At the end of June, Chen Python led more than 20,000 Fujian officers and soldiers to Zhoushan. History is really helpless, whether it is Zheng Zhanxu or Chen Python, they are all heroes in Zheng Chenggong's Xiamen victory, Zheng Zhanxu followed his father Zheng Tai to intercept and kill Dasu who tried to retreat at sea, and Chen Python was even more one to ten, so that the northern line turned dangerous. But in Deng Ming's previous life, these people all defected to the Qing court, becoming the Qing army's maritime barrier, breaking the Zheng family's control of the Taiwan Strait. Chen Python followed Shi Lang on the expedition as the chief soldier of the Navy Division after the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories, and became the executioner who destroyed the last Han resistance force on the island of Taiwan.

Tens of thousands of Min soldiers recalled the thrills of the past two months, full of hatred for the former owner, and after the horror calmed down a little, the newly arrived Ming army in Zhoushan also scolded Zheng Xi and Zheng Zhanxu together. Now Jin and Xia may see them as traitors, but these people are also full of anger about being betrayed. However, because Gan Hui and others were present, all the blame was naturally pushed on Zheng Jing's henchmen, and it became a traditional anti-traitor and not anti-faint monarch. The Min soldiers who arrived in Zhoushan were panicked and extremely confused, including Gan Hui and others who resolutely refused to use force with Zheng Jing, and Zheng Zhanxu who gritted his teeth with hatred, and most of them had no idea, and the generals at the top of their loyalty chain followed what they said.

For the commanders of these tens of thousands of Fujian troops, they also urgently need a new source of loyalty chain so that they can rely on something. Gan Hui, Yu Xin, and Wan Li did not have many soldiers and horses, and it was good to be directly attached to Zhang Huangyan, but now the Fujian army that fled from front and back has reached 40,000 people, and more than 800 large and small ships, which are stronger than Zhang Huangyan and Ma Fengzhi's forces, and the factions are also very complicated. Fortunately, no one of them has tried to start another unification war now, or the idea is not yet mature, so they can only argue indiscriminately and wait for Zhang Huangyan to come back.

At this time in Xiamen, the twenty-one-year-old Wang Shizi of Yanping County and the acting general Zheng Jing were standing in his father's palace in Xiamen. The letter of mourning has been sent to Burma, and as long as the court replies to the letter, Zheng Jing will officially inherit his father's title and official position. Deng Ming of Sichuan, although he was so young that he was jealous, only received the title of Duke of Guo at the age of twenty-three. Now the title of the Ming Dynasty has been depreciated very much, but the name of the prince still has its value, such as Liu Zhen, the son of the king of Shu, who has not been approved by the court for a long time, and until now it is still in the name of the prince of Shu, it seems that the court will forget about this matter if it drags on.

But it was almost impossible for the imperial court to refuse Zheng Jing's request, so Zheng Jing was bound to ascend to the throne at a younger age than Baoguo Gong, after all, he already held a large territory and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. If it had been two months earlier, the prince of Yanping would have had a stronger army, and at that time he inherited almost the entire army of his father.

The guards stood at the door from a distance, no one looked back and looked in, and all morning, the prince of Yanping County did not come out, did not even sit down to work, but often got up and walked around the table, and from time to time let out a long sigh. Today, the prince of Yanping County did not summon any henchmen or subordinates to discuss the matter, and there is nothing to change about the next plan, and the troops and officials on Xiamen Island who are still obeying the prince of Yanping County are busy preparing for the evacuation.

With Zheng Jing's current status, and the right to decide everything big and small, he could take a big step and put his boots on the floor with a shocking sound that shocked his subordinates. But Zheng Jing didn't do this, he walked lightly to the gate of the palace, stood in the middle of the guards on both sides, and silently looked at the blue sky and white clouds over Xiamen.

After more than ten years of Zheng Chenggong's operation, there are not only numerous warehouses, a strong defensive system of fortresses, outposts and walls, but also well-maintained ports and roads that are constantly being repaired. It is also home to the largest shipyard in East Asia, where the finest timber purchased by Zheng Chenggong from the South Seas will be quickly processed into warships and merchant ships.

The entire island of Xiamen was also surrounded and protected by numerous maritime posts, and even on the mainland coast controlled by the Qing army, the Ming army also arranged concealed secret posts, and in the yamen in the coastal areas there were many detailed works of the Ming army -- all this was the confidence of the Ming army to dare to station so close to the mainland.

But now that all this was bound to be abandoned, Zheng Jing's gaze was withdrawn from the sky, and he looked down at his toes: two years ago, the nineteen-year-old Zheng Jing was entrusted by his father for the first time with the important task of taking charge of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Jinxia, taking care of the mountains of gold, silver, grain, gunpowder and other materials stored in the warehouse, and protecting the important factories and the surrounding port posts. In order to accomplish this, Zheng Jing needed to read dozens of pieces of information sent back from the mainland every day, many of which would contradict each other, and some of them might even be suspicious of the enemy, and they needed to be carefully analyzed to separate the false from the true, so as to deduce Huang Wu and Shi Lang's intentions to attack Jinxia, if any.

Before leaving, Zheng Chenggong explained to his heir that all this was not easy, and most of the children of other gentlemen's families were still indulging in lust and flying eagles and lackeys at this age. However, Zheng Jing definitely can't, because he is the son of the king of Yanping, and he has a father who is very strict and full of hope for him, and asks him to immediately assume responsibility for the family and the country.

Zheng Jing thinks that he has made a mistake that is easy for a young man to make, but he is not a negative man, if he gives birth to a son, Zheng Jing intends to cultivate him as his heir, just like his father Zheng Chenggong carefully cultivated himself. However, Zheng Jing's father obviously has a different opinion on this, maybe this mistake can be tolerated in the families of other gentlemen, can be covered and forgotten, but the Zheng family is not any other gentleman, and his father has no intention of tolerating this mistake, and he wants Zheng Jing to die to apologize.

Zheng Jing was unwilling to die, he was not yet twenty, and his first son had just been born, Zheng Jing refused his father's request...... Not long after, his father died, and someone falsely passed on his father's will, wanting to take advantage of their father-son feud to seize his property, so Zheng Jing raised an army...... There was a lot of danger around, and there seemed to be many people secretly talking about Zheng Jing's misdeeds and questioning the legitimacy of his inheritance, so Zheng Jing needed to establish his authority, and he needed to eliminate those who might threaten his position, those who were not respectful to his authority—this was something that Zheng Jing was convinced that had to be done in order to maintain the unity of the Min army, and he was optimistic that it would not be difficult.

After starting with the idea that long-term pain is better than short-term pain, Zheng Jing found that there were unexpectedly many enemies, Zheng Zhanxu, Zheng Xi, and Chen Python were able to bewitch so many people. Traitors and half-hearted people popped up in waves, and every day people came to report and new people tried to rebel, and in the most tense days, Zheng Jing couldn't sleep for a few hours at night, and kept getting up to meet those who came to the palace to ask for a meeting, and then sent a team of troops loyal to him to suppress and quell the rebellion.

But there are more and more chaotic parties, and the number of ships outside the port is decreasing every day, even after Chen Bang and others fled, the rebellion of the formation is certainly gone, but the escape of threes, threes, threes, twos and twos is indeed intensifying. The harder Zheng Jing tried to catch and execute all the black sheep who bewitched the army's heart, the more widely these people were distributed. Even if Zheng Jing ordered the boats to be guarded, it was useless, and every night there were Ming soldiers who fled Xiamen with wooden planks, and those who were good in the water simply swam directly to Tong'an.

More than 40,000 people fled by boat, and 20,000 or 30,000 people crossed the sea to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Now that the Golden Gate is empty, even if they don't catch up with Zheng Zhanxu, those Zheng Tai's old subordinates will never stay and wait to be liquidated.

At present, there are only tens of thousands of people left around Xiamen, of which only 5,000 are soldiers, not to mention the defense of Jinmen and Xiamen, even the reconnaissance and early warning systems that support all the troops are almost impossible to do; And what does it do to support the early warning system? In order to make it easier for the people sent out to escape from Xiamen by boat?

Even more dangerous was the reaction of the Dutch. Originally, after the loss in Taiwan, the Dutch had agreed to pay Zheng Chenggong taxes and fees for transit, and allowed Zheng Chenggong to dispose of all ships that evaded taxes. But two months ago, the Dutch refused to continue with the agreement, and last month Zheng Jing took the initiative to back down and tried to negotiate with the Dutch to reduce the transit fee to a "more reasonable" level, but the Dutch representative reacted by refusing to negotiate and sailing out of Penghu.

Zheng Jing sensed the atmosphere of war from it, and now in order to alleviate the crisis in Jin and Xiamen, it is necessary to transfer immigrants and troops from Taiwan back, but if the Dutch decide to go to war again, they will pose a huge threat to the already severely weakened Zheng army, and may even cut off communication in the Taiwan Strait. Zheng Jing's speculation was similar, and the Dutch who left Penghu were ecstatic, believing that the end of the Min army was imminent, and they were anxious to discuss how to persuade the Batavian parliament to openly join the Qing side.

If it was Zheng Chenggong, who had experienced a hundred battles, he would have the confidence and courage to meet this kind of challenge, just like he did in the Battle of Xiamen, even if the Qing court gathered the strength of the whole country, as long as it was fighting in Xiamen, Zheng Chenggong was not afraid. However, Zheng Jing, who was just in his early twenties, did not have such courage - perhaps this was also a kind of self-knowledge, Zheng Jing had already ordered that the rest of Xiamen's population be moved to Taiwan. Burn warehouses, ports, shipyards and outposts, fortresses as much as possible.

"These abominable traitors." Zheng Jing gritted his teeth with hatred when he thought of the generals who had defected, and they had hollowed out the self-defense forces of Jin and Xia, so that he had to reluctantly abandon his father's longest-running, strongest and most important counteroffensive base. However, Zheng Jing gradually recovered from the mania and excitement of these days, he glanced at the guards who were still in the palace at this time, and secretly swore in his heart: "I will be good to them, and I will definitely treat these people who are loyal to me." ”