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Chapter 692

After wiping out the false emperor Zhu Youlang and Sun Kewang and other anti-imperial forces, in Mengxiu City, the new Mian Mangbai received Zhu Yousong with the most solemn ceremony, and arranged a banquet side by side with singing and dancing. A few days later, Zhu Yousong led a team of tens of thousands to bid farewell to Mangbai, and moved back to the country. The King of Myanmar personally prepared gifts to send them off.
Zhu Yousong expressed his gratitude, but as soon as his army arrived in Yunnan, they received a memorial from Guangdong, which was written by Li Zicheng.
Zhu Yousong unfolded it and looked at it, and couldn't help but yelled: "How cunning Zheng Zhilong, I took your old lair this time!"

The civil and military generals didn't know what was going on, Zhu Yousong told the generals about the memorial, and then the generals realized that the Ming army was at a disadvantage in the war in Guangdong. On Kinmen Island, Li Zicheng has no navy, so please make a decision.
Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's uncle and nephew led a team to attack the Tang king Zhu Yujian. Zhu Yujian mainly got the support of the great pirate Zheng Zhilong, occupied Fujian and most of Guangdong, and fought against the imperial court. At that time, because Zhu Yousong wanted to personally attack Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, It was only then that the uncle and nephew of the Zheng family quelled the rebellion for Zhengnan Dayuan division and the deputy marshal. Liu Wenru, the original Caojiang navy division, was assigned to their uncle and nephew as the deputy general.
This battle has been fought for more than two years, with both sides winning and losing. A few days ago, Zhu Yousong pacified the bandits in the southwest, and Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong also won the battle. When Zhu Yousong was in Guangxi, in order to speed up the Tang Dynasty After the king's demise, he sent Li Zicheng and [-] troops to cooperate with Zheng Hongkui to attack the Tang king's troops from the flank.
Li Zicheng is powerful and well-organized, and he must attack and conquer. He quickly took down the entire Guangdong and drove Tang Wang and Zheng Zhilong's Zheng Jiajun to Fujian.
Because Li Zicheng won consecutive battles, the battle between Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong was also easy to fight, and they were also victorious in northern Fujian. The troops of the king of Tang could not withstand the attack of the two armies of the Ming army. They retreated steadily, and were suddenly forced to the southern coast of Fujian.
From the two most powerful provinces, only Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other places are left in the territory. The number of people has increased from 10,000+ to less than 5. Facing the aggressive trend of the Ming army, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian was helpless .Discussed countermeasures with the so-called group of civil and military officials such as Zheng Zhilong, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Prince Taibao, and Huang Zongxi, the head of the cabinet.
Zheng Zhilong lost his temper now, and was beaten by his own brother and son, so he advocated retreating to the island and relying on his sea strength to deal with the Ming army.
Huang Zongxi shook his head. Now that Zhu Yousong is getting stronger and stronger, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have surrendered to Ming Dynasty, and a powerful Ming emperor is about to emerge. He suggested to contact Lu Wang Zhu Yihai in the east, and on the other hand, to open up a new base. Stationed in Taiwan. If they can occupy Taiwan, they can sit back and relax with the advantage of the sea. The island is close to the mainland, and there is no way to avoid big waves.
Zhu Yujian also wants to occupy this place, but he knows that Taiwan is now occupied by the Dutch, and the Netherlands has a powerful navy. How can their wooden ships deal with the Dutch's strong ships and guns?
Before discussing a specific and feasible strategy, the defenders of Fuzhou betrayed them and surrendered to Ming Dynasty. Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's army occupied Fuzhou without bloodshed, and the soldiers marched into Quanzhou. At the same time, Li Zicheng's troops approached Zhangzhou, and the situation was quite critical.
In the end, Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth and came up with a ruthless move. He suggested that Zhu Yujian pretend to surrender. Zheng Zhilong, like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, was good at using tricks to deal with Chongzhen.
Zhu Yujian is now at the end of his talents, Huang Zongxi is just a scholar who misleads the country with empty talk, literature cannot govern the country, and military cannot lead the army. Now it all depends on Zheng Zhilong. Therefore, he obeys Zheng Zhilong's words.
Zhu Yujian, Zheng Zhilong and others wrote the letter of surrender and sent it to Zheng Hongkui. Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong saw it and were happy. He waited for Zheng Zhilong to surrender. If they really wanted to surrender to the court, they would still be a family.
But the matter was so important that Zheng Hongkui didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he sent someone to ask Zhu Yousong for instructions. At that time, Zhu Yousong was in Burma, chasing and annihilating Zhu Youlang, Sun Kewang and others. The exchange of official documents took some time. At this point, the army ceased the battle and waited for Zhu Yousong's will to rule.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were tricked by the treacherous and cunning Zheng Zhilong. The people Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong sent to Zhu Yousong to write the essay were ambushed by Zheng Zhilong, and the official documents Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong sent to Zhu Yousong were found.
Zheng Zhilong and Huang Zongxi were overjoyed. Under coercion and lure, these people surrendered to the king of Tang. The king of Tang was also very happy and proceeded intensively according to the pre-scheduled plan, but Zheng Hongkui's uncle and nephew were still kept in the dark. News from Zhu Yousong.
A few days later, Zhu Yousong's approval document came, saying that the king of Tang and Zheng Zhilong were allowed to surrender, and Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were allowed to receive the soldiers and horses of the king of Tang on the spot and reorganize them. Forgive all, forget the past.
This decree is of course a forgery. It came from the hand of the great talent Huang Zongxi. It was handled in this way, and then the jade seal was forged, everything was done seamlessly, and it was easy to hide the truth from Zheng Hongkui's uncle and nephew.
Their uncles and nephews acted according to their wishes, so they relaxed their vigilance against Zheng Zhilong. From now on, they will be a family. Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui, and Zheng Chenggong also met in private several times. It is planned to receive Zheng Zhilong's army, and it will be adapted according to Zhu Yousong's intention.
Who would have thought that he would suddenly receive news from his hometown at this time, saying that Zheng Zhilong's elderly mother was suddenly seriously ill. Zheng Zhilong cried at that time, and planned to go back to his hometown in Nan'an immediately to visit his mother and bid farewell to Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong. Because even though it was his elder brother It's the father, but now he's a general.
Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong, the two marshals who conquered the South, sounded like a bolt from the blue, because Zheng Zhilong's mother was also Zheng Hongkui's mother and Zheng Chenggong's grandmother, so the two also wanted to go back to their hometown with Zheng Zhilong to visit relatives, which fell right into Zheng Zhilong's arms.
The military affairs were simply arranged, and the tens of thousands of men under his command were given to the deputy general Liu Wenzhao to lead him into the security to reorganize Zheng Zhilong's troops. Their two generals only brought a personal guard, followed Zheng Zhilong, and left the barracks. The group hurried on. Came to my hometown in Nan'an.
Halfway through the journey, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong felt that something was wrong. Their hometown in Nan'an, Fujian should go southeast, but Zheng Zhilong took them to the southwest. The uncle and nephew expressed doubts. Zheng Zhilong told them that they had some things to do temporarily, so they should take a detour first. The uncle and nephew didn't think much about it, so they had to follow along. Zheng Zhilong tricked their uncle and nephew into a wilderness to persuade them to surrender to the king of Tang, and planned a great cause together. The two became anxious when they heard this, and the family of three turned against each other again. At this time, the soldiers ambush Four times, the uncle and nephew knew that they had been cheated by the elder brother (father).
In a scuffle, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were captured. Zheng Zhilong was not willing to kill their uncles and nephews. In the battle, the two Ming armies were defeated. The troops of Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were almost wiped out. Lieutenant General Liu Wenzhao was killed, and Li Zicheng's troops were also hit by Zheng Zhilong's smoke bombs. Tens of thousands of troops were lost. They also lost a large area of ​​land and retreated 100. Dory.
Later, Li Zicheng collected the remnants of Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong, attacked Zheng Zhilong for the second time, and stepped up writing to Zhu Yousong. This time, Zhu Yousong received the real report, and out of anger, he personally led an army of [-] to Guangdong.^
(End of this chapter)