I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 45 Bombardment of Kinmen
The 60th year of Kangxi (the first year of Yonghe in the Ming Dynasty), the eighth day of September.

Lin Jun led his troops to join forces with the Yongchun Rebels, ensnaring 20 civilians and claiming to be a 50-strong army. He proclaimed himself General Pingnan of the Ming Dynasty and appointed the general of the world's troops.

At this time, Lin Jun was so confident that he wanted to get rid of it once and for all, and rushed into Quanzhou Prefecture, intending to annihilate the Fujian Qing army in one fell swoop and swallow up the whole province of Fujian.

Seeing that the rebels dared to rush directly into Quanzhou Prefecture and were so arrogant, Fujian Admiral Mu Tingqi responded quickly and ordered Zhangzhou Town to go to fight the rebels head-on.

He also pretended to be defeated to lure the enemy deeper into the city, while he kept the city strong and clear the countryside.

Lin Jun was indeed fooled and went deep into the city. Due to the lack of siege equipment, he had to use ants to attack the city.

For several days in a row, Admiral Mu Tingzha was personally in charge, making Quanzhou Prefecture impregnable.

Lin Jun was unable to attack for a long time, losing tens of thousands of troops, and losing huge amounts of food and grass every day, so he couldn't help but want to retreat.They planned to abandon the important town of Quanzhou, turn around and head north to directly attack the capital Fuzhou.

Most of Lin Jun was composed of coercing the common people. Now that the army has retreated, Lin Jun is just a commoner. He doesn't know how to advance and retreat in a controlled manner, and he has hardly fought any major battles with officers and soldiers.

In the several encounters, the officers and soldiers either ran away or were "defeated". At this time, they thought they were withdrawing their troops, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

Naturally, no deployment was made at all. They just gave an order to retreat. The entire army couldn't be in chaos!
It can only be said that it is like a breeding farm, with the cages loose and flying around.

Mu Tingzha seized the opportunity to fight and went into battle himself. He led Du Biao and the four towns of Jianning, Tingzhou, Funing and Haitan to go out of the city to attack.

Lin Jun's rear army cannot even be called an army. It is just a group of poor people who were trapped. Now they suddenly suffered this change and were instantly defeated.

Countless civilians were either killed by the Qing army or fled in all directions. Chaos quickly spread from the rear army to the entire army.

The coalition forces of Lin Jun and Yongchun Dihui were defeated. The two took advantage of the chaos and led their main forces to disperse and break out.

Mu Tingzhu defeated the feedback army in one battle, just when he was about to take advantage of this general trend and call on all counties in Quanzhou to recruit local braves to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop.

That night, Wang Daocheng, the prefect of Quanzhou, held a grand celebration banquet. Mu Tingshuatu vomited three liters of blood during the banquet, and then fell ill.

Two days later, Fujian Admiral Mu Tingqi died of illness early in history due to overwork and excessive alcoholism.

All right!It’s not too early, after all, it’s this year, it’s just a month or two ahead of schedule.

The Fujian Green Camp towns gathered in Quanzhou, without the command of their top generals, were like headless flies, directly missing a great opportunity to exterminate the rebel bandits in Zhangquan and Quanzhou in one fell swoop.

Lin Jun gathered the remnants of the rebel army and made a comeback. He claimed that his 20-strong army marched north towards Xinghua and entered Fuzhou.

The remaining members of the Yongchun Dihui gathered the remaining members, turned around and disappeared in Yongchun.

There was another earthquake in Fujian, and Lu Youlong was completely stunned.

The situation was obviously very good a few days ago, but in the blink of an eye, it was ruined like this.

However, no matter how confused he was, Lu Youlong couldn't care less and quickly ordered the Quanzhou Green Camp to go north to encircle and suppress Lin Jun's tribe.

If the rebel Lin Jun really wants to capture Xinghua, or even just take advantage of Xinghua and invade the capital, then he, the governor, may not even be able to save his head if he goes to the extreme.

The governor personally gave the order, but Quanzhou Green Camp had no choice but to go north to pursue Lin Jun's rebels.

……

Kinmen Island.

On a sentry tower, two Qing soldiers were taking a nap. This September summer makes people easily sleepy.

Suddenly, a whip hit one of the Qing soldiers in the face.

Drawing out a trace of blood directly, Qing Bing was instantly awakened from his sleep.

The Qing soldiers who were treated like this suddenly became angry and were about to get up and start beating people, but they saw the man standing in front of them, wearing armor and a helmet representing the position of the general soldier.

"General... Mr. General!" The Qing soldier had no anger on his face, only fear, and he quickly knelt down and trembled.

Xu Risheng, the 80-year-old commander-in-chief of Kinmen Town, looked solemn and said coldly: "Drag him down and kill him!"

"Sir, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me!" The Qing soldier turned pale with fright, kowtowed and cried for mercy.Xu Risheng ignored him at all. He was transferred as the commander-in-chief just over a month ago. As for the former commander-in-chief of Kinmen Town, he died in the battle with Shi Shibiao.

Today I just came here on a whim to inspect, but I didn't expect that the officers and soldiers of Kinmen Town have become so slack that the former commander-in-chief deserves to die.

If he hadn't already died in the battle, he would have to read a copy of it.

As for the two sentinels now, let them be his chickens to reorganize Kinmen Town!

"Huh? Why don't you take action?" After thinking for a moment, Xu Risheng was a little displeased and was about to scold them when he saw the two sentries still kneeling in front of them, while the soldiers around him made no move.

A loud bang.

cannon! ?
Xu Risheng was shaken by the sound of the cannon and fell to the ground before he could call for soldiers to help him up.

Boom boom boom...

Now it is certain that it is a cannon, and it is also a red cannon.The continuous sound of cannons shocked Xu Risheng's ears, which were not very good at all, and could no longer hear anything.

Xu Risheng stood up and lay down on the edge of the sentry tower.On the sea a few miles away, hundreds of warships were lined up in a dense formation, with the cannons above firing cannonballs one after another, pouring cannonballs towards Kinmen.

"It's the rebels... The rebels are coming!?" Xu Risheng's eyes were dull, and he was so shocked that he forgot to organize the artillery towers and troops to fight back.

But soon, he no longer had the chance to organize a counterattack.

Just then, a cannonball was fired from the cannon of an unknown ship, flying directly towards the tower where Xu Risheng was located with strong kinetic energy and speed.

With a loud bang, the tall sentry tower was directly hit by the artillery shells and collapsed on the spot. The collapsed sentry tower even hit many fleeing Qing soldiers, directly burying these Qing soldiers alive on the spot.

On the sea, the deck of the flagship of the Ming Navy.

Zhu Yijiong holds a telescope (captured) and is looking at Kinmen Island several miles away.

"Well... OK, the artillery towers have been dealt with. Send the order, land the entire army, and wipe out the remaining Qing troops!" Zhu Yijiong put down the telescope and ordered directly.

"Yes! Supervise the country." On the side, a messenger knelt down on one knee, then got up and ran away.

After a while, Yang Gong and other Ming army generals received the order and began to lead their fleet to land at Kinmen Port.

There is no way, no one under my command is from the navy, and no one can fight in naval battles, so they can only engage in queuing guns in the form of warships... and shoot them to death.

Fortunately, we are only dealing with the coastal defense gun towers along the coast. These will not move. If a salvo fires over, all the gun towers will be destroyed.

The Ming warships directly forcibly landed at Kinmen Port. The first town and the second town were the first to land. Once ashore, there was no way to stop them.

The entire Kinmen Island was full of fleeing soldiers. Seeing tens of thousands of Ming troops approaching, they either surrendered or jumped into the sea to escape.

There were also those who resisted, but there were only a few dozen of them, and they were easily suppressed by the Ming army.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the entire Kinmen Island was completely controlled by the Ming army.

It was so easy to fight, which really surprised the Ming army and Zhu Yijiong. However, after interrogating a person who was said to be a deputy general, Zhu Yijiong found out that it was the commander-in-chief of Kinmen Town who had just been killed by a stray bullet.

There are no bones left.

But it doesn't matter, he is just a general soldier of the Qing Dynasty, and it is not the first time that he, King Zhu, has been killed.

Zhu Yijiong did not stay longer on Kinmen Island. He directly took the more than 1000 remaining Qing troops on Kinmen Island and continued to lead the fleet towards Xiamen.

　Mu Tingqi was the land admiral of Fujian, while Shi Shibiao was the navy admiral.

　　Historically, Mu Tingzha was based in Xiamen, where he dispatched and suppressed Zhu Yigui. Later, he became ill from overwork and died of illness in the army that year.

　　The actual number of soldiers in Kinmen Town was only 3000.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)