The peaks and mountains in Fujian are towering, the hills are continuous, and the roads are extremely rugged and difficult to travel. Zheng Caibu, who was sandwiched between the two rebels, was very difficult to break away, not to mention that they were already exhausted after marching for dozens of miles.

After a brief engagement, most of Zheng Cai's men surrendered, and a few fled into the forest.

Zheng Cai rushed left and right with hundreds of families to try to break out of the rebels to intercept, but the combat effectiveness of the rebels exceeded his expectations, and most of his most elite soldiers were killed in a short time, Zheng Cai's war horse was also shot dead by the rebels' firearms, looking at the swarming rebels, Zheng Cai had to kneel and surrender.

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"Lord Fuzun is wise, he actually expected that Zheng Cai would flee back to Quanzhou instead of Fuzhou, and sent an army to ambush him first."

After the battle, the rebels camped on the spot and began to pack up the battlefield to escort the prisoners.

"I've said it all, don't call me Fuzun! Now I'm not the prefect of Dongfan, but the second leader of the Fujian Western Thief Army! The young general grimaced and reprimanded.

"Yes, yes, the second master, the second master is wise!" Wang Qing and the generals in the tent all laughed.

As for the second leader in the account, it is naturally Chen Mo, the prefect of Dongning. After Qian Fenglin was summoned as the governor of Fujian, Chen Mo, who was formerly the prefect of Beigang County, became the prefect of Dongfan and controlled the military and political power of the entire Dongfan Island.

The western thieves in Fujian are raging, but the impact on Dongfan Island, which is far away in the open sea, is not great, but Chen Mo is actively preparing for war, waiting for the call of the prince at any time. When Chen Yue accepted Chongzhen's call and led his troops back to the imperial court, he only took a small part of the army with him, leaving the main force of more than 5,000 people. Over the past year or so, people have moved from the mainland to Dongfan, and the total number of people on Dongfan Island has reached as much as 100,000, and Dongfan has implemented the system of all people as soldiers, and the total number of troops after reorganization has reached 10,000.

The complete training methods, the abundant silver taels brought by the sea trade, the sophisticated weapons and armor made by the workshop of the Dongfan Ordnance Division, after more than a year of training, the combat effectiveness of the Dongfan Army is no less than that of the personal guard battalion around Chen Yue.

However, the elite is the elite, the number of troops is really small, even if it is the Northern Expedition, Chen Yue has no idea of fighting the Eastern Army. Until today, Wang Yin supervised Fujian, Qian Fenglin was the governor of Fujian, in order to implement the secret plan, Qian Fenglin secretly dispatched the Dongfan army to detour into Fujian.

The two battalions of 6,000 elites were led by Chen Mo, the prefect of Dongning, and were responsible for implementing the top-secret plan.

After Chen Mo secretly arrived in Fujian with his troops, the Ainengqi Western Army, which was surrounded on all sides, was at the end of its rope. After appeasing Ai Nengqi, in the name of using the surrendered Western Army as the basis, in fact, it was the backbone of more than 20,000 Jiangxi troops and 6,000 Dongfan troops to organize and train the Fujian New Army.

As for the more than 20,000 Jiangxi troops, they are all subordinates of Jin Shenghuan and Yan Yingyuan, all of whom are directly controlled by the Qi Wang's family, and the generals in the army are also veterans of the Pingnan Army back then, and there is no need to doubt loyalty and obedience.

The nominal chief soldier of the new army is Ainengqi, and the actual person in charge is Chen Mo, but it is Ainengqi who has always come out, but Chen Mo is hidden behind the scenes.

After the armies of the provinces withdrew from Fujian, after receiving Qian Fenglin's instructions, Chen Mo immediately led his troops to rebel and re-raised the banner of the Western Army. Of course, the nominal boss of the rebel army is still Ai Nengqi, but Chen Mo changed his name and surname to the second boss, but in fact he firmly controls this army.

Defeating Zheng Cai is just a prelude, and the next thing to do is to capture Quanzhou Mansion and completely solve the Zheng family.

For the Qi Wang family, now is the best time to solve the Zheng family, as long as the Zheng Zhilong forces are eliminated, from now on the sea will be dominant, and from now on will dominate the four seas!

Zheng Zhilong has been running Fujian for more than ten years, with thousands of warships and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, it is too difficult to take down the Zheng family under normal circumstances, and it is even more troublesome to force Zheng Zhilong into the sea to become a thief again.

Therefore, taking the opportunity of Ainengqi's disaster in Fujian, Qian Fenglin formulated a plan to eliminate the Zheng family.

In the battle of the previous year, the Fujian army suffered heavy losses, Zheng Zhilong faced Ai Nengqi and retreated one after another, and the more than 200,000 Fujian troops gathered together lost more than half, and now only 780,000 people remain.

And among these 70,000 or 80,000 people, most of the army is still a sailor, stationed in Quanzhou Mansion, guarding Zheng Zhilong's lair.

Therefore, after eliminating Zheng Cai, the next step according to the plan is to march to Quanzhou and completely exterminate the Zheng family!

"Wang Qing, you go and persuade Zheng Cai to cooperate, and the others go back to the headquarters, let the brothers under him seize the time to rest, and continue to march early tomorrow morning!" Chen Mo commanded, the taciturn family in the past has now grown up.

"Yes, second master!" Wang Qing and several other generals also agreed to go out.

Wang Qing pulled the "big boss" Ai Nengqi to interrogate the arrested Zheng Cai, and after some severe torture, Zheng Cai had to give in and promised to cooperate with the Western Army. Ai Nengqi generously promised that after taking Quanzhou, he would make Zheng Cai the commander of Quanzhou, the Marquis of Min, and defend Quanzhou for the Great Western Kingdom.

On the second day, Wang Qing escorted Zheng Cai, with 10,000 transformed troops, pretending to be Zheng Cai's subordinates, and marched towards Quanzhou. Chen Mo followed behind with a large group of people.

According to Zheng Cai's confession, there were more than 70,000 troops in Quanzhou Prefecture, of which more than 40,000 were naval divisions, stationed in Xiamen Zhongzuo and Kinmen Island. There are also 10,000 infantry guarding the capital city of Quanzhou, and the remaining 20,000 troops are in Anping Town, guarding the Zheng family's lair.

Eliminating the Zheng family's forces has always been the goal of Dongfan, and for more than a year, Dongfan Island has recruited many people from the people who came from Fujian to join the Enemy Intelligence Division, which is responsible for exploring the situation in Fujian and the details of the Zheng family. Therefore, Chen Mo actually knows a lot about the situation in Quanzhou.

In order to prevent the leakage of news, he sent many small troops, with the soldiers of the Enemy Intelligence Division as guides, to advance separately, blocking roads everywhere, and capturing the rout troops to block the news of Zheng Cai's defeat and capture.

Under Chen Mo's strict control, when the army arrived in Quanzhou until the county seat of Nan'an, Zheng Zhilong still knew nothing about it. The army marched through various villages and towns, and no one found out that it was a rebel, and thought that the army led by Zheng Cai had retreated to Quanzhou, and they took the initiative to supply food supplies.

Wang Qing escorted Zheng Cai with the vanguard and turned into Zheng Cai's army, which successively passed through Dehua and Yongchun counties, but they all met the city, but after asking for food, they continued to flee to Quanzhou.

And Chen Mo led the "rebel" brigade to easily defeat the panicked county seat, ransack the rich squires in the county, and recruit the poor people into the army, and the team grew like a snowball.

The news that the main force of the rebels had entered Quanzhou Mansion soon reached Zheng Zhilong's ears, and Zheng Zhilong did not dare to slack off, and immediately deployed troops to prepare to meet the enemy.