He Di, who went north to meet him, finally failed to reach Penghu before Zheng He, so Lu Yong, who was stationed in Penghu, surrendered directly.

The latter is a full-flintlock pistol.

And they are all descendants of the He family.

But......

Still surrendered without a fight.

In the final analysis, this is all an internal matter of the Ming royal family, no matter how much war is the Zhu family's business, the people of the Ming Dynasty have been polluted by various ideas brought by Yang Feng, and this time is no longer in the past.

It's okay to fight, but who will fight to the end except those who have no choice!

Zheng He is also an old acquaintance, and even Lu Yong in Penghu has been very happy to smuggle with him all these years, and now he has a huge fleet, and He Di is nowhere to be seen, if he doesn't surrender, will he fight to the end?

It's not worth it.

In fact, except for the Semu warriors, the other armies of the Jianwen Dynasty have this mentality.

So He Di had no choice but to lead his powerful fleet to Nanao Island.

Anyway, as long as he is still on Nanao Island, it is impossible for Zheng He or the fleet that governs the Southern Expedition to bypass him, after all, there is still the Humen Fortress in Guangzhou, once the fleet falls into a continuous attack in the Humen Fortress, then He Di, who is heading south from Nanao Island, will block the Southern Expedition fleet at the mouth of the Pearl River, and will eventually be wiped out because of the exhaustion of ammunition.

And you can also watch the Teochew gentry on Nanao Island to prevent these guys from betraying Jianwen to protect themselves.

This can almost be said to be inevitable, in the final analysis, everyone also knows the roots, the Chaoshan gentry group was originally fighting with the Guangfu gentry group headed by the He family, and it is impossible to expect them to live and die together when the building is about to collapse, and a stab in the back is the standard. This is also the main reason why He Di had to go north to face him, and he had to go north to Penghu to face him, which is actually not safe on Nanao Island, because the Chaoshan gentry can still stab him in the back when the pressure reaches a certain level.

Only if he was in Penghu, Zheng He would not dare to attack Chaoshan beyond him, so that the Chaoshan gentry could guarantee that they would not betray Jianwen if they were not sure that Zheng He could win.

At the same time, the Jianwen Imperial Court also issued an order to prepare for war along the coast.

Just as he had just given the order to the elders of the color eyes to summon the young man, the latter was still crying, but when he learned that the ruling fleet had gone south, he immediately wiped away his tears as quickly as he could......

There is no choice!

This is not the same as going north to attack the capital.

Once the ruling power takes Guangdong, then they will really have to be slaves for men and prostitutes.

Legend has it that Ambassador Yang did not persecute Semu, and even promoted Tie Xuan to the governor before, but the problem was that Semu of the Jianwen Dynasty belonged to the anti-party.

Don't talk about him, even when he was Taizu, it was also going to raid the house and destroy the door.

So now don't say fifteen to fifty, but anyone who can take up arms can take up arms, even women have to take up arms, in short, the military households in Guangdong are like the Nanjing garrison Eight Banners when King Hong Tianwang was stationed, and they have entered the state of bloody battles of the clan. Then the vicinity of Guangzhou was the first to complete the armament, and they even quickly provided Jianwen with an army of 40,000, although the smallest of these 40,000 troops was only eleven or twelve, and the largest was almost seventy, but it still became Jianwen's most loyal army. I have to say that Jianwen was really caught off guard this time, he never thought that the army of the imperial court in the capital would attack by sea, and it was also a ruling pro-government, after all, the two sides have always been evenly matched at sea.

It's not the same as on land.

The resources at the disposal of the land-based government were overwhelming for him.

However, with the support of the South Sea trade at sea, especially in the western part of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the iron wood producing area of Annam, the resources at his disposal are the strongest.

And now the elites he can summon are all fighting in the north, and in addition to the sailors and fortress defenders left in Guangdong, there are only his guards and pro-army, an elite army of 3,000 people in total.

It's really elite.

Because they've even changed their flintlock pistols entirely.

But if you really calculate the situation, it is not too critical for Jianwen.

After all, as long as the sea can be blocked, and He Di and Zheng He on the sea are still five or five, he has four iron wood battleships, although Zheng He has six battleships, but four of them are when Zhu Yuanzhang is still alive, in order to save costs, and in addition, it was originally to cruise the north, and there is no real enemy in the north, so it is built with miscellaneous wood. The remaining two are really powerful, because they are made of cypress, not from a certain island, but a large number of cypress wood in the Wa country, and then add Qinggang, elm and the like to build, and Tie Li Mu is actually an excellent warship material, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many more.

Originally, the number of people in history began to decline sharply in the sixteenth century, and they were all used by the gentry of Liangguang to build houses and make furniture.

Rongxian Zhenwu Pavilion is built of pure iron power wood, which is often faced with typhoons and rain-rich Liangguang, which has been intact until modern times.

As for the number of warships of the other cruiser classes on both sides, the number is about the same.

Zheng He's plus Qi Bin is more than He Di, but not too much, and Zheng He's sailors are indeed elite, and even a large number of sailors sailed to the Americas, but Qi Bin's sailors are much worse, that is, those who are emperors in the north, especially in the Wa Kingdom, but the whaling ships and sailors in the hands of the latter can fight better than the sailors, but the armed whaling ships are all escorted by him.

And not in Zheng He's fleet.

In short, He Di and Zheng He are still half a pound and eight taels.

It was the latter who won last time, but it was just that He Di didn't want to work hard.

But now He Di can only fight hard.

And even if He Diwan is defeated, there are still coastal fortresses dominated by Humen in the end, these fortresses are no worse than Sanshan Fort and Moling Pass, since the latter can block the imperial camp, of course, these can also block the Beijing camp, and the imperial camp also has the color eye warriors who can rush the cannon shirtless, and the Beijing camp is probably not so brave.

Besides, with 15,000 Beijing battalions, it is still a bit naïve to attack Guangzhou with this strength.

It's not a big deal.

The advantage is mine!

So he did not withdraw to attack the imperial camp in the capital, but asked the latter to step up the attack, anyway, if he can hold it, there is no need to withdraw, if he can't hold it, it's useless, can't Guangzhou be defended, Jianwen can go somewhere else, even if he still wants to continue to run away and dream of being his emperor, those gentry are not interested in accompanying him anymore, when will it be a head if it goes on like this.

And the northward movement is straight downstream, like a bamboo.

However, the retreat was a countercurrent, and it was estimated that it would take three months to evacuate from the capital to Guangzhou......

And it is still a smooth situation, there are no accidents along the way, there is no destruction of the people, there is no defection, etc., in short, it has to be an ideal state, and if it is not an ideal state, it is far away.

There's no need for that.

On the contrary, if the capital can be broken during this period, the situation will be reversed immediately.

In short, there is no need to return to the defense, just continue to strengthen the attack, let those colored soldiers continue to charge, anyway, if you don't rush now, there will be no chance in the future.

For their right to live, fight!

At this time, the ruling fleet escorted by Yang Feng had already sailed away from Keelung under the banner of going south, but after sailing west out of the field of vision of people on the shore, the fleet immediately made a U-turn, and then took advantage of the night to go east in the sea off Keelung, turned south and began to move south along the coast. There are no people in this area yet, but the Ming army has several marked freshwater supply points on the coast, which are roughly Hualien, Taitung and other estuaries, as for the natives, of course, there are many people, but they are now living a very primitive life.

At least there is no possibility of a leak.

Nearly 200 brigs, gunboats, and whaling ships sailed south at an average speed of five knots, a total of more than 400 kilometers, and the fleet at this speed was only two days, and there was no need for any stops and supplies in between, and soon they reached the Seven Star Rock.

However, it did not turn directly to the west.

Tainan is the stronghold of Guangdong whaling merchants, they have a large number of whaling ships in this area, and their whaling ships are definitely faster than the fleet full of soldiers, once they encounter the Guangdong whaling ships, the latter is likely to reach Humen before the fleet, and then report to Jianwen, so the fleet continues to the south, and then avoid this whaling field and go straight to Humen.

Five days later.

Tai Xi Shan, Tuen Mun Garrison under the jurisdiction of the C-shaped sentry ship patrolling.

At present, each of the three gates of the Pearl River Estuary has a garrison, Humen garrison, Tuen Mun garrison, and Macao garrison.

The latter is of course stationed in the oyster mirror, with the oyster mirror as the base, where the folk is called Macao, at this time the Pearl River estuary and the modern difference can be said to be huge, not only the south of Macao, including all the way to the south of Yamen, are all shallow sea and even tidal waterways, and Humen to the west to Xiangshan is also all the sea, and the outside of Xiangshan County is the sea.

Therefore, the most important part of this piece is the oyster mirror or Macao, as it is called.

Because it is the main supply point for access to the modern Modaomen waterway, which at this time is the intricate shallow tidal flats.

It is also a natural paradise for the smuggling trade.

The He family held the monopoly of maritime trade in their hands, and in fact monopolized the official trade to Nanyang, but since they played the monopoly, they could only force the gentry of other systems to find another way, and the Chaoshan maritime merchants, the second largest force in Guangdong, of course, also had the right to transport goods from overseas to Chaoshan from Guangzhou. This is definitely not overseas trade, but the domestic and even intra-provincial trade of the Ming Dynasty, just by sea, and the same Annan to Guangzhou must also be domestic trade, not overseas trade. Of course, in fact, the sailor will play the role of pirate and sink such a merchant ship at sea, but it is not the sailor who can stop the sailor from Annan to the north by land, or from Annam to Hepu along the coast, and the goods that come out of Hepu will become an inland trade through the Xijiang River.

These commodities then appeared in Macao through the intricate water network of the Xijiang River, and became the main commodities transported by Chaoshan maritime merchants to the north.

In the same way, the northern commodities transported to Macao by Chaoshan maritime merchants will also become inland trade.

Of course, there are also a bunch of Zhangquan maritime merchants in Chaoshan.

The latter is the main partner of Chaoshan maritime merchants.

As for Tuen Mun, there is no smuggling, after all, the He family's nest is Dongguan, and they don't need smuggling, but mainly investigate smuggling.

So......

"Hundred households, there are not many accounts today, and I only received two ships."

On the C-row sentry boat, an officer looked at a merchant ship heading north, holding a wad of banknotes.

This was given to them by the merchant ship just now.

The main task of the Tuen Mun garrison is to inspect smuggling ships, and theoretically it is necessary to intercept and board all merchant ships passing from the Pearl River Estuary to see if the goods on them have any shipping orders from any firms, otherwise it is smuggling. According to Jianwen's franchise authorization to the He family, as long as the sea ships in Daming carry commodities within the scope of the franchise authorization, they must have a shipping order issued by the He family's firm, because only the He family's firm has the right to transport spices and other franchised materials from Nanyang to Daming for sale.

In the same way, the franchise products sold overseas by Daming are also the shipping orders of Hejia.

Of course, Daming's sales to land and inland rivers do not need this, after all, this belongs to retail and not wholesale.

Or that the He family can't manage the inland.

The Tuen Mun garrison mainly does this, but in fact, even if it is really found, it is all extortion of a sum of money, after all, the He family is sitting on a mountain of gold, and his brothers have to make some extra money.

As for the Macao garrison, it is a Teochew guard, and it goes without saying whether it will investigate smuggling.

This is what the Chaoshan group within the imperial court strives for, after all, the official can't be done by the people of the Guangfu group, and Chaoshan and Hakka must have a share.

"This person is panicking, business is not good, and I don't know if my seventh uncle has repelled the thief army."

Baihu sat on his chair, looking at the blue sea in front of him and sighed.

Behind him, the centipede ship, with only one sail but dozens of long oars sticking out, was sailing slowly on the sea under the mechanical movements of more than a hundred Japanese slaves in the bilge, while on the mast above his head, the observer was holding a monocular looking for the next target.

"The Marquis of Qingyuan is powerful in the world, and it is not enough to catch a eunuch slave, but it was just a storm last time, otherwise the soldiers would have come to the capital at this time."

The officer said with a smile on his face.

The last time the Jianwen court explained the defeat of He Di, it was a typhoon.

"That's right!"

Baihu said.

It was clear that he still had confidence in his seventh uncle.

Of course, it is actually the seventh uncle, and his seventh uncle may not know that there is such a person.

One person has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven.

The He family can now be said to be in full swing, even if the relatives who can't be beaten by the eight poles, they all follow the promotion and make a fortune.

"Hundred households, there are boats over the pole."

The shouts of observers from the mast rang out.

The spirits of the hundred households were lifted, and most of the people who came from the pole were smugglers, carrying goods from the north to Macao, and they made a fortune with a boat......

"Quick!"

He shouted.

"Hurry, work hard."

The shouts of the bilge officer rang out.

At the same time, the sound of whips sounded.

Then the originally slow drum beat suddenly accelerated, and the dozens of long oars that accompanied the drum beat also began to speed up, and the centipede ship immediately entered full speed, cleaving the waves on the surface of the sea, like a machine that mercilessly burns the Japanese slaves.

And then......

"Drop, drop, turn around!"

The drums burst into the frightened shouts of the observers.

And Baihu was stupid at this time, standing in his bow fort, looking at the sea behind Dangan Island in amazement......

There are boundless brigs of clippers.

Truly boundless.

The clippers with white sails were like seagulls gliding on the sea, at least as far as he could see, and there was no end in sight.

"Turn around, go to Humen!"

When he finally came to his senses, he howled like crazy.