Chapter 745: Dongying Cao's Family
Three days later, the Daming Naval Division passed through the Palawan Sea, and Liu Hongji, Qi Yuangong, and Zheng Sen immediately became nervous, after all, Liu Hongjian killed the two Dutch governors within two months.
And now he is still dragging his family, which makes Liu Hong gradually remind him of the story of the long-eared monster who led the whole city to immigrate in a certain TV series, and ordered the whole army to enter a state of combat readiness.
It's just that the Daming Sailor is not a long-eared monster, and the Dutch is not Boss Cao, and there is no Boss Cao's instant decision, the Dutch almost watched the huge fleet of Daming slowly sway over from the south of the island.
There were quite a few Dutch warships on Palawan, which was basically the combined fleet of the East India Company in Taiwan and Batavia.
However, the Dutch fleet did not dare to attack rashly if they borrowed any more courage, and the news of the death of Jon and Ovat had already been sent to report to the headquarters of the East India Company.
When no new governor is appointed, the best option is to stick to the place, and nothing is meritorious, and the Dutch know this very well.
In the eyes of the Dutch, the battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division are very resistant to beating, although the firepower is still not as sophisticated as their artillery, but these people are too desperate.
If it weren't for Governor Jon's quick decision to retreat that day, this Ming fleet would probably crash into them, and the result would be either you or me.
Locke, the deputy of the Dutch fleet, wanted to ask the commander of the Daming Naval Division, everyone worked for the company, as for being so desperate?
But at this time, Liu Hongjian didn't have time to answer him at all, this huge fleet was too miscellaneous, there were seven or eight-year-old dolls and seventy or eighty-year-old women here.
Even the types of warships are also varied, in addition to the main battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division at the head and behind the palace, there are miscellaneous warships of the Zheng Family Naval Division.
The number of warships was almost 1.5 times that of the Beiyang Naval Division, but the total tonnage was not as large as that of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the rest were the Zheng family's large, medium, and small merchant ships and large fishing boats.
What's more, there are also broken fishing boats mixed with fishermen, and Liu Hongji's original request was to only take people away, and each person could carry no more than ten catties of packages.
But the implementation of this order is really difficult, the Han people have a habit, no matter where people go, they must worship the ancestral tablet, or the relics of their parents or something.
The soldiers of the Zheng family are okay to say, after all, their identities are different, but how can those ordinary fishermen agree.
Originally, it was a good thing for the Ming army to take them home, after all, the Zheng family had fallen, and they could only be bullied if they stayed here, but if they chose to leave all the ancestral spiritual positions behind, these fishermen were surprisingly stubborn, and even preferred to stay rather than abandon those old objects.
In the end, Liu Hongjian chose to compromise, promising the fishermen that they could hang their fishing boats to the back of merchant ships and put the necessary things on the fishing boats.
Whether it will be swept over by the waves or lost by other accidents along the way, the fisherman is responsible for it, and the fleet will not stop there.
At this moment, the fleet was longer, and Qi Yuangong's brows were even tighter.
He thinks that Lord Admiral is good everywhere, but his heart is too soft, and he is not in charge of the army, which is a joke on everyone's lives.
If any fleet broke through from the center of the Ming fleet at this time, the Beiyang Naval Division would not have had time to organize an effective attack, and the distance of the fleet would be thirty or forty miles long from beginning to end, so that the walkie-talkie that Liu Hong gradually gave him would not be able to use.
The temporary commander of the Dutch fleet, Baron Locke, looked at the slow Ming fleet in the sea and sneered.
"See, the Daming sailor is as cunning as the merchant of the Daming, if this is not a trap, I will jump from here." Baron Locke said to his deputy very firmly.
Baron Locke had been through the battle with the Great Ming Marine, and he knew the fighting style of this fleet, and through the binoculars he could clearly see that the broken ships in the middle were pulling old wood and garbage.
The fleet was still moving so slowly, clearly waiting for their fleet to take the bait.
The affirmative reply of the deputy beside him reassured Locke, and the compliments of the soldiers on the side made him even more comfortable with his judgment, he was simply a natural naval commander.
At this time, Comrade Liu Hongchuan, who was known as the cunning Admiral of the Ming Dynasty, panicked in his heart.
He didn't want to run so slowly, the fleet was huge and complicated, and the most important thing was that the coal and stone storage of the Beiyang Naval Division was insufficient.
According to the current rate of consumption, it is very likely that the Beiyang Naval Division will have to stop cooking if it can't get to Taiwan, all because Liu Hong is gradually too prodigal, and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and when he sees the fleet, he wants to rush up and fight to the death.
Fortunately, it was a headwind from Daming to Sulu, but it was a tailwind from Sulu to Daming, in order to reduce consumption, Liu Hong gradually had to order the fleet to reduce the power of the steam engine.
It took a full hour for the slow Ming fleet to pass through the Palawan Sea as a whole.
The stone in Qi Yuangong and Zheng Sen's hearts finally landed, and Liu Hongjian muttered a boring, group of cowards, and then entered the hatch and began to hibernate.
Sailing at sea is boring, so boring that Liu Honggradually reviewed the action movies on his mobile phone again, which made Liu Hong gradually have an illusion, yes, he misses his wives a little.
On the 15th of July, 100,000 people of the Ming fleet held a sacrificial activity on board.
Zhongyuan Festival is a Taoist festival, because Taoism is the state religion of the Ming Dynasty, this festival is also particularly grand in the Ming Dynasty, July 15 is a small autumn, many crops have matured, the folk to harvest offerings, to the ancestors to report the autumn success.
Originally, this sacrifice was just a few fishermen themselves, after all, it was now at sea, and even if the fishermen wanted to, they were worried that the sailor officials would not agree.
It was still Liu Hong's pain, and he took the telescope to look around only to find that this guy finally found something to do after patting his thigh.
So the whole fleet of ships on the boundless sea began to burn incense......
"Master, is this possible? We make sacrifices in our hometown, we all use rice and wheat, let's get three fish......" Niu Da Bang mallet muttered as he put the fish on the deck.
"You know an egg, my ancestors didn't want to change the taste, how good it is to eat fish, high protein, and not meat." Liu Hong bowed to the altar solemnly, and then inserted the incense into the gap of the table.
People who haven't experienced boring days don't know how hard this life is, just like ordinary people can't understand why Robinson would talk to a sheep, it's too hard.
"It's good to move if you don't grow meat, I'm ...... eating fish these days"
"Lord Wang! Three merchant ships were found in the northwest direction of the fleet, which appeared to be armed merchant ships! While the master and servant were talking, Qi Yuangong's voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie on the table.
"Armed merchant ships? But our merchant ships? Liu Hong said suspiciously.
Who else could there be other merchant ships from the north besides Daming?
Zheng Sen, who had been sitting on the edge of the deck, stood up, he took out a telescope from his waist and looked in the northwest direction, and his face immediately turned blue.
"Big brother, that's the Cao family's ship!"