Chapter 122: Autumn Wind (2)
"Wang Qifeng?"
From Nanao to the capital city of Chaozhou, Zheng Chenggong reported the ins and outs of the matter in the big tent, which was nothing more than an officer named Wang Qifeng of the green battalion of Zhangpu County who wanted to do it anyway, and expressed his willingness to act as the internal response of Zheng Chenggong's army to attack Zhangpu County.
All of them are taken from Chaozhou, and the follow-up route must be to fight back to southern Fujian, which is beyond doubt. Zheng Chenggong has long had this intention, and in recent months, he has really tried his best to sweep away the local tyrants and thieves in the northern part of Chaozhou and establish a more stable rear. Now that the rear is stable, although there are still enemy troops like Hao Shangjiu, Huang Yingjie and Su Li in the direction of Huizhou, Li Chengdong's subordinates have become a plate of scattered sand after the death of the commander, and there is only one bandit leader of Jieshiwei, which cannot become too big a climate.
"According to intelligence, Wang Qifeng, the Zhangpu garrison, is a person from the Central Capital, and he is not a Fujian general. However, he doesn't seem to have a good time in Zhangpu, it seems that because he was originally a general of Yunxiao General Zhang Guozhu, but now he is under the command of Yang Zuo, the commander of Zhangpu, so he has been repeatedly bullied and oppressed by Yang Zuo, and he has no way to ask for help, and he is willing to do it anyway, but it is not surprising. ”
Chen Kai said a word, the generals still don't understand, this Wang Qifeng is the sand mixed in by the Qing court to prevent Yang Zuo from becoming bigger, if it is an ordinary person, he will probably endure it, but this Yang Zuo still seems to be a jealous and hateful guy, and he can't rub the sand in his eyes, so Wang Qifeng's days can be imagined.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was already a chaotic world, Li Chengdong was dissatisfied with the Qing court's reuse of the Liao people, so he raised troops anyway, Jiang Pai and Jin Shenghuan were bullied by officials.
Seeing that the generals nodded one after another, Shi Lang retorted, thinking that this matter was quite strange, especially when Zheng Chenggong took Chaozhou and posed a greater military threat to Zhangzhou, whether it would be a trick of the Fujian Qing army to lure the enemy still needs to be carefully considered.
Shi Lang said that he was serious, which did cause the generals to worry, but in Chen Kai's eyes, he was quite confused. Because in history, Zheng Chenggong's department does not seem to have any objections to this matter, and it is difficult to say whether Shi Lang's opposition was unsuccessful, or whether it was because of him that Shi Lang's opposition was caused.
However, this matter must not be left to Shi Lang like this, because this is really an excellent opportunity for Zheng Chenggong's department to enter southern Fujian, once Zhangpu is taken, Yunxiao Town and Zhao'an County can be seized to the west, so as to connect with Chaozhou, and to the east is directly thin Haicheng County, and even Zhangzhou Prefecture, so that the situation in Min'an can be opened.
Seeing this, Chen Kai also strongly persuaded Zheng Chenggong to send troops to seize Zhangpu County, paving the way for the capture of Zhangzhou Mansion. Sure enough, when Chen Kai clearly stood on the side of responding to Wang Qifeng's anyway, Shi Lang's opposition became more and more intense.
"Alright, there's no need to discuss this matter anymore. Our army is about to attack Zhangzhou, and Wang Qifeng is a good opportunity anyway. It is necessary to be heavy, but because of this, how to restore the world of the Han family, can it not be possible to wait for the Tartars to die of old age? ”
In the final analysis, it is Zheng Chenggong who decides this matter, and the identities of Chen Kai and Shi Lang are just planning from the side. Zheng Chenggong knew very well that Chen Kai was not a radical figure, and even if he captured Chaozhou, it took several months of planning and preparation before he really started; And Shi Lang's body has never had a little twilight. But the problem is that once these two people get together, they will become less and less like themselves, especially Shi Lang, who often opposes for the sake of opposition, and if Zheng Chenggong even sees this, it will be strange.
"Discord among subordinates is a good thing, and it's not a good thing."
For this reason, Zheng Chenggong scratched his head very much, but he didn't have anything to do, and in the later rattan helmet incident, he simply drew a line between Chen Kai and Shi Lang, and he didn't think about it anymore, because he really didn't have the energy to worry about the relationship between the two.
This time it was not only in response to Wang Qifeng, but also to open up the situation in southern Fujian, so Zheng Chenggong dispatched ten towns, including Zuo Pioneer Town, Right Pioneer Town, Aid Suppression Zuo Town, Aid Suppression Right Town, Qianchong Town, Zhongchong Town, Zuochong Town, Right Chong Town, Rongqi Town and Qinding Town, and send troops with 12,000 troops. In this way, in addition to the garrisons in various places, only Qianchong Town, Houjin Town, and the main barracks were left as mobile troops.
The First World War opened up the situation in southern Fujian, and Zheng Chenggong was already a little impatient. The army was assembled in the capital city of Chaozhou and Chenghai County, and Lin Xishan, Lin Cha and Zhou Rui's boat divisions were exhausted, and even many sea ships that originally took sea trade were dispatched to carry the army. Chen Kai stood on the deck of Zheng Chenggong's ship, looking at the front and back, all of them were sailing boatmen, and a sense of pride arose in his chest.
"How does it feel?"
"There are thousands of ironclad people, thousands of warships, swallowing mountains and rivers like tigers."
"What a tiger swallowing mountains and rivers."
It has been two and a half years since Zheng Chenggong started his army, and it has been two years since Chen Kai joined, compared to the Zheng Group in the era of Zheng Zhilong, it has not recovered even one-tenth, but compared to the more than 90 subordinates who boarded the ship from Anping Town, sailed to Nanao in the wind and rain, but it is not the same day.
"There are many of these efforts that have become your efforts."
"No, it's our effort."
At this point, the two looked at each other and smiled. Compared with Shi Lang, Chen Kai has followed Zheng Chenggong since he was weak, and because of Emperor Longwu, the relationship between the two is no longer that of the owner and the staff, but like-minded companions.
This point is incomparable to Shi Lang at all, and even once he figured it out, Chen Kai began to feel a trace of shame that he had been parting ways with Shi Lang for a while, and a trace of shame that he was willing to fall. However, most of the time, it was not his initiative at all, but Shi Lang, as a challenger, was always inviting him to fight a duel, and he was just passively fighting back, nothing more.
"Instead of wasting time on vindictiveness, it's better to do more meaningful things."
Chen Kai understands this truth, and he does it most of the time, but Shi Lang's harassment makes him always feel a little energetic and nowhere to go, and it seems that it is time to reorganize his thinking.
Zhangpu County, aside from the siege of Wanli and Lu Ruoteng in the winter of last year, in the years after the Qing army entered Fujian, Yang Xuegao, the thief Huang Chunzhao and Yu Daozan, the former Taifu Siqing Xu Zuochang, the former Chizhou magistrate Shen Qijin and many other anti-Qing forces of different identities and different scales have launched large or small offensives against it, and some of them have captured the county seat, but under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Qing army in Fujian, none of them can hold out for too long, and even many of them are scattered as soon as the reinforcements arrive.
This kind of situation is not uncommon all over the country, and it can even be said that such a plot is being replicated every day, as if God is not bored at all.
In the final analysis, since the Qing army entered the customs, it has subdued too many Ming troops and rogues, and compared with combat experience, the temporarily formed rebel army cannot be compared with the regular army at all.
However, this time, it was an exception for Zhangpu County, because not only did Wang Qifeng act as an internal response, but Zheng Chenggong's troops were no longer the inexperienced new army that attacked Haicheng County the year before last. After all, Zheng Chenggong has spent a year of experience with Wu Liuqi in Chaozhou, and he is no longer Wuxia Ameng.