The naval battle entered the most critical moment, and Zheng Chenggong's fleet was storming the eighth flagship of the Qing army Li Shutai.

These Manchus have been in the south for many years, and after being trained by the Green Battalion, they are also familiar with the water nature, and they are not inferior to the Green Battalion in naval warfare.

The Qing soldiers of the Eight Banners Army Fleet still wanted to be brave in battle, and many fierce Manchurians took medium-sized warships, withstood the fierce artillery fire of the Zheng Jiajun, forcibly leaned on the Ming army's big ship, jumped onto the Ming army's battleship, and used their superb hand-to-hand combat skills to deal with the Ming army's sailors.

However, under the fierce fire of the Ming army, the melee skills of the Eight Banners could not be brought into play.

Chakdan, a second-class Manchurian guard, was very brave, jumped onto a Ming warship, and cut down several Ming soldiers in succession, but was killed by a bird-gunner hiding in the shadows.

In order to escape, he took off his armor and jumped into the sea to escape for his life, but was killed by a burst of arrows from the Ming army.

Subsequently, the ships of the Qing army's Eight Banners Naval Division's third-class guard Gara and the guard military academy Balan were sunk one after another, and these two Qing generals drowned in the sea. The battleship of the first class escort Omai was ignited by rockets, and the Manchurian general Omai from Sanpin was also beaten into a hornet's nest by shotguns.

On the eastern landing battlefield, the Green Battalion soldiers commanded by Dasu filled the trenches of the Ming army with corpses, piled them on the women's wall, and broke through the first line of defense. Under the desperate attack of the Qing army, the Ming army stationed in the first line of defense could not resist and retreated one after another.

"Report to the master! We broke through the defense of Ming Dog! Two large camps have been broken through in a row! "A coated servant came to report.

Dasu was overjoyed and gave the order: "Great! Pass my order, let the Fucha clan Tong Ji lead the Eight Banners cavalry to disembark immediately! Directly take the Southern Dog Army! ”

"Wow!" The coated servant stepped down and gave the order.

The Manchurian general Fucha Tong Ji led the Eight Banners to disembark and rushed to the defensive line behind the Ming army with murderous spirit.

In total, more than 13,000 Qing troops went ashore, including more than 2,000 Eight Banner Army.

Knowing that more than 10,000 people had landed, Dasu was overjoyed and said: "Breaking Zheng Rebellion is just around the corner!" ”

Tong Ji of the Fucha clan led an army of nearly 13,000 people and lined up to kill the camp of the Ming army in front.

But along the way, the Ming army blocked the Qing army again and again with trenches and wooden fences, and under the attack of long-range weapons such as Ming army's bird guns, tiger squat cannons, bows and arrows, the Qing army paid a huge price to break through the three lines of defense of the Ming army in a row. The losses of the Ming army were minimal.

Seeing the heavy losses of the Green Battalion soldiers, Tong Ji of the Fucha Clan didn't even frown, because his elite Eight Banners had almost no losses. In his mind, as long as the Eight Banners soldiers are not lost, no matter how many Green Battalion soldiers die, it will not be considered defeat.

The Qing army finally broke through the last line of defense set up by the Ming army on the coastline and entered the flat land of the island.

"Report to the master, there is a bright dog in front of you!" The personal soldiers of the Fucha clan Tong Ji came to report.

Tong Ji of the Fucha clan laughed: "In a field battle on flat ground, how can Nangou be able to block my elite Eight Banners!" ”

Then Tong Ji of the Fucha clan ordered the infantry of the Green Battalion to charge in front and break the formation, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners on both flanks, once the Ming army was defeated, they would be chased and killed by cavalry.

The green battalion soldiers of the Qing army armed with swords and axes shouted and rushed towards the Ming army. Suddenly, these green battalion soldiers found that the lightly armored Ming troops in front of them had dispersed, revealing the five hundred iron soldiers in the middle.

The five hundred iron men slowly advanced, and the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army shot arrows one after another, but the bows and arrows shot at the iron men like tickles, and the feather arrows fell one after another. The iron man soldiers advanced slowly, and the big knife in their hands slashed indiscriminately in the crowd of Qing soldiers, cutting down a large number of green battalion soldiers of the Qing army like chopping melons and vegetables.

Fucha Clan's Tong Ji sneered: "It's our turn to attack the Eight Banners Cavalry!" ”

The Eight Banners cavalry mounted their horses, about a thousand cavalrymen, armed with wooden spears, slowly accelerated, and rushed towards Zheng Chenggong's iron soldiers. Although the wooden spear could not pierce the iron armor of the Iron Man soldiers, the cavalry charged at full speed and struck with the wooden spear, which could knock the Iron Man flying. The impact of the horse is extremely powerful, and the iron man who crashes into the air will suffer serious internal injuries even if he does not die. However, after the Eight Banners hit the iron man, if they couldn't stop the horse in time and turn back, they could also be hacked to death. In this regard, Fucha Tong Ji felt that it was also a helpless move, he knew that Zheng Chenggong did not have many iron soldiers, each of them was elite, even if he used the Eight Banners to exchange the iron men one-on-one, Zheng Jun's elite iron soldiers were lost, and this battle was won, and his two thousand Eight Banner cavalry were only lost less than thirty percent, and the remaining Ming army was just a local chicken in front of the Eight Banners.

Seeing the Eight Banners rushing over, the Iron Man Soldiers knew the power of the Eight Banners Cavalry, and they didn't dare to carry it hard, so they retreated one after another.

"You want to lure our cavalry over and deal with firearms and spears?" Fucha Tong Ji sneered.

The banner of the Qing army danced, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners immediately slowed down when they received the order of the banner, and did not attack the formation of the Ming army head-on, but jogged around the Ming army outside, and scattered with their riding bows.

The power of riding a bow is not great in the first place, and shooting it on an iron man has no effect at all.

The Eight Banners cavalry was not in a hurry to rush to the large formation formed by the infantry of the Ming army, but circled outside, harassing them with light bows and arrows, trying to wait for the Ming army's formation to be chaotic before attacking.

The formation of the Ming army was not chaotic at all, facing the Qing army, and retreated steadily step by step.

The cavalry of the Eight Banners circled outside, shooting arrows from time to time. At this moment, suddenly a cavalryman of the Eight Banners stumbled and fell to the ground.

The rest of the Eight Banners also dismounted, brushed off the turf on the soil, and found that there was actually a horse trap on the ground.

"These shitty southern dogs! This is how it was used against us! A Qing soldier scolded.

Half of the Eight Banners cavalry dismounted one after another to check whether there were any horse traps on the ground; The other half of the Eight Banners cavalry rode slowly on horseback, and if the Ming army attacked forward, the Eight Banners cavalry would look for flaws and charge from weak positions on the flanks. However, the Ming army on the opposite side seemed to be very calm and did not counterattack when the Eight Banners cavalry dismounted.

The banner of the Qing army waved, and the green battalion soldiers howled again and rushed forward.

The Ming army used the Iron Man as a mobile fortress, followed by pikemen, archers, and birdmen, and pushed back the Green Battalion's offensive.

At this moment, the Eight Banners cavalry suddenly charged.

Archers and arrows were fired, and more than a dozen Eight Banners soldiers fell off their horses. The rest of the Eight Banners continued to charge, increasing the speed of their horses to the maximum.

When the Eight Banners cavalry was about to rush to the iron men of the Ming army formation, they first reined in their horses and slowed down, and then stabbed the wooden spear in their hands and knocked several iron men away. However, most of the Eight Banners cavalry were poked off their horses by the Ming spearmen, and only a few turned their horses and left.

The Ming army's bird guns stepped forward, and a volley was fired, and five or six of the Eight Banners soldiers who had just turned around and left turned over and fell off their horses.

Seeing that he had knocked a few iron men away, but he had lost more than 20 Eight Banner cavalrymen, Tong Ji of the Fucha clan grinned in distress. Although it is possible to eliminate a few Iron Man soldiers in this way, I am afraid that my two thousand Eight Banner soldiers are all dead, and I will not be able to eliminate five hundred Iron Man soldiers.

"Give it to me! Let the Green Battalion attack on all fronts! "Fucha clan Tong Ji gave an order.

The Qing army beat the big drum, the drum rumbled, and all the green battalion soldiers pressed on it and launched a frantic attack.

The plan of the Fucha clan Tong Ji was that the infantry of the green battalion rushed into formation, first disrupting the formation of the Ming army, so that the pikemen of the Ming army could not form a formation, and then the Eight Banners rode their horses to attack and use horsepower to crash the iron man. As long as the iron man is solved, the Ming army can be easily solved.

But the Ming army was not in chaos, but the green battalion soldiers threw pillows of corpses in front of the Ming army.

The Eight Banners cavalry did not dare to charge rashly, so they could only circle around the periphery, looking for opportunities, but they never found a flaw in the Ming army. So the two sides formed a confrontation. If it is on the northern plains, the cavalry and the infantry face each other, the infantry will always suffer, because the infantry must maintain a high level of tension, and if they are not careful, they will be in disarray, and after being broken by the cavalry, they will be defeated, and the whole army will be wiped out in the pursuit of the cavalry. While the cavalry harassed on the periphery, they could sit on horseback and eat dry food, drink water, and be able to keep it easy. Even if the cavalry is defeated, it can still run away, and the infantry can't catch up with a broken leg.

But this is not the northern plains, this is a small island hanging over the sea. Once the Qing army's naval division is defeated, then whether it is the Green Battalion infantry or the Eight Banners cavalry, they all have to stay on the island.

It was also when the offensive of the Qing army was blocked, a strong wind blew on the sea, and the originally calm sea was like a child's face, crying when he said it.

A strong wind blew on the sea, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the Qing army, who were not good at boating.

First of all, Li Shuotai's Manchurian Eight Banner sailors could not adapt to the strong winds and waves, and although these Manchus learned the techniques of water warfare from the Green Battalion, they still could not withstand the wind and waves. As soon as the gale came, the full crew of the ship stood unsteadily, and the combat effectiveness was seriously reduced.

The Eight Banners Naval Division was wiped out in a blink of an eye, and then the Green Camp Naval Division was also crushed under the fierce attack of the Zheng army.

Seeing the fiasco, Li Shutai, Dasu and Huang Wu left their fleets and fled in disarray. And the 13,000 Qing troops who had already landed were completely alone at this time.

The flagship of the Qing army fled, and other Qing warships, large and small, lost their command, and many of the Qing army's sailors were from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places, and were not familiar with the water situation in Xiamen at all. There was no shadow of the flagship in sight, and the Qing navy was like a headless fly circling around the sea, constantly surrounded by Ming warships, divided and annihilated.

The cannon roared, the Qing warships caught fire and burned, the sea was full of broken wooden planks, and blood stained large areas of the sea.

At the landing site of the Qing army, those Qing troops who had not had time to go ashore urged them to hurry up and start the boat, and the Qing troops who had already gone ashore waded into the water, crying and shouting for transport ships and waiting for them. But no one paid any attention to them, and the Qing transport ships abandoned the land division and fled with the defeated fleet in the direction of Quanzhou Bay.

Standing in the seawater, the Green Battalion Eight Banners Qing soldiers looked at the transport ship in the distance and shouted and cursed. The Ming army behind had already arrived, and the desperate Qing soldiers either surrendered on their knees or were killed on the beach.

The Tong Ji Department of the Fucha clan, who had become a lone army, was shaken when he learned that the sailors had been defeated and that they had been abandoned. The green battalion soldiers were in a commotion, ready to surrender.

The Eight Banners slashed and killed many Green Battalion soldiers, but they still couldn't stop the low morale. 16,000 Qing soldiers were trapped on an isolated island surrounded by the sea, the terrain of the island was complicated, full of hills, dense forests, and surrounded by enemy territory.

After Zheng Chenggong annihilated the Qing army's naval division, this landing Qing army was annihilated by the land division led by Zheng Chenggong himself. Most of the Green Battalion soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest surrendered. The Eight Banners were still stubbornly resisting at first, and they formed a formation to defend. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, the Ming army did not attack, but surrounded the Qing army, constantly bombarded them with artillery, and at the same time persuaded them to surrender, telling them to surrender and avoid death. Wait for the Qing army to charge the formation and block it back with pikemen. Soon after, the Qing army's commander-in-chief, Fucha Tongji, was killed by the Ming army's artillery, and the elite Eight Banners had to bow their heads, lay down their weapons and surrender.

Before the news of the victory reached Gaoqi, Wang Xinyu saw that he could not catch up with the Qing army who was about to flee back to Tong'an Bay, so he sailed back to the camp.

In a barracks temporarily used as a prison, Wang Xinyu, who had just disembarked, met Chen Peng, who was being held here.

"Lord Chen!" Wang Xinyu walked into the house and shouted.

Chen Peng smiled bitterly: "Wang Gongzi, don't call me Lord Chen, now I am just a death row prisoner to be beheaded." ”

Wang Xinyu arched his hand and saluted: "Lord Chen, no matter what, you are my benefactor. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today. It's just that I can't figure it out, why did you betray my Daming, betray the king of Yanping, and go to the Tartars on the other side? ”

Chen Peng replied: "Da Ming? The Son of Heaven has abandoned the country, where do we come from now? For example, today, the Ming Dynasty only has Zhoushan, Xiamen, Kinmen and a few small islands, as well as Sichuan's camp to occupy a small piece of territory, and even the King of Jin has been driven out of Yunnan. I'm thinking, and I'm thinking about it, and I'm trying to fight for the future of the brothers. But I didn't expect Shi Lang's thief to be so unbearable! ”

Wang Xinyu said sadly and angrily: "Those Tartars slaughtered my Ming people, ruined my clothes, and committed a lot of crimes against my Huaxia!" I, Wang, am not fighting for the Son of Heaven who abandoned the country, but for my Chinese people! Lord Chen, it's not that Shi Lang is a thief, but that your Lord Chen's subordinates are all the people of my Ming Dynasty, and they are loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty! Because the Tartars owe a lot of blood debts, and each of them has a deep hatred with the Tartars, so Lord Chen wants to surrender, but they won't! ”

Chen Peng seemed to understand something, and shed tears: "The matter has come to this, it is too late to repent of the sin, I only hope that King Yanping can let my family go and punish me alone." ”

"Please rest assured, your subordinates will definitely report to the prince of Yanping, and use the merits of your subordinates to atone for your crimes, and it will not affect your family!" Wang Xinyu arched his hand.

Chen Peng said: "Thank you Prince Wang for being lenient!" ”

In fact, it was not that Wang Xinyu was tolerant, but that he felt that it was only Chen Peng who should be damned, and he should not be connected with the Nine Clans.

Wang Xinyu mentioned one more thing: "Lord Chen, in fact, when you asked me to get on the ship and go to sea, I already had suspicions, so I brought the sword and armor and personal soldiers on the ship. It's just that at that time, I wasn't sure, I didn't believe that Lord Chen, who had the grace to support me, would betray your country and join the enemy. ”

Chen Peng sighed and said: "It seems that I still underestimated you, I knew that the Tartar was so unbearable, why should I be in the first place!" ”

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The first part is basically written according to historical facts, except for the fact that it is related to the protagonist and slightly leverages history, the rest is basically unchanged. From the back on, history will change dramatically.