ABSTRACT
On September 26, 1659, the same day he failed to seize Chongming, Zheng Chenggong led his demoralized warriors out of the waters of the Yangzi. One week later they reached Zhoushan in Zhejiang; from Zhoushan, the navy headed for its base in Simingzhou, Fujian. With Zheng’s fleet southbound, the last significant Ming loyalist military operation against the Qing clearly came also to an end. Zhang Huangyan, left stranded upstream, was defeated by a Qing riverine fleet on September 23.
