Daming pirates

After the Sea Wolf vacated the slipway, the Seal was finally pulled to the shore and successfully fixed on the temporary and crude slipway.

There was already a batch of hardwood specially stored on the island for shipbuilding. When building the stronghold, Yu Xiaotian was not willing to use these rare and good wood. Now he gave it to Guo Fu's master and apprentice for them to use for repairing the ship.

Blacksmith Zhang helped Guo Fu make a batch of carpentry tools in advance, and the master and apprentice immediately started working on the beach day and night.

Except after midnight, the whole island is constantly buzzing with clanging sounds. In addition to training, the Sea Wolf tribe members also go to the slipway to help, or help clear the sea creatures from the bottom of the ship.

Maybe it was because Zhou Cheng had offended too many people and his own conditions were limited. It was not easy for Zhou Cheng to repair the ship. Therefore, although the ship underwent a major repair more than half a year ago and the damaged bow was replaced, it was not repaired.

It was not thorough and the bottom of the boat was not cleaned very well.

In addition, it has been parked at the beach for several months and has been immersed in sea water for a long time. A thick layer of barnacles and other things have formed on the bottom of the boat, making the hull heavy and heavy. This has greatly affected

Their speed coupled with their vessel's flexibility and cargo capacity.

No wonder when Yu Xiaotian rushed back, Zhou Cheng had no time to escape. Yu Xiaotian caught up with him, damaged his boat, and then captured and killed him on the spot.

The ancients said that if a craftsman wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools! This sentence is really very reasonable. If you are in their profession and can't even take care of the boat, you will lose your life sooner or later.

That's why Yu Xiaotian valued the quality of his ship and equipment so much. He tried every means to repair the ship, and also searched for weapons and equipment for his subordinates to enhance their combat effectiveness.

After Guo Fu inspected the entire ship, he took his son and his apprentice to directly remove some of the damaged ship boards on the ship, and replaced these damaged ship boards with existing hardwood materials, as well as the two damaged ship ribs.

Because their current conditions cannot meet the requirements of re-making, the ship ribs need a certain degree of curvature, so they need to be baked with fire and then bent with a jig.

They couldn't do such a thing at the moment, so Guo Fu made some changes and used hardwood to reinforce the two ship ribs. He also repaired the bulkheads inside the hull, reinforced the damaged parts, and then conducted an overall inspection of the hull.

and caulking to repair the leakage problem of the hull as a whole.

The bow of this ship had been replaced and repaired before and re-joined. After inspection, Guo Fu found that the previous craftsmen had cut corners and the joints at the bow were not secure. If there was another slight collision, it might be completely destroyed.

Now let him replace them all, and the manpower and tools he has on hand are a bit insufficient.

So after asking Yu Xiaotian for instructions, Guo Fu and his apprentice also re-reinforced the bow part to ensure the minimum strength of the bow part. In addition, Guo Fu also had to repair the rudder plate and the connecting rod of the rudder.

Repairs must be carried out and the ship's mast must be re-strengthened. As a result, it is unrealistic to repair the ship in a short while.

In desperation, Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to let Master Guo Fu and his son repair it slowly. Instead of rushing to meet the deadline, Yu Xiaotian tried to repair the ship as sturdier as possible, and asked Xu Laoshi to replace the ship with a brand new sail.

, expand the area of ​​​​some sails, in order to increase the number of ships

Speedy, in short, since it took so much effort to repair the ship this time, I will repair it as good as possible. If there is really no way to solve it, I will have to make do. At least it must be able to be used as the Sea Wolf.

With the subsidy, it will become their second main battle ship in the future.

After the porcelain bottles were brought back, Yu Xiaotian asked the idlers or women on the island to start collecting these porcelain bottles. More than 300 porcelain bottles were filled with whale oil, and then the bottle mouths were plugged with corks.

They also tore some tattered clothes they had saved into rags and put them in the wooden box with the Molotov cocktail to use as a starter for the fire.

Once you need to use these incendiary bottles, remove the cork, stuff the cloth into the bottle, light the cloth and throw it out. Think about if dozens of these guys are thrown onto the enemy's ship at once, even the enemy

No matter how hard you try to save the enemy, you will definitely suffer a big loss. If not, the enemy's ship will be burned on the spot. Therefore, these incendiary bottles are definitely a weapon in close combat at sea.

However, it is dangerous to put these things on the ship. The biggest fear is that they will break and leak oil, so after they are installed, they are put into wooden boxes filled with straw and stored carefully.

In addition, they currently have four artillery pieces, two of which are their earliest large-mouth blunderbuss, and the other two are Baizi blunderbuss. One of them was taken from Zhou Cheng, and the other was taken from a merchant ship.

The cannons were similar in shape but different in caliber, which made Yu Xiaotian very helpless.

However, for him, this is already the most powerful weapon. No matter how crude it is, it is still better than nothing. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian still attaches great importance to these four cannons. During this time, he asked Blacksmith Zhang for help.

The barrels of these cannons were polished, and several iron hoops were added to each of them to strengthen the strength of the barrels and prevent accidents from accidentally exploding the barrels and injuring people.

After using their latest production of granular gunpowder, the power of these guns has been improved. The two bowl-mouth blunderbuss were temporarily placed in the stockade, while the two hundred-child blunderbuss were ordered by Yu Xiaotian to be placed in the village.

aboard the Sea Wolf and used it as their main battle weapon.

Just as they were making intensive preparations, news finally came from Nanri Island.

This time, not only did Wang Hong come to Treasure Island in person, but also Yu Xiaotian's new acquaintance, Lao Wu Fang'an, also came to Treasure Island with Wang Hong.

Yu Xiaotian was very enthusiastic about the arrival of Wang Hong and Fang An. He personally welcomed them to the beach, took them to the island, and received them in the village to entertain them. Even their subordinates who were traveling with them were also invited to leave.

After getting off the boat, they set up a large pot, large pieces of meat, and a large bowl of wine outside the village and entertained them.

Fang An came to Treasure Island for the first time, and he was also very surprised by the situation here. Especially when he saw that Yu Xiaotian and the others were actually repairing the ship by themselves, he and Wang Hong were even more surprised.

The Shark Gang is much stronger than Yu Xiaotian, but they can only make minor repairs to their ships at the moment, but they did not expect that Yu Xiaotian can now make major repairs to their ships on his own, even though there are no ships here

However, they still built a simple slipway and used a simple slide to drag the ship ashore for repairs.

This made them look at Xiaotian with admiration.

What surprised Fang An even more was that after arriving here, he really felt the quality of Yu Xiaotian's subordinates. They were all peers, but in comparison, these Sea Wolf subordinates under Yu Xiaotian,

Everyone behaves in a well-behaved manner, and under the command of Yu Xiaotian and several leaders, they move forward and retreat in a measured manner in everything they do, and follow orders and prohibitions.

I looked up at the people on duty on the wall. Although the island was very lively due to the arrival of their group, the people on duty at the gate and on the wall were still very shy.

Standing like a javelin, they went about their business calmly, almost unmoved.

Compared with the tribesmen brought by their men, Fang An immediately felt a little ashamed.

Fang An has a strong self-esteem, and because of his disability in his left hand, he doesn't like to communicate with others, which makes him seem a little arrogant. However, after arriving at Treasure Island recently, he had to put away his arrogance and enter the village.

After that, he carefully observed everything and started to actively communicate with Yu Xiaotian.

"Brother Yu, this time my brother comes over, I don't have anything good to give you. Moreover, we have to ask Brother Yu to help us this time. Brother Yu can't let Brother Yu just do it for us in vain!

So Brother Yu thought about it for a while and couldn't do anything else. This time he sent Brother a French machine gun!

Brother Yu has seen the guys on your ship. Those two cannons are quite good. Although they are not as big as the cannons on my ship, they are still good. However, your Bai Zi Gun and Bowl Mouth Gun are a bit too slow to load. Once

If you fight with someone, you will be at a disadvantage, so Brother Yu sent you the flange machine I have on hand.

Come on! Send the cannon to my brother!"

When Wang Hong came over, he brought a few men with him and carried two boxes, one long and one short. After he sat down in the village, he treated himself as his elder brother and said to Xiaotian.

After saying that, he waved his hand and asked his men to carry the box over and place it in front of Yu Xiaotian.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he was immediately overjoyed. He didn't expect that Wang Hong was such a good friend. He came to ask him to help him this time and actually gave him such a big gift.

So Yu Xiaotian quickly clasped his fists and thanked them repeatedly. While saying that he didn't dare to accept it, he focused his attention on the two boxes sent by Wang Hong.

After Wang Hong's men put down the box, they immediately opened the lid and presented the contents in front of Yu Xiaotian's eyes.

Yu Xiaotian lowered his head and took a closer look. The excitement just now cooled down a little. Just now he heard that Wang Hong gave him a French machine gun. He thought that this guy must be quite big, but he found out after opening the box.

, this Flange machine is really too small.

Even with the handle on the tail of the entire Fran machine gun, it is only a little over one meter. The outer diameter of the gun barrel is only seven or eight centimeters. There is a square slot in the tail of the gun, which is obviously used to fill the gun.

Guns used.

In another smaller box, there were five muskets placed. As far as he knew, under normal circumstances, a Furlan machine gun needs at least six to nine muskets to be considered a set, but this Furlan machine gun

The cannon only has five muskets, so it is obviously not a complete set.

Fortunately, this set of French cannons is made of copper, which is quite good. Moreover, the surface casting quality of this French cannon is quite good. The gun body is polished relatively smoothly, and there are no burrs on the edges and corners.

Everything has been polished by craftsmen, and the quality seems to be okay.

(Today, I would like to thank my friends yezhongye for the reward! Let the red tickets come more intensely!)