1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 8 Intercept ([-])

On the seventh day of April, in the afternoon, the weather was fine, off the coast of Dongshan Island, Fujian.

Satisfied, Sun Laosan climbed up from a woman, and while lifting his pants, he continued to stare obscenely at the crying woman on the floor.Immediately, he turned and left the cabin.

"Old man, how do you feel?" It was a haicang ship dragged behind, about half a mile away from Liu Xiang's brigade. In class A of the big ship, a few pirates with wretched expressions saw Sun Lao San approaching, laughing one after another.

"Bullshit!" Sun Laosan walked to the side of the boat and spat fiercely towards the sea, "Damn it, it was ruined by you gang!...Like a dead person, I'm so happy!"

When the pirates heard this, they laughed wildly, and their words became more and more unbearable.Maybe floating on the lonely and boring sea, women are the eternal topic.

"What's the little squid doing?" A pirate suddenly saw the watchman on the mast shaking the flag desperately, and shouted something below.

"Do you want us to go up and replace him? ... He also wants to be happy!" Another pirate said with a smile.

"It doesn't seem to be... Did he find something?" An experienced pirate asked suspiciously.

"There is a fleet following!" Sun Laosan walked to the back of the big ship vigilantly and looked behind.

Within the visible range of the naked eye, about two or three miles away from the big ship, there were heavy shadows of sails, probably seventy or eighty large and small ships crashed behind them, coming menacingly.

"It's Zheng Zhilong's ship!" A pirate exclaimed loudly, and the ship suddenly became a mess.

"Xiang, Zheng Zhilong's fleet is following us!" Li Husan walked into the cabin and said in a deep voice.

"Huh?" Liu Xiang frowned, "How many boats are there?"

"About seventy or eighty ships, including no fewer than thirty large ships."

Upon hearing this, Liu Xiang's face suddenly became serious, and she immediately walked out of the cabin, went to the rear stern, picked up the binoculars, and looked backward.

"They all have full sails, and the distance is not far away." Li Husan whispered beside him, "We're afraid..."

Liu Xiang didn't speak, and looked in other directions with the binoculars.

After a while, Liu Xiang put away the binoculars and lowered her head in the rear stern to meditate.Zheng Zhilong's boats are not only numerous, but also fierce in firepower. Although he has the support of the Dutch red-haired ghost, it is far inferior to the strength of Zheng Zhilong who relies on his official status.At this time, he regretted a little, he should not have been delayed in Zhangpu for nearly two days, and let others hang behind him.

Li Husan turned his head and saw Zhang Yijie thumping up to the stern building, and shook his head slightly, as God signaled him not to speak for now.

Seeing this, Zhang Yijie quietly walked to Li Husan's side, and looked over probingly. Li Husan kept his mouth shut, and looked at Fan Ying, who was behind Yingyingzhuo.

After a long time, Liu Xiang raised her head, as if she had made some kind of decision, and stared fiercely at the fleet hanging behind in the distance.

"Old mother of the day, Zheng Yiguan of the dog day reacted very quickly! Inform the people below, shrink the formation, face the southeast, set up the sails,... get rid of them!"

Upon hearing this, Li Husan and Zhang Yijie accepted the order with fists in their hands, and then went down the tower to arrange the steering of the fleet separately.

"Zheng Yiguan, miss your old mother!" Liu Xiang scolded viciously, "I want to kill them all!... I will accompany you around the sea!"

"Grandpa, Liu Xiang's fleet has turned to the southeast!...Moreover, they set sail and speed up." A sturdy sailor bowed and reported to Zheng Zhilong.

"Well, keep following them, don't let others dump us." The man Zheng Zhilong said unhurriedly, "If Liu Xiang is intercepted by someone, don't get entangled with him, and keep a close eye on Liu Xiang."

"Yes!" The sturdy man replied, "Master, do you want to order the ships to prepare for the battle. In case, Liu Xiang suddenly turns around and flees north, or confronts us..."

"Facing North?" Zheng Zhilong sneered, "Facing North, that's our territory, he doesn't dare! Turn around, he's not afraid of being eaten by us."

"That's true!" The sturdy man nodded in agreement.

"If Liu Xiang hadn't stayed in Zhangpu for two days, we wouldn't have been able to catch up with them. No way, we'd have to rely on A Cai in front to block him!" Zheng Zhilong said with a smile, "He deserves Liu Xiang's death here!"

"That's right, the uncle planned a strategy so that Liu Xiang could be caught!" the sturdy man complimented.

"Haha... Wang Dali, you rough bastard, you are comparable to those sour scholars on the shore when you are flattering!" Zheng Zhilong stared at the tough man for a while, then burst out laughing.

Wang Dali followed suit with a simple smile.

The Zheng Cai mentioned by Zheng Zhilong is Zheng Zhilong's concubine.A few days ago, I was ordered to lead more than [-] large and small boats, starting from Xiamen, and heading straight along the coast to the vicinity of Sanmen Island in the Guangdong Sea, with the purpose of preventing Liu Xiang from fleeing back to Penghu or Shandong and Liaohai.As for Zheng Zhilong, he brought more than a hundred warships of all sizes, and when Liu Xiang was dispatched from Penghu, he followed Liu Xiang after looking for his tail.

Liu Xiang looked at the sky, it was around You hour, less than half an hour before it got dark.At this moment, he was a bit lucky, as long as he didn't encounter Zheng Zhilong's big fleet blocking him before dark, he could basically rely on the darkness to get rid of the annoying fleet behind him.Next, sail to Luzon, resupply a little, and turn southwest.Well, you can’t go near Guangdong, but you can go to Annam, along the coast, to Batavia.

"Boom..." Suddenly someone hurried towards the cabin.

"Xiang lao, Zheng Zhilong's ship was found in front of the fleet." A middle-aged sailor came in to report.

"How many boats are there? How far is the distance." Liu Xiang was startled and asked hastily.

"... There are twenty or thirty ships. After the opponent found us, Qi Hengfan rushed over.... We met the enemy in about one or two cups of tea."

Liu Xiang's face turned serious, and she hurried out of the cabin and boarded the bow.Faintly ahead, there are [-] or [-] ships with full sails coming from the southeast straight and obliquely, forming a pincer attack with the fleet hanging far from the northwest.

Qi Tian and Gou Zi stood at the bow of the ship, and through the large and small ships in front of them, they stared at the malicious fleet coming from the southeast. Is this going to be a battle at sea?And on the whole ship, there was an uproar, sailors, oarsmen, some holding two-foot-long spears, three-foot-long rattan tags, and several sailors shouting and pushing a small French cannon...

"Master Cao, Brother Xiang ordered you to go forward to block the enemy ships, and you must not retreat!" A small liaison ship rushed to the front of the big ship where Cao Xiong was, and issued Liu Xiang's order.

Cao Xiong frowned, looked back at where Liu Xiang was in the middle of the fleet, and nodded with a solemn expression.

"Tell Xiang Lao, I, Cao Xiong, take orders." After finishing speaking, he ordered his men to adjust the sails, and head towards the southeast fleet to meet them.

"Boss, we only have a dozen boats and more than 600 men... but there are more than [-] boats on the opposite side. I'm afraid...we won't be able to withstand it!" Yu Fukun said worriedly.

"If you can't stand it, you have to do it!" Cao Xiong gritted his teeth and said, "Xiang's plan is mostly to gather all the ships while it's getting dark, and fight with the fleet behind first. It's best to win. If you lose, you have to let the other party have scruples when chasing you."

Yu Fukun looked back, sure enough, most of Liu Xiang was adjusting the sails, turned to the northwest, and sailed towards the following fleet.

"I hope Liu Xiang can solve them." Yu Fukun said, "Otherwise, when they turn around, there won't be many of us left!"

"To make a living at sea is to fight to the death!" Cao Xiong spat, "Damn it, if you're dead, you'll hang yourself in the sky, and you won't die for thousands of years!...I hope the sky will get dark soon!"

It was Zheng Zhilong's concubine Zheng Cai who stopped Liu Xiang's convoy. Two days ago, he was ordered to go to sea. He first sailed east, then turned southwest to the waters near Chaoshan, then turned around and searched northwest.Unexpectedly, when it was getting dark, he bumped into Liu Xiang's fleet head-on.

(End of this chapter)