Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 846 Recovering Taiwan

After hearing Zheng Zan's words, Gan Hui next to him interjected, "Master Guo Xing, do you want to send a boat to meet him?"

Zheng Chenggong was silent for a while, waved his hand first, and said to the soldiers supporting Zheng Zan: "You first help shopkeeper Zheng go down to heal his injuries."

When the soldiers helped the pale-faced Zheng Zan away, Zheng Chenggong hesitated, "Chaozhou is more than a hundred miles away, I'm afraid the war has already ended, but it's better to go and have a look, you take three large ships and fifty more." The Clippers are going to meet them."

"The last general will go immediately!" Gan Hui clasped his fists, flung off his cloak, then turned around and walked quickly to Shuiying.

Zheng Chenggong saw him walking away, and immediately ordered: "The Dutch barbarians robbed our merchant ships, and don't take this town seriously. This town has decided to obey the imperial court's order to attack Taiwan in the near future. Everyone must be prepared and not neglect."

"I'll obey!" Everyone bowed in unison.

Zheng Chenggong snorted coldly, "Hmph, the Dutch barbarians are arrogant. Back then, my Zheng family was able to defeat the Dutch barbarians in Liuluowan. Now this town can defeat Taiwan in one battle."

Although Holland Yi is strong, but after all, there are few people, and the strong dragon still doesn't overwhelm the snake, and he dares to jump like an earthworm.

Zheng Chenggong never put Dutch Yi in his eyes. The reason why he kept the Dutch Yi was mainly because the Dutch Yi was just scabies to him, like two adults fighting, and a child baring his teeth and claws beside him, although it is annoying , but it doesn't matter, he didn't care at all, but the child bit him, so he had no choice but to kick the child away.

After Zheng Chenggong finished speaking, he led the generals back to camp. Gan Hui arrived at Shuizhai and was about to mobilize warships when a huge fleet broke through the waves on the sea west of Xiamen.

Wherever the merchants of the Ming Dynasty went, the Ming army could collect intelligence. This was not an official arrangement for detailed investigation, but many merchants spontaneously reported to the government.

As the imperial court set up the Fanyuan, all the feudal states stationed officials, and the imperial court intends to exert influence on Nanyang, the merchants and aristocratic families doing business in Nanyang soon discovered that their business is easy to do, at least the local officials dare not Made things difficult.

When businessmen discovered this, they hoped that the government could maintain this even more urgently. Therefore, when doing business, once they found something unfavorable to Daming, they immediately reported it to the government. When the government found out that they had dealt with some problems, they reported to Nanyang After the impact was exerted, the tariffs also increased significantly, thus forming a cycle.

The governor of Batavia sent a fleet to support the officers. As soon as the ship left the port, it was known to the local overseas Chinese, and then passed through the merchants in Nanyang, and finally spread to Guangzhou, where it was known by Chen Zilong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

The strength of the Dutch barbarians increased by two or three times. Chen Zilong was worried that the Dutch barbarians would harass Guangdong, so he deployed the main force of the navy in the waters around Chaozhou, preparing to intercept the Dutch barbarians.

Zheng Chenggong invited the Guangdong navy to attack Taiwan. The navy happened to be in Chaozhou, very close to Fujian.

After receiving the letter, Chen Zilong hurried to Chaozhou, and then led the fleet north to Fujian. During the voyage, he happened to rescue two ships of the Longsheng, and fought a battle with three Heyi warships on the water of Chaozhou.

At this time, seeing a fleet of ships breaking through the waves in the distance, flying the sun and moon flag with a blue background, Gan Hui knew that it was the Guangdong Navy, so he stopped mobilizing troops and ordered the ships to make room for the Guangdong Navy to berth.

Zheng Chenggong was supposed to go back to Daying, but after hearing the report from his subordinates, he had no choice but to come out to greet him.

He led the crowd to the pier and stood there waiting, watching the Guangdong navy slowly approaching the port from far to near, feeling a little shocked in his heart, the first to enter the port was actually five three-masted ships.

When Wang Yan came to Xiamen, he borrowed a three-masted ship from him and went back to Guangdong to imitate it. At that time, he devoted himself to serving the country and didn't think too much about it, but now he can't help feeling a little regretful.He only has three such warships, but Guangdong has already built five.

While Zheng Chenggong was slightly absent-minded, the ship had already landed, and Chen Zilong went ashore surrounded by several naval officers.

Feng Chengshi reminded him in a low voice, Zheng Chenggong reacted, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Chen, success is far behind."

"National surnames are polite." Chen Zilong came up, stopped suddenly and looked back at the Xiamen military port. He saw masts everywhere and thousands of warships. Chen was very happy about the preparations to expel the barbarians, so Chen rushed over immediately after receiving the letter from the country's surname."

Zheng Chenggong was a little embarrassed after hearing this, and changed the subject, "Success also thanks to Mr. Chen for his help and saved two Fujian merchant ships. By the way, I wonder how the fight between Mr. Chen and He Yi was going?"

After hearing this, Chen Zilong's face darkened slightly, "He Yi injured two of my lucky boats, and then left directly. Although I have a lot of boats, I didn't take advantage of it." Chen Zilong was a little frustrated, sighed, and then said: "Go in and talk about it." Bar!"

Zheng Chenggong came to his senses, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "Chen Kilometer, please!"

Immediately, Yi Xingren entered the camp, and after sitting down again, without waiting for Zheng Chenggong to speak, Chen Zilong said again: "The Heyi boat is fast and has many guns, and the shelling is extremely accurate. I got information from Nanyang. Batavia sent eight three-masted ships, and also summoned pirates and ships from small Sudanese countries. A total of more than 50 ships arrived in Taiwan. I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with. The country has lived in Fujian for a long time, and Taiwan is separated by a sea, so I must know These circumstances. I don’t know how many troops there are on Taiwan Island now? How is the country planning to attack?”

Chen Zilong is now the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The tranquility of the South China Sea is closely related to the taxes of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the amount of taxes is related to his political achievements.The Dutch's troubles in the South China Sea have had a great influence on the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce. Since he took over the post of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he has been thinking about getting rid of Heyi all the time, so he wrote letters again and again, urging Zheng Chenggong to attack Taiwan.

Hearing Chen Zilong's two consecutive questions, Zheng Chenggong knew that he was in an urgent mood. Fortunately, he had already learned about the situation on Taiwan Island from his staff before, and he had already made up his mind.

He pondered for a while, and then said: "From the information obtained by the spies, there should be 800 Heyi people on Taiwan Island, and about 5000 pirates and Nanyang natives. There are ten three-masted ships and 70 other ships. There are many ships, the force is not strong, and they pose little threat to us. The key is that the two fortresses built by Heyi are very strong, and the terrain is dangerous and difficult to attack. But I can get the sea chart of Dayuan Bay, as long as I defeat the Dutch Navy, no matter how strong the fortress is, we can still trap He Yi to death."

Chen Zilong was a little surprised. He didn't expect Zheng Chenggong to have a direction to defeat the enemy. "How does Guoxing plan to defeat the Heyi navy? What strategy will he use?"

Zheng Chenggong smiled slightly, "Big powers don't use tricks. If they can't defeat them, they use tricks like detours, interspersing, and attacking the west. Our Fujian navy and Guangdong navy have several times the ships and troops of the Heyi. Push it flat, the big ships shoot at each other, the small boats maneuver, and the fire boats swarm up, defeating the Heyi is no problem!"

"So simple?" Chen Zilong was a little surprised.

(Old irons clasped their fists, please subscribe, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommendation)

(End of this chapter)