Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 186 Capture Zheng Zhilong Alive

A burst of "bang bang bang" gunshots came from the tower, and the soldiers around Zheng Zhikui shook and fell down one by one.

The dozens of people who were originally confronting these soldiers, as if they were electrocuted, threw away their weapons in horror, and then hurriedly ran to the city wall to stand.

Next, anyone who dares to stop others from escaping will be shot and killed immediately until no one dares to stop.

Even Zheng Zhikui, although very angry, did not dare to raise his knife to chop the surrendering soldiers anymore.

Not long after, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhikui were surrounded by only a dozen or so people.

Zheng Zhilong pushed away these soldiers who still wanted to protect him, took a few steps forward, and laughed wildly, "Hahahaha..."

In this wild laughter, there is endless loneliness, helplessness and sadness.

With a sound of "squeak", the gate of the main city was opened again, and a group of soldiers in uniform poured into the Wengcheng with neat steps, immediately surrounding more than a dozen people from Zheng Zhilong.

In the end, Zheng Zhilong didn't have the courage to draw his sword and kill himself, and a dozen people, including him and Zheng Zhikui, were disarmed and captured alive.

The Zheng army who entered the main city quickly put down their weapons and surrendered after being surrounded, and those who were separated outside the urn city, except for a few who escaped, were all captured by the new army ambushing outside the city.

It was no coincidence that Tang Ning was able to appear in Dehua. When Wu Liuqi blatantly left Fuzhou to enter Xinghua Mansion, he was in the army.

Outside Houguan County, Tang Ning led the guard battalion and more than a thousand soldiers from Wu Liuqi's headquarters, pretending to be the Zheng army and marching southwest.

Along the way, there were almost no battles, and even if they encountered a small group of bandits, they were not opponents of the heavily armed German guards at all.

Tangning's goal was very clear, and it was aimed directly at Dehua.

The reason why Dehua can be identified so early is because there is Wu Liuqi in the northeast of Quanzhou Fucheng, Shi Lang on the west road, and Huang Hairu on the south road.

If Zheng Zhilong does not want to live and die with Quanzhou Fucheng, he must flee.

Only the northwest road is the closest, so Dehua is the only way for Zheng Zhilong to pass.

Even if there was a deviation and Zheng Zhilong made a detour, Tangning still had time to send troops to intercept.

So as long as Dehua is occupied in advance, Zheng Zhilong will have almost nowhere to escape.

Because of this, Tangning arrived at the city of Dehua two days earlier, and the magistrate and guard directly opened the city gate to welcome them in.

It's not that they couldn't recognize that it was a fake from the New Army, but that they had already surrendered after the intelligence personnel of the New Army were moved and understood.

What happened next is easy to understand, and everyone performed a play together.

In order to make this play more realistic, Tangning also asked people to confirm the identities of Zheng Zhilong and the others on purpose, so that they could enter the city with peace of mind.

The Wengcheng was too small to hold so many people, and Tangning's primary target was Zheng Zhilong.

When Zheng Zhilong entered the center of the Wengcheng, the operation began immediately. Two cluster grenades were thrown at the gate of the Wengcheng and the main gate, and the gates were immediately cleared.

If the two doors are closed again, Zheng Zhilong will naturally become the turtle in the urn.

In this way, a generation of Minhai kings failed to escape, and eventually lost everything and became captives.

Looking at the process of Zheng Jun's hostility and fighting with the new army, it can be seen that although Zheng Zhilong has a small cleverness, he has no great wisdom.

He could play tricks to catch Tangning, but he couldn't command thousands of troops to keep the new army out of Fujian. Instead, he suffered big losses time and time again.

There are thousands of ships in the sky and more than [-] troops, but they have repeatedly failed in the face of the newly rising forces of the new army.

One of the reasons is that Zheng Zhilong has not developed enough military power over the years, pursuing quantity instead of quality.

Of course, this should have a lot to do with Ming's military system.

If Zheng Jun's strength is compared with other forces alone, he can definitely rank in the forefront, so Zheng Zhilong is also easy to be satisfied.

But Tangning's vision was completely different. He was comparing the western army and some armies of later generations, so it was doomed that the two sides had fundamentally different concepts.

There is another very important reason, that is, the command methods of the two sides are completely different.

Almost all tactics, strategies, command power, etc. of the Zheng army are in the hands of the Zheng family.

And the personal abilities of these Zheng family members are obviously not good talents, let alone unique command ability.

But the new army is different. The tactics and strategies of the new army are all planned by the staff department.

The entire army has a general staff, and each division also has a number of staff to form the staff to fight with the army, and to provide operational advice to the general at any time according to the situation on the battlefield.

Even Tang Ning, No.1 in the new army, did not intentionally interfere with the staff's plan, because he knew his abilities well, and he was not a tactician or strategist.

Therefore, when he leads the army to fight, he often listens to the opinions of the staff.

The staff members of the staff department are all carefully selected people with professional abilities. The battle plan they worked out with their collective efforts is naturally not comparable to one person's ability.

What's more, the main generals of the Zheng family are not good generals who have been outstanding since ancient times.

Coupled with the role of the New Army in Fujian's intelligence agencies, providing a large amount of effective intelligence, and instigating against Zheng Jun personnel, this undoubtedly added a big boost to the actions of the New Army.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the mediocre talents of the Zheng family have repeatedly suffered losses at the hands of the new army.

In fact, this is not just a problem of Zheng's group, but a common problem of the entire Ming Dynasty's military administration.

Whether the Ming army can fight or not is often tied to the leader. If the leader is good at fighting and has good talents, this army will not be sent anywhere, such as Lu Xiangsheng, Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chuanting and so on.

However, how many such famous generals can there be? More troops are still in the hands of people with mediocre military capabilities but high positions.

These people have mediocre abilities, but they are unambiguous about the command of the army. There is no such thing as the so-called staff department.

I am afraid that even if there is, it is only in name only. This is doomed that they will not be able to bring out a good army, and they often even make some ridiculous low-level mistakes.

After capturing Zheng Zhilong alive, the new army did not regroup and march northward, but spread the news of Zheng Zhilong's capture alive through "Ming Pao" and other channels.

For a while, the remnants of the Zheng army in Fujian were panic-stricken. Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua, Fuzhou, Funing and other coastal prefectures handed out the surrender form before the new army arrived.

The more than [-] people from Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai's tribe who had temporarily taken shelter in Yanping Mansion in central Fujian were also at a loss, not knowing what to do, until Zheng Zhilong's personal letter of persuasion to surrender was delivered to them.

Yes, the captured Zheng Zhilong seemed to have resigned himself to his fate, and soon agreed to surrender, and was willing to write letters to persuade those brothers and descendants of the same clan to surrender.

This was within Tangning's expectation.

However, Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian have different opinions.

Zheng Zhibao agreed to surrender, but the two brothers Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian were unwilling to surrender to the new army. Their opinion was to go north and would rather surrender to the Hongguang court.

There was no other reason. They were reluctant to part with the rights in their hands. They knew very well that once they surrendered to the new army, the rights in their hands were likely to be dismantled by Tangning.

On the other hand, the Hongguang court was different. It was just the occasion for employing people. Leading the army to the north could also gather some troops in northern Fujian, and gather tens of thousands of people to arrive at Yingtianfu. They should be able to be reused.

(End of this chapter)