"This, Lord Zheng, what should we do? Someone is attacking the villages and towns on Chongming Island, we can't sit idly by......"

Yang Geng said urgently.

Zheng Haotian shouted in a deep voice: "It's okay, there must be foreigners who are responding to this group of pirates, Lord Yang, you lead the former army camp to deal with this group of pirates who attacked Chongming Island, and the pirates who escaped from Nanjing City will be handed over to me!" ”

Although one of the two people is from the Imperial Naval Division and the other is from the Fujian Naval Division, they are not close comrades-in-arms, but at this time, where can you still distinguish between you and me? Once the arms are lost, the entire court will collapse, no one in the imperial navy can be trusted, it is the time to fight against the enemy, Zheng Haotian needs to complete the task, and Yang Geng needs to take the pirate's head to prove his innocence and hand over a letter of surrender to the imperial court.

Yang Geng did not dare to slack off, and commanded the former army battalion to rush up to the northeast, while Zheng Haotian continued to encircle and intercept at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

However, the Imperial Navy has just integrated and trained, and it is still a little rusty to cooperate, Van der Vaart has pirates outside to respond, and his own family has been crawling and rolling on the sea for decades, experienced, and very slippery, it is really not so easy to catch Van der Vaart!

It was almost noon, and the handsome ship of the Imperial Navy finally set out and came to the outside of Chongming Island.

"Su Yutao, how is the situation now?"

Cha Shu and Qin Mufeng stood on the bow of the ship, their faces full of anxiety, they haven't caught this handful of pirates for so long, it's really embarrassing, and the pirates have already entered the Yangtze River estuary, if they can't catch it, they have entered the East China Sea, and if they want to catch people back, it will be even more difficult!

Su Yutao is the cadre of the Imperial Naval Division, as early as the Dongting Lake Naval Division, he was the right-hand man under the command of Zheng Haotian, in the past two or three years, he has become more and more mature, and now he is the general of the left-wing naval division battalion, and when he heard Cha Xuan ask him, he hurriedly replied: "Lord Cavalry Inspector, we have already blocked those pirates in the mouth of the Yangtze River, but suddenly, a pirate fleet came from the East China Sea and launched an artillery bombardment on the villages on Chongming Island, and Lord Yang Geng has already led the former army battalion to encircle and suppress, However, it also gave the opponent an opportunity to slip out of the cracks in the ship again......"

"Damn it, you fucking bunch of shit!"

Cha Bolt is really anxious, shameful, really threw everyone to Grandma's house, if you really let this group of pirates run away, then where do you still have the face to see the emperor?

"Pass the order, all the warships, once the pirate's ship is confirmed, immediately launch an artillery bombardment, whether they live or die, even if all these arms sink to the bottom of the sea, Lao Tzu must let these pirates stay here!"

Cha Xuan said fiercely, "Mu Feng, let's go, let's go to the mouth of the Yangtze River in person, Lao Tzu won't believe it, and let them fly!" ”

Yang Geng served in the Fujian Navy Division for more than 20 years, followed Zheng Zhilong for more than 30 years, over the years, in the East, Fujian and Guangdong coasts and even the South Seas, almost every battle must be with, is Zheng Zhilong's commanded generals, brave and good at fighting, if the Ming Empire Navy, the most abundant generals in the navy, it is definitely Yang Geng, otherwise Cha Bolt would not value him so much, and he will be directly promoted to the position of the general soldier.

However, now Yang Geng is already angry, too unlucky, first Yanhuang Company was robbed on the sea, this time it is even more evil, the foreign devil actually ran to Nanjing City, bloodied the Ordnance Division, and it was also done in collusion with the people of the Fujian Navy Division inside and outside, it is bearable, which is unbearable!

Yang Geng led the former army battalion to pounce directly and came to the northeast of Chongming Island.

Coming to the direction of Chongming Island, Yang Geng's face changed greatly, originally he thought that he was still a handful of pirates, but he didn't expect that on the periphery of the Yangtze River estuary, there were at least thirty warships, and they were all at least a thousand main warships!

It's the sailor of Tagawa Nanazaemon and Zheng Cai!

Yang Geng followed Zheng Hongkui on the expedition last time, so he naturally knew the sailor fleet that Tagawa and Zheng Cai now control, and it turned out that it was really Tagawa Nanazaemon who was making trouble behind his back!

"Lord Yang!"

Chen Jiongming, the general of the former army battalion on the side, said urgently: "It seems that our opponent is really not weak, there are so many warships, I am afraid that we will have a hard chance of winning with the former army battalion alone......

"Nonsense!"

Yang Geng shouted, "What if they have thirty or forty warships? The number of warships in our former army battalion is not below them, and we immediately sent someone to send a letter to the inspector to mobilize the left battalion to help in the battle, today, we must leave this group of rebels behind! Mobilize all the ships close to the local fleet and prepare for the shelling! ”

Soon, the two sides launched a fierce battle on the sea, Yang Geng is the veteran general of the naval battle, and Zheng Cai is not worse than Yang Geng, Zheng Cai is the most warlike among the descendants of the Zheng family, and his military ability is not weaker than Yang Geng, otherwise Zheng Zhilong would not let him take charge of the strongest former army camp alone.

The two sides had a fierce battle on the north side of Chongming Island, the shells came and went, the sea surface was blown into a monstrous wave, many warships were hit by cannonballs, and the damage was serious, although from the number of warships, the imperial navy did not fall behind, but after all, the two naval divisions had just merged, whether it was cooperation or tactics, compared to Zheng Cai's sailors, they were still half a chip, and the two sides were difficult to distinguish between the upper and lower levels for a while.

In less than half an hour, another fleet in the distance was rapidly heading towards it, and the battalion of the left wing sailors quickly rushed over, forming a flanking attack on Zheng Cai's fleet.

In the distance, Zheng Cai naturally found the current predicament, the two fleets are enough to completely suppress his sailors, if Van der Vaart can't run out at this time, then I'm afraid everyone will be in danger.

"! Did that Van der Vaart run out, if he can't run out, we're in danger! Everybody's got to finish! ”

Zheng Cai really didn't expect that the Fujian Navy Division had suffered two heavy blows in succession, and the strength was not there, but the Imperial Navy Division had unconsciously accumulated such a strong strength, and now only two large battalions attacked, and he couldn't support it, if all the Ming Navy Divisions were dispatched, I was afraid that he would really be finished, and he was definitely not someone's opponent, he was a little careless this time, and only brought out half of the fleet strength.

"General Zheng Cai, don't worry!"

A Dutchman on the side sneered: "This time, Mr. Van der Vaart has arranged more than your fleet, our East India Company has also been dispatched, and now I am afraid that we will also do it!" ”

(End of chapter)