Blood from Daming

Chapter 840 Defeating Zheng Zhilong

Xue Susu had no intention of becoming a monk at first, and cutting her hair to become a nun was just a serious gesture. The main officials of the Xue family army in Taiwan invited to see the nunnery in the palace. Rumeng, Ruolian, Xueer, and Yunxi lived next to each other. Xue Susu was clever, and soon became like sisters to Rumeng, Ruolian, Xueer, and Yunxi. Queen Lizzie visited frequently.

Xue Polu, who returned to Taiwan, immediately stepped up his aid to Luzon, which caused another wave of struggle against the Spaniards, which had gradually gone downhill. Ten thousand people are the strongest of the dozens of armed forces in Luzon, so that the Spaniards can only passively defend and wait for help.

Zheng Zhilong, who dissuaded him, took advantage of Xue's army's naval expedition to the Annan Li Dynasty, controlled the coastal sea routes of Fujian and Guangdong, and began to charge merchant ships from various countries. If you don't pay the fee and want to pass through the Zhilong sea area, you may not escape the fate of being robbed. Only in the seventh to eighth year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong earned tens of millions every year, so that he became rich like an enemy and built a city of Anping. town.

Zheng Zhilong's power developed rapidly. By the eighth year of Chongzhen, he had a military force of 20 people and a fleet of more than [-] large and small ships. However, these achievements were based on the annexation of his brother Shibazhi. , Yang Liu, Yang Qi, and Zhong Bin have been eliminated by Zheng Zhilong. (Li Kuiqi killed Yang Tiansheng and Chen Zhongji)

The remaining eighteen Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhiwan, Zheng Zhifeng, Shi Daxuan, Li Guozhu, Hong Xu, and Gan Hui are all confidantes, He Bin and Guo Huaiyi are also under Zheng Zhilong's prestige, only Liu Xiang is still with him. Zheng Zhilong has the courage to fight for the top and bottom, but unfortunately Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong are not at the same level of opponents, and it is only a matter of time before they are destroyed.

Without the intervention of the Dutch East India Company, the Spaniards, and the Portuguese in history, Liu Xiang, who was at a disadvantage, went to the doctor in a hurry and went to the Xue Jiajun in Taiwan. The navy is far away in Annan, and Chu Yi has an attitude of sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight against the two sea forces of Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang. Later, Hangzhou Yan Sanniang wrote clearly expressing his support for Liu Xiang, and Chu Yi began to provide Liu Xiang with low-priced ammunition supplies.

Xue Polu received Liu Xiang's envoy as soon as he returned to Taiwan, and expressed that Xue's army navy was willing to help Liu Xiang defeat Zheng Zhilong if necessary, but the condition was that half of Liu Xiang's future sea profits along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong would go to Xue's army, and Xue's army's merchant ships were in Fujian and Guangdong Trading Liuxiang shall not charge any fees.

Chu Yi didn't understand Xue Polu's decision. From Chu Yi's point of view, Zheng Zhilong was just stronger. Liu Xiang did more than Zheng Zhilong in his attitude towards Xue's army's protection of merchant ships. There is no need for Yang Liu and Yang Qi to be inferior. I don't understand why Xue Polu would take millet out of the fire for Liu Xianghuo.

Xue Polu said that he could not win Chu Yi, a literati, so he had to tell Chu Yi that this was the decision of his master Xue Yun, and the core of this decision was to bring down Zheng Zhilong. This decision could not be changed at any time. Xue Polu said that he did not understand it at the time. , but the meaning of the master Xue Yun is that if you understand it, you must implement it, or if you don't understand it, you must implement it.

I really admire Xue Yun's magic. Since it was Xue Yun's intention, Chu Yi naturally obeyed unconditionally, but I don't know where Zheng Zhilong offended Xue Yun. Zheng Zhilong deserves to be unlucky. The interest of Xue Jiajun is just that Chu Yi hopes that Xue Jiajun will reap the benefits of the fisherman, instead of going into battle naked.

In May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong, as the admiral of the Daming Navy, attacked his pirate Liu Xiang. Liu Xiang fought with Zheng Zhilong on the sea of ​​Guangdong with [-] warships. Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong fought for half a day. Retreating to the north, Zheng Zhilong led more than a thousand warships in pursuit, and fell carelessly two hundred nautical miles away from Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan.

A total of more than [-] ships from the Xue Family Navy's five major fleets and island guard warships participated in the battle. Zheng Zhilong's number of ships was suddenly not dominant, while there were only two large three-masted warships. They were completely passively beaten in the encirclement. Zheng Zhilong was shocked and angry. Unexpectedly, the navy of the Xue family army, who had just returned to Taiwan from Annan, would come out to join the battle. Zheng Zhilong regretted his strategy of hiding and letting the Xue family army free up his hands and feet to deal with him.

Xue's army relied on a large number of three-masted warships to attack Zheng Zhilong's fleet with long-range firepower. Zheng Zhilong's warship artillery generally did not have enough range, and it was completely passive. In just over an hour, more than 200 of Zheng Zhilong's warships sank. Gritting his teeth, he ordered a breakout.

The warships of Xue Jiajun and Liu Xiang chased them all the way. Zheng Zhilong only led 10 warships and fled back to Quanzhou. After that, [-] warships fled back one after another. The other [-] warships were either sunk by Xue Jiajun and Liu Xiang's coalition forces Captured, Zheng Zhilong also lost nearly [-] horses, and his younger brother Zheng Zhihu was also caught and killed by Liu Xiang.

Zheng Zhilong lost most of his sea power, and became more dependent on the imperial court. He immediately went to Fuzhou to see Mr. Xiong Wencan, the right servant and the censor of the capital of Youqian, the military affairs governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the governor of Guangdong. Who knows that Xiong Wencan is waiting for Zheng Zhilong to say that Zheng Zhibao has not moved forward.

Zheng Zhilong swears that he will urge his younger brother Zheng Zhibao to march into Jinhua, Zhejiang Province to wipe out the rebels. Xiong Wencan repays Li Shangzuo to the court to clean up the rebellious Xue family army, but how can the court still have the ability to deal with the Xue family army?

The Xue family army and Liu Xiang captured 400 warships from Zheng Zhilong's department. The two armies divided the 100 warships equally. Wu Yang and other generals were unwilling to hand over, Xue Polu knew that it was beneficial, and Xue's army needed forces like Liu Xiang to contain Zheng Zhilong and the Ming army in Fujian and Guangdong.

Liu Xiang got more than 100 warships sent by Xue Jiajun, but none of Zheng Zhilong's [-] captives wanted them and sent them to the sea to feed fish and shrimp. Thousands of ships, large and small, were burned. From then on, Zheng Zhilong could only operate in the seaside of Fujian and Guangdong.

So far, Liu Xiang has ruled the seas of Fujian and Guangdong, but on the surface, he has left the sea to abide by the agreement with Xue's army, that is, half of Liu Xiang's maritime profits along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong will go to Xue's army, and Xue's merchant ships trade Liu Xiang in Fujian and Guangdong. No fees shall be levied; and the Portuguese navy entrenched in Haojingao (Macau) is quite powerful.

In April of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Lin Danhan died in Alatala, Dacaotan, Qinghai. Chahar, the son of Sutai Dafujin?Erke Konguoer Ezhe was established as a great Khan and was still stationed in the Hetao area, but the immature Ezhe could not convince the crowd. The tribes that followed Lindan Khan dispersed one after another. In the end, Ezhe had only 1 people left. Khan Ezhe and his mother Sutai Dafujin attempted to take back the Chahar tribe, but most of Chahar was controlled by Na Muzhong, and Ezhe and Sutai Dafujin failed to achieve their goal.

In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Xue Zhuzheng, the son of Namuzhong, took the throne of Chahar Khan, named "Guangming Khan". The eldest son of Lin Dan Khan, who also has the Yuxi seal of the Mongolian dynasty, reprimanded Na Muzhong for seeking power and usurping the throne, but Sutai Dafujin and Ezhe were unable to defeat Namu Zhong.

In addition to Lin Danhan's Suba Hai Fujin and Erzhe Tu Fujin, his younger brother Ji Tutaiji was lost in the grassland, Siqin Tu Fujin, Dou Tumen Fujin, Princess Wulangha, Princess Taisong, Guiyingcha (Wu Yun) Nafujin's elder brother) all voted for Namuzhong one after another, and Namuzhong named Siqintu Fujin, Dou Tumen Fujin, and Wuyun Nafujin as Wang Taifei. Later, they all followed Namuzhong to serve Xue Yun, and they were all Xue Yun's concubines. Wu Yunna gave birth to a daughter, Princess Feng.

Sutai Dafujin and E Zhezhong rebelled against their relatives, hated Namu deeply, secretly colluded with Jianlu Huang Taiji, and took the Jade Seal of Chuanguo as a stage to join Jianlu Huang Taiji. In June of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji had many lives Dorgon, Yuetuo, and Haoge led [-] Jurchen elite soldiers and secretly went to Ordos to meet Sutai Dafujin and Ezhe. At the end of October, Sutai Dafujin and Ezhe brought only [-] tribes and the jade seal of the Chuanguo, and followed Dole Dagon, Yuetuo, and Hauge came to Shengjing, Kingdom of Jin. Huang Taiji Nasutai Dafujin became his concubine, and named Ezhe Erke Kongguer, who was placed on the west bank of the Yalu River near Uiju, North Korea. Later, Ezhe was named prince , and married the princess Makata Gege to him.

Huang Taiji, who got the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, believed that the destiny had returned, and actively prepared to ascend the throne and become emperor. Daishan and Amin secretly despised it. Azige, Dorgon, and Duoduo felt that the time was not ripe, but Yuetuo, Jierha However, Lang and Hauge strongly supported him, and the generals of the Eight Banners all tried to follow the merits of the dragon.

On April 26th, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Ming Dynasty, Aixinjueluo?Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor in Shengjing. Huang Taiji changed the name of the Jurchen family to Manzhou. The founding name was Daqing, and the reign name was Chongde. This year was the first year of Chongde. Hero, on April [-]th, Emperor Chongde Huang Taiji sent Azige, king of Duoluo Wuying County, as the leader to command the Eight Banners with [-] troops against Ming.

Azige's troops entered Xifengkou and Dushikou in three groups. Wang Zhaokun, the patrol censor of the Ming Dynasty, refused to fight and was defeated and died. The Ming army retreated to Changping for defense. Park Chiyuan, it is said that he beheaded 140 people and captured [-] people.

Eight days later, the army of Jianlu Three Routes met in Yanqing County, Beijing. They defeated the Ming army seven times in a row and captured more than 3000 people and animals. On the third day of July, the whole city of Beijing was under martial law. Bingchao Pichang surrendered, Mingde Mausoleum was burned, and the army went straight to Beijing Xizhimen.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked, and urgently ordered the ministers of civil and military affairs to guard the various gates of the capital, and ordered the governor of the Ministry of War, Zhang Fengyi, to reinforce the troops in each town, and let the eunuch Gao Qiqian serve as the supervisor of the army. Not daring to fight, the upper-level officials are so greedy for life and fear of death, no wonder the soldiers below fear the enemy like a tiger, and when they encounter the Qing army, they fear the wind and shrink back.

The Qing army had no intention of attacking the capital. According to Taizong's policy, they continued to plunder around the capital, consuming the strength of the Ming army. After the Qing army captured Changping in July, they successively captured Liangxiang and besieged Shunyi.In the Ming Dynasty, the magistrate of Shunyi County, Shangguan, and the guerrilla ruler Su Shiyu, the capital commander, and other cities were all killed in battle. The Qing army took advantage of the momentum and captured Baodi, Dingxing, Ansu, Dacheng, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other Jinzhou counties.

(End of this chapter)