The East China Sea Fleet led by Qi Jin easily seized the island where Han Bahai was entrenched, in addition to the pirates who were killed by mortar bombards and drowned in the sea, some pirates were killed on the island, and the remaining pirates surrendered under the leadership of Han Bahai, in fact, there were not even more than a hundred people left, and the property plundered by the pirates on the island was all confiscated and used as naval military expenses, and all the remaining more than 100 pirates belonged to the Japanese wandering samurai, and the rest were temporarily imprisoned.

In the following month, Qi Jin led the East China Sea Fleet to attack in the vicinity of the Zhoushan Islands, cleared all the pirates near here, and helped the local fishermen to establish large and small governments at all levels, established Zhoushan County, and applied to the imperial court to appoint officials to manage the islands in this area. Prepare for the complete opening of the sea ban in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

After arranging these things, Qi Jin led the East China Sea Fleet back to Hangzhou to replenish supplies, and then Qi Jin summoned Xiao Hailong, Chen Nanjiao, Yu Hualong, and other captains of various warships, and studied with them the lessons and lessons of more than a dozen naval battles in the past month, and recorded all these things, which were used as teaching materials for the navy in the future.

After resting for half a month, Qi Jin's East China Sea Fleet had recuperated and prepared all the weapons and ammunition, and at the end of May, the Ming East China Sea Fleet began to officially sail to the Penghu Islands with enough supply ships, preparing to formally engage in a real war with the Dutch Navy, completely annihilating the Dutch Navy that invaded the Penghu Islands, and starting the pace of the Ming Navy towards the ocean.

Along the coastline all the way south, in early June arrived in Xiamen, Xiamen City was built in the Hongwu period, there is a thousand households here to guard, said to be guarding, in fact, it does not even have a decent warship, only some ordinary guards. Qi Jin didn't care about this, after arriving in Xiamen, he found the magistrate's yamen, and asked about the situation at sea in this area, as well as the news of the Dutch fleet, and the result was very tragic, the magistrate had only heard that the Dutch army had occupied the Penghu Islands in the sea to the east, and he didn't know the situation. In fact, this is not to blame this magistrate, the Ming Dynasty implements a sea ban, and anyone is forbidden to go to sea to fish or do business, as a magistrate, of course, he will not understand the matter of going to sea, even if he understands that he will also play sloppy with Qi Jin.

Seeing that he could not get any valuable news here, Qi Jin led the East China Sea Fleet not to camp here, although it was closer to the Penghu Islands, it was better to go north and return to Quanzhou. This Quanzhou is a metropolis in the south at this time, it is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, in the Song Dynasty it was the largest tax site for maritime trade, Arabs from the West, Persians, etc., are here to do business with the merchants of the Song Dynasty, and even many people have settled here, here is known as the world's largest port. Although the Ming Dynasty imposed a ban on the sea, the maritime commercial trading activities here were still very developed, and various information was still very rich.

Qi Jin's arrival made Chen Minwu, the prefect of Quanzhou, very excited, and in the first month of this year, he sent an eight-hundred-mile express to the imperial court, informing the imperial court that the Dutch army had occupied the Penghu Islands, hoping that the imperial court could send an army to recover there. This Chen Minwu was born in the Wanli Dynasty, and now he is nearly 40 years old, which is the age of great achievements, and it is not easy to be a good prefect here. Although Chen Minwu was born as a Jinshi, he was not pedantic at all, and he was very good at dealing with such things, especially since the first year of the Apocalypse, the emperor paid more and more attention to commercial activities, so he complied with the will of the imperial court and took care of the habits of the people, and carried out foreign trade activities in an orderly manner through the government. Unexpectedly, since the Chinese New Year, the merchants reported that there were red-haired devils who occupied the Penghu Islands and robbed the ships that came and went, and the merchants suffered great losses, and now they dare not go to sea.

In the evening, Chen Minwu warmly entertained Qi Jin and the captains, and described in detail the specific circumstances of the businessmen's encounter with the Dutch army, so that Qi Jin and the captains had a rough understanding of the Dutch Navy, after all, Chen Minwu himself had not personally seen the Dutch Navy, but these were already very good for Qi Jin, because the Dutch Navy did not know anything about himself. It is much better for the captains to be able to understand some of the opponent's situation more than not to know at all.

According to Chen Minwu's description, the firing range of the Dutch Navy guns is about two miles, and it may be reached even farther away, but there is no accuracy, and the best shooting distance is about one mile, but they use solid bullets, and only by accurately smashing on the deck can they really achieve results, and the guns equipped on the ironclad ships of the East China Sea Fleet can shoot an effective distance of five miles. It can shoot accurately at a distance of about a mile. The best firing distance of the mortar is about two miles, and the farthest four miles can be achieved, but the effect is too bad, in order to ensure the maximum results, and want to minimize the losses, so the best combat distance should be maintained at about one to one and a half miles. In this way, the best combat queue is to take the ironclad ship in the lead, use its effective shooting accuracy, and destroy the enemy's boat gang with fierce artillery, so that it can not effectively maneuver, and cover it with mortar fire, it should not be a problem to destroy the Dutch Navy, but the key is that the number of ironclad ships is too small, so the main goal should be to destroy the flagship of the Dutch, the tactics are basically formulated in this way, and when the specific battle is carried out, the ships must cooperate closely with each other, and any ship that violates the principles of combat must not happen, Otherwise, it will be severely punished.

On the sixth day of June in the third year of the Apocalypse, the Ming East China Sea Fleet officially set sail to the Penghu Islands, and began to open the prelude to the Penghu Islands reconquest, which will also be the first step for the Ming Navy to go to the vast sea, and the Ming Dynasty to open the sea ban.

Qi Jin had already passed on the various combat methods and preparations of the East China Sea Fleet to Zhu Youxiao in Beijing by way of an 800-mile express delivery, and confessed to Zhu Youxiao his belief in victory. After receiving Qi Jin's express, Zhu Youxiao breathed a long sigh of relief, with advanced ironclad ships, he couldn't win the naval battle? If this is the case, Qi Jin is too much of a failure to be called a famous general, and Zhu Youxiao does not have any idea of failure at all, but only has the confidence to achieve absolute victory. As for the losses, it is estimated that it will not be too big, and after the victory of this naval battle, it is necessary to continue to manufacture ironclad ships, and it is necessary to build a pure ironclad fleet to completely ensure the future maritime hegemony of the Ming Dynasty.