Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 317
It's a pity that no matter how ruthless Zheng Zhilong is and how he thinks, everything he does will be in vain.

Because, it is impossible for him to defeat Liu Meng's fleet no matter what!
Whether he can get back to Quanzhou alive or not depends on whether Liu Meng will give him a chance.

Of course, judging from the current situation, Liu Meng does not intend to kill Zheng Zhilong.

With this person in the East China Sea to keep those foreign devils at bay, Liu Meng can free up his hands to plan the affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

The chase battle kicked off in the next few days, no, strictly speaking, the fishing battle kicked off.

Eleven sailing warships, like fishing, caught more than 90 warships, large and small, following behind them, and made a big circle on the sea from time to time, destroying a few warships in the middle.

After coming and going, Zheng Zhilong couldn't hold his breath anymore. This was too far from his plan, and he didn't even think about surrounding eleven warships in this area.

Seeing that for nearly a day, not to mention touching the opponent's warships, they even lost dozens of warships one after another.

He was really helpless, helpless.

what to do?In front of his eyes, there was only one way to go, and that was to withdraw to his hometown in Donghai.

Although he is very unwilling, but there is no way, who told his warship to lag behind the opponent's warship?

Fighting, it's no big deal, chasing, can't catch up?

What can be done?Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong resentfully punched and hammered on the railing on the ship tower, and gave the order to retreat aggrieved.

Shang Kexi, who was enjoying the fight, suddenly saw the fleet behind him and started to turn around, obviously wanting to turn around and run away.

Shang Kexi, who didn't know why, looked at Liu Meng and asked aloud:
"How did this happen? The majestic king of the sea, just evacuated like this? Isn't it?"

Liu Meng put down the binoculars and said lightly:
"He's right! If you can't beat him, why are you still chasing after him? You really want to lose all the family business he managed to get out of here!"

After speaking, Liu Meng looked at Shang Kexi and said:
"Since they're here, naturally don't let them leave here easily! Let's chase after them! It hurts Zheng Zhilong, but don't let them all be wiped out here!

Keeping him can also restrain the ghosts in the outer sea, we don't have the energy to deal with them yet! "

Hearing this, Shang Kexi replied with a serious salute:
"Yes!"

The next moment the order was conveyed, the eleven warships formed a formation, drew an arc on the sea surface, turned their bows and chased after them.

Naturally, Zheng Zhilong saw the movements of the eleven warships on the opposite side, and couldn't help but felt a burst of embarrassment in his heart, and said in his heart:

You're not done yet, I've already withdrawn, and you're still relentlessly catching up?What are you going to do?
Thinking about it, Zheng Zhilong knew:
There is really no way to take the opponent, but if you want to evacuate safely, there is only one way, that is, 'the tail of the gecko, the wrist of a strong man'!
Zheng Zhilong is a decisive person. Thinking of this, he sent out an order without hesitation, and more than 20 bird ships were left behind to take on the task of breaking up.

Lankers naturally also saw Liu Meng's fleet chasing after him, but he had no plans to fight back, so he should run away as soon as possible!

I really can't beat it!Why don't you take the time to escape when someone is backing you?
Zheng Zhilong also saw the Dutch fleet that fled first, and couldn't help cursing, but there was nothing he could do about them.

Who said his warship was not as fast as the Dutch?
Sure enough, the broken bird boats were destroyed one by one by eleven warships, but Zheng Zhilong took the remaining warships and took advantage of the dusk to escape to the distant sea.

Shang Kexi looked at the fleet of battleships fleeing to the distance, then looked at the sky that was about to darken and asked Liu Meng:

"Marshal, do you want to keep them all?"

Liu Meng put down the telescope in his hand, shook his head and said:

"Forget it! Now is not the time to eliminate them! Next, don't relax your inspection of this sea area. Any ships that find them will be sunk without mercy!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Meng turned around and said as he walked:

"Leave three battleships, recover the mines, let's go back first!"

Hearing this, Shang Kexi was a little disappointed. After all, this was the first time he fought at sea after the formation of the fleet. He really didn't enjoy it!
But he didn't dare to disobey Liu Meng's order, so he had to pass down the order to leave three warships to recover the mines, and bring the other eight warships back to Shicheng Island.

It was already noon the next day when we returned to Shicheng Island, and we stopped at sea for one night on the way.

Liu Meng didn't take care of the fleet anymore, but went to the firearms room, urging the craftsmen to make powerful coastal defense guns, to guard against the sneak attacks of the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong.

Although there is no way to smelt alloy steel in the current firearms workshop, there is no problem in casting coastal defense guns.

Liu Meng didn't make things difficult for them, he just smelted alloy steel ingots in the space blacksmith shop and handed them over to cast coastal defense guns.

A few days later, Zheng Zhilong returned to Annan's lair with less than [-] remaining warships.

Compared with the 120 warships at the time of departure, it can be said that they were really hurt and completely defeated.

Still in the meeting hall, several generals sat on chairs with gloomy faces, but none of them dared to speak without authorization.

After a long time, Zheng Zhihu still said:
"Brother, Dongjiang..."

Having said that, he didn't know how to continue, and was immediately embarrassed.

Zheng Zhilong cast a glance at him, and said in a deep voice:

"Let's leave it like this for the time being! Report the experience to the imperial court and ask for supplies!"

After finishing speaking, Zheng Zhilong waved his hand to let everyone go out, and sat on the chair by himself, closing his eyes and thinking about his thoughts.

A few days later, in Batavia, Southeast Asia, Lankers was telling a middle-aged man about the naval battle.

After listening to his statement, the middle-aged man didn't get angry. He just held a cigar in his right hand and kept tapping on the desk with his left hand.

Lankers stood straight in front of the desk, peeking at the middle-aged man nervously, but he knew how ruthless this middle-aged man was.

After a long time, the middle-aged man said to Lankers:

"War is not necessarily a means to solve problems, we can use trade to get what we want!"

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man looked at Lankers and said solemnly:

"Send an envoy! We need the drawings of that sailing warship, no matter how much it costs! Let's do it!"

Hearing this, Lankers breathed a sigh of relief, stood at attention and saluted and said:
"Yes! Your Excellency! I'll do it now!"

After finishing speaking, he turned and walked out of the office to arrange the personnel matters for the follow-up mission to Phi Island.

A week later, Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and listened to the report from the Minister of the Ministry of War.

When he knew that the joint fleet of Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch had been defeated at sea, he looked at the ministers whose expressions changed drastically and whispered below, and Emperor Chongzhen asked:
"Everyone, please tell me! Dongjiang Town, how should we deal with it?"

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