The Dashun Army adopted a firm force-strike strategy against Sun Kewang, and continued to use civil attack and military intimidation to suppress the Zheng family's small court entrenched in the southeast.
This was mainly because Sun Kewang's regime came from Xiying and his army had strong field capabilities, which always made Li Laiheng feel very afraid.
As for the Zheng family's small court, its naval force was still impressive, but its land force was far from the strength of Dashun's army.
Zheng Sen is quite talented, but he is still too young to take on big responsibilities.
Zheng Zhilong, who holds the power of the southeastern military regime, is both old and weak. He lacks the ambition and perseverance of Sun Kewang, so he is not afraid at all.
Therefore, between the southwest and southeast, the Dashun Army gave priority to the southwest.
When Qin, Chu, and Gui defeated Shu, although Sun Kewang had gone to Fuzhou several times to seek support from the Zheng family as early as the previous year, he tried to form an offensive and defensive alliance with the small southeastern court.
But even though Zheng Sen strongly persuaded his father to send troops to the Northern Expedition, he took advantage of the Dashun Army's garrison to gather in Hubei and Guangxi, took a sea ship to go north, quickly captured Zhoushan, Chongming Island and other places, and then marched directly to Jinling.
But Zheng Zhilong only made a compromise with Sun Ke Wang. He verbally agreed to Xi Ming's alliance request. In fact, during many fierce battles in Xishun, Hanzhong and Chongqing, he had a large army but did not fire a single arrow or send a single soldier. He completely sat back and watched the precious treasures.
The strategic window period is lost.
After all, Zheng Zhilong is old, and he is no longer the all-powerful maritime overlord he once was. Zheng Zhilong has a family, children, and numerous houses and properties on land in Fujian.
It was absolutely impossible for him to return to the sea again, and he had absolutely no reason or will to resist the Dashun Army's march south.
After Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu surrendered, they were granted the title of Duke of Xining and Duke of Nan'an. Their deeds had already been spread to Fujian and Guangdong by the propaganda personnel of the Shun Dynasty.
Zheng Zhilong was hesitant, his swaying heart was finally moved by this final weight.
He summoned members of the Zheng family, as well as courtiers and generals from the remaining forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and solemnly announced his decision to send envoys to Shun Dynasty to sue for peace.
Everyone understands that in the current situation, the so-called sending envoys to ask for peace is actually sending envoys to ask for surrender.
However, within the Zheng family, and even among the remaining forces in Nanming, except for Zheng Sen who was firmly opposed, the others all expressed their acceptance of the surrender signal sent by Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Sen couldn't believe it: "There are still 100,000 soldiers and horses in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and countless ships. As long as you have good economics, the annual income from sea trade alone is 10 million taels of silver. Why worry about being unable to compete with the rogue bandits?"
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Father! How can you trust the rogue bandits? After sending the envoy, Fujian will no longer be owned by the Zheng family!"
In his heart, Zheng Zhilong believed that Fujian should not have been occupied by the Zheng family. The previous power of the Zheng family was just an accident at the end of the dynasty. Now that Li Laiheng has unified the country, the world has returned to Jin'ou, and a new era has arrived.
Is it possible in history that when a new dynasty comes, the important ministers of the previous dynasty can separate one side and maintain wealth and honor for generations?
"Damu, you are still too young and naive!"
Zheng Zhilong made a final decision: "I have made up my mind. The two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong are said to have one hundred thousand soldiers and thousands of ships, but in fact the number of soldiers that can be fought is only ten or twenty thousand at most.
How can the remaining newly recruited soldiers and militia that were temporarily recruited be a match for the Dashun King's Division? Now that the King's Division has arrived, what else is there to say!"
Zheng Sen left in anger, and Zheng Zhilong did not dissuade him. The two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong were thus opened. In September of the second year of Tianfa, Hao Yaoqi, with the help of the Guangdong Jiedushi, conquered the mountainous areas in western Guangdong and Chaoshan.
The Zhongming militia in the area was stubbornly resisting, and soon several residual Ming forces that had separatized Hainan Island also surrendered one after another under Zhang Jiayu's recruitment, and Guangdong Province was pacified.
In October of the second year of Tianfa, Zhang Pizhu and Liu Xiyao moved south from Zhejiang with an army of more than 20,000 people. Shunjun's newly formed sea-going navy quickly advanced along the coast of Zhejiang toward Fujian.
Since Zheng Zhilong made no preparations for resistance, most of the Zheng family fleets along the way chose to surrender. The defenders on land also lost their will to resist after hearing that the coastal defenses had been lost and even some of the loyal troops had floated to sea and landed in southern Fujian.
Only Zheng Sen went to Xiamen and gathered some of the residual Ming forces who were unwilling to succumb to Li Laiheng. Based on Xiamen and Kinmen islands, they imitated the remnants of Fang Guozhen in the early Ming Dynasty and fought guerrillas along the coast, forming a powerful counterattack.
Follow the people's army.
Li Laiheng, who had installed Emperor Taizong's mausoleum in northern Shaanxi, only learned about Zheng Sen's occupation of Xiamen and Kinmen's rebellion after returning to Tokyo. He put the book aside and smiled at Gu Junen who came to the palace to see him:
"How do you think we should deal with Zheng Sen?"
Gu Junen bowed his head and said: "We believe that Zheng Kou only has two islands and lacks food and fodder, so his power will not last long. Our army only uses sea ships to cut off the connection between the two islands and the mainland, uses powerful officials to restrain the local people, and strictly prohibits the local people from interacting with the mainland.
Overseas pirate trade.
If this happens for at least a year, Zheng Kou will be out of ammunition and food, and will surely surrender in the future."
Li Laiheng smiled and said nothing. Gu Junen still didn't understand how beneficial maritime trade was. As long as Zheng Sen could control Fujian's overseas maritime trade, his annual income of several million or even tens of millions of taels would be common.
Zheng Sen had so much money in his hands. Even if the officials of the shun dynasty were restrained in every possible way, how could they control the people from doing business without using cruel iron-fist policies?
"Oh, this is Emperor Hongwu's old method of dealing with Fang Guozhen... Times have changed, and the old method won't work!"
Li Laiheng immediately said: "I ordered Liu Xiyao to continue building ships and training naval forces in Ningbo and Fuzhou. The generals who have joined the Zheng family should not be allowed to come to Tokyo. They should be brought directly to Zhejiang for appointment. In addition, they cannot be allowed to control Fujian.
In addition to the provincial political power and military power, after arriving in Zhejiang, we can let the Zheng generals train the navy of Dashun."
After the Qing Dynasty in later generations surrendered most of the generals of the Zheng family, they treated these senior generals with rich maritime combat experience as ordinary low-level demoted generals. Or they vigorously eliminated them, leaving these senior generals with no way to survive and had to escape.
Either go to the master of the country; or take him to Beijing and raise him in captivity.
In short, their talents and experience were not used. Therefore, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Guo Xingye ran away in anger and completely built a maritime power from scratch. As a result, the Qing Dynasty had both the talents left by Zheng Zhilong and the ships that the Zheng family returned to.
team, but they couldn't subdue the national surname.
This is ridiculous.
Having such resources but being unable to use them is not something Li Laiheng would do.
It's just that he had good intentions towards Zheng Sen and was unwilling to adopt an overly iron-fisted force policy. Instead, he ordered Liu Xiyao to organize and train the navy in Ningbo and Fuzhou. During this period, the Dashun Army focused on defense, and the defenders focused on the defense of Quanzhou, a city with high production capacity.
, Zhangzhou and other places do not need to actively suppress the remaining Ming forces.
After Dashun's maritime force training is completed, Zheng Sen will naturally be able to be defeated at a lower cost.
If Zheng Sen still refuses to surrender, what's the harm in letting him go overseas?