Speaking of the Zodiac Zhou side, the left and the right could not wait for the assistance of the imperial court, so they no longer waited, gritted their teeth and led the division out of Fujian, while marching while raising grain, after all the hardships, finally entered Jiangxi Guangxin Province.
Zodiac Zhou was originally a Confucian student, and although he had also studied some military books and made annotations for the "Biography of the Hundred Generals", he was only talking about soldiers on paper. Most of the soldiers he recruited were also his students and admirers, who could only write poems with their pens, and it was not good to carry guns and ride horses. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong said that they were a ragtag group, which was also worthy of the name.
Shi Lang joined the army at the age of seventeen, and after many years in the army, he was quite a general, and because he offended Zheng Zhilong, in order to get rid of the control of Zheng's forces, he accompanied the Zodiac Zhou on the expedition. Now, seeing this, it is known that nothing can be done. He suggested to Huang Daozhou that instead of leading such a detachment of soldiers and people to death, it would be better to disband it on the spot, leaving only a small number of capable and courageous people to cut a small road into Ganzhou, and that the strength of the governors, inspectors, and general soldiers of Nangan, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and other places could be tempered and dispatched in the name of the chief university cadet inspector alone.
Zodiac Zhou Lian shook his head and dismissed the team, the old man was just a cursor commander, even if he arrived in Ganzhou, he would be looked down upon by the officials of Nangan and Huguang, where is the prestige to speak of? Don't look at this army of only three or four thousand people, but it can also withstand the scene of "overseers out of Fujian". Besides, these three or four thousand people are how many lips and tongues the old man has spent all the way to put together ah, how can it be said that they scattered?
Seeing that the plan could not be used, Shi Lang made a deserter, secretly left the army, and found a way to survive.
On the day of the destruction of Huizhou City, the Zodiac Zhou had already entered the territory of Huizhou Capital, in fact, it was only one mountain away from Huizhou City.
However, the Zodiac Monday Army had no local guide, did not recognize the road, and walked wildly in the mountains, even going farther and farther. So much so that seven days after the fall of Huizhou City, that is, on the first day of October, Zodiac Zhou learned that Jin Sheng had been captured.
The plan to meet with the Golden Voice Master has been foiled, what should we do next?
In order not to be overwhelmed by the Qing army, Zodiac Zhou made a move to divide the troops.
He divided the troops into three, one out of Fuzhou, one out of Wuyuan, and the other out of Xiuning, as the three armies echoed each other in order to transfer to Jiangxi.
But in this division, the strength of each army is thin and pitiful, and it is vulnerable to attack.
In November, all three teams were pursued and killed by the Qing army.
Zodiac Zhou had no choice but to collect remnants of soldiers to retreat to Guangxin, feeling that "the lone army cannot be saved, and the dangerous frontier is difficult to support" (Zodiac Zhou: "Zhangpu Huang Zhongduan Complete Collection" volume 6, "The Lone Army Mo Saves The Dangerous Frontier and Difficult Support"), and had to go to the shu again to beg for help.
Of course, Zheng Zhilong could not send troops to rescue.
With no hope of rescue, Zodiac Zhou used the dead cow as a living horse doctor, and placed the hope of rescue on the body of Jin Shenghuan, the viceroy of The Qing Dynasty, who was originally Zuo Liangyu's general, and Huang Daozhou wrote to him to ask him to return to the Qing Dynasty.
Needless to say, the possibility of success in this matter is even smaller, Jin Shenghuan is now doing a good job as the Viceroy of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, how can he be easily countered by your huang laozi's three words and two words? Moreover, if a good horse does not eat the grass of the head, since he has already been descended from the Ming dynasty, how can he suddenly turn against the Qing and return to the Ming?
Zodiac Zhou's policy of rebellion can only be mud cattle sinking into the sea.
Stop it! On the fourth day of the first month of December, zodiac Zhou desperately took a risk and went out of Guangxin to transfer from Wuyuan in Huizhou (now part of Jiangxi Province) to Jiangxi. However, only when he arrived at Tongjiafang, he suddenly received a report that there were a large number of Qing troops stationed in Wuyuan.
As a result, many people in the entourage asked Huang Daozhou to return to Guangxin City.
At this time, the zodiac zhou department only had three hundred people, ten horses, and three days of grain, (Xu Nai's "Xiao Xi Ji Biography" vol. 23, "Zodiac Zhou") retreated may still have a glimmer of life, if you fight hard with the Qing army, you will undoubtedly lose.
After thinking about it, Zodiac Zhou felt that instead of retreating to survive like this, it was better to die heroically.
On December 12, the zodiac broke through the cauldron and marched north.
On December 24, they arrived at Wuyuan and garrisoned in Mingtang, ten miles from Wuyuan City.
Hearing that the Ming army was attacking, on December 25, Zhang Tianlu, the governor of Ningchitai of the Qing Dynasty, led Hu Maozhen, the general of Ningguo, Yu Yongshou, the general of Chizhou, Li Zhongxing, the general of Huizhou, and Bu Congfeng, the general of Wucai, to attack Mingtangli.
Without much effort, the entire army of the Zodiac Zhou Was annihilated, and he himself, Zhao Shichao, the chief of the Menren Officers and Men's Department who accompanied him from Fuzhou, Mao Zhijie, Zhongshu Cai Yong, Lai Jijin, and the military attaché guerrilla Zhu Jiadi were captured.
Zhang Tianlu set up a banquet in Wuyuan to persuade him to surrender, and Zodiac Zhou kicked the banquet away and scolded Zhang Tianlu bitterly.
Like Jin Sheng, Huang Daozhou was taken to Nanjing for execution.
Before leaving, he wrote four chapters of poetry, with poems Mingzhi and poetry clouds: "The sons receive my bones, and the blue sky knows my heart." For whom to divide the board, can not bear to float and sink together. ("Taiwan Waiji")
On the second day of february in the third year of Shunzhi (1646), he arrived in Nanjing.
Hong Chengyu sent someone to persuade Huang Daozhou to surrender, saying, "Sir, don't suffer yourself, I can ensure that Mr. Huang does not die." ”
Huang Daozhou sneered, "After a long death and the defeat of Songshan, the former emperor mourned his death, and personally wept and sacrificed, but he still exists?" This undocumented villain impostor! (Wen Ruilin's Yishi of Southern Xinjiang, vol. VIII).
Hong Chengzu was unable to persuade him to surrender, and ordered that the zodiac be cut off.
On the fifth day of March, Huang Daozhou was escorted through the Xihua Gate of the Forbidden City (the north-west gate of the Forbidden City, located in the south of Zaimen Street and east of Jiefang Road in the future), stopped walking, and said to the executioner: "This is close to the tomb of Emperor Gao, but it can be dead." (Lin Denghu: Kangxi's "Chronicle of Zhangpu County", vol. 15, "Jinsheng" on "Character History", "Zodiac Zhou")
In this way, the Zodiac Zhou and the doorman Lai Jijin were all beheaded at the Xihua Gate of the Forbidden City.
Longwu heard the news, mourned, posthumously presented wenming Bo, Yu Zhonglie.
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