1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 13

The night was dark and the waves swelled like a tide. Standing at the stern of the boat, looking at the hazy shadow of the sail behind the boat, Liu Xiang didn't say anything for a while.Li Husan next to him kept talking for a long time, but in the end he still didn't dare to ask anything.

"Hey!" Liu Xiang sighed, "Hu San, do you think that I left Cao Xiong and the others as a little... immoral?"

Li Husan was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and then said, "Xiang,... Zheng Yiguan and his crew have a lot of people on board, and their firepower is strong. If we are entangled by those boats, we can't be sure... Maybe, From somewhere, Zheng Yiguan, more boats will appear and surround us."

"Actually, we can say hello to old ghost Cao when we are withdrawing." Liu Xiang said in a low voice. "...However, in that case, Cao Xiong and the others will definitely run away immediately."

"Jie Jie..." Liu Xiang laughed, her sinister voice was extremely piercing in the night, "Cao Xiong and those Shandong people, hmph, they have never been on the same side with us! ... They voted for us, but they still look down on pirates." It’s a job! His old mother, he ran to the sea, didn’t he want to be a pirate, and he still wanted to learn from Zheng Yiguan to recruit An to be an officer!?”

Li Husan wisely shut up and kept silent. He knew that Liu Xiang hated Zheng Yiguan the most, the sworn brother in the past, and the life-and-death enemy today. Whenever Zheng Yiguan's name was mentioned, Liu Xiang would gnash his teeth with hatred.

"Hu San, later, you go to the front of the fleet!...Maybe, you will meet Zheng Yiguan at night. Hmph, with Zheng Yiguan's heart, it is very likely that more than one fleet will be sent to block me " Liu Xiang scolded for a while, then turned to Li Husan and ordered.

Li Husan responded, folded his arms and bowed, turned around and got off the stern.

Liu Xiang continued to look at the dark sea, feeling a little uneasy in her heart. In the black night, it seemed that there was a giant beast hidden somewhere, staring at him coldly, and would pounce on him at any moment.

"Old mother of Japan!" Liu Xiang shook her head and cursed, "Two years ago in Liuluowan, I almost lost everything. Now, I have turned around!" He raised his head and stared at Piao Miao fiercely. night sky, turned back to the cabin.

In the early morning, a thin layer of mist rose from the ocean surface, but soon, it was pierced by the red sun jumping out of the sea.The sky is high and the clouds are light, the wind is calm and the sea is calm, which is a good weather.

Cao Xiong's troops escaped with only five ships, three large ships and two small boats. The rest were either sunk or captured last night, and most of their personnel were lost. There were less than 400 active brothers.At this moment, he could no longer bear the resentment towards Liu Xiang.In troubled times, there is no such thing as loyalty or injustice.If he was in Liu Xiang's position, he would also be pushed in front so that he could have time to escape, but it's a pity that Da Hai and his old brother who have been there for many years are still there.But now is not the time to feel sorry for yourself, Zheng Zhilong's dozen or so boats were still behind him, they ran in a hurry all night, but they didn't get rid of them, hanging five or six miles away.This is a posture to kill all!Cao Xiong had a very headache, so he could only keep catching the weak northwest wind and continue fleeing towards the southeast.

If you cross the sea and look down on the vast ocean from the sky, you will find that in the northwest direction of the ocean, there are two fleets that are also three or four miles apart, sailing towards the Guangdong Sea.In front is Liu Xiang's fleet. After several days of fighting and loss of voyage at night, there are more than 70 large and small ships that set off from Penghu, but now there are less than [-] ships left.And following behind Liu Xiang's fleet was naturally Zheng Zhilong's brigade of warships, nearly [-] ships, divided into several battle groups, following Liu Xiang in a wide fan shape.

"Where is the front?" Liu Xiang stayed up almost all night, standing on the bow of the ship, holding up the binoculars, first looked at the Zheng Zhilong fleet that was trailing behind, and then observed the front of the ship.

"It should be near Tianweiyang." An old helmsman looked around and replied with some uncertainty.

Liu Xiang has traveled the sea, Liaohai, Denglai, Liangzhe, Fujian and Guangdong, and the South China Sea for more than 20 years. All the sea routes are clear in his chest.It's just that I was a little nervous and asked subconsciously.Taking advantage of the darkness, he also fled for a night, but he still didn't get rid of Zheng Zhilong's fleet.He is very worried now, the sky is bright now, if Zheng Zhilong's fleet intercepts him again, then I'm afraid...

"Mr. Xiang, Lord Tiger of the former team sent a signal and found a fleet!" Liu Xiang was thinking about it, when suddenly his sailors shouted.

Liu Xiang's heart skipped a beat, she would come here for whatever she was really afraid of.Immediately held up the binoculars and looked forward.Two or three miles ahead, a fleet of about twenty or thirty ships of various sizes lay across the ocean and rushed straight at them.

Liu Xiang held up the binoculars and looked behind again. Zheng Zhilong's brigade ships also spread far away, forming a fan shape with a width of several miles, forming a pincer attack trend with the fleet in front.

"Get ready for the battle! Tell the brothers, if...the battle wins, everyone who is alive will be given 50 taels of silver! Those who are dead will be given 100 taels of silver!" Liu Xiang thought about it for a while, and he might not be able to get out of such a battle.He simply became ruthless and fought another battle with Zheng Yiguan.In recent years, Zheng Yiguan has wantonly recruited other forces in the sea. Maybe the hearts of the people are not in harmony and the combat power is not high. He accidentally turned the tables on me, Liu Xiang thought.But he completely forgot that two years ago, relying on his own strength alone, Zheng Zhilong assembled more than a hundred warships, large and small, and almost wiped out the Dutch and Liu Xiang fleet in Liuluo Bay. Zheng Zhilong's strength is only increasing, not decreasing.

"Brother, Liu Xiang is not running away!" Zheng Zhifeng pointed to the front and said to Zheng Zhilong.

"It's probably Ah Hu (Zheng Zhihu) who blocked them!" Zheng Zhilong continued to look ahead with the binoculars in hand.

"Two years ago, he let Liu Xiang run away. This time I think he can't escape. We must catch him and make him look good!" Zheng Zhifeng slapped the side of the boat.

"My big brother is a slippery old loach, don't be careless! Let's still rush to the center like Liu Luowan did two years ago, and capture the thief and the king. You go to the left wing to command, go straight to his right wing, and A Cai Let's block him together, and don't let him escape to the southeast." Zheng Zhilong put down the binoculars, and told Zheng Zhifeng, "Use our firepower advantage, don't fight him recklessly."

"Okay, brother, I know." Zheng Zhifeng responded, and when he was about to leave, he turned his head and asked, "If Liu Xiang... surrendered, what should I do?"

"Surrendered?" Zheng Zhilong was stunned, then shook his head, "He won't surrender....Others, try your best to recruit them to surrender....Once Liu Xiang leaves, this sea will belong to our family from now on! "

Liu Xiang's side released all the remaining dozen or so fireboats towards Zheng Zhilong's fleet ahead, hoping to break through the front block as soon as possible, and at the same time want to avoid fighting on both sides.

Zheng Zhilong intercepted the convoy and immediately sailed out more than a dozen medium-sized Cangshan boats, stretched out their rackets and long bamboo guns, and tried to get close to the burning boat and change its driving direction.The sailors on the serial ship following the burning ship immediately released flamethrowers, rockets, and bowl-mouth guns at the approaching Zheng Zhilong fleet.

From the very beginning, the battle became intense.Relying on the advantage of having a large number of ships, Zheng Zhilong's fleet opened up the battle circle, and at the same time relied on strong firepower, it began to bombard Liu Xiang's fleet from a distance.

The sound of rumbling guns sounded in the waters of Tianweiyang.The two sides fought in a dark, sawdust flying across the sea, and dead bodies and pieces of wood were everywhere on the sea level.

Zheng Zhihu disliked the slow speed of the three-masted gunboat, so he jumped onto a medium-sized bird boat, and then ordered the nearby ships to follow him to rush towards Liu Xiang's fleet.

"Don't worry about those who fell into the water, rush over, rush over!" Zheng Zhihu saw someone in his fleet slaughtering Liu Xiang's subordinates who fell into the water, and shouted, "Rush over first and chop Liu Xiang down!"

(End of this chapter)