After nightfall, Zheng Zhilong's fleet continued southward, but according to Zheng Zhilong's orders, the fleet slowed down. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Liu Xiang's boat can run as many blocks as we saw today, and the state of his boat is even worse than we estimated." In the cabin, Zheng Zhilong, his younger brothers, and Zheng Sen were analyzing the battle situation during the day today.

"Liu Xiang didn't grab anything at all in Gulei, a certain fool under his command accidentally set Gulei's house on fire, and then the wind was strong, and the fire suddenly rose, Liu Xiang didn't have time to search carefully, and Gulei was burned down. According to Li Guozhu and other people who surrendered, the little thing they snatched was only enough to eat one meal a day, and it was only enough to eat for two days at most. Within two days, Liu Xiang will definitely be robbed on the shore. Zheng Zhibao added.

"Ah Sen, you have to calculate, if Liu Xiang continues to maintain a high speed tonight, and the course continues to go south, how much speed we can maintain at a minimum, we can guarantee that we can catch up with them within two hours at any time." Zheng Zhilong said that many of these staff operations at sea have now been handed over to Zheng Sen, who is proficient in arithmetic.

It didn't take long for Zheng Sen to come up with the numbers and hand them over to Zheng Zhilong.

"Yes, we'll keep going south at this pace." Zheng Zhilong commanded.

"Daddy, if I were Liu Xiang, I would definitely not continue to go south." Zheng Sen said suddenly.

"Well, it's nice to think of that." Zheng Zhilong praised Zheng Sen with a smile on his face, "But Ah Sen, if you are Liu Xiang, what are you going to do?" ”

"Keep running south, in the current state, it's a dead end anyway. I think Liu Xiang must be able to figure this out. Zheng Sen frowned slightly and said, "If I were him, I would sail east after nightfall, then turn to the north, find an opportunity to grab a handful, and if I grabbed enough, I would turn to the east coast of Dayuan Island and go south." ”

"Yes, but if Liu Xiang thought of it, we might also think of this, so why don't he just continue to venture south?" Zheng Zhihu also interjected.

"He continued south, and within two days he had to rob as well. Our fleet was much faster than his, and we could still catch up at full speed. Then you can completely destroy them with a decisive battle. Zheng Sen replied.

"Ah Sen, the reason why I asked you to calculate the lowest speed in front of you is actually to guard against Liu Xiang's hand." Zheng Zhilong spoke, "From here to the north, a long distance is our territory, and many islands have our people. Liu Xiang's current strength can't gnaw at such a place at all, and he still has to avoid my sentinel ship, so he can't take the shortest route, he must walk around carefully. So he couldn't go north fast. Now in our territory, a slightly larger place, Liu Xiang can't grab it, he can just grab a few fishing villages. There are simply not enough supplies to grab, not to mention the supplies that go south from the east coast of Taiwan, even if they let his people eat a full meal, they may not be able to grab it. He runs north, we can catch him just as much, and we don't need a decisive battle at all, just continue to play cat and mouse with him as we do during the day. ”

Zheng Sen listened and thought for a while before saying, "Daddy is really a last resort, but the child is smart." ”

"You kid!" Zheng Zhilong laughed, "You've only been floating at sea for a few days?" It's good to think about so much. Being a father is not the ability to get out of the sea today. If today's father is allowed to fight the father who just went to sea, as long as the father has one-third of the father's ship when he first went to sea, no, a quarter of the ship, he can be wiped out. But if you only have a quarter of the boat in your hands now, most of the time you will have to go as a father. You're already good, hahaha! Besides, it's always good to think more and ask more, but what I'm afraid of is not thinking with my heart and not asking. ”

The situation was just as Zheng Zhilong expected, although Liu Xiang used the night to temporarily get rid of Zheng Zhilong's pursuit, but he was still very far away from getting rid of the net laid by Zheng Zhilong, and even in a sense, he fell deeper in this big net.

Four days later, news came from the sentinel ships that Liu Xiang's fleet had attacked several villages near Kinmen, but it was reported that Liu Xiang did not dare to stay for a long time because of the good work of the fortified walls in these places, so they had limited gains. After receiving the news, Zheng Zhilong immediately ordered the fleet to go north at full speed.

Two days later, it was reported that Liu Xiang had attacked several villages near Yongningwei, but with the same limited gains.

"It's only half a day's voyage from Yongningwei, and at most the day after tomorrow, we should be able to catch up with Liu Xiang." Zheng Zhilong said this, he felt that his old opponent was already dead.

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"Ah Chang, Ah Fa, let's go to the vicinity of Xiangzhi tonight to grab a handful, move quickly, grab a few more villages, and try to grab as many things as possible. I estimate that Zheng Zhilong is about to arrive, and after grabbing this one, we are about to run. Liu Xiang said to a few of his subordinates.

"The big boss, relying on what we have grabbed now, we are afraid that we will not be able to run far." That "Ah Chang" said.

"Can I not know this? It's up to tonight. If we still don't grab anything tonight, then we will simply fight with Zheng Zhilong. Liu Xiang said that perhaps because he had made up his mind, the sorrow between his eyebrows seemed to be much less.

"That is, if you want to die, you have to pull the back of the surname Zheng." That Ah Fa also said viciously.

The night did not go well, and in the first village they met resistance. Some locals relied on an earthen fence to resist Liu Xiang's attack, because of the limited time, Liu Xiang and their efforts could not capture the fence, so they had to rob it outside the fence, and extorted a bag of rice from the fence.

The second village is a fishing village, but there is no such thing as a soil fence, but the villagers have already run away, and they hid everything, but Liu Xiang and they didn't get too many things, on the contrary, Liu Xiang himself accidentally broke his foot, and he could only stay on the boat in the later actions.

The third and fourth villages did not grab much, but they resisted fiercely. Several of Liu Xiang's cronies were hung up. Time also passed minute by minute, and in a blink of an eye, the sky was almost dawn.

"There's still time to grab the last one before dawn." Liu Xiang said to Ah Chang and Ah Fa, "Lao Tzu broke his foot, and Kong Zhang, this kid, was also injured." It's up to you to lead the team. You all be careful. ”

"The rest assured of the big boss." Both Ah Chang and Ah Fa said so.

Liu Xiang watched from the boat as Ah Chang Ah Fa walked away with three hundred pirates, and he stood up suddenly, his sprained foot seemed to have nothing to do with it.

"Kong Zhang, quickly bring your people and bring all the food and things on those boats!" Liu Xiang shouted.

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When it was dawn, Ah Chang and Ah Fa came back, and when they came to the beach, they saw that the fleet was still there, but no one put down the sampan to take them over.

"What are you doing?" Ah Chang said.

"Why doesn't there seem to be anyone on the ship?" Ah Fa also noticed that something seemed wrong, "What about people? Where have all the people gone? ”

"Looks like we're missing a lot of boats!" Someone shouted.

A sense of foreboding rose from everyone's head. The pirates knew how to water, and the boats were not far from the shore, and since there was no one to pick them up, they jumped into the sea and swam towards the ships.

There was no one on the boat, and Ah Chang swam to the side of a boat, shouting loudly, but no one answered him at all. He climbed up along the anchor chain and found that there was really no one on the boat?

"Where have all the people gone? Even if Zheng Zhilong called suddenly, it would be impossible for them to leave these ships here, how can these ships be repaired and used? Ah Chang thought so, and saw that everyone else had also climbed into some of the other boats.

"Do you have anyone there?" Ah Chang shouted.

"No, not one."

"We don't have any here, none of them."

A flurry of panicked answers echoed in the early morning sea breeze. An inexplicable and terrifying atmosphere also arose with the pale blue sea mist around them, and more than one person thought, "Could it be that they have all encountered some sea monsters?" ”

Suddenly, a panicked voice shouted, "Do you still have food on board?" All the food on our ship is gone! ”

All the people were more and more surprised, and they all began to carefully examine the boat they had climbed on, and then, without exception, they found that there was no food left on any of the ships that were still parked here, not only was there no food, but the nails and planks used to repair the ships were gone, and all kinds of weapons, except for the cannons that could not be moved, and the gunpowder and shells were gone.

"We don't have anything here!"

"We don't have anything left here!"

Voices of desperation came and went. Everyone now understands what is going on: just as they set out to rob the last village, Liu Xiang, who was originally "broken", and the leaders who were "injured" took advantage of their absence to lead people to rob them! Liu Xiang and the others gathered these most valuable supplies into a few ships in the best condition, and then took those people and left. Relying on these things, he has been able to go around to the east coast of Taiwan and return to the South Seas. And Achang Afa, these people have been abandoned. Liu Xiang pulled a beautiful golden cicada out of its shell, and they became the shell that was taken off.

"Liu Xiang! I am your father! The pirates who figured out what was going on all started scolding, but it was useless to scold, no matter how they scolded, they couldn't scold Liu Xiang back, so the scolding gradually turned into sobbing, and finally into a cry. In the midst of this cry, the sun grew higher and higher, the sea fog began to slowly dissipate, and a sentinel ship appeared far away on the horizon.