Zheng Zhilong has always appreciated this nephew, but Zheng Cai's performance in the past few days has made him a little disappointed. First of all, the naval battle excuse is that he can't go to sea because of illness, and this point will not be pursued for the time being, even if his face is ruddy now, it does not mean that his illness is fake. But Zheng Cai actually opposed his own troops to the north, which was very different from his previous advocacy that he had always flamboyant. Zheng Zhilong felt that he couldn't figure out what his nephew was thinking.

Li Xin reversed his word, Ben Shuai had already sent the deputy general from the Zhejiang clan to negotiate according to his words, and he still brought Ben Shuai's envoy back. If you don't give him some color to see, it will make them think that we are very strong and have to ask for them. Tell me, if you don't send troops, will you still be able to endure it? ”

Facing Zheng Zhilong's questioning, Zhengcai pondered for a while: "Li Xin's reliance is nothing more than the Pingbo fleet he has, as long as our sailors completely annihilate it at sea, we don't worry that he will not obey." After all, once a full-scale war starts, it will also cost my Zheng family a lot of money. ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded, this statement is also said in the past, Zhengcai did advocate a decisive battle with the Pingbo fleet at sea before, as long as the other party's dependent sailors are eliminated, the Three Guards will be in a passive situation everywhere along the coast. At that time, it is true that a certain degree of advantage can be obtained, but after all, it is too slow to laugh.

After more than a month of mutual testing, especially after the annihilation of the Three Guards in the Shaowu area, Zheng Zhilong has already realized that the Three Guards are not as powerful as the outside world promotes.

Zheng Zhilong has a habit that once he makes up his mind, he will not change it easily, so Zheng Cai's persuasion is useless, he even persuaded Zheng Cai in turn, after teaching a lesson, Xu felt that his tone was too harsh, so he lowered his voice again.

"I heard that you have a cold fever recently, you must rest well and take care of your body before you can go into battle to kill the enemy. After waiting for a few days, the good news came back, you came to Ben Shuai to eat and drink! ”

Zheng Zhilong rarely takes the initiative to invite his generals to drink, and the restrictions on the children and nephews of the clan are even stricter, not to mention that the etiquette is strict, and uncles and nephews are never allowed to drink at the same table, but the attitude of showing value is already about to come out. Zheng Cai immediately made a sincere fear, "The handsome man is very loving, how can he make the handsome treat each other like this?" Shame until, shame until! ”

At this time, Zheng Zhilong further slowed down his tone, "Hey, you and I are both in the army and blood relatives, aren't we comparable to ordinary people?" ”

Since Zheng Zhilong took the initiative to mention the relationship between the two of them as uncle and nephew, of course Zheng Cai couldn't refute his face, so he said respectfully: "Since the uncle has a life, Zheng Cai'an dares not to obey!" ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled: "That's right, we are all people at sea, we don't pay attention to those cumbersome etiquette, only talk about intimacy." ”

Having said all this, what else can Zheng Cai say, he can only obey Zheng Zhilong's arrangement.

The news of the victory came quickly and suddenly, and only seven days later, the news of the victory returned to Anping from the north. The Japanese invaded the Wenzhou Prefecture and Pingyang County, and the Zheng family soldiers crossed the border to recover the lost land one after another, and the first stop was victorious.

After the good news came back, the whole house was jubilant, but they didn't expect the victory to come so smoothly and so suddenly. Next, their key target is located in the important Wenzhou City, once the Wenzhou City is taken, it will inevitably cause irreparable shocks to the top and bottom, and it is not so easy for Li Xin to recover the situation.

Because in Zheng Zhilong's plan, the parallel development of land and water is a complementary relationship. Victory in the land battle must be consolidated by naval battles, otherwise it will not be solid, and it may be pulled back by the Three Guards at any time. I don't know where his sailor is now.

Zheng Lian, as the commander of the naval division, has been cruising the sea off Wenzhou and Taizhou for more than ten days, according to reliable information, the Pingbo fleet has appeared here frequently, if it is not for a fake storm that delayed their formation, maybe the dust on the sea at this moment has already settled.

Now, they had to travel from island to island, looking for the whereabouts of the Pingbo fleet. Zheng Lian had full confidence in the upcoming war, and heard that the predecessor of the Pingfan fleet was a detachment of the Dutch, which was captured alive by Li Xin and the ship, and after being transformed, it became the current Pingbo fleet. Its combat effectiveness can be imagined, and it is no stronger than it was with the Dutch. The Dutch, on the other hand, had become the defeated men of his Zheng family more than once, and there was nothing to fear or worry about at all.

Now the only thing he Zheng Lian needs to do is to find the Pingbo fleet in the vast sea, and then destroy them.

However, when Zheng Lian led the fleet to Funing, Fujian Province to replenish supplies, he passed by the waters of Taishan Island and salvaged a few pirates who had fallen into the water, but learned an astonishing piece of news from their mouths.

With a bang, the porcelain bowl that Zheng was holding in the middle of the gang fell to the ground and shattered.

"What, you say it again?"

Zheng Lian couldn't believe his ears, and suddenly the entire hull of the ship rose and fell violently, and he was overturned on the deck because he was so suspended and stood firmly, if it weren't for his years of sailing experience, he might have been thrown out of the ship. The sudden waves on the sea make people feel confused, it is obviously a clear sky and a gentle breeze, this abnormality makes Zheng Lian's mind inexplicably irritable. Looking at the huddled survivors on the deck in front of him, there was a pang of disgust in his heart.

"General, the villain is a person under the command of the six leaders of Yang, the big leader was really captured alive by the Pingbo fleet, and the old village of Beisang Island was also burned down by them, and now there is no piece of armor left. General, you must take revenge for the big boss...... The big boss ...... him."

Finally, the man could no longer speak, and he couldn't cry anymore.

How is this possible, Zheng Lian can't believe that Yang Liu is a leader in scale and combat effectiveness among the pirates raised by Zheng Zhilong, even if he is not defeated by the Pingbo fleet, he will not be uprooted, and even Yang Liu himself has been captured, right?

Zheng Lian looked at the ragged and skinny survivor in front of him with a suspicious gaze. The man cried for a long time, but he couldn't get a response from Zheng Lian, so he noticed the other party's suspicious gaze, so he swore again: "What the villain said is true, if there is half a lie, let it, let the villain be buried in the belly of the fish, and he will not be born." ”

Zheng Liancai didn't believe in gambling and swearing, he had seen a lot of things like one thing and doing another, and he didn't dare to believe it anyway, Yang Liu, who had tens of thousands of people, had been wiped out and wiped out.

"Turn around, go to Kita-Mulberry Island!"

Zheng Lian sent the order, he planned to take a trip to Beisang by the way, anyway, the route to Funing Prefecture was only a few dozen miles away from Beisang Island, and it was just a little more circle. It wasn't until the desolate and dilapidated island appeared in front of him that Zheng Lian had to believe that what the man said was not a lie.

This discovery made Zheng Lian a little stupid, he couldn't imagine how the Pingfan fleet could eradicate Yang Liu, who had a huge armed force, so thoroughly that there were almost no fish that slipped through the net, but I was afraid that Zheng Zhilong, who was in Anping, didn't know it at the moment. Zheng Lian made dozens of hypotheses, but to his dismay, each hypothesis could not completely eliminate Yang Liu.

At this moment, Zheng Lian remembered which of Yang Liu's men who had been saved, this person had not been welcomed, Zheng Lian was afraid that he was a spy sent by Li Xin, and had been imprisoning the flag in the dark bilge, so he remembered to ask his people carefully about the battle history of the Pingbo fleet. But to his annoyance, when the soldiers opened the bilge door, they found that the man had been dead for a long time, and his body also showed signs of stinking. It was clear that he had been dead for more than a day, and that he had begun to rot and stink in the cold, damp bilge.

As a result, Zheng Lian put away all the hearts of the enemy, and after receiving supplies in Funing Prefecture, he began to frantically search for the whereabouts of the Pingbo fleet in the coastal waters of southern Zhejiang and Fujian, but after three days in a row, he still found nothing.

"Zhenyu Hou, Hongmaofan's ship has been cruising in the open sea for three days, if the Pingbo fleet does not come back, in case it ......"

Li Xin glanced up at Fan Youming, the prefect of Hangzhou, who was chattering in front of him, as the parent official of Hangzhou, he had the responsibility of guarding the land and herdsmen, and of course felt like a thorn in his back when the Dutch fleet cruised at the mouth of the Qiantang River.

At this time, Gao Zhenfu hurried over again, "Big defeat, big defeat!" The Japanese have already besieged the city of Wenzhou, and they can't stand it when they see it! ”

Li Xin replied lightly: "What's the fuss, isn't there still the Fujian official army behind?" Wenzhou's front foot city is broken, they recover it on the back foot, isn't the land still in the hands of the imperial court? ”

The words of the Marquis of Zhenfu made Gao Zhenfu incomprehensible, "This, this is obviously Zheng Zhilong's plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, if it continues to fight like this, even Taizhou will have to be lost!" ”

Looking at Gao Zhenfu, who looked panicked, Li Xin comforted: "Don't worry, this is the worst situation, and everything will get better next." ”

Li Xin's words, if the generals of the Three Guards heard it, they would definitely believe it unconditionally. But Gao Zhenfu and Fan Youming, who was trembling on the side, muttered in their hearts. After all, these two have not seen Li Xin's actions of turning decay into magic.

As the highest-ranking military general of the Three Guards Army, Niu Jinsong did not dare to relax for a moment at the wharf, the Dutch fleet appeared in the sea off the mouth of the Qiantang River for more than three days, and the intelligence sent from Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places was summarized, the Dutch frequently appeared in the open sea in the above places, obviously looking for something.

Did you really let the Marquis of Zhenyu say it? The Pingbo fleet has now become the target of public criticism? Not only were the Zheng family sailors looking for their traces, but even the Dutch were involved. It's just that even he himself doesn't know where the Pingbo fleet is at this moment.