Yang Changfan personally awarded the two new admirals the epaulettes made in a hurry, made of multi-layer hard cloth on a yellow background, inlaid with two silver stars, and placed on the land of the Ming Dynasty.

The modern navy epaulettes are worn on the shoulders of the two, which is really a bit funny, just because the two of them are wearing iron armor, and it looks a little inexplicable with this epaulettes, but it is not important, as long as you get used to anything, you can accept anything.

Hu Guang and Tang Sanhai were rewarded. Yang Changfan personally supervised the battle, and the reward for the official was extremely fast, which made the people involved in this battle feel that this battle was not in vain after all.

"Thank you, Captain!"

"Thank you, Captain!"

"Haha! If you're not careful, you're going to catch up with me! Zhao Guangtou patted the epaulettes of the two, then turned to look at Jin Xing on his shoulder and laughed.

Yang Changfan shouted: "Don't touch people's epaulettes, just like don't touch the black gauze hat of officials, this is the glory and identity of our navy." ”

"Yes, yes." Zhao Guangtou withdrew his hand again and again, and rushed to the two people, "The ship's owner has clear rewards and punishments, and heroes don't care about their origins." ”

"Thank you, owner! Admiral Xie! Hu Guang thanked him again, turned to Zhao Guangtou and sighed, "When the last general served under Xu Dong, he also fought and scolded the bald head, and the bald head can tolerate me at this time, it is really massive." ”

Xu Wenchang commented on the side: "The bald head is not as good as you in this battle, and even inferior to the trumpeter on his ship, but he can be arrogant but not arrogant, not rash, not jealous, and is a model for our army. ”

"Yes!" The two of them saluted and obeyed.

"Sit down." Yang Changfan sat down first, invited a few people to sit down in turn, and sighed after drinking tea, "In this battle, although you two are brave and resourceful, but our army's tradition of not being good at large-scale naval battles is also undoubted. ”

"Owner, I don't like to hear that." Zhao Guangtou was the first to retort, "Let's go to sea for decades......"

Yang Changfan shook his head and shouted: "We are just in the nest of the East China Sea, and if we really fight, it is also the ability of Hu Guang pirates to help us win." Francois is different, located in the Western Ocean, near the sea projectile land, the tradition of navigation and naval warfare has been thousands of years, rich experience, everyone can operate the ship to fire cannons, if we do not have a seahorse ship surprise, I am afraid it will be difficult to win. ”

Seafaring tradition, this is too important a thing.

The Qing government once spent a lot of money to build the Beiyang Naval Division, which was equipped and taught by the British Empire, and invested millions of taels of silver every year to maintain it, and the Beiyang Naval Division was also recognized as the first fleet in East Asia. Such a fleet, regardless of its wealth, equipment, or talents, will crush the entire Japanese fleet several times or dozens of times.

But it was such a naval division, and the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle was completely annihilated in the face of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and since then the Chinese maritime affairs have been in a slump, and the sick man of East Asia has officially been named.

The corruption and incompetence of the Qing government is certainly one of the reasons, but counting the Chinese maritime affairs, the last time we talked about the merits was the era of Zheng Chenggong's presence in Moss Bay, under the glory of the Ming army's victory over the Netherlands, the number of troops and ships was ten times that of the Netherlands, and the deeds of Zheng Chenggong's birth in Kyushu were all brushed aside.

The tradition and heritage of seafaring were not forged overnight, whether it was the melee in Europe and the Mediterranean, or the Japanese pirates, they were all integrated into everyone's bone marrow for thousands of years.

China, on the other hand, is closed to farming, and even though it has a large land and resources, and can rely on gold and silver to accumulate a huge fleet, it may not be able to exert enough power in a real tough battle.

Aware of this problem is not Yang Changfan, but his teacher and the teacher's teacher, which made him on the first day of school to revitalize the Chinese maritime industry as his own responsibility, modern naval warfare has been fundamentally different from the past, this time must not be left behind, although he is not a navy, but also almost a set of maritime scientific research personnel, before graduation can go to the South Seas with the army to investigate, the country's training efforts are not small.

Yang Changfan is now just emulating his predecessors and trying to cultivate future generations and traditions.

"That's what the owner said." Tang Sanhai followed Yang Changfan's words and said, "When the enemy ships scattered and fled, our army, whether it was the formation or the heart, was already in chaos. If it weren't for Admiral Hu's unruly strategy and proper strategy, I'm afraid he would have let Franz escape. ”

"It's not as evil as you say." Hu Guang waved his hand awkwardly, "It's just the experience of pirates, if the cargo fleet scatters and flees, don't think about eating them all, how many can you eat." ”

"Yes." Yang Changfan nodded excitedly and said, "We just need experience like Hu Guang, our whole army needs it, and only by fighting and practicing more can we have such experience." ”

Tang Sanhai continued: "What the owner of the ship said is true. It's just me...... I haven't fired a single shot yet, let me lead the gunboat, I'm afraid it's ......"

Yang Changfan looked around and said, "Of the people present, almost no one has fired a cannon, right?" ”

Seeing that no one answered, Zhao Guangtou only sighed: "In the East China Sea, others ran away when they saw our fleet, and there was almost no chance to open fire." ”

"That's right, artillery battle, no one understands." Yang Changfan is not modest, he himself doesn't understand, after all, he is not a military school, he rushed to Tang Sanhaidao, "Since no one understands, you can only let people who understand and learn quickly go to school." You don't have too much pressure, winning is your courageous battle, and losing is my inappropriate use. ”

"Mitsumi did his best."

Yang Changfan turned to look at Xu Wenchang: "I have said everything I should say, what else does the military advisor command?" ”

"It is enough for the admirals to be arrogant but not arrogant." Xu Wen said, "This battle is by no means to prove that we are stronger than the Franc Machine, on the contrary, it proves that the Franc Aircraft naval battle is stronger than our Hui Palace." In the future, it is right to guard against arrogance and rashness in warfare, to fight steadily and steadily, to gradually explore the methods of artillery warfare, and to compile books and techniques in order to educate future generations. ”

Hu Guangtang and Sanhai nodded one after another, and then they retired, and the two Portuguese who had been waiting outside for a long time came in, followed by the interpreter of the Huiwang Mansion.

Although Admiral Canelas and Ambon Governor Paletta did not have chains and ropes on them, there was no doubt that they were already prisoners, but Yang Changfan's handling of captives was more civilized than them, so that they could maintain a minimum of decency.

The two entered the Governor's Palace conference room, which had been a place where they discussed how to deal with the locals, and now a place where the Chinese discussed how to deal with themselves.

The two only looked at Yang Changfan, nodded slightly, and didn't know whether to salute or not, and what to salute. After seeing Yang Changfan's gesture, he sat down.

After Yang Changfan ordered the tea, he asked: "You have food and drink, just wait for the envoy of your country, why do you ask to see you." (To be continued.) )