Guangzhou City.

"Minister, the king of Pingnan is still happy to accept the order!"

In the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion, Shang Kexi, who was dressed in official uniform, shouted, got up and took the holy decree from the hand of the official who passed the decree, and after handing it to the attendant behind him, he looked at the official and asked with a smile: "Zhang Yushi, you set out from Beijing, what are the major changes in the court?" ”

"Back to the words of the prince, after the lord of the prince, the subjects are united, everything is developing in the direction of prosperity, before the departure of the lower officials, the long live lord ordered someone to pass a message to the lower officials, please send troops as soon as possible to quell the rebellion in Fujian."

"This king will send troops as soon as possible, and when this king transfers the affairs at hand, he will go north to attack Fujian." Shang Kexi patted his chest and said.

"I don't know how the prince is going to quell the rebellion?" Zhang Yushi asked.

"Well......" Shang Kexi thought for a moment before he said: "This king wants to enter Fujian from Zhangzhou, first level the sea and rebel, and after recovering Zhangzhou, he can attack Longyan and Quanzhou, and retreat step by step, drag the main force of Su Rebellion under the city of Zhangzhou, and let the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Li Shuotai, attack the two mansions of Funing and Jianning, and attack Su Rebel from the north and south. ”

"The prince's plan is very good, but the strength of the soldiers and horses under Su Yi should not be underestimated, the Pingnan general Jin Lijin was defeated by Su Wei a month ago, and the army was defeated by Xianyou, and he killed himself in the chaos, The prince should not be underestimated!" Zhang Yushi admonished.

"This king has his own fixed number in his heart, Zhang Yushi can rest assured." Shang Kexi said nonchalantly, in his opinion, Jin Li's defeat was mainly due to the traitor's troubles and the assassination of the main general Chen Jin, which caused Su Yan to seize the opportunity to launch a night attack and break the Qing army, but this also shows from the side that this Su Yan does have some ability, Shang Kexi belongs to the strategic contempt for the enemy, and tactically attaches importance to the enemy.

Seeing Shang Kexi say this, Zhang Yushi also closed his mouth, he was only in charge of passing on the decree here, and it was none of his business how Shang Kexi acted, he just reminded him out of kindness.

On the 25th day of the first month, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan of the Qing court, handed over all the affairs in hand to Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, who was newly succeeded, and led 10,000 soldiers and horses with blue flags under his command to leave the city of Guangzhou, collect the green battalions of Chaozhou and Huizhou, and attack Zhangzhou from Chaozhou Mansion to the north.

After Shang Kexi's army entered the Chaozhou Mansion, Zhu Chenggong's spies who stayed in the Chaohui area sent the military back to Zhangzhou as soon as possible, and Zhu Chenggong immediately mobilized heavy troops to gather in Zhangzhou Mansion, preparing to use himself as a bait to nail the Qing army under the palace city, giving Su Yan's troops and horses time to move.

At the same time that Shang Kexi led the army into Chaozhou Prefecture, Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, had just arrived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and soon after he arrived in Zhejiang, he began to count the soldiers and horses that could be dispatched in Zhejiang.

After Li Shutai arrived in Hangzhou, he immediately summoned Zhu Mala and Tian Xiong and other generals, and the two were forced to suspend the offensive, Li Shutai then ordered Tian Xiong to lead his troops and horses to continue to encircle and suppress the Ming army on the mainland, and Mele Zhangjing Zhu Mala followed him to the south to attack the water pass of Funing Prefecture, intending to take Fuzhou directly after entering Fujian from Funing Prefecture.

The news of the Qing army's southward movement soon spread to the Zhoushan Islands, and for a while the entire court of the Lu Jianguo State breathed a sigh of relief, but they also fell into a new round of infighting.

In February of the sixth year of Lu Jianguo (1651), when Li led Tai to lead the army south to attack Fenshui Pass, Zhang Mingzhen, Marquis of Dingxi, in order to prevent the Ming army of Zhoushan from falling into civil strife, attacked and killed the Pingxi Dynasty.

However, Li Shutai had no time to attack the Ming army in Zhoushan, and when he was appointed governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Hong Chengchou, who recommended him, told him that his greatest task was to recover Fujian Province, and everything else had to be done later.

On the first day of the second month, Li Shuitai personally led the army to attack the Fenshui Pass, but was met with stubborn resistance from the Ming army here, Chen Shenggui took the lead and walked on the city wall to command the soldiers to throw rolling stones at the Qing army besieging the city, repelling several rounds of Qing attack.

By the end of the first day, the corpses of the Qing army's foot soldiers were almost paved with the narrow road outside the Fenshui Pass, and because of the terrain, the Qing army could not even use artillery to bombard the pass, so they could only use their lives to forcibly kill a bloody road into Fujian.

In the meantime, what about Su Yan?

After Su Yan learned that Shang Kexi entered the boundary of Chaozhou, he moved to Tianbao Town, Zhangzhou, which is only a dozen kilometers away from Zhangzhou City, when the Qing army besieged Zhangzhou City, Su Yan can quickly rush to the aid of Zhangzhou City, if Shang Kexi is ready to take his own knife first, Zhu Chenggong can also lead the army to help, and the two sides are fighting each other.

On the third day of the first month of February, Shang Kexi's army finally entered the boundary of Zhangzhou Prefecture, and the next day besieged Zhangpu County, besieged for many days, Zhangpu fell, Shang Kexi ordered the slaughter of the city, and all 40,000 people in the city died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army.

On the seventh day of the first month of February, the Qing army continued to advance after reorganizing the soldiers and horses, and two days later the troops were stationed in Jiuhu Town, which was not far from the capital city of Zhangzhou, so when they stopped marching, they could see countless figures shaking on the city wall of the city, and the sound of the gongs of early warning came and went.

Shang Kexi did not attack immediately.

To be precise, he's thinking about where he's going to attack.

According to the report of the spies he sent, there was also an army of more than 5,000 people stationed in Tianbao Town, northwest of the capital city of Zhangzhou, and that army held high the banners of "Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang" and "Tong'anhou", which was clearly the banner of the recently famous Su Yi.

With Shang Kexi's vicious experience in battlefield fighting for many years, he could see through the purpose and role of Su Yantun's soldiers at a glance, the two were horns of each other, no matter which side he attacked, he would be attacked by the other side.

Since this group of thieves wants him to attack one of them, then he will set up an ambush to lure the reinforcements of the thieves into the encirclement, although this will lead to the division of troops to fight, but he believes in the combat effectiveness of this group of old fellows under his command.

What's more, in addition to the more than 10,000 people in his old department, there are also 3,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Hao Shangjiu, the chief soldier of Chaozhou, and 2,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Huang Yunjie, the chief soldier of Huizhou.

On the same day, the Qing army began to collect boats, and after nightfall, 5,000 soldiers and horses took advantage of the night to cross the Jiulong Creek and set up an ambush in a place called Zhukeng by the locals.

The next day, that is, on the eighth day of the second lunar month, the main force of the Qing army under the leadership of Shang Kexi crossed the Jiulong River with boats collected a day in advance, and after the Qing army crossed the river, the defenders of Zhangzhou City also discovered the movement of the Qing army.

Zhu Chenggong personally ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses, intending to gallop to Su Yan's aid, on the other hand, after Su Yan learned that Shang Kexi actually killed him directly, he ordered his soldiers and horses to enter the fortifications built in advance and wait for them.

What they didn't know was that the Qing army had set up an ambush one night in advance, and was waiting for Zhu Chenggong's soldiers and horses to enter the ambush circle.

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