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Chapter 141: The Nanyang Wind Rises 4

This fleet was led by Qi Guoyong's deputy Lin Miaofei.

He is a Han native and came to Nanyang to do business with his father a long time ago. The two generations of people have accumulated a lot of wealth through hard work.

The Qing general Zhao Guozuo came to Batavia and reached cooperation with the Dutch, which frightened the local Han people. He organized personnel to launch the assassination of Zhao Guozuo, but failed and he himself was imprisoned by the Dutch.

After paying a lot of money, Lin Miaofei was released. Because of that assassination, the Dutch oppressed the local Han people more and more severely.

Unlike Chen Huarong, Lei Mingmu and others fled out of Batavia with a large amount of gold and silver, but Lin Miaofei spent all his wealth and recruited soldiers to resist the Dutch.

After being defeated, he even led his troops to escape into the jungle and continued to fight.

When Qi Guoyong came to Nanyang, he heard what he did and was moved, so he sent someone to find him. He asked about his wishes and summed his subordinates into a battalion and led them.

Lin Miaofei was familiar with the situation in Nanyang and helped Qi Guoyong a lot. The greatest contribution was that Lin Miaofei joined forces to persuade Agong Sultan and reached a cooperation between Qi Guoyong and Ma Dalan Sultan.

But later, Agon died of illness and his son fought against each other, and the second son, who was supported by the Dutch, was finally granted the position of Sultan.

Due to the worsening situation, Qi Guoyong ordered Lin Miaofei to lead his troops to withdraw to Nanlu County first. Due to his previous achievements, Qi Guoyong replied to Shandong and promoted him to the garrison in the army.

After Han Kuo led his fleet to Nanyang, he came to his army because Lin Miaofei was familiar with the situation in Nanyang. Han Kuo valued his talent, and this time he used it extravagantly, appointing him as the main general of another fleet and leading eight pirate ships to the expedition.

The pirate ship has a long and narrow hull, small goals and quick movements. The most important thing is that it has shallow draught and does not require a ready-made port and can be landed from anywhere.

They followed the east coast of Brunei and landed in Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, Bali, East Java and other places, specifically attacking the local strongholds set up by the Dutch.

There were few Dutch people and few soldiers in the scattered strongholds. Lin Miaofei and the others deliberately avoided places with many Dutch people. Therefore, they succeeded repeatedly, but basically suffered no losses.

Whenever they arrived at a place, they killed all the Dutch people in the area. Even those who abandoned their weapons were killed, and they did not want any prisoners.

All the Dutch people's local estates were destroyed, their main trade crop, pepper, was uprooted, and all the branches and goods stored by the Dutch were burned.

The Mazda Blue Sultanate, who is intimate with the Dutch, is also among the attacks.

Wolf smoke ignited all over the Southeast Asian region, and letters of request for help flew to the local Dutch garrison like snowflakes.

But the fleet led by Lin Miaofei is all pirate ships, coming and going freely, and the ship is extremely fast. It disappeared without a trace long before the Dutch reinforcements arrived.

It appeared soon afterwards, attacking the Dutch stronghold again, and getting closer to Batavia.

Two fleets, one in the east and the other in the west, clamped towards Batavia like two large pliers. The fleets that appeared on Central Java had a greater threat.

In addition to the above, Qi Guoyong in Nanlu County issued a reward, with a Dutch man worth thirty taels of silver.

Within ten months, more than 20 Dutch people were killed and their heads were cut off in Manila. Others were everywhere indigenous people attacking Dutch strongholds, and even Dutch servants killed Dutch soldiers.

Kuiyi had gathered all the Dutch back to Manila City. The scattered Dutch soldiers did not even dare to leave the city, and their control over the surrounding areas was sharply reduced.

He reported the matter to Batavia and expressed his hope that the Governor of Batavia would allow him to conquer Nanlu County and expel the Chinese army from Nanyang.

At the same time, news came from Taiwan that it was requesting reinforcements.

All the questions were placed before the Governor of Batavia.

His final decision was to send a portion of his troops to Malacca and stabilize the trade channel first. At the same time, he sent more reinforcements to Manila, so that Kuiyi could capture Nanlu County in the shortest time.

In Batavia, he sold a large number of firearms to attack the Sultanate of the Horse, strengthened its military strength, and led it as his ally.

For Taiwan, his order was to make it stand firmly in Taiwan. He promised to send troops to reinforce Taiwan immediately after the matter of Nanyang was resolved, but in fact, no reinforcements were sent from one army or another.

Fujian, Quanzhou.

Zheng Sen walked into the lobby with dust all the way. Seeing Zheng Zhilong, he asked anxiously: "Father, did you allow Zhou Xian to recruit water soldiers in Fujian?"

In the lobby, many civil and military officials under Zheng Zhilong gathered, and all of them looked at Zheng Sen after hearing the words.

Zheng Zhilong frowned in dissatisfaction and shouted: "The face is covered in dust and disheveled, and he screams. Is this how Muzhai Gong teaches you etiquette?"

Zheng Sen's face changed. Seeing everyone looking at him, he suddenly felt that he had passed. He stood there awkwardly, a little at a loss.

Zheng Cai suddenly smiled and said with a faint smile: "Enjoyed father, Brother Sen rushed back from Nanjing and came to see you as soon as possible, which shows how urgent he was. Brother Sen has always respected you, but just spoke nonsense for a moment. Moreover, after staying in Nanjing for a long time, he will inevitably get infected with some royal aura. What's the point of speaking rudely? This is not a big deal. After all, he is now the commander of the imperial guards of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, and his future is promising!"

Zheng Caiming was talking for Zheng Sen, but in fact he was asking for trouble, saying that Zheng Sen was not in the same mind as them.

Sure enough, after hearing Zheng Cai's words, Zheng Zhilong became even more angry and shouted coldly: "Go out."

Zheng Sen gritted his teeth and glared at Zheng Cai, but did not dare to say anything. Finally, he bowed to Zheng Zhilong and slowly left the lobby.

The cold wind blew, and Zheng Sen stood alone under the pavilion, feeling very regretful. He was too impatient and did not notice the scene at that time, so it was no wonder that he could anger Zheng Zhilong. He thought in his heart how to say what to say when he saw Zheng Zhilong again and how to convince him to ban the abolition of this matter.

Just as Zheng Sen was thinking, he heard a "light cough" behind him. He turned his head and saw Huang Daozhou. He hurried forward, folded his fists and bowed, "Students pay homage to Mr. Shizhai."

Huang Daozhou waved his sleeves and said, "Get up! Is your teacher Qian Qianyi okay?"

Zheng Sen replied: "Teacher is in good health. Not long ago, his Majesty promoted to Minister of Rites."

Huang Daozhou nodded gently, and said with contempt: "This old ghost loves to be an official the most. When the late emperor was there, he had no chance. Now the emperor has fulfilled his wish. He should be satisfied now! You said that he held a banquet for several days and had a few more days of fun."
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