Wang Mingqian jumped off his horse and knelt in front of his father covered in blood.
"I have neglected my humble duty and have neglected Dinghai. I ask the governor to punish me."
Wang Zhiren sat astride the horse and glanced at his son condescendingly. His armor was stained with blood, and a string of human heads hung on the saddle. "Is there Zhang Guozhu's dog head there?"
"Despicable and incompetent, Zhang Guozhu ran away with five hundred archers."
Wang Zhiren dismounted, whipped his riding crop and whipped his son so hard that Wang Mingqian fell to the ground. He rushed up and whipped his son several more times, breaking his shirt.
"Asshole."
The other Dinghai battalion officers who arrived all knelt on the ground and did not dare to say a word loudly.
Wang Zhiren whipped Wang Mingqian twenty times before he stopped.
"Come here, capture this incompetent guy, remove him from office on the spot, and imprison him pending trial."
Qian Sule and others arrived and interceded for Wang Mingqian.
"Although General Wang made mistakes, he also redeemed his mistakes and tried his best to make up for it. Today he also defeated Zhang Guozhu and saved Yincheng."
"Mr. Qian doesn't need to plead for this beast. For my sake, His Royal Highness Jian Guo made an exception and granted him the title of General of Dinghai Cucumber. He was also given the rank of Deputy Chief Soldier and asked him to lead a battalion and stay in Dinghai City. He paid a few favors before leaving.
I told you to be careful, but this beast actually carelessly entered Zhang Guozhu’s military camp alone, had people capture him, and then tricked Dinghai City away. Even if he died a hundred times, it wouldn’t be enough!”
"Your Majesty, General Wang also fought desperately today. Not only did he defeat the Zhang thief, but he also recaptured Dinghai City."
In front of everyone, Wang Zhiren was very cruel to Wang Mingqian. He was whipped, dismissed, and imprisoned. He was also very strict with other officers of the original Dinghai camp, and ordered them all to be raped and locked up.
But the officers under Zhang Guozhu who turned against him were very polite.
Even the poor captured prisoners among the more than a thousand men and horses left behind by Zhang Guozhu when he escaped earlier behaved very politely.
"Zhang Guozhu has fled to Zhoushan. It is now too late to rely on Huang Binqing."
"Have any traces of Wang Chao Xian's troops been found?"
After a brief discussion, Wang Zhiren quickly led his troops back to Dinghai to garrison the gateway to Ningbo to prevent Huang Binqing from coming.
Qian Sule was still guarding Yincheng in Ningbo. Before Wang Zhiren left, he deliberately locked up his son Wang Mingqian and the officers of Dinghaiying in Yincheng, asking Qian Sule to help guard them and wait for the fate of Lu Supervisor to show his impartiality and selflessness.
The 2,000 people under Zhang Guozhu who turned against him, as well as the more than 1,000 captured soldiers from the rear, Wang Zhiren also left 2,000 people for Qian Sule and asked him to take charge of them first, while he himself took the people from the Dinghai camp and a thousand
Those who rebelled were taken away.
The two battalions of men and horses under his command immediately became four thousand.
Zhang Guozhu is also a ruthless character. When he saw Wang Zhiren arriving at the critical moment, he immediately ran away. Wang Mingqian chased him anxiously. He even left the more than a thousand people behind and ran away with only his own servants and five hundred archers.
road.
He ran to Dinghai without stopping, without entering the city. He ran directly to the dock, got on his boat, and set out to sea with those who stayed behind.
With such decisiveness and speed in their escape, even Wang Mingqian struggled to catch up and could only watch them sail out to sea.
When Wang Zhiren led his troops to Dinghai and took over the defense of the base camp again, the patrolling cavalry brought back a group of people.
But it was Wang Chao who desperately tried to escape from the sea first.
Dynasty Xian narrowly escaped death and finally escaped from Huang Binqing's mouth. He originally wanted to return to Chongming, but when he thought that he had been so miserably plotted by Huang Binqing, he now had no one he wanted, and he didn't have any capital to go back to Chongming. What if he was chased by Huang Binqing again along the way?
My life is not guaranteed.
An Yi calculated that it would be better to go to Lu Jianguo's side. As long as he escaped, at least Huang Binqing would not be able to harm him.
At this time, he didn't care that he was planning to team up with Huang Binqing to attack Ning Shao.
In great embarrassment, he explained his identity to the patrolling Zhejiang soldiers and asked them to bring him to see Wang Zhiren.
As soon as they met, Wang Chaoxian didn't care about the embarrassment of losing his armor at this time, and took the initiative to explain the situation in detail.
"Chen Wu and Huang Binqing are both traitors with evil intentions. I originally wanted to go south to Guangdong and Guangxi, but when I passed by, I sent someone to write to Huang Binqing to persuade him a few words. He actually attacked me too, pretending to entertain the master, but in the end he
Ambush me at sea..."
Wang Zhiren looked at this guy and didn't believe a word he said.
However, they still comforted him politely, took off their clothes and put them on him, and had people prepare meals for them.
After settling them first, he immediately summoned his men to inquire about the situation.
After the intelligence was gathered, Wang Zhiren basically understood what happened.
The dynasty first merged with Huang Binqing, or Huang Binqing made a surprise attack and annexed the dynasty's ancestors. The dynasty first suffered a huge loss and was deceived.
This is not a strange thing. These days, anyone can be an enemy, and friendly forces can never be trusted.
What's more, it's Huang Binqing. He knows this evil neighbor relatively well, so it's not surprising that he would do such a thing.
Wang Zhiren frowned when he heard that over 10,000 troops under the imperial command, including 8,000 Sichuan white soldiers, had surrendered almost without a fight on the sea and fell into the hands of Huang Binqing.
It was a pleasure to watch the dog biting dog thing, but Huang Binqing's strength has greatly increased. If he accepts Zhang Guozhu again, he will probably have a greater appetite and want to seize Dinghai or even try to seize Ning Shao.
"Why don't we take advantage of Huang Binqing's Xina Dynasty's advance and attack Zhoushan to catch him off guard?"
This proposal moved his heart, but Wang Zhiren quickly shook his head.
"The top priority right now is to stabilize eastern Zhejiang first. Although Chen Wu and Zhang Guozhu have failed, and all the troops under the imperial dynasty have been swallowed up by Huang Binqing, there are still many rebels in Ningshao. We have to clear them out."
"As for Zhoushan and Huang Binqing, it is better to defend and wait for the attack."
Wang Zhiren hurried back from Cixi and brought back two battalions. However, judging from the performance of Dinghai Battalion, we know that after just reorganization, the Zhejiang Army's battalions are still very chaotic and weak. It may not be possible to take the initiative to cross the sea to fight Huang Binqing.
What is the chance of winning? It is better to digest the results of this battle first and re-stabilize each battalion.
Strengthen integration and train hard.
"How should the Dynasty deal with it first?"
"I don't think this guy has any good intentions. He was just tricked by Huang Binqing. Now that he has no soldiers and no power, it's better to just kill him with a knife."
"No, this man will keep it for now." Wang Zhiren twirled his beard, "His 8,000 white-armed soldiers have now been annexed by Huang Binqing, but it will not be easy for Huang Binqing to chew up and digest these 8,000 white-armed soldiers. We keep the dynasty
First, maybe it will be of great use when we attack Huang Binqing."
"Besides, he is also one of the eight generals who supported King Yiyang, and he is also the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong awarded by King Yiyang. If he takes the initiative to switch to His Highness Lu Jianguo at this time, it will also have a great influence."
"Send a team of soldiers to take him to His Highness Lu Jianguo."
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Zhoushan sea.
Zhang Guozhu wandered on the sea with more than a thousand defeated soldiers. He wanted to go to Zhoushan to surrender to Huang Binqing, but he met several of Wang Binqing's subordinates at sea. He heard that Huang Binqing actually hacked Wang Dynasty without saying a word and swallowed up tens of thousands of his troops. Dynasty
At first, he fell into the sea and did not know whether he was alive or dead. He was also shocked.
"Damn this Huang Binqing, he's so damn shady!"
"We can't vote for him, otherwise it would be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?"
Several close friends are very afraid of Huang Binqing. Such a ruthless person will definitely not end well if he goes there now.
Zhang Guozhu was also in a very embarrassed state. He originally wanted to take advantage of the infighting between Huang Binqing and others in the Chen Wu Dynasty, so that he could quietly seize territory to expand his own strength, and then ask King Yiyang for a count general or something.
But who would have thought that he would lose so quickly.
"I think we can't stay in Zhejiang anymore. How about we go to Fujian or Guangdong?" one person said.
"Fujian is the territory of the Zheng family. We have no future if we go there. Besides, we have to pass through Huang Binqing's territory when we go south. We may not be able to get there."
"Then what should we do? We just robbed Dinghai and attacked Ningbo. We can't go to King Lu or Wang Zhiren, right?"
"We just captured Wang Zhiren's son. Are we not seeking death by surrendering to him?"
"How about going back to Chongming?"
Zhang Guozhu shook his head, "The King of Yiyang is also useless. Look at the pioneer of the Chen Wu Dynasty who went south, only to be wiped out in two or two. What future do you think he has?" He gritted his teeth and said,
"I think it would be better to go to Hangzhou to join the Jurchens."
"But we didn't surrender to the Qing army in Huaishang. Isn't it too late to surrender now?"
"At first, I felt that the Zhu family's strength was not exhausted, but now I see that even after they have reached this level, they are still thinking about fighting among themselves. There is no chance. Let's surrender it as soon as possible."
"Damn it, I only have a thousand men and horses at hand now, so I don't have much money to surrender to the Qing Dynasty." Several generals said.
Zhang Guozhu did not panic, "What are you afraid of? We don't still have ships and soldiers? Let's go north along the coast. When we see the opportunity, we will land to grab money and food. We will fight all the way to Hangzhou, and we will get what we have in hand.
Are you still afraid that you won’t be able to raise 10,000 or 20,000 troops?”
"Brother's idea is better!"
"Okay, it's settled, go north and surrender!"
The decision has been made, not to go to Zhoushan now, but to change direction and sail north.
When Wang Zhiren was reorganizing the Dinghai camp, Huang Binqing was also proudly counting his trophies on Zhoushan Island. There were 8,000 white-armed soldiers from the dynasty's front, thousands of craftsmen and boatmen, and hundreds of boats.
The seal of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi fell into his hands.
So Huang Binqing was very rude and directly added an official position to himself: Governor Zuo of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Grand Master, Su Jingbo, Chief Military Officer of the Land and Water Bureau, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Military Affairs and Admiral of Food and Pay.
After he was granted the title of Governor, he did not stop doing anything else. He simply made his two younger brothers chief military officers, and his two sons and nephews, as well as several generals under his command, all were granted the title of deputy chief soldiers and generals.
He integrated his more than 20,000 soldiers and horses and expanded them into five armies, which were divided into five armies, front, rear, left, center and right. He led the center army himself. The remaining four armies were led by two brothers and two sons, each commanded by the rank of general and deputy general.
Each army has five thousand regular soldiers, and each is divided into five battalions of one thousand each. The officers of each battalion are awarded guerrilla generals.
Huang Binqing directly built a palace on the island, and named it the Left Governor's Mansion, the Water and Land Official Recruitment General Military Officer's Column, and the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi's Column.
"Report!"
"Uncle, Chen Wu was defeated in Cixi and was beheaded by King Lu and Wang Zhiren, and his tribe was annexed."
"Also, Zhang Guozhu seized control of the sea and attacked Yin City in Ningbo. His men mutinied. Wang Zhiren turned around and attacked again. He was defeated and fled into the sea without knowing where to go."
Huang Binqing, who was originally feeling proud, was stunned when he heard this.
Huang Binqing, nicknamed Tiger Crazy, sighed after a long time, "This Chen Wu is such an incompetent general that he killed the entire army, and this Zhang Guozhu is also a fool."
"Uncle, what should we do now? Are we going to send troops to attack Dinghai?"
Huang Binqing tilted his head and sneered a few times, "Don't worry, Chen Wu is dead and Zhang Guozhu is defeated. If this is the case, then the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian will fall on one shoulder."
Huang Binqing added another official to himself. Now he is the land and water official, the general military officer, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
"Send ships to search for Zhang Guozhu and his men at sea and along the coast. When they are found, cut off the head of the defeated general and bring his men back to Zhoushan."
"Remember to search for another dynasty before you can see people alive or dead."