The Zheng pirate group and the Jiangning army were about to make a surprise attack, and the other was to set up an ambush, and the two sides fought a big battle a few miles away from the Jiangning army camp, in which the three battalions led by Yang Geng, Chen Hui and Zheng Cai fled with less than two hundred henchmen, and the rest were all annihilated by the Jiangning army led by Yang Feng.

This battle of tens of thousands of people was full of gunfire and cannons, and the movement was naturally not small, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Xing, who were ambushed outside Xiamen and were ready to take advantage of the chaos to seize the city gate, didn't know what was going on, and were still scolding Yang Geng and the others. Your sister is just stealing a battalion, as for you to make such a big move, it is a gun and a cannon, as long as the people in Xiamen City are not stupid, they will definitely notice it at the first time, so how can we surprise it.

However, Zheng Zhihu and the others are not stupid, this thought only turned around in their minds, and then immediately woke up, this situation is not right? Even if it is attacked by a sneak attack, even if the Ming army is well-trained, it is impossible to return fire with artillery, this Nima is just a posture of escaping the ambush, okay?

Although Zheng Zhihu has always been known for his bravery, but the rich combat experience over the years is not in vain, as soon as he heard that the Jiangning army even used artillery, he immediately realized that tonight's surprise attack was very likely to be detected by the enemy, he immediately said to Zheng Xing: "The situation is not right, there is a problem with Lao Geng, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, otherwise we will not be able to leave when the Ming army reflects it!" ”

"Okay, let's go right away!" Zheng Xing also reflected, as a long-term knife licking blood, Zheng Xing and these people certainly have a murderous and violent side, but they can't get rid of the pirate mode in their bones. They are of course fierce in burning and plundering, but when they encounter hard stubble, they will not think of fighting each other at first, but how to escape, which is also the way of survival of pirates.

"Immediately send an order, the whole army should not make a move, and withdraw immediately!"

Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Xing led more than 5,000 pirates to slip away from outside Xiamen, thinking that they were doing something unaware, but they were still detected by an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft hovering in the sky, and the news was also fed back to Yang Feng's ears, but when he received this news, Yang Feng was leading the Jiangning army to encircle and suppress Yang Geng and others' thousands of pirates, and he couldn't intercept them for a while, so he could only let them go.

The battle ended after more than an hour, but the battlefield was cleaned up until dawn.

Looking at the corpses all over the mountains and the pirates who surrendered on their knees, Chu Maoguang and the soldiers of the third battalion were so excited that they smiled, originally thought that they would have no chance to fight after staying in Xiamen, but they never thought that Zheng Zhilong would take the initiative to send it to the door, this credit came really suddenly, which made the soldiers of the third battalion a little unbelievable.

"Uncle Qiqi, in this battle last night, we killed more than 2,600 thieves and captured more than 1,800 people, but it's a pity that the three Yang Geng and hundreds of people led by him escaped, otherwise this credit would be perfect." In the end, Chu Maoguang sighed with some regret.

"Be content!" Yang Feng scolded him with a smile: "If it weren't for Zheng Zhilong's sudden desire to come to Xiamen to take revenge, how could we have this opportunity to eat thousands of him." And there are thousands of people who are the main force under Zheng Zhilong, and this time it is estimated that Zheng Zhilong will be in a hurry. ”

Chu Maoguang was so happy that he burst into a big mouth and laughed, but then he said with some regret: "It's just a pity, if we have a warship, we can take the opportunity to leave Zheng Zhilong and them in Xiamen Port, and now we can only watch them slip away." ”

Hearing this, Yang Feng sighed lightly, the powerful sailor in the Yongle period in the past has long since disappeared. If there is a sailor in the Ming Dynasty at this moment, it doesn't need to be too strong, and only a sailor composed of dozens of large fortune ships can leave Zheng Zhilong and all of them in Fujian, but unfortunately due to the thoughts and interests, the Ming sailors who used to cross the ocean were played to death by the civilian group, so that Zheng Zhilong, these pirates, dominated the ocean, what a pity and pity.

When it was over, Yang Feng asked again, "How about our casualties?" ”

Hearing this, Chu Maoguang's originally excited expression gradually dimmed, and he smiled bitterly: "This time we suffered 265 casualties, of which 121 were killed. ”

"How can the casualties be so big?"

Hearing this, Yang Feng was taken aback, it was an ambush battle last night, how could there be so many casualties if he had calculated or not?

Seeing that Yang Feng's face sank, Chu Maoguang hurriedly explained: "In fact, the one who suffered the most casualties last night was the brother who was responsible for tying the bag, and the last general didn't expect that Yang Geng and others would react so quickly, and immediately led people to flee from the way they came, and due to our lack of troops, there were only more than 200 brothers in charge of tying the bag, but they had to face more than 1,000 pirates led by Yang Geng and others, and in the end, the two sides also fought bayonets, so the casualties were so large." ”

Hearing this, Yang Feng closed his eyes and was silent for a while before opening his eyes and silently looking at the somewhat gloomy sky. He knew that Chu Maoguang really couldn't be blamed this time, although he had tried his best to equip the Jiangning army with the best armor and firearms, but in the face of thousands of pirates who were desperate to fight their way out, unless they were collectively equipped with automatic weapons in the true sense, casualties were still inevitable.

The battle outside the city naturally couldn't hide from the people in the city, listening to the constant sound of guns outside, the general of the Ming army in charge of guarding the gate hurriedly reported the situation to the governor Xia Dayan.

As a civil official, Xia Dayan's first reaction was to immediately close the city gate, no one was allowed to open it without his order, and then sent people out of the city to investigate the situation, and when the news finally came back to him after dawn. The thief Zheng Zhilong personally led more than 10,000 people to try to sneak attack the Jiangning army camp and the Fujian Navy camp, but the sneak attack failed but was defeated by Jiang Ningbo and fled, leaving nothing but thousands of corpses.

After hearing the news, while admiring the strong combat effectiveness of the Jiangning Army, Xia Dayan also began to think about how to write this letter asking for merit.

You must know that in the past half a year, the pirates led by Zheng Zhilong have been galloping across Guangdong and Fujian and are invincible, and the officers and soldiers of Fujian Province can only hide in the city walls and watch the pirates who burn and plunder and do nothing, how dare they go out of the city to meet the enemy, so that in less than a year, nearly half of the entire Fujian has been eroded, and even the provincial capital Fuzhou has been lost, and his governor has become a joke.

What the...... This battle was fought by Yang Feng, and it has nothing to do with him Xia Dayan? Hehe, the person who said this is really naïve, Xia Dayan as the governor of a province, how could such a big victory not have his share, the seriousness is based on the Ming Dynasty's century-old tradition of civil and military affairs, and after this victory is won, his performance is the most authoritative and most acceptable to the cabinet.

"It's worthy of Jiang Ningbo, he annihilated thousands of Zheng Zhilong in one battle, it's not an exaggeration to call it a great victory, with this great victory, there should be a lot less impeachment of the old man in the court, right?"

Xia Dayan pondered for a while, and was about to sit down to write a memo, when an official hurriedly ran in, only to see his face a little pale and trembling: "Lord Governor, it's not good." After Zheng Zhilong was defeated and retreated, he led the thieves to Yuanshazhou and ...... all the hundreds of people on Yuanshazhou Slaughtered them all......"

"What ......"

Xia Dayan, who just wanted to write an excerpt, immediately changed his face after hearing this, only to feel that his feet were weak, and he sat on the chair behind him.

Just an hour ago, on the wharf of Xiamen Port, looking at Yang Geng, Chen Hui, and Zheng Cai, who were defeated in front of them, and Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Xing, who returned in vain, Zheng Zhilong's usual expression finally changed, and he looked at Yang Geng and the three of them kneeling in front of him, and asked word by word.

"What do you say, the five or six thousand brothers that the three of you brought with you only came back to these people?" Zheng Zhilong's face was a little pale.

"Yes, the big boss." Yang Geng, who was grizzled and embarrassed, lowered his head and gritted his teeth and said: "It's the younger brother who is not doing well, please punish the big boss!" ”

Zheng Cai, who was kneeling on the side, gritted his teeth and said: "Big boss, when we were less than two miles away from the Jiangning army camp, we were suddenly ambushed by the Jiangning army, they seem to have known our plan for a long time, and specially laid an ambush there. ”

Chen Hui was slashed in the back when he fought with Jiang Ningjun in the early hours of this morning, although it had been bandaged, but because of excessive blood loss, his face was a little pale at the moment, and he gasped and said: "The big boss, our brothers have been for many years, and naturally know our rules, this time we lost the battle, lost so many brothers, according to the rules, we have to go through three knives and six holes, the younger brother will do it himself immediately, and will never let the big boss be embarrassed." ”

Hearing this, everyone's faces changed a little.

What is Three Cuts and Six Holes?

If a person does irreparably wrong or makes a big mistake, he has to use a sharp blade to pierce three holes in his body, which is called "three knives and six holes". This is a kind of self-punishment second only to suicide, and it is common in the punishment of others by people in the rivers and lakes.

Originally, Zheng Zhilong was very angry with Yang Geng and the others, who had almost all of his subordinates, and planned to punish them severely, but now Chen Hui took the initiative to make this request, which made him not know what to say.

After a stalemate for a while, Zheng Zhilong shouted with a cold face: "What nonsense are you talking about? I've lost thousands, do I want to lose you good brothers? Chen Hui: You already have injuries on your body, if you enforce the family law again, will you still be alive? So don't mention the three knives and six holes or something, now you heal the wounds first, and now everyone will get on the boat for me! ”

Zheng Xing asked on the side: "Big boss, shall we return to Fuzhou immediately?" ”

"No...... Let's go to Yuanshazhou first and ask for some interest for the thousands of brothers who died! ”

Yuanshazhou is an island very close to Xiamen, this island is not large, less than two square kilometers, and the scenery is beautiful, the island lives hundreds of residents, it also has another name, called Gulangyu Island.

After the sky is bright

The original beautiful and indisputable Yuanshazhou has become a hell on earth, and hundreds of corpses are scattered across this small island, and these corpses are the residents of Yuanshazhou who originally lived here.

In order to vent his anger, Zheng Zhilong led thousands of pirates to slaughter these unarmed people, and those pirates who had just escaped from death vented their panic and anger on these people, even the babies who were drinking milk.

After venting the beast desire in his heart, Zheng Zhilong led the pirates on the ship and headed towards Fuzhou.

On a Dafu ship, Zheng Cai asked Yang Geng in a low voice: "Lao Geng, this time our brother three suffered such a big defeat, and his brothers were almost completely destroyed, and the old minister asked for three knives and six holes, why did the big boss stop him, he couldn't talk so well in the past?" ”

"What do you know?"

Yang Geng turned his head to look around, and after making sure that no one was around, he said in a low voice: "You are stupid, have you forgotten that the second master was defeated by the Jiangning army in Fuzhou a few days ago and lost more than 3,000 people, if we are defeated this time, we will be stabbed and six holes, so what about the second master?" ”

"Tsk...... yes, how did I forget? ”

Zheng Cai slapped his thigh, and then he suddenly realized. Although they are pirates, any organization or gang must pay attention to the word fairness, if the three of them lose the battle and will be executed, then how should Zheng Zhihu's defeat a few days ago be counted? Do you also have to perform three knives and six holes? If only the three of them were punished and Zheng Zhihu was not punished, how would Zheng Zhilong, the big boss, convince the public? Thinking of this, Zheng Cai gave a thumbs up to Chen Hui, who was lying in the cabin recuperating from his injuries at the moment.

The massacre in Yuanshazhou quickly spread in Xiamen, Yang Feng and Xia Dayan also reported this matter while giving the imperial court, not only that, but they also mobilized the power of the government to carry out extensive publicity on this matter, and for a time Zheng Zhilong's notoriety quickly spread in Fujian and even the coastal areas.

After this incident, Yang Feng had another idea in his heart.

"What...... Xianggong, do you want to distribute Pravda to Fujian as well? ”

Zheng Toniang looked at Yang Feng in surprise.

Yang Feng asked rhetorically, "What, can't you?" ”

"It's not impossible, it's just ...... It's just ......" Zheng Toniang didn't know what to say for a while.

"Do you want to say that we haven't been in Fujian for a long time, and I'm afraid that this newspaper won't last long?"

"Not really." Zheng Toniang shook her head and said: "The newspaper office of Pravda is in the capital, how can we transport Pravda to Fujian in time, you must know that it is thousands of miles away from Fujian." It takes too much time, manpower and material resources to send things to Fujian by land. ”

"It's hard to travel by land, but what if we take the sea route?"