In the second half of the fifth year of Yongli's reign, the biggest event in the southeastern coastal area was not Chen Kai's insistence on defending the Zhongzuo Institute, nor Zheng Chenggong's momentum on the battlefield in southern Fujian. All of this was erupted in the Zhoushan War on the east coast of Zhejiang.

The battle station obscured the light.

The Ming army's victory in the battle to intercept Jinhua's commander-in-chief Ma Jinbao and Su-song's navy commander Wang Jing on the north and south lines could not reverse the consequences of the unexpected defeat in the Battle of Hengshuiyang. The Qing army attacked Zhoushan Island and fought fiercely for ten days. The Ming army resisted bravely.

However, the gap in military strength was too large, and the returning Ming fleet was still unable to break through the Qing navy's obstruction. Finally, on the second day of September, the Qing army besieged the city and adopted the tactic of digging up the city and erecting ladders, breaking through the Ming army's defense from the west of Zhoushan City and swarming into the city.

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After the Qing army captured Zhoushan City, they carried out a brutal massacre and more than 10,000 people were martyred. During this period, Anyang General Liu Shixun, who was in charge of the city defense, Zhang Mingyang's younger brother, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Mingyang, Zhongzhen Commander-in-Chief Ma Tai and other defenders died in the battle; Lu Supervisor Guozheng

Concubine Chen and others fell into a well and died. Concubine Rong of the West Palace and Prince Liu were captured by the Qing army; Chief Minister Zhang Kentang, Minister of Rites Wu Zhongluan, Minister of War Li Xiangzhong, Minister of Industry Zhu Yongyou, and General Secretary Zheng Zunjian

, Dong Zhining of the Ministry of War, Zhu Yangshi, a doctor in the Ministry of War, and many other officials committed suicide and martyred their country.

At the same time, Li Changxiang, the former left minister of the main army of the Ming Army in Siming Mountain, Zhongwei Bo Zhang Yunfei, Zheng Cai's former general, Yin Wenju, Cai Yingxuan, Tu Denghua, etc.; Jin Yunyan, the general of the Chinese army under Zhang Mingzhen, etc., Qiu Yuanji of the Ministry of Rites

, Sun Yanling, Ni Sanyi of the Ministry of Revenue, etc.; Li Shimi of Taipu Temple, Zhou Shili of the Central Army of the Ministry of War, Deputy, Shen, Du, Shou Zhou Mingchen, Zheng Guohua, Wang Peiyuan, etc. successively surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, "all distributed to the mainland for good deeds and arranged for them."

The fall of Zhoushan, the sacrifice of a large number of civilians and generals, and the surrender to the Qing Dynasty were not the most important. Due to the luck of the Battle of Hengshuiyang and the fact that the Zhoushan city defense force only had three battalions, the Ming army's loss of soldiers was actually not much.

The military strength still existed. However, the base area was captured and most of the family members who stayed there were martyred, which directly led to low morale and the inability to fight anymore.

Zhoushan was lost and their fulcrum on land was lost. They had no choice but to head south to Zhoushan's Sanpan Island to rest and recuperate. This was once the defense area of ​​Pingyi Marquis Zhou Hezhi and Min'an Marquis Zhou Rui. They were in close contact with Wenzhou, Taizhou and Chuzhou.

Many anti-Qing rebel armies were connected, and they once posed a considerable threat to southern Zhejiang.

Following the internal strife between the Zhou brothers, Zhou Ruiyuan left Fujian to join Zheng Chenggong, and Zhou Hezhi soon chose to go north to Zhoushan. Otherwise, if the brothers worked together and the Qing army's southern line was under pressure, it would be difficult to encircle Zhoushan, and the Ming army in Zhoushan would not have to

By dividing the troops and heading south to intercept Ma Jinbao, Zhoushan City can defend the city with more troops, and may be able to hold on for a few more days. There is also the possibility that the Ming Army fleet can break through the Qing Navy interception in these days. So, Zhoushan City

The battle is bound to be a battle in which the elite Zhejiang Ming Army is wiped out, and history will be very different.

However, if such a situation is impossible, it is like the internal strife of the Zhou brothers, the conflicts between the Xungui Group and the Civil Service Group, the merger of Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jinhuo, and the discord between Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yi.

Such bad things still exist. In fact, from the beginning of the Lu Jianguo Dynasty, huge internal strife has always accompanied it, and now it is just the end.

After arriving at Sanpan, there are still houses and warehouses built by Zhou Hezhi and Zhou Rui when they were stationed here, and the warehouse can be used, which can be regarded as a temporary shelter. However, most of the family members of the military officers and soldiers, including Dingxi Marquis Zhang Mingzhen, have fallen into Zhoushan.

The morale was extremely low, as if the sky around Sanpan Island was filled with gloomy clouds.

Under such an atmosphere, especially when the food and grass he carried was not far away from being exhausted, it aggravated the uneasiness in the army. For this reason, Zhang Mingzhen led his army to collect food and grass in the Huanghua and Longwan areas of Wenzhou Prefecture. Unexpectedly, he was taken advantage of.

Ma Jinbao, who came in vain, took the retreat and once attacked Sanpan Island, burning all the houses and warehouses.

Without a place to live, especially in Sanpan, which was not safe, the Ming fleet had to set off southward again. This time, leaving Sanpan, they could only go to Shacheng, the junction of the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, but Ma Jinbao, who was following them soon, was frightened.

Go. But this time, they no longer had a reasonable conclusion as to where they were going.

"Shacheng is already the southernmost part of Zhejiang. If we continue to flee south, we will have to attack Fujian. Isn't it true that we haven't suffered losses in Fujian?"

"Fujian is a place full of mountains. How can we raise an army? Your Highness and the Marquis are in a panic and they are desperate!"

"Where else can we go but to the south? To the north? To Chongming? Is it possible that we, the defeated soldiers, can still capture Nanjing?"

"So what if we capture Nanjing? Our parents, wives, and children are all in the hands of the captors. They are just a bunch of lonely ghosts."

"Otherwise, let's just go to Fuzhou and surrender to the Qing court. Maybe for our surrender, the Qing court can return our parents, wives, and children."

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On the ship of Jingyang General Zhang Ying, there was a seal on the ship of the general, the chief officer and soldier Ruan Shu, Ruan Yu and others secretly met here. On this windy and stormy sea, they expressed to each other their depression and disappointment about the future.

In Fujian, it is not that the King of Lu had not caused turmoil here, but in the end he was driven back by the Qing army in despair? Putting this aside, they had been in Zhejiang for a long time and did not know much about the current situation in Fujian. They only knew that

The Zheng brothers had internal strife, Zheng Cai lost the Zhongzuo Institute, and now the Zheng Group has basically returned to Zheng Chenggong's control. As for Zheng Chenggong's great momentum in southern Fujian, they know nothing about it.

In fact, what can he do even if he knows it? Zheng Chenggong used to obey Emperor Longwu of Tang Dynasty, and now he obeys Emperor Yongli of Gui Fan. He has a hostile relationship with them, the old ministers of King Lu. Now even if he surrenders, Zheng Chenggong will

Is it possible to treat them sincerely? The road ahead is confusing. No matter how you think about it, it is a dead end. Surrendering to the Qing Dynasty may be the only way out.

They just did what they said. Since they wanted to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, they finally had to gather more people. The more people they brought, the better treatment they would get when they got to the Qing army, so in the next few days they started to

A group of trustworthy old brothers were secretly connected, and then on a moonless night, they sailed away from the fleet and headed straight for Fuzhou.

Fuzhou Prefecture is located on the coast of central Fujian, with the southern Fujian areas of Zhang, Quan, and Xinghua to the south, and Funing Prefecture to the north. Their Qing fleet, composed of thirty-seven large and small warships, passed a series of battles in Funing Prefecture.

Island, entered the waters of Fuzhou Prefecture, and soon encountered a patrol navy of the Qing army at a place called Xiamu Island in the north of Guantang Mountain.

Seeing the Qing troops with bright uniforms and standard weapons, they quickly sent ships to communicate with them. The Qing troops did not have any trouble. They only told them that the Fujian Governor's Yamen had recently set up an inspection department on Mazu Island and asked them to go there.

Get in touch there.

Wasn't the navy of the Qing Army in Fujian been hoisted up and beaten by the navy of the Ming Army in Fujian, and they didn't even dare to leave the mouth of the river? How could they be so courageous? This group of people no longer had the time to think about this much, they just thought it was

The forces of the Fujian Ming Army had not yet touched this place, so they put away their doubts.

When we first arrived in Fujian, the rules were not very clear, and the situation was not very clear, so we did not dare to make any decisions. The fleet slowly moved south and approached Matsu Island. There was already a fleet at the dock on the island. The size of the fleet was

They were almost the same as them, but the sailors were still dressed like a group of beggars. They quickly recognized that this fleet belonged to one of Zheng Cai's subordinates, but they couldn't remember its specific name. It seemed that they were just like them.

Those who came to be caressed didn’t think much about it.

After some contact, the Inspection Department allowed their officers above the guerrilla general level to land on the island. As a result, twenty-one people came up all of a sudden. Moreover, these senior officers did not have any personal soldiers to accompany them.

The soldiers in the Inspection Department became nervous for a while.

As this group of soldiers from the Inspection Department walked along, they soon came to a slightly dilapidated and not too big courtyard on the island, where a plaque of the Guantang Mountain Inspection Department was hung. They forced

They walked in without hesitation, and there were already officials who had received the news waiting for them.

The inspector was perched high on top, his nostrils almost turned to the sky. The situation was stronger than that of others. Even if he was only a ninth-grade official, he was still an official of the Qing Dynasty. People like them from the Ming court had to accept it if they wanted to defect to him.

.After all, the king of hell is easy to meet, but the kid is difficult to deal with.

The generals performed the courtesy of meeting a superior officer, and the inspector accepted it calmly. He was angry in his heart, but he had to compromise, and he almost wanted to bleed.

Who knew that the inspector looked at them like this, but he smiled meaningfully and said: "My surname is Chen, and I am the envoy of the Qing Dynasty Fujian Province. I inspect Guantang Mountain in Lianjiang County, Fuzhou Prefecture. Since you are here to
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