"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw! Evacuate! ”

Zheng Fang originally thought that with the arquebus in his hand, he would definitely be able to solve the enemy in the mountains and forests, but he didn't expect that as soon as the opponent really made a move, all his Fuzhou towns were lying down, the opponent's musket was too powerful, and his brother couldn't hold back two shots for a long time, but people's bullets were like raindrops, fast and accurate, but it was fatal!

Zheng Fang was frightened by the beating, and he didn't dare to fight anymore, he desperately fled to the south, and continued to fight, and then he fought, and all his people were explained here, the evil gate, there was such a mysterious army under the sky, unpredictable!

Throwing down two or three hundred corpses, Zheng Fang ran wildly, and ran away without a trace in the blink of an eye.

After a short time, Duan Xuan and the others jumped out of the mountains and forests one after another, and only a few of his brothers were unlucky enough to be injured by stray bullets, and the rest were almost unscathed, winning a complete victory!

"Hahaha, this is Zheng Zhilong's elite? Vulnerable, vulnerable, haha! ”

Duan Xuan laughed and said, "Go and meet Ke Tong immediately, and continue to rush in the direction of Nanjing!" ”

A few days later, Zheng Fang appeared in the Yamen of the Admiral of Fuzhou.

"The last will participate in the adult ......"

Zheng Fang stumbled into the yamen and fell to her knees.

"Zheng Fang? How's it going, have you succeeded? ”

Seeing Zheng Fang's embarrassed appearance, Zheng Zhilong's heart was quiet, and an ominous premonition surged from his heart, and he asked urgently.

"My lord, the last general is useless, in Qingyuan intercepted Duan Xuan's convoy, but, when it was less than ten miles away from Duan Xuan's convoy, we suddenly encountered a surprise attack by an unknown enemy in the mountains and forests where we were hiding, just less than an hour, more than half of the five hundred cavalry casualties, we were not people's opponents at all, we were completely defeated by the enemy, and the last general had to lead the people to retreat and withdraw to Fuzhou ......"

"What? Caught in a raid? Five or six hundred of your cavalry were attacked in the mountains and forests? ”

Zheng Zhilong was shocked and asked in a lost voice.

Zheng Fang said astringently: "Yes, my lord, this enemy army is too powerful, we can't see the shadow of the opponent in the mountains and forests, we can only be beaten passively, in just a few moments, there are more than 100 brothers killed and wounded, all of them are injured under the enemy's crossbow arrows......"

"Bastard! Don't you have arquebuses, and you don't have six hundred elite horsemen, and you were defeated by others? ”

Zheng Zhilong roared.

Zheng Zhilong was about to cry, and replied: "My lord, we have arquebuses, but the opponent's muskets are even more powerful, the last general ordered the brothers to withdraw from the mountains and forests, ready to rely on the advantage of strength to kill the enemy, at least to repel the opponent, who knows that these people also have muskets, and the rate of fire of muskets is too fast, more than twice as fast as ours, and the range and crosshairs are far superior to our army, we have no obstruction on the official road, we were caught off guard, suffered heavy casualties, and have no power to fight back at all......"

"Damn it!"

Zheng Zhilong smashed his fist on the bookcase, needless to say, Zheng Fang was discovered by Duan Xuan, the hundred people under Duan Xuan are really elite, and they are all equipped with muskets, the latest flintlock muskets in the imperial court, although Zheng Zhilong has not tried flintlock muskets, but he has long heard that the power of flintlock muskets is far better than arquebuses, in Zhejiang, and Zheng Fang is preparing to raid Duan Xuan, who can know where Zheng Fang is hiding? Even if it can be found, not to mention Zhejiang, even if you look at the whole country, where is there such a strong army? Can you defeat your elite power in an hour?

"Big brother, this is the case, we didn't succeed in killing Duan Xuan, but we were beaten by him, once someone is captured, it will definitely leak the news!"

Zheng Zhibao said urgently.

Zheng Zhilong shouted: "Nonsense, don't I know? First of all, the news of the arms robbery leaked out, and then the raid on Duan Xuan failed, I'm afraid that now it's useless for us to be soft like the imperial court, Zhu Jie will never let us go! ”

Zheng Zhilong is really nervous, if the matter of arms can still find an excuse to prevaricate, this raid on Duan Xuan, he will definitely not find any excuse, Zheng Fang led more than half of the casualties, fled in a hurry, there will definitely be no fewer captured prisoners, with Zhu Jie's ability, it is easy to pry open the mouths of these people, even if these people are their diehards, they still can't withstand Zhu Jie's mysterious methods, not to mention that Zhu Jie still has a Jinyiwei adapted from Jinyiwei in his hands? What those people are best at is torture to extract confessions......

"Big brother, then, what should we do next?"

Zheng Zhibao is also a little dumbfounded now, rebellion? It's easy to say, if you really want to rebel, it means that it is very likely that the Zheng family will no longer have a chance to gain a foothold in Fujian, and the Zheng family's fleet is indeed difficult to meet opponents, but it is on the sea, on land, the Ming Dynasty has far more combat power than the Zheng family, and the Zheng family's army is not to say that it is not worth it, but I am afraid that it will not even be able to see the ass of the imperial army......

Zheng Zhilong took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "What should I do?" What else can I do? Now, we have to prepare for the worst, either evacuate Fujian and flee to the sea, never thinking of returning to our homeland; Either do the Ming court, let's take the fire and take a risk! ”

"Kill the Ming Dynasty?"

Zheng Zhibao's heart tightened, how to get rid of it, anyway, the current Zheng family definitely does not have such strength, the time and place are favorable, and they are not on the side of the Zheng family!

"Zhibao, immediately inform me of the envoy sent by Manchuria, Sonny, I want to see him immediately, if I want to keep the status and power of our Zheng family, I have to cooperate with the Manchurians now......"

Zheng Zhilong said in a deep voice, "As long as we reach a cooperation with the Manchurians, we will block the trade routes of the imperial court on the sea, cut off their financial resources, and the Manchurians will launch a fierce attack from the Central Plains, even if Zhu Jie is powerful, he can only accept the fate of defeat!" Hmph, since Zhu Jie doesn't give us a way to live, then we won't leave him a way to live, let's see if we die quickly, or if he Zhu Jie dies quickly! ”

Zheng Zhibao's heart turned over the river and the sea, after all, he still has to come to this point, although this is what he said at the earliest, but the eldest brother also said that the rebel son and the second minister, that is infamous through the ages, who wants to be a traitor and be scolded by the world?

"Big brother, is there no other way to go?"

Zheng Zhibao said astringently.

"Yes, go into exile and never come back, would you like it? Even if you are willing, will the court be willing? As long as the imperial court relaxes this breath, it can organize a sailor at any time to launch an encirclement and suppression against us, so let's just do it and let the imperial court disappear completely! ”

(End of chapter)