I'm a pirate at the end of Ming Dynasty

He threw the short gun on the table and sat back on his seat. He raised his legs and smoked his big cigar. Zheng Zhipeng acted like a thief and ordered: "Li Gang, cut off this man's head and go to Gaizhou to find Geng Zhongming." , tell him that if he has nowhere to go, I can take him in."

"Yes."

Li Gang had obviously known about Xin'er for a long time, and this was even the advice he gave. Seeing that Huang Long was killed, he didn't react at all. He calmly took out his dagger and stepped forward to chop off the man's head.

After thinking about it, Zheng Zhipeng added: "After showing the head to Geng Zhongming, find a better tailor to sew it back, and then get a better coffin for a decent burial."

"Yes."

Zheng Zhipeng then sat back down and said, "You two, have a drink."

Shen Shikui and Monk Kexi were stunned, and it took him a while to come to his senses. It was the rough-looking Shen Shikui who took the lead and laughed loudly, patting Zheng Zhipeng on the shoulder and saying: "Okay, what a fourth general of the Zheng family, he is courageous, as expected. It’s courageous.”

Shang Kexi's reaction may have been a little slow. After a while, he sighed with half admiration and half helplessness: "What a courage, good means, what a Southeast Zheng family."

"Hahahaha, it's useless to talk more. Brother Shen and Brother Shang, please drink."

In fact, smart people have already figured it out at this time. Zheng Zhipeng's plan is not to pay for help at all, nor is it even to borrow the Dengzhou Navy. He is simply here to recruit, or semi-recruit. , otherwise he should first use Huang Long, the commander-in-chief recognized by the imperial court, as the breakthrough point anyway.

Is there any reason to kill this person to establish his authority?

Even this courage is really too big, almost crazy. Bold is a good word, but a bad word is bold. You must know that Huang Long can reach the highest level of military personnel. , is not a fool. The reason why he dared to go to Ludao with only a few personal guards was because Zheng Zhipeng was an obedient member of the imperial court. He believed that as long as Shen and Shang still wanted to earn Zheng Zhipeng's money, then The two of them would never dare to touch themselves.

Unexpectedly, he died directly at the hands of Zheng Zhipeng, which is also ironic.

Of course, it is impossible to use the navy of the imperial court to kill the general of the imperial court. Even if he is not good enough, and the imperial court holds him responsible, not only will he have to suffer, but even Zheng Zhilong will not be protected from being implicated. Once a rebel is detained hat, the Zheng family will inevitably have to carry it around without food.

But Zheng Zhipeng thought very clearly that if the Zheng family could win this naval battle with the Netherlands, it would not matter whether the imperial court handed them over or not. On the contrary, if they could not win the battle, they would lose their treasure. If the island strait and the trading rights of the Japanese country in the north are restricted, then sooner or later the Zheng family will be slowly strangled to death.

As for the Dengzhou Navy, after two days of thinking, Zheng Zhipeng found that it was not necessary to borrow. Instead of playing this kind of word game with Chongzhen, it would be better to directly turn the target to Geng Zhongming, who had nowhere to go. At that time, Geng Zhongming had just ran out of Dengzhou, and he originally had more than half of the Dengzhou navy in his hands.

He was at least [-]% sure that Geng Zhongming would follow him.

Speaking of which, the leaders of Pidao are actually quite pitiful. Whether it is Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, or Geng Zhongming, none of them has a deep hatred for the Manchus. In Shangkexi's case, more than 100 members of his family were all killed by the Manchus. This revenge was actually far deeper than that of Li Gang and his ilk.

It's just that Li Gang has a small number of people under his command, and they are all elites. After escaping from Dengzhou, he will not have to worry about finding a meal no matter where he goes, but what about him?There are tens of thousands of people under his command waiting to eat. In addition to the strong and powerful soldiers, there are also more family members and children.

They all have to eat. You can just slap your neck and say, "Golden Dog and I are inseparable and will sacrifice our lives for mercy. What will happen to these old and weak brothers?"Are they also going to die together?In history, Shen Shikui died for his country, at the cost of the death of all 10,000+ of his soldiers and civilians. Who asked those buried with him if they were willing to die together?

Even more, Shi Kefa died a heroic death, but were all the 30 people in Yangzhou City willing to accompany him to die for their country rather than escape for their lives?

Living, sometimes requires more courage than survival. If the Ming court hadn't forced the people to really have no other choice, how could all these people have defected to the Qing Dynasty one by one?Talking about the charisma of Corporal Huang Taiji and the benevolent politics of Liaodong, Zheng Zhipeng himself doesn’t believe it anyway. If there is someone in this world whose charm can be worth the hatred of a family of more than 100 people, then there is no need to fight this war. Let Huang Taiji let go of his bastard spirit and the people of the world can be united.

The same is true for Geng Zhongming. His burden is even heavier. It is said that he now has a full 10 men. Among them, the number of combatable soldiers is probably less than [-]. The rest are all burdensome. He can make these Will anyone accompany him to death?Huang Long pursued and fought fiercely without giving him any chance. It was because he was forced to run out of moves and had to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

This was also the main reason why Zheng Zhipeng killed Huang Long. If this guy didn't die, Geng Zhongming would have no choice but to surrender to the Manchus.

Secondly, it is purely to establish prestige. He knows very well that if he wants to take such a powerful army for his own use, he will definitely not be able to just spend money. Otherwise, he will only be treated as a fat sheep and be slaughtered for money. If you stretch out your hand sometimes, you may be lazy when working, or even if you don't pay, it may come back to bite you.

In addition to showing kindness, one must establish some authority, and Huang Long's status is high enough, even the highest in the Dongjiang River. Secondly, he is an airborne leader who does not attract the love of the lower-level soldiers. He is really a perfect target to establish authority. .

"Okay, you two heads, let's continue to discuss the strategy of how to force Huang Taiji to retreat. I propose that Geng Zhongming be surrendered. What do you think?"

Shen Shikui's expression was a little bad when he heard this, because Geng Zhongming had a much better relationship with Shang Kexi relatively speaking. He was actually a little biased towards the same situation as Huang Long when it came to Geng Zhongming, and it was best to kill them all.

Just looking at Zheng Zhipeng's slightly thoughtful eyes, Shen Shikui could only sigh helplessly. He somewhat understood why Zheng Zhipeng refused to go to Pidao and wanted to come to Ludao first, hold a banquet in Ludao, and then give him to him. Please come to Kashima.

However, Shen Shikui still discussed the matter and said: "With the current economic conditions of the three islands, it is impossible to support the 10 people in Geng Zhongming's hands, especially since most of them are old and weak. General Zheng Si has thought about this How to solve this problem?"

"It's simple. Our Zheng family runs a large island in the southeast. We are short of manpower to open up wasteland. We can accommodate even 10 million people, not to mention 100 people."