In the original time and space, Sichuan was a pot of paste, but now it is different, and the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has shrunk greatly because of Zhu Hongsan's blow. At the same time, because Zhu Hongsan occupied Wuchang, the Yongli court had actually disengaged from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if Yongli Zhu Youlang was a Zhongxing monarch at this time, he should have ordered He Tengjiao to pour out his hand to run the entire Sichuan, after occupying Sichuan, he could retreat or defend, enter to threaten Shaanxi, and retreat to learn from Shu Han to divide one side.

But Zhu Youlang is not a good emperor, Zhu Youlang is a middle-aged person, if he is a monarch who doesn't care about things in peacetime, it is not bad, but now it is a war, and the indecisive Zhu Youlang is delaying big things.

Ding Kuichu advocated taking in the Great Western Army back then, and naturally made friends with Sun Kewang and others, and now that he has this opportunity, he naturally wants to make suggestions to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, Zhu Hongsan is too deceitful, we can order Jingguo Gongsun Kewang to raise a large army, attack Guangdong through Guangxi, and attack Zhu Hongsan's lair!"

When Lu Daqi and Qu Shiyun heard that Ding Kuichu had such a bad idea, they hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, no! Now our main enemy is the Manchu Qing, if we have a conflict with the king of Chu in Guangdong, it will make the Manchus benefit from the fisherman! ”

Zhu Youlang was also a little undecided when he heard Lu Qu and the others say this, and opened his mouth to ask: "Ding Aiqing, the combat power of the army of the King of Chu is very amazing, we suffered losses in Guangxi two years ago, and now Wuzhou is in the hands of others, can we succeed if we do it again now?" ”

"Your Majesty, now the king of Chu has transferred all the generals and troops who can fight to Nanjing, and there are only more than 10,000 people left here in Guangdong, mainly stationed in Guangdong. The minister sent spies to investigate, and there was only an army of less than 1,000 people in Wuzhou, and as long as Wuzhou was occupied and the Xijiang River was downstream, Guangzhou could be reached within five days, and it was completely possible to be taken by surprise. ”

Lu Daqi saw Zhu Youlang groaning, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, now our army should attack Sichuan, now the Qing army in Sichuan is in northern Sichuan, this opportunity is very rare, occupy Sichuan, we can attack and retreat, and we can defend, and we are completely invincible!" ”

Ding Kuichu saw that the two members of the Donglin Party came to stir up the situation, and said contemptuously: "Lord Lu, you are familiar with history books, don't you know the allusions of the Three Kingdoms?" Although the terrain in Sichuan is dangerous, it also hinders the Shu Han army from leaving Sichuan, do you want Your Majesty to be Liu Chan? ”

Zhu Youlang's heart is higher than the sky and his life is thinner than paper, and now he is not as good as Liu Chan in history, but he has a big dream of recovering the country in his heart, and now he listens to Ding Kuichu's distorted meaning, and hums: "Lu Aiqing, I am not Liu Chan, and you are not Zhuge Liang!" ”

This sentence was very heavy, and Lu Daqi knew that it was useless to say anything, so he could only bow his head and retreat.

After drinking Lu Daqi, Zhu Youlang also made a mistake in his heart, and now he and Zhu Hongsan maintain a superficial peace, if he wins the battle on his side, it is easy to say, but what if he can't win? Where else can I retreat? Is it expensive?

"Ding Aiqing, do you say that Sun Kewang can win the Guangdong New Army?"

Ding Kuichu heard that the emperor was a little moved, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Sun Kewang is that they are all veterans who have fought for many years, and those Tartars in Sichuan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty can fight equally, and of course they can deal with those second-rate troops in Guangdong!" ”

After Ding Kuichu finished speaking, he saw that Zhu Youlang was still a little unsupportive, and then said: "Your Majesty, why don't you do this first, let Sun Kewang come to Guilin and see what he says!" ”

This is a good idea, Zhu Youlang nodded, and said: "Okay, give Sun Kewang an order, let him bring Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to Guilin, and ask them what they say!" ”

Just when Zhu Youlang couldn't make up his mind, Zheng Chenggong, who was far away from Fujian, had already made up his mind to leave.

Since Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, the Zheng family's power in Fujian has been greatly damaged, and there were less than 20,000 people who followed Zheng Chenggong at first. However, at that time, Zheng Chenggong's uncle Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian's army led Xiamen. After Zheng Chenggong returned to southern Fujian, in order to expand his strength, under the pretext of Zheng Lian's expropriation in Xiamen, the people were miserable, and Shi Lang's advice was adopted, and Xiamen was taken with a plan. Zheng Chenggong took advantage of Zheng Cai's departure from Xiamen to visit Zheng Lian in Xiamen, but Zheng Lian carelessly did not defend himself and was assassinated and killed. Soon, Zheng Cai learned of Zheng Lian's death, and he did not dare to oppose Zheng Chenggong, so he returned to Xiamen and handed over all the military power; Since then, Zheng Chenggong has taken over most of the troops of Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian, and has actually taken Xiamen and Kinmen as bases.

After Zheng Chenggong occupied Xiamen and Kinmen, he immediately went deep into the interior to develop his power, and at that time Fujian became a three-regardless zone, the Manchu army was still in Xianxia Pass, and the Ming army in Guangdong was in Chaozhou. Zheng Chenggong took this opportunity to move more than 200,000 people from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to Xiamen and Kinmen.

However, Zheng Chenggong's good days soon came to an end, and the Manchu governor of Fujian, Tong Guonai, took office. In addition to these, there are Li Chengdong's seventy or eighty thousand cavalry, these battle-hardened soldiers are Zheng Chenggong's fishermen can deal with, in March of the third year of Hongguang, that is, in March 1646, Tong Guonai with 50,000 Qing troops, from Zheng Chenggong to recapture Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

When Tong Guonai, the governor of Fujian in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, learned that Zheng Chenggong's main forces were on Kinmen Island and that Xiamen's defense was loose, he seemed to have an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he ordered Ma Degong, Wang Bangjun and others to take advantage of the situation to attack Xiamen. Ma Degong held Zheng Zhibao hostage in Nan'an and ordered him to hand over the ship to ferry the Qing army to Xiamen, and successfully defeated the Zheng army on the sea. In the face of the Qing army's attack, Zheng Zhiguan, who was in charge of Xiamen's defense, was cowardly before the battle, and only cared about carrying his belongings to a private boat and fleeing, so that the Qing army could easily break through Xiamen and plunder the Zheng family's savings and equipment. Due to the suddenness of the incident, Mrs. Dong and Zheng Chenggong's eldest son, Zheng Jing, only had time to carry the ancestral tablet to escape from the sea.

After the Qing army succeeded in the sneak attack, it did not intend to stay in Xiamen to fight the Zheng army, so they returned inland with loot. At this time, Zheng Hongkui, who rushed to Xiamen to support, happened to encounter Ma Degong's troops returning to the sea and besieged him, but was threatened by Ma Degong to kill Zheng Zhilong, so he had no choice but to let Ma Degong go.

Soon, Zheng Chenggong learned of the attack on Xiamen, and he had no choice but to return to Xiamen. After recovering Xiamen, Zheng Chenggong held him accountable and beheaded his uncle Zheng Zhiguan, who had fled in a cowardly fight. And Zheng Hongkui, who let go of Ma Degong, handed over his military power, asked himself to retire to Baisha, Dongshi Town, and no longer cared about political affairs. In the fifth lunar month of the same year, Zheng Hongkui's general Shi Lang executed Zheng Chenggong's general Zeng De due to the betrayal of the incident, and Zheng Chenggong wanted to punish Shi Lang's family on this ground. Although Shi Lang escaped with the help of his friends, his father and brother were executed. Since then, Shi Lang and Zheng Chenggong have formed a great enmity and decided to surrender again.

The internal instability of the Zheng Group has greatly damaged the strength of the Zheng Group, but there is also a little benefit, that is, Zheng Chenggong finally completely controlled the army by cleaning up his uncles. At this point, Zheng Chenggong, with the assistance of Chen Yonghua and other ministers, Xie Yongchang, Liu Guoxuan, Yang Zu, Zhou Quanbin and other military generals, finally gained a firm foothold in Xiamen and Kinmen.

The first thing Zheng Chenggong did after gaining a firm foothold was to find a master, after all, the Ming Dynasty still occupied several southern provinces. But Zheng Chenggong looked around, except for Zhu Hongsan in Guangdong, there was no emperor who could be supported. Thanks to Zhu Hongsan's black heart, Emperor Zhu Yujian, the emperor of Longwu, was wiped out by the Qing army that went south before he could sit on the throne, and Zhu Yujian also jumped off the cliff and died. Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu in eastern Zhejiang, was coaxed by Zhu Hong, the king of Chu, to Guangzhou three times in a row, and then died in an unknown manner.

In fact, according to the geographical location, Zheng Chenggong should support Zhu Hongsan, after all, it is close to the water. But Zheng Chenggong, who has become a warlord, has a different mind, where he can give up his right to get it. What he needs is a monarch like Emperor Han Xian, not an emperor like Zhu Hongsan, who is stronger than himself.

Therefore, after thinking about it again, Zheng Chenggong decided to send someone to Guangxi to send a document of support to Zhu Youlang, who was far away from the emperor of Shangao.

Got hundreds of thousands of troops out of thin air, and was still under the eyes of his henchman Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Youlang was of course happy, and directly gave Zheng Chenggong the title of Chenghai Gong, and at the same time ordered him to attack Guangdong.

After Zhu Youlang's decree was transmitted to Fujian, Zheng Chenggong naturally took the emperor's order as a fart and accepted it for his official position, but let me go to death to avoid talking. Zheng Chenggong refused the emperor's military order on the grounds that he had just ended the war, although Zhu Youlang was a little unhappy, but the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and Guangxi is thousands of miles away from Fujian, so there is no way but to accept the general's life abroad!

The next Zhu Hongsan was proclaimed emperor in Guangdong, and Zhu Hongsan was busy dealing with the Spaniards in Luzon and developing industry, and did not do anything to Zheng Chenggong in Fujian. However, those merchants under Zhu Hongsan were driven by interests and had many dealings with Zheng Chenggong, and they transported him salt and grain that were in short supply. Zhu Hongsan had the idea of an anti-Qing united front, and he turned a blind eye to the behavior of his subordinates.

However, this kind of good days came to an end with the anti-incident of Fujian and Jiangxi, Zhu Hongsan personally conquered Nanjing in the first year of Shenwu, and immediately became a great shock, and at the same time, the new governor of Fujian, Yuan Pengnian, received the emperor's order, and also began to prepare to take action against Zheng Chenggong, who was entrenched in Xiamen and Kinmen.

Zheng Chenggong is now completely a lonely ghost, and because of the non-cooperation of the Shenwu Imperial Court on the mainland, there is no supply at all. Although the strength of his naval army is stronger than that of the Fujian naval division, he must know that at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the dozen or so large ships of the Guangdong Navy can be parked there, and if there is a need on the Fujian side, they can rush back within half a month.

And no, it's not, it's not, it's not staying, it seems that it's only gone. After discussing with his subordinates for a few days, Zheng Chenggong decided to listen to Chen Yonghua's suggestion and set up anchor for Taiwan.

In February of the second year of Shenwu, Zheng Chenggong, who was forced by Zhu Hongsan to have no way out, led all the soldiers to hold a grand oath-taking ceremony in Kinmen to "sacrifice to the sky", "ceremonial land" and "sacrifice to the river". Everything was ready, and the officers and men of the ships gathered in Liuluo Bay, waiting for the wind to march. On the 23rd, Zheng Chenggong personally led 25,000 soldiers and 300 warships from Liaoluo Bay in Kinmen and advanced eastward.