Chapter 487: Zheng Hongkui's Defeat is a change
Lin Yi on the giant ship Yangwei had to report that the battleship formation of the red haired man was scared away, and he couldn't help laughing, he stood on the Yang Wei warship, watched with a telescope, and the battleship of the red haired man turned around and fled in embarrassment on the sea in the distance, Lin Yi said disdainfully: "Ran away? Can I finish with you if I run? Unless you go to your hometown in the continent, sooner or later, this prison country will settle accounts with you, and this day is not far off! ”
Along the way, the Ming army, whether it was a naval division or an army on the shore, was invincible. Within a month, Lin Yi's sailors and the soldiers and horses on the shore fought from Zhejiang to Fujian.
Fuzhou was originally Zheng Zhilong's Fujian town of Zhentai Yamen, and later he thought that he was a small official, so he abolished Nan'an Bo and established himself as the king of Nan'an, Fuzhou became his palace, and the original Nan'an Earl's Mansion in their hometown was also preserved.
After Zheng Zhilong became the emperor, he first set the capital of Nan'an Mansion, and later moved to Fuzhou, they called it "Fujing", that is, the capital of the Great Southern Empire, and Nan'an Mansion became the capital of the Great Southern Emperor, Zheng Zhilong also learned the appearance of the Ming Dynasty, and worshiped the ancestors in the ancestral temple of Nan'an, and sent heavy troops to protect it.
However, his Great Southern Empire is similar to the historical Nanming regime, and the signs of short-lived life have been exposed, which is also similar to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's Dashun and Daxi, both of which are countries within countries and dew kingdoms.
When Lin Yi led the fleet to approach the waters of Fuzhou, the entire Great Southern Empire once again caused a shock.
Because the current Great Southern Empire is now embattled, and the situation is precarious, even more critical than the situation of the Ming Empire three years ago, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is like a lamp on the outlet.
Because Lin Yibing went out of Hangzhou Bay, taught Hongmaozi's fleet in the Zhoushan Sea, fought a bloody battle in Wenzhou to break the Southern Army, killed hundreds of Oriental devils, Enwei and Shi surrendered Zheng Chenggong and Tagawa Makiko, and captured 40,000 Southern Army including 30,000 sailors in one fell swoop, and then entered the Fujian Seas.
They worked hard to push the front forward.
First of all, the more than 100,000 Western Route Army led by Gao Guiying and Li Yan, they have now recovered Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, and in the first battle of the entertainment city, they drove away the Portuguese colonists, put the entertainment city to the end, and obtained more than 100 advanced naval warships of the Portuguese colonial fleet.
Gao Guiying and Li Yan knew people and were good at their duties, so they asked Liu Wenxiu to train sailors here, Liu Wenxiu was Zhang Xianzhong's king of Funan, who was originally good at training sailors and commanding water battles, and now he has these sharp weapons in Portugal, which are also handed over to him to use, so that he can train sailors.
Within two months, the Ming naval division here was able to familiarize themselves with these warship equipment, with the cooperation of the local naval division. More than 200 warships and 20,000 sailors, under the command of Liu Wenxiu, set out from the sea and went straight to the island of the harbor area.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Xin'an County, a large county town in the Ming Dynasty, and its jurisdiction included the harbor area of the later generations, Shenzhen and parts of Dongguan.
However, now the Portuguese colonists did not want to leave, and the Portuguese colonial leader Edward fled from the entertainment city to the harbor area, intending to ask for help. But this Edward was wrong. They were on the island of the harbor area, and their buttocks were not warmed up, and they only stayed for two months, and Liu Wenxiu led a large number of warships to kill them.
At this time, Zheng Zhilong's Great Southern Empire was too busy to take care of itself, and of course it would not send troops to protect him, and the government of Lisbon, Portugal, a continent across the ocean, did not send fleets and generals.
Edward's men, even those who escaped first and ran after bringing them over, were only 200 people combined. These frightened Portuguese colonists only clamped their tails and continued to run, hurriedly boarded three warships, and fled in embarrassment.
They left Asia, wandered across the oceans, and a few days later arrived in Lisbon, a continent. Since then, these colonists have never dared to set foot in Chinese territory again.
Liu Wenxiu's soldiers were bloodless, and after driving away the Portuguese colonists, he landed on the island of Gangwan District and took Xin'an County in one fell swoop.
During this period, the Ming army on the shore was not idle, under the planning of Gao Guiying and Li Yan, with Li Dingguo as the vanguard, Huang Degong as the deputy vanguard, and the Mongolian general Subutai as the deputy general, the vanguard army of 10,000 horses and horses was formed to penetrate Gaoming in Guangdong.
Gao Guiying and Li Yan led the generals Zu Keyong, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, and the Mongolian general Min Min Muter to lead the main force of more than 100,000 Ming troops, including several thousand camel artillery teams, as backup.
Gaoming is also a county seat, that is, the area of Foshan City, Guangdong Province in later generations, because it is very close to Guangzhou Prefecture, so Gaoming County has an important strategic position, which is the west gate of Guangdong.
The Ming army was like a bamboo, attacking the city and capturing the village, invincible, and soon entered the territory of Gaoming County.
The guard is the general of the Southern Army, Zeng De, and the defenders in the city have now increased to 20,000. In history, he had a holiday with Shi Lang and was beheaded by Shi Lang, Zheng Chenggong was furious and wanted to kill Shi Lang, Zheng Chenggong fell out with Shi Lang.
Now because of Lin Yi's crossing, their fates have changed.
In a fertile field dozens of miles outside Gaoming City, Zeng De left 10,000 horses to defend the city, personally took 10,000 horses out of the city to resist the enemy, and set up a battlefield with Li Dingguo's vanguard battalion of 10,000 horses.
In front of the two armies, Zeng De scolded Li Dingguo for being capricious, towards Qin and Chu, Li Dingguo was furious and was about to fight, "Kill chickens with a knife? "Deputy pioneer Huang Degong was angry, and brandished an iron whip to take Zeng De directly.
Zeng Deluan big sword battle Huang Degong, more than 30 times without winning or losing, at this time the Mongolian general did not come up to help the battle, the southern army will see that the Ming army wants to win more, so which line? Zeng De's generals were afraid that the main general would lose, and rushed over in a swarm.
When Li Dingguo saw it, he also commanded the men and horses to kill him. Soldier to soldier, general to general, 20,000 horses on both sides fought in front of the battle, until the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark, the heads were rolling, and the blood was rolling into a river.
The melee of 20,000 men and horses, it is said that it is difficult to distinguish between winning and losing for a while, because most of Zeng De's men and horses and Li Dingguo's men and horses are old Ming soldiers or rogue pirates, etc., and they can only fight half a catty against eight taels.
But Li Dingguo's pioneer camp has a special team, that is more than 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry brought by Subutai, the eagle on the grassland is the most powerful, they are proud of their ancestor Genghis Khan, although to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the Mongolian iron cavalry combat power is still good, as far as Subutai is concerned, their more than 1,000 iron cavalry was organized as the elite division of the Manchu Eight Banners, and now they have also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, together with the camel artillery battle of Minmin Mutr, loyal to Lin Yi, the Ming prisoner.
On this more than 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, the southern army could not resist, which is equivalent to the elite field battle between the old Ming army and the Qing army of the Eight Banners, the strength of the two sides is not at all a grade, so the southern army did not support for a long time before being killed all over the field, and the army was defeated.
Here, Zeng De could still hold out for a while against a Huang Degong, but then Su Butai and Li Dingguo came up, and he had to flee in defeat.
Therefore, when Zeng De's 10,000 men and horses were defeated and returned to the city, there were only four or five thousand men and horses left, and Zeng De only held the city, together with the soldiers who defended the city, there were more than 14,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and the city was high and deep, and it was as solid as gold. Therefore, Li Dingguo's vanguard battalion chased to the city and attacked several times, but did not attack it, but lost its troops and lost its generals.
Li Dingguo had no choice but to set up camp on the spot and think of other countermeasures, and at this time, Gao Guiying and Li Yan arrived with the main force.
After Gao Guiying and Li Yan inspected the enemy situation, they bombarded Gao Ming with red-coated cannons and camel artillery teams. These mobile artillery mounts were so powerful that the southern army at the head of the city could not raise their heads for a while. Under the cover of fierce firepower, the Ming army formed a 5,000-person death squad to rush in, rushed through the moat, climbed the city wall, killed into the city, opened the city gate, and tens of thousands of Ming troops rushed into it like a tide.
After the city was broken, the southern army and the Ming army started street battles.
In the melee, Zeng De met Liu Fangliang, this is Li Zicheng's general, silver helmet, silver armor, bright silver gun, brave champion of the three armies. Once had to make a big knife and the two generals were difficult to solve, and more than 20 of them did not distinguish between victory and defeat. At this time, Yuan Zongdi came over to help in the war.
Like Liu Fangliang, he was once a strong general under Li Zicheng. This person is good at using a pair of steel whips, which is different from Huang Degong, who makes a single whip, while he uses a double whip. The two of them fought Zeng De together, but Zeng De couldn't resist it, and fought and retreated.
However, Zeng De's retreat could not be contained, because there were more and more Ming troops, Zeng De retreated from the west gate to the south west, and then to the east gate, and met Li Dingguo head-on.
The two of them were killed in one place, and after the number was combined, Li Dingguo's halberd handed over to his left hand, and he pulled out the four-edged silver shovel with his right hand, and slapped it on Zeng De's head.
Zeng De didn't look good, and desperately lowered his head, his head dodged, and this time he was pumping to his back. There was a click and the nail leaves flew around.
Zeng De screamed, and a mouthful of blood spurted into the air. Suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he almost fell off his horse, and threw away his knife, so he desperately hugged the horse's neck and ran.
Li Dingguo didn't chase him, hung up the halberd, inserted the gong, and took out the bow and arrow on his body with a poof out. The wolf's tooth arrow recognized the buckle and added the string, the iron tire bow opened like a full moon, the arrow walked like a meteor, and Zeng De, who only ran dozens of steps away, fell off the horse.
Li Dingguo inserted the bow and arrow, took off the halberd for the second time, and rushed to the front of the horse to pick up the halberd and fall, and once the head fell to the ground.
As soon as Zeng De died, the dragons were leaderless. The Yugoslav army surrendered one after another. The Ming army quickly took the county seat. , an hour later. Coaches Gao Guiying and Li Yan and general Zu Keyong entered Gaoming with a large team.
After Gao Ming was taken down, it was equivalent to picking up the gateway to Guangzhou, because Gao Ming was less than 100 miles away from Guangzhou, the Ming army repaired the soldiers and horses in the city for a while, and then hundreds of thousands of Ming troops rushed to Guangzhou, the vanguard was still headed by Li Dingguo, the deputy vanguard Huang Degong, and the deputy general Subutai took his Mongolian iron horse.
At this time, the general of the Southern Army in Guangzhou was Zheng Hongkui, who was Zheng Zhilong's fourth brother, that is, Zheng Chenggong's third uncle.
This is one of the eighteen Zhi, formerly known as Zheng Zhifeng. He and Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhiguan, etc. roamed the rivers and lakes in his early years, and were famous in the South and the East. Later, he accepted the imperial court's recruitment, Zheng Zhilong was the general town of Nan'anbo Fujian, and Zheng Zhifeng became the general soldier of Zhenjiang because of his fame and changed his name to Zheng Hongkui.
After Chongzhen hanged himself, Zheng Zhilong thought that the spring that belonged to them had come, and established himself as the king of Nan'an, and later established the Great Southern Emperor, ascended the throne and sat in the palace, Zheng Hongkui was also recruited back, and now he is also the prince, becoming the pillar of the Great Southern Empire, sitting in Liangguang.
Originally, Zheng Hongkui was very strong in Liangguang, and he had generals Zheng Chenggong, Zeng De and others, as well as Li Dingguo, who partnered with them. In addition, there were Portuguese colonists to support them, and it was more than enough to deal with the Ming Dynasty, but the good times did not last long, Li Dingguo surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong was transferred, the Ming army was aggressive, the southern army lost cities and lands one after another, and the Portuguese colonists also ran away. Not only Guangxi has been lost, but now half of Guangdong has also been lost. Gao Ming was taken down by the Ming army again.
Zheng Hongkui felt the pressure he had never felt before, and coincidentally, someone came to report that Liu Wenxiu, the general of the Ming army, led 20,000 sailors to drive away the Portuguese colonists in one fell swoop, landed on the island of Guangzhou's harbor area, and took Xin'an County in one fell swoop. Guangzhou City was attacked on both sides, which was really worse, Zheng Hongkui did not dare to fight, only to stick to Guangdong City and wait for help.
How do you know that the reinforcements did not arrive, and got the news that Zheng Chenggong surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Hongkui was stunned, he held on to the city of Guangzhou for more than 40 days, and the strong city wall was finally blasted open a gap of several zhang by the red-clothed cannons and camel cannons of the Ming army, and the Ming army entered the city like a tide.
Zheng Hongkui knew that Guangzhou could not be defended, so he fled with the remnants of the defeated army. After the Ming army took Guangzhou, they pursued it all the way. Zheng Hongkui fled from Guangdong to Zhangzhou and Xiamen in Fujian, and so far, the Western Route Army of the Ming Dynasty completely captured Liangguang.