Chapter 231 Decisive Battle at Pearl River Estuary
This plan to eliminate Liu Tiaoer's forces was not only a contribution to the Navy, but also a great contribution to the Jinyiwei.
It was they who passed the news of these merchant ships to Liu Tiaoer, who made Liu Tiaoer think that the second fleet heading to the sea where they were inhabited was a merchant fleet, which caused a devastating blow to them.
However, when the Jinyiwei was doing this, he also discovered the detailed work of Zheng Yisao and Zhang Baozai who were entrenched at the mouth of the Pearl River. Because of the Annan Civil War a few years ago, Zheng Yisao and Zhang Baozai also set up many suspicions with Annan and Zheng Ruan in secret.
Originally, they had the opportunity to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and even become veterans. Even when Li Junmei and Zhu Haitao wrote to them personally to ask them to go south to join the construction of the Ming Dynasty, they thought they had surrendered to the Qing court and had become "official troops". The bad people and local bandits in the south were arrogant even when they became emperors. But in just a few years, the people in the south had unified almost the entire South Ocean and defeated many Western powers such as Spain and Britain, which surprised them.
However, they had already surrendered to the Qing court, and many people were buried by the cunning Qing court. If they were to pass by rashly at this time, it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to accept it or not to say it. Now Zheng Yisao and Zhang Baozai have many stores in the Thirteenth Street in Guangzhou, and there are still tens of thousands of acres of land. They have to support tens of thousands of "sailors" under their command. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to give up these and seek refuge in the Ming Dynasty.
However, on the other hand, they wanted to find someone to join the Ming Dynasty, but they were rejected by Zhu Haitao. These two guys didn't know how much they were. They actually wanted to be crowned kings, and even boasted that they would give Guangdong and Guangxi to the Ming Dynasty and the like, which made Zhu Haitao feel very unreliable. They might be some water dragon kings on the sea, but on land, even the Qing cavalry was enough for them to drink a pot. On land, they were no match for the Qing Dynasty at all, and they might have a great uproar in the Ming Dynasty's plans.
Moreover, the Qing Dynasty was always worried about them, and they might even be killed by the people around them when they were just raising troops. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was unfavorable and would definitely have a bad political impact.
Therefore, they wanted to carefully observe the situation of the Ming merchant fleet in Annan and inform Liu Tiaoer and others, hoping to teach the Ming Dynasty a lesson and weaken the Ming Dynasty's strength.
But this also gave the Ming Dynasty an excuse to attack them. After destroying Liu Tiaoer's forces, the offensive plan against Hainan Island, TW Island and the Pearl River Estuary began.
This operation was personally named "Reorganizing the Rivers and Mountains" by Zhu Haitao, which means to recover the hometown of China from the Tungus savages and completely eliminate these wild boar skins.
These wild boar skins still gathered in some places in later generations, constantly showing off their ancestors' existence on the Internet. There was even a big braid breaking into the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum that insulted the most numerous nations in the world but were the most bullied nation. It can be seen that they are many evil.
The elimination of the Qing Dynasty was also Zhu Haitao's promise to the Ming officers and soldiers. Everyone had been waiting for this for a long time.
On June 1, 1784, the Second Fleet escorted the newly formed 13th Division, the 14th Division, and the Third Fleet escorted the 12th Division and the 11th Division. Departing from Chengtian Prefecture, they were preparing to land on Hainan Island and TW Island respectively. The Fourth Fleet escorted the 1st Division and the Royal Guard Division to land on the estuary of the Pearl River, and at the same time they were preparing to eliminate the forces of Zheng Yisao and Zhang Baozai.
The First Fleet and the Fifth Fleet, which finally formed an army, have been on the westernmost side of Sumatra, waiting for possible attacks by the British. In addition, the Second Division, the Third Division, the Fourth Division, the Fifth Division, and the Sixth Division were also deployed in Annan, ready to attack Guangxi at all times, while the remaining divisions and public security forces were stationed in major military locations to prevent indigenous riots in China or attacks by foreign enemies.
Ten days later, the army escorted by the Second Fleet landed in Sanya in later generations, defeated the few Qing troops here, and quickly expanded, gradually advancing around the coastal plains of Hainan Island. After half a month, it invaded Haikou and began to attack the Wuzhi Mountain area and began to clear out the resistance forces here.
On June 12, 1784, the Third Fleet escorted the 12th Division, and the 11th Division landed in Kaohsiung in the south of TW, and soon headed north, and met with Lin Shuangwen, who had already revolted, and soon controlled the entire Taiwan Island.
The Lin Shuangwen Uprising in history took place in 1786, but with the infiltration of the Ming Dynasty, the Tiandihui has become more and more trouble in the southern region in recent years, making the Qing court exhausted. This was the case in which Lin Shuangwen led the uprising two years in advance.
With his cooperation, the Ming army controlled Taiwan's mature land within less than a month, and fought with the Qing Dynasty's naval forces outside the Penghu sea, completely eliminating the Qing Dynasty's naval forces and capturing the Penghu Islands.
Then, the Ming army began to gradually wipe out those life-saving forces. Any force that dared to resist the Ming Dynasty would be ruthlessly eliminated, and only endless labor was waiting for them.
The battle at the Pearl River Estuary also began soon. On June 15, 1784, a historic moment began. The "Xia"-class warships of the Fourth Fleet of the Ming Dynasty lined up at the Pearl River Estuary and began to shell the fortresses at the Pearl River Estuary. The shore defense fortifications here began to be built after Qianlong learned that Annan was captured by the Ming army, and all the artillery passed down from the Ming war. However, the war was only more than a hundred years away, but the once very energetic Qing army had become as weak as the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty.
The Fourth Fleet was like a counter-palm when dealing with these turrets. The blasting bombs fired by the 105mm naval gun could turn their paper-paste turrets into ruins with one shot, and even the people inside could be beaten to pieces.
In less than half a day, all the sandbanks of the islands at the estuary of the Pearl River were occupied by the Ming army.
At the same time, in the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ba Yansan, Zhang Baozai, Zheng Yisao, as well as the navy admiral Yan Chang, Guangzhou General Fu Yu, and Land Admiral Ali Bao were all together, reading the letter of persuasion written by Zhu Haitao to them.
"Governor General, you are a ban on the border! We cannot surrender to Ni Ming!" Fu Yu said. Not to mention the letter of persuasion to surrender, their property and family still have many in the imperial capital. If Qianlong was caught, it would be over.
Besides, they had never thought of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty now has a strong hostility towards the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and there is no possibility of surrendering at all. He Lin also begged for mercy, but was personally killed by Zhu Haitao and cut into pieces in Chengtian Mansion.
In addition to the knowledge that Zhu Haitao mastered more than that of this era, the magical rise of the Ming Dynasty was based on nationalism. Nationalism in this era was simply a needle to strengthen the heart, which could turn a loose nation into a united organization. Any country that was established with nationalism had a much stronger combat power than other traditional countries.
However, this also led to the inability of the Ming Dynasty to absorb the forces of the former Ming Dynasty to use for itself like the Qing Dynasty. Later, Japan invaded China and produced so many puppet troops, but those puppet troops were always just slaves to the Japanese, and they would not have produced people like Wu Sangui and Zhang Rou who could be on par with the Japanese. Therefore, the puppet troops would never be completely on par with the Japanese.
"Ni Ming is shameless! How could I surrender to Ni Ming? Zhang Baozai, since Ni Ming has captured the fort, it depends on whether you can take it back!" Ba Yansan said to Zhang Baozai.
Chapter completed!