Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 830: Sea Interception
However, even Chen Zuyi's final resistance was ineffective.

In order to prevent the Ming army from breaking out tonight, Chen Zuyi made a temporary decision and pushed all the kerosene to the front of the mountain road where they were defending... Even if he racked his brains, he could not have imagined that the Ming army would actually come like a force of gods from the sky and suddenly attack from behind.

As a result, not only did all his arrangements become useless, they even had a counterproductive effect... The kerosene placed near the mountain road was getting farther and farther away from the rear army that was attacked. Chen Zuyi hurriedly sent people to move the kerosene, but it was too late.

The Ming army wearing mandarin duck battle jackets were like a red-hot poker, piercing through the pirates' defenses with overwhelming force. The pirates had never expected the Ming army to come around to the rear like a god, and were caught off guard when they were attacked. In addition, their original formation was that the pirates were in the back and the foreigners and Nanyang slaves were in the front, so they drove the foreigners and Nanyang people to block the narrow mountain road with their lives.

Now that the Ming army was attacking from behind, the pirates, who had never thought that they would face the Ming army's blade head-on, were terrified for a moment. How could they have the energy to drive the foreigners and Nanyang people who were behind them?
The pirates no longer cared about the Nanyang people and the foreign people. Taking advantage of the panic of the pirates in the rear team, they fled like birds and beasts. In a short time, the formation of Chen Zuyi's troops was broken into pieces by these fleeing people. As a result, the Ming army advanced faster. Before Chen Zuyi's men could bring the flaming oil, Chang Mao, who was in the lead, had already killed Chen Zuyi.

Chen Zuyi saw that the situation was not good, so he made a prompt decision and ordered his men to charge forward immediately, and then...

He slipped away as if his feet were greased.

He escaped without hesitation, catching everyone off guard. Even Chang Mao, who had locked onto his figure, was surprised that there was such a decisive person in the world. The battle was not yet bad, and the number of people on Chen Zuyi's side far exceeded that of the Ming army... He just blinked his eyes, and this famous Nanyang bandit disappeared without a trace.

Without their leader, the Nanyang pirates were like a pile of loose sand. The Ming army easily defeated these stubborn pirates.

"Your Highness, no one is still resisting." Di Meng, who was in charge of cleaning up the battlefield, reported. "More than a hundred pirates were captured by our army, and there were also hundreds of Nanyang people and local people."

"The bandit leader Chen Zuyi is missing. In addition, the White Lotus bandits in the south seem to have received the news... When our army went to clear them out, the southern mountain pass was empty."

"...They saw the opportunity quickly and ran away one by one." Zhu Su said.

"However, confiscating this flaming oil is not a complete loss..."

Zhu Su kicked a jar of something at his feet. This thing was the fierce oil that the pirates regarded as their trump card. When he opened the wax seal on the jar, a pungent smell hit him in the face... This was the first time Zhu Su had seen oil in this era.

As one of the main energy sources in the future, oil has also greatly promoted the technological progress of the Ming Dynasty. It can be handed over to the Baoyuan Bureau to try to study and refine glycerin and gasoline. The precious oil resources can also stimulate the ambition of the Ming Dynasty to develop oil production areas and promote the further development of the Ming Dynasty's strategy of expanding its territory.

However, this is all a story for another day.

"Chen Zuyi's old nest is in Nanyang... Now that his plan in Da Wan has been thwarted, he must want to go out to sea and return to his old nest to recuperate."

"Immediately return to Dadu Port and Danjiang Port, and dispatch warships from the two ports to block the waters of Dawan and intercept Chen Zuyi's returning ship."

"Also, send envoys to visit the various tribes of the Dawan people and inform them that Chen Zuyi and the White Lotus Sect are using the local people as cannon fodder."

"Let them elect a new King of Dadu. My Great Ming is willing to protect Dadu's safety, on the condition that all the tribes of Dadu and the King of Dadu must jointly worship my Great Ming as their suzerain, pay tribute all year round, and never rebel..."

Zhu Su gave instructions one by one, arranging the final work of the trip one by one. Originally, those White Lotus bandits might still have the ability to incite the many Dadu tribes in the mountains. After all, on the surface, the Dadu King was killed by those red-haired barbarians. The White Lotus killed the red-haired barbarians, which was considered revenge for the Dadu tribes. The tribes in the mountains would not be wary of them.

But now, the White Lotus Sect has mixed with Chen Zuyi, who enslaved and drove the foreign people, and even colluded with Chen Zuyi to drive the foreign people away to block the Ming army... Although the Dadu tribes are civilized, they are not stupid. They would not trust such a White Lotus Sect that treats their own people like pigs and dogs.

It can be said that the White Lotus Sect’s survival in Dawan has been cut off. They have no chance of turning around among the various tribes in Dadu.

Apart from following Chen Zuyi to Southeast Asia, this group of White Lotus bandits had no other way out.

So this part of the Ming army immediately returned along the original route and joined Tang He, the Duke of Dingguo, who was stationed at the port. After hearing about what happened to Zhu Su's army, Tang He felt a little scared, but was also amazed by the glider.

However, Tang He, who was experienced, would not forget his work. He dispatched a fleet, and based on Zhu Su's arrangement, he wrote a letter to Fuzhou and Guangzhou coastal guards to send out naval forces together, laying out the sea route from Dawan to Srivijaya like a dragnet.

Tang He is old and has been assigned to guard the coast. When will he be able to take on such an achievement in expanding territory? If he doesn't take this opportunity to capture Chen Zuyi and take Chen Zuyi's old nest, Srivijaya, for the Ming Dynasty... wouldn't it be a waste of this pie in the sky?
Tang He and Zhu Su worked together and Chen Zuyi was in big trouble.

Originally, Chen Zuyi led his people to Dawan Island, but because he was afraid of alerting the Ming army, he acted in secret. Later, after negotiating with the White Lotus Sect, he lent some warships to Fu Puxin for them to use to attack the Ming army's treasure ships.

Unexpectedly, Fu Puxin failed at the last moment, and his plan to bet all his business in Da Wan also failed... Not only did he escape from Da Wan with only a few people and a boat, but he was constantly chased and intercepted by the Ming army along the way. This was the first time that Chen Zuyi had been so embarrassed in his travels in the South China Sea.

Even worse, during a fierce battle with the Guangzhou Navy, Chen Zuyi's ship was destroyed by the navy's officers and soldiers, and Chen Zuyi was forced to move to another ship. The dozens of pirates left on the ship were all fed to the sharks in the sea under the attack of the navy's officers and soldiers.

Therefore, among this fleeing fleet, the South China Sea pirates, who should have been stronger than the White Lotus Sect, gradually became stretched thin.

(End of this chapter)