Gou was a member of the imperial family in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 761 Cruel and ruthless
In an instant, the sound of killing was deafening. Li You and his two hundred men rushed to the front like wolves into a flock of sheep. At this time, these people seemed to wake up from a dream and hurriedly fought back.

But it was too late. Li You and his troops were the elite among the elite, and the new army was basically formed according to the Qi Family Army of the past. They had accumulated rich combat experience in the battles over the years. More importantly, the equipment of this new army was better than that of the Qi Family Army of the past, and its combat effectiveness was stronger.

Not to mention the dozen Jiannu plus the hundred or so Han troops and Baoyi, even if the ordinary Liao people were counted in, they were no match for them. Just one charge directly broke through the Jiannu's temporary defense, and then the new army, based on small teams, encircled and annihilated the enemy. In a blink of an eye, the enemy was as vulnerable as a chicken and a dog.

The battle lasted only a quarter of an hour from the beginning to the end. Nearly half of the dozen Jiannu, Han army, and Baoyi stationed here were killed, and the rest became Li You's captives. Not to mention the Liao people, they were not combatants to begin with, and when the Ming army appeared and rushed at them like wolves and tigers, they were already scared silly, trembling all over and kneeling on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy, how could they have the slightest idea of ​​resistance?
Li You easily captured the Jinzhou Zuowei. He ordered people to clean up the battlefield and place the prisoners. At the same time, he sent people to the landing point to bring the news to Zheng Hongkui. After making these arrangements, Li You went to the Jinzhou Zuowei garrison. The so-called Jinzhou Zuowei was the outpost of Jinzhou Wei in the southwest region. It was originally a garrison stronghold of the Ming army in Liaodong.

This place is actually no different from most of the Ming Dynasty's garrisons. Except for a long-disrepaired and somewhat crude fortification bunker, the rest is similar to a village. The population here is less than 300 at its peak. Apart from the normal garrison troops, most of them are Liao people. Because this place is not suitable for growing crops, there are more fishermen who go out to sea to fish for a living.

But these are all things of the past. With Nurhaci's uprising, most of the Liao people who were here either fled, were killed or moved to other places, and there were only a few people left. When Huang Taiji adjusted the stationing of the Eight Banners, Jinzhou Zuowei was reused as the outpost of Jinzhouwei, and Jinzhouwei sent a dozen people, Han army, Baoyi and some Liao people to garrison.

Moreover, because Huang Taiji was fighting in Jinzhou, all the elite troops in the Eight Banners were withdrawn by Huang Taiji, and most of those left here were old, weak, sick and disabled, and second- and third-line troops. Huang Taiji never thought that the Ming army would cross the sea to attack Liaodong. After all, Pi Island, which posed the greatest threat to him, was finished. Not only did Mao Wenlong die in Yuan Chonghuan's hands, but even the generals under Mao Wenlong were the same. They either died in the civil strife or withdrew to the Ming Dynasty, or defected to him like Shang Kexi. Even Pi Island fell into Huang Taiji's hands.

Without the threat of Pi Island, how could there be any trouble in Liaodong? The stationing here is just a show. Not only the Eight Banners soldiers stationed here think so, but also Huang Taiji.

This was also the main reason why Li You led his men to attack without any defense. After taking down the Left Guard of Jinzhou, Li You carefully observed the situation of the Left Guard of Jinzhou and found that the entire Left Guard of Jinzhou did not have much supplies, especially food and other supplies. He asked the captives and found out that because of the Jinzhou battlefield, Huang Taiji had transferred most of the food and other supplies away, and the remaining ones were barely enough for their daily consumption. In order to fill their stomachs, the local Eight Banners could only let the Han army and the Liao people farm and fish from the sea to make up for it, and their lives could only be said to be so-so.

Because of this, Li You's original plan to replenish some supplies by capturing Jinzhou Zuowei was thwarted, and the captured food and other items were barely enough for all the landing troops to eat for a few days. However, there was nothing he could do about it. From the actual situation, it was good to have captured some. Even a small thing was still meat, and this situation did not annoy Li You, but made him happy instead.

Li You felt that the lack of material supplies meant that the Jiannu could not withstand the long-term consumption of war. It was a fact that Zu Dashou was guarding an isolated city in Jinzhou and the food in the city was getting less and less. But Huang Taiji was not much better off. Liaodong produced little and there was a serious shortage of food. In this situation, Huang Taiji still drew food from the rear to supply the front line. Once a fire broke out in the backyard, chaos would surely occur.

After receiving the news that Li You had captured Jinzhou Zuowei, Zheng Hongkui, who had completed the landing, came here with his men. Seeing Li You, Zheng Hongkui was in high spirits. He did not expect that Jinzhou Zuowei would be captured so easily. He had a good start as soon as he landed. This was a good thing!
"General Li's move is extraordinary, congratulations!"

"I'm so ashamed, this contribution is not worth mentioning at all." Li You said modestly.

"Is this the Jiannu? The thing behind its head is really...tsk tsk, brother, what on earth was this Jiannu thinking? Why did he make such a thing?" Zheng Hongkui looked at the captives, and was particularly interested in the rat tails behind their heads, and he did not forget to comment on it.

In his opinion, this Jiannu hairstyle is really ugly. A normal person has to mess up his head like this. A barbarian is a barbarian. Doesn't he know that his hair and body are given by his parents? It is really incomprehensible that he has such an ugly look.

Zheng Hongkui had been to Japan many times, and the hairstyle of Japanese samurai was not very good. It was ugly enough for Japanese samurai to shave their heads into topknots, but he did not expect that the Jiannu were even uglier than that. He could not help shaking his head when he saw it.

Zheng Hongkui's actions made the captured Jiannu soldiers furious. If they were not tied up tightly, they would have jumped up and fought him to the death. They stared with ferocious eyes and gnashed their teeth.

"What's wrong? Are you glaring at me? Are you unconvinced?" Zheng Hongkui squatted down with a smile and asked a young prisoner: "Hey, your eyes are so big? Do you want to eat me?"

The tied up Jiannu looked about 17 or 18 years old. He continued to glare at Zheng Hongkui, looking as if he wanted to kill him, but he couldn't move. Even his mouth was stuffed tightly, so he couldn't curse. He could only whine and twist his body as much as he could. "Are you thinking about how to kill the Fourth Master?" Zheng Hongkui asked with a smile, and while asking, he touched the other's newly shaved head in an humiliating way. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed the braid behind his head and pulled it back with such force that the other's face was distorted because of the pain.

"You know what, this braid feels good to hold." Zheng Hongkui laughed, raised his left hand and slapped him on the face a few times in an humiliating way: "I, the Fourth Master, have seen all kinds of people, but you are far inferior to me. The heads of the Japanese, the Nanyang barbarians, and the red-haired devils chopped off by your Fourth Master can be piled up into a mountain. Do you think the Fourth Master is afraid of you?"

As he spoke, Zheng Hongkui's left hand suddenly touched the Jian slave's eyelids and said with a smile: "Your eyes are quite big, and they can be stared so round and funny. The Fourth Master will not kill you, but lend you one of your eyes for fun..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Hongkui exerted force with his fingers and dug directly into Jiannu's eye sockets. Jiannu, who had just glared at Zheng Hongkui, struggled desperately in an instant, and his throat made waves of heart-wrenching but suppressed sounds that could not be shouted out.

Zheng Hongkui was very skilled in digging out people's eyeballs. With a few pokes and digs, he dug out the Jiannu's left eyeball. After digging it out, he ignored the other party rolling on the ground in pain, twisted the eyeball with two bloody fingers and played with it, then shook his head and said, "I thought your eyeball was bigger than that of ordinary people, but it's just like that. It's boring and not fun..."

As he said this, he threw it to the ground and then stepped on it. Everyone heard a "pop" sound and the eyeball that had just been dug out was crushed by Zheng Hongkui like a ball. He twisted his foot again, and the remaining flesh and blood mixed with the mud on the ground, and they could no longer be distinguished from each other.

Zheng Hongkui's brutal behavior stunned everyone, and even Li You, who was standing by, felt a chill all over his body. Zheng Hongkui had always been kind and smiling to others, and although he was born a pirate, he was also half a scholar, and his daily behavior had a hint of a scholar's aura.

But he didn't expect this guy to be so cruel. He dug out people's eyes without making any noise, and used this method to intimidate prisoners. Li You was not a good man. He had fought many battles with Wang Jinwu, and killed many people on the battlefield, even prisoners.

But even so, Li You had never done such a thing. He only used a knife to kill people. I am afraid that Wang Jinwu would not do such a thing as Zheng Hongkui. As the saying goes, killing is not enough. Zheng Hongkui's behavior is not just a simple killing, but also brutal. Considering that the Zheng brothers were able to travel all over the world and become the world's largest pirate leaders, Li You had to admit that Zheng Hongkui was indeed not simple.

Zheng Hongkui's action not only shocked Li You, but also everyone else. Even the Jiannu who were dissatisfied with the Ming army that captured them were frightened. They didn't expect that this seemingly insignificant Ming army general could be so cruel and vicious. In the blink of an eye, he crippled one of their brothers and lost his eyeball, and it was lost in this way. It was unknown whether he could survive. Even if he survived, he would be half disabled.

Zheng Hongkui's actions made these Jiannu soldiers restrained themselves and no longer dared to provoke the Ming army that captured them. When they asked about the situation of the saddle bag, especially the information of Jinzhou Guard, these Jiannu soldiers cooperated a lot and got the result without much effort.

"Brother Li, do you think I went too far just now?" Zheng Hongkui saw that Li You was silent, and asked with a smile and a low voice.

Li You shook his head and said, "What's the point of being cruel to the enemy? Besides, the Jiannu were not good people to begin with. Killing them is just killing them. It's just that General Zheng did it himself and stained your hands. Besides, if it weren't for General Zheng, these Jiannu wouldn't have told the truth obediently. I have to thank General Zheng."

"Hahaha, you're right!" Zheng Hongkui laughed, "Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. My background is not as good as yours. If I hadn't been ruthless and merciless at sea, I would have rotted into a pile of bones. Besides, my little tricks are nothing. If my second brother were still alive, he...ah."

As he spoke, Zheng Hongkui sighed and shook his head. Zheng Zhihu's death was miserable. In terms of bravery in battle, he was the best among the Zheng brothers, and the brothers had a very good relationship. Zheng Hongkui had admired his second brother since he was a child, but he never thought that Zheng Zhihu would be killed in the battle with Liu Xiang. Every time he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel sad.

(End of this chapter)