By the time Li Kui's troops had just evacuated from the coastal beach in front of Jinshanwei, Zheng Chenggong had personally led ten Western sailing ships like ten giant dragons lying on the sea area 100 miles away from Jinshanwei.

The main force of Gu Sanmazi's boat division was behind Zheng Chenggong's forward warship, spreading out along the entire sea.

More than 60 large warships and hundreds of small warships formed a wall under the sunny sky, and more than 300 artillery pieces were staggered against Jinshanwei.

Although Liu Kongzhao was born in the Ming Dynasty and was a son of brocade clothes, he didn't really understand naval warfare at all.

In the original history, Liu Kongzhao, as an earl, was able to decisively choose to support Ma Shiying in the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty and deviated from the Donglin Party to become a powerful figure in Nanjing, and naturally he was not an ordinary person.

Now, with the help of the information provided by Jin Yiwei, Liu Kongzhao already knows that among the pirate forces that intend to disturb Songjiang Mansion, Li Kui's current force is the largest.

Because of this, Liu Kongzhao decided to follow Gu Sanmazi's advice to clean up this Li Kui department first, since he wanted to concentrate superior forces to fight one of the pirates, it was better to fight the strongest Li Kui department first.

As long as Li Kui's troops are defeated, other pirate forces will naturally be out of the question, and the victory will be decided at that time.

The first stop can decide the outcome of the victory, so Liu Kongzhao did not dare to take it lightly at this time, he carefully calculated whether his Ming navy would be defeated by Li Kui's army, and asked Shen Lian more than once about the number of Li Kui's warships and pirates, as well as the number of artillery.

When more than 60 warships of Li Kui's department appeared in the field of vision, he raised his heart to his throat and held the ship's railing tightly with his hand.

"General Cai (Cai Zheng is now awarded the post of general by the Generalissimo's Office), can the eldest young master of your family do it, there seem to be a lot of warships in this Li Kui department, but I don't know how its firepower is? Your Majesty said that the Lord will rush to the front, which can often boost morale, do you say that Ben Jue should rush up first? ”

Liu Kongzhao asked Cai Zheng beside him, but it was not good to show cowardice in front of Cai Zheng, so he deliberately forced a smile and proposed a way to take the lead.

The eldest young master of your family in Liu Kongzhao's mouth naturally refers to Zheng Chenggong, who is the forward.

"The lord doesn't have to be like this, the main general rushes to the front refers to the grassroots military attachés below the command, it is enough for you to sit here, but it is easy to be surrounded by enemy ships to fight, my eldest young master has followed several masters to fight in the sea since he was fifteen years old, and the sixty warships of Li Kui's department in this area will not help him, so don't worry."

Cai Zheng replied with a smile.

And Liu Kongzhao pretended to nod deeply, and in order to hide the tension in his heart, he also took the initiative to ask Cai Zheng to tell him the sea stories of the four brothers of Zheng Zhilong, several masters of the Zheng Group.

Cai Zheng didn't hide his selfishness, and said with his eyebrows fluttering: "If you want to talk about these masters of my family, although it is the uncle who has the big idea, but the second and fourth masters of my family are really good at fighting, the third master is good at reading and has always been resourceful, and the uncle will hand over the heroic figures, even the shogun of the East has to give my uncle some face, of course, even the current emperor has personally summoned my uncle several times, and gave us such a big wealth and ...... of the Zheng family."

Just as Cai Zheng was talking, the pirate leader Li Kui also saw the warships of the Ming Navy gathered in his field of vision at this time.

"What's going on, how did the navy of the Ming Dynasty come here! Look at this posture is to eat Lao Tzu's meaning, hum, a group of soldiers who have just seen the sea, on the shore you are the king and hegemon, Lao Tzu has no way to take you, but you also want to stop Lao Tzu at sea? It's so beautiful! ”

Li Kui is indeed not afraid of the Ming Navy at this time, not to mention that he is a big pirate who can still retain his strong strength in the era when the Zheng Group dominates the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, even his current strength He doesn't think that he may not be able to lose, he promised the gentry to hire to disturb Songjiang Mansion and eat the Ming Navy It was not his whim, he also inquired about the details of the Ming Navy.

After knowing that the Ming Navy was just a newly built naval division, and most of them were officers and soldiers with little actual combat experience, Li Kui chose to agree.

Therefore, Li Kui, who had just been beaten out by the Ming artillery on the shore, thought about recovering some face from the Ming Navy when he saw more than 100 warships of the Ming Navy lying across the sea.

At this time, Li Kui directly ordered his more than sixty warships to attack in a wedge shape and rushed in the direction where Liu Kongzhao's flagship was.

Obviously, Li Kui's purpose was to directly break through the wall formed by Gu San Mazi, and then knock out Liu Kongzhao's flagship, and directly chose to avoid Zheng Chenggong's forward battalion.

"General Cai, you're right, this Li Kui really wants to come to fight around Benjue, fortunately, Benjue listened to you and didn't go, but I don't know if Gu San Mazi and your eldest young master can stop these pirates."

Liu Kongzhao couldn't help but clench his fists.

"Don't worry, sir, it's just sixty warships charging, and dozens of soft-sailed warships of Hongmaofan have been stopped by us back then!"

Cai Zheng immediately shouted as he spoke: "All the rear battalions are there, the side is to meet the enemy, and the artillery is out of the cabin!" Protect the Lord's safety! ”

At that time, ten soft sailing ships gathered around Liu Kongzhao's flagship, facing the flagship, and all the guns were exposed.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong also led more than a dozen Western soft sailing ships to approach Li Kui's warship after a burst of flags fluttering in the wind.

It was as if it were a light horse riding forward.

At this time, Chu Huaisheng, a midshipman who had received training from the Daming Ship Administration Bureau on Zheng Chenggong's warship, stood at the front, looking at the enemy ship that was getting closer and closer to the field of vision in a cold sweat, and his hand was also on the new gun of the Ming Navy, which was engraved with the name of the manufacturer, the factory time and specifications.

Because the name of the maker is Baopu, Chu Huaisheng couldn't help but muttered to himself: "The surname Bao, if there is no problem with this cannon later, I will marry my sister to you, if it blows up, Lao Tzu will kill your whole family!" ”

There are still many midshipmen and cadets like Chu Huaisheng who are participating in actual combat for the first time, and these people are both nervous and excited at this time.

Even with Zheng Chenggong, after all, these are the students he taught.

"Sir, why are these pirates desperately heading northeast?" A trainee asked Zheng Chenggong.

"Because Lord Liu's flagship is in that direction", Zheng Chenggong replied.

"What, these pirates are really cunning, so should we immediately turn around and rescue Lord Liu?" Although the question asked by the trainee was a little naïve, Zheng Chenggong patiently replied:

"If you can't turn around now, you have to look at the direction of the wind, even if the wind direction changes later, you don't have to turn around, but immediately seize the upper hand to disrupt the formation of these pirate warships, understand?"

"Understood! But the students don't understand very well, we only have ten warships, how can we press them to fight? ”

"You'll know how powerful this Western-style ship is later."

Zheng Chenggong looked at the sail above his head as he spoke, and after hearing the crunching sound of wood, he immediately gave an order: "Rush up and hit me!" ”

(End of chapter)