"Hahaha, I'm not short of money." Liu Ximing looked at You Degao and others, and burst into laughter.

"But I am very satisfied with your attitude, so that you are my prisoners now and must serve me. After a while, I will allow you to pay the ransom."

"Dear Your Excellency..." Fan Linbao was bitter and planned to plead for mercy.

Liu Ximing waved his hand and stopped him, "Enough, you are just prisoners, and there is no room for bargaining."

He looked at the senior officer Youde, "Scatter these red hairs on every ship to assist our people in their work, and they stayed on the Sun Wu as my nautical consultant."

"Here"

Van Linbao was not a member of the East India Company. At this time, the East India Company was mainly composed of the Governor, the Trade Director, Senior Business Officer, Intermediate Business Officer, and Junior Business Officer, representing the interests of the East India Company Board of Directors.

At best, Fan Linbao was just a businessman who came to the Far East to venture to make huge profits. However, Liu Ximing was also satisfied. After all, the Dutch had been in the South China Sea for many years and was more familiar with various routes than him. These experiences would always play a role.

On January 18th, the newly repaired Fubo Division successfully landed in Yongling County, Guangping Province.

In order to ensure this battle, Liu Ximing once again dispatched 6,000 Fubo Division troops, plus a team of 6,500 people in the personal guard camp to fight.

As a result, the battleships in the fleet were almost hollowed out. Fortunately, there were cruisers and frigates to protect the fleet, so there was no risk.

The 6,500-member team of Fubo Division was completed and began to head towards the defense line set up by the Zheng family on the other side of the Lingjiang River.

At this moment, the Guangping area is still a wild place, with the jungle and rivers all over the land along the way.

Fortunately, the Zheng family built a complete road in order to ensure front-line transportation, and with the Ruan family spies leading the way, the Fubo army soldiers were able to avoid falling into the dilemma of fighting in other places.

Liu Ximing became more careful, and asked the scout of Fu Bo to pay attention to the surrounding terrain along the way and began to draw a map.

The result of the Caoyu naval battle has not been transmitted back to the Zheng family, but the Zheng family's defense line in Lingjiang has received a war report from Shenglong, Tokyo, and the defenders of Donghe, Xinlin and other cities along the route have also begun to gather.

Not long after Fu Bo landed in Yongling County, Zheng Zhan, the garrison of the Zheng family in Donghe, had already learned the news.

In order to gain the opportunity before the Ruan tribe attack and avoid being attacked from both sides, Zheng Tang decided to lead 20,000 defenders out of the city to fight, crack the enemy's raid and then deal with the Ruan family.

After almost two hours of marching, both sides discovered the existence of each other. Nearly 30,000 troops were arranged on a hill south of Yongling County, and the solemn atmosphere filled the battlefield.

In addition to the different colors of the military uniforms, the Annan army in front of Liu Ximing and others was almost not much different from the Ming army. Of course, the thin figure of the Annan people could not be compared with the Ming army.

However, Liu Ximing’s focus at this time was not on these, but on the main weapon of the Zheng family’s army.

Among the more than 20,000 teams, a considerable number of them were holding muskets. Several Franc cannons were placed in front of the army arranged in a square formation.

In the array between the troops, there is also an elephant army composed of more than fifty elephants.

"Fortunately, Fan Linbao and others were left behind, otherwise we would be in a dark spot."

Liu Ximing rushed to You Degao and said with a smile.

"Hehe, it's just a native chicken and a tile dog. Didn't Hongmao say that these are muskets produced by the Annan people themselves. It would be great if they could fire them. Besides, we won't let them break through and come closer." You Degao looked contemptuous.

In fact, the degree of firearming in the Annan army at this time was higher than that of the Ming army. With the help of the Portuguese and the Dutch, Zheng and Ruan both mastered the methods of making firearms.

However, due to the backward smelting and manufacturing processes, the quality of the firearm is indeed worrying.

At the moment, the two sides were fighting in an array, and Liu Xi ordered the position to be set on a hillside five miles away from the Zheng family. This happened to be where the Fubo Division artillery can exert its maximum power, but the Zheng family still had to continue to drive the army forward.

"Target southeast, fire."

As the roar on the artillery position sounded, the Liu-Zheng battle began.

The Zheng family army, who was bombarded by cannons, looked confused, although the spies had already figured out the Liu family army's position.

However, in fact, on the battlefield where the terrain is undulating and blocked by trees, Zheng Tang could not see the situation on the opposite side clearly with his naked eyes, and it was even more impossible for the artillery to attack.

So in the face of the attack from the Liu family, the Zheng family army, which was originally as stable as Mount Tai, suddenly became panicked.

Solid shells kept sweeping across the position, causing bloody storms. The Zheng family's elephant army was even more restless and almost fleeing without any disturbance.

"Go ahead quickly and head towards the enemy."

Zheng Tang could only urge his troops to approach the Liu family's army as soon as possible. His strategy of waiting for the Liu family to come forward and attack was suddenly ineffective.

On the Liu family's position, nearly a thousand people operated nearly two hundred cannons transported by Liu Ximing and continued to fire at the Zheng family's army.

Under such fierce firepower attack, the small jungle in the middle of the battlefield seemed to be attacked by meteors, and the ground was covered with broken branches and wood.

After almost marching three miles, the Zheng family's army had already eaten at least 4,000 artillery shells from the Liu family's artillery.

Although the long-range attack rate of artillery is poorly low and the lethality of solid bullets is very limited, there are too many artillery that cannot withstand the Liu family.

With just one journey, the Zheng family has already paid more than 3,000 casualties, and the troops have begun to become unstable.

Zheng Tang was already in a dilemma at this time. He could face the collapse of the troops at any time when he moved forward. If he retreated, he had to continue to endure artillery bombardment. It was very difficult for any decision to make it.

In the end, the family's glory and wealth gained the upper hand in Zheng Tang's head.

Now that we have arrived two miles away from the Liu family, the enemy army is already vaguely visible.

Zheng Tang simply let the messenger blow the horn,

The elephant soldiers opened the way, and Annan soldiers wearing dark red uniforms rushed forward and directly pressed the entire army towards the Liu family's position.

The hillside where the Liu family army was located was high. Seeing that the artillery was about to lose its function, Liu Xi ordered the artillery troops to return to the team and form a phalanx again to meet the enemy.

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and twenty steps, one hundred steps...

Zheng Tang, who was watching the game behind, had a flash of excitement in his eyes. If he rushed forward a little more, he might be able to win this battle.

The range of the Zheng family musket is thirty steps. As long as the elephant soldiers can withstand it, let you dog thieves see how powerful I am in Dayue.

"Bang", "Bang"

The sound of muskets sounded in advance by Master Fu Bo broke Zheng Tang's fantasy.

Like artillery, the second type of Longxiong is also used as a paper bullet. You only need to poke the gunpowder bag at the end and stuff it into the musket. The rate of fire has increased by seven shots in one minute, so You Degao ordered the fire directly at 100 steps.

The distance between one hundred steps and thirty steps is enough for the Fubo Division to take turns to shoot twice.

In fact, at this time of battle, Liu Ximing felt a little boring.

On the battlefield, the Zheng family army was no longer in an array. Some people rushed forward, while others were hesitant and wanted to retreat.

There were also many soldiers holding muskets who began to shoot in panic from a distance, which was not only a little noisy on the battlefield, but had no effect on the Fubo Division at all.

When the Zheng family troops charged in front of the Fubo Division fled in scattered like ghosts and howling under the violent bombardment of grenades, the battle that had been nearly an hour and a half was basically coming to an end.

The physically energetic Fubo army soldiers, led by their own camps, divided into dozens of teams to capture the prisoners.

When the night was counting, the data that You Degao came to report surprised Liu Ximing.

"Report that our army killed more than 7,000 enemy soldiers in this battle, captured 8,000 prisoners, and our army suffered 79 casualties."

"The injured brother quickly asked the military doctor to treat him," Liu Ximing sighed and ordered, "As for the prisoners of Zheng's army, we should take care of him and see if he can be sold to the Zheng family."

You Degao looked at Liu Ximing in surprise, "Didn't we just want money and food for the spoils?"

Liu Xi's fortune teller raised his chest with confidence and said, "The spoils do not include prisoners, and the Ruan family has not given any power. How can we arrange them to do so?"

"Besides, the current situation of Annan's separatist situation is actually the most beneficial to us. The Zheng family or the Ruan family are not what I want."

"After this battle, the Zheng family's strength has been greatly damaged. At least two places, Hejing and Guangping, would be thrown away. If all these prisoners were included, it would be really a trauma."

You Degao's eyes lit up and he understood the relationship.

Of course, what Liu Ximing didn't say was that he also planned to take this opportunity to knock on the Zheng family's robbery.
Chapter completed!