When the Ming army of the North Road fought fiercely with the Zheng army at Anzishan in Guangning, the 11th town of the Ming army and the first section of the sailors of the Ming army on the middle route, under the leadership of the governor Zhao Ziqiang and the deputy governor Lu Guangzu, fought fiercely with the Zheng army Tao Yurao and Wu Liang several times. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On July 2, the local Han people came to report that Zheng Jun had military rations in Jiaoshui County, 30 miles southwest of Nanding City, and Zhao Ziqiang immediately ordered the C Brigade of the 11th Town to attack. After the Ming army arrived in Jiaoshui, led by local Han guides, they made a detour from the side, easily bypassing the stone wall and the Zheng army checkpoint, and raided Jiaoshui City.

There were more than 800 excellent soldiers of the Zheng army stationed in Jiaoshui City, and the resistance was fierce at first, but after the Ming army used gunpowder to blow up a section of the city wall in Jiaoshui, the Zheng army soon lost its support. By dusk, the Ming army completely seized Jiaoshui County, and more than 100 remnants of the Zheng army in the city abandoned their weapons and surrendered. After investigation, there was no military rations for Zheng Jun in the city.

After handing over the water to Li Qixiao, the Han rebel army who arrived later, the C Brigade advanced to Nanzhi County, which was located on the bank of the Red River. When the Ming army arrived, the defenders had fled at night, and the people of Annam in the city spontaneously organized resistance, and defended desperately with knives, spears, farm tools, etc., and fought fiercely for half a day, and the Ming army broke the county seat of Nanzhi at the cost of 58 dead and wounded. After entering the city, the Ming army drove half of the young and strong men in the city to the Red River on the grounds that the people of the city resisted the heavenly soldiers and refused to accept the king's transformation, and drowned more than 2,000 people. Until this time, the Dayue courtier Fang Zhiming army of Thang Long attacked not only the navy, but also the army.

Zheng Jun failed in successive battles, serious attrition, Thanh Hoa, Shannan and Nanding provinces were eroded, the southern coast was even more urgent, and the Ming army also appeared in Guangning, Hongji and other places in the north.

Tao Yurao wrote to Zheng Zhu, pointing out that the Ming army attacked the coast with a naval division, and instigated the Han people in the territory to rebel, so that the main force of the Zheng army was contained in large quantities, and had to be stationed in various places, but the result was that the Ming army was divided and attacked. Wu Liang also agreed with Tao Yurao's letter, he suggested that when the eroded areas were abandoned, the troops and horses should be integrated, and the main force should stick to Nanding, as long as the Ming army could not break Nanding, the imperial court could take the initiative, and then transfer troops from Gyeonggi and northern towns to encircle and annihilate the Ming army.

Just when Tao Yurao was writing, Zhao Ziqiang decided to attack Nanding City directly. There were more than 5,000 main forces of the 11th town of the Ming army, 2,000 sailors, and more than 5,000 volunteers of the Han army in Annan, claiming that 50,000 invaded Nanding City. The military situation was urgent, Tao Yurao personally led 5,000 excellent soldiers to sit in Nanding to preside over the defense of Nanding, and Wu Liang led 6,000 soldiers to stand by near Nanding. At the same time as the activation of Li Zhu, Zheng Zheng sent a message to Ding Wenzuo, the town guard in the north, telling him not to rush to hand over the princess and courtiers of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing army.

Zheng Gen, the general who confronted the Ruan army in the south, wrote to Zheng Zhu, saying that the Ming army occupied Haiyang Water Village, all kinds of supplementary reinforcements continued, Nanding was lonely, and the city was not very strong and tall, so when Nanding was abandoned, the whole army retreated to induce the Ming army to go deep into Shenglong Mansion, and then the imperial court mobilized all the excellent soldiers in Gyeonggi, and the soldiers of the northern towns surrounded the Ming army that was deep in the lone army, cut off its back road, and defeated the enemy in one fell swoop. The Ming army in the middle road suffered heavy losses and will inevitably shrink back to Haiyang Water Village, and the rest of the provincial soldiers and horses will work together to encircle and annihilate the chaotic people, so the situation can be determined.

Giving up Nanding and letting the Ming army go deep into Gyeonggi, Zheng Zheng had the courage to do so, but his ministers were all against it, and Emperor Li Weiqi would not agree. Therefore, Zheng Zheng did not adopt Zheng Gen's bold suggestion, and only ordered Zheng Gen to quickly draw elite troops to the north to stabilize the line of Hejing and Shannan, and open up the passage to the north.

The Ming army began to march towards the provincial capital of Nanding on July 6, and in the following two days, there were repeated exchanges of fire with the Zheng army, both of which suffered minor losses. On the morning of July 8, Wu Liang, the general of the Zheng army, led his troops to launch a general attack on the Ming army, and by the afternoon, the battle was fierce for three hours. The Zheng army dispatched more than 160 war elephants in this battle, and the initial progress was smooth, but the war elephants were used by the Ming army to use a large number of firearms and earth-shattering thunder to panic, and trampled on their own soldiers and horses, resulting in the defeat of the Zheng army, killing three general soldiers, one commander, and more than 2,000 casualties. On the Ming side, 658 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded.

Zhao Ziqiang was annoyed that Zheng's army was stubborn in resistance, and he was annoyed that he had been delayed in Nanding for too long, so he ordered a general attack on Nanding on the 10th. After the battle began, the Ming army organized artillery to bombard the Zheng army outside the city, and the Zheng army outside the city lacked cover and did not have any means of counterattack, and the peripheral positions of Nanding were lost one after another. The Ming army occupied the merchant hall in the southwest of the city all the way, and the northwest of the city, outflanked the high ground in the north of the city, captured the forts in the northeast of the city, and bombarded the whole city with the artillery of the captured Annan army. The important places near Nanding were all lost, and thousands of Zheng troops retreated into the city, and the order was in chaos.

At the same time, the eleven towns organized the Annan Han army to begin to attack the city, due to the lack of siege equipment, the Annan Han army could only use cloud ladders to attack the city, and was severely attacked by the Zheng army defending the city. Subsequently, the Ming army organized artillery bombardment of the city wall, killing and wounding a large number of Zheng troops at the head of the city. Most of the Zheng soldiers in the city were excellent soldiers, supported by the Zheng family, and everyone had the heart to fight to the death. However, under the onslaught of the Ming army, which had the advantage of firepower, the Zheng army gradually fell out. The Ming army attacked the city from the east and south gates at the same time, and the defenders continued to fight in the streets until late at night. A few hours later, the city no longer heard the sound of Zheng Jun's resistance, the governor Tao Yurao swallowed gold and committed suicide, and the general Wu Liang saw that the general trend had gone, and committed suicide by jumping into the river.

After entering the city, because of the fierce resistance of the Zheng army, the Ming army and the Han army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and at the same time, in order to force the Annan people to give up resistance and accept the treaty, Zhao Ziqiang ordered the city to be washed for three days.

After the order to wash the city was issued, the Ming army was furious and carried out a terrible massacre in Nanding. They killed people when they saw them, some of them had their heads cut off, some of them had their ears cut off. Women who were raped and disemboweled......

The massacre lasted for three days, and the whole of Nanding was plunged into a pool of blood, and the dead bodies were piled up several feet high. The road was full of dead people, it was inconvenient to walk, and the blood that flowed was disgusting.

The news of the fall of Nanding, the death of the governor Tao Yurao, and the general Wu Liang came, and the Shenglong Dynasty was shocked, and the emperor Li Weiqi was even so frightened that he couldn't sleep all night.

To add insult to injury, there was an emergency in Pekan Province, and the Mo army of Gaoping, under the leadership of its lord Mo Jingyu, brazenly sent troops to attack Pekan; Trangh Gen in the south also sent an urgent message to Thang Long that Nguyen's army had crossed the river to the north two days earlier.

There was a Ming army in front of Gyeonggi, Shannan, Thanh Hoa, and Nanding were all eroded, Hongji and Quang Ninh were controlled by the Ming army, and the Mo clan in the north and the Ruan clan in the south fell into the well, Zheng Zheng was extremely frightened, and ordered the generals in the north and south to Qin Wang, and at the same time immediately negotiated with the Ming army, willing to return the princess and courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, and pay another five million taels, just so that the Great Ming Dynasty could calm its anger.

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Ahem, this chapter is released on a regular basis, and I'm drinking wine outside. I'll do it today. (To be continued.) )