Brigadier General Qi Wenhuan led more than 4,000 troops to land, even if the Ming army on the island resisted desperately, it was unlikely that it would really block the attack of the Datang landing force.

As for the effect of Qin Zhifu's temporary anyway, it is actually very limited, even if there is no Qin Zhifu's anyway, Qi Wenhuan is sure that he will completely end the battle within today and attack the total military mansion and the port area.

Of course, Qin Zhifu's anyway can't be said to be useless at all, at least he let the battle end a few hours earlier, so that it can also reduce the casualties of the landing force.

After the battle ended, Qin Zhifu led several of his henchmen to see Qi Wenhuan, and when he saw this person, Qi Wenhuan muttered in his heart, this Ming army commander is anyway, and Zhaoqing doesn't know how to deal with this person.

However, he knew very well that although this person was not of much use in the military, he still had some role in politics, and this was not something he could interfere in.

Therefore, Qi Wenhuan did not have a too in-depth conversation with Qin Zhifu, but after saying a few words on the surface, he took this person to the Lianzhou outside the port by traffic boat.

After all, in this battle on Nanao Island, the highest military rank is Vice Admiral Ouyang Gui, on the surface, Ouyang Gui is the supreme commander, so this kind of thing has to be handled by Ouyang Gui.

However, at this time, Ouyang Gui didn't know that Qin Zhifu had gone anyway, he had been staying on the Lianzhou, although he also saw that there seemed to be civil strife in the Ming army in the port, but he didn't expect that he would be the supreme commander of the Ming army on Nanao Island, and the general army of Nanao Island was anyway!

Now he is still busy accepting the Ming ships in the captured port.

When the three armies of the Tang Dynasty began to land, the ships of the Ming Army's naval division tried to rush out and used the remaining fireships, but they were all blocked by the powerful artillery fire of the mobile fleet.

When the landing force took the general military mansion and the port area, even Qin Zhifu was anyway, and he couldn't rush out, so the Ming army sailors who stayed in the port bit their teeth, and finally surrendered very simply.

This time, there were more Ming ships that surrendered in the port, and some of them were relatively intact ships, and there were also many captured Ming sailors, Ouyang Gui naturally couldn't ignore it, and needed to arrange people to accept these ships.

Yesterday's naval battle off the coast, coupled with today's landing operation, can be said to have completely annihilated the Ming Army's naval division on Nan'ao Island, and the more than 100 small, medium, and large ships of the Ming Army's naval division, except for a very few that escaped yesterday, the others were either sunk or captured, of course, the vast majority of them were some small ships in the near sea, and they were of little value.

However, after statistics, there are 16 ships of about 100 tons, and 5 ships of more than 200 tons.

Among them, ships of more than 200 tons can be directly converted into armed merchant ships and then directly put into service.

The remaining ships of about 100 tons can also be allocated to the logistics department and used as transport ships.

However, most of these ships are in need of repair, and many of them are still seriously damaged, and it will take some time to repair.

Ouyang Gui had just finished dealing with these captive ships, that is, he ushered in Qi Wenhuan and others, and when he learned that Qin Zhifu, the chief soldier of Nanao Island, was anyway, even Ouyang Gui was surprised.

Immediately met Qin Zhifu in person, but there was still no deep talk, but said that he would return to Guangzhou with the fleet tomorrow and then go to Zhaoqing.

How to arrange him, that is a matter for Zhaoqing, he Ouyang Gui can't control it, and he doesn't have the power to manage it.

This made Qin Zhifu suffer a little, he was anyway, and he was barely able to dedicate the city, but when it came to the Tang Dynasty, whether this glory and wealth could be enjoyed was unknown!

But the matter has come to this, and he Qin Zhifu has no way out!

I had to stay on the Lianzhou for one night, but the next day I continued to take the Lianzhou and returned to Guangzhou with the Datang Navy mobile fleet.

This time, the size of the mobile fleet returning to Guangzhou was even larger than when it came, and when it set out, there were only nine capital ships and more than 20 armed merchant ships, but when it returned, in addition to some of the ships of the mobile fleet itself, there were more than 40 captured ships.

According to the plan he had made before, Ouyang Gui directly left a detachment here, with one cruiser, three frigates, and twelve armed merchant ships of more than two hundred tons.

The above-mentioned ships are all in relatively good condition and have not suffered relatively large damage in the battle, and can directly carry out simple maintenance and repair on Nanao Island, and at the same time garrison the island.

Other ships are more or less in need of repair, especially a few large ships that are more seriously damaged, which need to be brought back to Guangzhou for repair.

They were accompanied by Guards troops, as well as more than 8,000 Ming prisoners.

Even the troops of the 1st Mixed Regiment of the Army left Nanao Island on the same day and returned to Chaozhou Prefecture, while the two Marine Battalions stayed on the island and began to build coastal defense fortifications and forts on the island.

The island will be combined with the original Chaozhou Laiwu Island Fort in the future to guard the coastal security of western Guangdong.

According to the judgment of Ouyang Gui, Qi Wenhuan, and others, there are two marine battalions of more than 1,000 people, plus more than 20 artillery pieces that have been moved down from warships and deployed in the port area, and if the Ming army wants to counterattack, it is impossible not to invest 5,000 or 6,000 troops.

What's more, they have to pass the naval fleet first.

After solving the worries of Nanao Island, the First Mixed Regiment will be able to draw out more forces for operations in the direction of Fujian.

Since the Tang Army captured the area south of the Yangtze River in Huguang and Jiangxi, Fujian has become a prominent part of the entire Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

However, because Fujian is mountainous and the roads are difficult to navigate, and the previous naval strength was not good, even Nanao Island could not be defeated at that time, so the war on the Fujian side was also delayed again and again.

But now the Tang Dynasty doesn't want to drag it out any longer, and the capture of Nanao Island is actually a prelude to the attack on Fujian, in order to free up the first mixed group to go north to Fujian.

Of course, there are more than 10,000 thieves of Yu Dayou in Fujian, and there are also many Ming army guards.

Therefore, in the battle plan formulated by the Privy Council, in fact, the 1st Mixed Regiment is not the main attacking force, but the main attacking force is another one.

That was the 6th Infantry Division.

Since the end of the Nanchang Campaign, the Tang Army has deployed a large number of troops in Jiangxi, and it has also entered the confrontation stage, and it is impossible for all the front-line troops to be invested in it, so the Sixth Infantry Division took the opportunity to withdraw to Fuzhou to rest.

After resting, the 6th Infantry Division will attack from west to east, and will not go anywhere else, but go straight to Fuzhou!

As long as Fuzhou is captured, then basically Fujian can be declared to be taken, even if Zhangzhou and other places are still in the hands of the Ming army at that time, there is nothing.

The follow-up Sixth Infantry Division and the First Mixed Regiment will continue to go north, all the way into Zhejiang, if you can go through the hills and mountains in southern Zhejiang, and enter the northern Zhejiang Plain, that is, the area of Hangzhou, then it is basically possible to declare that the Tang Dynasty King Division has entered the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River.

However, after the Sixth Infantry Division and the First Mixed Regiment left for Fujian, the original defense areas of these two units needed to be filled in again.

The 1st Mixed Regiment is not bad, there are still two Marine battalions on Nanao Island, and the Guards are also continuing to expand their troops and deploy defense in Guangdong, but after the 6th Infantry Division is transferred away, the strength of the 2nd Army will be affected to a certain extent.

One infantry division and two mixed regiments are not enough.

For this reason, the army once again put forward a plan for the formation of a new main infantry division and two mixed regiments!

But this time, Li Xuan did not veto it directly as before, but began to consider the gains and losses.

After two years of conquest, after taking Jiangxi, Huguang and the areas south of the Yangtze River, Kunming in Yunnan, the Tang Dynasty's ruling area has greatly expanded, and both the population and taxes have increased significantly.

In this way, the basis for the expansion of the army is also available.

However, how to expand the army is something that needs to be carefully pondered.

Li Xuan did not reject the army's plan, but he did not approve it directly, but asked the army to carefully and carefully consider the army expansion plan.

When he heard Li Xuan's words, Zeng Ziwen did not have the slightest disappointment on his face, and immediately said with great joy: "The minister will definitely complete the plan as soon as possible, and within five days, no, he will submit a detailed new plan to His Majesty within three days!" ”

After sending these people from the army away, the people from the secretarial department of the Hanlin Academy immediately reported back and said that it was a great victory on Nanao Island.

Nanao Island won the war, this Li Xuan is not surprised, the navy has been preparing for this battle for more than two years, and it is hellish if he can't win, but what makes him curious is that in the first battle of Nanao Island, there is still a Ming army commander anyway.

This thing is fresh!

Even Li Xuan couldn't help but be curious and ordered to go down, and when the people arrived, they would bring them over to see them, and in addition, they also asked the people from the Ministry of Rites and the Newspaper Department to prepare the propaganda article, this is the general soldier's initiative anyway, if it is not well publicized, it will be too wasteful.

Qin Zhifu has not yet arrived in Zhaoqing, but the article publicizing his deeds anyway has been written in the hands of several pens in the Chaobao Division, and it is a number of articles together, preparing a special report, and the Chaobao Division has generously prepared two full pages for Qin Zhifu, and will continue to report for several issues, trying to maximize the influence of this matter.

The title of the article to be published in the next issue is four big words: abandon the dark and turn to the light!

Naturally, you can't see anything just by looking at these four words, but what is really shocking is the subtitle: Qin Zhifu, the former puppet Ming Nanao Island commander-in-chief, turned his heart to the king's division, and led his troops to surrender to my Tang Wang's division before the battle!

After reading this article of Qin Zhifu anyway, the next second article is: Qin Zhifu, an anti-Ming fighter, reveals the secret and denounces the shady scenes of pseudo-Ming officialdom!