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It took two hours for the Hou Junji and the Black Tooth Changzhi to catch up with them, and after a fierce artillery battle, they destroyed most of their guns and wounded their sailors with scattered bullets before forcing them to surrender and escort them back.

Li Hu was furious and ordered the captain of the San Francisco Federo to be escorted to the deck of the Li Jing along with the captains of the two ships, while the other captured captains and Domingos watched the execution.

Several Spanish captains saw the bloody scene of the three captains being shot in the head by the firearm, and they all vomited, and Dominguez was directly unconscious, Li Hu was deeply satisfied, one was angry, and the other warned these people, no matter how dishonest they were, they would be shot in the head.

The next thing was to repair the ship, the artillery battle was fierce, the damage on both sides was serious, and a lot of materials were scarce, the materials for the mast were the most lacking, and the most lacking was the thick planks for repairing the ship's side.

These ships must be repaired, and if they are not repaired and on the road, if they encounter a hurricane, they are likely to seep into the water and sink.

It's just that the power of the Thiago can opener is really beyond words, the holes opened during the war are large and irregular, and the damage caused is extremely slow to repair after the war and extremely wood-intensive, just these holes consume the reserve wood brought on the ship, and even then there are still many holes and deck cabins that are not repaired with wood.

In the end, Li Hu made a decision and demolished the upper deck cabins of the two captured small Galen merchant ships, so as to scrape together enough wood. Seventeen large warships. The two giant ships were repaired. At the same time, the problem of insufficient reserve sailors was also solved.

Li Hu is still a little distressed, the two Galen merchant ships, don't look at them, they are two hundred tons, that is also the tonnage of the large Fu ship, but it is much more than the Fu ship loaded with goods, but there is no way They can only be given up for the sake of larger ships.

At noon on the eighth day, all the warships were repaired, and Li Hu was relieved. At this time, he encountered a fleet of the Spaniards again, and Li Hu was also confident of a battle.

"Seven Fran man-man battleships, two giant armed merchant ships, 14 12-pounder guns, 120 18-pounder guns, 32 24-pounder guns, 8 36-pounder guns, the remaining more than 100 were destroyed, nearly 200 arquebuses, and more than 240 sabers. There were more than 300 spears and more than 3,000 catties of gunpowder. Thirty-seven pairs of armor and seventy-nine pairs of half-body armor, killed more than 900 Spaniards and captured more than 1,900.

In addition, there were one hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, twenty-one thousand taels of gold, eleven chests of precious stones, and fifteen chests of sterling silver tableware, as well as books such as the Bible. ”

Li Hu is very satisfied, the harvest this time is no less than two years ago, the adults must be very happy, Shidao's financial pressure can also be greatly reduced, everyone is happy.

After the joy, the list of casualties handed over by He Yijun to the fleet immediately made his good mood disappear.

"Eighty-three people were killed and four hundred and two wounded, of which more than 80 were seriously wounded."

Li Hu couldn't help but sigh that the two million taels of silver were exchanged for human lives by the sailors, and the combat power of the Spanish sailors was still quite strong.

After abandoning the two Galen merchant ships, the fleet returned north in late September, and the speed of the ships was slow as it was when the southwesterly and northwesterly winds began to meet frequently.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu approached Xiamen Island on a Galen merchant ship of less than 200 tons under the escort of more than 30 lucky ships and more than 50 Haicang and bird sand boats.

A few days ago, Zheng Cai, who had a good relationship with one of Li Kuiqi's generals, accidentally said that Li Kuiqi was extremely dissatisfied with Daming's reward for just giving him a thousand households, and was planning to return to the sea.

He also said that Li Kuiqi was extremely dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong, who was the leader of the caress, and believed that only he had obtained the title of guerrilla general and the actual position of garrison, and that others such as Liu Xiang and him were all under his account, and they were all allies in the past, but now they have become Zheng Zhilong's subordinates, which is a great shame and a great shame, and this revenge will be avenged.

Zheng Cai took a boat to report Zheng Zhihu urgently, Zheng Zhihu told Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong was in a hurry, three days ago Li Kuiqi led his subordinates to eastern Guangdong to recruit troops, Zheng Zhilong also agreed, if Li Kuiqi had different intentions, then he turned out of the Ming Dynasty, and the most feared thing was that Zheng Zhilong was ordered to eliminate him.

Today, there are several teams left on the sea surface of Fujian, such as Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi, etc., among which Zheng Zhilong is the strongest, in order to get rid of the troubles, then the main fleet on Xiamen Island is Zheng Zhilong's death hole, if the main force of Xiamen Island is annihilated, then Zheng Zhilong will fall into a situation of internal and external difficulties, there must be people inside the Ming Dynasty who want to take the opportunity to eat him, and Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang, who left first, and the Dutch will strangle him on the sea.

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly led more than 100 warships around him to gallop to Xiamen Island, trying to save his fleet.

However, now Zheng Zhilong's heart is like ashes, it seems that he is still a step late, since he left home for seven years, starting from scratch, from a merchant ship guy to today's Ming guerrilla general with thousands of warships, just completed his first step, forcing Daming to appease himself, return to Daming and become an upstart in Fujian officialdom.

When the fleet sailed into the dock, it was only to see that a large number of Zheng warships side by side in the shallow water had been burned, and now only thick smoke was left, and most of them had burned and collapsed. And Li Kuiqi's fleet, which was anchored with the Zheng family's fleet, disappeared.

Zheng Zhilong stood on the bow of the boat, and Zheng Zhihu went down to the dinghy and boarded the dock with hatred.

Zheng Zhilong carefully calculated, his more than 300 fortune ships and other 500 or so small warships here may either be destroyed or plundered by Li Kuiqi, and now they can only scatter their wealth to collect sea ships, as long as they are restored to the scale of three or four hundred, the governor of Fujian and Du Si of the Ming Dynasty will still have to appease themselves, and they will not suffer too much in the battle with Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang, and the Dutch people on the sea.

It's just that he needs to lie dormant for a few years, and at the same time he has to re-enter into a treaty with the Dutch. I am afraid that the Dutch people will have to enter the coast of Fujian without permission. In this way, the alliance with the Dutch can be renewed. Isolated Li Kuiqi, and Liu Xiang, when he thought of Li Kuiqi's name, Zheng Zhilong hated it to the core, and vowed in his heart to take the lives of Li Kuiqi's whole family.

At this moment, Zheng Zhilong saw Zheng Zhihu striding from the depths of the dock, and even pushed away his men who were blocking him with his hands, and stepped onto the dinghy in a few steps. Personally rowed to the Galen boat.

Zheng Zhilong's heart was beating wildly, what he was most afraid of at this time was that Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Qiu, Zheng Zhiyan and others who stayed here also defected, this was an internal disintegration, which was more terrible than losing the warship.

"Big brother, good news, good news." Zheng Zhihu jumped onto the deck. "Big brother, a few days ago, news came from Macau that our set of forty cannons has been built, let us go and get it. Yang Geng took seventy big ships with him. Dozens of small boats went, and Yang Geng was cautious. He was afraid of being robbed, and the next day, the Dutch sent a message to me to send the goods of the ten merchant ships to Penghu, and Chen Hui led more than 100 ships to go. ”

"In other words, there can be 200 ships that are not in Xiamen." Zheng Zhilong said excitedly.

"Not only that, half a day ago, Li Kuiqi started to burn the ship and rob the ship, his subordinates were all besieging the big ship, Zheng Qiu and others led more than 200 small boats to escape, Zheng Zhiyan was injured and fled to the island, and he did not die." Zheng Zhihu said loudly.

Zheng Zhilong clasped his hands together, "Mazu bless me Zheng Zhilong through this catastrophe." ”

"Zhihu, after this time, you send people to buy the Great Fortune Ship, the more the merrier." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Big brother, we also have to keep some money in our hands in case of emergency." Zheng Zhihu is also right, most of the soldiers under their command have to be paid by them in silver, and it is impossible for the governor of Fujian and the capital to give money at all, not to mention the semi-independent soldiers they appease, that is, most of the soldiers in the war battalion and the guard are in arrears, and their brothers have no money in their hands and cannot gather people.

"The daughter is scattered and comes back, second brother, as long as we have a fleet in our hands, those silver coins are trivial, now is not the time to store silver coins, wait for your eldest brother to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and turn them into millions of taels to get them back." Zheng Zhilong, who was reborn after the catastrophe, vowed to get rid of these bastards who could only pull back their legs and monopolize the trade routes. "Now, let's go see the injured brothers together."

Zheng Zhihu nodded, he thought that what the eldest brother said was right, the reason why they had these silver taels was brought by the fleet in their hands, and the fleet was the foundation of their Zheng family.

In the next few days, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Qiu and others led the fleet to return to the team, and the fleet in Zheng Zhilong's hands recovered to nearly 200 large ships, and more than 400 ships such as small and medium-sized sea sand bird ships.

"My lord, now that Zheng Zhilong's generals Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin have defected, and Zheng Zhilong's fleet has been damaged by more than half, I don't know how to deal with this matter." After Wu Quande, the general soldier of Fujian, got the Tang report, he came to the governor's yamen to report to Xiong Wencan.

Xiong Wencan thought for a while, put down the tea bowl, and said slowly: "Order Zheng Zhilong to exterminate Li Kuiqi and punish him in the Ming Dynasty." ”

"My lord, this Zheng Zhilong has suffered heavy losses, and he has been able to eliminate Li, Zhong and other thieves beyond his reach, so he asks us for help." Wu Quande tested the governor's mind, after all, Zheng Zhilong was personally presided over by Xiong Wencan, and he was called a loving general, and he couldn't be moved lightly until he knew what Lord Futai thought.

"As a Fujian coastal defense guerrilla, it is his duty to exterminate the rebels, and it is his duty to support his baggage and armor, and your department also has to guard more than ten prefectures in Fujian, which is beyond the reach of the whip." Xiong Wencan said with a long sigh.

Wu Quande immediately bowed down and retired, the governor had an obvious implication of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and of course Lao Wu knew how to handle it.

"Big brother, Wu Quande, this rat generation, deceives people too much, knowing that our army is seriously damaged, he still urges troops to be sent to clean up, he is really a villain who fell into the ground." Zheng Zhihu gritted his teeth and scolded.

"The second brother thinks highly of him, how can this timid villain offend us so blatantly, this is probably what Lord Futai meant." Of course, Zheng Zhilong understands what kind of person Wu is at both ends of the snake and rat.

"This literati is really kind-hearted, in order to appease, the eldest brother dotted him with tens of thousands of taels of silver, he is the praise of the eldest brother before and after the people, this accident, he immediately turned his face and didn't recognize people, mother, it is really more fickle than a play." Zheng Zhihu scolded and shouted.

"Second brother, this Lord Futai still left some dignity for me to wait. You didn't notice that there was no time limit here. Zheng Zhilong nodded to the second brother.

Zheng Zhihu opened his mouth, "Damn, there are too many twists and turns in this officialdom." ”

Zheng Zhilong understood that this governor was a strategy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, so that they would lose both, and the governor of Fujian and the capital would reap the benefits, but Zheng Zhilong was confident of victory, and he was also confident that he would make Fujian officialdom succumb, and he relied on his strength at sea. (To be continued.) )

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