Obviously, Chen Shangchuan's soldiers did not think that the Australian army would not pursue the enemy, but gave these tasks to themselves because the Australians spared their lives---- and the soldiers, including Chen Shangchuan and Chen Anping, were very happy with the "courtesy" of the Australians ---- let their soldiers pick up a "big bargain".

Because in the face of the rout, it is to reap the fruits of the battle, not only to obtain high morale, but also many practical benefits, such as the belongings of the rout, and the fifty or so cattle carts that followed behind the team, which were full of valuable soft money, and of course, the young women sitting in the car.

What's more, the woman who can be captured and looted into the car by these hiccups will definitely not be too ugly.

However, Chen Shangchuan's subordinates know the rules, and the woman must be handed over to General Chen first, as well as the property, because everyone knows that it was not themselves who defeated the enemy, but the group of Australian troops who had already driven back to Leizhou City at this time.

Of course, after all, he also pursued the enemy, and there was no merit and hard work, as for how to distribute these soft wealth, it was something that adults needed to use their brains, and their subordinate soldiers were just waiting to be rewarded.

Sure enough, on the very next day, in Leizhou City, General Chen began to reward the three armies---- and the more than 50 carts of wealth and silk were divided into three parts according to custom, the Australians, the soldiers, and General Chen and his generals.

A total of six young women who had been taken captive were released by the general, and a lot of money was returned, and it is said that there were still their relatives in the city, while the remaining two women were left behind because they had no families.

As is customary, women are to be reserved for the most meritorious people, and it is clear that the merits of this battle should be attributed mainly to the Australian army.

So after rewarding the soldiers of the garrison and having dinner with the soldiers on this day, Wei Hong and Ai Rush suddenly found that there were two young girls in the room when they returned to their station, the east wing of the Leizhou Mansion.

and Chen Anping who stood at the door with a smile, this Chen Shangchuan's cousin is a young man who is just in his early twenties, he stuffed a piece of paper in his hand into Xiao Ai's hand and said, it is written on the women's hometown, surname, name, birthday, and told the two of them, General Chen said, these women belong to the two brothers, as for how you brothers are distributed, I don't care, we will meet later!

So Chen Anping quickly left the wing room with a few personal soldiers......

Regarding the follow-up story of these two women, there are many stories, in short, a few words must not be clear, anyway, in those few days, the two girls have not left the East Wing This point is very certain.

Later, the two girls eventually switched to Sunflower Girls' School......

After the victory of Shen Tangyuan's battle, Wei Ai and Chen Shangchuan's military strength increased, because among the captured small 3,000 green battalion soldiers, a small half turned into the Chen family's auxiliaries and military households, all of these people are homeless bachelors, for these soldiers, General Chen Shangchuan has food here, and he can send women in the future, why not stay? .

In addition, there are more than 400 selected single and young people who were selected by Wei Hong and Xiao Ai, these people have very complicated backgrounds, most of them are orphans or "auxiliaries" who were "picked up" by the green battalion along the way to the march, these people are very young, and their bodies are also very thin on the surface, but Wei Ai and the others believe that it is caused by malnutrition, and after the food improves, these people will become stronger.

The brothers plan to send these people to Dawanshan Island first, and after training, they will be assigned to the garrison, and the brothers have already said that these people are one and a half.

As for the other soldiers, they were all dismissed, because they surrendered without a fight, so they were treated with leniency, and with their families, they did not lose much of their belongings.

In fact, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, for the prisoners with ordinary status, in most cases---- they will be treated in this way, but there are exceptions, that is, in the event of a tragic battle, because the victor suffered heavy losses, then these captured soldiers are likely to be sold into slavery, or even killed by the victor to vent their anger, which is obviously very different from the records in the history books.

Wei Hong and Xiao Ai both commented approvingly that Chen Shangchuan did not abuse the prisoners, of course, because these prisoners were very obedient, so there was no need to abuse, and Chen had no intention of treating this group of people as slaves, after all, in the current situation, he was not willing to raise a group of slaves whose loyalty was very questionable.

Of course, leniency can't be killed---- Chen Shangchuan was born in the academy and was deeply influenced by the traditional concept of Confucianism, the so-called "heaven and man are one, and human life is a matter of heaven", which is specifically reflected in the attitude towards prisoners, which is a sentence that soldiers often say - "killing prisoners is ominous".

For these captives, at the beginning, Wei Ai and the two were very interested, and the brothers felt that they should try to recruit these people, and when they told Chen Shangchuan their ideas, General Chen responded that these brothers can be recruited at will, but people may not be willing to go with you, because these people have families in the mainland, you and our women leave their homes and careers to go with you? Forcibly kidnapped?

Don't forget, it's still far away in the South Seas, and for ordinary people, if they are not forced to be helpless, or they really don't want to continue to be slaves under the rule of the Tartars, who wants to go away?

Wei Ai and the two of them thought about it, at this time, the two brothers have been in contact with the Han people for a long time, and they have also gained a lot of perceptual understanding---- and the two have to admit that many people with families are indeed unwilling to follow the Australians to the South Seas to reclaim the wasteland, even if you tell these people that the place to go to Australia is not only steamed bread to eat, but also freedom, but when you face a group of people who don't know what freedom is, these words are quite pale and weak, and the most touching thing is nothing more than having steamed buns to eat this kind of thing.

However, in today's era, whether it is in the Ming Dynasty or in the Qing Dynasty, as long as the government does not toss the people, as long as it does not encounter extremely serious natural disasters, even if there is a little bit of money, it is really not difficult for the grass people to find an ownerless plot of land, and then cultivate and weave their own crops to support their families.

So you can't force people to leave their homes and businesses and go to that strange new world, the so-called twisted melon is not sweet.

What's more, if there is really someone who is willing to follow us, the brothers are also faintly worried, I'm afraid that such a person is not a good person, after all, a person who even has to be ruthlessly abandoned by his family, don't expect this person to have any moral bottom line, even if he shouts some wonderful ideals in his mouth, to put it bluntly, the best result is that person is a refined egoist, and if he is not careful, there is a high probability that he is an ambitious villain, so the brothers think it's better to forget it, don't find this kind of person for the family......

On 16 July, the Pride and the flotilla arrived again at the port of Old Village, where the 400 selected reserve guards and more than 1,500 other refugees were put aboard.

The news that Wei Hong and Xiao Ai had just won a battle two days earlier immediately spread to the Red Mansion through the Pride radio.

It was on this day that the fleet led by Xu Zhi of Zhu Beiguo finally appeared on the sea outside Xiaowanshan Island.

So all the traversers finally breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone said that this day was really a double happiness---- the victory of Wei Ai and the two was just that, it was as it should be, and the four brothers Zhu Xu and Peng Hu finally arrived at their destination safely, and the significance behind it was very significant.

Everyone thought that it was a remarkable thing in itself that they sailed on the sailing ships of their time, sailing alone for more than a month, with no navigation, no radar, no radio communications, and almost no decent golden finger blessings, relying only on nautical charts and their own nautical knowledge.

It was a significant voyage---- the journey was more than 7,000 kilometres long from the time it departed from the Red Pier, and it was possible to reach the destination safely within the planned time – a real welcome experience, and of course, the guide certainly contributed to it.