Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 72 Casualties
"General, retreat! If we can't win, we have sunk more than 30 ships." Wei Wen's men said to Wei Wen again, their tone full of sadness.

The more than 30 ships are already half of the warships of Sun Quan's Navy, and these are only sunk, and many ships have suffered injuries of various sizes, and countless people have been killed or injured.

Facing two ships that were faster than them, could sink them at a distance, and were so flexible, they had no chance of winning.

If it is an inland river, they have many boats and can pile up the enemy to death, but on the sea, they have no way to deal with them.

On the entire battlefield, two Galenic ships were already chasing the naval fleet, while the ships being chased could only evade in a hurry.

"No, that ship is after us."

Only a few cannons were heard, and a shell unexpectedly hit the ship of Wei Wen, who was commanding behind.

"Get out, get out."

At this time, Wei Wen couldn't care about anything anymore, and immediately ordered the fleet to retreat.

If it was someone else who died, Wei Wen gritted his teeth and could still persist, but when the person who was about to die was himself, he didn't have much dedication.

As Wei Wen's boat took the lead in fleeing, the other boats immediately fled in all directions without ordering them.

Faced with such a situation, Zheng Chenggong, who only had two Galen ships, had nothing to do.

He could only bite a boat and beat it hard. When he finally sank the boat, he turned around and found that many boats had gone far away.

In addition, many ships are not fleeing in one direction, which makes them have no choice but to pursue them.

Before long, the two galenic ships came together.

At this time, many gunners, sailors and crew members were exhausted.

However, they couldn't rest at this time. They came to the place where the No. [-] Galen ship exploded and sank, and wanted to see if anyone survived. Maybe someone jumped into the sea before the explosion, and then survived by grabbing the board. .

It's just a pity that the two ships searched at sea for several hours, but found some surviving officers and soldiers of Sun Quan's navy, but they didn't find any survivors on the No. [-] Galen ship, not even a corpse.

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a few hours later.

"How about the casualties on your ship?" On the No. [-] Galen, Zheng Chenggong asked the No. [-] captain Liu Dongsheng with red eyes.

"Brother, six people died on my boat, 16 people were seriously injured, and 37 people were slightly injured." Liu Dongsheng said to Zheng Chenggong.

While speaking, his eyes were already red, and big tears were falling down.
"There are only six people, that's okay." Zheng Chenggong nodded, and then asked one of his men beside him, "How about the casualties on the No. [-] ship?"

"Brother, three people were killed on our No. 36 ship, 64 people were seriously injured, and [-] people were slightly injured."

Bang!
Zheng Chenggong slapped the table fiercely, gritted his teeth in a hoarse voice, and said, "The No. 160 ship was wiped out, and none of the [-] brothers was spared. I will not avenge this revenge, and swear not to be human."

But the next moment, his tears couldn't help but fall down.

"If you don't take this revenge, you won't be a human being." Liu Dongsheng also slammed the table.

"If you don't take this revenge, you will not be a human being." The next moment, other people expressed their opinions one after another.

"Brother, what should we do now?" Liu Dongsheng asked Zheng Chenggong in a deep voice.

Hearing Liu Dongsheng's words, Zheng Chenggong didn't speak, he was thinking.

After a while, under the gaze of everyone, he said in a deep voice, "Let's continue heading south. Before the news spreads, go to Yuhang to sell the goods."

"Brother, what do you care about at this time, let's just go back and bombard the mother with cannons." Liu Dongsheng shouted.

"Brothers have to avenge their revenge, but the goods are also available, otherwise we will lose a lot."

Zheng Chenggong said: "Everything must be done with the overall situation in mind. Our gunpowder reserves have bottomed out and there is no way to continue the attack. We must go back to replenish before we can fight again. This matter is settled. Ship the goods first, and then Go back and replenish it and then take revenge.”

"Okay!" Hearing Zheng Chenggong's words, Liu Dongsheng nodded and stopped talking.

After making a decision, the two Galen ships began to continue heading south along the coastline.

The fleet passed through Hangzhou Bay, covering a distance of more than 100 kilometers. It took Zheng Chenggong and the others less than ten hours to arrive at the dock agreed with the Yuhang merchants.

The merchants in Yuhang didn't know about the battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River. After the arrival of the two Galen ships, many merchants came together immediately.

This time Zheng Chenggong sent the No. [-] Galen ship to trade, and he took the No. [-] ship to guard.

This time the transaction went smoothly. The Yuhang merchants prepared a complete set of goods. They not only ate the goods from the No. [-] ship, but also took part of the No. [-] ship’s goods by the way.

After the transaction was completed, Zheng Chenggong came to the next stop, Zhu County (Ningbo area of ​​later generations) non-stop, where there were also businessmen who made an agreement with them.

It was early in the morning when the two ships came here, but the transaction went smoothly. After this transaction, all the goods on the two ships were replaced with what they needed.

Afterwards, Zheng Chenggong immediately led the fleet northward towards Youzhou.

The average speed of a Galen ship is eight knots, and it can travel more than 24 kilometers without stopping 300 hours a day.

Of course, this is the theoretical speed. Three Galen boats can run more than 200 kilometers at normal speed. It will take seven or eight days to return from Wujun to Quanzhou Port in Yuyang without stopping.

But even so, when Zheng Chenggong returned to Quanzhou Port in Yuyang County with his fleet, it was already more than ten days later.

The reason is that they rested and resupplied twice on the road, which delayed some time.

When two Galen ships arrived at the port and learned that one ship had been sunk and more than 100 people had died, it caused a sensation immediately.
"Teacher, I'm sorry! It's all my fault. I didn't bring Junior Brother Niu Mang and the others back, woo woo woo~"

In Quanzhou City, Zheng Chenggong knelt in front of Zhang Qingfeng and cried like a child.

Behind Zheng Chenggong, Liu Dongsheng and a dozen teenagers were also kneeling, with tears streaming down their faces.

These are all Zhang Qingfeng's students and the crew of the two Galen ships.

"How did I warn you at the beginning? We have artillery, and if we can fight at a long distance, we should not fight the enemy in close combat. How did you agree at the time, but now..."

Zhang Qingfeng was very sad.

On the No. [-] Galen ship, Niu Mang and some youngsters were his students. They didn't expect such a big loss in the southward trade.

"Teacher, beat me up, beat me up, it's all my fault." Zheng Chenggong cried bitterly.

Zheng Chenggong felt very guilty about Niu Mang's death.

He was the captain of the team, and he took the juniors out but didn't bring them back. He felt that it was all his fault.

If they saw the enemy ship and he ordered to leave directly, the following things would not have happened at all.

The cost of the sinking of the No. [-] Galen ship and the death of all the crew is that it is of no use to sink as many enemy ships as possible.

"You can't come back from death, so what's the use of killing you, I just hope you can learn from this lesson and don't make such low-level mistakes again." Zhang Qingfeng rubbed his forehead, feeling a little headache.

"Teacher, don't worry, I will never make such a mistake again." Zheng Chenggong promised.

"We won't make such a mistake anymore." Liu Dongsheng and his group also expressed their views.

"All of you take a rest first, we must take revenge on this hatred." Zhang Qingfeng said firmly.

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