Liu Xiang was born on Lamma Island, but he started in the Chaoshan area, so just like Zheng Zhilong who regarded Anping as his lair, he is also a local snake in the Chaoshan area. And the main force of Liu Xiang's gang is now entrenched around Dahao Island at the mouth of the Hao River.

It has been less than half a year since the collapse of the Li Kuiqi group, and after a series of tentative integrations, the power structure in the South China Sea has stabilized.

With the blockade line of Xiamen, Penghu, and Tainan as the boundary, the Guangdong pirates in the south are now unable to take a step beyond the Lei Chi, as for the Fujian pirates who were dominant...... It has long since vanished.

The whole of Fujian is based in Fuzhou and Xiamen, and the subordinates of "Cao Chuan, the acting deputy general of the coastal defense staff in Xiamen and other places in the Ming Dynasty," have used the method of dragnet screening to scrape the coastal areas countless times, and have created a good situation of stability and unity.

However, this situation is extremely bad for traditional pirates, such as Liu Xiang.

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It all started with the Great War.

After the collapse of Li Kuiqi's gang that day, a large number of scattered pirates went south and defected to Liu Xiang's gang who was watching the situation in Dongshan Bay.

Liu Da, who was glad that he had escaped the catastrophe, not only got the battle report from the fugitive at the same time that his strength expanded sharply, but he also frequently sent spies to investigate in the Xiamen area at that time, and he was a little eager to try. After all, the north side has become a pot of porridge, and the men and horses under his command are expanding greatly, and a normal person will have ideas.

However, within a few days, Liu Xiang changed his original intention and led his troops south to Chaoshan - this was strategically equivalent to shrinking his head, and Liu Da gave up his intention to muddy the waters in Xiamen.

What led him to make a decision was the hard power of the other party.

First of all, the battleships of the Traverser are gradually revealing their terrible side.

Originally, to Liu Xiang's ears, the so-called Cao's warship that suddenly appeared was just a Chinese-style apprentice of a Westerner's plywood ship.

If this kind of opponent is dealt with seriously, the brothers still have a way...... At the beginning, Zheng Zhilong didn't let the red-haired people please him.

However, things are not the same as imagined. When the detective sent by the shopkeeper himself came back, he suddenly felt like playing an ice bucket challenge: his whole body was cold.

The spies are all old brothers, and they will never exaggerate: as fast as a galloping horse, the warships with sharp artillery are chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy in Zhangzhou Bay, and the imaginary Fujian pirates and officers and soldiers are fighting each other, and there is no scene of chasing at all.

It really took only a few days for the official army to exterminate and crush a large gang of tens of thousands of people, and the latter had no power to fight back.

This unheard-of, melon-chopping and chopping bandit-like mode of suppressing bandits is beyond the cognition of Liu Xiang's team - the naval battles in the Middle Ages were not fought like this, even if the pirates were defeated for a while, they should be entangled for a period of time before the winner is decided.

At the beginning, Zheng Zhilong and the officers and soldiers fought in Tongshan, which was the model.

At this time, Liu Xiang had to raise his knowledge of Cao's gunboats to an unprecedented level.

But where is this? When more spies rushed back, Liu Xiang got another bad news: Cao's gunboat could lower its sails against the wind, like galloping horses......

After hysterically verifying the authenticity of the news N times, the big shopkeeper finally figured out the true strength of the opponent and the reason why this naval battle was so weird.

By this time, the pirate leaders who had a lot of ideas had closed their mouths one by one and became younger brothers. No one knows better than the pirates what the ships against the wind represent: whatever the Cao fleet did with the sudden appearance of the Cao fleet, it is certain that the current situation is not good.

And Liu Xiang, as the chief treasurer who controls tens of thousands, judging the difference in strength between the enemy and us is his basic skill. So he quickly gave the order for the whole gang to prepare for battle. This is not to go to Zhangzhou Bay to fish in troubled waters, but to run south at any time.

Soon, two more pieces of news came.

One: The officers and soldiers have sprinkled real money and silver rewards as never before, and the coast of Zhangzhou Bay has now become a desperate situation. The pirates who used to be able to rest easily in the village are now captured and sent to Xiamen to receive their rewards.

2: There are strange boats cruising near Tai O Bay.

After Liu Xiang listened to the two messages, he knew that this was coming for him. Although Liu Da's shopkeeper couldn't say the words "the vast ocean of the people's war", he understood the meaning: the remnants of pirates in Zhangzhou Bay had already settled their accounts, and the officers and soldiers began to free up their hands and plan to go south!

Tai O Bay is not far between Xiamen and Dongshan Bay, where Liu Xiang is entrenched. Feeling the strong crisis, Liu Da's shopkeeper did not hesitate at this time, and immediately led a large number of bandits south from Dongshan Bay to Chaoshan to temporarily avoid the front of the official army.

Before setting sail, the big shopkeeper silently glanced at the north: he had a hunch that it would be difficult to "do business" in Fujian in the future.

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Bad premonitions always work. When a large number of people came to Chaoshan to rest and recuperate, Liu's shopkeeper, who was still receiving a steady stream of information, found that the situation was slipping more and more in the direction he guessed.

After the Cao family's soldiers and horses with hair cleared Zhangzhou Bay, they quickly forced down the Zheng family's waste, sweeping away Zheng Zhilong's hard-earned family foundation.

After getting the news, Liu couldn't help but sigh: Although everyone was filthy in the past, there is no doubt that he Liu Xiang still respects Zheng Yiguan as a hero. Now that he learns of the fall of the Zheng family, he is also sad that the rabbit died and the fox is sad, and he has relatives.

After that, the Cao family built a lot of construction in the center and left, expanding the port, just like the master's house.

Liu Xiang could only smile bitterly again at this time: Zheng Zhilong had also described this scene after recruiting more than once. Now that Zhilong has died, the Zhongzuo Institute has been taken over by the Cao family, and he is still building a lot of construction, which is really unpredictable!

Liu Xiang, who had retreated to Chaoshan, kept sending many spies to Xiamen, including Taiwan, while forming a team: no one dared to despise this unknown force anymore.

However, in the next six months, Liu Da's shopkeeper gradually became a mild depression patient.

What caused him to be extremely depressed was a series of "friction" events that can be called "supernatural".

After the reorganization of Chaoshan was completed, the gang, which had swelled to 25,000 people, was ready to "work."

Getting work is a must. The daily consumption of tens of thousands of people staying there is a big number, what do you eat if you don't work?

However, this time is different: before finding out the details of the powerful enemy in the north, the big gang naturally does not dare to try its edge again. Therefore, Liu Xiang led the main force south to Guangdong to find food, and on the other hand, he left a partial division to prepare to try Cao's handy.

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Historically, after Zheng Zhilong occupied Xiamen in Zhao'an, it was not all over - he then carried out a series of activities to slash and kill the old brothers, and it was not until the last Liu Xiang was finished that the Zheng family officially unified the sea frontier.

This process of "cutting the feudal domain" is very long. Liu Xiang died in 1635, that is, it took Zheng Zhilong 7 years to get rid of all the pirate mountains in Fujian and Guangdong.

During these seven years, Liu Xiang plundered the coastal areas including Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces many times, and burned them everywhere he went, with extremely destructive power.

From this point, it can be seen that the effective maritime defense range in the Middle Ages was very small: after Zheng Zhilong occupied Xiamen, Liu Xiang and other pirates led many raids on the coast of Fujian.

This is equivalent to swaggering through the gate of Zheng's defense area, but the Zheng family does not have the kind of strict maritime blockade ability - hostile pirates, and a large group of pirates can easily bypass the Xiamen area to the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang further north.

So after crossing the crowd and occupying Xiamen, Liu Xiang also acted as in history.

Of course, there is still to be respect, after all, the strength shown by the people is not comparable to Zheng Zhilong in history. Therefore, before Liu Xiang led the main force to Guangdong, he deliberately arranged several groups of men and horses of varying numbers to invade the coastal areas of Fujian from different routes.

If the traverser is unable to deal with it, then there will be a large gang of tens of thousands of people who will come later. Yes, it's a simple temptation...... Try and you won't get pregnant.

However, any traditional way that seems normal will not work when encountering a mysterious force.

After grabbing a few handfuls at the mouth of the Pearl River and thinking about what to do next, the shopkeeper Liu Da became pregnant on the spot after receiving the express report-the several partial divisions he sent out were all wiped out.

The number of these partial divisions is more or less, and the largest is a gang of 10 boats with 500 people. The rest of the 2 units have fewer people and ships, but they are all pirate elites who are familiar with the sea conditions of Fujian and Guangdong and have experienced a hundred battles.

However, things are so strange: whether it is the first line of Xiamen, the first line of Penghu, or the middle line of the strait, the pirates of the three groups with different departure times and independent of each other were all intercepted by enemy ships on the first line of Xiamen, and then many people fed Sea King Ba.

The scene of the battle was extremely short, and the pirates of the Liu family finally experienced the powerlessness that Li Kuiqi had encountered this time: the No. 3 ship of the Youguang class, which ignored the direction of the wind, surrounded 10 Chinese ships in the sea with only one ship, and kept bombarding in circles. The pirates on the ship were like chickens in a cage, and they were killed alive with a dense artillery cannon.

The so-called scattered running away was of no use at all: it was like chasing an old ox with a fast horse, and before the gang could run out of sight, the gunboats intercepted the scattered pirate ships one by one, and the few ships that surrendered slowly were all sunk in the sea.

The 1v10 battle ended like this, and the pirates felt very mysterious.

The fate of the other two small groups was similar: two patrol ships armed with only a few guns easily captured five pirate ships, and the pirates were all taken back to Xiamen and driven into the coolie camp.

Fortunately, Xiamen was in the construction period, and there were a lot of long-term and short-term workers sent from all over the country, so the spies easily contacted this group of unlucky people who were driven to build roads, and then learned everything.

Then Liu Xiang also knew.

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