When the Ming army on the North Road was fighting fiercely with the Zheng army in Anzishan, Guangning, the 11th Town of the Ming army and the sailors in the middle Road, led by the governor Zhao Ziqiang, deputy governor Lu Guangzu and others, fought fiercely with the Zheng army Tao Yurao, Wuliang and other troops several times.

On July 2, local Han people came to report that the Zheng army had military rations stationed in Jiaoshui County, 30 miles southwest of Nanding City. Zhao Ziqiang immediately ordered Brigade B of the 11th Town to attack. After the Ming army arrived at Jiaoshui, he was led by the local Han guide and detoured from the side, easily bypassed the stone wall and Zheng army checkpoints, and raided Jiaoshui City.

There were more than 800 Zheng army soldiers stationed in Jiaoshui City. At first, the resistance was fierce, but after the Ming army used gunpowder to collapse a section of Jiaoshui wall, the Zheng army quickly lost support. By dusk, the Ming army completely captured Jiaoshui County, and more than 100 remaining Zheng army soldiers in the city abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Afterwards, it was found that there were no Zheng army rations in the city.

After handing over the water to the troops of Li Qixiao, the Han rebels who arrived later, Brigade B advanced to Nanzhi County on the bank of the Honghe River. When the Ming army arrived, the defenders had fled at night. The people of Annan in the city spontaneously organized resistance, and fought fiercely with swords, spears, farm tools, etc. for half a day. The Ming army broke the Nanzhi County at the cost of 58 casualties. After entering the city, the Ming army drove half of the young and strong men in the city to Honghe on the grounds that the people in the city refused to resist the heavenly soldiers and refused to accept Wang Hua, drowned more than 2,000 people. Until this time, the officials of the Great Yue court in Shenglong knew that the Ming army was not only a navy, but also an army.

Zheng's army failed in a row and suffered serious losses. Qinghua, Shannan and Nanding provinces were in corruption. The southern coastal areas were even more in a hurry. Ming army also appeared in Guangning, Hongji and other places in the north. Zheng Zheng's master Zheng Za felt the situation was serious and regretted his previous misjudgment, but had to swallow the consequences.

Tao Yurao wrote a letter to Zheng Zhu, pointing out that the Ming army attacked the coast with naval troops and incited the Han people to rebel in the territory, which caused the main force of the Zheng army to be restrained by a large number of troops and had to divide the troops to garrison in various places, but was divided by the Ming army. If this situation was not changed, the Great Yue would be at risk of national destruction. Wu Liang also agreed with Tao Yurao's letter saying that he suggested that he should give up the already decayed areas and integrate the troops everywhere. The main force should stick to Nanding. As long as the Ming army could not break Nanding, the court would take the initiative, and then mobilize troops from the capital and the northern towns to encircle and annihilate the Ming army.

Just when Tao Yurao wrote a letter, Zhao Ziqiang decided to directly attack Nanding City. The main force of the 11th town of the Ming army was more than 5,000, including 2,000 sailors, and more than 5,000 Han army in Annan, claiming to have a large-scale attack on Nanding City. The military situation was urgent, Tao Yurao personally led 5,000 outstanding soldiers to take charge of Nanding City, and presided over the defense of Nanding, Wu Liang led 6,000 soldiers to stand by near Nanding. At the same time, Li Zhu, who was seized from his post, was re-activated by Zheng Za, and ordered to organize defense in Shannan and shrink existing troops and move towards Shenglong. At the same time, Zheng Za also sent a message to the northern garrison Ding Wenzuo, who was guarding the north, so that he would not be in a hurry to hand over the Ming Dynasty princess and court officials to the Qing army.

Zheng Gen, a general who confronted the Ruan army in the south, wrote a letter to Zheng Zhu, saying that the Ming army occupied Haiyang Shuizhai, and all kinds of supplementary reinforcements were constantly being added. Nanding was alone and the city was not very strong and tall. Therefore, we should give up Nanding, and the entire army retreated and lured the Ming army into Shenglong Prefecture. Then the court mobilized all the outstanding troops in the capital, and the soldiers from the north surrounded the lonely Ming army, cut off its retreat, and defeated the enemy in one fell swoop. The Ming army in the middle was severely damaged and would shrink back to Haiyang Shuizhai, and the troops of the other provinces worked together to encircle and annihilate the people. This situation could be determined.

The abandonment of Nanding and allowing the Ming army to penetrate the capital, Zheng Zha had the courage, but all his ministers opposed it, and Emperor Li Weiqi would not agree. Therefore, Zheng Zha did not adopt Zheng Gen's bold suggestion, and only ordered Zheng Gen to quickly draw elite troops to stabilize Hejing and the south line of Shannan to open up the northern passage.

The Ming army began to march towards the Nanding Provincial Capital on July 6. In the following two days, it had repeated firefights with the Zheng army, and all suffered minor losses. On the morning of July 8, the Zheng army general Wu Liang led his troops to launch a general attack on the Ming army. By the afternoon, there were three fierce battles. The Zheng army dispatched more than 160 elephants in this battle, and the initial progress was smooth. Later, the elephants were shocked by the Ming army's use of a large number of firearms and thunder, and rebelled against his own troops, resulting in the Zheng army's defeat, three generals were killed and led by the commander, and more than 2,000 were killed and injured. The Ming army killed 658 people in battle, and more than 1,000 were injured.

Zhao Ziqiang was angry that the Zheng army was tenacious in resistance and was also worried that it was too late in Nanding, so he sent an order to launch a general attack on Nanding on the 10th. After the battle began, the Ming army organized artillery to bombard the Zheng army outside the city. The Zheng army outside the city lacked cover and had no counterattack means, and the outer positions of Nanding were lost one after another. The Ming army occupied the shopping malls in the southwest of the city, and surrounded the highlands in the northeast of the city, captured various forts in the northeast of the city, and bombarded the entire city with the artillery captured Annan army. All important areas near Nanding were lost, and thousands of Zheng troops retreated into the city, and order was in chaos.

At the same time, the 11 towns organized the Han army in Annan to start siege. Due to the lack of siege equipment, the Han army in Annan could only use cloud ladders to attack the city and was attacked by the Zheng army in the city. Then the Ming army organized artillery to bombard the city walls and killed the Zheng army at a large number of times. Most of the Zheng army in the city were superior soldiers and supported by the Zheng family. Everyone had the intention to fight to the death. However, under the fierce attack of the Ming army, which had the advantage of firepower, the Zheng army gradually became dissatisfied. The Ming army attacked the city from the east and south gates at the same time, and the defenders insisted on fighting in the street until late at night. A few hours later, there was no sound of Zheng army rebelling in the city. The governor Tao Yurao swallowed gold and committed suicide. General Wu Liang saw that the situation was hopeless, jumped into the river and committed suicide.

After entering the city, the Zheng army's fierce resistance caused more than 2,000 casualties in the Ming and Han army. At the same time, in order to force the Annan people to give up resistance and accept the treaty, Zhao Ziqiang sent an order to clean the city for three days.

After the order to clear the city was issued, the Ming army was very beastly and carried out a tragic massacre in Nanding. They killed everyone as soon as they saw them, some chopped off their heads, and some cut off their ears; women were raped and cut off their belly and opened their chests.

The massacre lasted for three days, and the entire Nanding fell into a pool of blood, with dead bodies piled up several feet high. The road was full of dead people, and it was inconvenient to walk, and the bleeding made people sick.

When Nanding was invaded, the news came that the general Tao Yurao and general Wu Liang both died in the country. Shenglong was shocked, and Emperor Li Weiqi was even scared to sleep all night.

To make matters worse, the Beigan Province was in a hurry. Gaoping's Mo army, led by its leader Mo Jingyu, blatantly sent troops to attack Beigan; Zheng Gen from the south also sent urgent news to Shenglong that the Ruan army had crossed the river and invaded north two days ago.

In front of the capital, there were Ming army, Shannan, Qinghua, and Nanding were decayed. Hongji and Guangning were controlled by the Ming army. The Mo family in the north and Ruan family in the south were injured and were extremely frightened. Zheng Zao was extremely frightened and ordered the generals from the north and the south to serve the king. At the same time, they immediately negotiated with the Ming army, willing to return the Ming princess and court officials, and pay an additional compensation of 5 million taels, just so that the Ming Dynasty could calm its anger.

Ahem, this chapter is released regularly, I am having a wedding banquet outside. I will update today.

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