Zhoushan archipelago, located in the eastern part of Zhejiang, has many islands and reefs, dotted around, there are more than 50 islands within a radius of more than one mile, among which the largest island Zhoushan Island has thousands of miles of vertical and horizontal, can accommodate millions of people to multiply, can be described as a paradise. Since the Tang Dynasty, a county has been set up here, officials have been sent to govern, and Ningbo Prefecture Dingguan faces each other across the sea, the vast blue waves, like an invisible high wall, will have a place of Zhoushan Islands and the mainland isolated.

It is precisely because of such a critical terrain that under the condition that the Qing army occupies the entire territory of Zhejiang, King Lu can accommodate himself in dangerous places, adhere to the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and keep a piece of land for the Ming Dynasty.

The Qing army is not good at water warfare, everyone knows, and the Zhoushan Islands can be attacked and defended, as a base is no better, the king of Lu guarding the island in Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan and other courtiers with the support, taking advantage of the Qing army to retreat north, boarded the boat ashore, occupied a large area of land in eastern Zhejiang, until the Kuizhou army occupied the Shaoxing area, only stopped.

Zheng Chenggong and Li Chengdong went north, did not clash with the Kuizhou army of Nanzhili, and marched along the coastline with a tacit understanding, and King Lu's army also tacitly went south along the coastline, and the two sides were like two red-eyed boxers in a boxing ring, and under the gaze of the Kuizhou army, which seemed to be a behemoth of referees, they first started a big battle in Ningbo Prefecture.

There are hundreds of thousands of people on both sides, familiar with each other, after all, they have all met in a court before, but now each is its master, for a fight against the righteousness that they obey, this war, a fight is more than half a year, from the spring of the fourth year of Yongli to the end of autumn, both sides have mobilized all their forces, the soldiers are staggered, the beacon fire is thousands of miles, the refugees south of the Huai River are everywhere, and the displaced people did not expect that the Tartars from outside the Guanxi were gone, but they were plagued by the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

After a chaotic battle, Yongli took the lead, Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong, Du Yinxi, He Tengjiao and other characters compared to Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, Ruan Jin, Zhang Kentang and others, more experienced and good at fighting, the land money and grain are several times more, especially the loyal battalion stationed in the Huguang area was ordered to go north, through the special relationship between Li Guo and others and the Kuizhou department, detoured to the jurisdiction of the Kuizhou army, suddenly appeared in the rear of the battlefield, gave the Lu Wang army a fatal blow, in eastern Zhejiang, the main force of the King of Lu was defeated, killing countless generals, and beheading the scholar Zhang Kentang, The chief soldiers Zhang Jinjue, Ye Youcheng, Liu Shixun, and Wang Yu were at the foot of Siming Mountain, and the governors Zhang Mingyang, the chief soldiers Ma Tai, and Li Yingjie were headed outside the city of Dingguan.

King Lu was defeated and retreated to the Zhoushan archipelago, according to the island to hold on, and secretly sent an envoy to Nanzhili, asking to see the southern general of the Kuizhou Army, Zu Tianci in Nanjing, promising high-ranking officials, gold and silver property, and even did not hesitate to draw out the super title of the king with a single word with a different surname, and it was almost equally divided into the world.

Zu Tianci was noncommittal, politely received, politely invited to eat and drink, that is, he didn't mention half a word about whether he would answer or not, so that the ministers burned their eyebrows, but they were pushed Tai Chi, and then they couldn't even see Zu Tianci's face.

At the end of November of the fourth year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong raised thousands of boats, carried 100,000 soldiers, crossed the sea, pointed to Zhoushan Island, King Lu trapped the beast for the last time, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan poured all the water divisions of Zhoushan to fight, the two sides fought on the blue waves, and the blood stained the sea frontier.

Zheng Chenggong took the method of fire attack, each broke through, Zhang Mingzhen's soldiers were defeated and died in the sea, Zhang Huangyan retreated to Zhoushan Island, and the king of Lu defended Zhoushan City, Yongli army went ashore, besieged on all sides, after the city was broken, the street battle for two days, 100,000 people died on the island, the remnants of the clouds covered the sun, and the blood flowed into a river.

King Lu was killed in the war, and the head was passed back to Zhaoqing, so far, the system of Lu Jian State, which insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty for more than five years in eastern Zhejiang, was wiped out, and he did not die in the confrontation with the Qing court, but died under the knife of his own clan.

The news spread like the wind all over the country, and the smell of blood flowed down people's saliva and circulated on the land.

……

In the court of Zhaoqing City, everyone celebrates with the crown, the political enemy is gone, there is no one in the world to peep at the treasure, the Zhu family will eventually return to the Yongli Emperor, no one can be shaken from the legal theory, the southeast has been in the southeast for so long, the big guy can be regarded as not following the wrong person, so far, from the dragon's work, the power of help, is the capital of the Yongli Dynasty.

Emperor Yongli feasted the ministers, staggered, Qiong liquid intoxicated, I heard that the Yongli Emperor who was not good at drinking was very interested that day, and the people who drank were unconscious, and they were carried back to the palace.

……

In the small Forbidden City of Shengjing outside the gate, Jilharang closed the secret report from the south, and gently raised his eyes to look out the window. He couldn't help but think of the several spring and autumn seasons spent in the city of Beijing, where life was rich and materials were abundant, which was several grades better than the bitter cold Shengjing.

He groaned slightly, showed his face coldly, and sneered disdainfully: "The shaft is not a big tool, sooner or later play with fire and self-immolation!" Then he put this secret report back into the manuscript pile, and turned to look at another secret report intently, and the secret report was headed up, with the title written in dense small letters: "The situation of the Kuizhou army along the Shanhaiguan this month."

…….

In the Hetao area, Qingcheng was naturalized, and the Khalkha Bentar Khan had just returned from an expedition to Chahar, and this expedition brought back thousands of slaves, which can be described as a great gain. As soon as he entered the newly built magnificent palace, he saw the news of the war in the south sent by his courtiers, and he couldn't help but open his mouth with joy.

"What are you doing here, these idiots?" On his young face, several new scars were pulled by a smile, and he looked a little hideous: "Is the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom really stupid?" Wang Huan occupies most of the world, but he is still fighting with his brothers, I am really afraid that Wang Huan does not want to be the emperor and wants to give him more strength? ”

He laughed, and several charming women greeted him and flattered him diligently, including Mongolians, Han Chinese, Manchus, and even Rakshasa people from the far north.

……

In Datong City, in Wang Huan's study, several people gathered together and sat at separate tables.

Sitting below, there were several senior leaders of the Kuizhou department, such as Li Dingguo, Li Tingyu, Ma Xintian, Meng Zhiyu, Zhang Cheng, Xu Tiezhu, and Chen Xiang, while Ma Wannian stood behind Wang Huan, who was sitting in the first place.

Several people looked at a Tang newspaper from Zu Tianci alternately, with a solemn and solemn expression on their faces, and no one laughed.

Wang Huan kept pursing his lips and drinking tea, and only after everyone had finished reading it did he put down the teacup and said slowly: "What do you think of the emperor's actions?" ”

Several people looked at each other, they all looked at Li Dingguo, he coughed, and said: "The merit is high, my lord, this kind of reaction of the emperor is also inevitable." ”

"However, except for Liangguang and Fujian, the rest of the places are owned by the power of my Kuizhou department, and the emperor's intentions are so obvious, so he is not afraid of having trouble with adults? If the feudal town is not handled well, there will be a big mess, and the Tang Dynasty is an example. Meng Zhiyu was the head of Wenchen, he looked at Wang Huan, and said secondly.

"The struggle for rights has always been indistinguishable from relatives, even if the adults have the merit of reshaping and rebuilding the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of the emperor, it is nothing." Li Dingguo shook his head and said, "The matter has been laid out, and everyone in the world can see it." ”

"The birds are hidden, the rabbits are dead, and the dogs are cooked. This has been the case since ancient times, but the imperial court's actions this time are too urgent, such a big war, without our soldiers, is obviously to increase the merits of other generals, so as to suppress us. Xu Tiezhu also said that he has been by Chen Qiyu's side in the past few years, heard and seen, and learned a lot, and now he has seen the problem very thoroughly, and Wang Huan likes it very much: "Maybe in the next step, the imperial court will try to mobilize our army, allocate our territory, and see how we react." ”

"King Lu is dead, the emperor's name has been decided, the Tartars have withdrawn from the Guanwai, there is no threat inside and outside the Great Wall, if it is me, the next step is to solve the big courtiers." Li Tingyu frowned and said, with the rhythm of speaking, the beard trembled: "The lord has played many times, asking the emperor to move north, but the emperor has been prevaricating and refusing, I have long known that there is a reason, and now it seems that the situation of the adult is even more dangerous than Song Zhiyue Fei." ”

"What's more dangerous is that there is no one in the court to speak for us, Wang Yingxiong wrote that now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, all take the adult as the primary rebel, and think that the adult has three major crimes, one is not to pay taxes, and the enclosure is self-respecting; the second is to kill without showing it, and to be arrogant; The third is even more ridiculous, what do you say that the adults are good at accepting enemy women, not killing out of Shanhaiguan to recover the lost territory, and reaching a tacit understanding with the Tartars to strike the army, greedy for life and afraid of death! Is this still human talk? Ma Wannian listened to it for a long time, and couldn't help but say: "They are not afraid of death, why don't they fight to Beizhili?" ”

"Jealousy and jealousy, friends are poured." Zhang Cheng sighed: "Daming's stubborn disease, that's it, adults are not any of the parties, and these people can't win them over, so they will naturally be slandered." ”

Everyone looked at me and said a word, and the words became heavier and heavier, and their brows were tightly locked, and the study was dull.

"Whether to be slaughtered by others and resigned to fate, or to find another way, we listen to adults." Ma Xintian, who has not made a sound, suddenly came to such a sentence, which surprised everyone slightly, this poker face showed a rare resolute look, and said a loud sentence.

Everyone looked at each other, and then looked at Wang Huan.

Wang Huan sat up straight and looked at all the people in the seat, everyone looked at him, and understood the meaning of Ma Xintian's words in his heart, this matter will come back sooner or later, but it depends on when.

Standing up and clenching his fists, Wang Huan only said: "Daming Sheji, don't act rashly, you don't need to worry too much, I have my own measure." ”

He dispersed the crowd, leaving Chen Xiang alone.

The cold wind in the north outside the study howled, dissipating the autumn gloom, bringing endless cold, the two talked secretly indoors for a long time, and when leaving, Chen Xiang's face was full of calmness, with a touch of extremely hidden joy.

Wang Huan sat alone behind the table, looking at the old tree outside the window that had lost all its leaves, and muttered for a long time, before slowly picking up a wolf hair on the Beacon Mountain, feeding the ink, and writing a big "new" on a brand new piece of rice paper.

(End of chapter)