Chapter 190: Losing His Wife and Losing His Soldiers
Needless to say, Zhu Dayou brought reinforcements to the army, Chen Hanhui strengthened the search and arrest of foreign devils and pirates along the coast, at this time there was no need for regular troops, militia and garrison troops, and even used the counties and coastal government services, and the coast fell into a ** movement again.
But I believe that all the senior generals and senior officials of the Jinhua Righteous Army believe that after this search and arrest, this large-scale naval battle, the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army can be said to be as pure as a blank piece of paper, and the foreigners and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, and even the officials who sympathized with the Tartars of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the pessimistic and disappointed Nanming, and wanted to contribute to the southward movement of the Qing Army Tartars, the original Ming righteous soldiers no longer exist.
Because Gu Yuesheng, the prefect of Taizhou Prefecture, also came, Chen Hanhui's prefect can be said to be the acting prefect, the prefect of Wenzhou Prefecture, in order to deal with coastal affairs, he only worked in Taizhou County, but after this time, he had to follow Xuanyuan Longfei back to Wenzhou Mansion to officially take office.
After Gu Yuesheng was familiar with the work for a period of time, he officially took over all the things in Taizhou Mansion, although he was still working in the capital city, but his vision and scope of work would definitely be transferred to the coastal area of Taizhou to carry out the civil affairs work since he took office.
Let's just say that the combined fleet of the Portuguese and the Dutch defeated by Zhang Ying, as well as the pirate fleet that escaped by luck, they collided head-on with Zheng Hongkui's fleet, Zheng Hongkui was intentionally ambushed, and became a yellow finch catching cicadas, and thousands of ships besieged only seventy or eighty ships, or the combined fleet with injuries, which was calculated or unintentional, and stunned the Portuguese and Dutch at once.
But after all, the Portuguese and the Dutch eat the bowl of rice of sailors, after a period of panic, they still stabilized their position, at this time in the face of Zheng Hongkui, they fought with ease, dozens of ships, or Zheng Hongkui was beaten to the point of embarrassment, although more than 50 ships were lost, only 20 ships fled the battlefield with gunpowder smoke and everyone, full of bullet holes.
The remaining pirates were captured by Zheng Hongkui.
However, Zheng Hongkui finally returned to the battlefield, only to find that this time he had suffered a big loss, three or four hundred small ships, more than 100 warships, sailors and pirates suffered heavy losses, and some large merchant ships were beaten with heavy casualties, almost half of them could only be ordered to be destroyed, but could not be taken away, because this place is too close to the coast of Taizhou, but fifty or sixty nautical miles away, if the sailors of the Jinhua Righteous Army came, for their fleet that robbed halfway, they would definitely be exterminated as pirates.
Zheng Hongkui believes that Zhang Qiang will definitely have some courage, because this Jinhua Righteous Army has never loved and let go of pirates who dare to fight them.
Thinking of Zheng Cai's fate, Zheng Hongkui was anxious.
With the remnants of the defeated army, about 300 ships that could still move, more than 20 warships with the captured Dutch, and ten captured pirate warships and ships, he hurriedly fled back to his old lair, Quanzhou Mansion.
Yes, Quanzhou Mansion, although Quanzhou Mansion is the line of the Longwu Imperial Court, it is also his Zheng Hongkui's lair, the naval warship of the Longwu Imperial Court, and the sea defense is actually in his hands.
Because the Longwu court had no money, only in the name of righteousness and no large shipyards, so there was no way to make up for his losses, nor did he give him new ships, Zheng Hongkui lost his wife and soldiers this time, and he could only curse the Dutch and Portuguese who escaped.
But he forgot that he ambushed others first and intercepted the results of the Jinhua Righteous Army.
If Zhang Ying hadn't taken into account that he was a sailor of the imperial court, he was representing the Longwu imperial court, and he had just fought a battle with the Dutch, Portuguese, and pirates, and he was afraid that he would lose his troops, and he would have fought with him.
Although Zhang Ying suffered some losses in the battle with the Dutch and the Portuguese, it would not be too painful, but the loss of about 50 ships was not a big loss for the Second Fleet, which had more than 200 warships, and there was still the strength to fight.
Their artillery is even longer than the Portuguese artillery and the Dutch artillery, although it is far from much, although it is limited by the artillery hit rate of this era, this increase in range is actually not much to improve the effect of naval warfare, the key is that there are more ships, more artillery, more sailors on it, more soldiers, more people who can fight, you can use the new tactics, "T" shaped tactics, line up in columns, one after another.
Hundreds of artillery shelled in turn in the face of a frontal bombardment, the firepower density increased a lot, this is their magic weapon to win, Zheng Hongkui, who only knows how to jump gang fighting, artillery harassment, and set fire to the enemy to attack the enemy, is not their opponent at all, as long as there is another assault, they can defeat Zheng Hongkui's seemingly powerful fleet like defeating the Portuguese and Dutch.
But the gains outweigh the losses, there will still be losses of some warships, in the face of the numerical advantage, and the Zheng Hongkui fleet that has been waiting for the battle, Zhang Ying doesn't want to do that, so he may be able to defeat Zheng Hongkui, but it will also relieve the fleeing enemy, since Zheng Hongkui wants to fight, Zhang Ying will let him fight.
What Zhang Ying didn't expect at all was that Zheng Hongkui's careful calculation still failed to leave the Dutch and Portuguese.
The commander of the Portuguese fleet fled back to Xiangshan with three warships, and then sent someone to report the situation to the governor, and the Dutch fled back to Treasure Island, but they found that they could not even approach Treasure Island, because there was still a yellow finch waiting for them, and the coast was full of Zheng Chenggong's patrol ships, and even some patrol fleets, Zheng Chenggong had more brains than Zheng Hongkui.
By the time he returned to Batavia, there were only eight ships left in the entire Dutch fleet, and the rest were either sunk halfway or attacked by other pirates and taken prisoner.
There were so many pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty that even though they had issued bounties and gathered people, they still couldn't get all the pirates to die for them.
As for the indigenous samurai of the territories they brought out, they even said that the indigenous samurai hired from Japan, or the Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Ming pirate sailors, soldiers, or British mercenaries who wandered in the Western and South Seas, could only pray that they would either die in the waters of Taizhou or be captured by the Jinhua Rebels in Taizhou Prefecture.
It can be said that the only people who won this victory were the Jinhua Righteous Army, Zheng Hongkui suffered heavy losses, the Portuguese army was wiped out, and the Dutch were almost wiped out, although the other Zheng Chenggong did not participate in the battle, but he did not go well to the Dutch castle on the treasure island, and knocked out the fleet of the Dutch who stayed behind, and did not capture much, but the castle was helpless against the pirates and the Dutch defenders.
The castle of the Dutch was simply too strong.
The sturdy Zheng Chenggong had a toothache and a headache, and tens of thousands of people besieged the castle with less than 2,000 defenders, and they didn't fight it for a night, and they didn't beat it down for a week, which made Zheng Chenggong feel a little impulsive to rush up by himself, smash the city wall with one punch, and personally carry a knife to kill all the people inside.