Wang Xinyu followed Chen Peng's henchmen into the sailor's camp, only to see that Chen Peng had been waiting for a long time.

"Subordinates knock to see Lord Chen! It's just that the armor of his subordinates is inconvenient for him to salute. Wang Xinyu strode forward and bowed his hand, even if he saluted.

Chen Peng greeted him with a smile on his face: "Prince Wang, the two islands of Jinxia are full of smoke, and Tatars have landed in many places. The spies sent by this garrison came to report that the Tartar division on the opposite side had also set off, although there were no large warships, but they had many small boats, and now the garrison decided to send warships to the sea to intercept the Tartars crossing the sea. But this flowering cannonball was made by Wang Gongzi, and the sailor gunner of this garrison will not use it, and I hope that Wang Gongzi can board the ship to instruct my sailor gunner to use the flowering shell. ”

"Back to the garrison, this flowering cannonball doesn't work well against small boats. Against a Tartar boat, you can sink one with a single shot of a solid cannonball, so why use a flowering shell? Wang Xinyu asked rhetorically.

Chen Peng hurriedly explained: "The spies of this garrison department came to report, and the opposite side is the Tartar under the banner of the Tartar general Shi Lang, and I am afraid that there are several warships. If you quickly take out the enemy ships with the flowering shells, the remaining enemy ships will be easy to deal with. ”

"Although it is reasonable, but the subordinates do not know the art of separation, and they can only guide the gunners of a ship." Wang Xinyu replied.

"One ship is enough! There are not many flowering shells in this garrison, so they can only be used by the ship. However, the Tartars are a surprise attack, and there must not be many warships, as long as Wang Gongzi is in command of the garrison, he will definitely sink the enemy ship in one fell swoop, and if he can directly hit the Tartar army, he can even kill the enemy general Shi Lang! This is a good opportunity for the prince to make meritorious contributions! If he can kill the head of the enemy general Shi Lang, the king of Yanping will definitely be full of joy, reward silver, and promotion is indispensable. ”

Chen Peng's words were very moving, Wang Xinyu hesitated for a moment, and agreed: "Go back to the garrison, and your subordinates are willing to serve the dogs and horses!" ”

"Okay, please board the ship! The sailor is set off! Seeing that Wang Xinyu agreed, Chen Peng was very happy.

"The subordinates will go back for the time being, first hand over the attribute soldiers to Chen Python, and then bring a few personal soldiers on board." Wang Xinyu clenched his fists and wanted to leave.

Hearing that Wang Xinyu was going to bring his own soldiers on board, Chen Peng hurriedly stopped: "Wang Gongzi must not bring people, this warship has a limited number of people, and your personal soldiers on the ship cannot help the war, but reduce the number of sailors." ”

"The garrison doesn't know, the subordinate soldiers are all good at bows and arrows, and following their subordinates on the boat can help their subordinates." Wang Xinyu replied.

"Then the garrison will allow you to take the three of you on board!" Chen Peng said.

Waiting for Wang Xinyu to leave, Chen Peng asked the Qing army warrior who was standing behind him in disguise as a Ming soldier: "Lord Lu, if this kid brings three personal soldiers on the boat, can he take it down?" ”

The Qing army warrior said in a low voice: "Don't worry! With the addition of two warriors, even a fierce general like Li Laiheng can take it, let alone this person. What's more, there is also Lord Chen, your henchman, even if he comes with more personal soldiers, he will be sent to death. ”

Wang Xinyu returned to his camp, in addition to taking away three personal soldiers, he handed over the remaining eighty-four elite soldiers to Chen Python: "Brother Chen, the garrison lord asked my brother and me to go to sea to help in the war, these elite soldiers will be handed over to you for the time being, today you must take them to kill the enemy well and make great contributions!" ”

"Prince Wang, don't worry! Each of these soldiers is an elite, and as long as they have seen blood, they are the best soldiers! Brother, I'll take them with me! Chen Python hugged his fists.

The naval battalion, Chen Peng and several Qing army warriors waited anxiously.

After a short time, Wang Xinyu returned to the camp of the Navy Division with three personal soldiers. Four men, each carrying an iron bow on their backs and a short knife at their waists.

"The prince of love boarded the ship!" Chen Peng's confidants said.

Wang Xinyu and his entourage boarded Chen Peng's ship.

At the same time, the Takasaki Sailor pulled anchor and set sail, sailed away from the Takasaki Sailor Battalion, and headed for Tong'an on the opposite bank.

On the sea surface of the Kinmen Sea, fierce fighting is still ongoing.

Huang Wuqing's army stopped the attack of large ships and attacked the Ming fleet with a large number of small boats.

In fact, Huang Wu didn't know that each warship of the Ming army was equipped with not many flowering shells, and after a fierce battle just now, it had almost run out of flowering shells. If he could persist in attacking with large ships again, all ten Ming warships would be able to be sunk.

"Report to your lord! The Tartars stopped attacking the big ships and changed to small ships! The pro-soldier reported to Zhou Rui.

"Good time!" Zhou Rui sneered, "We have also run out of flowering bullets, and there are more solid bullets and shotguns!" There are also bowl guns and thunderbolts that haven't been used yet! ”

On the sea, the dense Qing army boats came like ants, but the big ships of the Qing army had already hidden behind, and opened fire from a distance to bombard the Ming warships. As for how effective the shelling will be, only God knows.

The red-coated cannon in the bow of the Ming army did not bombard the Qing army's boats, but also bombarded the Qing army's ships from a distance, and whether they could hit the enemy ships could only depend on luck.

Zhou Rui, who was standing on the helm, shouted: "Set sail!" Get ready to ram the Tartar boat! Watch out for the Tartars' fire attack ships! ”

Ten 220-ton ships raised their sails one after another and rushed towards the small boats, which were only three or four zhang long and full of hand-to-hand soldiers of the Qing army.

Behind Zhou Rui's fleet, Chen Yaoce used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the battle situation ahead.

Seeing Zhou Rui's fleet raise its sails to meet the enemy, one of his own soldiers asked, "My lord, should we also go up and help them?" ”

"We can't move! The order given to us by the king of Yanping is to anchor and wait for the Tartars to attack us! Chen Yaoce still strictly carried out Zheng Chenggong's orders, and their task was not to repel the Qing army, but to hold back the enemy as much as possible. If they went too quickly, then it was possible that they ended the battle too early, sacrificed themselves in vain, and could not achieve the task of holding back the Qing army; It is also possible that the Qing army was frightened and simply fled back to Quanzhou. Either way, it would destroy King Yanping's plan to annihilate the Qing army's sailors and cause trouble for the great cause in the future.

On the flagship of the Qing army, Da Su, who was standing on the helm, was obviously very anxious, he had been fighting for so long, so many ships couldn't even take down ten warships, would Huang Wu, a minion, command the sailors?

The Ming army Zhou Ruizao took the lead and rushed to the Qing army's small boat group.

Seeing the ferocity of the big ship, the Qing sailors rowed desperately, and the small boats carrying hand-to-hand combat soldiers dodged to both sides to avoid being hit by the big ship. At the same time, several fire attack ships drilled out from behind the boats and swooped down on the Ming army's big ship.

However, there was still a small boat that could not be dodged and was hit head-on by the big ship.

A large ship with a displacement of 220 tons collided with a small ship with a displacement of only a dozen tons, like a hammer smashing an egg, and the Qing army's small boat was smashed into pieces in one fell swoop. Many Qing soldiers were swept to the bottom of the ship and never came up again.

Seeing the fire attack ship rushing up, Zhou Rui shouted: "Slow down, left full rudder!" ”

The Ming warship made a sharp turn, the huge hull turned sideways, and the three thousand-pound Buddha Lang machine guns on the starboard side were aimed at the approaching Qing army attack ship.

"Fire!" Zhou Rui roared.

At the same time, the three jack Buddha machines spewed out flames, and the shotgun fell on the Qing army attack ship less than 100 steps away like a torrential rain, and the iron sand and iron beads were like autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, sweeping away several Qing soldiers who were driving the boat on the fire attack ship.

The fire attack ship, which lost human control, could only move straight forward and could no longer turn. The Ming warship pulled up the full sail and rushed through quickly. The unmanned Qing military attack ship passed by the stern of the Ming warship and sailed aimlessly into the depths of the sea.

At this moment, Zhou Rui saw the Qing army's second fire attack ship pounce on his ship.

"Archers ready, rocket salvo!" Zhou Rui shouted.

Patches of rockets covered the sky and the sun, flew out of the big ship, and shot at the fire attack ship 70 paces away, and the rockets ignited the straw grease on the fire attack ship, and suddenly a large fire was raised.

The Ming warship made another turn, dodging the fierce fire attack ships.

The Qing army was about to turn around and attack again, but the sails were burned, and there were few people on the fire attack ship, there was no one to row, and after the sails were burned, the fire attack ship lost power.

Continuously dodging the fire attack ships, but was approached by the Qing army's small boats full of hand-to-hand combatants. The two sides were no more than ten steps away, and they could already see the faces and facial features of the Qing soldiers clearly, and they saw that the grappling hooks of the Qing soldiers were about to be thrown up.

"Put!" Zhou Rui gave an order.

Bowls and Thunderbolts spew fire, as do archers and birdmen.

Projectiles, iron beads, and arrows swept through the Qing army's dinghy like rain, and a bloody wind swept across the dinghy, and the Qing army's hand-to-hand combat soldiers fell into the sea like dumplings one after another.

On the port side, a small boat of the Qing army also approached, and it was about to be attached to the big ship.

The three thousand-pound Buddha cannon spewed fire, and the shotgun swept through the Qing army's boat, like a big knife waved, and the Qing army's flesh and blood on the boat flew sideways.

In the fierce battle, a Qing army boat took advantage of the lack of firepower of the Ming army's big ship, and finally came up, and the Qing soldiers holding short knives climbed onto the big boat one after another.

Seeing that the Qing army was about to climb up, the archers shot a volley of arrows, and five or six Qing soldiers screamed and fell into the sea.

The gunners and bird gunners on the big ships of the Ming army all picked up short knives and spears, slashed and stabbed the Qing troops who were about to climb up, and killed the Qing troops back.

Several soldiers cut the chains thrown by the Qing army, and the big ship raised its sails and quickly left, leaving the Qing army boat behind.

Zhou Rui's ships continued to repulse, destroy, and sink many Qing army boats, but the ammunition and arrows on the big ships were about to run out.

The condition of the other nine Ming military ships was similar, and the Ming army was almost out of ammunition and food.

The Qing warships in the distance took advantage of the opportunity of their own boats and fire attack ships to attack the Ming army, sneakily approached, regardless of the possibility of accidentally injuring their own boats, and fired fiercely at the Ming army.

Several shells hit Zhou Ruiza's ship, and many Ming soldiers died heroically.

"Up! That's the ship of the Southern Dog Commander! Go up and catch it alive! Seeing that the main general of the Ming army had run out of ammunition and food, the Qing army's small boat surrounded it like a swarm of cockroaches.

More and more Qing troops climbed up, and the Ming soldiers on the ship dropped the bowls and birds that had finished shooting ammunition, threw away the bows that had finished shooting arrows, picked up broadswords and spears, and started fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Qing troops who climbed up.

On a Ming warship surrounded by more than a dozen Qing army boats, Ming officers and soldiers cut down and stabbed to death the Qing soldiers who climbed up again and again, and the Ming soldiers also fell one by one. When the last Ming soldier remained, the soldier ignited the last remaining flowering cannonball on the ship.

The Ming warship "boomed" and a large fire was raised, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers who surrounded the Ming soldier were also engulfed in flames.

On Zhou Rui's ship, the situation is also not good. Zhou Rui, who was covered in blood, only had four personal soldiers left around him, and the rest of the Ming soldiers had all died heroically. They don't know how many Qing soldiers they have killed, but the surrounding Qing army boats are still coming up, and more and more Qing soldiers throw their grappling hooks over and hook the big boat.

"My lord, look at our ship!" A wounded soldier pointed to the Ming warship that had just exploded.

Zhou Rui nodded: "We still have two flowering shells left on the ship, and five catties of gunpowder!" Gather together and wait for the tartars to come up! ”

More and more Qing troops climbed onto the ship like ants.

Mu Yana, the Eight Banners Guardian Military Academy, led the Qing army to surround Zhou Rui and them.

"Surrender! Join us and we can give you glory and wealth! Muyana shouted.

Zhou Rui sneered, and the torch in his hand stretched out to the ground.

"Blossom Bomb!" The Qing soldiers screamed.

Before the words fell, the violent explosion muffled the shouts of the Qing army, and Zhou Rui's battleship turned into a huge flame.

Huang Wu, who was not far away, was terrified: "Zheng Wei only has ten boats, we have fought so hard, and it is so difficult to take them down." When their main force appears, how will we fight? ”

Da Su sneered: "Nangou is powerful by flowering cannonballs!" There is a letter from Chen Peng from General Ben, saying that there are not many flowering shells in Nangou, and when we take down the ten ships over there, it is estimated that there will be no more flowering shells when we encounter their main force! ”

Da Su was right, Zheng Chenggong's main fleet did not bloom shells.

Seeing that Zhou Rui's fleet was completely wiped out, Chen Yaoce shouted: "Brothers, in order to keep the Tartar sailors here, General Zhou has sacrificed his life for the country, and now it's our turn!" Get ready for battle! ”

At the dock of the Ming Army Naval Division on Gulangyu Island, Zheng Chenggong's ship has pulled anchor and set sail, and the main fleet slowly left the naval division Dazhai and sailed towards the depths of the sea.

Zheng Chenggong's ship is a large ship of 1,000 materials, equivalent to a displacement of 500 tons, cedar structure, three masts and four sails, a total of five decks up and down, equipped with eight 24-pounder red-coated cannons, 40 thousand pounds of Buddha cannons, as well as countless bowl-mouth guns, thunderbolt guns, bird guns and other weapons, is the largest and most powerful warship of the Ming army.

The veteran Hong Xu looked at the wolf smoke coming from the direction of Gaoqi, and asked very uneasily: "Lord Wang, there will be no problem on Gaoqi's side, right?" ”

Zheng Chenggong turned his head and glanced at it, and said, "I hope there will be nothing going on!" Even if the Tartars come up, we are not afraid, we will first eliminate the Tartar sailors, cut off the retreat of the Tartars on the sea, and then go back to clean up Shi Lang! ”

In the Takasaki craftsman workshop, Feng Xifan and several personal soldiers are making pre-war preparations.

"Lord Feng, Lord Garrison, please go to his mansion." One of Chen Peng's cronies came to Feng Xifan.

When he arrived at Chen Peng's mansion, Feng Xifan didn't see Chen Peng, but only saw Chen Peng's master.

"What about Lord Chen? Didn't he ask me to come here to him? Feng Xifan asked.

Master sighed and said regretfully, "Master Feng, you are too unfortunate to come!" Our Lord Chen didn't wait for you to come, I can't wait, he just left, went to the barracks to make pre-war preparations! ”

"Then I'll go to the barracks to find him now!" Feng Xifan arched his hand and prepared to leave.

"Lord Feng, please stay!" The master called out to Feng Xifan, "Lord Chen left a pot of good wine, which is a magnificent wine to be dedicated to Lord Feng!" Lord Feng is about to go to the battlefield, please don't let down our Lord Chen's good intentions, drink this Zhuangxing bar first! ”

After speaking, the master asked someone to bring out a tray, on which were a pair of wine jugs and two wine glasses.

The master picked up the wine jug, filled both wine glasses, and then made a "please" gesture: "Lord Feng, please!" ”

Feng Xifan picked up one of the wine glasses, and the master picked up the other wine glass, and the two of them drank it all.

"Come, Master Feng have another drink!" The master picked up the wine jug, filled it for Feng Xifan, and then filled his own wine glass.

This flask is specially made, there is an inconspicuous hole in the grip, hold down the small hole and pour out poisonous wine, and release the small hole to pour out ordinary wine. The wine that the master poured for the first time just now, both glasses were non-poisonous, and let Feng Xifan take one of them by himself. The second time he poured wine, he poured poisonous wine for Feng Xifan, and his own was not poisonous.

Feng Xifan drank the second glass of wine and was about to say goodbye, but his face suddenly changed greatly, he covered his stomach, pointed at his master, and opened his eyes angrily: "You! Why did you poison me? ”

Master Feng sneered: "Lord Feng's martial arts are strong, if you don't use this method, how can we take you down?" Anyway, seeing that you are about to die, I will tell you the truth, our Lord Chen has long been ready to abandon the darkness and go to the opposite Wang Shi! As for your good brother Wang Yu, we have already sent him to the other side! If he knows the current affairs, the court on the other side will reuse him! If you don't know the current affairs, then he will come down to accompany you soon! ”