Attacking Fujian, Chen Wen recovered a large area of Fuzhou Prefecture, Yanping Prefecture, Xinghua Prefecture and Funing Prefecture, Quanzhou was handed over to Zheng Chenggong, and after the two armies divided the war horses of Geng Jimao's department, Chen Wen left Quanzhou without asking for anything, including the small caliber Hongyi artillery on the head of the city. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info But on the road, Chen Wen was always pondering the problem of the flowering bomb that Zheng Chenggong mentioned after seeing the mortar cannon.

The Ming Dynasty did not have flowering shells, what the effect was, because they had not been used, so Chen Wen was not very clear, but logically speaking, the killing of flowering shells to personnel must be above solid shells, and the reason why the current Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies have always used solid shells is mainly due to the advantage in production speed.

Whether production is carried out or not, and what is the ratio to solid shells, these also need to be calculated. On the other hand, the tradition of emphasizing hand-to-hand combat in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies also made the proportion of artillery in the army low, and there was indeed a range of fire support that could be improved.

After the war, we can know our own flaws. In this month in Fujian, which was almost equivalent to a marching battle, the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang completely wiped out the Qing army under Liu Qingtai and Geng Jimao's private army like a rat running over the street. The results are remarkable, and there are no flaws, but Chen Wen always feels that he can do better.

However, how to adjust the overall situation after the end of the war at this stage, Chen Wenhao needs to continue to observe in the Liangguang region in the future.

Out of Quanzhou, through Yanping, into Tingzhou, where there were already preliminary preparations, Chen Wen could choose to attack Chaozhou directly from Tingzhou and return to Nangan directly south to Guangzhou.

The former could join the Luling Division and the Yuhang Division in the Southern Jiangxi region in the north of Huizhou, and after capturing Chaozhou, they could concentrate on the west; At first glance, the latter seemed to have a surprise effect on Guangzhou, but the distance between it and Southern Jiangxi was so far away that Shang Kexi had plenty of time to react, and if the attack did not go well, Sun Kewang in the north, Shang Kexi in the west, and Hao Shangjiu in the east would be surrounded.

The former is obviously more secure than the latter, and as Zheng Chenggong handed over Sun Yunxuan and his entourage, which Chen Qice sent to ask for help, into Chen Wen's hands, Chen Wen became even more determined in this path.

"His Royal Highness the King of Yue, my marshal is now sticking to the island, and I hope His Highness will send troops to rescue him as soon as possible."

After saying that, Sun Yunxuan and his entourage fell to the ground. It's just that at this moment, although the generals under Chen Wen's command can understand this concern, they all look at him angrily. As for the reason, it is very simple, a small guerrilla dares to interfere with the prince's decision, and there is no upper and lower system.

"This king remembers that Sun Guerrilla has before this, and the sailors of your department have not suffered much loss in the previous defeats, and they still have an overwhelming advantage over Xu Long?"

"Exactly."

Hearing this answer, Chen Wen smiled slightly: "Sun Guerrilla's concern is chaotic, and this king can understand it, but in the matter of the sailor, the ship is the key." Compared with the official army in western Guangdong, the advantage lies in the land division, and the naval division has won a great victory through Jiangmen, and there is not much left. And this king's military intelligence department reported that after Xu Long's department was assigned to Shang Kexi's command, it was not expanded, whether it was soldiers or ships, since General Ling Hai was able to kill Yipeng in battle, did Sun Guerrilla think that your marshal didn't even have the ability to hold Shangxiachuan Island? ”

In the Ming Army of Guangdong, Chen Qice was not the only one who was a heavy water division, and Li Changrong's department on Hailing Island was also known for his water division. After Chen Qice retreated to the island, it was not Xu Long who could threaten him, but once Li Changrong was attached to Shang Kexi, Li Bu's naval division cooperated with Xu Long to forcibly land on Shangxiachuan Island, Chen Qice might be able to withstand it in the naval battle, but after Shang Jun landed on the island, his military family was threatened, and it was difficult for the army to continue fighting.

Fortunately, Chen Wen got information from Zheng Chenggong, and Shang Kexi was eager to attack the four prefectures of Gaolian and Leiqiong with Ban Zhifu, and remove the threat of Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor who had the right to control the armed forces of the four prefectures, in case his people quickly organized the Ming army of the four prefectures to respond to the battle, so that the war fell into a stalemate. Coupled with Wang Xing's retreat to Wencun and his insistence, the offensive of Li Changrong's troops could not be called fierce, and Li Changrong had already retreated to Hailing Island like Chen Qice. All that was left behind was the land territory, and the sailors were still cut off from the sea route for Shang Jun to land on the island.

"The last will be convicted."

Without a warship, Xu Erxian, who was still in the south of Guangzhou, couldn't swim to the island with a large army, Sun Yunxuan couldn't understand this truth, but with such a mission, he had to make some suggestions.

Chen Wen did not care about this, and motioned for his people to get up and continue to arrange combat tasks. A few days later, the sent heralds returned, and Hou Guoyuan led the Luling Division and An Youfu led the Yuhang Division to go south directly to the north of Huizhou after receiving the order to cooperate in the battle. After Chen Wen determined that the two divisions in the direction of Southern Jiangxi set off, he also personally raised the army to move westward and entered the northern area of Chaozhou.

Chaozhou is theoretically Hao Shangjiu's territory, but in fact, Hao Shangjiu only controls the southern part of Chaozhou, and the northern part is under the control of Wu Liuqi, the general soldier of Raoping.

Wu Liuqi is the prototype of the powerful general Wu Liuqi in the later martial arts masterpiece "The Legend of Deer and Ding". In the novel, Wu Liuqi is the incense master of the Heaven and Earth Society, but in fact, this person's military career is mainly to help the Qing court pacify eastern Guangdong and resist Zheng Chenggong.

Wu Liuqi was born as a local volunteer in Chaozhou, and he was promoted to the chief soldier in the Yongli Dynasty. After the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, he recruited the heroes of eastern Guangdong, suppressed the rebellion of Hao Shangjiu, the general soldier of Chaozhou, and recovered Jieyang to cut off the food and salary supply of the Zheng army. Another unexpected gain in the Battle of Jieyang is that Huang Wu was routinely punished by Zheng Chenggong after the defeat, so he chose to surrender to the Qing, which led to the fall of Haicheng Fortress and the second Battle of Zhoushan, the chain reaction of the Fujian Ming army being forced to withdraw part of the army on the eve of the battle, and Zheng Chenggong's previous achievements in the past two years.

With Chen Wen's recovery of Southern Jiangxi, the situation in Guangdong changed greatly, and Wu Liuqi and other generals of the Eastern Guangdong Green Battalion were all invested in Shang Kexi's banner. However, when Chen Wen led the army into Chaozhou, this local, who had always been fighting locally, did not hesitate to turn into Huizhou, and it seemed that he had no intention of using his mantis arm as a car.

In fact, as far as the minister knows, Haining's Cha family seems to have a favor with this Wu Liuqi, and many books in the early Qing Dynasty have mentioned or hinted at it, but Chen Wen does not intend to waste this kung fu. When the army attacked, who knew that this "strong general" not only had great strength, but also had the ability to apply oil under his feet, but it made Chen Wen pounce.

Wu Liuqi turned in, and Hao Shangjiu in the south of Chaozhou was exposed. Using Hao Shangjiu to consume Chen Wen's soldiers, this abacus was too loud. However, Chen Wen didn't plan to let them get their wish so easily, and after the army arrived at the city of Fucheng, he simply sent an envoy into the city.

"Marquis Jieyang, the meaning of the king of my family is clearly written in the letter, do you have any objections?"

The envoy was domineering, and it was no wonder that Chen Wen's army was outside the city, with more than 20,000 soldiers, as well as auxiliary troops temporarily recruited from Fujian and assisted by Zheng Chenggong, and surrounded the Chaozhou Mansion City with three layers inside and three layers outside. And although the envoy is a person, behind him is the first strong clan of the Southern Ming Dynasty with hundreds of thousands of iron armor and thousands of warships.

"This, this ......"

Chen Wen's letters make it clear that his target was the remnants of the Qing army, such as Liu Qingtai, Geng Jimao, Shang Kexi, and Ma Xiong, because their presence was unstable for the security of the occupied areas during the Northern Expedition. As for Hao Shangjiu, Chen Wen saw the specific situation that he was forced to jump back after he followed Li Chengdong anyway, and said that he could let him live, and give him part of the tax revenue of Chaozhou for the next five years to ensure that he can become a rich man.

Of course, such a "generous" condition is under the condition that Hao Shangjiu's department accepts the reorganization of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army. Otherwise, if the army invades Chaozhou, he will only have a dead end.

What Chen Wen said was true, Hao Shangjiu had also heard that the 20,000 troops of Quanzhou Jiancheng and the Geng family had not been able to stop Chen Wen for a day, and with less than 3,000 soldiers and horses, he could not hold Chaozhou no matter what. But it is the head snake of Chaozhou, and he has long regarded this place as his own private property, so how can he give it up easily.

Hao Shangjiu opened his mouth several times but closed it several times, but he couldn't say why. As time passed, the patience of the envoy also decreased rapidly, and after about half an hour, just when the patience of the envoy finally reached the threshold of the zero boundary point, Hao Shangjiu finally said what he thought in his heart.

"Please ask your envoy to return to His Royal Highness the King of Yue, the last general is willing to serve His Royal Highness the King of Yue as the Lord, and only ask His Royal Highness the King of Yue to allow the last general to stay here. Whether it is Xiangzan military supplies or recruiting soldiers, His Royal Highness the King of Yue has one word, and the last general has no other words. ”

Speaking of this, Hao Shangjiu seemed to feel that these words were not convincing enough, and hurriedly swore to the messenger, and said that he could send his son as a hostage as a mortgage for the covenant.

The envoy left the Chaozhou capital city with a sneer, and returned to the big tent to tell Chen Wen what he said, which made Chen Wen almost burst out laughing.

"Geng Jimao wants to send his son as a hostage, and Hao Shangjiu also wants to send his son as a hostage, do they plan to continue after the original partner dies?"

Chen Wen shook his head with a smile, and then issued an order to start shelling from the front line. However, compared with Quanzhou, the head of Chaozhou City does not even have a small Hongyi cannon like the door, and he is completely passively beaten, I have to say how big Hao Shangjiu's heart is.

At the beginning of the shelling, the mortar specially made by Chen Wen for the siege of the city was once again powerful, but after three rounds of shelling, a white flag was erected in Chaozhou, and one of Hao Shangjiu's cronies went out of the city to beg Chen Wen for mercy.

"I beg the king to stop the siege for the sake of the people of a city in Chaozhou, my marquis is willing to accept the king's conditions, there is no other word."

Hao Shangjiu's subordinates fell to the ground, Chen Wen once thought that a rebellion had broken out in the city, and Hao Shangjiu had seen the fate of the city wall in front of the mortar cannon and softened. However, this acceptance condition is shameless enough, so that Chen Wen can't help but secretly curse "self-guarded".

"Okay, then don't waste the king's time, Chaozhou affairs, this king still has to clean up Shang Kexi's house, let him know more about himself."

The adaptation was simple, the local Chaozhou army was all disarmed and sent to a training camp in Jiangxi, and the local troops brought by Chen Wen from Fujian were stationed. As for Hao Shangjiu's family, a set of official mansions in Hangzhou's original city has been vacated, and they can go to a good place with heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou to be local tyrants, what else can't be said.

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In history, Hao Shangjiu, who had already declared his rebellion, carried out a massacre in Chaozhou, and more than 100,000 people were martyred. Now that Chaozhou has been "peacefully liberated", although even if the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang breaks the city, it will not be as beast as my Qing Dynasty, but it can also make Chen Wen feel satisfied if there are fewer people killed here.

It was now April, and Chen Wen's army had come on a self-guided tour in Fujian, and Shang Kexi had used this time to basically complete the annexation of the former Li Dingguo's occupation in western Guangdong and eastern Guangxi.

Beginning in the middle of the first month, it has only been more than two months, and the governor Guo Zhiqi, the governor of Liangguang Lian Chengbi, the governor of Gao Lian Lei Qiong, Zhang Xiaoqi, and Zhou Tengfeng of Haibei Province have been captured one after another. Linghai's general Chen Qice's headquarters and Li Changrong's general army entered the sea, Huben's general Wang Xing retreated to Wencun, and Gaozhou's Zhangping Bozhou Jintang and Qinzhou's Jingqi general Deng Yao retreated to Guangxi and Qiongzhou. For a time, the generals in eastern Guangdong either surrendered or fled, which can be called the four words of destruction and decay.

In the eastern part of Guangxi, with the cooperation of Shunyi Bomaxiong, the progress is also extremely fast. Li Chengjue, the general of Ren'an, the commander of Xunzhou Prefecture, and Li Xianfang, the commander of the water, knew that their troops were invincible and abandoned the city. Next, Shang Kexi's troops went north to collect the southern part of Liuzhou Mansion and Pingle Mansion, and Ma Xiong led his troops and horses to continue the pursuit, and arrived in Hengzhou through Guixian, and the guards Gao Wengui, Shi Shangyi, and Li Chengjue and Li Xianfang, who fled to this place, retreated without a fight. By the end of March, Ma Xiong had occupied Nanning Province and captured Li Xianfang at Setuan, and the Guangxi Raid was temporarily over.

To be able to achieve such an impressive record, it is one thing to have mental calculation or unintentional, and the hard gap in strength is the key. Originally, with Li Dingguo, these Ming troops could still suppress all over the country, fight against small groups of Qing troops and bandits, and pacify the place, but once Li Dingguo left, they were just like Li Dingguo in the sixth year of Yongli after recovering Guangxi, and was forced to go north to Huguang at the beck of Sun Kewang, as they were under the counterattack of the Qing army.

Historically, with the strategy of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao's army against Guangxi, although Li Dingguo defeated Sun Kewang next, he soon encountered the Manchu Qing Dynasty's three-way encirclement and suppression from Sichuan, Huguang and Guangxi, and the great cause of the Southern Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty has come to an end.

However, with the rise of Chen Wen, Shang Kexi pinched the right time, although the direction was still to the west, but it had already played the banner of the Ming army, and the invasion from the outside turned into a civil war for the purpose of annexation. It's a pity that Shang Kexi's calculations are very shrewd, but Chen Wen's integration of the south for the Northern Expedition has already begun, and there is no time for him to integrate this half-provincial territory.

"Chen Wen, a madman, just conducted two large-scale battles last year, and sent troops to Fujian and Guangdong in the first half of this year, and his generals and soldiers are all iron-claded?!"

Shang Kexi said that he was very helpless, he worked hard, and tried hard to complete the rapid rise of strength before Chen Wen went south to clean them up, so as to realize the possibility of self-preservation, but it was still one step too late. For today's plan, there is only one way left to fight to the death with Chen Wen in Guangzhou.

After Shang Kexi received the news sent back by the spies from Fujian, he consulted with Ma Xiong. After a long time, Ma Xiong had to come to Guangzhou with soldiers and horses to help in the war. Now that the army is still on the way back, Shang Kexi has rushed back to Guangzhou one step in advance, his son Shang Zhixin, the general Xu Erxian and the strategist Jin Guang and other core officials of the palace are all there, and Wu Liuqi and Huang Yingjie of Chaozhou and Huizhou have also given up their faith and rushed to Guangzhou to do this desperate fight.

"This king has sent an envoy to Yunnan to meet the Son of Heaven, and sent an envoy to Guiyang to ask for a meeting with the King of Qin, and explain the benefits and disadvantages. As long as he holds Guangzhou for half a month, when the angels arrive, and the king of Qin makes a move in Huguang, Chen Wen has only one way to retreat! ”