Chapter 115 Chapter 9 Resilience and stamina

Zheng Jun's frightening combat effectiveness comes from two aspects: one is the legacy of pirates, and the other is Zheng Chenggong's personal style. Under the strict autocratic rule, those who dare to take risks and go to sea are all passionate men with low blood boiling point.And the freedom of fleeing to the sea and not caring about it further strengthened their wildness and bloodiness.These pirates only rely on courage as the capital to eat.At the beginning of Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, they had no leader for a while.Zheng Chenggong set up the banner of righteousness, and they came roaring again, gathering under the banner of the young marshal.

Zheng Chenggong's nature is heroic and decisive, and he is jealous of evil.He knew that strict discipline was necessary to subdue these undisciplined pirates.Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's military orders are like a mountain, and once he says a word, it is hard to follow. In October of the second year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty (AD 1648), the Qing army attacked Xiamen.At that time, the third uncle Zheng Zhipeng, who was in charge of Xiamen's defense, "swept through the treasures, abandoned the city and disembarked" in a panic, causing "boiling in the island".

After the war, Zheng Chenggong held a meeting of ministers, beheaded his uncle Zheng Zhipeng, and ordered his head to be hung on the street for three days on the grounds that he was "greedy of money and afraid of death" and "run away in battle".Zheng Chenggong doesn't care about human feelings when he governs the army, which is often the case. In the battle, Zheng Chenggong often personally supervised the battle, took the lead, and regarded death as home.In the seventh year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty (AD 1653), the Qing army besieged Haicheng.In order to encourage the soldiers, Zheng Chenggong visited Haicheng from Xiamen and boarded the fort to supervise the battle.The Qing army fired all the artillery fire, and the generals desperately pulled Zheng Chenggong off the fort. Zheng Chenggong had just left when the Qing army's artillery shells fell on Zheng Chenggong's seat, "the seat was smashed to pieces."There are countless cases of narrow escapes like this in Zheng Chenggong's military career.

Zheng Chenggong advocated loyalty, righteousness and integrity. Under the social atmosphere of pragmatism in the late Ming Dynasty, few people could not sacrifice moral principles for immediate interests like him. In the battle of Changtai in the sixth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty (AD 1652), Chen Jin, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, led his troops and failed in the battle. Ashamed, he beat his slave Ku Chengdong to vent his anger.Holding a grudge, Ku Chengdong stabbed him to death, cut off his head and surrendered to Zheng Ying.The next day, Zheng Chenggong gathered civil and military forces, ordered Ku Chengdong to be tied up, and said to him: "You are a shameless person who kills the Lord for glory. I will never use such an unrighteous person like you." Ku Chengdong surrendered, was not guilty of meritorious deeds, and pleaded for him, but Zheng Chenggong still ordered to be beheaded for public display.

He respects real soldiers.In the later battle of Zhenghe, the Dutch recorded that a Dutch soldier showed extraordinary bravery in front of Zheng Chenggong's army: "The horse fell down, and when the enemy (Zheng Jun) chased him, he still bravely resisted, holding a carbine He shot desperately until he died due to his injuries. After Guo Xing knew about him, he thought he was a brave warrior, ordered a generous burial, and the whole army saluted with guns." This kind of idealism, which values ​​honor more than life, is exactly the quality that the Chinese in the late Ming Dynasty lacked so much.Since the Spring and Autumn Period, under the continuous humiliation of increasingly strict autocratic power, the Chinese have become increasingly soft and sophisticated, heroic temperament has been continuously dissipated from the nation, and pragmatism has become more and more ugly and ugly.

"Dignity of life" and "quality of life" have become incompatible fish and bear's paws. Some people completely give up the elegance of life and choose an animalistic existence in which survival is more important than everything else.Although other people do not want to give up their moral responsibilities, their thin and rigid lives eroded by authoritarian education are not enough to bear the ideal of "heroism". For them, "heroism" has been alienated into those powerless and pedantic dogmas. The ridiculous performance of the famous scholars "talking with each other at ordinary times, and repaying the king with death".

Only Zheng Chenggong continued the Spring and Autumn tradition, putting "honor" before "life". However, Zheng Chenggong's heroism is not based on the simple personality design of "fighting to die to become famous". Before the historical commentary "Courage and fortitude, passed on from the mother", there is another sentence "The tricks and tricks are learned from the father".After all, he grew up in a family of warlords and grew up reading military books.His father's shrewdness and reality gradually melted into his blood. From the age of twenty-two, Zheng Zhilong consciously arranged for him to personally go to the army and participate in many military command activities, so that he could know the feelings of people all over the world.Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's staunchness is a kind of resilient staunchness, and Zheng Chenggong's idealism is based on realism as the two wings.He has both flesh and blood and the ability to operate.This is destined that he will not be like Zodiac Zhou and Qu Shixu (si), who can only talk but can't do it. He can only be a short-lived shooting star in the sky in history, and Zheng Chenggong will leave a lot of money.