The fleet entered the island group, and several islands blocked the wind and waves, and the wind and waves here became much smaller.

"Prepare to change the boat!" The sailors of the Zheng family army asked Li Guodong's men to get up.

Li Guodong finally saw Zheng Zhilong's ship, which was a combination of a blessing ship and a Western-style plywood ship. It was a warship that combines Chinese and Western styles, like the Western-style giant ship, with a double-layer gun deck. The sides of the ship were densely filled with gun doors. Of course, the sails were still hard sails, and the shape of the ship's hull was still the same as the Fu Shi. Li Guodong estimated that this ship was about 500 tons, and it was already a huge giant ship in the East Asian waters of that era. Li Guodong estimated that the largest ship of Zheng Zhilong had twenty-four guns on each side, forty-eight guns on the side, and there were also a bow gun and two stern guns on the deck. The ship had fifty-one guns.

The largest of the remaining ships of the Zheng family army is the No. 1 Dafu Ship, which is 400 materials. The Dafu Ship has a red cannon on the bow and stern, and three small cannons on both sides. The distance is far, Li Guodong still doesn’t know what the specifications of the gun used by the No. 1 Dafu Ship. The No. 2 Dafu Ship has about 300 materials; the No. 3 Dafu Ship has 200 materials; in addition to the Fu Ship, there are also various types of warships such as Guang Ship, sand ships, and bird ships. Those warships are between 100 and 300 materials. There are no red cannons, and the best ones are only the Bolang machine, three-pound cannons and other small cannons. Many ships are not even equipped with small cannons, only bowl guns, bird guns, nine-headed bird fire guns and bows.

Li Guodong boarded Zheng Zhilong's ship and realized that this giant ship, which looked powerful on the outside, was actually nothing in the eyes of Westerners. The upper gun deck was an open-air deck, and high wooden boards were pulled up on both sides of the ship, which looked a bit like the female wall of the city wall. A gun door was opened on the board, and the artillery behind the gun door was all three-pound cannons that Li Guodong was familiar with. These guns were the iron cannons that Li Guodong had cast for Zheng Zhilong when he was at Kinmen.

The red cannon at the bow is a five-thousand pound cannon that can fire 18 pounds of shells. The two red cannons at the stern are two three-thousand pound cannon that can fire 12 pounds of shells. These red cannons were also cast by Li Guodong for Zheng Zhilong.

When he walked to the lower deck, he found that the lower gun deck was very low, which was about the same height as the inner cabin of other lucky ships, only about 1.5 meters. When the officers and soldiers walked in the lower gun deck, they needed to bend down. The artillery in the lower gun deck was naturally the artillery cast by Li Guodong for Zheng Zhilong, but the caliber was not large, and it was a four-pound cannon.

"Our ship originally used a 300 to 500 kilograms of Folang machine. Later, Guodong brothers helped Zheng cast new cannons, but now they have replaced them with new cannons." Zheng Zhilong introduced to Li Guodong.

"Why don't you need a more focused cannon on the lower gun deck?" Li Guodong asked in confusion.

Zheng Zhilong smiled bitterly: "You can't install a larger cannon. If you use the Red Cannon, you will have a few rounds of artillery bombardment, and the cannon will break its deck. This is much better than the original Folang machine. The original 300-pound Folang machine on the upper deck can only fire shells less than one pound, and the 500-pound Folang machine on the lower deck can only fire shells weighing less than two pounds."

"But such firepower is incomparable to Hongmaoyi's plywood ship."

Zheng Zhilong suddenly laughed: "Red Mao Yi is Zheng's business partner. If my boat can't compare with them, then we will not be able to compete with Hong Mao Yi. Instead, we will not be enemies with Hong Mao Yi. Instead, we are the big Buddha Langjiren, our enemy and the enemy of Hong Mao Yi."

Li Guodong knew that after Zheng Zhilong defeated Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong replaced Liu Xiang and became the Dutch partner in East Asia. Later, Zheng Zhilong defected to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong replaced Zheng Zhilong and cooperated with the Dutch in trade. The Dutch plybo boats were still cruising in the Jinxia waters, helping Zheng Chenggong repel the Qing navy. At that time, as long as the Dutch ship was there, the Qing navy could not attack the two islands of Jinxia.

As for why Zheng Chenggong turned against the Dutch and sent troops to seize Dongfan Island, that is, Taiwan Island, it was actually caused by the Qing Dynasty's ban on sea migration. After the Qing court issued the sea migration order, it was difficult for Zheng Chenggong to get food from the coast. As a result, he had to go to war with the Dutch to obtain land in Dongfan to grow food.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's regaining Taiwan was not what was said on TV later. In order to regain land from foreigners, he was forced to no avail by the Qing court. Zheng Chenggong's evil deeds with the Dutch actually laid the root of disaster. Later, the Dutch helped Shi Lang, resulting in the demise of Zheng Ming.

Li Guodong was a little worried about whether the small cannons of Zheng Zhilong's fleet could penetrate the turtle ship of the North Korean navy.

"The Goryeo has a strong turtle ship, which seems to be covered with iron armor and the speed is not slow. Can our guns penetrate the turtle ship?" Li Guodong asked.

Zheng Zhilong laughed: "There is no problem for the red artillery to penetrate the turtle ship. The small cannon may be difficult to penetrate, but hitting the deck of the turtle ship can also cause the internal wooden board to crack and kill the Korean people inside. The range of the turtle ship is much closer than ours. We will widen the distance and use three to four lucky ships to hit the fire and bombard the turtle ship, which will paralyze the turtle ship."

Li Guodong looked at the Zheng family naval warships densely packed on the sea, and couldn't count them, so he asked: "Brother Zheng, how many warships do we have in total this time?"

"One large warship, one of our 16 lucky ships, one of the No. 1 lucky ships, twenty-four lucky ships, three of the No. 3 lucky ships, twenty-six bird ships, thirty-six wide ships, forty-eight sand ships, and one hundred and eight fast crabs. There are 283 large and small warships, carrying more than 10,000 naval officers and soldiers. The gunpowder consumed this time and the military salary subsidy of the officers and soldiers is estimated to be at least 200,000 taels of silver. If you start a war with the Korean Navy, you will spend more money. You can pay for this money, brother."

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Twenty or three hundred thousand taels of silver are not a problem. I can still pay the money. But I have another request. The battle is over. I wonder if Brother Zheng can sell several boats to me? I will give me some naval officers and soldiers?"

"Selling ships is not OK. If Zheng doesn't have these ships, how can he trade with Hongmaoyi and Folang Jimen? Brother, if you want to form a navy to deal with Jiannu, we can help you build warships."

"That's good." Li Guodong knew that Zheng Zhilong could not let him threaten his maritime status in East Asia, so he no longer mentioned buying a ship.

The fleet passed through the Yangtze River Estuary, and the wind and waves here became even stronger. The monsoon from the northwest in winter blew out from the Yangtze River Estuary, blew on the sea, causing huge waves three feet high. The Zheng family army's warships were shaking violently on the sea like swings, making people feel like the ship was almost overturning.
Chapter completed!