In the past few years, the battles of the imperial court have become more and more fought, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have gradually become numb, but this naval battle still affects everyone's attention.

Because whether Zheng Zhilong can be defeated is related to the interests of countless people in the south of the Yangtze River, the bay of Penghu Dongfan is a bay that is making money every day.

Whoever masters Penghu and Dongfan Island is equivalent to mastering a cornucopia, and now it is Zheng Zhilong who has made a comeback.

After Zheng Zhilong took the entire Dongfan Island, the Han people on the island were ecstatic, most of these people were Fujianese, there was a famine in Fujian every day, and the great pirate Zheng Zhilong would recruit people to come to Dongfan Island to cultivate every time he plundered the coast.

The people on the island regarded Zheng Zhilong as a life-saving benefactor, but later Zheng Zhilong went to Fuzhou to surrender to the Ming Dynasty in order to seek greater benefits, and soon became the king of Fujian, and even once blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

After Zheng Zhilong left, Dongfan Island became the domain of the Dutch, and the Hongmao Fan people occupied Dongfan Island and implemented a colonial policy of cruel national slavery. The Han people on the island are all looking forward to Zheng Zhilong's return, and today they finally got what they wanted.

A year has passed, Zheng Zhilong is much older than he was at the beginning, sitting in front of the port of Penghu, someone used a curtain to block the wind from the sea for him.

The No. 1 sea lord, who has dominated the sea for decades, is no longer able to withstand the wind and waves at sea, and there is no hope of retaking Fuzhou over the years, and seeing that the situation in the interior is becoming more and more stable, Zheng Zhilong's heart is getting colder and colder.

"At the beginning, I played three chapters of the law with Hou Xuan, and he cut Quanzhou and other six mansions to me, and now the Northern Expeditionary Army is in full swing, I am afraid that these county governments will be recovered soon.

Several brothers of the Zheng family and Zheng Zhilong's two adult sons nodded one after another, and Zheng Du said: "If we want to say that we still have a chance in naval warfare, but on land, there is no one in the world who can fight with Hou Xuan." ”

The generals of the Zheng family thought so and nodded incessantly, Zheng Zhilong sighed: "The people who occupy the land of Shenzhou have too strong a foundation, and we can't compete with them at all." I hate Shi Lang, that traitor, and the few ships and cannons of the Fujian Navy Division in his hand dare to argue with us. It is better to destroy the Fujian sailors first, and then loot them, the Fujian sailors are rich, and the warships are very good. On the side of the couch, we will not allow others to snore, and if we don't strangle this neighbor as soon as possible, we will not be at ease day and night on Dongfan Island. ”

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, in the negotiations between the Ming and the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong was recommended by Li Dan to serve as the general secretary of the Dutch because he was fluent in multiple languages and assisted in the negotiations. In the autumn of the same year, he withdrew to Taiwan with the Dutch, and soon after left, he turned to cooperate with Li Dan and Yan Siqi to organize the expansion of the fleet.

A year later, Zheng Zhilong annexed a number of Li Dan's properties, causing him heavy losses, and Li Dan died of illness in Japan a few months later. In the same year, Yan Siqi died of a cold illness in Taiwan. Zheng Zhilong seized the opportunity to merge the two forces and take advantage of the situation to rise to become a maritime armed force that cannot be ignored on the southeast coast of China.

Most of Zheng Zhilong's ships were large "foreign ships" engaged in ocean-going trade, and "foreign ships" were well-built and large-bodied sailing ships engaged in ocean-going trade. Most of his warships were blacktail ships and bird ships. Among them, the blacktail ship is the largest, can carry three or four hundred people, is a kind of large galley, belongs to a kind of wide ship. It is 10 zhang long, more than 3 zhang wide, and the thickness of the board is 7 inches. Wood such as iron chestnut is used as a shipbuilding material, which is widely produced and has a heavy value.

One of Zheng Zhilong's warships cost three or four times that of the Fujian sailors, and it was not his opponent at all under the collision.

With such a strong sailor, Zheng Zhilong was confident that he would be able to win a great victory in the naval battle with Shi Lang, and from the time of Chongzhen, he did whatever he wanted along the coast of Fujian.

Penghu is his stronghold, where he can raid Xiamen, and the Zheng family forces in the interior of Fujian are withdrawing to Dongfan Island.

In the middle of September of the second year of Jing You, the weather in Fujian was still a little hot, and Shi Lang did not wait for the two sailors to come to help, and took the lead in setting off for Penghu.

The Fujian sailors who swore in Xiamen, Shi Lang's ambitions on the main ship, looking at the Fujian sailors who were his admirals, thought of Hou Xuanyan's trust, and a burst of pride welled up in his heart.

"Urge the warship, speed up, and take Penghu before it gets dark tonight." Shi Lang said loudly.

The general of the sailor next to him looked worried, Penghu was so easy to take, it was bound to be a vicious battle.

After going to sea, when he went to Qingshuiyang, the Fujian sailors suddenly encountered a typhoon, the wind and clouds rolled, and the waves were monstrous. Even though Shi Lang had rich sailing experience, according to the level of the warship at this time, he could not resist such a violent wind and waves.

Shi Lang slammed the mast, so he had to order to return home, and the first trip of the Fujian Navy Division to kill Zheng ended without a problem.

After returning to Fuzhou, Hou Xuanyan of the court and Jiang Jianxun, the secretary of the military department, discussed and agreed that it was a good idea to bypass Penghu and take Dongfan Island directly.

The order was transmitted to Fuzhou, and Shi Lang worked hard to write a book and write a 10,000-character recital. It is stated that Dongfan Island is narrow and lacks strategic depth, and Penghu is the only barrier to its outer defense. Once Penghu is captured, Dongfan Island will not be attacked.

Hou Xuanyan convened several officials who had been officials in Fujian late at night, and after some discussion, everyone insisted on their own words.

In the end, Hou Xuanyan decided that he would not accept the order of the monarch outside, but Shi Lang insisted on taking Penghu first, and he would not do it lightly. The example of the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II told Hou Xuanyan that if the supreme commander of which side intervened in the command of the war, his side was bound to suffer huge losses. Later, Jiang Zhongzheng once again proved this point.

Hou Xuanyan didn't know anything about naval warfare, and the only time he went to sea in Denglai, he was still a little seasick. That is the deepest fear of the endless blue, because even if you are powerful, you will be powerless in the face of the heavenly power of the sea, and you will become the smallest existence.

Shi Lang, who got Hou Xuanyan's decentralization, strengthened his intention to serve the imperial court, and the reinforcements from Japan arrived in late September, and the three major naval divisions of Songjiang, Denglai, and Fujian joined forces to once again swear to go to sea.

Shi Lang led more than 300 large warships, more than 40,000 sailors, and more than 500 small and medium-sized warships to set sail from Dongshan Island in Fujian Province and enter Penghu.

Two days later, Shi Lang captured the two islands of Hujing and Tongpan outside Penghu Port and cleared the periphery.

Four days later, Shi Lang personally led the main attack force composed of sixty large warships to attack the main position of the Zheng army, Niangma Palace; Wang Xing, the commander of the Denglai Naval Division, led an attack force on the eastern front composed of 50 warships, and broke into Jilongyu from the east side of Penghu Port, as a surprise soldier, and cooperated with the main attacking force to attack Niangma Palace; Songjiang Yao Yiyao led an attack force on the western front composed of 70 warships, entered Niuxin Bay from the west side of the port, and carried out a feint landing to contain the Zheng army in the west. In addition, the remaining warships served as reserves, following with the main attacking force.

Both the Zheng family and Shi Lang knew that this was a fateful battle, so they started a battle as soon as they fought, and the fierce battle lasted seven days and nights.

The waves of the South China Sea were monstrous, the sound of artillery was incessant, and the blood flowed red on the surface of the sea.

Shi Lang skillfully took advantage of the favorable southwest wind conditions and adopted the "five-point plum blossom array" tactic, that is, using multiple warships to besiege one of the Zheng army and concentrate his forces to fight. Suddenly, the "plum blossoms" flew on the vast sea, and the Daming Navy Division became more and more courageous, conquering the Penghu Islands in one fell swoop, destroying nearly 200 large and small warships of the Zheng army, and annihilating its elite.

Zheng Zhilong luckily relied on the familiar terrain to lead a few of his subordinates to escape back to Dongfan Island.

When the news reached Jinling, Hou Xuanyan was overjoyed and set up a banquet in the palace to feast the ministers.