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The strength of the Zheng family's naval division is beyond doubt, as long as you think about Zheng Chenggong's three consecutive failures in the northern expedition by sea, after losing seventy percent of his troops, he can still turn around and defeat the Portuguese fleet, which was a naval power at that time, and recapture Dongfanyi as the root base, you can guess the strength of the Zheng family's naval division at that time.

This is the accumulation of several generations of the Zheng family.

However, the artillery on the battleship of the Zhengjia Navy Division is still an old-style artillery, mainly using solid shells, that is, the kind of cannonballs that can be used when the shells are exhausted, and can be used with stone shells, and can even smash or flatten any hard object, and can be stuffed into the barrel of the cannon as a cannonball.

Zheng Chenggong is not to blame for this, because to replace the heavy naval guns for so many warships, the silver taels required are astronomical.

But this does not mean that the combat power of the Zheng family water division is not strong, because the Zheng family water division has not fought a big battle at all over the years, and the reserve of artillery shells is enough, and it has not yet reached the point of using stone bullets.

If it weren't for Wu Zheng to form a new naval division, purchase from the West, and build warships in Wusong, even if there were two or even three Zhoushan water divisions, they would not be the enemies of the Zheng family's naval divisions.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong agreed with his uncle Zheng Zhiguan's suggestion in his heart.

gave Wu Zheng a lesson and caught him off guard, and as a result, the First World War established the Zheng family's supremacy on the north and south coasts.

It is also good to alleviate the difficulty of food and salary, and at the same time avenge Wu Zheng to destroy Wang Deren's army.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong didn't mean to fight a life-and-death battle with Wu Zheng, it was unrealistic, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of Qing troops between the two sides, thousands of miles away.

Zheng Chenggong took pen and paper from the case and began to write a reply letter to his uncle Zheng Zhiguan.

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Ten days have passed in a blink of an eye.

Zheng Chenggong sent people to recruit Hao Shangjiu three times, and promised to be a high-ranking official, but Hao Shangjiu refused, so he sent someone to ask Emperor Yongli for the title of prince.

At this time, the 3,000 Qing troops from Fujian had arrived in Zhangzhou.

Li Chengdong was also worried about the gains and losses of Haiyang City, and sent 3,000 reinforcements from Nanhai (Panyu) to reinforce Chaozhou.

Zheng Chenggong felt that something was wrong, and finally adopted Chen Yonghua's suggestion, and on the grounds that Hao Shangjiu's position was "unclear", he sent troops from Jieyang and Chaoyang to attack Haiyang on both sides.

However, the Zheng army attacked Haiyang City for five days with an army of 20,000.

At this time, the reinforcements of the Qing army on the west and north roads were approaching, and in desperation, Zheng Chenggong had to withdraw his troops and return to Chaoyang to hold on.

Fortunately, Hao Shangjiu suffered two or three thousand casualties in this battle, and the strength of the Zheng army was still greater than that of the Qing army.

After the Qing reinforcements arrived in Haiyang, they did not launch a counterattack against the Zheng army.

The two sides were at a stalemate.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong reacted to his indecision and lost the best opportunity to capture Haiyang.

But there is no regret medicine in the world, and Zheng Chenggong can only sigh in vain.

It is said that character determines fate, in fact, if you figure out Zheng Chenggong's character from Zheng Chenggong's strategic layout and the three Northern Expeditions, you will find very clearly that Zheng Chenggong is really not a military strategist, not to mention his command ability, Zheng Chenggong's strategic vision is very short-sighted.

For example, before the second attack on Fujian, Zheng Chenggong had nearly 200,000 troops at his disposal.

This is already quite huge, compared to the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong, almost doubled.

If Zheng Chenggong does not choose to attack Fujian, but attacks western Guangdong, then there is a very high possibility that he can break through the defense line of the Qing army in Guangdong and join the army of the Yongli Dynasty, so that the entire southwest border is the Yongli Dynasty, and the Qing army wants to regain it, it will cost a greater price and time.

But Zheng Chenggong insisted on attacking Fujian, perhaps because Fujian was richer than the barren western Guangdong, or maybe Zheng Chenggong had no intention of connecting with the Yongli Dynasty.

How good it is to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement, and it is better not to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement!

Of course, this is just speculation, and only he knows what Zheng Chenggong really thinks.

But in history, Zheng Chenggong did mistake the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty, and in the past few years, Zheng Chenggong once had seventy percent of the strength of the Yongli Dynasty, reaching 300,000 at the peak.

But he didn't have any enterprising spirit, sticking to a corner, at most recovering a few prefectures, and the only enterprising spirit was to recover Fujian.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong has a merit that cannot be erased, that is, he dragged down more than 100,000 Qing troops in Fujian and Guangdong.

Otherwise, Wu Zheng would not be so easy, and the Yixing Dynasty would not still have the energy to make several palace changes and infighting.

At this time in Guangdong, Zheng Jun only had three places, Jieyang, Chaoyang, and Huilai, as well as some coastal islands.

The situation is very serious, and it can be said that time is running out.

But Zheng Chenggong still insisted on blocking the waters under his control, preventing the passage of merchant ships flying the flag of the Northern Expedition.

So much so that in the past half month, the merchant ships of the Wu Zheng forces and the merchant ships going to the territory of the Wu Zheng forces had to make a big detour from Dongfan Island, which was controlled by the Dutch.

After this battle, Chen Yonghua's weight in Zheng Chenggong's heart rose to another level, but whenever there was military affairs, Zheng Chenggong had to call Chen Yonghua to come to see it together.

That's an afterword.

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Insisting on hitting an egg against a stone must be a stupid thing and there is no doubt about it.

Those who dare to hit it either have their brains in the water, or they have no choice.

And if there is another choice, but insist on hitting the stone with the egg, it must be hopelessly stupid.

Zheng Chenggong is not stupid, on the contrary, he is smart, no, to be precise, shrewd!

He is good at calculating gains and losses, and he is also good at analyzing the current situation.

But his thinking has always stayed at the tactical level, and it has not risen to the strategic level until his death.

This has to be said that it is the sorrow of the people in the south who have the heart to restore the Ming people.

Because of Zheng Chenggong's existence, they have no choice but to defect to Zheng Chenggong's banner, and there is no other choice.

And Zheng Chenggong's inaction and short-sighted strategic vision have buried these hundreds of thousands of righteous people, which is suffocating.

If the king of Yanping County at that time was not Zheng Chenggong, it was not Zheng Chenggong who presided over the overall situation of Fujian and Guangdong to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Even if it is Zhu Yihai or Zhang Huangyan, the result may be rewritten.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong faced the Qing army, and he could still make his sailors control the waters and touch Wu Zheng's bottom line again.

In Zheng Chenggong's view, Wu Zheng was powerless to go south, because Wu Zheng's expulsion of the clan caused tens of thousands of troops of the Yixing Dynasty to be stationed in Changzhou Mansion, and Wu Zheng was restrained by the Yixing Dynasty, so he naturally would not take into account the trade in the southern seas.

Besides, it's not that the trade routes are cut off, it's just that it takes more time and detours.

Zheng Chenggong's original intention was to attack the shield with the spear of the son.

The so-called coming and not being rude.

wants to use this move to counter Wu Zheng's control of Chen Qianshan's waters, because others don't know the details of Chen Qianshan's pirates, Zheng Chenggong knows, this is the biggest reliance in his heart.

He believes that even if there is a draw, Wu Zheng will not dare to speak out.