people with a knife, but also greatly reduce the potential strength of the Qing Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Azig couldn't help but feel sad.

Grandma's, Rao is Li Xiao's obvious bullying, clearly letting himself and his men go to death, but he has no room and ability to resist.

The reason is very simple, when the Qing army arrived here, it had become a completely foreign lone army, such as grain, grass, ordnance, and even medical care, etc., all of which needed to rely on the Tang army to continue. If he ate the gall of the leopard and dared to provoke a private resistance, which made Li Xiao unhappy, Li Xiao would not have to send troops to suppress him at all, and just no longer supplying them with food and grass would be enough to destroy the remaining 80,000 Qing troops.

What's more, in this land of the South Seas now, even if they want to escape, where can they escape without a sailor ship, do they want to flee to this wild and smoky Kalimantan Island to be bandits? And in this place full of poisonous smoke and miasma, poisonous snakes and crocodiles, what is the difference between being a bandit and killing yourself.

Li Xiao, Li Xiao, you thief!

I really didn't expect that I, the Hero of Azig, would be so wretched in your hands now, it's so unbearable!

Perhaps, if the Qing Empire wants to revive again, the foundation is just a spring dream.

Azig let out a long sigh, sat down depressed, cursed again and again, and slapped two big mosquitoes with blurred flesh and blood to death, how can I say the depression and humiliation in my heart.

No matter how Azig and the Qing army complained along the way, the sailors of the Tang army traveled day and night, all the way to the country of Boni.

Sure enough, as expected by Chen Zilong and others, when Li Xiao's fleet was about a day's journey away from Brunei, the capital of Bo Ni, the secret agent of the Security Department who had already been installed in the Bo Ni Country quickly came with the news that Zheng Zhibao had destroyed the Bo Ni Kingdom and killed the king Manmen, and then proclaimed himself emperor.

The Tang army, which got the news, immediately urged its troops to advance, and more than 1,500 ships of the naval division rushed straight to Brunei, the capital of Boni.

Zheng Zhibao, who was celebrating the promotion of the official to the knighthood, heard such news, it was like a bolt from the blue.

This, how is this possible!

It was not easy for him to take down the mud, and he had just tasted what it was like to be an emperor, and Li Xiao's Tang army followed him all the way, which was a nightmare experience!

It's just that the Tang Army's naval division has more than 1,500 ships, both in number and tonnage, which are far above itself, and the total number of soldiers and horses is far more than its own.

Damn, you can't beat it, so run away.