Chapter 344: Fishing

At the beginning of September, after arranging internal affairs, Chen Xie boarded the Fuyuan battleship, accompanied by 100 young cadets from the Naval Academy, all of whom were 16 to 18 years old. The origin of these people is relatively pure, and they are all orphans from Dengzhou or Liaodong. Adopted by the Dengzhou battalion, and then entered the Naval Academy to learn naval warfare.

Chen Xie's Fuyuan, in addition to being a flagship, is also a trainee battleship of the Naval Academy. The meaning of this is obviously to tell the navy and Chen Xie's preference for these young people. At present, the Dengzhou Navy is mainly dominated by the old sailors and Xilao Jing who are in charge of the overall situation, and Chen Xie is training new people and making gestures, the main purpose is to create a competition mechanism, and at the same time, he also trains a group of absolutely loyal naval officers, which is oriented to the future.

After leaving the military port and driving for several days, Li Guozhu's fleet was spotted at sea. After the exchange of flags, Li Guozhu showed his obedience and took a group of cronies and subordinates to Fuyuan by boat. After climbing onto the warship, seeing Chen Xie lying comfortably on the deck, Li Guozhu was not dissatisfied at all, and led his subordinates to bow down. If he still had some ideas before, seeing Chen Xie's dumplings as if he had to make such a large warship, Li Guozhu completely broke off the idea of self-reliance.

Chen Xie lazily got up from the soft couch, walked up to Li Guozhu, and said condescendingly: "The sea is very big, staring at the pond at the door of the house, there is not much interest." In the future, you will also have such warships, and when the time comes, you will fight in the South Seas, and anyone will have a chance to become a governor of one side. Don't say that I didn't give you a chance, but that opportunity is for those who are prepared. ”

This cake is not small. Especially these fighting men on the sea. In the past, I looked at the ships of the Europeans and their guns, but they naturally had no idea if they couldn't beat them, but now I look at Master Chen's ship and it is not small, with such a warship, who would be afraid of ghosts?

In the eight years of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong has been busy fighting with the Dutch, and once shook hands with Liu Xiang and made peace. As a result, Liu Xiang was not angry, he couldn't beat the Dutch, he was kicked out of Dayuan Island, and he died in the sea. This thing is a repeat person. soon embarked on the road of opposing Zheng Zhilong. The Dutch all suffered from Zheng Zhilong. Don't talk about Liu Xiang. Zheng Zhilong sent people to hunt down Liu Xiang at sea and kill the goods at sea. Not wanting to suddenly get the news, the Ryukyu route was constantly attacked by pirates.

This matter is not small, Zheng Zhilong made a fortune by collecting protection money. Of course, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the route. After the compilation of information from various aspects. learned that it was Li Guozhu who was making trouble. Of course, Zheng Zhilong has to clean him up.

Zheng Zhilong's family background is quite thick, but the largest ship is the 150-200 ton Dafu ship. Before Chen Xie's munitions, Zheng Zhilong's warships were all six-pounder guns. Bring out some messy little cannons. According to historical records, "the fortune ship is as tall as a building and can accommodate 100 people." The bottom is wide at the top, the bow is raised and open, the stern is high, and the draft is about 3. 5 meters, the bow of the ship is equipped with 1 Hongyi cannon, 6 thousand jin Franc machines, 3 bowl-mouth guns, 20 thunderbolt guns, 60 spray canisters, 10 Lu Mi guns, 500 crossbow arrows, 10 gunpowder crossbows, 300 rockets, 100 fire bricks, and thousands of cold weapons. ”

Even if Chen Xie's smoothbore cannon was obtained, Zheng Zhilong's warship could only be equipped with a 12-pounder smoothbore cannon, and the rest were small cannons, mainly close to melee combat. With the Dutch, that's what he did, relying on the tactics of the fleet, the ants bite the elephants to death. For Li Guozhu, Zheng Zhilong attaches great importance to it. The reason is very simple, Li Dan is Li Guozhu's father. Zheng Zhilong's starting point was to take away Li Dan's foundation.

After getting rid of Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong's family base was more than 100 Dafu ships with 500 materials, and more than 500 other small boats. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong relied on collecting protection fees, and once had 100,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 warships. Even so, he chose to surrender. His son Zheng Chenggong did not surrender, and after defeating the Dutch, he seized Taiwan. There is a TV series "Zheng Chenggong", in which the Fu boat fires from the side side of the gun, and if you look for some information a little, you know that if you do this, the Fu Boat will have to fall apart without being beaten by others. In general, large-caliber guns are placed on the deck, and cotton wool is used to cushion recoil. The kind of more than a dozen guns on the side of the TV that fire together, it looks good, but it is too mysterious.

Not to mention the gossip, after Zheng Zhilong found out Li Guozhu, he naturally wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. At this time, Zheng Zhilong, when he was proud of the spring breeze, never thought that Chen Xie would calculate him at sea. With more than 100 Daifuku ships and more than 200 small boats, they searched for Li Guozhu on the Ryukyu route.

September 20, thirteen days after going to sea.

The sea is endless, and although the wind and waves are calm and there is no trouble, it is just too boring. Fortunately, he brought some "female soldiers" and dominated the cabin on the highest floor, and Chen Xie's spare time life was quite okay. Even so, there are not many means of recreation on the vast sea. Today is another good weather, Chen Xie asked people to get fishing tackle and pretend to be Jiang Taigong on the deck.

Several girls in women's military uniforms stood beside Chen Xie and waited, ready to pat Master Chen's ass at any time. The fishing skills of this thing are really good, and there is no harvest for an hour. These girls were very disappointed, and the lines they prepared didn't have a chance to be used. Just when Chen Xie was extremely bored, the fishing rod sank suddenly, and Chen Xie was caught off guard and almost got out of his hands.

Desperately grasping the fishing rod, Chen Xie and this fish spent a while, seeing that the fish had no strength, when Chen Xie slowly reeled in the line, suddenly a distant cannon sound, Chen Xie was startled, the fishing rod took off, and the big fish ran away with the fishing rod.

Hurriedly getting up from the deck, Li Yingji immediately handed over the binoculars, Chen Xie carefully looked at the direction from which the voice came, and could only see the sails in the distance. It's a fight, for sure. At this time, the cadets on the mast made a voice: "On the port side, the ships were found, and the number was about forty. It should be Li Guozhu's fleet. ”

At this time, Xilao Jing also discovered the situation and sent a message that two warships were fighting at sea, running and chasing. Chen Xie came down to his senses, climbed to a high place, and carefully observed with a telescope. According to the agreement of the Xilao Sutra, he could not get too close, and the naval battle was mainly fought by the other sixteen warships.

When Xilao commanded the warship and went up with full sails, Zheng Zhilong was chasing and killing Li Guozhu. I thought that if I came out, I might not be able to find Li Guozhu quickly, but I didn't expect that after only three days of coming out, I found that Li Guozhu's fleet was robbing a fleet at sea. When he saw Li Guozhu's fleet, Zheng Zhilong was still taken aback. Forty Daifuku boats, this is not a small number, plus some small boats, this is the strength of more than eighty boats.

The last time Zheng Zhilong defeated the combined forces of the Dutch, Li Guozhu, and Liu Xiang, Li Guozhu's strength was weakened very much. There aren't many boats left in hand. I didn't expect that less than a year has passed, this guy has pulled up such a large fleet. Zheng Zhilong could figure it out with his toes that someone must have sold ships and cannons to Li Guozhu. It's not hard to think of who this person is. In the entire sea area of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two people with this strength, one is Zheng Zhilong himself, and the other is Chen Xie from Dengzhou.

After killing Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong of course knew that Liu Xiang bought a guy from Chen Xie, and then looked at this Li Guozhu, and hated it so much. I can't wait to bite Chen Xie to death, this product is really lacking in morality, and I will sell everything for silver. Lao Tzu took the silver of the ship to buy, but he refused to sell too much munitions. Fools can figure out what Chen Xie means by doing this.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't do anything with Chen Xie, so he had to concentrate on cleaning up Li Guozhu first. More than 300 warships were killed together, and Li Guozhu saw this formation, of course he had to run away. Before running away, you have to fire first, and you have to play a round while walking. His ship was loaded with a 12-pounder rifled gun, a six-pounder gun, and six three-pounder guns, and a lot of smoothbore guns, fifty of them. After weakening the force, he resold the warship, which was done by Chen Xie, and Li Guozhu could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

The firing range of rifled guns has an advantage, and a round of guns shocked Zheng Zhilong a lot, and after forty rifled guns were fired, they actually hit a lucky boat, directly opening a big hole in the side of the ship, killing two and wounding five.

This time, Zheng Zhilong was not light, and commanded his subordinate warships to catch up. took advantage of it, Li Guozhu naturally turned around and ran, once he was caught up, it was not fun. The two sides chased and fled, and after playing at sea for a day and a night, they finally ran to the predetermined sea area. In this process, Li Guozhu was not idle, constantly taking advantage of the range advantage, and playing a round of main gun shooting when he had nothing to do. intermittently, it also brought some casualties to Zheng Zhilong, and the three boats were hit, but fortunately, none of them were critical, the speed was affected, and it could still be used when he went back to repair it. The wounded warship refused to go back, and continued to chase after it.

Zheng Zhilong chased urgently, and Li Guozhu was not slow. Just when he was chasing and running, suddenly Li Guozhu stopped running, turned around and fired to run for a round. Every time this is the time, it is an opportunity for Zheng Zhilong to catch closer. This time, he naturally won't let it go, and when he chased forward, he found that something was wrong, and on the sea surface of the right flank, a batch of tall white sails appeared, which could be seen from a distance.

Zheng Zhilong is an old pirate, so of course he knows what happened. What's more, the speed of these warships is so fast that the naked eye can feel that they are constantly approaching. What to do? Zheng Zhilong was not stupid, and immediately ordered the small boat to go up, and the big boat chased Li Guozhu to fight. It's a very helpless thing to do, for a simple reason. In the past, when fighting with the Dutch, there were no more than ten large ships. Looking at this situation now, the sixteen big ships, coupled with Li Guozhu's strength, have no chance of winning at all. Zheng Zhilong's only correct choice is to kill Li Guozhu first, and then turn around and hit the big ship that is powerful to hit the "Dutch".

At this time, Zheng Zhilong thought it was the Dutch. I didn't expect that this time it was Dengzhou Sailor. (To be continued......)