With Xiao Tianjian's holy edict issued, the surrounding areas of Fujian, which had been quiet for several months, suddenly became lively, and the large and medium armies began to march one after another, and Shi Ran personally led an army of 20,000 to Xianxia Pass, the gateway of Fujian.

And the guard stationed in Xianxia Pass is Shi Fu, the general under the command of Zheng Zhilong, this Shi Fu probably does not know many people, but there is a person's name for later generations can be described as thunderous, this person is called Shi Lang, and Shi Fu is Shi Lang's uncle.

Shi Fu was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to lead 7,000 Zheng Army's land division soldiers and horses to guard the area of Xianxia Pass, but as the Dazhong Army gradually assembled in the north of Xianxia Pass, Shi Fu felt tremendous pressure, and in the past few months, Shi Fu also sent troops to have countless small-scale contact battles with the Dazhong Army, testing each other's strength.

But Shi Fu found that the Dazhong Army was very powerful, the artillery fire was fierce and the fire was extremely sharp, as long as they fought, their Zheng army had almost no chance of winning, and after a few months of small-scale contact battles, their Zheng army could be said to have been defeated repeatedly, and was compressed into Xianxia Pass by the Dazhong Army, and did not dare to leave Xianxia Pass an inch.

Shi Fu was frightened by the Dazhong Army, seeing that more and more Dazhong troops were assembled outside Xianxia Pass, Shi Fu never thought that he could block the Dazhong Army from attacking Fujian here, just at this time, someone from the Dazhong Army contacted Shi Fu and told Shi Fu that as long as he surrendered to Dazhongchao, Dazhongchao would never treat him badly, but let him continue to stay in the army and be a general.

Shi Fu was helpless, so he agreed to the persuasion of the Great Middle Dynasty, and when Shi Ran led the troops to attack Xianxia Pass, Shi Fu led his own soldiers to suddenly open the gate and announced that he would surrender Xianxia Pass to the Great Middle Dynasty.

As a result, Shi Ran did not spend much effort, he led the army to capture Xianxia Pass, and kicked open the gate of Fujian at once, making the northern caves of Fujian open under the front of the Dazhong Army.

Zheng Jun didn't expect the Dazhong Army to be so ferocious, and he didn't expect Shi Fu to suddenly surrender to the Dazhong Army, so the defenders of Funing Prefecture were not fully prepared at all, and they were beaten by Shi Ran's division, and in just ten days, Funing Prefecture was conquered by Shi Ran.

At the same time, Liu Yaoben also led the army to start in Guangxin Mansion, Jiangxi, sending troops to attack Jianning and Shaowu, and the Zheng army defenders resisted desperately, although Liu Yaoben did not easily invade these two provinces, but the Zheng army was also led by Liu Yaoben to fight heavy losses.

Liu Jiang personally led a mixed fleet to the coast of Wenzhou, and according to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, sent the centipede ships in his hands to start raiding along the coast of Fujian, and captured dozens of merchant ships of the Zheng family one after another, forcing the Zheng family to send sailors to patrol the coast of Fujian in an attempt to prevent the invasion of the naval division of the Dazhong Army.

Later, Liu Jiang personally led the fleet out of Wenzhou, and had several battles with the Zheng army's fleet at sea, but at this time, the Dazhong Army Navy could not fully suppress the Zheng family's naval division, after all, the Zheng family started by relying on the sea, and the generals had rich experience in naval warfare.

However, the actions of the navy still effectively restrained the power of the Zheng army, making it impossible to concentrate on confronting the Dazhong army on land.

Zheng Zhilong also began to get nervous at this time, the big Chinese army acted like this, it was clear that he didn't want to continue to negotiate with him, this posture was very much like he wanted to completely take down Fujian by force, so Zheng Zhilong hurriedly found Qian Qianyi, discussed with Qian Qianyi, and asked Qian Qianyi to persuade Xiao Tianjian to stop the military operation first, and the conditions of the two sides could be negotiated again.

But Qian Qianyi said that he couldn't do anything, he had already said what he should have said during this time, and he had already explained to Zheng Zhilong the bottom line of the Great Middle Kingdom, and it didn't make much sense 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 Dazhong and North Korea, for this kind of thing, everyone knows very well that it is impossible to reach an agreement by talking alone, only through the battlefield competition, the winner can obtain a greater advantage at the negotiation table, and the loser can only make concessions.

So after Zheng Zhilong made up his mind, a big battle immediately broke out between Zheng Jun and Dazhong Army in Fujian.

Although the Fujian naval division of the Zheng army is indeed powerful, but the Zheng family started on the sea, although the land division claims to have 200,000 troops, but this is just a number on paper.

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

Therefore, don't look at the strength of the Zheng Army's land division, but most of them are very poorly equipped, and some of them are not even equipped with weapons.

Since Xiao Tianjian conquered the city of Beijing and repelled Jiannu, the Dazhong Dynasty also began to integrate resources, reorganize the original army, dismantle the reduction, expand the expansion, and the supply of weapons is also smoother.

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

If it weren't for the very complicated terrain of Fujian Province and the many passes, with Liu Yaoben and Shi Ran's soldiers and horses, within two months, it would be enough to hit the territory of Quanzhou Mansion, the Zheng family's old nest.

But even so, it made Zheng Zhilong feel quite unbearable! I can't help but feel more surrendered.

Originally! The Zheng army has long known that the Zheng family is negotiating with Dazhongchao to surrender, in such a situation, who is willing to sell their strength to fight with Dazhongjun? Therefore, various reasons contributed to the repeated defeats of the Zheng army on the battlefield, and a large number of the newly formed Zheng army surrendered to the Dazhong Army one after another, and some of them were Zheng Zhilong's old subordinates.

Even the Dazhong Navy was very active at sea during this time, and actually dispatched a large number of ships to cooperate with the Dazhong Army Land Division, and suddenly carried a group of Dazhong Army to land on the beach in early April and raided Funing Prefecture, so that the Zheng Army defenders were defenseless at all, and lost Funing Prefecture in a short time, and also made the Dazhong Army get a port in Fujian, and then a large number of ships of the Dazhong Army Navy Division were stationed at the mouth of the Baima River in Funing Prefecture, and set up a battery near Haikou to firmly control the sea surface in this area. At the same time, the security of Fuzhou was seriously threatened from the sea.

The loss of Funing Prefecture means that the door of Fujian is open, and the land army can march towards Fuzhou from several roads, and Fuzhou can easily attack Fuzhou by sea.

Once Fuzhou is lost, Quanzhou will not be guaranteed, once Quanzhou is not guaranteed, then their Zheng family will no longer have a foothold in Fujian, once that time comes, he will have no room for bargaining with the Great Middle and North Korea.

In a panic, Zheng Zhilong sent his younger brother Zheng Hongkui to lead 30,000 troops out of Fuzhou to attack Funing Prefecture, and at the same time sent his other fifth brother Zheng Zhibao to lead a total of more than 200 boats and ships to attack Funing Prefecture from the waterway, trying to recapture Funing Prefecture by land and water, and easily annihilated the Dazhong Maritime Division stationed in Funing in the area off the coast of Funing.

At the same time, Zheng Zhilong mobilized troops from southern Fujian and reinforced them to fortify Fuzhou, as the backing of Zheng Hongkui's department, on the one hand, he could reinforce Zheng Hongkui at any time, and on the other hand, he was also prepared to respond to Zheng Hongkui's withdrawal to Fuzhou in case the army did not go well.

In order to resist the invasion of Fujian by the Dazhong Army, this time Zheng Zhilong can be said to have exhausted all his strength, using almost all the forces at hand to have a big battle with the Dazhong Army.

But just when Zheng Zhilong was about to recover Funing Prefecture, the detailed workers of the Dazhong Army, which had already been densely dispersed in Fujian, immediately transmitted all kinds of news back to the front of the Dazhong Army.

This time, the Great Chinese Army went south to attack Fujian, Xiao Tianjian ordered Shi Ran to be the commander, and Liu Yaoben as his deputy.

For Zheng Jun on land, they were not worried, but for the naval division, Shi Ran was a little worried about Liu Jiang's naval division, because this time Zheng Jun dispatched a large number of warships and their strength was very strong, and the naval division under Liu Jiang's command could only use boats, but there were only a few dozen, and the sailors were not as familiar with naval warfare as the sailors of Zheng Jun's naval division, so Shi Ran was worried that the naval division 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 who is strong to win, and there are many islands off the coast of Funing, don't look at the number of ships in the Zheng army, but as long as their naval division does not confront Zheng Jun head-on, Zheng Jun has no way to take them, and they may be bitten by them if they are not careful.

After Shi Ran heard this, he instructed Liu Jiang to be careful, not to rush into battle, as long as he held the bay and did not let Zheng Jun's naval division land from the sea, Liu Jiang immediately agreed.

However, for the 30,000 Zheng army land division that came from Fuzhou this time, Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben didn't pay much attention to it, they thought that this time the Zheng army came to be a good opportunity, although Xiao Tianjian allowed them to attack Fujian, but did not explicitly let them attack directly towards southern Fujian, but to consume the strength of the Zheng army, forcing Zheng Zhilong to finally choose to surrender to the Great Middle Kingdom.

So how to hurt Zheng Zhilong was their primary consideration, so after Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben analyzed the path that Zheng Jun might take this time, the two finally agreed that not only could Zheng Jun not take back Funing Prefecture this time, but also had to find a way to eat the Zheng army that came to attack Funing Prefecture.

Shi Ran personally sat in Funing Prefecture and gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to fortify along the way, while Liu Yaoben led more than 5,000 troops from four war battalions and hid troops in the mountains north of Luoyuan County.

Zheng Hongkui led his troops from Luoyuan County to Funing Prefecture, and 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 that, so the overseers attacked all the way to Funing Prefecture.

But Zheng Hongkui did not expect that when he marched to the south of Funing Prefecture, Liu Yaoben led a section of the Dazhong Army to suddenly kill from behind, cutting off his retreat and cutting off his food route, and then Shi Ran led the army to attack Zheng Jun's headquarters head-on, and Zheng Hongkui was immediately defeated.

Liu Yaoben immediately attacked the Zheng army from behind, Zheng Hongkui was even more powerless to parry, as a result, most of the 30,000 Zheng troops surrendered to the Dazhong army, Zheng Hongkui also saw that there was no way to escape, so he had to lead his troops to surrender to Shi Ran, and Shi Ran sent people to send them to Nanjing.

At sea, Zheng Zhibao led the fleet to try to attack Funing Prefecture from the sea, but in the Haikou area, it was first hit by more than a dozen twelve-pounder heavy guns ambushed by Liu Jiang on the shore, Liu Jiang led the fleet to kill from the side and raided the Zheng family's fleet, although because Zheng Zhibao dispatched the fleet to resist in time, so that Liu Jiang did not gain an advantage, but Zheng Zhibao saw that the situation was not good, and did not dare to fight, and led the fleet to retreat and retreat to the sea, as a result, the Zheng family soldiers and horses on land and water failed to bargain.

Moreover, Liu Jiang sent someone to inform Zheng Zhibao that Zheng Hongkui's Zheng family Lu Division had been annihilated by the Dazhong Army in the north of Luoyuan County.

After Zheng Zhilong learned the news that Zheng Hongkui was defeated and captured, he was so shocked that his hands and feet were numb, and he didn't know what to do for a while, and at this time, Qian Qianyi came to the door again to find Zheng Zhilong......

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