Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing jumped up from the dragon throne excitedly and shouted excitedly: "Okay, great, when will they arrive?"

Chen Zhang estimated it and replied: "If you go back to the emperor, you can arrive at the fleet's speed about the Sun hour this afternoon."

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Around Shenshi that afternoon, a huge fleet appeared on the sea south of the city of Relanzha. The Ming Navy Combined Fleet returned with Desheng. The headlines were ninety Ming super battleships, fifty Dutch super battleships in the middle, and the other nine hundred Dafu ships lined up in three square formations and located behind the left and right. The lineup was dozens of miles in a radius, and the majestic momentum was enough to make people intimidate.

At this time, a wooden platform more than ten meters high had been built on the open space south of Relanzha City. The flags were waving on the stage, and the 50,000 elite guards under the stage were lined up in neat formations on both sides. A road paved with red cloth rushed directly from the bottom of the stage to the beach in the south. Zhu Cijing, the Emperor Chongzheng of the Ming Dynasty, stood on the platform and personally welcomed the navy soldiers back triumphantly.

With the rumbling salute, the grand triumphal ceremony began.

First of all, the prisoners were offered. This time, nearly 20,000 prisoners were captured, so it was naturally impossible to take them all. Zheng Zhihu and Huang Long just selected more than 200 officers from the Second Eastern Fleet of the Dutch Navy to take them to the audience for Zhu Cijing's inspection.

After the prisoner offering ceremony, the military parade was about, so naturally the navy soldiers could not run to the shore one by one to receive Zhu Cijiu's inspection. The navy had a method of the navy's inspection. Simply put, it was to arrange all the warships in neat formations and pass through the sea in front of the reviewing stand, and then slowly sail into the Taijiang Inland Sea.

The last item is Zhu Cijing awarded the navy soldiers. The Nanyang Navy and Beiyang Navy were directly promoted to the first-class legion of the Ming Dynasty due to their outstanding military achievements. Zheng Zhihu and Huang Long were also promoted from admiral Tongzhi to the first-class navy admiral. In addition, after conquering the city of Relanzha, a vault of the East India Company was found from the city, with more than two million taels of silver alone and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold. Zhu Cijing took it out without hesitation. All the navy soldiers were rewarded with ten taels of silver, and generals at all levels directly rewarded gold, at least ten taels, and Zheng Zhihu and Huang Long were directly 10,000 taels of each! The remaining 50,000 elites of the First Army of the Imperial Guards and 50,000 elites of the Second Army of the Imperial Guards, and even the Dongfan civilians who came to the visit ceremony were all rewarded!

After the grand triumphal ceremony, it is time to consider the post-war affairs. The war between countries does not mean that one war is over. Unless all the people and the country are destroyed at once, the subsequent quarrels will be inevitable.

Although the Ming Dynasty achieved a stunning victory this time, the Netherlands did not suffer a fatal blow. Their strength is still strong. If you think about a big victory, you will probably not be far from the end.

Is it a fight or arguing next? Zhu Cijiu tends to arguing because the Ming Dynasty is in a period of rapid growth, and it is getting stronger every year. Now the strength at sea may be far worse than that of the Netherlands, but in a few years, it is not impossible to catch up or even surpass the Netherlands. Therefore, if he wants to have arguing with the Dutch, it is best to have a few years to get involved. At that time, even if he starts working directly, the Ming Dynasty will not be afraid.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty also held nearly 20,000 Dutch prisoners in his hand, which can be said to be a huge advantage. You should know that the Netherlands has only more than one million people in total, and the army has only 200,000 to survive. It has captured almost one-tenth of their army at once, and this deterrent power is great.

Do you still want to fight? If you even beat me, I will kill all the 20,000 prisoners!

Do you pay compensation? Don’t you want to pay compensation if you don’t pay compensation for these 20,000 people!

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In short, the 20,000 prisoners can do a big deal, and no matter how they argue, the Ming Dynasty has the advantage. Of course, if you want to argue, you have to have the capital to argue. If the Dutch came over to fight the Ming Dynasty desperately, then the Ming Dynasty would still be a little unbearable.

In order to dispel the Dutch's idea of ​​continuing to fight, Zhu Cijing decided to build a maritime defense line and connect Dongfan, Penghu and the southeast coast with forts, which made the Dutch afraid and sat at the negotiating table to argue with the Ming Dynasty!

Of course, Zhu Cijing could not consider such a huge project alone. He gathered Zheng Zhihu, Huang Long, Qin Liangyu, Shi Kefa and other generals together, discussed for a few days, and finally decided on a preliminary plan.

First of all, it is the issue of fortresses. According to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, square cities were built. After the appearance of thermal weapons, this kind of city has a much worse defense than before. It is more than ten times worse than the bastion. Therefore, Zhu Cijiong decided to imitate the bastion. Anyway, there were 20,000 Dutch prisoners, so it was not useless. Let's first prepare a few bastions for the Ming Dynasty.

Then there is the issue of artillery. To make the fortress and the turret powerful, of course, the more artillery, the better. Each place needs at least 500 artillery to make people worry. If you want to be daunting, you must at least set up thousands of artillery at each important gate.

Now the preliminarily determined checkpoints are Xiamen, Quanzhou, Penghu, Chichai and Jiulong. In other words, at least five or six thousand cannons are needed. According to the current production speed of the Ming Dynasty, it will take at least one year to build all of these cannons. The Dutch will definitely not be able to wait for a year. What should we do?

It is actually very simple, that is, to remove all the naval guns on the Dutch battleship and install them into various forts and fortresses. Through several wars, the generals of the navy discovered a problem. Naval battles actually rely mainly on attack speed, range and other minority. The sea surface is so bumpy, and the warships of both sides are moving. It is a joke to hit the target a few miles apart. Only by approaching and hitting the target at a distance of two or three miles apart, the Dutch cannon is not suitable at this time. They beat one round, and the Ming Dynasty's breeze female howitzer can hit at least five rounds, and the gap is so big!

Therefore, everyone agreed that it would be best to modify all the 50 Dutch battleships seized to the Ming Dynasty's breeze mother howitzers. Anyway, the Dutch warships all need to be overhauled, so they drove to the Dongdaying Shipyard to renovate and modify them.

Finally, there is a problem of personnel. With the fortress and fortresses, there must be someone to guard them. Moreover, according to the development speed of the Ming Navy, a fleet can be built in two years. With warships, there must be someone to drive them. The demand for the officers and soldiers of the navy will definitely increase. Considering these situations, Zhu Cijiu simply issued an order. Sima, the commander of the commanders of the Nanzhili, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, immediately recruited new recruits from the various garrisons, recruited 300,000 first, and sent them to the East Pandan for training, first practice artillery operation, and then practice sailing operation, so as to strive to train into qualified sailors as quickly as possible.

Time waits for no one. The Dutch will definitely not be able to withstand such heavy losses this time, so the defense line must be established as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!