After the fall of Tong'an County, Zheng Chenggong hid in Tongshan for the rest of the day, and did not do much except send people around to buy grain, until September of the third year of the Yong calendar.
Zheng Chenggong is waiting for the right moment.
Zhang Guozhu was first a general of Liu Zeqing, and after the collapse of Liu Zeqing's department, he defected to the State of Lu, and after the collapse of the Lu Jianguo regime, Zhang Guozhu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty as a deputy general. Yunxiao in the Ming Dynasty belonged to the jurisdiction of Zhangpu County, and its status was quite important: "Yunxiao City is located in the land where Fujian and Guangzhou are intertwined, and it is a place where merchants trade, although it is not comparable to the county seat, but it is the throat of Zhangxian County, the gateway of the whole of Fujian, and it is forced to be adjacent to the seashore, and the Chengyao District is also "The Qing court sent Zhang Guozhu to guard this place."
Ming Army.
After Zhang Guozhu served as the garrison of Yunxiao, he was greedy and unscrupulous, and "the imperial soldiers were unkind, and the leader was rude", and his subordinates Wang Qifeng was very disgusted with him, and on the third day of September in 1648, Wang Qifeng led several of his cronies to secretly run to Tongshan and surrendered to Zheng Chenggong, who gave him the governor Tongzhi and gave him five hundred and two pieces of silver, colored umbrellas, jade belts, boots and hats, and other things. At the beginning of October, the Ming army marched in the direction of Wang Qifeng, and on the tenth day of October, the Ming army landed from Baita and marched in three ways, and the generals participating in the battle were Left Pioneer Shi Lang, Huang Yan of Zuo Zhen, Ruan Yin of Qianchong Town, Lu Jue of Zhengbing Battalion, Yang Cai of Right Pioneer, Huang Shan of Right Town, Zhou Rui of Houchong Town, Lin Yi of Zuo Chong Town, and Hong Xishan of Right Chong Town, Zheng Chenggong personally led the Rong Banner Chinese Army Kang Ming, Zhongchong Town Ke Chenshu, and Pro-Ding Town Zhang Jin as the Chinese army, and the Ming army's participation in the battle was "more than 10,000" according to the Qing side's report afterwards.
Knights of the Late Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Guozhu's own troop strength according to the Ming Dynasty historical record "Records of the First King" said: "(The first ten days of October) was noon, Yunxiao garrison Zhang Guozhu, Qianzong Xiayi, Ke Hu supervised more than a thousand infantry, five miles away from the city, lined up to meet the battle" The Qing army that went out of the city to meet the battle was only more than a thousand horse infantrymen, so it can be seen that the entire town of Yunxiao may not have many Qing troops, by the standards of the Ming Dynasty, the officers and soldiers under a garrison will not exceed 3,000 people, so even if the "more than 10,000 people" of the Ming army in the Qing report are exaggerated, The true number of the Ming army was probably more than twice as large as that of the Cloud Defenders.
The Qing army was sparsely armed.
Therefore, in fact, according to the thinking of normal people, at this time, as written in the report of Chen Jin, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang after this battle, "it is reasonable to hold the city wall, fly to Zhangzhou to wait for assistance, although the ant thieves are numerous, why is it difficult to attack inside and outside and annihilate" With the city wall, waiting for reinforcements from Zhangzhou, attacking inside and outside, and breaking Zheng Chenggong. But Zhang Guozhu Zhang Shoubei was probably overconfident, of course, it may also be because "Wang Qiqi led the thief to charge as a precursor, until the Cloud City under the horse shouted and scolded." More than a thousand people with heavy armor led troops dared to go out of the city to meet the attack, just in time for the left vanguard Shi Lang's soldiers, the Qing army lost the battle, and Shi Lang's general Shi Xian only looked at the face, he was slashed, Zhang Guozhu was wearing heavy armor after all, so it was not fatal, but at this time the Ming army had rushed to kill like a sea of mountains, more than a thousand Qing troops quickly collapsed, zhang Guozhu fell into the water and drowned in the process of escaping due to the process of armor.
The Ming army won a major victory.
Zhang Guozhu, who was guarding Yunxiao City, saw that Zhang Guozhu was defeated, so he quickly closed the city gate, however, it was too late, the main force of the Ming army commanded by Zheng Chenggong had already pressed up, and in just one day, yunxiao was conquered, the Qing army in the city collapsed, Yao Guotai was shot several times, captured by zheng jun, Zheng Chenggong ordered someone to be healed, and after his wounds were healed, Yao Guotai joined the Ming army until 1657, when Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expedition, this person still held an important position in Zheng Chenggong's Ming army.
Zhang Guozhu's Qing army was indeed somewhat self-sufficient.
After Gong Ke Yunxiao, Zheng Chenggong prepared to attack Zhao'an County next, and sent Ke Chenshu of Zhongchong Town to guard Pantuoling to guard against the Qing army coming from Zhangzhou, and Zheng Chenggong himself led the main force of the Ming army from Yunxiao Town on October 20 to prepare to attack Zhao'an County. By October 26, Zheng Chenggong camped in the area of Longfeng and Cizao, and on the 29th began to attack zhao'an county, and the local defender reported after the war that "on October 29, tens of thousands of thieves on land and water came to attack the county town, and more than twenty places were camped in various mountains. On the thirtieth day, the thieves returned to attack the city, and the troops were divided into troops, killing the thieves, seizing two thief ships, destroying several thief ships, wounding the thieves, and abandoning several cannons into the water. On the first day of November, the city was attacked again, and the posts were ambushed, the thieves repeatedly committed crimes and were defeated, and the poor were poor and fled" It can be seen that the battle against Zhao'an was not too smooth.
Zheng Jun still hadn't fully grown up at this time.
At the same time that Zheng Successfully approached Zhao'an on October 26, Wang Zhigang, Wang Bangjun, He Wenxing, Wei Biao, Xie Zilian and other Qing troops had already approached Pantuoling, and the Qing army "divided into four forces to attack: one force rushed to rob Lingmen; A force aided by the right enemy and the left and the second town from the right; A force from the left enemy in the middle of the town; A group of people from the middle of the road intercepted me to help. In addition, Hai Cheng guarded He Wenxing and climbed up from the bottom of the mountain and copied out of Zhongchong Town. ”
Late Ming armor.
On October 28, the Qing army took advantage of the fog to launch a general attack, first broke through the left and right chong erzhen, and then joined forces to attack Ke Chenshu, Ke Chenshu and his brother Ke Chenmei were unable to fight, the two brothers were killed together, Pantuoling was lost, the Ming army in Yunxiao Town was forced to retreat, Yunxiao Town fell into the hands of the enemy again, Zheng Chenggong heard the news of the defeat in Zhao'an, did not pursue the responsibility for the defeat, but comforted Ke Chenshu's family, and then gave up the plan to attack Zhao'an County and withdrew to the sea.