At the end of You and the beginning of Xu.

The sun has set and the sky is dark.

Zheng Zhiguan Navy, who abandoned the auxiliary warship, rushed to the Dongchong Mountain Waters.

According to the scout, the enemy navy was in the waters of Sansang Island and Reef (Bei Sang, Xi Sang, and Dong Sang).

Zheng Zhiguan hesitated. The distance was approaching, but he was likely to be unable to catch up.

Because once you pass Sansang Island and reef, it is Taishan Island. After passing Taishan Island, you are not far from Jinxiangwei and have entered the eastern Zhejiang waters.

Looking at the sky outside the cabin, Zheng Zhiguan sighed in his heart. The pursuit of this day and night was wasted.

Zheng Zhiguan wants to withdraw.

But at this time, another scout came to report that the enemy navy slowed down, and there seemed to be signs of staying.

Zheng Zhiguan asked about the enemy situation in the surrounding waters.

After receiving a negative answer, a fire ignited in Zheng Zhiguan's heart, God helped me!

It’s not that Zheng Zhiguan is too reckless, and he didn’t notice the abnormality of why the enemy navy slowed down.

Logically, the waters of eastern Zhejiang are not far away, and the enemy navy should not slow down.

But Zheng Zhiguan convinced himself that the enemy navy was stationed in Chenqianshan, and it would take one day to go from Sansang Island and Reef to Chenqianshan. Instead of sailing all night on the sea and taking the risk of a sudden storm, it would be safer to stay in Sansang Island and Reef.

The Sansang Islands and Reefs, the North Sang, the West Sang and the East Sang are triangular, and there is a natural harbor in the middle.

Therefore, Zheng Zhiguan didn't even think about whether the enemy navy already knew that he was leading the navy to chase him.

This is very important. If the enemy navy knows that there are pursuers and wants to stay, there must be a problem.

If you don't know, then it makes sense for Zheng Zhiguan to speculate that the enemy naval army is stationed.

However, the fire that ignited in Zheng Zhiguan's heart made him neglect this. In his opinion, no other force has penetrated the waters of Fujian and Guangdong.

Naturally, the enemy navy heading north could not know what was going on behind him.

Zheng Zhiguan ordered the entire navy to continue pursuing.

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Taking the sea is different from taking the land.

The vast ocean is not something you want to walk whatever you want.

Under the quiet sea, there are reefs, undercurrents, whirlpools or when a sudden storm arises, just like the face of a three-year-old child, which changes as soon as he says.

No matter how powerful a warship is, it is still made of paper in front of the storm.

Just like during Zheng Chenggong's second Northern Expedition, more than 1,000 warships and more than 100,000 troops were blown by a storm, and it was terrible.

When Zheng He voyaged to the West for seven times, he also walked along the coastline.

Even the powerful steel warships in later generations dared to walk through the waters that had been discovered, commonly known as the waterway.

Therefore, at this time, whether it is a merchant ship or a warship, it basically travels along the coastline.

Whether it is convenient for supply or avoiding risks, except for the critical moment of life and death, the boat cannot leave the shore.

Wang Yilin "escape" north along the coastline. This was the first time he had taken such a long route.

After so many years as a navy man in his uncle Wang Zhiren, Wang Yilin's farthest voyage was only to Luojia Mountain (Puo Mountain).

Most of the time, they go in and out of the Yangtze River.

Wang Yilin was very cautious. He asked from the words of several Zheng Zhiguan's confidants who left behind by Chen Li. After Zheng Zhiguan had indeed had secret contact with Dorgon, he became even more vigilant.

A mad dog will bite people randomly.

What's more, it was Zheng Zhiguan, who was promised by Dorgon to Zhenhai Marquis.

Combined with Chen Li's confession, Zheng Zhiguan's plan to provoke Wu Zheng and Zheng Chenggong's fight is about to come out.

As for the specific process and details, Wang Yilin is no longer willing to think about it. Leave this troublesome thing to the person in Hangzhou Prefecture to worry about. Wang Yilin has sent someone to send a letter back to Hangzhou yesterday.

The most important thing at the moment is to defeat the navy that Zheng Zhiguan chased.

In the words of later generations, it is called eliminating the vitality of the opponent.

No, this is inaccurate. According to Wu Zheng’s plan, it is necessary to curb the Zheng family’s navy’s desire to go north.

But Wang Yilin did not agree with it. He wanted to use war to support the war. Although Wu Zheng did not agree to rob the warship, Wang Yilin did not want to miss this opportunity.

Where can pirates not rob?

I'm so sorry for my infamy, right?

There is a way that the general is outside, and the king will not accept the orders. Wang Yilin and Zhang Mingzhen discussed in private.

Zhang Mingzhen is a "righteous" person and said that he could only act according to the appropriate plan he had discussed with Wu Zheng before.

But after Wang Yilin invited him to a banquet, Zhang Mingzhen's tone changed a little.

Zhang Mingzhen said, military orders are like mountains, but as long as I can’t see them, I will pretend not to know.

This sounds awkward, but it is extremely operable.

Wang Yilin's troops are bait and a pioneer in the battlefield.

Zhang Mingzhen's Wusong Navy is the main force and a backup.

Wu Zheng's two naval divisions were only the newly-engraved Wusong naval division's ships, which were new gunboats, but they were not many main ships. In addition to the twelve ones purchased, there were only eight that were imitated in the dock in the past two years, and they were still medium-sized ships with forty-eight guns, which could not be called the main ship.

The dock has only started to imitate the main ships of 64 guns this year, which is also the reason why Zhang Mingzhen stared at Wu Zheng to ask for it, because Wu Zheng wanted to supplement the Zhoushan Navy.

Wang Yilin naturally knew Zhang Mingzhen’s thoughts, so he had a banquet and "bribed" Zhang Mingzhen. Wang Yilin agreed that as long as he succeeded, he could get 30% of Zhang Mingzhen.

However, Zhang Mingzhen proposed 50 or 50 points, otherwise he would break up and follow the plan.

Wang Yilin had no choice but to agree that it would be more generous than not getting anything.

In this way, Wu Zheng's plan was secretly changed by these two people.

The plaintiff's plan was like this. After Wu Zheng learned that the Yongli Dynasty and Zheng Chenggong extended their tentacles into the eastern Zhejiang waters and successfully instigated Wang Deren, his reaction was fierce.

Zhang Mingzhen and Wusong Navy and Wang Yilin were quickly ordered to lead a unit of Zhoushan Navy to wipe out Wang Deren.

Afterwards, Wu Zheng, Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Yilin jointly discussed a plan to prevent and curb the Zheng family's naval forces from heading north, that is, to fight a local naval battle with a controllable scale and deter Zheng Chenggong.

In fact, Wu Zheng was afraid of Zheng Chenggong's navy. He had his new navy. Even if there were new warships, once war started, weapons were not the only factor that affected the outcome of the war.

The Zheng family navy is huge, with the number of warships far exceeding the Wusong navy and the Zhoushan navy several times, no, it should be more than ten times.

The Wusong Navy and Zhoushan Navy together had not exceeded 100 warships, while the Zheng family Navy had exceeded 1,000 a few years ago.

Once the war begins, even if it is a battle, the two navy troops in Wusong and Zhoushan cannot withstand it.

Therefore, Wu Zheng strictly ordered that in this battle, the Wusong Navy was not allowed to defend Jinxiangwei, so he could only set up the battlefield in the waters east of Jinxiangwei.

This is when the courts on both sides argued, they could stand at the highest point of morality after the war.
Chapter completed!