After wrapping up the grim discussion about their casualties, Lin Youshu quickly adjusted himself and began reporting their gains.
There was no need to mention the six fast ships. Aside from the warships, their biggest gain this time was capturing another large batch of prisoners of war!
"We captured 627 prisoners this time!"
In their previous battle, they had captured more than three hundred prisoners. This time, the enemy fleet was three times larger, but the number of prisoners had not increased by nearly as much.
The fundamental reason was simple: more of them had died.
In the previous battle, they had only bombed the enemy's flagship. The other four ships had been sunk by Three-bow Ballistas during the engagement.
Under that kind of attack, sinking took time. The soldiers of the enemy Barton Navy had enough time to react. Once they realized the situation was bad, they immediately jumped into the sea, and they could basically save their lives.
But in this battle, they had launched Aerial Bombing right from the start!
The enemy did not even know where they were before the bombing had already begun.
Moreover, they had bombed all nine enemy ships one after another!
During the process, they had not cared in the slightest whether the enemy lived or died.
Many of the enemy soldiers probably had no idea how they had died.
Quite a few wounded men had also jumped into the sea and drowned from their severe injuries.
As for the remaining six enemy ships, the tactics had forced both sides to circle one another's vessels and fight the most typical boarding battle of the era.
Afterward, to deprive the enemy of their ability to resist and ensure the safety of their own boarding parties, a bloody slaughter had been more or less