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"Congratulations on the triumph of the prince!" At the Mawei Military Port in Fuzhou, the officers and men who stayed behind in the camp and Li Guangdi, who had returned ahead of schedule, were all gathered together to greet the triumph of the Mawei Navy. In the crowd that greeted them, there were hundreds of special people, all of whom were local businessmen in Fuzhou, the Gu family and the Wang family were the leaders, and the heads of other large and small families stood next to Li Guangdi and other generals.

After Nanri Island was taken, in just a few days, Geng Jingzhong and others took down more than a dozen pirates near Nanri Island under the guidance of Guò capturing pirates. These were mostly very small pirates, with the largest numbering of no more than a thousand. Among them, there is no big ship more than 30 meters, and it is generally about 20 meters of wide ships and bird boats, and more are more than 10 meters of fast boats. When he saw such a huge fleet of the Mawei Navy attacking, he did not hesitate much and quickly raised the white flag and surrendered.

In this way, the original plan of not suppressing but appeasing other pirates was slightly changed. However, this is only limited to the sea area around Nanri Island, and does not exceed the area of Quanzhou water. In this way, with Nanri Island as the center, there were no other pirates within a radius of more than 100 kilometers. The northern seas of Fujian have completely calmed down, and merchants no longer have to worry about pirates raiding here, unless a new wave of pirates comes from outside. The pirates in the northern waters of Fujian were swept away, which also made Geng Jingzhong get more than a dozen islands that were not too small!

"Hehe, you must have prepared for this side of things, and you have worked hard! This victory not only belongs to me, but also belongs to you, and belongs to all the soldiers! Without you, how could these pirates have been exterminated! Geng Jingzhong said loudly to the soldiers around him.

With the strength of the Mawei Navy, there will be no problem in clearing out these pirates themselves. Although there was a special situation when dealing with the pirates of Nanri Island, it was also due to the fact that the soldiers were not familiar with the actual combat effect of the warship. After two months of hard training and this actual combat exercise, the officers and men of the navy have become thoroughly familiar with the warship under their feet. In the future, if you play against other enemies, you will never have the same situation as before. Now, at least the northern waters of Fujian have completely belonged to Geng Jingzhong and the Mawei Navy, and in this area, there are no pirates who can threaten the merchants on the mainland!

When the captured pirates were escorted into the prisoner of war camp next to the barracks, the soldiers who guarded the camp and the heads of the families were also boiling.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"The prince is mighty!"

"The horsetail navy is mighty!"

Numerous soldiers cheered in unison, and the sound shook the sky. The heads of all the families couldn't help cheering with the soldiers, especially those who had joined the shares of the Ocean Trading Company, and they were even more energetic. For them, once the pirates are cleared, there will be one less obstacle for them to conduct maritime trade, and the sea routes will be unimpeded in the future. Except for natural disasters, there is no need to worry about the threat of pirates. For those small family owners, although they did not have a stake in Geng Jingzhong's company, without pirates, they could also buy small seagoing ships for offshore trade, which would be beneficial to them and harmless.

In this purge operation, the Red Army fleet basically did not suffer major losses, at least not a single warship. During the battle against the pirates of Nanri Island, only a few frigate ships were damaged by pirate shelling and needed repairs. Fewer than forty sailors died under pirate shelling, and slightly more were wounded, but not seriously. In this battle, the Red Army fleet also achieved brilliant results. More than 2,000 pirates who went to sea to fight on Nanri Island were directly killed in the naval battle, and nearly 800 were killed in the naval battle, and more than 200 people surrendered on the ship, and the rest fled back to the pirate village. In the later siege operations, thousands of people were wiped out by the soldiers of the Marine Army. In the end, it was counted that only 1,200 pirates from Nanri Island were captured by the Marines.

Those who were seriously wounded, the Marine soldiers did not need to be polite to the pirates, and in the medical conditions of this era, they basically could not survive. Rather than die in agony, it is better to give them a painful pleasure. As for the gains in terms of ships, it was even more, just here on Nanri Island, one hundred and forty ships of all sizes were captured. To the delight of Wang Zhenbang and other admirals, there was no problem with the two No. 2 Fu ships, and they could enter the navy after a little rest, and there were also more than a dozen armed merchant ships, which could also be incorporated into the ranks of frigates.

The other dozen or so small groups of pirates contributed far more ships to Geng Jingzhong than here on Nanri Island, although they were all Cantonese ships, bird ships, and some small clippers, but they were still very useful in this offshore waters, and the total number reached three hundred. This is only the sea area north of Quanzhou, if all the pirates in the Fujian sea area are cleared, the total number of such ships will reach thousands. At present, if the various shipyards in Fujian want to build a 20-meter-long sea boat, it will take nearly a month and cost seven or eight hundred taels of silver to succeed. In this way, the total value of thousands of large and small ships has reached seven or eight hundred thousand taels! This does not include the two lucky ships and some Cangshan ships and armed merchant ships, if they are all counted, it will be more than one million taels of silver!

The value of a ship is not so much how much silver it is worth, but how easy it is to transport along the coast when these ships are gathered. Whether it is going north or south, goods from all over the coast can be continuously transported to Fujian.

Although there were still two detachments that did not return, in the evening, a grand banquet was held in the entire Mawei Military Port to celebrate the completion of the clearance strategy! After the launch of the last battleship, the entire Mawei Military Port once again became a sea of joy. The navy and the generals of the war army, as well as the heads of various families, were all drunk. The generals were happy that they had obtained military merits, and that the troops could be expanded again, and promotion and fortune were just around the corner; The owners of the family are happy to have a stable surrounding environment, with which their business can continue to grow and expand. Therefore, it is good to drink all of them openly, even if they make more friends with each other!

The next day, Geng Jingzhong and the other generals gathered in the conference hall again to summarize the anti-piracy operation and discuss the next development direction of the navy.

"Ladies and gentlemen! This clean-up campaign was a great success! Although it is not yet known the specific situation of the two detachments of Weizihao and Dingzihao, there should be no problem in thinking about it. In the course of this battle against the pirates of Nanri Island, I witnessed the bravery of our soldiers with my own eyes, and also saw the skillful skills of the soldiers, whether they were sailors or artillerymen, did not disappoint me, which I am very happy about! This shows that the soldiers usually train very hard and effectively. From this point of view, Lao Wang and Dazhong should be the first to take the lead! ”

"The prince has won the award, these are what the last general should do!" Wang Zhenbang and Huang Dazhong said modestly at the same time, as if they had been discussed in advance.

Although they said so, Geng Jingzhong could not help but reward their merits. The development of the navy has been brought out by the two generals, and it can be said that the entire navy was brought out by them. Not to mention anything else, this time so many pirates' lairs have been ransacked, and the wealth seized is no longer a few, and when distributing the spoils, they are also indispensable. Although Huang Dazhong did not go to war, it was also a great achievement to look at his own nest, not to mention that the artillery soldiers were all brought out by him!

Next, the generals who went to the battle this time began to summarize the naval battle of Nanri Island, and listed all the problems exposed in the naval battle, and discussed and summarized them together, so that they could find solutions, and then for training, improve the combat effectiveness of the navy.

"Shizi! You've got all the loot you brought back! Just as the meeting was about to end, Lee finally came in from outside. Some time ago, he returned to Mawei first, just to arrange for the manpower to receive the prisoners and booty. The prisoners had been delivered to the prisoner of war camp next to the barracks yesterday, but the booty had been carried from the warships for a long time. In the evening, all the people in charge of logistics gathered to count the quantity and value of the loot overnight. In order to get more accurate figures, Li Guangdi also seconded some shopkeepers who were familiar with the market situation from the Gu family and the Wang family to help calculate the total value of the loot.

The pirates' lair is not all gold and silver treasures as in later movies, in fact, they only account for a small part, and more are the goods they loot from the sea. Silk, porcelain, tea, homespun cloth, gold and silver utensils, metal products, coins and various daily necessities produced on the mainland, as well as various treasures, spices, medicinal materials, woolen fabrics, cotton fabrics, cotton and various miscellaneous goods imported by merchants from the hands of Westerners in the South China Sea, were piled up in the warehouse. Hundreds of people cleaned up all night before the total number was finally calculated.

"Oh, it's fast, you haven't slept all night! Brother Li has worked hard, sit! When Geng Jingzhong saw Li Guangdi's red eyes, he knew that he had stayed up all night.

"It's okay, the gold and jewels you brought back this time are worth about 600,000 silver dollars in total, and those piles of goods are the big ones, plus about two million silver dollars. The two places together are 2.6 million silver dollars! Li Guangdi reported to Geng Jingzhong with a smile on his face. In order to count the loot, he was indeed tired enough last night. However, even though he didn't sleep all night, his spirits were still very high.

"So much?!" Everyone in the hall was a little surprised, many bandits in Fujian did not steal so much silver last year, this pirate is really rich. Although some of the generals already knew that there was a lot of gold and jewelry, they didn't expect that there to be so much!