Fuzhou Second Fleet Port

A fleet of more than ten warships slowly sailed into the port of Fuzhou. Yang Feng stood on the deck of the Qingyuan with his hands on his back, while Lu Guangbiao was slightly behind and stood beside him. As the Qingyuan sailed into the port, Yang Feng was able to observe the ships docked in the port.

The port in Fuzhou is quite large in size. There are many ships docked on the west side of the port, but they are all cargo ships used to transport cargo. There are many ships on the east side. However, although the number of ships parked here is not many, the tonnage seems to be much larger than the port on the west side. It is obviously all warships used for combat. Yang Feng saw the seven warships docked in the innermost at a glance.

When he saw these seven warships at first sight, even though Yang Feng had been mentally prepared, he could not help but be surprised by the tragic situation of these seven warships.

These seven original brand new warships now not only look scarred, but also the warship's hulls are covered with holes of various sizes. When Qingyuan slowly sailed past these seven warships, he could see blood on the deck that had not been cleaned yet. When Qingyuan passed by the last warship, Lu Guangbiao shouted in disbelief. He could hardly believe that this was the Zhenning, which was just handed over to the Second Fleet two months ago.

"My God, what kind of battle can be fought like this!"

At this time, the Zhenning, which appeared in front of Yang Feng and Lu Guangbiao, was no longer the new appearance it used to be. The original yellow anticorrosion paint was covered with black and purple-black things. Yang Feng could tell at a glance that the bloodstained and smoked by gunpowder. What surprised him even more was that not only the main mast in front of the warship was broken from it, but the bow of the ship was broken more than a dozen holes the size of a face plate were broken, and the rest of the ship's body and stern were also full of holes. Yang Feng could not believe how the sailors on the warship drove it back with such a severely damaged warship?

After the fleet stopped at the dock, Yang Feng did not greet the officers of the Uncle Qin, who is now the deputy commander of the Second Fleet, who came to greet him, but said lightly, "Take me to see Deputy Admiral Liu and those injured brothers!"

Half an hour later, after visiting the injured brother, Yang Feng was in a very heavy mood. In addition to more than 80 naval officers and soldiers killed in this naval battle, more than 200 officers and soldiers were seriously injured. Moreover, according to Yang Feng's observation, many injured officers and soldiers were seriously injured, and even after recovering from the injury, they would probably not be able to return to work in the warship.

Seeing Yang Feng frowning, Lu Guangbiao also understood that Yang Feng felt sorry for these officers and soldiers, but he had no good words to persuade them. After all, some officers and soldiers suffered ordinary injuries. These people either lack arms or legs. Such injuries would be impossible to return to the warship to do things no matter what.

Seeing that Yang Feng was in a bad mood, the people around him dared not speak. After all, except Lu Guangbiao, the others present had too low official positions, which were not enough and were not qualified to persuade Yang Feng. Everyone walked for a while, and Yang Feng suddenly raised his head and said to Lu Guangbiao: "Admiral Lu, this marquis is planning to open a military court in Fujian to allow those disabled and homeless wounded soldiers to live in their old age. And those wounded soldiers who had to go home because of disability, our Fujian Navy also has to pay them a sum of silver every month so that they will not be unable to raise their heads at home. Of course, these silvers will be solved by this marquis. What do you think?"

When Lu Guangbiao heard this, he couldn't help but say with emotion: "Marty Gao Yi, if this matter can be carried out, the soldiers of the Fujian Navy will have no worries. They can also kill the enemy with confidence, which can be said to be a blessing to countless people! But..."

Lu Guangbiao hesitated for a moment and said with some concern: "It's just that the official is worried that your move will attract criticism!"

"I don't know yet!" Yang Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Really speaking, this kind of thing should have been done by the court. This will indeed cause rumors, and someone will even impeach this lord to win people's hearts. But with the current financial resources of the court, do you think the court's officials may agree? So instead of doing this, it's better for me to do it yourself, so that it can block the rumors outside."

"Yes!" Lu Guangbiao shook his head helplessly. Originally, the Ming Dynasty's finances were already in short supply and had no financial resources to make these things. Although Zhu Youxiao had some money in recent years due to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty's Royal Trading Company, it was far from spacious. Moreover, there were so many places that needed to spend money on the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao probably wouldn't agree to spend such an extra amount of money. Everything was not worried about being inequality. If the Fujian Navy was given the money, what about the Ming army in other places... Should we give it to him? So Yang Feng said that it would be better to let him do it by himself, so that there would be no need to be afraid that others would be jealous. After all, Yang Feng spent his own money to seek benefits for his subordinates, so it would be difficult for others to accuse Zhu Youxiao and the court.

Looking at Lu Guangbiao who was gradually showing reverence, Yang Feng just waved his hand: "Admiral Lu is too proud. We just need to know about this kind of thing, and we should not be too high-profile, otherwise it will be troubles if we do it well."

"It's...hubei knows!"

Lu Guangbiao nodded to show that he understood.

After visiting the wounded soldiers, the two of them came to the camp of the Second Fleet together and saw Liu Xiang who was injured and bedridden.

When Yang Feng and Lu Guangbiao first arrived at the door, they smelled a strong smell of alcohol. Two nurses in medical camp wearing green camouflage uniforms and a red cross armband embroidered on them were bandaging the wound on Liu Xiang's arm.

After seeing this scene, Yang Feng and Lu Guangbiao immediately subconsciously stopped and exited the room at the same time. You should know that in this era, men and women have a serious defense. In modern society, the word "men and women" that do not kiss each other may be just a joke most of the time, but in this era, this sentence is by no means a joke. Although Liu Xiang is their subordinate, she is still a woman in the final analysis. In this situation, they naturally have to avoid suspicion.

After a while, a nurse walked out with a tray and said to Yang Feng and Lu Xiangsheng: "Marty, Lord Lu, Deputy Admiral Liu, please come in."

Hearing the nurse say this, the two of them walked in and saw Liu Xiang wearing casual clothes and lying on the bed halfway with a suspender tied in her left arm.

Seeing Yang Feng and Lu Guangbiao come in, Liu Xiang was about to get out of bed to greet the two of them, but Yang Feng stopped him.

"Deputy Admiral Liu, if you are injured, don't care about these false rituals." Yang Feng looked up and down at Liu Xiang, and then he breathed a sigh of relief after finding that there was no other injury on her body: "I heard that you were ambushed by the Zheng brothers and injured, so he rushed over with Admiral Lu. Fortunately, you were not seriously injured, and this is a blessing in disgrace."

"The Marquis and the Admiral are so grateful to the officials who can come to visit the officials." Liu Xiang expressed his gratitude first, then showed a sad look on his face, and gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Marquis, the Second Fleet suffered such heavy losses on the Mawei Island this time. This is all the fault of the officials. Even though the Marquis punished the officials, the officials would never complain."

Yang Feng frowned and said, "Now is not the time to talk about punishment. You should first tell me about the naval battle the day before yesterday to me and Admiral Lu in detail."

"yes!"

Liu Xiang responded, and then he explained in detail the naval battle the day before yesterday.

On the same day, under the reminder of Neham, Liu Xiang immediately realized that the Zheng Zhihu brothers were so desperately pestering him with their inferior forces, because the other party still had reinforcements. He felt that something was wrong, and immediately issued an order to retreat. However, when Liu Xiang led the fleet to retreat, thirty warships led by Zheng Ming arrived at the battlefield.

Seeing the opponent's reinforcements arrive, Liu Xiang made a quick decision to lead seven warships to fight and retreat. After several hours of hard fighting along the way, he paid a heavy casualty price and sank three warships. Finally, he took advantage of the speed of the warship and then broke off contact with the opponent and finally retreated to Fuzhou. In this fierce battle, the Second Fleet also paid a heavy price. Not only did hundreds of casualties, but even two of the Dutch instructors were killed.
Chapter completed!