60 Sailors returning with a full load
With the fall of Huludao, Yuan Laoba and his gang are already yesterday's yellow flowers, and Li Tianyang can be regarded as officially taking over all of Yuan Laoba's sphere of influence.
The battle lasted 27 days in total, with three large-scale battles and countless smaller battles.
There were more than 50 warships seized, and there were 7,000 or 8,000 prisoners and their families on the island, and as for the wealth that originally belonged to Yuan Laoba on the island, after liquidation, there were more than 30,000 taels of silver, more than 700 taels of gold, and no copper coins.
At the same time, there are also a large number of silk satin, tea porcelain, jewelry accessories, etc., etc., and if you convert it into silver money, it is a lot of income.
Of course, the losses were also heavy: not counting the Penghu sailors who played soy sauce, and Li De's team who came to help relieve the siege, just Li Tianyang and their own team, this time the overall battle, a total of more than 900 soldiers, of which the largest loss was the first battle in the sea near Qishatou, which made Li Tianyang lose more than 400 people in the first battle, including the missing more than 100 team members.
The profession of a pirate is cruel, and for opponents like Yuan Laoba and Hong Tang who have been torn apart from each other and have no room for maneuver, they want to keep prisoners, unless it is a team with strict rules like Li Tianyang. The team members who fell into the hands of Yuan Laoba and them were all cut off by the pirates who were troublesome under Yuan Laoba and their hands, and they were cut off on the battlefield at that time, and finally the corpses were thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
In addition to the loss of personnel, Li Tianyang and his team also had the loss of ships, after three battles, plus the damage in the chase battle, the team's original 23 warships, as well as the eight seagoing ships that were temporarily refitted, were damaged and sunk to the bottom, and the losses were serious, and there were 12 warships that needed to be overhauled.
Like this time, Li Tianyang and the more than 20 warships they drove were temporarily selected and pieced together by Li Tianyang and them from the captured Yuan Laoba and their warships in the Battle of Bengang.
"Hey, hey, stinky boy, I can say hello to you in advance, don't want to perfunctory you and me this time!" This is the news that Li De brought from his car.
"This ...... Xiao Li, how do you say this loot should be distributed? Don't look at Cao Yongyi's simple question, but he is actually reminding Li Tianyang that there is his share in this trophy.
"This bastard, he didn't have any strength, so he wanted to make military merits and share the money, and he took all the good things in the world!!" Whether it is the older Wu Daofu, Zhao Xingdou and others, or the young Wu Jie, Wu Shu and others, there are many complaints about shameless people like Cao Yongyi, the sailor.
"Just say these things here, and don't spread them to the ears of outsiders." Li Tianyang's expression was calm, and he couldn't see any unwillingness or unwillingness.
This batch of loot, in addition to gold, grain, cloth and other daily necessities, the rest, Li Tianyang prepared to distribute all to Li De and Cao Yongyi, the Penghu Sailor, of which the distribution plan was that Li De accounted for eighty percent and Cao Yongyi accounted for two percent.
With Cao Yongyi's strength, coupled with the fact that he was going to use the corpses of dead pirates and dilapidated warships to make military merits next, it was enough for him to have nothing to say; As for the remaining half of the materials, plus the amount of materials that Li De knocked Li Tianyang in Bengang last time, it was enough to offset the various losses suffered by Li De and their mad sharks in the past few days.
You ask, the Bengang camp has suffered such a big loss, is it to make wedding dresses for others?
Li Tianyang is such a shrewd person, how can he do such a discounted business! In fact, he had already held the greatest fortune in his hands, and that was the more than fifty ships of all kinds.
Even if Li Tianyang has quite high requirements for the warships under his command, he can't stand the fact that the quality of these confiscated sea ships is too good, you must know that most of these warships can enter Yuan Laoba, the eye of the long-standing bandits, especially the more than 20 elite warships that he himself has lost among them, and they are on a par with the warships carefully selected by Li Tianyang.
Now Li Tianyang and their Bengang camp are prosperous, as more and more indigenous residents are attracted to come, in the future, Li Tianyang and they want to recruit soldiers who dare to fight, these indigenous warriors who are not afraid of life and death, but they are the best candidates.
And what bothers Li Tianyang now is precisely the lack of the number of ships, with the current strength of Bengang, it is still a bit far away to build a dock and build a ship by himself; If we go inland, to Guangzhou, Fujian, and other coastal areas with developed shipbuilding industries, not to mention the strict monitoring of the government, the long construction period of just one warship, if we want to meet Li Tianyang's plan to dominate the South China Sea and produce enough warships, it will be a distant reverie.
When Cao Yongyi received the nine thousand taels of silver sent by Li Tianyang, he was very satisfied, very satisfied. Of course, he couldn't help but be dissatisfied, he didn't do anything, just walked around the island for two days, and then hid behind his back and put a few arrows far away, and the battle was over!!
The extra 3,000 taels of silver is considered to be subsidized to Cao Yongyi by converting various materials, and in the wilderness of Penghu Island, except for him who is an official, the other sailors and soldiers have no use for this silk and satin, tea and porcelain, and it is not as good as the silver to be neat. Of course, if it was converted like this, Li Tianyang and they would definitely not give Cao Yongyi according to the market price, and finally give him 3,000 taels of silver to send him away.
The most important thing that also made Cao Yongyi unwilling to deal with Li Tianyang and them was the five tattered and tattered sea ships selected by Li Tianyang, which could have been retired a long time ago, and there were also more than 190 pirate corpses of Yuan Laobafang who died in this battle. Although Li Tianyang gave fewer corpses to Xi Qianhu than last time, there were two more warships, which can be regarded as comparable.
This time, due to Yuan Laoba's insistence on breaking through, the overall scale of the battle was not large, and it was more in a local battle; In addition, after Yuan Laoba broke through, he left the other pirates behind, so that the remaining pirates had no will to fight, and they surrendered one after another, and it was normal to sacrifice nothing.
With these feats, Cao Yongyi didn't come to Huludao in vain, and he no longer had more dealings with Li Tianyang and them, but just said some good things to Li Tianyang, and then took their sailors' men and horses and returned with a full load.
Cao Yongyi, as the commander of the Penghu Water Division, if it weren't for the fact that he was promoted to a higher level this time, and the people he brought were all his own henchmen, he would definitely not mix with Li De and others who were obviously pirates. Officialdom is actually the same as the pirate business, whether it is open or unspoken, there will be no contact with a group of pirates so openly.
Whether it was asking Xi Qianhu to help Li Tianyang last time, or personally leading the team this time, in fact, they have always been wandering around Li Tianyang's team, and they will come to contact them first, and they will not make contributions, all of which are to reduce other people's gossip, so as not to touch the rules in this regard.
If you can give a little bit of strength to the ticket, the little brother will fight to break out for everyone for a month this month!!
(End of chapter)