Chapter 154: Attack on Zheng Yiguan

As long as the purpose of this campaign can be achieved, then this means that after the entire Fujian official army is defeated in this battle, it will basically lose its elite, and at least within two years, there will be no possibility of launching a decent conquest against him, and the entire coastal area of Fujian will become his bag.

Yu Xiaotian has a very full grasp of the defeat of the official army and naval division, and the amount of maritime power he has now at hand is not much that can compete with it if he looks at the entire Chinese sea, and the firepower possessed by his naval division should be absolutely one of the few in Asia.

Even the current Dutch and Spanish warships can't bargain in front of his fleet, Zheng Zhilong can defeat the Dutch fleet that came to help the government invade him in the history of the old time and space, not to mention him now, if he can't do this with his face, then he should really find a place to wash and sleep.

The key now is to deal with the big trouble of Zheng Yiguan first, and then before the government and the Dutch launch an attack on Nanri Island, this threat will be eliminated first, and they will have one more help when the time comes.

Therefore, in the following days, Yu Xiaotian began to greatly mobilize the strength of the sailors, and began to go south to use troops against Zheng Yiguan, and Zheng Yiguan was also trying to give the sea wolf a dismount at this time.

Zheng Yiguan also received the news that the government would probably wait until October when the storm at sea decreased, and launch an attack on Nanri Island, so during this time, he decided to send some ships to the sea area controlled by the sea wolf, like Chu Cailao did at the beginning, to launch an attack and harass operation.

A group of Zheng Yiguan's ships had begun to move north at this time, entered the control area of the sea wolf, and began to attack the passing merchant ships and fishing boats, in this way, they wanted to attract the power of the sea wolf to their territory, and they could not get out, until the official army launched an attack on the sea wolf, and he took the opportunity to take advantage of it at that time.

For this reason, he also contacted the Dutch, who were in charge of the Dutch, and explained his thoughts, saying that he was willing to help the Dutch deal with these sea wolves, hoping to get the support of the Dutch.

In this regard, Rejouz, who had already moved his mind to eliminate the threat of the sea wolf to them, immediately agreed to Zheng Yiguan's request, after all, Zheng Yiguan was Li Dan's subordinate at the beginning, and once helped them intercept passing merchant ships and forced them to trade in Penghu when they were entrenched in Penghu.

Later, Li Dan also helped them negotiate with the Dutch and the Ming government, and finally pointed out a clear way for them to retreat to Daguan to establish a trading port.

Although they have become hostile to Zheng Yiguan now because of Xu Xinsu, the Dutch have a reputation for being brazen, and they will not adhere to any principles at all, as long as it is beneficial to them, they are willing to do it.

So Reyoz immediately agreed to Zheng Yiguan's request, sold Zheng Yiguan twenty cannons, and also sold him a batch of gunpowder and arquebuses, so as to strengthen Zheng Yiguan's strength, hoping that Zheng Yiguan would contain the sea wolf before their fleet arrived, so as not to let the sea wolf know the news, and run to the big man to trouble them with the Dutch.

After Zheng Yiguan obtained these materials, his strength recovered slightly, and he began to increase his raids and harassment operations in the area controlled by the sea wolf.

However, not long after his attack was launched, Yu Xiaotian reacted, and as the recent attacks on the ocean of Xinghua and Fuzhou increased, Yu Xiaotian determined that these incidents should be done by Zheng Yiguan.

With the experience of dealing with Chu Cailao at the end of the previous year, it was much easier for him to deal with it this time, and the strength of his own sea wolf's sailors had now increased several times compared to the end of the previous year, and the number of available warships had at least doubled or even a lot more.

So he sent light boats to relay, between the sea lanes and the fishing grounds, to carve out areas of responsibility, and let these ships patrol their respective areas, and if they found suspicious ships, they were immediately pursued, and those who resisted were immediately destroyed.

In addition, he mobilized the main ships, assembled the fastest Feizi clippers, divided them into three groups, and marched south to sweep the area around Penghu, fundamentally crippling Zheng Yiguan first, so that he lost the ability to continue to send ships to his territory to harass.

For this reason, he also informed Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao, and asked them to cooperate with the sea wolf to act together and suppress Zheng Yiguan who was entrenched in the Penghu area from all directions.

Zheng Yiguan is having a hard time this time, he used to fight against Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao, and he already felt very difficult, but now that the sea wolf himself began to go into battle shirtless, and also joined the attack on him, he was a little unbearable.

After Yan Siqi learned of Yu Xiaotian's instructions to him, without saying a word, he immediately rushed to the Penghu area with his fleet to search for Zheng Yiguan's ships, preparing to take advantage of this opportunity to take revenge.

After getting Yu Xiaotian's notice, Chu Cai hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to cooperate with the sea wolf's action at this time, and sent some of his ships to join the suppression of Zheng Yiguan.

Throughout July and August, the ocean surface around Penghu, which was not very lively, began to become extremely lively, and the three powerful ships of the sea wolf, Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao, shuttled back and forth on the ocean surface of Penghu like a marquee, intercepting and chasing all the ships that haunted this area.

Although Zheng Yiguan hurriedly contracted his strength and wanted to keep his current temporary lair, how could he withstand the trouble of so many enemies coming to him together, in July and August, the ships he sent were intercepted by powerful ships such as Sea Wolf, Yan Siqi, and Chu Cailao, and were either destroyed on the spot or captured by the other party, causing him to be hit one after another, and the loss of strength was huge.

At the end of August, the sea wolf's flying clipper finally found Zheng Yiguan's lair at sea, and a few days later, a large number of sea wolf warships, as well as Yan Siqi's fleet and a small number of Chu Cailao's ships, sailed to Nantian Island, where Zheng Yiguan was now entrenched as a temporary old camp.

Nantian Island is also known as Lantau Island, later renamed Qimei Island, in this time and space, although it is not a desert island, but there are only a very small number of islanders, here to cultivate farmland or fish for a living, because it is far away from Penghu Island, usually not on the waterway, so it is not eye-catching.

Zheng Yiguan did not have an old nest, so he regarded this place as his temporary old camp, and for more than half a year, he set off here and continued to attack Zhangquan and other places.

Although the sea wolf and Yan Siqi both knew that Zheng Yiguan was in the old camp in the Penghu area, they never found Nantian Island, and this time they finally caught Zheng Yiguan.

Zheng Yiguan did not intend to regard Nantian Island as his long-term entrenched old camp, so he did not build a strong fort here, but only set up a camp, built a wharf, built some houses for his subordinates to live in, and built some warehouses for storing stolen goods.

When he discovered that a large number of sea wolves and Yan Siqi's ships were beginning to head towards his Nantian Island, Zheng Yiguan knew that the period he had entrenched in Penghu had come to an end.

In the past month or so of the tripartite joint attack on him, Zheng Yiguan's loss of strength during this period was very serious, and his subordinates no longer listened to his call, and his strength had dropped to less than 100 ships of various types, including less than 20 large ships, and only 3,000 men under his command.

Now that the sea wolves have gathered a large number of ships, as well as Yan Siqi's fleet and a small number of Chu Cai's old subordinates have rushed to help in the battle, and more than 100 ships have been deployed in the area of Nantian Island, including more than 60 large ships, Zheng Yiguan can no longer stop their attack.

So while the main fleet of the sea wolf had not yet surrounded Nantian Island, Zheng Yiguan once again made a decision, took his men to load some of the goods on the island, and immediately abandoned Nantian Island and fled towards the sea of Guangdong.

Fortunately, although Zheng Yiguan has no foothold in Fujian, he still has a very wide road on the Japanese side and controls a considerable amount of trade with Japan, otherwise, Zheng Yiguan will basically fall apart just after this while, and no one wants to follow him if he can't support his leaders! Anyway, Zheng Yiguan still has this ability, otherwise it is possible to be sold by his subordinates.

In this way, before the beginning of September, Yu Xiaotian eliminated a force that threatened him very much, and completely drove Zheng Yiguan from Fujian and the Taiwan Strait to Guangdong.

And Zheng Yiguan's own roots are in the land of Zhangquan, lost here, he went to Guangdong, facing the competition of many peers, even if he has a relationship with the Portuguese, it is difficult to gain a foothold, even if he barely stands on his feet, it is impossible to get a long and rapid development, within a few years, Yu Xiaotian basically no longer has to think about how to deal with Zheng Yiguan.

However, Yu Xiaotian was not satisfied with such a result, he originally wanted to completely solve Zheng Yiguan this time, but in the end, he still let the soles of this guy's feet slip away, and after understanding the situation of the entire operation, he found that this matter could not be blamed on Ma Xiao's disadvantage.

Because Zheng Yiguan, this guy, is indeed a powerful character, never because of the gains and losses of a place, he fights with people, runs away immediately when he sees that the situation is not good, without hesitation, such a person is really difficult to deal with, and if he is in the past, he can't catch this guy either, and when this guy escaped from Nantian Island, he took a separate way of escaping, and fled south like a swarm of bees.

And when Zheng Yiguan abandoned Nantian Island, he didn't even hang the handsome flag on his ship, so it was impossible to determine which boat he was on, so there was no way to attack him specifically, even if it was the flying fast ship of the sea wolf, it couldn't block all their ships, but only intercepted a few heavily loaded ships with a focused selection and robbed a batch of goods.