Win the Ding 1617

Checking his losses, Shi Lang couldn't help but sighed. Although most of the more than 20 Daqingtou ships are still there, they can go to sea immediately, no matter whether they are fleeing or fighting, only half of them are.The rest were mostly scarred and suffered heavy casualties.

"Forget it! Let's recuperate for a few days on Nan'ao Island, so that the brothers can recharge their batteries! When the time comes, we must have physical strength!"

After making up his mind, Shi Lang stopped at Nan'ao Island.

Outside Dongshan Island, Zheng Sen couldn't help crying loudly when he saw the Zheng family navy who was dispatched to respond.

"Father! We are defeated!"

A red-haired boat and four lucky boats were lost. The loss of those big green heads is still unknown for a while, and there are still a few boats missing along the way, but the amount is too bad.

Zheng Zhilong's face was as cloudy as the sea surface in the twelfth lunar month.

"Crying like this after defeating once? How many times have I defeated you, old man?!"

"Speak! Why did you lose so badly?"

"Father commander! I suspect Shi Lang!" Zheng Sen was about to report Shi Lang's performance in this naval battle to his father, but Zhi Bao took the conversation.

"Marshal! If we hadn't Shi Lang desperately led the boat to fight behind the Li family's vanguard fleet, I'm afraid the loss would be even greater! The little girl of the Li family is a ruthless character! All kinds of ships and artillery are well used. Amazing!"

Zheng Zhilong was clear in his heart, knowing that there must be something famous in it, but his younger brother didn't want to say it in public.In case the secret is not kept secret and leaked out by people who are close friends with the Shi family, that would be nothing but stealing money!

In the Guandi Temple.Zhilong ordered people to take the boat brought back by Zheng Sen to go down to rest, to heal the wounded, and to repair the sails of the boat.

"Tell me! What happened to Shi Lang?"

"Father! I suspect that Shi Lang is the ghost!"

"Huh?" Zheng Zhilong's eyebrows jumped up twice on his fair face, and he glanced at Zheng Zhibao.

"Is there any basis for saying this? If Shi Lang is the kind of rebellious boy who eats the noodles at the bottom of the bowl, how can he let you all retreat?"

"Father! I say this, of course there is evidence! When we first met Li's little girl's fleet, it happened to be with the wind, so we were going to set off the fire boat. Unexpectedly, the fire boat was captured by the small cannon on the Nanyue Army navy ship. The fight was disintegrated and the ice melted. It was almost impossible to return. We originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity to bombard with the artillery on the red-haired boat. Unexpectedly, the rocket boat of the Li family suddenly appeared and fired rockets at our ships. If it weren't for this generation's headwind, these rocket ships would have reduced our dozens of gunboats to ashes! Na Shilang. He often boasted every day. What did he learn in the Naval Academy of the Nanyue Army? Why did he face The matter of the rocket is not mentioned at all?!"

At that moment, Zheng Sen poured out all his doubts and dissatisfaction with Shi Lang during this naval battle.He wanted to find a reason and an excuse for his defeat.

And Shi Lang is undoubtedly the best candidate to take the blame.

"Finished?"

Zheng Zhilong's face is still like the sea before the storm, bottomless.

"Crack! Crack!"

The jade jiaolong, who was criss-crossing the sea, greeted Zheng Sen's face with a big slap from both sides.

"Your reason is this rocket ship? We have dealt with this group of guys from the Southern Guangdong Army for so many years, and we have never heard of such a thing! It seems to be an important weapon of the country, and it is tightly guarded for this day. We were caught off guard! You bastard, you are going to attack Shi Lang for this matter!? Do you know that this will push Shi Lang and his family to the Southern Guangdong Army?"

Looking at his father's furious face, Zheng Sen also had something to say.

"Poisonous snakes bite hands, and strong men cut off wrists. Such a person cannot be kept! If we are afraid of him defecting, we should keep it secret!"

"Stupid! Are you the only one who is smart?"

Zheng Zhilong made a gesture to fight again, but was stopped by Zheng Zhibao's persuasion and persuasion.

"Fu Song, that's not what you said. Even if we have enough evidence to deal with Shi Lang's family, will other ship owners think so? Will they lose their minds?" Zheng Zhi taught this newborn calf not to be afraid of tigers with a fierce face. nephew.

The Fujian Navy, or Zheng's Maritime Group, like any economic armed group, is a collection of several groups because of common interests.It's just that the Zheng family has the largest proportion in this gang or joint-stock company, and other gangs dare not make mistakes.However, if the Southern Cantonese army is pressing on outside, Shi Lang, who has made great achievements in the battle, and his whole family are killed internally for no reason, I am afraid that those ship owners, big and small, will fall apart overnight.

After reprimanding Zheng Sen, the two brothers asked Zheng Sen, who was on the battlefield for the first time, to go back to rest. Anyway, today's victory is much stronger than the bottom line set in Zheng Zhilong's heart.At least, those red-haired boats are back.

"Brother, can we still fight this battle?"

After a long silence, Zheng Zhibao spoke up.He knew Nanzhong better in Zheng's group, and he knew Nanzhong's terrifying strength far better than everyone in Zheng's group except Shi Lang.

For many years, almost all of the various combat materials of the Zheng Family Navy have been imported from Nanzhong, and they have been resold for profit.The gunpowder and shells used in this war were also hoarded over the years.For shells, one shot will be lost, and for gunpowder, one barrel will be lost.

The current situation seems to be slowly sliding towards the side that the Zheng family least wants to see, and the two sides have entered a stage of lasting consumption.This is the most fatal blow to the Zheng family.

For a while, Zheng Zhilong was also speechless.Why doesn't he know where his back door is?

However, the few letters from Nanjing and other places in Xiamen Zongbing Yamen forced him to type.

"Fight! Fight! We are the Fujian Economic and Political Bureau, what right does their Southern Guangdong Army have to destroy us? This is the defense zone of our Fujian Navy! As long as the fight continues, delay for a while, and someone from Nanjing and Beijing will come out to speak , at that time, we can have a good negotiation with Li Shouhan about the price!"

When Zheng Zhilong said these words, he didn't know whether he was cheering up his younger brothers or himself.

"In the daytime, the forwards of our army and the forwards of the Nanyue Army fought for the first time, and there were occasional small setbacks. This is nothing. However, we still don't know where the main force of the Nanyue Army's navy is. But our army is stationed and moored on Dongshan Island The fact that Fu Song and the others came all the way to the east must have been guessed by the little girl of the Li family. Although the waters of Dongshan Island are wider than Nan’ao Island, there are too many ships stationed. Just now, Fu Song and Zhi Bao It is said that the Southern Guangdong Army has arson weapons. In order to prevent the Southern Guangdong Army from sneaking in at night, show me a scene of burning a warship. Zhihu. You work hard, and tonight lead [-] fast boats to the sea for [-] miles to patrol along Dongshan Island. It can only be withdrawn after dawn!"

Zheng Zhilong spent half of his life in the sea. He has never seen or used what kind of wicked tricks and tricks. He summed up an experience with countless times of blood and life.That is to be careful to make the Wannian Ship.

but.If only he knew about the loss of Li Huamei's fleet.It would not be so cautious to go to war, sending the most capable men Zheng Zhihu to stare at the dark sea all night at sea, lest a rocket ship of the Southern Guangdong Army suddenly come out from somewhere.

When Zheng Zhihu led [-] clippers and nearly [-] people were on the sea vigilantly guarding against a possible night attack by the Nanyue Army's navy.Li Huamei was in a daze looking at the statistics of casualties and war damage.

After a day of fierce fighting, two ships of her fleet were sunk, and three ships lost their combat effectiveness after being damaged. Almost all ships suffered battle damage to varying degrees.Or gun emplacements, or ships, or sail rigging.Each ship lost 87 artillery pieces of various types, consumed 760 barrels of gunpowder, and [-] shells of various types.However, these material losses are nothing to the current rich and powerful Southern Guangdong Army. What really worries Li Huamei is the line of numbers below.

A total of 640 sailors were killed, wounded, and missing.Among them, 67 were slightly injured, [-] were seriously injured, and the rest were killed or missing.Hua Mei knew that these lightly wounded were also temporarily unable to operate the ship and were in a state of being out of combat effectiveness.

"What should I do?" Hua Mei's face turned pale, she was never so frightened when facing Shi Lang's artillery fire during the day.

"Hua Mei, what's wrong?"

Ao Lei Yilan, who checked the situation and number of prisoners from the prisoner camp, happily returned to Huamei's cabin with a few soldiers.

"Qi Yiniang. We fought a battle during the day. It can be said that we killed a thousand enemies and lost a thousand ourselves. I am worried that my father will not spare me." Hua Mei planned to pass the battle damage statistics to Ao Lei with a bitter face. Yilan immediately remembered that this fresh and beautiful Qi Yiniang was illiterate, so she immediately put it away.

"We sunk and burned six of the Zheng family's boats, captured eight of their boats, and rescued more than 300 people from the sea. We captured nearly 1000 of them in total. How could it be considered a defeat?"

Ao Lei Yilan proudly reported a series of numbers that she had memorized for a long time. She couldn't believe it. With such a result, could the husband still be furious at Li Huamei?

"Qi Yiniang, you don't know something. When Dad fights a war, he usually looks at his own losses first. Like a country rich man, he counts how many men, sabers and guns he has lost, and then looks at how many he has captured. Let's see what the outcome of this battle will be. This time, we barely counted as an outpost against the Zheng family, and we lost hundreds of sailors. Given how difficult it is for our Southern Guangdong Army to train, recruit, and train qualified sailors, that old stingy dad , Scrooge, did you know that you ate me raw?"

"Not bad! I have to eat you raw, just like Fusang people eat sashimi, without dipping in soy sauce and horseradish!"

Following the voice, Li Huamei's face turned from white to red, "Huh? He's here?"

The cabin door opened, Mo Yu, the leader of the personal guards, came in first, followed by Li Shouhan himself.Accompanying Shou Han behind him is Li Huayu, the eldest son who is serving as the commander of the Taiwan Guard in Taiwan.

"My eldest lady, Commander Li, you say that you sit quietly and think about your own mistakes, and don't talk about others. You are talking about your elders behind their backs. How should you say this?"

Shou Han kept his face straight on purpose, looking at the embarrassed Li Huamei solemnly.

"Father!"

Li Huamei blushed, and looked at Shou Han with the cute and naive appearance of a little girl, completely without the heroic posture of lashing out at the three armies on the bridge.

The Southern Guangdong Fleet led by Shou Han took advantage of the opportunity of Zheng Zhilong's navy to come out in full force, and made a long circle from Hong Kong to Guang'ao Bay in Shantou quietly.Meet Li Huamei at one place.

"I've seen Aunt Seven, I've seen Eldest Sister."

After serving as the commander of the Taiwan Guard for a year, Li Huayu became more mature and sophisticated.He politely greeted Aolei Yilan, his younger mother and elder sister Li Huamei, who were about the same age as him.

"Hua Yu, why don't you help Dad in Taiwan to reclaim wasteland, resettle those immigrants, build port roads, why are you here to fight naval battles?"

She is the youngest daughter in front of her father, but the eldest sister in front of her younger brothers. Li Huamei's role has changed very quickly.

"Sister, I also trained some soldiers in Taiwan. Most of them were recruited from the mountains and forests. Just like Uncle Wang Bao's Phoenix Battalion, I plan to take them to the battlefield to experience some experience. This time Dad specially sent The ship came to Tainan to pick us up, just to fight this battle."

The meaning of Shou Han is very clear.To deal with a strong enemy at sea like Zheng Zhilong, it is necessary to adopt Tian Ji's strategy and tactics of horse racing.

Your navy and sailors have strong skills and qualities.Then I will use my ship gun advantage to deal with your personnel advantage.

Your water combat ability is strong.Then I will force you not to have a water fight with me.Instead, it forces you to fight me in a land battle that you are not used to!And it's a tough battle!

"Father, what do you mean?" Li Huamei's eyes began to shine, and she seemed to smell the hint of conspiracy in her father's words.

"The secret must not be revealed!" Shou Han made a rare grimace at a pair of children and a new favorite.

Although the night is shrouded in the sky over Guang'ao Bay.But the atmosphere here is completely different from the tension and fear of Nan'ao Island not far away and Dongshan Island farther away. It is full of the smell of food and people's laughter.

A cooking truck can withstand thousands of troops.This is a sentence that Shou Han often hangs on his lips.In the same words, countless celebrities and talented people have said similar things.

Because a large amount of ironware was put into agricultural production activities, food crops and oil crops have achieved unprecedented development, which in turn has promoted the development of aquaculture. The types of food that can be enjoyed are much richer and more delicious than their counterparts in this era.

Compared with the meals of the British, Portuguese, and Spaniards, the meals of the Nanyue Army Navy are almost the same as the meals enjoyed by playboys in Paris or Madrid.

In this era, the food on the battleship can be described as dancing with maggots.

Breakfast is the same oatmeal; lunch and dinner are either boiled corned beef + biscuits, or boiled corned pork + biscuits.With the occasional dollop of crème fraîche and stinky cheese, otherwise sailors rely on the favorite pea soup for their meager vitamins.Other than that there was nothing else to eat.

What?Are you talking about vitamin supplements?Come and see, is the poor fellow suffering from a fever?Even the supply of drinking water on the ship cannot be fully guaranteed, and all kinds of wines that are easy to store for a long time must be used as substitutes. You still want to supplement vitamins?

When I went to sea for more than a month, I was almost drunk and could not drink any more, I would start to drink water. At this time, the fresh drinking water full of green algae had become smelly and sticky, so I had no choice but to drink water. Mix the rum in the water.The daily ration of rum is often mixed with drinking water to mask the smell and green color.So even if a sailor has a drink every day, he usually can't get drunk-unless you can bear to drink stinky water and save the rum to drink it all alone.Generally speaking, the ratio of rum to drinking water is about 1:4 (not fixed), which is why most sailors are alcoholics. (Oh, reminds me of Tintin's good friend Captain Haddock.)

With such a diet, one can imagine what kind of people the sailors are from, so that they can swallow such things that no beggars in my country of China will eat.Those who can be ocean sailors are mostly rogue proletarians such as landless peasants and vagrants, hooligans, robbers, thieves, and bastard tramps who are imprisoned in prisons. In the main theme film, the captains are all upright, and the sailors are all dirty, rude and despicable guys.

Compared with the poor sailors who eat worse than pigs, the food of the captain and the officers on the ship is relatively better. They have their own meals. In addition, the economic conditions of the officers will allow them to buy them out of their own pockets. Some food, give yourself a better life.For example, buy sheep, cows, and hens in partnership to ensure that you have fresh meat and eggs to eat.Usually the cows would sleep with the sailors in a corral in the cabin, the sheep would usually be chained in a corner on the deck, and the laying hens would be kept in cages in the lifeboats.

But on the ship, from the captain to the junior sailors, everyone on board has to eat biscuits called "Navy Bread" by the British. Speaking of this biscuit, it is also a strange thing. There are dozens of generations living on this biscuit Weevils and maggots!In order to get these cute little animals, the sailors will throw a fish into the biscuit bag, so that the maggots will crawl out of the biscuit and climb on the fish, and then the sailors will throw the fish away, so that the worms in the biscuit will lesser.

However, this kind of thing can only be used as an after-dinner talk in the Southern Guangdong Army, whether it is the land battalion or the naval division, to laugh at those Western barbarians.

Strolling along the coastline of Guang'ao Bay, the smell of meals wafted from the temporary camps set up everywhere. The sailors and the soldiers who fought with the ship each carried big lunch boxes in the shape of pig's kidneys and gorged themselves. They chewed the meals carefully prepared by the cooking soldiers on the shore, and toasted each other with deep lunch box lids from time to time.

In the daytime battle, although Li Huamei thought they were defeated and suffered heavy losses, the sailors saw the results directly.They simply decided, "We won the battle! We beat Zheng Zhilong, who is known as the roost in the sea, and ran away with his head in his arms!"

The sound of laughter and laughter flew out from the camps from time to time.

"The morale is good! The morale of the army is available!"

Shou Han gave his daughter a good evaluation.

"Father commander, this is where the prisoners of the Zheng army are detained. Because they are all from the same hometown of Fujian and are of Chinese descent. So I ordered them to enjoy the same food as our army. Except for no wine, the rest are the same as our army's soldiers!"

Li Huamei looked at her father's face with some embarrassment.

It would be a lie to say that Li Huamei had no idea about these skilled sailors. After all, a large part of the earliest crew of the Nanyue Army Navy was the pirates of Zhang Xiaohu's gang.The earliest characters are also captives.It seems that Zhang Xiaohu, the current commander of the left wing fleet, is also a prisoner.

However, unlike Zhang Xiaohu's situation back then, these more than 1000 captured Zheng family sailors will not be able to become sailors of the Southern Guangdong Army for a while.

"Father, I can't just fish them out of the sea, throw them a uniform of our navy, and make them our sailors?" After talking about her original thoughts, Li Huamei was at a loss.

"If you capture, you will make up?" Hearing his daughter's complaints, these four big characters immediately appeared in Shouhan's head.How to turn the Zheng family's human resources advantage into a source to make up for their own shortcomings, this seems to be a very difficult problem.

However, Li Shouhan didn't seem to be troubled by this.

"Daddy, Daddy has an idea to help you turn these captives into the main force of your fleet the next time you go to sea!"

"However, you have to treat Huayu to a good meal and ask him to write a letter to your second mother. Transfer the propaganda team from Hue to Guang'ao Bay!" (To be continued...)

ps: Thank you for your concern, votes, rewards and support.I have suffered from heatstroke and fever for the past few days, and I have some chores at home. I'm sorry everyone.Resume from today.For those friends who read the pirated posts, I will not say some things.