Borrow the day to change the day

After the new army set off, the leaders at all levels of the capital and Emperor Chongzhen began to pray and look forward to the victory of the Haizhou war.At the same time, Xiong Wencan, governor of Fujian, was also waiting for news of a war, but he did not have the worry of the big bosses in the capital.

Yesterday, Haiphong Guerrilla and his parents, Zheng Zhilong, rushed to report to him excitedly.He said that he had received news that several bands of pirates at sea who had never been caught were gathering with the Dutch to conspire with his fleet.He decided to take this opportunity to get rid of those pirates and the Dutch in one fell swoop, and from now on the southeast coast would be the world of Mr. Zheng.

As for Zheng Zhilong's source, although he didn't tell himself, Xiong Wencan vaguely knew about it.Because one of Zheng Zhilong's most common methods is to buy the opponent's subordinates and develop his inside line.

But he didn't care about this, because it was just Zheng Zhilong's way of defeating the enemy.Xiong Wencan couldn't help being a little excited when he thought about the prospect Zheng Zhilong had told him.

If there were no other pirates and Dutchmen at sea, and Zheng Zhilong's smuggling business was all in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, then the money he got would be unimaginable.

With this expectation, Xiong Wencan agreed to Zheng Zhilong's plan to attack with the whole army, and took out all the warships in the port, so as to achieve his goal of annihilating the pirates and the Dutch.

Xiong Wencan was in his back office, drinking the best tea from Ming Dynasty, waiting for the outcome of the war.

When it was almost evening, he couldn't sit still.Without asking the servants, I stood up several times to check the sky.But until it got dark, Zheng Zhilong hadn't returned yet.

Xiong Wencan could guess that Zheng Zhilong definitely caught a big fish this time.According to Zheng Zhilong's character, he must chase after him fiercely and beat his prey to death, so he came back late!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shook his head, mourning in silence for Zheng Zhilong's opponents.

Xiong Wencan didn't intend to wait any longer, and ordered the servants to have dinner.

But just as he sat down and was about to drink some wine with his concubine and have a heart-warming meal, there were hurried footsteps outside, and then the door was pushed open with a bang, and a person broke in.

"Zhong Cheng, it's not good, Zheng Gueran was defeated, Zheng Gueran escaped back, Zheng Gueran..." The person who came was the deputy steward he sent at the port to welcome Zheng Zhilong.

At first Xiong Wencan thought he had heard it wrong, but seeing the panic-stricken look of the deputy manager, his heart trembled, and the bowl in his hand was not held properly, and it fell to the ground with a "bang".

"What's going on?" Xiong Wencan turned pale and yelled at the deputy steward, interrupting the deputy steward's incoherent speech.

The deputy manager was yelled at by Xiong Wencan, and finally said something else: "The villain saw several ships on the sea fleeing towards the port, and the overwhelming number of ships chasing after him, he knew that Zheng You was defeated, so he ran to Zhongcheng immediately. Sue."

"Bastard, it's so dark, can you tell the difference? Could it be that the pirates were in a panic, or were forced to come to the port by Feihuang!"

When Xiong Wencan heard this, he immediately became angry. After he finished speaking, he called in the personal guards and prepared to beat the deputy manager who lied about the military situation.Surprised at first glance, he must give him a long memory.

But at this moment, hurried footsteps came from the door, and then another person broke in.

Xiong Wencan was angry in his heart, he would have a good temper, and he opened his mouth to yell and curse, but he didn't have the manners.

"Zhongcheng, Zhongcheng..." The visitor was out of breath, so he must have arrived in a hurry.

But Xiong Wencan didn't scold, because he had already seen that the person who came was Zheng Zhilong himself, and it was the first time he saw Zheng Zhilong's panic-stricken appearance.

"What's going on? What's going on?" Xiong Wencan's mind went blank, and he asked Zheng Zhilong repeatedly.

Didn't you agree to go and wipe out the pirates? Didn't you already know their plot? Don't you, Zheng Zhilong, have an insider? How could you still be defeated?

Zheng Zhilong grabbed the Dahongpao that Xiong Wencan drank leftover and forgot to let his servants remove it from one side of the coffee table. After a quick drink, he finally regained his true character of a hero. He no longer panicked. He reported the battle to Xiong Wencan in detail.

In the beginning, everything went well.

Zheng Zhilong led the fleet to block the pirates headed by Liu Xiang, his biggest opponent, and a dozen warships of the Dutch in a bay. When he was launching an offensive and was about to annihilate them in one fell swoop, their ambush appeared behind them.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong didn't care how many ambush the pirates had, but he didn't expect that the leader of the ambush was nearly twenty Dutch warships, and they were not ordinary armed merchant ships.

Its speed, quantity and quality of artillery are all the most powerful warships he has ever seen.Before Zheng Zhilong had time to adjust his combat formation, he rushed behind him and beat him up.

Zheng Zhilong knew he was going to lose when he saw the Dutch warship.Because he only has a few warships that can barely fight the opponent, and the others are only capable of fighting pirates, and they are not opponents of Dutch warships at all.

It was also thanks to his kindness to his subordinates that they were willing to cover him and lead the most precious warships to leave the battlefield first and flee back to their lair.

In addition to the fact that it was getting dark, Zheng Zhilong's subordinates were not good at dealing with them, so he finally escaped back.

The shore artillery in the port, together with the firepower of several warships that had fled back, blocked the pirates and the Dutch fleet outside and did not attack.

Seeing that the situation had stabilized, Zheng Zhilong hurried to the governor's mansion to report the incident.

After hearing this, Xiong Wencan remained silent. At this moment, he could vaguely hear the sound of artillery from the port.

After a while, with a glimmer of hope, he asked Zheng Zhilong, "Can we still counterattack?"

Zheng Zhilong was speechless after hearing this, he shook his head and replied: "Zhong Cheng, there are only three big warships left in the end, how can we beat them! Not safe."

"What, they can break in?" Xiong Wencan was shocked.

Zheng Zhilong nodded and said: "If it were me, at dawn, I would definitely use pirates as the vanguard, at the cost of some ships, to capture the port, not only sink the remaining ships, but also occupy here, which can greatly hit the port. Improve the morale of my Ming Dynasty. When the government and the opposition shake up, they will have a lot more leeway, and they will be able to choose whether to fight or talk again, and they will be at ease."

Xiong Wencan heard it very familiarly, and suddenly remembered that this was the trick Zheng Zhilong used before, which finally made him take over from his predecessor, and used the trick of recruiting security to settle him.

Xiong Wencan thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said: "If I run away and the court pursues it, it will not end well. I decided to wait until tomorrow to see the situation!"

On the second day, accompanied by Zheng Zhilong, Xiong Wencan climbed to a high place overlooking the port.I was shocked by the densely packed warships in the sea at once, I didn't expect there to be so many warships.

In the end, he still couldn't bear the pressure, and was ready to listen to Zheng Zhilong's persuasion and escape from here.But when he explained this to Zheng Zhilong, the fleet at sea slowly left the port.

This made Zheng Zhilong also feel baffled. Although his fleet was almost wiped out, if he captured the port at this time, it would be of great benefit. Why did they withdraw?