In the early morning of the 10th day of February, on the beach southwest of Kinmen Island, more than 50 warships, large and small, were moored and rose and fell with the waves.

On the largest Chinese military ship, the Chinese army is fluttering, and a Yang character is written on it.

Yang Lu was full of flesh and eyes, needless to say, he knew that he was a pirate, and he was very fierce and scary.

Xu Xinsu next to him looks much more elegant, in fact, Xu Xinsu's body is also very strong, and his face is also like the words "I am a bad guy" on his forehead, but his somewhat official and big business brother temperament makes him different from pirates.

The surroundings were full of rough people, with barbaric appearances and rough speech, although they were appeased officers and soldiers, their clothes and equipment were shabby, at most a few officers wore Ming army uniforms, and most of them still wore fishermen's shabby clothes.

The equipment held is varied, the regular ones are knives and guns, and those with forks and whistle sticks are used for arquebuses, and the equipped artillery is also on the small side, with more than 6-pounder guns and 10-pounder guns.

In fact, the imperial court also issued military salaries and equipment for this batch of obedient pirate troops, but the black-hearted military department and Fujian magistrates plus Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu devoured everything, and the result was still pirate equipment.

They were waiting for the arrival of the enemy, and they were bored, Yang Lu asked Xu Xinsu, "Have you seen that kid?" (Yan Changwu)"

"I've seen it, I've seen it in the Wa Kingdom!" Xu Xinsu said that although he had done business between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty before, he also called that country the Wa Kingdom (the Ming people called that country the people of the Wa Kou).

"So what kind of man is he? I heard that the southeast province was prosperous, and he also defeated the Dutch. Yang Lu asked curiously.

Xu Xinsu snorted coldly: "I don't remember what he was like before, a hairy boy, and he is not a prodigy, he can defeat the Dutch that is he who made the Dutch break through the Dutch City of Orange!" ”

Seeing his impatient look, Yang Lu was puzzled at first, and then understood that it was not Yan Changwu who was annoyed by Xu Xinsu, but angry by the imperial court, especially Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian sent by the imperial court!

Zhu Yifeng was born in Taixing Mingmen, is a descendant of the national surname, in 1598 went to Beijing to try to rank second, gave Jinshi background, in 1626 for the Imperial History of the Right Governor of Fujian.

He is resolute by nature, and he doesn't want to see pirates, this time Yan Changwu, an outsider, sent someone to send a letter to the door to fight, it is by no means a grudge between the rivers and lakes, Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu both have official positions in the imperial court!

No matter what the reason, an official is an official, and a bandit is a bandit!

The officers and soldiers were beaten by the bandits, and they lost their face, and they must not tolerate it, and they should attack them in groups, otherwise where would the face of the imperial court be?

However, Zhu Yifeng forced Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu to fight on their own as the commander of military affairs, and did not allow Yu Zhigao, the chief soldier of coastal defense, to send troops to help in the battle, making it clear that he was sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and let the two factions of pirates fight to the death, if Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu win, their strength will be lost, and it will be better controlled. If it is defeated, it will weaken Yan Changwu's strength, and it will be beneficial for the officials and troops to suppress him in the future, and at the same time, it will also solve Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu, killing two birds with one stone.

Governor Zhu almost forced Xu Xinsu to fight with Yang Lu, so that they became grasshoppers tied together, and they could be pinched no matter whether they won or lost.

Knowing what kind of virtue the court officials are, and knowing that there is no urine for a pot, Yang Lu said dissatisfiedly: "There is no master here, there is a place to keep the master, Boss Xu, we are begging for a life at sea, free and easy, why should we be angry with this bird official!" ”

Xu Xinsu smiled bitterly and said: "It's not the right way to make a living at sea!" ”

He looked at the sea from afar and said, "You said, how many people who beg for a living on the sea have a good death!" ”

Yang Lu was speechless, and he said softly: "Very little!" ”

Yes, when a person walks on the sea, how can he not cause trouble, continue to soak in the sea, the back waves push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach, and I don't know which day he will die.

Never stop, until the knife, if the golden basin washes its hands, it is even worse, it is equivalent to abandoning the protective power, others kill in the middle of the night, it is a tragedy!

Xu Xinsu learned from Song Jiang and looked forward to Zhao'an, and wanted to get an official body to protect himself, but the problem was that after Song Jiang was recruited, the court asked him to take the heroes of Liangshan to fight Fang La, and the heroes of the Water Margin became history!

This Zhu Yifeng learned to borrow a knife to kill people in the Song Dynasty court!

The two were speechless, if it was possible, who would want to be a bandit!

Looking at the sea in a daze, someone suddenly shouted: "Gunboats have been found in the rear!" ”

The lookout post on the mast sounded an alarm, Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu glanced at each other, and secretly frightened: "The Southeast Mansion actually wants to cut off the rear route of our army?" ”

Rushed to the port side, opened the binoculars purchased from the Dutch, and looked: "It's the Dutch battleship!" Two ships! ”

"They're here to help us?" Yang Lu is not sure of authenticity.

Xu Xinsu sneered: "This is to see the excitement!" ”

Yang Lu's face turned cold, speaking of which, the Dutch had a relationship with Xu Xinsu in a deal, and he was slapped in the face by Yan Changwu, how could the Dutch help Xu Xinsu fight, but he only sent two warships to come, purely to fight soy sauce.

These two Dutch warships were converted from merchant ships, although they were better than the Ming warships, but they were unable to deal with the Ming warships like wolves, and they were not involved in the war.

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The Dutch battleships that sailed one was the Medusa and the other was Poseidon, both of which were Galen ships, with 3 masts, about 40 meters long, and 18 12-pounder guns, which belonged to the clippers.

On the stern tower of the Medusa, there were two Dutch people who had seen them from the Southeast Province, and it was Mr. Peter Poznan and Mr. Van Roesmaren who had come to negotiate with the Southeast Province to redeem the Dutch captives!

They were also using binoculars to observe the "Ming Dynasty Naval Division" in front, and when they saw that there was no fighting, they sailed their ships to the northwest corner of Kinmen Island.

Van Roth Mullen frowned and said, "Compared to Mr. Xu Xinsu, the Southeast Mansion is our great enemy, why don't we take this opportunity to attack the Southeast Mansion?" ”

"Of course I want to, but unfortunately we don't have enough strength!" Pete Poznan sighed: "This world is so big, no matter how many ships we throw into the sea, we will not be able to assemble a fleet to come, and they are scheduled to attack at the time of the autumn harvest." ”

"So we're just here to see?" Van Roth Mullen asked.

"My sir, what else do you want to do to shoot at them?" Pete Poznan shrugged.

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The two Dutch ships also made it clear that they were sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, and the Ming army sailors were the same as each other, which made Xu Xinsu resentful, how could he be the general agent of the Dutch business in the mainland!

He also knew that the Dutch people were dissatisfied with him, mainly because he sold a load of raw silk for 142 taels, but it was more expensive to sell it to Wadao, reaching 500-600 taels and a load, and I already had a conscience price!

Xu Xinsu turned his heart sideways and said to Yang Lu: "If you can't beat it, then run away!" Let's drive the ship into the port of Xiamen, if they chase it in, see what happens to Governor Zhu and General Yu, aren't they shameless, I'll see where their faces are placed! ”

He said with a hideous face: "If you want us to learn from Song Jiang, we can't do it!" ”

"Enemy, enemy is coming!" The lookout post warned again, Xu Xinsu and Yang Lu opened the binoculars to observe, and saw that the masts were gradually rising in the eastern sea, and boats appeared in front of them.