In the southeast coastal area in the second half of the fifth year of Yongli, the biggest event was not Chen Kai's stubborn defense of the center and left, nor Zheng Chenggong's momentum on the battlefield in southern Fujian, all of which were overshadowed by the battle of Zhoushan that broke out on the east coast of Zhejiang.

The victory of the Ming army in the battle of intercepting Ma Jinbao, the general soldier of Jinhua, and Wang Jing, the general soldier of the Su Song Water Division, on the north and south lines did not reverse the consequences of the unexpected defeat in the Battle of Hengshuiyang. The Qing army attacked Zhoushan Island, fierce battle for ten days, the Ming army resisted bravely, but the gap in strength was too large, the Ming fleet that returned to the reinforcement was never able to break through the barrier of the Qing army's naval division, and finally on the second day of September, the besieging Qing army adopted the tactics of digging the city and erecting ladders, breaking through the Ming army's defense from the west of Zhoushan City, and swarming into the city.

After the Qing army captured Zhoushan City, it carried out a brutal massacre, and more than 10,000 people were martyred. During this period, Liu Shixun, the general of Anyang, who was in charge of the city defense, Zhang Mingyang, the younger brother of Zhang Mingzhen, the governor of Zhang Mingzhen, and Ma Tai, the general soldier of Zhongzhen, and other defenders were martyred in battle; Lu Jianguo's concubine Chen and others threw themselves into the well and died, and the Xigong concubine Rong and the prince Liuge were captured by the Qing army; Zhang Kentang, the first assistant minister of the cabinet, Wu Zhongluan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Li Xiangzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Zhu Yongyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Zheng Zunjian, the envoy of the General Administration, Dong Zhining, the secretary of the Military Department, and Zhu Yangshi, the staff of the Ministry of War, committed suicide and martyrdom.

At the same time, Li Changxiang, the former head of the main army of the Ming Army in Siming Mountain, Zheng Cai's former generals Zhongwei Bo Zhang Yunfei, and the generals Yin Wenju, Cai Yingxuan, Tu Denghua, etc.; Jin Yunyan, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army under Zhang Mingzhen, Qiu Yuanji of the Ministry of Rites, Sun Yanling of the Ministry of Households, Ni Sanyi, etc.; Li Shimi of Taifu Temple, Zhou Shili of the Central Army of the Ministry of War, Deputy, Sen, Du, Shouzhou Mingchen, Zheng Guohua, Wang Peiyuan, etc., successively descended to the Qing Dynasty, "all distributed good deeds in the mainland."

The loss of Zhoushan, the martyrdom of a large number of civil and military generals and the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, this is not the most important, due to the luck of the battle of Hengshui Yang and the Zhoushan city defense force is only three battalions of troops, the loss of soldiers of the Ming army is actually not much, and the military strength still exists. However, the base area was captured, and most of the family members who remained there were martyred, but it directly led to low morale and inability to fight again.

Zhoushan had been lost, and they had lost their fulcrum on land, so they had no choice but to go south to Liupan Island in Zhoushan to rest and recuperate. It was once the defense area of the Hou Zhou Hezhi and the Min'an Hou Zhou Rui, who had contacts with many anti-Qing rebels in Wenzhou, Taizhou and Chuzhou, and had achieved a considerable threat to southern Zhejiang.

With the infighting between the Zhou brothers, Zhou Rui went to Fujian to join Zheng Chenggong, and Zhou Hezhi soon chose to go north to Zhoushan. Otherwise, if the brothers work together, the southern front of the Qing army is pressed, it is bound to be difficult to form an encirclement of Zhoushan, and the Ming army in Zhoushan does not need to divide troops to the south to intercept Ma Jinbao, and the troops defending the city of Zhoushan can be more, and maybe they can hold out for a few more days, and the Ming fleet also has the possibility of breaking through the interception of the Qing army's naval division in these days. Then, the Battle of Zhoushan will inevitably become a battle in which the elite of the Ming Army in Zhejiang will be annihilated, and history will be very different.

However, if such a situation is impossible, it is like within the Lu Jian Dynasty, even if there is no internal strife between the Zhou brothers, the contradictions between the Xungui group and the civil official group, Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jinhuo and Wang Chaoxian, and Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi discord and other bad things still exist. Even, from the beginning of the Lu Jian Dynasty, huge internal friction has always been with it, and now it is just a finish.

After arriving in Sanpan, there are still houses and warehouses built by Zhou Hezhi and Zhou Rui when they were stationed here to use, and it can be regarded as a place to live for the time being. However, most of the families of the officers and men in the army, including Dingxi Hou and Zhang Mingzhen, have fallen to Zhoushan, and the morale is so low that it cannot be overcome, as if the sky around the entire Sanpan Island is gloomy and gloomy.

In such an atmosphere, especially when the grain and grass carried were not far from being exhausted, the uneasiness in the army was even worse. For this reason, Zhang Mingzhen led the army to collect grain and grass in Huanghua and Longwan in Wenzhou Prefecture, but unexpectedly Ma Jinbao, who took advantage of the situation, took the back road, and once attacked Sanpan Island, burning down all those houses and warehouses.

Without shelter, especially Sanpan was not safe, the Ming fleet had to set off south again. This time, after leaving Sanpan, he could only go to Shacheng at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong coasts, but Ma Jinbao, who soon followed, was scared away. It's just that this time, where to go, they don't have a definite conclusion.

"Shacheng is already the southernmost part of Zhejiang, and if we continue to flee south, we will fight Fujian again, haven't we suffered losses in Fujian?"

"That place in Fujian is full of mountains, how can you afford to raise soldiers, Your Highness and the Hou Ye are in a panic!"

"Where can you go without going south, to the north? To Chongming? Could it be that we, the remnants of the defeated army, can still take Nanjing? ”

"What can you do if you take Nanjing, your parents, wives and children are all in the hands of the captive, and they are just a group of lonely ghosts."

"Otherwise, let's just go to Fuzhou and vote for the Qing court. Maybe for the sake of our surrender, the Qing court can still return the parents, wives and children. ”

“……”

On the ship of General Zhang Ying, the commander of the seal, Ruan Shu, Ruan Yu and others, the commander-in-chief of the general of the seal, met here in secret, and complained to each other about the bitterness in their chests and their disappointment in the future on this stormy and adrift sea.

Fujian, King Lu did not set off stormy waves here, but in the end, wasn't he driven back by the Qing army? Aside from this matter, they have been in Zhejiang for a long time, and they are not very clear about the current situation in Fujian, only know that the Zheng family brothers are infighting, Zheng Cai lost the Zhongzuo Institute, and now the Zheng Group has basically returned to Zheng Chenggong's control. As for Zheng Chenggong's good momentum in southern Fujian, they don't know anything.

In fact, even if you know it, what can you do, Zheng Chenggong used to be Emperor Longwu of the Tang Domain, and now he is the Yongli Emperor of the Gui Domain, and they are all hostile to them. Even if he votes for the past now, can Zheng Chenggong treat them sincerely? This road ahead is confused, no matter how you think about it, it is a dead end, and the only way out may be the only way out.

Just do it, since they want to lower it, they still have to gather more people in the end. There were more people with them, and the treatment would be better when they arrived at the Qing army, so in the next few days, they began to secretly connect a group of trustworthy old brothers, and then on a moonless night, they drove away from the fleet and went straight to Fuzhou.

Fuzhou Prefecture is located on the coast of central Fujian, with Zhang, Quan, and Xinghua in the south and Funing Prefecture in the north. Their Qing fleet, consisting of 37 warships, crossed a series of islands in Funing Prefecture and entered the waters of Fuzhou, where they soon encountered the Qing army's patrol sailors at a place called Xiamu Island in the northern part of Guantang Mountain.

Seeing the Qing army in bright armor and armed with standard weapons, they hurriedly sent ships to communicate, but the Qing army also saved trouble, and only told them that the Fujian governor Yamen had recently set up an inspection department on Matsu Island and asked them to go there to contact.

Didn't the sailors of the Fujian Qing Army be hung up and beaten by the sailors of the Fujian Ming Army, and they didn't even dare to come out of the estuary, how could they be so bold as this. They didn't have the heart to think about it anymore, but they put away their doubts when the power of the Fujian Ming Army had not yet touched here.

When I first arrived in Fujian, the rules were not very clear, and the situation was not very clear, so I did not dare to make my own opinions. The fleet slowly moved south, approaching the island of Matsu, where there was already a fleet on the docks, the size of the fleet was not much different from theirs, but the sailors were still dressed like beggars. They quickly recognized this fleet as one of Zheng Cai's generals, but they didn't remember what it was called, and they thought that they had come to be appeased like them, so they didn't think much about it.

After some contact, the Inspection Department allowed some of the officers above the rank of guerrilla general to land on the island, but as many as 21 people came up at once, and even when these high-ranking officers were not accompanied by their own soldiers, the soldiers of the Inspection Department were nervous for a while.

As the group of soldiers of the Inspection Division went all the way, they soon came to a small courtyard on the island that was a little dilapidated and not too big, and hung a plaque of the Guantang Mountain Inspection Division. They stubbornly walked in, and there were already officials waiting for them who had received the news.

The inspection is high on it, and the nostrils are almost facing the sky. The situation is stronger than people, even if it is only a nine-grade official, but it is also an official of the Qing Dynasty, and they who want to run to the Ming court must have a good life. After all, this Hades is good, but the little ghost is not difficult.

The generals did a courtesy to meet the officials in a proper manner, and the inspection was accepted calmly. was angry in his heart, but he had to make compromises, and he almost wanted to drop blood.

How did he know that the inspector looked at them like this, but he smiled meaningfully: "This official's surname is Chen, and he is the political envoy of the Qing Dynasty Fujian Chengxuan Department Fuzhou Prefecture Lianjiang County Guantang Mountain Inspection." Since you have come to surrender to me, you must show some sincerity before you can say it. ”