Liu Yi looked over his fleet and was finally satisfied as the dying light of the sun cast everything in a soft orange glow. It had been a hard several weeks to get enough of his damaged vessels back in shape after the mauling they took on the attempts to break into the Westerners’ port, but they had finally gotten the job done.
Five of the ships had to be beached and torn down for scraps, but that had given them just enough parts to get the rest of his fleet in sailing sailing shape.
He wasn’t happy that he had to give up on this port or that the Westerners had managed to thwart him at every turn. He’d lost countless men to the forts and natives and could not lose any more if he was to make the attack on the Westerners’ base of supply with …
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