Zhao Lie rode his new flagship Di Qing and headed south with nearly 200 Polu warships.
Because it was against the wind, the speed was not very fast.
It could be described as a bit slow, with a speed of only more than three knots.
Such speed is really life-threatening, because you clearly know that a huge coalition composed of the Zheng family, Dutch, Spanish, English, and Portuguese in the south is attacking Anping City in Xiaoliuqiu, where Li Lu's three thousand troops are still there.
There are more than twenty sea ships, and they must be waiting for reinforcements in the face of the enemy's large-scale siege.
According to the strength of Anping City, it should be no big deal, but in this world, there is always a fear of eventuality.
Defending the city is passive after all.
As long as there is a problem in one link, the price will be that the city will fall and people will die.
Therefore, being able to arrive as soon as possible to prevent the eventuality is what the Polu Army Brigade needs to solve most.
This speed is certainly frustrating.
Near the mouth of the Yangtze River, they encountered ships heading north from Anping City.
Lan Xiang boarded the Di Qing and reported that Zheng Zhilong, Spanish, Dutch, English, and Portuguese warships were attacking Anping with hundreds of warships. information.
Now that the coalition's attack on Anping was not a guess but a reality, Zhao Lie couldn't help but smile bitterly at the butterfly effect he had caused.
This coalition army that had never appeared in history unexpectedly appeared unexpectedly, and it was so large that it was able to give a fight to the Polu army.
This was a result he had never expected.
Of course, it also made Zhao Lie deeply vigilant.
The enemies in the south had undergone such big changes.
What about the enemies in the north?
Did the Jiannu who suffered many heavy losses from him make any more changes?
Many changes have occurred, and whether his original estimate of 20,000 to 30,000 elite soldiers to defeat the invading slave army can still be established is a mystery.
Lan Xiang's fleet replenished the other warships with rice, grain and fresh water, and started heading south together according to Zhao Lie's order.
Zhao Lie was deeply wary of Zheng Zhilong.
Zhao Lie was not afraid of the mixed fleet of the Dutch, Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
That was because he was sure that the 200 warships of the Polu Navy under his command formed this fleet.
This huge fleet is the overlord of the Far East, and no one can shake it.
Of course, there is a premise that artillery battles will be carried out according to the current European naval battle model.
But the addition of Zheng Zhilong changed the pattern of this naval battle.
Zhao Lie and Li Hu, who have experienced many naval battles, are most worried about the fact that when the main force of the Polu army is fighting with the main force of the coalition warships, Zheng Zhilong's navy uses a large number of fireships to attack the Polu army's navy, giving the Polu army The navy caused great damage.
Yes, even when all these enemies were gathered together, Zhao Lie never thought about Shenma's failure.
Victory was necessary and destined.
The Polu Army Navy, tempered by hundreds of battles, had the capital and combat power.
But if it is a tragic victory, Zhao Lie cannot allow it.
After all, the Navy is still the backbone of the Polu Army.
It is now and will still be in the future.
Its status will always be above the troops.
Zhao Lie would never allow such mistakes as the Ming Dynasty.
He abandoned his martial arts and disbanded the invincible fleet.
In the end, the Xiyi people with more than a dozen warships were able to wreak havoc on the southeast coast for several years, and even occupied Xiaoliuqiu.
It was simply Ming Dynasty's great shame and humiliation.
Therefore, it is necessary to try our best to maintain the navy.
Zhao Lie cannot afford to damage either warships or sailors.
More than twenty days later, they entered the coast of Fujian, where they encountered the Zheng family's sentry boats one after another.
Although many of these sentinel boats were killed by fast patrol boats and clipper boats, Zhao Lie knew that the enemy had already I know that the Polu Army Navy is coming.
For this reason, Zhao Lie ordered the ship to lower its sails and drift at sea for two days to repair the warship.
After more than a month of sailing, it was inevitable that the warship would have some minor problems.
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Maybe ordinary naval battles are not an issue, but in the key battle to determine the dominance of the East with such a huge enemy, he will not allow any deviation and must win the battle.
His navy must be in the best possible condition for the decisive battle.
After all, it is the Polu army that is working on the expedition now.
Zhao Lie's guess was correct.
The coalition generals who had been besieging Anping City for recent months knew the news about the Ming Dynasty's deployment of all troops in the north.
The news that the Northern Akito dispatched more than 100 or even more than 200 warships shocked many people.
Yes, some of them felt trembling, and their fighting spirit even wavered.
Without him, not to mention two hundred, even more than a hundred Galen warships plus the power of Akito's cannons would make them frightened.
Of course, they did not think that they would definitely fail.
With the help of hundreds of Zheng's ships, they felt that their chances of victory were still great, but they felt that even if they defeated, it would probably be a miserable victory.
If they suffer heavy losses, who will gain?
It seems that Zheng Zhilong is the one who has gained the most privately.
After receiving the news, they Europeans discussed it carefully and suggested to Zheng Zhilong that they must negotiate peace with the Ming people first, and not start a war as a last resort.
Zheng Zhilong heard this and agreed to the proposal.
Apart from him, he was also a little surprised by the strength of this enemy in the north.
It was indeed a huge navy that conquered the Japanese country.
It was of course the best to be able to negotiate a settlement like this.
Three days later, a huge sailing fleet arrived at the sea outside Anping and faced off from east to west with the fleets of Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch, the Spanish, and the English on the sea more than thirty miles away from Anping Bay.
The sea surface with a radius of dozens of miles is covered with warships.
If you look around, except for the sails, there is the mainmast.
This is the most spectacular fleet in the history of the Ming Dynasty waters.
The warships of both the east and west sides are on guard in their own territory.
With such a large fleet, there is no such thing as a sneak attack, only a face-to-face duel.
After Zhao Lie received the news that the other party wanted to talk, he immediately agreed.
If the current problem can be solved through negotiation, then maintaining the status quo is not unacceptable.
Even if the agreement reached can only last for a few years, once the Polu army solves the problems in the north, the problems in the south will be solved.
I am afraid that Zheng Zhilong will take the initiative to cater to it.
The experience of later generations shows that Zheng Zhilong is afraid of the strong men on the mainland. , otherwise he would not have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty despite the opposition of many of his soldiers.
In addition, Zhao Lie also really wanted to see Zheng Zhilong, a tycoon.
In the past few decades, he had grown from a merchant ship clerk to a tycoon in charge of more than a thousand warships and nearly 100,000 people.
Zheng Zhilong was really a top figure in the late Ming Dynasty.
He had no government support, and even He had to fight fiercely with the government, contend with dozens of large and small groups of pirates, wander between the Ming court and the Xiyi people, and finally achieve some great achievements, he can be regarded as a reckless hero.
Of course, Zheng Zhilong prospered at sea but was defeated on land.
This was the reason why his infantry was really weak, but this cannot diminish his achievements.
All achievements of Zheng Chenggong in later generations were based on his old troops.
For such an outstanding person, Zhao Lie really wanted to see it with his own eyes and talk about it together, which was just a thought.
It is not that easy to achieve a meeting on the vast sea.
In the end, both sides agreed to send a ship to meet in the middle of the two armies.
Zhao Lie rode the Di Qing toward the middle, while the other party was also a huge Spanish warship with a tall bow and stern building heading west.
The San Jose is a 900-ton warship.
Yes, it is not an armed merchant ship, but the flagship of the Manila fleet.
It is equipped with more than 80 cannons.
It is the most powerful Spanish warship in the Far East.
Of course, as a battleship built by the Spanish, it bears traces of Spanish construction, that is, the tall cabins at the bow and stern, which make it appear extremely tall and majestic, but the ship is also relatively slow and has poor balance and stability.
But if it wasn't a fierce battle, it would be extremely windy, just like it is now approaching tall and mighty.
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The San Jose is much more majestic than the 800-ton Di Qing.
In order to speed up the Di Qing, the bow cabin was eliminated.
The stern cabin at the back is also relatively short.
Even Zhao Lie's residence is on the lower deck, but As you can imagine, the boats are relatively low.
The two ships approached each other and finally came together.
The sailors of the two ships hooked each other's sides with iron hooks, and the two ships came close to each other.
These are all necessary means to rely on gangs to fight, and they are very common.
The two parties agreed that neither the gunmen nor the crossbowmen should stay on the deck.
The leader of the discussion only brought ten guards close to the side of the ship.
So this extremely strange meeting began.
"This is General Zheng Zhilong."
Zhao Lie looked through the three iron shields in front of him and looked at the man dressed as a man behind the iron shield on the opposite side and asked.
Behind the iron shield were an Ming man and two Europeans with tall noses and deep eyes.
Zhao Lie estimated that this Ming man belonged to the Zheng family, but he didn't know if it was Zheng Zhilong.
"It's none other than Zheng Zhilong," Zheng Zhilong cupped his hands and smiled.
"I don't know what to call this person."
"This general is Zhao Lie, the commander-in-chief of Denglai."
Zhao Lie also smiled and cupped his hands.
"Ahem, cough, cough," Zheng Zhilong suddenly changed his expression.
Damn it, isn't it?
It turned out to be Zhao Lie, the great general of the Ming Dynasty.
The reputation of Zhao Lie is now widely spread in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, the main reason is that this man's achievements are so great.
When the Ming army was defeated again and again, this man was able to defeat Jiannu and wipe out the rebels again and again.
Zheng Zhilong, as a current Ming general, admired him very much.
But when such a famous general becomes his opponent, it is definitely uncomfortable.
He is just unscientific.
How can he be Zhao Lie from the Ming Dynasty of Jeju?
If it is Zhao Lie, then it means that Zhao Lie is the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty.
He occupies Jeju and Ezo.
This is a magical situation.
This is a vassal town.
I'm afraid it's even bigger than any other vassal town in history.
"General, don't be ridiculous, uh, who are you?"
Zheng Zhilong's voice was a little trembling.
"This general is Zhao Lie," Zhao Lie pointed to the high and flying flag with the word "Zhao" on the ship.
Zheng Zhilong was momentarily confused.
Yes, he saw the banner with the word Zhao, but who would have thought that this person was Zhao Lie.
The interpreter also passed the news to Sanders and Fan Peni at this time.
Fan Peni had never heard of Zhao Lie in Jakarta, but Sanders was different.
Manila and Macau had always had close contacts and had heard about the famous general on the opposite side.
It was Denglai Zhao Lie who was in the limelight now, and his head was a little dizzy.
"Master Zhao is joking.
You are the pillar of the Denglai Army.
How can you occupy the Jeju Ezo land?"
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Zheng Zhilong felt that it was too subversive of his knowledge and still couldn't believe it.
"Master Zheng is also joking.
As the general of the Quanzhou garrison, how come Master Zheng has so many warships and subordinates?
I'm afraid there are more troops under his command than the commander-in-chief of the whole place."
Zhao Lie smiled and said, in his opinion, he and Zheng Zhilong are very similar.
Both of them attach great importance to the navy, see the vitality of the navy, and both have the idea of using the navy to separate one party.
The difference is that he has Of course, most of the golden fingers seen in later generations are now useless.
Zheng Zhilong laughed dryly when he heard this, peat, there were rumors everywhere in Fujian official circles that Zheng Zhilong was a pirate, raised private soldiers, disrespected superior officials, despised the court, and was afraid of being disobedient.
Successive governors of Fujian were on guard in every possible way.
After a long quarrel, Denglai Zhao Lie, you are the biggest rebel.
At least Zheng Zhilong hasn't established an overseas territory yet, right?
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