On the Yangtze River.
Cai Zicai looked at the battle that had ended before him, and after receiving the signal fire, he immediately advanced at full speed.
However, in order to avoid being discovered by Zheng Chenggong, he deployed his navy very far away.
After seeing the smoke signal, they hurried and finally made it.
He managed to salvage a warship that had escaped from Nanjing.
If Zheng Chenggong's navy had been completely annihilated in the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River, he would have gained no credit whatsoever.
He traveled all the way from Shandong.
That would really be a wasted trip.
After the officer in charge of statistics walked over, he stood up and asked the officer:
"Have all the enemy sailors who fell into the river been retrieved?"
How are the statistics?
Were there any big fish in the fleet we just wiped out?
The officer, however, said with a delighted expression:
"Reporting to the general, according to the confessions of the prisoners of war we retrieved, Zheng Chenggong was just inside one of the warships we sank."
He must have sunk to the bottom of the river along with the warship.
"real?"
Upon hearing this news, Cai Zicai immediately said excitedly to the officer in front of him:
"Keep an eye on those prisoners of war, and take the warships we captured to Nanjing."
Go and report the good news to the King.
On the north bank of the Yangtze River in Nanjing.
Li Qin stood on the riverbank, one hand gripping the sword at his waist, looking at the wreckage of warships and the corpses floating on the river.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Zheng Chenggong's troublesome navy has finally been dealt with.
Regardless of whether Zheng Chenggong escaped or not, without this powerful navy...
He's not going to amount to anything anymore.
Now I can confidently move on to my next step.
Li Qin turned to the officer behind him and instructed:
"I will record the names of those who have performed meritorious service and those who have died in battle, and I will reward and provide compensation to them later."
We also need to clear the debris from the river surface as soon as possible. We'll cross the river later to go to Nanjing.
"yes."
After the officer nodded, he immediately wrote down Li Qin's order.
Then Li Qin turned to the numerous warlords and vassal states who had been following him and said:
"Everyone, it's over."
Everyone, return to your units and come with me across the river to Nanjing. We have important matters to attend to later.
Go and get ready.
At this moment, all the feudal lords following behind Li Qin exchanged glances, then bowed to Li Qin and said:
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left, returning to his army.
However, none of them looked well.
They certainly knew what Li Qin meant by their big deal.
It was nothing more than forcing them to pressure the emperor to abdicate the throne to him.
The thought of being forced by Li Qin to become the one who staged the coup was unbearable.
Everyone sighed.
After watching them leave, Li Qin turned back to look at the wreckage of the warships on the river.
He also took a deep breath.
He knew it was over. His next task was to head to Jinling and stabilize Jiangnan.
Afterwards, he brought Emperor Zhu Qizhen over and had the feudal lords transfer his household registration to him.
With his own territory and the territories of these feudal lords, the vast majority of the land under his rule was now at once.
The remaining areas, including Lingnan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, can be pacified with a simple proclamation, unless they want to oppose us or these feudal lords.
Those officials didn't want their jobs anymore.
Once you reach that position, the world will generally acknowledge your status.
In this way, he would become the supreme ruler of the world.
What I need to do next is to consolidate my rule and eliminate these destabilizing factors.
For example, these feudal lords.
But that's a story for another time.
After admiring the results of the battle on the Yangtze River for a while.
Li Qin also returned to his military tent.
The officer who tallied the results of the battle came to report to Li Qin after he had finished.
In this battle, Zheng Chenggong's navy was almost completely wiped out.
Large and medium-sized ships were almost completely wiped out.
Only a small number of ships managed to escape.
However, according to the prisoners they captured...
Some prisoners of war said that they saw Zheng Chenggong change into a faster boat and escape down the river.
A rough estimate based on the officers in front of him.
Li Qin nodded in satisfaction.
The results of this battle on the Yangtze River have been very substantial.
Zheng Chenggong has temporarily run away, so be it.
He wasn't afraid, after all, his navy had been completely wiped out.
Moreover, Li Qin believed that he couldn't escape either, as Cai Zicai's Shandong navy was sailing upstream on the east side of the Yangtze River.
Zheng Chenggong has no chance of escaping; he will soon run into Cai Zicai's Shandong navy.
All I need to do now is wait for Cai Zicai's report.
He will surely bring himself good news.
After listening to the report from the officer in front of him, Li Qin waved him away.
He then wrote an order to his younger brother Li Wenqi, who was in the capital.
It is said that the areas south and north of the Yangtze River have been basically pacified, and the Yangtze River has been cleared.
Send elite troops to bring Emperor Zhu Qizhen to Nanjing as soon as possible.
I have something important to do.
As soon as Li Qin issued the order, someone came to report it.
Cai Zicai of the Shandong Navy has arrived.
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