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Chapter 694
Zhu Yousong still advances by land and water, attacking Tang Wang Zhu Yujian in three ways. The specific strategies he adopted are still suppressed and used. Tang Wang now calls himself Emperor Longwu, worships Zheng Zhilong as the first assistant of the cabinet, adds the prince Taibao and Minister of the Ministry of War, and worships Huang Zongxi Longtu Pavilion The second assistant of the cabinet of the university scholar, plus the prince Shaobao, Zhu Yujian who is here now counts on these two bastards.

Zhu Yousong asked Zhang Xianzhong to lead an army of [-] to go around Ganzhou, and then went south to Fuzhou. The generals who followed the army were basically the same as before, including Li Dingguo, Zu Keyong and Ma Bao, and Liu Wenxiu was transferred out to serve as the leader of the army. The deputy commander of the division followed Zhu Yousong to the expedition.Since Mu Tianbo was not there, Zhu Yousong assigned General Ma Wannian and Lu Xiao to Zhang Xianzhong's command.

Li Zicheng was still in the same team, and he was also asked to command [-] troops to go to Meizhou, cross Longyan, and capture Quanzhou.
The third group of troops, led by Zhu Yousong himself, walked along the coast, targeting Zhangzhou and Xiamen. Only by capturing these two places can they take Jinmen Island and save Zheng Hongkui's uncle and nephew.There are a total of 11 people in his group including the imperial battalion, including 6 sailors, and [-] soldiers on the shore.

Zhu Yousong knew that this was a tough battle, and the key was water warfare. Zheng Zhilong, the great pirate leader, had lived along the coast of Fujian for many years. Fufu has a group of iron buddies under him, all of them are pirates. They have defeated Portugal and the Netherlands many times in the sea, so Zhu Yousong dare not underestimate this strong opponent. Reasons for fighting.

In addition, considering that the two teams of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did not have water battles, Zhu Yousong transferred Liu Wenxiu, who was familiar with water battles, from Zhang Xianzhong. Swimming in the water is like walking on flat ground, and his martial arts skills on shore are also good. He is brave and resourceful in commanding operations. He used to be the commander of Zhang Xianzhong's navy.

Therefore, Zhu Yousong transferred him to serve as He Zhaoxiong's deputy general. His specific position in the navy was the commander of the navy, and He Zhaoxiong, the iron-armed flower dragon, was still the commander of the navy.

Zhu Yousong's navy developed rapidly.In recent years, when Zhu Yousong drove the Tartars in the north and crusade against Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the west, there were not many water battles. There were only a few water battles in the Yangtze River Basin and the Huanghuai River Basin. The navy commanded by He Zhaoxiong played an important role. During the days of the war, He Zhaoxiong was not idle either. According to Zhu Yousong's deployment, he recruited good and talented sailors and stepped up the training of the navy. After two years of savings and development, Zhu Yousong's navy is now very strong and has Fifty thousand elite soldiers.

In addition to Liu Wenxiu as Wu's deputy general, Zhu Yousong also temporarily assigned Li Quan and Liu Chunhong to the naval battalion. Li Quan was a member of the Zheng family army. Needless to say, his wife Liu Chunhong is from the Green Willow Villa, and was taught by the iron-armed Canglong He Zhaoxiong and the chivalrous girl He Xuanjiao. Before following Zhu Yousong, Liu Chunhong was He Xuanjiao's personal maid. Li Quan is also in the army with the position of a thousand households.In this way, the navy battalion has four generals who can fight both on land and in water. As for sailors, diving experts, gunners, and archers, there are more. It can be said that there are many talents.

The navy battalion transferred 24 large and small warships this time, including troop carriers, grain carriers, gunboats and other warships.If there is a water battle, of course it all depends on the gunboats. The transferred naval battalion now has more than [-] gunboats of various types. These gunboats are well-equipped. The large gunboats are equipped with [-] artillery pieces. For the Qianjin Francophones with a shorter range, the medium-sized gunboat is equipped with sixteen guns of various types, and the small gunboat is equipped with eight guns of various types.

These more than 1000 warships were not all built by Zhu Yousong by cutting wood. He only built a small part, most of which were spoils of war. Most of them were captured by Zuo Liangyu, and some were by Zhang Xianzhong. After repairing, All of them were used by Zhu Yousong.

In addition to the strength of the naval battalion, the strength of the army on the shore is not weak. Although there are only 6 people, there are [-] imperial cavalry. This is Zhu Yousong's only ace division, and he has repeatedly made military exploits.In addition, there is an engineering battalion that has been unloaded, responsible for engineering and blasting tasks. Although the blasting battalion has only a few hundred people, it has made outstanding contributions in capturing the strong city of Jiujiang and other cities, and its prestige is pardoned.

There are also fifty red cannons in the five thousand artillery battalion.Zhu Yousong's artillery battalion is not the same as before, the number has reached [-]. This time, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were assigned an artillery team each, and Zhu Yousong left half of the firepower.The other is cavalry and infantry.

The 6 troops are in charge of Liu Zhaoji, Shangshu of the Ministry of War. The generals who follow the army mainly include Fang Dongxu, who was born as a Jinshi, Li Zhushi, Zhang Nai and Shuangxi, the commander of the artillery battalion, Gao Guiying, Huiying, Huimei, Ma Jinhua and He Xuanjiao, and Xiaoliu. Wait, but Zhang Nai, Shuangxi and these female generals are mainly in charge of the imperial camp. Except for Xiao Liu who is Zhu Yousong's imperial boy, the three concubines not only have military missions, but also have to sleep with Zhu Yousong at night.

Now there is no need for Zhu Yousong to send a special grain and grass officer for the food and grass of the three-way army. The food, grass and military salary mainly come from two directions, one is the preparation of the capital, and the other is Du Yinxi, the minister of the Ministry of War in Sichuan. Some of them were also recruited to be transported to the former enemy. After these grain and grass supplies were transported, Zhu Yousong handed them over to the governors of the three provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi to be responsible for the specific receiving, storage, and secondary distribution.

After everything was ready, the three-way army with a total of 31 people set off in three directions.

Zhu Yousong's 11 horses were divided into water and land routes. The water route departed from Chaozhou and went to the sea, and the land route also departed from Chaozhou and went straight to Zhangzhou.

The three-way army is specifically the four-way army. These four groups of people collect information through military spies, Jin Yiwei, and factory fans, pass information to each other, and report to Zhu Yousong in time, so that he can grasp the situation of other groups in a timely manner. The battle situation of the Ministry of War.

Zhu Yousong's land troops, Liu Zhaoji, Minister of the Ministry of War, became his pioneer. He led an army of [-] to open the way, followed by Zhu Yousong's [-] imperial battalion. Sending them off in a row, they left Chaozhou mighty and mightily.

For such a big move by the Ming army, Emperor Hongguang personally led the troops to go out, and only mobilized troops and horses in Chaozhou and prepared various preparations such as food and payment for a month. Therefore, Emperor Longwu, who used Fuzhou as his capital, had to report it long ago.He sent an order to Zheng Zhilong to divide his troops to resist the enemy, but their troops are very limited now, even the navy plus only 6 to [-] horses, it is difficult to meet the enemy in three or four lines, so they can only concentrate their forces to divide up the fortress and prepare to fight the sea If it doesn't work, they plan to retreat to the island.

Therefore, some ordinary prefectures and counties were basically unguarded, or the military strength was weak. It seemed that the Ming army was overwhelming, and many places fled on the lookout.

Liu Zhaoji commanded the men and horses to conquer Raoping, Yunxiao, Zhangpu, Pinghe and other counties, and the army approached the city of Zhangzhou.

At the same time, the [-] navy sailed unimpeded all the way, entered Shatang Bay, occupied Pisces Island, and faced Xiamen across the sea, but Zhu Yujian's heavy troops were stationed in Zhangzhou and Xiamen.

(End of this chapter)