please make me king

Chapter 1722 Infighting
"Dang, clang, clang!" Accompanied by a crisp clanging sound, the two parties, who had been fighting for an unknown amount of time, retreated consciously.

Ding Ruzhang looked at the corpses on the battlefield and the wailing disabled people, and couldn't help but let out a long breath, thankful that he survived another day.

Today's battle is over, but what about tomorrow?What about the day after tomorrow?

When will such a battle end?

Thinking of this, Ding Ruzhang frowned, arranged security, cooking and other things, and then took a few people to look for Xudu.

When Ding Ruzhang arrived, "Xu Shuai" Xu Du was reprimanding Xu Jiayin, another general under his command.

"'Xu Shuai'!" Ding Ruzhang came forward to pay homage when the heat was almost ready.

"How is the battle going?" Xu Du's face softened a little, and then he stopped reprimanding and asked.

"It doesn't matter who wins or loses," Ding Ruzhang replied somewhat ashamedly.

"A tie? Another tie!" Xu Du's face pulled up again.

It's no wonder that Xu Du's face is so ugly. It has been nearly a month since he started his army.

The original streak of victories gave him the illusion that Daming was just a broken house that would collapse with just a hard kick.

However, the facts told him that "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse". Perhaps the remnants of the Ming army could not deal with the "Shun Bandit", but it was enough to deal with his "Cangtou Army".

In the past few days, Xu Jiayin led his troops to attack Jinhua Mansion and was still unable to attack for a long time, and it was also quite difficult for Ding Ruzhang to stop "Ping Kouhou" Zheng Zhibao.

Although most of the people in Xudu came from miners in Yiwu and Dongyang counties, they were brave and not afraid of death, but there were no good generals to train them.

"Let's do this!" Xu Du frowned, pondered for a while, and couldn't help but sighed, "Let Xu Jiayin go to Suzhou to see His Highness King Shun in a while, and send a surrender form, so that His Highness can send troops to help!"

"'Xu Shuai'!" Ding Ruzhang and Xu Jiayin were taken aback when they heard the words, and couldn't help shouting hastily.

Although they worshiped Zhang Shun at a distance before, it was just an excuse to raise troops.

But this time is different. This time, if the surrender table is specially presented, both sides will have the righteousness of monarch and minister. This is comparable to the surrender behavior of Cao Cao who wanted to send his family members to Yecheng as hostages in history.

"Our brothers raised an army before, now we have broken Dongyang, tomorrow we have broken Yiwu, and almost occupied the entire Jinhua Mansion in just a few days!" Seeing this, Xu Du couldn't help but smiled wryly, "I thought my destiny was my destiny."

"Unexpectedly, in the past few days, seeing my brothers leave me one by one, I realized that I have underestimated the heroes of the world."

"The King Shun started his army from Mengjin, and even defeated the Ming Jin army, sitting on most of the world. It is not a name for Lang."

"If we can get his help, we will not only turn the crisis into safety, but also fight for wealth and honor for a lifetime!"

After hearing this, the two of them had nothing to say, so Xu Jiayin hurriedly headed north with the document surrender form.

Not to mention how Jinhua is, but Zheng Zhilong paid homage to King Zhu Yihai of Lu on this day, and was waiting for news from Zheng Zhibao.

Unexpectedly, after a while, a person came in a hurry, came in and reported: "Uncle, it's not good, just now the news came from the sea that the fourth uncle was defeated in the battle, and he has abandoned Zhoushan and is rushing to Taizhou!"

"What? How could Zhoushan be lost?" Zheng Zhilong was shocked when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking hastily.

He relied on his powerful navy and was invincible in East Asia. He never thought that Zheng Zhifeng would be defeated.

"I don't know about this, but Fourth Uncle's defeat in Zhoushan, the loss is not small, but it is absolutely true!" Zheng Cai hesitated for a moment, then replied.

"What about Zhibao?" Zheng Zhilong asked again hastily.

"There is still no news from Uncle Wuwu." Zheng Cai quickly replied.

"This..." Zheng Zhilong couldn't help pondering when he heard the words.

It turns out that Zheng Zhilong has five brothers, he is the elder brother, followed by Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhilin, Zheng Zhifeng, and Zheng Zhibao.

Among them, Zheng Zhilin died early; Zheng Zhihu bravely won the three armies, but when he conquered Liu Xiang in the eighth year of Chongzhen, he was careless and died unfortunately.

Of the remaining two, one Zheng Zhifeng won the martial arts examination and became the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, and the other Zheng Zhibao entered the Imperial College as an imperial student, and then became the deputy commander-in-chief of the Ming army navy.

And Zheng Zhilong himself was nothing more than a general soldier. After the division and disintegration of the Ming court, there was a rift between the three brothers who had lived and died together.

Compared with Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Zhibao who are "deeply favored by the country", Zheng Zhilong is actually not interested in supporting this "Niaolu King".

He is more interested in how to speculate in it and earn "high profits."

Therefore, when Zheng Zhilong heard that Zheng Zhifeng was defeated and that Zheng Zhibao hadn't made any progress, he suddenly became concerned.

"Zheng Cai, let's go ahead and secretly send envoys to Ningbo to discuss surrender with King Shun. I will try to control King Lu!" He hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind.

"Uncle?" Zheng Cai was taken aback when she heard the words, then lowered her head and bowed deeply.

Contrary to what Zheng Zhilong thought, in fact Zheng Cai did not support his "surrender".

But this Zheng Cai is the son of Zheng Ming, a member of the Zheng Zhilong clan, and he has a bad relationship with him, so some things are hard to say.

As soon as he went out, he chose a few people to act as envoys and rushed to Ningbo, and at the same time selected a few cronies to report to Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Zhibao respectively.

"What, brother is going to join 'Shun Thief'!" When Zheng Zhifeng got the news, she couldn't help being shocked.

It turned out that it was Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Zhibao who supported Lu Wang Zhu Yihai at the beginning, but Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to hold his nose and admit it.

Therefore, these two people resisted the most resolutely, but Zheng Zhilong, who was facing Qin Muchu, was uncertain.

"No, we have to hurry back to Taizhou!" Zheng Zhifeng, who had just resisted near Taizhou, quickly docked at Haimen Port, and then took a small boat up the Jiaojiang River to Taizhou.

"What's going on here?" When Zheng Zhifeng just arrived in Taizhou City, he never thought that the city was in chaos, fighting each other.

"Hurry up, let's go, uncle is going to kill us!" Just as Zheng Zhifeng was dumbfounded, unexpectedly Zheng Caizheng led dozens of people to fight and retreat to the gate of the city.

"What's going on?" Zheng Zhifeng asked loudly while sending someone to respond.

"Oh, don't mention it!" Zheng Cai couldn't help but feel bad when he heard the words, "I sent someone to ventilate to the fourth uncle before, but I never thought that my uncle would find out the clue and take the lead in taking action, controlling His Royal Highness King Lu and the general soldier. Ma Menghua has coerced officials, big and small, and nearly [-] soldiers, and is ready to surrender to the 'Shun Bandit'!"

It turns out that in the original history, Zheng Zhifeng supported Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian, while Zheng Cai supported King Lu Zhu Yihai, and the relationship between the two was also quite tense.

It's just that in Zhang Shun's life, because Zhu Yujian proclaimed himself emperor in Xiangyang, and there was only Lu Wang Zhu Yihai in Zhejiang, the original differences between the two disappeared, and Zheng Zhilong's surrender became a willful act.

Coincidentally, since Zhang Shun entered the southeast, he has been gentle and refrained from killing, which has eased the opposition of the gentry.

People like Zhang Anyan, Zhang Guowei, Qian Sule, and Li Changxiang, who are famous in history, were either too young, or they were in other places, and they did not raise troops at all.

From this point of view, Zheng Zhilong's pressure to surrender was relieved by being outside the Zheng family.

With such an increase and a decrease, the Zheng brothers broke apart again just like in history.

(End of this chapter)