Soon, the news spread to the Ryukyu Islands, and now that Zheng Cai is gone, all affairs are handled by Tagawa Nanazaemon.

When Tagawa Nanazaemon heard that the Ming army planned to transport millions of taels of silver back to Matsue Mansion, Tagawa Nanazaemon's eyes were green, 100,000 taels of gold, four or five million taels of silver, which together were worth more than six million taels of silver! It's definitely a huge amount of money, a huge amount of money that makes everyone's eyes red!

Since escaping to Toei, Tagawa Nanazaemon has taken money outside, and there is not much silver in the account, if it were not for the robbery of the goods worth millions of taels of silver from the Yanhuang Company, now Tagawa Nanaemon is estimated to be poor and unable to eat, after all, from the purchase of warships to the bribing of Tokugawa, Tagawa has smashed in millions of taels of silver, which was thrown in for most of the year, after all, the current Yiguan Party can not be compared with the peak, and the annual income is very limited, only about one-third of the originalHow can such a small income sustain such a large expense? What's more, next, what about a big battle with the Ming army?

At this time, the news that the Ming army was going to transport a large amount of gold and silver treasures back reached Ryukyu Island, how could Tagawa Nanazaemon still endure such a temptation? After all, Tagawa Nanazaemon, as the second young master of the Zheng family and the person in charge of Dongying, is used to spending money like flowing water, and suddenly, there is no silver to spend, which is no different from asking for his life!

Rob! Grab the money anyway!

"Family master, should we wait for General Zheng to come back? It's—it's too dangerous......"

The general on the side said in a low voice.

"Zheng Jiao!"

Tagawa Nanazaemon shouted, "Wait for Ah Cai to come back, wait for Ah Cai to come back, I'm afraid that the daylilies will be cold, and the fart will not be able to grab it, now the fleet of the Ming army has left the Satsuma Domain, if we delay for two days, we will miss the fleet transporting gold and silver, and now Ah Cai is far away in Yizhou, nearly a thousand miles away from us, one back and forth, at least three days, can you catch up?" Don't say it again, this time I personally led the fleet to act, and I will rob the Ming fleet at all costs, this is millions of taels of silver, if this silver is in hand, we can completely expand our fleet again, enough for us to buy twenty warships and countless shells! ”

When Zheng Jiao heard this, he stopped talking, yes, millions of taels of silver, the temptation of this silver is too great, even Zheng Jiao and others can't refuse such a temptation, once the twenty main warships are purchased in Nanyang, the fleet of the official party can almost compete with the Ming army, and they dare not say anything about seizing Dongying, but there is absolutely no problem in grabbing Yizhou!

Tagawa Nanazaemon gave an order, and the fleet of the Ichikan Party almost poured out, and all of them slaughtered the Ryukyu Islands!

Tagawa Nanazaemon is not stupid, he sent dozens of small warships on the sea to search for traces of the Ming fleet, if he can grab it, it is naturally the best, if the opponent's warship pours out, then there is no need to rob it, his own fleet will definitely not be able to do the main fleet of the Ming army, the gap is too big, but, now that the fierce battle is raging, the Ming army will send the entire fleet back?

It's impossible to think about it, Dongying has two naval combat forces of the Satsuma Domain Naval Division and the Eastern Ying Naval Division, and the strength is not weak, once the Ming army's fleet is out of Kyushu Island for a long time, it is likely to face a retaliatory attack from the Dongying fleet!

Soon, the battleships sent by Tagawa Nanazaemon brought back the news that they had discovered the traces of the Ming fleet, and almost thirty or forty large and small warships were sent to protect the gold and silver returning home.

Thirty or forty battleships.

Tagawa Nanazaemon let out a sigh of relief, although the strength is not weak, but compared with the strength of the Zheng family's fleet, it is still inferior, and he led the fleet to attack suddenly, compared to the Ming fleet, it is absolutely impossible to support.

"The order was given, the fleet all moved to the northwest at full speed, prepared shells, and once it encountered the Ming fleet, it would attack with all its might! Be sure to defeat the Ming fleet in the shortest possible time and grab the gold and silver! ”

Tagawa Nanazaemon shouted.

The whole fleet rushed down in a northwesterly direction.

In just over two hours, Tagawa Nanazaemon has already discovered the sails of the Ming fleet, and the distance between the two sides is less than twenty miles, Maekawa Nanaemon is overjoyed, sure enough, the other party is only thirty or forty warships, just such a few warships, definitely not their opponents!

"Zheng Jiao, lead ten warships to make a detour to the north, preparing to cut off the back road of the Ming fleet, and the rest of the battleships will all go at full speed and launch an attack on the Ming fleet!"

In just a few moments, the two sides met head-on on the sea, and the two sides walked in the opposite direction, and the speed was naturally very fast.

Just entered the artillery range of the Zheng fleet, all the guns of the Zheng fleet opened fire and launched an attack on the Ming fleet!

Boom Boom Boom ......

One shell after another smashed down on the Ming fleet.

On the other side, when the Zheng family's fleet appeared, Shi Lang was already happy, these Zheng family's generals were really a group of stupid forks, they really dared to come! Now that you're here, you're doomed!

However, Shi Lang doesn't want to fight to the death, after all, since the other party dares to come, it means that he is determined to win, so there is no need to fight to the death with the opponent, as long as he hangs them firmly and waits for reinforcements from the rear!

"Order, the fleet retreats back! The tail guns of the battleships are attacking, they do not dare to get too close, our artillery is powerful and has a long range, they suffer too much! ”

Shi Lang gave an order and withdrew to the rear.

Where would Maekawa Nanazaemon let Shi Lang's fleet leave so easily?

The entire fleet pressed up and followed closely, and a partial division led by Zheng Jiao had begun to insert diagonally into the rear of Shi Lang's right-wing battalion from the flank.

Immediately after half an hour, the fleet retreated more than ten miles to the north, and Zheng Jiao's sailors completed the outflanking of Shi Lang's fleet and began to attack Shi Lang's fleet from the rear!

"Grandma's, the Zheng family's fleet robbery knows this hand! Now times have changed, and this trick doesn't work! ”

Shi Lang scolded with a smile, he was born in the Fujian Navy, naturally he was very clear about the Zheng family's maritime tactics, Shi Lang directly ordered, and ordered the battleship at the front to start fighting, one side of the gunwales should fight, and the warships behind were fighting in the other direction at the same time, and the same side guns were fighting, giving full play to the power of the guns on the Ming warships to the greatest extent!

Since we meet on a narrow road, let's fight, Tagawa, this time you are dead!

(End of chapter)