Zheng Zhibao said to Zheng Sen with a displeased face: "Asen, what are you talking about, have you forgotten our humiliation in Tianjin?" He, Wang Yue, has said again and again, Nanyang is not the Nanyang of my Zheng family, his hand has been stretched out now, can we endure it any longer? ”

Zheng Sen took a deep breath and said earnestly: "Third uncle, my nephew hasn't forgotten. But you also have to think about it, we and Wang Yue are both Ming people, and he is an official in the same dynasty as my father, why should we cooperate with the Yi people and fall into the mouths of others? ”

Zheng Sen considered the problem from the perspective of national righteousness, which had nothing to do with whether the interests of the family were damaged. He thinks that it is better not to mix with the Europeans in order to compete with the Tiance Army for the interests of the South Seas, otherwise how will future generations comment? What does the imperial court think?

Zheng Zhilong spoke at this time: "Sen'er doesn't need to say more, what your third uncle said also makes sense." Tiance's army is strong, and since they are going to attack the city of Geranza, we might as well send troops to take him by surprise and prevent him from occupying Taiwan exclusively. ”

Zheng Sen hurriedly said: "Father...!" ”

Zheng Zhilong waved his hand to stop him from speaking, and said to everyone: "From now on, all brothers hurry up and put in order the troops, horses and ships, and I will personally lead the army to cross the sea to rescue the city of Geranza." ”

"Whoa!"

Zheng Zhilong's authority in the family can be described as a masterpiece, and his words can be regarded as a decision.

Zheng Zhilong asked Zheng Sen to speak, which was also meant to exercise him, but he still treated him as a child and didn't take it seriously.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong was not as simple as Zheng Sen thought, and after everyone dispersed, he summoned Zheng Bin alone.

"Fifth brother, you have been to the city of Geranza many times, do you know the situation inside? Attacking head-on, what are the chances of the Tiance Army winning? Zheng Zhilong asked.

Zheng Bin arched his hand and said: "Big brother, the city of Relan is almost indestructible from the younger brother's point of view, but if it is an attack by the Tiance Army, it is difficult to say, I heard the Zheng Lian brothers say that the firepower of the Tiance Army is very strong." ”

Zheng Zhilong snorted, he had already asked people to draw the general defense map of Relansha City, of course he knew that such a fortress was a hard bone.

"This time, our army assisted the Dutch in fighting against the Tiance army, and I will give you a group of men and horses, and find an opportunity to infiltrate the city in the name of assisting in the defense of Geranza, and take the opportunity to take this city, are you sure?"

Zheng Bin didn't expect his eldest brother to come up with this idea, and thought hard: "If you want to take this city, you have to mix in at least three or four thousand people, and then the inside and outside should be combined, I can only do my best." ”

"Good!" Zheng Zhilong nodded and said: "Everything is adaptable, you go back to Gelanza to reply to Putmans, and my Zheng family will send troops soon." ”

Putmans didn't know that the Zheng family was also beating his idea, and the news that Zheng Bin brought back made him ecstatic. The Zheng family was a real behemoth in the South China Sea, and the Dutch East India Company did not dare to attack its existence, so he was very confident in holding the city of Geranza.

The deadline for the 15th day was approaching in a blink of an eye, and at 8:30 a.m. on September 28, the 10th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the naval warships of the Tiance Army appeared very punctually near the city of Geranza.

In this attack on the city of Geranza, the Tiance Army dispatched a dock landing ship, a supply ship, two coast guard warships, four coast surveillance warships, and two passenger and cargo ro-ro ships, a total of 10 warships, with a total tonnage of about 68,000 tons.

Among them, the army units are the Fifth Regiment of the Tiance Army and the Second Regiment of the Public Security Army, with a total of more than 3,000 people.

The drone was released ahead of schedule to reconnoiter the city of Geranza and its waters.

"Report to the commander, a large number of ships have been spotted forty-five degrees in front of the right, forty kilometers away, and the radar shows that the Dutch warships in the harbor are also leaving the harbor." Zhuang Suwen, commander of the Nanyang Fleet, reported to Wang Yue through the walkie-talkie.

"Oh? Where did the ship come from and what type of ship did it have? How much? ”

Wang Yue asked as he boarded the top deck of the landing ship, which was sixteen meters above the sea surface for easy observation.

Zhuang Suwen said: "Most of them are hard sailing ships, basically the ship type of the Ming Dynasty, and there are thousands of large and small ships. ”

"Thousands!" Wang Yue was stunned for a moment, and then said hatefully: "It may be that the gang of bastards from the Zheng family in Fujian are here." ”

The forces that can dispatch so many warships don't need to think about it to know that it is the Zheng family in Fujian.

In fact, the real warships that Zheng Zhilong dispatched this time were 700, and the other small boats were some arson ships and fast boats used for communication between warships.

Seven hundred warships are the largest fleet that Zheng Zhilong can dispatch in a short period of time, with a total strength of 60,000 troops. The main force of these was two newly built 800-ton Galen ships, each armed with twenty eighteen-pound guns;

There are also forty-eight three-masted Daifuku ships with a displacement of nearly 1,000 tons, and because the Fuku ships rarely use ribs, the depth is not enough, and the all-through gun deck cannot be set up under the deck, and all the guns must be installed on the deck, so each ship is equipped with only eight to twelve guns.

These fifty warships are the main warships of the Zheng family, and the other more than 300 medium-sized warships are mainly merchant warships with a displacement of 300 to 500 tons, equipped with three to eight large guns, and even artillery such as the Franc machine, which mainly kills people.

The Zheng family is first and foremost a maritime merchant, so most of the ships under his command are integrated with war merchants, and merchant ships are also warships, and there is no strict distinction between the two. Merchant ships were also generally equipped with artillery, but only as needed to differ.

The other more than 300 are more miscellaneous types of small and medium-sized merchant warships, two-masted ships, Guangzhou ships, Cangshan ships and even sand ships, these ships are equipped with a variety of artillery, basically there are no large artillery, even the Franc machine guns are very few, all kinds of shoddy private cast iron cannons, iron guns are full of it, and there are even very old bowl guns. It has little lethality against enemy ships, and it has to be close enough to jump the gang to be effective.

According to Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Sen's descriptions, the most effective way to defeat the big iron ship of the Tiance Navy's fleet is to grab the ship by helping, so Zheng Zhilong's strategy is exactly like this, and he is also excited to be able to capture the big iron ship.

And those arsonist ships, which are numerous, are actually mainly used to disrupt the enemy's line of sight.

The number of ships of the Tiance Army on the island of Taiwan is less than 20, and this information is not difficult for the Zheng family to grasp, after all, the Zheng family still has a certain network in Taiwan.

Dispatching 60,000 troops and 1,000 warships to deal with the Tiance Army Navy with only a dozen warships, Zheng Zhilong felt that he was indeed a bit of a bully.

However, the undefeated prestige of the Tiance army had to attract Zheng Zhilong's attention, and what he had to deal with was a large iron ship, which was said to be very huge, and such a ship could indeed only use the tactics of encircling and seizing the ship.

In fact, the most important point is that his original intention was to give Wang Yue a dismount, let Wang Yue know who is the overlord of Nanyang, and let Wang Yue retreat in the face of difficulties.