Chapter 171 Enter Fujian

After Xiao Tianjian's oracle was issued, the area around Fujian, which had calmed down for several months, suddenly became lively. A large and medium-sized army began to march one after another. Shi Ran personally led 20,000 troops and rushed straight to the door of Fujian, Xianxia Pass.

The general stationed at Xianxia Pass is Shi Fu, a general under the command of Zheng Zhilong. There are not many people who know about this Shi Fu, but there is a person whose name is like thunder for future generations. This person's name is Shi Lang, and Shi Fu is Shi Lang's uncle.

Shi Fu was ordered by Zheng Zhilong and led 7,000 Zheng army soldiers to guard the Xianxiaguan area. However, as the Dazhong army gradually gathered in the north of Xianxiaguan, Shi Fu felt great pressure. In the past few months, Shi Fu has also sent troops to have countless small-scale contact battles with the Dazhong army, testing each other. The strength of the other party.

However, Shi Fu found that the Dazhong army was very powerful, with fierce artillery fire and extremely sharp fire. As long as they fought, their Zheng army had little chance of winning. After a small-scale contact in the past few months, their Zheng army was repeatedly defeated. They were compressed into the Xianxia Pass by the Dazhong Army and did not dare to get out of Xianxia Pass.

Shi Fu was scared by the Dazhong army. Seeing more and more Dazhong army gathering outside Xianxia Pass, Shi Fu did not think that he could stop the Dazhong army from entering Fujian here. At this time, some people of the Dazhong army contacted Shi Fu and told Shi Fu that as long as he surrendered to Dazhong, the Dazhong Dynasty would never treat him badly. He can continue to stay in the army and be a general.

In desperation, Shi Fu had no choice but to agree to surrender. Just as Shi Ran led the army to attack Xianxia Pass, Shi Fu and his own soldiers suddenly opened the door and announced that they would offer Xianxia Pass to surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty.

As a result, Shi Ran did not spend much effort, so he led the army to seize Xianxia Pass and kicked open the door of Fujian at once, making the northern part of Fujian open under the front of the army.

Then, after capturing Xianxia Pass, Shi Ran immediately rushed straight to Funingzhou. Zheng Jun did not expect that the Dazhong army would come so fiercely, and he did not expect that Shi Fu would suddenly surrender to the Dazhong army, so the defenders of Funingzhou did not make enough preparations at all. As a result, Shi Ran waved his division and was beaten with water. In just ten days, Funing was conquered by Shi Ran.

At the same time, Liu Yaoben also led the army to take action in Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi Province, sending troops to attack Jianning and Shao Wu, and Zheng Jun's defenders resisted desperately. Although Liu Yaoben was not allowed to easily attack the land of these two mansions, Zheng Jun was also beaten by Liu Yaoben's army and suffered heavy losses.

In addition to the fact that the army division began to take action, the navy also began to take action at the same time. Liu Jiang personally led a mixed fleet and stationed in the seaside of Wenzhou Prefecture. According to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, he sent out the centipede ship in his hand and began to attack along the coast of Fujian. He captured dozens of merchant ships of the Zheng family in a row, forcing the Zheng family not Do you have to send sailors to patrol the coast of Fujian, trying to stop the invasion of the navy.

Subsequently, Liu Jiang personally led the fleet out of Wenzhou and fought with the Zheng army's fleet several times at sea. However, at this time, the navy of the Dazhong army could not completely suppress the Zheng family's navy. After all, the Zheng family started on the sea. The generals had rich experience in naval warfare. The Dazhong army and the navy could not get much benefit after several fights, and also lost. More than a dozen boats, hundreds of sailors were killed and injured.

However, the navy's actions still strongly restrained Zheng Jun's strength, making it impossible to concentrate on the confrontation with the Dazhong army on land.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong also began to get nervous. The Dazhong army acted like this, and it was clear that he did not want to continue to negotiate with him. This posture was very similar to completely take down Fujian by force, so Zheng Zhilong quickly found Qian Qianyi, discussed with Qian Qianyi, and asked Qianqianyi to persuade Xiao Tianjian to stop the military operation first. Move, the conditions of the two sides can be negotiated again.

But Qian Qianyi said that there was nothing he could do. He had already said what he should say during this period. He had given Zheng Zhilong the bottom line of the Great China and North Korea, and it was meaningless to continue talking.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to order resistance, trying to get the initiative on the battlefield first, and then continue to negotiate with the Greater China and North Korea. Everyone knows very well about this kind of thing. It is impossible to reach an agreement by talking alone. Only by fighting on the battlefield can the winner get more on the negotiating table. Great advantage, and the loser can only make concessions.

So with Zheng Zhilong's determination, there was a big war between Zheng Jun and Dazhong Jun in Fujian.

In Jianningfu, Funingzhou, Shaowufu and other places, the two armies fought repeatedly, including on the sea, and tried to overwhelm each other. Although the Zheng army's Fujian navy is indeed powerful, the Zheng family started at sea. Although the land division claims to have 200,000 troops, this is just a figure on paper.

Although it is true that the Zheng family is extremely rich, after all, the resources at hand are limited, and their own weapons are far from meeting their needs. It is impossible to arm so many people, so they need to take out money to buy weapons from the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Spaniards. A, but in addition to the huge cost, the quantity is still far from meeting their needs.

Therefore, the strength of the Zheng Army's army is not small, but most of the equipment level is very simple, and even some people are not even equipped with weapons. Such a level of military readiness is not enough to compare with the Greater China and North Korea, which has occupied most of China.

Since Xiao Tianjian defeated Beijing and defeated Jiannu, Dazhong Dynasty has also begun to integrate resources and reorganize the original army. The abolition, the expansion and expansion and the supply of weapons are also smoother. In addition, these Dazhong army, which have been fighting for many years, have rich experience in land operations, plus firearms. It has a great advantage, so it can often hit less and more on the battlefield, and the Zheng army has been defeated on land.

At the end of March, the whole territory of Funing Prefecture was occupied by Shi Ran, and Liu Yaoben finally invaded Jianning Mansion and began to attack in the direction of Fuzhou.

On the other hand, Zheng Jun was defeated repeatedly and had to shrink the front and withdraw the soldiers and horses to the area of Fuzhou. If it weren't for the very complex terrain and many passes in Fujian Province, Liu Yaoben and Shi Ran's soldiers and horses alone would be enough to reach the Zheng family's old nest Quanzhou Prefecture within two months.

But even so, it also made Zheng Zhilong feel quite unstable! I can't help but surrender.

Originally! Zheng Jun has long known that the Zheng family is negotiating with China and North Korea. Under such circumstances, who is willing to fight with the Dazhong Army? Therefore, various reasons contributed to the failure of Zheng's army on the battlefield. A large number of newly formed Zheng's army surrendered to the Dazhong army one after another, and some of the generals were Zheng Zhilong's old subordinates.

Even the large and medium-sized navy was very active at sea during this period. Unexpectedly, a large number of ships were dispatched to cooperate with the army and the army division of the large and medium-sized army. At the beginning of April, a group of large and medium-sized troops landed by the sea and raided Funing Prefecture, so that the Zheng army was not prepared at all and lost it in a short time. In Funing Prefecture, the Dazhong army also got a forward port in Fujian, and then a large number of fleets of the Dazhong Army's naval division stationed at the White Horse River in Funing Prefecture, and set up a fort near the sea mouth, firmly controlling the sea in this area, and seriously threatening the safety of Fuzhou from the sea.

This situation makes Zheng Zhilong sit on pins and felt. The loss of Funingzhou means that the portal of Fujian is opened. The land army can march towards Fuzhou from several roads, and it can also easily attack Fuzhou at sea. Fuzhou has become the flesh of the army. Fuzhou is only one foot away from the door, and Fuzhou can be conquered by the army.

Once Fuzhou is lost, Quanzhou will not be guaranteed. Once Quanzhou is not guaranteed, the Zheng family will have no foothold in Fujian again. Once he arrives at that time, he will have no room to bargain with Dazhong and North Korea.

In panic, Zheng Zhilong sent his younger brother Zheng Hongkui to lead 30,000 troops out of Fuzhou to attack Funing Prefecture. At the same time, he sent another fifth brother, Zheng Zhibao, to lead a total of more than 200 sailors and boats. He attacked Funing Prefecture from the waterway, tried to attack between water and land, recaptured Funing Prefecture, and annihilated the Dazhong Marine Division stationed in Funing. The area off the coast of Funing.

At the same time, Zheng Zhilong also mobilized troops from southern Fujian and reinforced them to Fuzhou fortification. As the backing of Zheng Hongkui's troops, on the one hand, he can reinforce Zheng Hongkui at any time. On the other hand, he also did a good job in case of failure, he took Zheng Hongkui to withdraw to Fuzhou.

In order to resist the invasion of Fujian by the Dazhong army, Zheng Zhilong used all his strength this time and almost used all the power available at hand to have a war with the Dazhong army.

However, just as Zheng Zhilong dispatched troops to restore Funing Prefecture, the Dazhong army, which had already spread to Fujian, immediately sent all kinds of news back to the Dazhong army.

This time, the Dazhong army went south to attack Fujian. Xiao Tianjian ordered Shi Ran to be the commander-in-chief, and Liu Yao was his deputy. After learning the news, Shi Ran immediately recruited Liu Yaoben to discuss countermeasures in Funingzhou.

For Zheng Jun on land, they are not worried, but for the marine division, Shi Ran is a little worried about Liu Jiang's marine division, because this time the number of warships dispatched by the Zheng army is very large and the strength is very strong, and the marine division under Liu Jiang's command can use boats, but only a few dozen, and the sailors are not as good as Zheng Jun. The sailor's pawn was familiar with the naval battle, so Shi Ran was worried that the sailor would suffer a big loss.

But Liu Jiang was full of confidence in this. He told Shi Ran that naval warfare is different from land warfare, and it is not necessarily that anyone who is strong can win. Moreover, there are many islands outside Funing. Although Zheng Jun has many sailors, as long as their naval division does not confront Zheng Jun head-on, Zheng Jun can do anything about them. If he is not be careless, he may be They took a big bite.

After hearing this, Shi Ran told Liu Jiang to act carefully and not to fight rashly. As long as he kept the bay, the Zheng army sailors would not land from the sea. Liu Jiang immediately agreed.

On the contrary, Shi Ran and Liu Yao didn't pay much attention to the 30,000 Zheng army's army soldiers from Fuzhou this time. In their opinion, it was a good opportunity for Zheng Jun to come this time. Although Xiao Tianjian allowed them to attack Fujian, he did not explicitly let them attack directly to the south of Fujian, but to consume Zheng Jun's strength. He forced Zheng Zhilong to finally choose to surrender to the Great Central Korea.

So how to hurt Zheng Zhilong is their primary consideration, so Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben analyzed the possible path of Zheng Jun's coming this time, and finally the two agreed that not only could Zheng Jun take back Funingzhou this time, but also find a way to eat it. Drop this Zheng army who came to attack Funing Prefecture.

Shi Ran personally sat in Funing Prefecture and gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to set up a defense along the way, while Liu Yaoben led more than 5,000 troops in four barracks and Tibetan soldiers in the mountains north of Luoyuan County.

Zheng Hongkui led his troops from Luoyuan County to Funing Prefecture. The resistance of the Dazhong army along the way was not strong, which made Zheng Hongkui think that the Dazhong army was nothing more than this, so the governor's army attacked Funing Prefecture all the way.

However, Zheng Hongkui did not expect that when he marched to the southern part of Funing Prefecture, Liu Yaoben led a part of the Dazhong army and suddenly came out from behind, cutting off his retreat and cutting off his grain road. Then Shi Ran led his army to attack Zheng's headquarters head-on, and Zheng Hongkui was immediately defeated.

Liu Yaoben immediately attacked Zheng Jun from behind, and Zheng Hongkui was even more unable to fight. As a result, most of the 30,000 Zheng troops surrendered to the Dazhong Army. Zheng Hongkui also saw no way to escape, so he had to lead his troops to surrender to Shi Ran, who was sent to Nanjing by Shi Ran.

At sea, Zheng Zhibao led the fleet to try to attack Funingzhou from the sea, but in the area of Haikou, it was first hit by more than a dozen 12-pound heavy artillery ambushed by Liu Jiang on the shore. Liu Jiang led the fleet from the side and raided the Zheng family's fleet. Although Liu Jiang did not gain an advantage because Zheng Zhibao timely dispatched the fleet to resist, but Seeing that the situation was not good, Zheng Zhibao did not dare to fight. He led the fleet to take the initiative to retreat and retreat to the sea. As a result, the Zheng family's water and land troops failed to take advantage of it.

Moreover, Liu Jiang sent someone to tell Zheng Zhibao that Zheng Hongkui's Zheng Jia Lushi had been annihilated north of Luoyuan County by the Dazhong Army. Zheng Zhibao knew that the lonely palm could not be heard, and Funing Prefecture could not be recaptured, so he had to lead the fleet to withdraw to Fuzhou and Quanzhou.

After Zheng Zhilong learned the news that Zheng Hongkui was defeated and captured, he was shocked and didn't know what to do for a while. At this time, Qian Qianyi came to the door again and found Zheng Zhilong...

Today, I am especially grateful for the reward of General Mao Mao's friends!)