Seeing that he was only about ten steps away from Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhihu roared, jumped up from the springboard, raised the ghost head knife and slashed at the top of his head, with a great momentum of splitting it in half. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Liu Xiang's actions were unexpected, he did not raise his knife to meet the enemy like usual hand-to-hand combat, but quickly retreated, avoiding this knife, and let Zheng Zhihu slash into the air.

Zheng Zhihu didn't expect that the sea lord who was as famous as his eldest brother and one of the eighteen dignified people was so cowardly, and he was even more contemptuous when he was angry, just as he wanted to say something to ridicule his opponent for being as timid as a mouse, a huge fishing net fell from the sky, covering him in it, and several nimble people rushed out and pulled hard to tighten the net.

The sudden change made the Zheng family stunned, and Zheng Zhihu was stunned for a while. The fishing net tightened more and more, trapping Zheng Zhihu like a zongzi, no matter how much strength he had, he had nowhere to go, and the ghost head knife was also tied tightly to his side, unable to dance. He tried to take out the dagger from his leg to cut the fishing net, but he felt empty - forgetting that he was wearing full body armor, Mo said that there was no dagger on his leg at the moment, and even if he had, he couldn't take it out. A piece of iron armor was originally a weapon for self-defense, but now it has become a talisman that binds hands and feet.

Liu Xiang laughed and approached, staring proudly at Zheng Zhihu, who had become a trapped beast: "Second Zheng Lao, you didn't expect to have today, right?" ”

Zheng Zhihu's eyes were about to erupt with fire, and he yelled angrily: "You despicable villain, you don't dare to compete with me with real swords and guns, and you actually use these three indiscriminate methods? ”

Liu Xiang looked up to the sky and laughed: "Zheng Zhihu, Second Master Zheng!" There are no rules on the battlefield, and those who can kill people are good means. In the past few years, I, Liu Xiang, have been beaten by your Zheng family like a lost dog, your eldest brother has never read the slightest incense of Eighteen Zhi, and today I finally got out of a bad breath. I respect you as a good man on the sea, so I don't need a knife to greet you, and I will send you to see the Sea Dragon King, which can be regarded as leaving you a whole corpse. He looked around, "Someone, send Second Master Zheng on the road!" ”

At this time, the people of the Zheng family reacted, shouting and rushing towards the boat, trying to rescue Zheng Zhihu, but they were all blocked by Liu Xiang's men. They could only watch as Zheng Zhihu was pushed off the bow of the boat by several people without resistance, and fell into the sea, with a "poof" sound, splashing the skyrocketing waves.

Several pro-soldiers shouted in shock: "Second master......" They understood that once a person in heavy armor fell into the water, even if he was reincarnated as a white dragon, he would not be able to get out, and he would only sink to the bottom of the sea, and the corpse would not be able to be retrieved. Unexpectedly, the second master of the python, who is known for his bravery, actually died in such a humiliating way.

Several people glanced at each other, as Zheng Zhihu's personal soldier, he couldn't protect the safety of the main general, and he watched him die in front of him, even if he could retreat from Liu Xiang's hands, the big dragon head would never spare himself, it was better to give himself a good time, at least let his family be safe. So he turned the blade around his neck and ended his life.

Zheng Zhihu's accidental death in battle dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Zheng family. Liu Xiang took advantage of the victory to pursue and counterattacked, not only recapturing several of his own ships, but also dispersing all the troop transports surrounding the Dutch fleet, and successfully joined the Dutch.

When the news came back to the Zheng family's flagship, Zheng Zhilong almost couldn't believe his ears, his brave and invincible second brother was actually dead!

When it was confirmed that the news was real-time, Zheng Zhilong's eyes were dark, he felt that the world was spinning, and he almost fell, and the people next to him hurriedly supported him.

Even if he didn't fall to the ground, Zheng Zhilong's mind was blank, and he suddenly lost the ability to think. Because no one gave orders, the Zheng family's fleet fell into chaos, and the Dutch took the opportunity to break through the encirclement under the cover of Liu Xiang, and Zheng Zhilong painstakingly created a good situation, which was lost.

On the "Fort Middle", Putmans looked at the dense Zheng family fleet and the wreckage of several of his own warships caught in the sea of fire, and then looked at his remaining ten warships, and felt like he had escaped. He didn't know the grief of the head of the Zheng family who lost his second brother and general, but with a keen sense of smell on the battlefield, he caught the feeling that a turning point was coming: the Zheng family's fleet seemed to have lost its powerful command, and the dragons were leaderless, which was a great opportunity to turn the situation around.

Although he lost three ships, Liu Xiang also lost nearly forty percent of his strength in repeated battles, but the main force of the Dutch-Liu coalition army was still there. Under the command of Putmans, the Dutch fleet turned its bow from the open sea and launched a counterattack.

Zheng Hongkui also learned of the death of his second brother Zheng Zhihu and was shocked. He was heartbroken by the tragic death of his second brother and afraid of his eldest brother's punishment, so he commanded Daqingtou to desperately pursue the Dutch, hoping to save the situation with the previous artillery battle.

However, the trend of the battle began to reverse, and the Dutch learned the previous lesson, using Liu Xiang's pirate ship as the protection of the two wings, firing their cannons outside the range of the Caron cannons, constantly shelling their opponents, and waiting until the opponent's gunboats tried to get closer, and then taking advantage of the wind to get rid of them, never giving the other side a chance to engage in close artillery combat. Under the continuous bombardment of the 18-pounder and 24-pounder naval guns, one after another the Zheng family's warships lost their combat ability and withdrew from the battlefield, some of them were seriously damaged and sank directly, and the balance of war began to reverse.

By the time Zheng Zhilong came back to his senses, the situation on the battlefield had deteriorated, and the situation that had been good just now had suddenly become unfavorable to the Zheng family. Zheng Zhilong cleaned up the chaotic emotions, came to the bow of the ship to observe with a clairvoyant mirror, and found that the Dutch who escaped from the encirclement became smarter, no longer staying in place and firing at the Zheng family's naval guns, but hitting and running, and when you don't move, stop shelling outside the range of short and heavy artillery, make full use of your range advantage, once the Zheng family's fleet approaches and runs, repeatedly, hanging the Zheng family like a kite, so that the Zheng family has no strength to make it hard, and consumes the strength of the Zheng family little by little.

Since Zheng Zhilong's beginning, he has always used fireships and three-plate axes to deal with the enemy, until he became the overlord of the coastal areas of Fujian, this way of fighting has not changed, until he got the short and heavy artillery of the Qiongzhou battalion, there is today's artillery attempt. Although he had tasted the sweetness before, after the opponent changed the mode of naval warfare, he did not know how to fight this battle.

If this momentum continues, the Zheng family will not only be unable to win, but will also be in danger of rout. Even if the red hair after the strength was damaged, it could only win miserably and could not shake the foundation of the Zheng family, but this battle could be regarded as a defeat. When the red hair finds out his hole cards, it will be even more difficult to find such an excellent battlefield as today, and it will only be more difficult to deal with the red haired fleet in the future.