Wei Yi didn't sleep all night, but his spirit was extremely excited, and when he saw the fleet returning, his eyes were also a little moist, and when Wei Yi wiped his eyes, people could only see the red bloodshot in his eyes.

"Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life." Liu Yi said very politely to Wei Yi and Ren Zhong and others: "Last night, the children forgot about life and death, the raid was successful, the thief ships burned and sank a lot, and many thief ships took advantage of the chaos to escape, now the situation is still unknown, I don't know whether the thieves will completely escape, or will regroup, for the sake of safety, we still follow the rehearsal in advance, and after the personnel almost turned back, they took advantage of the darkness to leave the battlefield and return to Penghu." ”

Wei Yi praised: "The bravery of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division should be carved into stone and remembered forever." ”

He swept over the personnel on the fleet again, obviously there were more than a hundred or more soldiers, Wei Yi's eyes darkened, and he said: "The missing and dead soldiers deserve to be compensated." ”

"Lord Wei doesn't have to worry." Liu Yi said in a deep voice: "Nan'an Hou Mansion has always done a good job of this kind of thing. ”

"I know, Mingda has always been quite sympathetic to his subordinates." Wei Yi said: "Penghu place can't be without the slightest expression. ”

Wei Yi said to the Penghu gentry around him, the gentry in Penghu are not large, and there are no decent official gentry families, but there are some, these people should provide more materials and money, this war, not only to protect the territory of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, not only for the Great Wei, not only for the common people, but for everyone on Penghu Island and Dongfan Island.

As long as pirates invade, regardless of whether they are good or bad, young or old, male or female, anyone can be the target of slaughter and abuse, wealth robbed, houses burned, and people killed, this is a fact beyond doubt.

The tragic situation of the Zhangzhou Massacre is still remembered by every Fujian person and must never be forgotten.

"I will sacrifice a hundred sheep."

"Give a thousand stone of grain below."

"I am willing to give 500 yuan ......"

The gentry present were all very enthusiastic, but they could not be compared with the big official gentry families on Fujian Road, and the most they offered was a few hundred yuan or a hundred sheep.

Even so, it's a pretty good result.

"Send a few more fast boats, pick the officers and soldiers who didn't go out last night to row, and the military attache will lead the team," Ren Zhong said at this time: "I estimate that the pirates suffered a loss on land, or there was no progress, last night was attacked like this, most of the stars scattered and fled, maybe it is very likely to leave the Eastern Domain directly, and go to Zhangzhou to grab a little bit, if so, the warning of Penghu and the Eastern Domain can be lifted." ”

"I have the same guess." Liu Yi had a smile on his face and said, "Although Brother Ren did not play this time, he still made the first contribution. ”

"Don't dare to be." Ren Zhong said: "Of course, if it can be useful in the future, it is good, otherwise, if I imitate the story of Wutang, I am also willing to make a modest contribution." ”

That is to say, of course, Ren Zhong still wants to be able to lead his troops to battle, if not, then he is also willing to give a sea lecture in the name of martial arts sacrificial wine, and give full play to the residual heat.

This is a great change, Ren Zhong was forced to stay in Nan'anhou Mansion, and he was also forced to stay in Penghu, and now he is willing to take the initiative to serve, plus last night's fire attack is his idea, and he thinks that in the military general system of Nan'anhou Mansion in the future, this person can be regarded as having a place.

Several sentry boats were full of sturdy sailor officers and soldiers, and a few military attachés who were still able to hold on to lead the team, and the small boats were like arrows from the string, quickly leaving the harbor and speeding towards the seashores everywhere.

The boat traveled very fast, but not far, but the boat could take advantage of the wind and sail as far as possible when it reached the sea, and Liu Yi ordered them to return before the evening to see how far the large number of pirate ships had gone.

……

At noon, the small sentinel sent by the Eastern Domain arrived at the port of Penghu, and the news of the victory was confirmed on the Penghu side, and the whole port was jubilant at first, and then the same was true on the island of Penghu itself.

Everywhere there were people cheering, laughing, and even many people gathered together to cry bitterly.

The people of the north may not understand the fear of pirates in the people of Fujian Road, which makes people extremely nervous, afraid, and afraid, and when they know that the pirates have indeed been defeated and have fled, this sense of joy for the rest of their lives is like being reborn.

Many people set off firecrackers, but the island's grocery stores didn't have much stock, so people found a lot of dried bamboo, lit it with fire, and the crackling sound of the explosion was incessant, which set off the people's extremely happy mood.

On the contrary, the Penghu side was more cheerful and cheerful than the Eastern Domain, because the Eastern Domain experienced despair, then hard fighting, killing, and more than 20,000 heads were placed on the island, reminding people of what kind of threats they had experienced, and finally defeated a strong enemy. Now there are still pirates on the island, and people have to organize a search every day, followed by farming, and people will be quite busy.

These things suppressed people's desire to carnival, which is different from Penghu, the people of Penghu are quite lucky, the pirates have no intention of attacking the island at all, this barren island can't grab anything, and it has to go through a hard battle.

It's just that the pirates never expected that they didn't leave anything behind on the Eastern Domain, but lost more than 20,000 heads, which was a big loss.

Amid the cheers, the boats that had gone out before dusk had returned.

In Zhangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other external waters, they tried their best to sentry, and there are still small boats that have not returned, and it is expected that they will arrive farther tomorrow at noon, and the sentry will be clearer.

But judging from the current results, after the pirate ship retreated from Penghu and the Eastern Domain, it went directly to the south, and had no intention of continuing to harass the coastal areas of Fujian.

The pirates were frightened and had no intention of plundering any more, and they even left behind a large number of understaffed ships, and when they were attacked by fire, many of them were empty and had no time to react, and many pirates jumped into the sea and ran to other ships, and ran with them.

Judging from the results of the sentinels, the pirates went directly to the south, and it is estimated that they went directly back to Luzon, this time Yan and Liu Er's thieves suffered extremely heavy losses, and they could not recover within ten years, and the Nan'an Hou Mansion not only saved themselves, but also kept the coastal areas of Fujian. It can be said that Wang Zhi was appeased, Kang Tianqi was old, the fierce and brutal Yan Qi and the cunning Liu Dan were a big threat to Fujian Road and Guangnan East Road, and now that this group of pirates has broken their backbones, the coastal officials can breathe a sigh of relief, and the threat has been greatly reduced.

Of course, there is a stronger and more ferocious Pu Xingfeng, but Pu Xingfeng can't get out in the short term, which is why he instigated Yan Qi and Liu Dan to come to Fujian, and now, at least in three years, there is no need to worry too much about piracy.

Wei Yi, Ren Zhong, Liu Yi, Tian Heng and others were of course also smiling, and everyone couldn't hide their joy.

Even Ren Zhong, who has been outside the system of Nan'an Houfu, has made a lot of meritorious service this time, and the fire battle method was proposed and deployed by him, although he failed to go to the front line in person, but this is also inevitable...... Without Xu Zixian's permission, it was impossible for Liu Yi and the others to ask Ren Zhong to personally lead the troops and establish his prestige in the water division.

Ren Zhong himself also understood, and quite clearly proposed that when the Nan'an Hou Mansion could set up a detachment in the future, he was willing to command a fleet.

At that time, the strength of the sailor will become stronger, and Ren Zhong will command part of the force, which should not make Xu Zixian too jealous and uneasy.

The crowd couldn't wait for the next day, so they decided to take a small boat to the Eastern Domain now.

Wei Yi and Liu Yi and others went, and Ren Zhong and Tian Heng stayed behind to guard Penghu.

At dusk, a group of people stepped on the big sentry boat, the oarsman rowed the oars, the sails of the three-masted ship were not big, it was easy to rise, and then turned to eat the wind, the speed of the boat was very fast, the island of Penghu was less than sixty miles away from Huaxi, after more than an hour, when the sky was about to be dark, the boat arrived at the sea surface of Huaxi.

Wei Yi pursed his lips, although the scene in front of him had been imagined, he was still extremely surprised, and even felt terrified.

There are already a lot of small boats salvaging materials and corpses, but there are still a lot of floating corpses on the sea, many of the corpses are charred, which is shocking and a little disgusting, Wei Yi has certainly seen a lot of dead people, but the scene in front of him still gave him a lot of shock, making him almost vomit.

It is also possible that the smell was unpleasant, although it was the battle that took place last night, but the burning of the ship may not have completely stopped until the afternoon, and there was still a distinct smell of burnt in the sea breeze, which was quite unpleasant and disgusting.

There were many wrecks of ships on the sea, and it seems that at least more than fifty warships were completely burned. In addition, there are a considerable number of remnants of the ships burned out, that is, the embers of some masts, some sampans, and possibly small boats laid down by pirates, and each large warship will carry a different number of small boats for communication or transportation of personnel, and after the small boats are lowered, some of them are still burned.

In addition, there was a lot of messy supplies, food packets, some goods that might have been snatched up for unsold goods, silk, cloth, spice packets and the like, and many small boats were struggling to salvage them on the sea.

Nan'anhou Mansion is still very poor, even if it is not poor, people in this era will not waste their money.

People used iron hooks to scoop up the goods, and also used iron hooks to hook the floating corpses together, and then put them on the shore.

Some of the officials carefully identified the corpses on the shore, the pirates were discarded aside, and some of the soldiers of the government carried horizontal knives to the side to behead them, and many of the corpses of the soldiers of the government were charred, but they could be distinguished from the remnants of their robes and boots, and their bodies were neatly laid aside and covered with white cloth.

This was quite extravagant, but when Wei Yi and Liu Yi saw such a scene, both men shed tears.

Wei Yi said in a deep voice: "Mingda attaches great importance to the funeral rites of soldiers, and many people say that he is stupid, and they want me to say that this is the most correct and worthwhile thing he has done." The soldiers sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, threw their blood, sacrificed their lives, of course, I hope that their bodies will be taken seriously after death, from cleaning up the remains, covering the white cloth, and then changing the military flag of the government, and then entering the coffin, paying respects, military salutes, hanging, entering the cemetery at four o'clock to worship, I know that the process is like this, I think these are very good, if the forbidden army and the soldiers of the box army of the imperial court also have such treatment, I am afraid that the combat power will be doubled. ”

"Take your time." Liu Yi stood up straight, the boat had broken through the large wreckage area and docked at the trestle, he jumped ashore, pulled Wei Yi up, and whispered: "The ambition of the prince is not small, and he will always subvert everything that is unreasonable in the future." ”

Wei Yi was slightly taken aback, but thinking back on Xu Zixian's rise to power, he found that the answer had long been in his heart, but he had never been willing to make this kind of summary.

The Wei family and the Xu family, as well as the Changwen Hou Mansion, these families have been tied to the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

Whether Xu Zi first wants to divide one side, or take the road of power and ministers, or simply seek the highest power, each family can only follow to the end, and there is no way to turn.

Wei Yi's eyes gradually turned firm, based on what he saw, of course, he wanted to cooperate with Xu Zixian to the end, Wei Yi knew that when every dynasty reached the end of the world, there would always be a Lord of Salvation.

Xu Zixian gave Wei Yi the feeling that Liu Xiu of the Han Dynasty was even better than Liu Xiu.

……

Xu Zixian felt a little unwell this afternoon, Li Yi and the others were frightened, and hurriedly invited Wang Xinyuan to come over for diagnosis and treatment, and then came to see it, it was no big deal, it may be a continuous war, plus last night, a little sad, Xu Zixian was forced to rest away from the coast, slept all afternoon, and his spirit was much better in the evening, and the feeling of physical discomfort has disappeared.

Strictly speaking, he has been considered to have recovered, but it may take ten days and half a month for his body to recover, but there is no major problem in presiding over military and political affairs on a daily basis.

Wei Yi and Liu Yi were led by the garrison to Xu Zixian's temporary residence, which was a warehouse in Lixu on the shore, separated by Lin Shaozong and others, and Si Congcao's officials also worked here, transferring up and down at any time, and dealing with various government affairs that had been backlogged.

When Wei Yi and Liu Yi came over, they found that there were a lot of torches outside the house, and many soldiers in armor stood with their armours, they knew that this was the close attendant of the prince's side, many of them were familiar faces, and the room was brightly lit, many officials and military attachés were busy in the house, Chen Zuocai and Chen Daojian sat on both sides, assisting Xu Zixian in the center to deal with government affairs, seeing Wei Yi and Liu Yi walking in, Xu Zixian's eyes lit up, stood up, first said hello to Wei Yi, and then said to Liu Yi: "The sailor did a beautiful job last night!" ”

Wei Yi nodded and said, "Mingda, I heard that you were sick before, and we were all in a hurry. ”

"Fortunately, it can be said that I have been cured." Xu Zixian didn't want to talk about it more, and then turned to Wei Yi and said: "Yanke, your Penghu cooperation is good, I heard that the people from the sentry came back and said that the Penghu port is full of spears, and the tips of the long arrows and spears on the crossbow machine are shining, which is intimidating." The pirates didn't dare to attack hard, of course the sailors and soldiers had great merit, and Yanke, your Penghu Xiang army, the people were strong, and they also made a lot of efforts. ”

"We will send mutton, wine, and grain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, all sponsored by the fathers and elders of Penghu County." Wei Yi said meaningfully: "After the big war is over, it's time for everyone to contribute." ”

"Give them credit." Xu Zixian nodded and said: "Tell them, now the imperial court has not yet given Nasu no recognition, Taizu did not come to do such a thing, because the people of Nasu had official positions at the beginning, if someone now has more than 10,000 Su, enrich the treasury, or be kind and charitable, of course, there is also a standard, I feel that I can give some encouragement, such as giving martial arts Lang, Ru Linlang and other rank positions, you can be on an equal footing with you, the magistrate, and the big families should be happy." ”

Now it is unrealistic to restore the military merits of the Qin and Han dynasties, the society has been subdivided, the military has become a profession, and it is no longer the basis for the whole people to be the army, and there is no such need.

But there should be avenues for all classes, where commoners can have more wealth and better off, and the rich can have a state-recognized social status, and they can turn potential influence into tangible benefits, such as knighthoods, and councils that can be set up in the counties.

Wei Yi smiled and didn't say anything more, the big thing is still Xu Zi to make up his mind first, his current identity is just a little help, and it is too much to do it at other levels.

And Liu Yi is also there, so it's not good to be too noisy.

Xu Zixian began to ask Liu Yi for details, and at this time Qin Dongyang and others also rushed over, and everyone excitedly slapped Liu Yi on the shoulder, this is the unique etiquette of the soldiers to ask each other, Liu Yi was beaten with bared teeth, but his face was also full of happy smiles, he was no longer the frustrated Jianghu who drank and gambled every day and always had a gloomy face.