Zheng Zhilong returned to the Ming Dynasty, the Fujian Navy Division was stationed in Penghu, and the Fujian governor Zhang Bin was making full deployment to exterminate the pirates.

These things, the pirates entrenched in the east can naturally get information through various channels.

They are not idle, like Yang Liu, Yang Qi and Zhong Bin are interested in uniting, Liu Xiang and Li Kuiqi are also ready to dominate all pirates and fight with the governor of Fujian!

However, the pirates of all stripes are not in unison, because they are all ambitious or ambitious people.

If you don't have ambition, or your heart is not wild enough, how dare you come to be a pirate and do this bloody business!

None of them obey anyone.

The little pirate thought to himself, if the court wants to fight, it will first fight you famous people, and we people don't even know the names of the court, how can they come to beat us, and want Lao Tzu to listen to you and be cannon fodder for you, and there is no door.

Although the pirates have the heart to unite, they have to face a very serious problem, that is, who will be the boss and who will command!

Who doesn't want to be the boss, why should you be the boss, why should I listen to you?

Everyone has a ghost in their hearts, so they discussed for a long time, but there was still no result, everyone hid in the nest and prayed secretly, Governor of Fujian, you can't see me, you can't see me!

If Zhang Bin hadn't sent someone to investigate in advance, then it was really possible that he couldn't see a single pirate shadow when he walked back and forth along the east and west coasts.

It's a pity that Zhang Bin has already sent someone to carefully investigate, and he knows where the pirates' lair is, so it is impossible for the pirates to get away with it.

At this time, all the warships of the Fujian Navy Division had gathered together and rushed straight to the central part of the east and west coasts.

Shi Daxuan, Gan Hui and Hong Xu received the news, and immediately brought all their pirate ships to serve, plus their more than 50 warships, the number of warships of the Ming army reached a terrifying more than 500.

Such a powerful force appeared on the outer sea, and all the little pirates were terrified, but they were still lucky, thinking that the Ming army would not find their lair.

As a result, Zhang Bin gave an order, and ordered Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and others to lead fifty warships under their command to block the six exits of the harbor and river where the more than ten pirates were located.

It is obvious that the Ming army knows where they are hiding and wants to get through the tricks, it is impossible.

Of course, the Ming army's sailors did not block the exit, and many of the art of war respected psychological warfare, and the main tactic used by Zhang Bin in this first battle was psychological warfare.

The so-called "soldiers who surrender without a fight, and those who are good are also good." ”

There are naturally many precedents for how to surrender without a fight, and there are many methods on land, such as sending people to shout, or directly throwing letters of surrender to the enemy.

In short, it is coercion and inducement to scare you into surrendering.

In this naval battle, it is naturally unrealistic to shout or shoot and persuade to surrender, because it is impossible for the two sides to set up a position within a distance of hundreds of paces, or even one or two hundred paces, like a land battle, and start a scolding battle.

What to do at such a distance?

Very simply, in the language of flags, after the six detachments blocked the exit, the warships waved flags one after another: "Surrender, or kill!" ”

In the face of such a naked threat, the pirates finally couldn't hold it anymore and didn't want to give in, so you can only think about it if people don't beat you, and now that people are blocking the door, if you don't give in, you will die, so naturally you can only choose to give in.

So, all the little pirates waved white flags, hung them on the masts, and came out to ask for surrender.

In this regard, Zhang Bin has already made arrangements.

The pirate leader, all of their weapons were confiscated, and they were placed under house arrest.

As for the warships under their command, they sent a corresponding number of foot guards to supervise the battle, and to put it bluntly, they were holding swords to supervise the battle, and those who did not listen to the command were directly cut with a knife.

It was a long process to control the warships and count the number of people, and by the time the ships and numbers were counted, almost two hours had passed.

As a result of the count, there were still three bands of pirates that did not come out and surrendered.

Zhang Bin thought back to the markings on the map, looked at the location of each detachment, and directly ordered: "Order Zheng Zhibao, Yang Geng, and Zheng Xing to lead their warships into the river harbor and go to take the old nest of the three pirates, and if they don't surrender, kill!" ”

With his order, three of the six detachments that blocked the mouth slowly entered the river and harbor in front of them, and disappeared from everyone's sight.

In a few moments, there was movement inside, artillery roared, smoke billowed out, and shouts of killing spread everywhere.

Zhang Bin held the binoculars and looked coldly at the billowing smoke, waiting for the result expressionlessly.

In less than an hour, the shouting and killing gradually stopped, and the fleets of Zheng Zhibao, Yang Geng, and Zheng Xing successively turned out of the rivers and harbors, and their warships obviously had some traces of smoke and fire, but the damage was not very serious, as for the pirate ships brought out from behind, it was a bit miserable, and many of them were beaten out of shape.

Soon, the three fleets sent warships to the flagship to report the results, to Zhang Bin's surprise, they all found a lot of gold and silver treasures from the pirate's lair, and the three small pirates found nearly 50,000 taels of silver alone!

It seems that being a pirate is really a very "lucrative" profession, Zhang Bin didn't say much, but ordered Yu Chenglong and Zheng Zhilong to step up the collection of these little pirate warships, and temporarily integrate all the pirate warships into Shi Daxuan, Gan Hui and Hong Xu.

And that's just the appetizer, the real battle is yet to come.

As the sun set, the first day of the battle to exterminate the pirates passed, and Zhang Bin ordered all the warships to enter the largest harbor nearby, and all the soldiers rested on the ships for one night.

The Ming army made such a big move, and several other pirates naturally received the news, but the sea is different from the land, and the communication is not as convenient as on the land, and it will take at least a day or two for them to receive the news and discuss countermeasures.

Zhang Bin naturally would not give them this time, and early the next morning, he ordered all the sailors to march south, and he wanted to exterminate the pirates Zhong Bin and Yang Liu and Yang Qi who were entrenched in the south of Dongfan with lightning speed.

The fleet was marching, orders were constantly issued, and the next battle was the real first battle, and Zhang Bin made detailed arrangements for this.

He ordered Zheng Zhilong to lead the warships under Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zhang Guan, Zheng Cai, Gan Hui, and Hong Xu, as well as the Qi family army under Qi Changshan and Qi Changlin, to divide into two routes and attack the lair of Yang Liu and Yang Qi brothers at the same time.

And himself, together with Yu Chenglong, led the warships under Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, and Shi Daxuan, as well as the Qi family army under Qi Changfeng and Qi Changhuo, to capture Zhong Bin's lair, and at the same time guard against Liu Xiang and Li Kuiqi in the north leading the army to sneak attack.

Zhong Bin's lair is in a harbor near Nantou in the later generations, the entrance to this harbor is not wide, only a mile or so, and it has to pass through a waterway nearly ten miles long before finally entering Zhong Bin's lair.

The harbor inside is relatively large, and there is no problem with berthing thousands of warships.

Zhang Bin directly ordered the veteran Yu Zhigao to take Yang Geng and Chen Hui's troops to guard the entrance and exit to prevent Liu Xiang and Li Kuiqi from coming to sneak attack, and he himself and Yu Chenglong led Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, and Shi Daxuan's troops into the waterway to exterminate Zhong Bin.

In the narrow waterway of about ten miles long, the warships of the Ming army sailors were divided into three sections and marched slowly.

In front of Shi Daxuan is a mixed fleet of more than 60 search ships, many of which are pirates who just surrendered yesterday, Zhang Bin gave them the task of rushing forward, after rushing out of the narrow waterway, don't care about anything, rush forward directly, make a posture of going straight to Zhong Bin's cottage, forcing them to leave the entrance to intercept.

At this time, the fleet led by Shi Daxuan was less than two miles away from the entrance of the harbor, so the pirates who surrendered were desperately looking for something to protect, what iron shields and wooden shields had already been propped up, what tables, chairs, benches, and even fish buckets were taken out by the pirates without shields and put on their heads.

Although the governor didn't let them be cannon fodder and fight Zhong Bin to the death, it was not easy to get through the cannonballs and arrow rain at the entrance, and many people's faces were frightened, you know, the shield or something to block the arrows is okay, if a cannonball is smashed directly, the iron shield can't stop it!

The fleet led by Shi Daxuan in front was about to arrive at the entrance, but the fleet of Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming in the back suddenly turned the rudder, and all the small warships leaned towards the left and right coasts.

At this time, Zhong Bin didn't notice so much, he was dividing more than 60 warships under his command into two halves and blocking them at the entrance of the waterway, preparing to block all the Ming warships at the mouth of the waterway, and use fire to attack them and burn them through!

His idea is indeed good, if the Ming army entangles with him at the entrance, then more than a hundred warships will definitely be crowded together on the mouth, and the fire attack may really turn defeat into victory.

It's a pity that his wishful thinking was wrong, after the warships of the Ming army poured out of the mouth, he didn't fight back at all, let his artillery roar, arrows rained down, just didn't fight back, covered his head is rushing forward, that posture seemed to want to rush to the dock near his cottage, and then jumped down and ended his cottage!

This is okay, he didn't have many armed subordinates left in his cottage, only hundreds of archers, the others were old and weak, women and children, and most of the subordinates who could fight were on the warship.

He didn't care about blocking the entrance, so he hurriedly took all his warships to chase after him, chasing and intercepting him, wanting to stop Shi Daxuan's fleet.

Just as they were wringing together to start a scuffle, Zhang Bin and Yu Chenglong took Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming's fleets into the harbor and surrounded them, surrounding Zhong Bin and Shi Daxuan's fleets in the middle.

At this time, the naval battle was really as Yu Dayou said, it was nothing more than fighting small ships with big ships, attacking the outnumbered with the crowd, and fighting small guns with big guns, and his own side had an advantage in terms of weapons, the number of warships, the number of big ships, and the number of people, Zhong Bin naturally couldn't resist it.

Zhang Bin stood on the flagship on the periphery and watched the battle ahead with a telescope, more than 200 warships have been crowded together, at this time artillery, bows and arrows have not had much effect, pirates and Ming troops have chosen to board the ship to fight, you jump on my ship, I jump on your ship, the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out!

Three to one, there is not much suspense, Zhong Bin's subordinates have slowly shown their strength, and defeat is only a matter of time.

At this time, there was a sudden shout of killing from the pirate cottage in the distance, and Qi Changfeng and Qi Changhuo had already led the army to rush to the bottom of the cottage.

The pirates don't have too much artillery, it's good to be equipped with all the guns on the big ship, there is naturally no excess in the cottage, the mandarin duck array is naturally not a problem to deal with hundreds of archers, the sword and shield hand is in front, the wolf man, the spearman, the palladium hand, and the musketeer are lined up in two columns, hiding behind the shield hand, and the entire mandarin duck array quickly rushed to the wall.

The pirate's wall is only about two people high, and the wolf's whisk, spear, and palladium can directly stab the pirate on the wall, and soon a large area of the wall will be cleared.

At this time, the sword and shield hands quickly gathered together and folded into a shield array, and the slopes leading to the walled wall were instantly formed, and the others immediately flew up on the shields, and the cottage was breached!

Zhong Bin saw more and more Qi family soldiers gathering on the wall in the telescope, and finally sighed, put down the binoculars, and said lonely: "Don't fight, let the brothers put up a white flag and surrender." ”

Zhang Bin saw the white flags erected everywhere from the binoculars, and couldn't help but show a pleased smile on his face.

Zhong Bin surrendered, and the first battle was won!