Xu Zixian felt comfortable, and the many civil servants and generals present felt that they were almost the same.

Due to the huge gap between the navy, the Dongfan side had no choice but to watch them stay on the sea and rescue the pirates who were hiding.

If they didn't leave for a day, the Dongfan would have to maintain a high-intensity alert level every day. Although the battlefield was cleaned and the harvest in the farmland was about to be achieved, a large number of troops and civilians had to continue to be on guard by the sea and continue to search for the fleeing pirates.

People look at the fields, see the plump beans, the snow-white cotton, and are still worried about the weather changes at any time... At this time, a typhoon suddenly came, and a few days of storm, and everything was over. It was not impossible to destroy more than half a year of hard work in one day.

The fire man jumping into the sea in front of him does not make people feel scared, nor does he feel pity, and there is no slight pity. Just like that of Jingguan, outsiders will be afraid when they see it, and people from Dongfanmoto Island will only feel happy and reconciled when they see it.

Everyone understands what would happen on this beautiful island if the Nan'an Prefecture Army was defeated and they occupied the Dongfan.

Now they are burned to firemen and fall into the sea, like dumplings that are almost cooked in a boiling pot. What's wrong with this? No one will feel bad. Xu Zixian only feels happy. The only thing that makes him worried is the people on the boat. It is difficult for the people on the boat to avoid the engulfment of the fire. Whenever the people on the boat are engulfed by the fire or hit by a catapult, the people on the shore, including Xu Zixian, also exclaim in surprise or sighs of pain.

By dawn, when the sky was dim and there was a clear red light on the sea level, the fire attack gradually ended.

The sea was full of broken warships, and at least fifty warships were burned. The wreckage of these warships floated on the sea, burned hulls, broken sails and rigging, and various messy utensils floating on the sea, including food bags, clothes, cabinets and other items.

After the destruction of the hull, these items did not sink. Now they float on the sea, drifting with the tide.

There were corpses everywhere on the sea. Some of them looked black and obviously they were roasted and drowned. Some pirates were even smoked to death in the hull. They simply didn't run out. Some were burned into a pile of ashes, while others were roasted into coke, which looked extremely terrifying.

There are at least a thousand corpses on the sea, and dozens of ships are floating with the waves, which are obviously abandoned.

More warships have fled. The pirates panicked during the chaos last night. In the first half of the night, they tried to fight back and drove the boat away. Later, more and more warships burned, so the pirates completely gave up. A large number of ships began to knock on the fired ships, lifted their anchors and sails, and left the sea.

By the early morning, people walked towards the beach in the morning dew and saw more details. Some messy items had been washed to the shore, and of course there were many dead and terrifying bodies.

A large number of small boats were also damaged. It is estimated that at least more than 200 small boats were destroyed by the fire attack last night.

Many people recognized the logo of the boat's hull, and many people shed tears at the beach in the early morning.

The wreckage of the boat contains the logo of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion and is painted with numerical numbers. It is obvious that it is the large and small fishing boats of the Nan'an Navy, as well as some small fishing boats.

Last night, the Nan'an Navy attacked the pirates with a small boat, and more than 50 pirate ships were burned and burned, including a large warship of less than four or five hundred tons. More than a thousand pirates died, and more than a thousand corpses floated on the sea surface alone, and there may be more casualties and injuries that have not been found.

The losses on the shore have already broken the pirates' backs, and the fire attack last night's sneak attacks broke the pirates' legs. The ships are not only the tools they rely on for survival, but also their homes, their swords and guns, and also the paradise for them to enjoy the fruits. Many pirates are uncomfortable after they get ashore. Many old pirates would rather die of illness on the boat than return to the shore. They would rather be thrown into the sea by their accomplices to feed sharks after they die. This result makes them feel very peaceful. When they think of returning to land and being buried in the pit, they are uncomfortable.

If they lose on the shore, they still have warships and have a chance to come back.

A large number of warships were damaged, and both personnel and ships were lost, so it would be difficult for them to recover.

Xu Zixian estimated that there were nearly 200 ships that fled last night, most of which were sailors and personnel on the ship. They fled in panic.

Even if he barely gathered together, there would not be too many. Liu Dan and Yan Qi gathered more than 30,000 people and more than 300 warships. This time, the one who could return to Luzon with Liu Dan was probably less than half of the previous one. He could have more than a hundred ships to follow him, even if he burned Gaoxiang and hit the great fortune, the greater the possibility is that there are dozens of ships left, two or three thousand subordinates, whose strength is equal to one tenth of the previous one.

In other words, the once-time pirate king, one was awarded the title of the head, and the other was left with only some embers.

The most brutal pirates rampant in Annan, Cham, Siam, and Luzon's coastal areas will shrink by at least 90%. Businesses and travelers may not be very safe, because there will be a small number of pirates emerging, but basically, the situation where the sea trade was almost affected and cut off will be greatly improved.

This time, defeating Liu Dan and Yan Qi not only killed their soldiers, but also destroyed their fleet. It was a great victory, but Xu Zixian did not feel much joy in his heart. During the night attack last night, the loyal and brave soldiers on the boat were next to the explosive object one by one. After or before the ignition, they had to throw out quilts to fix the boat and the big ship.

Xu Zixian knew this tactic, which meant courage and sacrifice.

The losses of small fire ships are actually negligible. With the current capabilities of the Dongfan Shipyard, it is impossible to build ten or eight such small boats a day, but as long as the timber tool staff is equipped, it is still quite easy to build one such small boat in one or two days.

In some old-fashioned large shipyards in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, it is normal to produce several such small boats a day. Of course, there is no need to add weapons. Generally, small fishing boats are of this scale and can be fished offshore, which is convenient and practical, and the price is not very expensive. A few hundred stale coins is enough to buy one.

What is heartbreaking is the sacrifice of the soldiers. Xu Zi looked at it for a while and focused on the situation of the soldiers of the Nan'an Navy. He found that a lot of small boats were sunk before approaching, and some soldiers were swallowed by fire. Some soldiers were swimming in the waves and shadows, and they were likely to be affected or even collided in the water by the large ships that fled in panic.

No one dares to say that he will definitely be a survivor. There should be more than a thousand people in the Nan'an Navy dispatched last night. Xu Zixian himself doesn't know how many people can survive.

These soldiers are all strong men who have been strictly selected. Most of them are from Zhangzhou or Penghu. They are mostly proficient in water. Many people have been on board before, but they are just businessmen or fishing. They are not a rookie without any foundation.

Even so, they have undergone extremely strict training in the navy, and many people cannot pass the test. It is different from staying on the fishing boat for a few days and staying on the warship for a month without getting ashore. It is dizzy, vomiting, and eating and drinking.

After passing three levels, we will talk about other training. More than half a year has passed, and the navy soldiers have basically passed the level. Last night's fire attack received a generous reward, but Xu Zixian would rather see the pirate fleet leave easily than see the navy soldiers sacrifice so much.

A group of civil servants all had pale complexions. They did not often stay up late. Even after the war was about to begin and end the war a few days ago, civil servants were mostly in a normal pace and did not disrupt their rhythm too much.

But the scene of killing enemies at sea last night was too heroic and too tragic. Many people could not take their eyes away, let alone go back to sleep calmly.

Even Fang Shaoqun's expression has always remained unchanged, and his expression has remained unchanged because he was hailed as Mount Tai collapsed. Last night, when he saw countless soldiers rushing into the big ship in a burning small boat, he still couldn't help but feel shocked.

In Fang Shaoqun's life experience, he saw many conspiracies and tricks, and of course, he also saw many imperial guards in the northwest and north sacrificed to resist the enemy.

The northerners are strong, straightforward and brave, which is the established impression of many people. The northerners are even more fierce, fearless and more tenacious than the Hebei people.

This is the impression of many people. The people in the south are weak, and the people in the south are good at poetry and business. Zhejiang people in the south are not inferior to those in the south, and Jiangxi and Fujian people in the south are good at taking exams. In these places, the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty for more than 200 years, more than half of the people who passed the imperial examination came from these places, such as sailing boats, trade, and trade, and imperial examinations, calligraphy, painting, and poetry. Many officials, great scholars, calligraphers, painters, and merchants in this dynasty who were famous for their literary reputations, mostly came from these places.

But in front of Fang Shaoqun was a group of weak southerners who sacrificed their lives, were not afraid of death, and were not afraid of fire. They drove small boats to the mountain-like enemy ships on the vast sea of ​​the dark night, surviving in the fire and sea water. Many people died. The navy soldiers saw that many people died, but they continued to attack and burn without hesitation. Until the dawn was dawn, the fleet of small boats evacuated in the last darkness, leaving only the large ships that continued to burn and the panicked pirates.

By the last moment, everyone was convinced that if the main fleet was launched at Penghu Port at this time, the pirates might not be the opponent.

Liu Dan and others obviously had the same idea. After dawn, they didn't care about sinking the ship, and just cared for Zhang Fan to leave. In fact, in the middle of the night, many ships had already left the battlefield while dodging the attack. By dawn, there were no more enemy ships moving around the clock. All the enemy ships disappeared without a trace, leaving only thick smoke, and the hull burned on the sea. The remaining fire was not over, and the wreckage and the scorched corpses of people were floating and sinking on the sea. Everything was settled. In this battle, the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion not only defeated the invading pirates on land, beheading more than 20,000 levels of such a terrifying number. Even at sea, the weak navy of the Nan'an Mansion army also attacked the main force of the enemy ship with fire ships, causing dozens of pirate warships to be burned and sunk, and the rest fled in panic.

This is a powerful signal, indicating that the Nan'an Prefecture Army has set foot on the sea. Just as Xu Zixian had succeeded on land before, the Navy of the Nan'an Prefecture Army took action and swept away the weak image of the Dawei Navy over the past few decades, and taught a good lesson to the powerful foreign enemies.

It is not necessarily possible that a warship like clouds can fight against the enemy. As long as you have courage and determination, and a will as strong as steel, victory cannot be obtained at your fingertips, and victory can only be delivered to the hands of the brave, rather than finding various excuses to avoid fighting against the strong enemy.

"I'm a little strange." Xu Zixian looked at the sea surface that was still emitting thick smoke and said, "Take an initiative, Tian Heng and Liu Yi encouraged me. I'm not surprised that these guys dare to fight. I was a little worried beforehand. But using the Fire Ship method, who is so skillful and so experienced, is this the idea?"

When everyone frowned, Xu Zixian smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Send more large and small ships to go out to the sea to detect the pirates to prevent the pirates from firing and shooting them back. There are still dozens of small boats on the island. Now we start cleaning the sea surface, picking up the floating corpses and beheading them and burying them, fishing out useful materials and counting them into the warehouse, and pile them up and burning them uselessly. At the same time, we contacted the navy in Penghu and asked them to send sailors over and come quickly to drive the remaining warships back to the port of Penghu. We don't know if the pirates will change their minds. They were stunned last night. If they came back, they would know that their current strength was at least better than us."

"Yes, lord."

The relevant civil and military officials clasped their fists and agreed.

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"We are determined to go to the battle."

Tian Heng and others pressed the knife in their hands, and their faces were full of murderous aura. If it weren't for the more fierce and cruel Liu Yi in front of them, they would probably have been suppressed by these young military officers who were born in the middle of the teenager.

"Take a bow to me first, then sit down and talk." The scar on Liu Yi's face leaped a few times, looked at Tian Heng and others, but his face was calm and composed, with a calm expression.

"We really want to go to fight." Tian Heng and others were intimidated by Liu Yi's momentum, and their initial momentum dropped a few minutes. After the salute, more than a dozen officers sat down, and their iron armored clothes made a powerful clanging sound.

These are all military officers of the crossbow warrior group on the ship, at least they are all at the top level. There are many like Tian Heng, all of whom are battalion commanders or deputy commanders.

The navy is divided into deck groups and combat troops. On one side are sailors and on the other side are combat soldiers. The combat troops are divided into combat troops first. They are purely hand-to-hand combat troops. Whenever they encounter battles, they hold long soldiers to fight against the enemy on the side, or jump to the enemy ships to defeat and kill all the enemies who dare to resist on the enemy ships and seize the enemy ships. This is the ultimate tactic of naval battle.

The deck team is responsible for navigation, maintenance, and control of warships during angle attacks.

The crossbow unit is responsible for those bed crossbows, eight-ox crossbows, and those catapults.

In the era without artillery, these are the methods of war between ships and enemies.

After more than half a year of running-in and training, the water camp soldiers have also cooperated with the deck group to go to sea many times, and basically mastered various skills to fight at sea.

The highest commander on the ship is the captain, and the captains of the twenty warships are basically the battalion commander. Considering that most of the military officers of the water camp are laymen who become monks halfway, the deputy captain is usually an old sailor.

The Nan'an Navy only had four large ships with 300 tons of eight-niu crossbows. Most of the other warships were small warships of about 200 tons to about 100 tons, with horns and tail towers, bed crossbows or eight-niu crossbows. The crews on the ship ranged from more than 100 to 200 to 300.

The four large ships are named after the state name, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Jianzhou. These are the names of the four large ships. After a long period of repair and reorganization, these warships have been able to barely sail in the offshore to now being able to cross the ocean, which has also cost a lot of money and energy.

The sailors in the deck group and the people in the warrior group are constantly running in and cooperating with each other, familiarizing themselves with each other's work flow. While repairing the warships, they have also gone out to sea many times. The warriors have gradually accepted the role of fighting for the warriors, the warriors are in charge of the warriors, and the regularity is the main positioning.

The ecosystem on the ship is actually quite complex. The captain, deputy ship, first mate, second mate, and five long facial features, including sail cable, deck bridle, and other five long facial features, take a long time from familiarity to integration.

Although Tian Heng is from Zhangzhou, he has only boarded a small fishing boat since he was a child and wandered near the sea. He boarded a large ship

After that, just overcoming the ubiquitous dizziness and being able to stand, talk, and eat, it took more than a month.

First, you eat and then vomit, and then eat and you can eat until you sway. This really takes time and perseverance.

In fact, no one on the beach will not be dizzy when they get on the boat. They all survived the level of dizziness and vomiting. There is no secret skill, it is just a word for slaughtering.

After surviving the seasickness level, and being able to train, fight, jump gangs on the ship, and the skillful training of using weapons to kill the enemy, the sailors also illuminated the sailors.

The soldiers also knew the hard work of the sailors. They kept fighting against the wind and rain in heavy rain and strong winds, climbed onto the main mast and cut off the sail cables, and if they were not careful, they would fall into the violent sea and there was no possibility of survival.

The sailors slid on the deck full of sea water, like leaping fish.

They were divided into several groups and took turns to sleep during sailing. Each hammock had four hours each. After the time came, the shift was changed and others came up to continue sleeping.

"We have been cooperating with training for more than half a year. If the thieves attack the island, we will not take advantage of the gap and the navy that surrounded me Penghu will be withdrawn. It can be seen that the war is tense. We will not attack again. When will we wait." Tian Heng had a blue face, and he didn't even look at the navy commander Ren Zhong, who was sitting in the middle. Although the other party was nominally the navy commander of the navy, it is well known that the main reason why the Nan'an Hou retained Ren Zhong was because the Ren family had many outstanding children. In recent years, the navy was destroyed, and the Ren family had not served in the navy. After leaving Ren Zhong, many of the Ren family's children came to the Nanyang Navy to join the army in the past few months. In the eyes of Tian Heng and others, the meaning of Ren Zhong was that Ren Zhong was the same.

Liu Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at everyone and said, "I also know that the navy is already looking like it, but the Lord told us not to go out lightly, and to protect the ships as the most important thing. If the ships are there, we will make great contributions. In the future, the Lin family and other families will deliver more than ten ships one after another before the New Year. Next year, the Dongfan can build ships, up to two to three years, and a hundred warships are not difficult. You have to go out to fight the enemy now, what should you do if you lose the soldiers and generals? What should you do if you lose the warship? If you get the military order, the entire army will have nothing to say. If you don’t get the military order, you can go to fight without authorization. Once you fail, have you ever thought about the consequences?"

"The consequence is nothing more than death." Tian Heng stared at Liu Yi and said, "We are grateful to the Lord and the Lord, and our family will be taken care of. If we fail in the battle, we will have no complaints. If we really go to the battle, we will have a knife from the Japanese on my waist. At that time, I will stab my neck with a sharp edge, apologize to the Lord and the Navy soldiers, and there is no need for Liu Du to come forward to explain."

Most of the generals who came in with Tian Heng were young, and many of them were not yet twenty. The younger the generals, the more they were, the more they were fearless. They followed Xu Zi first from the 16th to the seventeenth, trained first, and then formed an army. They fought with the enemy many times, and there were many people at hand, and there was a fierce aura when they spoke.

If an ordinary general was afraid that he would not be able to shake these young people, Liu Yi still tilted his body and just cursed at Tian Heng: "My mother, when you were learning sword skills with me, you spoke one by one teacher at a time. Now that you are the commander of the camp, you are just looking at me. Are you going to rebel?"

Tian Heng's eyes remained sharp, and he looked at Liu Yi and said, "One day, one day, a father, I respect Liu Du, as a master, and I will never change in this life. But the king is our master, and the kindness we have received is far above the master. Besides, you are also the commander of the master and have received a lot of kindness. Now the situation of the battle has changed. Are we really huddled in Penghu and sat waiting for the result?"

In fact, not only the young military officers, but also Liu Yi, they also had the same idea. However, as the commander of the army, Liu Yi was responsible for the safety of more than 2,000 naval officers and soldiers, as well as the safety of twenty warships.

The Nan'an Navy has only such a small fortune. There are quite a few ships. After repairing the ship, it will demolish many old and broken ships, as well as a large number of large and small ships for fishing, sending letters, and transportation at sea. Fortunately, these can transport personnel and supplies in emergencies, but they are not very useful, let alone fighting strong enemies at sea. Those small boats that sit at most thirty or fifty people and are useless.

We must build a large ship, including eight ox crossbows and catapults, carrying more than a hundred soldiers on the ship. Only such a ship can be called a warship and can compete with the enemy in naval battles.

There were only twenty warships qualified by the Nan'an Navy, and one ship would be less than one ship to destroy. Therefore, although Xu Zixian was ill before the war, he still sent people to the Penghu Island to deliver letters, and ordered the water camp not to go to war without authorization. All ships were parked in the port. The navy soldiers and the Penghu wing army were strong, with nearly 10,000 people in total. In addition, the terrain was steep and easy to guard, and cooperated with long-range weapons such as bed crossbows to destroy the pirates and give up attacking Penghu.

This is the case with the evolution of war. Ten days ago, pirate ships went to the sea outside Penghu, and then gradually gathered in ships, reaching about 300.

Based on the number of ships and the number of people on the ship, it is easy to judge that the number of pirates is more than 30,000, and it will not exceed many.

Of course, this is a rare powerful enemy. These pirates are all powerful bandits and robbers. They have been plundering and killing people over the years, which is completely different from the local thieves in front of their homes like Qishan thieves.

Even so, the Qishan thieves have been rampant on Fujian Road for more than ten years, let alone the joint efforts of two pirate kings from Luzon?

The navy was on guard. The Penghu people built long towers in the port and set up arrow towers. The entire island was on guard. For several consecutive days, pirate ships gathered outside. Many of the attached islands were robbers. Fortunately, they were well prepared in advance, and no people stayed on the islands, and all the food and other food were taken away. The pirates got nothing on the islands. They burned some houses to vent their hatred. They could see the rolling smoke and dust in the sky every day.

Then came a large number of pirate ships left, with only dozens of ships and three or four thousand pirates staying outside the port of Penghu Island.

At that time, Tian Heng and others intended to attack, but were rejected by Liu Yijian.

Later, even the pirates guarding outside Penghu were transferred away. Liu Yi and others were fighting old wars. How could they not know that the situation of the war had changed?

However, whether the change is good or bad, I still don’t know anything about it. Liu Yi sent a small ship to secretly leave the port and the post detectives, so the post detectives could only go to the periphery of the pirate fleet to spy on it. As a result, they only found that the main pirates were all outside the sea of ​​Nan'an, and there was no other movement, and there was no sound of shouting for killing. What happened? There was no way to detect it.

Seeing that everyone was eager to fight, Liu Yi sat upright and said to everyone seriously: "Even so, the king entrusted me with the navy. What if the loss of the battle is done by Lang? I am not afraid of military law. I am amazing with you Tian Hengxue. I apologize myself, but can our lives be able to overcome the warship?"

Tian Heng thought for a moment, clasped his fists and said, "The commander-in-chief, and the subordinates thought that although the naval warships were valuable, the most expensive ones were all soldiers of the army. If the battle was dozens of miles away, but we were afraid and dared not go out, the naval commander was frustrated and there might not be a chance to fight within a few years. What is the use of soldiers just training hard and not being able to fight in actual combat? If our naval commander and soldier have a chance to fight in this battle, even if there are losses, it will be too much gain. The reason why the precious sword is precious is that it can kill the enemy in battle and is a sharp weapon. No matter how valuable the naval commander is, its significance is to compete for power at sea. Otherwise, children play houses and win if they have more ships than whoever has more?"
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