Zheng Zhilong saw the queue of Kun thieves getting closer and closer. He would stop and fire a row of guns from time to time. Bullets began to whistle past him, and people fell down from time to time. [Read the latest chapter] Four or five of the Japanese guards who were serving as human pillars in front of him fell down in an instant. Seeing that the opponent only had two to three hundred people, but he was beaten to the point where he was unable to fight back. Not to mention a decisive battle, even if he tried his best, he couldn't do it. I couldn't help but feel sad and angry. He knew that even if he fought at this time, he would die in vain, so he ordered people to set fire to the city immediately. Under the cover of the black guards and Japanese guards, he fled to the dock opposite Gulangyu Island.
Tongtaro knew that once the army started to flee, it would be defeated like a mountain. If there were no capable generals who dared to die to serve as the "human pillar" of the palace army, it would be easy for the enemy to catch up and cut off the general's head. He immediately called a capable subordinate and ordered him to lead fifty soldiers to serve as the palace army, while the others escorted Zheng Zhilong to escape.
After receiving the order, the defenders who stayed in the city hurriedly lit torches and threw them everywhere. Soon they burned all the government offices and warehouses in the city, and then burned several residential buildings before escaping in haste. Because there was no plan to burn the city in advance, and there was no accumulation of firewood, clear oil, etc. in the city, the fire was not huge. It was a fire on the dock, because a large amount of sugar, cloth, silk and other flammable goods were piled on the dock, and the fire quickly formed.
Seeing their defeat, the defeated soldiers took advantage of the situation and started robbing and raping wantonly in the city and on the docks. The city of Zhongzuosuo had not yet been broken, but the city was already in chaos, and the cries were loud.
There were two tasks assigned to him at the beginning, one was to capture the city of Zhongzuo - this was no longer a problem, Zheng Zhilong had abandoned the city and fled; the other was to annihilate the main force of Zheng's army, and if possible, capture or kill Zheng Zhilong alive.
These two tasks were originally in a sequential relationship. According to the estimation of the staff, the Zheng army should be defeated first under the city or inside the city. Then capture the city. But now it's a parallel relationship. Shi Zhiqi could either immediately command his troops to enter the city to maintain order, put out the fire, and keep the loot. Either ignore the city and continue to pursue Zheng's troops who have fled.
However, time did not allow for hesitation. Zheng Zhilong was fleeing in the broken army, and the city in Zhongzuo was burning. Shi Zhiqi hesitated for a few seconds, then immediately ordered the artillery, assault engineers and the third company to occupy the Zhongzuo city while marching, and he led the first and second companies to continue to pursue the Zheng army.
He ordered the radio operator to be called and called Mingqiu on the Lichun. Report your decision. Although it is very risky to pursue the defeated army with only 200 people, this is a great opportunity to kill the Zheng army: the more generals of the Zheng army are eliminated in this battle, the harder the blow to the Zheng Group will be. Destructive.
Mingqiu agreed with his determination on the radio: "...the special reconnaissance team has set up surveillance points nearby, pay attention to the signals on the mountain. They will use signal flags or reflectors to contact you! In addition, the special reconnaissance team has a special search team To hunt and annihilate the Zheng Zhilong people, you must cooperate with them! Their contact channel is 921, call sign Wong."
Compared with the indiscriminate bombardment of Anping by Xue Ziliang's detachment, the mission of the elite Hornets team drawn from the Qianshui Association detachment was specific: to find opportunities to directly hunt Zheng Zhilong on Xiamen Island.
Zheng Zhilong is the leader of the Zheng Group. If he can be killed in Xiamen, the swollen Zheng Group will be leaderless. Most of the members of Shibazhi will fall into internal strife. When the time comes, coupled with Zou Weilian, who has ulterior motives for the Zheng Group, internal and external troubles will bring the Zheng Group to its deathbed.
In the old time and space, the Qing army kidnapped Zheng Zhilong. The once-prominent Zheng Group immediately fell into pieces. Zheng Chenggong's later reunification was actually not successful. Not only did a group of key generals defect to the Manchus, but there were also great rifts among the remaining generals, so that subsequent rebellions and disobedience occurred frequently. Zheng Gongcheng's untimely death must be said to be related to the internal discord he faced which made him mentally and physically exhausted.
Obviously Zheng Zhilong is very important to the entire Zheng Group. Not just the leader, but the backbone and glue of the entire group. Therefore killing him is the best option for the Senate.
"Understood!" Shi Zhiqi said and called the messenger:
"Go. Call Elder Lu!"
A few minutes later, the messenger brought over Mr. Lu, who was wearing an 80mm steel helmet and a heavy steel plate bulletproof suit. He was sweating profusely from the exhaustion along the way.
Although the Senate already has a professional armed investigation team to do all kinds of dirty work, there is also a large amount of information available. However, he lacked an intuitive understanding of Xiamen Island, so he urgently sent Lu Yuanlao, who was living in Shandong. Lu Yuanlao was very familiar with Xiamen Island. Although Lu Yuanlao was not from Xiamen, he walked around the center and left every day. I walked around the ruins of Suocheng and traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Xiamen Island. More importantly, Elder Lu has fought in battles and seen blood, so he can be considered an experienced officer.
"Lao Lu, I'm going to chase Zheng Zhilong. You lead the team into the city!" Shi Zhiqi spoke concisely.
"Yes! Don't worry. I will hand over the entire city to the hands of the Senate!" Lu Zeyang stood at attention and saluted.
"It all depends on you. It is said that this place is a mountain of gold, silver, grain, and silk."
Of course Lu Zeyang knew the meaning of his words, so he said no more and just nodded solemnly. The two then broke up.
Seeing Shi Zhiqi leading one company and two companies in pursuit in the direction where Zheng Jun fled. Lu Zeyang called the commander of the third company, the commander of the assault engineer platoon and the commander of the artillery company, and briefly laid out their respective tasks and points of attention after entering the city, especially crushing the defeated troops and organizing the people to put out the fire.
"Important warehouses and government offices must be guarded." Lu Zeyang said, "If the defeated soldiers want to escape from the city, there is no need to intercept them, just let them escape."
He did not want to have street fighting in the city - if the defeated troops could not escape, they would inevitably engage in a fight between trapped beasts, which would not only increase casualties, but also cause great damage to the city. The Senate had great expectations to get the spoils of the Center and Left Institute. . This expectation cannot be defeated in his own hands.
"The star flag is flying at the top of Wulao Peak, and the orchid is drunk under the phoenix tree!"
Standing on the beach and looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar Wulaofeng not far away, Lu Zeyang, who was wearing a camouflage uniform and looked like a road construction worker, chanted like this - although it is not very fluent, the poems and songs that are not fluent are in the Senate. It's become a normal thing.
The location of Zhongzuo City was what later became Xiamen University. With its back against Wulao Peak and facing the sea, it is a typical ideal configuration of mountains in the north and water in the south in terms of Feng Shui. The shape of the five hills on the Wulaofeng ladder is exactly like a Taishi chair, and it is the high-ranking official who is sitting on it - Zheng Zhilong must have been very satisfied with this "increasing official position and becoming a noble", so he occupied it. The queen of Xiamen Island unceremoniously took the city as her base.
"It's a pity that this time you, Zheng Yiguan, will be removed from your post and investigated by our empire's Senate!" Elder Lu pointed his ax at the city gate in front of him.
"Enter Assault Engineer!"
The assault engineers are all sturdy Shandong men wearing steel helmets. They are well-equipped: a double-barreled shotgun made by Lingao is slung on the back, a revolver and a multi-purpose machete are stuck on the waist, and each of them has a Lingao machine in their hands. Factory imitation of the long-handled fire breaking ax.
Three battalions of artillery fired at the east city gate at the same time. After a few shells were fired, the arrow tower on the city gate collapsed, smoke and rubble flew into the sky, and the city gate was exploded.
Under the cover of a volley of rifle fire from the third company, the assault engineers rushed into the east gate of the Zhongzuo Institute - later the Baicheng Gate of Xiamen University.
The expected street fighting did not happen. The Zheng army in the city had already collapsed. The only ones left in the city were stragglers who wanted to take the opportunity to burn, kill and rape the adulterers. As soon as they saw that the bandits had entered the city, they all hurriedly wrapped up the stolen goods and fled.
Lu Zeyang was fully armed, holding in his hand the Browning high-power pistol made by Li Yilao. The raw materials for making this gun, from steel to springs, were private goods from the old time and space brought by Li Yilao himself. Otherwise, Lu Yuanlao would still have He really didn't dare to use it as a weapon - he walked slowly behind the large army, with four or five capable soldiers beside him, tightly protecting him in the center, quite like a "chief"
"Push straight in one row, head towards Lingyun and climb the mountain directly! Take the commanding heights!"
"Second row, attack on the right fork! Go to the Law School and Art... ah no, go to Haiyun! Note that it's all uphill behind here, run at a leisurely pace, otherwise you'll be exhausted by the time you get there!"
The current Zhongzuosuo City is naturally different from the later Xiamen University campus in terms of architecture and river waters - for example, after running around for a long time, Elder Lu did not see the Furong Lake that later housed black swans. But the general topography is still the same, so much so that Mr. Lu subconsciously gave the name of the Xiamen University Park as an order...
After the orders were distributed, Elder Lu led the team and headed straight to the destination—the government office in Zhongzuosuo City. The streets were deserted, with only the corpses of civilians scattered here and there and scattered bodies. Fires have broken out in many places in the city and the smoke is filling the air. Occasionally, a few ghostly figures flashed past the streets. The soldiers encircled and suppressed along the road, killing and capturing many of the defeated soldiers who had no time to escape. Several adulterers of women had no time to put on their trousers, tripped to the ground, and were captured alive on the spot.
Although many people were captured and killed, they did not encounter any decent resistance along the way. The defeated soldiers were just running for their lives. Soon we arrived at the government office. The government office has been the core of Zheng Zhilong's rule on Xiamen Island since Xiamen Island fell to the Zheng Group. He spent more than half of his time here giving orders: operating trade and encircling and suppressing other maritime forces. There must be many of his archives and gold and silver treasures here.
The lobby of Zhongzuo's government office was empty, and all kinds of ceremonial vessels were scattered everywhere. Some houses have caught fire. While Lu Zeyang ordered the soldiers to put out the fire and raise the cordon, he also ordered the Drum Tower to beat the drums. At the same time, he ordered people to use the loudspeaker to order the people in the city to report to the government office - "Anyone who doesn't wait for a moment will be slaughtered!"
