Early in the morning of the next day, as the sky was just getting bright and a little fish belly white appeared on the sea surface in the east, the speedboat docked at the port of Zhangzi Island.
As soon as the ship docked, a group of Ming troops disembarked. Looking at the military uniforms, one could tell that they were sergeants Guan Ning who had been transferred to Zhangzi Island from Liaodong.
There were two soldiers wearing the same military uniform on the pier and immediately approached them. They recognized the group of soldiers who were getting off the boat. The man walking at the front was his master's personal guard. The two soldiers approached and asked in a low voice.
He said: "How is it? Is the matter done for the master?"
At this time, in their minds, this question has been asked many times. People are here, how could it not be possible?
But they never expected that the guard did not answer them. He turned around and smiled charmingly and said to the soldiers following him: "Both of them are close followers of the ancestor's traitor."
As soon as he finished speaking, without saying a word, four soldiers from behind immediately passed the guard, stepped forward and held their knives against the two soldiers who came to greet them. Then they escorted the two soldiers who were first surprised and then frightened.
Go on the boat.
The other soldiers continued to be guided by Zu Dalue's personal guards and quickly went to Zu Dalue's residence without saying a word.
After arriving at the gate of the General's Mansion, if he saw someone, as long as the personal guard pointed his finger at him, soldiers would immediately come forward to arrest him.
During this action, there was at most one or two "You're back?" or "What's going on?", and then there was no sound.
The rest of the soldiers, led by the personal guards, went straight to a wing in the backyard.
What is a bit surprising is that there is still candlelight in the wing room, and the sound of cups being pushed and lamps being changed can be heard from time to time.
The guard looked at the soldiers behind him, approached the wing and asked loudly: "Mr. Ning, Mr. Sun, are you there?"
The room was quiet for a while, and then a surprised voice came out: "We are here, any news? Have you succeeded?"
The soldiers behind the guard saw that the guard nodded to them, so they took a few steps forward and kicked the wooden door of the wing vigorously.
There was only a "click, bang" sound, and the door of the wing was kicked open completely, and it fell off the door axis and fell to the ground.
The soldiers at the door immediately swarmed in with knives and broke into the side room.
I saw two people sitting on the Kang in the side room. There was a small table with leftovers in front of them. They were holding wine glasses and were about to clink them. However, their faces were a little startled by the loud noise and they turned their heads towards the door.
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The soldiers who broke into the room pounced on them like wolves and tigers. They put a knife to the necks of Ning Wanwo and Sun Degong, and immediately cut off their hands and tied them up.
"First of all, these two people are the craftsmen sent by Jianlu. This is Ning Wanwo, and this is Sun Degong." The guard introduced to Gu Baichuan with a charming smile.
Gu Baichuan nodded and said to the soldiers: "Take them away."
This operation was considered a success, and all the remaining traitors on Zhangzi Island were captured, not a single one was missed.
After daybreak, the fleet of the Denglai Ming Army began to appear in the sight of the soldiers on Zhangzi Island. The leading large ship with three bows was particularly eye-catching.
There were some people standing on the deck. One of them took a telescope and looked at it for a while. After seeing the agreed colorful flags on the pier, he turned to Lu Xiangsheng, who was standing next to him and was slightly depressed, and said: "Okay, we've caught them all."
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Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said to this man: "Thanks to the Marquis, I didn't expect Jianlu to have such a hand. The subordinate made a mistake and led to Denglai's defeat."
He originally wanted to take the blame and resign, but Zhong Jinwei persuaded him. The so-called victory or defeat is a common thing for military strategists, and no one can guarantee victory in every battle. Besides, you will gain wisdom after suffering a setback. Will you, Lu Xiangsheng, make this kind of mistake again?
There is currently no one in the court who is more suitable to be the governor of Denglai than Lu Xiangsheng. If Lu Xiangsheng is not the governor of Denglai, and someone else comes, they will not only have to get familiar with the situation in Denglai again, but they will not know as much about Jianlu as him, and everything will start all over again.
.Then the Denglai Ming Army is really destroyed, and it will be difficult to have an impact on Jianlu in a short period of time. This also plays into Jianlu's treacherous plan.
Moreover, except for this defeat, Lu Xiangsheng's previous achievements were good. Whether it was domestic affairs or war against the captives, he was able to achieve good results.
Under Zhong Jinwei's persuasion, Lu Xiangsheng finally changed his mind. He decided to submit a memorial to the court to plead guilty, and at the same time, he begged for meritorious service.
On this point, Zhong Jinwei will undoubtedly speak for Lu Xiangsheng. Moreover, this is a business matter and a real situation. After Emperor Chongzhen learned the facts from other channels, he would not think that Zhong Jinwei was biased.
As for the censors in the imperial court, there must be some gibberish people, and Zhong Jinwei also has a headache about this. When Sun Chengzong was in charge of Liaodong, he was also impeached and dismissed by the censors because of his defeat. Lu Xiangsheng's defeat this time was worse than
The time when Sun Chengzong was raised was not a big deal.
This matter can only be taken step by step. Anyway, it is best to keep Lu Xiangsheng's position as governor of Denglai.
The fleets docked one after another, and the exhausted Den Lai Ming troops disembarked one after another, and then assembled the entire fleet at the port to tally the battle losses.
The statistical results were sent to Zhong Jinwei's ship two hours later.
Only half of the Denglai Ming Army was able to return to Zhangzi Island, and some senior generals were lost. For example, Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of the Denglai Ming Army, Liu Xingzhi, the guerrilla of the Pi Island Army, Xu Fuzuo, the military commander, Shang Kexi, the capital commander of Shicheng Island, and others
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Lu Xiangsheng's Biao camp suffered the heaviest losses, with only about one-third of its men left. Among them, Lu Da, Wang Jia, and Gao Yingxiang were all killed in the battle.
As for the injured generals, or the generals who were not injured, there were almost no generals. Of course, Zu Dale was not counted. In fact, he was also injured and turned into a pig's head.
An important reason why the Denglai Ming army suffered so heavy casualties but managed to escape so many people was that the Jianlu were too greedy.
This ancient army basically collapsed when the casualties exceeded three levels. However, in order to directly control the Denglai Ming army in the future, and to prevent Lu Xiangsheng from escaping, Jianlu adopted the strategy of encirclement and annihilation.
As a result, the fearful people in the Denglai Ming army had no way to escape even if they wanted to collapse, so they had no choice but to continue to resist with the army. Of course, to achieve such a result, Lu Xiangsheng's personal actions also played a great role.
Although the Denglai Ming Army also killed and wounded many Jianlu prisoners in this battle. However, the Ming army calculated military merit based on the enemy's heads. It was good that everyone could escape back. How could they still remember to cut off the Jianlu prisoners' heads?
Moreover, the remains of his comrades, many of whom were related to each other, were never brought back. Therefore, the morale of these lucky Ming soldiers was very low.
Lu Xiangsheng was patrolling the dock even though he was injured. Seeing this situation, he felt very sad.
Speaking of which, if I hadn't been so focused on cutting off the profits and coveting the huge benefits that would come from success, I would have been more cautious, and maybe I would have discovered the trap and avoided this failure.
Zhong Jinwei stood on the deck and saw all this through the telescope, thinking that it would definitely not work if this continued.
He thought of some practices of later generations, felt happy, and had an idea.