However, after receiving the news of the great victory, Sun Xuebin immediately sent a battalion to the dock to prepare to take over the prisoners.
The ship must have been handed over directly to the Ministry of Commerce, but the Ming army prisoners and even the sailors on the merchant ships were taken over by the Ministry of Military Affairs.
After the merchant ships docked at the pier, groups of Ming soldiers who laid down their weapons had to step onto the plank. On the opposite side of the plank were groups of soldiers holding muskets.
Well, it’s not wrong to use Kunbing to describe the existing soldiers of Xinghai Kingdom.
In addition to the first batch of recruit training, subsequent batches of recruits were required to shave their long hair and change it to short hair when they first entered the camp.
The reason is simple. On tropical islands like Nanhai Island, disease is always an unavoidable topic.
Since time travel to the present, there have been hundreds of cases of cholera, whooping cough and other diseases among the naturalized people alone.
Some of these diseases were brought by foreign merchant ships, while others were spread locally.
If the medical team at that time was not powerful enough and some local doctors were recruited, the consequences would have been disastrous.
These are a bit far-fetched.
In the eyes of the Ming army, those soldiers who shaved off their hair were naturally treasonous and had strange-looking head shapes.
But combined with the firecrackers in the hands of the soldiers, the Ming army felt inexplicably frightened, as if they were recalling the nightmare of being crushed by that strange warship at sea a few hours ago.
You must know that the Ming army carried on the merchant ship was named Five Thousand, but actually numbered 3,500. By this time, only more than 2,000 were left ashore.
Not to mention how many Ming troops were brought down by the sunk merchant ships, but in the unilateral crushing artillery battle, as long as those shells touched the edges, the sawdust splattered when the merchant ships were penetrated, all with huge
of lethality.
At least two to three hundred Ming troops died directly under the shelling.
These Ming army prisoners, together with the sailors, were taken directly to the recruit training camp after landing.
No way, after the pirate prisoners were sent to mine iron ore, the prison camp was demolished and a soap factory was built.
This is also a helpless matter. Before the safety zone is expanded, every inch of land in the safety zone where troops are stationed will be under tension.
The advantage of detaining these prisoners in the new barracks is that Sun Xuebin does not need to use the few troops he has to guard these prisoners.
After all, these prisoners are not as easy to shout about as pirate prisoners.
They are all masters of economics. Although they were scared before, they are still an organized army.
Therefore, after these prisoners were poured into the new barracks, the officers and soldiers inside were detained separately.
Of course, this is just a temporary detention.
After the Breaker went to sea again, these prisoners were taken directly to the Shilu Iron Mine and put into heavy labor.
Well, even those sailors are the same.
The Kun thieves defeated Governor Biao's camp in one battle, and the news spread instantly.
Most of those businessmen who are still waiting to see the limelight in Qiongshan County are overjoyed.
The reason is very simple. Their main business now is to sell goods from the Xinghai Kingdom. If the Xinghai Kingdom is wiped out by the Ming Army, their supply of goods will be gone.
As for the government offices in various parts of the Nanhai Island and even the Qianhu Office, when they heard the news, it was like thunder exploding in their ears, and they were all in confusion like headless flies.
On the contrary, some of the bosses behind the business firms came to the door shyly at this time.
The reason is simple: their ship was captured, as were the sailors and the storekeeper who carried the goods on the ship.
There wasn't much cargo, after all, the governor's camp took up a lot of space, but the ship was going to die.
These days, a fortune ship, even if it is second-hand, costs seven to eight thousand taels of silver.
These more than ten merchant ships belonged to several trading houses, and after all, the bosses behind the scenes were heartbroken.
Chen Liuxiang, the commercial affairs committee member who was found by these bosses, changed his smile from before and stated righteously that these merchant ships were enemy ships. If they were captured, it would be impossible to take them back. Even the sailors and shopkeepers had to serve.
More than thirty years of atonement.
After hearing this, the legs of the bosses became weak.
However, if Xinghai Kingdom wants these merchant ships, they are actually of no use.
After all, the Xinghai Kingdom's shipyard is under construction. When the shipyard is repaired, it will definitely build ships with better speeds in later generations, instead of the current lucky ships that are as slow as a snail.
Besides, the current number of sailors in Xinghai Kingdom is very small, and most of them are studying in the Naval Academy. It is simply impossible to allocate manpower to pilot these merchant ships.
Therefore, Chen Liuxiang first threatened the other party, and then said that considering the previous trade relationship between the two parties, by paying some atonement silver, the ship could be taken back, and the shopkeeper could even be released.
But as for those sailors, it was impossible.
After all, in Chen Liuxiang's words, those sailors helped the Ming army and were considered prisoners of war.
But in fact, after working in Shilu Iron Mine for at most half a month, those sailors will be recruited into the Ministry of Commerce and become naturalized sailors under the Ministry of Commerce to operate the new sailboats that will be built later.
At this time, Wang Haitao was already driving the Wave Breaker and driving slowly along the coastline towards Guangzhou Prefecture.
In order to save fuel, the speed of the Breaker is controlled at about 12 knots.
This speed can maximize the fuel efficiency of the Breaker.
However, even at this economical speed, the Breaking Waves arrived at Zhujiangkou in 17 hours.
Because the sky had darkened, even though the Pound Waves had hydrological data about the later Zhujiang River, Wang Haitao did not take any risks. Instead, he docked the Pound Waves next to a small island and prepared to enter the Zhujiang Estuary the next morning.
However, the public security in Zhujiangkou in this era is not very good.
There are many pirates here.
Although there are no super-large pirate gangs like the Shibazhi in the past, there are too many fishermen and salt workers who cannot afford to eat. They are ordinary people who turn into pirates when they encounter fat sheep.
The Wavebreaker was targeted.
At nightfall, Wang Haitao had just finished dinner when he received a notice from the lookout that there were several fishing boats that were behaving strangely in the distance and were watching.
Wang Haitao could guess with his buttocks that these fishing boats must not be good merchants, and they might be pirate spies.
Although with the strength of the Breaker, there was no need to fear any pirates, but for the sake of caution, Wang Haitao still sent two additional posts and two sentries.
Sure enough, before 12 o'clock, those wooden fishing boats sneaked closer.
As a result, they were discovered by the sentries who had been well prepared. The searchlights were immediately turned on, and a beam of light instantly illuminated the fishing boats.
In the bright beam of light, one could clearly see a number of strong men holding weapons standing on the decks of the fishing boats, with expressions of astonishment, horror, panic, etc. on their faces.