The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 587 Preparations for Chongming
Zhang Jiayu briefly recalled, and continued: "At the beginning, Hauge suddenly returned to the east, publicly exposed that Dorgon and Zhang Xianzhong had negotiated peace, and wanted to surrender Sichuan to the bandits. All kinds of bowing his head were unbearable. After Borzigit's support, Dorgon barely calmed down the differences and kept his power.

"And not long after that, the Donglu court heard that Deputy General Luo Luohun of Haoge concealed his defeat and reported his victory, and deceived his superiors and subordinates. His troops lost nearly 2 horses in northern Sichuan and were forced to Hanzhong by the army of the loyal Marquis. Dorgon Grasping this matter, he reversed the previous decline in one fell swoop, and wanted to seize Haoge's military power and imprison him. Later, because the captive Daishan and Jierhalang strongly opposed it, he had no choice but to give up.

"Nowadays Haoge has joined forces with many false kings to spread public opinion wantonly, threatening Dorgon quite a bit."

Zhu Linmei then looked at him and said, "According to what Yuanzi saw, what should Dorgon do in the future?"

Zhang Jiayu thought: "Since Gunn can't win Hauge, he will try his best to fight with me in order to stabilize the court with the victory of the two white flags."

"Yuanzi's reading is really accurate." Zhu Linmei nodded in praise, "A while ago, there were also news reports from Beizhen from Beijing. detailed.

"Yesterday, the Koreans in Delaizhou played closely. Recently, Zheng Zhilong has not only frequently practiced the rapid advance of the whole fleet of warships and the transformation of battle formations, but also continuously transported grain and grass from Shandong and Beizhili to Laizhou to start loading. As I expected, it is not bad, many Ninety percent of Ergun ordered Zheng Zhilong to attack the mouth of the Yangtze River before deep winter, and cooperated with Duoduo and Wu Sangui's troops to invade the south."

Zhang Jiayu was a little surprised and said: "It seems that the former Wu Sangui repeatedly raided Chuzhou and Hezhou, just to lure me to the west to reinforce, so that he can surprise Yingtian Mansion while I divide the troops."

"Under Hauge's constant persecution, Dorgon has no choice but to put all his eggs in one basket."

In the middle of Zhu Linming's speech, a guard reported from outside the cabin: "My lord, the navy master Shi Langshi led the warship to welcome us."

"Come on, let's go to the deck and wait for the Honorable Lord."

Zhu Linmei called Zhang Jiayu out of the cabin together, and said as they walked, "Actually, what worries me the most is not the movement from Jianlu's side."

He turned his head and glanced to the southeast, "Last month, Jinyiwei Nanzhen captured a scum who colluded with the Helan people at the Yongbeili shipyard, and then dug out a large intelligence network of the Helan people in Fujing. There was a fake missionary who lived in Quanzhou for several years, but he was actually an intelligence officer of the Hongyi East India Company, and his rank was not low.

"Nanzhen found a lot of information about Daming's new warships at this person's residence, which shows that Hongyi is extremely vigilant towards our navy. Zheng Guangying also carefully interrogated the Yi people. Although he didn't get much, this person mentioned He Lan People already know that our navy landed in New Guinea, and that the Department of Commerce sent ships to explore Australia."

Seeing Zhang Jiayu's confused face, he explained with a smile: "This development of colonies and maritime trade have brought great profits, especially the Helan people, who rely on it as the basis of national taxation. Their ships have explored Australia in recent years. The land, which seems to have been named "Xinhelan", is planning to land. Now we are going to Australia, which will definitely touch their interests.

"During this period, the people of Xibanya have been avoiding Helan's front. Merchant ships even went west to Daming to avoid Helan warships. The Helan people gradually realized that Luzon was not against them. the meaning of.

"Actually, Hongyi has withdrawn most of the warships sent to demonstrate in the north of Luzon. It is not known where these ships will go, but if Hongyi cooperates with Zheng Zhilong to attack our navy when he goes south, we have to worry about it. Crisis."

Zhang Jiayu couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, "I've heard that Hongyi's boats are very good, and my navy has already found it difficult to deal with Zheng thief. If Hongyi is added, I'm afraid it will really..."

The two of them said that they were on the front deck, and saw that the warship they were on had dropped anchor, and not far away were five or six centipede clippers—no way, in the Yangtze River, the speed of other large ships was extremely fast. Unbearable.

After a while, Shi Lang drove a small traffic boat to the side of the Guangnan, and quickly climbed the rope ladder to the bow.Seeing that the assistant king was already waiting for him surrounded by his own soldiers, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "The last general pays his respects to His Royal Highness the assistant king."

Zhu Linmei smiled and said, "Why are you here suddenly?"

"Returning to Your Highness, five new warships including the 'Zhangzhou' and 'Ji'an' just arrived from Fujing a few days ago, and Admiral Zhu is leading these new ships to familiarize themselves with the battle formation day and night. In addition, the newly built warships returned last month There are also many new sailors on the wide signal, and the admiral is really inseparable, so he sent the last general to meet His Highness."

"At the moment when it's time to intensify the drills, you, a naval officer, are allowed to come here to welcome and send you off," Zhu Linmi put away her smile and said with feigned anger, "I have to talk about Damu."

Shi Lang hurriedly said: "The admiral is also to ensure His Highness is safe." He couldn't help but look back at the few boats he brought, they were not big enough for His Highness's boat, and he grinned in embarrassment.

"Forget it, it's good if you're here." Zhu Linmi signaled him to return to the cabin together, and then asked, "Have Zhangzhou and Ji'an arrived in Chongming? Can these two ships join the battle now?"

He already knew from the report of the Ministry of War a few days ago that the two warships newly built by the Yongbeili and Nan'an shipyards had already headed north, but he did not expect such a fast speed.These two ships are 470-ton and [-]-ton Galen warships respectively - the former shortened the keel slightly to speed up the progress, but the impact was not too big, only two nine-pound guns were missing.The other three ships are all small frigates with more than [-] tons.

"Returning to Your Highness, although most of the ships are recruits from the Naval Academy, there are also quite a few veterans from the Jianchang. There is absolutely no problem in handling the ship. It's just that in terms of battle line coordination, we need to get familiar with other warships for a while."

"Okay." Zhu Linmei nodded and said, "However, the actual combat practice needs to be faster. There may be a tough battle to be fought in the next few days."

Upon hearing this, Shi Lang said excitedly: "Don't worry, Your Highness! The sudden strong wind last time made that bandit Zheng run away. Right now, everyone in the navy is gearing up for a showdown with the bandit!"
"I don't know when Your Highness wants me to pull out the anchor and where to kill the enemy?"

(End of this chapter)