Editing Koxinga (section)

===Zheng Zhilong's surrender and the death of Tagawa===
The Qing forces sent envoys to meet Zheng Zhilong secretly and offered to appoint him as the governor of both Fujian and [[Guangdong]] provinces if he would surrender to the Qing. Zheng Zhilong agreed and ignored the objections of his family, surrendering himself to the Qing forces in Fuzhou on 21 November 1646.{{sfnp|Struve|1984|p=98}} Koxinga and his uncles were left as the successors to the leadership of Zheng Zhilong's military forces. Koxinga operated outside [[Xiamen]] and recruited many to join his cause in a few months. He used the superiority of his naval forces to launch amphibious raids on Manchu-occupied territory in Fujian and he managed to take [[Tong'an]] in [[Quanzhou]] prefecture in early 1647. However, Koxinga's forces lacked the ability to defend the newly occupied territory.{{sfnp|Andrade|2005|loc=§&nbsp;12}}

Following the fall of Tong'an to Zheng, the Manchus launched a counterattack in the spring of 1647, during which they stormed the Zheng family's hometown of [[Anhai|Anping]]. Koxinga's mother, Lady Tagawa, had come from Japan in 1645 to join her family in Fujian (Koxinga's younger brother, Tagawa Shichizaemon, remained in Japan).{{sfnp|Keene|1950|p=46}} She did not follow her husband to surrender to the Qing dynasty. She was caught by Manchu forces in Anping and committed suicide after refusal to submit to the enemy, according to traditional accounts.{{sfnp|Struve|1984|p=116}}