Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 374 Lifting the Siege of Guangzhou
Zheng Zhilong never expected that Gu Sanmazi would take the initiative to attack his fleet, nor did he expect that his third brother would lose so badly.

When did Gu Sanmazi, Gu Sanmazi, who used to be a small pirate leader in the northern Zhejiang area, kill his two brothers in succession, and become a stumbling block for him now!
Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong was a little dissatisfied, so he had to ask his third brother Zheng Zhibao to tell the story one by one.

"Victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists. At this time, anger and regret are useless. Since the situation has changed, the strategy must also change. Now that the South China Sea Fleet of the imperial court has taken the initiative to attack us, it will directly tear our faces. We also use Don't be polite to the court anymore."

As Zheng Zhilong was talking, he suddenly realized a problem, so he hurriedly said: "Wait, third brother, can you capture one person from the South China Sea Fleet, and leave evidence that they attacked you first?"

Zheng Zhibao glanced at Zheng Zhilong in astonishment. When he was competing with the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, he chased and fought all the way, and finally got trapped on a reef and was beaten by the South China Sea Fleet. He never had a chance to capture the people of the South China Sea Fleet. Authentic: "Gu Sanmazi is too cunning. He led us to Luzon before launching an attack. The younger brother fought directly when he was reckless. When we were trapped, we were already unable to protect ourselves. How could we have a chance to capture them?"

Hearing what Zheng Zhibao said, Zheng Zhilong stomped his feet in anger, pointed at Zheng Zhibao and said, "You are confused, you, I really wish I could chop off your head right now as a sacrifice to the entire army. We can't produce any evidence to prove that it is the South China Sea Fleet." Even if we go to Xiong Wencan for an argument, Xiong Wencan will not admit it and blame other pirates for this naval battle, what do you think we should do?"

Zheng Zhibao rubbed the back of his head, he hadn't thought about these things, so he couldn't say anything more, so he had to let Zheng Zhilong teach him by pointing his nose.

"Big brother, now is not the time to teach third brother a lesson. From the Ryukyu naval battle to this time, we have suffered a lot. As the saying goes, a big man can tolerate people who ordinary people can't bear. In this sea, it's not just people from the imperial court who are trying to swallow us. , There are still several pirates coveting our Zheng family. We can't let the relationship with the court deteriorate again, so as to give those pirates, especially Li Kuiqi's department, an opportunity to avoid another person like Gu Sanmazi from appearing before us. He voted for the imperial court as a lackey of the imperial court and then took the opportunity to annex us to expand his own territory;
With the current strategy of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, perhaps we would not allow a maritime overlord like the Zheng family to have an independent armed fleet, but in order to break the balance of the sea and suppress us, he would not disagree with Li Kuiqi and others who can form our opponents The Pirate Cartel continues to grow.

It is said that Shang Zhouzuo, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, has been in close contact with Li Kuiqi and others. Otherwise, Li Kuiqi, who also received the invitation from Franji, would not have suffered from the hurricane and severely damaged his headquarters. By rejecting Turia's invitation, his attitude made it clear that he deliberately wanted to remain neutral between the court and us! "

Zheng Hongkui stepped forward at this time and couldn't help saying a few words.

After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong nodded approvingly, and then pointed at Zheng Zhibao: "You, learn from the fourth brother! Usually use your brains more, Gu Sanmazi can come up with a surprise to lure you to Luzon. , How could you, a veteran who has been at sea for decades, never have thought of this!"

After teaching Zheng Zhibao a lesson, Zheng Zhilong brought his fleet back to Kinmen according to Zheng Hongkui's proposal, and sent someone to send a generous gift to Xiong Wencan, preparing to consolidate and expand his power. For this reason, he spared no expense in hiring craftsmen to imitate Daming's steam-powered warship, but he didn't know what kind of power the black-smoky iron-clad warship relied on. He still thought it was powered by sail and manpower, so his thinking was always wrong.

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Turia didn't expect Zheng's fleet to leave so silently. He really wanted to ask Zheng Zhilong, he was preparing to join forces with all parties to attack Guangzhou City, why did your people suddenly leave without saying goodbye? It means that this is tantamount to shaking the morale of the entire United Fleet.

However, Turia didn't know that Zheng Zhilong had his own considerations for leaving quietly with his fleet. He didn't want these Flang robots and red ghosts to know that he had just experienced a big defeat After all, these people are also people who will become their enemies at any time just like Li Kuiqi.

Turia is now in a dilemma. He wanted to take down Guangzhou Fucheng directly to vent his anger. After all, the Ming official in Guangzhou Fucheng beheaded one of his subordinates, which is tantamount to insulting him. dignity.

But now that the Zheng family is gone, even if he can capture the city of Guangzhou, he will inevitably suffer serious losses. In addition to the losses caused by the siege of Guangzhou city before, he does not know whether his fleet will go bankrupt because of this. When I traveled across the ocean to come here, I borrowed a lot of foreign debt.

Turia postponed the attack, and had to lift the siege of Guangzhou Fucheng after learning that Shang Zhouzuo had mobilized more troops to Guangzhou Fucheng.

This made Turia very depressed, but what he didn't know was that there would be an even more depressing news waiting for him.

Now Turia no longer wants to rely on this tough stance to contend with an empire. He just wants to go back to Macau, hug his lover to have a good sleep, and then go shopping in Macau. Withdrawing their right of residence in Macau, he will also organize a counterattack in Macau instead of being besieged here, it is useless!
However, just when Turia breathed a sigh of relief and thought he was about to return to Macau, a dilapidated soft-sail warship was stumbling towards his flagship. Turia recognized that it was Er Dodney's boat, but he didn't understand that Erdodney had always loved his sailboat so much, how it became so dilapidated at this time, and Turia also instinctively realized that maybe something happened in Macau .

So he ordered people to invite the people on the dilapidated sailboat to his deck, but what he didn't expect was that there was no Erdodeni on the sailboat, but Erdodeni's servant Halloxi. As soon as Halloxi came ashore, he told Turia the news that Macau was suddenly attacked by a group of unidentified pirates and caused Macau to fall.

Turia was very surprised by this. He never thought that there would be pirates in this area who dared to provoke him, and even attacked his rear, and even occupied Macau.

This means that I am now homeless, and the goods hoarded in Macau, including the [-] catties of tobacco and soil shipped from Nanyang, may also fall into the hands of these pirates.

"Your Excellency, they don't look like pirates, they look more like soldiers of Ming Dynasty, but their actions are even more brutal than pirates!"

(End of this chapter)