"What happened again?" Yu Zigao was still calm because he still felt that he was sure to win this time.

"Our team that attacked the pirates from land is gone."

"What?" Yu Zigao was surprised. "How is this possible? We clearly heard their cannons and shouts? It took only more than a moment to disappear all of a sudden?"

"This, the villain doesn't know. The villain only knows that from both sides of our strait, they can't see one of our people. And the enemy is pushing artillery and surrounding us from both sides. If we don't retreat, we're afraid that it won't take long to be sunk by them here."

Yu Zigao was anxious. "Then, where is Liang Shihu? I asked him to lead a team of warships to encircle here from the west. Where is his warships?"

"The villain doesn't know that he has not seen the Liang Qian's fleet yet."

"Sir, why don't we retreat first!" Liu Hongsheng stood behind Yu Zigao and said softly.

"No, wait a little longer. Pass the order, all warships, fire all the artillery, and shoot the mobile artillery on both sides. Hongsheng, you will lead a thousand people into two teams to land and block the pirate gunners on both sides. Remember, the key is to eliminate their gunners. As long as we can hold on until the Shihu and the land teams on both sides arrive, we will definitely win."

Liu Hongsheng agreed and went down.

Yu Zigao stood on the deck of his warship and watched Liu Hongsheng hurriedly lead the team to start landing. On both sides of the strait, there were hundreds of mobile artillery pieces of pirates, some of which were carried by people, and some were put on cars and pushed by people. Liu Hongsheng personally took 600 people to the south shore and rushed towards the pirates' artillery team.

The distance between the two sides was very close, only a few dozen feet away. At this time, a tall man with beard suddenly stood up from behind the artillery team.

As soon as the big man stood up, he shouted at Liu Hongsheng. "Boy, I finally hope you. I have endured it for so many days and finally can fight a battle happily. Don't let me down!"

After the man said that, hundreds of muskets suddenly appeared behind him. Liu Hongsheng called out a secretly, and was about to ask his subordinates to retreat, but it was too late. None of them expected that the weapons and equipment of this pirate would be so sophisticated, even far beyond the ordinary regular army of the Ming Dynasty. Especially the number of their firearms was really unimaginable.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that this time they had fallen into the pirates' calculations, not that the pirates were forced into the path. All the advantages they had seen before were just illusions.

After a series of fires of muskets, his team of 600 was already in a defeat, with more than half of the soldiers killed and killed. Listening to the orderly explosions, Liu Hongsheng knew that the enemy was using the most advantageous weapon equipped in the Ming army's Shenji Camp - the three-eyed musket.

"Retreat quickly and get on the boat." Liu Hongsheng shouted. In fact, he didn't need to call him at all. His men had already escaped to the boat before him.

Under the protection of several personal soldiers, Liu Hongsheng retreated to the ship.

Standing on his main ship and watching this scene from afar, Yu Zigao suddenly felt a chill in his heart. It was not until this time that he truly understood that the Xu family group was not an ordinary pirate. They were simply a smart army. They were definitely not the mob they had originally imagined, but a tax-based army that could compete with any army. He even believed that even the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, who was known as the invincible in the world, would not be able to win if they really compete with this group of people.

When he thought of this, Yu Zigao felt even colder. He blamed himself for believing in himself too much and pretending to be too good at showing weakness. At this moment, he no longer had the energy he had before. At this moment, he just wanted to leave here quickly and return to his Fujian General Mansion.

"Retreat, retreat quickly." Yu Zigao waved the order flag himself.

However, because the waterway was too narrow, their warships were lined up. In such a formation, if you want to retreat, you could only walk one by one. But the artillery on both sides of the straits did not let them go. The dense shells poured towards their warships like rain. Yu Zigao only felt that his hull was shaking constantly, but no shell fell on his ship.

At first, he thought that these pirates deliberately did not attack his main ship out of the same idea as he had been a few days ago, but he immediately discovered how naive his idea was. The pirate's artillery not only did not attack his main ship, nor did they attack most of his ships. They only attacked the three warships in front of them.

After a round of slams, the three leading warships were completely defeated and could no longer be removed. The retreating waterway was naturally blocked, and the waterway ahead was blocked by the burning fire ships.

When the officers and soldiers saw that the waterway was blocked, they all suddenly became in chaos.

Without waiting for Yu Zigao's orders, they had abandoned their ships and landed on the shore one after another and were ready to escape.

At this time, the pirates on both sides of the strait suddenly shouted loudly, "Those who put down their weapons can survive; those who resist to the end will be killed without mercy."

The officers and soldiers who had just fled to the shore saw that there were pirates around. When they heard this, many of them threw down their weapons and surrendered to the pirates.

Yu Zigao led more than 100 personal soldiers to flee along the waterway. They left two No. 3 blessed boats ten miles away. Yu Zigao originally asked them to investigate the surrounding situation here at any time, but unexpectedly, it became his only escape route at this time.

I don’t know if the scene was too chaotic or the pirates didn’t notice him at all. In short, Yu Zigao’s hundred people escaped smoothly, and they quickly rushed out of the pirates’ encirclement and came ten miles away.

On the water, their two No. 3 blessed boats were still lying there quietly, and the fierce battle in front seemed to have nothing to do with them at all. Yu Zigao finally felt a little relieved when he saw the boat.

"Let's go, get on the boat." Yu Zigao waved his arm and wanted to board the boat, but was grabbed by a Qianmao behind him.

"Sir, you can't. I'm afraid of fraud."

Yu Zigao glanced at the subordinate behind him, "Are you saying there is a fraud on this ship? Why didn't I see it? This is our own ship. Xiao Minghui, have you been scared by the pirates just now?"

Xiao Minghui shook his head, "Sir, please think, we are fighting fiercely in front of us, and the roar of cannons can be heard within dozens of miles. According to common sense, these two ships either support us or turn around and run away in fear. Why do they stay here? Moreover, if you are here, no one from them will come out to greet you. Isn't this all abnormal?"

After hearing this, Yu Zigao became a little skeptical.

Just then, a voice came from the ship, "Who said no one would greet you?"

Then, a young man in a Confucian shirt walked out of the cabin.

Yu Zigao was surprised to see the figure from afar. Isn’t this Yu Ren, who sank his main ship on the East China Sea? Not only did he not die, he also came here.

But when Yu Ren took a few steps closer to him, Yu Zigao was even more surprised. Because Yu Ren was obviously not someone else, but his cousin.

"Ren'er, why are you?" Yu Zigao was a little confused.

"Please treat my uncle," Yu Ren said, and gave Yu Zigao a long-distance salute.

"This, what's going on?" At this time, Yu Zigao only felt that his brain was not enough.

Yu Ren still stood there without moving, nor did he answer his second uncle's words.

"Sir, why don't you understand that your cousin is the pirate leader Yu Ren. The two of them not only have the same name, but also the same person.

Sir, let's go! Otherwise, we won't be able to leave." After saying that, Xiao Minghui pulled Yu Zigao and wanted to escape.

But as soon as they turned around, nearly a thousand pirates rushed out of the dense forest around them. These people were all holding muskets and pointing at them.

"Uncle Second is afraid it's not appropriate to go back now! You were ordered to come out to suppress the bandits. Now your bandits have not been defeated, but have lost hundreds of warships and five thousand navy soldiers. Will the court still stop you from punishing you when you go back like this?"
Chapter completed!