The governor of Caoyun and the governor of Jiangning jointly wrote a letter saying that officials in Chizhou and other places had fallen for Deng Ming's scheme, and that now the Sichuan thieves had approached Jiangning and Yangzhou, and the Zhoushan Kou had also bypassed Suzhou and rushed to Zhenjiang - this was the first time that Qing court officials around Nanjing had called Deng Ming's troops Sichuan thieves instead of Yudong thieves, and they had begun to separate the two.

For Shunzhi, things returned to normal, and although the Jiangnan officials were a little slow to react, they finally saw through Deng Ming's plan. After discovering this fact, Shunzhi was a little distressed, which proved that he was not better than Deng Ming in terms of resourcefulness - if not worse, at first, Shunzhi, like those Jiangnan officials, failed to see through Deng Ming's scheme.

"It's all these incompetent fools, implicating the court." As the emperor, Shunzhi enjoys the flattery of his courtiers every day, and the so-called lie repeated a thousand times is the truth. Therefore, Shunzhi had the idea of "being inferior to Deng Ming" came up, and he was quickly denied by himself, because it was contrary to the truth of the universe in his mind.

Since he is convinced that he is a sage, Shunzhi can only find the reason from the Jiangnan officials now, if it is not for their misdirection, then even if it is thousands of miles away, Shunzhi will never fall behind in the intellectual confrontation. After finding the culprit, Shunzhi pondered that in the future, when Deng Ming left, he would do it to the officials who helped the emperor lose face - although Shunzhi did not have the mind to punish them not long ago, but people's hearts will change, and these petty officials are not worthy of Shunzhi to seriously weigh the pros and cons - they make the emperor unhappy, how can they get this evil breath if they don't do it?

Then Shunzhi sighed about Deng Ming's good luck, as the king of a country, his every move is related to the world, and he can't leave the Forbidden City lightly so as not to panic hundreds of millions of officials and people in the world, so he had to watch Deng Ming bully his group of stupid minions who don't grow up - if it weren't for the heavy responsibility, Shunzhi would have wanted to go to Jiangnan in person and capture Deng Ming, a cunning guy.

According to the courtiers, compared to his deceased grandfather Nurhachi and father Huang Taiji, Shunzhi may be a little worse, but the gap is also small enough to be considered that there is no zài. As for that wolf-hearted Dolgon, if he really did it, Shunzhi would definitely be able to beat him ten at a time. At first, Shunzhi was a little unconvinced, because no one had ever said this to him before he was in power, but then he couldn't help but believe it, because not only Sony and Aobai said so, but even those guys with two white flags also held the same opinion. It wasn't until Dolgon's death and Shunzhi's pro-government that the ministers of the two white flags often came to see the emperor, and after they knew more about Shunzhi, they all worshiped him and worshipped him too much, saying that Dolgon was similar to a god in their eyes, and only after seeing Shunzhi did they understand the gap between Mount Tai and the mound, and the emperor was almost the same as that Dolgon and waste.

Not only the people of the Eight Banners said this, but the Han people also felt the same way, such as Hong Chengchou, who was not good to die, Shunzhi often came to see the emperor after his pro-government, every time Shunzhi talked about military strategies and ideas, Hong Chengchou would immediately be shocked and inexplicable, looking at the emperor with admiration, and stars were about to pop out of his eyes.

Not only did the Manchu and Han ministers have this consensus, but even the rebellious rogues could not deny that Shunzhi was a rare military wizard through the ages, such as Sun Kewang, who surrendered from the Southern Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, and one of the four famous leaders of the Western Thieves. In the past, when Sony, Aobai, and Hong Chengchou talked about this person, they all looked solemn and solemn, as if they were facing a great enemy, and Shunzhi also made trouble because he was a hero.

But after meeting, Shunzhi knew that the gap between the other party and himself was big, and when Shunzhi heard Sun Kewang tell him about the battle with Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, he casually said one or two sentences of his views on the battle. That Sun Kewang was stunned on the spot, and then suddenly fell to the ground, hugged his head and cried, saying that if he thought of this way, he would be able to slaughter Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in every second.

Also in attendance were Sony, Ao Bai and a large number of Manchu and Han generals, and when Sun Kewang couldn't help crying, these people also admired the emperor's whimsical ideas after a moment of stunned. This kind of scene is not the first time Shunzhi has encountered it, in the past, he had a casual flash of thought in the military, which could make Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui stunned, and even called the emperor Shengming - at the beginning Shunzhi wondered why such a simple idea could not be thought of by his subordinates, and some of the methods that Shunzhi himself felt had loopholes afterwards would be regarded as a seamless strategy by these famous generals. But in the end, Shunzhi finally understood that this is the gap between the Son of Heaven and mortals, the so-called worlds of difference, and the height is unbearable.

What's even more rare is that Shunzhi's military talent is completely out of God's gift, which even his grandfather and father can't compare to him, since he ascended the throne as a child, Shunzhi has never commanded a battle, and has not even witnessed or watched a battle, but his strategy can make the veteran who has been on the battlefield for decades sigh to himself.

"If it weren't for the fact that I am the weight of the world, I would have gone to Jiangnan to meet you, and I wouldn't have to see these incompetent people make me angry." Shunzhi was a little helpless to close the recital sent by the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Jiangning, and silently fantasized for a while about going down to Jiangnan and beating Deng Ming, and also let those useless officials take a good look at how the emperor beat this rampant guy to the point in the blink of an eye.

It's a pity that Shunzhi doesn't have the skill of doppelganger, and he can't fail to fulfill his heavy responsibility of guarding the Jingshi, so he can only watch Deng Ming wantonly bully those mortal officials.

"I don't know where Deng Ming will stay." Shunzhi groaned, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while, he had just ordered a large amount of money and food to be sent to Xi'an, ready to be handed over to Li Guoying to use to recruit soldiers. But I don't want Deng Ming to stay in Chengdu honestly, waiting for Wang Shi to go to exterminate after he is fully prepared, but he wants to jump out and make trouble in Jiangnan.

If Deng Ming's purpose is Jiangning, then Shunzhi will not continue to allocate funds to Sichuan, but should be used in Jiangnan, if the mortal Jiang Guozhu lives up to the high hopes of the Son of Heaven, then this money should be used to expand the strength of Shandong and Henan, and then recapture Jiangning.

Even the Son of Heaven was a little hesitant for a while, and after a long period of thinking, Shunzhi decided to continue to allocate funds to Sichuan and Shaanxi, although the number was smaller, but the Sichuan and Shaanxi Duck Camp must be rebuilt as much as possible: "Deng Ming should not be able to scoop down Jiangning, Jiang Guozhu still has a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands, and Jiangning is so strong." Moreover, Dasu will soon be able to exterminate Zheng Yi in Xiamen, and when the time comes, the Zhoushan thieves will be easily exterminated, and the crisis in Jiangnan will be solved. ”

Since the problem in Jiangnan can definitely be solved, then Deng Ming will inevitably flee back to Sichuan, and if he wants to eliminate this scourge once and for all, he still needs a powerful Sichuan-Shaanxi battalion. Shunzhi made the final decision, he looked at the location of Fujian on the map, and muttered to himself: "Dasu, don't let me down." ”

In Shunzhi's opinion, Dasu, who has the full support of Běijīng, should be able to eliminate Zheng Chenggong soon—Zheng Chengcheng was so fierce before, just because Shunzhi didn't bother with him. Within a month or two, Dasu should be able to turn around to the east and wipe out Zhoushan, which is much weaker than Zheng Chenggong. Then Da Su followed the Yangtze River to the west, and finally returned to his teacher with Li Guoying at Chóngqìng, trapping Deng Ming in a smaller and smaller cage - if Da Su hadn't eliminated Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan after two months, then Shunzhi would have been too disappointed in him.

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Quanzhou is the station of the general Dasu of the expedition to the south, and this year, the material resources south of the Yangtze River have been continuously gathered here, and at the same time, various kinds of orifice camps have also arrived in a steady stream.

Now there are 200,000 troops in Fujian, of which more than 60,000 are armored, and the strongest combat effectiveness is the first section of the Eight Banners of the Praetorian Guards brought by Dasu, the Jīng Rui of Henan and Shandong, and the thousands of vassal guards recruited from Geng Jimao in Fujian and Shang Kexi in Guangdong—these add up, there are about 12,000 cavalry and 28,000 infantry in armor, all of which are concentrated around Dasu, and are the troops he intends to use to carry out the landing operation in Xiamen.

The remaining 20,000 armor will be responsible for defending the long coast of Fujian, in case Zheng Chenggong follows the example of the Liukou, abandons Xiamen and begins to wander around the coastal areas again.

In order to send the 40,000 jīng Reebok horses drawn from all over the country across the Xiamen Strait, Shunzhi also recruited the most effective sailors in the world for Dasu, and now the Qing court sailors docked outside Quanzhou even have warships in Dengzhou, Shandong; Whether it was from Liangguang, Zhejiang, or Shandong, those who were transferred to Quanzhou were all large ships of the sea, commanded by the most famous officers of the naval division. At present, there are more than 1,000 Qing army ships and more than 10,000 sailors concentrated in Quanzhou Port, and the scale is still above the Yashan Battle of the Mongols to destroy the Song Dynasty.

Similar to the Battle of Yashan, the Manchu Qing also used the Han as the commander of the naval division, and this time Huang Wu and Shi Lang followed Dasu to Fujian.

Huang Wu was originally Zheng Chenggong's Haicheng guard, and he and another person were questioned by Zheng Gongcheng for cowardice, according to Zheng Chenggong's rules, he would give his subordinates a chance, so the other would be executed, and Huang Wu was ordered to make meritorious contributions. Zheng Chenggong's general Yu Xin once encountered the same situation as Huang Wu, and since then he has been desperately moving forward in every battle, accumulating merit to become Zheng Chenggong's forward general, and Gan Hui is known as the right-hand man of the king of Yanping County. Huang Wu was different, he did not have the determination to fight to the death with the Qing army, so he sacrificed the city to the Qing court - Haicheng was a strong stronghold operated by Zheng Chenggong for many years, and Huang Wu's betrayal brought heavy losses to Zheng Chenggong.

Shi Lang was a teenager because of the relationship between his uncle Shi Fu and put himself into Zheng Zhilong's army, after the Qing army went south, their uncle and nephew were firm lords, for which he had a fierce quarrel with Zheng Chenggong, who was still a prisoner, and finally Zheng Zhilong ignored Zheng Chenggong's persuasion and took Shi Lang and others to surrender to the Manchu Qing. After the surrender, Shi Lang used his strength to help the Qing army attack the Southern Ming, participated in the killing of Zhang Jiayu and Chen Zizhuang, and made many military exploits in it. Later, with Zheng Chenggong's continuous persuasion, a large number of former Fujian troops rebelled and rejoined the Ming army, but Shi Lang still unswervingly stood on the side of the Qing army and actively launched an attack on the Yongli court.

After Li Chengdong was anyway, the Qing army in Liangguang responded one after another and rejoined the Ming army, only Shi Lang was still like a stone, although he had become a lone army, he was still loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and fought hard to break through with more than 10,000 military horses. Under the encirclement and interception of Li Chengdong, Shi Lang's subordinates continued to decrease, and in the end, when there were only a few hundred people left, Shi Lang still refused to surrender to the Ming army, and broke through the Fujian army to intercept the cháo prefecture in order to seize the ship and return to the Qing army-controlled zhì area, but was blocked by Zheng Chenggong.

After the desperate Shi Lang surrendered to Zheng Chenggong, he began to concentrate on persuading Zheng Chenggong to fight with the Fujian army of other factions, from Zheng Lian to Hao Shangjiu, Zheng Chenggong had Shi Lang's planning, instigation and participation in all the conflicts with the armies of different factions in the Southern Ming Dynasty. When Zheng Chenggong was fighting with the Qing army, Shi Lang never went along, not only used dreams to dissuade Zheng Chenggong, but also spread evil omen among the three armies, and was finally dismissed from part of his post by Zheng Chenggong, who could not bear it.

The conflict finally broke out because of the report of Zeng De, the general of the Zheng army, when Zheng Chenggong went out to fight against the Qing army, Zeng De, the general under Shi Lang's account, was a firm main battle faction, and also a confidant of Zheng Chenggong's faction in Shi Lang's army, he suddenly fled from Shi Lang's military camp to Zheng Mansion, saying that the pro-Qing faction Shi Lang was plotting against him. After learning of this, Shi Lang dispatched an army to storm Zheng Chenggong's mansion, defeated Zheng Chenggong's guards who stayed at home, and rushed into Zheng's mansion to capture and kill Zeng De. Zheng Chenggong, who hurriedly returned, took Shi Lang's father and brother into custody and ordered Shi Lang to surrender, Shi Lang heard the news and absconded to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong put his people to death.

After Shi Lang's general Liu Guoxuan absconded, he swore to Zheng Chenggong that he did not know about it, and was forgiven by Zheng Chenggong, but never gave him military power again. In Deng Ming's previous life, Liu Guoxuan later gained the trust of Zheng Jing, who had the same trick as Shi Lang in the rebellion of the Three Feudatories, blindly persuading Zheng Jing to fight with Geng Jīng Zhong and Shang Zhixin, and fought extremely bravely, but he was able to escape when he fought with the Qing soldiers. After Zheng Jing's death, Liu Guoxuan supported Feng Xifan Huo and became the eldest son, thus gaining Feng Xifan's trust and mastering the military power of Penghu. When Shi Lang's front army arrived, Liu Guoxuan disregarded the requirements of the generals of the whole army and refused to go out to attack the weak Qing army forward, on the grounds that there was such a strong fort and water camp, there was no need to fight a naval battle with Shi Lang; After Shi Lang's whole army arrived and surpassed the Ming army, Liu Guoxuan forced the Ming Zheng Naval Division to abandon the strong fort and go to sea to attack the Shi Lang Division, which was waiting for the battle, and after seeing the defeat of the Naval Division and the sacrifice of tens of thousands of soldiers, Liu Guoxuan immediately led the remaining troops to dedicate the Penghu Fort and the camp to Shi Lang to surrender, which directly led to the fall of Ming Zheng - Liu Guoxuan was awarded the actual shortage of general troops by the Qing court after the war.

In the battle against Zheng Chenggong that Da Su was in charge of this time, Huang Wu and Shi Lang each had their own scope of work, the former was responsible for leading his own soldiers to clear Zheng Chenggong's secret agents in Fujian - Huang Wu was a Haicheng guard general before, and he knew about Zheng Chenggong's intelligence system deployed on the mainland; Shi Lang was responsible for commanding the operation of the naval division, he had been the commander of the Xiamen naval division before, and he knew Zheng Chenggong's water camp layout well, as for the cháo tide time in Xiamen, the shoals everywhere, and the undercurrent Shi Lang was also confident.

In this encirclement and suppression of Zheng Chenggong, Huang Wu and Shi Lang have different opinions, Huang Wu prefers to slow down the attack, thinking that as long as the army is stationed on the other side of Xiamen, it can deter Zheng Chenggong and make him dare not take the main force away from the root - in Huang Wu's view, Zheng Chenggong's biggest advantage is that he can threaten the entire southeast coast, as long as Zheng Chenggong gives full play to this strength, then Zheng Chenggong has to stay in Xiamen, a small place and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to fight for consumption - this victory or defeat is obviously clear at a glance.

But Huang Wu's idea of attrition war does not meet the wishes of Dasu and Shi Lang, Dasu's command is the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, the Battalion Jīng Rui and the Five Provinces Water Division, such a luxurious lineup and strong troops, so that Dasu is full of confidence in victory, if Huang Wu's attrition policy is adopted, I don't know when I will go with Zheng Chenggong. Shi Lang also disagreed with this opinion, because it was precisely because Shi Lang supported the initiative to attack that he had the opportunity to take charge of the five provincial water divisions, and if Huang Wu's strategy of delaying the attack was established, then there was no need for the Qing court to immediately grant Shi Lang such power.

And from the perspective of the comparison of troops, Zheng Chenggong's warships are about 5500, and the Qing army's naval divisions have a two-to-one advantage, and the Qing army's warships are all large ships drawn from the whole country, and Zheng Chenggong has both large and small ships, and the Qing army's naval division strength is more than three times that of Zheng Chenggong - no matter how good Zheng Chenggong is at managing maritime trade, his strength alone is still difficult to compare with the country's shipbuilding capacity.

From a tactical point of view, Zheng Chenggong not only needs to engage the main force of the Qing army, but also needs to guard against the landing of 40,000 armored troops of the Qing army, and on the other hand, the Qing army, as long as a large number of land forces can complete the landing, or defeat the main force of the Zheng army in a water battle, it can be declared victorious - even if the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is prevented from landing immediately, as long as the Qing army obtains complete sea control near Xiamen, Zheng Chenggong can only be destroyed.

Therefore, Shi Lang resolutely advocated an immediate decisive battle and immediately solved the problem of Zheng Chenggong, and Shi Lang confidently assured the Qing court and Dasu that with such a huge advantage in the navy and then attacking Zheng Chenggong's weakness at the beginning and end, he would only need to pay a small price to achieve a complete victory. Then the sailors of the five provinces returned to the east, and it was easy to wipe out the resistance of the Ming army in Zhoushan.

With the support of Dasu, the Shunzhi court vetoed Huang Wu's strategy of slowing down the offensive and adopted Shi Lang's strategy of rapid attack.

In Deng Ming's previous life, Shi Lang launched a strategic decisive battle against Zheng Chenggong with three or four times the strength of the naval division, and carried out a landing and naval battle at the same time, intending to complete the battle in one battle, but as a result, all the Qing court naval divisions from Shandong to Guangdong were defeated in one battle, making the Manchu thousands of miles of coastline defenseless. This also led the Qing court to completely lose confidence in Shi Lang, and never gave him any military power after that, until he learned that Liu Guoxuan, who was promoted by Shi Lang, was reused by Zheng Ming and took charge of Penghu military affairs, Shi Lang had to leave his idle post and get the opportunity to lead the water division again.