Zheng Zhilong's method is indeed good. Liaoluo Bay is located on the south side of Kinmen Island, which is located in Kinmen Island where the king's army, the king's army that has been stationed in Nanwang for another year.

The shape of Kinmen Island is wide on the east and west sides and the middle part is narrow. In this way, two bays are formed on the north and south sides, and the one to the south is Liaoluo Bay.

Seeing that his strategy was recognized, Zheng Zhilong immediately said, "Mr. Futai, the senior official has another request. I hope that Master Futai can accomplish it so that he can better eliminate the bandits!"

"Please speak with General Zheng! As long as I can do it, there will be no refusal!"

The biggest problem has been solved, Zou Weilian said generously.

"This naval battle is different from a land battle. Once a certain part of the battle has problems, it will definitely affect the overall situation. Therefore, the subordinate begs to hand over all the warships mobilized this time to the subordinate officers to command them in order to exert their maximum combat power and wipe out the red hair!"

"this……"

After hearing what he said, Zou Weilian was a little hesitant. Zheng Zhilong clearly wanted power.

As he said, there will be basically no land war in this battle, only naval warfare, and all the warships are under his command, which means that Zheng Zhilong will fight again in this battle. These civil servants are purely for Zheng Zhilong to be military officials.

Although he had a good attitude towards Zheng Zhilong, he needed to deal with Hongmao and secretly guarded against him. After all, he was a pirate before, and Liu Xiang was still his younger brother. If he won this battle, the first achievement of Zheng Zhilong would be more difficult to control in the future. So Zou Weilian wanted him to take the lead, but he didn't want him to take the lead. This is a typical Zhu Yuanzhang thought.

Seeing him hesitating, Zheng Zhilong did not speak out and pronounced a few words with his mouth shape. Only Zou Weilian, who was directly opposite, saw it, and the latter was cheered up.

Judging from the mouth shape, what Zheng Zhilong said was naturally "Sarhu", which was to remind Zou Weilian not to forget the consequences of the Battle of Sarhu.

The defeat was because the troops were divided into four groups and were defeated one by one. The then commander Yang Hao was detained for defeat and was beheaded in the second year of Chongzhen. If he wanted to learn from Yang Hao's division of troops, he had to consider whether he could bear the consequences of the defeat.

After this reminder, Zou Weilian immediately understood that his worries were not worth mentioning compared to the result of the defeat.

What’s important now is naturally to finish this battle and eliminate the invading bandits. He can also transfer his place to the other place and even enter the cabinet with his command of this battle, and no longer have to worry about the bullshit affairs in Fujian.

"Okay, it's all according to General Zheng. As the saying goes, a talented man is worthy of a beautiful woman, and a sword is given to a hero. General Zheng is a veteran of naval warfare and has great military achievements. When these warships are commanded by the yellow warship, Ben Fu will feel at ease. After returning from victory, Ben Fu will definitely write to the court in person to ask for merit for General Zheng and recommend General Zheng as the navy general!"

Zheng Zhilong got what he wanted, and after kowtowed, he returned to the Zhongzuo Institute and began to prepare for the war.

On September 15, the Fujian Navy dispatched five warships to fight fiercely with two Dutch fleets outside the Tongshan Sea and successfully repelled them. Then the Dutch fleet and Liu Xiang warship retreated to the Liaoluo Bay in the south of Kinmen Island to station.

On September 17, Zou Weilian vowed to make an oath in Haicheng, personally supervising the battle and eliminating the bandits.

In the early morning of September 20th, the sixth year of Chongzhen.

At the third hour of the Yin hour, the Fujian Navy, the Zheng Family Navy, and a small number of seconded Guangdong Navy warships formed a joint fleet and drove out from Haicheng, Zhongzuo Army, and Gulangyu Port, and headed straight toward Liuluo Bay.

The Battle of Liaoluo Bay has officially begun.

There were 53 Fujian Navy warships, and 12 warships reinforced by Guangdong Navy, which were divided into three generals, Gao Yingyue, Zhang Yongchan and Wang Shangzhong.

Of course, the largest number of warships were Zheng Zhilong's warships, including twenty three-masted warships, more than 30 big green heads, and the rest had more than a hundred smaller warships.

It was lightly dawn. When this huge fleet appeared on the west side of Kinmen Island, it was discovered by sentries arranged on Zhai Mountain, the southwest corner of Kinmen Island, and the news was immediately sent back.

At this time, Putsman, the commander of the Dutch fleet, was woken up by the guards. After learning the news, he was also shocked.

When he came to the watchtower of the "Midburg" and suddenly found that Ming army warships were constantly driving from behind Zhai Mountain in the southwest. The torches used to illuminate were as spectacular as a fire dragon. There were at least hundreds of them, and he was stunned for a long time.

The Ming army dispatched so many warships at one time, which was clearly not for the negotiations with him. He directly ordered, "Tell Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu, let them disperse the warships and resist Zheng Yiguan's first round of attack, their benefits will be indispensable after the war!"

"Send orders to all captains, shout the soldiers and prepare for battle!"

Although Putmans has experienced strong storms, he is really mentally unsure at this time because their position is too unfavorable for him.

He now regrets that he has made such a low-level mistake. The Ming army has not launched a large-scale attack before, and the scale of the two sides is not large. At most, there were only more than 30 warships.

So he should have believed that the Ming army and Zheng Zhilong did not dare to fight head-on with them, so he underestimated the enemy and chose a very good garrison like Liaoluowan.

I never expected that the enemy was really here, and it was all out. If it was in the outer sea, even if it could not be defeated, it would still be possible to run away. But now the soldiers are still sleeping and want to retreat to the outer sea, but there is no time left.

Now, we can only give way to the pirates on the periphery to the first so that his fleet can complete combat preparations and then make a decision.

After learning Putmans' arrangement, Liu Xiang almost jumped up and cursed. The red-haired man clearly used him as cannon fodder. He had only more than fifty ships in his hands, and even fewer than twenty ships on Li Guozhu's side, and only more than twenty ships. Zheng Zhilong seemed to have at least one hundred and fifty ships in his hands. How could he fight?

At this time, Liu Xiang's adopted son took the lead and stood up. "Father, this red-haired man is clearly going to kill us. Even if we can win, we will not have a few ships left. Why not take advantage of Zheng Zhilong's encirclement and let's withdraw first. The red-haired warship is here, which is enough for us to escape!"

"The master is right. Guo Huai was defeated in Shandong. Last year we were defeated in Penghu. We were expected to recover our vitality and regroup, but we didn't expect that this red hair would not treat us as human beings at all. We don't need to stay here and be buried with them!"

Liu Xiang waved his hand calmly, "Now you can't retreat, otherwise we will be dead!"

"Did you forget that last year, why did I send Guo Huaiyi to join forces with the Changzhou vassal to attack Dengzhou? Isn't it just to rely on a big tree to enjoy the cool air? Five years ago, Zheng Zhilong betrayed and surrendered to the Ming court. With the support of the Ming court, his business grew bigger and bigger, and more warships were getting more and more. We knocked down one of his ships, and soon he had two more ships. Our ships were getting fewer and fewer. Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin, the former brothers, were defeated by him one by one, and now we can't compete with him!

Now the Ming court has Zheng Zhilong, a good dog, and no longer needs any other dogs. We don’t want to be a dog. The Ming court tried to send Guo Huaiyi to the end last year, but the only thing we can rely on is Honghai.

You all know the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. If we retreat now, we can save most of the warships. However, the Liaoluo Bay is not open to the sea. No matter how strong the red-haired warships are, it is difficult to use them. It will definitely be annihilated. If the red-haired warships are defeated, we have betrayed them again. Will the red-haired hairs in Batavia still support us?"

"Father, are we really going to fight Zheng Zhilong?"

Liu Xiang sighed and said, "If you don't fight hard, you will be dead. Pass on your order and bring out all the money and tell your brothers, who can kill Zheng Zhilong, half of the money will be his, and all the brothers will share the rest of the money together!"

For pirates who are robbing families, no matter how much they say to boost morale, it is not as real as money.

When all the pirates heard what the boss said, their eyes turned green. The boxes of silver in these boxes were probably millions of taels, or even more, the morale of the pirates was immediately boosted, and they were all ready to kill Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong began to deploy troops in full swing, and before completing the formation while the enemy was still preparing for combat.

The wind direction today is very good. The strong wind in the northeast is undoubtedly excellent for the Ming army warships that cut into the southern waters of Kinmen from the northwest, allowing them to advance at full speed and block the enemy ship's retreat.

Zheng Zhilong stood on the bow of the flagship. Through the telescope, Liu Xiang's fifty warships were located in the southwest of Liaoluo Bay, and more than 20 Li Guozhu's more than the southeast. Hongmao's twelve large plywoods were arranged in a defensive formation, located inside Liaoluo Bay.

His combat ideas are clear at a glance. Zheng Zhilong is also a veteran in naval battles, so how to deal with it naturally.

So Zheng Zhilong ordered, "Transfer orders to Gao Yingyue and Zhang Yongchan, and let them lead the warships in the headquarters to attack Liu Xiang's troops!"

Zheng Zhilong naturally would not arrange his own people to do the task of taking the lead. Although Liu Xiang is not as difficult as Hongmao, during their attack, Hongmao would not stare at him without staring at him. He would definitely launch artillery attacks. The attacking party's losses will definitely not be small, so let these outsiders bear it.

To be honest, his warship would not take any advantage when it faced the big red-haired plywood.

The big red-haired plywood was equipped with forty or fifty cannons, while his largest 20 three-masted warships could only be equipped with twelve cannons at most, and those smaller warships were only four or five cannons.

But he was not worried at all, because this time he prepared a big killing weapon - the fire ship.

He has more than a hundred fire ships in his hand. Although these ships are not big, the twenty are not as heavy as one of them, but they are better than the number.

Each ship is full of fuel and tinder oil, and can be manually disconnected to divide the hull into two halves. When it reaches a certain distance, the half of the fuel can be ignited and the enemy ship is rushed to the wind, while the soldiers on the ship return in the other half.

What he has to do now is to wait for Gao Yingyue and Zhang Yongchan to tear open Liu Xiang's peripheral formation, and then wait until the wind direction is right, release more than 100 fire ships together and rush towards the large red-haired splint.

No matter how powerful the red-haired warships are, they cannot withstand such fire attacks. After all, their warships are also built of wood, and the sails and ropes on the ship are very easy to ignite. Even if they cannot be destroyed, just burning the sails of the large splint and causing them to lose their ability to move, they can seize the enemy ship by jumping to the gang.

They adopted such a tactic last month, but at that time it was in the outer sea, the red-haired warships could move quickly and fired fireworks while retreating, causing nearly half of the forty fireships to lose, but there was no result in the slightest victory.

This time it was different. They docked in the relatively narrow waters of Liaoluo Bay, with inconvenient mobility and more than 100 fire ships were difficult to avoid.

Gao Yingyue and Zhang Yongchan's mentality was similar to Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu at this time, but they both bit the bullet and took it. Who made him Zheng Zhilong the strongest and get the command of this war from the governor?

Their warships have only more than forty in total, and are mainly blessed ships, and their equipment level is relatively low.

After all, as a serious Ming navy, he is naturally not as generous as Zheng Zhilong, the former pirate leader, and the number of artillery is far inferior to that of the two. The two ships only have seven or eight guns, and only two red cannons, and the rest are all Folang machines. On average, the remaining warships only have two guns per ship.

Therefore, their battle with Liu Xiang was basically a battle on the sidelines. If they wanted to play artillery battles with Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang wanted it, but they didn't have the strength at all.

Gao Yingyue and Zhang Yongchan adopted the mad dog tactic. Four or five ships surrounded a pirate ship, and they solved them one by one, and did not play a one-on-one single fight with Liu Xiang at all. Liu Xiang was not willing to be outdone and tried every means to cut off the Ming army warships. Once there were any ones that were driven, several ships immediately rushed on.

The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce. The jumping gangs at sea were fighting, and they could not wear heavy armor at all. Basically, they were white knives coming in, red knives coming out, and the sound of swords and guns entering the flesh was endless. Screams, screams, and moans were noisy.

In addition, the musket soldiers on both sides also rely on the watchtower and mast to shoot at the enemy soldiers who are close to each other. While fighting with the soldiers and pirates below, a person would fall from the top of their heads from time to time.

The Dutch fleet was not idle either. Under Putmans' command, shelled the Ming army warships that besieged Liu Xiang. Although it might accidentally hurt Liu Xiang's warships, among the small battle groups, there were only one warships, and there were four or five Ming army warships, which was not very likely. Moreover, shelling could also interfere with the Ming army's attack, which could also provide cover for these lonely Liu Xiang warships.

Gao Yingyue and Zhang Yongchan fought with Liu Xiang in a group, and it was difficult to solve. Zheng Zhilong also believed that the time was ripe, so he decisively ordered the Zheng army warships that had been waiting for a long time to pass through the battle group and attack the Dutch fleet. More than one hundred fire ships followed closely.
Chapter completed!