After the Qing army's navy was completely disintegrated, Zheng Chenggong saw that the overall situation was settled, so he asked his generals to intercept the Qing ships that were trying to escape, and he himself returned to Xiamen Port. He saw a beacon fire in Gaoqi just now, and Zheng Chenggong felt a little uneasy, so he was anxious to ask what was going on. In case, a team of ships were sent to patrol the sea near Gaoqi.

When Zheng Chenggong returned to Xiamen Port, the envoy who went to Gaoqi had returned and immediately reported what he saw and heard to the Prince of Yanping. After learning that Chen Mang had won, Zheng Chenggong was very happy. He was a little worried that the Qing army that had already landed could break through the north and escape back through the strait in the north. Now the last door has been blocked.

Chen Peng surrendered to the enemy and rebelled. According to Zheng Chenggong's rules, the entire clan should be killed and he shot him to death. But the envoy told the Prince of Yanping that Chen Peng's army collectively pleaded for him, hoping that Prince of Yanping could do his best to do his best.

"Since that's the case, let's take a lighter attack. You can't let the loyal and righteous people feel cold." Zheng Chenggong replied happily. These troops did not rebel with the generals and made him feel very happy: "Chen Peng beheaded, but there is no need to hang the camp gate." The traitor's head was to shock potential traitors, but Chen Peng's subordinates were obviously reliable patriots: "After the execution, hand over the head to Chen Mang and let him be buried, so that he and Chen Peng will be considered as the end of the whole process."

After a little thought, Zheng Chenggong ordered Chen Mang to replace Chen Peng and command the army.

"No matter whether Chen Mang's wife or brothers ask about it, the personal soldiers will be pardoned regardless of whether they are ruthless at the beginning."

Zheng Chenggong quickly issued the order, and the messenger responded loudly and rushed to Gaoqi again with the decision of the Prince of Yanping.

"Chen Peng is really a clown," after the messenger left, Zheng Jing, the eldest son beside Zheng Chenggong, commented contemptuously: "You dare to underestimate your father's prestige in the army. You really want to perish yourself! These are all the soldiers of your father, and he can't even pull him away alone."

After hearing Prince Yanping's words, many generals also expressed their agreement. Zheng Chenggong accepted their congratulations with a smile, and then continued to mobilize troops to try to annihilate the landing enemy troops who had no time to retreat as soon as possible.

After all the generals took the order and left, only the father and son were left in Zheng Chenggong's camp. Zheng Chenggong then corrected: "What you said is wrong. Chen Mang and the others do not follow the thief. Although I have my prestige, the most important thing is that they are all innocent and loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention Chen Peng, even if I want to surrender, they will not obey, but will disperse by themselves."

"What the father said is, the child has lost his words." Zheng Jing nodded quickly and said yes.

"You are the prince. You must be careful when speaking in front of others and don't make people misunderstand." Zheng Chenggong felt that Zheng Jing did not listen completely and had some misunderstandings about the morale of the army, which made him a little worried.

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After seeing Shi Lang escape, the Qing army lost its will to resist and surrendered to the Ming army in large numbers. When the Fujian Navy arrived, few Qing troops were still resisting stubbornly; Dasu was personally commanded by the landing ground in the southeast. When Zheng Chenggong Navy approached, Dasu had no time to board the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade. After Dasu and Huang Wu retreated, there were nearly a thousand Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades on the shore, and they became the backbone of the Qing army's resistance.

Under the supervision of these Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades, the Qing army here refused to surrender easily, but instead defended on the shore, and trapped beasts still fought.

Faced with the intensive defensive lineup of the Qing army, the Ming army on the opposite side was not in a hurry to launch an offensive, but continued to defend. As the Qing army ships in the surrounding waters were continuously eliminated, these Qing army finally lost all hope of resolution. While the Qing army ships at sea continued to disappear, more and more Ming navy troops drove behind the Qing army and launched artillery attacks on the Qing army formations shoulder by shoulder to shoulder on the coast.

The Ming army was blocked in front, and behind him was the vast ocean. The Qing army had no chance to avoid artillery, so they could only stay on the uncovered beach and were bombarded by the Ming army's artillery fire. The shells kept hitting into the crowd, and there were continuous fractures sounds every time. This situation of being beaten for free did not last long. Soon, a large number of Qing soldiers began to run to surrender to the Ming army's defense line because they could not bear this torture.

Before dark, even the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades lost the courage to continue to resist. Hundreds of them were injured and killed by the Ming army's artillery bombardment. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the arrogant Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades also sent envoys to ask the Ming army for surrender. The Eight Banners of the Manchurian made a request to avoid death - they also knew that Zheng Chenggong might not be trustworthy, but the desperate people always wanted to grab a straw.

Zheng Chenggong, who had just arrived at the front line from Xiamen Port, agreed to the other party's request, saying that as long as the Eight Banners of Manchuria lay down their weapons, he would spare these people's lives.

"Does your father really want to let them go?" Zheng Jing asked curiously after the envoy left.

Zheng Tai sent a report just now. He failed to catch Huang Wu or Dasu, but intercepted a large number of Qing army ships. A group of Qing army abandoned the ship and fled to Kinmen Island when they were desperate. Zheng Tai's troops then arrived and surrounded the Qing army. In order to reduce the losses of the Ming army as much as possible, Zheng Tai sent envoys to persuade the surrender on the condition that they did not kill prisoners. As a result, some Qing army chose to believe in Zheng Tai and put down their weapons to surrender to the Ming army. These prisoners were less than a thousand people, of which 200 were the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades who followed Dasu. After these Qing soldiers put down their weapons, Zheng Tai tied them up and threw them all into the sea.

"Of course I know how to speak and believe." Zheng Chenggong did not think that there was anything wrong with what Zheng Tai did. In the concept of the Ming and Qing armies, executing prisoners was not a big deal, and everyone was doing this. As for the destruction of promises, they all thought it was a common thing to fall from above. Zheng Tai persuaded surrender to help the Ming army avoid casualties. The soldiers not only did not feel disgusted, but they all thought that Zheng Tai was good at it.

Zheng Chenggong felt that as a prince, he should be better than Zheng Tai in the question of keeping his words in mind: "After the real Tartars surrender, they will cut off their hands, cut off their ears, and then send them back to Quanzhou."

Although these people became disabled, no one could say that Zheng Chenggong had not kept his promise. After waiting for about half an hour, the Ming army officer who went to surrender returned to report and said that the remaining Qing army had all handed over their weapons. At this point, the more than 10,000 Qing troops landed in the southeast of Xiamen were all captured by the Ming army, including more than 200 Manchu soldiers.

Zheng Chenggong was about to order action and cut off all the surrendered Manchu soldiers, but he suddenly remembered something in his heart, which caused him to swallow the order that had reached Zheng Chenggong's mouth: "Closed them all first, be serious, don't starve the real Tartars to death."

After detaining all the more than 200 forbidden brigades, Zheng Chenggong ordered the preparation of a fleet and sent all these Eight Banners soldiers to Zhoushan: "I heard that Admiral Deng has once again attacked Nanjing. Let these real Tartars be handed over to Admiral Deng."

Not long ago, Zheng Chenggong learned from the Qing army that Deng Ming continued to move south after leaving Wuchang, and had already captured Jiujiang and controlled this key area to march towards the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It seemed that Deng Ming's offensive was unlikely to end here. Zheng Chenggong estimated that Deng Ming might be worried that he and Zhang Huangyan were busy attacking Taiwan and did not take too much attention to harassment, so he once again took charge of Jiangnan.

Just now, Zheng Chenggong suddenly remembered Deng Ming's approach to dealing with the city of Nanjing, which was to sell Manchu soldiers to local officials in Nanjing. Zheng Chenggong felt that collecting money in this move was a cover, and releasing the Eight Banners of Manchu to influence their fighting spirit was Deng Ming's main purpose. Since this was the case, Zheng Chenggong planned to hand over these prisoners to Deng Ming for disposal. This kind of work of offering prisoners can express his respect, and Deng Ming can also make decisions - Zheng Chenggong did not intend to repeat the same mistake.

"Isn't this a bit too troublesome?" Zheng Jing also knew Deng Ming's identity very well, but he always felt that there was no need to be so polite to Deng Ming: "If Admiral Deng has gone back, what should the prisoner do?"

"If Admiral Deng has left, it will be fully handled by Shangshu Zhang." Zheng Chenggong had already thought that if Deng Ming's plan really uses this to dismantle the morale of the other party, he could act with Deng Ming in unification. Besides, there were many Eight Banners of Manchuria that were eliminated in this battle, and the release of 200 people would not have any bad impact.

Zheng Jing actually had some objections to Zheng Chenggong's attitude towards Deng Ming, and felt that Zheng Chenggong was not as strong as his royal family, so he was so polite.

"You still didn't listen to what I said just now." Zheng Chenggong noticed his son's disapproval and sighed. Fortunately, Zheng Chenggong had the final say in the Fujian army. Although Zheng Jing's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty was a bit subtle, Zheng Chenggong would not have let this thinking affect his decisions and mentality.

After all the Qing troops surrendered, the Xiamen Battle came to an end. Zheng Chenggong seized more than 8,000 war horses in the battle and finally started to form his own cavalry team: "If I originally wanted to attack Taiwan, the supplies were still a bit insufficient."

After returning from Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong was obsessed with Taiwan, but his troops were not very abundant, and he was worried that if he led the main force to set out, Xiamen would become too weak, giving the Qing court a chance to take advantage of the situation and sneak attack. If news came from Xiamen's loss and the family and warehouse were all obtained by the Qing army during the attack on Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong was worried that the army that attacked Taiwan would be shaken.

But now it seems that Zheng Chenggong doesn't have to worry about this problem. With the newly seized equipment, Zheng Chenggong will not weaken Xiamen too much when attacking Taiwan. Moreover, after this great defeat, the Qing army will definitely not be able to gather all the troops to attack Xiamen again in the short term, which allows Zheng Chenggong to gain some time to operate freely. As long as Taiwan is captured, Zheng Chenggong will move all his family members and men to the Taiwan area, so that Zheng Chenggong will not have to send troops to the southeast for the safety of the base.

Soon after, another new good news came. In order to get the Manchu soldiers away, Shi Lang would rather sacrifice his warships. Now the main force of the Qing army has been lost and entered the defensive stage. Zheng Chenggong knew that the ships lost by the Qing court this time were the main force of the navy in the country, which made it impossible for Beijing to gather an invading fleet of a considerable scale within a few years.

While the Ming army was counting the spoils, Wu Liuqi still led reinforcements to shelter in a bay far away from Xiamen. Before, Wu Liuqi received a proclamation from the General Assembly and followed Dasu's order to bring the Guangdong-Guangdong Navy to Xiamen to assist in the war. However, until some water battles around Xiamen and land battles were over, Wu Liuqi's main fleet still did not arrive in the Xiamen sea area.

Before, Wu Liuqi had sent some miscellaneous troops to Quanzhou to make them obey Shi Lang, and set out with him, and agreed to Dasu's call. However, Wu Liuqi's confidant troops were not sent to participate in today's battle. For Wu Liuqi, if the Qing court could win, he would not have made any efforts at all - he sent some Guangdong soldiers.

"Shi Lang and Huang Wu don't know what they thought, but they actually dared to fight Zheng Chenggong head-on. Both of them became subordinates of Zheng Chenggong. Don't you know how to be afraid?" The courage of Shi Lang and Huang Wu surprised Wu. He had also had many dealings with Zheng Chenggong and found that he was no match for the Prince of Yanping at all, nor was he able to fight in the land.

"Zheng Ni was defeated in Jiangning last year. I heard that he was defeated by Liang Huafeng's thousands of sailors." An aide next to Wu Liuqi said. He was different from Wu Liuqi and believed that he still had a chance to capture Xiamen.

"I'm sure that the one who defeated Zheng Ni must not be the thousands of sailors of Liang Huafeng, or even tens of thousands may not be enough. It must be the court that concentrated troops from Shandong, Henan and other places to reinforce Jiangning together. Finally, he could have several times the advantage against Zheng Ni. Zheng Ni looked at it and found that Jiangning would definitely not be able to fight, so he would retreat." Unlike Shi Lang and Huang Wu, Wu Liuqi had his own opinion on the Battle of Nanjing. The former had personally asked witnesses of the Nanjing Battle, so in their opinion, the combat effectiveness of Zheng Chenggong's army had declined severely; while Wu Liuqi did not see Liang Huafeng's troops, and believed that Zheng Chenggong's combat effectiveness was still similar to before: "But these two people regarded Zheng Chenggong's retreat as weak, and they actually wanted to take the initiative to attack Xiamen."

After sending some miscellaneous troops to Quanzhou, Wu Liuqi led the fleet to move slowly towards Xiamen. He did not intend to participate in this attack: "Huang Wu and Shi Lang can't beat Zheng Chenggong together. Not to mention the two of them, I can't even add one of them. This battle is first come first, then fall and then lose, and it will not be defeated." Wu Liuqi analyzed to his confidants that he did not surrender to the Qing court, and had already made great efforts for the Qing court, so there is no need to rush to make contributions.

After walking slowly for a day, Wu Liuqi didn't move forward for long. As soon as the sky began to darken, he ordered camp.

As a result, early the next morning, Wu Liuqi received news that the Qing army was defeated by Zheng Chenggong in both naval and land battles and had retreated to Quanzhou.

"I knew it a long time ago?" Wu Liuqi showed off his foresight and handed a memorial to the court on the spot, saying that he could not support himself. For the sake of the safety of Guangdong and Guangxi, he had to return to Guangzhou immediately. After writing the memorial, Wu Liuqi immediately took the fleet on the way back to his hometown and left Xiamen without hesitation.

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When the Xiamen Battle was completely over, Deng Ming learned from the guards that the secret envoy of the Governor of the Canal Transport had arrived in Zhenjiang and was now waiting for his reception outside the camp.

The author notes that some relatives and guests came to my home today, with fewer words and will be added tomorrow.
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