Chapter 343: To Get Rich
Watching his old friend Xu Xinsu return to Xiamen with the warship, Li Guozhu was embarrassed, what should he do? Back to Japan? I'm afraid it's not safe, Zheng Yiguan's gang hasn't broken up yet, and it's still waiting to fight the Ming army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Lord Huang left with their fleet, and if he stayed and was bitten by Zheng Yiguan, he would regret it too late!
Li Guozhu was embarrassed to say that he was afraid of Zheng Yiguan's retaliation, so he happily told Lord Huang that he came out anyway, and simply followed the Huang family's fleet to Luzon to play a trick.
Going to Nanyang to show off his martial arts is naturally the stronger the better, how can Li Guozhu take the initiative to follow and refuse people thousands of miles away?
Huang Sheng arranged for the troops left behind, namely Gu Shanhe, Ye Jiangong, and Ma Wu, three hundred general musketeers, one general flag artillery and three smoothbore, two rifled field guns, one general flag grenadier, and one general flag heavy infantry.
Under the leadership of Gu Shanhe, they held the "Jinghai Fort" with hot weapons, and the musketeers left here were each issued with two flintlock muskets, gunpowder and mini bullets were continuously scrapped, and all the guns were enough, there was water and food sufficient, and Zheng Yiguan was afraid that he would not be able to take it for a year and a half when he came to attack.
Because the eighteen Hongyi cannons deployed at the head of the "Jinghai Fort" were all new guys purchased by He Bin's family, the Huang family only bombarded six with flowering shells, which caused great damage to the enemy and negligible damage to the artillery.
The Hongyi cannon of this era is a long iron lump, unless it is blown up, it is really not easy to destroy it with external force, unless the solid bullet hits directly.
On the same day, the Huang artillery reinstalled and debugged the six Hongyi cannons that had been displaced, and the Huang family garrisoned "Jinghai Fort" not only had six Hongyi cannons to give color to the enemy, but also five field cannons that could move positions at any time.
With Zheng Yiguan's strength, he would be deflated even if he brought the biggest artillery in the family here, because they were not enough to compete with the condescending Huang family's private soldiers.
After seven days of repairs, they continued to blockade the nearby sea for twenty miles, sank three more Zheng Yiguan's sentinel boats, and captured six.
Huang Sheng decided to obediently take the combined fleet to the South Seas, because the Sentinel Horse Ship reported that the nearby pirates were all extinct, and it was known that they were all concentrated at the Zheng Yiguan Port base.
It turned out that the lucky Zheng Yiguan did not die, and fled back to the Xiaogang base with more than 700 remnants of the defeated general.
Xiamen Island is surrounded by the sea, Huang Mingdao needs to ensure the safety of the port, there are not many warships that can dispatch to capture prisoners, such a long coastline is unguardable, the pirates chose to swim at night and successfully escaped.
Zheng Yiguan is a big pirate, and every big pirate hooks up with many bureaucratic capital. After escaping, he found his henchmen lurking in Haicang Town, and secretly got a few boats and ran back.
After he returned to Xiaogang, as Huang Sheng expected, he proposed to let everyone send troops and warships to Zhongzuo to find the field, and many sworn brothers talked about him left and right, and everyone gave him a soft nail.
Just when Zheng Yiguan's allies were thinking differently, the Xiaogang base was reported, the Ming army called, and the pirates who were about to part ways sat down again to negotiate conditions.
In the end, a consensus was reached that the Ming army would come to Longgang, and all allies would unite to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, and after the victory, the captured Ming warships would be distributed according to the proportion of each family's troops.
Just when Zheng Yiguan was preparing for a disgrace, he found that good things could not be stopped, and almost every day there were warships coming to the port to meet the alliance, and they all took the initiative to express their readiness to participate in the battle against the Ming fleet.
Zheng Yiguan learned that the Ming army was exterminating the Penghu pirates, not only did he not save him when he saw death, but also thought that the Ming army was digging its own grave, and beat the pirates who originally had their own ghosts to unite around him.
The pirates in the port including Zheng Yiguan all thought that the Ming army would come, they thought that the Ming court was ruthless, and sent a capable general to the South China Sea to suppress the invaders, and now the Ming army has won a complete victory, how can the main general let go of the opportunity to obtain great merit and wait for the general?
The pirates were ready, and there were more than 200 small ships set on fire to the wind, and they all knew that there were several warships in the Ming army with great firepower, which were not inferior to the deck ships of the Dutch.
They have experience in dealing with advanced warships, and they have successfully verified it on Dutch warships. It can also be understood as a pack of wolf tactics.
The Dutch warships were fierce, but there were not many, and Zheng Yiguan put down many small boats smoothly, and the bows of these small boats had barbed nails, and the huge ships nailed to the Dutch were like maggots on tarsal bones.
The small boat was used for fire attack, loaded with flammable materials and fierce fire oil, although the small boat that risked death to assault suffered a lot of losses, but there were many successful nailing to the Dutch warship, and the sailors set fire to it and then jumped into the sea to escape, so the large ironclad battleships of the Dutch took care of one or the other.
Zheng Yiguan used such tactics and relied on backward equipment to defeat the Dutch with advanced warships in a man-to-sea battle.
It's just that there is a premise for such a war, that is, the opponent cannot have many warships, just a few, and the own ships must be enough and able to surround them on all sides.
And the warships of the Huang Sheng combined fleet are already almost the same as the Zheng Yiguan Alliance, and the windward fire may be ineffective against the Huang family's warships, because the Huang family's warships have rifled guns that can shoot accurately.
If the fireships are close and there are musketeers to shoot, it may not be easy to break through such a firepower network and hit the new main battle ship of the Huang family, and the Huang family warship is also partially armored, and even the bow outside the hull is covered with a white copper sheet!
Zheng Yiguan knew that he didn't have many chances, and if he was defeated by the Ming army again this time, then he would not be able to gain a foothold in the South China Sea!
He spent a lot of money recruiting dead soldiers, and he also converted many fishing boats to be used as arsonists, and practiced every day.
Zheng Yiguan was ready, the Ming army did not come, and they couldn't imagine that such a huge fleet was not from the Ming court at all, but the personal armament of Lord Huang.
Lord Huang did not come to the South China Sea at all, and there was no task assigned by the imperial court to hang the Kou, it was completely for the purpose of doing business and making money.
By the way, fighting a dozen pirates is just to make a fortune and eat black, and they are not willing to fight a war of attrition at all.
On this day, Zheng Yiguan's sentry horse ship reported that after the Ming army took He Bin's Xiweiyu, they were frantically attacking any ship that dared to approach twenty nautical miles there, and one of the sentry horse ships they went with successfully returned home.
The pirates were nervous, they knew that the nest that He Bin had worked so hard to run was not easy to gnaw, and the Ming army had easily taken down there, and it seemed that they would soon come to Longgang to fight it.
The pirate leaders learned from the past, and at this moment they had the meaning of the same hatred and hatred, and they were all sincerely ready to give the Ming army an all-out blow in order to protect themselves, and they practiced every day.
It's a pity that Zheng Yiguan's alliance waited for the flowers and didn't see the arrival of the Ming army, and a few days later, the sentinel ship reported that hundreds of Ming warships had disappeared without a trace.
The pirate leaders are even more nervous, they are not afraid of the enemy, they are afraid that the enemy will suddenly appear, and now everyone will definitely be able to fight with the Ming army if they work together, if they divide the army, they will be defeated if they are bitten by the Ming army.
As a result, the pirates did not dare to disperse for the time being, and they all stayed in the port to standby, for fear of being broken by the Ming army, and they were trying to find out the whereabouts of the Ming army, but such a huge fleet was gone.
This is too unusual, Zheng Yiguan Alliance trembled every day to guard against the Ming army fleet suddenly appearing in an unknown place to launch a surprise attack, and all the warships were on guard.