Outside Dongshan Island, the sails are like clouds.

This island, also known as Butterfly Island because of its butterfly-like shape, is located at the southern end of the Xiamen, Zhang, and Quanquan triangles, bordering the Taiwan Strait to the east and Zhao'an Bay to the west. It is separated from Zhao'an by a water; The southeast is the intersection of the famous southern Fujian fishing ground and the eastern Guangdong fishing ground; It has always been the place where fishermen along the coast of Fujian go for food and clothing.

The island was once subordinate to Jieyang County of Nanhai County, Sui'an County of Yi'an County, Longxi County of Quanzhou, Huai'en County, Zhangpu County and Zhao'an County of Zhangzhou. In the twentieth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1387), the copper mountain was placed to guard the thousand households, and the city of the copper mountain was built, and then the Tongshan water village was set up, which was one of the five major water villages in southern Fujian.

Looking out from the top of the Nine Immortals Mountain, commonly known as the Nine Immortals, which is called the Water Village Mountain by the locals, from the Eight Feet Gate, Dongmen Island and other places, there are masts, sails, and busy sailors.

Nearly half of the ships of the Zheng family's sailor fleet gathered here.

In the northwest of Tongling Town, Dongshan Island, the Tongshan Guandi Temple, which was expanded and completed in the seventh year of Ming Zhengde, is now Zheng Zhilong's sailor and serves as a temporary command post. In the fifth year of Jiajing, Cai Chao presided over the construction of a seven-story stone tower in Tongshan Dongmenyu, and Wenfeng Pagoda was requisitioned and became a watchtower for sailors.

Dongshan Island, because it is an important military place on the southeast coast for all dynasties, has quite complete sailor facilities, which provide sufficient hardware conditions for Zheng Zhilong's arrival.

Choosing to move half of the sailor ships to Dongshan, Zheng Zhilong also had his own considerations.

He was worried that the Nanyue Army in Taiwan would stab himself in the back when the main force of the Fujian Naval Division poured out to meet the Southern Guangdong Army Naval Division heading north. And this location of Dongshan Island. It is very close to Nanao Island, where his son and younger brothers are heading to meet the enemy, and at the same time, it is also on the route from Taiwan to Kinmen and Xiamen. Therefore, half of the elite were moved here. First, he can be put on the battlefield at any time to reinforce his son, and second, he can guard against the Nanyue army from Taiwan.

However, in this way, the strength of the Zheng family army was invisibly divided into several parts: Zheng Sen, Zheng Zhibao, and Shi Lang took some of the fastest and best artillery ships to go to Nanao Island to ambush on the water, Zheng Zhilong took more than 2,000 ships of all sizes to watch the enemy for his son on Dongshan Island, and Kinmen Xiamen also had to leave men and horses to guard.

"Dividing troops, it's a big taboo!"

A shipowner muttered inwardly.

The sailors on the dock didn't know what the master of the road was thinking about, so they just took out the barrels of gunpowder from the powder magazine and nervously transported them to their respective ships. Secretly hid behind the famous wind moving stone in Dongshan, took out a cigarette pouch, and you pushed me to smoke.

"What do you think of our fight?"

"Whatever! Who wins, aren't we all sailing and oars? Pay on a monthly basis! ”

"That's it! Who pays Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu listens to whom! ”

A few veterans swallowed the clouds and spit fog nonchalantly.

"That's different! A fellow villager of mine wrote to me a few days ago, and I asked my husband to read it. This coward, on the side of the Nanyue Army, actually mixed with a cannon armor chief! Quite a bit of money every month! Count him up to three or four of me alone! Originally, he asked me. Would you like to go to the Nanyue Army. If you wish. He tried to find a way for me. ”

"You rammer! Why not?! ”

A few soldiers were disgusted by the stupid man's actions.

"Hey! Isn't it delayed by the illness of the old lady in the family! Otherwise, I would have made ten silver dollars a month now! ”

"Hey! Brothers, we're all good brothers, right? "A scar on a face. The sailor, whose muscles were twitching, lowered his voice and looked around vigilantly before whispering.

"If we don't fight, we'll bask in the sun here, and if we fight, I'll be ready to surrender. I also have friends over there who told me about it. No matter what you do, as long as you have the ability to be on the water, you will be hired over there. Anyway, it's all going to be done anywhere, why don't you go to a high place?! ”

The guys smiled at each other tacitly, all with "we had this idea too" expressions.

In the past few years, the Zheng family, which has been constantly compressed routes and trade objects, has maintained the scale of thousands of ships, but the treatment of sailors has quietly shrunk. In the past, the ship's food was the responsibility of the ship's owners, but later it quietly became the payment of food bills, which were settled at the end of the month, and soon became distributed to the sailors themselves, who ate themselves. Recently, it has become even worse, and the food cost is gone. The sailors also had to pay for their own food, which made the subordinates of the owners of all the ships complain.

A bag of cigarettes has not yet been smoked, and bursts of white smoke have risen from the Wenfeng Pagoda not far away, and flags are constantly waving from the top of the tower, obviously something has happened.

"Pony Eminem! Something happened! Come on! ”

Sure enough, he flew into a fast boat from the eight-foot gate and went straight to Zheng Zhilong's line in the Guandi Temple.

"Handsome! The eldest young marshal and the second master are on fire with the Nanyue Army Naval Division!"

On the surface of Nanao Island, the fleet led by Zheng Sen and Shi Lang met with the forward fleet led by Li Huamei. Unexpectedly, Zheng Sen's quick temper came up and took out Zheng Zhilong's sword seal, "I now order the whole army in the name of the commander, lean on, and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

In desperation, nearly 100 ships of all sizes pulled their sails and rode straight to Li Huamei's fleet, which was coming against the north wind, with a tailwind.

"This Fusong Pill is really aggressive!"

From the binoculars, it can be seen that Zheng Sen is not good-intentioned, but Li Huamei is not afraid.

"One, two, three, four, five, six,......"

"Lord Commander, there are a total of eight imitation red-haired boats, twenty-four big green heads, ten lucky boats, and some small boats, with the equipment of the Zheng family's sailors, these big ships should have nearly three hundred cannons."

"Send a signal, each ship will take our ship as a benchmark and spread out the battle line!"

From the binoculars, it can be seen that Zheng Sen is not so good at water warfare, and large and small ships are crowded in a chaotic manner. Hua Mei is going to use the size of nearly five or six hundred guns equipped with her fleet to give these guys an educational lesson on how to fight naval warfare.

"Huamei, are you going to fight?"

From the cabin. Ao Lei Yilan, who vomited and had a ruddy and shiny little face like an apple, walked out in full costume and several Sauron women trying to be majestic.

Looking at the cuirass on this mother-in-law's body, the steel helmet on her head, the short fire gun on her waist, the fire gun on her back, the long knife on her waist, the spear in her hand, and the state that the whole person was almost wrapped in Nanzhong's armament, Hua Mei couldn't help but laugh a little dumbly.

"Ichira, you're like this. What are you going to do? ”

"I've heard that ships are going to be shelled when they get closer. After the bombardment, they will jump on the opposite boat and slash each other, I can't jump on someone else's boat, but if someone else jumps on your boat. I'm sure I'll send them to the sea! ”

Look at this simple concubine. Hua Mei was a little moved. From the time of departure. She was clamoring to be with Li Huamei in front of Shouhan, but Shouhan couldn't resist her, so she had to ask Huamei to take care of her.

"It's okay! Ichiran. Although our fleet didn't bring that many infantry, our artillery and those things were enough for the puppies on the other side to drink a pot! ”

Hua Mei refers to the rocket ships in the fleet that hide in the shadows of the big ships.

"Big young marshal! This will not work! ”

Forcibly jumped onto Zheng Sen's ship, stopped Shi Lang, who was happily rushing forward to act, and pointed to the distance in the distance who was slowly adjusting the queue according to Hua Mei's instructions, and facing the side of the ship to the Zheng family's sailor team who rushed from north to south from Nanao Island.

With Li Huamei's Aomei as the core, the ships on both wings constantly adjusted their angles, and one by one the gun windows were hoisted up by ropes, pushing out one cannon after another from the gun position, revealing the black muzzles.

"We rushed up like this, and we could only be sent to the sea by Li Huamei's shells!"

On the sea, the red-haired boats, which had the advantage of speed, rushed ahead, while the small boats that acted as fireboats followed closely behind the red-haired boats because they were light and fast, and the big green heads and lucky boats were left behind in the group. From the sky, the entire Zheng Jiashui Master is in the shape of a dumbbell, with large ends and thin middle.

"Shi Lang is right! If Xiao Nizi of the Li family uses artillery fire to first destroy the boat that we rushed to the front, and then deal with the ship behind, we will commit a taboo and add fuel to the tactics! ”

Zheng Zhibao didn't know when Lu Dao jumped onto Zheng Sen's command ship. Holding his nephew's hand, he screamed loudly, he didn't intend to let his brother take their heads in exchange for the family business in the wind and waves to become a fire on the sea in the blink of an eye.

"What do you say?!" Zheng Sen was a little annoyed.

"Stop the boat, the whole team. Let the boats behind follow, adjust the formation, and change the formation! ”

"That's right! Let those fireships be in front, the red-haired ships in the center and covered by artillery fire, and the big green heads and fortune boats behind! ”

The three of them briefly touched, and Shi Lang did not return to his ship anymore, so he stayed on Zheng Sen's ship to help him command the whole army.

Under Shi Lang's command, fifty fireships were transferred to the forward line of the fleet, and they were arranged in two groups within the range of the guns of the red-haired ships. And in the rear and on the two wings of the red-haired ship, thirty-four big green heads and fortune ships were also lined up in a combat posture.

"Hua Mei, what are they going to do?"

Ao Lei Yilan was a little puzzled, for the deeds on the sea, this heroic daughter in the mountains and forests is always like looking at flowers in the clouds.

"Seventh Madam, those small boats on the other side should be full of firewood, grass, and oil jars, ready to set fire to us while the wind is down. Then, taking advantage of the confusion caused by the fire, his large ships took the opportunity to come up and attack us with artillery. Intend to take advantage of the chaos to inflict losses on us. ”

Huamei's personal captain, Tianzhu Beauty Aji, is now also well versed in naval warfare, and has a deep understanding of the tactical ideas of the opposite side.

"Planning to set fire to me? That's good! Let them see what professional arson is today! ”

Hua Mei smiled innocently on her pretty face, "Yilan, you are from Liaodong, have you seen the fireworks in our Nanzhong?" It's about to be the New Year, and fireworks are going to be set off everywhere, so today I'll put you on a big fireworks to see! ”

With the sound of trumpets and a few wave of flags, the twenty rocket ships hidden behind the Aomei and other large ships silently moved from the back to the front of the battle line along the gap between the large ships. Against the north wind, struggle to move forward.

"What do these ships want to do?"

On the fireboat, several soldiers looked at the sloops on the opposite side in the wind and waves, and were a little puzzled.

Under the transfer of the flag soldier of the command ship. The sloop clippers are arranged in two columns, with a distance of more than 20 meters between the ships and about 50 meters between the two columns.

The sailors on the ship quickly lifted the tarpaulin on the metal frame on the bow of the ship, revealing the covered launch frame, and then quickly moved out of the cabin a wooden box, from the box a pole more than a foot long, one end of the pole is cone-shaped, it looks a little like fireworks set off during the New Year, but. It's just a little bigger.

The commander of the rocket ship used a telescope to make a simple estimate of the distance. After checking the angle and direction of the launcher, he looked up and looked at the small triangular flag on the mast, which was unfurled by the sea breeze. A plum character is brilliant and dazzling. "At this time, the north wind is about level five." He whispered a few words to the launchers beside him. And then. Nodding. "Attention boats! Check the rudder and tune it to the T-state! ”

"Ignition! Launch! "The flag-bearers on the mast gave orders to the ships.

With the command of each ship, gray-white arcs immediately appeared in the clear blue sky. The fireworks-like rockets roared like dozens of fire dragons with teeth and claws, and pounced on the Zheng family's arson ship not far away! Before the arc disappeared. Flames had already erupted on the surface of the sea.

It's a pity that today's Nanyue Army is at the downwind, and the strong north wind consumes a large part of the thrust of the rockets, causing those rockets to fall into the sea more than ten meters away from the Zheng family's military ship.

Although it did not cause any major damage to the Zheng family's arsonist boat, the dozens of fires that suddenly rose in front of them also startled these ships loaded with flammable and explosive dangerous goods.

"Gan Yi Niang! This bunch of guys! This is Lao Tzu's life! ”

Seeing that it was burning and expanding on the surface of the sea, slowly forming a wall of fire, the sailors on the board were a little timid, although they had already taken dozens to hundreds of silver dollars for settling-in money, but that did not say that they had to die! His own ship was full of oil, sulfur, firewood and grass, and if these things were forced through the fire in front of him, he was afraid that the ship of the Nanyue Army would be burned first!

Suddenly, the formation of the arsonist boat became uneven, and some of them rushed fast, and suddenly found that the friendly ships on their left and right were left behind, and they were so frightened that they immediately slowed down their pace.

In this way, Fang Cai was still making a rapid assault, preparing to open a gap in the Nanyue army with artillery fire after the fireship came into contact with the Nanyue army and set it on fire, and then the plan of dividing and encircling could no longer be carried out.

The rhythm of the entire Zheng family's army offensive was disrupted.

The fireships in front slowed down the attack, and the red-haired ships behind had to drop a few sails, lest their own ships crash and sink the fireships to the bottom of the sea!

"Shi Lang! What's going on! ”

On his flagship, seeing that fifty arson ships were almost reimbursed by someone with that unknown thing, Zheng Sen couldn't help but be a little annoyed, he looked at Shi Lang, who was praised by the older generation of the clan as the best of the second generation, and all kinds of jealousy, anger, and hatred buried in his heart in the past suddenly gushed out like a volcanic eruption.

All this in front of him gave him reason to suspect that this Shi Lang was bribed by the Nanyue Army or sent to the Zheng family as an undercover agent! Obviously, the Nanyue Army has such a sharp weapon for arson, and they have to let their own arson ship go forward to set fire, isn't this sending fat mutton to the tiger's mouth?

Countless thoughts spun around in his head, and a voice kept shouting in the depths of his mind, "Kill him!" Take this opportunity to kill him! ”

There were countless times in his heart that he wanted to pull out the sword at his waist and kill Shi Lang with a sword, but Zheng Sen finally held back.

"Eldest nephew, have you seen this thing in the Sailor Academy of the Nanyue Army?" Zheng Zhibao was also shocked, he couldn't imagine that the relationship between the Nanyue Army and the Zheng Jiajun was so close that day, and the Nanyue Army actually left a hand! I never sold this arson weapon to the Zheng family!

"My little nephew has never seen anything like this! It's just that I've heard the sailors say it, but I've never seen this thing when I was on the ship, and I originally thought it was bragging about it when the sailors were chatting, and I didn't want to take it seriously! ”

Shi Lang was also so shocked that his face turned pale! If it weren't for the direction of the wind, at this time, I'm afraid that a third of those fifty ships would have been set on fire!

"What should I do?"

"Uncle Zhibao! The order goes down, and the fireship is not allowed to stop! Rush forward! Once it has stopped for a long time, the ships on the opposite side will be reloaded and adjusted, but I am afraid that none of these ships will be able to stay! ”

The corners of Zheng Sen's mouth were bitten out by his own teeth, and he issued this order fiercely.

"That's right! Stop and you're on target! Feel relieved! Fumatsu Maru, I'll go up and supervise the formation! Who dares not to move forward bravely, your Uncle Leopard beheaded him first! ”

"Second column, ignition!" Before Zheng Zhi Baodu led the fireship forward, the second launch of the rocket ship of the Nanyue Army began again. This time, the rocket ships in the back row were fired indirectly, which is what is the reason, and the ships were evacuated to minimize the damage in the event of accidental damage.

Watching the rows of rockets pass over his head, once again playing the role of a criminal arsonist at sea. With excitement and joy, the sailors of the rocket ship in the front row quickly took the second rocket out of the box and placed it on the launch stand that had just adjusted the firing angle.

It is a pity that this round of rocket launches did not take into account the factor of the rocket ship moving forward, but only turned a few slightly slower fireships into huge fires, and the smoke column rolled up with tongues of fire and quickly rose into the air, several feet high. The sailors jumped into the water and swam to the ship on the left.

The arsonist boats, laden with firewood, grass and oil jars, turned into a pile of black charcoal after a brief period of glory. (To be continued......)