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Chapter 106 Invincible

In the second year of Yonghe, January [-]th.

A sudden and happy event occurred in Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yijiong's queen Wu Alan was pregnant.

I discovered this one afternoon when I was feeding fish in the pavilion to relieve my boredom. At first I thought I had eaten something wrong, so I called the imperial doctor for a diagnosis, and then I was shocked to find out that I was pregnant.

As soon as this news came out, it can be said that one stone caused thousands of waves.

On that day, Zhu Yijiong didn't even bother to plan the Northern Expedition, so he ran back to the palace in a hurry.

In fact, counting the time, it had been two months since Wu Alan came to Quanzhou with the army that moved the capital. Zhu Yijiong had never taken any contraceptive measures and was still a normal male. It was only a matter of time before she got pregnant.

I just didn't expect that I would know about this before I was about to go on a personal expedition. I have to say that this is indeed good news.

Zhu Yijiong was naturally extremely happy about this. Regardless of his past life, this was the first time he was going to be a father.

Not only Zhu Yijiong was happy to be a father for the first time, but Wang Li and even the entire Ming Dynasty officials were also in an upbeat mood.

After all, the queen is pregnant. As long as the son is born, he will be the eldest son, which means that the Ming Dynasty finally has an heir.

For any feudal regime, having an heir means that it truly has a future and that its foundation has been established. Otherwise, no matter how strong it is, it will be nothing.

It can be said that as long as this child can be born and is still a son, even if Zhu Yijiong suddenly dies now, these ministers can turn around and support the young master to continue to fight against the Qing Dynasty, so that the great cause will not collapse.

Zhu Yijiong was so happy that he sealed a red envelope for everyone in the palace that day, including Wang Li and others who came to congratulate him.

Although they are not short of money, this is a reward from the prison country, and it is very likely to be a red envelope from the future prince or even the crown prince, so they are naturally happy.

However, after sealing the red envelope, Zhu Yijiong did not celebrate the matter. After all, time is of the essence right now. If he misses the opportunity because of celebration, even if he has ten more sons, it will not be able to make up for it.

Zhu Yijiong only stayed with Wu Alan for half a day, and then ordered the palace defense to be strengthened, and even summoned Wu Wai, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, his uncle, back for personal protection.

After finishing the palace affairs, Zhu Yijiong immediately started preparations for the personal expedition again, including the follow-up arrangements for Fujian after his personal expedition. It is certain that the cabinet headed by Wang Li will be in Fujian, and the Ordnance Bureau will also continue to increase output, etc. wait.

It seems that because Zhu Yijiong finally has a child, the motivation of cabinet ministers such as Wang Li is obviously stronger than before, and they all want to pat their chests and pledge their support.

While preparing for the personal expedition, Zhu Yijiong did not forget Xu Jin from Zhangting Prefecture and Huang Dian from Jianning Prefecture. The former praised and encouraged, and the latter comforted.

Finally, Zhu Yijiong also granted Xu Jin the title of Zhangzhou Count, which was an act of kindness.

Acting like this, Xu Jin's dissatisfaction caused by being semi-marginalized for a long time was instantly smoothed away.

After handling all the trivial matters, Zhu Yijiong spent another two days preparing.

On January [-]th, Zhu Yijiong sent a message to the world, and the emperor personally went to conquer it.

Since the Second Prefecture of Wentai, Zhejiang, had been occupied by the Ming army, Zhu Yijiong's personal expedition took the water route, and the land route was too far.

A total of [-] Ming Dynasty new troops (newly recruited) and [-] imperial battalions boarded ships from Xiamen Port and headed north quickly. Two thousand imperial battalions were left to guard the palace.

The Ming Navy's naval fleet, which had been idle for almost half a year, finally came into use this time. Except for the remaining fleet, almost all the main forces of the navy were dispatched.

More than three hundred warships headed north along the coast. In addition to carrying the supervisory army northward, their mission this time was to eliminate the Dinghai Zhen Navy in Zhejiang, which was also the last remaining naval fleet of the Qing army in Zhejiang. .

Zhejiang has a total of three naval divisions, Dinghai Navy, Wenzhou Navy, and Taizhou (Huangyan) Navy.

Nowadays, the latter two have been wiped out and defeated by the Ming army, and they have disappeared. Only the Dinghai Division, which is stationed on Dinghai Island and controls Ningbo Prefecture and Hangzhou Bay, still exists.

However, as far as the Ming army was concerned, the Dinghai Division was nothing more than a grasshopper after autumn, and could not survive for a few days.

Although the Ming Navy had never fought a true water battle, it had been sailing for such a long time, and with the shelling of Jinxia in front, it could be considered as practical experience.Then bring along the wolf pack tactics that Zhu Yijiong described to them, specially designed for half-hearted naval engineers like them who don't know how to fight in water.

The wolf pack tactic was originally a tactic used by the Three Virtues of Time and Space. To put it bluntly, there is strength in numbers. Although it failed in the end, it was indeed effective in the early stage.

And the reason for the final failure was not entirely due to the tactics themselves.It was more due to the fact that Sandoko did not have sea air superiority, and the tactics were too simple, and they failed to take advantage of the enemy's early surprise when they were caught off guard to kill the enemy as much as possible.

But the Ming army does not have this problem. In this era, it has far-fetched maritime air supremacy.

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The news that Zhu Yijiong, the Ming traitor superintendent of Fujian, announced to the world that he wanted to personally conquer Zhejiang in the Northern Expedition, reached the state capital within a few days.

All the officials in Chuzhou Prefecture, including the prefect and the commander-in-chief, were all shocked when they heard the news.

Although Chuzhou Town not only escaped from the last siege on all sides, but also absorbed the remnants of Wenzhou General Dai Kun's troops, and the number of troops exceeded [-].

However, such a small number of troops is actually not enough compared to the Ming thieves. From the situation point of view, the current Chuzhou Prefecture has already been surrounded by the Ming thieves on three sides. Just from the news that has come one after another during this period, the Ming thieves and Jinhua The troops assembled by the two governments in Wenzhou were approaching one hundred thousand.

The previous 20 Ming thieves could defeat their [-] Qing army, let alone the current army of [-] Ming thieves.

In addition, in order to shirk the blame for the defeat, Dai Kun, the commander-in-chief of Wenzhou Town, even shouted the slogan "The Ming thieves are all invincible". As the only person who fought with the Ming thieves and escaped unscathed... he did not escape completely, but at any rate He broke out with the remaining troops.

And, just like that, it also adds to the credibility of his words.

For a time, the entire Chuzhou Prefecture was in panic.

Of course, Dai Kun did not completely lie. Although he made a mistake in the previous battle of Jinhua Mansion, he misjudged the gap in combat power between the enemy and ourselves, and took the initiative to attack the Ming Thieves First Army, causing his entire Wenzhou Town army to be defeated.

But the speed of the defeat still caught him off guard.

That's an army of [-]!

Among them, there were tens of thousands of regular soldiers from the green camp. They were still powerless against the army of Ming thieves. It is no exaggeration to say that they would collapse at the first touch.

Especially the indomitable and fearless aura of the Ming thief soldiers shocked him even more.

Such an army may only be able to fight with the invincible Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners!
What Dai Kun didn't know was that the previous battle at Jinhua Mansion was actually a coincidence. To put it bluntly, he was convinced. The Ming army at that time had just defeated the Qing army with nearly [-] troops in a row, and its morale was at its peak.

Dai Kun, a battle-hardened veteran, actually thought that the opponent had fled south in a hurry to break out of the encirclement. He even ignored that the Ming thief army was all regular troops. Although he had [-] troops under his command, [-] of them were extremely weak in combat ability. The soldiers are brave and young.

The strength of the two armies was similar, and the morale of the Ming army was extremely high. The combat power of the Qing army was uneven. The morale could not be said to be bad, but it was also extremely scattered. It was also a surprise encounter that tested the quality of the soldiers.

Combined with this, Wenzhou Town was defeated like a mountain, and for a time it gave Dai Kun the illusion that the thieves were brave and not afraid of death, and even "invincible".

In fact, if the Qing army really had the same number of regular army green battalions fighting the Ming army, and it was not an encounter, even if it would lose, it should not lose so quickly and miserably.

Speaking of which, so far, even though the Ming army has occupied most of Fujian and Zhejiang, there have been very few head-on battles with the Qing army with real swords and guns.

The only time was the battle with the Fujian Navy at Taiwan. In that battle, he still relied on luring the enemy deep into the enemy's territory, and then used Zhu Yijiong's sugar land mines to achieve success.

When they arrived in Fujian and Zhejiang, the Ming and Qing armies had not had a single head-to-head battle so far. They were almost all fighting a weakened version of the Qing army that was a mix of brave and strong soldiers.

Isn’t that why he is completely invincible?

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