"Is it necessary?" Zheng Zhilong frowned. I was secretly thinking about it......

The imperial court had already decided to transfer him to lead the army north, but this was purely useless in Zheng Zhilong's eyes. His ships can't sail to land?

And without the sailor, he relied on his "family members", that is, the Iron Man Battalion, the Black Fan Soldiers and the Japanese Advance Team, which was covered in iron, and how many nails could he pull out?

Huang Taiji's subordinates are more than 100,000 families.

Whether it is Hong Chengchou in Songshan or Zu Dashou in Jinzhou, they are all caged birds, and they can't fly away or escape.

It is unreliable to count on him, and it is even more unreliable to count on the defeat of Wu Sangui's remnants.

Instead of thinking about Songjin, Emperor Chongzhen might as well take the opportunity to build more castles in the dangerous places outside Ningyuan City.

But Emperor Chongzhen's idea is not something he can do, and Zheng Zhilong is now facing a multiple-choice question.

"It doesn't matter if his NN virtue is not matched, let's see if Lao Tzu's knife is worthy. Big brother Hugh has to pay attention to Chen Ding's sour show, clean his fucking fart! Zheng Zhibao directly burst into foul language. He obviously didn't believe Chen Ding's statement.

"Fourth, what do you say?" Zheng Zhilong asked Zheng Hongkui. He has five siblings, the third died early, and the second Zheng Zhihu is really in Liu Xiang's hands, and there are two brothers left by his side.

"The younger brother thinks that Mr. Chen's words are not unreasonable."

"Fourth brother, don't you want to be bluffed by that poor sour show?"

"Shut up." Zheng Hongkui rewarded Zheng Zhibao with an impatient white eye, and continued Zheng Zhilong said: "Don't say that Nade is not worthy of the position, is it really reasonable. Just talk about your name, big brother, it's really not as good as Zuo Liangyu's runaway general. ”

"There's a bird in the name!"

Zheng Zhibao muttered quietly beside him, and got another white-eyed dart from Zheng Hongkui.

"Why is the name useless? It is not a reputation that is blown out of the mouth, but a name that is cut by cutting people with a knife.

Everyone knows that my Zheng family is full of gold and silver, so I have to let them know that my Zheng family's knives are sharper! ”

"Then if the emperor really flees south to Jinling, what must he have if he wants to cover half of the country?"

"After the dignitaries in the capital fled south, what do they need if they want to earn a family property again?"

Zheng Hongkui knew that his eldest brother was going to pull him when the mountain was exhausted today, and send him to Jiangnan to open up a new sky. And he still doesn't come out, shrinking aside to manage his own power. But if you want the imperial court to continue to ignore Fujian, this is not easy.

The silver in the hands of the Zheng family is a scourge.

"Don't you hear the truth of your guilt?"

And at that time, the prestige of Zheng Zhilong and his soldiers and horses was a guarantee.

"The higher the prestige of the eldest brother with the head of the tartar, the more powerful my Zheng family's combat power will be, and the more my Zheng family will be able to sit back and relax."

"Even in the long run, it will be very helpful in the future."

Zheng Zhilong said: "Where does this start?" He's not going to do it in the near future. Can Zheng Hongkui see so long-term?

"The knife can suppress the northerners, but how can it not shake the southerners?"

Zheng Zhilong wants to reform the system.

Qingzhang Tianmu is all trivial, the officials and gentry are all errands, and the grain is also trivial. There are also commercial taxes, salt taxes, etc. This is the lifeblood of the Donglin Party, can it be shocked with just a knife? That must be killed.

Zheng Hongkui looked at Zheng Zhilong's disapproving expression and said, "Big brother, you are in the game, you are too underestimated to underestimate the head of the Tartars." That's much more expensive than our Han'er's head essence. "The head of the Tartar can be cut off, and the head of your gentry is better than the head of the Tartar?

Do you want money or death?

When changing the dynasty, the murderous name is also a kind of name.

"The younger brother's view of the eldest brother's thinking is quite like seeing Tokugawa Ieyasu. Although Tokugawa Ieyasu is known as a tortoise, there are also the so-called Four Heavenly Kings and Sixteen Divine Generals under his command. He has also fought a lot in his life. "Although Tokugawa Ieyasu is an old yin turtle, he is not shrinking in his lair and not fighting a battle.

In Zheng Hongkui's eyes, if his eldest brother wants to create a new Zheng family dynasty and get rid of many tattered rules of the Zhu family dynasty, then Zheng Zhilong's name must of course be as big as possible, and the majesty should be as deep as possible.

"The eldest brother is taking precautions and acting seriously, not to rise up in a short period of time. In this way, there is time to operate the statement. I wonder if we can expect it to be at that time?"

"What's more, when today's son is mean and unkind, he is not a Ming monarch. As the eldest brother said, it is really difficult for the Son of Heaven to protect the capital, can he get well when he arrives in Jinling? ”

"The eldest brother wants to pull the Son of Heaven when the court is exhausted, but it is too natural to think about staying out of the matter later."

"However, if there is really such a day, the son of the Zhu family has lost the popularity of the people, his anger has been exhausted, and the eldest brother has a high prestige, then wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort for my Zheng family to win the world?"

In short, Zheng Hongkui is on the side of Chen Ding and Shi Fu. advocated that Zheng Zhilong lead his troops north to take the Tartars to increase his prestige.

Zheng Zhilong let out a long breath.

Put down the disgust for Hong Chengchou in his heart, and think of something upright, such as the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in Songshan City, which he can't turn a blind to, isn't it?

It's still the same as before, when you didn't have a chance to stretch out your hand in the past, you can sit back and watch with peace of mind. But now that we have this opportunity, and it seems to be necessary, we can't shirk it anymore.

This seems to be the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen's dragon chair throne in Yanjing City will get hotter and hotter, and it is okay for him to jump out and show his muscles at this time.

At least there's no threat inside.

The longer he travels, the deeper his understanding of the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the deeper his understanding of the current situation.

The Ming court's control over the localities had long since been lost. Emperor Chongzhen was very bold and cut off the nine-thousand-year-old head, and then he turned against the incompetent Donglin Party, and his control over the anointed land of Jiangnan deteriorated.

Now, after the defeat of Songjin, a powerful faction like Zheng Zhilong, as long as he does not play the banner of rebellion, he can live relatively wantonly.

Looking at the Ming Court's handling of the Songjin War, the six general soldiers who fled south, only Wang Pu, who suffered the heaviest loss of power and was also the culprit, was thrown into prison. The rest of the people, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Bai Guangen, Li Fuming and Wu Sangui were only demoted to the rank and served as officials.

In fact, there is no loss of Mao.

And Wu Sangui was even added to the rank of commander of the Guanwai soldiers and horses because of his own strength and influence in the Guanning army. Isn't it ridiculous?

After a big defeat, he rose up.

Of course, the current Wang Pu has not been beheaded, but he has been put in prison. When the head will be cut off is still up for debate. After Zheng Zhilong heard that Wu Sangui was not only not punished, but also added to the rank of admiral, he laughed for a while in his heart.

It's a shame that he still wanted to farm silently in Fujian for three years, which really looked down on the current Ming Dynasty, and looked down on "himself" too much.

But he couldn't think too deeply at that time, and until now, he really has to adjust his thinking. Now it's not a big deal for him to make a name for himself. As long as you don't rebel, there is no need to be a dog in Fujian like in the past, be a rich man, and be a guard dog!

Zheng Zhilong, who has made up his mind, is resolute and resolute.

Since he was going to sail north after the year, he also started to form a team at this time. Because of the direction of the wind, and the fact that the combat area was offshore, he could not carry any Galen ships in his hands, and could only use blacktail boats and bird boats with hard sails and shallow drafts.

Of course, there are also a few old lock ships, which are transport fleets. Then there are a few centipede boats, which are patrols and weapons for water warfare in the coastal rivers.

The Centipede ship is a Portuguese warship, don't look at it with a very Chinese name, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a Portuguese warship. It's just that because its ship is a light and brisk sailing ship, the hull is long and narrow, and there are many grooves on both sides, and it looks like a centipede when it looks down, so it is called a "centipede ship".

Such ships can only be equipped with small cannons, but they are fast, very fast. The bottom culet is wide, and the two sides are lined with dozens, and its line is like flying, and there is no danger of overturning. In addition to the roar of the wind, it is possible to go with or without going against the wind. And if you can drag it downstream, why not hundreds of miles a day.

Zheng Zhilong's subordinates also had such warships, all of which were arranged in Anping Port and Xiamen, which belonged to offshore warships, and were not valued by him at all in the past.

However, this time outside the north pass, Zheng Zhilong felt that he needed a police post to monitor the Tatar shore measures at any time. And he is also ready to lead the fleet along the Liao River and the Xiaoling River upstream. Naturally, the centipede boat is needed.

One ship after another converged on Anping City, and Zheng Zhilong, a big family, had enough ships of all kinds for him to choose from. The main fleet of fifty bird ships and blacktail ships, plus ten old lock ships and ten centipede ships. All of them had been gathered before the wax moon.

At the same time, a contingent of only 1,500 people was also transported to Anping by sea. They are the brave ones selected from many groups of refugees and displaced people who have arrived in Taiwan in the past six months.

Zheng Zhilong took out the armor created by the Weapons Bureau during this time, of course, it can't be plate armor, the time is too short, a few skilled craftsmen can certainly use fine iron to create plate armor, but for soldiers, the whole body plate armor is too luxurious.

On the contrary, the armor is mature, with the wind/water driven forging hammer, the iron sheet is not only much stronger, but also much simpler and faster, and the overall cost of the armor is greatly reduced.

Zheng Zhilong prepared thick iron helmets, iron armor, arms, skirts, iron shoes and other items for these 1,500 people, which could be pierced by sharp arrows. and made iron masks, showing only eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

If there is a second 'well-informed' traverser, he will definitely call out the word 'Iron Man Army'.

That's right, Zheng Zhilong is based on the current team organized by Zheng Chenggong's Iron Man Army in history. Even the basic formation was copied, with three soldiers in one team, one soldier holding the regiment card covering two people, one soldier cutting horses, and one soldier cutting people!

Above the army is a shed, each shed has ten armor soldiers and ten soldiers; The top of the shed is a row, and there are five subordinate sheds; The top of the platoon is the team, and there are five teams under it.

That is, there are ten armor soldiers in a shed, fifty armor soldiers in a row, and two hundred and fifty armor soldiers in a team.

The battalion above the team was subordinate to five teams, with 1,250 soldiers. The remaining two hundred and fifty are in reserve!

Name - Iron Man Battalion. For Zheng Zhilong's black soldiers and the standing team [Japanese samurai] in addition to another land pro-defense force!