In early May, the Houjin 20,000 troops launched a rapid attack on the Guanning army and Jinzhou City again, and the Guanning army, which had just completed the supply of food and materials, closed the city gate and refused to fight, allowing the Houjin cavalry to plunder the 100-mile-long and wide Liaodong corridor, watching more than 50,000 innocent people being escorted by the vicious Tartars to the hinterland of Liaodong, which was in urgent need of labor, while the 50,000 main forces led by Huang Taiji himself quietly went west to conquer the Mongolian tribes.

When the emergency report came, Zhu Daolin and his wife Chu Mei were inspecting the ever-changing Qingdao base, and before Zhu Daolin could discuss with the generals around him how to deal with it, another important news came from the south:

"The combined fleet of the Zheng family and government at all levels in Fujian Province sailed to the waters of Nanao 10 days ago in an attempt to intercept the surging Dutch fleet, and the two sides confronted each other in the South China Sea. The envoy sent by Zheng Zhilong to Tamsui Port for help was reluctant to leave with tears in his eyes, and sent officials together with the governor of Fujian Province to report to the imperial court quickly! ”

When Zhu Daolin heard the news, he was so excited that he clenched his fists and roared loudly, what he was waiting for was this opportunity that could not be encountered, so regardless of whether the generals under his command understood or not, he immediately issued an order to continue to monitor Liaodong and keep his troops moving, and then took all the generals and colonels accompanying the sailors, and rushed south to Baoshan Port, gathering more than 40 warships and transport ships of the East China Sea Fleet that had been training intensively, and sailing to Yingzhou Tamsui Port.

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On 18 May, the huge fleet led by Zhu Daolin arrived in Tamsui and learned that the combined fleet of Fujian Province and the Dutch fleet had engaged in a fierce battle 10 days earlier, and that the combined fleet of Fujian Province had suffered heavy losses but did not retreat from the battle.

Today, Zheng Zhilong still leads more than 60 large warships and hundreds of small warships of various types, occupying the favorable terrain of Nanao Island, and every day hundreds of large and small transport ships from all over Fujian Province are loaded with supplies to the south to support Zheng Zhilong's fleet and fight to the death against the regrouped Dutch.

Zhu Daolin, who had been premeditated for a long time, no longer cared about the notoriety of "fighting in the same room," "falling into a well," and "being despicable and shameless stabbing in the back," and within three days he gathered the strength of two marine divisions and two-thirds of the superior warships, regardless of it. Murderously pounced on the port of Quanzhou, where the troops were empty.

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Early in the morning of May 26th.

The surprise attack fleet led by Zhu Daolin rushed out of the morning fog and suddenly appeared outside Quanzhou Port, launching a fierce artillery bombardment on the wharf of Quanzhou Port, where the siren was suddenly sounding.

Yang Dading, the commander-in-chief of the Yingzhou Army, personally led 8,000 soldiers and stepped on the sound of artillery. Rushing to the beach, the troops were divided into five routes, and killed the military camp, shipyard, command yamen, city ship division and Quanzhou government under the control of the Zheng family.

Zhu Daolin led more than a dozen 800-ton armed merchant ships and Sun Siqi's Third Marine Division to swim against the current and rushed straight to Zheng Chenggong's old nest Nan'an, and rushed into the defenseless and terrified Nan'an City in the evening of the same day.

After two hours of fierce fighting, more than 600 members of the Zheng family, including Zheng Chenggong's wife and concubines, and his wishes, captured all the members of the Zheng family's lineage, and plundered the tens of millions of property that the Zheng family had accumulated for more than ten years.

Subsequently, Zhu Daolin ignored Nan'an City, where the corpses were strewn all over the place, and there was no resistance. Immediately escorted hundreds of hostages to collect troops and board the ship, went down the river, and returned to the port of Quanzhou, which had been occupied by the Yingzhou army and was still searching and looting.

In the early morning of the next day, under the strong opposition of the generals, Zhu Daolin had no choice but to give up his plan to personally lead the fleet to the south to fight, and escorted the hostages of the Zheng family and more than 4,500 taels of gold and silver under the escort of four armed merchant ships, and returned to Tamsui Port.

More than 60 capital warships and 15 were led by dozens of generals and colonels, including Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Simeno, Commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Bagas, and Deputy Commander Li Changlong. 000 soldiers quickly went south and attacked Zheng Zhilong's fleet at the end of the strong crossbow from behind.

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May 28. Midday.

Zheng Zhilong, who was shocked by the bad news, was forced to engage the East China Sea Fleet that was killing from behind before he had time to assemble the fleet and set up a formation.

The more than 60 warships of the East China Sea Fleet, which had come prepared, did not pay attention to the hastily assembled Fujian Province Combined Fleet at all, and rushed to the Zheng flagship behind hundreds of chaotic ships at high speed in a conical array.

More than several times the heavy artillery fire of the Dutch fleet. Soon, it showed accurate and efficient strike power, sinking and damaging more than 50 large and small enemy ships in less than half an hour, and rushed towards Zheng Zhilong's flagship without hindrance.

Under the relentless blows of intensive artillery fire and rounds of roaring high-power rockets, the Fujian Provincial Combined Fleet, which was in a hurry to respond to the battle, continued to shatter and burn.

A dozen daring arsonists were brutally hit by a rain of high-explosive rockets, bow revolving guns, and a dense rain of flintlock bullets before they could approach the ships of the East China Sea Fleet within 200 meters. The sea was littered with burning ships, crumbling planks and countless corpses.

In less than half an hour, the surviving ships that were scattered could no longer care about Zheng Zhilong's so-called strict military discipline and high rewards, and rushed to escape from this hellish battlefield.

Zheng Zhilong, who had been shouting angrily but was unable to return to the sky, finally gave the surviving warship an order to flee south with tears in his eyes under the kneeling and begging of a group of clan brothers and the generals around him.

Who knew that as soon as the bow of the ship was turned and the sails were pulled, more than 40 Dutch warships that had disappeared for a long time appeared on the sea ten miles to the south, slowly opening up like a school of sharks smelling blood, completely blocking the escape route of Zheng Zhilong's remnants.

A sea battle involving more than 130 sail warships from the three sides kicked off.

After six hours of scuffle, the Battle of South Australia came to an end.

The combined fleet of Fujian Province led by Zheng Zhilong was completely annihilated under the attack from the north and south, more than 700 warships of all sizes were sunk or burned, and more than 8,000 officers and men were killed at sea.

The surviving tens of thousands of soldiers and more than 300 small and medium-sized warships were either captured by the East China Sea Fleet or fled to the vast sea, more than a dozen generals and colonels such as Zheng Zhibao, the fierce general of the Zheng family, were all killed in battle, and Shi Lang and other seven surrendered generals were shot by Li Changlong, deputy commander of the East China Sea Fleet, who had already received Zhu Daolin's secret order.

The desperate Zheng Zhilong killed himself before being captured, and all thirteen remaining warships, including the flagship, were captured, and the Zheng family, which had been crisscrossing the southeast waters of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, was wiped out.

The Dutch fleet was sunk and burned 11 warships, more than 20 ships were damaged, and more than 1,000 casualties were lost.

The East China Sea Fleet also paid the price of seven warships damaged, 12 warships wounded and more than 2,000 officers and men killed and wounded, but in exchange for the tranquility of Daming coastal defense, it brought immeasurable huge benefits and strategic advantages to the group.

Yingzhou Island, which is attacked on three sides, has since become the most solid barrier and development base of Daming coastal defense.

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PS: This chapter may be very controversial, but if the Zheng armed group is not eradicated, it will be difficult for Zhu Daolin to build Yingzhou Island with peace of mind, and it will continue to leak advanced shipbuilding technology, and the consequences are unpredictable. (To be continued.) )