After discussion, Zhu Houwei continued to travel south with seven boats, while one boat carried soldiers who were not accustomed to water and soil to follow the Li family's fleet to the north and go to Hangzhou. To be precise, head to Maji Island in Hangzhou Bay.

Maji Island is the Li family's private island in Hangzhou Bay, where the Li family's families live, and it is also a transit point for the Li family's maritime transactions. It is less than 50 kilometers away from the mainland, so it can not only cover up the fact that Tianjin's water and land camp is going south, but it is also relatively safe with the current attitude of the Li family. The supplies are relatively sufficient and suitable for the patient's recuperation, and as for the doctors, there are several military doctors who accompany the ship.

Yang Xien took the two of them on Zhu Yuan's flagship, guiding the sea route while introducing the surrounding sea area.

Zhu Houwei was more interested in the naval battle a few days ago, so he specially asked Yang Xien for this. Yang Xien sighed, with pride and a little sadness in his eyes, and said, "Our Li family lives by the sea, and has been taking the routes of Hangzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou. This time, I happened to return to Hangzhou from Guangzhou, and found pirates near Penghu County (in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming people of Taiwan moved to the mainland one after another, but Penghu County was not revoked, and still set up a patrol department). Speaking of which, this Wang Quan and my Li family have had festivals before, and once attacked our fleet. So my young lady immediately ordered a battle with Wang Quan. ”

"Female?" Zhu Houwei was surprised. Yang Xien nodded calmly. At this moment, Zhu Houwei and Zhu Yuan were curious about the main road of the Li family's female family. Zhu Houwei suddenly thought of something: "Is there a female official in the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Yuan immediately replied, "Not counting the border toast, not yet." Zhu Houwei continued to ask, "Then why did she become the admiral, and how many rank officials is the admiral?" ”

Yang Xien and Zhu Yuan's faces were stunned, especially Zhu Yuan, who had an urge to cover his face. So he whispered, "Second Young Master, the Admiral is not an official name. Zhu Houwei suddenly realized. In fact, he is not to blame, the official name of the admiral was not until Jiajing, and during the Longqing period, he later became the highest military attache of a province in the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the admiral is similar to an outsider, not an official name, but an honorific title.

Zhu Houwei was also thick-skinned, and smiled at Yang Xien, "Go on." Yang Xien had no choice but to continue, "The battle lasted until dusk, our fleet had fewer ships, and there were not as many people as Wang Quan. Zhu Houwei nodded when he heard this, Yang Xien pursued the Japanese Kou this time, and brought a total of five boats, the largest is a Dafu boat, and the others are two No. 2 Fu boats and two Cangshan boats. This is already close to one-third of the strength of the Li family's fleet.

"But then we noticed another fleet of pirates coming from the north. The former head of the Li family died at the hands of the Japanese invaders, so despite the dissuasion, the young lady resolutely divided half of the fleet to fight the Japanese invaders. Although the sea is wide enough, the tripartite fleet is very chaotic. At night, although the battle did not continue, everyone lit the brazier and stood guard. And so it came the next morning, and the battle was fought again. It wasn't until the afternoon that we learned that Wang Quan had run south with a few boats in the middle of the night. At this time, we were not strong enough to send ships in pursuit, so we concentrated our forces on fighting the remaining pirates and pirates. Eventually, the pirates escaped. My young lady decided to split up and continue the pursuit. Miss personally led the team south to catch Wang Quan, and I fought if I could, and when I couldn't catch them, I just drove them away. It's just that I didn't expect that as soon as the Heavenly Army arrived, it would generally solve this group of Japanese robbers, which was really unexpected. ”

After listening to it, Zhu Houwei also understood a little. Not to mention anything else, the Li family's fleet is still quite good at sea. Among the three parties, there are few Li family boats, but they can defeat the pirates of the two sides, listening to Yang Xien's tone, although there are some losses, but it is not to the point of breaking the muscles and bones.

As the three of them spoke, the fleet had arrived near Penghu, the place where the naval battle had been fought a few days earlier. Through the glass of the captain's room, you can see some planks and debris floating on the sea, but most of them are corpses. The scene at sea is extremely bloody, as sharks are snatching food from the bloody sharks nearby. The Li family didn't have time to clean the sea before, so it was the fifth day, and no one came to disturb the sharks to enjoy the feast.

Zhu Houwei asked with a calm face, "Are there any of you people here?" Yang Xien shook his head, "Although it is a life at sea, no one wants to end up in the sea unless it is absolutely necessary." Except for those who couldn't really find it, all of our people were brought to the island for cremation. Then take it back and leave a prayer for your family. He stopped talking about this, and he was really not very interested.

The captain's room was quiet all of a sudden, and suddenly, Zhu Houwei stood up and held on to the glass, "Although you are not a good person, you can't just watch being eaten." Give the order to fire the cannon and scare these sharks away. ”

Zhu Yuan nodded, and then walked out to give the order. Yang Xien looked at the young Zhu Houwei with a somewhat complicated mood. In a short time, the shells of the fleet fell on this sea area. This time, grapeshots were used, and when they were launched, they swept a large area. Then dozens of sharks were seen floating in the sea with their white bellies. But this didn't frighten the rest of the sharks, the more gore only made the guys more excited, and they ate not only other species, but also the carcasses of their own kind.

Zhu Houwei took a sip of tea at this time and closed his eyes to recuperate. Yang Xien changed the topic at this time: "I don't know when the imperial court actually had such a good ship." It seems that we have been in Jiangnan all the time, and we know too little about this world. ”

Zhu Houwei opened his eyes and glanced at Yang Xien, and said lightly, "The royal Tianjin shipyard is built, and warships like this are supplied to the Tianjin land and water battalion and the Dengzhou battalion. As soon as the words fell, Yang Xien's eyes flashed with a bit of pity. For veterans of the sea, the superiority of these ships can be seen at once. Not to mention speed and flexibility, just the matching firepower made Yang Xien happy to see the hunting, and he couldn't wait to buy it immediately. But such a precious thing is not something that the people can have, which can be said to be a weapon of the country. If the Li family had this kind of warship, who else would be the Li family's opponent in the Ming coastal area, and even in other sea areas, except for the Tianjin water and land camp and the Dengzhou camp. Yang Shanen also saw the shotgun shooting just now, just like this, a large piece, if it hits the deck of the enemy ship, then there will be a few people left. This distance is not comparable to the bow bed crossbow, coupled with the solid bullet to hit the ship, this Ming coastal seems to be about to change. So as soon as Zhu Houwei's words were finished, Yang Xien also calmed down.

After three rounds of cannons, the sea was basically calm, and the carcasses of various fish were about to spread over the sea. Yang Xien thought to himself, "This is also a good way to fish." If Zhu Houwei knew what Yang Xien was thinking, he would definitely pull his collar and ask loudly, "Do you know how much silver this cannon is?" Can you get back those broken fish and shrimp? ”

The fleet continued southward, and it was not yet known where it was going to stop, which had already passed the strait.