Chapter 296 You don't need to carry the black cauldron
Zhang Huangyan proposed to go to Dinghai and did not have any good intentions, although the land battle on King Lu's side failed, and the army of more than 100,000 was scattered, but the strength of the sailors did not lose much, and these sailors were the main forces that Zhang Huangyan could entrench in Zhoushan later.
King Lu's sailors now have 54 large ships, more than 200 small boats, and more than 30,000 soldiers and sailors, which is also a lot of strength. Zhang Huangyan's plan was that when he arrived at Dinghai, if the generals of the king of Chu obediently handed over their military power, it would be better to say, if not, they would be angry with them, and they would just take their ships.
Li Zhibu originally had an army of 10,000 people, but with the cessation of the war in Nanzhili, Zhu Hongsan was transferred back to Guangdong with 5,000 people, and Qian Yong was also transferred back to Guangdong. But the power of the navy has not diminished at all. There are two large warships of more than 1,000 tons, and all eight warships of 500 tons are in the harbor. Li Zhi stopped the war against the Manchus, but the news from the shore continued to reach Dinghai.
From the time the Manchu Qing Dynasty sent troops in February, Li Zhi received news from Jinyiwei, and until King Lu got on the ship and fled, all the news from Li Zhi's side was clear. This is mainly the credit of Jinyiwei, the intelligence network set up by Zhu Hongsan in Nanzhili and Zhejiang now comes in handy, a large amount of information is sent to Dinghai, and after sorting, it is sent to Dongguan as soon as possible for the king of Chu to decide.
Zhu Hongsan also knew the importance of the Nanzhili war, and at the beginning of the year, he sent Qian Lide, the commander of Jinyiwei, to Dinghai to facilitate the nearby command.
Qian Lide looked at the new news coming from outside and said, "Lord Li, the new news is here, King Lu has come to Dinghai with his sailor!" ”
Li Zhi frowned, and said in his heart that it was not good, now that King Lu came to Dinghai, Li Zhi was very passive. He is loyal to the King of Chu, but he can't kill this King Lu, in case there are three long and two short, then he can't stink for 10,000 years.
Qian Lide looked at Li Zhi silently, knowing what he was planning, and scolded in his heart: "These stinky old Jiuzhen made the King of Chu right, all the male thieves and female prostitutes have to pretend to be sanctimonious. ”
"Master Li, I think King Lu is here for a bad purpose this time!"
"Oh? Why did Lord Qian say that! ”
"Lord Li, you see, King Lu's sailors have not suffered much loss, they still have more than 30,000 horses, which is already more than our number, if you come ashore and want to annex us, Lord Li, what do you say?"
"Hehe, don't complain about our injustice if they are unkind, let's not attack first and annex them first!"
Li Zhi groaned: "But what about King Lu? ”
Qian Lide looked at no one on the left and right, took out a secret decree of the King of Chu from his arms, and said: "Master Li, when I came, the prison country gave me a secret decree, you can take a look!" ”
Li Zhi took it and took a look, the lead seal was right, and opened it to watch it in detail.
This secret decree of the king of Chu was written by the king of Chu himself, and no second person in the world would write that dog* crawling word.
The secret purpose is very simple, that is, if King Lu falls into the hands of Li Zhi, he will be killed, and he will not have to be sent to Dongguan. Li Zhi gasped when he saw this, this King of Chu was really ruthless, and his relatives were going to be killed.
"Lord Qian, this is simple, but afterwards...
Li Zhi meant that he was afraid that the king of Chu would turn over his small intestine afterwards, and it would be bad if the basin was buckled on his head.
"Master Li, you haven't finished reading the letter yet, look at what King Chu wrote below!"
And the following? Li Zhi continued to read it. It turned out that Zhu Hongsan wrote: "No one has to bear the responsibility of killing relatives and vassals, I have to bear it myself, if I have to be remembered in history, then I Zhu Hongsan should be remembered!" ”
Seeing this, Li Zhi couldn't help but admire the King of Chu for his five-body throw, if Zhu Yuanzhang was a hypocrite, then this Chu King Zhu Hongsan would be a real villain, just do it, and I will carry the infamy for a thousand years.
Li Zhi was also a little moved when he saw Zhu Hong's three battles, there are really not many good lords who are willing to carry the black pot for their subordinates.
Qian Lide asked on the side, "Master Li, how is it?" Let's go! ”
"Lord Qian, I have come up with a clever plan, but I don't need any of us to be hacked!"
"Oh? Please tell me about it! ”
Li Zhi stroked his beard and said, "There is another person on this island who can be used to carry the black pot!" ”
"That? It won't be Zhao Guodong! "If Zhao Guodong is here, he will definitely strangle the fat man.
Li Zhi shook his head and said, "Wang Zhiren, the chief soldier of Dinghaiwei." ”
There was originally a garrison here in Dinghai, and there were more than 2,000 people in total, and there was a general soldier at the head here, and this person was Wang Zhiren.
In history, Wang Zhiren surrendered to the Manchu Qing as soon as the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, and then Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan counterattacked Nanjing anyway, and he was a very moderate official.
However, in this era, he had no chance to surrender, and Dinghai was occupied by Li Zhi before the Manchu Qing Dynasty came. The Guangdong soldiers were far stronger than the military households of Dinghaiwei in terms of combat effectiveness and numbers, and the local snake king Zhiren had no choice but to temporarily obey Li Zhi, the leader of the river dragon.
"Lord Qian, let's catch Queen Lu and send him to reunite with the King of Chu in name, and let Wang Zhiren take a few boats to escort King Lu south, there may not be anything wrong with the vast sea on the way, and it will have nothing to do with us at that time!"
After listening to Li Zhi's poisonous plan, a cool breeze fluttered in the back of his head, and he came to greet King Lu.
When the fleet entered the port, Zhang Huangyan was ecstatic to see the big ships of the Guangdong Navy, and with these ships, the chances of King Lu's great cause succeeding greatly increased. Zhang Huangyan only cared about watching the big ships, and didn't notice that these big ships were parked right in the right place to surround his fleet.
On the dock, Li Zhi led the subordinates of the governor of Nanzhili to wait for King Lu to come ashore, and King Lu was also very worried in his heart, and he didn't know how to treat his relatives who went to Guangdong.
"Li Zhi, the governor of Chennan Zhili, welcome King Lu ashore!"
Hearing Li Zhi say this, Zhang Huangyan was unhappy in his heart, King Lu is now a prison country, as big as your King of Chu, why do you only call King Lu?
After going ashore, Zhang Huangyan said first: "What this Lord Li said is not right, our King Lu is the prisoner of the country, why don't you pay respects!" ”
Li Zhi saw that this Zhang Huangyan was young and articulate, and said with a smile: "The prison country that I, Li Zhi is loyal to, is the king of Chu, and the king of Lu is just a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, so I have no problem with this etiquette!" ”
Zhang Huangyan was about to refute, but Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, said first: "Mr. Xuanzhu, don't say it, each is his master!" ”
Li Zhi smiled and said, "His Royal Highness King Lu, please enter the big tent, and the lower officials have prepared some water and wine to wash the dust for King Lu!" ”
Seeing that King Lu walked into the big tent first, Zhang Huangyan couldn't say anything, so he had to follow a few generals into the big tent.
After sitting down, Li Zhi drank a few glasses of wine with Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, and asked, "Your Highness, is there anything wrong with coming to my Dinghai camp?" ”
Hearing Li Zhi ask, Zhu Yihai's face turned red, after all, he came to ask for help: "Lord Li, this king has no way out now, come to Dinghai and ask Lord Li to take me in and wait!" ”
"Don't dare, don't dare! His Royal Highness is a pro-vassal of the prison country, and our Royal Highness the prison country has been waiting for him to go to Guangdong for a long time, waiting for His Royal Highness King Lu to go to Guangdong, and the lower official will arrange a ship to send King Lu to Guangdong tomorrow! ”
When Zhang Huangyan heard it, he said in his heart that it was not good, this is to annex us first, and to attack first and then suffer. Zhang Huangyan glanced at a general on the side, ready to seize power.
But here Li Zhi was already ready to stop, and when the general just stood up, a group of soldiers with muskets rushed in outside the tent, led by Zhao Guodong.
"Lord Taiwan, the pro-soldiers they brought have all been solved!"
Li Zhi nodded, and said to Zhang Huangyan: "Lord Zhang, it's not right for you to do this, we will take you in, and you still want to repay virtue with grievances, and want to take away my military power?" ”
Zhang Huangyan sneered: "Master Li, I advise you to let us go, there are 40,000 horses on our ship, and your more than 10,000 people are not opponents!" ”
"If the opponent has to fight, let's talk about it!" After Li Zhi finished speaking, he motioned to Zhao Guodong to escort these people out of the big tent.
The dock could be seen from the outside, and the big ships of the Guangdong Navy Division on both sides opened their gun doors one after another, aimed at the small boat in the middle and began to shell. Because the distance was very close, there was basically no need to aim, and each shell could sink a small boat, and for a time the dock became a sea of fire. King Lu's sailor was caught off guard, many boats sank one after another, and the sailors jumped into the water to escape. Some of the big ships were ready to dock the big ships of the Guangdong Navy Division and wanted to jump into the gang, but there were 100 musketeers on each big ship, and the side of the ship was much higher than that of the Ming army's sea ships, and some of the sailors were killed on the board.
Seeing his soldiers being slaughtered, King Lu's face turned pale, and he quickly grabbed Li Zhi's hand and said, "Master Li, quickly let your people stop, we surrender!" ”
"His Royal Highness King Lu, you said that your people will obey my command in the future!"
"That's right! Right! ”
"Then please tell His Royal Highness King Lu to Lord Zhang!"
King Lu was forced to have no choice, and said to Zhang Huangyan: "Xuanzhu, we have failed, and you will listen to Lord Li's dispatch in the future." ”
Zhang Huangyan heard King Lu say this, and also stomped his foot fiercely, there was no way at all.
Seeing Zhang Huangyan bow his head, Li Zhi was very satisfied, and ordered to raise the flag, stop the shelling, and then rescue the officers and soldiers of King Lu who fell into the water.