Li Dingguo was obsessed with Guangdong. This was not only due to the defeat of Zhaoqing, but more importantly, because Sun Kewang was too powerful. His more than 40,000 troops were not enough. If he wanted to

To form a check on Sun Kewang and prevent Sun Kewang from expanding his ambition and threatening the safety of Emperor Yongli, based on Li Dingguo's current understanding, he wanted to connect with Zheng Chenggong to the east and realize the alliance between the two vassals, so that Sun Kewang would surrender.

In the recent battle of Zhaoqing, Li Dingguo went there with the intention of winning. Whether Zheng Chenggong came or not actually made no difference to the outcome of the battle. But if Zheng Chenggong came, Li Dingguo wouldn't mind sharing a piece of Zheng Chenggong's pie, as long as there was cooperation

, things will be much easier to handle later on.

After Li Dingguo wrote the memorial to Emperor Yongli and the reply to Wu Zhenyu, the chief minister of the cabinet, he handed it over to Zhou Guan, who also hurriedly set off to return without daring to delay for a moment.

With the return of Zhou Guan, the Yongli imperial court soon sent Cheng Bangjun, a member of the Ministry of War's staff, to come with an imperial edict to meet Li Dingguo.

"Following the emperor's edict, I am going to Guangdong to contact all the royal divisions and righteous divisions. When His Highness's army points eastward, we can gather together to respond!"

Because Kong Youde divided his troops into various key points in Guangxi, he was unable to rescue Li Dingguo in time when he stormed Guilin. Therefore, the Shang and Geng vassals learned their lesson and concentrated their troops in Guangzhou, while other prefectures and counties only used green battalions to garrison them.

, which gave the Ming army and the anti-Qing rebels breathing space on islands, harbors, and mountainous areas.

In the land of western Guangdong, there is the navy of General Jingfen Deng Yao on Longmen Island in Qinzhou Prefecture. "Hepu is bounded to the east and the junction of the west is the gate of Qin and Lian. The mountains are scattered in seventy-two, and the Qinjiang River is

"It turns with the mountains, connects with each other, and flows into the sea with seventy-two paths." The situation is extremely dangerous. Therefore, Zhu Tong, the general of Ningfan, Zhou Tengfeng of Haibei Province, and Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of Gao, Lei, Lian, and Qiong, also came to Lian.

The state area echoes Deng Yao.

Exceptions include Li Guangen in the northwest of Zhaoqing, Guo Dengdi in Gaozhou Prefecture, and Zhangping Bozhou Jintang in Shicheng County. In addition, there are General Li Changrong from Hailing Island, Huben General Wang Xing from Wencun, and Chen Qice from Shangxiachuan Island.

, there are too many to mention. Although these anti-Qing armed forces are not strong in strength and are relatively scattered geographically, they generally accept the control of Guo Zhiqi, the governor of the university, and Lian Chengbi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. They are familiar with the local situation, and some even have boat divisions, which are very important for cooperating with the army.

Combat is a force that cannot be ignored.

In this year's Battle of Zhaoqing, the Western Guangdong Rebel Army also heard the news and sent troops to respond. However, on the one hand, Li Dingguo was defeated too quickly. For example, the navy organized by Deng Yao, Zhou Jintang and others had to return before they arrived;

On the other hand, since this matter did not receive strong support from Guo Zhiqi and Lianchengbi, the ministries such as Chen Qice, Wang Xing, and Li Changrong did not send troops to help. Otherwise, it would be impossible to compare with the geographical location of these three ministries.

Deng Yao, Zhou Jintang and others should be slow.

When Cheng Bangjun arrived this time, the Yongli court issued an order to Guo Zhiqi and Lianchengbi, ordering them to cooperate with Li Dingguo's military action to advance eastward. This was not only a cooperation between the Guangxi Ming Army and the Guangdong Ming Army, but also the Xiying system

The alliance between King Xining and the Yongli court.

Li Dingguo was quite looking forward to this. However, in comparison, he still had greater expectations for Zheng Chenggong, because Zheng Chenggong was much stronger than the Ming army, the rebel army, and even the troops in western Guangdong.

Taken together, they are not as powerful as Zheng Chenggong.

For this reason, Li Dingguo wrote a special letter to Zheng Chenggong some time ago. It is estimated that it should have been sent to Zheng Chenggong's case by now.

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"Under the command of the general with the surname of the country: The heroes of the world have always been able to do what they can at the time; those who have the resources to do it must rely on their power to borrow them. In today's world, the two are only shared by the public. It has been three hundred years since Deep benevolence and richness, every man and every woman, all have sons and grandsons to inherit them. To the extent of their grandeur and splendor, the merits of the heroes will end in the thatch, and there will be no people who go up to the sky to worship the gods as subjects. Speaking of this encounter, the final outline is a few Over the course of thousands of years, we have seen countless things. If a husband is kind enough, he will be rewarded with great honors, and if he is favored, he will be more grateful. The country is struggling, and being alone is still hurting the decline of the Zhou Dynasty. I feel sorry for this person's heart, and the elders still look up to the Han officials. It's old. I know that the public has his own thoughts, and there must be someone who is very uneasy. Is this the right time to wait for the danger?"

"Don't be ashamed of your talent and assume a huge responsibility. If you succeed, you will be entrusted with the task of conquering the captives. The abbreviation will be recorded in the special expedition. Those who get the result and join forces with the four directions of Xunzhen are the spirit of the emperor. Last year in Western Guangdong, the treacherous Chief Kong was punished. In mid-winter Hengyang Xiaojingjin is a real prisoner. Since the nine years of chaos, he has only been attacked by the imperial court in two battles. However, now the emperor has taken advantage of the opportunity to protect Fu, and he has not dared to attack Zang, which is what he planned to do. It’s hard to extinguish the ear.”

"This is to commemorate the memory of the two chiefs, who lie in the southeast. They once planned to drive forward to build a business, and there was no room for doubt. In addition to their local strength, they cannot be compared with Guilin and Hunan. How can they not be afraid of cutting thorns and thorns to continue the Zhoudao? ?It is used to trap Meng Xia's Bo Duan City and trap its remnants. It is a warning for cunning prisoners to drive in front of the car, a legacy of Gan Jinguo in Ying City, and it also surrounds the river with rain and rain, so that it takes less time for our battle to attack."

"To calm down the hunger, the navy's volunteer brigade all praised it, saying that the yellow dragon in Gongqing Province was as fast as a flying horse. It arrived at a moment's notice, and the prisoner's gallbladder was extremely cold. The legacy of the tooth Qiang is now only in the Chaohui area. .I don’t know how to hear it, but I don’t know how to look at the ocean and dance. I know that the Duke has made mistakes in the past. If there is a little choice that I can’t think of now, I am sincerely waiting for you. I have been given a fate, and I respectfully invite you to come with me. I sincerely think of you as a gentleman, and your kindness and honour. , the father's hatred is deep, then Wuyang Chihai, standing there with sails, half of the Great Wall, with Kuang in the center. Otherwise, the ZTE is completed, the Beijing view is glorious, and the fragrance of Yuntai is passed down for thousands of years, and the country's name is not predicted, how can it be Is it possible that this is the time when I look up to the special family and comfort me? I look at the sun and say that I am lucky to see it!"

Li Dingguo's letter had been sent to Zheng Chenggong's case as early as June. The content was nothing more than urging him to join forces to attack Guangdong.

Regarding this matter, Zheng Chenggong was indeed interested in making a move, but after thinking about the current situation, he did not agree immediately. However, regarding Li Dingguo's marriage proposal to Zheng Chenggong's daughter for his eldest son Li Puxing, Zheng Chenggong did agree. It was only because of Zheng Chenggong's direct descendants. The eldest son Zheng Jing is only eleven years old now. He really has no daughter of the right age, so he has to marry his cousin's daughter.

In the same month, Wan Nianying, the head of the Ministry of War, who came to confer Zheng Chenggong as the Duke of the Kingdom last time, went to the Zhongzuo Institute to confer Zheng Chenggong as the Prince of Yanping County. Zheng Chenggong refused and applied to the court to confer titles on his generals. .

In July, the Qing court's peace negotiations became more and more controversial. While Zheng Chenggong was trying to make ends meet with the Qing court, he sent away his niece who was married to Guangxi in the Zhongzuo Station. Later, he was led by Zhang Mingzhen of the Navy's former army. I was very busy preparing food, fodder and weapons for a long-term war.

"This time when traveling north to south to Zhili, we have to rely on Dingxihou's methods."

"The general will be lucky enough to live up to his destiny!"

After the Battle of Zhoushan in the fifth year of Yongli, the Lu Jianguo Dynasty went south to rely on Zheng Chenggong. Among them, the vassal commanders such as Pingyi Marquis Zhou Hezhi and even Min'an Marquis Zhou Rui, who had been transferred earlier, had already integrated into the Fujian Ming army.

He became a general of Zheng Chenggong. However, such as Dingxi Marquis Zhang Mingzhen, the number one general of the Lu Supervisory Dynasty, although his subordinates were classified as the Navy's former army, and they also ate food and grass from the Zheng Group, they were different from others.

What is surprising is that Zhang Mingzhen has always tried his best to control the army and prevent Zheng Chenggong from mixing in the sand, so that even now the troops brought by Zhang Mingzhen are still in the hands of the Dingxi Marquis and his trusted generals.

This can be regarded as an anomaly among Zheng Chenggong's troops. Even like Chen Kai's Fubiao, the chief soldier Lin Dezhong is Chen Kai's die-hard confidant, but he also accepted Zheng Chenggong's appointment as the commander-in-chief of Fubiao.

Speaking of which, Zheng Chenggong certainly understood that the reason for this fame was to leave a glimmer of hope for Lu Jianguo. This loyalty made him cherish each other, but the vassal king to whom the loyalty was directed really made him uncomfortable.

However, Zheng Chenggong has decided to play a peace negotiation with the Qing court in order to regain his strength faster. But on the other hand, Qian Qianyi recently sent someone to Xiangzan to support military supplies, and also mentioned the Three Catalpa Bureaus.

This also forced him to respond.

"Zhang Hou, Zhang Shilang, you two are going to Nanzhili. According to the plan, you can use the banner of the imperial court, but you must not say that I sent you two. Don't, don't."

"Please rest assured, Mr. Hou and your subordinates know what is right."

"Then it's up to you two."

The fleet of the Navy's front army set sail from the center left. Zheng Chenggong looked at it from the pier. Among the four to five hundred large and small ships, some were brought by Zhang Mingzhen from Zhejiang, and some were added by him this time. The military situation was not unspectacular. However,

, but he did not let Zhang Minzhen take away all the food and grass, but agreed to send a ship to supply it.

"As long as the Dingxi Marquis is stuck in the grain and grass, King Lu will not be able to make trouble."

Zheng Chenggong thought this, and so did his close aides, such as Pan Gengzhong and Feng Xifan. Even the civil and military partners Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan, the Marquis of Dingxi who were entrusted by Lu Jianguo, understood this and were tacitly understanding it.

That’s all.

The fleet set off northward. The inside story of this matter was not made public. Only Zheng Chenggong and some of Zheng Chenggong's cronies knew the details. However, the people on the island did not plan to care about Zhang Mingzhen's fleet setting sail. For example, the children of the Zheng family have recently

The ones who were most concerned about were their niece-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, and uncle who were the governor of Guangdong. They were eagerly watching which unlucky guy Chen Kai would attack again.

"I heard that Damu originally planned to transfer provincial elites to Quanzhou as co-prefects, but now it's better to become the prefect of Qiongzhou."

"No matter what Chen Jingcheng says, he still wants to use people from our Zheng family."

"Hey, maybe it's Miss Xiyuan who has the pillow wind. Besides, the provincial governor has been an official in Chaozhou for many years. From the position of Prime Minister of Haicheng County to the general magistrate of Chaozhou Prefecture step by step, it is said that this is also the case.

My brother-in-law’s old subordinates are here.”

"..."

In the first half of the year, Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong from the west without success, while Zheng Chenggong held on to southern Fujian and held back Jin Li's army. Chen Kai, who was between the two, suddenly launched an attack on Qiongzhou Prefecture in western Guangdong and won the battle.

It seems that he was the one who gained the most in the entire South China region in the first half of the year.

After occupying the territory, the three prefectures and ten counties of Qiongzhou Prefecture needed a large number of officials to fill the vacancies. Chen Kai transferred a large number of officials from southern Fujian, Chaozhou, and Guangzhou to Qiongzhou from Chaozhou. When he returned from Qiongzhou, he

He brought many local scholars from Qiongzhou Prefecture to fill some of the vacancies in Chaozhou. After enough trouble, most of the gentry and officials from the two prefectures and four places were satisfied. Among them, the appointment of Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Zheng Shengying as the prefect of Qiongzhou was even more popular.

The children of the Zheng family took it as a symbol of the easing of relations between the two parties. They all stared eagerly at Chen Kai's actions, hoping to gain more benefits.

"Tell me, where will my brother-in-law fight in his next battle?"

"Huizhou Prefecture, Haifeng County in Huizhou Prefecture now belongs to Master Wang."

"I think it's unlikely. You need to know that after Huizhou, you will reach Guangzhou. Unless Damu leads his troops to the west and the civil and military forces join forces, the Tatar soldiers may not be easy to mess with."

"I don't think the Tatar soldiers are anything special. Didn't they defeat Geng Jimao twice?"

"You also know that's Geng Jimao, the kid behind him, and there's Shang Kexi, the ruthless man who defeated the King of Xining on his own!"

"..."

In the Zhongzuo Institute and Anping Town, there have never been fewer whispers like this. On the contrary, it was Zheng Chenggong. Many people knew that although Zheng Chenggong won the Yongchun battle, the number of soldiers suffered a lot of damage. Since he did not take advantage of the victory at that time

Seizing Xinghua Prefecture or even Fuzhou Prefecture is not expected to cause much movement for the time being.

As they expected, there was indeed no big news in southern Fujian for the time being, but Chaozhou seemed to have stopped because the weather was too hot. All that could be heard was the chatter of earthworm farms and chicken farms.

Duanzi, and there is Guangdong talented man Kuang Lu who is the editor-in-chief of Guangdong Minbao. Maybe something will happen and we will see him in winter.

However, here in southern Fujian, there have been no major actions, but there have been many small, or secret, actions. After Zheng Chenggong's reply was sent to the capital, the Qing government immediately issued instructions and issued edicts, which were dispatched by the emperor.

Liu Qingtai's hands were handed over to Zheng Chenggong's case.

"I remember that you have so many soldiers that it is difficult to arrange them, and the money and food committee has difficulty in paying them. It is still beneficial to promote Huizhou. Huizhou has been stationed in the four prefectures of Zhang, Quan, Chao and Qiong. I will allocate the salaries of the six prefectures of Shuilu Village to your officers and soldiers. It is not enough.

No additional supplement will be made. The money and food for the main courses will still be distributed to the ministry. All civilian and civilian officials will listen to the selection of the ministry, and the military attachés under your jurisdiction will listen to your selection and appointment. They will still make a book with names and titles and send it to the ministry. If you open foreign ships, you have to inspect and collect them.

Taxation Section, send it to the Chief Secretary’s Department.”

"I specifically order Haicheng Gong to bear the seal of General Jinghai and control all the generals under his command..."

"Order, Pingnan General Gushan'er Zhenjinli will lead his army to withdraw to Hangzhou, Jingnan General Angbang Zhangjing Kakamu will lead his army to withdraw to Jiangning, Pingnan King Shang Kexi, Jingnan King Geng Jimao's vassal soldiers are not allowed to attack without authorization..."

In June, Jin Li had already begun to withdraw his troops. Now, it is August, and the information received shows that all Jin Li's troops have withdrawn to Zhejiang.

After receiving the letter, Zheng Chenggong read it carefully. The Qing government almost accepted all the cards he hinted through Li De. Especially regarding the military threats in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong, they hurriedly withdrew. This attentiveness

, When you say it sounds good, it’s called sincerity, but when it sounds bad, it’s like burning your butt.

This kind of treatment was exactly what Zheng Chenggong wanted. Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong immediately sent a fleet to the two prefectures of Xinghua, Fuzhou and Funing to collect food and pay according to the Qing imperial edict. As for the standards?

, it is 100,000 taels for large counties and 50,000 taels for small counties. In the next step, Zheng Chenggong plans to expand the scope of collecting grain and wages to Tingzhou Prefecture and Yanping Prefecture, which are adjacent to Zhangquan Prefecture.

The fleet set off in batches, and Zheng Chenggong could already foresee that a large amount of food, pay, and personnel would gather at the Zhongzuo Station by sea. In this way, the damage to the army could be quickly restored, and it might even be possible to take this opportunity to achieve greater success than before.

Such expectations were not based on imagination, but were based on the intelligence accumulated over the years and the results of precise calculations. Zheng Chenggong was full of confidence in this, until the reply to the letter he wrote to Chen Kai explaining the Qing Zheng peace talks was sent

After reading the letter, he didn't say anything for a long time. Finally, he couldn't help but sigh, "When it comes to playing tricks with the Tatars, it turned out to be a fancy way of playing." He quickly sent people to chase those who had set out earlier.
Chapter completed!