The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 344 To Get Rich
Seeing his old friend Xu Xinsu return to Xiamen with the warship, Li Guozhu was in a dilemma, what should he do?Back to Japan's private port?I'm afraid it's not safe. Zheng Yiguan's gang hasn't disintegrated yet, and they are still waiting for a showdown with the Ming army.

Master Huang took their fleet away, if he stayed behind and was bitten by Zheng Yiguan, it would be too late for regret!
Li Guozhu was embarrassed to say that he was afraid of Zheng Yiguan's revenge, so he happily told Mr. Huang that he had come out anyway, so he simply followed the Huang family's fleet to Luzon for fun.

Going to Nanyang to show off your might is naturally the stronger the strength, the better. How can Li Guozhu actively follow and keep people away?

Huang Sheng arranged for the left-behind troops, namely, Gu Shanhe, Ye Jiangong, and Ma Wu, three hundred musketeers, one general banner artillery, three smoothbore, two rifled field guns, one general banner grenadier, and one general banner heavy gunner. infantry.

Under the leadership of Gu Shanhe, they defended "Jinghai Fort" with hot weapons. The musketeers left here are each issued with two flintlock guns. If the gunpowder and mini bombs are fired continuously, all the guns are enough. Here With water and sufficient food, Zheng Yiguan may not be able to take it for a year or so if he comes to attack.

Because the eighteen red barbarian cannons deployed at the top of the "Jinghai Fort" were all new ones purchased by He Bin, the Huang family only bombarded six of them with flower bombs, which did a lot of damage to the enemy. Damage is negligible.

The Hongyi cannon of this era is just a long iron bump. Unless the chamber is exploded, it is really not easy to destroy it with external force, unless the solid bullet hits it directly.

The artillerymen of the Huang family reinstalled and debugged the six red barbarian cannons that had been displaced that day. The Huang family garrisoned "Jinghai Fort" not only had six red barbarian cannons to impress the enemy, but also had five field battle cannons that could shift positions at any time. gun.

With Zheng Yiguan's strength, he would be deflated even if he brought the biggest artillery in his family, because they were not enough to compete with the condescending Huang family's private soldiers.

After repairing for seven days, they continued to blockade the nearby twenty miles of sea, sank three sentinel boats belonging to Zheng Yiguan, and captured six more.

Huang Sheng decided to obediently take the combined fleet to Nanyang. Because of the detection by the sentinel boat, all the nearby pirates, big and small, had disappeared, and it was known that they had all concentrated in Zheng Yiguan's Hong Kong base.

It turned out that the lucky Zheng Yiguan survived the catastrophe, and fled back to the Yaogang base with more than [-] remnants of defeated generals after several twists and turns.

Xiamen Island is surrounded by the sea, Huang Mingdao needs to ensure the safety of the port, there are not many warships that can be dispatched to capture prisoners, such a long coastline is hard to defend, the pirates chose to swim at night and they escaped successfully.

Zheng Yiguan is a big pirate, and every big pirate hooks up with many bureaucratic capitals.After he escaped, he found his confidant lurking in Haicang Town, secretly got a few boats and ran back.

After he returned to Yaogang, as expected by Huang Sheng, he proposed to let everyone send troops and warships to the Zhongzuo Office to recover the place. Many sworn brothers talked about him, and everyone gave him a soft nail.

Just when Zheng Yiguan's allies were thinking about it, the base of Yaogang got a spy report, and the Ming army called, and the pirates who were about to part ways sat down to negotiate terms.

Finally, a consensus was reached to let the Ming army come to Hong Kong, and all allies unite to fight the Ming army. After victory, the captured Ming army warships will be distributed according to the ratio of troops sent by each family.

Just when Zheng Yiguan was ready to show his shame, he found that good things could not be stopped. Almost every day, warships came to Hong Kong to join the alliance, and they took the initiative to express their willingness to participate in the battle against the Ming fleet.

Zheng Yiguan learned that the Ming army was exterminating the pirates in Penghu. He not only refused to save them, but also believed that the Ming army had dug their own grave and beat up the pirates who had their own ghosts and united them around him.

The pirates in Yaogang, including Zheng Yiguan, believed that the Ming army would come. They thought that the Ming court was ruthless and sent a capable general to the South China Sea to suppress the bandits. Now that the Ming army has won a complete victory, how could the main general let it go? A chance to confer the title of marquis and general?
The pirates are ready, and there are more than 200 small boats ready to set fire to the wind. They all know that there are several warships in the Ming army with powerful firepower, which is not inferior to the deck ships of the Dutch.

They have experience in how to deal with advanced warships, and they have successfully verified it on Dutch warships. Without him, ten thousand ants will devour elephants!It can also be understood as wolf pack tactics.

The Dutch warships were powerful, but there were not many of them. Zheng Yiguan smoothly put down many small boats. These small boats had barbed nails on their bows, and nailing the giant Dutch ships was like tarsus maggots.

The small boats were used for fire attacks, and they were loaded with combustibles and heavy kerosene. Although the small boats that risked their lives for the assault suffered a lot of losses, many of them successfully nailed the Dutch warships. After the sailors succeeded, they set fire and jumped into the sea to escape. In this way, the large deck warships of the Dutch lost sight of others.

Zheng Yiguan used such tactics to defeat the Dutch with advanced warships in a sea battle with backward equipment.

It's just that there is a prerequisite for this kind of war, that is, the opponent's warships can't be too many, just a few ships, and one's own ships only need to be enough and can be surrounded on all sides.

The warships of Huang Sheng's combined fleet were almost the same as those of Zheng Yiguan's alliance. Setting fire against the wind might not be effective against the Huang's warships, because the Huang's warships had rifled cannons that could shoot accurately.

The number of attacking fireships began to decrease from three miles away. If the fireships approached and there were musketeers to fire, it might not be easy to break through such a firepower net and hit the new main battleship of the Huang family. The bow outside the hull is covered with white copper sheet!
Zheng Yiguan knew that his chances were limited. If he was defeated by the Ming army again this time, then he would not be able to gain a foothold in the South China Sea!
He spent a lot of money to recruit dead soldiers, and also modified many fishing boats as fire boats, practicing endlessly every day.

Zheng Yiguan was ready, but the Ming army didn't come, and they couldn't imagine that such a huge fleet was not owned by the Ming court at all, but the personal armed forces of Mr. Huang.

Mr. Huang came to the South China Sea without any task of wrecking bandits assigned by the imperial court, and he did it entirely for the purpose of doing business and making money.

By the way, fighting a dozen pirates is just to make money and eat black people, and they don't want to fight a war of attrition at all.

On this day, Zheng Yiguan's sentinel boat reported that after the Ming army took He Bin's Xiwei Islet, they frantically attacked any ship that dared to approach there within [-] nautical miles, and one of the sentinel boats they went with successfully returned.

The pirates all became nervous. They knew that the lair that He Bin had painstakingly managed was not easy to eat, and the Ming army took it down with ease.

The pirate chiefs have learned from the past. At this moment, they have the meaning of fighting against the enemy, and they are sincerely ready to give the Ming army a full blow in order to protect themselves. They practice endlessly every day.

It's a pity that Zheng Yiguan's alliance waited until all the flowers withered and did not see the arrival of the Ming army, and a few days later the sentry horse boat reported that hundreds of Ming army warships had disappeared without a trace.

The pirate chiefs were even more nervous. They were not afraid of the enemy, but they were afraid of the sudden appearance of the enemy. Now that everyone works together, they will definitely be able to fight the Ming army. If they divide their troops, they will definitely lose if they are bitten by the Ming army.

As a result, the pirates did not dare to disperse for the time being, and they all stayed in Yaogang to wait for orders, fearing that they would be defeated by the Ming army one by one, and they tried their best to find out the whereabouts of the Ming army, but such a huge fleet disappeared.

This is too unusual. The Zheng Yiguan Alliance is trembling every day to beware of the Ming army fleet suddenly appearing in an unknown place to launch a surprise attack, and all warships are on alert.

(End of this chapter)