The Zheng family's internal discussion in Anping Town was different from the Shandong Army's military discussion in Nanjing, the Shandong Army's military discussion was always that generals at all levels expressed their opinions, and Wang Zheng would not act arbitrarily, and would often choose the best plan with the ministers of the staff office.

Before a battle is carried out, in addition to the Wang Zhenghui holding military meetings one after another to discuss accidents with the generals, the staff office will also work overtime to come up with several sets of practical plans for selection.

But the so-called internal discussion of the Zheng family is actually a stage performed by the two brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao, these two sing and harmonize, and the leaders of the remaining halls and mouths in various places and the generals of the family, except for Hong Xu, there is no one at all.

The rest are either to praise Zheng Zhilong again and again, constantly boasting that Zheng's power in Fujian and even Jiangnan is unquestionable, or they are stupid and take the liberty of asking for battle, wanting to compete with the Shandong army on land.

It is also said that now the Zheng family is rich and rivals, and it seems to be the hegemon level at sea, even the imperial court is helpless against them, and its position in Jiangnan is also very important, so it is naturally more and more presumptuous and public.

The Zheng family didn't know much about Wang Zheng and the Shandong Army, and most of their thoughts were still stuck in a few years ago, just a team that started from selling salt in Dengzhou, so what could they do.

Although Zheng Zhilong is arrogant and despises Wang Zheng and the Shandong Army from the bottom of his bones, he is not stupid.

From the incident of slight friction in Shuicheng, he can understand that Suzhou City has changed hands at this moment, and it is completely Wang Zheng's soldiers and horses who control the power, so he will not go alone at all.

First of all, Zheng Zhilong summoned three-fifths of the Zheng Dingkou foot soldiers in Anping, totaling tens of thousands.

In this Zheng army, only two-tenths of Zheng's nephews and brothers accounted for two-tenths, and even the yellow-skinned and black-eyed Han people were only four-tenths.

Either that the Zheng infantry army is not good, even after so many years of development, it is still the same, although the Dingkou and foot soldiers summoned from all over the country, although tens of thousands of people have come out, the establishment is very chaotic, or even not established.

There are firecrackers, foot archers, others are pikemen, sword and shield hands, and the weapons used are also varied, some are extremely elite, some are very simple, but all of them have a bright eye, and it seems that they are not easy to deal with.

But this is not the most powerful in the Zheng Infantry Army, Zheng Zhilong has more than 1,800 ronin warriors recruited from the Wa Kingdom around him, although they are short in stature, they are all from samurai families, and it is not a problem for one person to easily defeat five or six court officers and soldiers.

These Japanese invaders either came to Jiangnan to plot because of the destruction of their main family, or because they lost their fiefs and wandered because of their lack of success, and they were quite numerous in the Japanese country, but there were not so many main families to serve.

In the island country, the Choshu Domain has declined due to hardship, and the 3,000 retainers have been reduced to less than 1,000, and the number of ronin samurai who have been laid off under them is even more numerous, so you can imagine other vassals.

If you continue to raise a large number of samurai, not to mention whether it will cause the suspicion of the shogunate, the main reason is that the feudal domains are as shy as the current Ming Dynasty, and there is no financial support at all.

So this kind of samurai ronin wandered around the Wa Kingdom, looking for an opportunity, waiting for the day when the family name Miao was re-established, and it was not uncommon for Zheng Zhilong to recruit a large number of samurai with the support of his cheap father-in-law.

Because these people are in the Ming Dynasty, the other Ming officials and people hate the Japanese Kou, so they can only be sheltered by recognizing the Zheng family as their master, but they are quite loyal.

Then there is a foreign gun team hired and purchased from the Spaniards at a high price, not to mention that there are only more than 300 people, but all of them are sharpshooters, holding the most advanced Suifa muskets in the West, and also carrying some small land cannons, which are 800 miles stronger than the Ming Dynasty's guard firearms.

However, these are not the main force of this Zheng mercenary army, and the largest number of them are Kunlun slaves purchased from the Netherlands at a low price, that is, black Africans.

They are tall and flexible, although they can't talk about it, but they don't know what fear and retreat are, and that kind of bravery is not inferior even compared to the Eight Banners of the Qing Army outside the Guan.

Here Zheng Zhilong gave them enough money, eating and drinking without worry, for their original life of pigs and dogs, now it is a heavenly day, of course, they have to work hard for Zheng Zhilong, and even quite active and courageous, naturally they are also very loyal.

Speaking of which, the so-called Zheng Infantry Army that Zheng Zhilong is now gathering is actually a mercenary army that has spent a lot of money to gather around the world, and its combat effectiveness is said to be very strong.

After all, over the years, in order to form such a mercenary army, the Zheng family has spent one mountain of gold and silver after another, and if it is compared to firearms, it is also the world's first-class.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong is very confident that if he goes to Suzhou with such a mercenary army, he will definitely be able to give the Shandong army, which is the so-called strongest army in the world, a hard slap in the ear.

Long experience has taught him that no matter what, he must leave a way out for himself.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong is ready to use Zheng's absolute superiority to crush the Shandong army and completely crush them, not only to give them a dismount on land, but also to make them desperate in the water, so as to realize how far the gap between the two sides is.

He also ordered his general Hong Xu to prepare a large Zheng naval division at Changxing Wharf, on the one hand, to deter the Shandong army, and on the other hand, to prepare for emergencies.

With the scale of Zheng's sailors, Taihu Lake obviously can't fit too many heavy warships, at most, medium-sized sand boats and small boats can sail in, but Zheng Zhilong still won't worry, Zheng has never been afraid of anyone in water battles, no matter the size of the battle.

A while ago, Zheng Zhilong spent a lot of money to purchase a batch of seven-pound Francophone batteries in Spain, as well as many Dutch workers, so that they could equip the first generation of cannons on Zheng's naval division, and the firepower was enough to raze the ordinary water city to the ground.

The Shandong Army may have two brushes, but in his eyes, those two sailors are just fledgling children, so there is nothing to worry about.

Wang Zheng, Zheng Zhilong had heard a lot of rumors before, but he didn't face it on an equal footing, the reason was the strength in his hand.

As early as when Zheng Zhilong led Eighteen Zhi to dominate the sea, Wang Zheng was still selling smuggled salt in Dengzhou, so in his eyes, he never really regarded Wang Zheng, a smuggling salt dealer, as his enemy.

At present, what he needs to worry about the most is not the Shandong Army, but if Daming is suddenly finished, what he needs to do, that is the most important thing.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's biggest ambition is not to win the whole world, which is fundamentally different from Wang Zheng or even Li Zicheng.

In his opinion, although the Zheng family's foundation is huge, it has enemies everywhere, and the West regards it as a mortal enemy, pressing step by step, if it can't get along with the current court, it will not be able to escape the end of being surrounded by the Quartet.

No matter how powerful they are at sea, there is still a place on land as the heart, and the heart of this Zheng family is Anping Town, located in Quanzhou, Fujian.