When it comes to naval battles, almost all that can be remembered in history are painful memories, from the Opium War to the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, China has always played the role of a vanquished.

But in fact, China's navy was also once the world's powerhouse -- not to mention the years when Zheng He went to the West, it is said that during the Chongzhen period, the European maritime hegemons at that time tried in vain to get their hands on China, and they fought with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty, which was already crumbling, fought hard in the case of inferior weapons. The end result was that the Dutch were crushed and driven out of East Asia.

Just when Zhang Zhang led his troops into the customs and fought a series of battles with Jiannu, the Dutch governor of Taiwan, Putmans, led thirteen Dutch warships to launch an attack on the coast of the Ming Dynasty in a surprise attack.

The Dutch proposed that the Chinese side immediately stop trade with Spain, Portugal and other countries, and only trade with the Dutch alone, otherwise there would be an immediate war!

This kind of unreasonable request, "I Daqing" estimated that he would agree to it, but unfortunately it was sternly rejected by the Ming Dynasty.

On 12 October, Fujian Governor Zou Weilian took Zheng Zhilong's military group as the main force and actively prepared for the battle. When Zheng Zhilong was actively preparing for the war, the Dutch did not dare to slack off, and they recruited the great pirate Liu Xiang as reinforcements. Liu Xiang brought more than 50 warships.

History will always remember this day - the sixth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, on October 22, the Battle of Liuluo Bay officially broke out.

This was a sea battle that had a far-reaching impact at the time, no less than the later battles of "Pearl Harbor", "Midway" and so on.

Zheng Zhilong's main force of 150 warships, which had received reliable information, quietly sailed to the mouth of Liaoluo Bay in the south of Kinmen Island, where all the main forces of the Dutch Liu Xiang Combined Fleet were moored. When it was discovered that the Ming army was coming. The fleet of Holyurians set up a defensive formation with a Dutch warship in the center and the pirate ships scattered in all directions. The Ming fleet was deployed in the southeast corner of Liaoluo Bay, with Zheng Zhilong's troops as the vanguard. Shun Dongfeng adopted the tactics of two assaults. According to the prior arrangement, the main forces of the Ming army all went straight to the Dutch fleet, and only auxiliary forces were used to deal with the pirate ships. At the same time, they adopted the tactics of a sea of fire that had never been seen in the European theater. Among the 150 warships of the Ming army, only 50 were gunboats, and the remaining 100 small boats were all fireboats.

After a commotion. Of all the large Dutch warships that took part in the battle, two were caught and burned by fireships as soon as the battle began, the other two were sunk in the artillery battle, one more was captured, and the rest fled after being heavily damaged. Fifty Liu Xiang warships participated in the battle, and all the troops were destroyed.

The main force of the Ming State Navy Division is the Zheng Zhilong Pirate Group - well, no, Zheng Dudu has already been recruited by the imperial court. It should be called Zheng Zhilong Naval Group.

The Zheng Manor in Nan'an Mansion, Fujian Province has spent a lot of money to celebrate these days, just to congratulate the head of the family, Zheng Zhilong, on such a big victory, and will not run rampant in the Far East in the future?

It's just that on top of this noisy feast of celebration for days. There was one person who frowned - everyone was really drunk and I was awake, and she was the only one who knew what was going to happen!

To put it bluntly, the Dutch only came with more than a dozen warships. Through the news from the Catholic Church, she knew that the king of the Netherlands had become furious. Ships are being requisitioned from mainland Europe and South America to fight to the death with the enemy in the Far East!

The focus of Europeans has never been on the Far East. Therefore, after the defeat of the light enemy in Luowan, the whole of Europe immediately hated the enemy, and the British, who heard that they were fighting with the Netherlands, also came up to sign an armistice treaty with the Netherlands, and vowed to teach this group of mud legs in the Far East a lesson!

She originally came to Zheng's house for Tang Ruowang, because Tang Ruowang was currently casting cannons for Zheng Zhilong - because Tang Ruowang had not yet completed the cannon casting, her trip was also delayed.

When Zheng Zhilong heard that she was the daughter of Lord Xu Guangqi Xu, he was immediately in awe and treated her as a guest. Because Zheng Zhilong is also a Catholic, he also has a special name in Catholicism, called Nicholas - this is seen in historical records, so Zheng Zhilong can also be called Nicholas o Zheng ......

And "she" is naturally Xu Jingping, who has not appeared for a long time.

Zheng Zhilong's wife is Japanese, surnamed Tagawa, no name, generally known as Tagawa. Because at the beginning of Zheng Zhilong's career, he ate mixed rice in Japan, and followed the big pirate Li Dan at that time. Speaking of Zheng Zhilong's family history, I can't finish talking about it for three days and three nights, anyway, everyone knows that his wife is Japanese.

Sadly, unlike "I am in the Qing Dynasty", at least in the Ming Dynasty, Japan was a "small country", which can be equated with Somalia and Afghanistan in later generations......

My mother's family is not strong! Therefore, the Tamura family was ostracized in the Zheng family, especially Zheng Zhilong's second aunt Tai Liu, who was a native of Nan'an, Fujian, and also had a son under her knees.

Liu became friends with Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhihu, as if they had formed an alliance of interests......

In the afternoon of this day, Xu Jingping was taking a lunch break in the wing room, and when she was half-asleep and half-awake, she suddenly heard a "swish" sound in her ears! Xu Jingping was not asleep in the first place, so she immediately rolled over from the bed, and when she raised her eyes, she saw a note nailed to the table with a small dagger.

Xu Jingping hurriedly walked to the table, took off the note and looked at it, frowning tightly.

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The weather in Liaodong is getting colder and colder, and the first heavy snow of this winter is quietly coming, and the entire Jinzhou City is shrouded in a white vastness.

In the month when the Tuanshan Army rested, the Tuanshan Army Art Troupe began the Liaodong tour, and the head of the troupe, Liu Ru, took his literary and art workers to Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou, Haizhou and other places.

And Zhang Zhang also attended the theatrical performance in Jinzhou City, and then enjoyed a rare leisure time and spent a rare reunion time with his family.

said it was a reunion, but in fact, there was one less person - Xu Jingping. Zhang Li's daughter came to Jinzhou City with Zhenru Jushi last month, and Zhang Zhang gave her a nickname called Nannan, and now she is already Song Xiuniang's pearl.

At noon on this day, Zhang Li accompanied Ruochen to enjoy the plum blossoms in the flower hall of the inner house. The two sat opposite each other in front of a small desk, on which there was a pot of warm wine, and the Ling'er girl who was waiting on the side kept fanning the charcoal fire, and the flower hall did not feel cold.

Zhang Liman poured a glass of wine, toasted Ruo Chen, and said with a smile: "Ruo Chen, we haven't enjoyed flowers and drank like this for a long time. Come, I'll toast you. ”

Ruochen smiled and raised his small wine glass, hid his face and drank it all, and a trace of blush suddenly flew on his face.

After drinking this glass of wine, Ruochen asked in a low voice, "Husband, I know that Jingping has written to you." What is in her letter? ”

After a pause, the flush on Ruochen's face turned even redder: "You don't think that I will eat Sister Jingping's vinegar, right?" (To be continued.) )