Chapter 58 Zheng Chenggong swears in Xiamen

Xiamen Island is also known as the Zhongwei Institute.

And the dense warships on this Xiamen Island filled several ports on Xiamen Island, filling all the ports. Large and small ships, there are blessed ships, sentinel ships, ships of 500 materials, ships of 300 materials, but the largest ships are Western-style plywood ships.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong was not too interested in this kind of ship, although this ship is not small, but it costs too much silver, whether it is workmanship or wood, it is a first-class cost.

However, at Zhang Xuan's suggestion, the Great Xia court was very interested in such ships and was ready to build them, and even in Zhou Fuchen's Yangtze River Sailors, the ship type borrowed from many Western plywood ships. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong was also affected. As a result, several warships were built.

At the moment, it seems to stand out from the crowd. It is the largest ship, and from a distance, it looks like a city on the sea.

Xiamen Island is not very large. But at this moment, on Xiamen Island, almost all the open space on the island has been occupied. Large and small camps, almost across the road, are connected to each other.

All the armies of the entire Zheng clan gathered here.

This is the sea base determined by Zheng Chenggong.

"Knock knock." Countless drums beat in an instant, and countless soldiers lined up from the various camps. On the school field of Xiamen Island, slowly lined up.

One barrel of drums, two barrels of drums, three barrels of drums.

After the three barrels of drums were finished, the drumsticks slammed into the drum surface. The aftermath was faint and scattered, leaving only the sound of the waves.

A large banyan tree rises up to the sky, like a canopy. The branches and leaves stretch out in all directions like hands, catching the sunlight and leaving a large area of shade.

In the shade of the big banyan tree, there is a high platform, which is the Dianjiang platform.

At this moment, on both sides of the platform, a soldier stood on both sides. It looked like they were all wearing plate armor, and each one looked like a big tin can. Standing motionless on both sides, like a statue, there is a sense of silence and solemnity.

Zheng Chenggong was surrounded by people and walked step by step from the side. As he walked up step by step, the red tassels on his head flickered up and down like a flame.

When Zheng Chenggong stood on the platform, his eyes swept below.

Once a person passes through ten thousand, there is no boundary. Now under the general's stage, there are tens of thousands of soldiers, Zheng Chenggong can't see everyone's face clearly, and can only see the eight-petal iron helmets of the Ming army. But he could feel the countless gazes hitting him.

Zheng Chenggong suddenly had a crispy and numb feeling, which erupted from his backbone to his whole body.

He said, "Soldiers. ”

Immediately, there was a row of soldiers with voices, and they repeated loudly: "Soldiers. ”

The sound seemed to be a sound wave, spreading far away and reaching every corner of the school grounds.

"My father started on the sea, kept the sea and Xinjiang stable, and made great contributions to the world, but unfortunately died in the hands of the Donglu, this hatred is not shared, the country is hated by the family, how can Sen sit idly by. Today, I am willing to all the soldiers to share the same hatred and take revenge. “

Zheng Chenggong gave an order, and someone immediately presented a white robe, Zheng Chenggong changed it outside the armor on the spot, and some people immediately distributed a white cloth and let each soldier tie it to his forehead. For a time, countless white flags were also planted.

White became an important accent in the queue.

The whole army shouted loudly: "Avenge the old prince." ”

These people shouted like this, and there are really some people who are sincere. Zheng Zhilong's life, in Zhang Xuan's opinion, is unambitious, but after guarding the sea for more than ten years, how can there be no diehards?

With Zheng Chenggong's order, all teams of people and horses continued to get on the boat.

This act of embarkation lasted all day.

The entire fleet of large and small ships, including warships, transport ships, troop carriers, etc., were not only soldiers on board, but also countless baggage. Early the next morning, countless ships went out to sea in different ports and formed formations at sea.

Not in one formation, but in a formation of dozens of warships, separated from each other.

Stretches for dozens of miles.

This was probably the most powerful naval power in East Asia in this era, and even the Dutch and Spaniards could not compare with it.

With such a mighty fleet, the fishing boats and merchant ships in the waters east of Zhejiang were all alarmed. Zhejiang shook for a while, and when the army was greeted by Ruan Jin and stationed in Zhoushan, Zhejiang was already full of smoke, and it seemed that Zheng Chenggong's arrival encouraged a lot of people's hearts.

So in Zheng Chenggong's hands, one after another letters of surrender and letters asking for help. Like a snowflake, it almost drowned Zheng Chenggong.

"The people's hearts are available." Zheng Chenggong waved his hand and asked the people below to put away these letters.

Immediately, two or three people gathered up the table of letters.

"Congratulations to Lord Wang, Zhejiang has arrived." Shi Lang said.

The situation is stronger than the man.

When Zheng Zhilong was there, Shi Lang, as Zheng Zhilong's confidant and favorite general, would not be too respectful to Zheng Chenggong, because he was standing behind Zheng Chenggong's Lao Tzu, but he never expected Zheng Zhilong to go like this, although he still had his own Lao Tzu, he was also very influential in the army.

However, for the current general Zheng Chenggong, there is also a bit of flattery.

It's just that Shi Lang has never done such a thing, and the flattery is very rusty, and a little awkward.

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said: "The situation in Zhejiang is like this, we can't be indifferent, Shi Lang." ”

"The minister is here." Shi Lang said.

Zheng Chenggong said: "You take the people from your headquarters to go ashore immediately to support the rebels in various places and recover Zhejiang." ”

Zheng Chenggong's words were categorical, and there was no room for maneuver.

Shi Lang listened, his body stiffened slightly, and then he lowered his head and said, "Yes." ”

Shi Lang's heart was not good, because he knew that the main battlefield of this battle was still along the Yangtze River, not Zhejiang. Shi Lang still has some meritorious intentions in his heart, and Zheng Chenggong obviously marginalized Shi Lang. Shi Lang naturally had some disappointment.

And he could hear Zheng Chenggong's tone, this matter was not negotiable at all, and he had no other choice.

Zheng Chenggong stayed in Zhoushan for a day or two to replenish fresh water, and during this period of time, Shi Lang had already won a small victory in Ningbo, and Zhejiang's anti-Qing ** was even higher.

The fleet set off again, this time dividing its troops into several routes, and went straight to Songjiang and Chongming.

Zheng Chenggong occupied Chongming and set up camp on Chongming Island. Zheng Hongkui attacked Songjiang, I don't know how the Qing army prepared, in short, the battle of Songjiang Mansion was fought quite smoothly. Zheng Chenggong went up the river, not too fast, and broke through the counties along the river along the way. With the help of the rebels from all over the country, the journey was smooth and smooth, and there was almost no strong resistance, and within a few days, the troops approached Zhenjiang.

It seems that the Qing army has gathered up the main forces.

At this point, Zheng Chenggong also had some doubts in his heart, so he wrote a letter to Zhang Xuan, asking Zhang Xuan's army to march east and attack Nanjing with him.

As for whether it can be successful, Zheng Chenggong doesn't care too much. It's just a spare son.

And at this time in the city of Nanjing.

In the city of Nanjing, it has become a military city, a large number of soldiers from all directions returned to the city of Nanjing, as Zheng Chenggong expected, Duoduo did order, the Qing army all departments strategically cleaned up.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the south of the Yangtze River under the Qing army, there are not a few surrendered troops, the Eight Banner Soldiers, the Han Army Banner, and the Northern Han Army, in fact, there are not many of them, about 100,000, and the rest, including what Li Chengdong said, are all surrendered troops of the Xia Army.

Under the repeated situation in various parts of Jiangnan, these surrendered soldiers have also become unreliable.

There are already precedents for surrendering and surrendering.

Duoduo felt that it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe in various places. Not wanting to let these troops, whom he thought reliable, lose too much, he simply withdrew them. However, the retreat of Duoduo boosted the morale of the anti-Qing people everywhere. It also made Zheng Chenggong's march more smooth.

However, Dordor paid little attention to the situation in front of him. No matter how much Zheng Chenggong wins, Duoduo seems to have been holding Zhizhu all the time, not in a hurry, as if everything is under control.

It's just that those who are really familiar with Duoduo know that Duoduo is really serious. Because the usual Duoduo has always been a moody person who makes people wonder badly. Extremely arrogant, I have never seen such a reliable.