Chapter 293: Where to go from Zheng Zhilong
The Eight Banners, the Green Banner, the cavalry, the infantry, and many officials and gentry and wealthy families fled north.
Crowd each other and trample on each other.
It's like a collapsing mountain, with grass, trees, rocks, soil and sand, all rushing down, mixed with each other, and inseparable.
The cavalry crushed the infantry, the eight banners crushed the green flag, the green flag broke up the gentry and wealthy households, and even Wang Aoyong's standard camp was crushed.
However, although Wang Aoyong escaped with his life, he was also hit hard.
The Qing Dynasty lured the enemy deeper, and the Ming army that fought in the first battle collapsed, and the general trend of the world had been reversed in a short period of time. If at this time, he can still assist Prince Su to defend Jinan City and defend the provincial governance of Qilu for the Qing Dynasty, it must be a special achievement.
The confrontation in those previous days also gave him great confidence. The ice castle was extremely simple to build and easy to repair, but it could withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of Zheng Jun's artillery. In Wang Aoyong's eyes, this seems to be a great strategy and a good policy.
Who would have thought that the situation in Jinan was also the same as the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army, and once it was repeated, they would also be defeated.
Wang Aoyong: He didn't even see the enemy's appearance, and the battle was already over. Zheng Jun is still some distance away from the city of Jinan.
Zheng Zhilong didn't have the heart to pay attention to the next thing, the latter was presided over by Zheng Zhibao and them. Left and right is a chase to the north, what's so difficult about this?
Zheng Zhilong had to think carefully about the next situation.
The Ming army was defeated in such a game, and Emperor Chongzhen's ambition was over. Zhu Ming, whose strength has suffered a big loss, is afraid that he will not be able to slow down his spirit without three or five years. The Manchus were also able to deal with the harassment of Zheng's army on the eastern coast, while freeing up their hands to clean up Li Zicheng.
So where do you go from here?
Is it to follow the original plan and go to Nanyang to silently accumulate strength, or ......
According to Zheng Zhilong's original intention, of course, it was to go to Nanyang to accumulate strength.
In this way, he can not only clean up the South Seas and slowly drive out the European forces in the East, but also watch Emperor Chongzhen engage in internal fighting with the Jiangnan gentry!
You must know that the number of cannons in the hands of the Tartars has been increasing, and the increase in the number is very incommensurate with the cannon-making ability of the Tartars themselves, and it is obvious that someone has sold the cannons to the Tartars behind his back.
As for who it is, Zheng Zhilong hasn't found out yet, and he hasn't even found the smuggling route, but the left and right are only Dutch and English. As for the Portuguese, they have this ability, but they definitely don't dare!
It can be seen that the Zheng family still needs to strengthen the Nanyang region.
As for Emperor Chongzhen and the gentry in Jiangnan, it was the inevitable struggle between the two sides prompted by the tense situation.
Under the threat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the rapid restoration and increase of the military strength of the Jinling court was the first major task of Emperor Chongzhen, which was related to the survival of the Ming Dynasty and the safety of the society.
However, the millions of taels of silver that Zheng Zhilong got for him, the light of Emperor Chongzhen's early flowers, and then to restore the strength of the Ming army and enhance the strength of the Ming army, it is very difficult to achieve it quickly by relying only on today's taxes.
Because although Jiangnan is rich, it can also collect a large amount of money and grain taxes, even if many gentry do not pay taxes at all. But the land of wealth and the land of fish and rice is so good, even if it is just for this status quo, as long as Emperor Chongzhen is given enough time, the Ming army can also recover its strength and slowly increase its strength.
But it's really going to be a slow process.
Ten or twenty years, no one can say, it's a long time.
But in the current situation, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't have that much time. In order to protect himself, in order to protect the Zhu family's Jiangshan Sheji, he must restore the strength of the Ming army in the shortest possible time, and make it a further gain than before.
This requires him to get a large amount of money and food in a short period of time, so that he can do it.
This is also the irresolvable contradiction between the southern gentry led by the Jiangnan gentry and Emperor Chongzhen.
The former don't look at all the sanctimonious, full of awe-inspiring atmosphere, but when they really want to take money out of their pockets, see what they will do?
As long as Zheng Zhilong thought of this scene, he was happy for a while. What will the gentry do then? Will they all look forward to the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei to rescue them?
Zheng Zhilong didn't believe that now Emperor Chongzhen was still firmly bound by the old rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty after experiencing many things.
As long as he is not stupid, he should understand that if he doesn't make changes, he will only have to wait for death.
If you die, the Zhu family will die, and the Ming dynasty will die!
After experiencing the direct threat of death once, can Emperor Chongzhen still be inactive when facing the death crisis for the second time?
Compared with Emperor Chongzhen who was in Yanjing at the beginning, he now has heavy troops.
The sailors and imperial battalions in the Yangtze River have always been firmly in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.
He wants to make a move, hahaha, Zheng Zhilong really thinks about Dule. He wanted to see the expressions of the Jiangnan gentry at that time, and he wanted to know the choice of the Jiangnan gentry too much......
But this is only Zheng Zhilong's original intention, not the reality he is facing.
The reality is that the sense of urgency in Zheng Zhilong's heart is getting stronger and stronger, which makes him feel very bad.
It's like carrying a time bomb in his pocket, and he doesn't know when it will explode.
He had already picked up his speed before, but now Zheng Zhilong wanted to go faster. That is, he was still sane, and he was not asked to gather troops to land at Jinmen, and go straight to Beijing!
And now, where is he going from here?
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Wang Aoyong's face was full of fear, and after getting off the horse, he completely relied on the support of his personal entourage, so he did not fall.
"This ...... Where is this? Wang Aoyong asked stunned.
"The ghost only knows that those Zheng Jun are fierce and vicious, they can run away so damn that they chased us for most of the day!" Who knows if this is Yucheng or Jiyang. The lieutenant general of the Chinese army felt that his waist and legs were numb, and his ass was completely unconscious.
He is like this as a martial artist, Wang Aoyong's trembling appearance is really not cheating.
Running north from Jinan City, he was closely pursued by Zheng Jun, and it took an hour or two before the pursuers disappeared. But before they could sit down and rest, Zheng Jun suddenly copied the bread from the past. Called Wang Aoyong's side, the last of the green flags were all played.
It's just that surrounded by a group of cronies, he rode out of the encirclement on horseback.
Running here in one breath, who remembers the road.
At first there was some daylight to allow them to see the road, but then it was pitch black, and all they could do was make a few torches themselves, and then try to avoid the torches behind them, and then run north, north, and north.
This really cost Wang Aoyong's life. He was not a battlefield general, he had never had such an embarrassing experience before, and now his whole body was torn apart.
"Da Da Da ......" a team of horse soldiers desperately originally, so that Wang Aoyong, who was like a frightened bird, reflexively asked someone to help him get on the horse, but the shouting of the person who came was not Chinese told him to know that it was the Eight Banners.
The two sides converged, and a smile appeared on everyone's face.
At this time, if your own people bump into a piece, it doesn't matter if you are Manchu and Han, it's just your own people.
The lieutenant general of the Chinese army breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the ground with his butt slumped, and couldn't help but look back at the south.
When he was working on the side of the Ming Dynasty, he used to fight with the rogue bandits, and even if he won, the officers and soldiers would focus on looting and looting, rather than chasing down the defeated bandits. But this time, Zheng Jun not only accompanied him like a shadow, but also was durable.
Naturally, they didn't know that Zheng Zhilong had already scattered the horsemen in his hands, with a hundred people as a team, driving away the fleeing defeated soldiers everywhere, and then gathering them, and then expelling them by the infantry of the brigade. If there is no escape, they will be slashed with a sword or sent to a prisoner camp.
Along the way, the defeated soldiers of the Qing army could hear the screams before death behind them from time to time. Especially after dark, this kind of screaming in the dark, as well as the high-pitched shouting and chasing sound, brought great fear to the defeated soldiers of the Qing army, who did not dare to stop at all, and had no time to judge how many people were behind them.
Not to mention the Green Banner Soldiers, in the end, the Eight Banner Soldiers led by Hauge were also in chaos.
Of course, Haoge knew that it would not work like this, so he gained a foothold on the banks of the Daqing River, collected the defeated troops, and tried in vain to fight another battle with the Zheng army, repelling the pursuit of the Zheng army. As a result, the Green Flag soldiers did not dare to fight at all, Zheng Jun only lined up with guns, and the tens of thousands of Green Flags that were stopped by Haoge fled backwards in a swarm, but instead called the Eight Banners to slash and kill, which stabilized the position.
When they finally dealt with the defeated soldiers, Zheng Jun lined up and pressed them over, and the result was needless to say, just look at the fleeing Eight Banner soldiers in front of them.
The two sides complained about their identities, and the Eight Banners showed a courtesy to Wang Aoyong. After all, there is a lot of difference in the status of the two sides, even if they are banner people, it is far from Wang Aoyong's identity. The biggest one among them is just Niu Lu Zhangjing!
After a long time of running around and tired, it is good to sit down and rest, then it is good to have enough time to rest, but if the time is short, it will only have the opposite effect. It's better to keep walking slowly.
Just like now, when there was the sound of horses' hooves and shouting and killing behind him, Wang Aoyong was immediately helped by someone, and climbed on the horse's back with great difficulty, and his whole bones were sore.
"Oops, run, Nanban is here again!"
Seeing that there were chasing soldiers approaching behind him, a Mongolian flag soldier shouted. Suddenly, everyone went to pull the horses, and no one was ready to stop them, and no one even dared to see how many people were behind.
From top to bottom, all of them are bent on running for their lives.
Wang Ao Yongdu is almost sixty years old, and he can still grit his teeth and hold on, this body is good enough. But he was also sighing, when will this escape come to an end?
If it takes a long time, his old bones will really not be able to hold on.