Li Xiuyuan is still immersed in memories, the other officers on the Dinghai don't know what their commander's plans are, now the kind of navy that His Majesty the Emperor is looking forward to is still in the initial stage, the original officers and soldiers will definitely be retrained and scattered and reorganized, at that time, General Li, who has made outstanding achievements, may become a feudal official, and he has the current hot Jiang Taishi as a backer behind him, who can enter this circle is definitely promising, so no one dares to interrupt Commander Li's thoughts. It didn't last long, and the lookout, regardless of whether the commander was reliving the battle that made him famous, shouted at the bottom of his neck when he saw the shadow of the sail in the distance and accurately judged that it was a fleet.

The fleet that sailed in was not the expected surrender envoy of the Zheng family, but a supply fleet from Songjiang. This is a formation composed of three fast supply ships and three destroyers, the three destroyers that served as escort ships were the ones that Li Xiuyuan left a message and guarded the prisoners of war, when the good news reached Jeju Island, the old warships sent by other guards who were still waiting and watched flocked to the Ryukyus to pick up cheap, and the captains of the destroyers also happened to be relieved from this unnutritious task, and assembled in Songjiang on the grounds of escorting the supply fleet, in fact, no one on the sea at this time would attack the Chinese navy.

The fast supply ship is also a masterpiece of the Naval Research Institute, compared with the old sailing ship or European merchant ships, it is indeed much faster, but compared with the destroyer, it is not at all on the same level, because the supply ship also needs to consider sufficient loading capacity, as well as the possible docking and replenishment on the water, it is impossible to blindly pursue high speed, so this ship type is a compromise between the container cargo ship and the clipper ship, or the construction standard of the civilian ship is used to save costs, the only difference is to surpass other ships. It is that the ship completely improved the Chinese hard sail, in order to further reduce the number, instead used the epoch-making cross sail, which is a combination of longitudinal sail and spinnaker and soft sail, even in the twenty-first century is also widely used in sports sailing, characterized by light weight, flexible maneuverability, very few sail operators, the only disadvantage is that the downwind is not as efficient as the sail.

However, because it is a three-masted sailing ship, when the wind is downwind, the two cross-beam sails can be opened outboard, which increases the wind area in disguise. Jiang Tian didn't think about adding some auxiliary sails such as small sails or side sails on the top of the mast, but this would increase the construction cost and time, and at the same time let the number of people shrink increase again, which is really worth the loss. What's more, considering the supply operation on the sea surface, the transverse sail that can be flexibly steered can free up a large deck area to install work tools, and will not be disturbed by messy ropes, and it is impossible for the fleet to maintain the maximum speed when sailing in the ocean, which is different from the reason for the use of cruising speed in order to save fuel in later generations, purely to ensure that the complete combat effectiveness of the formation will not be dispersed, so it is no problem to accommodate a slightly slower supply ship.

After the five ships gradually approached the Dinghai, the two sides lowered their sails off the coast of Penghu to prepare for supplies, while the other ships were on guard to prevent a sneak attack at such a vulnerable time. In fact, this kind of worry is unnecessary, when the task force fleet of only five warships appeared in Penghu for the first time, it really made the Penghu defenders startled, but their commander was the famous Haili Shi Lang, this benevolent brother thought that there would be such a day after hearing that Zheng Tai had left, and also guessed that he would eventually have a death battle with the mainland, so he began to rearm early, but when he saw the Dinghai from the not very clear monoculars, decided that he couldn't let his small ships challenge the giant ship, and it was absolutely impossible for him to choose to surrender, Mo said that he was still loyal to the Zheng family, even if his family was on the island of Taiwan, he didn't dare to surrender easily. So all he could do was run away.

It turned out that the name of Sea Thunderbolt was not called for nothing, and he did not need to analyze it carefully to see that this menacing fleet had a fatal weakness, that is, there were too few ships, and it was impossible to prevent his dozens of ships from scattering and escaping. So a chase battle on the sea evolved a bit like five hungry wolves chasing a group of fleeing bunnies. Li Xiuyuan didn't expect Shi Lang to run away without even firing a shot, and he didn't expect this guy to break through as soon as he came up, and he ran a lot off guard, but Shi Lang's ship was still surrounded and failed to retreat, and after several small boats quickly exploded and sank, Shi Lang chose to retreat to Penghu Water Village and hide within the range of the red-coated cannon.

Li Xiu cursed in his heart more than once that those guys who sold artillery, even if this kind of weapon in the army was outdated, it couldn't be sold casually! It's good that I can only squat outside and have nowhere to talk, and what's worse is that those boats that ran away will definitely report the news, and it is absolutely impossible for me to replicate the sneak attack of Ryukyu that closes the door and beats the dogs. Shi Lang also seemed to think that the other party was afraid of the red-clothed cannon, and fired a cannon at the sea from time to time to wake up. In fact, Li Xiuyuan can choose to attack, these scattered forts can't stop the Dinghai, but he really doesn't want this treasure flagship to suffer a little more losses, even if he can completely annihilate the remnants of the Zheng clan in the end, but the Dinghai has to have three longs and two shorts, and he himself feels that this deal is a loss. Just when he was hesitating about whether to throw off Penghu and attack Taiwan directly, the envoy sent by the imperial court to persuade him to surrender also arrived, and he was able to get out of this embarrassing situation and turned into a pure surveillance Shi Lang to prevent him from slipping away.

As for Huang Degong's ship, it was also changed from the Guangzhou ship when he came to the Jinghai to the Jinghai, first got in touch with Shi Lang, who could not move, and sent a deputy general to Keelung under the escort of two destroyers, and the Guangzhou ship sailed to Fujian with the current situation, loaded with autumn tribute and sailed back to Beijing, which is the result of Jiang Tian's promotion of specialized logistics, although it is impossible for the naval staff to know the exact location of the ships at sea, but it knows which port has those material reserves, and also knows how much supplies the fleet at sea has left. It is possible to estimate the approximate replenishment time, combined with the information sent back by various post stations on a regular basis, to plan the ship's itinerary in advance, which not only improves efficiency, but also gives a rough outline of the battle situation thousands of miles away.

Specifically, in this matter, the destroyer returned to Jeju Island as early as the first to report the news, and the logistics department that got the information adjusted the supply plan, so that the three supply ships that had just arrived at the port did not need to unload the ship and sail directly to the next forward base, at this time, according to the plan, Songjiang Port was automatically upgraded to the front point, and the post station on the ground sent the base forward order to its corresponding area, and the materials prepared in Jiangsu and Zhejiang did not need complicated procedures, and only needed to fill in the time and number of the order received on a standard form. You can reroute the materials that have already been loaded and send them directly to Songjiang. The destroyers relied on their speed advantage to make a return to Ryukyu first, and after dropping off a group of marines who were guarding prisoners of war, they sailed to Matsue and the supply ships with the two destroyers that remained behind. At this time, the news of the great victory had been reported to Jiang Tian, and Huang Degong, the long-planned envoy of persuasion, should have traveled slowly by boat, but this old guy who had been fighting horses all his life relied on the post station to change horses and ran to Songjiang Port, and the supply fleet was in a hurry to cross the sea before it set off, which disrupted the original plan. Therefore, as long as they found that Penghu was still in the hands of the Zheng family, they would temporarily pretend to be a merchant ship and sail to Xiamen, and at that time, there would be a batch of tributes for birthday celebrations in the port to be loaded and transported away, so that they could use this as a cover to escape back to Songjiang along the coastline.

Only then did the persuasion envoy arrive earlier than the supply fleet. After joining the task force with the task force, the task of the Guangzhou ship was completed ahead of schedule, so after Li Xiuyuan signed and sealed the form, he left a copy of the form in triplicate to the fleet paperwork, and he went back to Xiamen directly with the stub and delivery copy to load the goods and receive the payment, and the military carrier pigeons raised on the ship flew back to Songjiang. In this logistics system built by Jiang Tian, although the information is a little sluggish, but the use of standard forms, so that a layman can clearly see the operation of the entire supply network, each subsystem only recognizes valid documents and does not recognize oral orders, as for the Fujian Navy for Songjiang to pay in advance, you can also write off the accounts within the navy with the documents in your own hands, this modern very ordinary logistics procedure appeared in the seventeenth century but has extraordinary significance. Originally, Zhang Tao was also familiar with various reimbursement vouchers and financial processes within the army, but first, the operations during the Northern Expedition made him have no time to engage in these copywriting things, and secondly, he only knew a small part of what he was familiar with, so although the previous Chinese Dynasty already had the prototype of modern logistics, it did not need or have the ability to improve it, until Jiang Tian, a person who is accustomed to the logistics system of the 21st century, appeared.

Whether it is a ground post station or a naval liaison ship, what materials are needed and what uses need to fill out a supply application form, the logistics department classifies the urgency and time of the form, and distributes materials and adjusts the capacity in order. When Huang Degong landed on Taiwan with a frown, the materials that were supposed to be transported to Jeju Island at the Songjiang transit station received a notice of change of priority from the former commander, and sailed to the Ryukyus to establish a new stack according to the new priority. can be discovered by the destroyer sent by Li Xiuyuan to patrol, and automatically fill in his name on the supply list. Once it is discovered that the main fleet of the Zheng family has left the port to provoke, they do not have to meet the enemy themselves, and will lead it to a preset location according to the plan for the task force to complete the final decisive battle. So the battle has reached this point, Li Xiuyuan sits sullenly on the Dinghai every day and drinks extravagant tomato and egg soup, monitoring the sea in the direction of Penghu and Tainan, and watching the six fastest destroyers under his command busy scurrying around like dogs. Who let there are no radios and not enough liaison ships now, the advantage is that the operational skills of the sailors on these six ships have improved rapidly.

What's even more depressing is Shi Lang, he stands on the fort every day and watches the invincible giant ship squatting at the door in the distance, and countless ships are shuttling outside the range of the red-coated cannons, the Penghu Islands only play a role in shielding Taiwan in theory, but in fact it has become a positioning coordinate on the sea, and those passing ships use it as a reference for correcting their routes, as for whether it needs to be attacked as a new front-line command, no one cares, after all, from Songjiang and Ryukyu to Keelung, they actually don't pass through Penghu at all, Possible reinforcements from the Tainan direction were also blocked by patrol boats sent by Fujian. Hai Thunderbolt, who has no skills, can only look at the sea every day and sigh, how can this naval battle still play the siege of land warfare?

Shi Lang is not the only one who has this feeling, Zheng Jing is not trapped in the city, and he sent a few people to test the encirclement on the sea, but they were all blocked back by the kind of extremely fast ship leading a group of younger brothers, and as for the Jinghai that has been parked in Keelung Harbor to watch the excitement, it makes him itch his teeth even more. He didn't dare to sink this ship nominally carrying the envoy easily, even if it stopped right under his nose, that would be tantamount to tearing his face with the Chinese court. As for the news and messengers it brought, Zheng Jing could no longer analyze it with normal thinking, and the ten plywood ships piloted by the Dutch were all wiped out! What is this concept? His grandfather was so wise and martial that he was just defeating the red hair in the battle of Liuluowan, and the main force of the people still retreated after all. But the Chinese Navy has only been established for a few years, and some people still don't want to leave their homeland and defect to the past, so why do they suddenly have such incredible combat effectiveness? If it weren't for Zheng Tai's cronies and several captains of the East India Company, he Zheng Jing would not have believed it anyway.

The big and small pirate leaders of the Zheng family have heard this incredible news, and there was still a trace of the idea of fighting to the death in the past and threw it into the Taiwan Strait, people are not even afraid of you visiting the most elite warship, but they are also ready to die if you take the ship, but even if you can capture this big ship, what if you can capture this big ship, I heard those red-haired captains say that the most terrible thing is not this kind of big ship, but the six devil-like clippers that are smaller than this one, which is the direct reason for them to give up the idea of escaping and simply surrender. Besides, Zheng Tai's cronies all knew each other, and with this person testifying, they also confirmed that there was no possibility of escape. When Zheng Jing was still grinding with Huang Degong, news came from the sea that the entire sea off Keelung Port was almost surrounded by all kinds of ships, large and small, and those old and weak soldiers on the mainland could not stop the Zheng family from going to sea no matter how many they came, but every time they went to open up the sea and land, they would be killed by a very fast ship, and it didn't take long for them to find that even if they met the old sailing ships before, they couldn't bargain, and the kind of rockets that were regarded as devils by the Dutch were gradually popularized on old warships.

"Virtuous nephew, my Lao Huang is a rough man, let me ask you, since the day His Majesty of my family raised the army, have you ever seen him so tolerant of which one of them was guilty of? If he wants your life, he still needs to go to great lengths to blockade him, as long as he takes advantage of the fact that your ship can't go out to sea, just find a beach and transport one or two troops ashore, your Zheng family can be regarded as heroes at sea, but you are sure to block Your Majesty's tiger in this land battle? Above the city, Huang Degong stood next to Zheng Jing and stared at the other side of the sea with his eyes: "I also brought you the letter, to be honest, Lao Huang, I didn't have a few people I admired back then, the first one is my Majesty, and the second is your father, he can do everything he can to follow His Majesty to kill in front." Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty didn't have any warships for your father to fight, this heart of serving the country can be seen by the sun and the moon. Your Majesty, if he hadn't been thinking about the love of the year, he wouldn't care about the life or death of this kid. It's a pity that your father died early......"

It is true that Huang Degong is a rough man, but he sees this matter very clearly, whether it is the generalissimo Zhang in the era of Emperor Shun of the Ming Dynasty who openly and secretly sought the welfare of the Zheng family, and asked for a national surname for Zheng Chenggong, and since then he has been called the national surname, or the unspeakable tacit understanding between these two comrades-in-arms in the era of the Chinese Dynasty. Anyway, even if the Zheng family took the lead in recovering the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Tao did not impose any sanctions on Taiwan, and all kinds of merchant ships should still be able to abide by the law or enter and exit various ports on the mainland. If anyone says that this is not a scene performed between the two, he will never believe it.

The bad thing is that there are always some people who can't understand the general trend of the world, as a military general of Rong Ma's life, Huang Degong is too familiar with Emperor Zhang's routines, it seems that the envoy's ship was attacked and caused Long Yan to be angry, but in addition to the first crusade against Zheng Tai, who rebelled, why did he besiege Keelung Port? Not to mention that Lord Jiang, who was born out of nowhere, presented such a sharp warship to His Majesty, even if it only relied on the original old ship, it may not be able to lose! Even if there will be some losses at the beginning, in terms of the speed of shipbuilding and artillery, even if he pulls in the Dutch, Taiwan will not be an opponent of the mainland. Then His Majesty's real intention is obviously not the Zheng family, nor does he want to recover the island of Taiwan, but to take this opportunity to completely seek a foothold for the navy, and now the military funds raised by the big fight have become the capital of the navy to make a fortune, and the key is to use the crusade against the traitors as an excuse not only cannot be restrained within the army, but also those civilian officials who have always looked at the military unpleasantly are not good at making a fuss.

Zheng Jing, who is well versed in officialdom articles, has long understood that even without the destruction of Zheng Tai and the Dutch fleet, he knows that he can't fight with the mainland, and when he sees the current situation of encircling but not fighting, he knows even more clearly that the other party doesn't want to put himself to death at all, but if he surrenders, he may be able to be a rich man, if he doesn't surrender, he will first think about whether he can stop the iron cavalry that swept the world. You must know that the mainland has not been able to blockade the entire island of Taiwan, but his Zheng family does not have the ability to deploy enough troops on each coast. So now only a few major ports have been blocked, and if you are indecisive, the next time you come to knock on the door, it will not be a Huang Degong.

"What General Huang said...... The younger generation has also thought it through, but it was Zheng Tai who attacked the envoy at the beginning, why did he ask Emperor Zhang to go to Beijing in person? This can be said to be Zheng Jing's biggest concern, even if you want to kill Liwei, as long as you can ensure the safety of your family, you will commit suicide. Why bother going to Beijing to be humiliated? Do you want to take yourself hostage?

Huang Degong understood his concern, so he grinned: "Before leaving, someone told me that if you ask this question, let me tell you that the Spaniards on Luzon Island have sent a small nobleman from the mainland, and it coincides with His Majesty's 40th birthday. ”