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The strength of the Zheng family naval division is not to be doubted. Just think about the failure of Zheng Chenggong from the sea three times in a row, losing 70% of his troops, and he could still turn around and defeat the Portuguese fleet, which was a naval power at that time, and regain the Dongfanyi as the base, and then guess the strength of the Zheng family naval division at that time.

This is the accumulation of several generations of the Zheng family.

However, the artillery on the Zheng family naval warship was still old-style artillery, mainly solid bullets, which were the kind of cannons that were completely destroyed and could be used with stone bullets, or even smashed or flattened into the cannon chamber as shells.

This is not a big deal for Zheng Chenggong, because the silver required to replace heavy naval guns for so many warships is an astronomical figure.

But this does not mean that the Zheng family navy is not strong in combat, because the Zheng family navy has never fought a major battle in recent years, and it has enough shells to be reserved, and it has not yet reached the point of using stone bombs.

If Wu Zheng had not formed a new naval army, purchased from the West, and built warships in Wusong, even if there were two or even three Zhoushan navy troops, they would not have been the one-piece enemy of the Zheng family navy.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong agreed with his uncle Zheng Zhiguan's suggestion.

He taught Wu a lesson and caught him off guard. As a result, the Zheng family's dominance in the north and south coasts was established in the first battle.

It also helps alleviate the food and wage difficulties, and at the same time avenge Wu's struggle to eliminate Wang Deren's tribe.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong did not intend to fight Wu to a life-and-death battle, which was unrealistic. After all, there were tens of thousands of Qing troops separated by the two sides, thousands of miles away.

Zheng Chenggong took paper and pen from the case and began to write a reply to his uncle Zheng Zhiguan.

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十天时间转眼过去.

Zheng Chenggong sent people to recruit Hao Shangjiu three times, and was promised to have high officials and generous salaries, but they were all rejected by Hao Shangjiu, so he sent someone to ask Emperor Yongli for the title of king.

At this time, the three thousand Qing troops from Fujian had arrived in Zhangzhou.

Li Chengdong was also worried about the gains and losses of Haiyang City, so he sent three thousand reinforcements from Nanhai (Panyu) to reinforce Chaozhou.

Only then did Zheng Chenggong feel something was wrong and finally adopted Chen Yonghua's suggestion. On the grounds that Hao Shangjiu's position was "unclear" and sent troops from Jieyang and Chaoyang to attack Haiyang in two groups.

However, the Zheng army attacked Haiyang City with an army of 20,000 for five days.

At this time, the two Qing reinforcements from the north and the two routes of Qing army were approaching. In desperation, Zheng Chenggong had to withdraw his troops and return to Chaoyang to defend.

Fortunately, Hao Shangjiu suffered two or three thousand casualties in this battle, and the Zheng army was still stronger than the Qing army.

After the Qing army reinforcements arrived in Haiyang, they did not launch a counterattack against the Zheng army.

The two sides just stalemate.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong realized his indecisiveness and lost the best opportunity to conquer Haiyang.

But there is no medicine for regret in the world, so Zheng Chenggong can only sigh and do nothing.

It is said that character determines destiny. In fact, if you guess Zheng Chenggong's personality from Zheng Chenggong's strategic layout and the three Northern Expeditions, you will clearly find that Zheng Chenggong is actually not a military strategist, and not to mention his command ability, Zheng Chenggong's strategic vision is very short-sighted.

For example, before the second attack on Fujian, Zheng Chenggong had nearly 200,000 troops in his hands.

This is already quite huge, almost twice as many as the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong.

If Zheng Chenggong did not choose to attack Fujian but instead attacked western Guangdong, then there was a very high possibility that he could break through the defense line of the Qing army in Guangdong and join forces with the Yongli Dynasty army. In this way, the entire southwestern border would be from the Yongli Dynasty. If the Qing army wanted to recover it again, it would cost more and time.

However, Zheng Chenggong insisted on attacking Fujian. Perhaps it was because Fujian was richer than the barren western Guangdong, or perhaps it was because Zheng Chenggong had no intention of connecting with the Yongli Dynasty. As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, Zheng Chenggong, as a prince, was unwilling to be under the oppression of the emperor.

It would be better to listen to the tune or not, but it would be better if you don’t listen to the tune or not!

Of course, this is just a speculation. Only he himself knows what Zheng Chenggong really thinks.

But in history, Zheng Chenggong did miss the great cause of anti-Qing. In recent years, Zheng Chenggong once had 70% of the Yongli Dynasty's troops, and at the highest of 300,000.

But he had no enterprising spirit. He held a corner and at most he would regain several palaces. His only enterprising spirit was to regain Fujian.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong's contribution cannot be erased, that is, he has dragged more than 100,000 Qing troops in Fujian and Guangdong.

Otherwise, Wu Zheng would not be so relaxed, and Yixingchao would not have the energy to change palaces and internal fighting several times.

At this time, in Guangdong, the Zheng army only included Jieyang, Chaoyang, Huilai, and some coastal islands.

The situation is very serious, and it can be said that there is not much time left and I just struggle to die.

But Zheng Chenggong still insisted on blocking the waters he controlled and prevented merchant ships flying the Northern Expedition flag from passing.

So in the past half month, the merchant ships of the Wu Zheng forces and the merchant ships to the territory of the Wu Zheng forces had to circle a big circle and go around the Dongfan Island controlled by the Dutch.

After this battle, Chen Yonghua's weight in Zheng Chenggong's heart increased a little further. Whenever there is military affairs, Zheng Chenggong would call Chen Yonghua to come and discuss it together.

This is a later story.

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It is definitely a fool to insist on hitting an egg against a stone, and there is no doubt about it.

Those who dare to bump into it either have their brains in their minds or have no choice.

But if there is another choice but you have to hit the stone with an egg, you will definitely be hopelessly stupid.

Zheng Chenggong is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart, no, to be precise, smart!

He is good at calculating gains and losses, and is also good at analyzing the current situation.

But his thinking has always been at the tactical level and has not risen to the strategic level until his death.

This has to be said that it is the sadness of the south being willing to be clear.

Because of Zheng Chenggong's existence, they had no choice but to join Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, and had no other choice.

Zheng Chenggong's inaction and short-short strategic vision ruined these hundreds of thousands of righteous men, which is regrettable.

If the Prince of Yanping at that time was not Zheng Chenggong, it was not Zheng Chenggong who presided over the overall situation of Fujian and Guangdong's anti-Qing.

Even if it was Zhu Yihai or Zhang Huangyan, the result might be rewritten.

Therefore, facing the Qing army, Zheng Chenggong could still let his navy control the waters and touch Wu Zheng's bottom line again.

In Zheng Chenggong's view, Wu Zheng was unable to move south. Because of Wu Zheng's expulsion of the royal family, tens of thousands of troops were stationed in Changzhou Prefecture in Yixing Dynasty. Wu Zheng was restrained by Yixing Dynasty, so he naturally would not take into account the trade in the southern waters.

Besides, it is not just about breaking off the trade route, it is just about spending more time and taking a detour.

Zheng Chenggong's original intention was to use his son's spear to attack his shield.

It is impolite to come but not go.

He wanted to use this move to counter Wu Zheng's control over Chen Qianshan's waters, because others did not know the details of Chen Qianshan's pirates. Zheng Chenggong knew that this was his greatest reliance.

He believed that even if he had a draw, Wu Zheng would not dare to speak out.
Chapter completed!