"Mr. Li, something is wrong!" Zheng Zhilong hurriedly entered the barracks and said straight to Li Yan with a serious face, "My subordinates in Taiwan have come to report that the red-haired ghost has sent troops and is attacking Ben Port!" ”

"Red-haired ghost?" Li Yan said suspiciously, "How could it be so coincidental?" ”

The island of Taiwan is very large, and the Dutch are not many in number, and they cannot occupy all of them at all, and they only build cities in Dayuan in southern Taiwan, while Zheng Zhilong's subordinates are in the coastal area on the west side of Taiwan. Now the Dutch suddenly attacked Bon Harbor, it must not be a coincidence!

Zheng Zhilong said with a solemn expression: "Most of the time the matter of our attack on Jin'an Town was leaked, and the Quanzhou Shang Gang began to fight back, these damn guys actually colluded with red-haired ghosts!" ”

"Behind the Quanzhou merchant gang are the Quanzhou gentry, these gentry look down on the barbarians the most, how can they collude with the red-haired ghosts?" Li Yanzhi said with some doubts.

Zheng Zhilong sneered: "These people can't do anything for the sake of profit, the pirates were so fierce during the Jiajing period, and behind them were instigated by these gentry, how can there be so many pirates raised by the gentry!"

Now that their goods have been snatched by us, they must be eager to kill us, what is it to collude with the red-haired ghosts? Besides, Xu Xinsu is on Xiamen Island near Quanzhou, and the bastard has been doing things for the red-haired ghost, and this time it is most likely that the bastard is threading the needle for the red-haired ghost and the Quanzhou businessmen! ”

"And what are you going to do?" Li Yan asked in a deep voice.

Zheng Zhilong said: "Most of my subordinates are in Beigang, and I can't help it, so I am ready to immediately lead troops back to help Bon Port." ”

"Are you sure you'll be able to repel the red-haired ghost?" Li Yanzhi asked.

Zheng Zhilong shook his head dejectedly: "How can you be sure?" Although the Dutch warships did not have many soldiers, their ships were strong and their guns were sharp, and their soldiers were equipped with a large number of sophisticated firearms. My brothers' weapons are all knives, spears and harpoons, so it can't be a red-haired opponent at all? But most of my brothers are in Bon Harbor, and even if they know that they will lose, they have to go! ”

Li Yanzhi groaned, he understood what Zheng Zhilong meant, he hoped that he would take the Praetorian Guards with him to save Bon Harbor.

But since it was the Quanzhou merchant gang that colluded with the Dutch red-haired ghosts, how could they have no backhand? Maybe he is waiting for Zheng Zhilong and himself to come to the rescue. On land, because of their identity and background, the Quanzhou merchant gang and even all the maritime merchants in Fujian have nothing to do with themselves, but it is different when they go to the sea.

Anything happened at sea, no one knew, and if he, the Fujian general soldier, died, he died, and even the emperor had no way to hold him accountable afterwards, after all, everything could be blamed on the red-haired ghost.

But if he doesn't go, it will inevitably chill Zheng Zhilong's heart, and the relationship between the two sides will break down, and Zheng Zhilong may not be able to survive the siege of the red-haired ghost and the Quanzhou merchant gang.

If there is no Zheng Zhilong, the Royal Maritime Trade Company will not be able to do it at all, and he will not be able to complete the task assigned to him by His Majesty, so what face will he have to see His Majesty?

Should I save it? Li Yanzhi hesitated.

Seeing that Li Yanzhi was silent for a long time, Zheng Zhilong's face showed a look of disappointment: "General Li, my subordinates will go now, and when we repel the red-haired ghost, we will have a while." ”

After speaking, Zheng Zhilong turned around to leave.

"Zheng Shen will be slow!" Li Yanzhi finally made up his mind, "I'll go with you to meet the red-haired ghost who crisscrosses the sea!" ”

Zheng Zhilong Huo Ran turned around, his face full of surprise: "Dashuai, what you said is true?" ”

Li Yan smiled and said, "Of course it's true!" Your Majesty asked us to jointly form the Royal Maritime Trade Company, we are a family, and your subordinates are my subordinates, how can there be any reason not to save them? ”

"That relationship is good, that relationship is good." Zheng Zhilong rubbed his hands, excitedly not knowing what to say.

Although Li Yanzhi only had a thousand Praetorian Guards, he was equipped with a large number of firearms and artillery, and Zheng Zhilong knew the level of its elite very well. With these 1,000 people joining, at least they are not afraid of red-haired ghosts at all when fighting on land! Rescuing his own subordinates is more certain.

Without further ado, Zheng Zhilong went back to prepare, and Li Yanzhi sent someone to send a letter to Liu Mao, telling him the whole story. If he can't come back, Liu Mao will report the matter to the emperor, and with the emperor's character, sooner or later he will find Quanzhou merchants to help those people settle accounts, which can be regarded as avenging himself.

As for Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, he is not his own person at all, and Li Yanzhi naturally will not tell him about sending troops.

"Someone is coming, and Tong Gaoyi will come over." Li Yan said in a deep voice.

"I've seen the big handsome!" Tong Gaoyi soon came to the Shuai Tent, he was also a martial artist, and he joined the Praetorian Guard at the same time as Li Yanzhi, and now he has also achieved the position of a general.

"General Tong Shen, I want to lead the troops to Taiwan with Zheng Zhilong, and you will be in charge of the training of the new barracks, and I will say to the outside world that I am busy with military affairs in the camp, and I don't have to pay attention to anyone who asks to see me." Li Yan commanded carefully.

The recruit battalion has already recruited 5,000 people, and is currently undergoing queue training, and it is far from forming combat effectiveness, so this time Li Yanzhi is only going to bring 800 veterans, and as for the other 200, he will stay in the recruit battalion as instructors and lead the troops.

That night, Li Yanzhi took 800 people on three three-masted ships, sailed down the Min River, sailed into the sea, and joined Zheng Zhilong's fleet in an archipelago off the coast of Fujian, heading towards the island of Taiwan.

Taiwan is not far from the mainland, from Fuzhou to Bon Port is only two or three hundred miles of sea, but the internal undercurrents in the strait are surging, the weather is uncertain, the boat is still very dangerous, plus Taiwan does not have much population, most of the indigenous people live in the mountains and dense forests, there are no special products, no gold and silver deposits are found, and there is no object to trade, and the maritime merchants have not been too interested in Taiwan, and they would rather go farther to Luzon or even to Java in the South Seas.

It wasn't until Yan Siqi led people to flee Japan and came to Taiwan to settle down that it was the first large-scale immigration of Han Chinese to Taiwan.

Zheng Zhilong inherited Yan Siqi's career and has been immigrating to Taiwan for several years, and now, more than 30,000 Han people have gathered around Bengang, mostly poor people from Quan, Zhang and other places.

Of course, most of these 30,000 people are cultivating land in Taiwan, Zheng Zhilong's real team is still the former pirates, the number is about more than 5,000, Zheng Zhilong brought 3,000 people to Fuzhou Zhao'an, and there were 2,000 people who stayed in Ben Gang, and they were the ones who attacked Jin'an Town that day.

The foundation that has been operating hard for several years is being attacked by red-haired ghosts, which makes Zheng Zhilong worried and eager to fly back to Bon Harbor in one step.

"Don't be in such a hurry!" Li Yan said straightly, "From the time your men crossed the sea to Fuzhou to report the news, to the time we arrived at Bin Port, it will take five or six days, if the red-haired ghost storms Bon Port, I am afraid it has already fallen." Maybe the red-haired ghost's fleet is waiting for us off the coast of Bon Harbor, Admiral Zheng, are you sure of defeating the red-haired ghost's fleet? ”