Chapter 216: Three Into the Yangtze River (I)

The country is ruined, and there is my teacher at the head of Xizi Lake.

The sun and the moon are hung in the tomb, and half of the ancestral hall of the Yue family is in the Qiankun.

He was ashamed to divide his hands into three seats, and planned to borrow a branch for Danxin.

He drove lightly on Dongzhejiang Road, and the angry waves must belong to the Yuanyi!

——Zhang Huangyan "August Resignation"

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Southeast.

In November, Zhang Mingzhen, a general under the command of King Lu, and Zhang Huangyan, a servant of the military department, joined Zheng Chenggong's Gan Hui and Chen Liu to recover Zhoushan. After the Ming army entered the city, they found that there were only six households left in the city. Before the Qing army slaughtered the city, there were more than 18,000 people in Zhoushan City, and 90,000 people.

Zhang Mingzhen was upright and bold when he was young, quite strategic, and ambitious. Traveling to Beijing, Cao Huachun, the eunuch of Dongchang, was introduced as a guest and had a close relationship with the Donglin Party. At the end of Chongzhen, he served as a guerrilla in Shipu, Taizhou, as a deputy general. In the summer of the first year of Hongguang, Nanjing and Hangzhou were lost one after another, when Qian Sule, a member of the Nanjing Criminal Department, raised troops to support Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, and Zhang Mingzhen went with troops. After King Lu was defeated and retreated into the sea, Zhang Mingzhen has been following his attendants. After the fall of Zhoushan, King Lu, accompanied by Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan, went to Xiamen to rely on Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong was a staunch supporter of the Longwu regime, and was dissatisfied with the opposition between the Lu Dynasty and the Longwu regime, but he still treated the King of Lu with courtesy and arranged for him to live in Kinmen.

King Lu lived behind Kinmen, and Zhang Mingzhen led his troops to stay in Zhoushan to standby. In the third year of Lu Jianguo (the first year of Yongli), he welcomed the king of Lu back to eastern Zhejiang. In the following year, he united with Ruan Jin to defeat Huang Binqing, the general soldier of Zhoushan in the year of Fenglongwu, Huang was sunk by Ruan Jin and annihilated, and King Zhang Yinglu was officially stationed in Zhoushan. After that, he and Zhang Huangyan led the troops into the Yangtze River three times, hoping to recover the lost territory of the Ming Dynasty, but returned due to the weakness of the troops.

This was the third time that the Ming army regained Zhoushan, and it was also the third massacre of Zhoushan by the Qing army. Since Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, entered Zhoushan, a large number of people along the coast with the Ming family fled to Zhoushan, plus the Ming army who went to sea with the king of Lu, the king of Yue. Zhoushan was once so populated that there was not enough food on the island for the people to eat.

The Qing army captured Zhoushan three times, and slaughtered the city every time it occupied, and three times before and after, as many as 400,000 people of Zhoushan died under the butcher's knife. This time, the Qing soldiers took advantage of Zhang Mingzhen to lead his troops to attack Songjiang and suddenly crossed the sea to attack, and the Qing army was killed when they entered the city. The Qing generals will meet and kill until the rooster crows. As a result, when the Qing army killed Liujiaao on Zhoushan Island, they heard the rooster's crow and stopped killing. It was precisely because of this rooster cry that the last six families in Zhoushan were saved.

After the Qing army slaughtered the city, they retreated, and the Ming army recovered nothing more than an empty city, an empty city full of corpses. Under the blowing of the sea breeze, the stench of the corpses of the dead people permeated the entire Zhoushan Island.

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Zhang Huangyan, the squire of the military department, did not stay on the island when the city of Zhoushan was broken, nor did he attack Songjiang with Zhang Mingzhen, but went to Xiamen to ask Zheng Chenggong to send troops to help. After learning that Zhoushan City was broken, Zhang Huangyan was anxious. Under his repeated requests, Zheng Chenggong sent his generals Gan Hui and Chen Liu to lead 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division to aid Zhoushan.

After the sailors led by Gan Hui and Chen Liu arrived in Zhoushan, Zhang Mingzhen had already led his troops to recover Zhoushan. Zhang Huangyan was worried about the life and death of the people of Zhoushan, but as soon as he stepped on the land of Zhoushan, he smelled a disgusting smell in his nose, and instantly knew what was happening on the island, and he couldn't help but clench his hands into fists, and his muscles protruded. Indignant.

In the first year of Hongguang, the Qing army marched south. Even broke Yangzhou, Nanjing, Jiading, Hangzhou and other cities. Some of the Chinese military officials in Ningbo City fled in panic, and some planned to surrender the city. Twenty-five-year-old Zhang Huangyan stepped forward and put pen to paper. At that time, Qian Sule, a member of the Criminal Department, led the crowd to gather at the Fucheng God's Temple, and Zhang Huangyan resolutely participated and advocated King Qin. Gather teachers and raise righteousness. And sent a table to Tiantai to ask Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, to go north to supervise the country and grant Hanlin to revise it. After the Qing army broke through Qiantang, Zhang Huangyan fled with King Lu to the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian and entered Zhoushan.

In May of the first year of Longwu (the third year of Shunzhi of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty), the Qing expedition to the south of the general Belle Bolo took advantage of the void to break through the Qiantang River. Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Yiwu, Jinhua and other cities were lost one after another, and the king of Le'an, the prince of Chu, and the king of Jinping of the Southern Ming Dynasty were martyred in Jinhua.

After the defense line of the Qiantang River was broken through by the Qing army, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, had to go to sea from Taizhou to Zhoushan under the escort of Zhang Mingzhen, the general of Shipu. Hearing that King Lu had fled to Zhoushan, Zhang Huangyan immediately rushed back to his hometown in Yinxian County, said goodbye to his father, stepmother, wife, son, and daughter, and resolutely embarked on the road of following King Lu and his party.

King Lu originally wanted to gain a foothold in Zhoushan, but Huang Binqing, the general soldier of Zhoushan and the marquis of Longwu Emperor, refused to accept King Lu and his party, and King Lu had no choice but to flee to Changyuan, Fujian. Soon, King Lu went to Xiamen to rely on Zheng Chenggong, and Zhang Mingzhen stayed in Zhoushan to standby. After the situation was settled, Zhang Huangyan, who was awarded the imperial history of the right capital by King Lu, immediately returned to eastern Zhejiang and Zhoushan, and together with Zhang Mingzhen, organized the recruitment of rebels, and actively planned the battle to march into the Yangtze River.

In the autumn of the seventh year of Yongli (the tenth year of Shunzhi of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty), Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan led the army to the north from Fujian by boat and arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River in September. The local people responded, and Zhou Guozuo, the governor of Qingjiangning, had to personally lead the army to Shanghai. Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan led the Ming army to camp in Sanjiansha, Barnyard Sha, Pingyang and other places around Chongming Island, set up camp, and actively contacted the forces in the interior to restore the Ming Dynasty, but did not immediately launch the Yangtze River Campaign.

In the first month of the eighth year of Yongli (the eleventh year of Shunzhi), almost at the same time as Li Dingguo launched the Xinhui Campaign in Guangdong, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan led the Ming army to enter the mouth of the Yangtze River in batches by boat, and rushed through the flood control area of the Qing Army River to reach Guazhou, Zhenjiang. The Ming army went ashore at Jinshan and seized ten Qing army anti-river cannons, gunpowder, money and grain. Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, and Liu Kongzhao, the chief soldier, led 500 soldiers to climb the Jinshan Temple, and sacrificed the Ming Tomb in the southeast direction.

Ten years across the sea is a lonely minister, and the good spirit Zhongshan is true.

The quail head righteous flag is out of Chu, and Yan Yunyu has passed through Fujian.

Wang Shichao choked his heart and liver, and his father and old man cried tears.

Looking south at the filial piety of the soldiers, see the big Xuxu Longjin.

Zhang Mingzhen's naval division stayed in Zhenjiang for two or three days, and after consulting with the Manchu and Han officials stationed in Nanjing, Ma Guozhu, the governor of the Qing Jiangnan, urgently sent the commander to lead the troops from Pukou, Yizhen, and Guazhou; Asihapannikan led the troops to save Zhenjiang from Longtan. Before the Qing army arrived, the Ming army returned to the east of the boat. On the 6th day of the first month of March, Zhang Buming's army of 4500 landed in Lü 4, a subordinate of Yangzhou Prefecture, defeated the defending Qing army, and captured the garrison seal of the Dahe battalion. This is the battle of the Yangtze River

A brief description of Zhang Gonghuangyan and Zhang Gongmingzhen's anti-Qing struggle in the southeast.

The three heroes of West Lake, Yue Gong Wu Mu, Yu Gong Zhongsu, Zhang Gong Cangshui!

If the Han nationality is there, the three dukes will be there.

There are Yue and Yuer cemeteries in West Lake, and Zhang cemetery in Zhoushan. (To be continued......)