When Chen Shangchuan, the magistrate of Jiading County, learned that Mo Jiu of Hexian Town was willing to surrender, he couldn't help but be stunned.

To be honest, he didn't take it to heart.

After all, he also knew that this was not realistic, so he only sent Chen Ande alone.

Who would have thought that Chen Ande, an old man over seventy years old, would persuade Mo Jiu with one mouth without a single shot.

Chen Shangchuan, who heard the news, was overjoyed and hurriedly wrote to the Ming Court.

At this time, Jiading County had already expanded its sphere of influence to the Dingxiang area in the west.

It is only across the river from Hexian Town.

In addition, the last time the Ming army defeated the Zhenla Guangnan coalition army, all the people in the south came to surrender.

The form of the Jiading area can be said to be a great one.

Now that the river immortals have returned, then the Ming court has another foothold on the southern coast of Annam.

It can be bordered by Siam to the west, and Quang Nam to the north.

Chen Shangchuan, who was born as a sailor general, naturally knew that now that the river immortals were returned to the Ming court, the Ming Dynasty would get an important port in the South Seas.

Its strategic significance is no less than that of Jiading.

"My lord, if the Ming Court really accepts the river immortals to vote, then I am afraid that it will offend Siam." A registrar spoke.

Chen Shangchuan also looked stunned, and he also knew a thing or two about the evil relationship between the river fairy and Siam.

Today, the Ming army is marching north, and the supply of grain and grass in the territory is insufficient, and most of them are purchased from Siam.

With the help of the East India Company, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce opened a trading hall in Siam Pattani, and in the first half of this year alone, 200,000 stone of rice was shipped from Siam.

If it is really because of this, it is indeed a bit more than worth the loss for the Ming Dynasty.

"It's up to Lord Liu Yu to decide this matter." Chen Shangchuan didn't want to spend this brain power to think about this matter, so he should hand over this broken jar to Liu Yu to deal with.

With the stability of Jiading County, Chen Shangchuan also put more energy into gathering Han immigrants and reclaiming wasteland. It also benefited from the impact of the last defeat of the Zhenla army.

Many Fanren tribes in Jiading County also submitted to the Ming court and took the initiative to report the population, so that Jiading officials could calmly count their household registration.

Looking at the registered household registration on the desk, Chen Shangchuan sighed, what he had never done in Jiading for seven or eight years, the Ming court had done it in only half a year when he sent troops to Jiading.

In today's Jiading County, there are no less than 10,000 Han people, and its soldiers are as high as 3,000.

The system of integrating soldiers and peasants allowed Jiading to clear away the haze of war and quickly resume agricultural production in the year after the war.

Its military system is still somewhat different from that of the Luzon Ming court.

The Luzon Ming army was a professional army and did not need to be involved in farming.

Today, there are more than 30,000 households registered in Luzon, with a population of more than 100,000 people, plus the coastal maritime trade, which is enough to feed thousands of troops.

Of course, the most important thing was the Ming army in Luzon, and the number of Han Chinese in the army was also quite small.

The current Luzon Island and the Ming army of the Northern Expedition to Qiongzhou and its Han army are Hu, Fubo Town, Shuishi Town, Fuyang Town, Weiwu Town, Wuwei Town, a total of three mainland towns, three water towns.

The strength of the Three Continents Town was 3,000 people, except for the veterans of the Zheng Army who went south to Luzon, most of the soldiers were recruited from the Luzon Han people and the Jiading Han people, and they were basically Han Chinese.

And the composition of the three major water towns is very complicated.

The total strength of the three major water towns of Fuyang Town, Fubo Town, and Shuishi Town is as high as 4,000 people.

However, its military sources are quite complicated, including sailors who went south from Taiwan and the Han army water battalion under Yang Yandi and Chen Shangchuan.

There are also pirates licking blood on the knives of the South Seas, local Luzon fishermen who go out to sea to fish for a living, and sailors from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.

It can be said that the ingredients are quite complex, and there are pros and cons.

All nationalities, all walks of life, you can find it in the Ming Army Sailors.

This also made the Ming army sailors a hodgepodge.

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Even military orders are difficult to convey to individuals.

Wartime command is indeed a big problem.

This is also the reason why Li Du and Xiao Wu have a lot of headaches.

However, the benefits are also very obvious, as these people are either pirates or merchant sailors.

It has a lot of experience at sea, especially in this part of the South Sea.

Whenever the Ming army went to a sea area, they could always find a person from thousands of sailors who was familiar with this sea area.

During the naval battle, the fierceness of the pirates and the cooperation of the Ming sailors also made the Ming sailors more powerful in the naval battle.

This is also a very important reason why the Ming army has only more than 100 naval warships and thousands of officers and soldiers of the naval division, but it can cross the South Seas.

Its naval divisions are well-equipped with warships and have extremely high quality soldiers.

Due to the scarcity of the Han army in Luzon, Liu Yu basically did not dare to let the Ming officers and soldiers fight hard to avoid unnecessary casualties.

Therefore, Liu Yu also reused the local people in Luzon and established Xiaoyong Town and Yufan Town.

Today's Yufan Town troops are mainly distributed in Beiting County and the northern part of Nanpu County.

Mainly Iroque, the system of integration of soldiers and peasants is adopted.

When the farm is busy, it is a farmer, and it is a soldier in wartime, with a standing strength of 1,000 people, and the wartime strength can even reach 3,000 people, which is an important hole card for the Ming court to restrain the people of Nanpu County.

And Xiaoyong Town is the strongest soldier in the hands of the Ming Court.

South of Mingcheng to the Central Plain, most of the land belongs to Talu.

Even the Ming court didn't know how many soldiers he had in his hands?

Officials in Mingcheng estimated that there were no less than 3,000 Tagalu soldiers under Ta Lu.

At the same time, one person from the three towns of Xiaoyong is still helping in Qiongzhou at the moment.

Therefore, it has become the most relied on and feared army of the Ming Court.

According to comprehensive calculations, the strength of the Ming army on Luzon Island has already exceeded 10,000.

If the Ming army in Jiading is counted, it is carrying out an army expansion.

The strength of the Ming court in Luzon could break through to about 20,000 or 30,000 people.

But one of the problems posed by this is that the number of Fan troops will be much larger than the Han army.

This is also the reason why the Luzon Ming court, even when it conquered Qiongzhou in the north, the number of its troops only remained at about 10,000 people.

The gap in the population of Hanfan was too great, and Liu Yu did not dare to expand the army at all.

Wanzhou City

With the last burst of cannons, Wanzhou City was finally broken by the Ming army.

Yang Yandi carried out a half-month-long siege against Governor Wan.

It is to besiege but not attack, and completely seal Wanzhou City.

The generals and officials of the Wanzhou battalion in Wanzhou are like ants on a hot pot, and they are in a hurry.

Several times in a row, a Qing officer and soldier of the flood scale were sent to break through to the north, but they were all beaten back to the city by the Ming officers and soldiers.

In this way, it was a stalemate for half a month, until the red-coated cannon that Yang Yandi dreamed of the day before yesterday was finally transported to Wanzhou.

As early as when the Ming army landed in Yazhou, the Ming army had already begun to use ships to load red-coat cannons and tiger cannons ashore in batches.

However, due to the lack of storage of horses and other equipment, the transportation of artillery was extremely slow.

Xiao Wuqiang, who was in Yazhou County, requisitioned thirty ploughing cattle in the county to transport red-coated artillery.

And the two most powerful red-coated cannons were transported to Wanzhou City.

Yang Yandi waited for half a month, just to wait for these two powerful red-coated cannons.

When two red-coated cannons bombarded the already not very strong Wanzhou city wall, the officers and soldiers of the Wanzhou battalion defending the city finally collapsed.

After waiting for half a month, they did not wait for the Qing army to come to reinforcements, but the nearby Linshui County was occupied by the Li people.

The Qing generals and officials defending the city had long since despaired.

When the Ming army's Hongyi cannon sounded, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army's green battalion guarding the city wall directly mutinied and directly opened the door to offer the city.

The Ming officers and soldiers shouted and entered the city, and the green battalions of the Qing army in the city were one after another

Surrender.

In the end, only a few Qing generals from the Wanzhou battalion were left, and more than 20 personal soldiers led by them to defend the Wanzhou Mansion.

For these unyielding Qing righteous soldiers, Yang Yandi was also very simple, directly transferred the Franc machine gun, bombarded the yamen, and then launched a fire attack on the yamen.

Until the fire engulfed the entire Wanzhou Mansion Yamen.

The huge yamen turned into a pile of coke, and after the wreckage was broken, the order was given to collect the troops.

In this battle of Wanzhou, the Ming army can be said to have taken Wanzhou City with small losses and captured more than 400 Qing officers and soldiers.

Tens of thousands of taels of silver and calligraphy and painting antiques were found from the ruins of the Wanzhou Mansion and the mansions of local officials and wealthy merchants.

After taking Wanzhou City, Yang Yandi immediately ordered someone to take over Lingshui County.

Wang Guocheng, the leader of the Li people who had already occupied Lingshui County, also rushed to Wanzhou and met Yang Yandi.

For these Li people who took advantage of the chaos to rebel, Yang Yandi had no good impression at all.

However, in line with the principle of the Governor-General's alliance against the Qing Dynasty.

Yang Yandi still commended Wang Guochen.

Xiao Wu, who learned the news, immediately sealed the kingdom and became the chief soldier of Lingshui County.

asked Wang Guocheng to go north and fight against the Qing Dynasty with the Ming army.

Who would have thought that this Wang Guocheng was also a wolf who couldn't be fed, so he immediately used the excuse of illness and hurriedly returned to Lingshui County, and returned directly to the mountains with hundreds of Li people loaded with gold, silver and jewelry looted from the county overnight.

Therefore, Yang Yandi only smiled contemptuously and ignored it anymore.

After the capture of Wanzhou, all the green camps of the Qing army in the south of Qiongdao were destroyed.

The Ming army that captured Wanzhou then divided into two routes, one to Changhua to aid the Ming army, and the other way the Ming army went north to settle down.

The news of the destruction of the Wanzhou battalion has not yet reached Changhua, but the news of the annihilation of the entire Qiongzhou Navy Division has reached the ears of the Qing army in Changhua.

When Wu Qijue led the army to Changhua.

In front of him was a battalion of less than 100 people, and Shang Wenkui lying on the sickbed.

"Brother Shang, has the Qiongzhou Sailor really been destroyed?" Wu Qijue hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Shang Wenkui's hand.

Shang Wenkui was lying on the sickbed at this time, his breath was weak.

After the Qiongzhou Navy Division was completely annihilated by Fuyang Town, he was pulled into a small boat by several Qing soldiers and fled by clipper.

After landing on the shore, he looked at the Qiongzhou Naval Division, which had been completely annihilated. Zhang Wenkui raised his head to the sky and roared, spit out a mouthful of old blood, and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, he was rescued by nearby fishermen passing by and sent to the Qing army in Changhua.

"My lord, the Qiongzhou sailors have been destroyed, and the thieves' strong ships and cannons cannons can't resist the Qiongzhou sailors." A Qing army officer and soldier saw that the commander was lying on the sickbed and had his last breath left, and hurriedly said.

"Alas!" Wu Qijue sighed, slowly stood up and glanced at Shang Wenkui, who was only out of breath and out of breath, and left with a gloomy face.

When Wu Qijue walked into the main army camp, he saw Liu Da tied to the ground.

"I ask you why it's only been ten days, why are there less than 100 people left in the left camp?" Wu Qijue reprimanded angrily.

"Our army was ambushed by thieves, and the thieves were sharp-armed with firearms, so our army suffered a crushing defeat." Liu Bao was weak.

"Bastard, just a bunch of pirates, where did you get so many firearms?"

"You're going to lie to me." Wu Qijue shouted.