Chapter 40: Going Alone
But Zheng Yiguan's wishful thinking, but was suddenly appeared Yu Xiaotian's fleet to completely disperse, Yu Xiaotian's fleet not only messed up his good deeds, but also beat his subordinates, he sent Zheng Python with more than a dozen boats, three or four hundred brothers over, but was beaten by the sea wolf with a split head and face, only Zheng Python escaped with two or three scarred boats, and the rest of the ships were beaten by the sea wolf to sink and fall, and even Zheng Python was almost killed by them on the spot.
After Zheng Yiguan listened to Zheng Python's cry, he was angry and wanted to vomit blood on the spot, and hated Yu Xiaotian to the point of hate.
He scolded angrily in the big tent, at first he was impulsive, planning to gather all the strength of his subordinates, and simply go to fight with Yu Xiaotian to compete with who is better on both of them.
This was something that Zheng Yiguan couldn't think of before, because in the past, he was only a small leader under Li Dan and Yan Siqi, and his strength could not compete with Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf at all, but now he is different, he has almost taken over all Li Dan's plates, and Li Dan's subordinates are included in his bag, and now there are more than 10,000 people who obey his orders, and there are more than 400 ships.
Therefore, Zheng Yiguan thought that he already had the ability to confront the sea wolf head-on, so he dared to shout for a showdown with Yu Xiaotian.
But when he calmed down a little, he immediately gave up this idea again, because Zheng Yiguan was a very smart person, and he immediately realized that now was not the time to compete with the sea wolf.
The reason is very simple, although he is already very strong on the surface, but in fact he is still not as powerful as the sea wolf, because he has just taken over Li Dan's plate, and he has not yet been able to fully control all his subordinates.
As a new boss, when he is not stable, he must first let his subordinates follow him to taste the sweetness, and the most important thing is to subdue the hearts of his subordinates, rather than as soon as he takes the position, he immediately takes his subordinates to fight with others, in that case, I am afraid that once he suffers a loss, his subordinates will immediately overthrow him as the boss, and come to a bird and beast scatter, and surrender on the spot to Yu Xiaotian to turn around and deal with him, which is not necessarily an accident.
After all, Yu Xiaotian sea wolf is famous, and the current prestige in Fujian can be said to be in full swing, even the government has a headache for it, and it has been registered in the imperial court, not to mention that the sea wolf can cast its own guns, and the ship is also famous, and the sea wolf under his command is brave and good at fighting, and it is even more talked about.
Now many colleagues along the coast of Fujian have been planted in his hands, and even the officers and soldiers have been beaten by them, and he is now going to a decisive battle with the sea wolf, obviously even if he does not hit the stone with an egg, but the probability of winning is extremely small, but the possibility of being beaten by the sea wolf is quite certain.
Zheng Yiguan had never seen the scene of the sea wolf fleet fighting with people before, and he didn't know how powerful the sea wolf's fleet was, but this time Zheng Python fought with the sea wolf solidly, and the strength of the two sides was basically similar at that time, and even the number of ships on Zheng Python's side still had an advantage, but he was still beaten by the sea wolf and had no power to fight back.
More than a dozen boats were beaten by the sea wolf and almost wiped out, but according to Zheng Python, they basically did not cause much damage to the sea wolf.
There are a lot of cannons in the sea wolf fleet, and they fight far and hard, Zheng Python's subordinates are being beaten by the other party at all, and they have no power to fight back, so it can be said that they were completely abused by the other party, which makes Zheng Yiguan even more jealous of the sea wolf, and knows how powerful the sea wolf is.
Although Zheng Yiguan hated Yu Xiaotian to the extreme at this time, once he calmed down, he still did not dare to gather his subordinates to find Yu Xiaotian for revenge.
So Zheng Yiguan sat down and began to discuss with his subordinates what to do next.
And now Zheng Yiguan has also set up a whole set of teams, and there are many so-called strategists under him, so these people hurriedly expressed their opinions and gave Zheng Yiguan advice.
Some people proposed that since the sea wolf and Yan Siqi could find a place to gain a foothold on Taiyuan Island, then Zheng Yiguan Dake could also find a place to land on Taiyuan Island, follow Yan Siqi's example, encircle a piece of land, and build a village while also immigrating a large number of people from the land to obtain a stable rear base.
However, these people's proposals were immediately opposed by others, because they thought that now that Seawolf and Yan Siqi had already established themselves on Taiyuan Island, it was obviously unwise to go to Taiyuan Island to enclose land now.
Because now there are sea wolves in the north occupying chicken coops and freshwater, and Yan Siqi in the south occupying Bengang, if Zheng Yiguan goes to Taiyuan Island to enclose and build a village, this location may not be easy to choose.
If they choose to build a village between Bengang and Tamsui River, then they may be attacked by Yu Haiwolf and Yan Siqi from the north and south, and it is likely that they will not be able to take care of each other at that time, and they will eventually be forced to leave.
But if you continue to the south, the red-haired people have now occupied the Dayuan area, have built a red-haired city, and are building another red-haired city in another place.
In this case, it will inevitably conflict with the red-haired people, and the red-haired people will not agree to Zheng Yiguan making such a piece of land on the side of their couch.
These opponents suggested that it would be better to simply go back to the coast of Daming to find a place to do a big job now that they are still tossing around on Taiyuan Island.
And Zheng Yiguan's ancestral home is Zhangzhou, and now many of his subordinates are from their ancestral hometown of Zhangquan, and they are most familiar with the situation there, although there is still Chu Cailao over there, and there are also sea wolf activities in Quanzhou, but at present, the sea in Quanzhou is not completely controlled by the sea wolf, and the situation is relatively easy to open.
Therefore, it is better for them to go directly to the Zhangquan area to find an island to stand on first, so that it is also convenient for them to travel along the coast, and to trade at sea, and it is more convenient to obtain manpower and materials from land.
For the two opinions put forward by his subordinates, Zheng Yiguan thought about it for a while, and thought that the second article was still very reasonable, and now he and Yan Siqi had a complete falling out, and had a head-on conflict with the sea wolf, and wanted to continue to stay on Taiyuan Island, which was obviously not a very good choice.
Although Taiyuan Island is not too far from the mainland, but after all, there are still hundreds of miles, and it takes two or three days or even longer to go back and forth.
However, the idea of his subordinates to find a place to settle in the Zhangquan area was still feasible.
Although there is such a guy as Chu Cailao, but after Chu Cailao experienced the defeat of Nanri Island, he suffered a huge loss in both prestige and strength, and he has not been able to recover in the past year, so it is no longer a concern.
With his current strength, if he does it with Chu Cailao, he is quite sure that he can squeeze Chu Cailao out of this territory, and he is also most familiar with the situation of the Fujian official army, the Fujian Navy Division has just been repaired by the sea wolf, and now the morale is low, the number of warships is limited, and the officers and soldiers are rotten, which cannot stop him from operating in the Zhangquan area.
So he chose the latter and decided to find a place to move in the Zhangquan area in the next step, but it was a bit troublesome to choose a specific place to use as their future nest.
After discussing and discussing, Zheng Yiguan still decided to choose the location of their old camp in the next step, Ludao in the area of Quanzhou, that is, Xiamen in the later generations, and Kinmen Island.
There are many reasons why he chose Heron Island and Kinmen Island, first of all, in terms of location, these two islands are relatively large in size, and there are fresh water and safe harbors on the islands for them to use, and more importantly, these two islands are located on the coastal route, which is extremely convenient for them to travel by sea, and convenient for them to obtain human and material resources from land.
In addition, there is another reason, that is, the current coastal armament of Fujian is slack, although during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there are acropolis on Ludao and Kinmen Island, and there is a water village, but at this time, the guards in these two places have already almost existed in name, and it does not take too much effort to occupy there.
Another point, it is some kind of personal reason, Li Dan has a friend, named Xu Xinsu, and Li Dan has a very good relationship, has been cooperating with Li Dan for so many years, doing business at sea, this person is a well-known big man in Quanzhou, and controls a large number of raw silk transactions.
But this Xu Xinsu and Zheng Yiguan had a dirty relationship in the past because of some trivial things, Xu Xinsu secretly once said to Li Dan, saying that Zheng Yiguan was not available, although he was not valued by Li Dan, but he offended Zheng Yiguan to death, Zheng Yiguan remembered Xu Xinsu said bad things about him, and he had long planned to take revenge on this guy one day.
Li Dan didn't die before, and he had no way to take Xu Xinsu, but now that Li Dan is dead and the plate has been taken over by him, then he has the ability to clean up this Xu Xinsu.
Although Xu Xinsu has a big business, he has also done some pirate trading part-time over the years, but after all, he is mainly engaged in business, and his strength is not very strong, as long as he kills him, he can control the raw silk trade in Quanzhou, and raw silk is undoubtedly one of the favorite commodities of the Taixi people, and he can earn a lot of silver every year.
So for various purposes, in the end, Zheng Yiguan still chose to march into the Quanzhou area next, and he planned to expand his strength after gaining a firm foothold in the Quanzhou area, and sooner or later, he would let Yu Xiaotian also see his power.
(Again, kneel and beg the brethren to leave me the monthly pass tomorrow!) It's not easy to code words, and the monthly pass seems to be very important, although it can't be spent as money, but it's also a matter of face! Please, please! )