On 27 June, Li Guozhu came as promised, bringing with him 96 warships, large and small, and 50 warships of the rank and above. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhoushan is still more than 500 nautical miles away from Xiamen, and Huang Sheng has experience and thinks that it should be reached in seven or eight days, and if he is lucky, he can reach it in five or six days.

It's a pity that he miscalculated, Li Guozhu's warship was not driven by the Huang family's unique propellers, and many of the giant oars were too slow to sail with the wind power that they didn't rely entirely on a few hard sails.

In the end, Wang Lian made an idea to take the method of splicing and dragging to sail together, and the pirates under Li Guozhu also came to the power compartment of the Huangjia sea ship to pedal for manpower acceleration, and it was really faster, and finally passed the waters of Quanzhou on the tenth day.

Approaching the port of Xiamen soon, Huang Sheng did not want to wait for the idle people to find such a huge fleet and start to disturb the people, of course, not to loot, but to stop all ship activities along the way for three or five days.

The Huang family's nine sentinel ships, twenty-four grass skimming boats, and six new main warships began to break away from the huge fleet, because they received orders from their masters to shield the sea areas they passed.

All the ships in sight were detained, even the fishing boats, and if anyone dared to resist, there was a good chance that they would be pirates, captured or sunk.

Huang Sheng represents the Daming Naval Division, and the battle flag of the Naval Division flying high will be seen from afar, and the common people will dare to be disobedient when they see that the officers and soldiers want them to stop the boat, and the pirates will definitely flee when they see a large number of officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the ships that sank in vain and tried to escape should not be good citizens, and pirates are rampant here, and the reason why Zheng Yiguan was able to repeatedly and successfully attack the coastal Daming villages and towns was that the eyeliner and sentry horses arranged were definitely not young and old.

Huang Mingdao couldn't sit still, so he asked him to go to the main battle ship of the 'Yangzhou' to command the battle, he was the supreme commander of the Huang family's naval division, and Huang Sheng of course wanted him to gain actual combat experience.

The high-spirited Huang Mingdao led the team of warships out of the fleet for more than ten nautical miles and began to create a shipless area, and soon forced dozens of fishing boats and a few merchant ships to stop, as for whether there were pirates inside, I don't know, all of them were escorted to the vicinity of the fleet and handed over to Huang Dongshan to take the musketeers to slowly screen.

Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to Xiamen Port, the 'Yangzhou' observation post where Huang Mingdao was sitting found several sentinel ships, which did not play the flag of the Ming Fujian Naval Division, and there was a big Zheng character on the flag.

Huang Mingli confirmed that it was Zheng Yiguan's pirate warship, and immediately arranged to send nine sentinel horse clippers and six grass skimming boats to outflank the enemy ships left and right, and his own 'Yangzhou', 'Datong' and six grass skimming ships attacked head-on.

The 'Jiangyin' and 'Kunshan' were outflanked from the west together with six grass-skimming ships, while the 'Jiading', 'Guangzhou' and six grass-skimming ships attacked from the east.

This is the advantage of high technology, because the lookout posts of the Huang family warships are all binoculars with high focal length.

Zheng Yiguan's sentinel ship had made arrangements before it found its fleet, and a huge encirclement had been formed, and it was as far as the eye could see on the sea, and it was easier to use high-powered binoculars to anticipate the enemy than to fight a counterattack on land.

There are also ditches and ditches on the land, and there is still the possibility of successful hiding after the enemy is attacked, so where to hide at sea?

The Zhengjia Sentinel ship, who knew nothing, quickly fled at full speed when it discovered the Ming warship, but unfortunately it backfired, and was immediately blocked by the outflanked fast boat.

It is definitely a lion fighting a rabbit, Zheng Yiguan's sentry ship has a few bronze guns like a large gun, where is there a trace of combat effectiveness in the face of strong ships and sharp guns.

Soon, the three sentinel ships that wanted to slip away were sunk, the sentinel ships were too small to withstand the direct fire of the cannonballs, and the Huang family also used solid bullets in order to capture more prisoners and reduce the damage effect, and a nine-pound iron ball directly hit the sentinel ship and broke up the sentry ship, and the other two surrendered sensibly when they saw that there was no way to escape.

In the spirit of humanitarianism, the Huang family's warship rescued the pirates who fell into the water and did not die, and a total of 26 people were captured. Huang Mingdao immediately tied them up into zongzi and threw them on the sentry horse clipper to the flagship where the head of the family was.

After Li Guozhu came to Zhoushan to join the army, he found that the Huang family's ship was strong and strong, and its strength was several times stronger than he imagined, and he was full of confidence in this attack on Zheng Yiguan, and he took the initiative to ask to come to Lord Huang's flagship 'Liaodong' on an errand, so that he could give advice to Lord Huang at any time.

This kid has a very good attitude, he behaves like this to avoid Huang Sheng's suspicion, and another advantage is that his subordinates see that the head of the family is commanding together in Lord Huang's flagship, and if he wants to play slippery, he has to consider the consequences.

Li Guozhu came to Lord Huang's flagship and was amazed after seeing the equipment of the 'Liaodong', and his self-confidence was even more bursting, he thought that such a huge ship, such a fierce firepower, ten No. 2 Fuchuan-class warships would come to attack and return with a feather.

After living in the flagship for a few days, he had seen how his father led sailors since he was a child, and he had been on the warship for more than ten years, and now he saw the fierce warriors of the Huang family, and saw their uniform movements, only to know that the soldiers could be trained like this, and he admired Lord Huang even more.

Today, I heard that Lord Huang Mingdao had already captured and captured a lot of prisoners, so I immediately came to the staff officer of the conference cabin.

The pirate captives have been carried by Lord Huang's personal army to kneel in front of the head of the cabin, the pirates have insight, they were shocked by the huge fleet of the Ming Navy just now, and after being thrown onto a big war ship, they found that there were many huge cannons on this ship that they had not seen.

The pirates trembled, and knelt on the ground one by one to ask for mercy, nothing more than an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child below.

Li Guozhu stood up and circled around the pirates, and suddenly said, "Ling Hong, I know you, I didn't expect you to be alive." ”

Among the pirate captives, an old pirate with a wrinkled face was dumbfounded, he looked very old, but he was not yet forty years old, and he really couldn't imagine that there were adults in the Ming army's sailors who knew him.

looked at it intently, suddenly burst into tears, and said, "Little master, I can't imagine that I will be able to see you in this life!" ”

It turned out that the old sailor named Ling Hong was a small leader, managing a sentry ship and nine pirate soldiers. He followed Li Guozhu's father Li Dan to the sea more than ten years ago, but he didn't expect to see the little master Li Guozhu today, and he was sad and happy for a while.

Huang Sheng carefully observed Ling Hong's expression, and then asked him in detail about the situation in the past two years, and knew in his heart that this Ling Hong was also an old pirate, and he only got a position equivalent to a small flag under Zheng Yiguan, and he was still in charge of a sentinel ship, so he definitely didn't get reused.

The sentinel ship is equivalent to the army's night and horse exploration, it is a high-risk service, he is almost forty people, and it can be seen that he was also appointed to such an errand.

Li Guozhu felt a lot of emotion when he saw the old man, and he knelt down to intercede for the old sailor. Huang Sheng pushed the boat down the river to accept Ling Hong, and appointed him as an official from the deputy chief banner of the seventh grade, and immediately asked Hexiang to handle the official documents for him, and stayed in the flagship as a guide.

Huang Sheng now appoints military attaches below the sixth rank as long as they report, and it is impossible to be rejected when they arrive at the military department, and they will definitely pass the test smoothly after reporting to the imperial court.

The military attache of the Ming court and the leader of the pirates gave Ling Hong didn't know which was more important, the old sailor had achieved a positive result, and he kowtowed to the ground and cried silently.

Huang Sheng gave Lin Hong the official body of the seventh rank, which does not mean that he is included in the Huang family's private soldier sequence, this official position is a deputy chief flag officer under the general manager of the Qiying Thousand of Daming Juehua Island.