As September began, the rainy season in the south began to end, and the military operations of the Great Chinese Army in the south began to start again.

During these three months, under the auspices of the military headquarters and with the support of the various departments, after the end of the autumn harvest, the problem of food for the large-scale use of troops was also solved, and the southern armies all accumulated sufficient war materials, and during the three-month recuperation period, all the armies continued to strengthen their drills, and by September, the armies were basically able to be called strong and strong, and all preparations for military attacks were made.

At the request of the Ministry of War, Xiao Tianjian agreed to the southern battle plan in the winter of the second year of Tianyuan, and on the 10th day of the first month of September, the southern armies launched an all-out attack on the Zheng army and the Yongli Dynasty.

Shi Ran, Liu Yaoben, and Luo Rucai, the main generals, after getting the consent of the holy oracle, all began to act on the tenth day of the ninth month.

Shi Ran launched an offensive against Fuzhou Fu from Funing Prefecture by land with 20,000 elite troops, while Liu Yaoben supervised more than 20,000 troops and launched an offensive towards Yanping Mansion from Jianning Mansion and Shaowu Mansion.

Luo Rucai gathered 30,000 troops to Shaozhou Mansion as the starting point, directly pounced on Guangzhou Mansion, and at the same time took a small-scale attack and harassment operation in the area of Guilin Mansion to contain the Ming army of the Yongli Dynasty in Guangxi to rescue Guangdong.

As for the naval division, Liu Jiang was not idle, in the past few months, the two major shipyards in Ningbo and Nanjing are making every effort to build all kinds of warships for the maritime division, once as a state machine started, the shipbuilding capacity of the Great Middle and North Korea began to grow by leaps and bounds, with a large number of scattered shipbuilding craftsmen were re-recruited and organized, coupled with the fact that the Great Middle and North Korea did not deduct the wages of the craftsmen, so that these craftsmen regained a place to live and settle down, and suddenly let these craftsmen glow with great enthusiasm for work.

Therefore, once the two shipyards began to build ships, the craftsmen recovered their skills very quickly, and even some of the lost crafts were rediscovered by them, plus a large number of displaced people who were displaced by famine and war were also recruited and sent to the two shipyards as apprentices, and within a short period of time, the two shipyards formed a large shipbuilding group of more than several thousand people, and almost every day there were warships launched and delivered to the sea masters.

In addition, the European shipbuilders brought by the missionaries also took up their posts at these two shipbuilding bases, and a new shipyard in Dengzhou also began to work, and in September, the shipyards in Nanjing and Ningbo each built a two-masted clipper with a displacement of about 150 tons and 100 tons, and delivered it to the naval division as a naval training ship, and at the same time, two three-masted Clark sailing ships with a displacement of about 300 tons were also built, which were about to be launched and delivered.

If nothing else, soon these European shipbuilders will continue to invest in the construction of improved Galion sailing ships, and if everything goes well, in the next few years, as long as the problem of the Zheng family pirate group is solved, the Nanyang shipping lanes can be opened, and the problem of wood used in shipbuilding can be fundamentally solved, and the major shipyards of the Great China and North Korea will continue to build ships with larger tonnage, so that it will not be long before the warships of the Great China and North Korea will soon be able to catch up with the sailing ships of Western countries in terms of quality.

Therefore, the strength of the sea division has expanded very quickly in the past few months, and the manpower has also been guaranteed to a certain extent with the annexation of a large number of pirates.

The most important thing is that these large Western-style sailing ships solved the problem of loading heavy artillery on the warships of the Dazhong-DPRK Naval Division, and greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Dazhong-DPRK Naval Division.

In the past, the warships of the Dazhong and Korean naval divisions could not withstand heavy artillery, and could only be loaded with some honest artillery, and there was no advantage in firepower over the Zheng Junshui Division, but in the past few months, in addition to building new ships, the shipyards of the two places have also strengthened the old warships so that they can be loaded with new guns, and the two training ships are equipped with fourteen twenty-two-pounder short-barreled guns and four twenty-four-pounder long-barreled cannons, and more than seven guns can be fired at the left and right sides at the same time, and there are two cannons in the bow and stern respectively. The power has far surpassed that of the Fu Ship and the Haicang Ship used by the Great Chinese Army before.

Even some of the newly built ships in the naval division have strengthened their ribs to carry new types of artillery, which has also improved their combat effectiveness, so that the combat strength of the naval division has been greatly improved in the past few months.

Although these ships were built in a hurry, they had to apply some undried wood, which greatly affected the service life of these new ships, making it possible for them to be scrapped in two years due to the deformation and cracking of the hull wood, but at present, as an expedient measure, Xiao Tianjian still specially approved the construction of these temporary warships to meet the use of the sea division.

Those sailors from Europe, after entering the Navy Martial Arts Hall, Xiao Tianjian ordered them to be paid a high salary, and these European sailors did not cherish their brooms, and took out their housekeeping skills, and passed on their knowledge of the experience of sailing and maneuvering to the students of the Navy Lecture Hall.

Especially when the two brigs as training ships were delivered to the Navy Lecture Hall, they were even more powerful, the Dutch down-and-out captain Schumann who liked to drink, after getting Xiao Tianjian's appointment, also cheered up, although the wine was not completely quit, but still reduced the amount of drinking, with those European sailors, personally boarded the ship to take the cadets of the Dazhong-North Korean Navy Lecture Hall to the sea for training, after a month of high-intensity training, although these cadets are not proficient in the operation of these Western-style sailing ships, But it was already possible to sail these two sailboats.

After September, these two training ships were also ordered to go south to Wenzhou, temporarily incorporated into the naval fleet, as the navy's assault force, even these European instructors, under the high reward, decided to go out with the ship, to help the large Chinese navy to operate the two training ships, and lead these cadets to participate in the next operation.

Therefore, after the 10th day of September, a fleet of more than 200 warships of various types sailed out to sea in Wenzhou Port, and directly took advantage of the north wind on the sea surface to go southward and pounce on the sea off Fuzhou.

On the day of 19 September, the armies of the Dazhong Army on land and sea launched a fierce attack on the Zheng army in Fuzhou, and although the Zheng army had already anticipated the arrival of this day, it also made relatively sufficient preparations, and arranged a considerable number of troops and ships on land and at sea in an attempt to confront the Dazhong army again.

Although in the past few months, Zheng Zhilong has been negotiating with Dazhong and North Korea about surrender, but in the end the question is stuck on whether the Zheng family can retain the strength of the naval division, the Zheng family has always insisted that after surrendering to the Great Chinese Dynasty, they will continue to be in charge of their naval division, but the Great Chinese Dynasty insists that the Zheng family cannot retain the strength of the naval division, only their merchant fleet, and the Zheng family's naval army must be incorporated into the navy of the Great Chinese and Korean Dynasty and re-organized, which caused a deadlock in the negotiations between the two sides, and the result was that the negotiations could not reach an agreement for a long time.

At the end of September, the war in Fujian was in full swing, and several men and horses of the Dazhong Army, led by Shi Ran and Liu Yaoben, launched separate attacks on Fuzhou and Yanping.

Although the Zheng family's strength on land still has nearly 100,000 horses at this time, the combat effectiveness of the Zheng army's land division is simply unable to confront the Dazhong army, even if they take the defensive position of defending the city, but in the face of the attack of the Dazhong army equipped with a large number of new large-caliber cannons, the cities controlled by the Zheng army are still quickly conquered by the Dazhong army, and a large number of Zheng troops are either annihilated by the Dazhong army on the spot, or they can only flee in the desert.

As a result, after a month, Shi Ran led the army to attack Fuzhou City and surrounded Fuzhou City, and at the same time, Liu Yao's headquarters on the other side also successfully captured Yanping Mansion, and the soldiers pointed directly at the area of Quanzhou Mansion, the Zheng family's old nest.

At the same time, the strength of the large Chinese army navy, also at sea and Zheng Jun naval division in the Fuzhou sea launched a big battle, this battle Liu Jiang divided the fleet under his command into two groups, he will be slower and a large number of Fu ships, sea ships, winter ships together, as the main force, in the Fuzhou sea to contain the Zheng family navy, and he adopted the Dutch captain Schumann suggestion, the two training ships and those centipede ships into a sub-fleet, first arranged in the distance to standby.

Just after the main force of the Zheng Army's naval division and the main force of the Dazhong Army's naval division fought, both sides tried their best to defeat each other, and for a while when no one had a way to take whom, Schumann after getting the signal, he led the detachment to suddenly enter the battlefield, relying on the advantage of the detachment's fast speed and fierce artillery, it suddenly disrupted the layout of the Zheng family's naval division, Zheng Jun was caught off guard, and was attacked by the naval division of the Dazhong Army inside and outside, and suffered a big defeat in the sea off Fuzhou, the coach Zheng Zhibao saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately ordered a retreat, As a result, he was chased and killed by the Navy of the Great Chinese Army, and lost dozens of warships.

After this battle, the naval division of the Dazhong Army was completely majestic, and for the first time it won a big victory at sea, which undoubtedly announced that the Dazhong Navy already has considerable naval combat capabilities, at least it is not so afraid of the Zheng family's naval forces.

And in this battle, Zheng Jun was shocked to find that among the naval divisions of the large and Chinese army, there were Westerners' plywood boats, although these two plywood boats were not too big, but they were really Western-only plywood boats, and the artillery equipped on them greatly exceeded the Guangzhou ships and Fu boats used by Zheng Jun's naval divisions, which undoubtedly dealt a great psychological blow to Zheng Jun (in this era, the Chinese are collectively called plywood ships for large sailing ships in Western countries).

Their many years of experience in dealing with the Dutch, the Spaniards, and the Portuguese have taught them that Western plywood ships are very powerful, not to mention the sturdy and tall ships, and they are equipped with a large number of guns, and it is difficult for them to win naval battles with such Western-style plywood ships, except by relying on numerical superiority.

Although the two training ships of the Dazhong Army are not as good as those sailing ships commonly used by the red-haired people nowadays, but in terms of speed and firepower, they have exceeded the warships they use by many people, and after the two two-masted clippers appeared on the sea, relying on their speed advantages, they led more than ten centipede boats (slurry boats) to rush left and right in the Zheng family's sailors, and soon disrupted the formation of the Zheng family's sailors, making the Zheng Jun's sailors soon fall into a situation of fighting for themselves. In addition, there were also a lot of other warships in the Dazhong Army's naval division, which made the Zheng army's naval division fall behind all of a sudden, causing their defeat this time.

Then a worse news came to the ears of Zheng Zhilong in Quanzhou, with the war in Fujian fell into an erosive situation, the war situation in Guangdong was also more erosive, under the attack of Luo Rucai's army, the other Dazhong army entered Guangzhou Mansion like a bamboo, and in early October, conquered the city of Guangzhou in one fell swoop, a large number of Nanming defenders in Guangzhou did not resist much at all, and soon announced their surrender under the front of the Dazhong army.

Not only was Guangzhou Mansion captured, but even the Southern Ming defenders in Huizhou Mansion, Chaozhou Mansion, Zhaozhou Mansion and other places also surrendered to the Dazhong Army, so that Zheng Zhilong's most worrying thing appeared, with most of Guangdong being captured by the Dazhong Army, the Zheng family completely fell into the situation of being attacked by the enemy, and the only territory they could control on land was Quanzhou Mansion, Zhangzhou Mansion and Tingzhou Mansion, and the current situation of Tingzhou Mansion was also precarious, and an army division under Liu Yaoben had begun to march towards Tingzhou Mansion at this time, And Zheng Jun didn't have many people in Tingzhou Mansion in the first place, and it was only a matter of time before he fell.