Liu Xiang, who followed the huge fleet of the Longwu Naval Division, was idle along the way, and he led the fleet to the busiest route.

In the past, the vast majority of those who were able to sail on this route were Junk ships under the protection of Zheng Zhilong, followed by deck warships and armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company, Spain, and Portugal.

The Galen ships of Xiyi were basically not the largest models on this route, with a displacement of between 500 and 1,000 tons, a length of 50 or 60 meters, several long decks, and more than a dozen or twenty guns.

On the Asian route, as long as they are not ambushed by too many enemy ships with absolute numerical superiority, the Galen ships with such firepower are invincible, so they are arrogant and domineering.

Without warning, a huge fleet of more than 200 ships appeared on the route, and red flags and dragon flags swept in the wind......

In the field of vision, as long as warships and merchant ships appeared, they would not let go, regardless of nationality or which sphere of influence they belonged to, they directly robbed more than 20 ships in a few days, most of which were foreign warships and armed merchant ships.

Huang Yong didn't eat alone, and gave Liu Xiang Sancheng a trophy, and this veteran pirate leader was almost stunned, because he had robbed a lot of merchant ships in his life, but he had never grabbed Xiyi's deck warship.

The "Red Banner Army" gave him two Galen ships equipped with more than fifteen Hongyi cannons, which were more than twice the size of the flagship of Liu Xiang's pirate gang.

After getting such a great benefit, Liu Xiang knelt down directly, and swore that in the future, he would take the "Red Banner Army" Longwu Shui Shi as the head of the horse, and the Marquis of Dongping would be the head of his Liu Xiang from now on.

Seeing that the robbery with the "Red Flag Army" was safe and efficient, Liu Xiang was more active, he had been in the South China Sea for 20 years, and he was too familiar with the flies and dogs in this area.

Liu Xiang was familiar with the performance of artillery fire, and was overjoyed after seeing the range and power of the new "Hongyi Cannon" equipped by the Longwu Naval Division, and he thought that it was enough to attack the fort and fortress with such firepower.

As the fleet approached Luzon through the Taiwan Strait, Liu Xiang asked Huang Yong to send troops to attack the lair of an old pirate gang active in the Balintang Strait.

The island where the pirates entrenched is called Fugaga, which is more than 40 miles long from east to west and less than 15 miles wide from north to south, has a natural harbor, and has also built forts to guard, Liu Xiang used to covet this place, and he also longed for an old nest that could be defended.

When Huang Yong first went to Japan, he participated in the attack on the pirate lair that had been running for several generations, and the harvest of that time was huge, so that Huang Yong still remembers it.

It's just that it's not easy to find a pirate lair, and Huang Yong hasn't had a chance to do such a good deal in the past few years.

Liu Xiang's words were so rich that the pirate nest in northern Luzon was so rich that he estimated that the silver seized there would not be less than two million taels.

With the addition of gold, jewelry, jade, agate, and more than sixty warships, the proceeds from a single robbery should be more than five million taels of silver.

In order to successfully deceive Huang Yong, who was steady, agreed to take a detour to attack, Liu Xiang not only expressed his willingness to drive his subordinates to be the pioneers of landing on the island, but also stated that he did not want all the gold and silver treasures captured, and only wanted to get the pirates' artillery, armor, weapons, and thirty percent of warships and armed merchant ships.

In fact, Liu Xiang still had a request, but he didn't put it forward.

Because of this kid thief, he knew that it was impossible for the Longwu Sailor to be stationed in northern Luzon, thousands of nautical miles away from Liaodong, and he would leave sooner or later, and at that time, he Liu Xiang would naturally be able to obtain Fugaga Island as his home port.

The benefits were so great, Huang Yong was of course impressed, and besides, the pirate island of Fugaga was only a two-day flight away, not far away.

The fleet turned to the east and deviated from its course, and Liu Xiangle Zizi led the fleet of the headquarters to lead the way.

The contingent of nearly 200 warships and armed merchant ships was so large that it was impossible to be unaware, and there were non-stop encounters as soon as they approached the island of Fugaga.

It was a ship that pirates left and entered the port, and Liu Xiang and Huang Yong teamed up to rob more than 20 ships.

When the fleet arrived at the island of Fugaga, all the battleships were put down in the sentry boats, which could only carry a maximum of fifty people, and were loaded on the battleships during the voyage, which could be used not only as reconnaissance but also as lifeboats.

The old lock-boat battleships with oars with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons were equipped with one or two sentinel ships capable of carrying fifty adults, and at least four small sampans capable of accommodating eight or ten people.

The rest of the life-saving equipment is a wooden sealed buoy with a buoyancy of 150 catties, which can be thrown into the sea in the event of a shipwreck, so that three or four people can get buoyancy and not sink into the sea.

The sealed pontoon can also be used to form a piece, which can be spliced together with multiple times, and covered with cedar planks soaked in tung oil many times, and on the beach where there is no port, a wooden plank road can be paved to extend to the deep sea area to become a temporary unloading dock for warships and merchant ships.

In the season when the coastline of eastern Liaodong is frozen, the warships of the "Red Banner Army" should choose a landing site, and they can also use a large number of sealed pontoons and wooden planks to assemble temporary docks.

The role of the sealed pontoon is somewhat similar to the steel pontoon used by the boat bridge troops in later generations to quickly build pontoon bridges, but the Ming Dynasty did not need to have a pontoon bridge that could carry a hundred tons of tanks across the river, and it was enough to carry one ton.

Each sealed pontoon is designed with a pull ring, when you need to fix the position, you can throw off the small iron anchor and tie it to the pull ring, three or five pontoon rings are connected to an iron anchor positioning on it.

The cedar planks used to match the sealed pontoons are not stacked on the ship, but used to reinforce the command cabin and upper deck, and are designed with card slots that are easy to splic, easy to disassemble, and will only be removed when the temporary dock needs to be spliced.

It was also inevitable that the "Red Banner Army" would be shipwrecked, and in recent years it had lost two battleships and more than a dozen merchant ships.

Fortunately, when the battleship sank into the sea, the soldiers who fell into the water were rescued in time, and it was also the lifeboat, the sealed pontoons, and the buoyant cedar planks that played a role, and seventy or eighty percent of the crew survived.

When Liu Xiang visited Huang Yong's flagship "Jiulitai", he was very surprised when he saw a small life-saving sampan and a sentinel boat, as well as a hundred sealed pontoons and 200 wooden planks with a size of two feet wide and two steps long and three inches thick.

Later, I heard Lin Minghai tell how these things were used to deal with the maritime affairs and laughed secretly, he thought that the "Red Flag Army" was too cautious, could it be so? It's too much trouble, and it is possible that these spare things will not be used for a lifetime!

Liu Xiang has grown stronger, with more than 100 warships and armed merchant ships, and he is eager to be the vanguard of the "Red Banner Army" and take the island of Fugaga, which he once coveted.