As an old pirate, Liu Xiang paid great attention to his own safety, and put guard boats around Wailingding Island, disguised as fishing boats, and traveled up to 30 miles away, equipped with telescopes bought from Macao, and constantly observed the surrounding sea conditions.

The guard ship located on the east side found a large number of masts rising, and after looking closely, cold sweat broke out, and three pillars of smoke were raised in a hurry, and then rushed all the way back.

Soon, the lookout post on the high part of Wailingding Island also sounded the alarm: "There are a lot of plywood boats in the southeast ghost mansion!" ”

In Taiwan, Yan Changwu calls himself the Southeast Military Government.

On the mainland, outsiders call them Southeast Province.

And the hostile elements like Liu Xiang call them the southeast ghost mansion.

The pirates were in a commotion, no matter how proud they were, they knew how powerful this ghost house was.

They are all plywood ships, fast, able to sail to the sea, mainly using side guns to attack (there are many gun positions, and the Ming Dynasty officials and bandits are bow guns and stern cannons, and the side can't be said to be cannons, but big muskets), the firepower is unusually fierce, and the military discipline is strict, the style of work is tenacious, and the officers and soldiers are more than the officers and soldiers. (I had a game with Li Kuiqi P before, so the majesty is played)

Fortunately, it was discovered early, and when the mast was seen rising in the sky during the sail period, it might take four to five hours for the other party to rush to that spot, and even more time in case the wind was not in the right direction.

Liu Xiang calmly gave an order to let about twenty boats escort the Dafu ship carrying grain along the southeast edge of the island and retreat.

The other half of the slower ships also retreated in advance, retreating from the northwest and leaving Wailingding Island.

As for the rest of the ships, they waited unhurriedly, and by about noon they saw the trace of the Southeastern Fleet.

"One two (battleships), one two (fifth-class cruisers), one two ......" the pirates counted and let out exclamations from time to time.

Many people have seen the plywood boats of Hongmaofan, but they have not seen the plywood boats in the southeast province now, and they feel shocked!

Generally, the plywood ship of the red hairy fan, with the big RU room (bow building) and the big ass (stern) high bulge, looks a little clumsy, which is as smooth as the current southeast ships, and it is obviously faster than the plywood ship of the red hairy fan.

The wind is galloping, their number is large, and the ship is tall, giving people a great sense of oppression!

They only feel that their breathing is faster, their palms are sweaty, and their intestines are so nervous that their intestines are squirming, this is the feeling of Orientals, because Orientals eat a lot of vegetables and have good gastrointestinal function, and they will have this feeling when they see that the situation is not good, they really deserve it, man, who told them to provoke such a powerful enemy!

Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi and other leaders watched through the telescope with jealousy and hatred as the big ships of the Southeast Mansion drove away, none of their own ships could match them!

And Li Kuiqi had even more feelings: "The Southeast Ghost Mansion is even more powerful than before!" ”

He had fought with the Southeast Fleet before, and at that time, the guns of the Southeast Fleet could not break through its warships with "composite armor", but this time it was a bit hanging, because the other side dispatched two fast battleships and two large cruisers, looking at the caliber of their guns, Li Kuiqi couldn't help but shudder.

The pirates all know about the plywood boat, and they want to own it, but it's not so easy to get their hands on!

Although the red-haired fans are very stupid and naïve (when they deal with Ming officials, they are often deceived, deceived and deceived, and being slaughtered is the norm in doing business with the Ming people), but they also have a bottom line, that is, they will not easily sell plywood boats to the Ming people, let alone the technology to make plywood boats.

The reason why the Southeast Province was able to make plywood ships and even battleships was because the chips in the hands of the Southeast Province were strong!

For example, the British now get sugar, cigarettes, milk candy, deerskin, rum, porcelain, tea, etc., especially white sugar, the sugar in Southeast Province is large in quantity and good quality, and no other sugar-producing area can make it as white as the sugar in Southeast Province, and it looks super good! (They don't have activated carbon filtration) sugar-related business is booming, and it is a big business that has reached more than two million silver dollars.

There is a difference from other sugar-producing areas in Southeast Asia is that the supply of sugar in the southeast province is quite stable, they have a huge territory that is not violated, the key is that Yan Da rarely has the spirit of contract that ordinary Ming people do not have, and they are more reliable than Ming people, and they strictly follow the contract, and anyone wants to deal with such a stable supplier.

Tea is a rising star in the trade between the East and the West, and it should not have been until 1662 when Charles II of England married Princess Catherine of Portugal. Yan Changwu vigorously promoted to the British, and the British brought high-quality tea back to China to offer Charles I (that is, the unfortunate English king who shamefully had his head cut off by the tyrant Cromwell), it is said that Charles I drank tea after the dragon's heart was happy, and the following year the British ordered a sharp increase in orders to the southeast, and it is likely that the huge trade volume of millions of silver dollars will reach within a few years!

With so many interests, the British sold battleships and shipbuilding technology were not the same thing at all, and even Sir Simon Fox (the commander of the British fleet, a good man who sold warships to Yan Changwu) who made this business was highly praised, saying that he made a quick decision and made a good deal! 、

The reason is simple, they don't sell, and the determined patriots who are in the middle of the Dutch with high power will also sell!

Far from being unfounded, the Dutch probed the South-East Province and asked if there was anything that interested them...... As long as the southeast province transferred the sugar trade to the Dutch, let the Dutch underwrite all kinds of goods.

To put it mildly, the Dutch can even sell their wives and daughters to Xiao Yan, as long as he wants those big Yanmars.

Yan Changwu's success cannot be replicated, if the plywood ship is built on the mainland, after it is built, the Ming government will come, with the shameless face of those officials, they will happily accept the plywood boat and will not say thank you to you!

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Seeing that the southeastern fleet was about to arrive, the pirate fleet did not rush to engage, but left the anchorage and retreated along the edge of the island to the northwest.

One chased and one fled, the sea was a big sight, and the fleet that fled was quite numerous, and the fleet that chased was small in number but large in ship, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

The pirate ships crossed the northwest waters of Wailingding Island.

The atmosphere was tense, and the binoculars of the pirate leaders standing on the large ships were glued to the enemy's course.

The southeast fleet chased after it, and then the two cruisers in the lead bypassed this sea area, diagonally up to the northeast, and then down to the southwest!

The group of battleships behind followed their course and did not enter the sea.

The pirate leaders were disappointed, and let out a burst of curses and curses.

There are reefs under the water in the northwest sea!

The pirate ship can pass with a shallow draft, and the plywood ship will hit the reef with a deep draft, and the pirates are intent on leading the enemy to pursue, but the Southeast Fleet warships have avoided this dangerous sea!