Chapter 1818

Half an hour later, along with more than 20 ships of the Principality of ventra, they fled to the northwest. On the vast ocean battlefield, more than a dozen Xiao family merchant ships soon sounded all kinds of cheers.

"Wansheng! I'm Wansheng of the Xiao family!"

"Lu Wansheng!"

"Damn white pig, we won, hahaha ~"

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In the half hour war, the Xiao family caravan really won and achieved brilliant results. At first, more than 50 merchant ships of the Principality of ventra attacked, only more than 20 escaped, and wiped out more than half of the enemy's effective forces at one stroke. This is definitely a brilliant victory.

Of course, in the battles of the feudal era, the state-level army can not be defeated after damaging 20% or 30% in a battle, which has been regarded as the top elite of the times.

In such an era, it is common for feudal troops to flee in large areas once they are killed or injured.

The naval fleet of the Principality of ventra was damaged by more than half before all fled? No, you have to understand that this is a naval battle! In the naval battle, after some ships were beaten and lost their navigation ability, you just want to escape, but you can't escape. Can you let the sailors jump into the sea and swim back?

At the moment, on the sea, in the battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke, there are more than 20 ventra merchant ships, more than 10 of which are flying white flags to surrender, and nearly 10 are completely unable to navigate. They float in the sea like fools, and there is a strong sinking trend. The two most serious ships have plunged into the sea through half of their hulls, and many sailors around have jumped into the sea.

The more than ten ships with white flags wanted to escape, but they found that the ships were seriously damaged. Even if they escaped too slowly, they would be easily caught up and sunk by the Xiao family merchant ship. Then they hung the white flag and waited for the fate to be announced.

In addition, five of the entire fleet of the Principality of ventra have been completely sunk in the battle and sunk into the vast ocean.

Such a brilliant victory, the Xiao family caravan is not without damage.

Among the 15 ordinary armed merchant ships of the Xiao family caravan, one has been sunk into the sea, three have lost their navigation ability, and seven have suffered varying degrees of injuries. Combined, only four merchant ships are still intact.

However, in the Xiao family merchant fleet, the two warships are almost 90% new. Not only the hull is not much damaged, but there are few casualties on board. In that sentence, one of the biggest differences between warships and armed merchant ships is the thickness of armor!

The armor thickness of warships is far from that of ordinary commercial ships. Even wooden warships, if you pick up more than one meter thick hardwood armor and are bombed by small guns at close range, you will bounce off those shells.

On the flagship of the Xiao family, Xiao Jichen's entourage also cheered a few tens of thousands of victories before running to Xiao Jichen's side and opening his mouth, "second young master, although we won, it was still a great victory to be congratulated, but in this war, the damage of our fleet was not small, not to mention the one that sank, the loss of goods and personnel of a ship, even on other ships, the loss of members was not small."

What a relative loves most at the moment is the sunken merchant ship. After all, it is a ship of silk, porcelain and other goods that are all gone.

In addition, the subsequent subsidies and pensions for sailors who died or were injured in the war will also be a large number.

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Jichen, who was laughing, was in a daze. After a breath, he looked at the battlefield with a hundred mile mirror and took a few breaths. Then he quickly said to the left and right, "come on, signal and order two warships to save the drowning white pigs. This time, our losses will be made up through those guys."

At first glance, there are 13 ventra merchant ships hanging white flags waiting to be incorporated on the battlefield, and 8 have lost their navigation ability. The 21 captive ships have a large displacement of 200 tons and a small displacement of dozens of tons. It is estimated that there are only dozens or hundreds of white navies on each ship, and three or four hundred large ships?

Even so, it is estimated that more than 2000 prisoners of war can be captured in this war. This is the booty of the Xiao family.

These young white men, whether sold to the navies or gentry and nobles of other countries as slaves or slave soldiers, are not a small fortune.

Don't forget, these are all mixed in the ocean all year round. After a little training, they can be used as good naval fighters.

There are also 21 armed merchant ships. Even if the size of the ship is very small, there are two that have sunk and can not be saved, but the others can be pulled back to the port of Lu to repair and reuse.

A merchant ship of dozens of tons, one or two hundred tons, if used for ocean navigation, would certainly be a little ridiculous, but afterwards, whether it is sold to the small family of the state of Lu for offshore navigation or filled into the Xiao family's offshore firm, it is also a good resource. More importantly, there are guns on it!

Leaving aside the two ships that can't be rescued, 19 ships are also hundreds of guns.

In this naval battle of the Xiao family, the loss of goods on a ship and the subsequent pension for the injured sailors all depended on these means to recover.

After sending out his military order, Xiao Jichen shouted again, "tell all ships to count the casualties. In this war, for the dead of our Xiao family in all wars, we will pay five times the old pension, three times the injured! For others, we will reward them after counting."

Even if he doesn't know how many people were killed or injured in the battle, the general situation can be estimated. For example, of the 15 armed merchant ships in the caravan, only four are still intact, one sank, three lost navigation ability, and seven were damaged to varying degrees... What kind of casualty type do you think is his flagship?

Xiao Jichen's flagship is that the damage is serious.

However, since the war, he has only lost more than a dozen artillery sailors and injured more than 30 people. He has been on the ship to this extent, and the situation will be more clear if other injuries are light.

Even the one that sank doesn't mean all the sailors are dead. Many people will jump into the sea before the ship sank and wait for friendly forces to take them in.

The biggest reason for such a result is that the two warships, like dragons at sea, ran rampant in the battle, attracting more than half of the firepower of the Principality of ventra Navy. However, those firepower were seriously lack of heavy artillery threat and did not cause much casualties to the two warships.

When the new military order was issued from the flagship, the thunderous cheers sounded again on all Xiao family merchant ships.

Soon, when the two warships were busy with the ventra Navy in the big man sea, they were tied up and detained. When they gradually handed over the command of many ships with white flags, Xiao Jichen's final statistics came out.

In this battle, more than 200 gunners and sailors died and more than 400 people were injured.

At a glance, the numbers are shocking, compared with the harvest? However, more than 2000 enemy troops were captured, and several of them were sunk. Even on the more than 20 ships that escaped, how many people were killed and injured?

This is definitely a big victory worth remembering by Xiao Jichen.

In ecstasy, Xiao Jichen ordered the fleet to return. Many ships were damaged and so many prisoners were taken. They went back to the state of Lu, compiled and counted, and then set sail again. After all, they had only left the state of Lu for a few days and were very fast.