Sima Deben was stunned. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He thought he was dark enough, but he didn't expect the general to go too far, and he didn't regard the so-called covenant as nothing, and he didn't have the slightest psychological burden.

Perhaps in a single battle, the Qiongzhou Battalion Navy is weak in the face of the Dutch, Liu Xiang's coalition and Zheng Zhilong, but when the battle situation is stalemate, no matter which side the Qiongzhou Battalion joins, it is enough to change the trend of the entire war.

"So ...... about selling guns"

Xia Nan shook his head: "The battle of the sneak attack on the left is enough to show that even a short and heavy cannon with a shrunken material can pose a great threat to us, and I will not sell another cannon to the Zheng family." But since they took the initiative to send it to the door, this fat sheep will not be slaughtered in vain. ”

Sima De asked suspiciously: "Isn't it not selling guns?" So how to slaughter? ”

"First collect all the silver, and then delay it for a few months on the grounds of the minting time, then there will definitely be a war, and Zheng Zhilong will not have time to urge the goods." Xia Nan smiled slyly, "When the battle is over, if Zheng Zhilong is defeated, the drum is beaten by everyone, and the strength plummets, I don't have to deal with him at all, so naturally I don't need to deliver the goods; If the Dutch and Liu Xiang are defeated, I will turn against the Zheng family sooner or later, and I will definitely not deliver the goods - these two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, I will naturally laugh at it. ”

Sima De was amazed when he heard this, the general's thick black science has reached a realm, and the person who dares to be so yin Zheng Zhilong for hundreds of thousands of silver, the entire southeast coast can't find a second one.

Xia Nan ordered: "Pass the order, all the troops of the Qiongzhou battalion, including the army and navy, be lifted from vacation, all of them will return to the team, and they will be ready to leave for Fujian to participate in the war at any time." ”

The center left office office.

Zheng Zhilong listened to Zheng Zhiguan's report and fell into thought. He said to himself: "The Qiongzhou battalion wants to participate in the war? To let it or not to let it? ”

Zheng Zhihu has always had a bad impression of Xia Nan, and said without thinking: "The affairs of the Zheng family don't need to be interfered with by the Cantonese guy surnamed Xia." Xia Nan must be speechless when he hears this, his ancestral home is the capital, an authentic Beijinger, just because he made a career in Qiongzhou, he was classified as a Cantonese Yankee.

Zheng Zhibao rarely speaks, and then a sentence came out: "I think those duck-ass boats in the Qiongzhou battalion are good, and they can be used as a surprise soldier at a critical moment to kill Hongmao and Liu Xiang by surprise." The Red Fur is the strongest opponent we have since we started, and there is no room for the slightest mistake, and all the forces that can be used cannot be missed. The second brother can temporarily let go of the little thoughts about the Qiongzhou camp in his heart, and winning the red hair is the most important thing. ”

Zheng Hongkui has been unlucky one after another recently, and he wants to wash away his shame, and he is particularly concerned about the war. Because first, he can divert the attention of the clansmen, so as not to stare at him twice, and secondly, he has the opportunity to make meritorious contributions in the war, and he can atone for his sins and restore his reputation in the Zheng family. Regarding Zheng Zhibao's words, he voted in favor: "The third brother's words are right, compared to those unfed red hairs, the strength of the Qiongzhou battalion is weaker, and they are also officers and soldiers of the imperial court, so it is easier to handle it." Their duck-ass boats were out of the limelight when they beat Liu Xiang's men at the mouth of the Pearl River, and they could win with less and more, relying on their flexibility and strong firepower! ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded: "The third brother and the fourth brother have a point. Although the Qiongzhou battalion also has ambitions, it is much easier to handle them than Hongmao. Since their duck-ass boats are so powerful, let them stay in the rear at that time, and when the situation is deadlocked, kill the red hairs by surprise. ”

Zheng Zhiguan asked: "What about buying guns?" ”

Mentioning this, Zheng Zhilong hated a little: "This surnamed Xia got into the eyes of money, and he didn't cast a single cannon, so he actually asked us to pay the full amount first......"

"They also said they would have to wait at least three months for delivery." Zheng Zhiguan reminded.

Zheng Zhilong let out a sigh: "That's it, who made their cannons easy to use, the conditions should be harsh." You go to Qiongzhou again, bring 300,000 taels of silver, buy another 100, plus the dozens of cannons saved, and make up about 150 guns. Even if you can't catch up with the Dutch, you can still use it to deal with all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods in the future. ”

Zheng Zhihu sneered: "In the future, it will also be a sharp weapon to use these cannons against the Qiongzhou battalion!" ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled: "What the second brother said is right, this is exactly the reason." If you want to buy artillery as soon as possible, wait until you start with the Qiongzhou battalion in the future, there is no place to buy this kind of artillery if you have silver, so stock up more now. ”

Everyone present smiled heartily. It's just that they didn't expect that there was no most shameless, only more shameless, they were happy too early, and Xia Nan was far more despicable than they imagined - he didn't plan to deliver this second batch of guns at all, and he had already made up his mind to swallow up the payment.

At the end of August, the Dutch-Liu coalition forces again sailed their fleets to the Zhongzuo Station, but when they encountered a typhoon, they had to find a place to take refuge, and it was not until the beginning of October that they found an opportunity to kill the Zhongzuo Station with great momentum.

Knowing that the red hair was coming, the governor Zou Weilian went to Yuegang to command the Ming fleet, swore in the local area, and made Zheng Zhilong the vanguard, personally crossed Haicheng, and swore to supervise the battle. On October 17, the Ming army learned of the location and size of the Dutch fleet and the pirate fleet (9 plywood ships and more than 50 pirates), and ordered all Ming naval divisions in Fujian to attack. On the 18th, the Ming army fought fiercely with the Heliu coalition army off the coast of Tongshan, and the two sides suffered mutual damage.

Whether it was the attack on the center and left, or the large and small contact battles with the Dutch-Liu coalition forces in the past two months, Zheng Zhilong suffered the heaviest losses. The lost men and horses were both subordinates and green forest brothers, so in addition to the reward officially arranged by the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong himself used the Jianghu order. He used his private treasury to give his men a reward: two taels of silver for each of the combatants, and an additional five taels if the fighting was prolonged. Each fireship was 16 men, and if the Dutch ship was burned, two hundred taels of silver (16 cents) were given, and a red-haired man's head was given fifty taels of silver.

At that time, the seven-grade official monthly salary of the imperial court was only about five taels of silver, which was quite high. The high reward and the anger aroused by the righteousness of the rivers and lakes made Zheng Zhilong's subordinates morale high. When the Ming army was actively preparing for war, the Dutch did not dare to slack off, they gathered all the warships of Dayuan, and requisitioned several armed merchant ships from Batavia to deliver goods to Dayuan, and waited for the battle. For some time after that, the heavy military groups on both sides searched for each other and looked for fighter planes for each other.

At this critical juncture, the Zheng family's cargo ship loaded with 300,000 taels of silver arrived at Bofu and brought a message from Zheng Zhilong, "inviting" the Qiongzhou battalion to go north to help and participate in the decisive battle. In order to avoid the trouble of fighting across provinces, an official document was also prepared from the Fujian Governor Yamen requesting the Guangdong Governor Yamen to allocate the Qiongzhou battalion to help suppress the red hair.