Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

Updated: 2012-10-31

Although Shanahai led most of them to flee, in order to transport away as many troops as possible in a hurry, most of the food, fodder, weapons, artillery, etc. were abandoned in the south of the Yangtze River.Therefore, after his troops retreated across the Yangtze River, they were afraid that Zheng's army would take advantage of the victory to pursue them, so they abandoned Huangzhou, Hankou, Xiaogan and other places, and hurriedly retreated to Anlu and De'an to prepare troops.

The Qing army retreated immediately, and the Huangzhou government resolutely abandoned the dark and turned to the bright, and sent people across the river to ask Zheng Jun to surrender.However, the envoys who came excitedly couldn't find anyone who could make the decision---Wu Shu was very ill and had few days left to live; although Cui Ping, the general of Wuchang, had meritorious service in protecting Wuchang to death, he also conspired with Liu Ning'an There is She, who is holding his tail tightly to be a man, so naturally he can't do everything; as for Wang Xinhua, who is neither a direct descendant nor a guest army, he can't even enter Wuchang City, so naturally he can't make the decision---so he had to be trapped in Wuchang City Bumping around like headless chickens.

Fortunately, this group of messengers didn't have to wait long, and the people who could call the shots came from Anqing.

On September [-]th, the third day after Shanahai withdrew from Eastern Hubei, Yuanfu of the cabinet, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, Prince Shaoshi, and Xinchang Bo Honglei entered Wuchang (Ezhou) as supervisors, and immediately took over lost the military power in Wu Shu's hands.

I heard that Hong Lei arrived, and after Cui Ping hesitated for two days, Qingqi Jiancong rushed to Wuchang County to plead guilty to Hong Lei.Hong Lei greeted him out of the gate in person, and staged a live drama of cherishing talents for the country and employing people without doubt.Later, Cui Ping, who was so grateful, personally led the main force of Zheng Jun into Wuchang Fucheng.

After entering Wuchang, Hong Lei met Wang Xinhua at the first time. Since his department had been hit hard by Shanahai before, Wang Xinhua was very respectful in front of Hong Lei at this time, and offered to hand over the front line defense of Yueyang to Zheng Jun.For this, Hong Lei accepted it with a smile, but Wang Xinhua was dumb as if he was eating Coptis chinensis.

Hong Lei was well aware of Wang Xinhua's petty thoughts, so after receiving a group of envoys from the Huangzhou Mansion who begged to surrender, he used the power of a supervisor to promote Wang Xinhua to the post of Huguang General Soldier and ordered him to lead the two divisions. Let's go north, advance to the front line of Huangpi and Xiaogan, and beware of Shanahai's comeback.

Wang Xinhua had three divisions at this time, and he was only allowed to lead 1 people to the north, obviously to weaken his strength, but Wang Xinhua also understood that this was Zheng Kezang's punishment for his lack of merit after occupying Yueyang, so he dared not resist , obediently led the troops to the north.The remaining 5000 people from the Royal Department were combined with the [-] remnants of Cui Ping's department to form two new divisions, and Cui Ping led the northward march.Cui Ping, who was appointed as the acting deputy commander of Huguang, lived up to Hong Lei's expectations. With the support of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Navy, he took the lead in recovering Hanyang Mansion, and then recovered Hanchuan and Mianyang (Honghu and Xiantao) along the way.

However, when the battle reached this level, although the Qing government was unable to fight anymore due to the loss of soldiers and land and the lack of food and fodder, Zheng Fang also faced the dilapidated situation inside and outside Wuchang Prefecture, and the situation of more than [-] dead people waiting for food.As a result, the two sides licked their wounds, and the Huguang war that year ended.

Just as Hong Lei comforted the people of Wuchang with work in lieu of relief, Wu Shu, who was exhausted, finally let go and returned to the west.The news reached the ears of Zheng Kezang, who was leading the army to attack Anqing. Zheng Kezang couldn't help being greatly mourned. He presided over the remote sacrifice in person, and gave the veteran "Wu Jing" who had served Zheng Fan loyally and was determined to fight against the Qing Dynasty anyway. First-class posthumous title, ordered his son Wu Keng to take over the title of Marquis of Huaiyuan, and accepted him as a bodyguard, so as to set an example for the whole army and the newly attached generals.

After paying homage to Wu Shu, Zheng Kezang changed Wuchang County to E County, and ordered Hong Lei to move Jiangxia County and Hanyang County, which were attached to Guo, to the south of the two prefectures. Among them, Jiangxia County was built in Jinkou and Hanyang in Hannan. In the county seat, the two cities Jiajiang confront each other, forming horns of each other.Immediately, Zheng Kezang changed Hanyang County to Huarong County, and adjusted the Yangtze River Fleet to station in E County, Huarong County, Jiayu County, and Yueyang Prefecture. As a result, the situation in eastern Hubei was temporarily stabilized.

On September 22, the Guangxi battle report came. He Gan's troops and the first division of the Longxiang Army first conquered Liuzhou and then Nanning.Upon hearing the good news, Zheng Kezang immediately changed Guangdong Governor Chen Mengwei to be Guangdong Governor, Jiangxi Governor Gu Tongshan to be Jiangxi Chief Envoy, and ordered Hunan Governor Lu Xuefang to be transferred to Guangxi.

There are many good news in the southwest battlefield, but the most critical Anqing battle has not made any progress.Anqing city is adjacent to Longshan Mountain in the north and Dajiang River in the west and south of the East Lake. The overall terrain is as low as Yangzhou.However, the Qing army in Anqing City was strong, and the governor and admiral Wang Weizhen also reinforced and repaired the city wall of Anqing several times. Therefore, although the Zheng army fired intensively, the soldiers worked hard, and spared no effort to drive away the new attached army, they were unable to take the strong city for a long time. .

Zheng Kezang was very anxious in the face of the food and materials consumed like a splash, and the morale of Zheng's army was gradually low because of the heavy casualties in the siege.As a last resort, Zheng Kezang could only change the storm into a siege. At the same time, in order to blast away the Anqing city wall, Zheng Kezang also ordered the transfer of large warships from the Eastern Fleet regardless of the possibility of being grounded.

When the huge figures of the [-]-material "Tongshan Island" and the [-]-material "Nan'ao Island" appeared on the Anqing River, the Qing army generals standing at the head of Anqing City were shaken.Although large warships cannot sail into Wankou, Zheng Kezang's belief that Anqing must be conquered has been conveyed to their minds. Everyone is secretly asking themselves, how long can a mere isolated city survive when foreign aid is cut off and the situation is struggling? , Is there any need for me to go all the way to the dark for the Qing court?

Seeing the people's hearts fluctuate, Wang Weizhen, who was born in the Han army with the blue banner, became anxious and became sick, and finally fell ill under the sound of Zheng Jun's non-stop bombardment day and night.Since Wang Weizhen, who was loyal to the Qing court because of Ming Zheng's policy of liquidating traitors, was unable to take matters into his own hands, Amin, the suspicious vassal, wanted to preside over the overall situation.But although Amin is authentic Manchurian, the problem is that there are many people with higher status than him in the city. There are as many as seven or eight who hold the title of general soldier, and there are also two or three first-rank military governors.

Therefore, Amin's practice of acting as governor and admiral by talking to himself caused great dissatisfaction.But Amin didn't hold back at all, instead, under the pretext of collaborating with the enemy, he detained two generals who opposed him, which aroused public outrage.The high-level Green Banner soldiers who had no intention of communicating with Zheng Jun secretly about the song, now have to send envoys to contact them in order to protect themselves.

In this way, according to the result of defeating Zheng Fang, in the middle of the night on October [-]th in the third year of Wuding, four Qing army generals and deputy generals led pacesetters and battalion soldiers to join forces to rebel. Fire and.In the chaos, it is unknown who opened the gates of Anqing and led Zheng Jun into the city.Because Zheng Jun did not distinguish between the enemy and us in the middle of the night, and was afraid that it was a strategy of the Qing army to lure the enemy in, he only controlled the five city gates of Zongyang, Zhenhai, Kangji, Zhengguan, and Jixian and the connected city walls and did not go deep into the city.

But this is enough. After dawn, the Qing army who found that Zheng Jun had controlled all the sects knew that the situation was over, and they abandoned their troops and begged for surrender. The people in the city committed suicide one after another. Wang Weizhen, who was still lying on the sickbed, was dedicated to Zheng Kezang by his trusted family members before driving.The governor and admiral, who was dying of illness, begged Zheng Kezang for his life in tears.Since he was the first Qing court to beg for surrender, Zheng Kezang gave him an amnesty for propaganda purposes, and then sent him to Yingtian for treatment.With this, the Battle of Anqing and Zheng Fang's entire Northern Expedition came to an end.

Zheng Kezang left two divisions under the command of Xi Daping, the Huainan General Soldier, to guard Anqing, Susong and other places. He also organized the captured and surrendered Qing troops into an engineering unit and supervised them with one division, driving them to the Qing Dynasty, Chuzhou, Another new city was built between Jiangpu and prepared to be the future capital and the base of the Northern Expedition.

It is a pity that Zheng Kezang's idea came to naught with the Huanghuai flood in the second year. In the end, he weighed again and again and did not stop the construction project, but only reduced the amount of work, and made the new city the capital of Jiangbei and Huainan provinces, with Chuzhou as the capital The old name was Xinchang, and it was merged into Chuzhou, Hezhou and the four counties of Jiangpu, Tianchang, and Xuyi that were originally under Yingtianfu and Sizhou Zhili Prefecture.

Of course, it was already the end of the fourth year of Wuding when Xinchang Mansion was officially established.

After doing this, Zheng Kezang sent two divisions to replace the third and fourth divisions of the Longxiang Army on the front line in Huguang and returned to the original defense. The remaining twelve went to Chizhou and Taiping to rest respectively. A group of civil and military soldiers from the Qing army returned to Nanjing and presented a victory at the Meridian Gate.Zhu Cizhen, the king of Shucheng who had no choice but to accept the position of emperor's nephew, tremblingly accepted Zheng Kezang's offer of prisoners at the Meridian Gate, and then awarded Zheng Kezang the titles of Taishi and Taifu on behalf of the lingering Emperor Wu Ding, and because Zheng Kezang Zang Zhigong posthumously named Zhu Chenggong and Zhu Jin the Kings of Yue, and Zheng Kezang's biological mother, Chen Zhaoniang, was made Mrs. Yipin and Princess Yue.

On October [-]th of the third year of Wuding, the civil and military officials of Zheng Fan's sect persuaded Zheng Kezang to replace the Ming Dynasty as emperor, but Zheng Kezang refused to allow it on the grounds that the three generations of his ancestors and grandchildren were loyal to the Ming Dynasty.Two days later, the people in Nanjing and Jiangnan once again begged Zheng Kezang to ascend to the position of supremacy, but Zheng Kezang refused again on the grounds that he had not yet expelled the Tartars.

The officials of Zheng Fan were planning to persuade them to advance for the third time. Zheng Kezang personally summoned all the officials to explain the situation and ideas, so that there is no need to worry about appeasing the officials. Only then did Zheng Fan, who wanted to be the hero of the founding of the country, temporarily suppress his boiling thoughts.

However, Dai Ming's momentum has already been created, and the whole of China and even the foreign vassals already know that Ming Zuo will not last forever. Under such circumstances, the deposed prince Zhu Cichen died suddenly because of excessive drinking and typhoid fever. The news got out and everyone took it for granted