The capital city of Quanzhou here is located in the Licheng District of the later generations, with Chen Wen's Jiangsu-Zhejiang Ming army in the east and north directions, Zheng Chenggong's landing force in the south, and the Fujian Ming army's naval division on the Jinjiang River in the southwest direction. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The two armies approached the city of Quanzhou one after another, and the siege of the city was already formed. The defenders in the city were all Geng Jimao's private army, which was much more loyal than Liu Qingtai's green battalion, and they were attacked by Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong from both sides, but they still put on a posture of defending the city.

Quanzhou is the place where maritime trade gathers, the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, since ancient times it is an important town in the southeast coastal defense, the acropolis of Yongningwei, one of the three Davids of ancient Chinese coastal defense, is the southern coast of Quanzhou Fucheng across the Jinjiang River, is the center of gravity of Fujian coastal defense.

Because of this, the fortification of its city does not need to be mentioned, after Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong joined forces under the city, they did not rush to attack the city, but divided their troops to collect other areas controlled by Geng Jimao, intending to turn it into a completely isolated city.

The siege was unfolded, and the cavalry was everywhere, the ships were cruising, and the army was firmly encamped to prevent Geng Jimao from attacking at night. In the evening, Zheng Chenggong took his escort and part of his army to Chen Wen's joint camp in the east of the city.

"His Royal Highness King Yue."

"Why do you need to be so polite, you and I have been friends for many years, but the world is difficult, and we have never been able to meet, I see it today, it is a blessing, since I should talk at night, and talk about the prospect of ZTE."

Chen Wen is very happy that Zheng Chenggong is a national hero that he has always admired, not because of the recovery of Taiwan as the focus of later generations, but because Zheng Chenggong fought unremittingly against the Manchus for more than ten years, and even at the last moment of his life, he was still fighting hard to resist the national oppression of the Manchus. Even if he has achieved such brilliant achievements today, in fact, he has also been inspired by national heroes such as Li Dingguo, Zheng Chenggong, and Zhang Huangyan in history for so many years.

"That's just as Furen said."

Compared with Chen Wen, Zheng Chenggong seems a little restrained. In fact, it is no wonder that the momentum of Daming Zhongxing is almost single-handedly played by Chen Wen, although he played two great victories in Guazhou and Zhenjiang, and also caused a lot of damage to the Eight Banners Army, but he was still compared by Chen Wen and the two famous kings. In addition, he had also cooperated with Li Zhichun before, with Zheng Chenggong's pride, as soon as the two met, embarrassment was inevitable.

However, this time he had to come, and Chen Wen proposed an intention to cooperate, which was also beneficial to him. Especially after last year, he had just experienced such a fiasco, losing his troops and losing his generals, and he could not bring back a large amount of military supplies and baggage, and the cooperation with Chen Wen was of great benefit to recovering his strength as soon as possible.

The two entered the tent together, and all the generals under their command followed. During the siege of Quanzhou, Zheng Chenggong was in charge of Jinjiang in the south and west of the city, and in the north of the city, he sent a small army to supplement the Fujian division led by Zhang Zisheng. In the east of the city, this is the established main direction of attack, where Chen Wen's Jinhua division and some local garrison supplements are gathered, and Zheng Chenggong only came to meet with Chen Wen.

The two vassal kings sat down, and the generals under their command were also introduced one by one. On Zheng Chenggong's side, Gan Hui, Yu Xin, and Wan Li have all died in Nanjing, and the camp in the south of the city is in charge of Zhou Quanbin, Zhang Ying and other generals, and those who came with Zheng Chenggong include Lin Cha, Zhou Rui, Chen Yaoce, Liu Guoxuan and other generals.

Lin Cha is the old man of the Zheng Group, who led the troops under Zheng Zhilong, and later the Longwu Dynasty was destroyed, and the Zheng Group was scattered, he did not surrender to the Qing, but followed Su Guansheng They supported Shaowu as the emperor, which was the most important armed force and the head of the generals of the Shaowu Dynasty; In contrast, Zhou Rui is a native of Fujian, but he is a veteran of the Lu Jianguo Group and a cousin of Zhou Hezhi, but just before and after Chen Wen came to this era, the Zhou brothers fought in Wenzhou Sanpan, but there was no war against each other, but the result was that Zhou Rui defected to Zheng Chenggong, and Zhou Hezhi defected to Ruan Jin and parted ways.

As for the latter two, Chen Yaoce and Liu Guoxuan are both demoted generals, the former and Zhou Rui are important contributors to the Xiamen victory in history, and the latter is the last member of the Zheng Group, but he has not mixed up yet, so that Chen Wen almost didn't notice this person.

However, it is also a coincidence that Liu Guoxuan is one of the five tiger generals of the Zheng Group in a martial arts novel in later generations, and Chen Wen also has one in his hand, and he is now in this camp.

"This is Chang'an Houma Xin."

From the green battalion general in Taizhou to the current Marquis of Chang'an, Ma Xin is also a veteran general who has made many military exploits, and he is very trustworthy to Chen Wen. Zheng Chenggong had naturally heard of him, especially last year, Ma Xin led the Nantang battalion to defeat Liang Huafeng in Songjiang Mansion, which effectively restrained the follow-up reinforcements in the Susong area. Although Zheng Chenggong was defeated in the battle of Nanjing, it did not prevent Zheng Chenggong and his generals from solemnly bowing to Ma Xin and expressing their gratitude.

"Tomorrow we will fight for a war to capture Quanzhou, and the wine will be exempted today, and tomorrow we will enter Quanzhou and celebrate the success of the wine in the city."

Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong sit side by side at the top, Ming Chongzuo, Chen Wen is the prince, Zheng Chenggong is the king of the county, so Chen Wen sits on the left and Zheng Chenggong sits on the right. The generals of the two sat on either side of the two coaches according to their respective affiliations.

Got together and had a short exchange in a low voice, although Zheng Chenggong was shocked by Chen Wen's confidence, but in the siege battle, Chen Wen was famous after all.

The first fortress to be taken out on the battlefield in China was also the first to capture the fortress, and the time was even shorter. Another example is the Jiancheng of Ganzhou, where Hu Yousheng, the famous general of the Yongli Dynasty's first anti-Qing upsurge who destroyed Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan in two provinces, failed to survive even a day in front of Chen Wen. Geng Jimao inherited several generals from the old Dongjiang Army from his Lao Tzu, but compared to Chen Wen and the famous Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, it is still too far behind.

Because there will be a siege battle tomorrow, there is no wine at the banquet, let alone female music, dry eating, even if the cooks of the two armies have shown their housekeeping skills, the generals in the big tent are still not interested, and almost after eating, they will return to their headquarters to lead the troops.

At night, Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong sat opposite each other in the tent, and after drinking tea, the two exchanged some of their own experiences and experiences, so as to get closer to each other. It wasn't until a long time later that Chen Wen spoke: "It is only a matter of time before the Northern Expedition recovers Nanjing." But before that, Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao, Hao Jiushang and Ma Xiong would always be uneasy if they were cleaned up as soon as possible. ”

Chen Wen said this, but Zheng Chenggong didn't say anything, now the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies are already the strongest existence among the feudal towns in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and there is no one, even if the Xiying is added together, it cannot be compared. This is not only reflected in the number of troops, but more importantly, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces occupied by Chen Wen, whose war potential is much higher than that of other regions.

Zheng Chenggong just nodded, whether he agreed or heard it, he didn't express it clearly. And Chen Wen didn't care about this, and continued to say to Zheng Chenggong: "In addition to these wall grasses, Sun Kewang's rogue who is a narrow prince of heaven is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Last year, when our commander's army attacked Hangzhou, he created a conflict with our army in Yuanzhou. In the past few years, the envoys have come and gone, and they have seen a lot of their people. Don't hide it from Damu, as far as I know, this time the king of Xining returned to the west in order to take back the Son of Heaven from Sun Kewang. ”

What Sun Kewang is like, Zheng Chenggong is not unheard, but Sun Kewang's strength was much stronger than Li Dingguo's before, and Qin Fan was a supporter of the three bureaus. For Zheng Chenggong at that time, whether it was in the success rate or because of Qian Qianyi, the formulator of the strategy, Sun Kewang was more important than Li Dingguo, even if there was an in-law relationship.

"Hey, I'm afraid it will hurt the Son of Heaven."

Yongli is now the co-owner of all the Ming armies in the world, if this flag is cut down, then the next Ming armies will fall into the struggle for great merit, each holding the clan at hand, and then falling into the endless civil war. The Manchu Qing Dynasty, taking advantage of this period and the damage caused by the civil war to the Ming army, could regain their strength and gain the possibility of sweeping the world again.

Infighting was the biggest internal problem in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the contradictions between civil officials and feudal towns, Donglin Party and Eunuch Party, Dongxun and Xixun, and different factions between different provincial nationalities, not to mention those personal grievances and desires. The infighting between the big forces and the big forces, the infighting between the small groups and the small groups, even Chen Wen was once excluded on the Dalan Mountain, and suffered a rebellion in Jinhua Mansion, until the internal system matured before he had the possibility of turning his forces outward.

Zheng Chenggong's words, how could Chen Wen not know that since they met this time, they must always make things clear in order to have the next cooperation.

"That's true, to put it irreverently, although today's temperament is comparatively, well, weaker, but no matter what you say, now everyone is already standing under this banner. It's better to go their own way than to set up a clan and let the Tartars take advantage. ”

Chen Wen's words are not to take the Ming army as a force like Shang and Geng who are forced to do it anyway, and Zheng Chenggong can't look down on them, but the position of the two of them now makes him still feel a little uncomfortable. However, Chen Wen showed his attitude towards Yongli, so he could relax some of the other things.

"Didn't the concubine of King Lu Xigong and the prince Rong mentioned in Furen's previous letter not bring them this time?"

Hearing this, Chen Wen shook his head, and then said: "I expected it to be smooth before sending out the troops, but I didn't expect it to be so smooth. Concubine Xigong and the prince are still in Jinhua, and I will send someone back tomorrow to pick them up, and it is also a merit to reunite with His Royal Highness King Lu as soon as possible. ”

As soon as Chen Wen's words came out, a stone hanging in Zheng Chenggong's heart fell to the ground. Chen Wen didn't take Rong and Brother Liu, not so much because he was afraid of a loss in the war, but because he didn't plan to see King Lu at all. As long as the concubine of the West Palace and the prince are returned to King Lu, Chen Wen will have no bargaining chips to change to King Lu once Yongli dies. As for the other clans, Chen Wen made it clear earlier that they were strictly forbidden to return to the fiefdom, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble for the distribution of the land.

"After this battle, Fujian Dading, but there should still be a lot of bandits and pirates, and I think it is safe to let the clan stay in the center and left. In the final analysis, they are all royal relatives and nobles, and once there is an injury when running around, it is really not good for us as courtiers to explain to Emperor Gao and Jinshang. ”

"What Daki said is very true, and it should be so."

An agreement was reached on the issue of the clan, Chen Wen expressed that he would no longer obey the attitude of King Lu, and Zheng Chenggong reciprocated the favor and controlled the feudal kings of Jiangxi in Fujian on behalf of Chen Wen. The two sides are mutually beneficial, each taking what they need, which is the basis of cooperation.

With the foundation in place, the next thing is better to talk about. Chen Wen invited Zheng Chenggong to come this time, and Quanzhou said that it would be given to Zheng Chenggong.

The reason is very simple, Zheng Chenggong's core base is located between Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and now that Zheng Chenggong occupies Zhangzhou, the direction of Quanzhou will still be threatened, and only Zhangcheng and Quanquan will be safer in his hands. In addition, Zheng Chenggong is a native of Nan'an, Quanzhou, and this meeting gift should be Zheng Chenggong's reward for penetrating the Guazhou River Defense for him last year, otherwise it would be impossible for the Qing army that fled Nanjing to be left in Jiangnan in large numbers.

In order to achieve this and the next cooperation, Chen Wen attacked Fujian this time, and the sailors did not follow, in order not to violate Zheng Chenggong's right to control the sea in Fujian and the right to trade in the Fujian Sea. Chen Wen is now so strong, but he can take the initiative to show goodwill, Zheng Chenggong will not worry about Chen Wen bullying the small, and the cooperation can be achieved in the real sense.

"Fujian is recovered, where does Damu plan to develop next?"

Chen Wen's meaning is very clear, his army will march into Liangguang and uproot Shang Kexi's wall grass. Zheng Chenggong really hoped to get Chaozhou, so that his military rations could be guaranteed, but then Chen Wen would have to worry about his existence during the Northern Expedition, and once the tacit understanding between the two sides was destroyed, not to mention anything else, Zheng Chenggong would not be able to bear it at all just a trade embargo similar to that against Liu Qingtai.

"Lord, it is now in the possession of Hongyi, and I plan to take it back."

Sure enough, I still have to go to Taiwan, and after getting this answer, Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart. But since Zheng Chenggong already has this idea, then he doesn't have to bother to sell it to Zheng Chenggong.

At this time in Taiwan, the Dutch colonists were one family, and there were also various aboriginal tribes. Historically, Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, but until his grandson Zheng Kexuan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng group's control of Taiwan was limited to the southwestern coast, and the rest of the region was the territory of the aboriginal tribes.

The Zheng group was like this for decades, and the same was true for more than 200 years in the Qing Dynasty, but the difference was that it was reluctantly extended to the northern coastal areas by relying on the efforts of Han Chinese immigrants, and even the map of Taiwan when the Manchus were kicked open to the country was only the western coastal area, and most of the Manchus in Taiwan controlled by the aboriginal tribes were not officially drawn on the map until Japan coveted them.

"In that case, I'll give Da Mu another gift, I think I can help you."

"Oh?"

Zheng Chenggong's curiosity was hooked by Chen Wen, but Chen Wen did not rush to take out the gift, but sold a pass, saying that Zheng Chenggong would be able to see it tomorrow.

Chen Wen was like this, and Zheng Chenggong had to laugh. However, the two talked happily this night, and many of the previous knots were smoothed out in the prospect of the future.

Zheng Chenggong decided to recover Taiwan, in addition to gifts, Chen Wen also expressed the preferential treatment of Chaozhou's military grain trade and the principle of non-interference in the trade of the Fujian Sea, while Zheng Chenggong said that he was willing to cooperate with the dispatch of some sea ships to help in the war during Chen Wen's Northern Expedition, as a grain transport ship, or as an escort warship.

This was a big surprise for Chen Wen, after all, he just wanted to stabilize Zheng Chenggong at first. Zheng Chenggong marched into Taiwan, and Chen Wen was estimated to be mired in war with the aborigines during the Northern Expedition. It's not that the aborigines are powerful, but the location of that place in Taiwan is people's, and it is very uncomfortable for the regular army to walk through the mountains and forests, plus the wilderness, just a lack of adaptation to the water and soil can make Zheng Chenggong fall into a quagmire.

However, in Taiwan alone, a large amount of sugar cane was cultivated in the Dutch-controlled area, and the huge price difference between Chinese sugar products and other regions in this era allowed Zheng Chenggong to make a lot of money. In this way, Zheng Chenggong gained economic benefits, and Chen Wen obtained the absolute stability of the southeast coast during the Northern Expedition.

On the second day, the army made food on the third watch, the camp on the fifth watch, and the two partial divisions on the north and south roads were dispatched at the same time to intensify the pressure on the defenders and create a better environment for defending the city in the main direction of attack.

After the army was arrayed, Chen Wen didn't bother to say anything about the nonsense of persuasion, nodded to Zheng Chenggong with a smile, and then waved his hand, and the Ming artillery behind the formation pushed the heavy artillery trucks slowly. After arriving at the established artillery position and fixing the gun truck, the gun commanders unveiled the artillery jackets one after another. In an instant, one after another, the huge muzzles of black holes pointed at the vast sky between the artillery position and the Renfeng Gate, the east gate of Quanzhou Fucheng.

"Let's get started."