Xu Zixian felt comfortable, and the many civilian, official and military generals present felt similar.

Due to the huge gap in the sailors, the Eastern Domain had no way to take the pirate fleet at sea, so they could only watch them stay on the surface of the sea and keep rescuing those pirates who were hiding.

Although the battlefield was cleaned and the harvest in the farmland was imminent, a large number of troops and civilians had to remain on guard at the seashore and continue to hunt for the fleeing pirates.

People look at the fields, see the plump beans, look at the snow-white cotton, and are still worried about the weather...... At this time, a sudden typhoon, a few days of storms, then everything is over, and it is not impossible to destroy more than half a year's hard work in one day.

And the fire man jumping into the sea in front of him does not make people feel frightened, let alone pity, not the slightest mercy, just like that Jingguan, outsiders will be afraid when they see it, and the people of the main island of the Eastern Domain will only feel happy and relieved when they see it.

These humanoid beasts, everyone understands what will happen on this beautiful island if the Nan'an army is defeated and they occupy the Eastern Domain.

Now they are burned to the ground and fall into the sea, like dumplings that are about to be cooked in a boiling pot, what's so bad about that? No one will feel bad, Xu Zixian only feels happy, the only thing that makes him worry is the people on the boat, and it is difficult for the people on the boat to avoid the engulfment of the fire, whenever someone on the boat is engulfed in the fire, or when he is hit by a trebuchet, the people on the shore, including Xu Zixian, also let out an exclamation or a sigh of pain.

It was not until dawn, when the sky was slightly bright, and a distinct red light loomed on the horizon, that the fire attack gradually ended.

The sea was littered with wrecked warships, at least fifty of which had been burned, and the wreckage of these warships was floating on the sea, with burnt hulls, broken sails and rigging, and a mess of various utensils floating on the sea, including food packets, clothing, cabinets, and other items.

After the destruction of the ship's hull, these items did not all sink, and now they float on the sea, drifting with the waves.

The sea was full of corpses, some of them looked black, they were obviously roasted and drowned, and even some pirates were smoked to death in the hull, they didn't run out at all, some were burned directly into a pile of ashes, others were burned into charcoal, and it looked extremely horrifying.

There were at least a thousand corpses on the sea, and dozens of ships were floating with the waves, apparently abandoned.

More ships had fled, and the pirates panicked during the chaos of last night, and in the first half of the night they tried to return fire and drive the boats away, but then more and more ships burned, so the pirates gave up completely, and a large number of ships began to ram the ships on fire, lift anchor and raise sails, and leave the sea.

In the early morning, people walked to the beach in the morning dew to see more details, some of the messy items had washed up on the shore, and of course there were many horrible dead bodies.

A large number of small boats were also damaged, and it is estimated that at least more than 200 small boats were destroyed in last night's fire.

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

The wreckage of the boat has the logo of Nan'an Hou Mansion and is also painted with a number number, which is obviously the size of the Nan'an Navy Division's large and small sentinel boats, and there are also some small fishing boats.

Last night, the Nan'an Navy Division attacked the pirates with small boats, and more than 50 pirate ships were burned and burned, including more than 1,000 pirate dead in large warships of 4 or 500 tons, and more than 1,000 corpses floating on the surface of the sea alone, and there may be more dead and wounded unfounded.

The loss on the shore has broken the pirate's back, and last night's fire attack has broken the pirate's legs, and the ship is not only a tool for their survival, but also their home, their sword and gun, and a paradise for them to enjoy the fruits. Many pirates would rather die on the ship than go back to shore, and they would rather die and be thrown into the sea by their accomplices to feed the sharks, which makes them feel very peaceful, and they feel uncomfortable at the thought of returning to land and being buried in a burrow.

Having lost on the shore, they still have warships and a chance to start over.

A large number of warships were damaged, both men and ships were lost, and it was difficult for them to recover.

Xu Zixian estimated that there were nearly 200 ships that escaped last night, most of which had sailors and personnel on board, and they fled in a panic.

After that, even if they barely gathered together, it would not be too much, Liu Dan and Yan Qi gathered more than 30,000 people, more than 300 warships, this time they can return to Luzon with Liu Dan, it is estimated that it is less than half of the previous one, he can have more than 100 ships to continue to follow, even if he burns high incense and hits the big luck, it is more likely that there are dozens of ships left, two or three thousand subordinates, this strength is equal to one-tenth of the previous one.

In other words, the once famous pirate kings, one of them were given the head, and one of them only had some embers left.

The most ferocious and brutal pirates raging in Annam, Champa, Siam, and off the coast of Luzon will have to shrink their territory by at least ninety percent, and business travel may not be as safe as there will be small groups of pirates, but basically, the situation in which the sea trade has been almost cut off will be greatly improved.

This time defeated Liu Dan, Yan Qi, not only killed his soldiers, but also destroyed his fleet, which can be described as a complete victory, but Xu Zixian did not have too much joy in his heart, during the night attack last night, the loyal and brave soldiers on the small boat were next to the explosive materials one after another, and after or before the ignition, they had to throw hooks to fix the small boat and the big ship.

Xu Zixian knew this method of warfare, which meant courage and sacrifice.

The loss of small fireships is actually negligible, and with the current capacity of the shipyard of the Eastern Domain, it is impossible to build ten or eight of these small ships in a day, but as long as the wood tools and personnel are complete, it is still quite easy to build one such small ship in a day or two.

In some old brands of large ships in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, it is very normal to produce several small boats of this kind a day, of course, there is no need to install weapons, and the general small fishing boats are of such a scale, which can be fished in the coastal waters, which is convenient and practical, and the price is not very expensive, and a few hundred yuan is enough to buy one.

What is heart-wrenching is the sacrifice of the soldiers, Xu Zi first looked at it for a while and then focused on the situation of the soldiers of the Nan'an Naval Division, he found that quite a lot of small boats were sunk before they approached, and some of the soldiers were engulfed by fire, and some soldiers were swimming in the waves and shadows, and it was very likely that they would be affected or even collided by the large ships that fled in a hurry.

No one dares to say that they will definitely be survivors, there should be more than 1,000 Nan'an sailors dispatched last night, how many people can survive, Xu Zixian himself does not know.

These soldiers are all strong men who have been strictly selected, most of them are from Zhangzhou or Penghu, most of them are originally proficient in water, many of them have been on the boat before, but they are businessmen or fishing, they are not rookies without foundation.

Even so, they have also undergone extremely strict training in the sailors, many people can't pass the pass, mixing on the fishing boat for a few days, and staying on the battleship for a month without going ashore are two different things, dizziness, vomiting, eating and drinking, and talking about other training after passing the three levels, more than half a year has passed, the sailors and soldiers have basically passed the test, and last night's fire attack has been richly rewarded, but Xu Zixian would rather see the pirate fleet leave easily, than see the sailors and soldiers sacrifice so much.

A group of civil officials are all pale, they don't often stay up late, even after the war is about to start and the battle is over a few days ago, most of the civil officials are still in step with usual, and they don't disrupt their rhythm too much.

But the scene of killing the enemy at sea last night was too heroic and too tragic, and many people couldn't take their eyes off it at all, let alone go back to sleep calmly.

Even if it was Fang Shaoqun, his face had always remained the same, and his expression remained unchanged as the collapse of Mount Tai, and last night, when he saw countless soldiers rushing into the big ship in a blazing boat, he still couldn't help but be moved.

In Fang Shaoqun's life experience, he has seen a lot of intrigues and tricks, and of course, he has also seen a lot of soldiers of the forbidden army in the northwest and north who sacrificed themselves to defend against the enemy.

The northerners are strong, straightforward, and brave, which is the established impression of many people, while the northwesterners are more fierce, not afraid of death, and more tenacious and strong than the Hebei people.

This is the impression of many people, the south is weak, the Jiangnan people are good at poetry and will do business, Zhejiang people are not inferior to Jiangnan people, Jiangxi people and Fujian people are good at exams, these places, the Great Wei Dynasty has been founded for more than 200 years, more than half of the Jinshi and the first people come from these four places, good at boats, good at industrial and commercial trade, good at imperial examinations, good at calligraphy and painting, poetry, many officials who are famous for their literary names, Confucianism, calligraphers and painters, businessmen, most of them are from these places.

But in front of Fang Shaoqun was a group of weak southerners who sacrificed their lives and forgot about death, were not afraid of death, and were not afraid of burning fire, they drove small boats to rush to the enemy ships like mountains on the endless sea in the dark night, and survived in the fire and sea water, many people died, and the sailors and soldiers did not fail to see that many people died, but they still continued to impact and burn without hesitation, until the sky was about to dawn, the fleet of small boats took advantage of the last darkness to evacuate, leaving only the big ships that continued to burn, and the panicked pirates.

At the last moment, everyone was already convinced that if the main fleet was sent out at Penghu Port at this time, I am afraid that the pirates might not be opponents.

Liu Dan and others obviously have the same idea, after dawn, they don't care about sinking the ship, only care about Zhang Fan leaving, in fact, in the middle of the night, there are already many ships in the middle of the night when they are dodging the attack when they leave the battlefield, to the dawn, before and after the dawn, there are no longer human figures of the enemy ships, all the enemy ships have disappeared without a trace, only the smoke is still blowing, and the hull is burning on the sea, the embers are not finished, the wreckage and the charred corpses of people are floating and sinking on the sea, everything is settled, this time the big war, Nan'an Houfu not only defeated the invading pirates on land, beheading more than 20,000 such a terrifying number, even at sea, the weak sailors of the Nan'an Mansion army also attacked the main force of the enemy ships with fireboats, causing dozens of pirate warships to be burned and sunk, and the rest fled in panic.

This is a strong signal that the Nan'an Fu army has set foot on the sea, just like Xu Zixian's previous success on land, as soon as the Nan'an Fu army's sailors made a move, it was to sweep away the weak image of the Great Wei Navy division in the past few decades, and teach a good lesson to the foreign strong enemy.

As long as there is courage and determination, as well as a will as strong as steel, victory cannot be easily obtained, and victory can only be delivered to the brave, not the weak who find all kinds of excuses to avoid the strong enemy without fighting.

"I'm just weird." Xu Zixian looked at the sea that was still smoking, and said: "Take the initiative to attack, Tian Heng's group and Liu Yiyi instigated, it's not surprising that these guys dare to fight, I was a little worried beforehand." But with the fireboat method, so skilled and sophisticated, whose idea is this? ”

When everyone frowned, Xu Zixian smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Send more large and small sentinel ships to the far sea to scout to prevent the pirates from flicking a shot and then killing back." There are still dozens of small boats on the island, and now they are cleaning the sea, picking up the floating corpses and decapitating them and burying them, scooping up the useful materials and counting them, and piling up the useless ones and burning them. At the same time, contact the sailors of Penghu and ask them to send sailors over, come quickly, and 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 look back, they will know that their current strength, at least at sea, is still much stronger than us. ”

"Yes, Prince."

The relevant civil and military officials hugged their fists together and promised.

……

"We're determined to fight."

Tian Heng and the others pressed the knife in their hands, their faces were full of murderous energy, if it weren't for the more fierce and ruthless Liu Yi in front of them, I am afraid that the ordinary generals would be suppressed by this group of military attachés who were born as young generals.

"Salute Lao Tzu first, and then sit down and talk." The scar on Liu Yi's face jumped a few times, and he glanced at Tian Heng and the others, but his face was calm and calm, with a calm and breezy expression.

"We're really going to play." Tian Heng and the others were intimidated by Liu Yi's momentum, and the momentum at the beginning dropped by a few points, and after saluting, more than a dozen officers sat down in an uproar, and the iron armor on their bodies made a powerful sonorous sound.

These are all military attaches of the ballista combat group on the ship, at least at the head level, and many of them are the same as Tian Heng, all of them are battalion commanders or deputy commanders.

The sailors are divided into deck groups and battle groups, one side is the sailors, the other side is the soldiers, the soldiers are divided into the first soldiers, that is the pure hand-to-hand combat based troops, every battle, with the long soldiers on the side of the enemy to engage the enemy, or jump to the enemy ship, defeat and kill all the enemies on the enemy ship who dare to resist, and seize the enemy ship, this is the ultimate method of naval warfare.

The deck crew was responsible for navigation, maintenance, and control of the ship during wartime.

The crossbow crew was responsible for the bed crossbows, the eight-ox crossbows, and the trebuchets.

In the days when there was no artillery, these were basically the means by which ships engaged the enemy.

After more than half a year of running-in and training, the officers and men of the water battalion have also gone to sea many times with the deck group, and basically mastered all kinds of skills in fighting at sea.

The supreme commander of the ship is the captain, and the captain of the 20 warships is basically the battalion commander and concurrently serves, considering that most of the military attachés of the naval battalion are laymen who have left home halfway, and the deputy captain is generally held by an old sailor.

The Nan'an Navy Division only had four large ships of 300 tons with eight-ox crossbows, and most of the rest of the warships were small warships of about 200 to 100 tons, with horns and tail towers, bed crossbows or eight-ox crossbows, and the personnel on the ships ranged from more than 100 to 2 or 300 people.

Four large ships named after the state, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Jianzhou, these are the names of the four large ships, these warships after a long period of repair and reorganization, from barely able to sail in the near sea, now can cross the ocean, the cost of money and energy is also quite a lot.

The sailors of the deck group and the people of the combat group are also constantly running in, cooperating with each other, familiar with each other's work processes, while repairing the battleship, they have also gone to sea many times, and the soldiers have gradually accepted the role of fighting for the soldiers, serving in wartime, and being the main in peacetime.

The ecosystem on the ship is actually quite complex, with the captain, the first officer, the first officer, the second officer, as well as the sail line length, deck chief and other five long and five facial features, and it takes a long time from familiarization to integration.

Although Tian Heng is a native of Zhangzhou, he has only been on a small fishing boat since he was a child, and he has been wandering in the offshore waters, and after he got on the big ship, he just overcame the ubiquitous vertigo and was able to stand, talk, and eat, which was more than a month.

It really takes time and perseverance to eat after eating, then vomiting, then eating, and then to be able to eat while shaking.

In fact, no seaside person is directly not dizzy when he gets on the boat, he has survived from the level of dizziness and vomiting.

Surviving seasickness, and then being able to train on the ship, engage, jump gangs, and the soldiers' skillful use of weapons to kill the enemy is also a sight to behold.

And the soldiers also knew the hard work of the sailors, constantly fighting the wind and rain in the torrential rain and strong winds, climbing the mainmast and cutting the sail ropes, and the slightest mistake would fall into the raging sea, and there was no chance of survival.

Sailors slid across the sea-filled deck like beating fish.

They were divided into groups and took turns sleeping in each hammock for four hours, when the time came, and the others came up to continue sleeping.

"We have cooperated with the training for more than half a year, if the thieves attack the island, I will not take advantage of the gap, and the sailors surrounding my Penghu have withdrawn, it can be seen that the war is tense, I will not attack again, and when will we wait." Tian Hengtie blushed, he didn't look at the water division sitting in the middle to control Ren Zhong, although the other party is still nominally the water division's control, but as we all know, Nan'an Hou retained Ren Zhong, the main reason is because the Ren family has a lot of outstanding children, these years the water division is dilapidated, the Ren family is not much in the water division, after leaving Ren Zhong, in the past few months, many children of the Ren family have come to the Nanyang Navy Division to join the army, in the eyes of Tian Heng and others, the meaning of Ren Zhong's existence is like this.

Liu Yi squinted his eyes and looked at everyone: "I also know that the sailor is already like a person, but the prince told us not to go out lightly, and the most important thing is to protect the ship." In the future, the Lin family and other families will deliver more than a dozen ships before the year, and next year the Eastern Domain will be able to build ships, at most two to three years, and it is not difficult to have 100 warships. If you get a military order, the whole army will die in battle, and if you go to war without a military order, once you fail, have you thought about the consequences? ”

"The consequence is nothing more than death." Tian Heng stared at Liu Yi and said: "I am waiting for the great grace of the prince and the marquis, and my family will be taken care of, and I will wait for it to be rebuilt." If the battle is lost, the military law will deal with it, and there will be no complaints. If the battle is really unfavorable and fails, I have a Japanese knife at my waist, and when the time comes, I will stab my neck with a sharp edge, apologize to the prince and marquis, and apologize to the sailors and soldiers, and I don't need Liu Du to take the lead and explain. ”

Most of the generals who came in with Tian Heng were young people, and many of them were not yet twenty, the younger the generals, the more they were not afraid of death, they followed Xu Zixian from sixteen or seventeen, first trained, and then formed an army, and fought with the enemy many times, and there were already many lives at hand, and there was a fierce atmosphere between the words.

If it were an ordinary general, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to shake these descendants, but Liu Yi still tilted his body, and just scolded Tian Heng with a smile: "Enter your mother, when you were learning swordsmanship with Lao Tzu, you were a teacher, and now that you are the battalion commander, you will raise your eyebrows at Lao Tzu, are you going to turn back?" ”

Tian Heng's eyes were still sharp, and he looked at Liu Yi and said: "One day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, I respect Liu Du as a master and a father, and I will not change in this life, but the prince is our lord, and the kindness of treating us is far above the master." Besides, Master, you are also in charge and have been deeply gracious, and now that the battle situation has changed, can we really shrink in Penghu and sit and wait for the result? ”

In fact, not only the young military attaché, but also Liu Yi also had the same idea, but Liu Yi, as the commander of the military capital, was responsible for the safety of more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division, as well as the safety of 20 warships.

Nan'an Sailor, a total of such a little family background, the boat seems to be a lot, repaired the ship to dismantle a lot of old and broken ships, there are a large number of large and small sentinel boats, used for fishing, sending letters, in the sea traffic, these are okay, in an emergency, can also transport personnel and materials, but it is not useful, let alone at sea with a strong enemy, those at most thirty or fifty people, low and dilapidated boats are useless.

It is necessary to build a large ship, and the eight bull crossbows and trebuchets are equipped to carry more than 100 soldiers on the ship, so that such a ship can be called a warship and can compete with the enemy in naval battles.

There are a total of 20 qualified warships of the Nan'an Naval Division, and if one ship is destroyed, there will be one less ship, so although Xu Zixian was ill before the war, he still sent people to Penghu Island to deliver a letter, and strictly ordered the water camp not to fight without authorization, all the ships were moored in the harbor, and the soldiers of the Naval Division and the Penghu Xiang Army, the people were strong, adding up to nearly 10,000 people, plus the terrain was precipitous, easy to guard, and with long-range weapons such as bed crossbows, it was enough to make the pirates break their teeth and give up attacking Penghu.

This is exactly how the war evolved, ten days ago, pirate ships successively arrived off the coast of Penghu, and then gradually ships gathered, and the number reached about 300.

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

Of course, this is a rare strong enemy, these pirates are all bandits, who have been robbing and killing people for many years, and they are completely different from the bandits in front of the house of the Qishan pirates.

Even so, the Qishan pirates have been rampant on Fujian Road for more than ten years, not to mention the joint efforts of the two pirate kings from Luzon?

The whole army of the sailors is on alert, the people of Penghu build a long base in the port, set up the castle of the arrow tower, the whole island is on guard, for several days, the pirate ships are gathered outside, there are many attached islands are on the robbers, fortunately, the preparation is sufficient in advance, and there are no people left on those large and small islands, food and everything is taken away, the pirates have nothing on the island, in order to vent their hatred and burn some houses, every day you can see the billowing smoke and dust in the sky.

After that, a large number of pirate ships left, and only a few dozen ships and three or four thousand pirates remained outside the port of Penghu Island.

At that time, Tian Heng and others intended to sneak attack, but Liu Yijian refused.

After that, even the pirates who were guarding outside Penghu were also transferred, and Liu Yi and others were all old fighters, how could they not know that the battle situation had changed?

It's just that this change is good or bad, and now I don't know anything, Liu Yi sent a small sentinel ship to secretly go out of the port to sentry, and the sentry personnel can only go to the periphery of the pirate fleet to snoop, but only found that the main force of pirates is off the coast of Nan'an, and there is no other movement, and no shouting and killing is heard.

Seeing that everyone was eager to fight, Liu Yi sat upright and said to everyone: "Even so, the prince entrusted me with the sailor, what if the battle is lost?" I'm not afraid of military law, I can't help but learn from you Tian Heng, and I will stab my neck and apologize, but can our lives withstand the battleship? ”

Tian Heng thought for a moment, hugged his fists and said: "All the commanders are in charge of Rongyu, and the subordinates secretly think that although the naval division battleships are valuable, the most noble ones are still the soldiers of the whole division. If the big battle is dozens of miles away, but we are too timid to go out, then the sailors will be depressed, and there may be no chance to fight in a few years. If the officers and men of our naval division get the opportunity to fight in this battle, even if they have losses, they will gain more than they lose. The reason why the sword is valuable is that it can go into battle to kill the enemy, and it is a sharp weapon. No matter how valuable the sailor is, its meaning is also to compete for dominance at sea, otherwise it is a child playing at home, and whoever has more boats will win? ”

"Makes sense, you convinced me this time!" Liu Yi Huoran got up, lingered for a moment, and finally made a decisive decision: "Order the whole army to prepare to board the ship and leave the port to engage the enemy." ”