After the end of the naval battle, Zhou Lang held a grand celebration banquet for Harald and all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle, but Zhou Lang understood that the battle that decided the situation was not this naval battle, and in the end it was still necessary to end the battle through a decisive battle on land.

It is unrealistic for Zhou Lang to eliminate the Manchu court now, but by hurting the other party, let the Manchu court, or at least let the Fujian and Zhejiang authorities recognize the situation, is the only realistic choice, so he must hurt the other party, fight at sea, Kui Lun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, will not feel distressed, but if Zhou Lang captures the local prefectures and counties of Fujian, it is impossible for Kui Lun not to feel distressed.

There are tens of thousands of troops stationed in Jinxia, of which there are only 10,000 infantry who have completed training and have combat experience, but there are 20,000 pirates who have been reorganized, and these people have to undergo intensive training for half a year in the training camp, and after the training is completed, they may not be able to join the navy immediately, because Zhou Lang's warship manufacturing is limited by raw materials, and it is difficult to expand in the short term. By scouring all over the place for dry timber, and even importing it from India, it will only be possible to build twenty new locks and increase the size of the fleet to fifty warships next year, and it will not be able to absorb all the 20,000 pirate sailors.

Zhou Lang did not plan to use these sailors who had not undergone formal training to fight land warfare for the time being, and it was enough for him to attack any of the prefectures in Quanzhou or Zhangzhou with 10,000 soldiers, but Zhou Lang thought that if he could defeat both prefectures, it would give Kuilun a strong shock, and then he could force Kuilun to accept the status quo and acquiesce in Zhou Lang's presence in Jinxia, just as the British forced the Manchus to accept the Treaty of Nanjing by occupying Zhenjiang and cutting off the Manchu grain transportation.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, Zhou Lang planned to transfer troops from Taiwan, and transferred the 10,000 soldiers stationed in Fengshan County.

20,000 troops are all Zhou Lang's current strength, not that he can't afford to raise more soldiers, but that military production is completely unguaranteed, and the current training and combat of 20,000 people not only consumes the output of the Tagu Port Arsenal, but even needs to import consumables such as gunpowder and lead bullets from the East India Company.

As for the expansion of troops, those refugees back then had been organized by Wang Fuqian to open up the wasteland, and they had a certain degree of discipline, and they could also scare people when they took up arms when necessary.

Therefore, Zhou Lang dared to rest assured and boldly transferred the 10,000 soldiers used to guard against Chen Zhouquan to Jinxia to participate in the attack on Zhangquan Erfu.

But an intelligence changed Zhou Lang's plan, and through the confession of some captured Qing army officers, Kui Lun's plan turned out to be divided into two routes, they attacked Jinxia from the sea, and one way from the sea to attack Fengshan County.

This made Zhou Lang very surprised, he really didn't know where Kui Lun's self-confidence came from, and he dared to divide his troops. Knowing that the Qing army involved in the attack on Fengshan County had 50,000 people, Zhou Lang not only did not worry, but instead started the idea of these 50,000 people.

He told Harald to take an urgent rest, repair the refurbished ship, place the wounded, and then attack as soon as possible.

At this time, the Qing army attacking Fengshan County had two results, one was that they successfully landed, this may not be big, although there were only 10,000 soldiers guarding Fengshan County, but Zhou Lang built a group of forts and fortresses with powerful firepower in various ports, not to mention that the escort of infantry was only a transport ship under Li Changgeng's command, and even Li Changgeng's main fleet could not be captured; The second possibility is that they retreated in front of the fort and returned the same way.

Regardless of either of the two situations, as long as Harald is fast enough, he can intercept them before they retreat to Penghu, and a group of infantry, no matter how strong, is a jackal without claws at sea, worse than a water dog, either surrender or go to sea. Of course, there was also a situation in which the Qing army did not storm the fort, but found a random beach and ran aground, threw the infantry onto land, and left them to fend for themselves. In this case, Harald only needs to be responsible for cutting off the back roads of these Qing troops, and then hand it over to the defenders of Fengshan County. Zhou Lang was confident that his 10,000-trained army could defeat the 50,000-strong Qing army head-on.

Thinking of annihilating the Qing army's 50,000 horse infantry, and then capturing Zhangquan Erfu, Zhou Lang felt that Kui Lun couldn't compromise if he wanted to, so he quickly ended the battle, waited for a winter, and next year's spring can harvest spring tea, spring tea often accounts for more than 40 percent of tea production, not only large quantity, but also good quality, high price, if you can get Kui Lun's cooperation, next year's spring tea Zhou Lang is confident to take away more than half of Fujian's tea production.

The situation did not exceed the three results estimated by Zhou Lang, the Qing army did not choose to attack the fort, because Li Changgeng sent only some large but lacking firepower ships such as grain ships, and did not have the ability to attack the fort, so from the beginning, there was no plan to attack the fort, but chose to land in the bay south of Donggang, so that the self-confident Qing infantry to attack Fengshan County. These ships are responsible for providing logistical supplies and will not be involved in combat.

As a result, this logistics fleet was blocked by Harald, and at this time, the Qing army had not been able to land in a mess, and it had not even fought with the Fengshan army, because after Fengshan County discovered the movement of the Qing army, Wang Fuqian was still gathering troops. As a result, under the witness of the Qing horse infantry who landed, Harald sent all the logistics fleets to the bottom of the sea.

At this time, those horse infantry were really in tears, they had just landed, and the camp had not yet been set up, so they were subjected to this situation, and for a while they suddenly felt that they were abandoned children.

And Wang Fuqian's actions are very fast, Zhou Lang's army is already well-trained, don't dare to say anything else, the marching speed is faster than the Qing army, I don't know how many times, Wang Fuqian, a scholar, also trusts the truth in the military book, and urges the army very tightly, he wants to fight the Qing army with an unstable foothold, or even a half-crossing attack.

The 50,000 had just witnessed the cutting off of the rear road, and encountered the Qing army that had never seen a volley of guns before, and they almost bombed the camp without even fighting a decent battle.

The rest is simple, chasing the dead to the north, and capturing prisoners all over the mountains.

In the end, the battlefield was counted, and only more than 1,000 Qing troops were killed on the spot, but as many as 3,000 were trampled to death, and thousands were disabled. Later, under Wang Fuqian's organized round-up, more than 30,000 people were soon taken prisoner, and more than 10,000 people went into the mountains and forests.

In short, the end of the total annihilation of this army has not run.

On the Xiamen side, before the Harald fleet returned to Taiwan, Zhou Lang's military operation had already begun.

Harald's fleet of pursuing the Qing army's logistics ships, there were only twenty old lock ships, and his flagship Oriental Dawn, and there were five armed merchant ships and a huge fleet of ten old lock ships left in Xiamen, under the cover of this fleet, Zhou Lang personally led 10,000 infantry to land in Haicheng County, attacking this county There is nothing to say, the Qing army did not hold out for long under the bombardment of infantry artillery, and the county order routinely committed suicide.

The purpose of occupying Haicheng was only to attack the capital of Zhangzhou, which was an important trading port during the Ming Dynasty and became the advance and logistics base of Zhou Lang at this time.

Then Zhou Lang ordered Hong Jiuzhi to lead 3,000 people as the vanguard to attack and advance along the Jiulong River to Zhangzhou Mansion, with Chen Zhizhi commanding the artillery to provide support, and Zhou Lang leading the main force to escort the grain and grass to drag back.

I thought that Zhangzhou, as the government, would have decent resistance, and it could only be occupied after a fight, but Zhou Lang compared the experience of the Battle of Guangzhou.

But unexpectedly, Hong Jiuzhi did not wait for Chen Zhizhi's artillery troops to follow, and successfully entered Zhilongxi County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, and a few civil officials in the city committed suicide, and most of them fled.

This situation made Zhou Lang want to blame Hong Jiuzhi for not being able to do it, because Hong Jiuzhi's losses were very small, only less than ten people were killed, three of them died under the bow and arrow of a Qing army general in the city, and the general was immediately beaten into a sieve.

The situation in Zhangzhou Mansion made Zhou Lang feel that his previous plan for troop transfer may have been too conservative, and he ignored the situation in Fujian Province at this time.

Due to Kui Lun's Daxing prison, everyone in Fujian officialdom is in danger, and because of the dismissal and beheading of a large number of officials, the bureaucratic system in Fujian Province has been greatly damaged, and it is difficult for the government to organize a decent force to resist, in addition, Kui Lun has sent too many troops to Taiwan to Duanzhoulang's lair, and 30,000 of the 50,000 soldiers are Fujian soldiers, which has caused the emptiness of Fujian's defense force.

When Changlin was there before, Zhou Lang didn't know that he didn't attack the Fujian Prefecture, but now that he is fighting, everything is revealed.

In this case, Zhou Lang did not seem to have to wait for Harald to arrive before attacking Quanzhou, the fighter plane was fleeting, he made a quick decision, left a thousand people in Zhangzhou Mansion to defend, and then immediately turned back, the main force had not yet arrived in Zhangzhou Prefecture, so he had to turn away and rush to Quanzhou.

It was easier to attack Quanzhou than Zhangzhou, because Quanzhou itself was an ancient port, and there was a fleet to open the way, and the troops landed directly near Quanzhou.

Then the main forces landed one after another, Zhou Lang could concentrate 9,000 people to attack Quanzhou, leaving 3,000 people as a reserve, and 6,000 people were responsible for the attack.

The defenders of Quanzhou are slightly more tenacious than Zhangzhou, but they only fought for half a day, and the Quanzhou officials took the lead in escaping, at this time the Quanzhou officialdom was vacant, and the prefect was arrested and imprisoned for corruption, so the group of dragons had no leader, this prefect was because after the flood last year, the price of rice was expensive, and he handled the matter of Pingguang, and took the method of "opening the rice to fill in the date, and the quotation was short-opened" and other methods to fill his pockets, and was found out by Changlin and arrested directly, the name of the prefect is very interesting, he is called Zhang Daqian.

After conquering Quanzhou, all of Zhou Lang's strategic intentions were achieved, in fact, at this time, seeing that Manchu Prefecture was so easy to capture, he was indeed a little itchy, and his officers were also emotional, and they persuaded Zhou Lang to continue to march into the army.

But in the face of temptation, Zhou Lang kept calm, the reason why he didn't start a full-scale war was because he knew that his foundation was not enough, even if all the states and counties in Fujian Province could be defeated, what if he could hold it?

This dilemma lies in the fact that if you can fight down, you may not be able to hold it, and if you can hold it, you may not be able to rule.

If you want to build the entire Fujian Province into a foundation like Fengshan County, of course Zhou Lang wants to, but the time is not yet ripe.

It is the two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou that he is now occupied, and Zhou Lang is not interested in keeping them, this is a bargaining chip for negotiations with Kui Lun, as long as Kui Lun can guarantee not to interfere with Zhou Lang's trade in Fujian, he is willing to hand over these two cities and fight the two prefectures of Zhangquan, the original strategic intention is to force Kui Lun to acquiesce in Zhou Lang's trade in Fujian, and he intends to resolutely implement this strategic plan.

Soon after, Harald returned to Jinxia, and Zhou Lang set up his fleet and went straight to Fuzhou, this time of course, not to fight Fuzhou, but to create the most deterrent to Quylen and force him to accept negotiations.

But Zhou Lang didn't expect that maybe his medicine was too fierce, while occupying the second mansion of Zhangquan, he also spread the news that the 50,000 troops of the Qing army attacking Fengshan County had been wiped out, the original purpose was to create pressure on Kui Lun, but he didn't expect that the 50,000 army was wiped out, and the second mansion of Zhangquan was lost one after another, and now Zhou Lang led the fleet to the door to block the Min River, but Kui Lun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, didn't know what to think, whether he couldn't accept the blow of defeat, or was afraid of the punishment of defeat, or couldn't bear the humiliation of the sea bandits, He even wiped his neck and committed suicide!

Zhou Lang did intend to force Kui Lun, but he never thought of forcing him to death, and now that he is dead, who are he going to negotiate with?