At the end of October 1650.

At Xianxia Pass, Zheng Cai, the general of Zheng army, stood at the top of the city, paying close attention to the movements of the Liang army outside the city.

A few days ago, Liang Jun suddenly appeared outside Xianxia Pass and was ready to attack the city recently.

Previously, the Liang army had sneaked into Xianxia Pass and successfully captured the Guancheng. After the Zheng family took back Xianxia Pass, they improved the guard system at any cost and put a lot of effort into enhancing the defense of Xianxia Pass.

The Zheng army not only transformed the walls, but also built a fortress on the hills outside the city. The trees on the entire mountain were cut down and the covered stones were removed to ensure that every log could roll from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain without missing any blind spots.

Zheng Cai stood at the top of the city. Although Guan Fang seemed to him as solid as a sacrificial person, he still did not dare to mourn him lightly.

Because at this time, outside the wall, there were endless military camps and soldiers passing through them.

Zheng Cai looked outside the city and couldn't help but bit his teeth, making a sound, and said resentful: "Gao Huan bullied people too much. He just cheated Chongming Island and is now invading again. Liang Bing is so arrogant, what do you think of my Zheng family?"

A year ago, the Liang army sneaked into the Zheng family and forced the Zheng family to sign a treaty that was humiliating and humiliating, and ceded Chongming Island. But now the monument has not dried up, the Liang army invaded again.

This made Zheng Jun very angry, thinking that Liang State was a bit bullying.

Last time, Zheng Cai was sneak attacked by Liang's army and lost Guancheng, which made him blamed by Zheng Zhilong. Now that Liang's army invaded again, he was naturally annoyed.

On the side, Shi Fu, the general of Zheng army, supported the wall and looked down at the city, and said angrily: "This time we gathered heavy troops on the northern line, and all passes were reinforced. If the Liang army wanted to attack head-on, they would definitely be bleeding from the head."

Three miles away from the city of Guancheng, King Liang Gaohuan was looking at Xianxia Pass in a complicated mood.

The reason why it is complicated is that over the past year, the Zheng family has strengthened the defense of Guancheng. In order to prevent Liang Jun's mortar and flowering bullets, many targeted transformations have been made.

"King, the fortress in front of the pass was built on the top of the mountain. The surrounding trees were cut down, and there was no obstacle to obstructing the sight. Our mortar cannon cannot resist the bombardment!" Li Pingyuan pointed at the top of the mountain.

Gao Huan pulled out the thousand-mile mirror and observed carefully, and found that the fortress on the mountain had four corners protruding out, which was a bit like the Western Yi's ridge.

"When looking at Zheng Jun's pass, they built another wall in front of the pass, and deployed a large number of troops behind it, and this downward wall just blocked our mortars."

Gao Huan nodded slightly and said in a deep voice: "It seems that Zheng Zhilong has indeed invested a lot in the past year!"

"King! The news from Cenyang Pass is not easy to fight there!" Zhou Yanru and Taoist.

Gao Huan was not surprised. He had learned through intelligence that the Zheng family had stepped forward to defend the northern line. It was precisely because he understood that the northern line was not easy to break through that Gao Huan wanted to use Guangdong.

"It's not easy to fight! I have to eat it down!" Gao Huan took the Qianlijing, and he didn't know whether the plan would be successful, so he could only prepare according to the tough standards.

If the plan to use the road is successful, it will naturally be the best. If it is not successful, then you will attack Fujian by force.

After speaking, Gao Huan pulled his horse back to the Central Army's Celestial Banner. Soon, the Liang army's artillery formation began to roar, and shells hit the mountain, splashing mud.

"Kill!" Thousands of Liang soldiers, under the cover of artillery, scattered and touched the mountain.

The sound of cannons outside Xianxia Pass rumbling, and the Liang army attacked the fortress outside the pass with a scattered army.

If he had no choice, this fortress was in front of Guancheng, equipped with a large number of artillery. If he did not take him down, the Liang army would directly attack Guancheng and would be shot by the artillery on the flanking hilltops.

At this time, guns and cannons were heard in front of the pass, and a sound of horse hooves came from behind the pass.

Zheng Zhilong learned that Gao Huan was attacking him, and led his troops to come with Zheng Sen, and was determined to block Gao Huan from the country.

"King!" Zheng Cai hurried over to greet him, "Why are you here?"

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen turned over and dismounted. Zheng Sen threw the whip to his subordinates and asked anxiously: "What's the situation now?"

Zheng Zhilong had a dark face, "Gao Huan is really cunning. Seeing that he was taking Changsha, I confronted Zhang Xianzhong, and thought he wanted to fight the West, but I didn't want to actually attack me. Fortunately, I was prepared for it, otherwise I would have received his way again this time."

Zheng Zhilong claimed to be Gao Huan's lifelong opponent, but he was repeatedly plotted against by Gao Huan, which made Zheng Zhilong very angry and couldn't hold back his face.

Zheng Cai said in a deep voice: "Gao Huan is really treacherous and too much deceptive! Fortunately, the king prepared in advance and deployed the defense on the northern line, otherwise we would have been plotted by him."

Listening to the rumbling cannons, Zheng Zhilong then walked towards Guancheng and said in a deep voice: "Let's go to Guan and take a look!"

The group hurriedly climbed the city wall and saw a spectacular scene. The Liang army's artillery array kept pouring fire into the mountain, while the Liang army soldiers used a strange three-tale array to disperse, alternately cover, approaching the mountain.

On the top of the mountain, the Zheng family soldiers outside the fortress left behind a large number of logs and stones. However, as the formation of the Liang army dispersed and the soldiers alternately covered, the soldiers in front found the cover and shot the cover. The scattered soldiers behind him jumped over the scattered soldiers in front with flintlock spears. They stopped after finding the cover. The soldiers moved forward alternately, but did not pay much loss, so they forced the Zheng army into the fortress.

This made Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen feel the hearts of their hearts, and they saw the advantages of Liang's soldiers in tactics and training. Fortunately, when approaching the fortress, the Zheng army's muskets and artillery fired on it, making the Liang army unable to get close to the fortress.

At this time, a group of Liang soldiers attempted to approach the fortress, but were all repelled by the crossfire on the city. The Liang army finally heard the sound of gold.

Zheng Zhilong looked at Liang Bing retreating in Guancheng and smiled on his face, "Haha, Liang Bing retreated! I saw that the gun city I built was indeed amazing in defense!"

The gun city is like a bastion in the west, with extremely strong defense. The Ming army in Liaodong once built a gun city to resist the Qing army.

The Zheng family had a lot of contact with Western Yi. After seeing the Dutch bastion, they absorbed the experience of Western Yi fortresses in building forts.

Zheng Sen looked at it for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Father, the Liang army is indeed elite, but fortunately we spent a lot of money to strengthen the defense. Now Gao Huan is attacking head-on. I think we can use the fortifications to consume the Liang army. When the Liang army is tired, then order the Gannan and Zhejiang troops on the left and right wings to attack, perhaps they can surround Gao Huan and defeat his army!"

The Zheng family's defense line is like the snake in Changshan, with eastern Zhejiang as its head, southern Jiangxi as its tail, and Fujian as its body.

The Liang army attacked Xianxia Pass and Cenyang Pass, which could be said to be a direct attack on it, and to break the Zheng family's defense line from the middle.

Zheng Sen's meaning was to use Xianxia Pass and Cenyang Pass to consume the Liang army, and then advance head to the end, surrounding the main force of the Liang army at the junction of Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.

Zheng Zhilong raised his eyebrows when he heard the yu, "Well, Sen'er's strategy is feasible, but the premise is that it must be able to block the Liang army's attack!"

Zheng Zhilong glanced at Zheng Cai, Shi Fu and other generals, "You all have this confidence!"

Zheng Cai and others looked at Liang Bing who was retreating from the mountain and cheered up and saluted, "Don't worry, we will definitely give Liang Bing a headache!"

...

Late at night, it started to rain lightly in Chaozhou Prefecture, which borders Fujian and Guangdong, and the fine and dense rain brought a hint of chill.

At this time, in the mountains and wilderness covered by white mist, an army was moving forward in the rain and advancing towards Zhangzhou.

Ding Kuichu was stabbed to death and Zheng Zhibao was arrested, which made Wang Jingde and Li Yuanyin not dare to stay in Shaoguan at all, nor did they go to Guangzhou, but march directly towards Fujian.

The 40,000 Liang troops were divided into two parts, one with nearly 10,000 people. They went to Meizhou and entered Fujian, captured Tingzhou, and prevented the Zheng army from returning to Fujian, while the other part with 30,000 people rushed directly to Fuzhou, destroying the Zheng army's defense system.

At this time, the army rushed all the way and finally arrived at the boundary of Zhangzhou and arrived at the west bank of Dongxi.

Seeing that the troops were exhausted after many days of marching, Wang Jingde waved his hand and shouted, "Stop moving forward and rest on the spot."

Thirty thousand Liang troops were extremely tired, and the soldiers quickly found a dry place to sit down. After eating some dry food, they seized time to rest and recover their strength.

Wang Jingde found more than a dozen major generals and discussed the raid on Zhangzhou with everyone.
Chapter completed!