After the fall of Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong returned to Fujian, and he has always paid great attention to strengthening his own strength and recruiting talents extensively.

In Nanming's successive failures, he gradually realized that it was difficult to succeed by relying on loyalty to the monarch to serve the country.

Although evil does not prevail over good, most of the time, it is often evil that prevails over good.

After comprehending this, he understood that if he wanted to defeat the Wei State, he could not rely on righteousness alone.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong gathered a large number of generals, some of whom were the old team of the Zheng family, and some of them were people with lofty ideals he recruited along the coast.

To let so many people follow him to serve, in addition to the slogan of anti-Wei Fuming, it is also necessary to give them tangible things, and there must be no problems with the supply of military supplies.

Now under Zheng Chenggong, there are 40,000 horses, plus dependents, hundreds of thousands.

To maintain such a large army, and to feed the families of the soldiers, a large amount of money and food, copper and iron, wood, cloth, gunpowder and other materials were needed.

Although the Ming army controlled Taiwan and occupied Luzon, it was not developed in both places, and it was impossible to solve his logistical supply, so he could only barely maintain basic survival.

It's just that so many people follow him to the sea, obviously not just to maintain basic survival, but also to live well.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong's needs mainly came from two aspects, one was that he inherited Zheng Zhilong's position as the maritime hegemon, using the sea advantage to conduct trade and collect tolls, and the other was to reclaim Taiwan and obtain grain.

With these two sources, it is still far from enough, and a more direct source is needed, which is to attack the southeast coast to obtain population and resources, so that his subordinates can live well at sea.

In this way, we can stabilize people's hearts and fight against the Wei army for a long time.

Now the Ming army controls the three major islands of Qiongzhou, Taiwan, and Luzon, and Taiwan and Luzon are basically in a state of undeveloped.

If the Southern Ming wanted to confront the Great Wei, they had to take advantage of the fact that the Wei army's naval division was not trained, seize the population and enrich the two islands, and turn the two islands into the rear.

Soon after the Ming army defeated the Spaniards, the Southern Ming court decided to start attacking the southeast coast.

After Zheng Chenggong consulted with Wang Yan, he calmly analyzed the situation and realized that naval warfare was the strength of the Ming army, but in order to fight the Wei army and regain the lost territory, it was necessary to have infantry and cavalry.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong trained troops in Xiamen, organized and trained several units of men and horses specially used for land warfare, and practiced tactics day and night.

Zheng Chenggong's actions soon reached Ding Qirui's hands, Ding Qirui was frightened, and hurriedly sent a letter to Zheng Chenggong, hoping that he would not be impulsive and affect the current peaceful situation.

After Zheng Chenggong received the letter, he hurriedly replied, saying that he had no intention of attacking, just to protect himself and asked Ding Qirui not to be careful.

Ding Qirui, a decades-old bureaucrat, immediately knew that the Ming army was ready to make a move, and hurriedly wrote to the imperial court, and asked people to blockade the coast, ban grain, copper and iron and other strategic materials, and at the same time sent someone to invite Zhao Daxian to negotiate.

The Wei army stationed 100,000 troops in Fujian, which can be said to be a heavy gathering, but the coastline is so long, spread out on the ground, and there are only so few people in each place.

In the yamen of the Governor's Palace, Ding Qirui, Zhao Daxian and a large group of Wei generals gathered together.

Ding Qirui said in a deep voice: "In return, Zheng Sen played the land and water soldiers and horses in Xiamen, and invaded the heart of the Great Wei, which is obvious. How is Guogong going to respond? ”

Zhao Daxian frowned, "In recent years, Great Wei has been attacking, advocating offense as defense, and Ben Shuai has really never fought such a passive battle!" As he spoke, he paused and said in a deep voice: "Governor Ding, this commander will give you a secret, thousands of miles of sea territory, Zheng Sen's 40,000 soldiers and horses, attacking any place, will form a local advantage, if you want the coastal defense to be impregnable, it is impossible, I can only focus on keeping a few important places not to lose." ”

For a long time, even if the Wei army was weak, it would not be satisfied with defense, and would always find the right opportunity to attack, but this time, the Wei army really didn't break, the sea was not as good as the land, the sailors were not trained, and the sea couldn't come out, so don't say anything to fight back.

Ding Qirui's face was gloomy, and Zhao Daxian's meaning was to prepare for some areas to be attacked by Zheng Sen.

He was silent for a while and said, "Guogong, that governor has two requests!" ”

Zhao Daxian nodded and said, "Governor Ding, please speak!" ”

Ding Qirui said in a deep voice: "First, Mawei Military Port, Fuzhou Shipyard can't afford to lose!" These two were the main concerns of His Majesty, and if the sailors were defeated and the shipyards were burned down, both the Governor and the Duke would be imprisoned. ”

Zhao Daxian's expression was solemn, the Nanyang Navy Division had been established for nearly two years, and it had cost countless amounts of money to the imperial court, and it was almost completed, if he was suddenly defeated by the Ming army, Gao Yihuan would definitely be angry.

"This is very clear." Zhao Daxian nodded heavily.

Ding Qirui continued: "Second, Fuzhou and Quanzhou are not lost. These two places are the land of Fujian and have a huge impact, if they are captured by the Ming army, the governor will not be able to explain to the imperial court. ”

Zhao Daxian estimated the strength of the troops, and said in a deep voice, "This commander will put 20,000 people in Fuzhou to take care of the city, shipyard and military port. The 30,000 naval divisions remained in the military port for the time being, and did not go out. There are 50,000 people left, 10,000 in Quanzhou, 10,000 in other states and counties, and 30,000 people are mobile for support, as well as to attack the Ming army that came ashore! ”

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When the Wei army was discussing the strategy of defending against the enemy, Zheng Chenggong was also discussing with his generals in the Zheng Army Water Village on Xiamen Island.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong and everyone gathered in front of the sand table, and the coastal cities and islands were clear at a glance.

Zheng Chenggong said: "Now that the Wei thieves occupy the world, they are indeed powerful, and they are fighting head-on, we are not the opponents of the Wei thieves, but as long as the Wei thieves' naval army is destroyed, even if the Wei thieves occupy the world, they can't help us." ”

Zheng Chenggong's words can be said to be empirical, if he wanted the Ming Dynasty to occupy the world, he had nothing to do with Zheng Zhilong, and in the end he could only Zhao'an.

Time is moving forward, when the Japanese pirates were rampant in the southeast, if Hu Zongxian hadn't deceived Wang Zhi ashore, there would be no way to take this pirate leader.

At present, the Ming Dynasty is stronger than Zheng Zhilong and Wang Zhi, as long as the Wei army's sailors and shipyards are destroyed, the sea is the world of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Wei was strong, it could not take the initiative to attack the Ming army, which meant that the Wei army could only wait for the Ming army to fight, and could not fight the Ming army in turn.

Of course, the Wei warships insisted on going to sea, and the Ming army sailors did not mind and sent them into the sea.

This situation made the generals of the Ming army suddenly feel that the Wei army was not a big deal, so they reduced their fear of the Wei army.

Gan Hui hugged his fists and said: "The meaning of the surname of the country is that we want to attack Fuzhou and destroy the Wei thief sailor?" ”

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said: "If we can destroy the Wei thief water division, the southeast coast will be at my disposal, but this commander is sure that the Wei thief will definitely focus on guarding Fuzhou, with our troops, it is not easy to touch hard, and this commander has a strategy!" ”

As he spoke, Zheng Chenggong waved his hand, "Come around!" ”