Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 460

Zheng Zhilong established the Great Southern Empire and proclaimed himself emperor brazenly. He lived a luxurious life in the palace. Zheng Damu was imprisoned instead of admonishing him. This disappointed Li Dingguo. He left without saying goodbye without staying in Nan'an for two days.

This is definitely contempt for Zheng Zhilong, the new emperor, or he does not recognize it. Now that Li Dingguo has surrendered to Zheng Zhilong, he is his minister. If a minister dares to do this to the king, it is tantamount to rebellion.

Li Dingguo's move is also the strongest form of protest. The reason why he surrendered to Zheng Zhilong was to unite him to fight against the enemy. Now that Zheng Zhilong has become the emperor, Li Dingguo is of course unwilling to serve him. His army is still the Daxi Army, the emperor in his eyes Only his godfather, Zhang Xianzhong, and no other person.

Zheng Zhibao is the fifth younger brother of Zheng Zhilong, and now he is also a prince, and also the secretary of the military department of Emperor Danan.Like Zheng Damu, he had studied in the Imperial Academy of Daming. He was a rare cultural person in the Zheng family, and he obeyed Zheng Zhilong, unlike Zheng Damu who always choked with Zheng Zhilong.

Zhizhibao is also a member of Shibazhi, a versatile man in both civil and military affairs. He fought the world with his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong. In history, Nanming also named him the prince and grand master.Later, together with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Zhiwan, they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Now because of Ji Dong's time travel, the trajectory of his life has also been changed.He and Zheng Zhilong are siblings, the eldest brother proclaims himself emperor, the brothers must support him.

Zheng Zhibao came in now, and gave the eldest brother a royal gift, "Your Majesty, do you want to send an army to hunt down and kill Li Dingguo? This thief is too rude to leave without authorization. It is obvious that he has a disobedient heart. It is really a shame." It should be killed!"

Zheng Zhilong is now wearing a dragon robe, sitting in the dragon chair and sleeping on the dragon couch in the sixth courtyard of the Sangong, full of airs as an emperor.

Zheng Zhilong mentioned that Li Dingguo gritted his teeth. Of course he knew what Li Dingguo's departure meant, so he calmly said: "Let him go. Li Dingguo is brave, but Ming won't tolerate him. Besides, his main force is far away in Guangdong, so don't worry about him. Of course someone will take care of him in the future, as long as they don't come to attack us, we don't have to worry about him, right now our Great Southern Empire is concentrating on dealing with Da Ming."

"Your Majesty is wise. Shi Lang was defeated and surrendered to Ming Dynasty. Tens of thousands of naval forces were wiped out. The north lost a large area of ​​land. The Ming army is aggressive. How does Your Majesty plan to deal with it?"

"I have my own strategy." Zheng Zhilong curled his lips, "The Netherlands, Portugal, and Japan all support our Great Southern Empire. When the time comes, let the Ming army repay it twice!"

"Your Majesty is as blessed as the heavens, and the Great Southern Empire will last forever. My brother will retire." Zheng Zhibao bowed and withdrew as he spoke.

With the support of these three countries, Zheng Zhilong and the others are of course confident.

This time when Li Dingguo went to Nan'an, Fujian, the main force did not enter Fujian at all. This is because he deliberately defended himself. If Zheng Zhilong wanted to punish him after his defeat, he must take into account his tens of thousands of troops in Guangdong. Li Dingguo and Zheng Damu entered University together. Fujian, the capital of the Southern Empire, was prescient.

He and Zheng Damu were ordered to visit Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, but they only brought several hundred cavalry guards including general Wang Fuchen. His tens of thousands of horses are still in Guangdong. This team is the main force of the Daxi Army, and now it is the only team in Daxi. Before leaving, he handed over the team to his confidant Liu Wenxiu, who is also his fourth brother, to take care of it.

He also made a great determination to part ways with Zheng Zhilong this time. He made all contingency preparations, fully armed and led hundreds of cavalry guards to leave the camp in the middle of the night. Zheng Zhilong in Fujian did not send troops to chase him down, so he was relieved.

Hundreds of iron cavalry galloped thousands of miles like a whirlwind, and arrived in Zhaoqing, Guangdong smoothly after a few days. His generals Liu Wenxiu, Wang Ziqi, and military adviser Wang Zhaolin came out to meet him.

Li Dingguo has been back and forth for nearly a month, and the journey is full of dust. Li Dingguo has come back and these generals of the Great Western Army have a backbone.

Because now a Ming army headed by Gao Guiying and Li Yan has reached Gaozhou, which is the Maomingshi area of ​​Guangdong Province in later generations, only a few hundred miles away from them.Of course Liu Wenxiu knew that Mu Tianbo and Song Xiance were difficult to deal with, Gao Guiying and Li Yan were even more difficult to deal with, they were old rivals.

After returning to the tent, he sat down and drank a few sips of tea. When Li Dingguo settled down, Liu Wenxiu couldn't wait to ask Li Dingguo: "Second Brother, did King Zheng ever convict you when you came to Beijing this time?"

Li Dingguo sighed and shook his head, Liu Wenxiu felt that Zheng Zhilong didn't blame them for losing their cities and lands, which was a good thing, but Li Dingguo was worried?
"Third brother, how is the battle here?" Li Dingguo said.The fact that they are brothers is still based on Zhang Xianzhong's godson.Now their elder brother, Sun Kewang, is dead in name only, and the fourth son, Ainengqi, is also dead. The four kings of the Daxi Army are now left with the two brothers, but the flag of Daxi is still standing. They still dream of revitalizing Daxi one day and rescue them His father, Emperor Zhang Xianzhong.

"Second brother is very bad. Mu Tianbo and Song Xiance in the north have captured Hengyang, joined forces with soldiers and horses from the south Zhili, and began to attack Ji'an eastward. The Daming Navy in the Yangtze River Basin defeated the southern army leader Shi Lang. It is said that the masters of the Shi family have come to the Ming Dynasty, and they are advancing eastward and southward. In the south, Gao Guiying and Li Yan soldiers entered Gaozhou, and the southern army was losing battles. We are now in the gap between the two Ming armies. If this continues, the situation will be very difficult for us Too bad. Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, we dare not act rashly, so we will wait for the second brother to come back."

After listening to Liu Wenxiu's words, Li Dingguo nodded and did not speak.

"Second brother, what instructions does King Zheng have for this trip to Nan'an? Did Zheng Damu stay in Beijing and not come back?"

"Hey, don't mention it..." Li Dingguo told about Zheng Zhilong's proclaiming himself emperor and leaving Beijing without authorization.

Liu Wenxiu looked stunned, "I've seen it for a long time, Zheng Zhilong is also an ambitious man, since that's the case, the second brother is doing the right thing, our Great Western Army can't be their Great Southern Army, he's going his own way, we Cross our single-plank bridge. It's just the second brother, where should we go now?"

Together with Zheng Damu's soldiers and horses, they only have more than 5 soldiers, but now that Li Dingguo and Zheng Zhilong have parted ways, Zheng Damu's general Zeng De will never listen to him, and Li Dingguo can command only 4 Daxi Army.

At this time, Wang Zhaolin, a think-tank, called Li Dingguo's attention. Since we had a falling out with Zheng Zhilong, we had 4 troops, while Zheng Damu's general Zeng De was stationed in Tanghe with only [-] people. We could eat them all in one fell swoop. Now we only have one in Zhaoqing. up.

Li Dingguo shook his head, "Although we fell out, Zheng Zhilong hasn't killed them all, otherwise I, Li Dingguo, wouldn't have left Nan'an so smoothly. I'm sorry for Zheng Damu who killed Zeng De. This person is very loyal and will make the world laugh. , Said that I, Li Dingguo, was ungrateful towards Qin Muchu. Also, if we go to war with Zeng De, both the Ming army and the Southern army will attack us."

"General, what shall we do now?"

Li Dingguo sighed, the world is so big, is there no place for me, Li Dingguo?

Liu Wenxiu said: "Second brother, Zhaoqing is a small place, there is no danger to defend, why don't we take the initiative to attack Gaozhou, and fight another battle with that bitch Gao Guiying, if I don't attack them, they will definitely come to attack us, take the initiative to attack, It is better to strike first. If Gaozhou is captured, we can use it as a base to train sailors."

Just as Li Dingguo was about to nod his head, at this moment, someone suddenly reported that a Portuguese team was found passing by outside the city.

"Portuguese? Damn, these bastards came here across the ocean, and their hands are long enough." Li Dingguo cursed.

"Second brother, do you want to be them?" Liu Wenxiu asked.

"No, send someone to follow them."...

A few days later, the sent people returned.Li Dingguo ordered someone to bring a map and looked happy, "Macao is really a good place, this is prepared for us by God!" Li Dingguo immediately changed his mind, no longer attacked the Ming army in Gaozhou, and decided to attack Macao, and took these Portuguese colonists away. drive away.

Wang Zhaolin said worryingly: "General, Macau is easy to defend and difficult to attack. With this as a base, you can go to the sea if you retreat, and you can occupy Guangdong if you advance. It is indeed a treasure land of geomantic omen. This is a good idea, but it has been occupied by Maozi all year round. , It is said that they also have an agreement with the Ming court, this is their leased land, Portugal is a maritime power, can we succeed with this little force?"

"Sir, no matter how powerful the country is at sea, he is beyond his reach. We can take over their bastards with a single effort, and I will take care of the sea battle!" Liu Wenxiu's chest slapped loudly.

Li Dingguo nodded, knowing that Liu Wenxiu was good at fighting in water, and his ability in water was also great, he was like walking on flat ground in the great river and sea.

"Third brother is sure to be safe, but our navy is weak and there are not many ships."

Liu Wenxiu pointed to the map and said, "Second brother, it's too late to train the navy to build ships, but you see that Macau is a peninsula, and now we and Zheng Zhilong have just broken up, these Maos may not know it, Zheng Zhilong and Maozi are close, he must be good to us Not being prepared for it, we took their island by surprise, and slaughtered them all, and they had a lot of warships, which were much more advanced than ours."

"Third brother is really smart and smart, it's up to you." Li Dingguo immediately made a decision.

A few days later, [-] Western troops left Zhaoqing, and the banners were falsely concealed in the city to hide people's eyes and ears. Li Dingguo's troops traveled by day and night, and went south from Zhaoqing to Macao.The journey of four to five hundred miles took me a few days. When I arrived in Jiangmen, the Portuguese colonists discovered this army. At that time, Jiangmen was just a market town, far less prosperous than the prefecture-level later generations, but these colonists were also active in the market town. , and have their armies and merchants haunted.

It's just that these colonists didn't think much about it, because Li Dingguo was still playing the banner of the Southern Army in order to confuse the enemy. They knew that the Southern Army was fighting the Ming Army, and they thought it was the Southern Army's plan to launch an operation against the Ming Army.

But then, Li Dingguo's 4 troops suddenly occupied Xiangshan, that is, the area around Zhongshan City in later generations. It was still a county seat in Ming Dynasty. Zhishui headed towards Macau, killing everyone they saw. Of course, these colonists were also armed and wanted to resist stubbornly, but they didn't fire a few shots before Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu came in with a large army.

Li Dingguo's Fang Tian painted a halberd, Liu Wenxiu, Wang Fuchen, and Wang Ziqi were all brave and good fighters. How could these bastards be opponents, so a single charge killed these colonists. Countless, the rest scattered and fled, some ran to the ship to escape, and some jumped into the sea to escape, and finally sank to the bottom of the sea.

Just like that, in less than half a day, Li Dingguo's men occupied Macau, and they managed it with only a few hundred casualties. They wiped out more than two thousand colonial troops, and captured more than a dozen Portuguese warships. Drive these colonists away.

Li Dingguo and Liu Wentou were overjoyed, and rectified their troops, thinking that it was all right to settle down in Macau, but within a few days, a large number of Portuguese fleets arrived, with hundreds of ships. In addition, Zheng Zhilong’s Southern Army in Guangdong included Zeng Debu and other tens of thousands of troops came from Zhaoqing and Nanhai (that is, the area around Foshan City, Guangdong Province in later generations) and other places.

Li Dingguo was under the enemy's front and back, and the situation was quite critical.They didn't know that when Li Dingguo attacked Macau, the Portuguese Edward was not on the island. He took the fleet to Nan'an to meet Zheng Zhilong. Surprised, then furious, Edward returned immediately. The second time he saw Zheng Zhilong strongly protested, and even threatened that Portugal would go to war with his Great Southern Emperor.

Zheng Zhilong was afraid, and immediately surrendered to Edward, explaining again and again that it was a misunderstanding, Li Dingguo had parted ways with them a long time ago, and the matter of Li Dingguo had nothing to do with them, but anyway they fought under the banner of the Southern Army, as the leader of the Great Southern Emperor. Your Majesty, he, Zheng Zhilong, can't just sit idly by and must send troops to destroy it.

Only then did Edward leave satisfied, and while reporting to the Portuguese king in Europe, he rushed towards Macao Island with more than 300 warships and 5000 troops...

Up to now, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu can only divide their troops to resist the enemy. Now their [-] army is mostly infantry, and there are several thousand cavalry, which means that almost all of them are troops on the shore. There are only more than a thousand people, which is too small to form an army.

But no matter how small the navy was, Li Dingguo knew that the Portuguese fleet was strong, so he gave him 2 troops, and also gave him the general Wang Ziqi, who he could call at will.Then Li Dingguo led Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhaolin to lead an army of [-] to the north to deal with Zheng Zhilong's southern army.

Because he had already inquired clearly, the Southern Army had a total of 1 troops this time, and the troops were divided into two groups to copy his back. , the fourth younger brother of Zheng Zhilong, formerly named Zheng Zhifeng, one of the Eighteen Zhi in those days.Now he was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to lead an army of [-] troops out of Guangzhou to fight for Macao, and the front of the troops has already reached Nanhai County.

The strength of these two teams is not trivial, so Li Dingguo was not allowed to play in person.

Liu Wenxiu was short of sailors. In addition to more than 5000 sailors, [-] were selected from the [-] troops to serve as sailors. A dozen Portuguese warships.

The remaining more than 1 people were handed over to General Wang Ziqi, who was asked to set up fort defenses on the shore.

Soon the fleet of the Portuguese colonists came from Hong Kong, and more than 300 warships filled Zhuhai Bay. Liu Wenxiu boarded the ship to meet the enemy in person.

(End of this chapter)