Zhu Cihong also nodded and said, "As long as your men and horses are deployed in Jiangxi to encircle Zhang Xianzhong, there is no problem with the matter of grain and grass." ”

Zuo Liangyu also nodded and said, "It's decided." ”

Seeing Zuo Liangyu's attitude like this, Zhu Cihong snorted coldly and said, "I hope General Zuo will respect himself!" Let's go! As he spoke, he led the Tianwu Army and everyone left.

After watching Zhu Cihong leave, Zuo Mengeng said: "Dad, when are we going to Jiangxi to block Zhang Xianzhong?" ”

Zuo Liangyu glanced at him and said, "Beat Zhang Xianzhong?" If Zhang Xianzhong is destroyed, what will we do? Then go to the northwest to fight Li Zicheng? Is Li Zicheng finished? Do you still have to go north to fight tartars? ”

When Zuo Mengeng heard this, he suddenly opened his mouth and knew what his father was thinking.

Over the years, Zuo Liangyu's ability to fight has not made much progress, but he has played two tricks with self-respect and bluffing.

Zuo Liangyu knows very well that only when there is Kou to suppress can he have work to do, and he can only be promoted through meritorious service, and the court will be inseparable from him, and he has to accommodate himself in everything when he encounters things.

Zuo Liangyu has also grasped the proportions of the Kou very accurately, he can not only make meritorious contributions, but also not wipe out all the Liukou at one time, especially at the critical moment, when he encounters the Liukou talking about the matter of civil and martial arts, he will gladly agree, let the Liukou have a way to live, let them recruit troops again, and make a comeback.

As for bluffing, it is Zuo Liangyu's strong point, obviously there are only 70,000 or 80,000 horses, but he claims to have an army of 200,000, which gives the court the impression that he has many soldiers and generals, so that the court does not dare to move himself easily.

Zhu Cihong also knew that in the history of Zuo Liangyu's Nanming Dynasty, the cowhide blew bigger and bigger, and there were more than 100,000 horses in his hands, but he dared to claim to be an army of 800,000.

After Zhu Cihong left, he deeply felt Zuo Liangyu's domineering, and actually negotiated conditions with himself in person!

This time, I wanted to kill Zuo Liangyu easily, but I didn't expect that the left army had already done a good defense, and tens of thousands of people were arranged around the entire camp, and firecrackers, artillery, and cavalry were on standby around the camp at any time.

After leaving Huang Degong and the First Brigade in Wuchang, Zhu Cihong now only has a few thousand days of martial arts, and he can't do it rashly, so he can only wait for the meeting to go, and then slowly clean him up.

Zhu Cihong's return plan was to take a boat from Jiujiang Mansion along the Yangtze River to the east, take all the way by water to Taiping Mansion, then cross the river to Luzhou Mansion, and return to Fengyang by land.

On Zhu Cihong's way back to Fengyang Mansion, a major event happened in the southernmost part of the Ming Dynasty.

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In Humen, Guangdong, on the sea surface of Guangzhou Bay, the sails are like clouds, hundreds of ships are competing for the current, and six British ships flying the lion flag are floating on the sea.

The captain of the British ship, Weddell, wore a saber and a short musket at his waist, white gloves on his hands, a leather double-horned military cap, a red tight high-necked close-fitting military uniform with blue trim, and his white tight breeches and black high leather boots stood out.

At this time, Weddell was standing on the towering stern of the flagship, looking at the fleet under his command with a condescending posture, and he felt a sense of invincibility across the sea.

He looked at the oriental country in the distance, and his heart swelled with infinite expectations, after a year of drifting on the sea, he finally arrived in Daming!

Weddell was born in a military family, once participated in the naval war between Britain and Portugal, and established a lot of meritorious achievements.

Portugal leased the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and controlled all the foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, but it was often harassed by the Holland, the coachman of the sea, and was robbed of a lot of goods, so Portugal wanted to join forces with the British to deal with the Netherlands, and the British also wanted to take this opportunity to obtain the right to trade independently in the Ming Dynasty.

After the two sides reached an agreement, in April of the ninth year of Chongzhen, King Charles I of England ordered Captain Weddell to lead six ships to Daming, and after a year of sailing, the British fleet finally came to Macao and the Portuguese leased land, but the Portuguese repented and let them go back.

Of course Weddell didn't do it, Lao Tzu drifted across the Cape of Good Hope in Africa along the Atlantic Ocean, sailed more than 17,000 nautical miles across most of the world, and finally arrived here, you let me go back?

Weddell decided not to bird the Portuguese and go it alone, but it was a big deal to use artillery to force the Ming to establish diplomatic relations with the British Empire.

After leading the fleet to Guangzhou Bay, Weddell began to survey the nearby terrain before sending a ship to the Humen area to survey the waterways.

When the Ming defenders of Humen Yaniang Shoe Fort saw a huge ship with a strange flag sailing in, they immediately raised a flag to stop, and sent people on board to inquire about the situation.

"Wait!" The Ming army, who got on the boat to inspect, threw down the general and left.

Seeing that there was no movement on Daming's side, Weddell cheekily let the fleet sail into the mouth of the Pearl River.

Seeing that several foreign ships were so ignorant, the Ming defenders immediately shouted: "The ship in front of you will stop immediately, and you must not approach Guangzhou again without the permission of my Governor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Weddell ignored it and ordered the fleet to move on.

The other party didn't want to give face, and Chen Qian, the chief soldier of Guangdong, directly ordered the Ming army of the Yaniang shoe battery to open fire, bombarding the damn!

The Ming troops stationed in the fort began to shell the British army, but because the guns of the fort were all small cannons, it was difficult to damage the British ships, so they were bombarded by the British ships and took the Yaniang Shoe Battery.

Weddell sent more than 100 sailors to occupy the fort, tore down the flag of the sun and moon, hoisted the British flag, and carried the guns on the fort as souvenirs on the British ships, and then began to loot the nearby civilian ships, forcing the nearby fishermen to send a message for free trade.

When Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, was furious when he heard the news, and the governor Xiong, who was a man of culture, decided to salute first and then soldiers, first asking the Portuguese in Macao to submit a letter of protest to the British, asking them to withdraw from Humen and return the Ming artillery.

Weddell did not buy it, relying on the strength of his ships and guns, and took a dismissive attitude towards the Ming officials, and still sent British merchants to Canton with 22,000 Spanish silver dollars and two boxes of Japanese silver to trade.

Who is Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang? He has studied since he was a child, served as a magistrate, served as the head of the Ministry of Rites, and also sent an envoy to the Ryukyus, he is a person who has seen the world, although he has never fought, but with his mouth, he has dealt with the pirate king Zheng Zhilong, who many people can't handle.

With this credit, Xiong Wencan became the governor of Liangguang, and he can be regarded as a feudal official.

Originally, he did a good job as the governor of Liangguang, and the thieves and pirates in the territory were almost cleaned up by him, and the jurisdiction was stable, but what kind of thing was the British?

Governor Xiong was very angry, and directly transferred the Daming Naval Division of Fujian, and arrested all the British merchants in Guangzhou and confiscated all the goods, and wrote to Weddell, saying: If you dare to destroy every grass and tree, you will order the soldiers to annihilate your generation, so that you and others will not be left behind, then you will regret it, and the crime is unforgivable!

Weddell smiled after reading the letter, and returned a letter, asking the Ming officials to release the British merchants first and return the goods, if they didn't copy it, his fleet would not leave, and he would have to do something.

Weddell thought that the Ming officials replied too much, so he used force again, commanded the fleet to attack the Ming warships, burned the villages along the Pearl River, blew up the Yaniang shoe battery, and occupied a small town, robbing 30 pigs.

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Note: Historically, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang at that time, had been transferred to the Central Plains to suppress the Kou, that is, Zhu Cihong is now the governor of the five provinces, because of Zhu Cihong's crossing goods, Governor Xiong could only stay in place.

In fact, it was also an accident for Governor Xiong to serve as the governor of the five provinces, and the braggadocio was known by Chongzhen, so he did it hard, and he lost his head for it.

There is not much information about the naval battles of the Ming and Ying Dynasty recorded in the historical materials, and it is not said who the Guangdong authorities are, only mentioning Chen Qian, the general soldier of Guangdong.