Chapter 1154: The Battle of Seven Star Island (5)
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The Zheng family's sailor was completely blinded in less than half an hour!
The generals on all the ships were so aggrieved that they died.
What kind of battle is this?
From the beginning of the war, it was a wrestling battle.
Except for the pursuit of Wang Yilin, the fight was a little easier, but until the actual war, many warships have not even fired a single shot.
There was the Ming Dynasty in the front, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the rear, no matter how well the Tartars fought on land, but at sea, they really couldn't help this naval division. This is intolerable for the arrogant Zheng family sailor.
Zheng Zhiguan is by no means a brave person, and he bit Wang Yilin tightly before, because he knew that he would win.
But once in danger, he will quickly transform into a cowardly person, and extremely cowardly and shameless.
Human nature is elusive.
There are some righteous men and gentlemen who are full of morality and have a good reputation, once the crisis comes, they are even worse than slaughtering dogs, there are too many examples of this, and they are everywhere.
For example, Qian Qianyi, under Liu Ruye's "urging", came to the pond, and the fireworks women were going to dive into the water for martyrdom, he was born in a serious class, one of the leaders of the Donglin Party, but because the water was too cold and turned his head away, he dared to boil the pot and water first to scald his old face.
Zheng Zhiguan was born as a pirate, so he has become cowardly, and it shouldn't be ugly.
But the old team of the Zheng family is not good.
This is a proud army, sweeping the South China Sea, it can be said that I am the second, who dares to be the boss?
Thinking about it, the boss Zheng Zhilong has already been cleared, and the sailors under his command would rather follow Zheng Chenggong and be a dime boy, and he will not surrender.
It's the backbone, but it's also the temper.
It's not how loyal they are to the Ming Dynasty, but because of their interests, the so-called rather be the head of the chicken than the tail of the phoenix.
I'm used to being free, it's cool to rob, I have no capital to buy and sell, and when the cannon goes off, I don't want to change it even if I change the emperor.
This time, it's messed up.
There were still dense shells in front of him, and the flagship of the Zheng Jiashui Division lost contact with the surrounding capital ships.
Zheng Zhiguan gave the order to surrender, and there was an uproar on the flagship.
Among them, Zheng Cai's reaction was particularly intense.
His Zheng Zhilong's clan, although his generation is younger than Zheng Zhiguan's, he has followed Zheng Zhilong for many years, and he has a large number of subordinates, and his foundation is solid.
After Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the Ming Dynasty, he was also awarded the chief military officer, although it was not a real shortage, but the official was a serious official.
After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Cai and his younger brother have been entrenched in the coastal area of Xiamen, and the Zheng family has at least thirty percent of the sailors, which is actually what their brothers really master.
has an army and territory, just like a soil emperor, so naturally he doesn't want to follow Zheng Zhilong to the north to live under the fence, and he will be angry.
But the Zheng Cai brothers never expected that Zheng Chenggong would make a move on them.
Originally, Zheng Chenggong raised the banner against the Qing Dynasty, and the Zheng Cai brothers also nominally invested, but this kind of investment was basically nominal, and they didn't listen to the tune or the announcement, and even the taxes on the land, even if it were local products, did not have Zheng Chenggong's share.
Zheng Chenggong was naturally unhappy.
So, Zheng Chenggong was defeated outside Fuzhou, and after retreating to southern Fujian, he found an excuse to say that Zheng Lian was tyrannical in Xiamen and made the people miserable.
This excuse is very clumsy, there is a way that rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest, Zheng Cai brothers are indeed not good birds, but they are not so bad as to expropriate and expropriate their own one-third of an acre of land and make the people miserable.
Moreover, the Zheng Cai brothers occupied Xiamen not for a year or two, but from before Zheng Chenggong and his father surrendered, they had already occupied Xiamen, which was equivalent to the Zheng family's feudal domain.
However, Zheng Chenggong's intention to seize Xiamen has been decided, and whether his excuse is suitable or not, he just does it.
Zheng Chenggong took advantage of the opportunity when Zheng Cai was alone and left Xiamen, and personally took his personal guards to Xiamen to visit Zheng Lian.
So, carelessly, he did not fortify, and was tragically killed by Zheng Chenggong during the banquet.
When Zheng Cai learned of his brother's death, he knew that the general trend had gone, so he didn't dare to go against Zheng Chenggong, so he returned to Xiamen and took the initiative to hand over all the military power. Since then, Zheng Chenggong has taken over most of the armies and naval divisions of Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian, and has actually taken Xiamen and Kinmen as bases.
Therefore, Zheng Cai is lying on the salary to taste the guts.
If there is a way, it is not reported, the time has not come.
But right now, Zheng Cai feels that the time has come.
In Zheng Cai's view, the strength of his sailors is far superior to that of the enemy, and the reason why he fought so passively was actually because of improper command, one mistake, and one wrong step.
Long before Zheng Zhiguan gave the surrender order, Zheng Cai already had a comparison in his heart.
And Zheng Zhiguan did not know whether he was alive or dead and gave the surrender order, which aroused the indignation of all the generals on the flagship except for his own henchmen.
So many people died, so many ships sank.
The number of warships on your side is still more than that of the enemy, in this case, surrender?
How can you not be indignant?
Zheng Cai saw that the army's heart was available, so he turned around, faced Zheng Zhiguan, pulled out his saber, and stabbed forward, "poof" and pierced.
This move, in front of everyone's eyes, in an instant, like flowing water, dare to be Zheng Cai practiced countless times in his heart, and he was so proficient.
The upheaval abruptly started, Zheng Zhiguan died on the spot, and Zheng Zhiguan's henchmen didn't even have time to react.
Zheng Cai carried the blood-dripping steel knife, pointed at Zheng Zhiguan's henchmen, and shouted: "Zheng Zhiguan's command is at a loss, causing the defeat of our army's naval division, which is already a big crime, and now he is even more vain to surrender to the enemy, even if the king of Yanping is here, he will be killed!" ”
Speaking of this, Zheng Cai's old department, who was standing behind him, also began to draw his knife and press forward.
Zheng Zhiguan's henchmen opened their mouths and stammered, seeing that Zheng Zhiguan had lost his breath on the floor, he knew that the general trend had gone, so he tied his hands.
In the blink of an eye, a coup d'état ended.
In the past few minutes, several warships of the Zheng family's sailors were sunk.
But there are still more than sixty of them, most of them capital ships with sixty-four guns.
After Zheng Cai took command, he quickly ordered to attack Wang Yilin's warship.
Zheng Cai is also an old sailor.
I know that in a battlefield situation like this, I can't get out of it.
The only way is to quickly go in one direction and force a breakthrough at any cost before the Wusong Shui Division catches up.
The choice between the Wusong Naval Division and Wang Yilin's remnants was naturally to choose Wang Yilin's direction, where the strength was weak, there were only ten ordinary warships, and there were relatively few gunwales.
The situation on the battlefield quickly changed after Zheng Cai's coup d'état.
Under the leadership of Zheng Cai's flagship, the Zheng family's sailors approached the direction of Wang Yilin's department at any cost.
The original long snake formation also quickly dispersed, and attacked in the northeast direction with a long ship line formation.
It is conceivable that Wang Yilin's only eleven remaining warships will definitely not be able to withstand it, and he can't stop it if he wants to.