Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 487

While the army of Gao Guiying and Li Yan was marching eastward, the 10 Ming army headed by Mu Tianbo and Song Xiance also marched eastward from northern Guangxi in full swing. They had already joined forces with the local Ming army and captured the northern part of Huguang in one fell swoop.

Taking over the southern part of Wuhan, the soldiers pointed directly at the Jianghuai area, and after meeting with Liu Zeqing and Jiangyin Sangong's team, they advanced southward.

This road of soldiers and horses is also getting bigger and bigger like a snowball, and it has also hit northern Fujian.Adding up the reinforcements from North Zhili and South Zhili, the Ming army in northern Fujian now exceeds 30.

As soon as Lin Yi's soldiers and horses arrived in the eastern waters of Fujian, they received memorials from various places, almost all of which were good news.Now Gao Guiying and Li Yan's troops have reached Fujian, completely driving away the Portuguese colonists, and their troops have grown rapidly. Even Li Dingguo's troops and the Southern Army have been recruited, and now their troops exceed 20.

In the north, more than 30 troops including Song Xiance, Mu Tianbo, Jiangyin Sangong, and Liu Zeqing have reached northern Fujian.

There are more than 20 people in Lin Yi's journey, including the soldiers on the shore led by the navy and the captured prisoners of the Southern Army.

According to Lin Yi's calculations, the Ming army in the west, north and east of Fujian is combined, with a total strength of nearly 80.

Ji Dong looked at the situation in front of him, and it would take another month at most.The sailors of the West Route Army and his sailors will be able to achieve an iron wall encirclement at sea. By then, a million soldiers will besiege the capital of the Great Southern Empire, and Zheng Zhilong will already be the turtle in the urn.

But for Zheng Zhilong, although this person has committed a heinous crime, but in order to take care of Zheng Chenggong, and also to make the common people in this area less suffering from the war, Yi is still willing to give priority to appeasement and extermination as a supplement.

So he approached Zheng Chenggong to discuss countermeasures.

"Success, how should we fight the next battle?"

How clever Zheng Chenggong is, he understood Lin Yi's intentions in an instant, because the battle has been very clear now, the Great Southern Empire is only a small area, a few isolated cities, and it is powerless to fight against the Ming army. This battle is very easy to fight , directly marching troops, the fall of the Great Southern Empire is only a matter of time, and this time is not far away.The reason why Ji Dong asked him this was not because he didn't have a strategy, but because he cared about his father, Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Chenggong immediately fell to his knees, "Master Jianguo, you can fight the war as you like. Please give me an order. Chenggong is willing to be a pioneer."

Lin Yi smiled, "This prison country knows that Chenggong is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and never doubts your loyalty, but this prison country still hopes that King Nan'an will plead guilty and submit to the Ming Dynasty, so that your father and son will be reunited, the family will be reunited, and the people will soon To end the suffering of swordsmen and restore peace to all living beings. I wonder if there is a good strategy for success?"

Zheng Chenggong was very grateful, "Thank you, Lord Jian Guo, for your kindness. Our Zheng family has received the emperor's favor, so we should be loyal to the court. It is a pity that the father was obsessed with ghosts for a while, and did rebellious things. Thanks to the Lord Jian Guo, who has never given up on our Zheng family. The sky is high and the earth is generous... There is a plan for success, I don't know if it is feasible?
"But it doesn't matter."

Zheng Chenggong said that his third uncle Zheng Hongkui loved him the most.When he was studying in Nanjing Guozijian, he had contact with this third uncle many times through his teacher Qian Qianyi and his wife Liu Rushi. At that time, Zheng Hongkui was the chief soldier in Zhenjiang.In his spare time, Zheng Chenggong also learned martial arts from his third uncle. The uncle and nephew talked about everything. Zheng Chenggong was most willing to accept his third uncle, even more than his father. Zheng Hongkui was once loyal to the court. Unswervingly committed to the Ming Dynasty, the reason why he has come to this point today is because of no choice.Zheng Chenggong planned to lobby his third uncle Zheng Hongkui first.If he could surrender to Daming, then their uncle and nephew would go to Beijing to persuade their father, Zheng Zhilong, to change his mind and plead guilty to the law.

Zheng Chenggong told his thoughts frankly without any concealment.

Lin Yi also knew about Zheng Hongkui. In history, he did not follow Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.Instead, he followed Zheng Chenggong to embark on a road of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty, so Lin Yi adopted Zheng Chenggong's strategy after thinking about it. He also believed that Zheng Chenggong could kill his relatives righteously.

However, Lin Yi is still worried about Zheng Chenggong's safety, although Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Zhilong, and Zheng Hongkui are biological father and son, uncles and nephews, and blood is thicker than water.But in an era when imperial power was above all else, family affection seemed so fragile.In history, I don't know how many people because of power and interests, father and son turned against each other, husband and wife became enemies, brothers killed each other, and such things are too numerous to enumerate.

And Lin Yi also knew that Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong's father and son took different paths in history.Therefore, Ji Dong planned to ask Zheng Chenggong to bring more people.And he is going to pick some elite soldiers for him to bring him by his side, to help him at critical times, so as to avoid accidents.

"If an adult loves you so far by mistake, if you succeed, you will die without regret. If you resign successfully or fail, you will be benevolent. Don't worry about it. It is enough for you to accompany me. There are too many people, but it is a burden. There are many inconveniences, and there are few successful trips." Then one month, at most three months, if this time limit is exceeded and there is no news from Chenggong, Lord Jian Guo will send troops to destroy Fuzhou and Nan'an." Zheng Chenggong politely declined.

"It's still the same sentence, I hope you can succeed." Lin Yi didn't force it at a glance.

After the plan was finalized, Zheng Chenggong took Tagawa Makiko with him and dressed lightly.They only brought a dozen or so entourages and a dozen horses, and boarded a medium-sized warship. Of course, they had to travel by water, and the water was not far away, heading for Zhangzhou and Xiamen...

In view of Zheng Chenggong's strategy, Lin Yi ordered Gao Guiying, Li Yan, and his troops to temporarily stop attacking the Southern Kingdom and wait for Zheng Chenggong's news.

Fujing, the capital of the Great Southern Empire, is later known as Fuzhou, Fujian Province.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong, the emperor of the Great Southern Empire, could no longer sit on the dragon chair.He can't care about the royal banquet in the imperial palace, the three palaces and six courtyards, the three thousand beauties in the harem, because now his Great Southern Empire is losing battles everywhere, and the situation is precarious.From the west to the north to the east, from the shore to the sea, there are news of the defeat. Now his dragon book case is piled up like a mountain, all of which are urgent documents for the defeated players.

In the past year since he proclaimed himself emperor, only Fujian is left in the territory he controls.

Originally centered in Fujian, it extended to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi, the Jianghuai River Basin and Huguang area.The area is so vast, it can almost equal half of Daming.But he didn't expect that under the attack of the Ming army, his so-called mighty soldiers with millions of soldiers and thousands of generals turned out to be so vulnerable.

He had to worry, and now he realizes that the emperor is not a good one. He even sympathizes with the Chongzhen Emperor back then. He can feel the situation of Chongzhen. The most intolerable thing is that his own son Zheng Chenggong actually He rebelled against him and openly surrendered to Daming.As a result, the entire army of Zheng Zhibao was wiped out.

Miyamoto Taro's eight hundred oriental samurai were all killed, and the orientals were unreliable.The Portuguese colonists fled with their tails between their legs.Hongmaozi's battleship suffered a defeat in Zhoushan, and then turned around in the sea and went back.Who else can we count on to retreat from the enemy now?
Looking at these civil and military officials, Zheng Zhilong slapped the Long Shuan loudly, wishing to overthrow the Long Shuan at once.Of course, it is to scold these officials for being incompetent, unable to share my worries, and eating my salary for nothing.

The civil and military officials below didn't even dare to show their air, and they were scolded like grandchildren.

At this time, Li Guozhu, the counselor under his command, knelt down on the ground, "Your Majesty calm down, and I have a book to play."

Li Guozhu is the son of Li Dan.Li Dan is an overseas Chinese in Japan, his ancestral home is Quanzhou, and he has lived in the East for a long time to do business.Before Zheng Zhilong became famous, Li Dan had become the most powerful big merchant in the local area at that time, and later Li Dan became Zheng Zhilong's godfather.

It was Li Dan who made Zheng Zhilong's maritime business journey.It can even be said that without Li Dan, Zheng Zhilong would not be where he is today.

Zheng Zhilong repays his kindness, appreciates Li Dan's kindness, and regards Li Dan's son Li Guozhu as his brother. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he was appointed as an important minister.

Seeing Li Guozhu speak, Zheng Zhilong's expression improved a lot, "Aiqing has a chapter to play quickly."

"Your Majesty, the morale of the Ming army is high right now. Our army has been defeated one after another. The Ming army has become unstoppable. With our current strength, it is no longer enough to fight against the Ming Dynasty. I foolishly thought it would be better to move the capital to Taiwan and drive away these people. Hongmaozi, occupying Treasure Island, hoping to develop and grow, and then pursue Ming Dynasty. As for success, after all, he is young and vigorous, and he will definitely come back."

"Your Majesty can't." Zheng Zhiwan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, came out of the class and saluted, "If we withdraw, the Ming army will inevitably follow, and the Taiwan Strait has high waves and deep seas, and the red-haired boats have strong guns. If there is a confrontation For the current plan, we can send people to guard the Xianxia Pass, so that the north will be safe, and the southern and western seas will let the young general Liu Guoxuan come to the stage to worship the commander, which will definitely shake the glory of our Great Southern Empire. .”

Mentioning Liu Guoxuan, Zheng Zhilong clearly saw this young general in his mind. He joined the army at the age of 15, and he is not yet 20 this year. However, he has made great military achievements and has become a general in the army who can command thousands of troops and stand alone. With Shi Xian, Shi Lang, Zheng Chenggong, and Zeng De, they can be called the five good generals. These five are the rising stars of the Great Southern Empire. Unfortunately, Liu Guoxuan is the only one left among the five good generals, and he has also suffered consecutive defeats in the Huguang area in recent years. Is this son up to the stage to be handsome?

There is nothing wrong with Xianxia Pass. Don't look at the menacing Ming army in the north. When they arrive at Xianxia, ​​they will be at the end of their battles.On the other hand, the two Ming armies in the west and east are difficult to deal with by land and sea.

In addition, when Li Guozhu's timing is incomprehensible, it may not be the same way. To develop overseas and temporarily avoid the edge, regardless of the difficulty of dealing with the Ming army, it is still difficult to deal with the red-haired sons.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong did not express his position immediately, but decided to withdraw from the court in the future.

When he arrived at the harem, his wife, Mrs. Tian Chuan, came to see him with small steps, and bowed down in a fluttering voice: "Your Majesty, my concubine pays my respects to Your Majesty."

"Well, it's free." Zheng Zhilong waved his hand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, there is news about Sen'er..."

"Don't mention him to me! This bastard..." Zheng Zhilong trembled all over, "He is your good son!"

"Your Majesty calm down, my concubine is guilty, please forgive me." Tian Chuan knelt down with a plop in fright.

"Let's go." Zheng Zhilong looked impatient. A few days later, Tian Chuan moved out of Fujing and returned to Zheng Zhilong's hometown in Nan'an Prefecture. Thinking of her son Zheng Chenggong, she shed tears all day...

Zheng Zhilong finally made a decision, adopted Zheng Zhiwan's strategy, sent generals Gan Hui and Zhong Bin to garrison Xianxia Pass, and transferred young general Liu Guoxuan back to order him to be the Marshal of the Navy, Army, and Horses, and immediately went on stage to pay homage to him.

The 19-year-old Liu Guoxuan returned to Fujing and was flattered to receive such an imperial decree. Before that, he had repeatedly made military exploits and commanded thousands of troops as a general, but he felt that the burden was too heavy for him to be the commander-in-chief of the navy, army and horses. competent.But the sacred order was hard to disobey, so he could only kneel down and thank Long En.

After receiving the seal of command, Zheng Zhilong asked Ji Liu Guoxuan, how to withdraw troops, and how to get out of Ji's general?Liu Guoxuan proposed three strategies to Zheng Zhilong. The best strategy is to follow the way of Yao and Shun and do things that are obedient to the people; the middle strategy is to spread the word and recruit talents.The worst strategy is to use soldiers to block them, and water to collect land.The best policy can last long, the middle policy can be strong, and the low policy is only expedient.Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)