Zheng Zhilong left Xiaoliuqiu with great sadness and indignation.
He also sneaked south, and then drove westward under the cover of night.
In order to escape the pursuit of Zhao Lie's men, he even took the risk of lighting up his pilot light at night and continued on his way.
In order to escape from the enemy, Zheng Zhilong He also tried his best to pursue the Japanese army and took extraordinary risks.
Along the way, Zheng Zhilong thought about the whole cause and effect, and came to the conclusion that he still underestimated the combat power of Zhao Lie's troops.
In the past few years, except for Liu Xiang who was always looking for trouble, the other times were relatively peaceful.
The Zheng family left It's so smooth.
Even if the Dutch attacked with only a dozen warships at most, they could do nothing when encountering one or two hundred warships and fire ships from the Zheng family fleet.
In the end, instead of obediently escaping back to Xiaoliuqiu, they even People have to be sent to sue for peace.
This made the Zheng family, including himself, think too highly of themselves and look down upon others, including the Xiyi people.
In fact, the Zheng family has already felt some problems in this regard.
For example, the coalition of nearly a hundred warships of the Xiyi people shocked Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhibao and others.
The Zheng family did not expect that these Xiyi people were even Spanish and The Dutch were able to unite and form such a powerful fleet.
This has actually given the Zheng family a warning.
Many things are not as simple as they imagined, but the Zheng family still underestimated the enemy.
Thinking about it afterwards, if even the Xiyi people, who have a huge Xiyi fleet, are wary of this Zhao Lie, and have to drag him with the Zheng family before they start to attack, it just shows the tyranny of the navy under Zhao Lie's command.
If there were mistakes, the biggest one was this.
Although Zhao Lie's troops often passed by the coast of Fujian, they never conflicted with the Zheng family's fleet.
This gave the Zheng family the illusion that this Mingren's fighting power was only average.
They did not dare to provoke the Zheng family and were very afraid of the Zheng family.
This confused the eyes of everyone in the Zheng family.
In fact, the Zheng family can take the initiative to stir up trouble.
After testing and attacking this Mingren, they will have a clear understanding of this Mingren's combat power, and they will not make such a big mistake today.
In this battle, Zhao Lie's navy's powerful ships and cannons were unparalleled, and the soldiers under his command were even more brave and heroic.
Once faced with a desperate situation, they would self-destruct with the death of both the enemy and the enemy.
This kind of contempt for the enemy and his own life , The spirit of not seeking life but seeking death was the only thing Zheng Zhihu had seen in his many years of military service, and it also frightened the sailors and soldiers of the Zheng family.
Of course, these are all hindsight.
Zheng Zhilong has already calculated his remaining strength along the way.
He still has 300 large and small warships in Penghu and Xiamen Island, dozens of warships in his hometown of Anping, and several more in eastern Guangdong.
Ten warships, of course, these are Fuhai Niaosha and others that can still board the stage.
As for the other small ships, there are hundreds of them, distributed along the coast of Fujian, controlled by many small military leaders.
It can be said that if we gather them back, we can still compete with Zhao Lie's command on the coast of Fujian.
After all, there is no problem of long voyages along the coast.
The nearly a thousand warships and fireships patched together will still pose a great danger to Zhao Lie's fleet. , if he were in Zhao Lie's perspective, he would not be so unwise to compete with the fire ship.
It seemed that he would have to endure it for several years or even ten years.
Zheng Zhilong was helpless and aggrieved.
After several days of sailing, Zheng Zhilong and his party of nearly twenty gunboats finally returned to his hometown of Anping in Quanzhou, Fujian.
On the dock, his younger brother Zheng Zhibao, who stayed behind in his hometown, greeted him.
Zheng Zhibao already knew the news of the defeat of the coalition forces and the Zheng family navy.
Starting yesterday, several gunboats came back one after another, bringing the news of the tragic defeat back to Anping.
This made Zheng Zhibao extremely anxious, wondering about the safety of his eldest brother.
After all, Zheng Zhilong is not only the head of the Zheng family, but also the backbone of the Zheng family.
The Zheng family has grown from a poor family of petty officials to the overlord of Fujian.
All of this is The result of the leadership of a big brother.
Seeing Zheng Zhilong finally back this time, Zheng Zhibao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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When Zheng Zhilong got off the boat, he didn't bother to rest.
He immediately asked Zheng Zhibao to issue an order and send out a sentry ship to know Penghu.
The navy immediately abandoned Penghu and withdrew to Anping.
If Zhao Lie's troops established a foothold in Xiaoliuqiu, Penghu, which is very close to Xiaoliuqiu, is The next target to be eradicated is to retreat.
Then there are the garrison troops who are familiar with Xiamen Island and have strengthened their vigilance to prevent sneak attacks.
Finally, the warships in eastern Guangdong and other places were ordered to return to Anping immediately.
After all, the old nest is too empty now.
As for the security of Anping Port, it goes without saying, but the failure to build a fort in Anping Port now seems to be the biggest mistake.
Zheng Zhilong has made what he considers to be the most appropriate and reasonable arrangements, but he still has to wait a few to ten days for all his arrangements, otherwise it will be too late to take effect.
Unfortunately, the Polu Army did not give him this opportunity.
On the fourth day after Zheng Zhilong returned, Anping Port was attacked by dozens of Polu Army warships.
Even though there were warning sentries from the periphery, in less than an hour, just Enough to raise the sails of more than fifty warships.
The Zheng family's warships set sail not to fight, but to escape.
Since the Ming people dared to attack, there was no need to doubt the combat power of the incoming ships.
After several days of fighting, Zheng Zhilong had understood that these dozens of gunboats and sentry ships were simply not enough.
Look, it's better to avoid fighting.
However, the Zheng family's warship had just sailed a few miles when it was blocked by more than 20 patrol ships and more than 20 Tang-class warships and Song-class warships.
The artillery battle between the two sides started a few miles away from the dock.
The number of warships on both sides was almost the same, but the difference in combat power was insignificant.
Boom boom boom, the surrounding warships roared at the enemy ships with their broadsides, shaking Anping Bay.
Zhang Gusheng stood on the deck and looked at the entire battlefield.
He saw the Tang class warships, patrol ships, fiercely breaking into the enemy's formation in coordination with each other, using the gunfire from both sides to hit Zheng Zhilong's warships from left to right.
The tactics used by the Polu Navy warships this time were a bit reckless.
They were charging into the formation despite the enemy's artillery fire and risking being damaged by the fireships.
They were killing all the Zheng Family warships they encountered. .
Zhang Gusheng had nothing to do about this, because the Polu Army Navy hated the Zheng family so much that the commander-in-chief had no choice but to indulge it and let his soldiers vent their hatred. .
Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao looked at the one-sided fierce battle in the bay with livid faces.
The warships under Zhao Lie simply slaughtered the Zheng family's warships.
The Zheng family's thirty gunboats totaled less than 300 cannons, and the caliber of the artillery was too small.
Zhao Lie's warships pose no threat.
However, none of the fire ships came back at all.
Ten fire ships in Anping had already gone into battle, but the scale was too small.
They only ignited the opponent's small warship and consumed it all.
How to fight.
This one-sided battle ended in less than an hour.
The Polu army wiped out all the Zheng family's ships at the cost of one patrol ship being burned and four patrol ships being damaged.
What frightened everyone in the Zheng family the most was that the navy soldiers under Zhao Lie massacred warships floating on the sea, and it was not finished until they were sunk.
Would it be over if they were sunk?
No, they even killed all the Zheng family sailors who jumped into the sea to escape, ramming them with ships and killing them with firecrackers.
They used warships to continuously compete with the sailors who fell into the sea and massacred them, turning the entire Anping Bay into the Red Sea.
The bodies of many Zheng family sailors were floating in the bay.
At this time, Anping Bay became a sea of hell in the true sense.
Even hundreds of years later, the legend of the Red Sea was still spread here.
Since then, Anping Sea has had two other names, the Red Sea and the Sea of Hell.
Of course, it is all spread among the people in Fujian.
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After all, the government scorns this, but it does not delay the spread of these titles.
This is also another evidence of the murderous nature of the Polu army imposed on the Polu army by some pedantic people in later generations.
It has the same name as the Blood Temple Battle of the Japanese Kingdom.
Is the matter with the warship over?
No, without the fetters of any enemy warships, the Tang and Song-class warships approached the dock, and then started bombarding the Zheng family house covering an area of 100 acres.
A dozen warships lined up in a row, and the three hundred cannons on the sides began to cover the Zheng family's residence, which was only a few miles away from the dock, with indiscriminate firepower.
The sound of booming and booming was like one after another, and countless hot projectiles rushed into the Zheng family compound, mercilessly destroying the exquisite house built by the Zheng family with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
The people in the Zheng family's courtyard fled despite the artillery fire.
In a short period of time, the Zheng family's courtyard became a deserted place of death.
Only the burning fire devoured the magnificent courtyard and waterside pavilions just now.
After nearly ten rounds of artillery bombardment, the artillery barrels were so hot that the warships, who had to stop without stopping, began to retreat backwards.
More than twenty Galen merchant ships began to dock, and large groups of armored soldiers began to disembark.
The landing operation of the troops this time was commanded by Li Lu.
It turned out that Zhao Lie had brought two thousand troops with him on this expedition.
After all, he had prepared for the worst.
Once Anping City was in crisis, reinforcements would have to be landed ashore.
In this battle against Zheng Zhilong's home base, Zhao Lie did not let the two thousand troops go into battle.
After all, they had been displaced for thousands of miles, so it would be a good achievement to have five of their combat capabilities.
So Zhao Lie ordered the two thousand troops to go ashore to rest.
Anyway, Anping City was just a job of guarding prisoners.
Li Lu accepted Zhao Lie's general order and dispatched more than 2,000 men from the Anping garrison to board the ship to march westward to Zheng Zhilong's home base.
The last month of the Anping garrison was just a wait.
Due to the huge casualties, the coalition forces and Zheng Zhilong's troops no longer planned to storm the huge bastion of Anping City.
No one could afford the casualties.
Therefore, the coalition forces just besieged Anping City and waited for the inner city to run out of rice and food.
The safety and security at this time is no longer decided by the Anping defenders, but by the naval decisive battle between the two sides.
Therefore, Li Lu and his men spent the last more than a month peacefully, without any damage to their combat power.
They embarked on the journey in high spirits.
They also held their breath and were surrounded and attacked for several days. , and then was heavily besieged.
It was because of the coalition forces and the Zheng family that they felt so aggrieved.
Now that I can set foot on the Zheng family's nest to avenge my grievances, I don't need to mention the pleasure.
I am eager to fight
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