Chapter 4: Escape

In an instant, only King Lu and Liu Yu were left in the huge cabin.

"Whew," Liu Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't know that he was already drenched in cold sweat behind him.

"Why did you do that?" King Lu's eyes were uncertain, and he looked at Liu Yu and stopped talking.

"Live." Liu Yu stared at the man in front of him and said with a smile.

"Zhu Honghuan,"

"Mr. Xie saved my life." He actually gave Liu Yu a salute.

The sound of drums resounded throughout the Dongning seaport,

The soldiers, who were still resting on the boat, were awakened by the sudden beating of drums,

Torches surged from ship to hull,

The bright light of the fire shone on the frightened faces of the soldiers present.

"Everyone, assemble." A roar of rage spread throughout the fortune ship.

A soldier walked back and forth between the cabins with torches and long knives in his hand.

After a while, hundreds of Zheng soldiers were summoned to the deck of the Fu ship.

The sudden scene in the middle of the night caught the Zheng soldiers present off guard, and all kinds of suspicions and panic came to their hearts.

"Brother Tie, what's wrong," one person looked around at his own soldiers with a long knife and a fierce face, and pulled a big man next to him with trembling legs.

"Isn't it a Tartar to attack Dongning?" Another person cowered and leaned against the man's side, his voice uncontrollable with fear.

The big man couldn't stand it anymore and pushed the two of them away.

"Nimu Nanma, what are you afraid of, at most, a few bird boats from Tartars come to carry out night attacks, just like mosquito bites, so many people here are still afraid of him."

The man pursed his lips and held the long knife at his waist,

Looking at the battles around me, I still feel a little worried.

Suddenly, the sound of drums sounded again on the ship's floor,

The thunderous sound of drums instantly attracted the attention of hundreds of soldiers on the deck of the ship.

"Isn't that Xiao Wu, General Xiao?" A sharp-eyed eye recognized a man standing on top of the ship.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Shi Lang's dog thieves surrendered to the sellers, ruined my Zheng Jun's decades of hard work, and forced us to retreat to Dongning Port in a panic." Xiao Wu looked at the hundreds of soldiers in the audience and said sharply.

"Today, the young lord is young, and the traitorous ministers are in charge, and he wants to surrender the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he wants me to cut my hair and change it to meet the Tartars, willingly." Xiao Wudao.

"Unwilling," Liu Quan and many pro-soldiers on the side shouted angrily.

The light of the fire shone on the hideous faces of the people, and the soldiers below were stunned.

He Bin, who was on the side, took the opportunity to hand a copy of the payment to Xiao Wu.

"It is difficult to raise Hulu, it is difficult to prevent thieves, natural disasters and people are chaotic, what is innocent in the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for Jiashen, waving troops into the customs, pretending to beg for the Kou, and plotting the country. The three massacres of Jiangyin, the ten massacres of Yangjia, the destruction of my country, the humiliation of my wife and children, the cutting off of my Han hair, the change of my clothes, the encirclement of the field and the ban on the sea, and the enslavement of my Han people. Xiao Wu put down the document and looked at the soldiers below with a fierce expression.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty will not die, and heaven will not tolerate it."

"Go south to Luzon, oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!" He Bin on the side shouted loudly when he saw this.

"Anti-Qing and Restoration of Sight." On the ship's floor, dozens of pro-soldiers on the side of the ship shouted,

For a time, it angered everyone's blood,

"Anti-Qing Restoration of Sight,"

"Swear to kill the thief,"

Countless shouts rang out one after another in the ship's side and cabin, and even earth-shattering cheers rang out from nearby ships.

That night, due to the arrival of Liu Yu, the original historical trend couldn't help but have some deviations.

Shuishi Town, Weiwu Town, two consecutive towns of soldiers rioted,

The soldiers rebelled with the soldiers of Luzhen, and the port of Dongning, which was in turmoil due to the defeat in the Battle of Penghu, was demoralized and neglected to defend.

In an instant, Dongning was in chaos.

The raging fire swept through the entire Dongning, screams and roars came one after another,

Late at night, the craftsmen in the workshop were working overtime to repair firearms.

"Lord Huang, what's wrong." The craftsmen looked at the earth-shattering shouts of killing outside the workshop with an uneasy expression.

In the night, the firelight overflowed, shining through the pale cheeks of several people.

"I'm afraid it's not the Tartars who have invaded Dongning."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was frightened, and the timid even fell to the ground.

"What are you afraid of, even if the Tartars enter the city."

"We are artisans, don't Tartars need firearms?"

"As long as the people above know each other, we can live." An old craftsman glanced at the fire outside, and commanded:

"Hurry up and clean up your things, there are fires outside, the last thing we can't see in the fire workshop is the fire."

Before he could finish speaking, the door was kicked open, and several soldiers rushed in.

Without saying a word, he directly used a rope to put a set on several people, and took away a few craftsmen who were stunned on the spot.

On this night, the soldiers of Shuishi Town and Weiwu Town rushed into the port, and their goal was simple,

Craftsmen, sailors, and a host of the talents needed for the seas were all the objects of plunder by the soldiers of the two towns.

Due to the rebellion of the two towns, the Zheng army, which was already unstable, mutinied.

Many of the soldiers of the rest of the towns also rebelled.

Compared with Shuishi Town, the rebel soldiers of Weiwu Town fought in an orderly manner and had the same goal, and the soldiers of other towns only took advantage of the situation to plunder due to the unstable situation caused by the rebellion of the soldiers of the two towns.

Liu Yu and Zhu Honghuan stood at the bow of the boat and watched the firelight in the distance.

The fire of Dongning Port was reflected on everyone's face.

There's frenzy, there's excitement, there's trepidation.

The rebellion continued, countless houses were damaged, and the terrible screams were heard endlessly.

Even the Qing officers and soldiers on the Qing sentry ship who were watching from a distance were shocked by the fire and screams in front of them.

Those Zheng troops who took advantage of the situation to rebel and loot also provided cover for the soldiers of Weiwu Town and Shuishi Town.

When the rebel soldiers took the opportunity to plunder and loot the houses and residences, no one would notice that groups of soldiers in armor broke into the shipyards and workshops and forcibly took away the shipwrights and craftsmen who were still asleep.

With the expected high tide coming, two huge fortune ships took advantage of the high tide to slowly leave the port.

The soldiers who were still looting and the soldiers in charge of suppressing the rebellion would not have imagined that the instigators of the rebellion had already set sail.

On a Zheng army fort,

A middle-aged general silently looked at Dongning in a sea of fire not far away, and his eyes skimmed over the two lucky ships that were sailing.

"General Liu, do you want to open fire?" An adjutant asked in a whisper.

The middle-aged general didn't say anything, just watched silently, watching the ships set sail until they disappeared into the darkness of the night.

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The morning sun is coming to the east, twilight is coming, and at the intersection of the sea and the sky, a small boat looms between the sparkling waves.

It was a brig, a somewhat old ship, with a slightly damaged hull and some signs of repair on its mast.

Behind this bird ship, a blessed ship with its head and tail upturned and three masts slowly emerged, and behind it was a huge ship of similar shape.

Liu Yu and the others stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the sea and sky in the distance with excitement.

After most of the night's sailing and the help of the east wind, the fleet had already sailed far away from Taiwan.

Even if the Qing army learns the news now, it will not be easy for Shi Lang to send a sailor to pursue him.

Liu Yu naturally didn't know how to sail on the sea, and although his soul came from later generations, he had never learned about navigation, but he didn't need to.

This is the Ming Zheng Navy, which once crisscrossed the entire East Asian seas, and even if it declined, the relevant navigation technology and experience were among the best.

Last night in particular, they brought almost all the sailors they could find on board.

After this morning's inventory, Liu Yu and others were very satisfied.

This time they escaped, and Liu Yu and the others brought out eleven ships in one go.

Many of them took advantage of the chaos to loot and hurriedly followed after seeing the lucky boat of Shuishi Town leave.

Liu Yu looked at it carefully,

On the sea, there are two lucky boats, centipede ships, several sea cangs, and some bird boats, sentinel ships, etc.

After some inventory this morning,

In addition to more than 700 soldiers from the two towns of Shuishi Town and Weiwu Town, there were also more than 300 rebel officers and soldiers who took advantage of the opportunity to make a rebellion.

In addition to the officers and men, there were more than 300 shipwrights and hundreds of workshop craftsmen.

A detailed count showed that more than 1,500 people were brought out in one escape.

Liu Yu is also satisfied with this, after all, Xiao Wu and the others are not generals, but just two insignificant generals in the Ming and Zheng armies, and it is not easy to escape from Liu Guoxuan and other big names.

"Do you think the Qing army will catch up?" Zhu Honghuan, the king of Lu, walked over and muttered in a low voice.

Zhu Honghuan and Liu Yu are about the same age, and compared to the young and middle-aged people on the boat, the two young people talk more about each other.

"No, it won't." Before Liu Yu could speak, Xiao Wu of Shuishi Town shook his head and cut the railroad to the point.

"Shi Lang is a cautious person, his goal is to trap the Zheng regime in Taiwan, if we send the Fujian Navy Division to pursue because of our escape, it will undoubtedly disperse the forces of the Qing Court's Navy Division, and then the pressure on Ming Zheng will be greatly reduced, Shi Lang will never do this." Xiao Wu calmly analyzed.

"Actually, I'm more worried about the Francophiles in Luzon than the Qing court." Huang Liangji was worried.

"General Huang doesn't need to worry, although the number of our troops is small, it is indeed experienced in a hundred battles, and the firearms he holds are not afraid of the Francophone people." Liu Yu's uncle Liu Quan stood up at this time.

He was in high spirits, and he had been in a state of high spirits since he escaped.

With a wave of his hand,

"Whoa......

I only heard a "swish".

More than 30 gunners and 20 arquebusiers stood in unison on both sides of the deck.

They held a gun in their right hand, their steps were neat, their faces were cold, and their eyes were full of murderous intent, and there was no doubt that they had experienced the battle in the sea of blood to train them to have the courage and courage to collapse Mount Tai without being shocked.

Huang Liangji was the general of Lu Town, but he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw these soldiers of the Navy Town, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Good soldiers." ”

He is also a soldier who has led a lifetime, so he naturally knows that the strength of an army does not necessarily mean that it will be on the battlefield, and it is only necessary to observe its actions to know whether this army can fight.

Even King Lu and Liu Yu, who had never seen the marching formation, were shocked.

Looking at these battle-hardened elite soldiers, and thinking that this was under his uncle's command, Liu Yu couldn't help but feel excited.

If he had such an army in his hands, he would not only be able to level the sea frontier, but even counterattack the mainland.

Zhu Honghuan, the king of Lu, suddenly became more energetic, and his opinion of this fleet has been raised several levels, after all, his original intention of escaping this time was just that he did not want to be persecuted by the Manchus, but now he has also ignited a fighting spirit that he has never had.

"With this 100,000 elite soldiers, why worry about the Ming Dynasty and no more."