The ninth son of the emperor was demoted at the beginning. I have a famous Chinese general.

Chapter 366 A great harvest

On the other side, the fleet led by Zhou Yu suddenly stopped fleeing after two hours, changed direction and launched a counterattack towards the joint forces behind them.

"Not good! The enemy is about to counterattack."

"Organize an immediate blockade."

Seeing this scene, the deputy commander of the combined fleet roared in anger.

However, it was too late. The Daqian navy arrived in the blink of an eye and launched a fierce attack.

"Bang bang bang~"

Dense artillery shells streaked across the sky and landed on the deck of the warship.

"Ahhh~~"

Suddenly, shrill wails were heard.

In just a few seconds, several warships of the Allied Fleet were sunk and hundreds of sailors were killed.

Facing the complete joint fleet, it might not be easy for Zhou Yu to gain the upper hand.

However, the fleet responsible for the pursuit had only more than 100 warships, which was comparable in number to the Daqian Navy.

In this situation, Zhou Yu had no problem winning.

The end result is the same.

An hour later, when the naval battle ended, the combined fleet was almost wiped out, with less than ten warships escaping.

"Collect the warships and count the losses."

On the flagship deck, Zhou Yu said with a look of relief on his face.

The battle was won brilliantly, with more than thirty warships of the combined fleet sunk and more than eighty damaged or captured.

Only five of our warships were sunk and more than twenty were damaged.

"Yes, General."

The messenger immediately took the order and turned around to convey the command.

After a while, the Daqian navy became busy.

Each ship sent sailors to take over the surrendered enemy ships, and sent people to repair the damaged enemy ships and salvage the soldiers who fell into the water.

Zhou Yu also took this opportunity to report the results of the battle to Ning Quan via the intercom.

"Your Majesty, the battle was successfully completed. Thirty-six enemy warships were destroyed and more than eighty captured."

"Good job!"

"But you still can't sit idle. The enemy troop transports and transport fleets haven't been dealt with yet. They're now in your hands. Make sure you capture them all."

"The last general takes orders."

Zhou Yu agreed immediately.

"Pass the order. The Third Squadron will remain to clean up the battlefield. The remaining warships will immediately attack the enemy transport fleet."

After ending the call, Zhou Yu immediately gave the order.

"promise."

Afterwards, the main force of the navy quickly left.

.........

Off the coast of Malacca.

The Combined Fleet transport fleet, with more than 600 large and small ships, is anchored.

At this moment, everyone on the ship, whether sailors or soldiers, was extremely nervous.

The gunfire from Malacca had stopped, but after such a long time, the fleet in front had not sent anyone back to report, which made everyone worried.

They didn't know what was happening to the fleet ahead.

Could it be a failure?

However, even though they thought so, they did not dare to move, after all, this was an order.

"Hopefully we win!"

Everyone prayed.

"Look, it's the enemy fleet!"

However, at this moment, someone suddenly shouted in horror.

"The enemy fleet is coming!"

"We must have failed."

"No, I don't want to die, run away!"

……

Hearing the shouting, everyone panicked and wanted to escape by boat.

However, it's too late.

Before they could raise anchor, the Daqian warships had already arrived.

"咻咻咻~~"

The next second, hundreds of shells fired.

With just one round of shooting, many ships were hit, and some unlucky ships were even sunk directly.

Now, all the ships dared not move.

Neither the cargo ship nor the troop transport ship was equipped with artillery and had a slow speed, so they had no way of escaping under such circumstances.

"Put down your weapons, surrender, and I will spare your life."

"Put down your weapons, surrender, and I will spare your life!"

Zhou Yu led the warships close to the fleet and shouted loudly.

"Surrender! We surrender!"

Hearing the shout, all the crew members raised their flags in surrender.

Zhou Yu captured the fleet almost without bloodshed.

At this point, the European Combined Fleet was completely destroyed.

........

"Hahaha, that's great, that's really great."

When Ning Quan received the good news, he laughed excitedly.

More than 600 ships, countless supplies, 20,000 sailors, 60,000 soldiers, plus nearly 300 captured warships.

This is definitely a big win.

"Pass the word down. I will reward the troops tonight."

Ning Quan gave the order with a big laugh.

"Yes!"

The deputy general next to him hurriedly received the order.

Soon, the news spread throughout the army.

Everyone cheered and celebrated the great victory.

That night, Ning Quan personally attended the celebration banquet and celebrated with the soldiers.

After joy comes busyness.

Early the next morning, Ning Quan arranged for people to start counting the harvest, especially various supplies.

Finally, after two days of inventory, the seizure list came out.

In this war, Daqian captured a total of 314 warships, 120 cargo ships, and 220 troop transport ships.

More than 600 senior officers above the rank of captain, 23,000 sailors, and 65,000 soldiers were captured.

There were 5,000 large and small cannons and more than 90 tons of gunpowder.

There were thousands of tons of grain and wine, and even a lot of valuable items such as gold and silver.

The total value exceeded 20 million taels of silver, which was a huge harvest.

The key is that warships are valuable, and the minimum price of each warship is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

And these warships are enough for Daqian to form another fleet.

"Your Majesty, the inventory has been completed, the supplies have been put into storage, and the prisoners and sailors have been registered and properly accommodated."

Zhou Yu walked into the imperial study and reported respectfully.

"very good."

"The materials, including gold and silver, should be left here and used for development."

"The old rules still apply to prisoners: they are allowed to redeem themselves, but those without money are forced to do hard labor."

Ning Quan ordered.

"Where are the troops mobilized from the country now?"

Ning Quan then asked.

"Your Majesty, the army arrived in Annan three days ago and is currently gathering and resting in the Haiphong City area, awaiting further orders."

Zhou Yu replied quickly.

"Well, have you ever calculated how many troops are needed to attack Luzon?"

"Your Majesty, Luzon is very weak. Fifty thousand troops are sufficient."

"Therefore, I plan to attack Kalimantan Island at the same time."

"Yeah, that's okay too."

Hearing this, Ning Quan nodded.

He was very satisfied with Zhou Yu's decision.

There are 300,000 newly transferred troops, and we can't just leave them idle.

"So, 50,000 will attack Luzon, and 100,000 will occupy Kalimantan. There's also Sulawesi to the east of Kalimantan, so we can take that as well."

"Once we have secured these three locations and stabilized them, we will immediately move on to Sumatra. We must seize the entire South Seas as quickly as possible."

After thinking about it, Ning Quan gave the order.

"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"

Zhou Yu said immediately after hearing this.

"Okay, leave the specific matters to you. I won't get involved." Ning Quan waved his hand.

"Yes."

Zhou Yu accepted the order and turned to leave.

After Zhou Yu left, Ning Quan turned around and went back to the backyard to rest and draw a lottery.

Time flies so fast. Three months have passed in the blink of an eye, and it is time for the lottery again, and there are two draws.