In the first battle of Zhenjiang, Lin Yi's Ming army won a complete victory. In the water and land battles, more than 40,000 people of the Southern Army were annihilated, and nearly 20,000 of the captured generals, including Shi Lang's uncle Shi Fu.

The booty was piled up, grain, grass, horses, gongs and drums, tents, swords, spears, cannons, explosives, broken ships, and so on.

It took nearly half a month to clean up the battlefield alone, and it was good to bury the corpses on the shore, and salvaging wrecked ships and floating corpses in the river was a major project, and the Ming army was very busy treating the wounded and repairing the warships.

Of course, there were casualties among the Ming army in this battle, and the casualties on the shore were negligible. It is negligible, the casualties of the sailors are not large, a total of three ships have been damaged to varying degrees, and two masts have been blown up, which can be put into service with a simple repair. One of them was blown up and disintegrated, and the ship was scrapped. But the wreckage of the ship was salvaged.

Counting the men and horses, even the Ming army on the shore with the fleet of the naval division, the Ming army suffered more than 1,000 casualties in the battle of Zhenjiang, including three warships. However, more than 100 Yugoslav ships, including wrecked ships, were captured, and the rest were scrapped ships with no maintenance value.

Lin Yi ordered that while celebrating the victory and remembering the merits of the soldiers, we must not forget these casualties and soldiers, register them one by one, rescue those who should be rescued, and give pensions to those who should be compensated, so that the magistrates can do a good job of comforting the families of the dead and disabled, and not let the heroes shed blood and tears.

The reorganization of nearly 20,000 captives is also a major event that will take some time. Of course, Lin Yi also treated these prisoners who were willing to surrender preferentially, and the policy was the same as when he fought with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others. Don't kill and surrender, give them a chance, in this troubled world, each is his master, not a heinous crime, if defeated, let them surrender, try to give them a way to live, let them mend their ways. This root is not the same as Tartar warfare.

Lin Yi's long-term strategy of preferential treatment of captives has gained a wide range of contacts and an excellent reputation. Now fighting with Zheng Zhilong's southern army, this is still one of Lin Yi's preferential treatment of prisoners.

Those who are unwilling to surrender are still to be demobilized on the spot after the education registration, and they are clearly told that there will be no second chance to do so.

Those who are willing to continue to eat food and become soldiers can stay and accept the adaptation, and they are not to blame for the past.

In the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the soldiers were desperate, or in order to make ends meet, no matter who became the emperor, in fact, it had nothing to do with them, as long as they were given food and salary, they would be satisfied.

Such a preferential treatment policy is unique, following Zheng Zhilong's rebellion, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, these Ming thieves, are as heinous as the crimes, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it is light to cut off their heads, and they are punished with capital punishment or even raiding their homes and destroying their homes, but now Lin Jianguo is not to blame in the past, and they can also let them eat food and become soldiers, as long as they work hard in the future and no longer make Ming rebellions, where can they find such a good thing?

As a result, most of the 20,000 captives were willing to stay, and only a few chose to be repatriated.

But there is a special prisoner of war in this, that is, Shi Lang's uncle, the general Shi Fu, who refused to surrender and only begged for death.

Of course, such a captive can't be let go easily, of course, he can't be killed, Lin Yi doesn't talk to him now, he is detained in Zhenjiang, and he is ordered to take care of him, don't interrogate him, he should treat his injuries, eat, drink, and provide three meals a day, maybe it will be useful in the future.

The matter of reorganizing the prisoners and treating the wounded was handed over to Nanjing's military department Shangshu Shi Kefa, Nanjing, as the accompanying capital, also has a set of imperial court institutions similar to Yanjing, and the six cabinet departments, basically all of them, can not let them only retire here, ordered him to be stationed in Zhenjiang to do business, leaving him 30,000 soldiers and horses, responsible for dealing with post-war affairs. Including repairing those broken warships and replenishing them to the sailors of the Ming army, these things were also handed over to Shi Kefa and others.

After Lin Yi rested his troops and horses and repaired two damaged ships, he led an army of 100,000 and continued down the river. Lin Yi's 100,000 horses, including the 10,000 sailors and 20,000 soldiers and horses of 6 battalions including the standard battalion he brought, and the other is Yan Yingyuan's soldiers and horses in the Zhenjiang area, and 60,000 horses were drawn out, including the sailor accompanying King Qin.

The target of the next battle is, of course, Jiangyin County, which is Yan Yingyuan's hometown.

At this moment, good news came from the Liangguang battlefield. Lin Yi left behind an army of 200,000 men and horses in Guangxi and Guizhou, and now the southern army has been driven out of Guangxi and Guizhou, and Li Dingguo and Zheng Damu's men and horses have all been defeated and retreated into Guangdong. The current Guangxi and Guizhou have all been incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The Northern Route Army, led by Wang Mu Tianbo and Song Xiance of Yunnan, continued to advance eastward, and they fought from Guizhou into the southern part of Hunan, and cooperated with the local Ming army to drive the southern army south out of Hunan in one fell swoop.

With the cooperation of 200,000 soldiers and horses of the two armies in the west, not only the Ming army in Hunan won the victory, but also the Ming army in Jiangxi and Huainan also achieved great results, and the southern army was driven back to Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Now the Ming armies in Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Huainan have been connected, and the Ming troops fighting in this area, including Mu Tianbo and Zhou Guiying, are no less than 400,000.

Lin Yi was very happy to hear it, the situation was very good, Zheng Zhilong finally tossed to the highest peak, and in the future, it was like a parabola, and it was bound to go downhill when it reached the highest point, and the Ming army was winning battles everywhere, and the situation was very good.

He immediately issued an edict to the cabinet of the Jingshi and the officials of the six ministries, asking them to make every effort to supply the men and horses of all the units fighting against the southern army, and the guns, ammunition, food, salaries, and military supplies needed must be sufficient and endless. In addition, for the recovered Chengchizhou County, it is necessary to dispatch local officials in a timely manner to stabilize the people's livelihood.

No sooner had this edict been handed down than the Portuguese messenger came. They will really inquire about Lin Yi's whereabouts, Lin Yi is in the Beibu Gulf of Guangxi, they chased to the military camp in the Beibu Gulf of Guangxi, and now Lin Yi has arrived in Yin County on the bank of the Yangtze River, and the Portuguese ambassador has come over again.

This time it was still the same Edward, given the last meeting in the Beibu Gulf of Guangxi, Lin Yi was a little disgusted with him, but anyway, he still received the Portuguese envoy on the giant ship Yangwei in the river.

As soon as he met this Edward, he was a little strong, first expressed a strong protest against the Ming army's attack on Guangdong, and he even suggested that Lin Yi sit down and negotiate with the Southern Emperor Zheng Zhilong on the territory of the two sides, oppose the war, and unashamedly stated that the stability of the Guangzhou area was the core interest of their Greater Portuguese Empire.

Lin Yi was almost angry, this is even more arrogant and unreasonable than the Eight-Nation Alliance in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Great Southern Empire, you Portugal are far away from the ocean, and how can you countries in the continental region go to the east of Asia and point fingers? How we like to fight and how to fight, this is our internal business, when will it be your turn to come here to talk nonsense, talk long and short? Lao Tzu is not a late Qing government!

Lin Yi smiled coldly: "Your Excellency, this seems to be our internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, it is not the turn of others to point fingers here, the entertainment city is the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty, the lease period has long expired, where did you come from and where do you go back, otherwise one day you will not be able to see the sun tomorrow!" ”

Lin Yi's righteous words, the Portuguese envoy Edward who asked opened his mouth and stammered, and the last two sentences directly washed the Portuguese envoy upward.

This Portuguese envoy was angry and his egg skin was blue. In the end, his face was swollen and red, "Lord Jianguo, if someone threatens the interests of our Great Portuguese Empire, we will never agree, and we will not hesitate to meet each other in the army and leave!" ”

Lin Yi said: "Our Ming Empire loves peace, but we are never afraid of war, friends come with good wine, jackals come with shotguns, don't send them!" ”

The Portuguese went away in a menacing manner.

Xiao Ying, Zhezhe, Su Moer and the others couldn't stand it anymore and turned out from behind the curtain.

"These gringos are too pampered, Brother Lin should cut off his head to see if they are still arrogant?"

Lin Yi smiled indifferently and said: "The two countries are fighting each other, and if they don't kill them, this is not a battlefield." If they dare to drive the warship over, let them have no return immediately. ”

Su Moer said: "Lord Jianguo, do you want to take a few people to secretly teach these Portuguese colonists who don't know the height of the sky?" ”

Lin Yi shook his head at her, "If you want to clean them up, you have already cut off your heads, so you don't need to sneak around at all." He is helping Zheng Zhilong to speak, if they dare to really send troops, they will be taught a hard lesson on the battlefield, so that they will become lonely ghosts and ghosts, and they will never be able to return to their hometown. ”

Xiaoying, Zhezhe, and Su Moer nodded one after another......

On this day, Lin Yi's fleet sailed into Jiangyin County.

News came from Gao Guiying's southern front battlefield, which was far away in the two Guangzhous, that Li Dingguo and Zheng Zhilong had fallen out, and he pulled his army to still raise the banner of Daxi and suddenly went to Entertainment City Island.

When Lin Yi heard it, this Li Dingguo really has a bit of national blood, which is different from Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong did not hesitate to collude with the Portuguese colonists in order to establish the country and become the emperor, and Li Dingguo was unwilling to go along with it, so he pulled away the people, and he had backbone!

He immediately gave instructions: he ordered Gao Guiying and them to stop attacking Li Dingguo and prepare to clean up the Portuguese colonists.

When the Yangtze River came to Jiangyin County, the river surface had narrowed.

The Yang Wei destroyer battle formation, with more than 100 warships of all sizes, covered the river, mighty and mighty, and hundreds of ships contending for the current.

Lin Yi stood in the lookout cabin, holding a telescope, and looked at the river in the distance from time to time. More than 100 warships of various sizes surround the Yangwei, as if they are holding the moon in their hearts.

At this time, a medium-sized warship that opened the way at the front suddenly shook its hull and made a dull loud noise, and several Ming soldiers on the ship staggered, and some of them stumbled and fell into the river, and then the ship ran aground.

"What's going on? Go down and take a look......" shouted the captain on the ship. Soon several sailors jumped down, and then someone on the ship shouted: "My lord, the ship has hit a reef and leaked." ”

The soldiers on the ship were stunned, how could such a deep river water hit the reef? At this time, the sailor who went down showed his head, "My lord, there is something down there......"

The other ships immediately dropped anchor and stopped moving.