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After June of the 41st year of Yongli, the air on the Qionghai Sea gradually became tense, and the garrisons of the Qing army in Gao Leilian and other places increased day by day, and all kinds of ships also took advantage of the night to sail from the Pearl River Estuary, Jieshi Bay, and Nanao Island to Bohe Port and Leizhou Bay. biquge.info By the beginning of September, the Qing army's garrison on the north side of the Leiqiong Strait had reached 50,000, and there were more than 150 sailors, so it can be said that the preparations for the attack were nearly complete.

However, in view of the fact that the Portuguese ships that had agreed to carry out the escort mission had not yet arrived, Fu Kui, who boasted that he was unable to fight hard with Zheng Jun at sea, adopted a turtle tactic and settled all the ships of the Guangdong Navy Division on the coast of the Tongming Sea, which was sheltered by the three islands to the south and Dongshan Island, in order to avoid the devastating attack that Zheng Jun might inflict on him.

Although the retreat of the Qing army into the shallows of the inland sea made it impossible for the Zheng army's main plywood gunboats to strike at it, the Qing army's practice of ceding sea control also enabled the Zheng army to easily control its movements. The reporting ship of the Qiongzhou Detachment of the Zheng Army's fast fleet even went deep into Leizhou Bay to reconnoiter the Qing army's coastal approach, which frustrated the morale of the Qing army.

Fortunately, the days of swallowing anger soon passed, and on 21 September, three large and one small four Portuguese armed merchant ships sailed into the Jinzhou waterway and anchored in the sea off Dongshan Island. The Qing army, which received strong assistance, immediately drove the Portuguese to close Leizhou Bay and drive away the Zheng army's reconnaissance ship. The Portuguese sent two large ships to patrol in the sea, and their heavy guns did stop the action of the Zheng army's notification ship, but the Portuguese did not wholeheartedly cooperate with the actions of the Qing army, so they responded to Fu Kui's attack order in vain, and only drove the Zheng army's report ship out of the sea. Although Zheng Jun could not sail into Leizhou Bay as lightly as before, he was still able to cruise outside the bay, which did not hinder the reconnaissance of the Qing army's movements.

Fu Kui and Lang Yida had no choice but to send someone to negotiate with the Portuguese to attack in advance. Among the four Portuguese ships that came to Leizhou Bay to assist the Qing army in landing, except for a small military Galen, the other three large Clark ships actually belonged to the shipowners and merchants, and the reason why they put aside their normal commercial activities and came to Leizhou Bay was precisely because of the ultimatum of Guangdong Province.

On 24 September, the Qing army boarded ships and set sail before dawn, but it took nearly two hours for the landing boat group of more than 20,000 people to put out the formation and slowly sail out of Leizhou Bay. Since the Portuguese ships had already blocked the Haikou in advance, Zheng Jun's reporting ship could not know the true movements of the Qing army, but with the departure of the large group of ships, it was no longer a secret.

When the Qing army went all the way south, and just after sailing through the Wailuo Waterway into Qionghai, three 3,000-material two-masted gunboats belonging to the Qiongzhou Detachment of the Zheng Army's fast fleet, including Yanshuixi, Dapai Port, and Bamboo Raft Port, had already killed the generals under the leadership of the new commander Yan Daoji. Seeing the menacing Zheng army, the four Portuguese ships broke away from the slow Qing army ship group to meet the past, although only one was a military Galen, but the large Clark ship had a load of up to 1,000 tons and the number of fires on the single side of the ship was much higher than that of the Zheng army's brigs, so after a demonstration of more than the actual shelling, the Zheng army was forced to turn around.

The Portuguese, who had succeeded in the demonstration, suddenly remembered what had happened to the Madame Rose, and pursued them fiercely, and thus they became disconnected from the Qing army. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, the three ships of Flying Rhino, Flying Bear, and Flying Star, who were looking for opportunities on the periphery, came out from the direction of Hai'an Bay under the leadership of Tan An's sub-commander, and went straight to the Qing Army Brigade. The Qing army only saw the Zheng army's sailors fleeing under the attack of the Portuguese, so they thought that the Zheng army was not enough, and more than a dozen warships broke away from their positions and rushed out, but they were repaired by Zheng's side artillery fire.

Just as the six Qing warships in front of the sudden swooped into the sea with thick black smoke, just as the Zheng gunboats threw off the remaining clumsy Qing warships and further approached the main ship group of the Qing army, the Portuguese, who heard the sound of cannons from the rear, turned back after realizing that they could not catch up with the dexterous Yan Daohe and his party, and saved Fu Kui and his party from the brink of destruction.

Seeing the losses of the Qing army, the Portuguese, who knew that they had been beaten by the east and the west, also learned to behave, and no matter how tempted by Zheng Jun was, they would no longer leave the ship group too far. Because the distance between Qionghai and Hai was too short, after the two guerrilla attacks failed, the Zheng army's sailors could only watch the Qing army approach Qiongzhou.

The chaotic situation made Lang Yida spend half a day to form the team, during which Lang Yida was also very worried that the Zheng army would take the opportunity to attack, but the main force of the Zheng army had all withdrawn south to the Wanzhou line, so Lang Yida was able to get away with regrouping his troops.

Not to mention that He Fu would be attacked and harassed by Zheng Jun's sailors on the way back, it is said that Lang Yida gathered more than 19,000 people to advance separately, and while sending people to recover the Baisha Water Village that had been demolished into ruins, he slowly approached the capital city of Qiongzhou. However, the brigade had only traveled ten miles, and the scouts in front came to report that they had recovered the capital city of Qiongzhou.

Shocked and delighted when he heard the news, Lang Yida sent someone to send the report documents to Fu Kui, who had not yet returned, and sent more scouts to inquire around. Xu was from the Zheng army's withdrawal of the army, the gentry in the county towns who were not sent away by the Zheng army to welcome the so-called Wang Shi, and individual local magistrates and garrisons appointed by Ming Zheng also announced that they were anyway, and in this way, by the third day of October, Qiongzhou (Qiongshan attached to Guo) and Wenchang, Anding, Chengmai, and Lingao counties had returned to the rule of the Qing court.

In view of the fact that the Qing army that landed day by day had reached 40,000, the Zheng Army's naval division officially decided to terminate the blockade mission on the Qionghai Sea on the fifth day of October. On the ninth day of October, the Portuguese, who had not been harassed by Zheng's army for many days, submitted a request to the Qing army to terminate the escort for the purpose of resuming normal trade as soon as possible and earning the money they deserved as soon as possible.

Lang Yida and Fu Kui naturally did not want the Portuguese to withdraw at this time, so they categorically denied the Portuguese's request. After another three days, the unbearable Portuguese chose not to say goodbye, for which the two sides started a lawsuit, and Wu Xingzuo, who pushed the boat along the river, also tore up the previous agreement with the Portuguese to benefit the benefits, so that the Portuguese side of Macau, who dared not speak out, was extremely angry at the arrogance of the Qing court.

But that's not the end of the story for the Portuguese. After the Qiong Sea was captured, two of the four Portuguese armed merchant ships, the Clark ship and one Galen ship, returned to Macao, but the other Clark ship only went straight to Hoi An in Quang Nam, only to be bumped into by the Zheng army's fast fleet that had withdrawn to Cam Ranh, and the two sides fought in a chaotic battle in the open sea, and the Zheng army seized the Clark ship in front of the Quang Nam people at the cost of one sinking, two on fire, and seventy-seven officers and men killed and wounded. Some merchants began to ask the British for reconciliation with the Ming and Zheng sides.

On the one hand, the Zheng army wantonly plundered the population and caused the countryside of Qiongzhou to be barren, and the Qing army's grain and straw had to count on the transfer of grain from Guangdong Province, on the other hand, the remaining squires who gathered in the capital city of Qiongzhou were also the objects that Lang Yida was eager to solve.

On 13 October, Lang Yida arrested 1,100 households and more than 5,600 gentry in Qiongshan, Lingao, Chengmai, Wenchang, Anding, and other places in the name of Zikou and Tongwei. The gentry who still couldn't figure out the purpose of the Qing army proposed to atone for their "own sins" in the way of family wealth and labor, but Lang Yida denied it, and a massacre from the side of the "Holy Monarch and Lord" fell on the heads of some traitors who were willing to be slaves and maids of "Lord Belle".

On October 14, after receiving supplies and completing the "clearance" in northern Qiongbei, the Qing army advanced south again, recaptured Huitong and Lehui counties on the eastern front, and re-approached the Zheng army's defense line on the Wanquan River.

At this time, the true news of the "purge" in northern Qiongbei had not yet reached Qiongxi and Qiongnan, so Changhua and Thanksgiving counties also defected from the Ming and Zheng districts, and by October 17, Zheng's army had only retained the coastal area between the Wanquan River and the Ningyuan River.

On October 20, the Qing army of 40,000 troops stationed in Wanquan Hebei, but Lang Yida had an extra heart and did not directly attack the pass, but took advantage of his own large number of troops, the troops were divided into two routes, detoured from the upper reaches of the Wanquan River, and went straight to Wanzhou, as for Zheng Jun's plan for war, all failed, and had to withdraw the front-line personnel of Wanzhou, Lingshui, and Yazhou in advance.

On October 30, the Qing army entered the city of Wanzhou, and on the same day, Zheng's army began to retreat along the Wanquan River.

The retreat of the Zheng army naturally alarmed the Qing army, and Lang Yida also wanted to make real military achievements, so he immediately drove his headquarters to carry out a general attack on the forts along the line, but the Qing army's attack was met with the same experience as He Fu's subordinates.

On the first day of November, the Qing army was awakened by the earth-shattering explosion, and then it was realized that the Zheng army had destroyed the forts on its own, boarded a ship and left Qiongzhou, and returned straight to Dongning. Lang Yida, who had picked up a big bargain, had to use a number of banners that Zheng Jun had not had time to withdraw as evidence of his military exploits to report to Guangdong, and at this point, the resistance of Zheng Jun's establishment above the Qiongzhou outpost no longer existed.

Although the main force of the Zheng army had been withdrawn, taking advantage of the long coastline of Qiongzhou, the Zheng army was still active on the grain routes of the Qing army with small forces, forcing the Qing army to continuously strengthen the protection of rear transportation. On the eighth day of November, the Qing army entered Lingshui, and on November 14, the Qing army entered Yazhou, so far the entire Qiongzhou has fallen into the hands of the Qing army, and the small part of the Zheng army was forced to withdraw, which was the "Qiongzhou victory" in the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi.

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