"I don't know the general, I am brave and careless about the national crisis. But at this time, I provoke a civil war for my own selfishness. Damn it, damn it!" Qu Shisi slapped the table in the study, and the teacup and porcelain on the table had already been swept away. This also shows the anger in his heart.

The time for Zheng Chenggong to choose was too inappropriate. He had just discussed the matter of ceding Chaozhou with the United States, and he robbed most of the Chaozhou Mansion. How could the United States agree to the previous conditions? The conflict between Hao Shangjiu and Shi Fu belonged to the previous hatred. Now they are all in the king's army, but they have settled the old accounts. Zheng Chenggong offended all the Yongli court, the United States, Huifan and all the forces against Qing Dynasty and the world's anti-Qing imperial capitulations. This is no longer a big conspiracy, but aggravation from the public.

Qu Shixi didn't know how to solve it, but he also knew that it would take time to solve this problem. How long did Qu Shixi not know. When everything got on track again, a few months passed. At that time, is it still too late for Li Chengdong to attack Ganzhou again?

"The great situation was ruined by this bastard, so you must not let him go!" Qu Shili was furious and tore up the letter that was originally intended to send to Zheng Chenggong. In that letter, Qu Shili talked about the righteousness of the family and country, and the brotherhood. His words were earnest and warm, and he was preparing to solve the status problem of Nan'ao Island, but he never thought that Zheng Chenggong had made such a big hole before it was sent.

Li Mingxun, Li Chengdong and Yuan Shizhong were all sitting there, their faces turned pale and they didn't say anything. Qu Shishi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He looked at the three of them for a long time, and Qu Shishi asked, "Tingzhen, what do you think you should do?"

Li Chengdong said: "Sir, I have ordered someone to send an order to Chaozhou Hao Shangjiu to defend his Yingcheng City, and do not mislead himself and wait for the court to deal with it. The rest... I really don't want to say much."

Qu Shisi nodded slightly. Li Chengdong was already very concerned about the overall situation. He asked Hao Shangjiu not to make mistakes, just to make Hao Shangjiu stand it. After all, Shi Fu and many of the relatives of Shi Lang and the two of them were still in Chaozhou City, especially Shi Lang, whose two younger brothers were there. If Hao Shangjiu was angry and killed these people, it would be completely impossible to adjust.

But Qu Shixi wanted to ask Li Chengdong how to treat Zheng Chenggong who provoked the civil war, but Li Chengdong didn't know where he was just unwilling to answer. Qu Shixi looked at Li Mingxun, and Li Mingxun said: "Of course it's a sending army! Provoking civil war for no reason, privately invade, destroying the overall situation of the imperial capitulation, and his crimes can be punished!"

"Yes, send troops!" Yuan Shizhong agreed.

Qu Shixi asked: "In what name should we send troops?"

This is a contradictory issue in itself. Zheng Chenggong attacked the troops of the Yongli court, and of course it should be the Yongli court's conquest. But the current situation is that Guangdong is preparing to go north, and there are few resources. Once a war begins, it will be even more difficult to go north, and Qu Shixi also intends to win over Zheng Chenggong.

Li Mingxun said seriously: "In the name of the unified front of the anti-Qing army, Zheng Chenggong provoked a civil war and attacked the anti-Qing forces. He regarded it as collaborating with the enemy and assisting the enemy, and could be the enemy in the world!"

"Your Excellency, aren't you working with the Guo surname?" Qu Shixi asked.

Li Mingxun punched him on the table and cursed: "I gave him military ships and armor to help him fight against the Qing Dynasty, not to make him angry and his own people. This idiot thought he could threaten me with this time, and he was a joke! Little did he know that the national surname was just the best choice, not the only choice. Since I can help him, I can destroy him!"

"Your Excellency Mingxun, you haven't reached that level yet, please..." Qu Shizi felt something was wrong when he saw Li Mingxun's murderous intent on his face, so he quickly dissuaded.

Li Mingxun waved his hand and said, "Shoushou Qu, don't persuade him again in this matter. I have issued a letter of inviting righteous men from all over the world to fight together. Zheng Chenggong dares to go against the general trend, so he has to pay the price for this. This Chaozhou Incident is to tell the people of the world that the Qing barbarians are enemies, and the traitors are also enemies! Zheng Guo's surname is so arrogant. If there is no punishment, what should we do if the world's vassal states follow the example in the future?"

"Then you want to kill the chicken to warn the monkey?" Qu Shixi asked worriedly.

Li Mingxun's muscles twitched and said, "Life and death are in the hands of the Guo family. Whether it is death or life depends entirely on himself!"

June of the second year of Yongli.

This was the hottest day of the year. The coalition forces set off from Guangzhou and headed eastward. There were troops coming in along the way. There were a total of 15,000 troops in this army, of which the United States sent four battalions, two infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion and one artillery battalion, a total of 7,000 troops. The Qiongfan sent two thousand troops, all of which were elite cavalry under Yuan Shizhong. The rest were Huifan soldiers, led by Du Yonghe, as the rear team.

At sea, Huang Fei led the joint fleet to go east and headed straight to Nan'ao. At the same time, the Lu Jianguo also sent Zheng Cai to lead hundreds of warships south. The army of both sides met in Nan'ao on June 12, and the sea and land were advanced together.

Wu Mu personally led more than a hundred elite cavalry as vanguards, entered Chaozhou in Jieshiwei to investigate the enemy situation. In Huilai County, the scout reported that the enemy was found in the woods in front of him. Wu Mu took his men to dismount and climbed a hill. He found two or three hundred people gathered in a forest and formed a group to rest. Among them, there were only seventy or eighty soldiers. The rest were either tied into a string of Ding Zhuang or a woman who was stripped of them. They were all stolen. Wu Mu said angrily: "I have heard that the military discipline of the country was corrupt, especially the Qing army. What I saw today is true. People rushed up and caught these people. I want to ask whether they were soldiers or bandits!"

The elite cavalry rushed up and the Zheng army was in chaos. There were only more than ten cavalrymen. When they saw more than a hundred cavalry coming in line, they fled. However, their horses were weak and their speed was not comparable to that of the cavalry battalions. They were caught in a short while. Wu Mu entered the woods and asked the captured Ding Zhuang and the women. It turned out that they were all from nearby villages and towns. Zheng army went to collect military rations. If they had no food to pay at home, they were caught.

More than 70 Zheng Jun people were killed, and the rest were kneeling in the woods. Wu Mu didn't even look at them and asked the villagers: "Does these people kill people in your home?"

A brave man pointed at a bearded man and said, "My brother has no food to pay and cannot go to work, so he hanged him on a big tree. Now the body has not been removed, so please let the military master take charge."

"Those who commit violence and harm the people, kill them!" Wu Mu waved his hand, and the guards beside him caught the bearded man. No matter how he scolded him, he would chop off his head.

"Among these people, are there some rapes?" Umu asked the women who were captured again.

Those people looked at each other, timidly and dared not speak, but only grabbed the clothes and covered their bodies. Wu Mu said, "If there is, I will say it bluntly, and I will make the decision for you. If you hide it, I will ask, will you be so unbearable, and you are willing to be a prostitute?"

The women came forward to point out one after another, and more than twenty people were dragged out. Wu Mu shouted: "I mistook my sister and brutally bride my wife and daughter, and he should be punished for his crime!"

With a burst of wail, more than twenty heads fell to the ground, killing one-third of the people at once. The rest were all terrified. When asked about other things, no one dared to hide it anymore. Wu Mu soon learned that this army came from Huilai County and belonged to Shi Fu's command. It seemed that his hair was braided and he had just recovered his clothes. There were more than a thousand Zheng troops in Huizhou City.

Wu Mu did not act without permission, but sent a message to the rear. After waiting for half a day, Yuan Shizhong led 2,000 cavalry to arrive. The two of them used night to earn the city and closed all the city gates. At night, they surrounded and annihilated the Zheng army, who was doing evil and fish. On the second day, everyone tied up on the streets and identified by the people in the city. Anyone who committed violence and harmed the people and women would be killed. More than 200 heads were chopped and killed in one day, and then someone sent these heads to the Zheng army camp under Chaozhou City.

"The country's surname is clear, and when the nation is in danger, it is a provocation of civil war for no reason. It has made a big mistake. As the people are indignant today, the righteous are angry. The heroes of the world have formed 20,000 elite soldiers. There are hundreds of gunboats and warships on the sea. I hope the country's surname will sincerely repent and do not cause any trouble.

At present, only soldiers can remove their armor, return to the camp, and carry the thorns to apologize for crimes, and only then can they get the opportunity to make meritorious deeds. Otherwise, if the coalition forces arrive together, you will regard them as rebellion for the help of the enemy, and they will definitely not be kept. This is a consensus among the righteous men in the world against the Qing Dynasty and the emperor's enemies, and it is not thought of by Mingxun alone.

Fujian is lost, and the country's surname is defeated by his father and saved the country. He should be loyal and righteous for thousands of years. Why did Meng Lang do such a thing as betrayal of his relatives and relatives? Wouldn't he know that the principles of heaven are clear and the people are looking forward to it? I hope the country's surname will think twice before doing it!"

In the camp, the coalition envoy read the handwritten letter written by Li Mingxun to Zheng Chenggong, and was taken out of the camp. Zheng Chenggong, who was sitting on the main seat, had his shoulders trembled slightly. Looking at the words on the letter in front of him, his fists clenched. As Zheng Zhilong's son, he inherited his father's arbitrary and domineering, and had never been taught such a lesson. He took a deep breath and wanted to suppress the anger in his chest, but he failed in the end.

Bang!

Naoji was kicked to the side, and everything above flew out. Everyone in the tent lowered their heads, held their breath, stared at their toes, trying to make themselves look unworthy, so as not to become the punching bag of the main general. After all, in Zheng Chenggong's view, each of them was guilty. They had been besieged for more than a month and failed to conquer Chaozhou City. This was a serious crime.

"Damn bastard, he is Li Mingxun, he is a master of nothing, and he dares to teach me a lesson! I am a national surname personally granted by Emperor Longwu, and a minister named by him. What is he? Just an island barbarian and pirate... I clearly agreed to him to conquer Ryukyu and take the chestnuts from the fire. He should have agreed to my expansion in Chaozhou...>" Zheng Chenggong, who was unstoppable, pulled out his sword, chopped the surrounding screen and rack to the ground, chopped and scolded, venting his anger and dissatisfaction without any bottom line, and collapsed to the ground until he was exhausted and exhausted.

Zheng Hongkui walked into the tent and saw this. He waved his hand and asked everyone to go out. Everyone was as if they were amnesty and rushed out of the tent. Zheng Chenggong sat there and murmured to himself: "What should I do, resist? No, Li Mingxun is cruel and ruthless, and he will definitely kill me to sacrifice the flag. No matter Lu Hai, he is not his opponent. This guy has always coveted the position of leader of the Anti-Qing alliance. This time he attacked me to establish prestige. If I fight, I will never have a way out.

Being accused of guilt is not possible, so where is my prestige? The morale of the army and the people will be separated, and everyone will bully me and trample on me. How can I stand on my own in the southeast......"

"Asen, the situation is urgent now. You can't fall down, you must not fall down!" Zheng Hongkui knelt on the side, and saw Zheng Chenggong talking nonsense, as if he was crazy, and said quickly.

Zheng Chenggong raised his head, a ray of light shot out from his eyes, and suddenly laughed: "Fall down? Why did I fall? I didn't fall when the country was destroyed and my family was destroyed, and I won't fall now!"

Zheng Hongkui felt relieved and asked, "What is the situation in Chaozhou? Asen, why don't we retreat to South Ao first and then negotiate peace with the coalition forces."

Zheng Chenggong said: "If you retreat at this time, it will be a collapse of the morale of the army and it will be uncontrollable. The current strategy is that only by conquering Chaozhou, capturing and killing Hao Shangjiu, and having to take off and descend to the Qing Dynasty, can we turn the tide."

"But the coalition vanguard has arrived, and the army will arrive in half a month!" Zheng Hongkui said urgently.

"Then ten days, no, conquer Chaozhou in five days. If Hao Shangjiu is not killed, how can our army deal with it?" Zheng Chenggong stood up with a knife, took off his iron helmet and put it on his head, and said to Zheng Hongkui: "Uncle, I must practice my own way. Even if I am wrong, I must support it. Otherwise, I will have no face to face the late emperor after death..."

Hao Shangjiu walked into the government office of Chaozhou City with an iron helmet. The air was filled with the smell of black gunpowder. The sound of cannons continued to sound outside the city. The doors were closed on both sides of the street. Sobbing sounds kept coming from behind the door panels. In the gap, the gazes were mixed with fear and hatred. Hao Shangjiu held the hilt tightly and endured the soreness all over his body and walked with his head raised his chest. He knew that the strength he had to show was more valuable than weakness. After all, the latter would attract betrayal and covetousness.

He walked into his room, and as the blood-stained armor was taken off, his short and strong figure was revealed, and there was a two-foot-long scar on his broad chest, and the blood stained the big red. His son came over to help his father, let him lie on the bed to rest, and brought him hot water.

"Zheng Ni must be crazy. He has been attacking for 17 or 8 hours in the past two days. He just retreated. It seems that Zheng Sen must be under some pressure!" Hao Shangjiu said loudly. Even in front of his son, he would not be a little weak.

"Master, the person who went to Guangzhou has never come back. Is it because Zheng Ni stopped us or Guangzhou doesn't care about us at all. After all, Zheng Sen and the chief assistant Qu Shisi are close friends." Hao Jincheng whispered.

Hao Shangjiu shook his head: "I don't know either, but Li Chengdong is too weak after all, otherwise we will not be besieged here... But don't worry, you and I will not die, and reinforcements will arrive soon."

As he was speaking, a guerrilla general walked into the room. It was Hao Shangjiu's life and death brother Liu Qingzheng. He said happily: "Brother, it's OK! Wang Bangjun, the general of Zhangzhou of the Qing Dynasty, is already on the way. I'll make an appointment tomorrow and we'll be saved!"
Chapter completed!