Chapter 376: The Siege of Guangzhou is lifted
Zheng Zhilong didn't expect Gu San Mazi to take the initiative to attack his fleet, nor did he expect that his third brother would also lose so badly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Gu San Mazi, Gu San Mazi, when did this little pirate leader who used to be just a small pirate leader in northern Zhejiang actually break his two brothers in a row, and he has actually become a roadblock for him now!
As soon as he thought of this, Zheng Zhilong was a little unconvinced, so he had to let his third brother Zheng Zhibao tell the story one by one.
"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, anger and remorse are useless at this time, since the situation has changed, the strategy has to change, and now since the South China Sea Fleet of the imperial court has taken the initiative to move on us, it is to directly tear off the face, and we don't need to be polite to the imperial court."
Zheng Zhilong said and suddenly realized another problem, so he hurriedly said: "Wait, third brother, you can capture one person of the South China Sea Fleet, but can you leave evidence that they launched an attack on you first?" ā
Zheng Zhibao glanced at Zheng Zhilong in amazement, when competing with the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, he chased and fought along the way, and finally was trapped on the reef and was pressed and beaten by the South China Sea Fleet, where did he have the opportunity to capture the people of the South China Sea Fleet, he couldn't help but say: "Gu San Mazi is too cunning, he led us to Luzon before launching an attack, the younger brother was reckless for a while, and when we were trapped, it was already difficult to protect ourselves, how could we have the opportunity to capture their people." ā
Hearing Zheng Zhibao say this, Zheng Zhilong was so angry that he couldn't help but stomp his feet, pointed at Zheng Zhibao and said: "You are confused, you, I really want to cut off your head now to sacrifice the whole army, we can't come up with the slightest evidence to prove that it is the people of the South China Sea Fleet who are fighting against us, now even if we go to Xiong Wencan for comment, Xiong Wencan will not admit it, blame this naval battle on other pirates, what do you say we should do?" ā
Zheng Zhibao touched the back of his head, he hadn't thought about these things, so he couldn't say anything, so he had to let Zheng Zhilong point his nose and teach him a lesson.
"Big brother, now is not the time to teach the third brother a lesson, from the Battle of the Ryukyus to this time, we have suffered a lot of damage, as the saying goes, the big husband can endure ordinary people who can't bear it, this sea is not only the people of the court who are trying to swallow us, there are still several pirates who covet our Zheng family, we can't deteriorate the relationship with the court again, so as to give those pirates, especially Li Kuiqi, an opportunity to take advantage of, In order to avoid another person like Gu San Mazi, he voted for the court before us and became a lackey of the court, and then took the opportunity to annex us to strengthen his own territory;
With the strategy of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao today, he may not agree to allow a sea overlord like our Zheng family to have an independent armed fleet, but in order to break the balance at sea and suppress us, he will not disagree with Li Kuiqi and other pirate groups that can form our opponents to continue to grow.
It is said that the governor of Liangguang, Shang Zhou Zuo, has always been in close contact with this Li Kuiqi and others, otherwise this time during the siege of Guangzhou Fucheng, Li Kuiqi, who also received the invitation of the Franco, would not have rejected Turia's invitation on the grounds that he had suffered a hurricane and was seriously damaged and unable to participate in the great cause, and his attitude made it clear that he deliberately wanted to maintain neutrality between the imperial court and us! ā
Zheng Hongkui stepped forward at this time and couldn't help but say a few words.
After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong nodded approvingly, and pointed at Zheng Zhibao again: "You, study hard with the fourth brother!" Usually use your brains more, people Gu San Mazi can think of luring you to Luzon to win by surprise, how come you, a veteran who has been at sea for decades, didn't think of this! ā
After teaching Zheng Zhibao a lesson, Zheng Zhilong brought his fleet back to Kinmen according to Zheng Hongkui's proposal, and sent someone to Xiong Wencan to send a generous gift, ready to consolidate and expand his power, for which he also spared no expense to hire craftsmen to imitate the steam-powered warship of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know what power the black smoke iron warship relied on, and still thought that it was relying on sail power and manpower, so that his thinking was always wrong.
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Turia didn't expect the Zheng family's fleet to leave so quietly, he really wanted to grab Zheng Zhilong and ask, his side is preparing to unite all forces to attack Guangzhou City, what does it mean that your people suddenly say goodbye, this is tantamount to shaking the military heart of the entire combined fleet.
However, Turia didn't know that Zheng Zhilong had his own considerations when he left silently with his fleet so quietly, and he didn't want these Francophiles and Red Devils to know that they had just experienced a big defeat, after all, these people were also people like Li Kuiqi who would become his enemies at any time.
Turia is now in a dilemma, he wanted to directly defeat the city of Guangzhou to show the evil anger in his heart, after all, the Ming official in the city of Guangzhou killed one of his subordinates like this, which is tantamount to insulting his dignity.
But now that the Zheng family's people are gone, even if he can take the city of Guangzhou, he will inevitably suffer serious losses, plus the losses caused by the siege of Guangzhou City before, he doesn't know if his fleet will go bankrupt because of this, after all, he crossed the ocean to come here and borrowed a lot of foreign debts.
Turia postponed the attack, and had to lift the siege of the city of Guangzhou after learning that Shang Zhouzuo had mobilized more troops to the city of Guangzhou.
This made Turia depressed, but what he didn't know was that news was waiting for him that made him even more depressed.
Turia no longer wants to rely on this kind of tough posture to compete with an empire, he just wants to return to Macau now, sleep well with his lover, and then take a walk in Macau, even if the Ming wants to take back their residency in Macau, he will also organize a counterattack in Macau instead of besieging here, it is useless!
However, just when Turia breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was about to return to Macau, a tattered soft-sailed warship was stumbling towards his flagship, Turia recognized that this was Erdodni's ship, but he didn't understand that this Erdodeni had always taken great care of his sailboat, why it had become so dilapidated at this time, and Turia also had some instinctive realization that maybe something had happened in Macau.
So, he ordered someone to invite the people on the broken sailing ship to his deck, but what he didn't expect was that there was no Erdodeni on the sailing ship, but Erdotney's servant Harloxy, and as soon as Haroxi came ashore, he told Turia the news that Macao had been suddenly attacked by a group of unknown pirates and caused the loss of Macao.
Turia was greatly surprised by this, he never thought that there were pirates in this area who would dare to provoke him, and that they would attack his rear and occupy Macau.
This means that he is now homeless, and the goods hoarded in Macao, including 100,000 catties of tobacco and soil from Nanyang, are afraid that they will fall into the hands of these pirates.
"Your Excellency, they don't look like pirates, they look more like soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but their actions are even more ferocious by pirates!"