363、Pirate's Grand Fleet [1/2]
Zheng Zhifeng is just a small episode, and it's time to get down to business.
Yi Yun smiled at Zheng Zhilong and said, "Now that our imperial court has shown the greatest sincerity, it's time for you to make some expressions, right?"
Zheng Zhilong nodded: "I understand, dealing with the Dutch, right? Actually, I have been thinking about this issue for a long time, I used to be an interpreter in the Dutch fleet, so I know the ferocity of the Dutch better than all of you, they claim to be civilized, but in fact they are more barbaric than anyone else, every time they go to a new place, the local natives welcome their arrival with smiling faces, but they use fire guns to deal with those natives and take property from them." These guys occupy colonies everywhere in the world, pong the local people, enslave them...... Moreover, they are only allowed to engage in trade by themselves, and no one else is allowed to engage in trade, and this time they went to Penghu to build a castle in order to take away the maritime trade rights of the Far East, and as long as they are stationed in peace, they will take me, the largest local maritime merchant and pirate, under knife. ”
"Since you know this, what else are you thinking about? You don't have to wait for me to come to you, you should have rolled up your sleeves a long time ago!" Yi Yun wanted to complain. Obviously, people are just waiting for the court to clean it up, so they can jump out and take the opportunity to put forward conditions...... Therefore, people are really complicated, everyone is planning for their own interests, no matter how many high-sounding words are said in their mouths, it is useless, and what is finally done is true.
Zheng Zhilong stood up from his chair, waved his hand at the pirates in the hall, and said loudly: "Everyone is ready to fight, I am ready to issue a summoning order from all over the world, calling all the eighteen Zhizhi of Fengyun to gather at Quanzhou Port...... Do a big deal. ”
"Fengyun Eighteen Zhi?" Yi Yun Daqi: "Shrimp Dongdong?"
Li Huamei next to her said in a low voice: "The so-called Fengyun Eighteen Zhi refers to the eighteen pirates! When Zheng Zhilong made a fortune, there were eighteen pirates who became brothers, with a total of eighteen Zhizhi, headed by Zheng Zhilong. ”
"Yo, I don't know much, but it sounds amazing!"
Li Huamei introduced in a low voice: "The eighteen Zhizhi are: Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhifeng, Shi Xuan, Yang Tiansheng, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, Zhong Bin, Li Guozhu, Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi, Hong Xu, Gan Hui, He Bin, Guo Huaiyi, Chen Xinji, all of whom are famous heroes in the southeast sea. ”
"Well. Thank you for remembering so many names!" Iyun Khan said: "I will never remember it, and the words ...... Together, how much combat power do these eighteen Zhi have?"
"Well...... Outsiders don't know, maybe Zheng Zhilong himself doesn't know, because these eighteen Zhizhi rarely get together in normal times, and each develops its own maritime trade, who has one more boat and one less boat. will not report to Zheng Zhilong immediately, only when they get together, we can know. ”
By this time, the pirates in the lobby had already boiled over and began to run out. It seems that he went out to transfer the ship first, and Zheng Zhilong also smiled and said: "Lord, let's go to Quanzhou together......
"If I don't go with you, you will run away to Quanzhou with a vote of pirates, and you will have to frighten the officials in Quanzhou. ”
"Ha, the prince really loves to laugh!"
The two chatted about useful and useless nonsense as they walked slowly towards the pier, which was originally relatively calm, with only many boats standing still. But now the Macau Pier seems to come alive. Countless ships were moving around the dock, big ships and small boats, medium ships and huge ships, Chinese and Western oceans, and there were ships anchoring everywhere, and because these ships were squeezed out of the dock in stacks, Yi Yun couldn't see how many. You can only see the sails raising everywhere in front of you, left and right.
Some of the merchants, who did not know what was happening, were frightened by the sudden surge, and some of them ran desperately on the docks, shouting, "Oh my God...... The pirates are all anchored, what are they for?"...,
"It can't be that the pirates suddenly want to attack Macau Harbor, right?"
"Are you stupid? Why do they have to get on the ship if they want to attack Macao Harbor? They can attack directly from the land, and they are all on ......the shore."
"Is this going to be against?"
"A must...... You see...... These ships are all flying Zheng Zhilong's flag, this is a large gathering order of pirates in the southeast sea, right?"
Yi Yun followed Zheng Zhilong on the edge of the dock for a while. I saw that countless pirate ships had left the port one after another, gathering on the sea a few nautical miles away from the port, and the ships were gathering more and more, and they had been counted countless times, Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "Do you want to come to my flagship?"
"Let's take a look!"
Yi Yun also wanted to see what kind of ship Zheng Zhilong had, but it ended up on the ground. Yi Yun was taken aback, it turned out that this guy's flagship was a huge Dutch galleon! Fifty cannons stretched out arrogantly with black muzzles, low bows, high sterns, and white soft sails......
"Gallien?" Iyun couldn't help but cried out.
"That's right, I've been working as a translator under the Dutch for a long time, so there's no reason not to get myself something. Zheng Zhilong smiled: "I spent a lot of money to buy this ship from a Dutch pirate and refurbish it to its current state. ”
"The Dutch are willing to sell you such a powerful thing?" Iyun felt a little puzzled.
"Well...... He originally refused!" Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "Later, I cut off his head with a knife, and he was willing." ”
"I'll wipe it, and you just say it's robbed!"
A group of people, including Xiong Wencan, all got on Zheng Zhilong's flagship, the huge Dutch galleon gave people a very solid feeling, although Yi Yun also grabbed a flying Henan, but the ship was in tatters when it was snatched, and there was no very domineering feeling when standing on it, or now this one makes people feel more comfortable.
Zheng Zhilong took out a huge conch, which looked a bit like the conch used by Wang Zhi when he summoned the big turtle Xuanwu, but it was a little different, it looked relatively simple, not as gorgeous as the conch that summoned Xuanwu.
"That's the sound of the tide of ten thousand miles!" Li Huamei knew that Yi Yun needed to explain, so she didn't wait for Yi Yun to ask, so she introduced first: "Blow this conch, no matter where the members of Eighteen Zhi are, they can hear the call of the conch, and they will come back with the fleet to gather......"
"Well, I don't know much, but I look more powerful. "Great Khan of Iwan.
Zheng Zhilong put the conch to his mouth, whined, and a low sound rushed out of the conch, and then there was a feeling of pressing down, the snail seemed to sink down, pressed on the sea level, and then with the fluctuation of the sea sand, it spread in all directions.
After blowing the snail, Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "Lord Wang, let's go, let's go to Quanzhou Port first...... Now the port of Quanzhou should be in a very dangerous situation, and it may be bombarded by the Dutch at any time, so let's arrive one step earlier and let the people of Quanzhou feel at ease as soon as possible. ”
"Let's go!"
Under the guidance of Zheng Zhilong's ship, the pirate fleet began to surge, sailing towards the north together, Yi Yun and Li Huamei's warships followed pitifully behind, and the front was full of chaotic sail shadows, covering the sky and the sun.
"me, how many boats are there?" Yi Yun couldn't help but sweat a little.
"There should be nearly a thousand!" Li Huamei said with a heavy face: "There are about seven hundred light sampans and small boats that can only carry two or three people, two hundred medium ships that can carry two or three guns, and one hundred large gunboats......
"Fainted, so much?" Yi Yun sighed a little: "No wonder this guy has such a big tone, and he asked the court for the conditions of the lion to open his mouth, it turns out that this guy is really powerful." ”...,
"Well, he is indeed very powerful!" Li Huamei sighed: "Don't forget, Fengyun Eighteen Zhi has not yet arrived, only Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhifeng, the four leaders of the Zheng family, have not arrived...... When they arrived, it would be at least more than 3,000 ships, and the size of the fleet would ...... I don't think I need to fight, the Dutch are so frightened that they jump into the sea and pull down. ”
Yi Yun also wiped his sweat, this is really a super boss, is it really okay to give such a big guy a privateer license? With the size of his fleet, I am afraid that he can conquer Central and South Asia.
The huge pirate fleet set sail, such a large-scale fleet transfer, it will definitely not be hidden from anyone, first of all, Macau is shaken, the Portuguese in the whole Macao are panicked, although they know that Zheng Zhilong will not take them, but such a large fleet is assembled, if they don't take precautions, they can't say it. From the assembly of Zheng Zhilong's fleet to the departure of the fleet, all the Portuguese soldiers were mobilized and all stood in various fortifications by the dock, setting up guns and cannons just in case.
The soldiers all watched nervously as the pirates sailed out to sea, although the Portuguese soldiers were all extremely combat-effective, but there were too many pirates, just a few hundred soldiers, and they didn't want to withstand a pirate landing operation of this scale.
It wasn't until this huge fleet went north that all the Portuguese breathed a sigh of relief, and the merchants from various countries on the dock jumped out and said loudly: "You say, what is Zheng Zhilong doing here?"
"Went north...... Needless to say...... Hey...... Dutch!"
"So, the Dutch are going to suffer?"
"Tsk...... Well, judging from the size of the fleet, the Dutch are going to finish their game this time! Although the Dutch are fighting a great naval battle, with so many ships, the artillerymen can't finish fighting even if they are weak, and it is almost impossible to prevent the gang from jumping. ”
"And what about the Dutch?"
"Run! Macau is a sensation, the Dutch also have spies here, I believe that the news will come back soon, they can't sit still, they will definitely find a way. ”
"The Dutch may not necessarily run away, they finally built a castle on Penghu, and if they give up the castle and escape, they will also be a little unwilling......"
"Then there's a good show to watch!"