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"Mr. Shimazu, I wonder what you think?" Turning his head to Shimazu Hirayama, he said.

"Your Excellency King Yanping, I have a question I want you to tell the truth!"

"Please!" Zheng Jing nodded.

"With Your Excellency's strength, even if these five warships are a real British fleet, Your Excellency will have no problem dealing with them, so why do you need to bring us along?"

"Who said these little people are stupid, but now they seem to be very shrewd!" Zheng Jing muttered in his heart, and said to Shimazu Hirayama with a smile: "What Mr. Shimazu said is very right, with our strength, there is indeed no problem in dealing with the Geng family, which lacks a naval army. But we still have a strong enemy around us, you know this, we can't lead a large army to rush out, so Mr. Shimazu --- these five battleships"

Shimazu Hirayama: "Of course I'm very interested! Such a great opportunity, if I let it go, wouldn't I regret it? ”

Zheng Jing was overjoyed: "Hahaha, that's good, without further ado, we will set off tomorrow morning with the whole army, taking advantage of the Geng family's lack of preparation and not yet training as a sailor, and capture these five warships in one fell swoop!" Drink, please! ”

On the surface of the sea, a dense group of nearly 100 warships sailed towards Fuzhou, including 33 pirate ships led by Shimazu Hirayama and 60 Zhengjia warships, including four large warships. With the skills of these pirates and Zheng family sailors who have been adrift on the sea all year round, there is really no need to take the landlubber Geng family in their eyes. The sea, or they have the final say.

"Report to Lord Liu, the brothers who went to investigate and investigate reported that the Geng family really sent people to patrol the sea, they were all small fast boats, and the brothers couldn't catch up. However, it was useless to find an ambush where he passed. ”

"Okay, explore again! The whole army was ordered to stop, investigate clearly, and then enter the estuary. Liu Guoxuan clapped his hands and ordered.

"General Liu, you're too worried, just rely on the group of landlubbers of the Geng family, how do they know about water warfare! You have to stop, I'm going to attack first! "Shimazu Hirayama is very confident in his own strength and can't wait to attack immediately; According to his agreement with Zheng Jing, there was one second-class battleship for each person, and whoever contributed more of the three battleships of the third-level would get one more. This is a large warship, and he only has two in total now, how can he not make him blush.

"Well, Mr. Shimazu, let's do it together!" Liu Guoxuan pretended to be perfunctory, and before leaving, he had already discussed letting the pirates take the lead, so that they could try the strength of the Geng family, and it was best to lose both sides and eat them all in one fell swoop. Therefore, the tone has changed a lot, and he doesn't look down on pirates.

Shimazu Hirayama couldn't control it so much, and immediately ordered the pirate group to speed up.

To reach Mawei Port, you need to enter from the mouth of the Min River and pass through a narrow waterway. The shape of the waterway in Mawei Port resembles a T-junction, and foreign ships only need to turn left to enter.

When Zheng Jing's fleet had just appeared off the coast of Fuzhou, the early warning ships sent by Geng Jingzhong to patrol the sea discovered it, so they immediately fled back and lit wolf smoke to warn.

Geng Jingzhong received the report and immediately ordered the whole army to be on alert, enter their positions, and prepare to meet the enemy. He took the guards to the small hillside to observe.

Because Geng Jingzhong ordered all the forts to be camouflaged and covered with layers of rattan, the pirates sailing on the surface did not find any abnormalities, and still laughed at the Geng family for being landlubbers and not understanding water warfare at all.

"Sure enough, it's fierce! He really looks up to me, and as soon as he came up, he had thirty or forty warships. Geng Jingzhong held up the telescope he bought from Europe and carefully observed the enemy's movements. Now this kind of telescope is monocular, Geng Er bought two hundred in one go, and now it comes in handy.

Although it was evening, the weather was still relatively hot, and all the hidden soldiers were motionless, although there was grass and trees to shade them, but their clothes were still wet with sweat, and their foreheads were full of sweat.

From the direction of the mouth of the Min River, a number of warships slowly sailed out, all of them were two in parallel, the leader was two large ships, and the cannons on both sides of the warships were spread all over the sides, which looked very majestic. And Geng Jingzhong's warships, except for the five warships that had just been bought, were like the difference between a puppy and an elephant.

Huang Dazhong, who was next to him, also held a telescope and said strangely: "Shizi, this doesn't seem to be the Zheng family's sailor!" It's a skull flag, it's a fucking pirate! Look, there are still many Westerners! ”

Geng Jingzhong nodded and continued to observe: "Don't worry, wait for them to enter the predetermined position before firing, and honestly wait for Steve's order!" ”。 He was also very strange, why did he suddenly come back to pirates!

Indeed, judging by the flag on the mast, it was indeed a pirate warship. It seems that the pirates may have heard about their possession of five warships and came to rob them; Maybe it's just a coincidence, just want to go to the vicinity of Fuzhou to loot. Whatever the reason, since it was bumped into, there is no reason to let it go.

Several other fort guards also noticed the difference, not the Zheng family's sailors, and some old Fujian sailors on the battleship recognized this as the Japanese Shimazu's pirate regiment, but everyone did not act rashly, and they were all waiting for the order of the commander Captain Steve.

As the fleet got closer and closer, most of the soldiers could vaguely see the people on the enemy ship, not only the Orientals, but also many Westerners on the enemy ship. Just like the Westerners in their own five warships right now. At the same time, everyone looked at the skull flag, and two words came out of their hearts: "Pirate!" ”。

"Damn, the little pirates also came to pick up the tiger's whiskers, it's really boring!" Wang Zhenbang, deputy commander of the navy, waved his fist with hatred, in the past 20 days, he has urged soldiers to practice water skills and train artillery talents every day, tired like dogs, and finally have some results, and the practice of these skills was originally intended to be used to deal with the Zheng family sailors, but I didn't expect the Zheng family sailors to appear, and the pirates came, which made him feel overkill.

Through the binoculars, Geng Jingzhong can clearly see that the two big ships at the beginning are shaped like Ming Dynasty style lucky ships, but there are some differences, and I don't know which country built them, but there are a lot of cannons on both sides, about forty or fifty guns, and the few ships that follow behind are not too small, about half of the two ships at the beginning, each with about 30 cannons; In the middle are the two treasures of Shimazu Hirayama. Behind them are some large merchant ships converted into armed merchant ships. The thirty or so ships were all heavily armed. The cannons on all the ships combined amounted to more than four hundred cannons. Although it is not clear what the caliber of these cannons is, there are quite a lot of them!

If Geng Jingzhong hadn't built a fort for defense at the beginning, with so many cannons, it would be enough to sink five battleships that lacked sailors at one time. Geng Jingzhong couldn't help wiping his sweat, and he didn't know if it was too hot or he was too nervous, but fortunately he had made arrangements to build the fort earlier, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

After more than 20 days of working day and night, these forts can be described as exceptionally strong. The entire Mawei port was covered with artillery, and there were 600 of them! Since Geng Jingzhong was not ready to let the five battleships go into battle, he decided to dismantle all the cannons on the battleships for emergency. In this way, there were 300 cannons, plus the 200 newly purchased from Europe and the city of Fuzhou and the Tiger Army, for a total of 600 cannons. Among them, there are 80 Hongyi cannons with the most power.

Originally, Geng Jingzhong could not produce Hongyi cannons, and it was not until the production and quality of copper and iron increased greatly that some were made, and most of them were bought from Europe. Now only the imperial court and Europeans can make Hongyi cannons. The imperial court will not give a lot of cannons to Geng Jingzhong, and of course it is impossible to sell them to Zheng Jing in Taiwan. It was even more difficult for pirates to get their hands on the Hongyi cannons, and even if they often robbed merchant ships, there were only a few small-caliber cannons on them. Since the beginning of the fight against Zheng Chenggong, Taiwan and the Dutch have gone to war, and the Zheng family has no new source of Hongyi cannons, but occasionally they can buy a few sporadic ones from merchants from other countries, and the price is extremely expensive. If the pirates want to buy the Hongyi cannon, then forget it.

When Zhang Zhun was holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe the enemy ship, on top of the enemy ship, there were also people observing the movements around Mawan. On the No. 2 Fu boat on the left, Sun Ronglu was staring at the coastline of Fushan City with hatred on his face, with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth.

The pirate group that sailed into the harbor was also constantly observing the surrounding situation, and since the fort was well hidden, the pirates did not have so many binoculars, so it was useless to detect anomalies. Slowly, five huge British battleships appeared in the telescope of Shimazu Hirayama. What made him even more overjoyed was that he found no cannon on the battleship in the telescope! Could it be that Geng Jingzhong dismantled all the artillery and armed his army? Thinking of this, Shimazu Hirayama felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling. This is simply a gift from Amaterasu.

"Speed up, pounce, and take the ship!"

"The first to take down the battleship will reward the woman!"

Shimazu took the initiative to ignore that the favorable time and place at this time were very unfavorable for their attack, it was evening at this moment, the sun had not yet set, and their guns were mostly facing the west, and under the light of the setting sun, the gunners could not see clearly at all.

The pirates are also going crazy, and for them, stealing things is the most exciting thing for them! Not to mention the fact that there are many bounties and women!

"Coax!" "Coax!" "Coax!" The three sounds, like the starting gun of a track and field competition, turned out to be Steve's order gun.

Then, one by one, the turrets were revealed, and the muzzles of the black holes showed their hideousness.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

One after another, the sound of artillery rang out, and hundreds of shells, whizzing, smashed towards their respective targets. Suddenly, Shimazu's warships were immediately attacked, and the warships that were in the front and the back of the front and the back of the focus were blinded by the first salvo and stopped there.