Fang Guangchen was not good at riding, and with the escort and support of several personal guards, he finally rode to the front of the battle, and said to Wu Sangui breathlessly: "Lord Wang, Lord Wang, something is wrong!" The situation in the city is unknown, so you can't rush into the city at this time! ”

Before the words fell, there was an unusual tremor on the ground, and before everyone could understand, a series of thunderous sounds suddenly sounded in their ears. As far as the eye can see, fierce fires continue to emerge in the city of Zhangpu. The castle, which had just been bombarded but still had its main structure, was like a thatched house in a storm, and it was suddenly toppled down in sight.

Qing soldiers, including Wu Sangui, had seen such a strange scene, a good city was actually annihilated in the fireworks in an instant, along with thousands of soldiers and horses who had just entered the city, and they were reduced to nothing.

But Wu Sangui didn't have time to feel heartache, and on the sea of Dongshan Bay, southeast of Zhangpu City, countless ships suddenly appeared in the field of vision of the Qing army like ghosts from the mist. Then smoke rose from the sea, and the countless guns on the ship began to think about the Qing army's bombardment, and patches of white smoke shrouded the entire coast again.

"Sailor!" Wu Sangui's pupils constricted, and the hairs on his body suddenly stood up. "Zheng Jun's sailor! Is Blessing going to fight me to the death? ”

Wu Sangui's heart flashed countless thoughts in an instant, the Qing army did not have a sailor, the original sailor had already been buried in Anqing with Shang Kexi, and now although the Qing army is showing off its might on land, if Shi Fu really retreats to the sea, relying on the ship's strength and artillery to maneuver with himself, for a while, at least for a few years, the Qing army has no way to deal with it. This is extremely inconsistent with his original intention of ending the war in Fujian as soon as possible.

The shells fell one by one, and the Qing army's military formation turned over on their backs. No matter how fierce the cavalry of the Qing army was, they were very vulnerable in the face of this overwhelming artillery fire, and they could only be beaten. When the rockets of the Ming army took off from the ship and flew towards the camp of the Qing army, Wu Sangui and other generals of the Han army of the green camp suddenly turned pale.

By this time, everyone had already vaguely guessed. The Zheng family's naval army in front of him is clearly taking refuge in the Shandong army. Otherwise, where would there be so many rockets. With a long range and great power, in addition to the Shandong Army, there is a second such rocket in the world.

Fang Guangchen's face was as pale as earth, "Lord Wang, really, it's really unfortunate that you have said it!" Shi Fu really took refuge in Zhu Ping'an! ”

Hearing the words "Zhu Ping'an", Wu Sangui's body shook violently, and he had to take a deep breath and grab the reins of the war horse with both hands. In order to hide the panic in my heart. "What are you afraid of! Zhu Ping'an is also a human being, not a god descending from heaven, now Jiangbei is full of beacons, I don't believe that he can still put together soldiers and horses to rescue Fujian, Zheng Jun can have a few percent of the combat power you and I know, even if Zhu Ping'an can send reinforcements, it is just some sailors, what can I do on land? ”

Wu Sangui shouted to the generals around him: "Go and restrain the soldiers and horses of the headquarters." Retreating to the west, the enemy artillery fire was fierce. But the distance is still far away, the threat posed is limited, as long as they withdraw from the attack range of the sailors, they will have nothing to do! ”

The generals responded with a bang, but before they could turn around, the sound of golden drums resounded in all directions.

Zhangpu is a small city. To the west is a low, hilly terrain, to the southeast by the sea, and to the north is an unobstructed, open and flat terrain. It should be said that Wu Sangui's countermeasures are extremely correct, as long as he escapes from the attack range of the sailor division. The Qing army would then be able to regroup and continue to maintain superiority in troops, and future victories or defeats were still unknown.

However, the development of the war situation was beyond the expectations of Wu Sangui and a group of Qing army generals. The sentinels sent out came one after another to report back. Under the cover of artillery fire, the ships of the Ming Army's naval division were loaded with a large number of soldiers of the land division, and under the cover of artillery fire, they had begun to land in Dongshan Bay on a large scale, and the scale was as large as 20,000 people, all of whom were black armor and red tassels of the Shandong army.

That's not even the worst news. News came from the south, the original division of troops to the south to cut off the back road of Zhangpu Shifu's department was ambushed, Durde was hit by the Ming artillery, dead no body, Guangdong Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zizhuang formed a volunteer "Yongsheng Army", and Qingyuan general Bai Changcan joined forces, north into Fujian, set up an ambush in Nanzhao, and annihilated Durd's soldiers and horses. Then they outflanked the Zhangpu area.

Zhu Ping'an's general Zhang Mingzhen led Yanpingbo Zheng Sen and other Zheng army troops and horses, and after defeating Xia Guoxiang, he galloped towards Zhangpu.

In addition, Cheng Jianwei, the general of Wu Sangui who was guarding Longquan and Jingning in Zhejiang, was also tightly entangled by the coalition forces of Zhang Guowei, a scholar of the university, Zhu Dadian, the left attendant of the military department, and Song Zhipu, the left attendant of the household department, and the pressure was increasing day by day, and he continuously sent messengers to ask Wu Sangui for help, in other words, Wu Sangui's barrier in the north was about to collapse and fall.

The Qing army's advantage in Fujian was lost in an instant. Wu Sangui realized that Zhu Ping'an did not have many chips in his hands, but he turned his hands into clouds and turned his hands into rain, and even integrated all the anti-Qing forces in Guangdong and Zhejiang.

There were not many soldiers of Lu Shi who came from the sea in the front, and there were not many foot soldiers under Shi Fu, but Wu Sangui did not dare to take risks anymore. There are soldiers and horses outflanking both roads in the north and south, and if they don't retreat, they will really become "turtles in the urn".

Sure enough, at the beginning of May, Jiangxi Yuan Jixian also raised troops again, coming from the west to Fujian, and Wu Sangui, who was anxious, looked up to the sky and sighed, this time he was calculated by Zhu Ping'an again.

As time went on, the situation became more and more difficult. Cheng Jianwei's troops were annihilated under the attack of the Zhejiang coalition army and the Ming army, Shi Lang and Zhang Mingzhen joined forces, plus Shi Fu and Zheng Sen's troops and horses, the strength was not inferior to Wu Sangui, Yanping, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou provinces were recovered one after another, and Wu Sangui's army could only retreat in the narrow strip of Tingzhou and Shaowu. Guangdong's Yongsheng army was also pressing step by step, conquering Yongding on the eighth day of the fifth month, opening the southern gate of Tingzhou.

On the ninth day of the first month of May, the Xia Guoxiang Department finally broke out of the siege and arrived at Guihua City after a lot of hardships, and Wu Sangui's main force to make peace, the original 40,000 soldiers and horses are now only more than 8,000 people, after such a long time of fighting, Wu Sangui's grain and grass supply has become more and more difficult, a large number of assets seized earlier in Zhejiang have already bottomed out, and the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army has also made the situation of the Qing army worse.

As soon as he saw Wu Sangui, Xia Guoxiang couldn't help crying, but Wu Sangui didn't know how to comfort him. I don't know if it's the two of them, but now the Qing army is filled with a sense of despair that has no way out. When the Qing soldiers were introduced into the customs and followed Dolgon to dominate the world, the generals of the green battalion did not expect that they would end up today, and the pride of the past has now disappeared.

Fang Guangchen, the first strategist under his command, was also completely helpless, and in just more than ten days, after exhausting his efforts, he was still helpless, and Fang Guangchen's hair turned gray. The Ming army was surrounded by soldiers and horses in the east, west, north and south, and the area controlled by the Qing army became smaller and smaller, and sooner or later it would fall into the point of running out of ammunition and food. Even if Fang Guangchen has the talent of heaven, there is nothing to be done at this time.

Huguang's troops were scarce, and the main force of the Qing army either followed Hong Chengchou into Shuzhong, or followed Boluo to be trapped under the city of Nanjing, and the rest were all under the command of Wu Sangui.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, everyone looked at each other without saying a word, and in the tent, even a needle could be heard clearly.

Suddenly, the last seat of the generals suddenly remembered a hesitant voice, "Lord Wang, the young general has a strategy, that is, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" ”

Wu Sangui and the others followed the prestige, but a short and sturdy figure walked out, the stainless steel armor on his body was already a little damaged, but a pair of eyes were shining with blazing essence.

"It turned out to be Cao Shuai!" Wu Sangui showed a wry smile, "At the moment, we are in the same boat, what else can't be said, what can be said directly!" ”

Luo Rucai took refuge in Wu Sangui after the Battle of Nanping, Zheng Zhilong died, and the Zheng army was leaderless, and Luo Rucai was surrounded by the Qing army and had to surrender to Shun. When Wu Sangui saw him, it was as if he saw himself.

If you want to talk about this Luo Rucai, the experience is also tortuous. In the Dashun army, was suppressed by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for ten years, Li Zicheng called the emperor, he was panicked like a lost dog, he could only live in seclusion in Yinghuo Mountain, I heard that during the period I wanted to take the initiative to join the Ming army, but the Ming court was distrustful of it, and finally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to do a career in Huguang, but I didn't think that the Qing army was going south at this time.

Luo Rucai could only choose Zheng Zhilong, who was in the limelight at the time, to take refuge, but he was inferior in the Zheng army, until the battle of Qianshan, after he fought to the death, Zheng Zhilong discovered his value. But not long after the good days, Zheng Zhilong died in Nanping again, and he could only take refuge in the Qing army again. Who would have thought that now he would fall into a Jedi again, speaking of which, there are some similarities with Wu Sangui's experience.

It's the same end of the world!

Luo Rucai cleared his throat, "The prince said that he laughed, 'Cao Shuai' was a joke in the thief army back then, and the young general would never dare to be it." At present, our army is surrounded by strong enemies, and the supply of grain and grass is about to run out, and the young general is also deeply worried. However, there was a clerk under the young general's subordinates back then, named Ji Jue. In his early years, he traveled all over the world and spent several years in Fujian and Guangxi. The young general also heard him say that at the junction of Tingzhou Mansion in Fujian Province and Guangdong, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and the mountains are steep, and ordinary people dare not go deep. But he learned from the local population that there was a mountain road that could enter Changning, Jiangxi Province through Wuping. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Rucai raised his head and looked at Wu Sangui, but Fang Guangchen on the side suddenly jumped up: "Do you mean that you can avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army, jump out of Tingzhou Mansion, and drive straight to Jiangxi?" (To be continued......)