In the palace of Yanping County, Hangzhou, Zheng Chenggong struggled to sit up from the sickbed, grabbed the medicine bowl, and smashed it on the ground with a "ping-pong", smashing the ceramic fragments sideways.

"Shaft! Brute! This king is going to kill him! Zheng Chenggong's pale face turned red, and he roared hoarsely.

The maid holding the tray was startled and took two steps back timidly.

Although Chen Yonghua tried his best to stop Tang Xianyue's messenger, after the ill-intentioned Zheng Xi learned about it, he wrote a letter about Zheng Jing and his mother Chen Zhaoniang and sent it to Zheng Chenggong. In this way, this matter was suppressed by Wang Xinyu and Chen Yonghua for nearly two months, but the paper couldn't hold the fire, and it was finally exposed. When Zheng Chenggong saw the letter, he screamed angrily, spat blood from his mouth, and fainted on the spot.

Everyone rushed to hear the news, and Zheng Chenggong had just woken up.

"The prince is angry!" Zhang Huangyan, Zheng Xingying, Chen Yonghua and others persuaded each other hard.

Zheng Chenggong glared at his blood-red eyes and shouted angrily: "Zheng Jingzi! Bad morals, loss of ethics, moral corruption! There is such a scandal in my Zheng family, and this king has no shame to go to see the first emperor (referring to Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian, Zheng Chenggong has always been loyal to him)! O Emperor! Wechen's time is numbered, something like this happened at home, how can Wechen go to see you! ”

Zheng Chenggong said, and suddenly burst into tears.

"Lord Wang, you will be fine." Chen Yonghua comforted.

Zheng Chenggong roared, spit out a mouthful of blood, and passed out again.

"Lord Wang! Rajah! Everyone cried and shouted, some people came up to pinch people, and some people came up to support Zheng Chenggong.

After a while, Zheng Chenggong woke up, and his first words were: "Someone!" Under the order of the king of Chuanben, he went to Xiamen and ordered Zheng Jing to commit suicide! In addition, this king will play for His Majesty. Feng Zheng Cong is the prince of Yanping! ”

Zheng Xingying secretly rejoiced in her heart: Zheng Jing and my son-in-law have always been at odds, if Zheng Jing falls, Zheng Cong is young, and Zheng Jiajun will not be my son-in-law in the future? But he didn't dare to show it on his face, but persuaded him: "Lord, as the saying goes, blood is thicker than water, compared to Zheng Jing is your own flesh and blood, the prince should not give him death, just abolish his son." ”

Zheng Xingying had a wishful thinking in his heart: now Zheng Jing can't die immediately, and Zheng Xi is also coveting the throne of King Yanping. Keep Zheng Jing for the time being, let Zheng Jing and Zheng Raid fight to the death, sell Zheng Jing a favor like this, abolish his son, and wait for him and Zheng Raid to lose both, and then Zheng Cong will come up with the help of his son-in-law. As long as Zheng Cong comes up, Zheng Jiajun will be his own son-in-law in the future.

Chen Yonghua also persuaded: "Lord Wang, after all, Zheng Jing is your own flesh and blood, you can't kill him!" ”

Zheng Chenggong roared angrily: "Don't kill Zheng Jing." This king has no face to see the first emperor under the nine springs! Zheng Jing must die! ”

Even Zhang Huangyan came up to advise: "Lord Wang, now that our army is fighting fiercely with the Tartars, let's put it off for the time being." After defeating Aobai, we will discuss the matter again. ”

To be honest, Zhang Huangyan's thoughts in his heart are very complicated, on the one hand, he and Zheng Jing are not very compatible. Zhang Huangyan has always wanted Zhu Yihai to be the prisoner, but not only Zheng Chenggong is against it, but Zheng Jing is also against it. If it's about relationships. Zhang Huangyan is more optimistic about Wang Xinyu. But if Zheng Jing is executed, Wang Xinyu and Zheng Xingying will be able to control Zheng Cong, and then Wang Xinyu's forces will become the most powerful force in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Wang Xinyu will also save Yongli, so Zhang Huangyan's Lu Wang forces will not want to speak. For Zhang Huangyan, the most advantageous thing is to leave Zheng Jing and let Zheng Jing and Zheng Cong, who is supported by Wang Xinyu and Zheng Xingying, fight to the death.

However, Zheng Chenggong couldn't listen to anyone's words, he shouted: "Xiao Gongchen! ”

"The last general!" Xiao Gongchen arched his hand. Xiao Gongchen is Zheng Xi's confidant, and Zheng Jing's matter is that he personally sent a letter to Hangzhou.

Zheng Chenggong shouted: "You immediately take this king's edict to Xiamen, and let Zheng Jing commit suicide to apologize to the first emperor!" ”

"No!" Xiao Gongchen was overjoyed. He knew that what Zheng Cong wanted was this result, as long as he killed Zheng Jing, even if Zheng Cheng Cheng made Zheng Cong his son, but Zheng Cong was young, didn't he have to listen to Zheng Zheng? Although there is still a Wang Xinyu supporting Zheng Cong, the gun factory is in Taiwan, and Zheng Xi currently controls Taiwan, as long as Wang Xinyu's weapons supply is cut off and Song Yingxing, Dai Cang and his son and others are detained, Wang Xinyu can be honestly rolled out of Taiwan.

In fact, Zheng Xi also thought so, he didn't want to tear his face with Wang Xinyu, he just wanted to drive the other party out of Taiwan. If he can kill Zheng Jing and let Zheng Cong go back to Xiamen to be the king of Yanping, it doesn't matter, Zheng Xi will be his king of the eastern capital in Taiwan. If Zheng Cong is cheeky and refuses to leave Taiwan, then control it in his own hands, not if he wants to pinch the circle, he will pinch the circle, and if he pinches the square, he will pinch the square!

Zheng Xi's ambition is not very big, he just wants to be a vassal king in Taiwan in peace.

As for Zheng Jiajun's defeat of the main force of Aobai and control Jiangnan, Zheng Raid is not worried, the supply of weapons is in Taiwan, and Zheng Raid can remotely control Zheng Cong. What's more, if Zheng Cong stays in Jiangnan, not only will it become a gateway to protect Taiwan, but Zheng Cong will face the Qing army's counteroffensive again and again, which will also weaken the power of Zheng Cong and Wang Xinyu.

To the west of Lin'an City, the Luo Keduo Division, which had been blocked by the Ming army, was in its final dying struggle.

The strange soldiers of the Ming army were to blossom in the middle and put themselves in the middle of the dangerous place to block the retreat of the Qing army. This is the same as the middle ground of the two sides of Go, where a win is a complete victory, and a defeat is a big defeat.

The Qing army of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty withstood the dense cannonballs, projectiles and flying arrows of the Ming Army, and launched fierce attacks on Shifu and Jiang Zhiping in the center again and again, and had repeatedly broken into the middle of the Ming Army's formation, but there were low walls of trenches all over the place, and the deep positions were densely covered with wooden fences.

Disaster is not a one-way street, someone on the Ming army position shouted to the Han Eight Banners: "Brothers of the Han Eight Banners, you are not officials, of course you are not second ministers!" Just ordinary soldiers! Our Admiral does not kill captives! As long as you lay down your arms and surrender, we can guarantee your safety! ”

As soon as the Ming army shouted, the morale of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, who were originally eager to win and attacked wildly, was immediately discharged. When Rocoduo asked the Han Eight Banners to attack again, many of the Han Eight Banners soldiers did not charge hard, but pretended to fight a few times before retreating. Anyway, the other side said that ordinary soldiers who surrendered would not be killed, and they were ready to surrender.

The furious Songkui asked the Governor to come up and slashed and killed many Han Eight Banner deserters in a row, which forced the Han Eight Banner soldiers to once again launch a suicidal attack on the Ming army's array.

Needless to say, the results are known. Once again, the attack of the Han Eight Banners was repulsed.

"Report to your lord! Big, it's a big deal! All the Green Battalion soldiers we left behind have surrendered! A Qing soldier came in a panic to report to Rocodor.

It turned out that when the Ming army launched an attack on the Green Battalion Army, which had been left behind by Rocodor, the Ming Army first bombarded the Green Battalion with artillery, and the Green Battalion soldiers were killed and wounded. Then Wang Xinyu asked people to shout and ask the green battalion soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender, and the Ming army could guarantee their safety.

Knowing that he had become an outcast of Rocodor, and that being left here would be sent to death, the Green Battalion soldiers no longer worked hard as cannon fodder, and walked out of the position one after another. Surrender to the Ming army that was catching up behind.

After the surrender of the broken Green Battalion, the door behind Rocodor's back was completely opened. At this time, there were more than 7,000 Han and Eight Banner soldiers left in Luo Keduo's hands, more than 5,000 Green Battalion soldiers and more than 2,000 second- and third-generation Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers who were born and raised in the Guannei.

The Green Battalion soldiers are unreliable, and Rocodo can't expect them to break the back, nor do he expect them to break the formation, and it's almost the same as cannon fodder for charging; The morale of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty was also low, and all that could be counted on was the second and third generations of the Eight Banners.

"Ahead is the camp of Han dogs! They blocked our retreat! If we can't rush out, everyone will die here today! You are our warriors of Manchuria, and we can't count on those despicable Han Chinese! To break through the barbarians' defenses. You Manchurian warriors! Roccodo cheered up the Eight Banners of Manmeng, hoping that they would go into battle and charge.

At this time, these second- and third-generation Eight Banner soldiers were lazy and lazy, sitting or lying, listless. There was no intention of charging at all. These second-generation, third-generation, and eight-banner usually walk birds in the inner cities of various cities, drink tea, eat, drink and have fun. During the day, he walked birds and gambled, and at night he listened to big plays and visited the kiln. Where is there any combat power.

"My lord, the thieves are fierce in their artillery and rockets, and we minions will be sent to death if we go up!" A little Eight Banners soldier of about sixteen years old begged.

The Eight Banners knelt on the ground one after another: "My lord." Let's let those Han minions go first. ”

Rocoduo was furious and beheaded several of the Eight Banners who had been called the most ferocious, which forced the Eight Banners to charge.

Seeing the Eight Banners attacking, Shi Fu, who didn't know the details, shouted: "Brothers, the real Tartar has come up!" It's all up to Lao Tzu! After a while, the real Tartars will come up and let them know how powerful our Lynx camp is! It is said that the real Tartars are brave and invincible, what Jurchen is not more than 10,000, and they are invincible, and they are all fearless in life and death, so when they fight hand-to-hand for a while, let them open their eyes and see who is more ruthless than whom! ”

Who knew that Shifu's Lynx Battalion didn't come in handy at all, the Qiongzhou Army Shenji Battalion first shelled, the muskets of the Taixi Battalion and the Zheng Family Army Black Musket Team roared, the Zheng Family Army Tiger Wei Battalion and the Right Tiger Guard Battalion fired a volley of arrows, and after a few Eight Banner soldiers died, the other Eight Banner soldiers shouted one after another, turned around and ran.

The hand-to-hand fighters of the Bobcat Battalion have long been armed with weapons, ready for a life-and-death fight. However, the soldiers of the Eight Banners did not rush up, but turned around and fled, which made the soldiers of the Bobcat Battalion very frustrated: "The opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious service is gone!" ”

The performance of the second and third generations of the Eight Banners really disappointed Rocodor, and he knew that he would definitely not be able to rush through the hard charge, so he ordered people to dig trenches and build positions on the spot to block the Ming army's attack. Since the Ming army blossomed in the middle, the Qing army simply came to a middle lane, and his lone army held his position.

"Let's compare, whether your big camp was crushed by our Ao Lord first, or our big camp was rushed by your main force first!" Rocoduo looked at the Ming army camp in front of him and muttered to himself.

The Qing army camped on the spot, dug trenches and resisted stubbornly.

The Ming army brought artillery up and aimed at the Qing army for a fierce bombardment, killing and wounding many green battalion soldiers who were digging trenches. However, under the coercion of Songkui's warlords, the Green Battalion soldiers could only dig trenches. As long as the trench is dug deep and you hide inside, you can block the artillery fire of the Ming army.

Wang Xinyu gave the order to charge with infantry. But the dying Qing army firepower was very fierce, and the arrows and birds fired volleys. The Ming army rushed up at a certain price and was driven back by the Qing soldiers who were in a desperate situation and stubbornly resisted.

"Report!" A spy hurriedly entered Wang Xinyu's camp.

After receiving the information sent by the secret agent, Wang Xinyu learned that Zheng Chenggong already knew about Zheng Jing's scandal and was ready to let people kill Zheng Jing. Seeing this news, Wang Xinyu was mixed. Happily, Zheng Jing is about to fall, and in the future, he and Zheng Xingying will be able to control Zheng Cong, and in the future, Zheng Jiajun will not be his own? But the worry is that I don't know if Zheng Chenggong can hold on, seeing that the victory is imminent, if something happens to Zheng Chenggong at this time, it will be a great blow to the morale of the Zheng family's army, and the big victory will turn into a fiasco, and the Ming army can only be forced to withdraw from Jiangnan.

Wang Yuyou walked in, heard about it, and was shocked: "General Wang! Did King Yanping really give the order to kill Zheng Jing? Or did you let Zheng Xi's people go? ”

Wang Xinyu nodded and said, "Yes, King Yanping gave such an order. However, Xiao Wang estimates that Zheng Jing will definitely not sit still, and there will be any moves! When their news comes, the king of Yanping will also order the army to get rid of Zheng Jing! At that time, Zheng Jiajun will have civil strife. ”

"General Wang thinks about it as much as he thinks! He also felt that Zheng Jing would definitely not sit still, and he would definitely not commit suicide by listening to King Yanping's orders! General Wang, do you think that a person who can communicate with Rumu Si will honestly listen to King Yanping? This came and went, and when the news came back from Xiamen, we also defeated Aobai. And Zheng Jing's cronies were all on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, and when Zheng Zheng received an order from the king of Yanping again, he sent troops from Taiwan to Xiamen to exterminate Zheng Jing, and Zheng Jing's people had no time to go back to save him. In this battle, Zheng Jing will be defeated. Wang Yuyou analyzed.

"Zheng Jing is defeated, we can just establish Zheng Cong, so that we have the strength of the Qiongzhou Army and the Zheng Family Army, and our power will be dominant, and there is hope for the recovery of the Ming Dynasty!" Wang Xinyu said.

Who knew that Wang Yuyou shook his head and said, "General Wang is too optimistic!" If Zheng Jing dies at this time, it will not be good for us! You only stared at Zheng Jing, but you didn't pay attention to Zheng Jing's wolf ambition! Zheng Xi has now mastered Dongfan, that is, he has controlled our back road, and he will definitely not let Zheng Cong take the position so easily! This position of King Yanping is that we support Zheng Cong and Zheng Xi to snatch it! When the time comes, there will be civil strife, and we will have to divide our troops back to Dongfan, and Jiangnan will be in danger! ”

"What do we think we should do now?" Wang Xinyu was taken aback. His level of political struggle was relatively poor, and he really did not estimate Zheng Xi's ambitions, so he thought that it would be safe to move the artillery factory to Taiwan.

If Zheng Zheng defeated Zheng Jing easily, then the Xiamen Artillery Factory, which had been relocated to Taiwan, would be in the hands of Zheng Zheng, which would be very unfavorable to himself. (To be continued.) )