Chongming and Zheng's army have been surrounded for thirteen days.

After retreating from Nanjing to Haikou, Zheng Chenggong decided to retake Chongming Island and then the general's family members were placed here, so that they could free up their hands to decide the victory and defeat with the Qing army. The painful lessons of the family members of Nanjing's city, Zheng Chenggong could not commit the second time. Before attacking the island, Zheng Chenggong ordered people to go to the island to persuade them to surrender, but the Qing army on the island already knew that the Zheng army was defeated under Nanjing city, so he resisted stubbornly.

After two days of preparation, Zheng Chenggong ordered the right military guard Zhou Quanbin to attack the west gate of Chongming, Wu Hao attacked the north gate of Xuanyi Houzhen, Han Ying attacked the northeast corner of Zhengbing Town, and Han Chong attacked the southwest corner of Houchong Town, and he personally supervised the battle. The Qing army guerrillas Liu Guoyu, Tong Guangying, Wang Long, Chen Ding and others fought to the death, and the Zheng army made a poor progress. Han Ying and the supervisor of Zhengbing Town, and Wang Qifeng fought bravely to attack the city, but were both injured by the Qing army's muskets, and soon they were seriously injured and died.

The Zheng army, which was slow to take over Chongming Island, was increasingly sluggish. Everyone in the army only hoped that the vassal lord would order the withdrawal of troops to return to Jinxia, ​​and no one would be willing to stay in Jiangnan for a long time. Zheng Chenggong was unwilling to give up. On the one hand, he sent someone to tell Ma Fengzhi that he would surrender to the Qing court to negotiate peace, so as to paralyze the Qing army; on the other hand, he hoped to buy time for the Zhejiang army, which had no news. At this time, Zheng Chenggong had already regretted that he should not give up the retreat of Zhenjiang, otherwise it would not make Zhang Huangyan and the Zhejiang army alone and could not break through the Jiang defense and rush out.

On the 27th, news came that the Qing Jiangnan Admiral Guan Qizhong led thousands of soldiers to the east from Nanjing and had arrived at Suzhou Prefecture. However, because he was afraid of the huge navy of the Zheng army, Guan Qizhong did not dare to reinforce Chongming Island, so he only let Ma Fengzhi take responsibility for Chongming's defense. Guan Qizhong did not dare to come, but Zheng Chenggong did not dare to take risks. Although the battle under Nanjing was defeated by his lie to Lang Tingzuo and Guan Qizhong, he was defeated by his lack of restraint of military discipline and let Yuxin and others do it, in the final analysis, the risky attack of the Qing army was the main reason for the defeat of the Zheng army. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong was worried that Guan Qizhong would take the risk of smuggling out. In that case, with the current situation of the Zheng army, it would be another big defeat.

Ma Fengzhi had no reply for a long time. It was thought that the Qing court did not believe that Zheng Chenggong wanted to negotiate with them. The main force of his troops was ready to move. The Qing army's sentry survey ships appeared more and more frequently. Chen Yonghua, a member of the army, judged that Ma Fengzhi had completely turned to the Qing court and was ready to fight with the Zheng army with all his strength to clear his inaction in the front.

The army had no intention of fighting, and everyone was looking forward to returning. General Zhou Quanbin and others persuaded the vassal lords to withdraw their troops every day. Zheng Chenggong finally decided to give up attacking Chongming and withdraw back to Jinxia. However, considering that he had gained an extra chance of withdrawing for the Zhejiang army, he did not order the entire army to retreat, but ordered the retreat in batches. The family and the front army went first, and the central army and the rear army went again. This could be regarded as restraining the Qing army in Jiangnan and doing the final personnel for Zhang Shangshu.

In the late night, waves hit the hull with waves. The sky was covered with dark clouds and there were no stars.

Accompanied by Chen Yonghua, Zheng Chenggong walked to the deck and looked at the continent with an extremely complicated expression. The Qing army camp on the shore emitted a flash of fire, and the sea was also shining everywhere, but the lanterns hanging by Zheng's fleet were fluttering in the wind.

In the distance, a crying sound came through the sea breeze. It was the husband and son who died in the city of Nanjing and on Chongming Island in tears.

The crying made Zheng Chenggong's nose sore. He felt that he was sorry for these families. It was his fault that caused them to lose their relatives.

He thought of Gan Hui, Yu Xin, Pan Gengzhong, Wan Li and the others who died in battle

He was trembling, not because of the cold, but because of heartache.

"Father Lord"

Looking at the shaking body of the vassal lord, Chen Yonghua choked and cried.

After a long time, Zheng Chenggong's emotions calmed down. When he turned to look at Chen Yonghua, he had a look of determination.

"This vassal is still young, and victory or defeat is common in military affairs. It doesn't matter if you lose this time. As long as we don't give up, one day, I will come back to the Yangtze River!"

The 35-year-old King Yanping was not defeated by failure. He had already made a decision. After returning to Jinxia, ​​he sent troops to the East Fan to control the East Fan waters and raise troops with the East Fan. Then he reorganized the troops and fought with the Qing army again.

In Nanjing, Prince An, who came to Jiangning in person to command the extermination of the pirates, was sitting in the lobby of the Liangjiang Governor Lang Tingzuo.

Not long ago, Lang Tingzuo asked An Qing for emergency, but Prince An was reluctant to send reinforcements. Now that the pirates have retreated, Prince An led the army to arrive at the first time. The Manchu and Han generals in Jiangning City were not without strange words, but no one dared to show it in front of the prince. Even Lang Tingzuo, the governor, dared not express any dissatisfaction in front of the prince. Instead, he had to express his great gratitude to Prince An for help with gratitude.

"Bring the criminals up."

Yue Le picked up the gavel that Lang Tingzuo often used and patted the table. Suddenly, a soldier general Gan Hui and Yu Xin, who had already been brought up from the prison, took him to the lobby.

Looking at Gan Hui and Yu Xin who were covered in blood and tortured, Yue Le laughed and said to Lang Tingzuo: "These two are the right-hand arms of the pirate Zheng Sen you mentioned? Why do I look like two thieves?"

"No matter how fierce the bandit is, they will be two dragons when they arrive in front of the prince." Lang Tingzuo accompanied the pen and shouted at Gan Hui and Yu Xin: "When you see my Prince of the Qing Dynasty, don't you kneel down yet!"

"Kneel down!"

The governors and soldiers yelled together.

Yu Xin looked up at Yue Le and Lang Tingzuo above, hesitated for a moment, his knees softened, and he fell to the ground slowly. However, as soon as his body fell down, he was hit by something on his left waist. Yu Xin couldn't help but turn his head to look, but Gan Hui, who was tied up, kicked him with his feet.

"you!"

Yu Xin was stunned, not knowing why Gan Hui kicked him. Gan Hui stared at him and sneered, and then cursed: "Idiot, do you think you can survive by kneeling down!"

"I"

Yu Xin looked gloomy and bowed his head for a moment. Suddenly, he struggled to stand up again, stood side by side with Gan Hui, glaring at Yue Le and Lang Tingzuo.

Seeing this, Yue Le snorted: "These two thieves are tough."

Lang Tingzuo raised his eyebrows and signaled his personal soldiers to go forward to General Gan. The two of them pressed down. The personal soldiers were about to step forward to take action, but Yue Le chuckled and waved his hand to signal them to retreat.

"Although they are thieves, they are also famous people in the bandits. Let them stand. The king has submitted a memorial, but when the emperor approves, he will punish these two bandits with the wise order."

"It's not an exaggeration to cut these two thieves into pieces!"

Lang Tingzuo focused his head. Seeing that Gan Hui and Yu Xinning were unyielding, they knew that they could not ask anything, so they wanted to order the soldiers to take them down. Jiang Ning Governor Jiang Guozhu rushed in with anger and found that Prince An was also there. He hurriedly stopped his anger and went forward to pay his respects to Yue Le. Then he reappeared in anger and said to Lang Tingzuo:
Chapter completed!