In this era, whether it is the royal fleet of Spain, Portugal or Holland, whether you claim to be the most powerful navy in the world or the richest caravan, if you dare to appear on the surface of the western Pacific, you need to bow your noble head to the master of this fleet, and present a treasure that will please the owner of this fleet.

Otherwise, no matter how powerful your fleet is, it will disappear on the surface of the western Pacific, and the only thing left is countless pieces of wood from the ship's planks, crumbling into slag and floating on the surface of the sea.

There is no doubt that at this time, Zheng Jiajun was an invincible existence in the Asia-Pacific waters, they were the most experienced pirates, and they had the most suitable ships to fight in this sea area, although they were not the largest.

And now, Zheng Chenggong, the new leader of the Zheng family, spent a year building a warship suitable for navigation on the Yangtze River in the Zhoushan Islands, and led the warriors of the Zheng family army to board the battleship.

Entering the Yangtze River Basin, all the way against the current through Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Nanjing, Jiujiang and other important towns along the river, standing on the bank of the Yangtze River, people will see the river full of white sails.

If you look closer, you will see that the Zheng family army on the battleship is full of troops.

Could it be that Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing army and was killed because he annoyed the Qing court?

Not only that, but the Qing court initially wanted to force Zheng Chenggong to surrender by holding Zheng Zhilong hostage.

After Zheng Zhilong and his youngest son Zheng Shimo were detained by the Qing army, the first thing Zheng Chenggong did after quelling the disputes within the Zheng family army was to lead the Zheng family army to resist the Qing Dynasty.

He knew that his father Zheng Zhilong would definitely die if he did this, but he also knew that he was a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, a general who was deeply favored by the emperor and carried the arduous task of reviving the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Chenggong's fierce fight with the Qing army can be traced back to the time before the beginning of this book, and it has been fighting for several years.

However, his rebellion angered Duoduo in Nanjing and his posthumous successor, Hong Chengchou.

The main forces of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhenglan Banner Manchuria and Zhenglan Banner Han Army, also launched a fierce attack on Zheng's army.

Under the attack of the elite of the Manchu Han Dynasty in the Zhenglan Banner, Wang Yuncheng of the Ming army lost the Xianxia Pass, a key pass in Fujian Province, and the Qing army went all the way south, first defeated Zheng Cai in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and captured Changle and Lianjiang counties, and killed Zheng Cai's general Gu Shichen.

Zheng Chenggong resolutely fought back, first conquering Xinghua, and then leading the main force of Zheng's army to besiege Fuzhou for 14 months.

It was not until the Zhenglan Banner Han Army was solid that Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang of the Qing Army, personally led the main reinforcements to relieve the siege, and the Zheng Jiajun retreated to Jianning.

As the saying goes, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, Zheng Chenggong thought that this battle should belong to the contest of hot-blooded men, no matter the people on the battlefield, they are first of all soldiers, and soldiers can fight with the enemy for their own doctrine and position, but they can't be shameless, but the Qing army doesn't think so.

Especially Li Shutai, so who is Li Shutai?

He is not only the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty, but also the solid mountain of the Han army of the Blue Banner. Li Shutai is a relative of the Qing Dynasty, and the old Khan King Nurhachi is his grandfather, and even the name of the old Khan was given to him by the Old Khan. He also called the seventh son of the old Khan, Abatai, his grandfather.

It seems that the governors of the early Qing Dynasty who have appeared so far are all relatives.

When people talk about him, they will say that he is the first traitor in the late Ming Dynasty, and he is also the first general of the Ming Dynasty border army to be a traitor, and it was he who gave up the first city under the rule of the Ming Dynasty to Nurhachi, Fushun City, and it was he who reversed the battle of the Hunhe River that determined the initiative of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the future, and he was the great traitor Li Yongfang.

When Li Shuotai relieved the siege of Fuzhou, he then led the army to attack Xiamen and attack Ping'an Town, which was the last base of Zheng's army on the mainland, and Ping'an Town had Zheng Chenggong's wife, children and mother.

When the Qing army attacked Ping'an Town, Zheng Jiajun did not deploy defenders in Ping'an Town due to the family civil strife after Zheng Zhilong was captured.

When Zheng Chenggong's mother, Tagawa Wengzi, found out that she was surrounded by the Qing army, she hid Zheng Chenggong's wife Dong Yougu and his son Zheng Jing in the cellar, and then stood alone in the courtyard with a Japanese knife and waited for the arrival of the Qing army.

She didn't want to and couldn't hide together, if even she hid, the Qing army would definitely search the Zheng family compound thoroughly, and she wanted to disturb the Qing army's sight, and then hold the lives of her grandson and daughter-in-law.

When Li Shutai and Ma Dequan Qing army broke into the Zheng family's compound, they saw a middle-aged woman in white clothes and black dress, with a sword at her waist facing them with a solemn face, and she was not afraid at all.

Li Shutai smiled coldly, and then ordered a siege on Tagawa Wenzi, who was of course outnumbered, and was finally wounded and captured, Li Shutai dragged Tagawa Wengzi by the hair and pulled her to the altar and took the lead in insulting her.

In the end, after a hasty search of the Zheng family's compound, they did not find Dong Yougu and Zheng Jing's mother and son who were hidden by Tian Chuan Wengzi.

And because Zheng Chenggong's reinforcements had also arrived, Li Shutai was very weak-hearted, so he hurriedly retreated with his men and horses.

Tian Chuan Weng Zi endured the pain, opened the cellar door, and let Dong Yougu and Zheng Jing out, she touched her grandson's fat face with tears, and said some comforting words to her daughter-in-law and grandson.

In the end, Tagawa Tsuko, who was covered in scars and humiliation, picked up her knife and sliced into her abdomen amid the cries of her daughter-in-law and grandson.

When Zheng Chenggong returned home, he saw his wife and children who were frightened and stupid, and his mother who was lying in a pool of blood.

Facing his mother's body, Zheng Chenggong knelt on his knees, which never bent, and the boy's tears were like springs......

The son knelt in front of his mother's corpse and ordered basins of water to be fetched, because he didn't want his mother to go to another world with blood stains after she died.

Little by little, inch by inch, he washed his mother's liver and sausages, but his heart and heaven and earth were dyed into a sea of blood.

He wrapped layers of white veil for his mother's body covered with wounds, and each layer added a layer of heartache, and that layer of white veil was the son's embrace of his mother, the reluctance of love, and the oath of blood.

When the wooden raft covered with silk flowers carried his mother's body to the river and the sea of no return, Zheng Chenggong knelt in the direction of his mother's departure, wept silently, waved his hand, got up and tightened his grip on the steel knife.

When he learned that Tianlang's army had defeated the three southern expeditionary armies of the Qing court one after another, Zheng Chenggong finally smiled, he really saw the hope of recovering the mountains and rivers of Daming, and found the best way to take revenge on the enemy.

Later, he led a large army to Zhoushan, wanting to join the Lu king Zhu Yihai and the Confucian general Zhang Huangyan there, in order to go to the inland of the Yangtze River with them to resist the Qing Dynasty.

(End of chapter)