On October 12, Zou Weilian arrived in Zhangzhou from the provincial capital, transferred the generals, and gathered the boat division. With Zheng Zhilong as the vanguard, Gao Yingyue as the left wing, Zhang Yongchan as the right wing, Wang Shangzhong as the guerrillas, and Wu Zhenyuan and Chen Mengzhu as the meritorious service. After the arrangement is suspended, the naval battle strategy will be distributed to the generals.

On October 15, he personally crossed Haicheng and swore to supervise the battle. Mobilize and command the army in a unified manner, resolutely resist and severely punish the Dutch invaders. Zheng Zhilong himself used the Jianghu order. He used his private treasury to give his men a reward: two taels of silver for each of the combatants, and an additional five taels if the fighting was prolonged. There were 16 men for each fireship, and if the Dutch ship was burned, two hundred taels of silver, and fifty taels of silver for a Dutchman's head.

When the Dutch army got the news, they also recruited the great pirate Liu Xiang to help them fight, and Liu Xiang, a traitor, led 50 warships and obeyed the orders of the Dutch invaders. The two sides are gearing up, and the big battle is gradually approaching.

Zou Weilian is very talented in military affairs. In view of the fact that the equipment of the Ming army was weaker than that of the Dutch navy, after careful analysis, he formulated a set of combat plans in accordance with local conditions, which proved to be very effective afterwards.

On October 22, the sky was slightly bright, and the Ming army began to attack the mouth of Liaoluo Bay in the southern part of Kinmen Island, which was occupied by the Dutch navy. One hundred and fifty warships of the main force of the Ming army quietly sailed to the mouth of Liaoluo Bay in the south of Kinmen Island, where all the main forces of the Dutch-Liu Xiang combined fleet were moored, and a naval battle between the world's largest maritime power and the world's largest empire finally broke out, because the place of the war was in Liaoluo Bay, and the history books called this war "Liuluo Bay Naval Battle".

The Dutch navy was deployed in battle formation, ready for battle. The Dutch warships were in the center, and the traitor Liu Xiang's warships were scattered around the Dutch navy. The Ming Dynasty navy advanced from the southeast corner of Liaoluo Bay in two ways.

At that time, it was the east wind that was rising, and the Ming warships rushed bravely towards the enemy. When approaching the enemy, the Ming soldiers first loaded with 100 small boats filled with flammable materials sailed downwind to the Dutch warship, and then the main force of the Ming army stormed the Dutch navy, and the rest of the troops attacked Liu Xiang's pirate warship, so the scene of burning Chibi was magically reproduced again.

With Zheng Zhilong's troops as the vanguard, Shun Dongfeng adopted a two-way assault and the tactics of the black tiger digging out the heart. According to the prior arrangement, the main forces of the Ming army all went straight to the Dutch fleet, and only auxiliary forces were used to deal with the pirate ships. At the same time, they adopted a style of play that the Dutch had never seen in the European theater - the tactic of sea of fire. Among the 150 warships of the Ming army, only 50 were gunboats, and the remaining 100 small boats were all fireboats.

Although the Dutch army was invincible in European naval battles and was very familiar with the tactics of using fireships in naval battles, it was the first time that the Ming army, which was not afraid of death, fought fiercely and rushed violently, and used a large number of unmanned fireships to rush at the enemy's "sea of fire" tactics. As a result, the Dutch army was broken, 2 Dutch warships were burned, 2 were sunk, one was captured by the Ming army, the other warships retreated after suffering heavy losses, and the 50 warships of the traitor Liu Xiang were all destroyed.

After the Dutch navy retreated, it moved to the nearby Qinggang, Jingyu, and Shiwan, and plundered them on a large scale. Zou Weilian sent the Ming army to defend the area around Tongshan in Fujian, and after eight days and eight nights of fierce fighting from October 22, the Dutch navy finally admitted defeat and fled in disarray.

Putmans, commander of the Dutch naval fleet, resigned as commander-in-chief immediately after his defeat in the naval battle, and the Battle of Liuluo Bay ended in a complete victory for the Ming navy.

After the war, Emperor Chongzhen personally wrote a plaque of "the first Qingzhong in the world" and gave it to Zou Weilian in recognition of his outstanding exploits in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay. The victory in the Battle of Liuluo Bay also enabled the Ming Dynasty to control all the East Asian sea rights from Japan to the South China Sea, and stipulated that all ships sailing in East Asia must spend silver taels to buy a permit issued by the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Ming Dynasty navy has the right to intercept and attack.

The Ming Dynasty proposed to the Dutch that the Dutch would not be allowed to go to the coast of China and that the Ming Dynasty must be given war reparations. The defeated Dutch obediently obeyed the orders of the Ming Dynasty to compensate for the war losses, and thereafter paid 120,000 francs to the Ming Dynasty every year before Dutch merchant ships were allowed to sail in the waters demarcated by the Ming Dynasty.

When Shen Xing read this, he couldn't stand the tears, Wei Wei Daming is so magnificent, Chongzhen, who hanged himself and wiped his neck, actually had such outstanding political achievements, the old Zhu family made a thousand mistakes, but every time they resisted foreign enemies at sea, they fought like that.

Whether it was Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war, or the Battle of Luliang to help Eryi Korea, Shen Xing successively flipped through the next few pages, the Battle of Tuen Mun against Portugal (16 years of Ming Zhengde) and the Battle of Qiancao Bay in the first year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty in 1522, all of which ended with a complete victory of the Ming Dynasty.

The evil Western countries are predatory, and the suffering Chinese nation does not know how long it has been fighting with perseverance to regain peace, and only Shen Xing, a traverser, will deeply understand that if you are backward, you will be beaten, and the law between countries will always be the distance between guns and cannons, and only those who dare to fight can make peace.

Looking at the traitors and Dutch devils lying on the ground crying bitterly, Shen Xing was angry, and he was excited and let these guys all hang on the mast and expose them to the sun.

The sun was sinking in the west, and the Shen family fleet slowly docked at the Fujian wharf, and I don't know if I got the news in advance, and the governor Zou Weilian personally brought a large team of people to greet him, according to the officialdom etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Xing, a nominal earl, does not need Zou Weilian to work hard at all.

Zou Weilian, the old man, was promoted to Jinshi during the Wanli years, and was demoted to a civilian because of the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian in the middle, and his officialdom experience was also regarded as a few ups and downs, but fortunately, Chongzhen later knew that people were ordered in danger, and he could be regarded as having the grace of reinvention for this old man, perhaps because of this, Shen Xinghao is also a protégé of the Son of Heaven whom Chongzhen orally admitted, and the old man loves the house and Wu.

"Uncle Shen, who broke the Dutch Haiyi, his prestige has not diminished in the slightest, and he swept the Tartar Iron Cavalry by deer back then, he is young and promising, and he really deserves to be a beloved disciple taught by His Majesty himself. Hurry up, this official can't afford such a big gift! ”

Zou Weilian said with a smile on his face as he bent down and helped up Shen Xing, who was about to kneel down, "The kid is just a white body, and the Lord of Labor Governor is really uneasy to greet him personally, these pirates who don't know what to do have long been frightened by the battle of Luowan back then, Xing is the boss of your cheapness to steal the credit!" ”

When Zou Weilian heard Shen Xing say this, he couldn't help laughing. "I didn't expect you to know the battle of Luowan, and there is nothing else to show off for decades, but this battle is enough to comfort his life, but it is not the work of a certain person, come, introduce someone for you, he is the pioneer of this battle!"

Shen Xing smiled and followed the guidance of Fu Weilian to a majestic general in armor, and Shen Xing naturally knew who this person was without introducing him. "Lord Governor, is this Zheng Zhilong, General Zheng, who broke the Dutch pirates and is known as the first general of the Daming Naval Division?"