The sailors on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan were not interested in fishing these guys in the water, they had done a lot of bad things in Zhoushan these days, and it was better to leave them to the fishermen on the island.

Relying on the advantage of speed, Zhenyuan and Dingyuan killed two more ships respectively. After the Great War, the sea was littered with broken wood and tattered English ships. This includes dead sailors, or sailors who are alive.

After a land battle, flies will be the first to arrive. After the naval battle, the diners were much richer, as small as all kinds of small fish, shrimp and crabs. From sharks, mackerel, and all kinds of ferocious fish to the dinner. These days, there are not many opportunities to eat a foreign fast food.

The shark gulped the English sailor, and if it came across a live one, several sharks would cooperate. A strong man who had just howled miserably was torn apart by several sharks in an instant.

In the face of the apex predators of the sea, the humble humans have no chance of returning the favor.

The sailors on the ship, with their guns, began to shoot those who escaped in lifeboats. At first, it was to kill the enemy, but later Li Xiao found out that these bastards actually had an element of fun. They could have been shot in the chest and killed, but they aimed at the arms and legs and fired them.

Those who hit the hands and feet are considered sharpshooters, and those who hit the arms and legs are considered passing. If you hit you in the chest or in the head, you will definitely be ridiculed by those around you.

Li Xiao didn't care about these things, this was the business that a junior officer should be in charge of, not a big marshal.

The petty officers were in favor of their subordinates actively practicing marksmanship, and they themselves were happy to participate in it. This time, the lifeboat was miserable, forced by bullets to jump into the sea full of sharks, and forced to fight the most ferocious sea beast in the sea.

Black smoke rose from the chimney of the Zhenyuan and crashed into a lifeboat, causing the crew to dive into the water. The huge hull pressed against it, and the small sampan was smashed to pieces. The crew, on the other hand, were carried into the sea by a huge whirlpool, and no one was seen coming out until the behemoth of Zhenyuan sailed by.

"Dinner tonight, but a bowl of wine per person." There was no moving target on the sea, and as soon as Li Xiao gave the order, the two ships immediately burst into cheers.

In this battle, the officers and men of the navy saw how powerful the invincible warship they piloted. A large number of sail warships did not have the slightest ability to resist in the face of behemoths like Zhenyuan and Dingyuan.

The cannonball pierced through their planks like cutting tofu with a knife.

"I thought of using rockets to attack fortified positions on land, but I didn't expect you to use rockets to attack ships parked on docks. Those ships were lined up so densely, and this time the rockets went down, they were almost thirty percent gone. The fisherman looked at the smoke-billowing Zhujiajian Wharf.

"This is the advantage of fast speed and long range of rockets. If it is a naval battle in which the two armies face each other in a dignified manner, in fact, rockets will not have much effect. Now I regret turning the back deck into a rocket launch site. At the beginning, I also thought too much about how the warships at sea helped the army to do this. ”

"I heard Mr. Zhang say that soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Dashuai is really easy to use, if we have ten more ships like this, even if it is the edge of the sky. Chen Laohu was a little excited, and he was a little glad that he became a navy. The thought of making a windfall overseas made Chen Laohu's heart hot.

Ignoring Chen Laohu's sycophancy, Li Xiao stepped off the deck and returned to his cabin to prepare for sleep. This lasted from noon to evening, and even the nap was delayed.

When he led 100 people to attack the coast of Liaodong to grab things, Li Xiao was always in high spirits. At that time, he looked forward to every battle, but now Li Xiao is a little tired of the battlefield. When I first smelled blood, I felt that the blood was burning. Now Li Xiao is extremely tired of the smell of blood!

slept in the dark, and when he woke up in the morning, Li Xiao had a headache. And not only does it have a headache, but every bone joint in the body is also sore. Li Xiao knew that he had a cold.

Chen Laohu ordered the cook to boil ginger soup and personally bring it to Li Xiao's cabin. As a result, I saw Li Xiao holding millet porridge and eating the big shark-stuffed buns at the celebration banquet.

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"Damn, this time I lost forty-eight boats." George waited for a day at the designated assembly point before continuing his voyage south. After counting the ships, George almost fainted in distress.

The five-masted battleships lost a total of forty-eight ships, almost half the size of the entire fleet. Even the remaining battleships were wounded. In particular, the loss of the sails was very serious, and when escaping from the port of Zhujiajian, all kinds of incendiary materials fell from the sky, burning the sails to a big hole and a small eye. So much so that the crew had to remove the sheets and patch the sails.

"I've heard that last time, the Dutch suffered more than you. My friend knows, he was the commander of the Dutch fleet that time. You shouldn't have left him on Sumatra, you should have brought him to Daming. Believe me, he hates Li Xiao even more than you. Wu Sangui sat at the dining table, trying to deal with a piece of fish. Now he is as proficient with a knife and fork as he is with chopsticks.

"Why didn't you say it when we left Java?" George looked at Wu Sangui angrily.

"I only know that he went to Sumatra, but I don't know where he is in Sumatra. We arrived in Java together, but Kuichi didn't know why and took his people to Sumatra. Say, the weather there is better than in Java. Wu Sangui joked like a Westerner.

"God knows why he went to Sumatra." George didn't like his nondescript jokes very much, but he didn't want to offend Wu Sangui. After all, the person in his fleet who is most familiar with Da Ming and knows Li Xiao the most is Wu Sangui.

"Are you going back to Java?"

"Yes, only Java can take a break. In addition, there is wood in Java that can be used to repair my boat. What will Li Xiao do in the future? Will he take his two giant ships to the South China Sea? "George is very concerned about whether Li Xiao will go south, and if Li Xiao goes south, it will be difficult to stop him with his fleet. There had to be another way to deal with these two warships.

"I don't know, but this guy Li Xiao has always been active in the north of Daming. He was a native of Liaodong, and he preferred the north to the south. Li Xiao once said publicly that the rich Jiangnan winter was too cold and he was not used to it. Even if you are not used to the south of the Yangtze River, you will not like the hot and humid South China Sea.

And Da Ming's territory is so big, he just knocked Da Ming down, and there are a lot of things he needs to worry about. Domestic affairs can keep him busy, and he has no leisure to go to the South China Sea. ”

"If only it were like you said, we can have a good rest in Java. I also need to write to the country, and I need Her Majesty to send more troops. I really don't know how to write to Her Majesty, and those people in London will not believe that such a miraculous thing can happen in the far East. George clutched his forehead, worried about what was about to happen.

"I think you should go back to India directly, Li Xiao won't come, it doesn't mean that his younger brother Li Xiu won't come. That's also a difficult guy, and this guy is even more ferocious than Li Xiao. The man I sent out reported that he was on the same ship that we had damaged last time. Moreover, he himself was injured and was being treated in Jinling.

Once he gets better, he will definitely come to the South China Sea in a boat to seek revenge on us. By that time, Java was simply not enough for him to stew a spoonful. You better go back to India as soon as possible, organize an army there, and prepare to resist Li Xiao's army.

In addition, the equipment in your troops is too backward. I have advanced weapon drawings here, as well as gunpowder recipes. You can craft the weapons you need in India, and if they are not as good as Li Xiao's weapons, they are better than what you are using now. But......! ”

"I see what you mean, Wu! After the British Empire defeats the Ming Dynasty, it will help you become the emperor of the country. Like you said, the country is too big. It is impossible for us in the British Empire to rule here, so we can only find agents like you. That's what we do in India, and it's in Her Majesty's interest. ”

"Good! After returning to Java to recuperate, we will take my people with you to India. There, you're going to help me build a weapons factory. I'll be there to help you produce new gunpowder for your weapons. ”

"It's a deal!"

"Major General, what if the British turn their faces when they get to India?" Back in the cabin, his subordinates asked Wu Sangui with some concern.

"Rest assured, the British need us. Otherwise, we will be thrown into the sea in Zhoushan. They used the Brahmins and Kshatriyas to rule India, and they also wanted to use us to rule the Ming Dynasty. These days I talk to the English sailors, and I know that the so-called England is not a big country. The population is not as large as the population of Susong Erfu, let them rule the Ming Dynasty. It's not enough to move the whole country's population here! Relax your heart, as long as you help the English defeat the Ming.

I, Wu Sangui, have become the emperor, and you are all princes and generals. ”

"Major General, I want to be the secretary of the ministry. Who dares to offend Lao Tzu and not give him an official to do. ”

"I want to be the head of the household, and Lao Tzu likes money."

"I want to be the Ministry of Works, uh no, it's the book of the Criminal Department."

"I think it's most suitable for the young general to send him to the palace as a eunuch!"

"Hahaha!"

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Li Xiao searched along the coast of Zhejiang, but found no remnants of the English fleet. Li Xiao did not delay, and after a replenishment at Huating, he continued to move south along the coastline.

When he came to Quanzhou Port, Zheng Zhilong, who had received the news in advance, personally stood on the dock to greet him.

Such a huge ship made Zheng Zhilong gasp. He can be regarded as a trotter at sea, and it has been almost fifty years now, and it is the first time he has seen such a big ship. Where are these two ships, it's simply two moving mountains.

The draft of Quanzhou Port is insufficient, and Li Xiao's ship cannot be relied on. You can only take the dinghy sent by Zheng Zhilong to land!

"Third Master!" Seeing Zheng Zhibao who came up to greet him in the dinghy, Li Xiao hugged his fists.

When they fought the Dutch together in Macau, the fierce Zheng Zhihu was buried at sea. The brothers of the Zheng family, there is only this Zheng Zhibao left. Zheng Zhilong sent him to personally sail a boat to greet him, which shows his respect for Li Xiao.

"Don't call the marshal that, you can always hear the news of the marshal's victory over the years. In just a few years, it not only pacified the Tartars, but also swept away the scourge of the rebels in the south of the Yangtze River.

Two years ago, Qian Qianyi sent people to lobby my eldest brother, saying that you are difficult to support in the capital alone, and you can't support it for long. My eldest brother opened his mouth and scolded the man back, but it was ridiculous that there were still some clan elders in the family at that time, and they thought that you couldn't stay in the capital. Now, as long as there is something, my eldest brother will talk about their attitude at that time, so that the old guys can't talk one by one. Looking at their appearance, Lao Tzu just wanted to laugh.

You don't know how difficult those old guys are, I've been in charge of them since I was a child, and this time it can be regarded as giving me this breath. Please! ”

Zheng Zhibao pulled Li Xiao and kept talking, quite like an old friend meeting.

Li Xiao just listened to Zheng Zhibao with a smile, and didn't interject casually.

It seems that the affairs of the Zheng family are not up to Zheng Zhilong alone. There are many clan elders in the family, and the power is still very strong. It's even so big that it can influence Zheng Zhilong's decision. They didn't take refuge in Nanming in the first two years, but they didn't start a war with Nanming and stabbed Nanming in the back.

This is enough to prove that the clan elders have a great influence on the Zheng family.

"Zheng Sen brought you some things and food from the capital, all on the big ship. In a while, you send a ship, and by the way, you will bring ashore all the gifts for the clan elders [3Q Chinese]. Fortunately, Li Xiao was prepared and prepared a lot of new gadgets and gifts on the ship.

"It's rare that this kid still remembers his third uncle, this kid is very good in the capital? Did you marry a mother-in-law? ”

"I'm afraid your eldest brother has to call the shots in this matter."

"Yes! Also! Parents' orders! Please! ”

While the two were talking, the dinghy was already approaching the dock. On the wharf, gongs and drums are noisy, firecrackers are ringing in unison, and colorful flags are fluttering in the crowd. At the head of the procession to greet Li Xiao were eight pairs of southern Fujian lion dancers. Behind is a phalanx composed of officers and soldiers, Zheng Zhilongtou wears a free crown, wears a Shu brocade flower robe, and a pair of deerskin boots on his feet. He is less than fifty years old, and he looks radiant.

"Lord Zheng, congratulations on being appointed as the Governor of Fujian." After getting off the dinghy, Li Xiao smiled and hugged Zheng Zhilong's fist.

"Handsome! Let's not say these polite words, the bumpy sea is tired of the road! Zheng Zhilong returned the salute with a fist.

"It's not that I'm tired, it's just that when I passed by Zhoushan, I met a group of English fleets. They tried their skills and sank more than forty of their ships. By the way, more than 200 people were captured, and the rest were not willing to fish, so they were thrown into the sea to feed the sharks. ”

"What? The English were sunk by you more than forty ships? Zheng Zhilong didn't speak, and Zheng Zhibao's eyes were as big as a cow's egg.