Because Fujian and Guangdong and Guangxi were preparing to fight, for a moment, Fujian and Guangdong were in turmoil.

Fishermen in coastal areas hid and went ashore one after another, and in a short period of time, they didn't even dare to go fishing.

There is no way. If you are not careful, you will be affected by the disaster and die without a place to bury it.

Liu Xiang and other bandits in the seas of Guangdong and Guangxi have also been recruiting pirates during this period and are entrenched in the Pearl River Estuary area, trying to use this as a stronghold to prepare to invade the coastal areas of Fujian.

In fact, the dispute over interests between the two sides is mainly about the control of the Taiwan Strait.

Most of the merchant ships in the seas that were thousands of miles away from this era took the Taiwan Strait.

And this wealth path is naturally taken for himself by Fujian Zheng Zhilong.

But at this time, the pirates from Guangdong and Guangxi were not weak, including half-thieves and half-marketers such as Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi, He Bin, Zheng Jinxin, Cai Qian, Zhu Qi, and others, as well as Ma Huzi, who worked as pirates, went to sea to get off the sea, and Mazi Li and other bandits.

The vast sea is vast, and it is extremely difficult to divide the sea areas between the two places.

Not to mention Zheng Zhilong, what he wants is not to distribute interests, but to wipe out or annex many pirate groups in Guangdong.

In this way, no one has any way out. Once the fire breaks out, it will inevitably be a life-and-death situation.

Zheng Zhilong in Fujian is greedy for the prosperity of the Xiangjiang area, and Guangdong pirates are naturally greedy for the waterway of the Taiwan Strait. In addition, the power is difficult to divide. For a long time, various pirate gangs in the two places have made a lot of enemies with each other.

Among the pirates in Guangdong, there were about 500 scum who forgot their ancestors, and about 200 Japanese pirates and ronin who accepted Zheng Zhilong's employment.

Zheng Zhilong not only formed a brigade of Japanese pirates, but also gathered all the black men from Fujian and coastal areas to form a black musket stand-up team, which was exactly the same as his historical actions.

However, things suddenly changed.

Whether it was Zheng Zhilong or Liu Xiang, they never expected that the big shot that was disrupting the situation would take action.

The Emperor of Southern Ming suddenly issued an edict to recruit Liu Xiang and other bandit leaders, and ordered them to immediately form the Guangdong Navy and join the Fujian Navy in Yuegang before June 20th.

Then, on the morning of June 21, after the ship and weapons transactions between the Southern Ming court and the Dutch, they immediately set off from the sea and cooperated with the 300,000 army soldiers of the Great Governor of Beizhen, Liu Zeqing, to launch a blitzkrieg to recover Shandong!

At this moment, it was Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang’s turn and they were immediately stunned!

It's really not OK to not accept the order.

The current Southern Ming Dynasty court has a regular army of 1.2 million. It can easily drive all the pirates, including Zheng Zhilong, into the sea!

Among the 300,000 new troops, Zheng Zhilong can control no more than 300,000 horses, and most of the soldiers will never obey Zheng Zhilong's orders and fight against the court.

Zheng Zhilong wants to completely control the 300,000 army, which is not something that can be achieved in the short term. It will take at least a few years, and it will take countless money and food.

So, a big conflict that was about to break out turned into a farce.

Everyone immediately eliminated the disaster, looked for their mothers and went back to their homes.

However, for Liu Xiang Group, which is almost always in desperate situations, this is a good thing and a great thing.

Because he knew that on his side, no matter what forces, ships, manpower, combat power..., in every aspect, could compare with Zheng Zhilong.

The crisis that was about to be destroyed was eliminated in this way. All the pirates in the seas of Guangdong and Guangxi happily accepted the rewards from the Southern Ming court.

The powerful Guangdong Navy was formed at an extremely fast speed.

Liu Xiang was still the admiral of the Guangdong Navy, and the other generals, deputy generals, generals, etc. were all divided by these pirates of all sizes according to their own strength.

Now that we have the protection umbrella of the Southern Ming Dynasty, everyone is really not afraid of Zheng Zhilong.

Everyone has repaired all the ships and made the craftsmen of the newly established Pearl River Estuary Shipyard to be completely renovated.

Until June 18th, with the order of Admiral Liu Xiang, the mighty Guangdong Navy began to set out towards Yuegang in Fujian.

Their fleet is quite large, with nearly ten large-scale armed merchant ships of Westerners, twenty large blessed ships of seven hundred materials, and thirty second blessed ships of five hundred materials to four hundred materials.

There are also seventy Haicang ships with 200 materials, nearly three hundred Cangshan ships with 150 to 100 materials, as well as thirty three hundred materials supply ships, and fifty two hundred materials supply ships.

There were more than 500 ships of all sizes and sizes, carrying about 30,000 sailors and soldiers.

There are not many artillery guns, probably all the large and small artillery guns and earth cannons together, with less than a thousand, and most of them are No. 2 Folang machine bronze cannons with a range of not far, or they are tiger squat cannons.

Only those artillery No. 1 and the large Western armed merchant ships that were robbed by them were included on them.

Compared with the Fujian Navy today, the Guangdong Navy's firepower is completely at a disadvantage.

However, after arriving in Fujian and joining with Zheng Zhilong's Fujian Navy, they will soon make a big deal with the Dutch.

At that time, many red-clothed cannons and muskets will be allocated, which will be able to increase the firepower of the Guangdong Navy at least one level.

Liu Xiang has a very stable personality. In addition to these sea boats, he also brought about a hundred fire ships.

These fire ships were either dragged away by large ships or hid on supply ships. They were the main force in dealing with the Northern Ming Dynasty navy in Shandong!

Although it is very primitive, this is also a way he thought of with great combat destructive power.

On June 20th, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the Guangdong Navy led by Liu Xiang had arrived in Yuegang, Quanzhou.

The huge fleet, like an ant colony, slowly moved in, not very fast, but the huge sense of oppression made people feel even more stressful.

The defenders and merchants on Yuegang made cheers, and even though they were a few miles away, Liu Xiang and the others could vaguely hear the cheers here.

Liu Xiang stood on the stern of a 400-material broad ship. This broad ship was basically made of iron and litchi wood. Among the broad ships, it was the most sturdy one. Liu Xiang used it as his handsome ship.

On the sea around his handsome ship, hundreds of ships of various types are densely driven, with a large scale, which can be said to be a unique scene in Guangdong and Fujian in recent years.

Liu Xiang glanced at a fleet on the sea several miles away on the right side of his handsome ship, and felt a little sour.

Although the fleet was less than three hundred, its quality was much better than the fleet he controlled.

Especially among them, there are several large plywood ships with soft sails, which are rare things among pirate ships.

That striking large fleet was the Fujian Navy fleet of his old rival Zheng Zhilong.

Over the past so long, he and Zheng Zhilong have had many dirty things. Zheng Zhilong always wanted to replace him and occupy the area around the estuary of the Pearl River.

Nowadays, everyone knows that whoever controls the Pearl River Estuary is the boss of Guangdong's coastal areas.

Therefore, Liu Xiang has always regarded Zheng Zhilong as a confidant, and has tried many ways to attack him over the years.

But this guy seemed like Xiaoqiang, like a loach, and he was slippery and couldn't kill him, and he became bigger and bigger.

Especially after Zheng Zhi took the lead in surrendering to the Southern Ming court, his rapid rise has become the veritable boss of the coastal areas of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Now this old opponent has formed an alliance with him to fight the Northern Ming Dynasty Navy entrenched on the Shandong Peninsula.

Liu Xiang knew very well that this battle would not be so easy.

If the Northern Ming court was so easy to deal with, the Southern Ming court would not have spent a lot of money like a rush to seek medical treatment, forming a million-dollar army and two pirate navy troops.

Zheng Zhilong was originally doing it in Fujian, and he himself came to Guangdong from Fujian.

The reason why he ran to Guangdong was actually because of the exclusion of Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong's forces.

It’s just that Zheng Zhilong defected to the Nanming system in advance, so he had to take a lot of advantages.

Liu Xiang was beaten up by Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong and others, and drove him from Fujian to Guangdong. He was as anxious as a dog that was strayed, and almost eaten by someone else.

Therefore, there was an incomprehensible hatred between Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong. This time they joined forces to deal with the Shandong Navy of the Northern Ming court, which was actually forced to do so.

Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang both knew some of the situation of the Northern Ming court, so they knew very well that with any of their forces, they would probably not be able to compete with the Shandong Navy.

Only by concentrating all their strength can we defeat all the navy and army entrenched on the Shandong Peninsula of the Northern Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, the navy of the Northern Ming court would drive them south in the future, and they might kill them all, otherwise they would become a betrayal dog and there would be no more place to go.

It was also the idea proposed by the great figures of the Southern Ming court that eventually led them to unite together and form two major navy troops to lead various pirates from Jiangnan to deal with the navy of the Northern Ming court.

A few days ago, they learned that the Northern Ming Dynasty fleet entrenched in Jiaozhou Bay had already begun a large-scale bandit suppression operation along the coast of Shandong, and probably were conducting actual combat training.

Next, the strength and scale of the Northern Ming court's large fleet will surely become stronger and stronger.

Therefore, under the strong request of the great master of the Southern Ming court, Liu Xiang finally made up his mind to come to Yuegang to meet with Zheng Zhilong, preparing to go north and launch an attack on the Northern Ming fleet.

This time, the pirate leaders from all walks of life mobilized elite soldiers and sent their strongest warships over, just to completely kill the Beiming fleet entrenched in Jiaozhou Bay on the Shandong Peninsula.

At least they must also severely damage them, so that they can know that the pirates in Jiangnan will have great dangers in the future and covet their Jiangnan side.

The day before yesterday they received a tip that the Dutch had led the fleet to sail to Yuegang, and a big deal between the Northern Ming court and the Westerners was about to begin.

So under the leadership of Liu Xiang, their Guangdong Navy immediately rushed from the Pearl River Estuary to Yuegang, Fujian.

Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong both wanted this big cake, and at least they had to share some of it. How could they be too lazy?
Chapter completed!