The battle lasted for half an hour. With Zheng Fusong's retreat, Zheng's army lost its commander. The remaining soldiers guarding the pass threw down their weapons and surrendered. Jingwu's army captured Fenshui Pass effortlessly.

Huang Degong ordered the cavalry to attack and continue the pursuit, but the cavalry was prohibited from approaching Zheng's seaside position to prevent being bombarded by warships.

Jingwu Army soldiers escorted some captured Iron Man Army generals into the pass, and Huang Degong prepared to question them personally.

The first person to be brought in was Matos, the leader of the Wufan soldiers. This guy had acted the most exaggeratedly just now. He was still a little dissatisfied when he was captured. He was pushed to his knees by several soldiers and screamed.

Huang Degong looked at the big black man carefully and asked: "Where did he come from? How is the situation of the Zheng family?"

Matos screamed strangely, wore a medieval armor, and muttered a lot.

Huang Degong frowned and said, "Speak to me!"

Matos still looked unruly. While struggling, he said in blunt Chinese: "If you want to kill, just kill. If your head falls off, it will only be a scar as big as a bowl. What are you asking? Twenty years later, I will still be the same."

A good man, I will retaliate when the time comes..."

The Zheng family is a pirate, and they are the kings and hegemons in the southeastern waters. Most of them are cruel, vicious and unruly people. Matos has been a mercenary in the Zheng family for several years. He knows a lot about these slangs and has learned from pirate leaders.

Looks like iron.

As soon as Matos finished speaking, Huang Degong flew up and kicked him on the chin. He was instantly kicked up and fell heavily to the ground.

Matos' mouth and nose were bleeding, and several of his teeth were kicked out. He lay on the ground and kept screaming. There was a commotion among the other captured Zheng family iron soldiers, and many people yelled: "I don't accept it!"

"You don't accept it, right?"

The soldiers of the Jingwu Army used their rifle butts to hit a few iron soldiers who were shouting the most joyfully, and asked: "Do you accept it?"

For these pirates and mercenaries, the only way to keep them honest is to fight violence with violence.

Sure enough, after cleaning up, the commotion of the prisoners immediately subsided.

Huang Degong walked up to Matos, stepped on his back hard, and said: "We have become a prisoner, why are you so cool? Answer me quickly!"

Although Matos is a black man, his father's generation was a lackey who followed the Portuguese aristocracy (the black slave trade has been going on for two hundred years). He has received European military education since he was a child, and he also regards himself as a minor aristocrat.

He is still very tall and looks a bit tough when he speaks angrily.

He grinned and said, "Our chivalry values ​​character the most. If you dare, kill me!"

Huang Degong nodded and said with a smile: "It's really decent!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Matos' hair, lifted him up from the ground, raised his hand, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and stabbed his left arm in the chest.

After Matos screamed, Huang Degong stabbed him in the thigh with another sword and said with a smile: "Since you, a black boy, want to act like a hero, I will do it, so you must hold on!"

"I'm not even afraid of death. This little injury and pain should be nothing!"

As Huang Degong spoke, he continued to greet with the dagger in his hand. After a while, he had stabbed more than a dozen swords in a row, and his strikes were very measured, avoiding the vital points.

Mats screamed in pain like a slaughtering pig, and his whole body was dripping with blood. Although the blood was pouring on his black skin, he could not die for a while, and his ferocious black face looked indescribably terrifying.

Western mercenaries are all murderers without blinking an eye, but it is rare to see a person like Huang Degong who strikes without mercy while talking and laughing.

Many of the prisoners of the Iron Man Army were so frightened that they trembled all over, especially those Japanese who had lived a good life...

Matos finally couldn't bear it anymore and said in a hoarse voice: "I said, I will say anything, just leave me alone."

Huang Degong let go, threw him to the ground, and sneered: "It's too late! I don't like you, a villain who is afraid of death but still pretends to be a hero. Someone, throw him into the river to feed the fish!"

Matos shouted: "I misunderstood, it's not that I'm not afraid of death, I'm just not used to this way of talking. If you have anything to say, just ask..."

Huang Degong waved his hand and said: "We have reached this point, and you are still trying to be clever with me!"

Seeing being dragged away by two Ming troops, Matos suddenly became anxious. Regardless of the bleeding wounds on his body, he shouted loudly: "Dear Earl, I admire your bravery and want to cooperate with you. I

I have hundreds of mercenaries who can serve you, and you have seen their combat prowess, and the reward is only one percent of the Zheng family!"

Huang Degong was also convinced. He murmured: "Did this nigger grow up in a pile of money? Use money to fight wars?"

Matos was dragged further and further away, shouting twice from time to time: "We Wufan soldiers are absolutely loyal to our employer..."

"Plop!"

Matos was thrown directly into the river near Fenshui Pass. Due to his severe injuries and the cold water of the river in the twelfth lunar month, he was unable to struggle hard. He screamed a few times and then gradually lost his voice.

The other prisoners were all frightened, and the boldest one could not help but turn pale with fright, and his heart beat faster.

Huang Degong then said: "Is there anyone among you who thinks you are a hero? You can stand up and have a chat with me."

After asking the question twice, no one among the prisoners dared to answer.

Huang Degong added: "Since there is no more, let's talk about the defense of Anping City and the situation of the Zheng family."

Sure enough, when Huang Degong once again brought up an Iron Man Army officer for questioning, the man was not only much more honest, but also told everything he knew, and was very cooperative.

Through questioning, we learned that these iron lumps were the elite infantry of the Zheng family. Apart from these few thousand men, the Zheng family had no other soldiers on land.

Just yesterday, Huang Degong received news that the Anwu Army marching from Jiangxi had captured Xianxia Pass, and the Tianxiong Army marching from Guangdong had entered Chaozhou Prefecture.

The two gateways in Fujian were conquered, and the Zheng family's elite troops were defeated. It was a certainty that the troops would arrive in Quanzhou and raid the Zheng family's home base.

Huang Degong was worried that his first victory would be robbed, so he immediately ordered: "Gather all the cavalry, attack Anping, and chop off the head of Zheng Zhilong!"

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On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Zheng family in Quanzhou.

Today is a festival for eating Laba porridge. On Laba day, no matter the government, monasteries or people’s homes, they will make Laba porridge. The Zheng family will donate porridge to the victims in Quanzhou Prefecture every year as a charity.

However, during this year's Laba Festival, the Zheng family had no intention of winning over people's hearts, and focused entirely on the two battlefields of land and sea.

"It's bad! Commander, Xianxia Pass has been broken, and Anwu Army's 20,000 troops have entered Fujian!"

"Report! Marshal, the eldest son was defeated, the entire Iron Man Army was wiped out, none of them came back, Fenshui Pass was captured by the Jingwu Army!"

"Report! Commander, my Zheng family's iron factory and gun range in Guangdong have been occupied by the Tianxiong Army. The Tianxiong Army has already passed Zhangzhou Prefecture and will arrive in Quanzhou in a few days!"

Zheng Zhilong said in surprise: "Where are General Cheng and General Qin from Zhangzhou Prefecture? They were transferred from Liaodong Town. They fought against the Tatars and couldn't defend them for a day?"

"Come back to the commander, they didn't resist at all! I heard from the spies that General Cheng and General Qin were the old generals of Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief Mao Yuanyi when he was the deputy general of Zhangzhou. Without saying a word, they raised troops to respond to the imperial court and drew a line with my Zheng family.

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Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, these two scoundrels have made me lose so much money for nothing! I should have known that they had even dealt with the man surnamed Mao!"

Zheng Zhilong was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. At present, three people from the imperial court were pressing forward, and they were heading straight to Anping, Quanzhou. The progress was much faster than he imagined.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong was counting on mobilizing all the troops in Fujian as the commander-in-chief of Fujian to guard the gates and the city. He also deliberately held the new Fujian governor Huang Daozhou hostage, fearing that he would affect the overall situation.

Who would have known that within three days of holding the old man hostage, he was secretly rescued. After he was freed from the trap, he ordered that people and horses in all parts of Fujian not be mobilized, and even the food and grass were cut off.

After a long time, Zheng Zhilong sighed: "The situation has reached the most critical moment. Whether our Zheng family can survive this disaster depends on the sea!"
Chapter completed!