Zheng Du led people to the shore of Laizhou Port, and when he looked up, he saw that the port was already full of messes, especially the warships on the periphery, almost all of which were destroyed by the Ming army's artillery fire, and even many of them were still on fire, and thick smoke was rolling.

He was responsible for guarding the harbor, and the scene in front of him made him sweat soak through his clothes in an instant—unless he could annihilate the Ming warships that were flaunting their might on the water, such a big loss of the sailor would be enough for him to lose his head ten times.

He simply threw all the men and horses to Li Dechun, and he took his henchmen and generals to Haicangkou in a hurry, and boarded his own merchant ship there the next day, planning to flee to the vicinity of the Wa Kingdom first, and then come back when the limelight passed.

Li Dechun hurriedly asked people to board the west bank fort, but found that all the cannons set up on it had been sealed and the gunpowder had been thrown into the sea. The cannon he brought with him had a range of less than a mile, and he could only hit his own warship when he fired it on the shore, and the heavy artillery that could pose a threat to the Ming army on the sea was still on the way, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to come when it was dark.

He turned around the shore several times, and suddenly found that the people on the "Qiansheng" not far from the shore looked like Ming troops! He hurriedly mobilized all the artillery nearby and bombarded his own warship.

Liu Guoxuan had too few sailors in his hands, and he was the only one who could take the helm, so although he grabbed the boat, he walked very slowly. In fact, if it weren't for Zheng Zhilong's people who had already tied the sails, he would not even be able to raise the sails.

Soon, there was a muffled sound of cannonballs crashing on the gang on the starboard side. Fortunately, the "Qiansheng" was intended to be used by Zheng Zhilong as the flagship, and the hull was quite strong. By the time the ship turned its head awkwardly and began to head toward the middle of Laizhou Harbor, only one nine-pound shell pierced the aft deck, but fortunately there were no casualties.

Li Dechun took 4,000 men and horses, watched the Ming army slaughter in all directions on the shore, and robbed the flagship of the naval division in a big way, and his heart twitched violently. Laizhou is his defense area, and now that such a big basket has been poked out, how can the imperial court let itself go?! It seems that for the sake of today's plan, only by putting all the blame on the Zheng family can we protect ourselves......

After the "Qiansheng" made great efforts to join up with the Guangzhou and other warships, the main warships of the Daming Navy Division began to withdraw from Laizhou Port in turn, leaving only more than 30 extremely small shuttle ships under Zhang Guoxuan and three light frigates covering them.

The cabins of these shuttle ships were already stuffed with sulfur, oil, etc., and the bow was fitted with barbed ramming angles, and each boat was manned by only six people.

With Zhang Guoxuan's order, these inconspicuous small boats immediately sailed quickly towards the surroundings of Laizhou Port according to the pre-arrangement, and then stabbed the target enemy ship with the bow of the ship.

Sailors on board had someone to check whether they had hooked the enemy ship, someone pushed a "raft" made of rubber into the water. Soon, the six people on board jumped into the escape raft, lit a large pile of ignition objects, and rowed towards the corvette with all their might.

It didn't take long for the port of Laizhou to burst into flames from south to north.

As all the ships on the outermost side of the mooring area were destroyed, all the ships on the inner side were blocked in the harbor, allowing the fire to gradually burn. The warships of this era were all made of wood, so the fire spread so fast that in less than half an hour, the entire harbor was burned red.

Outside the port of Laizhou.

Zhang Guoxuan stood at the stern of Pei Xingjian, feeling the heat wave in the harbor, but there was no excitement on his face - the process of commanding the arson ship was too far from what he expected......

Nanzhili, Wusong Koushui Division Battalion.

It is located on the north side of Shanghai, the famous economic center of China, and is also the mouth of the Huangpu River and the Wusong River. However, at present, there is only a small military port here, and the reason why warships were stationed here in the first place was because it was easy to land here, and it was repeatedly committed by Japanese invaders.

After Zhu Linmiao got the news of the victory of the sailor in Laizhou, he has been waiting here for the sailor to triumph.

On the wharf, a new archway more than four zhang high was built, and a gilded plaque was hung on the front, and there were four big characters of "the soul of the sailor" written on it.

On both sides of the archway, there are more than 1,000 Longwei soldiers standing solemnly, surrounded by officials and people from Taicang, Songjiang and even Suzhou Prefecture, and there are six or seven thousand people here to greet the sailors.

At noon, the drums and trumpets of Wusongkou sounded in unison, and the naval warships led by Shao Wu slowly sailed into the military port from the northeast, and the crowd suddenly erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

In fact, due to the limitations of traditional concepts, the enthusiasm of the Ming army and people for the naval division is far less intense than that of the infantry army, otherwise this kind of great victory of the main force of the Jianyu Naval Division will not only be greeted by these thousands of people who come to greet the triumph.

Among them, only Zhu Linmiao knows the great significance of this battle best - since then, there is no strong enemy in the north to watch, and the Ming Dynasty can finally show its ambitions, sail the ocean, bring back a huge amount of materials and wealth from overseas, and compete with the Western naval powers around the world!

At the same time, in the war against Jianyu, the Ming Dynasty, which had absolute sea supremacy, would achieve greater military superiority. Whether it is supply, transporting troops, or harassing, the naval division can greatly help the land war, and in the future, the construction of the captives will be controlled everywhere and will be overstretched. At this time, Zhu Linmiao already had several plans in mind to take advantage of the water advantage and carry out asymmetric strikes on Jianyu.

As the Shao Wu sailed less than a mile from the port, the salute on the shore began to roar, until the sailor warship stopped at the dock, and the cannon sound stopped, and there were as many as a hundred rings before and after!

For this most important strategic turning point in the history of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to overstate how many salutes are fired!

Zhu Linmiao, dressed in a big red python robe, walked quickly to the dock with hundreds of officials. The people behind him looked at the warships stationed at the berth, but they were all surprised - this battle of the sailors wiped out more than 400 large and small warships, it is not surprising that the sailors have lost more than half, but now the Daming sailors not only have not one less warship, but there are more than ten more ships!

How did they know that this was because Zheng Chenggong suspected that the captured Jianyu warships were seriously damaged or went too slowly, so he carefully selected 16 of them, otherwise there were as many as 40 enemy ships captured by the Korean sailors alone.

Zhu Linmiao waited for the sailors to land on the shore, first read the congratulatory speech aloud, toasted to the officers and soldiers, and then began to award medals and awards on the spot.

The first is to award the "Laizhou Victory" pennant to the entire water division. After Zheng Chenggong took over the red flag with the national seal printed on it, Zhu Linmiao then announced loudly, "The sailors will issue an additional half a year's salary for each person." ”

Then he motioned to the attaché of the military department behind him, who hurriedly took out a booklet and read out the names on it one by one, there were more than 300 people.

The names of these people stood in five rows, and immediately more than a dozen officers of the military department stepped forward with wooden plates full of golden medals.