"Either the names are the same, or they are the same family." Yang Guodong couldn't help but interjected.
It was no secret that the tiger thieves on Da Yuan Island and the tiger thieves in Datong were from the same force. He didn't expect that the angels from the capital didn't even know this.
Sun Guozhen nodded at the side and said, "Mr. Yang is right, these two are the same family."
"So far apart, is it possible that someone is secretly preaching like the White Lotus Sect?" Angel frowned, and the first thought that came to his mind was that the people in the Tiger Flag were deceiving the local people just like the White Lotus Sect.
Sun Guozhen said: "I heard that it was first launched from Dazhigu. At that time, the tiger bandits had not yet rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and the leader of the tiger bandits Liu Heng was still an official in Datong."
Regarding the foundation of the Tiger Flag on Dayu Island, Daming had already understood it after some understanding.
"I see. I didn't expect that the leader of the tiger thieves was actually a traitor to the Ming Dynasty." Angel suddenly realized.
It's a pity that his status in Prince Xin's Mansion was too low back then, and Prince Xin's Mansion was just one floor away from the palace. There were many things that he, an unidentified young eunuch, had no access to.
It was only in the two years since King Xin ascended the throne that he had some contact with many things in the court.
Yang Guodong on the side said in a bad tone: "This guy Liu enjoys the country's favor, but he doesn't want to serve the country. If he could be loyal to the country, the slave-thief rebellion in Liaodong would have been put to rest long ago."
As the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, he looked down upon Liu Heng, a side general who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.
"Our family fully agrees with what General Yang said. Thief Liu is indeed a disloyal and unjust person." The angel also spoke out to slander Liu Heng.
As an angel sent by the Ming Dynasty to Dengzhou, his butt naturally sat in the Ming Dynasty's place.
Sun Guozhen, who was standing on the side, sighed: "It's a pity that the court discovered this thief too late and gave him a chance to become bigger. Otherwise, the court would not have fallen into such a passive situation."
"When Sun Futai was serving in Fujian, he worked with Nanfang Tang to deal with the red-haired barbarians in Penghu. Why didn't he also deal with the tiger bandits on Dayuan Island back then?" Angel asked Sun Guozhen.
Hearing that Penghu and Taiyuan Island were so close, he was curious as to why Nan Juyi would let go of the Tiger Flag forces on Taiyuan Island.
After hearing this, Sun Guozhen said with a bitter look on his face: "At the beginning, the Bu Tang did not know what happened on Tai Yuan Island, and they had just driven the red-haired barbarians out of Penghu, and the army suffered a lot of losses. When Nan Nan Tang discovered the situation on Tai Yuan Island, , prepared to use troops, but found that the power of the tiger pirate ships was no longer comparable to that of the Fujian Navy."
"So Nanfang Tang was defeated?" Angel's eyes widened curiously.
He didn't expect there to be such a secret.
Sun Guozhen nodded with a wry smile.
Even though Nan Juyi had driven away the red-haired barbarians on Penghu Island, he also failed to gain favor from the tiger-character flag on Taiyuan Island.
"The tiger bandit's navy is so powerful?" Angel asked in surprise.
Sun Guozhen hesitated for a moment and then said: "The tiger thieves have equipped many large ships like the Fan people. Not only are the hulls larger, but they also have more cannons on them. Their power at sea far exceeds the largest Fu Ship of the Ming Dynasty Navy."
"Sun Futai means that the Dengzhou Navy is no match for the Tiger Bandits?" Angel pointed at the ships of the Dengzhou Navy on the sea.
When Sun Guozhen heard this, he didn't want to admit it, but he couldn't deny it, so he had to smile bitterly again.
When Angel saw the look on Sun Guozhen's face, his heart suddenly went cold.
Eunuchs like him who make a living in the palace are best at observing words and expressions, and can understand what the other person means by just looking at their faces.
Although Sun Guozhen didn't say anything, the angel already understood in his heart that the Dengzhou navy was no match for the tiger thieves. The navy sent by Dengzhou to Lushun was just to fulfill his will and die.
Thinking of this, he opened his mouth and said to Sun Guozhen: "Sun Futai, our family has been in Dengzhou for a while. We are planning to change the time to go back for business."
"Angel is going back now? Why don't you stay for a few more days?" Sun Guozhen asked the other party to stay in a sincere tone.
The angel who heard this shook his head repeatedly and said: "Our family is anxious to go back, so we won't stay."
At this moment, he didn't even want to find an outlet.
He was afraid that if he stayed in Dengzhou any longer, if the Dengzhou navy was defeated in Lushun and the court blamed the officials in Dengzhou, he, the angel who delivered the message, would be included among them.
Now that Dengzhou has sent troops to Lushun, his errand has been completed. If he continues to stay, he will take the blame for Dengzhou officials.
He managed to get to where he is today, but he didn't want to lose his favor due to the defeat in Dengzhou and end up being imprisoned in Dongchang or prison.
As soon as he left, the angel didn't stop for a moment, and immediately took the people back to pack their things and prepare to return to Beijing.
Sun Guozhen saw that he couldn't keep him, so he stopped trying to keep him.
He couldn't say he liked the eunuch in the palace. The reason why he wanted to keep him was because he wanted to have one more person to bear the blame in the future.
Now that the angel was leaving, he couldn't force him to stay, he could only let him leave.
After the angel left, the two naval battalions of the Dengzhou Navy and the troop transport ships also left Dengzhou and followed the northward route all the way north to Lushun.
The angels who came to Dengzhou's ship knew about the sharpness of the Tiger Flag ship and did not dare to take the ship directly to Dagu. Instead, they chose the safer land route.
Naturally, the land route is not as short as taking a boat from Dengzhou to Lushun.
The angels have not yet arrived at the capital. The ship departing from Dengzhou has already appeared near Huangcheng Island, and further ahead is Tieshan Island in Lushun.
"Report, the Ming Navy has been spotted ahead!"
Just when the Dengzhou Navy appeared in the waters near Huangcheng Island, the Tiger Banner Navy patrolling the nearby waters discovered the opponent immediately.
Imperial City Island is not big, but it has become a supply point for Tiger Flag ships.
Moreover, in order to intercept the Dengzhou navy coming from Dengzhou to aid Lushun one step ahead, the Tiger Flag stopped several armed merchant ships on Huangcheng Island for a long time.
One warship after another left the shore from Huangcheng Island and appeared on the only way for the Dengzhou Navy to go to Lushun.
At the same time, a speed shuttle was sent to deliver a message to Tieshan Island.
"Notify other ships to form a formation to meet the enemy." Zheng Chao, who was on the main ship, told his men.
On the mast of the main ship, the messenger waved the small flag in his hand and used semaphore to convey the orders on the main ship to other ships.
The huge main ship slowly raised its hull, revealing the cannon on one side.
Although the other warships were just armed merchant ships, they were actually larger than the Ming Navy's Fu Ship and had more cannons. Each armed merchant ship had no less than twenty cannons.
When sailing on the sea, as long as the weather is not stormy, you can see very far.
The Dengzhou Navy's ships had not yet entered the firing range and had been discovered first by the armed fleet from the Tiger Flag.
As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the Dengzhou Navy also discovered a strange fleet at sea.
There are flags on the ship's mast to identify each other.
In fact, no flag was needed for the Ming navy to recognize that the ships intercepted in front were enemies rather than friends.
Because the Ming Dynasty did not have such a large ship, and the pseudo-jin did not have a large ship, the only established fleet that could appear on the route between Lushun and Dengzhou was the Navy with the Tiger Flag.
