But since the enemy is so cruel, no one knows whether they can survive if they surrender. Therefore, the Zheng army soldiers from the Fourth Artillery Group were still hesitant, but they did not dare to resist. The boss ran away, and they did not resist and were worried about being killed, and fell into a state of entanglement.

However, they won't have to worry about it soon.

"Surrender and not kill"

"Discondoned death"

Jia Hu led more than 100 people to quickly go to the fourth gun team, and as he moved forward, he did not forget to shout slogans to persuade him to surrender.

The effect of these slogans was immediate. When Zheng Jun soldiers, who were still hesitating, heard this, they decisively gave up their resistance and knelt on the ground to surrender.

The occupation of the fourth gun group was quite smooth. After all, they could see clearly how the friendly forces of the first three gun groups died.

After some cleaning up, the fort was replaced by the Tiance Army's banner, indicating that the fort had been occupied by the Tiance Army, so as not to be accidentally injured by the warships on the sea.

After sending some soldiers to continue to search for the remnants of the enemy and control the remaining three artillery groups, the gunners under Jia Hu soon arrived at the fourth artillery group, turned the direction of the artillery of the fourth artillery group, and aimed at the Zheng army at the foot of the mountain.

While Jia Hu led his army to capture the fort, two squadrons led by Feng Bao and Li Le also fought in the Zheng Army infantry camp for more than a thousand people.

Half of the Zheng army were musketeers and half heavy infantry wearing iron armor. Li Le and the others did not rush up rashly. Even though they had armor, the enemies were all heavy armor. They were too disadvantageous when they rushed up, so they took advantage of their weapons and fired at a long range.

Up to now, the Zheng army's infantry camp has suffered more than 300 casualties, and Li Le has more than 70 casualties. The Zheng army's heavy infantry is slow to move. Several attempts to get up, but Li Le and others quickly distance it and then launches a target.

Without the cover of our own musket soldiers, these heavy infantry were lambs to be slaughtered. They could not get beaten by the enemy and were still hung and beaten. In the end, they could only return to the array.

The two sides are still shooting at each other. Although they know that there is a battle breaking out on the mountain, the camp has no time to take care of the artillery, and can only keep a close eye on the enemy in front of them.

"Look at me at the back, be deterrent, don't beat your own people. Then, brothers who have been injured by mistake will settle the score with you, and I won't talk to you."

Looking at the busy gunners and the two armies shooting at the foot of the mountain, Jia Hu reminded.

After saying this, the gunners were even more careful. If they really injured friendly forces by mistake, although there would not be too severe punishment, it would definitely be difficult to survive in the army in the future. Therefore, they also tried to aim the gun as far as possible, and would rather not hit the friendly forces than hit them.

"Open Fire"

"Boom boom boom"

Under the careful operation of the gunners, the fourth gun team opened fire again, and a row of solid large iron balls flew down the mountain.

Due to the conservative operation of the gunners, most of the shells were empty, but two still fell into the Zheng army. One of them was a red-clothed cannon, which directly broke a bloody road in the Zheng army. The two shells achieved the results of killing more than ten people.

"Surrender, we surrender"

"Everyone put down your weapons, put down your weapons"

At this time, the General Qian of the Zheng army's Infantry Camp said loudly, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to lay down their weapons and surrender.

Although there were only a dozen casualties, the artillery fire from behind meant that the turret had been occupied by the enemy and they were facing an enemy.

They were already being suppressed and beaten, but now the enemy has the advantage of artillery, so they even farted and simply surrendered.

In fact, these Zheng soldiers were also scared by the Tiance Army. Even if the number of people was not superior, their sharp marksmanship and very fast loading speed were almost breathless. After every round of shooting, many people would fall down on him, but after one round of shooting, the other side fell down a few people, how could they fight this battle?

Seeing that the casualties on their own side were getting worse, many people wanted to escape, but they were temporarily suppressed by military discipline. Now the boss said they wanted to surrender, so what else would they be dissatisfied with?

Seeing Zheng Jun was about to surrender, Li Le and Feng Bao, for safety reasons, still asked the soldiers to shout "Don't kill, surrender without death" "Don't throw away the weapons and armor, kneel down with their heads in their hands"

The soldiers of Zheng Jun were afraid of being beaten and did whatever they said, so they threw away all their weapons and armor, and everyone knelt on the ground.

Feng Wei and Li Le immediately arranged soldiers to capture the surrendered Zheng army and control them. The process went smoothly.

Then, in addition to leaving a squadron to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield, another squadron cooperated with Jia Hu to search for the remaining enemies on Gulang Island. Although Gulang Island is not big, it is still radius of three or four miles, and there may be enemies hidden in that corner.

It took about half an hour to clean up the entire Gulang Island, killing more than 60 Zheng troops who were fighting stubbornly, and capturing more than 200 more people, basically eliminating the enemies on the island.

After eliminating the remaining enemies and completely controlling Gulangyu and the several forts on Yanwei Mountain, the Tiance Army also completely controlled the dominance of the battlefield.

This Gulang Island is not an ordinary stronghold. It happens to be stuck on the waterway on the west side of Xiamen Island. To the northwest is Yuegang and Zhangzhou River area, to the northeast is Xiamen Bay, and to the south is Kinmen Waterway.

Originally, the Tiance Army had just stuck in the Kinmen Waterway. The Zheng army and a small number of remaining Ming army warships were unable to escape to the outside seas, but they were still able to dispatch and act in a unified manner.

Now that Gulangyu has been taken down, Zheng Zhilong's remaining warships are distributed in Xiamen Bay and Yuegang. If these warships want to join or launch an attack on the Tiance Fleet, they will inevitably be exposed to the firepower of the Yanwei Mountain Fortress, and then be attacked by the firepower of the Tiance Fleet and the fortress.

It is because the location of Gulangyu is dangerous that Zhang Hua, who is the main attack commander, personally directed the battle against Gulangyu.

In order to better guard Gulangyu, Zhang Hua also ordered two naval guns to be removed from each warship, with a total of twenty naval guns, which were transported by the prisoners to the fort, increasing the firepower of the Yanwei Mountain fortress a lot.

Gulang Island, which originally guarded Zheng Zhilong's old nest, has now become the life gate for the Tiance Army to contain them.

Then, the transport ship transported subsequent soldiers and supplies from Kinmen Island to Gulang Island, strengthened the defense of Gulang Island, and transported the wounded to Kinmen Island for treatment and rest. Zhang Hua led ten warships under his command to sail to the east sea to reinforce the battles attacking Qilin Mountain Fort and Hulishan Fort.

According to the plan, after the peripheral fortress on Xiamen Island was eliminated, the Tiance army would directly land on Xiamen Island, approaching Zheng Zhilong's nest Zhongzuosuo City.

"Old Xu, Zhang Hua's fight is good, it's time for us to leave."

Kong Youde, who was watching from the south, said to Xu Wenyi after seeing Zhang Hua's troops taking Gulangyu.

Xu Wenyi hesitated and said, "Sir, why don't we go to Yuegang first, just log in to Xiamen Island. When Zheng Zhilong is taken down, Yuegang will not fight."

Kong Youde shook his head, "No, I'd better fight Yuegang first. Xiamen Island is Zheng Zhilong's nest after all, and his defense ability is not good. It will not be able to be taken away in a short time. If it drags it longer and the warships and merchant ships in Yuegang will run away, wouldn't it be a big loss? Now the situation is completely controlled by us. It's easy to start and then difficult to fight steadily is the best."

Xu Wenyi also nodded. Kong Youde was right. The situation is very good now. There is no rush to deal with the Zheng army and the Ming army warships in Yuegang. I believe that Zheng Zhilong does not have much courage to resist.

Looking at the main warships of the Tiance Army, running towards Yuegang under the sunset, and observing the battle situation on Dongping Mountain, Zheng Zhilong felt a bit like a sunset.

Gulangyu was captured, Qilin Mountain Fortress and Nanshishan Fortress were also in danger and could be taken down at any time. Hulishan Fortress and Baishi Fortress were also attacked at the same time. In addition, the main force of the Tiance Army attacked Yuegang, it can be said that the situation was extremely bad.

However, he can't do anything now, so there is no need to say about the naval battle. He had seen the strength of the Tiance Army two days ago. If he hadn't fought with the Dutch first, both sides might have the power to fight. After the battle of Liaoluo Bay, there would be no hope of victory at all.

The idea of ​​trying to recast the fireboat in Yuegang as soon as possible through blocking one after another seems to have failed.

The Yanwei Mountain Fortress of Gulangyu, which was highly anticipated, was taken down in less than half a day. According to his plan, Gulangyu had to support a day of time no matter how hard he was to lose so quickly that he didn't even have time to increase his troops.

He was angry and beheaded the escaped turret Qian, and if he hadn't escaped in the last battle, Gulangyu wouldn't have been thrown away so quickly.

He knew very well about the strategy of the Tiance Army, which was to first clear his peripheral strongholds, and then the main force would solve the warships he had anchored in Yue Harbor, and then encircle Xiamen Island and start the cover of warships, and land on Xiamen Island to fight like taking down Gulang Island.

Knowing is knowing, but it is useless because he has no way to deal with it.

If the Tiance Army was just a powerful navy, it would be fine, but the army was so powerful. How could he deal with this?

In fact, Zheng Zhilong also has his own land army, called the Iron Man Army, also known as the Iron Armor Army.

Compared to the strength of the maritime power, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he felt deeply that he needed to cultivate his own land power. Even if he was not as strong as the navy, he could not be much worse. Nothing else, even if he was to protect his family in Anping.

For this reason, he began to recruit strong men and asked them to lift 200 kilograms of stone locks, and the selection requirements were extremely high.

Some warriors were also drawn from the Navy to form this iron armor army for training. The soldiers were covered with heavy armor like fish scales, wearing shields, face armor, only exposed their mouths and noses, holding long swords in their hands, and carrying large bows as the use of long battles.

After being organized, this iron-armored army was trained on Xiamen Island with Qi Jiguang's military tactics, which was quite elite.

In order to improve practical combat capabilities, Zheng Zhilong also actively participated in the land suppression of bandits. Whenever there were bandits in Fujian, Zheng Zhilong would send some iron armored troops to participate.

Although Zheng Zhilong was selfish, the effect was still very good. However, under his continuous attack on bandits, there were no uprisings of tens of thousands of riots or refugees in Fujian like Guangdong and southern Gansu.

His armored army also grew stronger in the process of suppressing bandits, and now the number is about 5,000.

In addition, he also had two foreign soldiers, one of which was the Black Musketeer Team and the Ronin Guard.

The black musket team is composed of black people, and they are all black slaves purchased from Macau and Portuguese. These black slaves were transported from Africa by the Portuguese. Western countries sell at least two million black slaves from Africa to all over the world every year, but the harsh environment of slave ships leads to extremely high mortality rates.

Therefore, the black slaves who survived and arrived in the Ming Dynasty and were sold to Zheng Zhilong were naturally strong. Those who were weak and sickly died on the peninsula and were thrown into the sea by the owner of the slave ship to feed the fish.

Compared with their previous treatment of slaves, Zheng Zhilong gave them treatment was simply from heaven and from earth, so they were extremely loyal to Zheng Zhilong.

The Ronin Guard was recruited from Japan.

Just like Wang Zhi, the pirate king, Zheng Zhilong started his own business through trade with Japan and had good relations with many daimyos. In addition, the Japanese politics has settled down and those professional samurai lost their jobs, so they joined Zheng Zhilong and served for Zheng Zhilong and formed this ronin guard.

The number of the Black Musketeers and the Ronin Guards is about 3,000, and the Ironman Army has a total of 8,000 troops.

However, Zheng Zhilong knew that even though he had these three strong armies in his hands, they were really not worth mentioning compared to the Tiance Army.

He knew very well how the Tiance Army had come to this day step by step. He could only fight back from Northern Zhili to Dengzhou, a military city, with only 3,000 troops.

Then, facing two large-scale encirclements and suppressions from the court, not only did they withstand it, but the more they encircled and suppressed the court, the larger their territory, and now the entire Shandong has been defeated.

Moreover, the Tartars in Liaodong were so cruel that even the Tiance army could win, and even captured the son of the slave chief alive.

Zheng Zhilong himself knew that if he was in Kong Youde's position, let alone dealing with the second encirclement and suppression of 130,000 troops, even the first time the 40,000 to 50,000 troops led by Fan Jingwen would not be able to survive. Even his troops would be in trouble with the Ming army in Fujian, not to mention the elite border troops and Guanning troops.

"Report"

At this time, a messenger came to Dongping Mountain in a mess.

"Boss, big things are not going well, Hong Xu has surrendered to the enemy," the messenger said breathlessly.

Zheng Zhilong was shocked and asked with the messenger, "What did you say that Hong Xu surrendered to the enemy?"

"It's true that Hong Xu took three warships to surrender to the enemy. It shouldn't be here yet. The ship owner has sent someone to intercept it."
Chapter completed!