The lineage of King Lu, which began with Zhu Tan, the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was in the Yanzhou Mansion, and it was the oldest royal bloodline of the Ming Dynasty. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army attacked Yanzhou, and Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu'an, hanged himself.

The contemporary Lu King Zhu Yihai is the son of Zhu Shouyong, the king of Lusu, and the younger brother of Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu'an, who escaped the pursuit of the Qing army by hiding in the pile of dead people, and attacked the title of King Lu in February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. A month later, the Dashun army broke through the city of Beijing, and Zhu Yihai fled all the way south and lived in Taizhou, Zhejiang.

Subsequently, the Hongguang Dynasty was destroyed, King Lu descended to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing court strictly shaved his hair and changed his clothes, which aroused the rebellion of the world. However, the Gui clan was still in Guangxi, and the scholars and doctors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as the Ming army and the righteous army, publicly recommended Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, to inherit the unification and supervise the country for Lu.

Although he escaped the pursuit of the Qing army by hiding in the pile of dead people, Zhu Yihai had the courage to be different from the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the army, he dared to go to the front line of the Qiantang River to boost his morale, and later in Fujian and Zhoushan, he also had the experience of fighting with the army.

However, Zhejiang was at the forefront of the large-scale anti-Qing movement in the southeast, and it was under heavy pressure, and it was also competing with the Tang Dynasty behind it. Inside, there were no descendant troops in their hands, and the civil and military forces were not in harmony, so the two marshals Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren, who had to rely on it, were selfish and selfish, and the pressure of many parties overlapped, and when Jiang's division was defeated, he had to withdraw from the Zhejiang battlefield.

In the following days, Zheng Cai first went to Fujian, the two sides were not in harmony, the contradictions broke out, and the Qing army went south to encircle and suppress, so they had to sail away; After having to retreat to the battlefield in Zhejiang, there were all kinds of internal strife within the imperial court, along with the loss of Siming Mountain, the momentum of the horns was broken, especially the bizarre failure of the battle of Hengshui Yang, Zhoushan was lost, and they had to fall to Fujian again.

During this period, it was not without some Ming troops who were discouraged and chose to surrender to the Qing army, both in Zhoushan and in Fujian. Chen Kai of Zhoushan couldn't touch it, but tens of millions of Zhejiang Ming troops who surrendered from Fujian were robbed by him, and now they are under Zheng Chenggong's command.

Zhejiang has no place to stand, Fujian also lacks the foundation of the people's support, and the Ming army under the Lu Jianguo Department has no place to stand, so it has to go south to Zheng Chenggong.

"Zongren Mansion Zongzheng is the assistant to the Zongren Mansion, Yi and Ma Duwei, recruited the general Weiyuan Marquis to succeed, and I have seen His Royal Highness King Lu."

According to Pan Gengzhong's advice, Zheng Chenggong met with Lu Jianguo and his party in the official position of Zongzheng of Zongren Mansion appointed by Emperor Longwu. This attitude of refusing to recognize King Lu and supervising the state still aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhang Mingzhen and others. It's just that those who are dissatisfied are dissatisfied, and when they arrive at other people's land, they are under the fence, Zhu Yihai didn't say anything, Zhang Mingzhen and others didn't say anything, and the etiquette was just over, and there was nothing to be done.

Tang Lu is fighting, and the old things are still there. Zheng Chenggong's attitude towards Zhu Yihai, a clan relative of the country, was good, and he only said that he was at ease to live in Kinmen, but the meaning of these words was to bring the Zhejiang Ming army brought by Zhu Yihai under his command. Compared with history, Zheng Chenggong knew more about the details of the Battle of Zhoushan and the current situation of the Ming army in Zhejiang, and even called Ruan Mei, Marquis of Danghu, and others to meet Zhu Yihai. King Lu had no choice but to accept Zheng Chenggong's arrangement. Otherwise, they have no intention of surrendering, and they have nowhere to go, and the army will be scattered if they have no food, and there will be only one way to die.

On the same day, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, went to Kinmen to work as a duke surrounded by some old ministers. Zheng Chenggong announced in public that he had appointed the former army of Dingxi Hou Zhang Mingzhen Guanshui Division, Pingyi Hou Zhou Hezhi Guanshui Division, and Yingyi Bo Ruan Jun Guanshui Division Qianzhen, nominally completing the absorption of the remnants of the Ming Army in Zhejiang.

At the same time as absorbing the Ming army in Zhejiang, Zheng Chenggong also appointed the left army of the Fuming Hou Lin Cha Water Division and the right army of the Min'an Hou Zhou Rui Water Division, and he led the marshal of the Chinese Army of the Water Division to re-complete the division of the Ming Army's water division.

Early the next morning, Zheng Chenggong personally led the army from Xiamen and sailed straight into Haicheng Port. The water in Haicheng Port is shallow, it is difficult for the big ship to enter on weekdays, Zheng Chenggong personally raised the army to come, the tide rose several feet that day, Zheng Chenggong took a ship straight in, moored under the Zhongquan Pass, Haicheng a county businessman exclaimed and said: "Since ancient times, the real water can be crossed by the charm." ”

According to the agreement, Zheng Chenggong's army arrived, and Hao Wenxing immediately opened the city and led his generals to accept Cheng. Zheng Chenggong immediately rewarded the generals and soldiers with 10,000 taels of silver and Hao Wenxing with 5,000 taels. Hao Wenxing was awarded the commander of the army in Zhongzhen, hung the seal of the general, and gave him a python robe and jade belt. In the scene, Mao Heng and Hao Wenxing's generals were promoted and sent. The soldiers of the institute were led by Hao Wenxing to return to the center and left, install their families, and encourage troops to go out.

As for Haicheng County, Zheng Chenggong appointed his cronies who had been following him for many years, Zhang Ying (note), the governor of the Chinese army, to lead troops to guard the town, and appointed Huang Weijing, who joined the army, to take charge of the county seal, and build a city with it, thinking that it was a land shield for Xiamen Island.

Speaking of which, Hao Wenxing participated in the Battle of Pantuoling back then, and he had a grudge against the Ke brothers. This time, Zheng Chenggong set up a banquet to celebrate his achievements, and Ke Chenshu was also present. Hao Wenxing knew that Ke Chenshu was Zheng Chenggong's confidant and favorite general, so he hurriedly toasted and apologized, and the latter said that they were their masters at that time, and they didn't need to mind, and they were very familiar with Hao Wenxing.

Seeing that the atmosphere of the generals on the table was harmonious, Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but sigh. The generals under his command are like clouds, and their personalities are different, but they are really like Shi Lang's thorns, but they are only seen. Before Shi Lang came, the atmosphere in the army was harmonious, but now that Shi Lang is dead, the army has returned to a harmonious atmosphere, and there may be some intrigue inside, which is inevitable, but it is better than when Shi Lang was still there.

After the celebration banquet, after a short pause for a day or two, Zheng Chenggong returned to the Zhongzuo Institute with Hao Wenxing and other departments. Haicheng County was immediately down, and the four counties south of Zhangzhou were all in the hands of the Ming army. As far as Zhangzhou Prefecture is concerned, the three counties of Longyan, Ningyang and Zhangping in the north have penetrated inland, and the nearest Zhangping County is also more than 200 miles away from the Fucheng.

Zheng Chenggong did not intend to go deep into the interior too early, and in accordance with the strategic trend planned with Chen Kai, he made use of his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, gave full play to the advantages of the Ming army at sea, first took the coastal areas of Fujian Jinghua, and then went deep into the interior, occupied the checkpoints, and realized the recovery of Fujian Province. Since this is the case, then the target of the next battle is naturally the capital city of Zhangzhou in the northwest of Haicheng County.

"No, our army will not take the capital city of Zhangzhou for the time being."

At the first military conference that Hao Wenxing attended, Zheng Chenggong rejected the strategy of continuing to advance by land from Haicheng County. Unlike when he was fledgling at the beginning of the year, he often set the target in a strategic place or a prefecture-level city, but now Zheng Chenggong is much more pragmatic, and his strategy and tactics have gradually developed his own style.

"All departments rectify the soldiers and horses, the tenth day of the first month, and take Changtai directly!"

Note: Zhang Ying, this name was more common in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Zhang Ying, the general of the Ming Army in Zhejiang, who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty earlier, and Zhang Tingyu, an important minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, is also called Zhang Ying.