Zheng Zhilong's henchmen Huang Mingjun and Li Xuan left without a fight, Xianxialing and Fenshui Pass were occupied by the bloodless Qing army, and Wu Sangui's main force continued to enter Fujian. Yang Tingqing, the governor of Fujian, died in a battle in Pucheng, but the officials in all parts of Fujian surrendered without a fight, and very few of them resolutely resisted. Zhang Cunren's general, Durde, rushed into more than 500 miles for three days and three nights, and went directly to the front line of Tingzhou Mansion through Luster, Taining, and Jianning, but did not encounter the slightest resistance.

Wu Sangui's main force also broke into Jianning Mansion, and the soldiers went straight to Yanping, although Zheng Zhilong had completely thrown himself into the Qing army in private, but he had to do a full set of plays, but for the sake of fame, he didn't dare to openly hook up with the Qing army at this time, so he put on an invincible appearance and pushed to the front line of Putian in Xinghua Mansion. The main forces of the Zheng army retreated to the front line of Fuzhou Mansion, Xinghua Mansion and Zhangzhou Mansion under the leadership of Zheng Zhibao, Shi Fu and General Xiao Gongchen respectively, and refused to defend at risk. Zheng Zhilong is not stupid, he also left a hand for the invasion of the Qing army, at least his nest of the three mansions will never allow the Qing army or Wu Sangui to get involved.

Zheng Sen's failure to say goodbye and take away Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian made Zheng Zhilong furious, but it was difficult to say anything at the moment, so he could only wait until the Qing army was approaching, and then persuade his son. Moreover, Quanzhou Mansion is Zheng Sen's territory, and it is also quite large-scale, Zheng Sen's cadres Gan Hui, Feng Xin, Zhou Quanbin, etc. are now all shrunk into it, and there are more than 30,000 troops, one is not appropriate, it is easy to provoke the Zheng family's infighting.

What's more, Gao Pu Zheng Zheng Cai is still ready to move, although I don't know whether he has taken refuge in the Qing army or Zhu Ping'an, but he has been entrenched in Xiamen for many years, and he still has some soldiers to fight. OK. Now, although the land division has collapsed, the main force of the water division is intact and preserved, and the Chinese army is now leading the water division to garrison Zhenhaiwei and Jinmen Guard, once the Gaopu Zheng clan changes, the water division can completely suppress the situation.

It should be said that the change that can be taken into account. Zheng Zhilong and his advisers and generals have all taken it into account. Descend to this road, the people of the Zheng family and the generals under their command may not be willing to go, Zheng Zhilong is not willing to kill for this matter, as long as the Zheng family's soldiers and horses are not moved, Zheng Zhilong is definitely willing to open the net in his heart, which also includes Zheng Sen and Zheng Hongkui and others. But if it involves the matter of military power, then Zheng Zhilong will never show mercy, because military power is the foundation for the Zheng family's survival in the Qing court in the future.

In this way, the restless one waited until March 28. The battle to defend the city in Nanjing was still in full swing, Hong Chengchou was also constantly compressing Zhang Xianzhong's forces in Sichuan, and Wu Sangui also completed the military deployment in Fujian, forming a situation of encirclement of Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou and other prefectures. Zhang Cunren's envoys also traveled back and forth between the Qing army and Putian like a marquee, urging Zheng Zhilong to change his flag as soon as possible and publicly announce his defection to the Qing Dynasty.

However, there has been no progress in negotiations with Zheng Sen, which is the main reason why Zheng Zhilong has not obeyed Zhang Cunren's orders. In Zheng Zhilong's view, Zhu Yujian is a habitable wonder in his hand. Without Zhu Yujian, Zheng Zhilong's effect of reducing the Qing will also be greatly reduced. The most important thing is that Zheng Zhilong is also afraid of Zhu Ping'an's possible revenge in his heart, with Zhu Yujian in his hands, Zheng Zhilong can completely push the responsibility to Zhu Yujian, it is really a critical moment, Zhu Yujian can also be used as the most effective talisman.

But Zhang Cunren was impatient to wait. The war in the north is at a critical moment, the offensives in Shandong, Henan, and Hebei are like a tide, and the civil unrest in Shanxi and the surrender of the army are coming and going one after another anyway, and there is no time for Zheng Zhilong to waste here. Zheng Zhilong's refusal to fulfill his promise also made Zhang Cunren angry. Coupled with the strength of Wu Sangui and others by his side, so he gave an order, and all the departments of the Qing army launched an attack on the Zheng army at the same time, although it was actually up to the point, but Wu Sangui's Xia Guoxiang, Lin Changxing, Ma Shang and other departments were ordered in the morning, and their subordinates did not leave half a face, You Xi fought and was stunned to annihilate 20,000 Zheng soldiers and horses.

This frightened Zheng Zhilong a lot, and he had no choice but to quickly send someone to contact the Qing army, saying that he would surrender to the Qing army immediately and ask the Qing army to cease fighting. The two sides are bounded by Yong'an, Shaxian, and Nanping, and he will order all his troops to surrender to the Qing army.

On the tenth day of the fourth month, Zheng Zhilong led his henchmen and personal soldiers to Nanping to meet Zhang Cunren, and when he went out of the city, Zheng Zhibao urged the horse to catch up and handed over a letter from Zheng Sen to Zheng Zhilong.

There were only two short lines on the letter: "The tiger cannot leave the mountain, the fish cannot escape the abyss, the mountain is not mighty, and the abyss is sleepy!" ”

Zheng Zhilong held the letter paper for a long time and was silent, looking back at the direction of Quanzhou Mansion and Anping, his eyes were a little moist, but now he had no way back.

Zheng Zhilong hesitated for a while, sighed, tore the letter to shreds, threw it into the wind, beat the horse and whipped straight to Nanping.

After receiving Zheng Zhilong's letter, he immediately ordered Wu Sangui to withdraw his troops from Youxi, and Nanping became an empty city, the Qing army camped in Xi'an to Nanping, and the Zheng army set up camp in the east of the city. Nanping City became the place of negotiation between the two armies.

On the 15th of April, Zheng Zhilong led Zheng Zhibao and other Zheng family children and 500 guards into Nanping City as agreed, and Zhang Cunren and Wu Sangui also brought 500 people into the city, and the Yamen of Nanping became the place where the two met.

Entering Zhang Cunren, Zheng Zhilong behaved extremely low-key, and now he is under the low eaves, and he has to maintain a low profile. Zhang Cunren's attitude was quite polite, after all, Zheng Zhilong's arrival was a sign that the big event had come, and the Qing army could mobilize Wu Sangui's green battalion elite soldiers to return north without any worries, and Zheng Zhilong still had a total of 100,000 capable soldiers under his command, and the most important thing was that it included tens of thousands of fierce sailors, so that they could go up the Qiantang River and the Yangtze River, and go straight to Nanjing to reinforce Boluo and Tunqi.

In this way, the situation in Jiangnan can basically be stabilized, and the remaining small Ming army and the volunteers in various places are just scabies, and there is nothing to worry about. Hong Chengchou's army is just around the corner to pacify Sichuan, and it can attack Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong at any time.

Zhang Cunren was comforted when he heard this, and read out the holy decree stamped with the seal of the Shunzhi Emperor to Zheng Zhilong, expressing the attitude of the Qing court towards Zheng Zhilong's surrender, and saying that Zheng Zhilong would be divided into the king of Fujian, and his children and grandchildren would be in Fujian for generations to rest with the country.

Zheng Zhilong, of course, was grateful, and took a group of descendants of the Zheng family to thank the emperor again and again, and said that he would shave his hair and keep braids from now on, and when he returned to the north, he would personally lead the children of the Zheng family to Beijing to thank the saint for his grace to show his gratitude.

Regarding Zheng Zhilong's attitude, Zhang Cunren was very sure, and even ordered a banquet to be set up in the main hall of this yamen to celebrate Zheng Zhilong's abandonment of darkness and surrender to the light.

The banquet was naturally staggered, and the guests and hosts were happy, but Wu Sangui and his confidant Fang Guangchen were extremely silent, and the two watched Zhang Cunren and Zheng Zhilong talking quietly, glancing at each other from time to time, turning their heads out of the window to look at the time and sky.

Finally at noon, the rumbling cannon outside the city rang out, and there was a sudden chaos in the banquet, Zheng Zhibao and others were busy surrounding Zheng Zhilong in the middle, Zheng Zhilong looked confused, "Lord Zhang, why did this cannon sound come from?" ”

Zhang Cunren was also confused, and hurriedly sent someone to investigate, the person who heard the news had not yet returned, but one of Zheng Zhilong's personal soldiers stumbled in, "Master Hou, the big thing is not good, the Qing army suddenly launched an attack on our camp, the artillery fire was continuous, our army couldn't resist it, it was already retreating, please return quickly!" ”

Zheng Zhilong was taken aback, and then couldn't help but scold: "Zhang Cunren, you villain who has no faith in his words, Ben Hou has already promised to surrender, why do you still want to meet each other!" ”

Zhang Cunren was confused, and hurriedly explained, but at this time, Zheng Zhilong could not listen to it, and he regretted it in his heart, so he walked outside the yamen even under the protection of his relatives.

However, the manpower arranged in front of the door did not enter the courtyard to respond, but a large number of soldiers dressed in Qing army uniforms rushed into the courtyard with knives and guns, surrounding Zheng Zhilong and others in the center. The leader is Wu Sangui's confidant Xia Guoxiang.

"King Pingxi!" In a blink of an eye, Zhang Cunren seemed to realize what was going on, and hurriedly rushed out, pointing at Wu Sangui and asking loudly, "What are you going to do?" Now that the dust has settled on the surrender of King Min, why do you want to send troops here? ”

Wu Sangui smiled coldly, twisting his short beard in his hand, "Lord Zhang, Zheng Zhilong is clearly hiding evil intentions here. Since he came to surrender, why did all the departments under his command not surrender to our army, as well as the water division and land division of Quanzhou Mansion, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, all of them were under the command of his son Zheng Sen, and they were still in a posture of waiting for battle, and even got Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu, to pass, who knew that this was not a bitter trick deliberately made by their father and son. Sangui is in charge of military affairs, so he naturally has to take responsibility for the lives of more than 100,000 soldiers under his command, Zheng Zhilong's insincere actions, once there is a change, my Qing Dynasty soldiers will not suffer heavy losses! Sangui is not talented, and foolishly thinks that only by detaining Zheng Zhilong in the army and letting his eldest son Zheng Sen and all the generals under his command come to Nanping to surrender, it is a safe plan! Sangui is sincere, everything he does is for the sake of my Qing Dynasty's foundation, and I also ask Lord Zhang to see it! ”

Zhang Cunren was furious, "Wu Sangui, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother have a will, this army takes me Zhang Cunren as the supervising army, although you are the commander, but the big and small matters must be decided by the official in detail, this kind of quietly laying ambushes is bad for me, it is not a shameful thought!" ”

Wu Sangui smiled, "The general will not accept the orders of the foreign monarch, Sangui is dedicated to the country, what is the dissatisfaction of Lord Zhang, although he can be impeached by me, but now, the affairs of this army are only the words of my Wu Sangui family!" ”

Fang Guangchen on the side glanced at Xia Guoxiang, who immediately raised his knife and shouted: "The army obeys orders, Zheng Zhilong is stubborn, and intends to resist to the end, resist the heavenly army, pass on the general's order, and kill him!" ”

As soon as the knife fell, the sound of bows and crossbows in the courtyard was loud.

Zhang Cunren's eyes darkened, and a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out. (To be continued......)