Chapter 180: The Dutch's Blackmail

Now after hearing the news, Zhu Yifeng breathed a long sigh of relief, in their opinion, the sea wolf did this, it is obvious that he is retreating in the face of difficulties, and he is not ready to defend Nanri Island, so as long as they can take Nanri Island with a thunderous blow, and expel the sea wolf from Fuzhou Xinghua Mansion and other coastal areas, then even if it is a great success, as for the sea wolf to retreat to Taiyuan Island, that is another story.

As long as they can recover Nanri Island and pacify the coastal area, then they can repay the victory like the imperial court, even if the Wei Party wants to be unfavorable to him, with this great achievement in hand, the Wei Party is afraid that there is no way to defeat him in a short time.

Although Zhu Yifeng is mentally prepared to be overthrown by Wei Zhongxian and his party, he will lose his official position and be dismissed, but since he can achieve the status of a big member of the governor's party, no one wants to lose this official lightly, and it is better to work for a while longer, or to work for a while longer!

At this time, news came from Quanzhou that the long-awaited fleet of red-haired people's plywood boats had finally arrived, and on the second day of November, a fleet of red-haired people composed of seven large plywood boats finally appeared in Quanzhou Bay and sailed into Quanzhou Bay.

This news made Zhu Yifeng overjoyed, although he was not interested in the red-haired people, and could even be said to be very hateful, in the past few years, the red-haired people have not been less harassed in the coastal areas of Fujian, especially in Zhangquan and other places.

During Nan Juyi's reign in Fujian, Zhu Yifeng also participated in the use of troops in Penghu, and naturally he would not have a good impression of the red-haired people.

But this time he tried his best to deal with the sea wolf, although he tried his best to expand the strength of the sailor this year, but faintly, he was still not at ease with the strength of the official army sailor, and the sea wolf was indeed strong, so he would listen to the advice of the staff, and decided to ask the red-haired people to assist the government in suppressing the sea wolf.

Although he was reluctant to do this, but for the sake of safety, he finally took this move, in his opinion, it was a matter of borrowing power to control the thieves, although this matter may attract criticism, but as long as he can take Nanri Island, then other things are easy to say.

Now in his eyes, the biggest enemy is the sea wolf, these red-haired people have withdrawn from Penghu and gained a foothold on Taiyuan Island, and this matter is not something he can manage.

Although the officials of the Ming Dynasty have the consciousness of defending the territory, but very few people have considered the matter of expanding the territory, the island of Taiwan itself has not been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and now the red-haired people have gone to the island of Taiwan, they are not willing to take care of it, holding the idea that more things are better than less things, adopting the ostrich policy, and letting the red-haired people occupy the big man.

And now the sea wolf also occupies two places on the island of Taiwan, and it will naturally be regarded as a threat by the red-haired people, although Zhu Yifeng doesn't know that the enemy's enemy is a friend, but he is still very clear about the way here, so when the staff proposed that they could ask the red-haired people to help with this attack on the sea wolf, Zhu Yifeng planned to let the red-haired man and the sea wolf dog bite the dog, so he made such a decision.

It is precisely out of fear of the sea wolf that although more than half a month ago, Yu Zhigao asked for war many times and asked to start the attack on the sea wolf on Nanri Island, but Zhu Yifeng was afraid that something would go wrong, and he never allowed Yu Zhigao to act without authorization, and he had to wait for his order before he could move his troops.

What he was waiting for was the arrival of the red-haired people, and now the red-haired people's fleet finally came, and it is said that there were seven large plywood boats at once, which were very majestic and majestic, and these big plywood boats were full of Hongyi cannons, which made people feel that the red-haired people were powerful, and whoever ran into them, I am afraid they would not be able to please them.

At this time, Zhu Yifeng's confidence was greatly increased, and he immediately stood up and ordered someone to pass on his order, so that Yu Zhigao and Zhang Jiace immediately began to launch an attack on Nanri Island.

Yongning Wei is built in the 27th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, which was the most famous three acropolis of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the three David cities of Tianjin Wei and Weihaiwei.

Yongningwei is located on the north shore of Shenhu Bay, located in Yongning Town, Shishi City in the later generations, built by the sea and mountains, and the city walls are all built with granite stone strips, which are very solid.

Yongningwei itself has more than 10 thousand households under its jurisdiction, and there are 5,000 households on the left, right, front and back in the acropolis; Outside the Acropolis, there are Fuquan (Jinjiang), Chongwu (Hui'an), Kinmen, Zhongzuo (Xiamen), Gaopu (Tong'an), and Baiyeban (Anxi) six guards of thousands of households.

It has always been the most important coastal gateway in Fujian, responsible for guarding the coast of the entire Zhangquan area, preventing the Japanese from preparing for the Japanese, during the Jiajing period, the Japanese invaded Yongningwei many times, and there were many fierce battles between the officers and the Japanese here.

This time, Zhu Yifeng insisted on attacking Nanri Island, but he accepted the lesson of Zhu Qinxiang last time, and did not dare to concentrate the warships in the coastal area of Xinghua Mansion, for fear that the sea wolves would repeat their old tricks and strike first to kill their warships and cargo ships transporting troops.

Therefore, he gave up the near and far, concentrated the naval division in southern Fujian mainly in Yongningwei, assembled in Shenhu Bay, and let Yu Zhigao be in charge of the command, and gathered a total of nearly 200 ships of various sizes, turning the entire Shenhu Bay into a scene of masts like a forest.

And this time, the red-haired man's fleet also went to Shenhu Bay to meet with the official army and naval division, the old opponent in the past, at this time, suddenly turned into a friendly army, which made Yu Zhigao very unhappy.

Because Yu Zhigao personally participated in the Battle of Penghu, when Nan Juyi sent troops to attack Penghu Hongmao City, he couldn't attack it for a long time, and finally transferred Yu Zhigao to Penghu, responsible for leading the musket team to attack the city.

Yu Zhigao has personally seen battles with the red-haired people, and even was almost killed by the red-haired man's cannon several times, but now he has to cooperate with the red-haired people, which makes Yu Zhigao very unhappy.

But he also had to admit that the red-haired people were indeed strong ships, although they only came to seven large plywood ships, but the combat power of these seven large plywood ships was even far greater than the combined combat power of so many ships he had assembled in Yongningwei.

Even if he was unhappy, he had to rely on these red-haired people's warships, because he himself knew very well that the sea wolves were not easy to deal with, and with the warships he had assembled, if he encountered the desperate resistance of the sea wolves, it was estimated that he might not be able to bargain.

But now after adding these red-haired people's big splint boats, things have become much simpler, although the sea wolf is very powerful, but in their opinion, even if the sea wolf is powerful, when they encounter these big splint boats of the red-haired people, it is indispensable to eat deflated, so since the red-haired people are here, then they really have nothing to worry about.

But after meeting with Waite, the commander of the red-haired fleet, Yu Zhigao found that this red-haired man was too arrogant, and did not pay attention to the warships of their Ming army at all.

Waite asked Yu Zhigao to provide him with all kinds of supplies, and asked to act independently, not to be mixed with the naval fleet of the official army, but only responsible for escorting the fleet of the official army to Nanri Island, as for the fleet of the red-haired people, all of them belonged to his own command, otherwise, he would not participate in this operation.

Yu Zhigao was furious after hearing this, and even though he wanted to reprimand Wert, he was dissuaded by Tian Youren, who came to act as a prisoner.

Although Tian Youren has no real job, he is Zhu Yifeng's staff, and he has the name of praising paintings, and Yu Zhigao has to give Tian Youren face.

After listening to Waite's request, Tian Youren grabbed Yu Zhigao, who was about to lose his temper, and told Yu Zhigao that this matter is not easy to get angry, once the talks collapse, it will not be beneficial to the next cooperation, and they are not clear about the performance of the red-haired people's ships, so Waite's request is not necessarily unacceptable.

As long as the red-haired people agree to escort the fleet to Nanri Island, then this matter is easy to discuss, and now Zhu Yifeng and Tian Youren are most worried not that they will not be able to take Nanri Island, but that they will be ambushed or intercepted by the sea wolf fleet during the crossing.

This time Zhu Yifeng learned a lesson, and paid special attention to the safety during the crossing, as long as the red-haired people were willing to escort the fleet to Nanri Island, in case even if the fleet of the sea wolf was ambushed, as long as there was a fleet of the red-haired people, it was estimated that there would be no problem, and the ships of the red-haired people could easily defeat the fleet of the sea wolf, which was the consensus of all official civil and military forces.

Therefore, since this Waite proposed that he should command his fleet on his own, it was understandable, and he could fully agree to his request, and as for the various supplies he asked for, this matter itself was a request from others, and it was a matter of course for them to make some demands.

After listening to Tian Youren's persuasion, Yu Zhigao held back his anger, thinking that this was also the truth, so he had to agree to Waite's conditions, and handed over the list of materials that Waite handed over to his subordinates.

Although Zhu Yifeng has already allocated a considerable amount of materials to him, in his opinion, these materials are still not enough, and the amount of these materials that Waite asked for is also very large, and there are even many irrelevant things, such as raw silk, porcelain, tea, etc., where can these things themselves be regarded as supplies! It's just blackmail! I just want to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

Therefore, Yu Zhigao would not try to find a way to get these materials for Waite, so he simply threw them all to Xu Xinsu, so that Xu Xinsu could find a way to meet these requirements put forward by Waite.

Xu Xinsu is now knocking out his teeth and swallowing in his stomach, originally this time he was very unhappy that the government wanted to collude with the Dutch to kill the sea wolf, but he was forced to act as a middleman and contact the Dutch.

(Special thanks to the two brothers Wandering Jiangnan and Yangyang 2014 for their tips!) In addition, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the brothers who voted for the monthly and red votes for this book! Your support is my motivation! I'll keep it up to date! )