I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

In the end, those soldiers rushed over and killed the villagers.

Those Xiang Yong are naturally not opponents, but there are many of them.

It is not an easy task for the Ming army to easily solve these rural braves, especially among these rural braves, they are all very clever people.

It is not easy for the Ming army to destroy them, and it is impossible to ignore them.

As long as these villagers are still there, the soldiers of the Ming army will not be able to rob and destroy with peace of mind.

After being delayed by Xiangyong for a while, Wu Jun's support troops arrived.

Being attacked back and forth, those Ming soldiers completely collapsed.

Wang Zhiren thought very well, breaking through in many directions, making Wu Jun overwhelmed.

But he overlooked one point, a breakthrough in a single direction, without the cooperation of friendly forces, is equivalent to going deep alone, which is too dangerous.

Unless Wang Zhiren's troops can break through from multiple directions at the same time, this can bring great trouble to Wu Jun.

Unfortunately, the Ming army could not do it.

With the direction of the garrison of the flintlock troops, the Ming army is completely useless. After a charge, they basically collapsed and fled. And the Ming army can also free up its hands to support other directions.

Even in some directions where there are no flintlock troops stationed, the Ming army still needs to go through hard fights. The Ming army, whose morale was not high enough, was quickly defeated from all directions.

Only three or four troops have successfully broken through the line of defense.

These people have brought a certain degree of damage to the business district, but that's about it. Relative to their original goal, one percent was not accomplished.

Wu Jun arrived quickly and wiped out the Ming troops who had invaded the business district.

The Ming army, who did not enter the business district, also fell into flight at this time. Taking into account the importance of the business district, Wu Jun did not pursue it. Anyway, killing a few more Ming troops is not meaningful, and keeping the business district is the most important thing.

"General, get out."

Wang Zhiren's subordinates persuaded that soldiers in all directions were fleeing, and it would be too late if they didn't withdraw.

Wu Jun didn't mean to pursue, but they didn't know it.

"Alas, this is completely over. You secretly go to Nanjing for me, tell them that I want to rely on them, and try to negotiate good terms to come back."

Wang Zhiren explained his confidant.

The tree fell and the hozen scattered, and he had to leave some way for himself.

And he was not willing to start as a small official, so he did not surrender directly, but went to negotiate with Wu Changqing.

He is now the Duke of Xingguo in King Lu's regime, and he is even on the same level as Wu Changqing in terms of titles.

After the surrender, not to mention a minister of the Ministry of War, at least a minister of the Ministry of War. In terms of titles, even if he can no longer be a duke, a marquis should at least be retained.

Otherwise, the gap would be too big.

If you want to get this kind of starting official position and title, you must make a big contribution to Wu Changqing. Either offer the city or kill Zhu Yihai.

For the sake of future prosperity, he didn't mind selling Zhu Yihai, Fang Guoan and others.

Wang Zhiren led the remnants of the army and retreated to Jiaxing. Before staying for a day, he and Fang Guoan retreated to Hangzhou.

Jiaxing's city walls are too low for them to garrison.

In fact, even in Hangzhou, they have no confidence to hold on.

The tall city walls of Nanjing and the powerful Eight Banners soldiers were not given to Wu Jun.

Fang Guoan and the others knew their own situation, and their combat power was incomparable to that of the Wu Army and the Eight Banners soldiers.

They are now six gods and no masters, and they have lost their way. They have no corresponding plan at all. They can only take one step at a time.

Retreat to Hangzhou, the city wall is at least a little higher, and it can shrink the force. A day is counted as a day, and as for the future, they have no time to think about it.

In Hangzhou, Zhu Yihai was already discussing with the minister to return the palace to Shaoxing or Ningbo first.

In short, the farther away from Wu Jun, the better.

Staying in Hangzhou, Zhu Yihai felt uneasy in his heart. He was afraid that the Wu army would come and march in a hurry, and then he would surround Hangzhou, and he would not even be able to retreat by then.

He is different from other courtiers. Other courtiers can surrender if they can't beat him. Wu Changqing must be very welcome to this situation.

But as for him, he has no chance of surrendering.

As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. There is only one dead end for him to surrender. Wu Changqing will definitely not leave him as a hidden danger.

"How about retreating to Ningbo, Shaoxing is still too close."

Zhu Yihai asked the ministers.

It is convenient to retreat to Ningbo to escape, and Wu Jun will fight again later, and he can retreat to the sea.

Originally, this kind of thing should be brought up by the minister. But Zhu Yihai couldn't care about so many red tapes at this time, and directly expressed his intentions.

"Let's retreat to Shaoxing. Shaoxing has a ready-made palace. Even if Hangzhou is lost, we can go to the south bank of the Qiantang River and defend according to the river. The enemy will not be so easy to attack."

Zhang Guowei persuaded.

They had spent some time in Shaoxing before, where they built a rudimentary palace.

Now retreating to Shaoxing, Zhu Yihai also has a ready-made place to live.

If you retreat to Ningbo, you will have to spend time and money to build a palace.

Thinking of this, Zhang Guowei was also quite helpless. The country has come to the time of life and death, but in order to maintain a little royal face, it still has to be extravagant.

"No, it's better to retire to Ningbo. As for the palace, we'll talk about it later. It's fine to find a big mansion for the time being. State affairs are difficult, so keep everything simple."

Zhu Yihai was really scared and insisted on retreating to Ningbo.

If it wasn't for Zhu Yujian's territory to the south, I'm afraid he would have wanted to retreat to Fuzhou at this time.

Seeing Zhu Yihai's cowardly appearance, some ministers couldn't help but despise him.

Compared with Wu Changqing, who led hundreds of thousands of troops on the Northern Expedition, stood on the front line and commanded battles, and experienced hundreds of battles, Zhu Yihai, an emperor who started running before the enemy came over, the gap is really too big.

Just based on the courage of both sides, they are not optimistic that Zhu Yihai can compete with Wu Changqing.

Since ancient times, those who have achieved great things are all brave and not afraid of death. Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, all experienced hundreds of battles, and even led the army to expedition.

Zhu Yihai's attitude was firm, and those ministers had no choice but to retreat with Zhu Yihai.

Even if they already have the intention of surrendering, they can't show it, otherwise they will be easily beheaded by Zhu Yihai.

Before retreating, Zhu Yihai gave Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren a secret edict that they must defend Hangzhou.

Zhu Yihai said that as long as they persist for a while, they will soon have a flintlock gun.

Because he had already established the relationship with the foreigners, he ordered a batch of flintlock guns from the westerners, and it was almost time to arrive in Ningbo.