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Now after hearing the news, Zhu Yifeng breathed a long sigh of relief. In their opinion, by doing this, Sea Wolf obviously retreated from the difficulties and was not prepared to defend Nanri Island. In this way,

, as long as they can capture Nanri Island with a thunderous blow, and drive Sea Wolf out of Fuzhou Xinghua Prefecture and other coastal areas, then it will be considered a success. As for Sea Wolf retreating to Taiyuan Island, that is another story.

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As long as they can conquer Nanri Island and pacify the coastal area, they can report victory to the imperial court. Even if the Wei Party wants to harm him, with this great achievement in hand, the Wei Party may not be able to defeat him in a short time.

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Although Zhu Yifeng was mentally prepared that he would be overthrown by Wei Zhongxian's party and be dismissed from office, but since he could reach the status of a high-ranking official like the governor, no one wanted to lose this official position easily. If he could work for a while, he would still work harder.

Better for a while!

At this time, news came from Quanzhou that the long-awaited fleet of red-haired people's large plywood boats finally arrived. On the second day of November, a fleet of red-haired people's large plywood boats composed of seven large plywood boats arrived.

The fleet finally appeared in Quanzhou Bay and sailed into Quanzhou Bay.

This news made Zhu Yifeng overjoyed. Although he was not interested in the red-haired people, he could even say he was very hostile. In recent years, the red-haired people have been harassing the coastal areas of Fujian, especially in Zhangquan and other places. Zhu Yifeng had been there before.

Fujian appointed Si You, the Chief Envoy of Fujian, to participate in politics and also held the post of Inspector Si Qianshi, so he was well aware of this.

When Nan Juyi was in charge of Fujian, he used troops against Penghu. Zhu Yifeng was also involved in this matter, so he naturally did not have a good impression of the red-haired people.

But this time he has to deal with Sea Wolf. Although he has tried his best to expand the strength of the navy this year, he is still vaguely uneasy about the strength of the navy. In addition, Sea Wolf is indeed powerful, so he will obey

On the advice of the staff, it was decided to ask the red-haired people to assist the government in suppressing the sea wolves.

Although he was not very willing to do this, for the sake of safety, he finally made this move. In his view, using barbarians to control thieves is a matter of leveraging strength. Although this matter may attract criticism, as long as

If we can capture Nanri Island, then other things will be easy to discuss.

Now in his eyes, the biggest enemy is the sea wolf. These red-haired people have withdrawn from Penghu and established themselves on Taiyuan Island. This matter is beyond his control.

Although the officials of the Ming Dynasty had the consciousness of defending the territory, few of them considered opening up the territory. The island of Taiwan itself has never been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the red-haired people have gone to the island of Taiwan, they have also Not willing to take too much care, and with the idea that doing more is worse than doing less, we adopted the ostrich policy and allowed the red-haired people to occupy the top positions.

And now that the sea wolves have also occupied two places on Taiwan Island, they will naturally be regarded as a threat by the red-haired people. Although Zhu Yifeng does not know the saying that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, he still knows the meaning behind it.

Therefore, when the staff suggested that the red-haired people could be invited to help in the attack on the sea wolves, Zhu Yifeng planned to let the red-haired people and the sea wolf dogs bite the dogs, so he made such a decision.

It was out of fear of the sea wolves that even though Yu Zigao had repeatedly asked for a fight more than half a month ago, asking to start the attack on the sea wolves on Nanri Island, Zhu Yifeng was afraid that something would go wrong and never allowed it.

Yu Zigao acted on his own initiative and had to wait for his order before mobilizing troops.

What he was waiting for was the arrival of the red-haired people. Now the red-haired people's fleet has finally arrived, and it is said that seven large plywood boats came at once, which are very majestic and majestic. These large plywood boats are filled with red barbarian cannons, and even more powerful.

It makes people feel that the red-haired people are so powerful that anyone who encounters them will probably not be able to get a good deal.

At this time, Zhu Yifeng's confidence increased even more. He immediately stood up and ordered someone to pass on his order, ordering Yu Zigao and Zhang Jiace to immediately launch an attack on Nanri Island.

Yongning Guard was built in the 27th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was the three most famous acropolis of the Ming Dynasty, as famous as the Tianjin Guard and Weihai Guard.

Yongningwei is located on the north shore of Shenhu Bay, in Yongning Town, Shishi City in later generations. It is built on the sea and against the mountains. The city walls are all made of staggered granite stone strips, which are very strong.

Yongning Guard itself has more than ten thousand-household offices under its jurisdiction. There are five thousand-household offices on the left, right, front, and back inside the acropolis. Outside the acropolis, there are Fuquan (Jinjiang), Chongwu (Hui'an), Kinmen, and Zhongzuo (Xiamen).

), Gaopu (Tong'an), and Baiyeban (Anxi) six guarding thousands of households.

It has always been the most important coastal gateway in Fujian. It is responsible for guarding the entire Zhangquan area and guarding against Japanese invaders. During the Jiajing period, Japanese pirates invaded Yongning Guard many times. There were many fierce battles between the army and Japanese pirates here.

This time Zhu Yifeng insisted on attacking Nanri Island, but he accepted the lesson learned by Prime Minister Zhu Qin last time and did not dare to concentrate the warships on the coast of Xinghua Prefecture, for fear that Sea Wolf would repeat his old tricks and strike first.

, kill their warships and troop-carrying cargo ships.

Therefore, the navy in southern Fujian was mainly concentrated in Yongning Guard, and was assembled in the Shenhu Bay. Yu Zigao was put in charge of the command. A total of nearly 200 ships of various sizes were assembled, and the entire Shenhu Bay was assembled.

It turned into a scene of forest of masts.

This time, the red-haired man's fleet also arrived at Shenhu Bay to meet up with the navy. The old rivals in the past suddenly turned into friendly forces, which made Yu Zigao very unhappy.

Because Yu Zigao personally participated in the Battle of Penghu, when Nan Juyi sent troops to attack Penghu Hongmao City, the attack could not be taken for a long time, so Yu Zigao was finally transferred to Penghu and was responsible for leading the musketeers to set up artillery to attack the city.

Yu Zigao had personally seen battles with the red-haired people, and was even nearly killed by the red-haired people's cannons several times, but now he had to cooperate with the red-haired people, which made Yu Zigao very unhappy.

But he also had to admit that the red-haired people were indeed very capable of ships and artillery. Although they only came with seven large plywood boats, the combat power of these seven large plywood boats far exceeded that of what he was currently doing.

The combined combat power of so many ships assembled by Yongning Guard.

No matter how unhappy he was, he had to rely on the warships of these red-haired men, because he himself knew very well that the sea wolf would not be easy to deal with. With just the warships he had assembled, if they encountered the sea wolf's desperate resistance, he would probably be destroyed.

He may not be able to get a bargain either.

But now that these large plywood boats of red-haired people have been added, things have become much simpler. Although it is true that the sea wolf is very powerful, in their view, no matter how powerful the sea wolf is, it will not be easy to encounter the red-haired man.

The big plywood boats like the Mao people are inevitably deflated, so now that the red people are here, they really have nothing to worry about.

But after meeting Wei Te, the commander of the red-haired fleet, Yu Zigao found that this red-haired man was too arrogant and did not take their Ming army's warships seriously at all. After arriving here, Wei

Te directly proposed that their fleet of red-haired men could assist the Ming Navy, but they would not obey Yu Zigao's orders.

Waite asked Yu Zigao to provide him with various supplies and to act independently, not to be mixed with the official navy fleet, but only to be responsible for escorting the official fleet to Nanri Island. As for the Red Army,

Mao Ren's fleet is all under his own command, otherwise, he will not participate in this operation.

After hearing this, Yu Zigao became furious and wanted to scold Waite, but was dissuaded by Tian Youren, who came to act as the supervisor.

Although Tian Youren had no actual position, he was Zhu Yifeng's staff and had a reputation of praising paintings, so Yu Zigao had to give Tian Youren face.

After Tian Youren listened to Waite's request, he stopped Yu Zigao, who was about to lose his temper, and told Yu Zigao that it was not easy to get angry about this matter. Once the talks broke down, it would not be beneficial to the subsequent cooperation, and the red-haired man's

They did not know the performance of the ship, so Waite's request was not necessarily unacceptable.

As long as the red-haired people agree to escort the fleet to Nanri Island, then this matter can be easily discussed. What Zhu Yifeng and Tian Youren are most worried about now is not that they cannot capture Nanri Island, but that they are worried about being attacked by the sea during the voyage.

The ambush or interception of the wolf fleet, the last time Zhu Qinxiang was careless, the Nanri Water Village was destroyed, and most of the warships that were originally intended to transport and escort the land division were destroyed by the Sea Wolf, which ultimately made it impossible to continue the attack on Nanri Island.

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Zhu Yifeng learned a lesson this time. What he paid special attention to was the safety during the voyage. As long as the red-haired people were willing to escort the fleet to Nanri Island, even if the Sea Wolf fleet set up an ambush, as long as there were red-haired people's ships

As long as the fleet is here, everything will probably be fine. The red-haired men's ships can easily defeat the Sea Wolf's fleet. This is the consensus of all official civil and military officials.

Therefore, since Waite proposed that he would command his fleet on his own, it is understandable and he can completely agree to his request. As for the various supplies he requested, this matter itself is a request from others, and they have made some points.

It is a matter of course to ask for it.

After hearing Tian Youren's persuasion, Yu Zigao suppressed his anger. Thinking about it, he had to agree to Waite's conditions and handed over the list of needed supplies that Waite gave him to his subordinates for processing.

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Yu Zigao will not pay for these expenses himself. Although Zhu Yifeng has allocated a considerable amount of materials to him, in his opinion, these materials are still not enough, and the things Waite asked for

The amount of supplies is also huge, and many of them are even irrelevant things, such as raw silk, porcelain, tea, etc. How can these things be considered supplies in themselves? They are simply extortion! They just want to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

Therefore, Yu Zigao would not try to get these supplies for Waite, and simply threw them all to Xu Xinsu, asking Xu Xinsu to find a way to meet Waite's requirements.

Xu Xinsu had just knocked out his teeth and swallowed them in his stomach. Originally, he was not happy about the government colluding with the Dutch to attack the sea wolves, but he was forced to act as an intermediary to contact the Dutch.

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