Zheng Zhilong immediately sent men and horses to attack Liuheng Island again after the fleet he sent was frustrated on Liuheng Island, and when he personally led people to Liuheng Island, he found that this Liuheng Island was really a hard bone to gnaw. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as Zheng Zhilong and the fleet arrived at the bay that Zheng Zhibao and others entered last time, the castle at the entrance of the bay opened fire, and this time they didn't dare to hold it up, the purpose was very clear that it was to stop Zheng Zhilong's men from landing on the island.

Because this time, Zheng Zhilong brought more than 500 large and small ships, and 40,000 sailors and soldiers. In the face of such an enemy, the security forces on Liuheng Island did not dare to be careless and determined to defend to the death, the food and materials on the island were sufficient, as long as the castle was not breached by Zheng Zhilong, and they were not afraid of their long-term siege, this would test how long Zheng Zhilong's people could hold out on the sea.

Zheng Zhilong soon discovered that the cannon on the castle was a big problem for them. The range of those cannons was longer than the largest gun on his ship, and with the advantage of the terrain, the range was increased by a large part, and the Zheng family's ships would have to go through a long journey if they wanted to attack the castle. Even if they risk their lives to approach the castle and use the ship's guns to fight back, it is unknown what damage they can do to the castle.

It is even more difficult to rush into the bay, during which it will definitely be intercepted by the artillery on the castle, and even if you rush in, you may fall into the predicament of being attacked on your back and repeat the mistake of Zheng Zhibao.

Zheng Zhilong ordered a small group of ships to carry out a tentative attack on the castle and found that the loss of attacking the castle would be very large, so he ordered the fleet to withdraw, and the main force of the fleet also sailed to the open sea to anchor, and then sent a small boat to reconnoiter and spy on Liuheng Island to find a breakthrough.

This reconnaissance surprised Zheng Zhilong even more, all the coasts of the entire Liuheng Island that could be docked by large ships were built for defense, even some places that could be landed by small boats were also guarded, and the defenders generally used muskets and small artillery, which was very difficult for the pirates of the Zheng family to land on the coast.

Zheng Zhilong sent men and horses to surround Liuheng Island to continue to probe, and large ships that wanted to dock were all beaten back by artillery fire on the shore.

The small boats sent out to carry men landed on some dangerous shores, but they were beaten by the sudden appearance of the security musketeers, and had to retreat back to sea.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong was not reconciled, the island was so tightly defended but aroused his greed, if there were no good things on the island, who would make such a big effort to defend the island so impermeable. The island is either rich in treasures or has earth-shattering secrets. These days, they are still looking for a breakthrough and trying to attack the island.

When Zhang Chu led the fleet to Liuheng Island, Zheng Zhilong was still circling around the island.

Now Zheng Zhilong's men and horses have more than 500 ships, while Zhang Chu only has more than 50 ships, and the difference in the number of ships between the two sides is ten times, and this battle is not easy to fight. If Zhang Chu drove the fleet into Liuheng Island, Zheng Zhilong would be blocked in the harbor, and the entire fleet would lose its mobility, and the war would be protracted. This is very bad for Zhang Chu, he still has too many enemies to deal with.

Zhang Chu decided to take a risk this time and maneuver with Zheng Zhilong at sea.

Zhang Chu ordered all the ships in the fleet except for the four sail warships to stay away from the battlefield first, waiting for the opportunity to sail into the harbor of Liuheng Island, and even Yue Yue was arranged to evacuate together. Zhang Chu had to lead four sail warships alone to take on Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

Zheng Zhilong was circling around Liuheng Island, when suddenly a signal came from the ship on guard on the periphery, and a Western warship sailed over.

"The Westerners came in and caused some trouble, and sent people over to drive them away." Although Zheng Zhilong didn't listen to what the white Westerners were doing, he didn't want to be interfered with by others. Although the Westerners' warships are not easy to deal with, Zheng Zhilong is not afraid. He had already had experience in fighting the Dutch, and he could defeat them by sending small ships and attacking them with fire.

Zheng Zhilong decided to send forty or fifty small boats over, and the Western ships would naturally flee when they saw that they were about to be besieged.

The small fleet sent by Zheng Zhilong went straight to a Western warship that was close to him and surrounded it. This is China's coastal waters, and the Zheng fleet, relying on its numerical superiority, feels that the Western ship will not turn around and leave. The distance between the two sides narrowed, and the Western ship turned around, but it did not leave, and used the side of the ship to hedge the Zheng family's small fleet and sailed towards the oblique spur.

The pirates of the Zheng family were thinking that this Western ship was really Laipi, and it seemed that they didn't want to run far, so they went over and lit a few fires on it for a while to see if he ran or not. The pirates didn't have to think too much, the gun windows on the side of the Western battleship suddenly opened, the cannon port of the black hole stretched out, and then the fire flickered, the huge cannon sound came, dozens of cannonballs fell on the pirate's fleet, and some unlucky pirate ships were hit by cannonballs in the first round of shelling, because the ship was small, the huge cannonball went straight through the bottom of the ship from the deck, and the bottom of the boat suddenly broke a big hole, and the ship entered the water, and it was difficult to move.

"Rush up and burn them." The pirates were furious, and this Western ship was too ignorant to lift up, and dared to fire at the Zheng family's fleet in this place. The pirates decided to take advantage of the gap between the artillery fires to rush over and set fire to the Western warship.

As soon as the pirates rushed forward, the second round of shelling of the Western warships in front of them began. This time, thanks to the reference of the first round of data, the ship's artillery fired more accurately. A dozen pirate convoys were hit, and the crews wounded by the shells let out cries of pain.

The Western warship that fired the cannon was Zhang Chu's flagship "Caiyun". Zhang Chu ordered the other three sail warships to lie in ambush in the distance, and he himself took the "Caiyun" to tease the Zheng family's fleet.

The "Caiyun" used its speed and agility to keep a short distance from the pirate ship, constantly attacking with artillery. The ones sent by Zheng Zhilong to drive the "Caiyun" were all small boats, there were no large guns on board, and they were only passively beaten at a long distance, and a few small boats desperately accelerated close to the "Caiyun" and were about to go up and set fire, but the ship's artillery smashed the ship to pieces.

And the "Caiyun" is not just to take advantage of such a small advantage, it has always maintained a distance from the pirate ship, and the pirate ship that will be pursued in the future is shrouded in the range of artillery, and then the pirate's vitality is constantly consumed with intensive artillery fire.

Seeing that he was beaten but could not catch up with the enemy ship, the pirate leader in the small boat fleet who came to pursue him immediately sent someone to report the situation to Zheng Zhibao and asked him to increase his military strength.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but be furious when he heard the report, he was annoyed that he couldn't capture Liuheng Island. At this time, the Western warships came to make trouble again, Zheng Zhilong gave an order to leave a small number of ships to monitor Liuheng Island, and he took all the warships to drive in the direction where the cannon fire was constantly heard. (To be continued.) )