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At this time, resentment was Zheng Chenggong's primary emotion towards Wu Zheng.

If Wu Zheng hadn't rejected his joint strategy for Fujian, how could he have suffered such a big defeat?

Thinking of this, Zheng Chenggong said: "There is no need to send someone to the Hangzhou Prefecture. He can control the waters in the Chenqian Mountain area. I can also control the coastal waters along Fujian and Guangdong. He can restrict our caravans from going north, and I can also restrict the merchants of his prefectures to pass... I will pass on my order. From now on, any merchant ships carrying the flag of the Northern Expedition Army shall not control the waters through our army!"

Chen Yonghua was shocked. He was really anxious and hurriedly advised: "Prince, if you are so tit-for-tat, you are afraid that it will lead to a war..."

"I am afraid that he will not succeed?" Zheng Chenggong glared, "He is on the first day of the lunar calendar, and I will do the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. Right and wrong, and there will be negotiations between the two courts... You don't have to say anything, just pass on the order!"

Chen Yonghua could only retreat.

However, before Chen Yonghua walked out of the door, soldiers came to report that Shi Lang had surrendered.

Shi Lang has surrendered?

Upon hearing this news, Chen Yonghua turned around suddenly.

Shi Lang's troops were not large, which was not enough to affect the overall situation. However, once Shi Lang surrendered, Haiyang City would become an isolated city and there would be no reinforcements.

It happened to be a rare opportunity for the Zheng army to attack Haiyang City.

Chen Yonghua quickly turned around and bowed to Zheng Chenggong and said, "God helps the prince conquer Haiyang and recover Chaozhou Prefecture."

However, Zheng Chenggong was still hesitating. He looked at Chen Yonghua and said, "Shi Lang is only more than 3,000 people. Hao Shangjiu, Haiyang City, has 6,000 defenders, defending the city, and has muskets and cannons and weapons..."

Chen Yonghua said anxiously: "But although our army now has 20,000 people, it is still defending a corner of Chaoyang. If we do not capture Haiyang and recover Chaozhou, once the Qing army in Fujian goes south, our army will be unable to support it and will have to retreat to the sea..."

"Stop talking!" Zheng Chenggong shouted, "Since Shi Lang is willing to surrender, Hao Shangjiu will naturally surrender. Now Haiyang City has become an isolated city. As long as the conditions are good, Hao Shangjiu will surrender... Send someone to serve as an envoy!"

Chen Yonghua's face was dull and he retreated silently.

Seeing Chen Yonghua leave, Zheng Chenggong's face became weird.

He picked up a page of letter paper pressed by several folds from the side of the case and read it again.

This is a letter from his uncle Zheng Zhiguan from Xiamen.

The letter also mentioned that the north sea route was controlled by Wu Zheng, and the merchant ships from the Zheng family to Dagukou were almost blocked.

The army's food and salary were gone, and the 8,000 garrisons and navy in Xiamen had the possibility of mutiny.

In desperation, Zheng Zhiguan had to retake the Zheng family's old business - robbery.

It's true, it's awesome.

Of course, the purpose of Zheng Zhiguan's writing this letter is definitely not to report on the results of looting the merchant ships across the street.

In the letter, Zheng Zhiguan advised Zheng Chenggong to launch a raid on Wu Zheng's Zhoushan Navy with the huge navy of the Zheng family.

First, I would like to give Wu Zheng a warning to force Wu Zheng to free up the sea route, and at least allow the Zheng family's merchant fleet to continue to move northward. Second, I would like to repay Wang Deren's army to be suddenly wiped out by Wu Zheng, causing the Zheng family to lose the rich monthly profits.

Zheng Zhiguan’s suggestion really made Zheng Chenggong hesitate a little.

Zheng Chenggong weighed in his heart that Zheng Zhiguan is not impossible, nor is it that Zheng Zhiguan is arrogant.

The Zheng family had a huge navy. Although Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong had also made small plans. When he surrendered, he only had tens of thousands of infantry soldiers around him. The rest of the troops guarded the various prefectures and did not surrender at the same time.

Of course, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered, under Duoduo's forced order to surrender. After that, the Zheng army of each prefecture did surrender one after another.

But this does not include the navy.

Duoduo didn't want to force too much, thinking that as long as he occupied the land, the Zheng family's navy was just a tree without roots. This makes sense. Since ancient times, there has never been a navy that can insist on resisting like an army after the country was destroyed.

This is because the navy must base. No matter how powerful the navy is, it needs supplies at all times. If there are casualties, it also requires soldiers. In addition, the coastal areas are basically free of dangers. Therefore, the navy, even the navy in later generations, does not have the basis for independent resistance.

Duoduo's abacus was correct. Taking Zheng Zhilong to Shuntian Prefecture was equivalent to cutting off the Zheng family's naval gamble, and surrendering was just a matter of time sooner or later.

But what Duoduo did not expect was that Zheng Sen was born in the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong's brothers surrendered, but Zheng Zhilong's son refused to surrender.

Duoduo made a strategic mistake. After Zheng Zhilong surrendered, he should not have taken Zheng Zhilong to Shuntian Prefecture.

If Zheng Zhilong is there, it will be a great suppression of Zheng Chenggong.

Even if Zheng Chenggong really wants to turn against Zheng Zhilong, with Zheng Zhilong's reputation in the army, how many functions will Zheng Cheng recruit?

But once Zheng Zhilong was taken to Shuntian Prefecture, okay, the Zheng family in the entire Fujian and Guangdong area was like a group of dragons without a leader. Some surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, some were independent, and some were enrolled in Yongli.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong suddenly climbed up and shouted, and there were naturally many responders.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's rise was very fast, far faster than Wu Zheng's in Shaoxing Prefecture, because at the beginning, he recruited old subordinates of the Zheng family, which means that they were all veterans and did not even need training.

This is even more true for the navy. Who would like to travel across the ocean and leave their hometown?

Since Zheng Chenggong decided to fight against the Qing Dynasty, he would naturally take effect.

Duoduo made another strategic mistake at this time. If he would throw all the Fujian and Guangdong Qing army into a decisive battle against Zheng Chenggong, it would be very likely that Zheng Chenggong could only escape from land and go to sea with the navy.

But Duoduo did not. He believed that Zheng Chenggong was nothing more than a scabies. It was no wonder that how could the Tartars who would win the world immediately know that the next few hundred years would be the world of the navy.

Not only did Duoduo not encircle and suppress Zheng Chenggong, he instead mobilized his troops north to attack Ningbo and Shaoxing prefectures.

This led to the Shaoxing Prefecture that a war between the two sides invested a total of more than 100,000 people.

In that battle, Duoduo was captured and later executed, and Wu Zheng also lost the general Qian Sudian.

The biggest impact of this battle was that Zheng Chenggong's power grew wildly and grew rapidly without any suppression.

Until the peak, an army of 300,000 gathered.

This led to the fact that Zheng Chenggong sent people to Wu Zheng to seek combat alliance with Fujian. After Wu Zheng declined, he still insisted on attacking the battle of Fujian.

This led to the great defeat outside the city of Fuzhou, with most of the troops losing their strength. He had to lead the remnants to retreat south of Quanzhou and defend the four coastal prefectures along Fujian and Guangdong to rest and recuperate.

But in this defeat, all the infantry were lost, and the Zheng family navy was still intact.

The Zheng family navy is very large and there are so many ships of all sizes that cannot be counted.

There are sixty-eight main battleships alone, carrying forty-eight side guns, two bow guns and stern guns.

The medium-sized warship has a maximum of 300, and it is loaded with twenty-four and thirty-six cannons.
Chapter completed!