Earlier, Zheng Zhilong defeated the Manchu Qingshui Division, no matter what he thought in his heart, in the eyes of the world, Zheng Zhilong had made enemies with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as long as he could kill Zheng Zhilong, except for those who knew it in his close relatives, the world would not suspect Zhu Youzhen at all. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

And even if Zheng Zhihu and the others understood, they didn't dare to publish the truth, because no one would believe it, and they couldn't say: Ping Guogong had already discussed the surrender with the Qing court, and it was impossible for the Qing court to assassinate Ping Guogong!

"This is a good idea, once the assassination is successful, the imperial court can take the opportunity to withdraw the military power, and even arrange a new naval general, send a fleet, and return to the Yangtze River waterway." Wang Guoxing thinks it is feasible.

"Let's think again. If the assassination is unsuccessful, Zheng Zhilong will rebel. Li Hongfei reminded.

"That's okay, this official will go back to the Holy Lord, and let the Holy Lord decide." Wang Guoxing didn't dare to make a decision immediately.

However, looking at his expression, it is not difficult for Li Hongfei to guess that this product will definitely instigate Zhu Youzhen to implement the second set of plans.

In fact, earlier, Zhu Youzhen had the idea of sending troops to encircle and suppress Zheng Zhilong, but he didn't want to tell the truth.

But Li Hongfei's trick of killing people with a knife is very good, and the "Qing court" sent troops to assassinate Zheng Zhilong, whether it was successful or not, it was beneficial to Nanming.

Naturally, it was good to succeed, and Nanming took the opportunity to regain the command of the water division.

If he fails, it is a big deal to force Zheng Zhilong to rebel in advance, and Zheng Zhilong does not dare to tell the "truth", no matter what the final result is, he can only bear the infamy of the ages.

As for giving Zheng Zhilong the title of king, this is not in Zhu Youzhen's consideration at all, what kind of place is Yunnan, it is poor mountains and bad waters, even if you don't want that land, it doesn't matter much.

But Fujian is different, it is a sea and its developed area, and it is a large grain producing area in Daming, and its economic status is very important, how can it be easily divided?

So under Li Hongfei's suggestion, an assassination plan against Zheng Zhilong is being quietly implemented.

But that's a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.........

Since Zheng Zhilong's sailors withdrew from the Yangtze River waterway, the Qing soldiers were ready to move again, although there were occasional battles on the Yangzhou side, but because the south gate was not occupied, Duoduo was unwilling to order a full-scale attack, and only used Hongyi cannons to face the Yangzhou city wall in the distance, shelling day and night, in an attempt to exhaust the defenders in the city.

On March 20, under the cover of 300 naval warships led by Li Shuitai, 100,000 Qing troops and Qi Hongying's 50,000 defenders launched a fierce battle for Chongming Island.

While Zheng Zhilong evacuated the Yangtze River waterway, he also transferred 30,000 Zheng family troops stationed on Chongming Island, which was also facing Qing troops several times his own at this time.

The Qing army bribed a small part of the defenders of Chongming Island, learned in advance of the area where the defenders of Chongming Island had laid underwater mines, and took advantage of the cover of night to send water ghosts to kill the Ming army monitoring the waterway, successfully avoided the minefield, and at dawn, carried out landing operations, and when Qi Hongying learned the information and led the army to reinforce, the Qing army transported nearly 50,000 soldiers on Chongming Island in the past.

Underwater mines are the oldest mines, and they are also the originators of later mines, which were invented by ancient Chinese military strategists.

Underwater mine is also the earliest artificial control, mechanical launch of the anchor mine, its structure and laying method is very ingenious, according to the Ming Dynasty Tang Shunzhi compiled the book "Wu Bian" introduced, it is a wooden box as a thunder shell, the wooden box is filled with black powder, and then with putty sticking seams, so that it is sealed, seawater can not enter, the firing device of the underwater mine is a long rope, detonated by human fire.

Underwater mines are generally laid in the harbor, and near the waterway through which the ship must pass, and a special person is assigned to guard the shore, when the enemy ship passes, the long rope is pulled by the person, and the black powder explodes, blowing up and sinking the enemy ship.

Because of the betrayal of the traitor, the Ming soldiers who were responsible for detonating underwater mines were attacked and killed, which led to the successful landing of the Qing army on the island.

"General Qi, now that the Qing army has only landed halfway, our army still has the strength to fight, if we wait until the Qing army all lands, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist, it is better to let the last general lead the remaining warships to attack, cut off the support of the Qing army, and buy time for the general to destroy the enemy!" Zheng Chenggong said to Qi Hongying.

Due to Zheng Zhilong's salary draw, there were less than twenty clippers left on Chongming Island at this time, and even if Zheng Chenggong was possessed by the God of War, it was impossible to fight for Li Shutai's more than 300 warships.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's invitation to fight this time was to have the intention of dying with the enemy, and to buy time for the Qi family army to set up a formation to meet the enemy, which could be regarded as atoning for his father's actions.

"No need, it's just 100,000 Qing soldiers, the general didn't take it into his eyes, Qi Zhifeng, this general ordered you to lead 5,000 Qi family troops to line up the mandarin duck formation, cooperate with the chariot battalion, and block the enemy troops who landed on the island in front, remember, don't enter the range of local naval guns." Qi Hongying began to arrange the troops.

The number of troops in a battalion of the chariot battalion is not the establishment of a new military battalion set up by Li Hongfei.

The chariot battalion is divided into six levels according to the battalion-department-division-bureau-joint-vehicle, with 2 divisions per battalion, 4 divisions per division, 4 bureaus per division, 2 units per bureau, and 2 vehicles per unit.

Each vehicle has 2 Franc machine guns, 20 soldiers, 1 total of 100 soldiers per bureau, 80 artillery drivers, 1 commander of each division, 324 officers and soldiers below 100 generals, 1 thousand officers and soldiers of each department, 1,300 officers and soldiers below the division level, 1 general officer of each battalion, 1 officer of the Chinese army, 2,602 officers and soldiers below the department, a total of 2,604 officers and soldiers of the whole battalion, 128 artillery vehicles, and 256 guns of Franc.

In addition to the artillery wagons, each battalion also has 2 drum cars and 20 soldiers, 4 rocket cars and 40 soldiers, 30 soldiers in 3 cars, and 160 soldiers in 8 general cars, for a total of 17 tanks and 250 officers and men.

When the battalion was fully manned, there were 3,109 personnel, including 2,160 flintlock gunners and 768 flintlock operators, and the personnel using firearms accounted for more than 94 percent of the total number of the battalion.

If you count the protective iron plates on the combat vehicles and the supporting horse-repelling equipment, it can be called the prototype of the armored force.

Judging from the equipment characteristics of the car battalion, it is the product of the combination of the mobility and defensiveness of the artillery truck and the firepower of the Franc machine, which not only gives full play to the characteristics of the fierce firepower of the Ming army's Shenji battalion, but also solves the shortcomings of weak defense when dealing with the enemy's cavalry.

The chariot battalion is a new branch created by General Qi Jiguang according to the flat and open terrain in the north, and in response to the operational needs of the infantry against the Mongolian cavalry.

Even Li Hongfei's Suzhou New Army has such a troop formation, but it is not called a chariot battalion, but an armored brigade.

The chariot battalion, which is like a bug, is not afraid to deal with cavalry, let alone a group of infantry who come down from the ship?

It seems that Qi Hongying is going to teach the Qing army on the opposite side an unforgettable lesson.

"General Zheng, you lead the remaining soldiers to the mountain pass five miles behind to plant mines, remember, leave a gap in the official road to facilitate the retreat of the chariot battalion." Qi Hongying turned her head and ordered Zheng Chenggong.