Chapter 118: The Fujian Rebellion (5)
If there is a truly thoughtful person, he will find that there are surprisingly many messengers from Lingnan to Guanzhong these days.
Because someone kept relaying the news, the difference between the time Yun Zhao received the news and the actual time what happened in Lingnan was less than fifteen days.
Therefore, every news Yun Zhao saw was a real event that happened fifteen days ago.
It was already midnight when the news of the bombing of Zheng Zhihu Temple and the killing of 562 people below Zheng Zhilong came.
After Yun Zhao got up and read the documents, he hurried back to the big study and gave many orders to Yang Xiong and Qian Shao Shao.
Before dawn, countless messengers left Yushan City in a hurry.
Nowadays, the entire Fujian land is looking for Zheng Zhilong’s murderer, especially Zheng Zhilong’s younger brother Zheng Zhibao, and Zheng Zhilong’s son Zheng Jing are the most crazy.
Zheng Zhibao did not hesitate to offer a reward of ten thousand gold, and searched for traces of the murderer all over the world. As for Zheng Jing, he was already searching everywhere for the remnants of Liu Xiang.
Because, on the day Zheng Zhilong arrived at Zheng Zhihu Temple, it was the remnants of Liu Xiang who were planning to assassinate Zheng Zhilong.
The murder of Zheng Zhilong also frightened the other characters in Shibazhi.
They couldn’t believe that Zheng Zhilong’s 500 bodyguards were wiped out on Humen Beach.
Zheng Zhilong once boasted about Haikou, saying that as long as he had the five hundred guards under his command, he could go to Haikou no matter how big the world was.
Now, except for the bodies of Shi Lang and the other six guards, some of them have been found. Therefore, some people think that if there is no internal response, it is impossible for these 500 guards to even fight back. Those who had no strength were killed on the beach.
This was first said by Zheng Zhibao.
Then, Zheng Jing, who was wearing sackcloth and wearing filial piety, was as furious as a wild beast and killed Shi Lang's family without any explanation.
The battlefield was cleaned extremely clean by those people. Except for the traces of gunpowder explosions, as well as the shrapnel and lead bullets dug out from the guards, they basically found nothing extra.
The Eighteen Zhizhong people reconstructed the bombing of Zhengzhi Tiger Temple... Then, they targeted the Dutch!
Only the Dutch have so many firearms, and only the Dutch can use gunpowder so skillfully.
They even found the hiding holes dug by the men in black.
On the ninth day of October, Zheng Zhilong’s first day.
Someone in the Eighteen Zhizhi suggested that a snake should be elected without a head, and that a new leader should be elected in the Eighteenth Zhizhi.
Zheng Zhibao proposed that his nephew Zheng Jing be the leader, but he was rejected by Shiba Zhizhong on the grounds that he was mentally immature and had no merit, and only gave Zheng Jing the position of deputy leader.
At this time, Zheng Zhibao stood up to fulfill his brother's ambition and stick to his position as leader for his nephew.Reason defeated the others and became the boss of Shibazhi.
However, most of the people in the Eighteen Zhizhi were unruly pirates. When Zheng Zhilong was here, no one dared to oppose Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong killed Xu Xinsu, Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang, defeated the Dutch, made good friends with the Japanese, and colonized Taiwan, and then he became the overlord of the Eastern Sea.
Even the Dutch cannot directly trade with the Japanese beyond Zheng Zhilong.
His prestige is completely achieved by fighting with swords and guns, and no one dares to ignore him.
Now that Zheng Zhilong is dead, the biggest obstacle to the pirates' new operation has finally been removed.
For a time, people’s minds change.
It was not just the pirates who were obsessed with changing their minds. Even the Dutch who were entrenched on the island of Taiwan believed that their opportunity had come and began to quietly approach the Penghu Islands.
The most important part of Han Lingshan’s Fujian plan is to provoke a war!
He never thought that he could be invincible at sea, so after killing Zheng Zhilong, he took advantage of the favorable wind direction and headed straight to Zhangzhou Mansion without stopping.
This time his target will be the Dutch!
At this time, the Zheng family is like a powder keg. It only needs a little spark to explode.
Han Lingshan planned to make this Mars.
The power of the Zheng family in the Eighteen Zhizhi is too huge. If they cannot divert their attention, it will still be difficult for Lantian County to develop its power in the land of Fujian.
This is also an important reason why Zheng Zhibao dares to cooperate with the Yun family. He firmly believes that with the powerful Zheng family, the Yun family, a tiger on the mountain, even if it wants to take advantage, it is only in business. piece.
The Yun family’s business partners are obviously the high-sea pirates they placed in Malacca. It is impossible to compete with him for the maritime trade routes of Japan, Taiwan, and even North Korea.
As long as Zheng firmly controls these three places, he will be invincible.
What he didn’t know was how could Yun Zhao, a wild boar, satisfy his appetite with just a little bit of maritime trade.
Since the Battle of Penghu, there have been basically no Ming people on the Penghu Islands. It has become a paradise for pirates. They have occupied islands with water sources, like a lawless country.
Anyone who is familiar with the ocean is very aware of the importance of the Penghu Islands. Occupying this area, one can reach the Matsu Islands, Dachen Island and Zhoushan Islands to the north, and the Dongsha Islands to the south. , Nansha Islands.
It can also lead to the southeastern countries and remotely control all sea trade business with Japan and North Korea.
The Dutch understand that if they cannot occupy the Penghu Islands when the Zheng family has no time to worry about it, then the Zheng family will definitely use the Penghu Islands as a springboard to compete with them for Taiwan Island in the future.
This is nothing more than a question of first move and second move. At this point, the Dutch appear to be very smart.
In just six days, they captured Baisha Island, the third largest island in the Penghu Islands.
The pirate Chen Liu stationed on Baisha Island was unable to resist the fierce fire attack from the Dutch armed merchant ships and had to retreat to the nearby Yuweng Island.
After Chen Liu's people fled in panic to Yuweng Island, they were greeted by dense bullets.
All the more than 720 pirates under Chen Liu were killed on the white beach of Yuweng Island.
As soon as Han Lingshan finished disposing of the bodies of Chen Liu and others, the Dutch warship appeared on the sea level.
After standing in the coconut grove and looking through the telescope for a while, he waited for the Dutch to land.
He had no intention of challenging the Dutch at sea.
As soon as the tall and pavilion-like armed merchant ship approached Yuweng Island, the artillery on the island began to fire off its power. Unfortunately, this kind of small cannon with a thousand pounds of Folan machine did nothing but create some splashes on the sea. As a result, it didn't even have the ability to deter the Dutch.
A burst of gunpowder smoke rose from the armed merchant ship, and then countless black artillery shells rained down on it. In a short time, the simple artillery position on Yuweng Island was smashed into a mess. .
Han Lingshan frowned and glanced at the coconut tree that was broken by the shell. He did not expect that the power of the Dutch artillery was so sharp.
The armed merchant ships slowly approached Fisherman Island. After reaching the shallow sea, hundreds of small boats were released from these two armed merchant ships. The Dutch soldiers in iron armor shook the oars. , under the cover of artillery fire, the landing began.
Under the cover of artillery fire from armed merchant ships, this battle was basically impossible to fight. Therefore, Han Lingshan ordered his 500 subordinates to march towards the center of the island.
The Dutch, who did not know that their opponents had changed, still paid enough attention to pirates like Chen Liu. After landing, they did not actively approach the island, but camped on the beach.
So, in the sunset, the scene of metal figures swinging on the beach made Han Lingshan's subordinates quite fearful.
When the four old Yushan thieves saw this, they laughed, told Han Lingshan to go and come back, and then dived into the coconut forest.
An hour later, when the sky was completely dark, the old Yushan thieves came back, and at the same time, they also dragged back two Dutch soldiers who had been knocked unconscious.
Looking at the Dutch's armor, which was making a faint noise, Han Lingshan slashed the long knife in his hand. The Dutch soldiers who had just been awakened by the cold water screamed in horror when they saw this.
Before the screams stopped, his steel armor was actually split from the middle by the steel knife in Han Lingshan's hand. The armor was split, but the Dutchman's flesh was not hurt.
"That's it!"
Han Lingshan spat contemptuously, and then said to the subordinates around him: "It's your turn."
With These red eyebrows and green eyes fight against the evil Dutch, and their subordinates may be timid, but, no matter how ferocious these two evil spirits are, they are still prisoners. Therefore, the subordinates imitated Han Lingshan and slashed them down with a heavy knife.
Lack of strength and poor accuracy, the armor cut a half-foot-long gash, and a similarly long blood gash was cut on the body.
Han Lingshan ignored the Dutchman’s screams and said coldly to the deployers: “Next one!”
One after another, until all five hundred people were gone. After all the experiments, the two Dutchmen and their armors had been chopped into pulp.
"Let's fight like this tomorrow."
Han Lingshan glanced at the two piles of minced meat on the ground and said: "If you are really scared, just find a piece of meat and eat it. I’m not afraid anymore.”
After saying that, he jumped into the hammock tied to the coconut tree and fell asleep deeply with the long knife in his arms.
I don’t know if anyone ate the minced meat to strengthen their courage. When he got up in the morning, Han Lingshan saw the Dutch holding firecrackers and starting to search the island with axes and spears.
Strangely, the person walking at the front was not a soldier, but a priest wearing a black hat. He was holding something like a censer in his hand, chanting and following the instructions of the commander. direction forward.
The tall divine flags make this upcoming war even more bizarre.
Han Lingshan sneered, and when the priest and the two apprentices with no hair on their heads had just walked into the shooting range of the bow and arrow, he suddenly drew the big bow, and with a "buzz" sound, a finger The thick and thin feather arrows flew out.
Without waiting for the arrow to hit the target, he drew the bow twice in succession. Three feather arrows shot through the throats of the priest and the priest's apprentice almost at the same time. At the same time, more crossbow arrows were also shot. go out.
The Dutch, who were suddenly attacked, only panicked for a moment before raising an iron shield in front of them to protect themselves firmly on all sides.
Feather arrows and crossbow arrows fell on the shield, making a jingling sound and falling to the ground one after another.
Han Lingshan was not surprised that the crossbow arrows were ineffective.
Wave his subordinates to stop shooting and wait for the Dutch to continue approaching.
The Dutch slowly charged forward with their shields raised, their long axes and spears stretched forward, as if they wanted a hand-to-hand battle more than Han Lingshan.