The sails are dotted on the sea, and the white seagulls chase the fleet. On the northern line, the tail island and Anping City waved flags, and the Ming soldiers in bright red military uniforms stood on the fort to welcome the fleet. Zheng Xi's convoy slowly passed through the southern waterway and sailed into the inland sea of the Taijiang River, and did not notice anything unusual here.

Zheng's fleet sailed to the port of Chaitou, where it was ready to be loaded.

"It's coming! Everyone should pay attention to the situation and be sure to subdue the opponent in one fell swoop! If you can kill less, you can kill less! On the dock, a bearded general said to the surrounding soldiers dressed as auxiliaries.

Zheng Zheng's transport ship came ashore, the sails were lowered, the anchor chain was lowered into the sea, and the cable was thrown ashore, and the soldiers on the shore tied the cable to the stone. Several gangplanks were put on board, and Zheng Xianjun's sailors stepped off the boat.

"People on the shore, hurry up and get the goods on board! We can't be here for too long! The prince is still waiting for us to send things over! One of the ship's officers shouted.

"It's time to start!" The bearded boss shouted.

The soldiers carried grain bags, ammunition boxes, baskets full of vegetables, wooden barrels filled with fresh meat filled with salt water, sacks of soybeans and mung beans, and cages containing live chickens and ducks, driving pigs and sheep onto the boat.

The officer on the ship walked to the shore and saw the bearded general who was shouting at the commander on the dock to direct the work of the sergeants, and felt a little strange, so he stepped forward and asked, "When did you come here?" Why haven't I seen you a few times before? What about Lao Chen, who was originally in charge here? Why didn't you see him? ”

The bearded general replied: "I'm new here, and Lao Chen has been sick for the past few days." ”

The grain and grass officer of Zheng Xijun didn't notice any flaws, so he stepped aside and watched the soldiers carry the goods.

Zheng Xijun's Chinese army ship docked ashore, and the officer in charge of grain and grass took a few of his own soldiers to Chiji City. Outside the city, the officer shouted, "Where is General Cao?" The last general wants to see General Cao! The prince has an order, and he wants to allocate ten more fire vans to Xiamen to quell the rebellion! ”

A thousand generals appeared at the head of the city, and glanced at the officers who arrived. This Qian Zong was originally Zheng Zheng's person, after Cao Conglong's death. He surrendered to Zheng Cong. He recognized the grain and grass officer, so he replied, "It's General Liu, right?" Please wait, general, and report to General Cao! ”

The grain and grass officer waited outside, muttering, "What's the matter? The fleet transporting grain and grass came, and this surnamed Cao didn't come to ask in person, and I wanted to come up in person to ask for the allocation of supplies? ”

After a while, someone at the head of the city shouted: "General Liu, please come in!" General Cao is waiting for you inside! ”

The drawbridge was lowered and the gates slowly opened.

As soon as the grain and grass officer and a few of his own soldiers walked into the city gate, the city gate behind it was closed. On the castle tower, a large group of soldiers armed with flintlock muskets suddenly rushed down. They surrounded the grain officer, and pointed their muskets at them.

"What are you doing here?" The grain and grass officers were shocked.

Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong came down from the city tower and walked to the grain and grass officer with a smile on their faces: "This thing has returned to its original owner, and it has returned to the hands of King Yanping!" Cao Conglong was obsessed and refused to return to King Yanping, and committed suicide. ”

"It turned out to be a thief!" The grain and grass officer was furious, "You killed General Cao!" You still want to harm the king of the Eastern Capital! I tell you, you don't want to succeed! ”

"Lay down your arms and surrender to death!" Zheng Cong shouted to the soldiers who were holding steel knives in their hands.

Dozens of muskets were pointed at them. As long as it moves, it will be beaten into a hornet's nest, and the pro-soldiers know the power of the flintlock pistol, where to dare to move, but there is no order from the grain and grass officer. They didn't dare to lay down their weapons, but they confronted Zheng Cong's soldiers with steel knives in hand.

"Lay down your arms! Brethren, don't give your life in vain! "The grain and grass officer asked his own soldiers to lay down their arms.

Zheng Xianjun's grain and grass officers and personal soldiers were disarmed, and the Qiongzhou army and Zheng Congjun on the dock outside also took action. The bearded general suddenly pulled out his knife and slashed down the officer of Zheng Xijun with a single sword. The soldiers who had already boarded the ship took out their weapons from wooden boxes, baskets, and sacks. beckoned to the soldiers of Zheng Xijun's sailors, and cut down more than a dozen people in one fell swoop. In the cabin, on the deck. Many corpses fell on the side, and blood stained the deck red.

"What's going on?" The person standing on the dock hadn't understood yet.

"Kill!" The mountain sergeants of the Qiongzhou Army, dressed as auxiliaries, wielded various weapons, and in the blink of an eye, they cut down all the Zheng Xi sergeants on the dock in a pool of blood.

There was also a fierce battle on the ship, the opponent was the most ferocious mountain soldiers, Zheng Xianjun, these sailors and soldiers of the logistics transport team were not opponents at all, and some people took up arms to resist, and they were often slashed and killed by a knife in the face. Some of the smarter ones either jumped into the water and fled, or fell to their knees and surrendered. Others hid in the cabin, but they were also searched by the Qiongzhou army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, several ships that were relatively close to the outside immediately put away their anchor chains, untied their cables, hoisted their sails, and left the dock to flee to the open sea. However, he could not escape the narrow southern waterway at all, and was blocked by large Western-style warships that appeared outside.

The fourth-class cruiser Invincible fired a volley of shells and sank a Zheng raiding ship that wanted to break through, and then raised a flag to demand that Zheng raider's ship surrender.

Seeing that they could not escape, the Zheng raid soldiers on these ships had no choice but to lower the Zheng raid army flag and hang the white flag to surrender.

There was still fighting on the docks and on the ships in the inner harbor. The mountain soldiers and marines of the Qiongzhou Army, as well as Zheng Cong's Yanping Wang Army, joined forces to slash and kill Zheng Zheng's soldiers and soldiers everywhere, killing Zheng Zheng's sailors and soldiers, and they were killed and wounded. The two sides fought for about a quarter of an hour, and the soldiers of Zheng Zheng, who had no time to jump into the water and escape, completely lost their fighting spirit and began to surrender on their knees.

"Surrender or kill!" Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Rui asked people to shout loudly.

"We surrender! Don't kill me! The remaining Zheng Xi soldiers gave up resistance completely and all surrendered on their knees.

So far, more than 100 transport ships of the size of the convoy have all fallen into the hands of Wang Xinyu intact.

On the sea, the small boats of the Nanyang Navy rowed out, and the marines who were the most proficient in water rowed the boats, picked up the floating and heavy Zheng Xian sergeants on the sea, and sent them to the prisoner camp.

At the end of the battle, the Zheng raid convoy of more than 2,600 people was wiped out, of which more than 700 were killed, more than 100 were missing, and the rest were all captured. More than 100 people who went missing were basically escaped by jumping into the sea and were not found. These people are basically unlucky, and the chances of survival are extremely small. The combined forces of Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong suffered only forty-six casualties.

"Sins, sins! They were all my Ming soldiers, but because of internal strife, they died in vain. Wang Xinyu sighed. At the beginning, he planned to kill as few as possible, but he still caused nearly 900 people to die, and he felt a little sad.

Through interrogation of the captives, Wang Xinyu learned that Zheng Jing was already in danger. Although Zheng Jing was stationed on Xiamen Island and had a geographical advantage, Zheng Zheng's army was well-armed. The firepower is fierce, Zheng Jing is not an opponent at all, he has lost most of the territory on Xiamen Island, and because Zheng Jing's sailors have lost everything, there is no way to escape from the sky, and there is no way to even run, so he can only hide in several mountains in the south and central of Xiamen Island and use the terrain to resist stubbornly.

After Zheng Jing executed Zheng Tai, he led his army to resist on the mountain, and the mountain in Xiamen was rich in water. Zheng Jing also stored a large amount of grain. Zheng Jingjun garrisoned the mountain and repelled many attacks by Zheng's army with rolling wood and stones.

Although Zheng Xi was helpless for a while, as long as the mountain was surrounded, Zheng Jing would eventually be unable to support it.

After listening to the captive's confession. Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong smiled at each other: "God help me!" Zheng Jing, who is the most ambitious and once had the title of the prince, has no power to turn over! Although Zheng Xi's strength is strong, he is not rightly named, as long as Zheng Zheng is eliminated. Zheng Jing is not afraid, and he can't make any waves at all. ”

I also got a piece of news from the captive: Wang Xinyu's younger brother Wang Zihao also fell into the hands of Zheng Jing, but Zheng Jing did not kill him. Instead, he took him up the mountain as well.

Next, Wang Xinyu and Zheng Cong will send troops to Xiamen Island, and the captured Zheng raid fleet will be used as a cover, and the land division will disguise itself as Zheng Raid's auxiliaries, and the elite armor soldiers will hide in the cabin. After landing on Xiamen Island, the land division launched an attack from behind Zheng Raid on land, and the Nanyang Navy launched an attack at the same time, destroying Zheng Raid's naval division in one fell swoop.

But Zheng Cong still has the benevolence of a woman: "Brother-in-law, Zheng Jing is my eldest brother after all, after we defeat Zheng Xi this time, don't take my eldest brother's life, let's give him Xiamen and Kinmen as fiefs!" Anyway, the food and ammunition are in our hands, and he can't fight us anymore. ”

Originally, Wang Xinyu didn't want to raise tigers for trouble, but Zheng Cong said this, considering that after all, blood is thicker than water, and Zheng Jing is also a bloody man, judging from the real history of his vow not to surrender, even in times of crisis, he is not willing to turn to the Dutch for help, Zheng Jing is really a man. So Wang Xinyu agreed to Zheng Cong: "Since the little prince intercedes for him, I will give him Xiamen and Kinmen as fiefs when the time comes." ”

As for Zheng Zheng, after all, he is Zheng Cong's own uncle, and in the next battle, if Zheng Zheng did not die in the chaotic army, but was captured, Zheng Cong couldn't bear to kill him, and wanted to imprison him and leave him a way to live.

Zheng Cong asked again: "Brother-in-law, your brother is in the hands of my eldest brother, when we defeat Zheng Xi and meet Zheng Jingbing, he won't embarrass Brother Ling, right?" ”

"I don't care about that much!" Wang Xinyu said decisively, "If you want to become a big tool, there must be trade-offs!" Even if Zheng Jing takes my brother as a hostage, we can only attack and subdue him! Disarm him! As long as we promise him not to hurt his life, he should not kill my brother. ”

In the Taiwan Strait of Layue, even if the weather is clear and clear, it is also windy and turbulent. There is no threat of typhoons when going to sea this season, but there are often five or six strong winds on the sea, and the ships are shaking very much, and people are unstable on the deck.

Under the blue sky, a huge fleet set off from Dongfan and sailed to the waters of Xiamen in the wind and waves. In front of this fleet were more than a hundred transport ships of Zheng Xijun, all of which carried the banner of Zheng Zheng, the king of the Eastern Capital. From a distance, the deck of the transport ship was full of grain, grass, live pigs and sheep, but there were groups of elite armor soldiers in ambush in the cabin, all of whom were elite soldiers of the mountain troops of the Qiongzhou Army wearing rattan armor and holding sharp blades.

Behind the sails of the dense convoy of transport ships, small warships and Chinese gunboats of the Nanyang Navy are hidden, and behind them, there are elite Western-style warships of the Nanyang Navy. In order to ensure that Zheng's naval division could be completely annihilated in one fell swoop, Wang Xinyu transferred back a number of warships operating in Qiongzhou, such as the Drake, to participate in the counterinsurgency battle. Spanish galleons and large Chinese transports, which were transporting the main force, followed behind the Western-style warships, preparing to wait for the vanguard to land and then launch a landing battle.

After a full day's voyage, the fleet arrived in Penghu at night. The fleet rested in Penghu at night, set off at dawn the next day, sailed for another day, and arrived in the waters of Xiamen in the evening.

"Our fleet of grain and grass is back!" The patrol and sentinel ship of the Zheng Raid Naval Division, which was active in the Jinxia waters, reported to Zheng Raid.

"It couldn't have come at a better time!" Zheng Xun nodded lightly and said, "Our grain and grass are about to run out, and there is not much ammunition left, as soon as the grain and grass come this time, our army's morale will be greatly boosted, and we will be able to defeat Zheng Jing's thieves in one fell swoop!" ”

When the convoy under the banner of Zheng Xi, the king of the Eastern Capital, entered the Xiamen Naval Division, the sky was completely dark. Zheng Xian's sergeants lit piles of bonfires and guided the ships to the shore.

The transport ship lowered its sails, docked, lowered its anchor chains, and the sailors on board threw out the cables. The soldiers on the shore tied the ropes to the stones and set up the gangplanks to the boats.

"Brothers, hurry up! Move the cargo to the shore and we'll be able to rest! The bearded boss yelled.

The Qiongzhou sergeants, disguised as auxiliaries, began to carry goods, carrying bags of grain, soybeans, boxes of ammunition, baskets of vegetables, and cages of live chickens and ducks off the ship and sending them to the dock. Then someone drove the live pigs and sheep off the boat.

The sky was dark, and the Zheng Raid sergeant on the dock did not realize that the "auxiliary soldiers" who were carrying the goods had become fresh faces, let alone the elite armor hidden in the cabin, and the Zheng Raid sergeant was still helping, moving the goods that had just been sent to the dock onto the car and transporting them to the warehouse.

In addition to supplies, there were also brand-new artillery, wagons, muskets and other weapons. It was busy until late at night, when all the goods were moved.

The night was dark, and a huge fleet of troops hidden in the night appeared on the dark sea in the distance. Taking advantage of the cover of night, the fleet quietly sailed into the Xiamen port area.

The seaside Zheng raided the sailor Dazhai was brightly lit, the camp on the shore lit piles of bonfires, and the boats moored in the sea hung lanterns, illuminating the sailor camp as if it were day. The Nanyang Navy boat hidden in the night sailed into the harbor to reconnoitre, and Zheng Xianjun did not notice that there were uninvited guests breaking in. This can't be blamed on Zheng Raid's carelessness, because the nearby Qing army sailors have been swept away by Wang Xinyu, Zheng Jingshui division was destroyed by Zheng raids, according to Zheng raider's intelligence, the Qing army is attacking Qiongzhou, and the Qiongzhou army sailed back to save Qiongzhou. At this time, there was no force that could threaten the Zheng Raiding Water Master.

The reconnaissance boat returned what it saw to Wang Xinyu, saying that Zheng Xianshui was on loose guard and unprepared.

"Signal an attack!" Wang Xinyu gave the order.

The flagship Drake let out a rocket hiss into the air, and a brilliant and colorful fireworks immediately burst into the night sky. (To be continued.) )