Chapter 64: The Fierce Battle in Xiamen

When Zhao Lie was busy in Shidao, Zheng Zhilong in Xiaoliuqiu was also busy, perhaps only people living at sea had such a sense of anxiety, and the feeling of insecurity was like a man's back, forcing them to keep busy.

There was a bit of wind and waves at sea, and the whole fleet was moving forward in turbulence,

"Big brother, do you estimate that this attack on Xiamen, can the Fujian Navy Division come to the aid with all his might?" Zheng Zhihu is not yet twenty years old this year, but he has been bumpy at sea for a few years, especially in the past two years, the career between maritime merchants and pirates is particularly suitable for him, he is not like Zheng Zhilong, he is short of strategy, long in battle, this year's experience has also proved that Zheng Zhilong is strategizing, he leads the army to kill, a match made in heaven, proving the correctness of a sentence, brothers work together, and its benefits are gold.

"Of course, Liu Xiang and others attacked Quanzhou, and they led a reinforcement from the Sailor Division, Zhihu, since four years ago to repel the Dutch, the Fujian Sailor is indispensable, and must have taken the initiative to seek war. In particular, Yu Zhigao, the chief soldier of Xiamen, this person has always been unruly, his eyes are above the top, we are coming, and we will fight against us, our purpose is to let the naval division divide the troops, and we will just annihilate one by one, and in the future, no one can go to the sea without our consent. Only in this way can the imperial court have no choice but to recruit us and others. Zheng Zhilong stood in front of the porthole with his hands in his hands, looking at the Ming Dynasty in the northwest.

"Big brother, why do you have to recruit An, I'm so unhappy to stay in Ryukyu, if you want people and boats, why bother to be angry with the old man." Zheng Zhihu pursed his lips, he couldn't figure it out, if it weren't for his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong's advocacy of Zhao'an, he would have rebelled a long time ago. Not only him, Liu Xiang and others also have their own complaints.

"Second brother, what do you say, you only know how to fight and kill." Zheng Zhilong turned around and looked at Zhihu regretfully, this second brother is a fierce general who charges into battle, but he doesn't have a long-term vision.

"The Tainan Netherlands have already built two castles, the Francos are also here, and they have begun to build a city in the chicken coop, and now, they have not been in charge of the Ryukyus for a long time, and the strength is insufficient, and many things need to be done with us, introducing population, exchanging materials, don't forget, the Ming Dynasty does not trade directly with them at the moment, but once the Ming Dynasty trades with them, they will drive us out of the Ryukyus the next day, believe it or not."

This is undoubted, Zheng Zhihu didn't argue, they are the agents of the red hair, and when the red hair is not needed, it will be time for them to be abandoned.

"However, we have hundreds of ships, and there are nearly a hundred large ships, so it's not bad to occupy the island here." Zheng Zhihu muttered.

"Stupid, unless you occupy an island as big as the Wa Kingdom." Zheng Zhilong looked at this younger brother who made him love and hate with disdain, "The Franz people, the Dutch people all have countries, and the Japanese country also has kings and generals, what can we do on the island, if we make trouble on the seaside, Da Ming will give up some benefits, and he can send troops with the Dutch and the Franji people to destroy us." ”

Zheng Zhilong saw that Zheng Zhihu was about to open his mouth to quibble again, "How about Wang Zhi, who you admire the most, there are hundreds of ships, crisscrossing the sea, and in the end he is not defeated." ”

Zheng Zhihu pursed his lips and finally fell silent.

"Second brother, remember, if the Imperial Court wants to fight against the Dutch, Francis, and a large number of pirates at sea, it will have to rely on us, and when the time comes, we will take root on the mainland, seize military power, and be connected by sea and land, so that in less than ten years, no one can control it." Zheng Zhilong said solemnly.

"Okay, big brother, you said that I will never fight the west." Zheng Zhihu lowered his head unhappily.

At dawn, Xiamen Island faintly appeared in the distant fog.

In the morning, Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, invited himself to be furious, because when the battle report came, Yu Zhigao, the general soldier of Xiamen, did not listen to the dissuasion and went out of the port to meet the pirates. Originally, between the confluence of pirate leaders Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi and others, thousands of warships, raiding Fujian day by day, the scale was huge, and dozens of ships were often used, Zhu Yifeng decided that once a large number of pirates attacked in Xiamen, the hardest-hit area, he would stick to wait for reinforcements, and wait for the support of the sailor to come out to kill the enemy.

However, Yu Zhigao relied on himself to have something to do with the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and violated Zhu Yifeng Yin and Yang, this time he was greedy and reckless, and even led troops to meet a large number of pirates, Zhu Yifeng estimated that he would be defeated, and ordered the sailors to reinforce immediately, Wu Quande urgently ordered Hong Xianchun and others to lead a hundred ships to gallop to Xiamen, and after all this, Wu Quande took a nap. Wu Quande secretly attached himself to his heart, Fujian is really eventful, red-haired, pirates, mountain people are in chaos, and there is no time to stop. This time, I don't know what the outcome will be. What Zhu Yifeng just received in his hand is really a mess.

"Well done, Zheng Cai." Zheng Zhihu roared, and saw Zheng Cai, Yang Geng, and Chen Hui leading a hundred birds, and the sand boats fought fiercely for more than half an hour, and finally broke through Yu Zhigao's front army.

"Boom, boom, boom." The furlong machine hit the bow of the ship on the opposite side of the sea in a row, and the pirates on the bow retreated sharply, leaving behind a dozen or so gunners who were killed and wounded, and the two furlong machines in the bow were no longer manned.

"Okay, go back and reward the gunner with twenty taels of silver." Hu Kui, the general manager of Xiamen Water Division, shouted. Fifty breaths later, the Furlong machine aimed at the incoming ship with three more cannons, and two of them hit, causing wood chips to fly everywhere, but the performance of the Furlong cannon was suspended at this point, and only after half an hour of heat dissipation could it be resumed to fire. The other sea's ship approached silently, and when it was only less than fifty paces, the incoming ship approached the big ship where Hu Kui was, Hu Kui understood that this was the pirate planning to help the battle, and hurriedly shouted, "Bow and crossbow, fire gun to prepare for battle,"

With Hu Kui's shout, more than ten archers, firecrackers, and shieldmen stepped forward, at this time, from under the side guard of the opponent's ship, there suddenly appeared firecrackers, crossbowmen, shieldmen, and the two sides fired almost at the same time, for a while, the screams came almost at the same time, and several people on both sides fell, and then, in the mutual shooting, the personnel of both sides were lost, at this time, the two ships converged, at this time, more than ten pirates rushed out of the pirate cabin, and several sailors rushed out of the lower deck, took out a long hook and hooked the official ship, and the two ships entered each other, only a few steps away from each other, and they would lean together, More than a dozen pirates rushed onto the official ship and fought with the sailors.

Zheng Zhihu's left hand separated the spear of a sailor soldier with an iron shield, a knife in his right hand and a knife with a knife to cut down a soldier, looking back and slashing several times, and finally cut off the spear, a backhand knife resulted in his life, at this time, three armor-clad Ming soldiers rushed out of the cabin, the guards around them and two Ming soldiers hand-to-hand combat, Zheng Zhihu stared at the other party wearing armor, stepped forward with a knife, the enemy will use the iron shield to block, split a knife, Zheng Zhihu's left hand iron shield spun out to hit the enemy knife, the right hand slashed the enemy shield, the left hand iron shield rushed into the enemy general, the enemy general was out of strength, flew out, Falling on the deck, Zheng Zhihu stepped forward and cut off the left leg of the enemy general, the enemy general howled loudly, and Zheng Zhihu cut off his head with a backhand. Some of the other pirates are armed with short axes, and some are armed with iron forks, although the weapons are not neat and tidy in the Ming army, but the desperate strength is much stronger, every time Zheng Zhilong is promised to rob the silver two and take out three percent of the reward, if there is no silver two, Zheng Zhilong pays the reward out of his own pocket, so the pirates are brave, and most of the Ming army are military households, and they are those grains and rice every month, and they can't be distributed every month, how to let them fight to the death with the pirates. More than half of the birds and beasts scattered.

Suddenly, in addition to surrendering to the Ming army, the rebels were slaughtered on the official ship.

Guerrilla Sun Qi looked at the fire burning on the side of the boat on the left, where there were two fireboats nailed there, and reluctantly looked at his No. 2 fortune boat, there were only four in the whole of Xiamen, and jumped into the sea in pain and swam to his own boat.

Yu Zhigao saw that the battle situation was so erosive in the rear, and he regretted it in his heart, but he didn't expect that Zheng Zhilong's department was different from the pirates in the past, he really dared to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, and his combat power was really strong, this time he was really humiliating, there was no way, he had to withdraw, otherwise he would be trapped here, of course, when he returned to Xiamen, the governor of Fujian would not let go of his defeat, and he would definitely impeach himself, but that would be later. Yu Zhigao reluctantly ordered to return to the Xiamen Zhongzuo Institute.

Zheng Zhilong watched from afar the remaining less than thirty Ming warships retreated, walked farther and farther, got up and patted the side of the ship with his hand, "It's done, tell the soldiers to treat the Ming prisoners well." Do not be evil, but kill evilly. "My ultimate goal is to appease, and you must not leave a bad name.

The subordinate bowed down to answer the order.

Zheng Zhilong looked around at the messy battlefield, looking at the captured and destroyed ships of the Ming army, and his heart was extremely happy, and it was done, after these several blows, the Ming army started today, and saw that my Zheng fleet could only avoid the battle and escape.

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