In this pursuit battle, from Tai O Bay, General Bay, and Qianhu Bay, it was pursued to the sea of Houcai Bay, and the warships of the Zheng family naval division rushed from the sea of Xiamen to meet them. Li Huamei and Li Huayu, the two sisters and brothers, slowly slowed down the pace of pursuit, but continued to work with the Nanyue Army sailors who came later, like the solution of a prisoner, watching from a distance on the sea as the Zheng family's fleet went to the Jinxia Sea in response to more than 20 warships.

Seeing that the Zheng family's fleet striker had already passed Erdan Island, Zheng Zhilong breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Is Zhihu back?"

Ignoring the loss of the ship's artillery manpower, Zheng Zhilong opened his mouth to ask for the news of his right-hand man Zheng Zhihu.

"Big brother," Zheng Zhifeng (later Zheng Hongkui), who led a few warships out to meet Zheng Zhilong, "Brother Tiger's ship was hit by a cannonball, but fortunately, the passing ships picked them all up, and they are now on their way to Xiamen!" ”

Zheng Zhilong didn't care too much about this loss. Most of the ships lost were those of the small owner, and most of the ships directly under him, as well as the owners of the ships close to him, fled altogether. There are still as many as seven or eight hundred ships inspected.

As for the small boat owners who surrendered, although Zheng Zhilong was a little painful, it was not painful.

"The chickens are beating around, and the pheasants are not laying eggs. It's not a good thing to be a person who doesn't go all the way, and it's not necessarily a good thing to barely walk in one place! If they are willing to surrender, let them go! ”

I don't know if he is comforting himself or speaking to others to show his generosity. Zheng Zhilong said such a thing from his mouth.

"Handsome and generous!"

"Great handsome benevolence!"

A group of people who have a close relationship with Zheng Zhilong, who were lucky enough to save their strength from the knives of the Li family brothers and sisters in this retreat, returned to the Jinxia Sea, and were worried that Zheng Zhilong would find a scapegoat for this defeat, and when he heard Zheng Zhilong say this, he immediately hit the snake with the stick, and praised Zheng Zhilong's benevolence and generosity without a mouth, and there was only one purpose, to raise Zheng Zhilong high, in this way, you are still embarrassed to deal with our crime of fleeing before fighting?

"Alright. It's not the New Year yet! Let's talk about New Year's greetings! After returning to Xiamen. I'm worried that Li Shouhan won't give up, and all the armies and battalions will give me a strict defense area, and there must be no mistakes! ”

The flotilla brigade crossed the island of Nidan. You can already see the fort and the Zhengzi banner on Gulangyu Island in front of you. Everyone saw that there were no more gunboats of the Nanyue Army chasing after them. Then a stone fell from the chest.

"Leopard. When he returned to Xiamen, he took 200,000 silver dollars from the treasury and distributed them to the brothers. Thought it was a reward. In addition, some pigs, sheep, cattle and wine were purchased and sent to the battalions. Let the brothers have a few meals of good food. I will take care of my body and think that I will fight in the coming day! ”

I just explained how to quickly gather people's hearts and boost morale with Zheng Zhibao, and I saw that on the sea not far away, dozens of large and small ships flashed behind Gulangyu Island, and they came straight to Zheng Zhilong's fleet with high spirits.

On the head of a big green head, a large banner of Shizi fluttered high on the mast. On the bow deck, Shi Daxuan's father and son were each fully armored and saber, and the deck railing was full of soldiers and sailors, each with weapons and firearms in their hands.

"Shi Daxuan! Shi Xian! What do you father and son want to do?! Zheng Hongkui didn't expect that he had just left Xiamen on the front foot, and Shi Daxuan on the back foot led nearly forty ships of this size to kill, and at this delicate moment of the situation, he couldn't help but be less vigilant.

"Handsome! A few generals Zheng! Daxuan is courteous here! ”

At the bow of his own warship, Shi Daxuan handed the sword to his son Shi Xian beside him, and clasped his hands into fists to salute.

"I heard that the marshal led the army back, and I was overjoyed. It's just that, Da Shuai, Da Xuan dared to ask, where is my son Shi Lang now? ”

Shi Daxuan's words were clearly sent to Zheng Zhilong's ears by the wind, not only Zheng Zhilong heard it clearly, but also the six or seven shipowners beside him.

"This?" Shi Daxuan's question happened to hit Zheng Zhilong's sore foot. He can't say, for the sake of his own convenience, I used your son as a shield and let him fight to the death with the Nanyue Army and Navy on Nanao Island to cover our retreat? Once he said this, his prestige in the army was lost!

"Daxuan! In order to cover the retreat of the whole army on Nanao Island, Ling Lang took the initiative to ask Ying to fight with the sailors of the Nanyue Army. The marshal was worried that something was wrong with him, and when he was leaving, he handed over all the food and ammunition in the general's food. With Ling Lang's talent, it is foolproof to think about it! ”

The person who said this was Zeng De, a small boat owner standing next to Zheng Zhilong. This person has no other skills except for being a woman and making money, that is, he will please Zheng Zhilong, and saying this at this time just relieved Zheng Zhilong's embarrassment.

In the history we are familiar with, this Zeng De is also a figure who played an important role at a critical moment! It can be said that without him, Shi Lang still had the same heart with Zheng Chenggong and fought against the Qing army in Fujian, and with him, Zheng Chenggong forced Shi Lang to the side of the Qing army.

Zeng De was originally a general under Zheng Zhilong, and he was quite popular with Zheng Zhilong. He was once dismissed from his post because of the inspection of the imperial history to expose him as "promiscuous". After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zeng De and Shi Lang defected to Zheng Chenggong together, and were controlled by Shi Lang in Zheng Chenggong's army. Zeng De took advantage of his past connections in the Zheng family's army to ignore everything and not obey Shi Lang's orders at all. Once, Zeng De broke the law and fled to Zheng Chenggong's military camp, asking to serve as Zheng Chenggong's retinue in order to obtain asylum. When Shi Lang heard the news, he was very angry and sent someone to arrest Zeng De, affirm the military law, and behead him according to law. Those with ulterior motives provoked Shi Zheng's relationship, saying that Shi Lang did not take Zheng Chenggong in his eyes.

Zheng Chenggong listened to the slander and was furious, and he decided that this was a sign of Shi Lang's betrayal. He ordered the arrest of Shi Lang and Shi Lang's father, his father Shi Daxuan, his uncle Shi Fu, and his younger brother Shi Xian. Because Shi Lang held military power and was superior in martial arts, he lured Shi Lang to Zheng Chenggong's military camp and imprisoned him in the cabin.

Soon, Shi Lang escaped with a trick and hid in the adjutant general's house. Zheng Chenggong ordered a search, but it was not found. After Shi Lang fled, he asked someone to mediate. But instead of accepting mediation, Zheng Chenggong sent someone to assassinate Shi Lang. Shi Lang had obtained information in advance. He fled, and the assassination failed.

After the assassination failed and Shi Lang fled, Zheng Chenggong killed his father, uncle, and younger brother in a fit of rage. Since then, the relationship between Zheng Chenggong and Shi Lang has completely broken down, Shi Lang has to surrender, and Zheng Chenggong has made a strong enemy for himself. In the end, Shi Lang became the commander of the Qing army who defeated the Zheng army in the future, and the fate of the Zheng family was rewritten.

However, after Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, he did not wave a butcher's knife at the Zheng family because of the killing of his father and brother, which shows that Shi Lang is stronger than Zheng Chenggong in terms of being a man.

Without further ado. Straight to the point.

Shi Lang's uncle Shi Fu. Clasp your fists and salute Zheng Zhilong.

"Handsome! Since Dashuai trusts Shi Lang so much, it is his blessing and creation! Since we are his fathers, we have to help him! On the day of success, he went to the handsome to ask for merit and reward. If defeated. My Shi family's father and son and brother died in one place! ”

"My father and son would like to be born together. Die in one place! Shi Daxuan and Shi Xian chanted loudly on their boat.

On several boats of the Shi family, the sailors and soldiers also waved their weapons and shouted: "I wish to live together and die in one place!" ”

Faced with such an atmosphere, it became more and more embarrassing for Zheng Zhilong.

There is a deliberate obstruction. But I can't find a reasonable reason, people want to reinforce their sons and fight against the Nanyue army, you say that your son is an abandoned son deliberately arranged by me? You can't go! I'm afraid that as soon as these words come out, Shi Daxuan and others will mutiniate on the spot.

Even if you want to stop it with long-term reasons, it seems to be very weak.

"Big brother, let's let them go! Even if they can't reinforce Shi Lang, if these people know about Shi Lang, I'm afraid that they will have different intentions in Xiamen! It's not good for us! ”

Listening to Zheng Zhibao's words, Zheng Zhilong nodded slightly, "It's okay!" Shi Daxuan, since you are willing to go to Nanao Island, Ben Shuai will fulfill the wishes of your father and son! It's just that not far behind our army is the eldest lady of the Li family who leads the fleet to intercept and harass at sea, if you go to Nanao Island, you must be more careful! ”

"Thank you, handsome! Li Huamei is just a female streamer! It doesn't hurt to be frequent! ”

Under the leadership of Shi Daxuan's Daqingtou, nearly forty boats of all sizes rushed out in front of Zheng Zhilong's fleet, passing by the fleet that had just collapsed.

"That's not right!"

When the last boat passed in front of Zheng Zhilong's flagship, Zheng Hongkui suddenly realized something.

"Handsome! There is fraud in it! ”

He pointed to Shi Daxuan's fleet, which had just sailed not far away, "Boss, please look!" Shi Daxuan kept saying that he wanted to go to Nanao Island to live and die with Shi Lang, why did these ships have such a deep draft? Apparently full of baggage! I'm afraid that the matter of going to Nanao Island is fake, and the surrender of Li Shouhan is true! ”

"Handsome! I also feel cheated under the mark! Zeng De pointed to the distant fleet a little angrily, "I vaguely smelled the smell of rouge pollen in the fleet, and the voice of a woman, if it wasn't for the family, how could there be a woman on the ship when it went on the expedition?" ”

Among the people present, only Zeng De has the most experience in women, and he has been lingering in Fireworks Willow Lane all the year round, and his sensitivity to women is no less than Zheng Zhilong's ability to fight at sea. Since he said that Shi Daxuan's fleet had women in it, then there must be women.

With his own belongings and baggage, with his own women and dependents, this is clearly an escape, even if it is not a battle to join the enemy, it is also a crime that should be killed!

Everyone turned their eyes to Zheng Zhilong in unison. I hope that he, as a family, can make a decision.

"Forget it!"

After a long time, these two words burst out from between the teeth in Zheng Zhilong's mouth.

"Speaking of which, Shi Lang's affairs also have a place where Ben Shuai is sorry for his Shi family! Today, Ben Shuai will even settle this matter! If the Shi family and us meet at sea in the future, everyone will not have any mustard in their hearts! Just do it! ”

On the 28th day of the twelfth month of Chongzhen, Shi Daxuan led his younger brother Shi Fu and son Shi Xian, led four or five small boat owners, a total of 40 large and small boats, to declare an uprising against Li Huamei and Li Huayu sisters and brothers in the sea near Jiangjun Bay, and returned to the ranks of the Nanyue Army.

At this time, Shouhan gained nearly 3,000 sailors, and more than 2,000 dependents were not counted.

The father, son and brothers surrendered to sincerity and thoroughly, and they knew and mastered the Zheng family's fortifications in Kinmen, Xiamen, Gulangyu and other places, from artillery to fortifications. From the tide to the channel, it was all handed over to Li Shouhan like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

"Xian Kun Zhong Qiaozi is so well aware of the righteousness, abandoning the dark and turning to the light, which really pleases the official."

At the Guang'ao Bay camp in Shantou, Shouhan cordially and friendly met with the owners of the rebellious ships, soothed them with kind words, and distributed three months' salaries and a large amount of grain, rice, meat, vegetables, and wine according to the number of ships, soldiers, and sailors they brought with them, for the purpose of the New Year.

is also a former member of the Zheng family's sailors, and those ships who surrendered on the battlefield and were captured did not have such good treatment.

In accordance with the policy provisions formulated by Shouhan, people were sent to contact Yizhi before the war. Or the act of taking the initiative to throw himself into the camp of the Nanyue Army without the battle formation is called an uprising. According to the standard of the Nanyue Army, the troops were given three months' military salary as a settling-in allowance and reward, and those who had made meritorious contributions to the uprising were even more rewarded.

Those who are forced to defect before the situation on the battlefield, or who lay down their arms, are called surrenders. The troops were given two months' salary as a reward. Officers and soldiers are separated from each other in the troops. Screening and adaptation. If you do not want to serve in the army and only want to go home, you will be sent a paperwork to return home. Those who are willing to work, farm, and do business in the areas controlled by the Nanyue Army are all respected.

Those who put down their arms and ask to surrender when they see that the momentum is not good in the battle formation is called surrender, and it belongs to the lowest level of treatment. Not only did the officers have to go through some screening before they could decide whether to stay, but even the soldiers could only receive a month's salary as a reward.

Although there is a gap between 369 and so on, there is still laughter and laughter in the Guangao Bay camp.

Although the owners of the ships who chose to drop sail and anchor in the pursuit battle did not enjoy the same uprising treatment as Shi Daxuan's father and son, they were still very kind to these more than 200 large and small ships and nearly 10,000 sailors and soldiers. (Finally stop worrying about the lack of sailors!) After these people are screened and transformed, they are all people urgently needed by my Nanyue Army Sailors! ）

However, as for how this war would end, Shouhan couldn't make up his mind for a while. Although the development of the entire campaign was basically in line with his original plan, the main force of the Zheng family had completely shrunk to the sea of Kinmen and Xiamen, hiding in several harbors and unwilling to come out, which was tantamount to completely losing the mobility of the navy and giving away the sea control in this area.

Shouhan could command the naval divisions and shipping fleets of the Southern Yue Army to complete the economic infiltration activities on the ground of Nanzhili on a large scale.

However, how to deal with the Zheng group that was cowering on the surface of the Jinxia Sea was quite tricky and scratched Shouhan's head.

If it is forcibly attacked, it is bound to suffer heavy losses on both sides, which is what Shouhan does not want to see, he has long regarded the tens of thousands of sailors entrenched in Kinmen, Xiamen and other places as the reserve and source of troops for his sailors, how can he be willing to kill and injure a large number of people?

Moreover, there is a big nail in front of him, that is, Shi Lang who is entrenched on Nanao Island, although he is trapped on an isolated island, but this kid is undiminished, and from time to time he makes a small action, using the tactics of fast in and fast out, to find a little trouble for the naval division of the Nanyue Army, and grab some military food and materials to go back to enjoy. How to deal with this guy who does not eat oil and salt has become a difficult problem for the generals of the Nanyue Army.

This Shi Lang has dozens of battlefields and more than 2,000 soldiers and horses under his command who are like fingers, and he is a character!

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve was very prosperous in Shantou, and tens of thousands of lights were lit on the barracks and wharves along the coast for tens of miles from Guang'ao Bay to Shantou, reflecting the entire sea surface in red and transparent.

Needless to say, people enjoyed a sumptuous feast on their respective camping boats.

Shouhan specially summoned Shi Daxuan and other officers and generals at all levels of the former Zheng group, whether they were uprisings or surrenderers, to the Tianhou Palace in Shantou to enjoy the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together to show trust and appeasement.

"Everyone, this is the dog Huayu, presumably many people have met him and the little girl at sea. And it doesn't hurt! The so-called don't fight, don't know each other! After the New Year, you will go to Taiwan with your dogs, and you will rest the troops and raise horses, and repair the ships to lay the foundation for the coming days. Second, you and your subordinate officers and men should also have a good training and study the rules and regulations of our Nanyue Army. ”

Holding his own jasper cup, Shouhan introduced Li Huayu to many ship owners who had just surrendered to Chengcheng one by one, to be honest, the impact of this Li family's eldest young master on everyone was far less than Li Huamei, who was sitting in the third seat next to Shouhan. Although everyone suffered a lot of losses from Li Huamei at sea, many people saw it for the first time.

originally thought that the woman who could haunt the sea between the wind and waves, frolicking with whales, sharks and turtles, and putting life and death between artillery fire, must be an ugly character like the dominatrix in the Water Margin, or Zhuge Liang's wife, but she didn't expect that a slightly delicate lady in front of her was the scarlet-winged tiger in everyone's mouth?

If it weren't for a few equally heroic female soldiers beside him, I'm afraid no one would believe that this little woman was the commander of the Nanyue Army's naval division.

"Father, I've heard a lot of stories about this eldest lady of the Li family." Returning to the anchorage of his fleet, Shi Xian couldn't wait to present treasures to his father and uncle.

"Oh? But if there is a strange woman, there will be strange news, come and hear it. ”

"It's nothing else, what she caught when she caught Zhou was a boat and a cannon, and she was destined to be a man of the sea. Just one thing. It is said that not long ago, Da Shuai came up with the idea of marrying the eldest lady to Zheng Sen for the sake of ending up with the Zheng family. "Shi Xian has already listed himself as a member of the Nanyue Army.

"Huh? This is the best of both worlds, our Nanyue Army and the Zheng family have formed a marriage, who else is our opponent on this sea? ”

"However, after the eldest lady heard about it, she didn't do it, found the handsome and made a fuss, and said that she would not marry Zheng Sen."

"This!?"

There is a way to be the words of the matchmaker of the parents, which is the standard model of marriage between men and women in this era, and marriages for the sake of family and political interests abound. But it is indeed a strange thing that this eldest lady of the Li family refused to marry Zheng Sen for the sake of the family's business.

"This woman doesn't know anything! So, what should the marshal do? ”

It is said that after the birth of the eldest lady, Dashuai's career has been smooth step by step, and love is really like a pearl in the palm of her hand. had to rely on the temperament of the eldest lady, and she would choose her own in-laws in the future. The eldest lady also promised the marshal that as long as she fought against the Zheng family, she would definitely capture Zheng Sen alive to see her. ”

After listening to Shi Xian's frothing anecdote about Li Huamei, I couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded by Brother Shi Daxuan: "I used to hear people tell stories, saying that the princesses of the Liu family in the Han Dynasty were more lascivious and coquettish than the other, and the princesses of the Li family in the Tang Dynasty, starting from Princess Pingyang, were all able to go into battle to kill the enemy, and they were able to intrigue in the court and the court. Why is this daughter of the Li family so belligerent? ”

Having said that, Shi Daxuan still took the opportunity of the Chinese New Year to complete a task assigned to him by Li Shouhan, writing to Shi Lang on Nanao Island to persuade him to surrender.

In the letter, in addition to telling Shi Lang that his family was fine, he vaguely told Shi Lang about Li Huamei. "My son is also a man of flesh and strength, and he has not heard of a good bird choosing a tree to perch on? If you are willing to join the Nanyue Army, needless to say, the whole family will be reunited, and my son will also have a great future, but do you know if it is not Chai Shao and Wei Qing's talents? ”

After Shi Lang read it, he threw the letter into the brazier and ordered someone to bring a message to Shi Daxuan.

"I am under the command of the Fujian Sailor, the Fujian Sailor is here, Shi Lang is here, the Fujian Sailor is not there, Shi Lang is not there. Don't try to persuade me to surrender! (To be continued......)