Chapter 460: Where there are people, there is fighting
Just when Zhu Hao asked Lu Ban to work overtime to build diving equipment, on the island of Taiwan, the United Fleet was holding a military operations meeting.
As the commander of the fleet, Earl Wilson was sitting on the throne with a gloomy face, and of course his gloomy face was largely pretended to be seen by the leaders of the various fleets present.
Count Wilson, after glancing at all the captains present, said angrily:
"King Xin, of the Ming Dynasty, has rejected our request for peace!"
"Not only did he not promise us, but he also drove out our messenger in a rude and savage manner!"
"This matter is about the face of our combined fleet, and it is also about the interests of everyone here, we must teach Da Ming some lessons this time!"
"Maybe they will compromise after they know how powerful we are!"
"Children are disobedient, that's to be educated!"
"Today, as the commander of the Combined Fleet, I have decided to educate this child Daming well!"
"Everyone here, if you have any ideas, you can tell us all about them!"
"But I have a premise, that is, we must adopt the principle that the minority obeys the majority, and cannot be dispersed, otherwise we will inevitably be broken by the Ming Dynasty one by one!"
"Only by uniting can we have the capital to contend with the Ming Dynasty!"
After Wilson's words were finished, the leaders of the various fleets present began to talk to each other, and the whole room suddenly became noisy.
Count Wilson, who already knew what he knew, did not rush to urge the leaders of the various fleets, because he had already found out in advance, and most people agreed to the main battle, so he was not in a hurry.
After several hours of discussion, the final result, not to the surprise of Earl Wilson, the majority agreed to the plan of the war against the Ming Dynasty, a few chose to abstain, and only a few chose to oppose.
According to Wilson's advance statement, the principle of the minority obeying the majority is imperative to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
Earl Wilson, after the results came out, summed it up, and announced the battle plan for the Ming Dynasty, but his battle plan this time put the fleets that voted against it at the forefront of the attack.
When he did this, the leaders were naturally very dissatisfied and protested.
However, Earl Wilson said that several of them voted against it, fearing that the soldiers under them also had such thoughts, which would affect the morale of the army and let them take the lead in attacking, which was responsible for the combined fleet.
Wilson's statement naturally couldn't convince a few people, but he won the approval of most of the main station people, and several people looked at the situation of the public anger and had to admit the matter.
Wilson's essential purpose in doing this is to exclude dissidents, weaken the power of people who are not of the same mind as him, and make them obey him or perish completely because of the weakening of their strength.
This meeting really responded to the saying "where there are people, there is fighting".
At this moment, Earl Wilson, in order to consolidate his position in the Combined Fleet, pit people, and that is also ruthless.
However, Count Wilson forgot that their combined fleet was a loose alliance, and their internal fleets were self-contained and had their own interests.
Although Earl Wilson, who seemed to be the majority of the united people, also completely offended the leaders of those families.
After the meeting, several suppressed fleet leaders secretly negotiated together, and the first person was humane:
"We have no old grudges with Daming, only because we are a little dissatisfied with Daming's coastal defense policy, we are united, but this time Wilson wants to bury our fleet in the hands of Daming!"
"We can't sit still!"
As the leader spoke, several people echoed him, agreeing with this person's point of view and letting him have an idea.
The man thought for a moment, looked at everyone's eager eyes, waved his arm, and said fiercely:
"Since Wilson wants to harm us, then we will not do anything, and when attacking the Ming Dynasty, we will directly cooperate with the Ming Dynasty and counterattack the Combined Fleet!"
"Then we rely on Daming, and they don't dare to do anything to us!"
When everyone heard this, they all said yes, but one person questioned:
"After all, we have been hit hard, Daming's sailor, now cooperate with Daming, will Daming agree?"
The man who was the leader groaned for a moment when he heard this, and then said:
"Don't be afraid, let's send a messenger over first to find out Da Ming's attitude, if Da Ming doesn't accept us, we are thinking of other ways!"
"Anyway, there is still some time before the official attack!"
When several people heard this, they agreed.
In this way, with the secret discussion of several people, Zhu Hao met the envoy of the United Fleet again in the middle of his journey, but when Zhu Hao heard the other party's words, he was really taken aback.
Zhu Hao instinctively thought that this was a counter-trick used by the other party, so he wanted to reject the other party's proposal.
But just when Zhu Hao was about to speak, Xiao Ling, who had woken up a few days ago, had rushed to Fujian from the capital, and was standing beside Zhu Hao at the moment, Xiao Ling pulled him slightly and nodded slightly at him.
Immediately, Zhu Hao understood that Xiao Ling was telling him that the other party was credible, Zhu Hao knew that Xiao Ling could see through other people's psychology, and at the same time, he trusted Xiao Ling very much, so he did not refuse the other party's proposal.
However, Zhu Hao still cautiously told the envoy that when it was time to attack, they should take the initiative to attack the combined fleet first, so that he could respond.
The messenger told Zhu Hao that he would tell the leaders truthfully.
Two days later, Zhu Hao got the agreement of the leaders who wanted to cooperate with him, and they would take the lead in attacking the combined fleet to express their sincerity of cooperation to Zhu Hao.
After Zhu Hao got the news, he was naturally overjoyed, and at the same time, Zhu Hao asked Lu Ban to speed up the production of diving equipment, and it was also manufactured.
After testing, the diving equipment, in the water ghost troops, reflected its powerful ability, and while Zhou Yu was stunned in shock, he issued an order to let the water ghost troops, all members wear diving equipment.
A few days after Zhu Hao had prepared everything, the combined fleet finally began to move, and thousands of warships went straight to the port of the Fujian Navy Division, killing them violently.
As the combined fleet approached, on the dock, the Fujian Navy Division, the war drums were under Zhu Hao's order, and the war drums sounded deafeningly.
This earth-shattering drum beat was Zhu Hao's offensive signal for Zhu Hao to advance and those leaders who cooperated with him.
As the drums on the shore sounded, the forward troops of the Combined Fleet suddenly turned their ships around and slaughtered their positions.
The ships in the rear of the combined fleet, seeing the friendly forces and killing them, were immediately a little stunned, and did not know why, and did not dare to act rashly.