But the final result was that Zheng Sen surrounded Yingtian Mansion and refused to attack for nearly a month.

When Qing reinforcements arrived in Jiangxi, Xuzhou and other places, they surrounded the Zheng army... In the end, more than half of the hundreds of thousands of troops were injured and killed, and fled in a panic. Since then, they have been in a panic for seven or eight years.

That's not all. After Li Dingguo, the remnants of the Great Western Region, had a "two famous kings", the morale of various rebels in the west was high, and countless Ming troops who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty returned to the right. Li Dingguo had already joined Yongli's command at this time and was a legitimate colleague with Zheng Sen. However, Li Dingguo asked Zheng Sen to jointly send troops several times, but was rejected by Zheng Sen. Li Dingguo even proposed a marriage to increase mutual trust, but was also rejected by Zheng Sen.

As a result, Li Dingguo was unable to support himself and only attacked Huguang, he was defeated.

Since then, there has been no decent situation or opportunity for the great cause of anti-Qing.

It can be said that Zheng Sen mastered the largest anti-Qing resources at that time, but did not act, which directly led to the demise of the anti-Qing forces.

Zheng Sen's situation actually has great similarities with the Shi Kefa of the Hongguang Dynasty.

Hongguang's millions of troops collapsed quickly without the attack of the Qing army. Although there were reasons for the intrigue of the princes in the four towns, the main reasons were that Shi Kefa was a great talent, indecisiveness and inaction.

Shi Kefa and Zheng Sen are a kind of people. They are loyal ministers, but they are not a good leader, at least a leader without vision.

If you think about it carefully, this is reasonable. The Zheng family was born as a pirate, without strategic vision, and lived in a corner and was happy. This concept greatly restricted the pioneering and enterprising spirit of Zheng Sen's power.

Wu Zheng has such a clear understanding of Zheng Sen, how could he trust Zheng Sen to cooperate with him in the Northern Expedition?

Therefore, Wu Zheng flatly rejected Zheng Sen's joint proposal and did not want to pin his hopes for the Northern Expedition on Zheng Sen.

Because Wu Zheng has clearly identified in his heart from the information south in recent years and his understanding of Zheng Sen's actions in history that Zheng Sen is just a teammate of pigs. He can shout slogans while drinking, but he must not entrust his life.

And tonight, Wu Zheng was undoubtedly angry when he learned from Zhu Yihai that the Yongli Dynasty and Zheng Sen had launched such a conspiracy against him to poach his own secrets.

It's tolerant, but who can't bear it!

....

But Wu Zheng was still hesitating. He wanted to transform from uniting all forces that could be united to destroying a former "friendly" force. This required great strategic determination and the courage to face the criticism of thousands of people, because Zheng Sen was a minister of Yongli. Because of the civil war, it would never be liked.

Wu Zheng couldn't convince his own people.

During the whole day of the meeting, three completely different response logics emerged.

The two Zhang (Zhang Guowei, Zhang Huangyan) objected. They firmly disagree to take action against "our own people" before the success of the Northern Expedition. Even if the other party takes action first, they agreed to use the same method, not, to be precise, to return the person to the other person's body, and control the conflict in one part and one area. For example... assassination of Zheng Sen.

Wu Zheng was very surprised. The two gentlemen-like characters praised the important figures who assassinated each other and warned each other.

Mo Zhinian also objected, his reason was not abrupt - he had no money!

The Wu Zheng power has no time to have money, and it is in vain. The stall is too big and there is no way. Ten thousand years is too long, so I have to seize the day!

But the Wu Zheng forces have never retreated because they have no money. There is the merit of Mo Zhongnian, but it is not just Mo Zhongnian's merit. Just like the righteous and upright, even if you give it two or three people like Mo Zhongnian, you cannot do it like the Wu Zheng forces, because the mud cannot support the wall.

This is not mean. If there is something to be supported by the Yixing Dynasty, Wu Zheng would rather be a powerful minister cursed by the world than completely part ways with the royal family.

Xiong Rulin abstained from power and did not express his opinion. Although he didn't know what he was thinking, his attitude also showed that between approval and opposition, he was closer to approval, because Wu Zheng was a minority at this time.

Ma Shiying agreed, but his official position has not reached the level of being able to participate in the voting, so he can only watch it, in the words of later generations, he is attending.

Wu Zheng felt a sense of depression. He did not blame Er Zhang for opposing it. It really required caution when launching a war, especially the "internal" war. Wu Zheng has not been able to truly get rid of the Ming Dynasty. It is not because the power to break free is insufficient, but because there are too many Ming ministers in Wu Zheng's power.

These people are loyal ministers, so don't be doubted, such as Er Zhang, Qian Sule and Huang Daozhou. Although they have decided to decouple from the Ming Dynasty, this does not mean that they still have a lot of concern for Ming in their hearts, which is the loyalty they have fought for for half their lives, or even most of their lives.

How can one easily break it?

Wu Zheng completely felt Cao Cao's embarrassment and also felt Cao Cao's helplessness. The Han Dynasty cannot be supported, but the Han ministers are still there!

This is a kind of tear, a tear of human heart.

There can be good and evil in human hearts, right and wrong.

But Zhengzhi only has the enemy of us!

Wu Zheng did not insist anymore, and he chose to compromise.

But Wu Zheng's nature is definitely not a compromise person.

Compromise is to alleviate the inconsistency of internal opinions and prevent tearing.

Wu Zheng took a roundabout way, and the war could not be launched, so there would be a sudden, inevitable... encounter!

Wu Zheng is not a vengeful person, but the Yongli Dynasty and Zheng Sen did touch Wu Zheng's bottom line.

The harm caused at the moment is indeed not great, but if you don’t fight back, who dares to say that the harm will not spread and expand?

Wu Zheng was just a prince, and Yongli was the emperor!

All under the world is the king's land, and all the king's ministers are the king's ministers.

The other party's hand had reached into his home. Wu Zheng couldn't bear it and didn't want to!

So Wu Zheng went to Xiaohuilou.

So that Song An began to summarize various information about the South.

Wu Zheng planned to do something wrong, regardless of property discussion, and to force his attack on Nan.

But what surprised Wu Zheng was that a war report that was expected but came at the right time made his "revenge action" natural!

....

The next morning, Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yilin brought good news.

Wang Deren is dead!

More than 800 ships of all sizes were seized, including 16 gunboats, the largest ship, and 64 new guns were loaded, which could be compared with Zhang Mingzhen's main battleship.

Listening to Zhang Mingzhen and his two replays, Wu Zheng was shocked and sweated.

If Wang Deren hadn't been prepared, or if he hadn't expected Wu Zheng to take action suddenly, then the consequences of both sides fighting with all their might be something Wu Zheng could not bear.

But this also made Wu Zheng secretly glad that if it had not been a quick decision and the matter would be delayed, then Wang Deren's growing navy would have formed an invisible restraint on Zhoushan and Wusong navy.

The three navy ships have too close to the garrison and the consequences will be unpredictable if there is a conflict.
Chapter completed!