Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 719 National Hero
(The injury in the car accident has not healed, and writing is a bit difficult. Writing some history in these two chapters is a bit watery, so it is recommended to skip)
The 5000 Japanese troops immediately divided their troops into an attack echelon of [-] people, and quickly moved towards the hillside where the Ming army was located.

Weeds are overgrown here, and there are many trees. If a small army arrives, it will be difficult to be found.

The 2 Japanese troops stretched for several miles, otherwise Lin Feng and the others would have found it difficult to find the Japanese troops coming.

The distance between the two armies was getting closer and closer, and the 5000 Japanese soldiers had already climbed down the hillside. The Ming army still did not move at all, and obviously no Japanese were found.

The hillside is not very high, about 100 meters, it is a slope that is not steep, and healthy people can climb it.

Seeing that the Ming army has not found the Japanese army so far, Liu Yu immediately burst into joy.

He felt that he would be able to fight the Ming army shortly. As long as he fought the Ming army hand-to-hand, the Japanese samurai would definitely kill the Ming army.

In order to rush into the Ming army's position as soon as possible, and to save time, Yagyu changed the order of 5000 people to charge as an echelon.

He waved his hand behind him:

"Quickly, go up to another echelon, and 1 people will enter the Ming army's position without anyone noticing."

"Yes"

Liu Sheng issued an order, and another 5000 people crept down the hillside.

In this way, 1 people gathered under the not very spacious hillside, and all of these 1 people still held weapons in their hands.

"A group of idiots, the big Japanese soldiers have touched their butts, and they don't know it at all. Don't think that with a few good guns and a few good cannons, you are invincible..."

Yagyu murmured something, then waved his hand, and the Japanese immediately began to climb quickly towards the hillside.

As mentioned earlier, the hillside is not high, and under normal circumstances, 5000 people can climb up in half a stick of incense.

Lin Feng, who was lying behind the rock, could not wait any longer. If he had commanded, the grenade would have been thrown into the Japanese crowd long ago.

But Zhang Huang was a man of bold words. He kept his eyes on the [-] Japanese, but refused to order them to fire.

It turned out that Zhang Huangyan saw that there was not much space under the hillside, and it would be easier to kill the Japanese if they were all crowded underneath.

If you fight early and the Japanese behind can escape easily, that's not Zhang Huangyan's character.

Speaking of Zhang Huangyan, many people may not understand that among the many national heroes in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong were all famous.

He seems to be indifferent, but in fact Zhang Huangyan is also a great national hero.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), Zhang Huangyan participated in the county examination at the age of 16 and inspected riding and shooting.

Zhang Huangyan hit the target with all three shots, and all the people who took the exam with him were amazed.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen (1642), Zhang Huangyan passed the examination.

At that time, the beacon of the peasant uprising led by Li Zicheng had ignited all over the country, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty was in jeopardy.

So the imperial court began to pay attention to cultivating talents with both civil and military skills. Although Zhang Huangyan took the literary examination, he still had to take some military preparation subjects that were urgently needed in war.

He pays attention to the current situation on weekdays and "generously talks about military affairs", so the people around him respect him even more.

In the second year of Shunzhi (the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, 1645), the Qing army marched southward, breaking through Yangzhou, Nanjing, Jiading (now Jiading District of Shanghai), Hangzhou and other cities.

Some Chinese and military officials in Ningbo fled in panic, and some plotted to surrender the city.

25-year-old Zhang Huangyan stepped forward and joined the army.

At that time, Qian Sule, a member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, led a crowd to gather in the Temple of the City God, and Zhang Huangyan resolutely participated, advocating to serve the king and gather teachers for righteousness.

He also sent a watch to Tiantai (now Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province) to invite Lu Wang Zhu Yihai to go north to supervise the country.

He was awarded Hanlin compilation.After the Qing army broke through Hangzhou, Zhang Huangyan fled to the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian with the king of Lu, and entered Zhoushan.

In May of the third year of Shunzhi (the second year of Longwu, 1646).

The Great Qing Dynasty General Bei Le Boluo broke through the Qiantang River, and Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Yiwu, Jinhua and other cities fell one after another.

The royal clan of the Southern Ming Dynasty, King Le'an, Prince Chu, and King Jinping died in Jinhua.

King Lu sailed from Taizhou to Zhoushan under the escort of Shipu guard Zhang Mingzhen.

Zhang Huangyan immediately rushed back to his hometown in Yin County, bid farewell to his father, stepmother, wife and son and daughter, and followed King Lu and his party to Zhoushan.

However, Huang Binqing, the chief soldier of Zhoushan and Emperor Longwu, refused to accept him, so King Lu had to flee to Changyuan, Fujian.

Soon, King Lu went to Xiamen, and Zhang Mingzhen stayed in Zhoushan to wait.

After the situation settled down, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen returned to eastern Zhejiang and Zhoushan to organize and recruit volunteers.

And Zhang Huangyan was granted the official post of Yushi of Youqian Capital by King Lu.

Shunzhi four years (Yongli first year, 1647).

Wu Shengzhao, Admiral of Susong in the Qing Dynasty, wanted to stay in Suzhou anyway, so he contacted Zhang Mingzhen, Marquis of Dingxi, for support.

Zhang Huangyan persuaded Zhang Mingzhen to help Wu Shengzhao, Zhang Mingzhen ordered Zhang Huangyan to be the supervisor of the army, and Xu Fuyuan was his deputy.

Depart from Cenjiang (Cengang, Zhoushan, Zhejiang) on ​​April [-].

Unexpectedly, on April [-]th, a storm hit Chongming Island and was defeated.

More than a dozen generals, including Shen Tingyang, the left servant of the household department of the Governor Zhezhi Navy, and Cai Cong (Huang Binqing's wife and uncle), were captured by the Qing army after landing, and died on July [-].

And Zhang Huangyan also capsized the ship due to the hurricane, fell into the hands of the Qing army for seven days, and found a chance to escape to the sea.

When passing through Huangyan, he was surrounded by the chasing Qing army and shot at him with arrows.

Zhang Huangyan led several cavalry out of the siege, and since then he has worked harder to practice riding and shooting.

He also recruited and assembled rebels in eastern Zhejiang to defend Pinggangzhai, Shangyu County.

At that time, many cottages in the area often looted the people, but Zhang Huangyan and Wang Yi won the support of the people by telling their subordinates not to disturb the people.

In July of the eighth year of Shunzhi (the fifth year of Yongli, 1651).

General Zhang Tianlu of the Qing Dynasty left Chong'an (now Wuyishan City, Fujian Province) at Fenshui Pass, Ma Jinbao left Taizhou Haimen, and Governor Chen Jin of Fujian and Zhejiang left Dinghai to attack Zhoushan.

Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan and others sent troops to Wusong by the king of Lu to contain the main force of the Qing army.

University scholar Zhang Kentang, Anyang General Liu Shixun, Dangbei Bo Ruan Jin, Zuo Dudu Zhang Mingyang and others stayed behind.

In this battle, 18000 soldiers and civilians died in Zhoushan, and they were buried together at the foot of Beilongfeng Mountain in Dinghai City.

Afterwards, the Qing general admitted: "When our army goes south, the three cities of Jiangyin, Jingxian, and Zhoushan are the most difficult to attack."

In August of the tenth year of Shunzhi (the seventh year of Yongli, 1653).

Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan, the minister of the military department of the supervising army, led five or six hundred warships to the north and arrived at the sandbar near Chongming at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The Qing army in Chongming City was limited in strength and did not dare to fight, and was besieged for eight months.

The Ming army was based in Chongming and the nearby sandbars, as stated in the Qing Fang Yifen archives:
"Building fairs and farming, ten miles away from the city, there are many thieves. The people look at each other with food, and the hunger is hard to support. Those who use it for me are dying, and those who use it for thieves are thriving."

The rice-producing villages of Chongming are located in the east and west of Fusha in front of Pingyang Mountain, which are now occupied by thieves.

In the 11th year of Shunzhi (the eighth year of Yongli, 1654), Zhang Jun entered the Yangtze River three times to fight. This is the famous battle of entering the Yangtze River three times.

In the 12th year of Shunzhi (the 1655th year of Yongli, [-]), Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan entered the Yangtze River three times and arrived at Yanziji. They returned with no success due to weak troops.

Together with Gan Hui and Chen Liuyu from Zheng Chenggong's department, they recovered Zhoushan. Zhang Mingzhen went into the city alone, searched for his mother's corpse, and mobilized the three armies.

(End of this chapter)