More than 200 captives of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners were pressed on the table. The soldiers standing beside them raised their swords and cut off their thumbs at the same time. Then, after briefly bandaging them to stop the bleeding, they untied the rope and put them back.

"Since General Zhao is afraid that Jiannu who was released back will kill me Han people again, why did he just cut his thumb but not cut his hands?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

Zhao Peng smiled slightly: "Your Highness, if you cut your hands, will Dorgon not be furious? Can we still exchange Jiannu prisoners for ransom in the future? Then we cut our thumbs off. In the future, if any of them are captured, they will come to redeem them. They can't see it after they go back, but those people will find that they have turned into waste when they go to the battlefield! Because of cutting our thumbs off, this person's power is half reduced!"

The Qing army envoy was about to leave with the redeemed prisoners. Before leaving, he found that there was no Zakara among the prisoners released by the Ming army. So the envoy asked: "We have paid the ransom, why didn't Zakara bezi be released?"

Zhao Peng laughed and said, "Ten taels of gold per person are just ordinary Eight Banners soldiers! A great Beizi wants to redeem it with ten taels of gold? Tell you, Beizi's ransom is at least 100,000 taels of silver! If you are sincere in giving 100,000 taels of gold, Zhao will release him now! It's easy to talk about in the future. If the princes and princes are captured by us in the future, they can also spend the silver to redeem it, but the price may be a little higher."

The Qing army envoy was secretly amused: The toad yawned, and he was so angry! He still wanted to capture our princes and princes? It was simply overestimating his ability!

"General Zhao, I am too busy with the navy. Jiannu's navy is coming. Can we leave with peace?" Zhu Cixuan asked very worriedly.

"Your Highness, let's make someone build a raft first. After it is built, we will find a way to break through! It's just that it's possible that some brothers will sacrifice more. I will organize a group of brothers who are familiar with water to fill their rafts with straw, bring tinder oil, and make fire attack rafts to deal with Jiannu's naval warships. For everyone's safety, I can only sacrifice some brothers. But at that time, Zhao will personally lead the brothers who attack the fire attack rafts to attack Jiannu's warships!" Zhao Peng said.

At that time, Zhao Peng personally led a team to attack the Qing army warships with fire. He believed that with his water nature, he would definitely be able to escape successfully after completing the attack and board a raft to escape safely.

The captives of the Eight Banners soldiers had been released, while the captives of the Green Camp soldiers were still left in the Ming army camp to act as coolies. The coolies worked under the whip, cut down towering trees, and sawed the wood into logs about three to five meters long, neatly placed on the ground, and then tied them with thick hemp ropes to make rafts.

It is obviously time-consuming and labor-intensive to rely on manpower to carry the heavy raft from the mountain, and it is not conducive to breaking through. Therefore, Zhao Peng reserved a passage between the hillside where the raft was built and the seaside. At that time, just lay some small wooden sticks on the ground and then put the raft on the wooden sticks, and you can push it down from the hillside and send it to the seaside smoothly.

In the next two days, the Qing army did not launch an attack, but instead sieged the Ming army camp in Lianpengshan. This was after Dorgon was beaten to the point of pain, and he was reluctant to use the lives of the soldiers to fill it, so he adopted Hong Chengchou's plan to siege and attempt to trap the Ming army to death.

According to Zhao Peng's original plan, he used four days to build a raft and broke through the fifth day. Two days had just passed, and fifty large rafts, five meters long and four meters wide, two hundred small rafts, three meters long and two meters wide. Each large raft can take about fifty people; each small raft can take about twenty people, and fifty small rafts are reserved as fire attack rafts to deal with the Qing army navy. The rafts built at present can allow 5,000 to retreat from the sea. If more than 10,000 people are withdrawn, they need to drive another fifty large rafts and two hundred small rafts, which will take two days to complete.

At this moment, Zhao Peng, who was standing on the hill and looking at the Qing army camp, occasionally turned his head to look at the sea surface. He was surprised to find that a huge fleet suddenly appeared on the sea surface to the east.

Zhao Peng quickly picked up the monolithic mirror and looked at the fleet coming from a distance. He saw that there were hundreds of ships of all sizes and sizes. When the fleet got closer, it could be clearly seen from the fleet that was a warship of Chinese and Western style in the middle. The ship was very large, estimated to be five or six hundred tons. The hull used was a Western-style hull with two upper and lower gun decks. The gun doors on the gun deck had all been opened, and the black holes extended from the inside were twenty gun doors on the upper gun deck; the lower gun deck had eighteen gun doors, which meant that the ship had thirty-eight cannons. Although it was a Western hull, the sails were Chinese hard sailboats. On the highest mast in the middle of the ship, a huge "Zheng" flag was floating.

The other ships in the fleet are all Chinese warship styles, including Dafu ship, Cangshan ship No. 1, as well as bird ships, centipede fast ships, mother-child ships, fire attack ships and other various types. The total number of warships of all sizes is more than 150, and more than 300 sampans.

"That's great!" Zhao Peng was ecstatic when he saw the fleet with the word "Zheng" written on it. He was so excited that he hugged Princess Kunxing standing beside him, "Princess, we are saved! It's Zheng Zhilong's fleet that is coming!"

Princess Kunxing was so excited that her eyes were wet: "It's so good that the heavens have eyes! Zhao Lang, we don't have to worry about Jiannu's navy anymore! We can go south with the prince's brother today."

"Hurry, send a signal of beacon to the Zheng family army and let them sink the Jiannu Navy fleet quickly!" Zhao Peng gave the order.

On the top of the mountain, a bunch of beacon fires lit, sending out the beacon smoke signal "I am the Eastern Palace, trapped on the top of the mountain, and there is Jiannu Navy on the sea." In fact, the beacon signal is quite complex. Using different firewood, the burning black smoke is of different heights. There are various additives in the firewood, which can make the beacon smoke appear in different colors to send various information, such as how many people and horses on our side, how many people and horses on the enemy, where the location is, etc., can express various information.

The fleet that came to rescue was Zheng Zhilong's fleet. On the largest Chinese-Western warship, Zheng Sen was standing.

It turned out that this was the case. The confidant sent by Gao Wencai to Nanjing Imperial College and found Zheng Sen. He heard that the prince was trapped and urgently needed the navy fleet to rescue people from the north. Zheng Sen left Nanjing without hesitation and rode a fast horse back to Fujian.

After meeting his father Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong was unwilling to dispatch a fleet to the north to rescue people at first. However, Zheng Sen is different from his pirate leader's father. He was influenced by Confucianism's loyalty to the emperor and serving the country since he was a child. After going to Nanjing Imperial College, he became a student of Qian Qianyi. At this time, Qian Qianyi was not too cold afterwards, and the water was too cold and the scalp was itchy. Qian Qianyi's education on Zheng Sen was also to be loyal to the emperor and serving the country.

Zheng Sen, who had a heart to serve the country, convinced the pirate leader's father, and finally made Zheng Zhilong agree to lead the fleet to the north to save people.

Compared with the Zheng Zhilong Navy of the Zheng family army, Wu Sangui's Longwu Camp Navy was a tiny witch. The Longwu Camp Navy had only two largest Dafu ships, and it was not the largest Dafu ship, but the smaller Dafu ship No. 3, with only three hundred materials; while the Zheng Family Army's Dafu ship No. 1 Dafu ship No. 1, there were more than ten Dafu ship No. 1, on each Dafu ship No. 1, there were an 18-pound red cannon on the bow and three thousand-pound red cannons on both sides.

As for the Zheng family's flagship, it is even more powerful. It is a 500-ton Chinese-Western warship. The flagship has two upper and lower cannon decks. There are twenty twelve-pound red cannons in the upper cannon deck, and eighteen-pound red cannons in the lower cannon deck. There are eighteen-pound red cannons in the upper cannon deck. On the upper light deck, there are also many navy officers and soldiers, equipped with bird guns, turtledove guns and bows and arrows.
Chapter completed!