On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of Yongli reign, Zheng Chenggong led his army north to Changtai County in an attempt to attack Zhangzhou Prefecture.

Zheng Chenggong's intention was very obvious, and so did the Zhangzhou defenders. On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the army arrived near Xixi. Wang Jin, Wang Zhigang, Chen Shangzhi and other Qing troops who were trapped in Zhangzhou City gathered thousands of soldiers and horses to fight.

They had not yet assembled, so they had to fight in Qinding Town and Liwu Camp.

The strength of the Ming army was less than half that of the Qing army, so the first battle was unfavorable. Gan Hui stepped forward and was hit by two arrows. Chen Fengjijin was wounded by four arrows, and he seemed to be retreating.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Grand Governor Kong Yan were advancing bravely and were beheaded when they retreated. The leader of the owl personally attacked Chen Zhen, the forward battalion general of Ding Town, and Zeng Meng, the general commander. The Ming army's military laws were strict, and the soldiers had no choice but to turn back and fight to the death. Finally, they were able to resist.

The Qing army's offensive brought the battle to a stalemate. Subsequently, Ou Bin, the deputy general of Qinding Town, led his cavalry directly into the Qing army's formation, killing two of the cavalry generals. The Qing army was immediately defeated, and countless people drowned. Because of his merit, Zheng Chenggong changed the etiquette

The military camp is called Liwu Town, and the camp general Chen Feng is the chief military officer.

In the Battle of Xixi, the Ming army defeated the Qing army in Zhangzhou with a small number. The army continued to advance. A few days later, the Qing army gathered thousands of troops and defeated Rongqi Town.

As the army approached, Zheng Chenggong camped on the high stone mountain outside the east gate of Changtai County, making ladders and siege equipment. Each town also besieged the county. The Ming army's consecutive victories in southern Fujian encouraged the local anti-Qing movement, and the Ministry of War

Chen Yun, the head of the Fang Division, led thousands of rebel troops to the area, and Zheng Chenggong incorporated them into Zhang Mingzhen's naval front army.

When they got close to the county seat, the defenders refused to surrender. The Ming army attacked several times, but the city was never able to advance. On the second day of February, strict orders were issued to attack the city. Wu Shizhen, the general of the ranger camp, took the lead and bravely climbed the city. He was killed by artillery fire. Zheng Chenggong used Huang Yuan's weapon to attack the city.

He was in charge of the barracks. At the same time, he realized that a strong attack was not the best strategy, so he moved to Gaobu at the north gate, dug tunnels, and planned to break the city with Bengfa.

The so-called collapsing method is actually digging and blasting. Excavating tunnels to the city wall, burying gunpowder, sealing the holes, and using the power of the gunpowder explosion to destroy the city wall.

On the fourth day of March, Zheng Chenggong received a military intelligence report stating that the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jintong, and the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, including Biao, had arrived with tens of thousands of reinforcements and were stationed near Tong'an County. As a powerful enemy approached, Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to order an explosion. He planned to enter the city if it was breached.

If it is not broken, reinforcements will be sent. As a result, early in the morning of the seventh day of March, gunpowder was ignited. Unexpectedly, the tunnel did not reach the city wall, but only a huge crater was blown outside the city. So on the same day, Zheng Chenggong personally led his army to move to Jiangdong Bridge to intercept

Chen Jin's army.

Jiangdong Bridge was originally called Hudu Bridge. It was built in the Shaoxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty. It was repeatedly destroyed and repaired. By the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a new bridge was built. "The stone beam is eighty feet long, five feet wide and five feet thick, and has 15 channels of water."

, one with three beams, sparse to widen its path, and use slabs of stone to cover its gaps. It is twenty feet wide and two thousand feet long." This bridge is "heavy at the top and solid at the bottom.

Anger, fire cannot heat, storms cannot collapse." It is truly a miracle in the history of bridge construction, and is known by later generations as the largest stone girder bridge in the world.

This bridge is located in the lower reaches of the Beixi River in the Jiulong River and has always been an important transportation link with Zhangquan. Chen Jin led the army to help, so naturally he had to pass through it.

After last year's three defeats in Cizao, Qianshan and Xiaoyingling, as well as this year's two defeats in Zhangpu and Haicheng counties and the Zhangzhou Qing army, the war situation in Fujian has reversed. Chen Jinlai is fierce, not only mobilizing

A large number of Qing troops from Zhejiang and Fujian, including the governors of Zhejiang and Fujian, were summoned to the Qing army in Tingzhou to go south. At the same time, Zheng Cai's old generals Cai Xing and Zhang Yunfei left Quanzhou and attacked Zhongzuo.

Since Chaozhou was still in the hands of the Ming army, Chen Jin was not able to mobilize the Chaozhou Qing army to march eastward as he had done in history. However, the Guangdong Qing army had already launched an offensive against Chaozhou earlier. For example, Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying's Green Camp were here.

At that time, they still continued to attack the Ming army's Luohe defense line.

In response, Zheng Chenggong sent the chief military officer of Zhongquan Town, Huang Xing, and the governor Chen Yaoce's escort of Zhongzhen and Huang Wu's British barracks to garrison Nanjing and the Pinghe line to guard against the green camp of Tingzhou;

The division's rear army, Pingyi Marquis Zhou Hezhi, and the navy's right army, Min'an Marquis Zhou Rui, intercepted the Fujian Qing navy and sent Chen Liuyu's Beizhen and Xinwu camps to assist in the defense of Haicheng.

Having ensured the defense of key points on the periphery, Zheng Chenggong relied on the terrain to use Huang Ting, the commander-in-chief of Xianfeng Town on the right, to supervise Zuo Chong Town, and Qibing Town to ambush behind, to prevent the Zhangzhou Qing army from attacking from a pincer attack;

Ding Town, Liwu Town, the aid and suppression forces of Zuo Town, Qianfeng Town, Zheng Barracks and other units set up camp on the road; they used aid and suppression forces to ambush the woods in Zhong Town to provide support to each town; they used aid and suppression forces to ambush Shenqingqiao and Hongjianwei areas in Right Town.

Cut off its return path.

According to Zheng Chenggong's arrangement, each town was surrounded by mountains in front and water at the back. The water divisions were led back to cut off the retreat, imitating the Marquis of Huaiyin's formation with the water at the back. At the same time, he ordered the whole army to follow the enemy's reward and punishment pattern for this battle. In addition, the formation was ordered to be overseen.

, the supervising camp used the deputy general and below to signal the retreaters on the spot, and commanded the retreaters in the general town to tie up the retreating troops. It was clear that they were going to fight to the death with Chen Jin here!

On the tenth day of March, Chen Jin's army arrived and camped at Niuti Mountain. This place was still five miles away from Jiangdong Bridge. The Ming army camped first and had cut off the Qing army's road to Zhangzhou to aid and occupied a favorable location.

News from Zhangzhou Prefecture was cut off, so Chen Jin did not dare to stay here too long. At noon on March 13, he personally led the army. When the Qing army approached, he saw that the Ming army's camp camps were silent and motionless, and the main force did not dare to advance lightly.

When they got close to the main barracks, they launched an attack and used their troops to storm the camp.

The Qing army had moved, and Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered the towns to swarm out. The Qing army split up to meet the enemy. There was a melee for a while, and it was difficult to tell the winner. So Zheng Chenggong personally led Rongqi Town to launch a fierce attack on the Qing army, but the Qing army was defeated.

Shao Que. Subsequently, the troops from Liwu Town, Qinding Town, Youxianfeng Town, Zuoxiang Town, and the Suppressant Zuo Town all came out to fight bravely. At the same time, Hao Wenxing led the Suppressant Zhongzhen to fight out from the woods and went straight into it.

The Qing army was defeated.

The Ming army took advantage of the victory and pursued it all the way to the Niutishan camp of the Qing army. All the towns gathered to continue the pursuit. The Qing army was defeated again. Chen Jin abandoned his clothes, armor and baggage and ran for his life. At nightfall, Chen Jin was attacked by Huangshan troops again.

The ambushes pursued and killed him, and he retreated hastily, only escaping with his own life.

During this battle, the Qing army was littered with corpses, almost completely annihilated, and the captured clothing and armor and baggage were countless. According to the differences in rewards for the enemy, Zheng Chenggong used courtesy to suppress Chen Feng, personally Ding to suppress Ganhui, and right vanguard to suppress Huang.

Ting, assisted in the suppression of Huangshan in Youzhen, etc. He was promoted to Huangshan as the front governor, Gan Hui as the middle admiral, and Huangshan as the right admiral. Each admiral had two towns on the left and right. In addition, Liao Jing, the deputy general of Youxiang Town, was in charge of Youxiang Town.

Ou Bin, the deputy general of Qinding Town, was in charge of Qinding Town, and Yu Xin, the deputy general of Qinding Town, was in charge of aiding and suppressing Youzhen. The main barracks was changed to Zhengbing Town, and the camp general Chen Xun was promoted to general officer.
Chapter completed!