After a busy night, it was not until the late afternoon of the next day that the pursuing Hou Junji and Hei Te Changzhi returned with the two dilapidated Spanish frigates they bombarded.
The two ships ran like crazy, rushing out of the strait and heading straight to the ocean.
It took the Hou Junji and the Black Teeth Changzhi two hours to catch up with them, and after a fierce artillery battle, most of their ships were destroyed.
After using artillery to kill a large number of their sailors with shotgun shells, they forced them to surrender and escorted them back.
Li Hu was furious and ordered Federo, the captain of the San Francisco, to be escorted to the deck of the Li Jing along with the captains of the two ships.
The other captured captains and Domingos watched the execution.
Several Spanish captains saw the bloody scene of three captains being shot on the head with a fire gun.
They all vomited loudly.
Domingos even passed out immediately.
Li Hu was deeply satisfied.
One vented his anger, and the other warned these people. , if you are not honest, you will be shot in the head.
The next step was to repair the ship.
The artillery battle was fierce and the damage on both sides was serious.
Many materials were lacking.
The materials for the mast were the most indispensable, and the thickest planks for repairing the ship's side were the most lacking.
These boats must be repaired.
If they are not repaired and put on the road, if they encounter a hurricane, they are likely to seep water and sink.
It’s just that the power of Tiago’s can opener is beyond words.
The holes made during the war were large and irregular.
The damage caused was extremely slow and extremely wood-consuming to repair after the war.
These holes alone took all the reserves on board.
The timber was used up, but even so there were many holes and deck cabins without timber repairs. at last.
Li Hu made the decision and demolished the upper deck cabins of two captured small Galen merchant ships to get enough wood.
Seventeen large battleships and two giant ships have been repaired, and the problem of insufficient reserve sailors has also been solved.
Li Hu still felt a little distressed.
The two Galen merchant ships, regardless of their size, were only 200 tons, which was also the tonnage of the large Fu ship.
But it carries much more cargo than the Fuzhou ship.
But there was no choice but to abandon them for larger ships.
At noon on the eighth day, all the warships were repaired, and Li Hu felt relieved.
At this time, he encountered a Spanish fleet again, and Li Hu was confident of fighting.
"Seven French warships, two giant armed merchant ships, fourteen twelve-pound guns, one hundred and twenty eighteen-pound guns, thirty-two twenty-four-pound guns, and eight thirty-six-pound guns were seized.
The remaining 100 doors were destroyed, nearly 200 matchlocks, more than 240 swords, more than 300 spears, more than 3,000 kilograms of gunpowder, 37 pieces of full armor and 79 pieces of half armor were killed.
There were more than 900 Spaniards and more than 1,900 were captured.
In addition, one million one hundred and fifteen thousand taels of silver.
Twenty-one thousand taels of gold, eleven boxes of precious stones, fifteen boxes of sterling silver tableware, and Bibles and other books. " Li Hu is very satisfied.
The harvest this time is no less than two years ago.
The adults must be very happy.
The financial pressure on Shidao can also be greatly reduced.
Everyone is happy.
After the joy, fleet commander He Yijun handed over the list of casualties of the Polu navy, which immediately put his good mood away.
"Eighty-three people were killed and 402 were injured, of which more than 80 were seriously injured."
Li Hu couldn't help but sigh that the more than two million taels of silver were obtained by the navy in exchange for human lives.
The Spanish navy was still quite powerful.
Without the Tiago cannon, both sides would definitely suffer losses in this battle.
After abandoning the two Galen merchant ships, the fleet returned northward in late September.
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Since it was the time when the southwesterly and northwesterly winds began to clash frequently, it was difficult to borrow wind and the ship's speed was very slow.
Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu approached Xiamen Island on a Galen merchant ship of less than 200 tons, escorted by more than 30 Fu ships and more than 50 Haicang and Niaosha ships.
When they were less than ten miles away from Xiamen Island, Xiamen in the distance Black smoke rose from the direction of the island, and the two brothers knew they were late.
A few days ago, while drinking wine, Zheng Cai, who had a good relationship with one of Li Kuiqi's subordinates, accidentally said that Li Kuiqi was extremely dissatisfied that the Ming Dynasty only awarded him one thousand households, and was planning to return to the sea.
He also said that Li Kuiqi was extremely dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong, who was the leader, and believed that he was the only one who got the title of guerrilla general and the actual duty of garrison.
Others such as Liu Xiang and him were all taking orders under his account.
In the past, they were allies. , now becoming Zheng Zhilong's subordinate is a great shame and humiliation, and this revenge must be avenged.
Zheng Cai took a boat to report to Zheng Zhihu, and Zheng Zhihu told Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong was in a hurry.
Three days ago, Li Kuiqi led his men to eastern Guangdong to recruit troops.
Zheng Zhilong also agreed.
If Li Kuiqi had other intentions, then he would betray the Ming Dynasty.
What he was most afraid of was It was Zheng Zhilong who was ordered to eliminate him.
Today, only Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi and other teams are left on the sea surface of Fujian.
Among them, Zheng Zhilong is the strongest.
In order to eliminate future troubles, the main fleet on Xiamen Island will be Zheng Zhilong’s Achilles heel.
If the main fleet on Xiamen Island is destroyed If Zheng Zhilong was killed, Zheng Zhilong would be trapped in internal and external difficulties.
Someone inside the Ming Dynasty would definitely want to take the opportunity to eat him, and Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang, who left first, and the Dutch would strangle him on the sea.
Zheng Zhilong hurriedly led more than a hundred warships around him to rush to Xiamen Island in an attempt to save his fleet.
However, now Zheng Zhilong is heartbroken.
It seems that it is still a step too late.
He has been running around for seven years since leaving home and started from scratch.
From a merchant ship clerk to a Ming guerrilla general with thousands of warships today, he has just completed his first step and forced the Ming Dynasty to He appeased himself, returned to the Ming Dynasty and became a new official in Fujian.
If he suffered this disaster today, his enemies inside and outside the Ming Dynasty would probably be celebrating.
The fleet sailed into the dock and saw that a large number of Zheng's warships lined up in the shallow water had been burned.
Now only thick smoke was left, and most of them had collapsed.
Li Kuiqi's fleet, which was anchored with the Zheng family fleet, disappeared.
Zheng Zhilong stood numbly on the bow of the boat, while Zheng Zhihu got down to the boat and boarded the dock bitterly.
Zheng Zhilong carefully calculated that the more than 300 Fu ships and about 500 other small warships he had here were probably either destroyed or plundered by Li Kuiqi.
Now he could only spend all his wealth to collect sea ships.
As long as he returned to three With a scale of four hundred ships, the governor and governor of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty had to recruit themselves and fight with Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang on the sea.
The Dutch will not suffer too much in the battle.
It's just that he needs to lie dormant for a few years, and at the same time he has to make a new business agreement with the Dutch.
I'm afraid I have to allow the Dutch to enter the coast of Fujian privately, so that they can re-establish an alliance with the Dutch and isolate Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang.
When he thinks of Li Kuiqi's name, Zheng Zhilong hates it.
He vowed in his heart that he would kill Li Kuiqi's whole family.
Right now.
Zheng Zhilong saw Zheng Zhihu striding from the depths of the pier, and even pushed away the men blocking him with his hands, stepped onto the boat in a few steps, and rowed towards Galen's boat himself.
Zheng Zhilong's heart was beating wildly.
What he feared most at this time was that Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Qiu, Zheng Zhiyan and others who stayed here would also defect.
This would cause internal disintegration, which was more terrifying than losing the warship.
"Brother, good news, good news."
Zheng Zhihu jumped onto the deck.
"Brother.
A few days ago, news came from Macau that the forty cannons we ordered have been built and let us pick them up.
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Yang Geng brought seventy large ships.
Dozens of small ships went.
Yang Geng is cautious. , He was afraid of being robbed.
The next day, the Dutch sent a message asking us to deliver the goods of the ten merchant ships to Penghu.
Chen Hui led more than a hundred ships. " "That means there can be 200 ships not in Xiamen."
Zheng Zhilong said excitedly.
"More than that.
Half a day ago, Li Kuiqi set out to burn the ship and seize it.
His men besieged the big ship.
Zheng Qiu and others led more than 200 small boats to escape.
Zheng Zhiyan was injured and fled to the island, but she did not die."
Zheng Zhihu said loudly.
Zheng Zhilong clasped his hands together and said, "Mazu will protect me, Zheng Zhilong, from this calamity."
"Zhihu, after this incident, you send out people to buy Dafu Ship.
The more the better."
Zheng Zhilong said.
"Brother, we have to keep some money on hand just in case."
Zheng Zhihu is right.
Most of their soldiers have to be paid by them.
It is impossible for the Fujian governor and the Dusi to pay money, let alone Most of the half-sex soldiers they recruited, even in the war camps and guards, were in arrears.
The two brothers had no money and could not gather people.
"We will come back after all the gold is gone.
Second brother, as long as we have a fleet in our hands, all the money is a trivial matter.
Now is not the time to store money, waiting for your elder brother to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver into millions of taels."
Take it back."
Zheng Zhilong, who was reborn after the disaster, vowed to get rid of these bastards and monopolize the trade route.
"Now, let's go see the injured brothers together."
Zheng Zhihu nodded.
He thought that his elder brother was right.
The reason why they had all these silver coins was brought by the fleet in their hands.
The fleet was the foundation of their Zheng family.
In the next few days, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Qiu and others led the fleet back one after another.
The fleet in Zheng Zhilong's hands returned to nearly 200 large ships and more than 400 small and medium-sized sea Cangsha bird ships.
Although Zheng Zhilong The family suffered heavy losses, but its foundation was not damaged.
"Sir, now Zheng Zhilong's generals Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin have defected and destroyed more than half of Zheng Zhilong's fleet.
I don't know how to deal with this matter."
After receiving the Tang report, Fujian general Wu Quande came to the governor's Yamen to report to Xiong Wencan.
Xiong Wencan thought for a moment, put down the tea bowl, and said slowly: "I ordered Zheng Zhilong to kill Li Kuiqi and punish him accordingly."
"Sir, Zheng Zhilong has suffered heavy losses, and the thieves such as Li and Zhong are unable to do anything.
He asks us for help."
Wu Quande tried to test the governor's mind.
After all, Zheng Zhilong was recruited by Xiong Wencan himself, and he was called the beloved general by everyone. , Don’t make any move until Master Futai’s thoughts are clear.
"As a Fujian coastal defense guerrilla, it is your duty to exterminate the rebels.
You only need to support them with heavy supplies and armor.
Your department also has to guard more than ten prefectures in Fujian, which is beyond your reach."
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Xiong Wencan sighed.
Wu Quande immediately bowed and resigned.
The governor obviously meant to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf.
Of course, Old Wu knew how to handle it.
"Brother, Wu Quande, this rat, bullied others too much.
He even knew that our army suffered serious losses and still urged troops to clear it out.
He is really adding insult to injury."
Zheng Zhihu cursed through gritted teeth.
"Second brother, I think highly of him.
How could this cowardly villain offend us so blatantly?
This is probably what Mr.
Futai meant."
Of course Zheng Zhilong understood what kind of person Wu was on both sides of the snake and mouse.
"This scholar is really kind-hearted and has a dark heart.
In order to appease him, his eldest brother paid him tens of thousands of taels of silver.
He is the eldest brother who is praised by everyone.
When something happened, he immediately turned his back on him.
Damn, he is really more fickle than an actor.
"Zheng Zhihu shouted cursingly.
"Second brother, Mr.
Futai still left some dignity for me to wait.
You didn't realize that there is no time limit here."
Zheng Zhilong nodded at his second brother.
Zheng Zhihu opened his mouth and said, "Damn, there are too many twists and turns in this officialdom."
Zheng Zhilong understood that the governor's strategy was to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf, causing them both to suffer losses.
The Fujian governor and the Dusi reaped the benefits, but Zheng Zhilong was confident about victory and confident in making the Fujian officialdom surrender.
He relied on his strength at sea.
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