The reorganization of the Zheng army in Fujian went very smoothly, because most of the Zheng army's army gathered in Quanzhou Anping generation, the army first surrendered to the Manchu Qing on the order of Zheng Zhilong, and then when the Chongming army defeated Azig and attacked Quanzhou, most of the generals were put under house arrest by Ren Siqi in the name of Emperor Longwu. Zheng Zhilong www.biquge.info is dead, Zheng Hongkui, Shi Fu, Zheng Zhibao and other generals have been arrested again, and more than 100,000 troops have no leader and are easily absorbed.

In the final analysis, the army is under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, although it is the Zheng family's salary, but except for a small handful, most of the people still recognize the Longwu court, except for a small number of people who tried to resist when it was reorganized, the others were afraid of the Chongming army's defeat of the Eight Banners, and they couldn't afford to resist at all. Coupled with Ren Siqi's generosity to others, he took a large amount of seized silver and paid a large amount of silver, most of the generals of the Zheng family were arrested and vacant countless positions, Ren Siqi promoted people with prestige from among the middle and low-level officers to fill the vacancies of the Zheng family generals, and then promoted a large number of people from the soldiers to be low-level officers, everyone has silver to take, and got a rare opportunity to be promoted, who will pay attention to the old masters.

In the process of reorganization, Ren Siqi selected more than 1,000 soldiers and officers from the Chongming Army to serve as the core of the new army, eliminated the old and weak, and reorganized a total of 80,000 new troops, divided into eight towns, and appointed Sha Qianli, Shi Lang and others as town generals. Ren Siqi decided to wait for the time to return to Nanjing, and then send four of the towns to Nanjing. Chen Mingyang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Fujian, commanding the remaining 40,000 new troops, responsible for reorganizing and training the army, guarding Fujian, and waiting for the opportunity to attack Jiangxi and Guangzhou.

The reorganization of the army was very smooth, but the reorganization of the Zheng Jiashui Division was not so easy, because one person escaped when the Qing troops attacked Anping and fled to Xiamen Island. This person is Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen fled to Xiamen Island and defected to Zheng Cai, who was stationed here, in an attempt to persuade Zheng Cai to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty in order to avenge Anping's humiliation and suicide by being slaughtered by his mother. Unexpectedly, the situation changed too quickly, and the Qing army was quickly defeated by the Chongming army, and then the Chongming army occupied Fuzhou and Xiamen.

When Ren Siqi sent a holy decree to the island in the name of Emperor Longwu and ordered Zheng Cai and Zheng Sen to go to Fuzhou to meet Emperor Longwu, Zheng Sen persuaded Zheng Cai not to go, but to see the situation first. The situation was obvious, the generals of the Zheng family who were ordered to Fuzhou were all under house arrest, and most of the army was controlled by Ren Siqi. Although Ren Siqi did not order the killing of Zheng Hongkui, Shi Fu and others who were under house arrest, Zheng Cai and Zheng Sen also knew that something was wrong.

However, the two of them are now only in control of hundreds of warships and 30,000 or 40,000 naval troops, how can their strength be compared with the Chongming army that occupies the entire Fujian, not to mention anything else, if the Chongming army cuts off the food supply, tens of thousands of troops will have no food to eat in less than half a month. So when Ren Siqi sent someone to the island, invited the two to Fuzhou again and guaranteed the safety of the two, Zheng Cai wavered, instead of hitting the stone with an egg, it was better to take the fleet in his hand and bargain with Ren Siqi, so as to change a high-ranking official to do, with the net worth of millions of taels accumulated for more than ten years, wouldn't it be beautiful to be free!

Unexpectedly, before Zheng Cai's dream came true, Zheng Sen suddenly burst out, led hundreds of troops to Zheng Cai's Chinese army, killed Zheng Cai, and took over the entire water division. Zheng Sen is the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong and the rightful heir of the Zheng family's forces.

After taking over the naval division of Xiamen Island, Zheng Sen immediately led his troops to attack Kinmen, Kinmen Island was Zheng Hongkui's territory, Zheng Hongkui had already gone to Fuzhou at the behest of Emperor Longwu, and Kinmen was easily broken through by Zheng Sen under the leaderless dragons, except for a small number of ships who fled to Quanzhou, most of the ships and sailors surrendered to Zheng Sen.

After occupying the two islands of Jinxia and Xiamen, Zheng Sen controlled almost half of Zheng Zhilong's naval army, and his prestige was greatly shaken, and he began to send troops to land in all directions to grab food and materials.

In the first month of the third year of Longwu (1647), Mao 18 was ordered to lead the main fleet of the Chongming Army with 100 three-masted galleons to Quanzhou and began the encirclement and suppression of Zheng Sen's sailors. The two sailors first fought in the sea outside Quanzhou, and more than 30 of Zheng Sen's 200 ships were sunk, and the rest fled south to Xiamen.

On 5 February, Mao 18 led the fleet to continue southward and met the main fleet of Liaoluo Bay and the Zheng family, and the two sides launched the largest naval battle since the Ming Dynasty.

On one side were 100 three-masted galleons, all of which were large ships with towering masts, each of which was equipped with one or two red-coated cannons, including the "Princess" and the "Exocet", two Dutch plywood ships, each with dozens of cannons, and the number of red-coated cannons in the entire fleet exceeded two hundred.

The Zheng family's fleet has as many as 1,000 ships, including more than 200 large fortune ships, and all kinds of ships such as sea ships, sentinel ships, and wave-breaking ships.

As soon as the two fleets met, they immediately entered a fierce battle, and thousands of Zheng family ships launched a frantic attack around the hundreds of Chongming military fleets, jumping gang battles, bows and crossbows and rockets, fireship attacks, and various traditional naval battle tactics were used one after another. The Chongming ships, on the other hand, were completely in defensive formation, relying only on artillery to attack enemy ships.

It was an asymmetrical battle, and the side with more ships did not gain the slightest advantage, as their ships were often not close to the other and had been sunk by intensive artillery fire. In the face of advanced artillery, backward tactics are not enough at all!

The battle began in the morning, and by the time the sun set, more than 200 Zheng family ships had been sunk one after another, and the Chongming army only lost two ordinary three-masted sailing ships, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides was so large that in the end, the Zheng family's ships did not dare to come forward to fight, but fled far away.

More than 100 Chongming military ships blocked the harbor of Liaoluo Bay, and the remaining fleet of the Zheng family was blocked in the harbor and did not dare to come out to continue the battle. At dawn the next day, Zheng Sen took more than 100 main warships to break through the siege, and after losing half of the ships, he broke through the blockade of the Chongming army and fled into the vast ocean.

Mao 18 commanded the fleet into the harbor, the remaining Zheng ships surrendered one after another, and the Chongming army landed on the two islands of Kinmen and Xiamen.

On March 5 of the third year of Longwu, Ren Siqi appointed Chen Mingyang as the general army of Fujian, commanded the 40,000 new troops remaining in Fujian, and appointed Ren Jun as the governor of Fujian, as the highest official in Fujian. At the same time, the Nanyang Fleet was formed, with Mao 18 as the admiral of the naval division, and more than 500 warships of various types under its jurisdiction were responsible for Fujian's foreign maritime trade and the route through the Nanyang.

In addition to reorganizing the Zheng family's army, the huge wealth accumulated by the Zheng family in more than ten years of sea trade also fell into the hands of Ren Siqi, and various wealth equivalent to more than 10 million taels of silver. Under Ren Siqi's great coolness, he announced that Fujian Province would be exempted from taxes for three years in order to gain the hearts of the people.

On March 8, after arranging Fujian affairs, Ren Siqi ordered the infantry to enter Zhejiang from Xianxia Pass, and he himself returned to the division along the sea route by Emperor Longwu.