Chapter 171: Ambush 4
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When he walked out of the gate of the Governor's Mansion and saw the two hundred chasseur guards lined up, Zhang Qiang turned to Zhu Dayou and said: "You go and mobilize a battalion of garrison troops to take a look at the mountain village reported by the county government, pay attention, the enemy may be an elite army." β
"My lord, won't you bring a few more people?" Zhu Dayou asked worriedly.
"No, there are so many troops stationed around the arquebus factory, and it is only a dozen kilometers away from there, and it is only an hour before the cavalry comes and goes. If there is something, at such a distance, the militia units around the arquebus will also rush in, and the three battalions of the garrison stationed outside the arquebus mountain will also rush in, so many people, unless they are killed by thousands of elite troops, no one will hurt me. β
Zhang Qiang said indifferently, climbed onto the war horse led by the guard, jumped on the horse, turned around and took the whip from the guard, and checked the saber, short firearm, and shield on the strap.
Chong Zhu Dayou waved his hand, Zhang Qiang drove the war horse, led the chassar guards, jogged, in the city he ordered that the cavalry troops were not allowed to march quickly, unless there was a war, or the herald, otherwise to disturb the people, as the governor, he did not want to take the lead in changing this rule he set.
Zhu Dayou looked at the back of Zhang Qiang, who was far away, and said to the entourage beside him: "Lord Chuan's order, the first battalion of the garrison of Jinhua Mansion will assemble immediately, and the first battalion of cavalry will assemble, by the way, the first battalion of cavalry will replace the musket of a hundred households with infantry immediately, let them go out of the city immediately, and wait for orders." β
Zhu Dayou returned to the Governor's Palace, and successively issued orders to the chamber to guard the whole territory to guard against a sneak attack by the Qing army, and then sent someone to report the situation to Wei Wuji, the governor of Jinhua Mansion, and then set off with an entourage of twenty people.
At this time, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and Zhang Qiang marched to the arquebus factory with two hundred chasseur cavalry.
Far away in a barracks by the sea in Quanzhou Mansion, Fujian, Zheng Hongkui was discussing things with his staff.
"My lord, the Portuguese have repeatedly rubbed against us at sea, knocked over the fishing boats and merchant ships we protected, and their warships drove our warships in our jurisdiction, and we have lost more than a dozen fishing boats, three merchant ships, and a warship of 300 materials, which is simply a great shame, I think that when Master Zheng was here, they didn't obediently hang our Zhengzi flag when they passed through our jurisdiction, and then pay us every year."
One of the staff members said angrily.
"These foreign devils, if you don't fight, you can't do it, but we can't let Zheng Chenggong strengthen his strength because of the war with them, you know, if we go to war with the Portuguese, then every time we lose a boat, Zheng Chenggong's strength will be one point greater than ours, Zheng Cai was wiped out by Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army Sailors, Zheng Tai defected to Zheng Chenggong, and we became the only force that could compete with him at sea."
Zheng Hongkui touched his belly and said.
A staff member said: "My lord, we don't need to worry about Zheng Chenggong, that your nephew's power will be greater than ours, Zheng Cai has been cleaned up, although Zheng Chenggong has become the biggest winner, I am talking about the sea, but we are not without gains, many pirates who have a grudge against him have defected to us, and some of Zheng Cai's leaders have also defected to us, and we now have two-thirds of his strength." Besides......"
The staff paused for a moment, organized the sentence, and continued: "Besides, he is not so stable development, he attacks everywhere, annexes those pirate forces, and even rubs with the Spaniards in Manila, wanting to extend his influence to the Manila coast of the Spaniards, and at the same time he also goes to war with the Dutch, attacking the Dutch everywhere, and the strength of the Dutch is still the largest maritime power on this Daming coast at present. β
"That's right," a staff member said, "The Dutch have more than thirty large Karak ships, as well as a dozen Galen warships of eight hundred materials, and there are twenty to fifty cannons on one ship, thinking that when they collide with Zheng Chenggong's warships, Zheng Chenggong will lose a lot of losses every time, even if Zheng Chenggong wins, he needs to exchange a dozen small warships and five or six medium-sized ships for victory, isn't his current strength and the strength he accepted Zheng Cai at the beginning not without much expansion?" β
"I heard that he also planned to capture the treasure island occupied by the Dutch, and wanted to transfer his power from the mainland to the treasure island, in order to cope with the possibility that the Qing court might defeat the imperial court in the future, and he lost the possibility of a coastal foothold."
The staff chattered to analyze the situation for him, Zheng Hongkui just watched coldly, listened silently, and finally he slapped the table impatiently, "Quiet,"
Everyone fell silent and turned to look at him, "I have not invited you here today to discuss this, but I have something to tell you, please pay attention." β
The crowd was at a loss, not knowing what was going on.
Zheng Hongkui said word by word: "The Dutch and the Portuguese colluded together. β
"Ahh It's big news and it's a big question.
The question is, what are these foreign devils going to do?
Zheng Hongkui continued to throw out the next even more shocking news, "And I heard that they have gathered many small coastal pirates who have taken refuge in them, these pirates are about tens of thousands, although they do not have large ships, they have two thousand small ships, three hundred medium-sized lucky ships, and ......"
He glanced at the crowd, and they were all stupefied by the news.
One of the staff members said: "My lord, could it be that the Portuguese want to solve us once and for all because of our friction with them?" β
"This is a big leak, the Portuguese may only have a dozen warships equipped with more than 30 guns, we may be able to defeat them with all our strength, as long as they do not have reinforcements in Malacca, we can destroy their maritime strength, maybe we can't take the trench mirror, but we can make them suffer heavy losses, those foreign devils can't compromise with us in the end, we can negotiate and everyone is comfortable, but if we add the Dutch......" This staff member stopped talking and looked at everyone.
Without waiting for them to speak, Zheng Hongkui said: "It's not our problem with the Portuguese. β
A staff member rushed to say, "It's not against us, are they trying to deal with Zheng Chenggong?" β
Hearing the words of this staff, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but one of the staff members said: "Maybe we should help Zheng Shizi, after all, we are all subordinates of Master Zheng, and we used to fight side by side together, if they are destroyed by foreign devils, the next one may be us, we will not have a future at sea, and the sea will be mastered by foreign devils." β
"Not that problem." Zheng Hongkui stood up violently, he was already disappointed in his staff, this is what he is used to, discussing things, gossiping, but in the end he can't solve the problem, sometimes he simply doesn't take him as the person in charge of the house.
"What's the problem?" One of the staff members asked again without discernment.
Zheng Hongkui was almost angry, "According to our eyeliner report in the little pirates, they are going for the Jinhua Rebels, and they want to attack the Jinhua Rebels and destroy the Jinhua Rebels-" Zheng Hongkui almost roared and said what he knew.
"Thisβ" Everyone was dumbfounded.