In the second year of Longwu, the Manchu Qing Dynasty appointed Dorobellebolo as the general of the expedition to the south, led the elite of the Eight Banners to the south, and attacked Zhejiang with Li Chengdong and other Han army green battalions.

The main force of the Eight Banners went to attack Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, Boluo's troops were not too many, and it took more than four months to defeat Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, after Zhu Yihai fled to the Zhoushan Islands, the Qing army basically pacified Zhejiang, and the Longwu regime in Fujian was in danger.

Fujian's military power was in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, but he had already secretly communicated with the Manchus and had been actively preparing to surrender.

In order to show his sincerity in submitting to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong took the initiative to abandon the passes in northern Fujian, and pretended that there were pirates attacking, and despite the dissuasion of Emperor Longwu, he withdrew his troops to the southeastern coast of Fujian, and bargained with the Qing army on the treatment of surrender. If the negotiations with the Manchus are successful, he will surrender and reap the glory and wealth, and if the negotiations fail, he will get on the ship and go to sea and become a pirate again......

After Zheng Zhilong withdrew his troops, the people of the Longwu court were panicked, and all the prefectures and counties in northern Fujian had plans to surrender, and they only waited for the Qing soldiers to open the city as soon as they arrived to "kneel to welcome the king's division", and the civil and military officials in the court also arranged the back road one after another, and sent people to contact the Manchu Qing secretly.

Emperor Longwu burned these letters of surrender and repeatedly encouraged and comforted the officials, but the situation of the building about to fall has become more and more obvious.

Huang Daozhou stepped forward at the critical moment and cobbled together 3,000 men and horses to go north out of Zhejiang, intending to contact the anti-Qing volunteers in Huizhou to resist the Qing army that was about to go south and stabilize the situation in Fujian.

But it is a pity that although Huang Daozhou is a generation of Confucianism, he is not good at military affairs, and he overestimated his appeal, and soon fell into trouble under the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army.

(Zodiac Zhou is a bit of a roundabout.) Politically, he is not very smart, but he is still much stronger than Liu Zongzhou, He Tengjiao and others. His dispatch to Zhejiang looked like he was sent to death, but under the background conditions at the time, it was also a forced choice, knowing that he could not do it. ）

Before Huang Daozhou set out on the expedition, he issued a call as the first assistant of the current dynasty to recruit loyal and brave men to serve the country, but there were few responders, and in the eyes of ordinary people, the Qing army was invincible. No one wants to die.

However, there was an ambitious young general who joined Huang Daozhou's troops, and he was Shi Lang, who was just twenty-five years old.

Shi Lang went to private school for several years when he was a child, and he has a certain cultural foundation, which is for senior generals. It's an important quality, but what he's best at is fighting. Very gifted in military affairs. There were no good generals in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and Shi Lang was very powerful.

His uncle Shi Fu was a general under Zheng Zhilong, and his family was all pirates, Shi Lang himself joined the gang at the age of seventeen, and worked in Zheng Zhilong's pirate army for seven or eight years, with rich military experience. and mixed into a middle and senior officer.

Zheng Zhilong supported Emperor Longwu, and his leaders were rewarded, and Shi Lang was appointed as the governor of the capital and served as the left charge.

Governor of the Governor. It is a false position from the third grade, with no actual power, and the left charge is the exclusive position of Zheng Zhilong's water division, and the level is very high, probably equivalent to the level of deputy general, but because it belongs to the pirate army, it can't be eaten at all in the orthodox Ming officialdom, and even Shi Lang himself is not proud.

In short, the positions of the governor and Zuo Chong did not sound low, but in fact they were a little embarrassing, and Shi Lang was not satisfied.

25-year-old Shi Lang is young and promising, eager to get ahead.

Shi Lang has different ambitions, although he is Zheng Zhilong's subordinate, but he is not loyal, his military vision is very keen, when he heard that Huang Daozhou recruited troops to fight in Zhejiang, he immediately found that this was a good opportunity to make contributions.

Although the Eight Banners are famous, but after crossing the Yangtze River, they will no longer be brave, Dorobellebolo has only tens of thousands of Qing troops under his command, although the momentum occupied Zhejiang, but the rule in the Jiangnan region is not solid, the gentry and the people are sympathetic to the Ming Dynasty, if they can give full play to the advantages of geography and people, they may not be able to fight with it.

Wealth and danger are sought!

Shi Lang joined Huang Daozhou's troops and followed him into Zhejiang.

However, Shi Lang soon discovered that the 3,000 men and horses under Huang Daozhou were a rabble, and relying on such an army to fight against the Qing army would definitely be defeated.

He made a suggestion to Huang Daozhou to dismiss the troops and transfer to Ganzhou, and summoned reinforcements from various provinces as the first assistant, but was despised and rejected by Huang Daozhou, Shi Lang determined that Huang Daozhou would be difficult to achieve, so he deserted and slipped back to Fujian.

Shi Lang is a person who is politically ambitious but has no skills, so he always has to take refuge in strong people, which is not difficult to control.

But Shi Lang's military vision is indeed very keen, who is about to finish, he can always find out in time, get off the ship in time, and then find a new backer, and save his life by being clever several times. Of course, he has no bottom line in national righteousness, and he is not loyal to his backers, and he belongs to the type of person who has milk and is a mother......

The zodiac turned around to fight Zhejiang, and soon the army was defeated and captured, and Emperor Longwu could no longer sit still.

Not long ago, He Tengjiao's envoy finally came late, asked about the welcome, and prevaricated in every possible way, Zhang Xianbi died in Ji'an Mansion, needless to say, and Hao Shaoqi entered Jiangxi for three months, and has been wandering around the border of Huguang and Jiangxi.

After seeing Fu Guan, Emperor Longwu heard the news of the Gongyi Battalion, and gave birth to a glimmer of hope for the situation in Jiangxi, and used the emperor's authority to mobilize reinforcements, and there was still hope to win this battle.

He accepted Fu Guan's request, appointed him as the minister of the Qincha, rushed to Liangguang and Huguang, and gathered troops and horses to support Jiangxi, while he decided to leave Fuzhou, pass through Tingzhou, and move to Jiangxi.

The emperor wants to move, it is not such a simple thing. Although Emperor Longwu was in a difficult situation, he still had a group of die-hard ministers under him, so many people were dragging their families with their families, and Emperor Longwu himself also had Empress Zeng, and a prince who had just completed the moon, and he had been preparing for several days, and he didn't even go out of the city gate of Fuzhou.

After Fu Guan accepted the appointment, he was faintly worried, he had no military talents under him, and he had no idea how to mobilize so many troops to fight against the Qing army.

Through the Huang Zongzhou incident, he no longer had any doubts about Hua Xiaoyue's skills, and waited in Fuzhou for two more days, and sure enough, it was exactly the same as Hua Xiaoyue predicted, Shi Lang ran back deserted.

He sent someone to invite Shi Lang and had a long talk all night, Shi Lang really did not disappoint him, what he talked about was quite insightful, and the next day he even came up with a detailed battle plan.

That's him!

Fu Guan intended to recruit, and Shi Lang also hit it off, and both of them were full of ambition.

Fu Guan immediately played Emperor Longwu, transferred Shi Lang to military affairs, and left Fujian with him. (To be continued......)