After Wu Sangui left, Qiao Yunsheng also left in a hurry.

The old man is still very interesting. Zhang Zhun promised to help rescue Lu Xiangsheng, he felt that he owed Zhang Zhun a piece of leftovers, so he wanted to seize every minute of time to complete his work. Since Zhang Zhun agreed, Qiao Yunsheng had to go back to work in a hurry.

Zhang Zhun personally sent Qiao Yunsheng to the dock and "sent him on the boat to show respect." It wasn't until the merchant ship carrying Qiao Yunsheng completely disappeared into the sea in the southwest that Zhang Zhun slowly left the dock. Lu Xiangsheng's matter came too suddenly, and Zhang Zhun had to think about it carefully. Before this, he didn't have such thoughts at all, because he subconsciously felt that it was impossible for a character like Lu Xiangsheng to take refuge in himself.

When he heard the news that Lu Xiangsheng was arrested and imprisoned, Zhang Zhun also expressed deep regret. Other than that, he couldn't do anything. It's not that he sits back and watches Lu Xiangsheng's death, but that he and Lu Xiangsheng have no connection at all. He never thought that God would actually give him an excellent opportunity, and it was possible to recruit Lu Xiangsheng over.

Because he attaches great importance to this matter, Zhang Zhun also suffers a little from gains and losses. Lu Xiangsheng is much more useful than the bombastic Shi Kefa, and that is the real doer. There is no doubt that if Lu Xiangsheng takes refuge in his command, he can do even more. For the Tiger Army, these experienced handsome talents are very valuable. If it weren't for the lofty positions of Gao Hongtu, Zhang Shenyan and others, it would be really difficult for the Tiger Benjun to do a good job in the internal affairs work!

Lu Xiangsheng seems to have been born in the twentieth year of Wanli (that is, 1600 AD), and he is only thirty-six years old this year, which is the age of his prime. If he had worked under his own hands, he would have been able to do it for at least another twenty-five years. Twenty-five years, a lot can be done. According to some of the processes of the crossing, it is enough to unify the earth two or three times.

"Lord Governor, will Lu Xiangsheng really take refuge in us?"

Wang Shide also looks a little bit of a loss.

Obviously, "a big man like Lu Xiangsheng is more eye-catching than Zhang Shenyan, Qiao Yunsheng and others." The most fundamental reason is that Lu Xiangsheng is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, not only can handle government affairs, but is also good at fighting. In fact, the conditions given to Lu Xiangsheng by the imperial court were indeed very poor. The army around Lu Xiangsheng "was pulled up by him alone." This person, in the formation of the army, is slightly better than Hong Chengchou.

"We'll see." , Zhang Zhun pretended to be calm and said.

Ordinary heart, normal heart, Zhang Zhun in his heart, constantly admonished himself "to have a normal heart, don't suffer from gains and losses." Whether or not Lu Xiangsheng's life can be saved, whether Lu Xiangsheng really takes refuge in himself, he must deal with it calmly. However, it is easy to understand the truth, but it is not easy to really do it. There is no other reason, because this person is called Lu Xiangsheng.

Chongzhen doesn't know how to cherish such a talent, because he is Chongzhen, "the king of the dead country." If he doesn't know how to cherish it, then he is really stupid. Such a person is at least more powerful than 3,000 cavalry!

"Tom......"

"Tom!" , "Tom......"

Suddenly, Zhang Zhun heard a faint sound behind him.

The sound was not particularly clear, but it was undoubtedly the sound of cannonball. For a battle-hardened person, you can't get it wrong. At this time, there was a sudden sound of cannons, which was indeed a bit shocking.

Zhang Zhun subconsciously turned his head and quickly raised the clairvoyant mirror, "Looking at the surrounding sea." The sound of artillery came from the south direction, not the direction Qiao Yunsheng left, which made Zhang Zhun feel a little relieved. Don't Lu Xiangsheng didn't get it, but Qiao Yunsheng was killed, then it was really bad.

However, "In this Bohai Bay, who is fighting at sea?" Tartar? No way! The Tartars did not have their own water division. The sound of artillery coming from the south was "most likely North Koreans." Could it be that the capitulation faction of North Korea actually went so mad that they actually dispatched North Korean sailors to attack the Tiger Army? This group of people really doesn't know how to write dead words. It seems that if they don't give them a little color to see, they still think that the Celestial Empire is really degenerate.

"There are enemies!" , Zhang Haibin frowned.

He quickly ordered the warships around him to "assemble in the direction from which the cannon fire came."

The Tiger Army's attack on Phi Dao this time "actually had nothing to do with the navy, but when the marines came ashore," they fired hundreds of rounds of solid ammunition to deter and deter the defenders of Phi Dao. Therefore, most of the time, the warships of the Navy, are bored on the sea. The sudden sound of cannon fire was like a shot of excitement for them, and they immediately went into action.

More than a dozen Cangshan ships soon sailed towards the southern sea, as the first echelon to join the battlefield. Several other large ships have also begun to assemble and prepare to attack as the second echelon. Zhang Zhun himself also got on Zhang Haibin's flagship and sailed towards the sea in the south.

"Tom......"

"Tom!" , "Tom......"

As the distance continued to shorten, the sound of the cannon became louder and louder.

If you listen carefully, you can tell that it should be the sound of a cannon such as a Franc machine gun. This ruled out the possibility that it was a North Korean warship. For some reason, the Koreans were relatively closed, and their sailors were mainly turtle boats, and there were no gunboats. The guns used by the North Korean naval divisions have a caliber of only 30 mm at most, which can only be said to be large-caliber fire prosperium. Fire mirrors of 30 mm caliber, in naval battles, are completely negligible.

"What's going on?" "What kind of battleship is this?" ”

Zhang Haibin suddenly said a little strangely. It turned out that on the sea, a battleship of unknown origin suddenly appeared, which looked a little strange, and its appearance was a little different from that of the Tiger Army. The front part of the battleship, very pointed. The sails hanging from the mast are also very complicated and "look messy." In the bow of this battleship, the same somewhat strange flag was hoisted.

"It's British." , Zhang Zhun said slowly. When this battleship appeared in the clairvoyant mirror, Zhang Zhun was also a little surprised in his heart.

He didn't expect to be here, seeing this somewhat familiar flag. Rice flag!

The British flag of rice!

This battleship was actually flying the British flag of rice.

At that time, the British flag could not actually be called a national flag, because Britain did not have a law that considered this flag to be their national flag, and it was not until two hundred years later that there was a formal legal provision "stipulating what the British flag really is." But ordinary warships fly such flags to show the difference. Therefore, most countries "think that this rice flag is the flag of the British."

This flag, which is a little different from the modern Union Jack, is that it only has a large red cross in the middle, and there are no four small red slashes around it, because Ireland has not yet been incorporated. Of course, "basically I won't be mistaken." Countries with rice flags are more or less related to the later British Empire.

Zhang Zhun really couldn't imagine how the British warships could run to Bohai Bay. It stands to reason that the British at this time did not have any special forces in East Asia. At that time, Britain was not a first-class power among the Western powers.

According to historical records, it was not until the ninth year of Chongzhen, that is, this year, that the British fleet reached Guangdong in the south. As a result, they clashed with the Ming army, and were "driven away" by the local government and the Dutch.

"Tom!" "Tom! "Tom! The sound of cannons continued to ...... two Dutch warships that fired the cannons.

Behind the Mizi flag, there were two warships, flying two warships flying the Dutch flag. It was they who had been following the British battleship in hot pursuit, and constantly looking for opportunities to open fire. There seemed to be a little problem with the sails of the British battleship in front, and the distance between it and the Dutch battleship could not be pulled too far.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhun seemed to understand a little. The British warship in front of him "may have been the first British naval warship to reach East Asia, but it clashed with the Dutch, or with the Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and was pursued and killed." It may be that there was a little problem on the route, and the result was directly to Bohai Bay.

The internal strife among the Western powers was already very fierce, "especially in the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and tenth centuries, the wars in Europe never stopped. Either today you hit me, or tomorrow I will beat you, or the day after tomorrow he will beat him. The war was fought from the surface of the sea, and from the surface of the sea. Sweden has Gustav, "England has Nelson." There is Joan of Arc in France, and Victoria in England. Spain had Philip II, France had Napoleon. In short, "it's you who sing, I'll appear", there are constant disputes.

"The British at that time declared that they were actually a mess. The main reason is that in order to obtain huge wealth, they do not hesitate to use pirates to provide ports of refuge for pirates, and even the British Navy directly pretends to be pirates to "plunder the merchant ships of other countries everywhere." Later historians have calculated that in the 16th and 17th centuries, the wealth obtained by the British through piracy accounted for more than 60% of the national treasury revenue. It can be seen how crazy the British pirates were.

It was precisely because the looting was so fierce that it aroused the anger of the Spaniards and led the Armada to England. It is a pity that the British fleet, with pirates as the main force, defeated the Spanish Armada. As a result, British piracy became even more rampant. Not only did they raid the Spanish merchant fleets, but all the merchant fleets of all other countries were within their reach.

No matter from any angle, the British at that time were very annoying, and almost all the Western powers strongly despised them. The movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" depicts the scene of the British Navy chasing and killing pirates, which is after the British have cleared their name. When they weren't whitewashed, what they did was much more cruel than pirates.

After Spain, the Dutch were the bosses of the seas, and their merchant ships, of course, were constantly attacked by English pirates. The hatred of the Dutch and the British "can also be said to have been around for a long time." Two Dutch warships chasing down a British warship on the sea, such a scene is simply too normal.

The flag of the Netherlands, in the 16th century, was orange, white and blue. After entering the 17th century, because orange was not easy to identify and not eye-catching enough, it was changed to red, white and blue. Red on top, white on the middle, blue on the bottom. If this flag is reversed and the left, center and right are red, white and blue, it will become the flag of France.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, according to the Western Yuan calculation, it should be the year of A.D., the year of Anhui, and there are still twenty or thirty years before the outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch War. Zhang Zhun could basically deduce that this British battleship, perhaps called a pirate ship flying the flag of the British Navy, must have robbed too many merchant ships of the Dutch, and as a result, it was desperately pursued by the Dutch.

You must know that it is really not an easy thing to chase all the way from Nanyang to Bohai Bay, if it were not for the deep hatred between the two sides, it would be absolutely impossible to chase after the crying far away, and the ** British battleship in front of it was also powerful, and it was able to run here.

"Order the gunboats to concentrate!" "Ready to fight!" Zhang Zhun commanded with a cold face.

Zhang Haibin went immediately.

The Great White Fleet is not by Zhang Zhun's side, and it lacks a little strong sea power to directly deter the other party. However, these three Western warships are obviously not behemoths. This battleship of the British "should belong to the frigate or something, with a displacement of about two hundred tons, which is about the same as the No. 3 Fu ship of the Ming Kingdom." Two battleships of the Dutch, a little larger, should have a displacement of no more than two hundred and fifty tons.

At that time, the Western powers, the main force of the navy, were basically in the Atlantic, and there were not many large battleships coming to East Asia for the time being. With a displacement of more than 600 tons, it is basically the main battleship. These main battleships, which are generally in the hands of the commander of the fleet, cannot go so far. And only these small warships "can move so freely."

A battleship of this physique "wants to be equipped with weapons such as redcoat cannons, which is obviously unlikely." Since there are no weapons such as red-coated cannons, Zhang Zhun is certainly not afraid. More than a dozen Cangshan boats rushed up together, "ants bite the elephant to death", and they can definitely kill each other. At the very least, it can force the other side to have to withdraw temporarily.

"My lord, the British warship seems to be rushing towards us." , Zhang Haibin suddenly said with a little surprise.

Zhang Zhun held the clairvoyant mirror and looked ahead.

Sure enough, when the British battleship saw Zhang Zhun and them, it was as if it had found a savior, and immediately adjusted its aspects and rushed directly to Zhang Zhun's location. In other words, the other party's vision was good, and he quickly identified the flagship of the Tiger Ben Navy. They also deduced from the arrangement of the warships of the Tiger Army Navy that the Tiger Army Navy had no ill will towards them, so they drove over with confidence.

Judging from this subtle movement, the British battleship's combat experience at sea must be very rich. Except for the guy who changed from pirate to navy, Zhang Zhun really couldn't think of any other possibility. What the Royal Naval School" is all after the whitewashing. In the seventeenth century, "most of the British navy was transferred directly from piracy.

"Huh?" , "There's a Female Monster ......"

Zhang Haibin suddenly whispered with a strange look.

It turned out that "on the bow of this British battleship, a blonde woman suddenly appeared" kept waving to Zhang Zhun's side. She was probably in her twenties and wore a more revealing attire. Because of the distance, I can't see her face clearly. However, judging from her long and toned figure, it is quite Christina's style.

Zhang Haibin and they had never seen a woman on a battleship, no wonder they were so surprised. Besides, a blonde woman is also a bit abrupt for them. At the same time, it was hard for them to imagine that a woman could actually lead a warship! Warships have always been forbidden areas for women, it's incredible!

"Let her come!"

"Stop the two Dutch battleships behind......"

Zhang Zhun said in a deep voice.

He saw the woman too.

It is indeed a bit abrupt for a woman, still a young woman, to suddenly appear on a warship. However, for the traversal view, "it is completely acceptable." Li Huamei, Song Yifeng, Christina, Lilu Agote, ......, aren't they also women? Isn't the heroine in "Pirates of the Caribbean" also a woman?

Zhang Zhun did this, on the one hand, it was of course the hero's intention to save the beauty. Whether this English woman is beautiful or ugly, "save her first." If she really came to East Asia from Britain, then she would definitely be quite familiar with the situation of the Western powers. If she could learn the actual situation of the Western powers from her mouth, Zhang Zhun would be able to develop more targeted, so as to catch up with and surpass the Western powers.

On the one hand, it was out of dissatisfaction with the Dutch. Relying on the strength of their sea power, the Dutch were becoming more and more aggressive in their actions in the East Asian seas. The Dutch had established a strong foothold in Taiwan, stationing a large number of defenders, as well as a large number of warships. If the Tiger Ben Navy wants to break out of the country, the first thing to deal with is the Dutch.

Of course, Zhang Zhun also had reason to be dissatisfied with the British. For the time being, however, the British could not reach out until they defeated the Dutch. And Zhang Zhun also believes that because of the arrival of his own traverser, it should be difficult for Britain to have a chance to rise. If you can't curb the rise of the British by taking advantage of the crossing, it will really be too embarrassing for the traverser.

"Tom ......"

"Tom ......"

"Tom ......"

More than a dozen Cangshan ships quickly surrounded the two Dutch warships.

They used the familiar wolf pack tactics, firing at the Dutch ships from different directions. The cannon of the Wyvern Cannon. "Constantly spitting out bursts of flames, smashing solid bullets one after another towards the Dutch warships in the distance.

Not to be outdone, the Dutch battleships "immediately fired back." The number of naval guns of these two Dutch battleships was apparently more than twenty. When the Dutch returned fire, the speed at which the cannon was fired was still very fast, and at a glance it was a professional navy. A large number of solid bullets were poured out by the Dutch, blocking the approach of the Cangshan ship.