Checking his losses, Shi Lang couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. Although most of the more than 20 Daqingtou are still there, they can go to sea immediately, whether they are escaping or fighting, but only half of them. Most of the rest were scarred and suffered heavy casualties.

"That's it! He recuperated on the island for a few days, so that the brothers could recharge their batteries! When the time comes, you must have physical strength! ”

Having made up his mind, Shi Lang anchored on Nanao Island.

Outside Dongshan Island, Zheng Sen saw the Zheng family's sailors who were dispatched to respond, and couldn't help crying.

"Father! We are defeated! ”

The loss of one red-haired ship and four lucky boats, the loss of those big green heads is not known for a while, and there are still a few boats missing on the way, but the amount is also more auspicious.

Zheng Zhilong's face was as gloomy as the sea surface of the ten winter months.

"Beat it once and cry like this? How many times have I beaten you?! ”

"Say! But because of what, you lost so badly? ”

"Father! I doubt Shi Lang! Zheng Sen was about to report to his father about Shi Lang's performance in this naval battle, but was picked up by Zhibao.

"Handsome! If it weren't for Shi Lang's desperate attempt to take the ship to entangle the Li family's forward fleet behind, we are afraid that the loss will be even greater! The Li family's little girl is a ruthless character! All kinds of ships and artillery are used in a magical way! ”

Zheng Zhilong's heart is bright, and he knows that there must be a famous hall among them, but his younger brother is unwilling to talk about it in this court. lest the incident is not secret, and it is leaked out by someone who is good friends with the Shi family, that is to steal chickens and rice!

Arrived at the Guandi Temple. Zhilong ordered the men to go down to rest on the ships brought back by Zheng Sen, heal the wounded, and repair the sail lines of the ships.

"Let's talk about it! So what happened to Shi Lang? ”

"Father! I suspect Shi Lang is an inner ghost! ”

"Huh?" Zheng Zhilong's eyebrows on his fair face jumped twice, and his eyes glanced at Zheng Zhibao.

Is there any basis for this? If Shi Lang is the kind of anti-bone boy who eats the bottom of the bowl and the noodles of the bowl, how can he still make you get out of the way? ”

"Father! When I say this, of course, there is evidence! When we first met the fleet of the Li family's little girl, it happened to be a tailwind, so we prepared to set fire to the ship. Unexpectedly, the fireboat was disintegrated and iced by the small cannons on the ships of the Nanyue Army's naval division. Hardly a piece of paper is not returned. We had intended to take advantage of the limelight. Bombarded with the artillery on the red-haired ship, but at this time, the Li family's rocket ship suddenly appeared and used rockets to fire on our ships! If it weren't for the headwind, these rocket ships would have reduced dozens of our gunboats to ashes! Nashilang. I always boast about myself every day. What did I learn in the Nanyue Military Sailor Academy? Why didn't you say a word about the rocket?! ”

At that moment, Zheng Sen poured out all kinds of doubts and dissatisfaction he had with Shi Lang in this naval battle. He wanted to find a reason and an excuse for his defeat.

And Shi Lang is undoubtedly the best candidate for the black pot.

"Finished?"

Zheng Zhilong's face was still as deep as the sea before the storm.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

This jade dragon crisscrossing the sea picked up his big slap and opened the bow left and right to greet Zheng Sen's face.

"Your reason is this rocket ship? We've been dealing with these guys in the Nanyue Army for so many years, and we've never heard of such a thing! I think it is an important weapon of the country, and people are tightly guarded, in order to catch us off guard on this day! You bastard, for this little thing, you have to attack Shi Lang!? Do you know that this will push Shi Lang and his family to the side of the Nanyue Army? ”

Looking at his father's angry face, Zheng Sen also had something to say.

"Poisonous snakes devour hands, and strong men break their wrists. Such people can't stay! If we're afraid of him defecting, we'll just keep it secret! ”

"Stupid! Are you smart in the world? ”

Zheng Zhilong was about to fight again, but was stopped by Zheng Zhibao and persuaded him.

"That's not what I said, Fusson. Even if we have enough evidence to dispose of Shi Lang's family, would other ship owners think so? Will it be disheartened? Zheng Zhi Leopard taught this nephew of the newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers with a tiger face.

The Fujian Naval Division, or the Zheng Maritime Group, like any economic armed gang, is a group of several gangs gathered together because of common interests. It's just that the Zheng family occupies the largest proportion in this gang or a joint-stock company, and other gangs dare not make mistakes. However, if the Nanyue army is pressing forward step by step, and the internal unprovoked killing of Shi Lang, who has made meritorious contributions in battle, and killing his entire family, I am afraid that those large and small ship owners will fall apart overnight.

After reprimanding Zheng Sen a few words, the two brothers asked Zheng Sen, who had just entered the battlefield, to go back to rest, no matter what, today's results are much stronger than the bottom line set in Zheng Zhilong's heart. At least, his heart, those red-haired boats are back.

"Big brother, can you still fight this battle?"

After being silent for a long time, Zheng Zhibao opened his mouth. He knew Nanzhong better among the Zheng Group, and his understanding of Nanzhong's terrifying strength was far greater than that of everyone in the Zheng Group except Shi Lang.

For many years, almost all of the war materials of the Zheng Jiashui Division were imported from Nanzhong, and they were resold for profit. The gunpowder shells used in this war were also hoarded over the years. Shells, one less shot, gunpowder, one less barrel with one barrel.

The current situation seems to be slowly sliding towards the side that the Zheng family least wants to see, and the two sides have entered a stage of long-lasting attrition. This is the most fatal blow to the Zheng family.

For a while, Zheng Zhilong was also speechless. Why didn't he know where the door of his hood was?

However, the letters from Nanjing and other places in the yamen of the Xiamen General Army made him have to fight again.

"Hit! Fight it! We are the Fujian Economic Army, what power do they have to wipe us out? This is the defense area of my Fujian Naval Division! As long as the fight continues and drags on for some time, someone in Nanjing and Beijing will come out to speak, and at that time. We can talk to him about the price! ”

When Zheng Zhilong said this, he didn't know if Lu Dao was cheering up his younger brothers or himself.

"During the day, the advance of our army and the forward of the Southern Guangdong Army fought for the first time, and there were occasional small setbacks, which is nothing. However, we still do not know where the main force of the naval division of the Nanyue Army is. But the matter of our army being stationed on Dongshan Island, Fu Song and others came all the way to the east, and they must have been guessed by the little girl of the Li family. Although the waters of Dongshan Island are wider than those of Nanao Island, there are too many ships stationed there. Fang Cai Fusong and Zhibao, you said again that the Nanyue Army has arson, in order to prevent the Nanyue Army from sneaking up at night. Give us Lao Tzu a fire to burn the warship. Zhihu. You work hard, and tonight you will lead two hundred clippers out to sea for fifty miles to scout along Dongshan Island. Withdraw after dawn! ”

Zheng Zhilong has been crisscrossing the sea for half his life, what kind of immoral tricks and ghost domain tricks have never been seen or used, and he has summed up an experience with countless times of blood and life. That is to be careful to make the ship of ten thousand years.

But. If only he knew about the loss of Li Huamei's fleet. He would not have made such a cautious move, and sent his subordinates to stare at the sea all night at sea staring at the dark sea, lest a rocket ship of the Southern Yue Army suddenly come out of nowhere.

When Zheng Zhihu led two hundred clippers and nearly 10,000 people at sea to vigilantly guard against a possible night attack by the naval division of the Nanyue Army. Li Huamei was stunned by the statistics of casualties and battle losses.

After a day of fierce fighting, her fleet was sunk by two, and three ships were damaged and incapacitated, and almost all of them suffered some degree of battle damage. Or gun emplacements, or ships, or sail rigging. The ships lost 87 guns of all types, 1,309 barrels of gunpowder and 3,767 shells of all types. However, these material losses are nothing to the wealthy Nanyue Army at the moment, and what really worries Li Huamei is the line of numbers at the bottom.

A total of 643 sailors were killed, wounded, and missing. Among them, 302 were slightly wounded, 67 were seriously wounded, and the rest were killed or missing in battle. Hua Mei Zhilu said that these lightly wounded people were also temporarily unable to operate the ship and were in a state of incapacitation.

"What can I do?" Hua Mei's little face turned pale, even when facing Shi Lang's artillery fire during the day, she had never been so afraid.

"Huamei, what's wrong?"

Ao Lei Yilan, who had checked the situation and number of prisoners from the prisoner camp, happily returned to Huamei's cabin with a few personal soldiers.

"Aunt Seven. We are fighting a battle during the day, and it can be said that we have killed a thousand enemies, and we have lost a thousand ourselves. I'm worried that my father won't spare me. Hua Mei handed the battle damage statistics to Ao Lei Yilan with a bitter face, and immediately remembered that this fresh and hot seventh aunt was illiterate, and immediately put it away again.

"We sank and burned six boats of the Zheng family, captured eight of them, fished more than 300 people from the sea, and captured nearly 1,000 of them in total, how can we still be considered a loser?"

Ao Lei Yilan proudly reported a series of numbers that had been memorized for a long time, she didn't believe it, with such a result, could Xianggong still be angry with Li Huamei?

"Aunt Seven, do you know that Daddy fights, in the first place, he looks at his own losses, like a rich man in the countryside, and calculates how many sabers and guns he has lost, and then how many people he has captured, and then how many have been captured. This time, we can barely be regarded as an outpost battle with the Zheng family, and we have lost hundreds of sailors, with the difficulty of training, recruiting, and training qualified sailors in our Nanyue Army, Daddy, that old man, miser, knows that you can't eat me raw? ”

"Not bad! I have to eat you raw, just like the Fuso people eat sashimi, and they don't have to dip it in soy sauce and horseradish! ”

As she spoke, Li Huamei's face turned from white to red, "Huh? He's coming? ”

At the opening of the hatch, Mo Yu, the leader of the guards, came first, followed by Li Shouhan himself. Behind the Shouhan was Li Huayu, the eldest son who was serving as the commander of the Taiwan Guard.

"My eldest lady, Commander Li, there is a way to sit quietly and think about one's own mistakes, and gossip about others. You're talking about the elders behind your back, what should you say? ”

Shouhan deliberately kept a straight face, and looked at Li Huamei with an embarrassed face seriously.

"Daddy!"

Li Huamei's face flushed, and she looked like a little daughter to Shouhan, and she didn't have the heroic posture of scolding the three armies on the bridge.

The main team of the Nanyue Army Fleet led by Shou Han took advantage of the opportunity for Zheng Zhilong's naval division to come out of the nest, and made a big circle from Hong Kong from afar, and quietly arrived at Guangao Bay in Shantou. Converge with Li Huamei.

"I've seen Aunt Seven, I've seen the eldest sister."

After serving as a commander of Taiwan's defense for a year, Li Huayu has become a lot more sophisticated. politely greeted Ao Lei Yilan, the little mother and eldest sister Li Huamei, who were about the same age as herself.

"Huayu, why don't you help Daddy reclaim the famine in Taiwan, settle those immigrants, build port roads, and fight naval battles?"

is the youngest daughter in front of her father, but she is the eldest sister in front of her younger brothers, and Li Huamei's role has become very fast.

"Eldest sister, I also trained some soldiers in Taiwan. Most of them are recruited from the mountains and forests. Just like Uncle Wang Bao's Phoenix Battalion back then, he planned to take them to the battlefield for training. This time, Daddy specially sent a boat to Tainan to pick us up, in order to fight this battle. ”

The meaning of Shouhan is very clear. To deal with a strong enemy at sea like Zheng Zhilong, it is necessary to adopt the strategy and tactics of Tian Ji horse racing.

Your sailors are skilled and qualified. Then I'll use my gunnery against your manpower superiority.

You are strong in water combat. Then I'll force you not to fight a water war with me. It's to force you to fight with me in a land battle that you're not used to! And it's a tough battle!

"Daddy, what do you mean?" Li Huamei's eyes began to glow, and she seemed to smell the smell of conspiracy in her father's words.

"Don't leak it!" Shouhan made a rare grimace at a pair of children and a new favorite.

Although night hangs over Guang O Bay. But the atmosphere here is very different from the tension and panic of the nearby Nanao Island and the farther Dongshan Island, which is filled with the smell of food and the laughter of people.

A cooking car can withstand thousands of troops. This is a phrase that Shouhan often hangs on his lips. In the same way, countless celebrities and cattle have said similar things.

Because a large number of iron tools were put into agricultural production activities, grain crops and oil crops have been unprecedentedly developed, which in turn has promoted the development of aquaculture, because of the tropical and subtropical location, the Lu Ying and the sailors under the command of Shouhan can enjoy a much richer variety of food than their counterparts in this era, and it is much more delicious.

Compared with the food of the British, Portuguese, and Spaniards, the food of the sailors of the Nanyue Army is almost the same as the feast enjoyed by the playboys in Paris or Madrid.

In this era, the food on the battleship can be described as dancing with maggots.

Breakfast is an eternal oatmeal; Lunch and dinner are either boiled corned beef + biscuits, or boiled cured pork + biscuits. Aside from the occasional little cream and stinking cheese, the sailors relied on the most popular pea soup for their measly little vitamin. There was nothing else to eat.

What the? You say you want to take a vitamin supplement? Let's see if this poor creature has a fever? You don't even have a full supply of drinking water on board, and you need to use a variety of alcohols that are easy to store for a long time as a substitute, so you still want to supplement your vitamins?

When you have been out to sea for more than a month, you will start drinking water, and the drinking fresh water full of green algae has become smelly and sticky and difficult to taste, so you have to mix rum in the water. The daily ration of rum is often mixed with drinking water to mask the smell and green color. So sailors usually don't get drunk, even if they drink every day—unless you can stand to drink the stinking water and leave the rum alone to drink it all at once. Generally speaking, the ratio of rum to drinking water is about 1:4 (variable), which is why most sailors are drunkards. (Oh, remembering Tintin's best friend, Captain Haddock.) ）

With such a diet, you can imagine what kind of people the sailors came from, so that they could swallow such things that no one had to eat in my country. Most of the people who can be ocean-going sailors are landless peasants, unemployed vagrants and other lumpenproletariat, and the ruffians and hooligans, robbers, thieves, and bastards who are locked up in prison as traitors, which also explains why in the main theme films in the West, the captains are all great, and the sailors are all dirty, rude and lowly guys.

Compared with the inferior sailors, who ate worse than pigs, the food of the captain and the officers on the ship was much better, they had separate meals, and the economic conditions of the officers would also make them pay for some food out of their own pockets to improve their lives. For example, buying sheep, cows, hens, etc., to make sure you have fresh meat and eggs to eat. Usually the cattle would be kept in the corrals in the cabins and sleep with the sailors, the sheep would usually be tethered to the corners of the deck, and the hens that lay eggs would be kept in the cages of the lifeboats.

But on the ship, from the captain to the junior sailors, everyone on board had to eat the biscuits, which the British called "navy bread", and speaking of this biscuit, it was also a strange thing, and this biscuit was inhabited by dozens of generations of weevils and maggots! To get these cute little animals, the sailors would throw a fish into a biscuit bag so that the maggots would crawl out of the biscuit and onto the fish, and then the sailors would throw the fish away so that there would be fewer bugs in the biscuits.

However, this kind of thing can only be used as an after-dinner conversation to ridicule those Western barbarians in the Nanyue Army, whether it is the army camp or the naval division.

Walking along the coastline of Guang Ao Bay, the smell of food wafted from the makeshift camps everywhere, and the sailors and the soldiers who fought with the ship, each holding a large lunch box in the shape of a pig's kidney, devoured the meal carefully prepared by the cooks on the shore, and toasted each other with the deep lid of the lunch box from time to time.

In the battle during the day, although Li Huamei thought that it was defeated and suffered heavy losses, these sailors saw the results very directly. They simply decided, "We won!" We beat Zheng Zhilong, who is known as the master of the sea, and the sailor is holding his head and running away! ”

The sound of laughter and laughter flew out of the camp from time to time.

"Good morale! The Heart of the Army is available! ”

Shouhan gave his daughter a good evaluation.

"Father, this is where those Zheng Jun prisoners are held. Because they are all fellow villagers in Fujian, Chinese and Miao. So I ordered them to enjoy our food as well. Except for the lack of alcohol, the rest are the same as the soldiers of our army! ”

Li Huamei looked at her father's face with some embarrassment.

It would be a lie to say that Li Huamei didn't have any ideas about these skilled sailors, after all, a large part of the earliest team of the Nanyue Army Sailors was pirates from Zhang Xiaohu's gang back then. The earliest characters were also captives. It seems that Zhang Xiaohu, the commander of the current left wing fleet, is also a prisoner.

However, unlike Zhang Xiaohu's situation back then, this more than 1,000 Zheng family sailor prisoners could not become members of the sailors of the Southern Guangdong Army for a while and a half.

"Daddy, I can't just fish them out of the sea, throw them a piece of our sailor's coat, and let them become our sailors, right?" After talking about her original thoughts, Li Huamei was also at a loss.

"Capture or refill?" After listening to his daughter's complaint, these four big words immediately appeared in Shouhan's head. How to turn the Zheng family's human resources advantages into a source to make up for their own shortcomings is a seemingly difficult problem.

However, this does not seem to be difficult for Li Shouhan.

"Big girl, Daddy has an idea to help you turn these captives into the main force of the fleet the next time you go to sea!"

"However, you have to treat Huayu to a good meal and ask him to write a letter to your Erniang. Transfer the propaganda team in Hue to Quang Ao Bay! (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for your concern and support. In the past few days, I have a fever and some chores at home, so I'm sorry everyone. Restore from today. Those friends who read the stolen posts, I won't say some things.