Although Ying Yi's navy was formed and the number of people in the war zone was full, the number was enough, but the warships were insufficient.

The navy of the Ming court was prosperous during the Yongle period. The feat of the eunuch of the Sanbao, Zheng He, voyage to the West was at that time.

Later, the sea was banned, and it was not until the sea was opened during the Longqing period that it was restored. However, after Longqing, the sea was banned, so the official navy declined and shipbuilding technology was sealed. On the contrary, the private shipbuilding industry was more developed - commercial smuggling activities in the southeast coastal areas were never banned.

The official ban on the sea and the navy was weak, so it could not take into account both the coastal defense, which instead created the prosperity of commercial smuggling. Officials and businessmen in the southeast coast colluded to seize countless benefits through smuggling, and this penalties had nothing to do with the Ming court.

At this time, the shipbuilding industry in the north is completely ineligible compared with the southeast coast. Ying Yi formed a navy and took over some of the legacies of the Ming court of the previous dynasty, but compared with the southeast coastal areas, both the number and quality of warships were worse.

The 48,000-strong naval theater has less than 100 large warships, and more are small and medium-sized warships. Zheng Zhilong's Fujian Navy, the large warships alone are at least several times the Shandong Navy.

This time the navy moved south. Due to the limitations of the warship hardware, only half of the troops were dispatched, 24,000 people. Except for some training ships left in Shandong, all the others were in the migration sequence.

At noon that day, the navy of Zheng Wu's troops had arrived outside Yangzhou. In order to avoid being discovered by the Zheng Sen navy on Chongming Island, they stopped moving and did not start to act until it was dark.

The 24,000 navy, nearly 100 large warships, 300 medium warships, and more than 400 small sea ships surrounded Chongming Island with lightning speed.

Large warships and medium warships blocked the sea outside the water village of Chongming Island, and small ships cruised around. When Zheng Sen discovered it, it was already a net of heaven and earth.

Although the Fujian Navy was powerful and repeatedly fought with the Taixi colonists in the South China Sea and seized benefits from it, there were only fifty warships on Chongming Island, with only a thousand people. Faced with the Shandong Navy, which had dozens of times its strength, Zheng Sen was powerless.

He organized warships to break through a road and walk, but before he could leave the water camp, he was bombarded by the Shandong Navy.

The artillery with a longer range and greater power made Zheng Sen have no power to fight back. The water camp was quickly destroyed, and Zheng Sen was forced to retreat to the island with his remaining soldiers.

The water camp was destroyed and all warships were destroyed. Faced with such a situation, Zheng Sen was unable to turn the world back and was eventually forced to a corner of the island by the landing navy, and all the surviving ones surrendered.

For the Shandong Navy, this should be the first battle since the establishment of the Navy, but with its firepower advantage, intelligence advantage and military strength advantage, Zheng Wu did not feel much of a sense of accomplishment to defeat Zheng Sen's troops, which was only a thousand people.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong's main navy, Zheng Sen is just an appetizer.

Standing on the cliff by the island, the sea tide rises and falls at the sight, and the waves hit the reefs under the cliff, making a loud rumbling sound. The strong sea breeze blew the cloak behind Zheng Wu.

"Select a place to build forts and camps on the north and south sides of the island. The front school of the Left Army stayed in Chongming and guarded the sea outlet. The rest gathered troops and set off Tongzhou at the hour of You." Zheng Wu ordered: "Take Zheng Sen up, and the governor wants to see him."

Currently, under Ying Yi's command, there are two army-level organizations in a war zone, divided into two armies, left and right. Under each army-level organization, there are two school lieutenants, front and back lieutenants. Each school lieutenants are divided into four armies, A, B, C and D. A three thousand troops stationed in Chongming Island, and it is probably more than enough to cooperate with the fort.

As for Tongzhou, this Tongzhou is not that Tongzhou. There is a Tongzhou west of the capital, and there is also a Tongzhou here. Tongzhou is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary, adjacent to Haimen.

Not long after, Zheng Sen was brought up. He never tied up or something, and he was still neat. The twenty-year-old Zheng Sen still had a trace of childishness on his face. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes were full of vitality, and his body was faintly bookish, which made people feel a little fond of it.

Zheng Sen was taken to Zheng Wu, lowered his head and said nothing. He was standing next to Zheng Wu. If he didn't know, he might not have thought of wielding Zheng Wu to escape.

But Zheng Sen didn't. He was captured alive by Zheng Wu himself. The thirty-year-old Xia general in front of him jumped several feet, with great strength. In front of him, Zheng Sen was like a chicken, without any resistance.

"I wonder if you remember that in the seventh year of Chongzhen, my governor had met you." Zheng Wu looked at Zheng Sen with a smile on his face.

Zheng Sen was stunned when he heard this. The seventh year of Chongzhen, that is, ten years ago, he was only ten years old. Zheng Wu was only twenty years old at that time. It has been a long time, and each has changed. It was indeed impossible to see it for a while. But now facing each other, Zheng Sen couldn't help but look carefully and it was indeed a little familiar.

He recalled for a moment and said, "At the time... Uncle Zheng Yunzhi..."

Zheng Wu laughed: "Ten years ago, I was the master and the follower. When the master traveled to Fujian, I followed him."

Zheng Sen suddenly realized, then sighed: "Sure..."

Zheng Yunzhi is now famous all over the world. As the head of government affairs of King Ying Yi of Xia, no one knows? As early as Yingtian, some news from the north came, and Zheng Yunzhi's name was known to Zheng Sen. He knew that he was the uncle of the Zheng family in Jinhua, and Zheng Sen also sighed.

I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance now.

Zheng Sen's Zheng family was said to be the same as the Zheng family in Jinhua. Their ancestral homes were both Gushi, Henan. It was only after a long separation that they had contacted each other until the Chongzhen period - it was because of Zheng Yuncheng's business.

The business of the Zheng family in Jinhua is mainly concentrated in the production and trade of raw silk. The biggest profit of raw silk trade is smuggling. The largest smuggling channel in the southeast coast is Zheng Zhilong.

A stone of raw silk is shipped from Hangzhou, which costs about twenty taels of silver. It is transported to Japan through sea trade, and the value increases by tens of times, and it can reach the market price of two or three hundred taels of silver. If it is shipped to Nanyang and Taixi, the value is similar.

It was when Zheng Yuncheng was developing business channels that he had dealt with Zheng Zhilong. Later, he found out that he was the same clan, so he had a relationship.

Zheng Yunzhi visited Zheng Zhilong in Fujian when he was studying. At that time, Zheng Zhilong had been recruited by Xiong Tingbi.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Zheng Wu recognizes Zheng Sen.

Zheng Wu said: "The master and the Prime Minister of Government have both written to your father, but they cannot reply. Now that the war is inevitable, you can follow me and listen to me sooner or later. You don't have to think about anything else."

The master is Zheng Yuncheng, and the Prime Minister of the World Minister of State of the Massachusetts General Secretary Zheng Yunzhi.

Zheng Sen was silent.
Chapter completed!