In the open sea of Zhejiang, nearly 1,000 warships were fighting each other, the sound of artillery was rumbling, and the fleets of both sides were constantly changing formations, hoping to annihilate the enemy in the shortest possible time.

Yu Zhigao, the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty, sat calmly on his command ship, facing 500 enemy warships that were considered the most powerful and advanced in the entire South China Sea, without any fear. Although the fleet of sailors under his command was old and of various sizes, he did not complain at all. Now that the Ming Dynasty has adopted decades of sea ban policy, the entire once glorious sailors of the Ming Dynasty have declined.

But the declining tiger is still a tiger, and at this point, Yu Zhigao has always been convinced. And this time I traveled with the fleet, and I did experience a lot of twists and turns. Therefore, let him cherish the victory or defeat of this battle even more.

Yan Siqi's pirate fleet, in just two days, with a direct battle, a sneak attack at night, completely disabled the Zhejiang naval division, just when they were triumphant, they actually proposed to Xiong Wencan, the governor of Zhejiang, to recruit An, this is the real poor dagger.

Jinyiwei's intelligence has clearly shown that this scene, which was originally the final death throes of the little widows, turned into a great chaos that caused a sensation in the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the reason why it turned into a sensation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was the actions of this ambitious Yan Siqi. This made the Ming soldiers who had some backbone indignant. When this vigorous manuscript requesting Zhao'an was handed over to Xiong Wencan, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Xiong Wencan, who had already had the heart of Zhao'an, began to move his heart. However, Yu Zhigao rejected him sonorously.

"We are Ming, we don't pay tribute, we don't make peace, we don't pay compensation, we don't cede land, and we don't get coerced, how can we be coerced and surrendered by a pirate?" Facing Shangguan Xiong Wencan, Yu Zhigao said impassionedly.

"Kemai (Yu Zhigao's character) Don't be impulsive, now is the time when the country and the DPRK are worried about internal and external troubles, and the things that can be resolved peacefully must be resolved peacefully, and there is no need to spend military salaries, money, food, knives and guns. If they are recruited, it will become a fortified city in our Daming coastal defense, which is actually a good thing, why don't we do it? ”

Regarding the governor's idea, Yu Zhigao did not disagree. Now that the sailors of the Ming Dynasty have declined, they can no longer afford to shoulder the harassment and attack of foreign hostile enemies on the coast of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Portuguese, for example, the Dutch, although Yu Zhigao hates them to the core, but he is really powerless. Now the coastal defense of the entire Ming Dynasty has to admit that it relies on the defense of these pirates. But even so, a sense of integrity made Yu Zhigao unconvinced: "The big man weighs the pros and cons, but according to the rules of our Ming Dynasty, only standing and dying, not following the life, so, I agree with the adults' measures, accept their recruitment, and strengthen our coastal defense, but the last general thinks that we must not get used to their temper of coercing us, we must beat him this time, let them know that the declining Daming Sailor is still a tiger, and does not accept anyone's coercion of us." ”

For his favorite general, Xiong Wencan smiled and comforted him: "In order to achieve the goal, you can do whatever it takes, but if you can solve it in a peaceful way, it is better to use a peaceful way." Then he said earnestly: "As this governor, whether it is the relationship with your old father or the current relationship with you, I am fully supporting you. But then he sighed: "According to the old man's news above, it won't be too long, the court will transfer me elsewhere, and it will be impossible for me to take care of you anymore." There is only so much in the family, this is your only capital, between our fathers, I don't take care of you, who else can take care of you? So I still stick to my point of view, so even if the conditions are harsh, I am still ready to recruit them, instead of sending you to fight them, strength is your way to survive. ”

For this kind of father-like care, Yu Zhigao's eyes couldn't help but be full of tears, but he still stiffened his neck and said: "If as usual, they handed us Zhao'an's request, everything is up to the uncle's placement, but this time it is absolutely impossible." Because he Yan Siqi made the bottom line, he sent 30,000 troops to directly attack Hangzhou, which would shake the foundation of the entire southeast, and if we let it go, it would set a bad precedent. This kind of precedent cannot be opened, and I would like to ask my uncle to learn from it. ”

Yu Zhigao is right, if everyone uses the method of attacking the imperial court to ask for a price, then the entire Ming Dynasty will no longer have a stable day. But Xiong Wencan still thought about it carefully, and finally educated this nephew: "Your statement is quite correct, but with our current military and financial resources, in the face of Yan Siqi with five hundred warships, it is really powerless, even if I, the governor, fully support you, the officials below will oppose it." Anyway, according to the thinking of those bastard officials, the war in Hangzhou has nothing to do with our Fujian, and it is their idea to sweep the snow in front of their doors. Therefore, even if both of us agree to send troops, but without logistical supplies, we can only end up in failure. Can you expect such an outcome? That is, our two masters are ruined. ”

Yu Zhigao held his hands on his knees and was silent.

The current Ming Dynasty is no longer the same as before, after hundreds of years of evolution, unconsciously, the entire Ming Dynasty has appeared an internal division between the north and the south. For example, in the eyes of the southerners, they were all things in the north and had nothing to do with the south, so almost all the personnel and expenses of the three major expeditions were borne by the north.

At the same time, during the rebellion of the southern Japanese invaders, the northerners also thought that it was a matter for the southerners, and did not lend a helping hand to the southern resistance against the Japanese invaders. Slowly evolved into this situation, after the confrontation between the north and Jin Jiannu, it also relied on the full support of the north, of course, during the battle of Salhu, the elite soldiers from the south were also transferred to the past. But at this point, the soldiers of the south thought that it was a matter of the north, and at the beginning of the battle, it was these soldiers of the south who were the first to collapse. Because they thought that this war had nothing to do with them, they chose to flee back to their hometown in the face of the surging Jiannu Iron Cavalry. This caused the defeat of the Battle of Cesarhu, and as a result, the entire war against Jin Jiannu collapsed into a mess and could no longer be controlled.

And the rebellion in the south, the north did not send a single soldier, and it all relied on the south to support itself, and as a result, this rebellion continued endlessly, and I don't know when it will be a head.

With the emergence of such a general environment, there are also such subtle ideas in various provinces, such as the current rebellion of displaced people in Shaanxi, only the government of Shaanxi is trying to encircle and suppress, while the officials of Shanxi are watching from the sidelines. And he kept writing to the imperial court, and his Shaanxi officials beggar-thy-neighbor. For this reason, Shanxi blocked the Yellow River and no longer provided Shaanxi with a single soldier, a grain of grain and a tael of silver, which is really a sadness.

"But my nephew believes that when the overall situation is the priority, Zhejiang and Fujian are interdependent, once Hangzhou is breached, the whole Zhejiang is completely erosive, and it will eventually shake the foundation of our Fujian. So I still ask that our Fujian sailors should all be dispatched to completely defeat Yan Siqi, even if it is a negotiation, it should be when you defeat him, and then your old man will come forward to negotiate, so that you can grasp the initiative in negotiation. ”

Xiong Wencan sighed: "I understand Kemai's thoughts, why don't I want to do this?" But where does the money come from? Can you win? It's all a problem. ”

Yu Zhigao heard that his uncle had the heart to move, so he stood up sonorously and said loudly: "On behalf of my soldiers, I promise you that if you don't defeat the enemy, you will never return, as for the money and food-" pondered for a while, and then said loudly again: "You owe it first, and when I am victorious, you will give it again, if I am defeated." Then he smiled bitterly: "Everyone has sunk to the bottom of the sea, so you don't need to give it at all, so I can always send troops, right?" ”

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