Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 188 Zheng Zhilong Runs Away from Anping City
Wang Wei outside the city did not expect Zheng Chenggong to be so decisive after meeting the emperor that he would attack the Pingguo government.

When he got the report, he immediately summoned the soldiers and horses, but the situation was hasty and he hadn't prepared before, so he couldn't gather all the Imperial Forest Army for a while.

Wang Wei knew that Zheng Zhilong's influence in Fujing was far greater than that of the emperor, so this matter could only be done quickly, so he hurriedly gathered a thousand soldiers and horses, and ordered his commander and Tongzhi Huo Shijie to respond, and rushed to the city gate.

Nearly a thousand soldiers rushed from outside the city suddenly. Seeing this, the guard at the south gate was about to close the city gate immediately, but Zheng Chenggong came out to stop him and said, "General Liu, don't close the gate. This is the imperial forest army that I have transferred into the city to guard your majesty." .”

Liu Hu accompanied him with a smile and said, "Master Guo Xing! Your lord has already issued a general's order, and any soldiers and horses entering the city must have his warrant, otherwise they are absolutely not allowed to enter the city, so don't make things difficult for the last general!"

As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for Zheng Chenggong to say more, he waved to the guarding soldiers coldly and said, "Close the door!"

The guard Liu Hu is Zheng Zhilong's confidant. Although Zheng Chenggong is the son of the Zheng family, Liu Hu is only loyal to Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Chenggong looked at the huge city gate, which was slowly merged under the push of the defenders, and suddenly became anxious, so he suddenly jumped up, drew his sword and killed Liu Hu, the defender who refused to listen to his orders and tried to close the city gate from behind.

Liu Hu was loyal to the Zheng family, but he never imagined that Guo Xingye, who had been chatting with him a quarter of an hour ago, would suddenly kill him, so that when he fell to the ground, his face was still dazed.

Facing the scene, the soldiers pushing the city gate couldn't help but stop their movements and looked at Zheng Chenggong in astonishment. Although they were also loyal to the Zheng family, they were humble around them and couldn't hear Zheng Zhilong's explanation. He didn't dare to take Zheng Chenggong, the son of the Zheng family.

While the defenders were stunned by this sudden change, Wang Wei had already carried a three-pointed double-edged knife and urged his horse to rush into the doorway.

Seeing the majestic Wang Wei and the gleaming weapon in his hands, these young soldiers naturally dare not resist, they just think it is a fight between gods and don't harm Chi Yu.

Wang Wei met with Zheng Chenggong, waited for a thousand elites from the back, and asked someone to move horses for Zheng Chenggong, so he left two hundred soldiers at the city gate to meet the imperial forest army behind, and then went straight to Pingguo's mansion with a dozen horses .

There were also more than 500 elite Zheng troops waiting in the Duke's Mansion. Wang Wei led 500 people and rushed directly to the front door, while Zheng Chenggong led [-] people to the back door.

In the study, Zheng Zhilong was furious when he heard the report from his confidant, and smashed the teacup beside the table on the ground, causing the debris to splash, "Nizi, you've ruined the old man's big business again!"

When Huang Xiyin heard the words, he was also shocked immediately, and lost the spirit of pointing out the country just now, and hurriedly said: "Brother an official, hurry up and suppress it!"

However, Zheng Zhilong was furious and said: "That rebellious son is familiar with the art of war, and he probably has already fought outside the door. Even if the old man dispatches troops, he will not be in a hurry. Sigh~ I really didn't expect that rebellious son to be so disobedient. Don’t you understand that everything this old man does is for him, for the descendants of the Zheng family? It’s really maddening to kill this old man!”

"Brother Yiguan~" Huang Xiyin became even more anxious when he heard the words, "Then what should we do now?"

Zheng Zhilong was short-tempered just now, and after coughing a few times, he said: "That Nizi is wholeheartedly resisting the Qing, it must be that Brother Xiyin's traces have been exposed, and he wants to capture and kill you, so as to cut off the old man's way of surrendering to the Qing. Sigh~ It's my carelessness Now, Jin Yiwei knows that Wang Zilong is a powerful person, he must have noticed some clues, and that rebellious son became rebellious, damn it!"

When Huang Xiyin heard that Zheng Chenggong was going to kill him, he couldn't help trembling slightly. He was able to talk in front of Zheng Zhilong because he knew Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhilong's nature, so he would only regard him as a guest of honor, and now he was going to face the murder of Zheng Zhilong. He followed Zheng Chenggong quickly, and he immediately panicked, "Brother Yiguan, you have to save me! If you help me return to the capital safely, I will definitely ask the regent to make you the king of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, the three provinces, And it can also follow the example of the Prince Mu's Mansion in Yunnan, and the three provinces will be permanently controlled, and the king of real power will be seated."

Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed when he heard the words. If this is true, then surrendering to the Qing court is not impossible, but Zheng Zhilong also knows that this is Huang Xiyin's words for survival, so he can't take it seriously, but he still comforted him: "Brother Xiyin, don't worry, you Falling into the hands of that rebellious son, wouldn't it mean that the old man colluded with the Qing court. You can rest assured that the old man will take you to Anping City, where the old man has been operating for many years, and all of them are trusted people. You fell into the hands of Longwu."

Zheng Zhilong and Huang Xiyin, led by their confidantes, went straight to the gate of the mansion, but before they reached the gate, they heard the sound of weapons clashing and shouts of killing. Shan Wenjia, wearing a phoenix-winged helmet, riding a flower-maned horse, carrying a three-pointed and two-edged sword, is extremely powerful, and there is no general in it.

Zheng Zhilong naturally knew that it was Wang Yan's number one general, Shaanxi Wang Yuanzhang.

Wang Wei cut down several people one after another, and for a while he was so powerful that Zheng Jun did not dare to approach.At this time, he raised his head and moved his eyes to the gate of the mansion, but he saw Zheng Zhilong who was guarded by more than a dozen personal soldiers. He was overjoyed immediately. He raised the three-pointed double-edged knife in his hand, pointed at Zheng Zhilong, and shouted: " Zheng Zhilong and you colluded with the Manchu Qing, and if you haven't come out and surrendered, are you going to wait for the general to come and capture you yourself?"

Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong was shocked immediately, and hurriedly shouted: "Go through the back door!"

Seeing them retreating, Wang Wei immediately clamped his horse's belly, and urged his horse to run away from Zheng Jun in front of him, and chased into the mansion.

When Zheng Zhilong turned around and saw that no one was stopping him, he felt very anxious, so he asked more than 20 soldiers around him to stop him, while Zheng Zhilong, Huang Xiyin and his confidantes fled hurriedly to the back door.

At this time, Wang Wei was blocked by Zheng Zhilong's personal guards, and when he rushed away, Zheng Zhilong was nowhere to be seen.

But Zheng Zhilong fled to the back door, but when he was approaching the back door, he was suddenly startled and stopped in his tracks.

Seeing this, Huang Xiyin didn't understand why, but anxiously urged him to walk quickly, but Zheng Zhilong said: "Just now at the front door, it seems that I didn't see that Nizi! No, that Nizi must be considered good. I want to go through the back door. I can't fall into the hands of that Nizi. We Climb over the courtyard wall and go out of the city by the north gate."

Huang Xiyin couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat when he heard the words. You must know that the previous envoy of the Qing court who was sent to Fujing was chopped alive by Emperor Longwu.

At this time, the three of them immediately ran to the courtyard wall and asked their confidants to serve as meat stools. Zheng Zhilong went up first, then pulled Huang Xiyin, and finally left their confidants in the courtyard. The two jumped the wall and escaped from the Duke's Mansion.

Not long after, Zheng Chenggong and Wang Wei met, but both of them failed to hold Zheng Zhilong, and their faces suddenly became heavy.

Wang Wei said: "The matter has come to this point, the most urgent task is to control Fujing and prevent Duke Ping from leading his troops back to the city."

Zheng Chenggong also regretted for a while, saying that Fujian will soon set off a fratricidal civil war, but just like Wang Wei said, controlling Fujing is the most important right now.

He set off immediately, arranged for the Imperial Forest Army entering the city to control the four gates, and sent his subordinates to pull all the [-] newly recruited troops from outside the city into the city.

In the palace, Emperor Longwu and his ministers all had serious expressions facing the current situation.

At this time, Zuo Maodi came out first to salute and said: "Your Majesty, I think there are two things that must be done right now. One is to appease Duke Ping. Fujing is lost, Your Majesty immediately dispatched generals to Xianxia Pass, and guards against letting the Qing army enter the pass."

(End of this chapter)