"This person is from the navy of the Ming Dynasty? I am under the command of Xiong Wencan, governor of Fujian..." The first sentence is nonsense. Where else can such a terrifying warship come from except the evil navy of the Ming Dynasty these days? The latter sentence can only tell
Apart from his name, even Xiong Wencan himself didn't think it would have any effect. This was a proud and powerful general of the new army. Who else was qualified to show off in front of them except the emperor and the general who was holding the country?
"Zou...Zou Dehui?" There are quite a few capable people who were nominated for the Ding Weike Gold List in the 35th year of Wanli's 35th year, but Xiong Wencan never expected to meet one here. Wasn't he already
Were they murdered? I heard that the person who did it was the general who ruled the country.
"Mr. Xiong, if you don't stay well in Fujian, why did you come to Donghai?" Zou Weilian looked at the dumbfounded guy who just walked in with a smile on his face.
"Hey..." The enemy is not far away from here. Now is not the time to reminisce or ask questions. Xiong Wencan tried his best to suppress the curiosity in his heart and went straight to the topic: "Brother Nian, I am incapable of causing you trouble...
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Xiong Wencan's words are really not modest. As an ambassador who specializes in deceiving people, he is worthy of his name, but when it comes to fighting, he is really not good at it! Historically, with the help of Cai Shanji, he successfully recruited Zheng Zhilong and others who attacked Tongshan from Xiamen.
, and relied on these local armed forces to clean up the pirates all over the world. After Chongzhen forcibly assigned him the important task of wiping out the Shaanxi uprising army, he took advantage of the opportunity that the imperial army had won consecutive battles to bring the peasant uprising into a trough and successfully recruited Zhang Xianzhong.
Liu Guoneng, relying on his sharp mouth, has had a prosperous official career and been promoted repeatedly in the past thirty-three years!
However, there is a saying that success is also a failure, and Xiong Wencan's fatal weakness is that at best he is a kind-hearted person who believes that everyone in the world is trustworthy, at worst he is a fool who is easily fooled. Historically, he has been
Zhang Xianzhong deceived people and allowed them to escape from the encirclement smoothly. They relied on the food and grass provided by the court to station tens of thousands of troops and wait for the opportunity. Finally, when Zhang Xianzhong had enough food and water to feed his troops, he raised his troops again. Xiong Wencan was also arrested because of the failure to appease the bureau.
He lost his life in prison, and the Ming Dynasty, which had been able to quell the civil strife and gain a last chance to breathe, was completely destroyed. But this time, because the rebellion in Shaanxi was over, Zhu Youcong abducted Zou Weilian in advance.
Even though there was no one to replace him, he was able to continue to stay in the position of governor of Fujian, and he also had more opportunities to realize his ideals, but what was the result...
"What?" Zou Weilian didn't know how to describe this same year, you are a bit too courageous. You have to be careful even if you want to use a pirate who has only been recruited for a year, knowing that he is stronger than you, but he can safely take you with him.
Are those broken ships going out to sea with them? Do you think you are the general who controls the country with powerful soldiers and beats whoever you catch?
"Brother Nian, please quickly think of a way to deal with the current situation..." Xiong Wencan's trouble this time was not much smaller than in history. Originally, he planned to sneak attack the transport team while the Dutch were moving north to deliver weapons to the Tatars.
After destroying the enemy's main fleet in Ming Dynasty, he regained Taiwan in one fell swoop. If only based on strength, it was possible for his pirates to complete this task. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the battle, Zheng Zhilong suddenly raised the Tatar flag and turned the guns.
If he hadn't been lucky enough to run fast, he wouldn't have been able to complain about the Fujian navy he had brought with him when he was bullied by the Dutch.
"You mean they have already passed the mouth of the Yangtze River?" Hearing that the enemy had not harassed the Jiangnan coast, Zou Weilian felt a little relieved, but he still did not dare to take it lightly.
"This time, in addition to transporting supplies to the Tatars, the enemy is also planning to go to Washima to assist the Hizen Kunidagawa family, who are closely related to Zheng Ni, to land in our country..." Xiong Wencan was not a failure. Although he was deceived, he gained
Zheng Hongkui, who had always been estranged from Zheng Zhilong's ideas, sincerely surrendered to him.
According to Zheng Hongkui, who risked his life and led Xiong Wencan to break out of the encirclement and is still lying in the cabin recovering from his injuries, the Tatars really spent a lot of money this time to prepare for war! Not only did they enter into an alliance with the Dutch two years ago and paid a large amount of silver
He purchased military supplies and gave Zheng Zhilong the post of admiral of the Beiyang Navy. He also contacted the Japanese pirates through the Zheng family's connections. In Huang Taiji's view, the cost of asking the Japanese pirates to send troops was simply not worth mentioning. Isn't it just whoever robbed it gets it?
, is it possible that we have the nerve to ask for the things that the Chengren family robbed in the Ming Dynasty? What if Jinzhou, which was originally planned to be ceded to the Ming Dynasty, is given to someone else? After the enemy's main force is eliminated and the Ming Dynasty is conquered, I
Why would the Qing Dynasty care about such a small place if it had a vast territory and abundant resources? As for recognizing their rule over the area north of the Han River in Korea, that would not be a big deal at all!
"Send the order and prepare to return at full speed!" We can't fight, and we absolutely can't start fighting here! Although the cabin was filled with cannonballs in order to bombard the Gaizhou Guards when they went to sea this time, but the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong's
The coalition has a huge fleet of nearly a hundred ships. It is not a big problem to use one of its warships to deal with the enemy. But as long as some of them escape, it will pose a threat to the Golden State Army or other places in the south. Such consequences
It's not something Zou Weilian can afford.
"Brother Nian, what are you..." Xiong Wencan didn't understand Zou Weilian's decision. Just now he saw the strangeness of this strange ship. But now why did he run away before the fight started? If Lian Zhenguo General
Even the new navy under his command is not sure to withstand the enemy's attack, so who else in the world can stop them?
"Report!" Just when Zou Weilian was about to explain, the messenger said outside the door: "Five enemy ships appeared fifty miles to the right rear of our ship. They seem to be sent for reconnaissance!"
"Let's explore again! As long as they are not the enemy's main fleet, just kill them before leaving!" Zou Weilian said with a sneer, "I really think that our Ming Navy is a soft persimmon, and everyone wants to take a bite of it."
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"My lord, do you think we are just going to mess with the Tatars?" Liu Hu, who had just become the naval commander of the Qing Dynasty, looked horrified when he thought of the news he had heard from the merchants.
"Why, you don't want to?" The person leading this reconnaissance fleet was Zheng Zhilong's fifth brother Zheng Zhibao. As the leaders of the Zheng family pirate group who once destroyed the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty, they had always looked down upon the imperial army. They
They accepted the recruitment just to have a good reputation, so that they could control the sea routes openly and collect shipping fees for merchant ships from various countries. This time they chose to join the Tatars. The brothers also made careful considerations. They took advantage of the Hizen country when the war was not too clear.
The name of the Tagawa family first took root in Liaodong. If the Ming Dynasty wins, it will use it as a springboard to help the imperial army cross the sea and enter the Liaodong battlefield. Otherwise, it will help the Qing Dynasty in the south to suppress the defeated Ming army. Of course, if you want to be defeated by the Ming Dynasty after the victory,
To be reused, you must become the overlord of this sea area, and to join the Qing Dynasty, you must also give a generous gift to attract people's attention. It happened that the unlucky Xiong Wencan proposed the idea of attacking the Dutch fleet. As long as the Fujian Navy is completely eliminated,
No matter who wins on land, the surname of Ocean still has to be Zheng! But this perfect plan went wrong during execution, and the stupid fourth brother actually ran away with Xiong Wencan! Is this still our family? We need to repay the favor.
Isn’t it enough to feed that Cai Shanji with good food and drink? Why should we give up this good opportunity to expand our own strength and get riches from all over the world?
"Xiao... Xiao Xiao didn't mean that!" Seeing Zheng Zhibao's murderous eyes, Liu Hu quickly denied: "Xiao Xiao is of course just following the lead of the General Soldier, but that General Zhen Guo..." This is an act of surrendering to the enemy.
Han Jian, if the Zhenguo general were caught, would he still be alive?
"Isn't he the fat man from Luoyang?" Zheng Zhibao said with disdain: "When it comes to land, we may not be his opponent, but this ocean... Humph, my Zheng family is not those useless merchants under the gentry.
! With the little money he has wasted in Lingshan Guard, it’s okay to scare others!"
Zheng Zhibao does have pride. Although the Fujian navy is a bunch of trash, it is still better than the new army in the north that was established less than a year ago! The Dan family members they recruited can still lick blood with their swords all year round.
Compared to the pirates? Even if the imperial navy is a hedgehog, it is still a newborn soft egg. By the time they become stronger, people like myself will have unified the world long ago! So what we have to consider now is not how powerful the landlubbers led by that dead fat man are.
, but how to send the escaped Xiong Wencan and the fourth brother who had been separated from his brothers into the belly of the fish, so that in the future, if the Ming Dynasty wins the war, it will have to rack its brains to find excuses and spend some time to smoothen the relationship and join forces again.
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"Thirty miles away from the enemy, sir, shall we launch an attack?" The officers and soldiers on the Zou Weilian ship had no other intentions. Although the shelling just now was better than the usual training, it was really not enough!
"Tell the front deck to prepare the rocket launcher! At the aiming point, the enemy must not be allowed to escape!" Zou Weilian's idea was the same as Zheng Zhibao's, which was to leave no one alive to let the opponent get any useful information. The only difference was that Zou Weilian did this to create an opportunity to kill the enemy.
The combined fleet was completely destroyed!
"Twenty-five miles!" As the battleship moved forward, the lookout on top kept reporting the distance between the two sides.
"ignition!"
"What is that?" Zheng Zhibao always thought that the black smoke in the distance was Xiong Wencan who had escaped, but he never expected that several shining objects would fly out from it.
"Fire dragon comes out of water?" Liu Hu just thought of this legendary weapon when he heard several huge explosions, and then felt a heat wave throwing himself into the sky. What happened? Why did my body suddenly feel different?
It's lighter, my feet... How come the battleship that was just under my feet is so far away?
"Charge forward! When you enter the range, the main gun fires!" Zou Weilian could not bear it at all. The hysterical screams coming from the sea did not affect his decision at all. He must resolve the battle as quickly as possible, and then
Prepare for the first real test since the founding of the new Navy.