Section 38 Soldiers swallow five provinces, three parts of the world

In less than half a year, the Ming Zheng Dynasty, the newly appointed king of Yanping County, Zheng Kezang, successively eliminated Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, annexed the two provinces of FJGD, completely gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains, and became the third largest force in addition to the Qing court and Wu Sangui. Although GD Province has just been occupied, there is Wu Liuqi, the GD commander-in-chief, and it is excessively stable, and in just over a month, the people's hearts have returned, which is not worse than FJ Province.

Nowadays, the main force of the Qing court is fighting fiercely with Wu Sangui in HNHB, as for GXJXAHJS and ZJ and other places, although there are still many rebel forces, but under the ruthless suppression of the Qing court, these rebel forces are already struggling, and it is difficult to pose any substantial threat to the Qing court, and even more, the Qing court also transferred troops from the two JSAH provinces to support the war between Huguang and Wu Sangui. Of course, the Qing court was still very vigilant about Zheng Kezang, the newly rising third force, and although it was not able to take care of it for a while, it deployed heavy troops in the three provinces of GXJXZJ, intending to trap Zheng Kezang and die in GDFJ.

It's a pity that the Qing court's wishful thinking is doomed to fail. When the main force of the Qing court and Wu Sangui fought endlessly in the two provinces of Huguang and Guangzhou, Zheng Kezang's Ming and Zheng dynasties were not idle, and actively contacted the rebel forces in GXJXAHJS and ZJ and other places, and intensively planned to make greater moves.

In the thirteenth year of Kangxi, in the spring, the soldiers of the Ming and Zheng Dynasty were divided into four routes, swallowing mountains and rivers in an all-round way to sweep the southern provinces. On the first road, with Wu Liuqi as the main commander, he led Shang Kexi's original 50,000 troops to capture GX Province; the second way, with Prime Minister Chen Jinnan as the main commander, with an army of 40,000, to capture JX Province; The third way, thinking that the general Liu Guoxuan was the commander, led 30,000 sea troops, attacked from both sides by sea and land, and captured ZJ Province; This last road, led by Zheng Kezang, led 45,000 Jinyi guards, set out by sea, landed in Songjiang Province under the response of the rebel forces, penetrated directly into JS Province, and then captured AH Province in one fell swoop. This day is known by later historians as the day of the rise of the Zheng dynasty.

In order to guard against the Ming and Zheng dynasties, the Qing court deployed heavy troops in the three provinces of GXJX and ZJ, so the initial start of the army of Wu Liuqi and Chen Jinnan was not smooth, the progress was slow, and the war was anxious. The same was true of Liu Guoxuan's land army that attacked ZJ Province, but the sea army was progressing smoothly, taking Ningbo Mansion in one fell swoop, opening up the situation, and echoing the land army in Chuzhou Prefecture from the south and north, causing the Qing court army to suffer from the enemy.

As for the Jinyi Wei army led by Zheng Kezang, it went smoothly, and with the response of the rebel forces, it soon opened up the situation in JS Province and successfully gained a foothold in Songjiang and Suzhou Provinces. JS Province is the capital of the original Southern Ming Dynasty, and it has always been a gathering place for the righteous people who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and most of the people in the province are concerned about the previous dynasty, which is another important reason why Zheng Kezang's army can quickly gain a foothold here. In addition, most of the troops of JS Province were transferred by the Qing court, and Jinyiwei was the elite of the rare elites in the world, which was by no means comparable to the enemy army of the Qing court that had been fighting for a long time, and in just two months, the entire territory of JS Province had been taken by Zheng Kezang.

At the same time, there was also good news from Liu Guoxuan, who captured ZJ Province, and Liu Guoxuan launched in two ways and successfully attacked most of the state capitals of **J Province, trapping the Qing army in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Yanzhou. In the past two months, whether it is Wu Liuqi who captured GX or Chen Jinnan who captured JX, the progress has been slow, and they have only occupied Sicheng and Zhen'an in GX Province respectively, as well as Jianchang and Ningdu in JX Province, which is still achieved under the full support of the rebel forces in the two provinces, and then the situation is even more difficult to open under the full resistance of the Qing army. In view of this, Zheng Kezang urgently ordered the second battalion of the Dark Eagle and the Falcon to go to Wu Liuqi and Chen Jinnan to listen to the order.

Zheng Kezang occupied JS Province completely, and after a simple correction for five days, he left Liu Zhibin and the three battalions of Fire Wolf, Water Wolf and Coyote to garrison JS Province, and then sent troops again to attack AH Province. In the early days, it was still smooth, and soon took Sizhou, Fengyang, and Yingzhou, but in Luzhou Mansion, it suffered from the desperate resistance of the Qing army. It turned out that the Qing army guarding AH Province was desperate, except for leaving a small number of troops in the capital Anqing Mansion, the remaining troops of the state capitals were gathered in Luzhou Mansion, intending to do their best here to delay Zheng Kezang's army and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from HN Province.

Zheng Kezang could attack with all his strength and forcibly eat the more than 10,000 Qing troops who were defending the Luzhou capital, but the losses would definitely be not small. Jinyiwei is the treasure in Zheng Kezang's mind, how can he be in this small Luzhou mansion? Therefore, Zheng Kezang left the second battalion of the golden wolf and the wooden wolf to contain the Qing army in the Luzhou Mansion, and ordered that the Qing army should not be attacked, as long as the Qing army was dragged in the Luzhou Mansion; Zheng Kezang personally led the remaining four battalions of wolf guards, lightly took the empty defense of Lu'an Mansion, and divided the troops again, leaving three battalions of soldiers and horses of Wolf Warrior, Night Wolf and Wolf Wolf, and Chen soldiers were at the junction of AH and HN provinces to resist the Qing army in HN Province to help.

Zheng Kezang led the most elite blood wolf battalion, non-stop, rushing to Anqing Mansion, the capital of AH Province, and soon came to Anqing City. Time was pressing, and the Blood Wolf Battalion only rested for one day and night, so that it could approach the city of Anqing in the early morning of the second day. On the top of the city tower, the Qing army has already been in full battle, rolling wood and stones, and all the equipment to defend the city is complete. At the moment, the Blood Wolf Battalion had only one way to attack, but because the Blood Wolf was in a hurry, it did not prepare any siege equipment. However, the Blood Wolf Battalion is not without a chance of winning, on the contrary, Anqing City, which has only more than 1,000 people, cannot resist the soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion no matter what. What made Zheng Kezang really hesitate was only the question of how much damage.

Time was pressing, Zheng Kezang had no choice, he looked at the gate of Anqing City from afar with a cold expression, the cold glint in his eyes flashed, and he ordered in a loud voice: "Beat the drum, follow this king to take this Anqing City in one fell swoop." "Boom, boom, boom......" The rumbling war drums sounded, and all the soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion were excited, and their fighting spirit was high, and they shouted in unison: "Kill!" Kill! Kill ......" "Kill!" "With Zheng Kezang's loud shout, the fighting spirit of the Blood Wolf Battalion reached its peak." Driving, "Zheng Kezang took the lead and rushed straight to Anqing City, and the blood wolf battalion galloped and followed closely behind.

"Shoot the arrows!" The general of the Qing army defending the city gave an order, and more than 1,000 Qing troops bent their bows and shot arrows together, and after three rounds of volleys, the arrows converged into a rain of arrows, shooting down like raindrops towards Zheng Kezang and the blood wolf camp. Zheng Kezang poured his feet into force, leaped up from the horse's back, and in a few dodges, he had already passed through the rain of arrows, leaving only a few afterimages. As for the soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion, they all drew out their swords at their waists and pushed away all the arrows near their bodies, even if there were arrows that slipped through the net, it was difficult to cause too much damage to the soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion who had been practicing the "Iron Cloth Shirt" for many years and had already trained a body of copper skin and iron bones. Moreover, all the soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion took the protection of the war horses under their crotches as their first priority, so the charging array of the Blood Wolf Battalion was not chaotic at all.

"Roll the wood!" Seeing that Zheng Kezang was getting closer and closer to the city, the general of the Qing army defending the city shouted another order, and the huge trees and boulders fell one after another, eager to smash Zheng Kezang into pulp. It's a pity that with Zheng Kezang's light skills at this time, how could he be hit by these sawmills and boulders. Zheng Kezang rushed to the city gate and roared, "Open!" With all his strength, he poured it into his right leg and kicked it towards the thick city gate like a thunderbolt.

"Boom!" With a shocking bang, the city gate was kicked to pieces, and the Qing troops guarding the gate in the city were smashed by the fragments of the city gate without preparation, and they fell to the ground and wailed. Zheng Kezang's figure paused slightly, and he fell to the ground, with a trace of blood overflowing from the corners of his mouth, and he suffered from this huge shock force and suffered a lot of internal injuries. "Kill! Kill! Killing ......" Seeing that Zheng Kezang was injured, the soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion were even more high-spirited, and rushed into the city on horseback, fighting with the Qing army defending the city.

In the next battle, there was no need for Zheng Kezang to personally participate, and the more than 1,000 Qing troops defending the city were not enough to see in front of the red-eyed soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion, and they were killed in less than half an hour. In this battle, due to Zheng Kezang's hard work, he broke through the city gate in one fell swoop, so the blood wolf battalion suffered very little losses, and less than 100 people were slightly injured, and they could be healed after half a month of cultivation.

Anqing City was captured, and the entire Anqing Prefecture, and even other state capitals in AH Province, had no strength to resist, even the Qing army assembled in Luzhou Prefecture was demoralized. Zheng Kezang now has limited troops, so he temporarily gave up attacking other state capitals, ordered the whole army to rest for a day, and then entered the Luzhou capital to completely take down the last Qing army resistance force in AH Province.

On the second day, Zheng Kezang left 400 soldiers of the Blood Wolf Battalion to guard Anqing City, and he didn't care about his own injuries that had not healed, and led the Blood Wolf Battalion to attack Luzhou City. When Zheng Kezang led the army to Luzhou City, the battle situation in Luzhou City did not change, and the Qing army seemed to be determined to defend it, even if they learned the news of Zheng Kezang's division of troops, they did not send troops to rescue other state capitals, or have the intention of fighting to the death with Zheng Kezang, and they have always cowered in Luzhou City.

The Qing army behaved like this, which made Zheng Kezang frown all day long, and he couldn't find any good way to break the city in his eagerness. If time permits, Zheng Kezang can trap more than 10,000 Qing troops in Luzhou City, but unfortunately, the Qing army in HN Province has begun to move frequently recently, and troops will be sent to help in the near future, and Zheng Kezang lacks the most this time.

In desperation, Zheng Kezang had no choice but to attack. But before the strong attack, Zheng Kezang still made one last effort, that is, to order people to shoot a large number of surrender letters into Luzhou City. Although most of the Qing troops defending the city in Luzhou City were composed of Han Chinese, although they had the intention to surrender, their main generals were all children of the Manchu Eight Banners. As a result, it turned out to be true, for Zheng Kezang's surrender, under the pressure of the Qing generals, the Qing army defending the city was indifferent.

Zheng Kezang personally led the army to the city of Luzhou, looking at the city of Luzhou with a gloomy expression, and his heart was dripping blood for the loss of Jinyiwei next. "Boom, boom, boom......" The rumbling war drums sounded, Zheng Kezang took a few steps forward on his horse, and was just about to give the order to attack, but he saw the city gate slowly open, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Subsequently, I saw Hu Yizhi, the "Yum Sword King", striding out of the city, carrying a bloody human head in his hand, which was the chief general of the Qing army who was defending the city.

Zheng Kezang rode forward and said strangely: "Old Hu, what's going on?" Hu Yizhi glared at Zheng Kezang angrily, and said: "The main generals of the Qing army in the city, as well as those who resist stubbornly, have all been taken down by me and the good men of the Dark Eagle Battalion. As for the reason for my visit, here is a letter from your wife, you can see it at a glance. Okay, now that the matter is over, I have to hurry back to FJ to say goodbye. After that, he rode away in a dashing manner, which made Zheng Kezang speechless. Speaking of which, over the years, especially after Chen Yuanyuan was sent to him, Hu Yizhi kept his promise and secretly guarded Chen Yan'er's safety, and rarely left her. Not only that, but in his spare time, he will also help train Jinyiwei's knife skills. Therefore, Chen Yan'er forcibly installed the title of deputy commander of Jinyiwei. In this regard, Hu Yizhi did not object, but except for training the Jinyi Wei knife technique in his spare time, he did not interfere in any other matters of the Jinyi Guard. And with Hu Yizhi's knife skills, the Jinyi Guards, especially the Eagle Guards, are better at improving their knife skills.

In this way, Zheng Kezang took Luzhou City without spending a single soldier, and also incorporated more than 10,000 Qing troops. As for Chen Yan'er's letter, there is nothing else except explaining the causes and consequences of sending Hu Yizhi and the Dark Wolf Camp to help because he knew Zheng Kezang's predicament. But after many years of husband and wife, how could Zheng Kezang not see Chen Yan'er's dissatisfaction with him, as the commander of the army, but still forcibly broke down the gate of Anqing City regardless of his own comfort, causing him to suffer a lot of injuries. In this regard, Zheng Kezang smiled bitterly in his heart and felt warm.

In the next half a month, Zheng Kezang commanded in the center and completely took the entire territory of AH Province. Seeing this, the Qing army in HN Province gave up the idea of sending troops to rescue again, and just stationed troops to defend HN Province to guard against Zheng Kezang's army. Almost at the same time, there was also good news from ZJ Province, Liu Guoxuan successfully wiped out the Qing army in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Yanzhou, and occupied ZJ Province. Subsequently, Liu Guoxuan's troops sent to JX Province, and Chen Jinnan's army attacked in two ways, spending more than a month to take the entire territory of JX Province. Wu Liuqi, who captured GX Province, also fulfilled his mission and drove the Qing troops in GX Province to HN Province and occupied the entire territory of GX Province. But in this battle, Wu Liuqi's soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, with more than 10,000 dead and nearly 20,000 wounded.

So far, Zheng Kezang has a total of eight provinces under his control, namely Taiwan Province, FJ Province, ZJ Province, GD Province, GX Province, JX Province, AH Province and JS Province, and the Qing court that conquered YN Province, GZ Province, SC Province, GS Province and half of HN Province and HB Province, as well as the Qing Dynasty that ruled Zhili, SD Province, SX Province, SX Province, HN Province, Mukden Province, JL Province, HLJ Province and half of HN Province and HB Province.