Chen Yonghua, the most important civil official of the Zheng Group after entering Taiwan, recognized Zheng Chenggong as "today's Wolong", and even let Zheng Jing, who was only a few years younger than him, treat him as a teacher.

By the time of the Zheng Jing, Chen Yonghua was the administrative head of the Zheng Group in Taiwan, and was also in charge of the army, and was even called by many as the prime minister of the Ming Zheng Dongning Dynasty. He has also made remarkable achievements in running the local area, and has vigorously improved Taiwan's economic and cultural level, which has been praised by later generations. Moreover, this Chen Yonghua, a young man who is only twelve or thirteen years old now, will become the prototype of Chen Jinnan, the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, in the future.

If you don't know Chen Jinnan, it's useless to call yourself a hero!

If it's just that, after all, Chen Kai hasn't seen any celebrities, isn't Zheng Chenggong more famous than Chen Yonghua, more admired and regretted? But more importantly, after Chen Kai realized that this young man was Chen Yonghua, the floodgates of memory suddenly opened, and he suddenly recalled the war next year and the ending of some people he had met recently.

In 1648, on the tenth day of the fourth month of the second year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong commanded Lin Xishan, Gan Hui and other people to divide the land and water into Tong'an County, which was in the west of Quanzhou Prefecture. The Qing army went out of the city to meet the battle, but was defeated by the Ming army, and more than half of them were damaged, and the rest retreated into the city. On the second day, Zheng Chenggong led his troops and horses to directly take the county.

After taking Tong'an County, Zheng Chenggong appointed Jinshi Ye Yiyun as Tong'an Zhi County, promoted Chen Ding as the instructor of Tong'an County, and ordered Qiu Jin, Lin Zhuangyou, Jin Zuoyu and other generals to garrison the city.

The seizure of Tong'an County was the first step in the strategy. However, Fujian suffered a series of military disasters, and this province was already a province with very low grain production, so due to the lack of local grain, Zheng Chenggong had to lead a large army to move to Dongshan Island. On the one hand, it is to alleviate the local food shortage, on the other hand, it is to find ways to go to Guangdong to prepare grain and grass, and on the other hand, it is already a secondary reason because of waiting for the decree of the Yongli Imperial Court.

However, in July, most of the anti-Qing uprisings in central and northern Fujian were suppressed by the Qing army, and the army rushed straight to Tong'an. After besieging the city for more than a month, the messenger for help did not come out for a long time, and by the time Zheng Chenggong got the news, it was already August.

In mid-August, the city of Tong'an fell, and the guards Qiu Jin, Lin Zhuangyou, and Jin Zuoyu all entered the street battle with the Qing army and died in battle; Ye Yiyun and others, the magistrate, were captured, refused to surrender, and calmly went to their deaths; Sect Chen Ding hanged himself in Minglun Hall. It was a battle, the Qing army slaughtered the city, blood flowed in the ditch, about 50,000 people were unfortunately killed, and the history is called the massacre of Tong'an.

The reinforcements led by Zheng Chenggong himself, due to the prevailing north wind on the road, affected the speed of the voyage, and it was about 300 miles, 100 nautical miles, and under normal circumstances, it could be reached in about a day, but it took a full five days to barely reach Kinmen Island. At that time, Tong'an City had already fallen, and the only thing Zheng Chenggong and his soldiers could do was to sacrifice the heroic soul in Kinmen.

Tong'an blood flow ditch!

In that battle, 50,000 people died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, and Zheng Chenggong lost a lot of strength in the first two years of the army, and almost reverted to the state before the attack on Quanzhou.

Even if you don't talk about this, it's just Chen Ding, through recent interactions, Chen Kai has also determined that this person is a comrade with one heart who can become a good friend. Such a good person should not be lonely and self-disciplined in the Minglun Hall of Tong'an County School. Although sacrifice is inevitable, if possible, people like Chen Ding should still live to see the day when the Tartars are expelled. Even if he dies on the same day, he will always be spared the regret of "the family sacrifice has not forgotten to tell Naiweng".

Leaving the town mansion, Chen Kai, Chen Ding, Chen Yonghua and his son took the servants and went straight to the tomb of Lu Xiufu. Lu Xiufu himself is actually a native of Yancheng, Jiangsu, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was Yancheng County in Huai'an Prefecture, Nanzhili. He and another civil official among the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang and Wen Cheng, are actually Jinshi on the same list.

Under the background of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, personal choices are different, such as Chen Yizhong's exile in Zhancheng, Liumengyan's dedication to Shiyuan, but there are also heroes such as Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang, and Zhang Shijie who are unyielding to death, just like today's Li Dingguo, Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan, Li Laiheng and those who fought bloodily to restore the Han family like them, this is the backbone of the Chinese nation!

On the way to Lu Xiufu's tomb, I was thinking more about the Tong'an Massacre next year, and with these many thoughts, Chen Kai's ease of traveling in the mountains and rivers was also blown away. This pressure is really not light, so much so that I was a little dazed along the way. However, when he arrived at Lu Xiufu's tomb, Chen Ding wrote a sacrifice in advance, and Chen Kai also prepared a lot of sacrifices, and made a grand wish to restore the Han family in front of Lu Xiufu's soul.

On the way back, Chen Kai was still as restless as when he went. Weekday interactions, this situation was also understood by Chen Ding as he was still thinking about the affairs of the arsenal workshop, and could not play with peace of mind, and also persuaded Chen Kai on the grounds that "the armament workshop system has been completed".

In this regard, Chen Kai only smiled bitterly. He knew very well that it was not him who really deserved to be comforted, but the civil and military generals such as Chen Ding and Ye Yiyun, and the 50,000 souls in Tong'an County!

However, even if it was just comfort, he couldn't do it at all, because he couldn't explain to Zheng Chenggong and Chen Ding how he predicted the tragedy of Tong'an. Even if they can believe it, they are afraid that they will not give up recovering and holding on to the lost territory because of this. Failure was the general trend of the deterioration of the strategic environment at that time, and even if it was predicted in advance, there was no way to reverse it in the face of the absolute strength gap.

returned to the main town mansion in a daze, and Chen Kai finally thought about all this clearly in a huge sense of powerlessness. At the time of parting, I saw him half-squatting in front of Chen Yonghua, reaching out and touching the young man's forehead, and his face was also rippling with love.

"Brother Shangtu, Ling Lang, I like it very much, but it's a pity that I have no children and no daughters under my knees, otherwise men can be brothers and women can get married, which is a big regret in my life." Speaking of this, Chen Kai couldn't help sighing, but before Chen Ding had a chance to comfort him, Chen Kai said with a straight face: "The little brother has an unbridled request, and he dares to ask Brother Shangtu to fulfill it." ”

As he spoke, Chen Kai bowed to the end, and Chen Ding couldn't help but be stunned for a while, but he also reacted immediately, and helped Chen Kai up with both hands.

"Brother Xian, you and I have similar aspirations, you can just say anything bluntly, why bother?"

"The younger brother wants to recognize Ling Lang as his righteous son, I don't know if it's okay?"

It's man-made, and he tried his best to try to rewrite the history of the Tong'an Massacre, and along the way, Chen Kai has made up his mind, and he can't even shake it. However, the manpower is sometimes poor, and if something really can't be done, the only way to take care of his son is to fulfill this comrade's affection.