Kaohsiung became a sea of joy, and the people of the town ran onto the docks to watch their fleet return.

Every warship entering the port was greeted with enthusiastic cheers.

Although the battleship is mostly wounded, this is the scar of the hero,

The battleship slowly returned home, and the officers and men held their tired bodies to accept the cheers of the people on the pier.

Many of them are military dependents, and they are anxious to inquire about the news of their relatives, and when they hear that they are safe and sound, they pat their chests and say, "Mazu blesses", and when they hear that they are dead or injured, they are immediately overwhelmed and anxious to find their true whereabouts.

Most of the military dependents were happy, such a big battle, almost all of them were artillery battles, the officers and men were dressed in strict accordance with the regulations, wearing ugly basin helmets, wearing deer armor, and many people added an extra layer, as a result, the battle dead were only 385 people, and there were thousands of wounded, but because of the outstanding medical strength of the Southeast Fleet, they were willing to spend money, and the wounded were basically rescued.

Everyone also saw the dejected red-haired fans being escorted out to parade the streets, and people laughed everywhere, but it was not difficult for the red-haired fans.

On that day, everyone rested in place, while the statistics department nervously calculated the merits of the battle and planned the allocated rewards.

Yan Changwu did not relax, he asked how was the situation off the coast of Li Ying, the deputy commander of the second strike group?

Li Ying reported that there were suspicious ships circling the open sea, but they were not attacked.

In fact, the pirates Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang in the Guangdong Sea wanted to make trouble, but they were very cunning, and sent sentinel ships to find out that after the southeast fleet returned one after another, they knew that the Dutch were defeated, so they did not dare to act rashly.

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The next morning, the whole Kaohsiung began to make a noise, in front of the Mazu Temple in Kaohsiung, people gathered one after another, because their young overseers wanted to go to the temple to pay tribute to Mazu for the victory, thank her for her blessing!

In the morning of the same day, the temple was bustling, and under the leadership of Yan Changwu, the officer corps and the soldier corps went to the temple with great momentum.

Just in front of the temple, under the gaze of the goddess and the testimony of tens of millions of people, Yan Changwu awarded awards and medals to the meritorious soldiers.

He first got himself a star and made himself the rank of "general".

Of course, after reciting the sacrifice to the goddess, he declared his achievements: he defeated the powerful Dutch fleet and achieved rich results.

Thanks to the blessing of the goddess, our army won a great victory, and while inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, our losses were very small!

Thank you Mazu for blessing our army for a long time, from one victory to another.

In addition to incense and three animals, there were also Dutch battle flags, and the soldiers threw them at Yan Changwu's feet.

The cheers of the people and soldiers rose higher and higher!

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Yan Donglai, Cheng Yu, Kaustit, and Ceresma, who were the first to take credit, stepped forward first.

The first three were nothing, and when Siresma came out, the people gasped.

He is tall and describes horror.

Immediately, the people rejoiced, because this black warrior also knelt down in front of the statue of Mazu, and people of such a powerful force all bowed to Mazu, and it seems that my southeast province can be prosperous.

Yan Dashao was clever, his brain was wide open, and the role of the black warrior received good results in one fell swoop.

The four meritorious heroes were all awarded the gold medal of merit for war, and the latter three were either the leaders or outstanding in battle, while Yan Donglai was so effective in artillery bombardment that the Dutch could not raise their heads, and they were all promoted to colonels when they commanded the sinking of two enemy ships.

Next is the winner of the Silver Battle Meritorious Medal, the captain of each ship, and the deputy captain with excellent performance, there are many people, including Gan Hui, Shi Daxuan, Hong Xiguan, Yan Zhang, Xiao Changrong, etc.,

Then there are the bronze medal of merit for battle, which is awarded to those who are deputy captains and senior officers, non-commissioned officers who have performed well.

After the award of the Medal of Merit was completed, it was the recipient of the Melee Assault Medal, which rewarded officers, gunners, sail control sailors, helmsmen, etc., in the hundreds.

Among them, Mr. David got the Melee Assault Medal, which is "the greatest merit is to save the driver", and took the initiative to block a shot for Yan Changwu, and in order to reward him for his courage above his duty, he was specially awarded a gold melee assault medal.

All of them were given bonuses according to their grades, such as a thousand silver dollars for the Gold Medal of Merit, five hundred silver dollars for silver, one hundred silver dollars for bronze, and three hundred gold for the Melee Assault Medal, one hundred for silver and fifty for bronze.

The rest of the officers and men participating in the battle were given bonuses and promoted in rank according to merit.

The Medal of Meritorious Service was awarded to Li Ying (Commander of the Second Fleet) and Chen Jinji (for effective logistical support) and Storm (for meritorious service in designing battle lines), and they received a bonus of 800 silver dollars, and the rest of the meritorious personnel who assisted in the battle were also rewarded.

The officer corps becomes the biggest gainer, and the reward content shows the first military merit, that is, the greatest reward is on the battlefield.

The festivities were lively with performances of heroes riding horses and captives walking through the streets, and in front of them a parade of performances in which the people cheered and laughed at the captives...... Actually threw ...... to the captives Not rotten eggs, but dried sweet potatoes.

Dressed in the clean clothes they were given, they were surprised and delighted to fall into the hands of the Ming people, who were terrified at first, but they did not expect that the Ming people actually treated them well and did not abuse them, and they told them to treat the captives favorably (in order to get a ransom).

They didn't kill people, set fires, burn and loot or anything, and the Southeast Fleet didn't kill many people in the battle, and when the typhoon came in the past, more people died in the Minhai Sea than in this war!

The people of the southeast province were in a good mood, and they even took the captives with them, so they made a thing of feeding the red hair fan with sweet potatoes, and laughed as if they were feeding the pigs (those Dutch people were still happy), which made people really cry and laugh.

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The entire page of the "Southeast Daily" that day was full of the content of the battle, telling about the course of the battle and heroic deeds, and of course it was indispensable to give gold to the leaders.

He was not stingy with praise for the Overseer, expressing the tall and mighty image of the young hero, and he also racked his brains to write a poem to commemorate it, which was published in the "Southeast Daily".

"Seven Laws: He Southeast Fleet Defeats the Invading Dutch Fleet"

Taiwan is stormy in the South China Sea, and the battle ships are riding in the blue waves. The dragon fights for the past and the present, and the world is turned upside down and generous.

It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord. If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life.

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This poem circulated in the southeast mansion, and everyone said a "good" word, but where the good was, because of the limited level (not even a lifter), he couldn't say one, but it was transmitted to Fuzhou Fuya, and the governor Xiong Wencan was speechless.

It doesn't rhyme, it's even a bit of a cliché, but it's rich in content, describing the grand historical event of the Southeast Fleet's victory over the Dutch fleet, and the terrible thing is that the imperial spirit overflows!

The aura is strong, it is said that Xiong Wencan once commented that only Taizu and Emperor Yongle have the ability to make poems of this kind of temperament, how can the emperor who is older than the woman in the deep palace can make poems! (This is just a saying, being a courtier does not dare to be presumptuous, after all, it is disrespectful to dare to say this)

And his staff, Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhong, were full of emotion, they helped to handle Yan Changwu's return to Ming, and saw that his strength swelled day by day from a small local force, and to this day, it is really terrifying to be able to have a fight with Hongmaofan.

They are familiar with the scriptures and history, and know that when the Ming Dynasty governor Nan Juyi expelled the Dutch in Penghu in the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624 AD), he used 10,000 people to fight 1,000 Dutch people (including hundreds of teenagers), and they could only drive away instead of annihilate.

At present, Yan Changwu has strong strength, there is no nuisance to the mainland, I don't think he is a saint, I can only say that he has a big plan, and the two gentlemen commented: "If you are a, you are also a generation!" (Cao Cao and Sima Yi did not usurp the throne in their lifetimes)

In the hearts of the two gentlemen, there is no intention of defecting to such a hero......

They are still like this, the civil and military generals in the area of Fujian Province, no one dares not to give face to the southeast province, the Fujian naval division exists in name only, and those who have the ability have crossed the sea to defect to the southeast fleet, and Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, Zhejiang Province and even the coastal areas north of the Yangtze River, heroes come to the southeast province in an endless stream!