Zheng Zhilong established the Great Southern Empire and brazenly proclaimed himself emperor, living a luxurious palace life, Zheng Damu was imprisoned instead of admonishing, which made Li Dingguo very disappointed, and he took the guards to leave without saying goodbye after staying in Nan'an for two days.

This is absolutely contempt for Zheng Zhilong, the new emperor, or not admitting it, now that Li Dingguo has surrendered to Zheng Zhilong, that is his minister, and the minister dares to do this to the king, which is tantamount to rebellion.

Li Dingguo's move is also the strongest way to protest, the reason why he surrendered to Zheng Zhilong is to unite him against the enemy, now Zheng Zhilong is the emperor, of course Li Dingguo is unwilling to serve, his army is still the Great Western Army, the emperor in his eyes is only his godfather Zhang Xianzhong, and there is no second person.

Zheng Zhibao is Zheng Zhilong's fifth brother, and now he is also the prince, and he is also the secretary of the military department of the Great Southern Emperor. Like Zheng Damu, he studied in the Guozijian of the Ming Dynasty, and he is a rare cultural person in the Zheng family, and he is obedient to Zheng Zhilong, unlike Zheng Damu who always chokes with Zheng Zhilong.

Zhizhi Leopard is also a member of the Eighteen Zhi, a civil and military all-rounder, who followed his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong to fight the world, and in history Nanming also crowned him as the prince and the prince. Later, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty together with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhifeng, Zheng Zhiguan and others.

Now because of Lin Yi's crossing, it has also changed the trajectory of his life. He and Zheng Zhilong are siblings, the eldest brother is the emperor, and the brother must be supported.

Zheng Zhibao came in now and gave the eldest brother a great courtesy, "Your Majesty, do you want the giant brother to send an army to chase and kill Li Dingguo, this thief is too rude, he actually left without permission, obviously has a disobedient heart, he really deserves to be killed!" ”

Zheng Zhilong is now also wearing a dragon robe, three palaces and six courtyards, sitting on a dragon chair, sleeping on a dragon couch, and the emperor's shelf is full.

Zheng Zhilong mentioned that Li Dingguo gritted his teeth, of course he knew what Li Dingguo meant by going, so he said calmly: "Let him go." Li Dingguo is brave, but he is not allowed by the Ming Dynasty, and his main force is far away in Guangdong, so don't worry about him. In the future, someone will naturally clean him up, as long as they don't come to attack us, we don't have to worry about him, at the moment, our Great Southern Empire is concentrating on dealing with the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty. Shi Lang's army was defeated and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of sailors were wiped out, a large area of land was lost in the north, and the Ming army was aggressive, how does Your Majesty plan to deal with it? ”

"I've got my own strategy." Zheng Zhilong pouted, "The Netherlands, Portugal, and the Cherry Blossom Kingdom all support our Great Southern Empire, and when the time comes, let the Ming army double its return!" ”

"Your Majesty, Hong Hongfu Qi Tian, the Great Southern Empire for thousands of generations. The giant brother retired. Zheng Zhibao said and gave a salute and withdrew.

With the support of these three countries, Zheng Zhilong and they certainly have nothing to fear.

Li Dingguo went to Nan'an, Fujian this time, and his main force did not enter Fujian at all, which was also his intention to prevent a hand, if Zheng Zhilong wanted to cure his crimes, he must take into account the tens of thousands of troops in Guangdong, Li Dingguo and Zheng Damu entered the capital of the Great Southern Empire together in Fujian, it was prescient.

He and Zheng Damu were ordered to visit Zheng Zhilong in Fujian with hundreds of cavalry guards such as general Wang Fuchen, and his tens of thousands of horses were still in Guangdong, this team was the main force of the Great Western Army, and now it is also the only team in Great West.

He parted ways with Zheng Zhilong this time and also made a lot of determination, made all preparations for contingencies, left the camp with hundreds of cavalry guards in full armor, and then set off in the starry night, for him, Fujian is the tiger's den in Longtan, and when he left Fujian, Zheng Zhilong did not send troops to chase him, and his heart was relieved.

Hundreds of iron horsemen galloped like a whirlwind, and arrived in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province smoothly after a few days, and their generals Liu Wenxiu, Wang Ziqi, and Wang Zhaolin, a think tank, came out to greet them.

Li Dingguo's round trip for nearly a month, the wind and dust, Li Dingguo's return to these Western generals have the backbone.

Because now a Ming army led by Gao Guiying and Li Yan has reached Gaozhou, that is, the area of Maoming in Guangdong Province in later generations, and it is only a few hundred miles away from them. Of course, Liu Wenxiu knew that Mu Tianbo and Song Xiance were not easy to deal with, and Gao Guiying and Li Yan were even more difficult to deal with, they were both old rivals.

Returned to the tent and sat down and drank a few sips of tea, and when Li Dingguo settled down, Liu Wenxiu couldn't wait to ask Li Dingguo: "Second brother, this time in Beijing, has King Zheng ever been guilty?" ”

Li Dingguo sighed and shook his head, Liu Wenxiu felt that they lost the city and lost the land and even suffered defeat, Zheng Zhilong did not blame, this is a good thing, but Li Dingguo is worried?

"Third brother, how is the battle going here?" Li Ding National Road. They are commensurate with each other, and they are still judged from the godson who is also Zhang Xianzhong. Now their eldest brother Sun Kewang has died in name only, the fourth Ai Nengqi is also dead, and the four kings of the Great Western Army are now left with their two brothers, but the banner of Daxi is still not falling, and they still dream of reviving Daxi one day and rescuing their father Zhang Xianzhong.

"The second brother is very bad, Mu Tianbo and Song Xiance in the north have already taken Hengyang, joined forces with the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili, and began to attack Ji'an in the east. The Daming Naval Division in the Yangtze River Basin defeated Shi Lang, the chief general of the Southern Army, and when they heard that the Shi family had descended to Ming, they advanced to the east and south. In the south, Gao Guiying and Li Yanbing entered Gaozhou, and the southern army was losing the battle, and we were in the gap between the two Ming armies. Now that the enemy is strong and I am weak, we don't dare to act rashly, so we just wait for the second brother to come back. ”

After listening to Liu Wenxiu's words, Li Dingguo nodded and did not speak.

"Second brother, what are King Zheng's instructions for this trip to Nan'an? Didn't Zheng Damu stay in Beijing and didn't come back? ”

"Hey, don't mention it......" Li Dingguo said that Zheng Zhilong was proclaimed emperor and left Beijing without authorization.

Liu Wenxiu was stunned, "I have long seen it, he Zheng Zhilong is also an ambitious person, in this case, the second brother is doing the right thing, our Great Western Army cannot become their Great Southern Army, he takes his Yangguan Road, and I cross our single-plank bridge." It's just the second brother, where should we go now? ”

They and Zheng Damu's soldiers and horses together were only more than 50,000 people, but now that Li Dingguo and Zheng Zhilong have parted ways, Zheng Damu's general Zeng De will definitely not listen to him, and Li Dingguo's Daxi Army can command only 40,000 people.

At this time, the think tank Wang Zhaolin paid attention to Li Dingguo, since we had a falling out with Zheng Zhilong, we have 40,000 horses, and Zheng Damu's subordinate Zeng De stationed Tanghe only has 10,000 people, eat them in one fell swoop, and we only have one Zhaoqing now.

Li Dingguo shook his head, "Although we fell out, Zheng Zhilong has not been killed yet, otherwise I, Li Dingguo, would not have left Nan'an so smoothly, and killed Zeng De I'm sorry Zheng Damu, this person is very righteous, and he will also make a laughing stock for the world, saying that I, Li Dingguo, am ungrateful to Qin and Chu." Also, if we go to war with Zengde, both the Ming and Southern armies will attack us. ”

"What are we going to do now?"

Li Dingguo sighed, the world is so big, is there no place for me Li Dingguo?

Liu Wenxiu said: "Second brother, the land of Zhaoqing is a small projectile, there is no danger to defend, it is better for us to take the initiative to attack, attack Gaozhou, and fight another battle with Gao Guiying, a slut, if I don't attack them, they will definitely attack us, take the initiative to attack, and strike first." If we take Gaozhou, we can use it as a base to train sailors. ”

Li Dingguo was just about to nod, when someone suddenly came to report that a Portuguese team had passed by outside the city.

"Portuguese? Damn, these hairy people have come here across the ocean, and their hands are stretched long enough. Li Dingguo scolded.

"Second brother, do you want to do them?" Liu Wenxiu said.

"No, send someone to follow them." ……

A few days later, the men sent returned. Li Dingguo ordered someone to take a map and look at it happily, "The entertainment city is really a good place, this is what God has prepared for us!" Li Dingguo immediately changed his attention, no longer attacking the Ming army in Gaozhou, and decided to attack the entertainment city to drive these Portuguese colonists away.

Wang Zhaolin said without worry: "Great commander, the entertainment city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, take this as a base, retreat can go to the sea, enter can occupy Guangdong, it is indeed a feng shui treasure land, this attention is good, but this place is occupied by Maozi all the year round, it is said that they also have an agreement with the Ming court, this is their leased land, Portugal is a maritime power, can we do this?" ”

"Sir, no matter how powerful he is on the sea, he can't reach it, we can take them to the throne with one breath, and I will take care of the naval battle!" Liu Wenxiu's chest snapped.

Li Dingguo nodded, knowing that Liu Wenxiu was good at water warfare, and he also had great skills in the water, and he was like walking on the ground in the big rivers and seas.

"The third brother must be foolproof when he goes out, but our sailors are weak and there are not many ships."

Liu Wenxiu pointed to the map and said: "Second brother, it's too late to train sailors to build ships now, but you see that the entertainment city is a peninsula, and now they have just broken with Zheng Zhilong, these Mao may not know, Zheng Zhilong and Mao Zi are close, and they will definitely not guard against us, we took them by surprise, occupied their island, and slaughtered them all, they have warships, which are much more advanced than ours." ”

"The third brother is really intelligent, it's up to you." Li Dingguo immediately made a decision.

A few days later, 40,000 Western troops left Zhaoqing, and the city was covered with flags to cover people's eyes and ears, and Li Dingguo's men and horses traveled day and night, and went south from Zhaoqing to the entertainment city. The journey of four or five hundred miles arrived in a few days, and when they arrived in Jiangmen, the Portuguese colonists also discovered this army, Jiangmen was only a market town at that time, far less prosperous than the prefecture level in later generations, but these colonists were also active in the market town, and their troops and merchants haunted.

It's just that these colonists didn't think much about it, because now Li Dingguo is still fighting the banner of the Southern Army in order to confuse the enemy, and they know that the Southern Army is fighting against the Ming Army, and they think that this is the Southern Army to launch an operation against the Ming Army.

But then, Li Dingguo's 40,000 horses suddenly occupied Xiangshan, that is, the area of Zhongshan City in later generations, which was still a county seat in the Ming Dynasty, which aroused the vigilance of the Portuguese colonists, but it was too late, the 40,000 army was like the water that broke the embankment, killing the entertainment city, killing people when they saw them, of course, these colonists were also armed, and they wanted to resist stubbornly, but they didn't put a few shots, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu killed in with a large army.

Close to the white blade grid half, Li Dingguo's Fang Tian painted halberd, Liu Wenxiu, Wang Fuchen, Wang Ziqi are all brave and good at fighting, where are these Maozi opponents, so a charge killed these colonists all over the field, blood flowed like a river, countless dead and wounded, the rest scattered and fled, some ran to the ship to escape, some jumped into the sea to escape, and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Just like this, in less than half a day, Li Dingguo's men and horses occupied the entertainment city, and only a few hundred casualties were done, annihilating more than 2,000 colonial troops, and capturing more than a dozen Portuguese warships.

Li Dingguo and Liu Wentou were both overjoyed, reorganized their troops and horses, and thought that they were ready to settle down in the entertainment city, but within a few days, a large number of Portuguese fleets arrived, with hundreds of ships, and Zheng Zhilong's southern army in Guangdong, including Zeng Debu, and tens of thousands of troops were killed from Zhaoqing and Nanhai (that is, the area of Foshan City, Guangdong Province in later generations).

Li Dingguo was attacked by the enemy on his back, and the situation was quite critical. They didn't know that when Li Dingguo sneaked up on the entertainment city, the Portuguese Edward was not on the island, he took the fleet to Nan'an to see Zheng Zhilong, the island was just empty, Edward survived, but on the way back, after hearing that Li Dingguo killed people and occupied the island, he was first shocked, and then angry, Edward immediately returned, and saw Zheng Zhilong for the second time to protest strongly, and even threatened Portugal to go to war with his Great Southern Emperor.

Zheng Zhilong was frightened, immediately gave in to Edward, and repeatedly explained that this was a misunderstanding, Li Dingguo had already parted ways with them, and Li Dingguo's affairs had nothing to do with them, but no matter what, they played the banner of the Southern Army, as the emperor of the Great Southern Emperor, he Zheng Zhilong could not sit idly by, and must send troops to exterminate him.

Edward then left satisfied, and then reported to the king of Portugal on the one hand, and on the other hand, he rushed to the island of Entertainment City with more than 300 warships and more than 5,000 troops......

Up to now, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu have only divided their troops to resist the enemy, and now most of their 40,000 troops are infantry, with thousands of cavalry, which means that almost all of them are troops on the shore, and only more than 1,000 people have survived from the naval division that Liu Wenxiu brought out before, which is too little, and it is simply impossible to form an army.

But no matter how few sailors there are, they have to deal with the battle, Li Dingguo knew that the Portuguese fleet was strong, gave him 20,000 horses, and gave him the general Wang Ziqi, so that he could call it at will. Then Li Dingguo led Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhaolin to lead an army of 20,000 to the north to deal with Zheng Zhilong's southern army.

Because he has inquired clearly, the southern army has a total of 80,000 troops this time, and the soldiers are divided into two ways to copy his back road, one way is Zhaoqing's Zeng De 10,000 horses, and there is another person who is very powerful, this person is called Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Zhilong's fourth brother, formerly known as Zheng Zhifeng, one of the eighteen Zhizhi of the year, was extremely brave, once a martial artist of the Ming Dynasty, he and Zheng Zhilong accepted Chongzhen's recruitment, and did Zhenjiang General Soldier. Now he was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to take an army of 70,000 out of Guangzhou to the entertainment city, and the soldiers were already in Nanhai County.

The strength of these two teams is not trivial, so Li Dingguo must not go out in person.

Liu Wenxiu lacked a sailor, in addition to more than 1,000 sailors, 5,000 of the 20,000 troops were selected to serve as sailors, and these 5,000 people were completely indiscriminate, forming a sailor team of more than 6,000 people, and more than a dozen Portuguese warships.

The remaining more than 10,000 people were handed over to the general Wang Ziqi, and he was asked to set up a fort on the shore to defend it.

Soon the fleet of the Portuguese colonists sailed from the harbor area, and more than 300 warships covered Zhuhai Bay, and Liu Wenxiu personally boarded the ship to meet the enemy.