Chapter 170: Looking Ahead
Once the Fujian Navy Division was defeated, there was no threat from the southeast, and the Zheng family could attack with confidence. Fujian Province has rebellion, and land war may not be certain, but what about Zhejiang......
Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan both thought of the future prospects, and there were so many benefits! Especially Shi Lang is still a guy that Zheng Chenggong hates very much, the strong enemy of the Zheng family's sailors, destroy him to avoid future troubles, and he can also take revenge, why not?
Union, that's right, Min Fan said the word "union" again, and he still regarded the Zheng family as an ally and an outsider. But Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan couldn't agree like this, and they provoked the talk in vain. Chen Yonghua is an orthodox reader, needless to say, Feng Xifan loves to play with power, but he is not a brainless person.
"Your Highness has issued an order, our army will follow the order, and even if there are some difficulties, we should work hard to overcome them." This time, it was Feng Xifan who expressed his respect, and it was obvious that he was in favor of such an action that was beneficial to the Zheng family.
In the early days of coastal relocation, it did cause great trouble for the Zheng family. The economic blockade, the severance of maritime trade, and the blockage of the passage of goods from the mainland to the sea made it impossible for the Zheng group to obtain goods and military supplies from the mainland, and to collect food and wages from the coastal residents. At the beginning of Taiwan's development, not only could it not obtain materials from it, but it had to import it from outside to get through this initial stage.
The simple land blockade strategy also has great limitations, and it cannot guarantee that all foreign economic ties of the Zheng army will be completely cut off, not to mention that the land blockade will gradually slack off over time. But at present, the Zheng Group is indeed facing difficulties in the supply of food and wages.
Zhu Yongxing smiled meaningfully, "Give an order, don't dare to be casual, if you sweep your face, it's not a matter of being alone." ”
Chen Yonghua's face turned red, and he hurriedly said, "Your Highness is serious. ”
Zhu Yongxing glanced at the two lightly. said: "The Qing court has transferred the Eight Banners of Mongolia to the south, and a big war is not far away, if you do not obey the order, you will inevitably repeat the mistake of the King of Jin attacking Guangdong twice." The edict will not be issued by the lonely king, if he still recognizes himself as a minister, if he has no selfish intentions for his own use. Then do your own work! ”
Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan didn't know the latest information, and their faces were stunned. The Eight Banners of Manmeng are still a boulder on the hearts of many people. Although in the stage of conquering Jiangnan, the Manmeng Eight Banners had already shown their decline, and almost all of them relied on a few hardcore traitors to achieve victory, but the impression of the Eight Banners was still deeply imprinted in the hearts of many people.
"Your Highness, I wonder when the Eight Banners will come, and where will they go to join the battlefield?" Feng Xifan asked cautiously.
"In a month, it is estimated that I will go to Fujian Province. Join forces with Geng Rebellious. Zhu Yongxing was very confident and said very easily.
It's not going to be easy. Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan glanced at each other, and their minds almost thought of each other. The war is about to break out, at this time, the Zheng family sent troops to Chaozhou and wanted to seize the land of Fujian Province, isn't it safe? The two didn't speak for a while, and when they looked up, they saw Zhu Yongxing's look of disdain.
"If the Qing Dynasty can believe it. then it is a Qing person; If you don't believe what you say, it's just a minister. This is exactly what Zheng Chenggong said. The reason why the Qing court's repeated appeasements (called "peace talks" by Zheng Fang) failed was precisely because they only gave him a high lord and never promised to give him relative independence. Under such conditions, Zheng Chenggong can only be a "Mingchen".
"If there are no three provinces, you will be loyal to them without me; There will be three provinces, that is, abandon the other and be loyal to me. These are all words borrowed from love. Knowing that the heart is not a foot also. The criticism of the Qing court governor Li Shutai was also to the point. Zheng Chenggong's first focus was to safeguard the interests of the Zheng family headed by himself and some Han gentry and people along the southeast coast, and when the Qing Dynasty endangered the interests of this group, he could only stand on the side of the relatively weak Ming Dynasty and launch an anti-Qing struggle in the name of the Ming Dynasty.
Swinging on both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zheng Chenggong inevitably lost ground in action. He only cares about the immediate situation, but lacks a long-term plan, and lacks the confidence to fight a large-scale battle with the Qing army on land.
In the eleventh year of Shunzhi and the winter of the eighth year of Yongli, Prince Zheng's son Jidu was full and the Han army went south to Fujian. Faced with the imminent Qing army, Zheng Chenggong did not dare to respond to the battle, demolished the walls and houses of the two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, abandoned the counties of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou that had been restored, and concentrated his forces on the sea. In less than a year after Zheng Jun recovered the counties of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, the Zhangzhou Prefecture paid as much as 1.08 million taels of silver, and the counties of Quanzhou also amounted to 750,000 taels. If the enemy does not resist when he comes, and when he retreats, he razes the ground and abandons the people to the enemy, and the consequence is that he will lose the support of the people and make his foothold smaller and smaller.
The Zheng family really has a similar mind, looking ahead and looking backwards, wanting to make profits but afraid of risks. Zhu Yongxing's disdain is not pretended, but really despised it.
Chen Yonghua's face turned even redder, this His Royal Highness Min is really enough, he teased and despised him, but he slapped the Zheng family's face unceremoniously. Alas, there is no way, the Zheng family is more confident in naval battles, and competing with the Qing army on land, especially the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, is really-
"Manmeng Eight Banners go south, I don't know how His Highness will deal with it?" Feng Xifan was thick-skinned and asked.
"When the Qing court sent Jidu to unify the Manchurian and the Han army went south to Fujian, how did the king of Yanping respond?" Although Zhu Yongxing despised Zheng Jun's habit of not daring to fight a tough battle, he did not directly denounce it, but induced it, "The dispatch department will lead the boat division north to Zhejiang and south to Guangdong, so that the Qing army entering Fujian will fall into a situation of incompetence and worries about the future." The current situation is similar, and this can be the way to contain it. ”
"Go north to Zhejiang?" Feng Xifan asked tentatively.
"Wouldn't it be better if the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were drawn from Jiangning, if they went straight into the Yangtze River and threatened Nanjing?" Zhu Yongxing finally said his thoughts.
In the Battle of Nanjing, the Zheng family came and failed miserably, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a shame. Zhu Yongxing is now about to carry out a similar action again, Chen Yonghua and Feng Xifan are both gloomy and uncertain, and they are silent for a while.
Zhu Yongxing was disappointed. If the containment action of entering the Yangtze River and attacking Nanjing is aided by the Zheng family, the momentum will be even greater, the effect will be more significant, and the possibility of forcing the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to cancel the plan to enter Fujian and participate in the war will also be greater. But this attitude of the Zheng family, obviously, like the Eastern Crusade, cannot be counted on.
Forget it, let's continue with the previous state, it can be better, but we can't take this help into account in the combat plan. There are only a few thousand of Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Qing court is obviously still very supportive, thinking that such a small number of men and horses can influence the situation of the battle and become the key force to victory.
It's just that the Qing court wouldn't have thought that the current Ming army is no longer the Ming army of the past, the equipment and morale are completely different, and the fear of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners is not so strong. (To be continued......)