Li Guodong was invited to board Zheng Zhilong's ship and came to Fujian. He set out from Hangzhou. The fleet took four days and four nights to arrive at Kinmen. Although the Zheng family navy was powerful, the largest warship of the Zheng family navy in this era was only 500 pieces, equivalent to more than 200 tons. Such a ship would definitely be a small boat in later generations.

You can imagine how uncomfortable it would feel when riding such a small boat and rushing on the sea. Li Guodong was better, after all, he was used to riding a boat in his previous life. But his brothers were not good. From the time the fleet left Hangzhou Bay and entered the waters of the Zhoushan Islands, everyone was lying on the deck motionless, vomiting so much that they vomited stomach acid. They wanted to vomit when they saw what they had eaten, let alone eating.

The storms in Zhoushan were quite strong, and the navy ships were very bumpy, and even Li Guodong couldn't stand steadily. But for Zheng Zhilong's group of old pirates, such storms were nothing.

Li Guodong was worried about their war horses. The horses were transported by ships. The war horses were locked in a small cabin. The ships were bumpy and he was only worried about whether the horses would die halfway. Back then, the death rate of Europeans transported war horses from a long distance was very high, and many horses died on long-distance voyages.

The fleet will be much better after passing through the Wenzhou waters. Entering the Taiwan Strait, the wind and waves in the Taiwan Strait are relatively small in summer. As long as it is not unfortunately encountered a typhoon, the ships sailing in the Taiwan Strait will be as stable as if they are on land.

But even so, Li Guodong still secretly vowed that he would never take a sea boat again when he went back, and would still be safe when he went back by land. If he encountered a typhoon or something on the sea, he would be in vain to send his life here.

The Zheng family fleet arrived at Kinmen Island and approached ashore at Kinmen Pier.

"General Li, we're here! Let's get off the boat. Don't you want sweet potatoes? There are a lot of them planted on Kinmen Island." Zheng Zhilong made a gesture to Li Guodong.

Jinmen Island, Quanzhou, Fujian, this is the first time Li Guodong has been here in two lives. In his previous life, he had seen Kinmen in Xiamen opposite him, but this time he stepped on Kinmen Island. Kinmen Island and Xiamen Island guarded the estuary of Jiulongjiang. Ships entering and leaving Yue Port must pass through the Jinxiao Sea.

Kinmen Island is larger than Xiamen Island. In this era, Kinmen Island was the garrison of Zheng Zhilong Navy. Most of the blacksmith shops of the Zheng family army were on Kinmen Island, and some were on Xiamen Island.

The horses transported by the ship got off the boat and found that there were not a single horse. Li Guodong breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Han Dashan, He Xing and others were both northerners and had never taken a sea boat. They had almost vomited from Zhoushan to Wenzhou. Although the voyage was calm, the ship was somewhat shaking. After Han Dashan and He Xing and others got off the boat, their feet seemed to be stepping on cotton, and they could not even walk on the road. They could only fall and were supported by the soldiers of the Zheng family army.

After getting off the boat, Li Guodong and Zheng Zhilong walked on the street on the bluestone road. This is a small town on the island. It is not very big. However, although the sparrows are small and have all kinds of business, they have many business types. Vendors, barracks, oil, salt and rice shops, and most of them are food, clothing, housing and transportation businesses. The one with a little technological content is Zheng Zhilong's blacksmith shop, gunpowder workshop and shipyard.

"It's almost here, this is Zheng's humble house." Zheng Zhilong pointed to a three-in-one large courtyard at the end of the town.

Li Guodong followed Zheng Zhilong and others and led a group of brothers into Zheng Zhilong's general's mansion on Kinmen Island.

"To be honest, Zheng invited General Li to come, and he was also a little selfish." Zheng Zhilong then expressed his intention.

Although Li Guodong guessed Zheng Zhilong's intention, probably to cast a cannon for him, he still asked, "I wonder what is going on in Zheng Junmen to use Li?"

Zheng Zhilong suddenly bowed respectfully: "General Li, Guangdong pirate Liu Xiang, was originally the sworn brother of our Eighteen Zhi. Unfortunately, after Zheng accepted the court's amnesty, this person and Zheng parted ways, and since then he has repeatedly opposed me! What's even more hateful is that Liu Xiang actually colluded with Hongmao Yi and robbed my Zheng family fleet many times! Although Zheng was determined to eliminate this enemy, he had excellent weapons and had redmao Yi help. Alas, Zheng had a headache! The battle at sea was nothing more than a strong ship and a powerful cannon! The Taixi people's ships were as big as a mountain, and they had huge heavy cannons, which really made Zheng worry."

"Zheng Junmen, isn't your five-point plum blossom formation a giant ship that can break the Red-Feedy Yi?" Li Guodong asked.

"It can be broken, but if the five-point plum blossom formation is about to rush into the red-haired giant ship, the brothers will probably suffer heavy casualties! If there are excellent heavy artillery, how many brothers can bleed down! With excellent heavy artillery, Zheng can also imitate the red-haired giant ship. Otherwise, what's the use of having a ship or no gun?"

In fact, Zheng Zhilong's shipbuilders could completely imitate Western warships, but they were suffering from the lack of powerful heavy naval guns. Without heavy naval guns, imitating Western warships would be useless.

"The Taixi giant ship, I heard that it was made of oak, is very strong. The warships of our Ming people are all made of fir, far less powerful than the Taixi giant ship. Even if they are imitated, they are still different from the image." Li Guodong thought for a while and reminded Zheng Zhilong.

"The wood is not a problem. Zheng can get ironwood that is stronger than oak, but the only thing that is troublesome is the cannons. Going to Macau to buy it with the Florians, the price is too expensive! And you have to book in advance, and the cannons made cannot meet what we want. For example, the cannons of the Thaisey giant ships can fire twenty-four pounds of shells, while our Ming Dynasty's Red Barbarian cannons can only fire twelve pounds of shells. The cannons sold to us by the Florians will not exceed twelve pounds. Even if we want to buy the eighteen pounds of cannons, they may not sell them."

"Twenty-four-pound naval gun, this is absolutely fine! Li can cast it! Li can also cast thirty-two-pound cannons, even a sixty-four-pound cannon will not defeat Li!" Li Guodong felt that he would teach the Zheng family army to cast cannons, after all, the Battle of Liaoluowan will be next, so it would be better to teach the Dutch a lesson with Zheng Zhilong's hands.

As for whether Zheng Zhilong will lead the fleet to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in the future? Li Guodong believes that since he has come to this time and space, he will definitely not let such a thing happen! Li Guodong is powerless about Kong Youde's affairs. But how many years did Zheng Zhilong surrender to the Qing Dynasty? There are still fourteen years left! He will definitely develop and strengthen in the past fourteen years. At that time, can't he control a Zheng Zhilong?

"That's great! General Li is willing to cast a cannon, but Zheng is very grateful! If General Li needs anything, just speak! Zheng has nothing else, but he is not short of money!" Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed.

"But the Zheng Junmen, the last general has a small request. I wonder if Zheng Junmen can agree?"

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