An unspeakable PY deal was reached outside Hue City, and the Zheng family in the north probably didn't know about it, because they lacked a port city, so the Nguyen family picked up such a big bargain.

The two sides who reached the agreement relaxed their vigilance at once, but Liu Ximing still adhered to the principle that the son of a daughter does not sit in the court, and after discussing tomorrow's delivery with the Ruan family and communicating the Northern Expedition strategy, he directly led the troops to camp outside the city.

As for the Ruan family, he convened officials and generals from all walks of life overnight to discuss the Northern Expedition.

Liu Ximing has made it very clear that he doesn't have much time and can't stay for a long time, and besides, Zheng should have been fast, otherwise when the Zheng family is ready, it will be another hard battle.

The next day, when the officials of the Inner Library, who were about to take over the goods, arrived at the camp of the Fubo Division, they were stunned, and the entire camp was already full of more than a million pieces of cloth, just waiting for them to deliver the goods.

After the transaction was completed, Liu Ximing had the heart to help the Ruan family formulate the Northern Expedition strategy.

Based on Ruan's vague map, Liu Ximing finally agreed on a strategy with Tao Weici and others.

The Nguyen clan has always deployed heavy troops to confront the Zheng clan on the Rili line in Quang Tri province, and the Zheng family has about 30,000 people, while the Nguyen clan has only more than 10,000 people.

Liu Ximing decided to take the fleet north by himself, and after defeating the Zheng family's fleet off the coast of Rili, he would attack from behind the Zheng family, and the Nguyen clan also attacked with reinforcements, thus breaking down the defense of the Zheng family from Quang Binh Province to Ha Tinh Province.

In order to protect this hasty Northern Expedition, Nguyen immediately acted with unprecedented efficiency.

In the eyes of the Nguyen family's ministers and even the informed Hue military and civilians, this is undoubtedly a real God-given opportunity.

In the past, although the Nguyen Thi had the Portuguese to help in the war, at most they only helped to train the firearms unit and provide some artillery and fleet support, but as it is now, there is a giant fleet and up to 10,000 reinforcements to participate in the battle.

Therefore, by January 16, Liu Ximing had already appeared on the front line of Rili with Fubo Division.

The Ruan family built a defensive line along the line between Hengshan and Lingjiang, and the Zheng family also set up a fortress on the opposite side.

A few days ago, Hue's report arrived at the Rili Fortress, knowing that the fleet in front of him was his own reinforcements, and the Rili commander, who was originally thinking about surrendering, suddenly had no pain in his waist, no more soreness in his legs, and strength all over his body.

It is rare to see the Zheng family fortress by the sea, and the Fubo division finally has room to play, on the clear blue sea, dozens of warships are lined up in turn, and the whistling cannonballs instantly crumble the Zheng family fortress on the other side of the Lingjiang River.

After venting for more than an hour, seeing that the fortress on the opposite bank had become a ruin, Liu Ximing continued to lead the fleet north.

The head of the Zheng family is now Zheng Jie, in fact, as early as the fifth day of the first month of January, there were coastal soldiers and civilians who reported that a towering super fleet had appeared overseas.

However, after wandering outside the Red River for a while, the fleet left without doing anything, and soon after, all the soldiers and civilians from Hejing to Guangping reported that they had seen this fleet disappear along the coast and south.

Although this fleet did not cause any damage to itself, the huge force still made Zheng Jie a little uneasy.

The spies arranged by the Zheng clan in Quang Nam were even more fully mobilized, wanting to find out if this fleet had anything to do with the Nguyen clan.

Before Liu Ximing led his troops north on January 16, the Zheng family's spies finally broke through the layers of obstacles and transmitted the news back to Thang Long, Tokyo.

Knowing that Liu Ruan had joined forces, the Zheng clan could not be panicked, and the entire feudal system was launched as quickly as possible and began to gather troops and horses to prepare for the south.

And the Dutch in Thang Long, under the constant threat of the Zheng family, went south along the coast with the Zheng family's river fleet, preparing to intercept the Liu family's fleet first.

Liu Ximing is not fighting alone now, as soon as the Zheng family's fleet is dispatched, the spies arranged by the Nguyen family in Thang Long will pass the news to him.

Looking at the situation of the Zheng family's fleet, Liu Ximing almost didn't laugh out loud.

There were more than seventy ships in the entire fleet, but except for the small galleon of the Dutch, all of them were small and medium-sized warships.

This made Liu Ximing can't help but sigh, these small countries around China are also fateful, if it were not for the fact that the Chinese have been firmly tied to their hands and feet by Confucianism, I am afraid that they would have been cleaned up a hundred times.

Not to mention, it is easy for the Zheng family in Fujian to destroy a force like the Nguyen clan in Quang Nam, and the Zheng family in Annam is also vulnerable at sea.

Thinking of the previous performance of the Guangdong sailors, Liu Ximing and You Degao discussed and decided to use the terrain to carry out an ambush, lest the Zheng family also slip away from under their noses.

Just east of the mouth of the Lingjiang River, there is a small island Caoyu, which the people of Annam call Duguo Island, which is about two square kilometers in size, enough to shelter the fleet of the Liu family.

On 14 February, the Zheng family's so-called Grand Fleet finally marched to the Lingjiang line.

However, here they did not meet the fleet of plywood boats that frightened them all the way, but ran into the fleet of the Nguyen family, which had also been preparing for a long time.

Seeing that there was no ambush in the vast sea around them, Zheng Han, the commander of the Zheng family's fleet, rushed towards the Ruan family directly with the warship.

The Ruan clan had more than 70 warships on the front line of the Lingjiang River, but in order to cooperate with Liu Ximing, more than 30 were transferred away, so they were at a disadvantage as soon as the war began.

Seeing that his side was invincible, the Ruan fleet began to gradually flee in the direction of Caoyu, and the rise of the Zheng family's killing actually followed all the way.

By the afternoon of the same day, Caoyu was already close in front of him, and looking at the sudden appearance of the Liu family's giant ship, the Ruan's fleet couldn't help but cry with joy.

It's just that the Zheng family is unlucky, facing the Liu family fleet armed to the teeth, and before the more than seventy Zheng family fleets can react from the shock, the rumbling cannons have already sounded.

On the clear blue sea, whether it was the Zheng family or the Ruan family's soldiers, they all watched in a daze as the dozens of huge ships in front of them continued to burst into flames and white eyes, and at the same time let out an earth-shattering roar.

Because of the close distance, just the first round of artillery bombardment, the Liu family fleet had already fired a leapfrog salvo.

On the surface of the South China Sea, the Zheng family became the first real victim of Liu Ximing's luxurious grand fleet.

I could only hear the clattering sound of shattering, and the Zheng family's fleet collapsed like snowflakes under the scorching sun.

With the help of the Ruan's fleet, it made up for the lack of fast warships in the Liu fleet, except for Zheng Han's flagship and a few other ships far away from the battlefield, there were very few Zheng fleets that escaped.

As for the conspicuous small Galen sailing ship in the Zheng family's fleet, it was the focus of Fubo's care.

Fortunately, the Dutch shipbuilding level passed, and after receiving more than 30 shells, the Dutch battleship, full of bullet holes, raised the white flag and surrendered directly.

"Quick, don't worry about the rest yet, be sure to capture the red-haired man's ship."

Liu Ximing on the Sun Wu looked excited, even if he didn't say that this Galen sailing ship could continue to be used if it was repaired, even the Dutch on a boatload made him a little happy.

In fact, there was no need for him to order, after seeing the scene of the Liu family's salvo, the Ruan fleet, from the commander to the sailors, all rose in sincere awe of the Liu family.

After the ceasefire, there was no need for the Fubo division to work, and these people spontaneously helped to clean up the battle situation, and all the loot was packed up and sent directly to the ships of the Liu family's fleet.

On the Sun Wu, Liu Ximing looked at the dozen red-haired and blue-eyed Dutchmen in front of him, trembling and kneeling and begging for mercy.

"Do you speak English?" , he asked with interest in English.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged white man who looked like a captain said in very jerky Chinese: "I can speak a little Chinese." ”

Liu Ximing pouted, it is not surprising that the Dutch in these years can speak Chinese in order to survive in the South China Sea.

"You're their captain? What is your name? ”

"My name is Van Lienberg, Your Excellency."

This Dutchman captain knows very well the sentence that the current affairs are Junjie, and his respectful attitude makes Liu Ximing unable to kill him.

"Well, Van Limbaugh, are you from the East India Company, and why are you in the Zheng family's fleet?"

A smile appeared on Van Lindberg's flushed face, "Your Excellency, we are just ordinary Dutch merchants, and we just helped him train the army because the Zheng family gave him a lot of money. ”

"Your Excellency, we have nothing to do with the Zheng family, and we didn't expect to be your enemy, please allow us to use the ransom to save ourselves."