Zheng Zhilong shook his head: "The red-haired ghost's plywood ship is really as tall as a building, much bigger than my biggest lucky ship, there are twenty or thirty Hongyi cannons on each ship, and my fleet can't beat it at all." However, if the red-haired ghost lands and attacks, it will not be so easy to capture Bon Harbor! ”

"When Brother Yan Siqi founded Bengang, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking, a total of ten villages were built on both sides of Beigang Creek.

After Brother Yan died, I emigrated more than 20,000 people from various provinces in Zhangquan, and the scale of each village expanded several times, and the number of troops was much larger than before. The Dutch may be able to conquer one or two stockades, but it is not easy to conquer all ten of them in such five or six days! ”

Li Yanzhi nodded: "That's fine." But since our fleet is not the opponent of the red-haired ghost plywood ship, we can't sail directly to Benzen Harbor, and it is the best policy to make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses! ”

"What does the marshal mean is that we don't go to Bon Harbor first, but land from other places, and then detour to Bon Harbor by land?" Zheng Zhilong frowned and said, "But in that case, it will take more time to arrive, Taiwan Island is full of dense forests, and many places are not suitable for passing through at all." ”

Li Yan said straightly: "That's better than rushing over and being sunk by the red-haired ghost, since Ben Harbor can hold on, you might as well let them hold on for a few more days." As long as you can annihilate the red-haired ghost, it is worth paying some sacrifices. ”

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while and sighed: "Okay, the last general will listen to the big handsome." ”

As a result, the fleet deviated slightly and landed in a bay about forty or fifty miles north of Ben Harbor. Li Yanzhi learned from Zheng Zhilong's mouth that the Dutch in Taiwan were not large, and the Dutch on the entire Dayuan Island were less than 1,000, and the other soldiers were all indigenous Javanese servants. Li Yanzhi made a decisive decision to lead the 800 Praetorian Guards to rush to Bon Harbor by land under the leadership of the guides sent by Zheng Zhilong, while Zheng Zhilong led the fleet to hide outside, looking for an opportunity to attack the Dutch warships.

"Marshal, is there less than 800 troops?" Zheng Zhilong said with some concern.

Li Yanzhi smiled: "The soldiers are expensive but not too expensive, the red-haired ghost can not send out to attack Bon Port, there will not be too many troops, eight hundred people are enough, and besides, there are more than 20,000 people in Bon Port, what should you be afraid of." On the contrary, it is Zheng Shen You, be careful, don't run into the red-haired ghost, and after I defeat the red-haired ghost, I will work together and try to destroy the Dutch fleet. ”

Sure enough, as Zheng Zhilong said, this island of Taiwan is full of shrubs and dense forests, and many places have to cut thorns and oaks to move forward, and the speed is really touching.

Fortunately, the coastal terrain is relatively flat, full of sandy beaches, and the woods are sparse, but every few miles there are streams flowing into the sea, and the streams are deep and shallow, the shallow ones can be waded through, and the deep ones have to be bridged. It was less than forty miles away, and it didn't take two days to get it done.

"How long will it take to get to Bon Harbor?" Li Yan called the guide and asked.

The guide touched his face and said with a smile: "It should be soon." ”

"Dashuai, there is a big ship in the sea!" Suddenly, a soldier shouted pointing to the sea in the distance.

"It's a red-haired plywood boat! It's already near Ben Harbor. The guide was pleasantly surprised.

"Get off the coast and head inland, and don't let the red-haired ghost find out." Li Yanzhi hurriedly said and took the lead to drill into the dense forest.

......

"Captain, there are a lot of people on the coast in the distance!"

On the tall mast of the plywood ship "Princess", the lookout Kuhl shouted loudly.

"Is it Han Chinese or Taiwanese natives?" Captain Van Persie rushed out of the wheelhouse, threw his head up and shouted.

"I can't see clearly, they burrowed into the woods." Kuhl replied.

Van Persie shook his head: "Most of them are indigenous tribes, and they were frightened by our sea boats. ”

Van Persie still remembers that a few years ago, when he arrived in the southern part of the country in a sea ship, the local natives saw the Dutch ship and thought it was the arrival of the gods, so the governor easily bought the island from the natives and built the city of Resharan on it.

"Keep heading north!" Van Persie commanded in a deep voice. His mission was to patrol the west coast of the island of Taiwan in search of Nikolai. A officer's fleet. Nikolai. The first official was Zheng Zhilong, who spent some time on a Portuguese ship when he first went to sea, and was baptized by Catholicism and named Nicholas.

With Xu Xinsu's information, the Dutch have a very clear understanding of Zheng Zhilong's details, in fact, Zheng Zhilong's fleet has just left Fuzhou, and it was discovered by Xu Xinsu's meticulous work, and he immediately drove a fast boat to send a message to the Dutch, and now the Dutch have known the arrival of Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

In order to attack Bon Harbor this time, the Dutch almost poured out, and all the warships came to Bon Harbor, with more than 900 troops, and more than 1,200 Javanese indigenous servants, a total of six armed sailing ships, and these six are already all the Dutch warships on Dayuan Island.

This time, in order to search for Zheng Zhilong's reinforcement fleet, the Dutch governor of Taiwan, Putman, ordered Lieutenant Colonel Van Persie to lead half of the armed sailing ships north along the coast.

Putman himself, on the other hand, commanded the main army that was attacking Benz Harbor.

Van Persie led the fleet along the coast for another day to the north, when the lookout Kuhl suddenly shouted: "Captain, a large number of sea ships have been found in the north!" ”

Van Persie hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked fixedly, and sure enough, he saw a fleet of ships in the north, as many as twenty or thirty ships!

"Nikolai. The fleet of the first officer, hurry up! Van Persie exclaimed in surprise.

The fleet in the distance also spotted three armed Dutch merchant ships, which were changing direction to seize the upper hand, and Van Persie hurriedly ordered to turn. In naval battles, if you can seize the upper hand, you can suppress the enemy's bombardment. On the contrary, if you lose the upper hand, you can only be beaten passively.

The Dutch armed merchant ships were much taller than the Ming ships, and as long as they seized the upper hand and went down the river downstream, a single collision could knock the Ming ships apart!

The two fleets snatched the upper hand with each other, and before they knew it, they moved away from the shore and headed for the depths of the sea, where the sails disappeared until the mast was no longer visible.

After a while, behind a huge mountain cliff, one after another sailing ships suddenly sailed out, as many as seventy or eighty, but they were Zheng Zhilong's main fleet.

In order to lure away three Dutch ships, Zheng Zhilong sent more than 20 sea ships.

Looking at the direction in which the fleet disappeared, Zheng Zhilong sighed, more than twenty sea ships, and I don't know how many can escape under the artillery of the Dutch!

"Big brother, don't worry, Hongkui has always been excited, he should be fine, as long as it's night, the red-haired ghost won't want to find him again." Zheng Zhihu comforted.

Zheng Zhilong nodded and didn't think about it anymore.

"Pass the order, set sail immediately, and sail to Bon Harbor!" Zheng Zhilong said categorically.