The meeting hall of the General Military Mansion was bustling, and all the soldiers expressed their opinions, but Zheng Zhilong did not speak, but was watching a secret report intently. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After a long time, he put down the secret report, and then spoke: "Everyone here is a battle-hardened general, can anyone tell me that if you rely on five hundred soldiers of the Divine Machine Battalion and three hundred fire dragons to deal with the 50,000 Qing army, will you have a chance of winning?" Or how long will it last? ”

Zheng Zhilong suddenly said a topic that had nothing to do with what was just discussed.

"Big Brother Mo is not joking? Five hundred against fifty thousand, I am afraid that if it lasts less than a quarter of an hour, the whole army will be annihilated. Zheng Zhihu said without thinking.

There is another sentence he didn't say, 50,000 people can drown these 500 people with one urine per person, how can there be the slightest chance of winning?

"I'm not kidding, this is the latest secret report from the spies, that Li Menghui in Suzhou, with only 500 new troops, defeated the 50,000 Manchu army in one hour, and covered the remnants of Shi Kefa to break through from Yangzhou smoothly. And their decisive weapon is the fire dragon out of the water! Zheng Zhilong said seriously.

"Impossible! The fire dragon out of the water is powerful, but it is at most used to deal with the dead thing of the warship has a miraculous effect, the Qing army is a human, naturally knows how to dodge, three hundred fire dragons out of the water, even if all hit, the lethality will not exceed four thousand, less than one percent of the battle damage, the remaining forty-five thousand Qing army, enough to tear the five hundred soldiers apart. Zheng Zhibao analyzed rationally.

Zheng Jiajun started as a water division, and there is naturally a sharp weapon like "fire dragon out of the water", but although this thing is easy to use, it is expensive to build, and time-consuming and laborious, Zheng Jiajun has accumulated so far, there are only more than 500, and they have always been hidden as treasures, how can they be like Li Hongfei who is a loser, and more than 300 pieces are played at one time.

"Originally, I thought so, but everyone ignored a fact, that is, there were a lot of cavalry in the Qing army, and the violent explosion disturbed the war horses, and tens of thousands of war horses exploded the group, and there was no need for Li Menghui's army to make a move, and the Qing army was in chaos, and the remnants of Shi Kefa who broke through were able to escape." Zheng Zhilong explained.

Zheng Zhilong's spies are actually hearsay, so the information sent is somewhat exaggerated, and Li Hongfei also attributed all the credit to the "fire dragon out of the water" in order to hide the secret of the weapon.

In fact, at that time, Zhang Chao and Guo Sheng faced only 30,000 Qing troops, and in order to prevent Guo Sheng and Zhang Chao from converging, Boluo arranged a large number of troops in the middle of the two armies.

And because the Qing army suffered a big loss, they also did not make too much evaluation of this small-scale contact war, so how to spread it was up to Li Hongfei and Shi Kefa to have the final say.

However, one thing is certain, the weapon of "fire dragon out of the water" will become the secret weapon of the major generals of the Ming army to deal with the cavalry of the Qing army in the following period of time.

"Big brother, what do you mean by saying this today?" When Zheng Zhihu heard it now, he still didn't understand what this had to do with their descent.

"I want to say that this Li Menghui is not simple, everyone thinks it is impossible, but he did it, the reform in Suzhou is like this, and the same is true for the breakout battle in Yangzhou. Don't look at the fact that he has now mobilized the main force to go to Nanjing, but there are still more than 2,000 new troops in Suzhou (Li Hongfei's recruit teaching team left behind in the rear), if we surrender at this time, Fujian's foundation will be difficult to preserve. Zheng Zhilong said bluntly.

Zheng Zhilong is a businessman who likes to be careful with his calculations, and if he is placed in the future generations, it is a typical data control, and he only believes in data analysis.

His sailors are indeed strong, it can be said that the world is invincible, but the army is not very good, and there are only 50,000 troops in the whole of Fujian............

What's more, now the enthusiasm of the entire Southern Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty is high, and Zheng Zhilong has been running Fujian for many years, and he has also made a lot of money, if he dares to surrender openly at this time, the nearby provinces, the general army who covets his family business, will definitely besiege with all their might, these people dare not go to Nanjing, in the face of the edge of the Qing army, they can deal with Zheng Zhilong, they still have the courage.

"So how do we do that?" Zheng Zhihu couldn't think of any good way for a while.

"Send 500 warships to Chongming Island and hand them over to Fusong (Zheng Chenggong) to show my determination to resist the Qing Dynasty in Fujian. In addition, the third brother will work hard again, go to contact Han Dai, and let the Qing army find a way to kill Li Menghui no matter what, otherwise I will never surrender to the Qing. Zheng Zhilong said.

Zheng Zhilong has been drifting on the sea for decades, and now he finally has a large foundation in Fujian, and it is impossible to give it up easily.

In his opinion, as long as Li Hongfei dies, the Suzhou New Army will be leaderless, and with Zhu Youzhen's character, he will definitely not let others get involved in this new army.

At that time, it will only take a little operation, saying that Zhu Youzhen killed Zhongliang in vain, and he Zheng Zhilong was also in danger of being persecuted because of his high merits.

In this way, Zheng Zhilong can stand on the highest point of morality, and even if he is lowered, no one will obstruct him.

Even Li Hongfei didn't expect that he just sent people to fight a blocking battle at the south gate of Yangzhou, and as a result, he was hated by Zheng Zhilong, the sailor boss...............

At this moment, Li Hongfei marched urgently for three consecutive days, and finally rushed to Jinling City before Azig.

"General Guo has already led the new army of Suzhou that entered the city before, one step ahead, and set up defenses in the area of Xuanwu Lake, His Majesty sent me to greet the adults, and I hope that after the adults have placed the army, they will quickly enter the palace to face the saint." Wang Guoxing personally led a team of brocade guards out of the city to greet Li Hongfei.

Xuanwu Lake was located directly north of Nanjing, close to the Yangtze River, and Guo Sheng placed his troops there precisely to prevent the Qing army from forcibly crossing the Yangtze River.

"Zhang Chao, Shi Dewei, you two lead the second division and the third division, garrison Yuhuatai, and use the regiment as a unit to deploy defenses layer by layer." Li Hongfei called the commanders of the two divisions and began to command.

Yuhuatai is located in the southwest of Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, is a beautiful hill surrounded by pines and cypresses, about 100 meters high, about 3.5 kilometers long, the top is in the form of a platform, composed of 3 hills.

The terrain here is relatively steep, and there is enough strategic depth, plus the platform at the top, it is very suitable for erecting heavy artillery and condescending to block the Qing army, so it has become the first choice for Li Hongfei's garrison.

The advantage of the new army in Suzhou lies in the field battle, Li Hongfei will not be stupid enough to defend the city, he must be outside the city, give the Qing army a head-on attack, so as to sweep away the haze of Yangzhou's defeat.