Kai Fu Han

Chapter 175 Heavy casualties
After Li Cang explained, everyone understood.

The ships used by these pirates were designed with both defense and high maneuverability in mind. Large and small ships can be collectively referred to as "morning ships." Pirates use such ships to set up "customs posts" at sea strongholds and collect tolls from passing ships.The high maneuverability of early boats can quickly catch up with tax evasion boats, so they are also called "Guan Chuan", a checkpoint of checkpoints.

In order to further improve maneuverability, early ships were equipped with oars, sails for navigation, and oars for combat on both sides.

The large ship carries about 40 stone, and has between 80 and [-] oars on both sides.

The small boat has a carrying capacity of about seven to eight hundred stone, and is equipped with less than 40 oars on both sides. It is also called a "small morning boat".

Because it is a dedicated warship, it does not have too many warehouse cabins, which greatly improves its manned capacity.Therefore, even a small ship can be equipped with more than 200 people, of which more than half are combatants, and a large ship can carry even more people.

This is also one of the reasons why the Xinghan League suffered heavy casualties in this naval battle. Although the number of pirate ships was not much greater than that of the Xinghan League, the number of pirates was more than double that of the Xinghan League's combatants.

"Organize a cleanup of the battlefield, see if there are any living people in the water, and rescue them all." Liu Xinqi arranged.

Then all the sailors and logistics personnel of the Xinghan League took action and began busy cleaning the battlefield and treating the wounded.

They took over all the pirate ships, and finally counted a total of fifteen large and small morning ships, including nine Guan ships and six small morning ships.There were also four small sampans. There were originally more small sampans, but most of them were sunk by the rackets on the Xinghan League ship, leaving only these four.

"The battlefield has basically been cleaned, and all those alive on the water, whether they are our people or pirates, have been rescued." Li Cang came over to report.

"We can't go to Hizen Country for the time being, so we will go to Tsushima Island, where we will temporarily anchor and rest, waiting for the support from Tengzhou to arrive." Liu Xinqi arranged.

This is because Hizen Kingdom is the base camp of Japanese pirates. Liu Xinqi does not yet know which forces attacked the Xinghan Alliance fleet and how many enemies there are in Hizen Kingdom.In addition, the officers and soldiers of the Xinghan Alliance fleet suffered serious casualties, so they could only postpone their trip to Hizen Country.

Under the command of Li Cang, the fleet began to sail towards Tuima Island. More than half of the sails of the fifteen morning boats were destroyed, and they could only be tied behind the lucky boats and sand boats and towed away, resulting in the overall speed of the fleet. Very slow.

The enemy pirates were not discovered in time, and when the naval battle ended victoriously, it was already You hour. It took more than an hour to clean the warship. It was already Xu hour, and even in the middle of summer, the sky had already darkened slightly.

Sure enough, after a while, Li Cang came over to report to Liu Xinqi:

"We won't be able to reach Tuima Island before it gets completely dark."

Liu Xinqi replied: "You can walk as much as you can. When it gets dark, we will gather together and anchor for the night. Arrange a small boat for me. I need to go to other boats to treat the seriously injured."

The total number of casualties among the officers and soldiers on the Qizhou in this naval battle was 49, including 11 direct casualties, 26 minor injuries, and 12 serious injuries. Liu Xinqi could only take out the military commander cards from the officers and soldiers and attach them to these seriously injured people to avoid They died as their injuries progressed.

Recalling the previous reorganization, Liu Xinqi said that in the future, military general cards will no longer be used to treat the wounded, but only military general cards will be used to reward meritorious personnel.However, when it comes to actual implementation, I see these seriously injured people who have gone through life and death in order to promote the development of the Han League. I am obviously capable of treating them, but I really can't help but refuse to save them.

After the Battle of Zhishan, 160 seven army officers' general cards were drawn and given to seriously injured soldiers.This time it is estimated that more than 100 will be drawn, which will lead to a large number of officers in the army who have less force than soldiers.

Faced with this phenomenon, you can no longer draw the general card and attach it to the officer, because drawing it once requires 100 reputation replenishment. The initial general card only comes with 3 possession opportunities. If you draw it back to the officer, this card will basically be useless. Half useless, unless reputation is used to replenish the number of possessions.What Liu Xinqi is most in need of right now is his reputation. How dare he waste it like this.

The fleet stopped after less than twenty miles. The sky tonight was very good, cloudless, the moonlight was bright, and the visible distance on the sea reached more than ten meters. It was convenient for Liu Xinqi to turn the ship back and forth to treat the seriously injured.

According to the final statistics, the Xinghan Alliance suffered a total of 470 casualties in the Battle of Ma, which was more than half of the total number of combatants.

Among them, 140 people were directly killed, 210 people were slightly injured, and 110 people were seriously injured.

Liu Xinqi used the general cards attached to the officers' cards to treat all the 110 seriously injured people.

In addition to the casualties of ordinary soldiers, there were also 28 officers and soldiers seriously injured. Liu Xinqi used all his martial arts. Counting the five people he had rescued before, he saved a total of [-] of the most seriously injured, and the other nine could only let them go. He recovered slowly.

"I just used the immortal skills of 110 officers to treat the wounded. Although the lives of the wounded were saved, the recovery of these wounded will take time, which has resulted in the current overall loss of 110 high-end combat power in the fleet."

After finishing their work, Liu Xinqi, Li Cang, Cui Wu, Jiao Rui and nine other captains sat together to discuss the next action.

"Then our overall combat power will be lost too much." Li Cang said.

"That's right, so I plan to stay on Tuima Island for a while. After transferring the troops from the second fleet, I will continue Japan's trade development operations." Liu Xinqi said.

"Can't you withdraw first? Come back after we take a rest." Li Cang asked. The casualties in the Tuima naval battle were huge, and he had never been optimistic about this time to open up the trade of Hizen country, which was full of Japanese pirates.

"If we withdraw, the achievements of this naval battle will be in vain. Those pirates will soon replenish their troops. Next time we come back, we will still have to face the same enemy, or even a more powerful enemy after time has passed. ."

Liu Xinqi analyzed:

"In this naval battle of Tuima, we basically killed most of the pirates from the radical faction. Now Hizen Country's resistance to us is considered the weakest. It took some time to transfer people and ships from Tengzhou to attack Hizen Country in one fell swoop and establish Station, we will be established in Japan."

At this time, Jiao Rui raised his concerns:

"This time we brought three groups of carrier pigeons with us, but when we sailed here, we were already more than a thousand miles away from Dengzhou. I don't know if these carrier pigeons can safely fly across the sea and return to Dengzhou to deliver the message."

"With such a long distance, carrier pigeon communication will definitely not work, and there are too many raptors at sea. These pigeons will definitely become the meals of those raptors." Liu Xinqi replied: "We will send a ship back. The Fu ship is fast, so we will send the Qizhou back to Dengzhou. , the round trip is estimated to only take more than half a month.”

Next, Liu Xinqi began to arrange the subsequent division of labor.

(End of this chapter)