The trumpeter raised the trumpet and blew the horn sound that made people's blood boil, and the soldiers of Lin Fei's troops immediately launched a charge, and the charge at this time was about to roar loudly, because at this time the roar can deter the enemy and make the enemy lose the will to resist.

The Linghu general Servette was dead, and the Spanish army had lost its backbone, and when they saw the Chinese Imperial army rushing up like wolves, they all knelt down and surrendered.

The Spanish troops surrendered one after another, Lin Fei entered the command post smoothly, and saw dead bodies in one place, one of them was wearing a tweed uniform, and there was gold lace on the uniform, this person had a dark red wound on his back, and the tweed fabric on the side of the wound was scorched black by high-speed shrapnel, this person had gray hair, and he was obviously not young.

Lin Fei turned around and called a subordinate, pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "Go and turn him over, call a few prisoners of war to come and identify him, I think he is a senior officer." ”

The subordinates went over the corpse and called a few Spanish prisoners of war who bowed their heads, Lin Fei pointed to the corpse's face and asked, "Who is he?" ”

Several prisoners of war said: "He is our supreme commander, General Linghu, Servetu. ”

When Lin Fei heard that Servit had died in battle, a wave of disappointment surged in his heart, he wanted to capture Servette alive, but he didn't expect to kill him, but it was not bad, killing General Linghu was also a great opportunity for the Chinese Imperial Army to show its prestige.

Lin Fei waved his hand and asked the prisoners of war to be escorted down, and then said to Li Tianqian: "Old Li, order a few people to properly preserve the body of this Linghu general, send an obituary during the day, and then hold a memorial service for him or something." ”

Of course, Li Tianqian understood that Lin Fei was using the death of General Linghu, so he didn't ask too much, and at this time, the troops who went to the port also rushed back, this force was the first company to attack the city, and the company commander Qi Lei reported to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, the Spaniards who want to escape from the port have all been arrested by us." ”

Lin Fei was concerned about the ships in the port, so he asked, "Has the number of ships in the port been counted?" ”

Qi Lei replied: "Your Majesty, we have just taken control of the port, and we have not had time to count the number of ships in the port. ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Okay, you guys should hurry up and count now, and pay attention to mobilizing the Chinese in the port to help when you count them." ”

Qi Lei agreed, and then asked: "Your Majesty, we have arrested more than a thousand Spaniards who have fled, how to deal with these people?" ”

Lin Fei asked, "Who are these people?" ”

Qi Lei replied: "Judging from the clothes, they are all rich people. ”

Lin Fei pondered for a moment and said, "Lock them up and let the Spanish government exchange gold in exchange for them in the future." ”

Qi Lei agreed, turned around and left, Lin Fei then asked people to go to the city government, announced to the people in the city that the Chinese Empire had taken over Cotabatar, and then mobilized the Chinese people in the city to organize various institutions, including the city guard, and the proportion of Chinese in Cotabato was as high as 50%, so the follow-up work was much more than that of Wuduan Chengshun.

Lin Fei led the General Staff to live in the Governor's Palace, using it as a temporary office location, and after two days the situation was stable, Lin Fei thought to himself, now that the scale of the army is gradually expanding, it is time to strengthen the political construction of the army.

Lin Fei set up the post of "political instructor" in each company, selected literate soldiers to serve as it, and gathered these political instructors together for training, the content of the training was mainly to establish Lin Fei's personal authority, emphasize the importance of liberating the Chinese, love the Chinese Empire, and so on.

Although it is said that this army was founded by himself, and the backbone of the army are all his cronies, with the expansion of the size of the army, it is inevitable that some people will be selfish, and once someone betrays him, the blow to himself will be very fatal.

Lin Fei gathered the commanders of the various units again and said: "In this battle of Cotabatar, our army dispatched two regiments of troops, and after three days of fierce fighting, we conquered Cotabatar, killed 1,589 defenders, captured 1,856 defenders, and completely annihilated the main force of the defenders!" ”

"This campaign is divided into two phases: in the first stage, our army used a 'tired tactic' to divert the attention of the enemy, and the engineer company dug tunnels to approach the city wall of Cotabatar; in the second stage, our army blew up the city wall and stormed the city for street fighting.

Everyone felt new when they heard the word "commendation", some of these people came out of the Qing army, and some of them were originally ordinary people, and they had never heard of the word "commendation".

Lin Fei said loudly: "The first thing I want to commend is-" Lin Fei said this, his tone paused, and he said in a long voice: "Engineer Company!" ”

Qin Xiren, the commander of the engineer company, stood up and replied loudly: "Here!" ”

Lin Fei said: "The victory of this battle should first be attributed to the engineer company, if there is no engineer company to blow up the city wall, our army will not be able to attack the city, so this first commendation order should be awarded to the engineer company." ”

Lin Fei turned back to Li Tianqian and said, "Bring me the banner I made." ”

Li Tianqian immediately brought a bright red flag and handed it to Lin Fei, Lin Fei unfolded the flag, only to see five big characters written on it - Shougong Engineer Company!

Lin Fei handed the banner to Qin Xiren and said loudly: "Company Commander Qin, this flag will be your company flag in the future, I hope your department will cherish this honor and make new contributions in the future." ”

Lin Fei gave Li Tianqian a look, Li Tianqian took the lead in applauding, everyone also applauded, Qin Xiren took the Lian Qi excitedly, tears in his eyes, unable to say a word.

Lin Fei asked Qin Xiren to sit down, and then asked Li Tianqian to bring a red flag, but the flag was not unfurled, and everyone was thinking, who is this flag for? Lin Fei did not unfurl the flag, but said loudly: "Company Commander Qi Lei!" ”

Qi Lei stood up and said in a loud voice: "Here!" ”

Lin Fei unfolded the flag, only to see that it was written "Great Meritorious Company", Lin Fei said loudly: "This flag is to commend you for attacking the city and opening the east gate, I hope your department will cherish this honor and create brilliance!" ”

Qi Lei stretched out his hands to take the flag, so excited that he couldn't speak, everyone burst into applause again, Lin Fei continued: "In the future, in various documents of the army, these two companies will be mentioned, and the honorary titles will be used, that is, 'First Meritorious Engineer Company' and 'Great Meritorious First Company', understand?" ”

The use of honorary titles in the documents is a great honor for the two companies, and everyone looks at Qin Xiren and Qi Lei with envy, and then at Lin Fei, hoping that Lin Fei will also give his company an honorary title.

Lin Fei said loudly: "In this battle, these two companies have the greatest merit, so the honorary title is only awarded to them, and other companies will also be awarded the honorary title if they have merit in the future." ”

The reason why Lin Fei wanted to award honorary titles to these two companies was to establish an atmosphere of "advocating honor" for his army, and an army could not rely on advanced weapons alone to fight all over the world, because weapons must be operated by people, and the human factor is very important, and establishing an atmosphere of advocating honor for the army can undoubtedly arouse the enthusiasm of officers and soldiers.

Lin Fei awarded honorary titles to the two companies, and the other companies were actively training, hoping to make great contributions in future battles, so that Lin Fei could award them honorary titles.

There are also people in the army who have come up with such an idea -- our company has also made a lot of efforts, so why should we not be awarded honorary titles? As a result, some people were trained passively, and the political instructors stood up at this time to do the ideological work of the fighters and eliminate this kind of bad thinking.

After strengthening the political construction of the army, Lin Fei asked people to bring over the list of the spoils obtained after defeating Cotabatar, and looking at the spoils after each battle is Lin Fei's favorite thing to do, Lin Fei has led the troops to fight many battles, and he can get a lot of spoils after each battle.

For example, after conquering Ibayat Island, he obtained more than 100 rifles, after conquering Baza Khai'i City, he obtained oil, and after conquering Wuduan City, he obtained lead ore and factories, etc.

The city of Kotabato is much larger than the city of Wuduan, so the booty is also much richer, the booty includes, more than 150 transport ships of all kinds, including 50 steam ships, 100 large sailing ships, with a total displacement of more than 50,000 tons.

The spoils of war also included 100,000 taels of gold, 50,000 taels of silver, and 1 million pesos stored in the Cotabato Bank, which needed silver for trade with the Qing Dynasty and gold for trade with Europe, and the gold, silver, and pesos of the Cotabato Bank would provide sufficient security for foreign trade in the future.

Lin Fei was most interested in the various factories in the city, two of which attracted Lin Fei's attention, and Lin Fei looked at those two factories and found a good opportunity for the development of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Fei called Zhang Chuang over and said, "You immediately arrange people to go to various units of the army to select soldiers who are good at long-distance running." ”

Zhang Chuang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "Your Majesty, are you going to gather more people for our sniper team?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, "I don't have that idea for the time being. ”

Zhang Chuang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Then what do you do with a warrior who is good at long-distance running?" ”

Lin Fei took the loot list, pointed to a factory on it and said with a smile: "Do you see this factory?" ”

Zhang Chuang looked at Lin Fei's finger and said in surprise: "Communication equipment factory? What does this have to do with the selection of fighters who are good at long-distance running? ”

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously and said: "You will know in a while, you hurry up and implement the matter of selecting soldiers who are good at long-distance running, I will give you a selection standard, it only takes 20 minutes to cross the country for five kilometers under the condition of carrying a weight of 20 kilograms, arrange this matter in the shortest time, and then I will take you to that factory." ”

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