Disputes were common for both sides who were trying to defend the two forces, and the dispute between Zhang Qiang and Li Guangdi did not arouse the thoughts of Su Zhengqing and Li Guangdi and other Ming generals and civilian officials, as well as the rest of their retinue.

There is no dispute is unreasonable, dispute is what the emperor wants to see the following courtiers do, which proves that they are good in the control of the emperor, he can mediate, be a high-ranking referee, let the subordinates rely on him, Li Guangdi's dispute with Zhang Qiang, it is foreseeable that his performance will definitely be passed back and become Li Guangdi's favored capital in the Longwu Nanming court.

And no one would have thought that Zhang Qiang had planted a nail in Li Guangdi's thoughts, a soft nail.

From now on, he will once again have an inside line in the Longwu Imperial Court, and his mastery of the Longwu Imperial Court will be restored to the strength of the Longwu Imperial Court when it was in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, Fujian.

He was ready to hand over the Trench Gate Realm back to the Nanming Kingdom, a stable Nanming Kingdom, a weak Nanming Kingdom was a good reliance on the Huaxia Army.

After solving the matter here, Zhang Qiang, who was waiting in the camp, looked at the beacon fire in the county seat of the Trench Gate Realm in the distance.

Groups of prisoners were brought back from the surrounding battlefields, and the number of them increased by more than ten times, which had exceeded the Huaxia army and the Ming army.

In a few battles, the wounded of the Guangming Army reached more than 10,000, and the wounded of the Huaxia Army reached nearly 1,500, and the casualties were also the same number.

It can be said that this battle is equivalent to the destruction of a Huaxia Army guard regiment, if it were not for Xuanyuan Longfei to lead the army to help, Zhang Qiang estimated that his guard regiment would have to be injured in order to have a little remnant of the defeated army to withdraw.

Although he was confident in defeating the Portuguese coalition, he also foresaw that the casualties would not be too small.

Fortunately, the Ming army was rescued a lot of captured officials and prisoners, and the strength of the Ming people here has recovered to more than 5,000 people before the war, and the number of troops who can fight is only more than 2,000, and the strength of the Huaxia army here is only about 400 people, and the others are under the leadership of Xuanyuan Longfei, attacking the county seat of the Trench Gate.

The battle lasted until the evening, and the next day, at dawn, the sparse sound of gunfire was faintly heard.

On the sixth day, He Jin personally led a field brigade, as well as the remaining people in Jiuxing County, and the remaining garrison troops to the camp.

By this time, the battle was over.

The Ming army also came with reinforcements of 5,000 Ming troops led by a general.

Suddenly, the local army of the Huaxia army surpassed the army of the Ming army, and the Huaxia army re-stabilized the situation and took back the initiative.

When Xuanyuan Longfei returned to the camp, there were less than a thousand soldiers of the remaining Huaxia Army, and there were only more than 300 soldiers of the Guard Regiment.

This was the heaviest loss of Zhang Qiang's guard regiment and even his own guards since the assassination in the valley of the Jinhua Arsenal, half of them were killed and half were wounded.

He Jin took over the troops, and Xuanyuan Longfei took a back seat.

"Metropolitan Governor, after this battle, the guard regiment needs to rest, please return to Jinhua Mansion immediately under the protection of the army." He Jin suggested to Zhang Qiang in the tone of a courtier.

"Okay, I'll return to the center tomorrow, I'll leave it to you here, and after you deal with it, you can also return to the center."

After speaking, Zhang Qiang said to Xuanyuan Longfei: "You stay in Guangzhou Mansion, promote you to the chief soldier, transfer Chen Hanhui to serve as the governor of Guangzhou Mansion, and guard the southwest border for the Huaxia Army. ”

"Yes, Grand Duke." Xuanyuan Dragon Flying Road.

"Well, how has the war been going since yesterday?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"At the end of yesterday, the general led the army to attack the fleeing Taixi coalition army, the Taixi people fled into the county seat, our army encountered the enemy's defensive trenches under the city, and the damage was serious, so we had to stop and mobilize artillery fire to clean up the enemy's fortifications and trenches, and only after the cleanup was completed did we rush into the county town and fight with the enemy's remnants of the defeated generals, the remaining Gurkha people in the battle were more troublesome, they were good at fighting in places with complex environments, and those crazy Japanese ronin, these people caused great losses to the Chinese army." Xuanyuan Longfei said with some embarrassment.

"Those who are afraid of death are afraid of death, those who are not afraid of death are afraid of the arrogant, sure enough, all the Gurkha people will be beheaded, all the Japanese ronins will be executed, and their heads will be passed on to all parts of the coast, and every island will go up and go around, and deter those who survive the luck and those pirates." Zhang Qiang said coldly.

Xuanyuan Longfei asked again, "Grand Duke, what about those captured Taixi captives?" ”

"Screening one by one, for those who put forward opinions, want to kill our main envoys, those who are unfriendly to us, all beheaded, for those soldiers they hired, the wandering mercenaries are all escorted to the hard labor camp, those who perform well will enter the prisoner camp, those who perform badly will be executed after a year, those who are forced to join, those who perform well, and those who have a skill, let the soldiers who have joined our army be reformed, understand and reason, and move them with affection, so that they can become soldiers of our army and the people of the Chinese army."

"And what about the regular armies of the countries?" Xuanyuan Longfei asked.

"How many remaining regular army soldiers are there?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Xuanyuan Longfei, "Almost a thousand and two hundred people combined." ”

"Twenty guards shall be left for the governors of the countries, and the rest shall be taken into the prisoner camps, and they shall be treated according to their performance." Saying that, he turned to He Jindao and said, "You and Lin Chengcheng are getting closer, how many detainees from various countries are there in our army's prisoner camps and hard labor camps now?" ”

He Jin thought for a while, "There are about 7,000 people, and another 3,000 people are serving in our army's naval division, and about 1,200 people are serving in our army's army garrison." These people behaved well and were able to reach the level of combat power of the soldiers of our army's field brigades. ”

"In this way, five thousand people from these people, plus one thousand field brigade elites, form a new mercenary regiment, let them fight for our army, the Dutchman Lieutenant Chichicheng is still a major, appoint him as the head of the mercenary regiment, and send a seasoned military intelligence officer to serve as the overseer."

"You go and handle this matter, temporarily stationed in Zhangzhou Mansion," Zhang Qiang thought about it, so many soldiers can't be killed all, it's too cheap for them, let them serve the Huaxia Army.

"And their numbers and establishments?" He Jin asked.

"Let's call it the Second and Third Field Brigades." Zhang Qiang said.

"And what about the local people who helped the foreigners to resist our army? They are the people of the Ming Dynasty. He Jin asked.

He stayed here to deal with things, but he didn't know how to deal with many things, if it was in Daming, it would be easy, but in the Huaxia Army, these final solutions still need to be decided by Zhang Qiang, which is not a trivial matter.

"All of them are taken away, whether they are in the countryside, in the mountains, or in pirates, whether they are working for foreigners or not, their conscience has been greatly broken, they can no longer be regarded as Ming people, but the cancer of the Ming Dynasty, which needs to be completely removed, and this place will become a white land." He Jin shuddered.

"Put them all into the hard labor camps, and water our beautiful land with their sweat and blood." Zhang Qiang said viciously.

Xuanyuan Longfei also felt unbearable, "Metropolitan Governor, isn't this too cruel for those people?" Are the Tessians better off than they are? ”

Zhang Qiang smiled: "It's not that I treat my own people cruelly, but compared to the Taixi people, the Taixi people and we are fighting a war, regardless of whether they are to seize my Daming land or for something else."

In short, this is war, and the soldiers on both sides are either fighting on their own or in defense of their interests.

And those ordinary people, most of them are willing, or take the initiative to serve the enemy, which is beyond the scope of morality and the state, their behavior is not punished, then many people will think that the law does not blame the public, after I have served the enemy, back to my own country, still a common people, there is nothing to worry about, but here in the Huaxia Army, we must punish, let people and people in other places see, what will happen to them. ”

"Completely purge them, remove them from the human sphere."

(End of chapter)