Zheng Zhilong never expected Gu Sanmazi to take the initiative to attack his fleet, nor did he expect that his third brother would be defeated so miserably. Tianlai Novel

Gu Sanmazi, Gu Sanmazi, this pirate leader who was just a small pirate leader in northern Zhejiang Province, had he actually become a roadblock for him now!

When Zheng Zhilong thought of this, he was a little dissatisfied and had to let his third brother Zheng Zhibao tell the story one by one.

"Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. At this time, anger and regret are useless. Since the situation has changed, the strategy has to change. Now that the court's South China Sea Fleet takes the initiative to attack us, it is to tear the face openly, and we don't need to be polite to the court anymore."

Zheng Zhilong said suddenly and realized a problem, so he hurriedly said, "Wait, third brother, can you capture one of the South China Sea Fleet, but can you leave any evidence that they attack you first?"

Zheng Zhibao looked at Zheng Zhilong in shock. When he was competing with the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, he chased and fought along the way. In the end, he was trapped in the reef and was suppressed by the South China Sea Fleet. He could not help but say: "Gu Sanmazi is too cunning. He led us to Luzon before attacking. I was reckless and started fighting directly. When we were trapped, we were already in danger of protecting ourselves, so how could we have the chance to capture their people."

After hearing what Zheng Zhibao said, Zheng Zhilong was so angry that he stomped his feet and pointed at Zheng Zhibao and said, "You are confused, you, I really wish I could cut off your head now to sacrifice to the entire army. We can't come up with any evidence to prove that it was the South China Sea Fleet who fought against us. Even if we go to Xiong Wencan to judge, Xiong Wencan will not admit it. If you blame this naval battle on other pirates, what should we do?"

Zheng Zhibao touched the back of his head. He had never thought about these things, so he couldn't say anything else, so he had to let Zheng Zhilong point his nose and teach him a lesson.

"Brother, it is not the time to teach our third brother a lesson. From the Battle of Ryukyu to this time, we have suffered a lot. As the saying goes, a real man can tolerate people who cannot tolerate them. Not only the people of the court are trying to swallow us. There are still several pirates who covet our Zheng family. We cannot continue to have a relationship with the court again, so as to give those pirates, especially Li Kuiqi's troops, an opportunity to avoid another person like Gu Sanmazi, who will join the court as a lackey of the court and then take the opportunity to annex us to strengthen his own territory;

With the current strategy of Your Majesty Zhu Youxiao, you may not agree that a maritime overlord like our Zheng family will have an independent armed fleet, but in order to break the sea balance and suppress us, he may not disagree with Li Kuiqi and other pirate groups that can form our opponents to continue to grow.

It is said that the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang Zhou Zuo and Li Kuiqi have always been in close contact with each other. Otherwise, if he had besieged Guangzhou City this time, Li Kuiqi, who also received the invitation from the Folang Jiren, would not have rejected Turiya's invitation on the grounds that he had suffered severe damage to the headquarters of the Hurricane and was unable to participate in the great cause. His attitude clearly shows that he was deliberately trying to maintain neutrality between the court and us!"

Zheng Hongkui walked up to him at this time and couldn't help but say a few words.

After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong nodded deeply and pointed at Zheng Zhibao again: "You, learn hard with your fourth brother! Use your brain more often, Gu Sanmazi can think of luring you to Luzon to win a surprise victory. Why didn't you, a veteran who has been on the sea for decades, think of this!"

After teaching Zheng Zhibao a lesson, Zheng Zhilong brought his fleet back to Kinmen according to Zheng Hongkui's proposal, and sent someone to send a generous gift to Xiong Wencan, preparing to consolidate and expand his power. For this reason, he also hired craftsmen to imitate the steam-powered warship of the Ming Dynasty. However, he did not know what the power the iron warship was relying on, and he still thought it was relying on sailing and manpower, so his thinking was always wrong.

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Turiya didn't expect that the Zheng family's fleet would leave quietly. He wanted to hold Zheng Zhilong and ask, "He was preparing to join forces with all forces to attack Guangzhou City." What does your man suddenly leave without saying goodbye? This would be like shaking the morale of the entire joint fleet.

However, Turiya didn't know that Zheng Zhilong had his own considerations when he took his fleet so quietly and left silently. He didn't want these Folang Ji people and Hongfan Gui to know that he had just experienced a big defeat. After all, these people were like Li Kuiqi who would become his enemies at any time.

Turiya is now in a dilemma. He was going to directly defeat Guangzhou City and he was angry. After all, the Ming official in Guangzhou City killed one of his subordinates, which was equivalent to insulting his dignity.

But now that the Zheng family left, even if he could capture Guangzhou City, he would inevitably suffer serious losses. In addition, the losses caused by the siege of Guangzhou City before, he did not know whether his fleet would go bankrupt. After all, when he came here from the ocean, he borrowed a lot of foreign debt.

Turia suspended the attack, and after learning that Shang and Zhou Zuo had mobilized more troops to Guangzhou Fucheng, he had to lift the siege of Guangzhou Fucheng again.

This made Turiya very depressed, but what he didn't know was that there would be a news that would make him even more depressed.

Turia no longer wants to compete with an empire with such a tough attitude. He now just wants to return to Macau, hold his lover and have a good sleep, and then go around Macau. Even if the Ming Dynasty wants to take back their right to live in Macau, he will organize a counterattack in Macau instead of being frustrated here, which is useless!

However, just as Turiya breathed a sigh of relief and thought she was about to return to Macau, a broken soft-sailed warship was stumbled towards his flagship. Turiya recognized that this was Erdodni's ship, but he didn't understand that Erdodni had always loved his sailing ship very much, so why did it become so ragged at this time? Turiya also instinctively realized that maybe something happened to Macau.

So he ordered people to invite the person on the ragged sailboat to his deck. What he didn't expect was that there was no Erdodni on the sailboat, but Erdodni's servant Harroxi. As soon as Harroxi got ashore, he told Turiya the news that Macau was suddenly attacked by a group of unidentified pirates and caused Macau to fall.

Turiya was very surprised by this. He never expected that there would be pirates in this area who dared to provoke him, and even attacked his rear and occupied Macau.

This means that I am now homeless, and the goods hoarded in Macau, including 100,000 kilograms of opium transported from Southeast Asia, may have been put into the hands of these pirates.
Chapter completed!