Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 262

The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the ice and snow have melted, and rows of ships appear again on the waterways of the shipyard.

Fifty Spike warships, these decks have been paved one after another since the beginning of spring, just wait for the water test, and then install the cannons, and the upper cabin is basically completed.

As for the gunboats, because the hulls are too huge, it is impossible to build five hulls in one dock at one time. At the moment, there are only five decked dragon-tooth warships on the five rivers for testing.

However, the materials for the remaining [-] dragon-tooth warships in this batch have almost been processed, and basically only assembly is left. I believe that it will not be a problem to complete it within half a year.

In other words, in another half a year, the Daming Navy will have at least 26 Spike Warships and [-] Dragon Fang Warships.

This strength can be said to be invincible in the coastal waters. Unless the overlord of the sea, the Netherlands, is desperate to attack with all the strength of the whole country, otherwise there is no way to defeat the current Daming navy.

So, how will the Dutch attack Daming?
Unbeknownst to Taichang, it was at this time that a surprise attack on the coast of Daming was being launched.

At this time, outside the Pearl River estuary in the south of Guangzhou, Guangdong Chengxuan Political Envoy, and Liu Xiang, a pirate at the pier of Lamma Island in the east of Lingdingyang, was also scanning his ships.

Of course, the ships under his command are not Spike and Dragon Fang warships.

Most of the ships under his command are black-tailed boats and bird boats built by private shipyards in Guangdong.

The black-tailed boat is the largest Canton boat, its length even exceeds that of the Fuchuan, and its seed capacity also exceeds that of the Fuchuan.

According to historical records, the big black-tailed boats used by pirates can carry more than [-] people at most, and they have sails and oars, and the steering is sensitive, so the imperial navy cannot win.

At the moment, Liu Xiang only has a big black-tailed boat under his command, and the rest, there are only a dozen or so bird boats that can be sold.

The bird boat is also a kind of Canton boat, which also has sails and oars, but its length is only about six feet, which is roughly between the wheel boat and the Spike warship, and it can carry more than fifty people at most.

This strength is naturally nothing compared to the Great Ming Navy, but it is already strong enough for a pirate.

Liu Xiang looked at the hundreds of large and small warships under his hands, and couldn't help showing a hint of excitement in his eyes.

It's not easy. After looting countless merchant ships, he finally sold so many warships. From now on, the sea area of ​​eastern Guangdong will become his world!
He stood on the pier and watched for a long time, until more than a thousand people under his command boarded the boat, and the weathervane on the mast moved, and then he strode aboard the big black-tailed boat, then waved his hand, and said loudly: "Let's go! "

This time, his target is Lufeng County in Huizhou Prefecture!

Because the coastal defense there is the most lax, if possible, he even wants to rush into Lufeng County to plunder.

Hundreds of large and small warships, a large piece of black and white, just bypassed Wailingdingyang, bypassed Pinghaisuo at the southernmost tip of Huizhou Prefecture, and headed straight for Lufeng.

At this time, Lu Feng was not prepared at all, because the pirates at this moment generally only plundered at sea, and basically never landed and plundered. Who would have imagined that the pirates would suddenly rush to the shore.

Hundreds of large and small warships approached the beach south of Lufeng, and thousands of pirates jumped off the bird boats as if they had taken medicine, waded through the water, and soon landed on the beach, shouting happily to the nearby villages. The village rushes away.

This time the people of Lufeng suffered a catastrophe. These pirates seemed to be crazy. When they met a little resistance, they would just raise their knives and kill them without taking human life seriously.

And they rob everything, they not only rob food, property, clothing and other things, they even rob people!

I don't know how many young men were chopped down by them, and they didn't know how much food, clothing and belongings were robbed by them, and I don't know how many women were carried away by them crying.

The magistrate of Haifeng County received the news and quickly ordered people to ride fast horses to the nearest Jieshengsuo and Jieshiwei not far away to ask for help. The family recruited a bunch of guards and guards, and rushed up the city wall.

It should be said that his reaction was fast enough, but it's a pity that Jiesheng Station, which is closest to the county, doesn't have many guards at all, and although Jieshi Guard has a lot of guards, there are not as many warships as there are pirates. .

Therefore, the commander of Jieshiwei chose to support by land, and first sent some of his men to go straight to Haifeng County to defend Haifeng County, and then organized troops to encircle and suppress the pirates.

When Liu Xiang received the news, she had no choice but to withdraw with her hands.

With preparedness, it is impossible to rush into the county town and plunder, and they have organized guards to encircle and suppress on land, and it will be too late if he doesn't withdraw.

He is still very clear about the guards of Jieshiwei. Although they can't handle them at sea, they can be easily dealt with on land.

Anyway, they are just bluffing and messing around, as long as they grab enough women to play with, there is no need to go all out with them.

At the same time, a large number of pirates also appeared in the waters of Quanzhou, Fujian.

This large group of pirates was even bigger than the one led by Liu Xiang. The entire pirate fleet consisted of four to five hundred warships of all sizes!

In the middle of the huge fleet, a flag with the Zheng character was flying high, and the guards on both sides of the Jinjiang estuary dared not come up to take care of it.

People in other places may not know what this Zheng character flag represents, but don't Weiseng in Quanzhou know?
This is Zheng Zhilong, the biggest pirate on the southeast sea!

Ordinary guards are no match for him at all, and it is not certain whether the Fujian navy can beat him.

Zheng Zhilong's fleet entered the bay where the Jinjiang estuary was located without any hindrance, and the nearby coastal defense stations did not dare to take care of him at all.

However, he did not burn, kill and loot everywhere like Liu Xiang.

Quanzhou Mansion is his hometown, he can't do such a shameless thing!

After he went ashore, he just sent his men to the fishing village along the coast to yell for a while, saying that he would follow Mr. Zheng and take care of your food and clothing.

Some people actually believed this, and there were quite a few people who believed it. The people along the coast of Quanzhou Prefecture dragged their families and followed the yelling pirates away.

In this trip alone, Zheng Zhilong "captured" tens of thousands of people along the coast of Quanzhou Prefecture!
Pirates Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin also rushed to Zhaoqing Mansion on the east side of Guangdong with their men, landed near Yangjiang, and rushed up to loot wildly.

The pirates Yang Liu and Yang Qi also led their men to Taizhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province, landed near Ninghai, and rushed up to loot wildly.

and also.

All of a sudden, the southeast coast of Daming was full of flames of war. Unknown number of pirates suddenly appeared, rushed ashore like crazy, and plundered frantically.

Among these pirates, except for Zheng Zhilong who rushed to his hometown, so he didn't kill people ruthlessly, the other pirates were extremely vicious, they killed indiscriminately, and I don't know how many ordinary people fell under their butcher's knives.

Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces flew to the capital like snowflakes, and Taichang, who was full of ambition and wanted to go to the sea to fight for hegemony, was directly confused as if someone had poured cold water on it.

How can it be?

Why did so many pirates suddenly appear on the southeast coast?

Zheng Zhilong knows, the question, what happened to the other pirates?

Where did these pirates come from?
Also, why did these pirates launch a frantic plunder to several state capitals along the southeast coast at the same time as if they had agreed?

That's nothing!

When he was assembling the navy and preparing to lead the army, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi, the ship commanders of Taicang City in South Zhili, sent a report that after the new year, all the merchant ships in Nanyang disappeared. For a month, I haven't seen merchant ships from various Southeast Asian countries come to Taicang Port to buy goods!

Obviously, the merchant ships from the Southeast Asian countries did not want to come to buy goods, but were robbed by pirates on the way!
These pirates had planned their actions, and they were clearly targeting the imperial court!
Taichang received a report from the Taicang City Shipping Department, but did not immediately lead the navy ships to the expedition.

Because at this moment, what they brought to the southeast coast to deal with the pirates was only one Dragon Fang warship and fifty Spike warships.

These warships look very powerful, but the number is seriously insufficient!

According to reports from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces, the least number of pirates rushing to the coastal state capitals to plunder has hundreds of large and small ships, and the largest group, Zheng Zhilong's pirates have at least four to five hundred large and small ships. ferry.

In other words, what he has to face may be a huge fleet of seven or eight hundred or even thousands of pirate ships.

He may not be able to do it with such fifty warships and a large gunboat rushing there!
Therefore, he decided to wait until the new fifty Spike warships were built at the shipyard before going.

At the same time, he also issued an urgent order, ordering the capital of Fujian Province to immediately organize the large and small warships of the coastal guards to gather in the waters near Nan'ao.

This Zheng Zhilong seems to be convincing, he plans to go to Fujian to try first.

(End of this chapter)