nanming man

Chapter 1035 Courage
At dusk, the battlefield gradually quieted down. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the ground was covered with corpses with weapons inserted, and the world was bleak.

On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Wei army raised their weapons high, and made shouts and buzzing sounds all over the mountains and plains, which could be heard for more than ten miles. The birds returning home in fright, flapped their wings and sang across the sky.

Soldiers of the Wei army walked among the corpses, picked up the scattered weapons on the ground, and looked for the wounded. The civilian husbands loaded bundles of spears, muskets, and swords into carts, dug out large pits, buried the corpses, and cleared the battlefield.

The soldiers of the coalition army were dejectedly taken away by the Wei army. A group of soldiers escorted a general in heavy armor. Gao Yihuan stood aside on horseback, raised his hand to stop the soldiers, and asked, "Who is it?"

"Your Majesty, it's Liu Wenxiu, King of Funan, Zhou Jun!" The leader of the military academy saluted Gao Yihuan, then turned to look at Liu Wenxiu and said.

Gao Yihuan urged the horse to come over, looked at Liu Wenxiu with disheveled hair, and said with a smile, "Wenxiu, I have fallen into my hands today, what can I say?"

Liu Wenxiu looked up at Gao Yihuan's smug face, and sighed, "I have nothing to say about the winner and the loser. If you want to kill, you have to do whatever you want."

Gao Yihuan seemed to be in a good mood, still smiling, "You are also a Chinese hero, you shouldn't die of internal friction, how could I kill you." After finishing speaking, Gao Yihuan waved his hand, "Take it down, don't be rude!"

After paying a salute to the head of the military academy, he led his soldiers and escorted Liu Wenxiu away.

At this time, Chen Mingxia laughed and said: "In this battle, many prisoners of war were captured, only less than a hundred thousand people. How does His Majesty plan to deal with it?"

Gao Yihuan thought for a while, "It depends on whether Jin Shenghuan and Xu Heihu can catch Zhu Cihong and Sun Kewang. If they are caught, these captives can be sent back to their hometown. If Zhu Cihong escapes, as Zhu Cihong's status as Emperor of Ming Dynasty, he will surely rise again." Fenglang, if you catch some people, you can't let them go easily!"

Chen Mingxia smiled, "Actually, I want to persuade Your Majesty that no matter whether Zhu Cihong and Sun Kewang are captured or not, these captives cannot be released. I just noticed that many of these captives are natives of the Southwest. If they are released, they will It must return to the mountains and forests to strengthen the power of chieftains, which is not good for the imperial court to manage the southwest. Therefore, the minister thought it would be better to send them to the north to farm, and not to abuse them, and to be treated the same as tenants. Then explain that the dynasty has been established for more than 270 years. In addition to the troubles in the south Except for the Japanese pirates, the people’s lives are actually relatively rich, and the influence of the Ming Dynasty will not be easily eliminated, so it is best not to release the prisoners of the Ming army, and it is advisable to move to the north together with their families.”

Although Chen Mingxia was sitting on the side of the noble landlord in the north, Gao Yihuan had to admit that what he said made sense.

Now the population in the north is small, while the population in the south is large. It is indeed necessary to relocate some people. In the future, we will need a large number of people.

At this time, Li Dingguo had already occupied the entire Liaodong, but Liaodong was barren, thousands of miles uninhabited, and the Liao land was uninhabited. It was meaningless for the Wei army to control the Liao land, and it was easy to be infiltrated by the savages in the north and the Koreans in the east.

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, "Okay, sir, write a note on this matter."

As Gao Yihuan looked around the battlefield, he couldn't help sighing, after this battle, the general situation of the world will return to Wei, the Ming Dynasty will become history, and Zhou Guo can no longer threaten his country.

Gao Yihuan tugged at the reins, high-spirited, "I'll leave it to Mr. to clean up here. I'm going to beat the dog in the water and march to Guangzhou!"

After finishing speaking, Gao Yihuan waved his horsewhip and galloped away. The cavalry followed closely behind him, rolling up a cloud of yellow dust.

In the battle of Nanling, the Wei army defeated 30 Ming and Zhou coalition forces, beheaded tens of thousands of them in Shaoguan alone, and captured 15 Ming and Zhou coalition forces.

Sun Kewang lost the most in this battle, with 20 troops, more than half of which were lost. Only 5 people escaped to the southwest.

Seeing that the battlefields on both wings were passive, Zhu Cihong felt that there was no hope of victory, so Huang Degong ordered to withdraw his troops, but was chased by the Wei army and horse army.

Fearing the cavalry of the Wei army, Zhu Cihong did not dare to enter the flat terrain of Guangzhou, so he rushed directly to Zhaoqing, then went to Gaozhou and Leizhou, and went to Qiongdao to temporarily avoid the advance of the Wei army.

The defeat on the front line shocked the Nanming court in Guangzhou.

Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, saw that the Wei general Zhao Daxian in the east had already arrived in Huizhou, and the main force of the Wei army in the north was coming again, and was about to approach the city.

A group of civil and military officials in Guangzhou City, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, fled to Zhaoqing in haste, planning to pass through here, go all the way south, and go to Qiongzhou.

In fact, long before the decisive battle, Zhu Cihong had no confidence in his heart, so he secretly ordered the scholar Lu Zhenfei to secretly deliver supplies to Qiongzhou. Some ministers had already been prepared and fled to Qiongzhou by land and water.

On November [-], Jin Shenghuan, Xu Heihu and other generals led tens of thousands of Wei soldiers to the city of Guangzhou.

The Wei Army scouts had already received news that most of the officials and troops in the city had already fled. Gao Yihuan attached great importance to Guangzhou, an important town in the south of the Five Ridges, and asked the forwards to take over the city of Guangzhou by peaceful means as much as possible.

The continuous pursuit made Jin Shenghuan look tired, but there was still a sharp look in his bloodshot eyes.

He looked at the defenders on the city from a distance, with a stern expression, and said to Xu Heihu beside him, "Didn't they all run away, no matter how you look at it, it seems that they are not ready to surrender!"

Xu Heihu spit on the ground, "Most of the Ming army fled, I guess there are not many troops in Guangzhou City, if Guisun doesn't surrender, I will beat him down with a single charge."

Jin Shenghuan frowned, "Your Majesty said that if you want to take over Guangzhou peacefully, I think it's better to surrender first!"

Xu Heihu turned his head and shouted: "You guys, go to the city and call out, and let those bunch of birds open the city and surrender, so as not to die!"

Several cavalrymen of the Wei army galloped out immediately, but before they reached the city, a burst of gunfire came from the top of the city.

Two days later, Gao Yihuan led the main force to the northern suburbs and joined forces with Jin Shenghuan and Hu Dawei.

"Your Majesty, there is no sign of surrender in the city so far. It seems that they want to fight to the end!" Gao Yihuan had just entered the big tent, and Jin Shenghuan, who followed him, hurriedly reported.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "What's the matter, the remnants of the defeated general dare to fight against the heavenly soldiers. Has any defeated army entered the city?"

"Without the defeated army entering the city, I estimate that there are only a few thousand remnants!" Jin Shenghuan said hastily.

Gao Yihuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Thousands of remnants dare to fight against our 30 army! Tell me, what's going on?"

Jin Shenghuan explained: "Your Majesty, it is because there is a feudal prince of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the city who is unwilling to surrender and is defending the city with his remnant soldiers."

Gao Yihuan became interested, "Which prince!"

Jin Shenghuan said: "Tang Wang Zhu Yujian!"

Gao Yihuan was silent for a while, walked a few steps in the tent, and sighed: "You have great courage, attack the city tomorrow, and capture him."

(End of this chapter)