"Uh......, Zhenguo Gong doesn't know, Zhang Mingzhen is here with more than 1,000 people, and dozens of warships, my lord, this is the soldiers and warships under the command of my family's general soldiers, and I hope that my lord will return them."

"What if my father doesn't allow it?"

"Ah......?" Zhu Mei was stunned for a moment, "Zhenguo Gong...... Why bother, Zhoushan and Hangzhou have always had well water and no river water, and the general soldiers of my family have never offended adults, and they have fought for the sake of more than 1,000 people and dozens of boats, which ...... Isn't that unwise? ”

For a soldier who has been in the army for many years, Zhu Mei is already very tactful.

When he came, Huang Binqing also specially explained to him, salute first and then soldier, don't tear your face if you can, after all, Fujian is now weak, and the Qingtai Dynasty is in full swing.

Be a man and leave a line, and we will see each other in the future.

But Wu Zheng is different, he doesn't have any worries.

Now south of the Qiantang River, in addition to Lihai and Pinggang Mountain, there is only Zhoushan, which is also subordinate to the Ming army in name.

If Huang Binqing is allowed to wander outside the control of the imperial court, it will inevitably cause Huang Binqing to defect to the Qing court in an uncertain time.

This is normal, the north, south and west are surrounded on three sides, and after a long period of isolation, the sailors will definitely surrender, because they are isolated on the island and cannot support themselves, and they will either disband or surrender.

Therefore, Wu Zheng must take this opportunity to bring this Ming naval division under his jurisdiction, otherwise, if it is collected by the Qing army, it will directly threaten the coast of Lihai and Hangzhou to Yingtianfu.

In Wu Zheng's overall consideration, Huang Binqing must die.

Since you have this decision, you don't have to give the other party a good color, not to mention that there is just a messenger from Huang Binqing in front of you?

"You dare to threaten Bengong?" Wu Zheng shouted, "Come on, take down this fang, and the staff will be thirty to set an example." ”

Zhu Mei was shocked, Wu Zheng said that he would turn his face, and there was no sign at all.

The so-called heroes don't suffer immediate losses, how can Zhu Mei have the integrity of a literati?

He shouted loudly, "Your Excellency, spare your life...... Spare your life! ”

But how could Wu Wai let him go?

As soon as the rod fell, Zhu Mei was already hoarse and out of breath.

Wu Zheng said: "Go back and tell Huang Binqing that my father will give him a day, and tomorrow at this time, I will personally come ashore to see my father, otherwise, my father will lead the army to destroy him." ”

Subsequently, Wu Zheng sent someone to order the sailor to go south while it was dark, and on the other hand, he sent someone to send a message to Lihai, ordering Chen Sheng to dispatch Lihai ships to block Huang Binqing's southern withdrawal of the water division.

This arrangement is to flank Huang Binqing's sailors, in case he suddenly flees and returns to Zhoushan, so that even if Zhang Mingzhen says that he descends to the dynasty, he will be extinguished by Huang Binqing.

At this time, the sailors did not have the ability to go to the sea, and basically sailed along the coastline, that is to say, Huang Binqing's sailors wanted to return to Zhoushan, but they could not go around Lihai.

And Lihai Chen Shengbu did not react to Huang Binqing's sailor before because Huang Binqing's sailor was subordinate to the Ming army sequence.

But with Wu Zheng's order, it would be different.

At the same time, Wu Zheng left Hangzhou Mansion and went to Songjiang to meet the sailors.

Wu Zheng did not tell Huang Daozhou about this, because Wu Zheng was worried that if Huang Daozhou knew, maybe there would be unpredictable changes in the matter of seizing Zhoushan Shui Shi.

……。

On the sea surface of Hangzhou Bay.

There are thousands of ships floating.

The fishermen who were fishing fled far away for fear of being unjustifiable.

On the biggest warship, Huang Binqing looked at Zhu Mei, whose buttocks were beaten to a bloody pulp, and shouted angrily: "Wu Zheng, I don't share the sky with you!" ”

But shouting and shouting, Huang Binqing looked at the looming land in the distance, but he didn't dare to give the order to land and attack.

The artillery on the coastline is too dense, this is the masterpiece of Chen Shoujie and his son.

After Wu Zheng went on the Northern Expedition, he ordered all artillery to be deployed in Hangzhou Bay.

This is the real reason why Huang Binqing had more than 1,000 warships in the air, and he did not dare to land and attack even though he knew that Wu Zheng was not in Hangzhou yesterday.

Otherwise, with his temperament, he would naturally go ashore and plunder first.

Why send Zhu Mei ashore to ask for it?

But now, Zhu Mei brought back Wu Zheng's reply that he would let him go ashore to see Wu Zheng in person.

Although it stands to reason that he should indeed go to see Wu Zheng, no matter what, he is the chief soldier and earl, while Wu Zheng is the general and duke.

But how dare Huang Binqing go ashore.

After thinking about it, Huang Binqing knew that this time he was going to return in vain, Wu Zheng had already arrived in Hangzhou, and he had no chance of attacking.

So, Huang Binqing ordered that the whole army return to Zhoushan early the next morning.

It was this night that laid the end of Huang Binqing's downfall.

If Huang Binqing returned south immediately, with the strength of his naval division, Chen Sheng's troops would not be able to intercept them all, and Chen Sheng would not be able to make a desperate bet to stop Huang Binqing at any cost.

Therefore, when retreating at this time, Huang Binqing has a way to live.

But one night made Huang Binqing a turtle in an urn.

When the sky was dark, the Zhoushan water division set sail and began to retreat south.

The lookout on the mast suddenly noticed a black spot on the sea to the north.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously, thinking that he was sleepy and hazy, and yes, the two sailors in the south of the Yangtze River, after the Dinghai division of Xingguo Gong went north, the Zhoushan Shui division was already the most powerful existence in this sea area.

The lookout had no idea that a sailor would appear.

But it didn't take long for the black spots to get bigger and bigger, and there were more and more of them, and now the lookout became alert.

It's a pity that it's too late by this time.

Hundreds of warships have formed an encirclement of the Zhoushan Naval Division from all directions.

"Enemy attack!" A terrible alarm sounded, followed by a gong.

When Huang Binqing was awakened from his sleep by the piercing sound of gongs, he was still cursing with wide eyes.

He could never have imagined that such a large-scale fleet would arrive in the waters of Hangzhou Bay.

When Huang Binqing came to this point, he thought it was a false report or a false positive.

The naval battle began very suddenly, with red-hot shells streaking across the sky.

Solid bullets struck the ship's side with sawdust, and flowering bullets swept across the deck, sending the sails like a sieve.

At this time, Huang Binqing realized that it was really an enemy attack.

"Wu Zheng, you don't believe what you say!"

This is the first sentence that Huang Binqing scolded when he realized the outbreak of the battle.

Then, he quickly ordered a counterattack.

It has to be said that the Zhoushan Naval Division was a well-trained naval division, and under the sudden blow, the ship began to turn around in an orderly manner, facing the enemy with the side of the ship, and the ship's artillery began to return fire.

But after a round of shelling, the sailors found that this was useless.

The enemy is four or five miles away, and his rapid-fire guns have a range of only one or two miles, and even if they use solid bullets, the farthest distance is only three miles, and they can't reach it at all.

In the last years of Chongzhen, the Ming army sailors were almost all equipped with purchased rapid-fire front-loading guns, which was a great strategic mistake, in fact, abandoning the red-coated cannon and developing rapid-fire artillery also became one of the main reasons for the Ming Dynasty's military defeat against the Manchu Dynasty.