Chapter 235: Truce and Strike

So Wen Liufang hurriedly returned to Quanzhou City with this agreement, and Yu Xiaotian also ordered the army and navy to end their military operations and temporarily withdraw to the area of Nanri Island and Weitou Bay, waiting for the next government to fulfill the agreement.

So far, a military conflict between Fujian officials and sea wolves, which took place in the coastal area of Fujian and lasted for nearly three months, and spanned two years, has also come to an end.

This Spring Festival has not been successful for the sea wolf, and during the entire Chinese New Year, the sea wolf's army and navy have been in uninterrupted military operations.

It's just that during the Chinese New Year, the sea wolf's soldiers improved their food, made a lot of meat to eat, and gave some drinks in batches, so that the various departments could have a little drink during the military operation.

As for the officials of Fujian and the people in the coastal areas, they spent this New Year in fear, so that the whole Fujian by the sea, the taste of the New Year diluted a lot, during the festival in previous years, the lively scene inside and outside the city did not appear in the Spring Festival of this year.

For Yu Xiaotian, this high-intensity military operation that lasted for more than three months brought huge benefits to his sea wolf, and the sea wolf battle basically completely disintegrated the official maritime military force of Fujian, so that for a long time in the future, there will be no more maritime force that can pose a threat to him.

In addition, on the land front, he fought several battles and annihilated a total of nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers, which is almost one-third of the official strength of the Fujian official register, and if we get rid of those officers and soldiers who eat empty salaries, the old, weak, sick and disabled, the vast Fujian province, it is estimated that there will only be about 20,000 troops left at most.

Similarly, in the next few years, Fujian's military strength will no longer be able to recover from the pre-war period, and this time the sea wolf has fundamentally disintegrated Fujian's ability to pose a military threat to him.

As for other aspects, there are even more, through the three months of operations, in addition to taking back the temporarily abandoned Nanri Island, the sea wolf also actually controlled a large number of larger islands along the coast of Fujian, including the largest Haitan Island, which has also been actually incorporated into the sea wolf control zhì, in addition, the entire Weitou Bay area has been taken by the sea wolf, but nominally these places are still the government, and the government needs to pay the rated land tax and apportionment according to the acres of land on the household book every year, and the other government will not be able to control it.

Even so, in fact, Cai Shanji never thought that the sea wolf would honestly pay all the land endowments that should be paid, in his opinion, as long as the sea wolf pays more or less every year, even if it is a part of the arrears, it is a meaning! He really doesn't pay it, and no one can do anything about him.

In addition, in terms of the trophies obtained, not to mention, after the end of this war, the sea wolf obtained countless kinds of armor materials, in addition to the goods snatched from everywhere, it is piled up, just a variety of captured warships and merchant ships, there are nearly two hundred, pick and choose which can meet the needs of continued use, can also pick out one hundred and ten, the rest can be dismantled, obtain usable wood, used to continue shipbuilding.

The most important thing is that the combat operations of Seawolf Tong Guò in the past few months have captured about 20,000 officers and soldiers, most of these officers and soldiers are young and strong, except for some of the officers and generals of the army, who will be redeemed by their families, the rest of the officers and soldiers, it is estimated that few people's families can have the financial resources to redeem them, and Yu Xiaotian will certainly not take the initiative to release them.

Some of them will be used to expand the army, select soldiers who meet the requirements of the sea wolf, and supplement them to the sea wolf's sea and land armies to improve the strength of the sea wolf, and the rest are excellent labor force, which can meet the sea wolf's demand for labor for a long time in the future.

In addition to the captured officers and soldiers, the various departments of the sea wolves also took the opportunity to either use force or recruit on land, in short, in the past few months, more than 40,000 or so people were obtained from the land and coastal areas.

And this group of nearly 40,000 people, the proportion is quite good, of which the ratio of men and women has basically reached about one to one, very balanced, and there are many teenagers and children, which are the most favorite population of sea wolves at the moment.

In particular, on the women's side, although the sea wolf has been buying people from the land, it has never been able to solve the problem of the imbalance in the ratio of male to female population in the sea wolf's territory.

Now in the sea wolf territory, everything is good, and the people are very stable, but there are too many bachelors, and even the most face-saving sea wolf tribes, most of them are not worthy of wives, not to mention those civilians who are not sea wolf tribes!

The imbalance between men and women seems to be a big problem on the surface, but in fact it is easy to bury a great hidden danger, as the saying goes, food and clothing think of lust, when people solve the problem of food and clothing, it is natural to have the problem of desire, which is human nature, but also instinct.

Too many bachelors, after eating all day and finishing their work, they have nothing to do, so they can only join the party and solve problems by eating, which is not a good thing, if they can't solve the problem, they will inevitably think of some crooked ideas, Yu Xiaotian doesn't want to turn around and turn into a back mountain in his jurisdiction, and he feels that his hairs can stand up when he thinks about it.

Even if you don't play with the party and don't play with your back to the mountain, then there will be problems with social stability, and it is difficult to guarantee that some singles are really ruthless, and the idea of beating other people's daughters-in-law is not a way to either seduce or use force.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian asked his subordinates to also think of a way, but the council hall came up with an idea to recruit some wandering warblers from the land and let them go to some of the sea wolves to do business.

In this regard, Yu Xiaotian specifically requested that the warblers should be managed, and they could be allowed to operate by issuing licenses, and their bodies should be checked regularly, and if they were found to be sick, they should be forcibly stopped from business and receive treatment.

But this method is only a symptom but not a cure, and when it comes to a certain period of time, especially the sea wolf tribes, after working for a few years, they have money, but they have not been able to get a wife, and the problem is more serious.

Therefore, the population obtained from the land this time will help solve this problem to a certain extent, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain in their operation.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian also had to stop this large-scale military operation, he knew very well that after more than three months of continuous operations, both the navy and the army generals had now entered a period of fatigue, and if they continued to maintain such a tense state, it would be difficult to guarantee that there would be no problems.

So even if it is a war, you must pay attention to a degree of relaxation, and now that he has got what he wants, it is time for his subordinates to take a good rest.

Besides, if you suddenly eat so much loot, you must digest it for a while, otherwise you will be prone to indigestion, and it is not good to eat and hold on, and it is not good to take too big steps, and there is a danger of pulling the eggs!

After receiving the order, the army led by Li Dazui and Meng Fei took the initiative to withdraw the encirclement of Tong'an County, and temporarily withdrew to Gaopu and Zhongzuo to rest.

After a short rest, the second battalion was transported to Haitan Island for temporary residence, where it will be recuperated, according to Yu Xiaotian's plan, the army will increase the strength of two more battalions, so that the size of the sea wolf's army will reach about 7,000 people, expand into four integrated infantry battalions, add another logistics battalion, form an expanded army artillery, increase the number of artillery under the battalion, form four field artillery companies, if necessary, it can be assigned to each infantry battalion to cooperate with the operation, and form a siege artillery company, It is much better to equip them with a few heavy artillery pieces, and to send them directly to the battle when they have to attack fortified battles in the future, than to temporarily unload naval guns from naval ships to participate in the battle.

At this time, the army was overjoyed, Li Dazui was ordered to stay in the center and left, responsible for the defense of the shore and islands in the area of Weitou Bay, Liu Tong was transferred back to Tamsui City, and continued to preside over the training of the new barracks, while Meng Fei first went to Haitan Island to sit in charge of the affairs of Nanri Island.

As for the three major fleets, the First Fleet was transferred to Tamsui by Yu Xiaotian for recuperation, and in the future, the First Fleet will take Tamsui as their home port, and set up two other ports on Haitan Island and Nanri Island as their temporary home ports, and send detachments to be stationed in the area, responsible for controlling the sea surface from Meizhou Bay to the mouth of the Minjiang River, and will be mainly responsible for maritime defense and operations in this area in the future.

The Second Fleet was left behind by Yu Xiaotian in Weitou Bay, and in the future, Weitou Bay will become the home port of the Second Fleet, and the maritime defense of the area south of Quanzhou will basically fall on them, and even the blockade of the big men in the future will also fall on them.

As for the Third Fleet, it is still a problem at present, because the Third Fleet's nominal home port will be located on Shuangfeng Island off the coast of Funing, and it will be responsible for the affairs of Funing Prefecture to the north and the coastal areas of Zhejiang.

However, at present, the Seawolf does not have the need to go north on a large scale for the time being, and the layout of Twin Peaks Island is too small, as the home port of the Third Fleet is obviously a bit too small, and it is not suitable for use as a large naval base home port.

So Yu Xiaotian thought about it for a while, and temporarily asked the Third Fleet to send two detachments, about twenty ships or so, to Shuangfeng Island to garrison, responsible for protecting the safety of the northern sea, as for the main force of the Third Fleet, it was temporarily left on Nanri Island, after all, the infrastructure here is much better, although before the Nanri Island War, the sea wolf gave up Nanri Island with a false shot, and demolished a large number of buildings on Nanri Island, but the dock facilities and ports were not destroyed, which can meet the temporary training of the Third Fleet, In addition, it has also strengthened the control of the sea wolf over the entire coastal area of Fujian.

On the surface, this large-scale conflict between the sea wolf and the Fujian government has ended, but in fact, the combat operation on the sea wolf side has not yet ended.

Because they still have one enemy that has not been solved, and that is the Dutch in the Great Force.

When the time entered the second month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yu Xiaotian returned to Tamsui City, which had been away for a long time.