Zhu Chenggong looked at the time and gritted his teeth: "Let's go!"
He sailed towards Xiamen with dozens of warships. His large forces had already blended into Xiamen, and these dozens of warships were just a supporting fleet.
At Xiamen's Gulangyu Pier, groups of soldiers disembarked from the four Zhu Chenggong Army warships moored.
"What are you doing? Go back to the ship."
Commander Zheng Lianjun, who was guarding the dock, shouted.
Zhu Chenggong's general rushed forward to suppress Ruan Yin and killed the sentry commander with a knife.
Yang Cai, the right vanguard, and Lu Jue from the main barracks followed Ruan Yin to control the dock. Most of the defenders at the dock went to drink, and there were only a few defenders.
"Whoever surrenders will avoid death!"
Ruan Yin shouted loudly, and the defenders threw away their weapons and surrendered.
After taking control of the pier, Zhu Chenggong's men, who were disguised as merchant ships nearby, docked one after another. After a while, Zhu Chenggong's fleet also arrived at Gulangyu Island.
He ordered Ruan Yin and Lu Jue to guard the dock; Yang Cai, the right forward, rushed to the town of Hongxi Mountain on the right, and Zhou Rui, the rear guard, controlled Xiamen City; Shi Lang, the left forward, assisted and suppressed Huangting in the left town, and assisted and suppressed Huangshan in the right town to control the Zhongyan Barracks.
; He led Kang Ming of the Rong Banner Army, personally controlled Zhang Jin at Ding, and controlled Lin Yi at Zuo Chong to control Wanshiyan Barracks.
Wanshiyan Barracks is where the main force of the Zheng Alliance Army is located. Zhu Chenggong originally thought there would be a fierce battle. Who would have thought that when he arrived at the camp gate, there were only a few soldiers guarding the gate, and they were drunk and staggering.
Effortlessly, I controlled the camp gate. I rushed in and saw that every tent was full of alcohol.
Zhu Chenggong's men surrounded the soldiers in the military camp and loudly persuaded them to surrender.
"Zheng Lian supported the troops and was domineering, and he conquered the generals violently. The purpose of conquering the general was to conquer him on behalf of the people of Xiamen. Those who surrendered would be spared death."
"We are all descendants of Fujian. If the Fujian people don't fight the Fujian people, why don't they surrender?"??
There was not a single general in the camp, and although there were many soldiers, there was no one to organize them, so they were disarmed in a confused manner.
Xiamen City and Zhongyan Barracks also fell into Zhu Chenggong's hands.
Some soldiers who had escaped went to the stalactite cave to look for Zheng Lian. Unexpectedly, Zheng Lian was extremely drunk and disappeared.
There are only generals Chen Feng, Lan Yan, Wu Hao and five hundred soldiers in the cave.
Chen Feng and others were so anxious that they could not find Zheng Lian.
Early the next morning, Zheng Lian woke up and realized that the entire Xiamen had been controlled by Zhu Chenggong, with only a few hundred people around him.
"Marquis Dingyuan, the situation is over, let's go to Lianjiang to find Duke Jianguo," Chen Feng, Lan Yan, and Wu Hao advised Zheng Lian.
Zheng Lian cried loudly: "How can I have the face to see my brother? I want to go to Damu and ask for explanation."
Chen Feng, Lan Yan, Wu Hao and other generals looked at each other in confusion. In desperation, they had no choice but to follow Zheng Lian to see Zhu Chenggong.
Zhu Chenggong met Zheng Lian and was overjoyed. He couldn't find you, but you came to his door yourself.
Immediately ordered people to disarm Zheng Lian and others and put them under control.
He also comforted: "Brother, don't be alarmed. I'm just here to help you maintain military discipline. I have no intention of harming your brother's life."
At first, Zhu Chenggong really had no intention of killing Zheng Lian, but he couldn't stand Zheng Zhiwan. Shi Lang and others whispered in his ears, Zheng Lian has more than 20,000 subordinates, and you only have more than 10,000. If you don't kill Zheng Lian, then
More than 20,000 troops surrendered, unable to control.
After being persuaded left and right, Zhu Chenggong became cruel and decided to kill Zheng Lian to eliminate future troubles.
After all, it was his brother. Before killing him, Zhu Chenggong treated Zheng Lian to a meal.
The day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he invited Zheng Lian to a banquet at Huxiyan that night.
Zheng Lian didn't know that his death day had come. He was a good drinker and was very interested in drinking. While drinking, he and Zhu Chenggong recalled their childhood. Zheng Lian was ten years older than Zhu Chenggong. It can be said that he watched Zhu Chenggong grow up.
.When I talked about Zhu Chenggong’s childhood, I couldn’t help but laugh happily.
The more Zhu Chenggong drank, the more uncomfortable he became. If a person wants to hurt another person who is related to him by blood, especially if this person has seen him grow up, he will inevitably feel uncomfortable.
He was too drunk to refuse and left the banquet.
Zheng Lian still didn't notice, and he drank for a long time until he was very drunk before leaving. He walked to his station, Wan Shiyan, and walked to a stone gate. There were ambushes everywhere ("Xiamen Chronicle" records: "Walking up the stream"
When you reach a stone gate, you can inscribe the word "Suoyun", which is the place where Zheng Chenggong assassinated Zheng Liang.").
Zheng Lian was frightened and wanted to escape in a panic. There were ambushes from all directions, so how could he escape?
One knife stabbed his abdomen, another knife hit his shoulder blade, and another knife??
Zheng Lian fell in a pool of blood, with his lips parted, muttering to himself: "Damu, you are so cruel!"
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After killing Zheng Lian, Zhu Chenggong successfully annexed Zheng Lian's subordinates, and his army suddenly grew to 40,000 people.
He also sent someone to Lianjiang with his own handwritten letter and broken arrows to ask Zheng Cai to return to Xiamen, vowing that as long as Zheng Cai returned to Xiamen, his life would not be harmed.
In order to feed these tens of thousands of troops, Zhu Chenggong ordered the establishment of trading houses. The five land routes were responsible for purchasing silk, porcelain and other materials, and the sea routes were responsible for selling these goods to Japan and North Korea.
In Xiamen City, another Zheng's Trading Company opened for business.
Shopkeeper She from the grain store across the street went to the store for a stroll, said a few words of "I wish you good luck in wealth," and then immediately returned home to write a letter.
After writing the letter, he called the clerk and subordinate in the store, "Quickly, please send this letter to Ma Jixiang, the commander of Jinyiwei."
Soon, a piece of information about Zhu Chenggong's personnel, army, economy and other aspects was sent to Zhu Hengjia's imperial case.
After Zhu Hengjia read it, he took a breath and said, "This Zhu Chenggong is so ruthless that he even killed his own brother! Now he is also opening up sea trade. The benefits of sea trade are more than tens of millions. If it is allowed to develop, the future will be ruined."
If we segregate Fujian, we won’t be able to lose our tail."
Unable to wait any longer, Zhu Hengjia ordered the Pinglu general Yan Tianfeng to immediately attack Fujian from Guangdong, and also ordered the surrendered general Geng Jimao and Huizhi Guanbu to reinforce Yan Tianfeng.
He also ordered Yuan Pengnian, the governor of Fujian, to increase his efforts to recruit Zheng Cai to surrender.
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"Brother, it's not good. Zhu Chenggong killed his second brother." After Zheng Bin learned that Zhu Chenggong had killed Zheng Lian and occupied Xiamen, he hurriedly reported it to Zheng Cai.
After Zheng Cai heard about it, she had no reaction.
"Brother," Zheng Lian called again.
Zheng Cai still didn’t respond.
"Big brother"??
Zheng Cai suddenly fainted.
Zheng Bin was shocked and sent someone to rescue him.
After a long time, Zheng Cai just woke up and cried bitterly: "Brother Lian, brother Lian, when I left, I told you many times to be careful about the big wood and not to drink. Why didn't you listen! Oh, big wood, big wood, you can just take Xiamen."
That’s all, why do you still want to kill people? Give my brother’s life back!”
In one day, Zheng Caicang aged ten years, and he was no longer the founding father who had hundreds of thousands of troops and looked forward to his own glory.
"Brother, what should we do now?"
Zheng Cai sighed: "We can only ask the prison country for help."
This supervisory state does not refer to Zhu Hengjia, the supervisory authority of Jing, but Zhu Yihai, the supervisory authority of Lu.
Nominally, Zheng Cai is still the founding father of Lu Jianguo.
Zheng Cai's envoy came to Jiantiao Station where Lu Jianguo was stationed in Hua, which was just a small place on the coast of Linhai County, Zhejiang Province.
Because he was worried about the Qing army's attack, Lu Jianguo did not dare to live on the shore. Instead, he lived on a warship in case of unexpected events. He used the sea water as a golden soup and the boat as a palace. The setting sun was wild and the waves were raging.
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Zhu Yihai was secretly happy after hearing the news from the messenger about Zheng Cai's request for help. Zheng Cai, Zheng Cai, do you have this day too? When you killed the lonely loyal scholar Xiong Rulin and Yixing Marquis Zheng Zunqian in order to seize power, did you ever think that you would have this day? Zhu Yihai called civil and military officials to discuss.
The civil servants include Shen Chenquan, Wu Zhongluan, Li Xiangzhong, Zhu Yongyou, Li Changxiang, Xu Fuyuan, Chen Jiuzheng, Ren Tinggui, Yu Tunan, Yang Ji; the military generals include Zhang Mingzhen, Wang Chaoxian, Tu Denghua, Zhang Huangyan, Ruan Jin, Ruan Mei, Ruan Ping,
Ruan Ji et al.
Even though Lu Jianguo was in a difficult situation, his ministers were very loyal. Zhu Hengjia tried every means to win over him, but not a single important minister was willing to surrender.
This is also easy to understand. Those who have been alone at sea for a long time, under extremely harsh conditions, and are willing to follow Lu Fan to wander around the world are all die-hard Lu Fan loyalists, weak-willed, and have surrendered or escaped long ago.
"Everyone, let's talk about it. Zheng Thief asked Gu for help. Should he save him or not?"
"In the supervision of the country, the thief Zheng is arrogant and domineering, and he is good at killing bears. The second Duke of Zheng, this is a good opportunity to avenge the second Duke!"
"Zheng's thieves are desperate for a way out, so the supervising country takes the opportunity to attack them, not only to avenge the two princes, but also to join their army to expand their strength."
All the civil and military officials under Lu Jianguo hated Zheng Cai deeply and wanted to avenge the great scholar Xiong Rulin and the Marquis of Yixing Zheng Zunqian. They all persuaded Lu Jianguo to kill Zheng Cai and annex his army.
Zhang Huang said: "In the supervision of the country, although Zheng Cai is weak now, he still has 40,000 troops. Our army is less than 20,000. It is unwise to attack by force. We can pretend to agree and attack him when he is unprepared."
Lu Jianguo nodded: "Your words are very kind, so let's do it."
So he called Zheng Cai's envoy and asked him to wait on the islands near Langqi Island, and he immediately sent troops to rescue him.
The envoy reported back to Zheng Cai. Zheng Cai was overjoyed and eagerly awaited reinforcements from Lu Jianguo.
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The vast sea is calm and waveless.
On the side of Zheng Jun's observation ship, an old fur seal was lazily looking around.
Slowly, one warship after another appeared in sight. On the mast of the ship, there were large "Lu" flags, which were very eye-catching.
"Great, His Royal Highness's reinforcements are here!"
The old seal hurriedly reported to General Zheng's army and hoisted the signal flag.
"Chitose!"
"Chitose!"
"Chitose!"
When they learned that reinforcements were coming, Zheng Jun on the ship and on the island were all excited.
Although Zheng Cai has always been arrogant and domineering towards Lu Jianguo and has no one to respect him, after all, under his banner, his subordinates regard themselves as the Lu army.
It is a strange thing for the clan to supervise the country and annex one's own subordinates.
Zheng Cai and Zheng Bin led their men and prepared to welcome them.
Zheng Bin suddenly said in shock: "That's not right, brother, why are the fleets of the Supervisor State in a battle formation?"
Zheng Cai looked at it and was shocked: "No, this is not here to save us, but to annex us. Get on the boat and prepare to fight!"
It was too late, Lu Jianguo's army arrived to kill him.
Attack on one side and persuade them to surrender on the other.
"King Lu of the prison country conquered the rebellious Zheng Cai. You must not help Zhou to do evil."
"Execute only Zheng Cai, and those who surrender will be spared death."
Zheng's army was devastated and suffered a huge defeat. Thousands were killed and more than 10,000 surrendered.
Zheng Cai led more than 20,000 remnant troops and retreated to the Pinghaiwei area of Xinghua Prefecture, panicking like a dog that had lost its home.