Daming pirates

Several boats on the sea formed a fleet, traveling with the wind on the undulating sea. All the boats, led by a lucky boat at the head, kept doing various things according to the changing flags and flags on the lucky boat.

A kind of movement, sometimes left and sometimes right, sometimes separated, sometimes gathered together.

Yu Xiaotian stood on the stern of Fuchuan, observing the movements of the other four boats, frowning or smiling from time to time.

Nowadays, this lucky ship has been renamed Sea Wolf and has become his handsome ship, the flagship of the Sea Wolf Gang. The previous Sea Wolf has been renamed Sea Lion at this time, and the newly captured

A sailing boat was named Sea Eagle by him.

Today is also the first time these ships have set sail together, but their purpose is not to go out to sea for plundering, but to have several other purposes. The first purpose is to use this sailing to test the newcomers after one month of training.

The second purpose was to test the effect of his revised flag order, and the third purpose was to conduct another whaling operation at sea.

Needless to say, the purpose of the whaling operation is very simple, which is to satisfy their need for meat, and at the same time obtain more blubber and whale oil, which can be used as their products and raw materials for making candles. At the same time, it also tempers the courage of the tribesmen.

Let them witness the bloody scenes.

During this period, Yu Xiaotian took the time to modify the previously set flag orders to a certain extent, making them more detailed so that they could better convey the messages between their fleets and at the same time satisfy his requirements for each ship.

This command activity, this whale hunting trip, is also a good time to test the effectiveness of the new flag order.

In order to better satisfy the transmission of messages among the ships in the fleet, all current battles have also reduced the workload of the messengers. In addition to acting as lookouts on the masts, they also have to pay attention to the signals hung on each ship.

Flags, identify the meanings of various flags, and report them to the ship boss on your own ship.

Yu Xiaotian now appoints full-time captains for the four ships. In this era, among the government, navy and navy, the person responsible for managing a ship is called a pirate, while on private merchant ships, the title is steward. However, Yu Xiaotian

However, Tian insisted on being here and called the captain of a ship the captain, which clearly and directly stated their identities.

The captains of the four ships were Liu Laoliu of the Sea Wolf, Meng Kuangqi of the Seal, Hu Cheng of the Sea Lion, Ma Xiao of the Sea Eagle, and Zhao Mazi of the Walrus. Zhao Mazi was not at home for the time being, so he was temporarily replaced by Han Xian.

These people are all old guys with rich sailing experience. As a former pirate leader, Ma Xiao’s experience in maritime activities cannot be underestimated. Considering his identity, it is reasonable to give him a ship leader.

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What is more surprising is that Hu Cheng, who is usually not very public, was actually appointed as the captain of the Sea Lion during this personnel adjustment, which surprised everyone.

But Yu Xiaotian had his own reasons for doing this. Although Hu Cheng was not very courageous before, he was initially unwilling to follow him in the pirate business.

But after he was forced to follow Yu Xiaotian to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian took his family over from Fu'an County. At the same time, the arrival of the former boatman's children also made him understand that even if Yu Xiaotian let go

If he goes home, he won't be able to live a good life.

So after Hu Cheng was taken to Treasure Island at home, he began to follow Yu Xiaotian wholeheartedly.

He has been working as a helmsman for a long time in the past, and he has no problem working as a helmsman at the same time. He has accumulated a lot of experience in sailing at sea all year round. No matter what is done on the ship, he can basically do it. This is very important to Xiaotian.

Very important.

Hu Chengdu followed him on his previous hunting trips. He became more and more courageous and worked harder and harder. In addition, because he was older, the younger generation also obeyed him. Finally, when the first batch of captains were appointed,

Yu Xiaotian chose him as the captain of the Sea Lion, which made Hu Cheng even more grateful to Xiaotian. He repeatedly expressed that he would never let Xiaotian down and would take care of the Sea Lion.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also appointed a deputy captain for each ship, who can replace the captain when necessary and take over the command of the ship from the captain.

Each of these five ships is equipped with a crew of six to eight people. As full-time sailors on each ship, a helmsman, an apprentice helmsman, three to five helmsmen, and a helmsman who is also a cook. From now on, these

People no longer change at will.

The other four ships that can go into battle are each equipped with fifteen to thirty soldiers or trainee soldiers. As a transport ship, the Walrus is not usually equipped with full-time soldiers. It will be temporarily deployed when needed, and the soldiers are also assigned at this time.

Yu Xiaotian changed his name to Zhan Bing. Zhan Bing was usually responsible for doing rough work. Fighting and killing were their main responsibilities, and each person also had other divisions of labor.

Among these soldiers, some are responsible for operating artillery, some are responsible for operating firecrackers and muskets, and some are responsible for bows and arrows. Each ship also has a part-time person responsible for damage control on board, including the top fighters, who are integrated into the soldiers.

When the distance is far away, everyone uses long-range weapons to attack the enemy. Once they join forces, these soldiers will switch to swords and guns to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian had a small number of people and could not divide the work in detail, but now he has more ships and the number of people under him has also increased significantly, so the responsibilities of the people on the ship have been divided more clearly.

In order to prevent cliques from forming within Sea Wolf, Yu Xiaotian disrupted all the old and new personnel and divided them into groups. Ma Xiao's old troops were also scattered and distributed to each ship, including the old people from Xiaohuang Island.

They were broken up and separated, and the soldiers were divided into groups of five. A corps commander was appointed to manage the remaining four. From then on, they were often deployed on each ship in units of corps.

In this way, it would be very difficult for someone to form a clique and form a clique. Yu Xiaotian did not want his subordinates to form cliques like the Shark Gang in the future and compete with each other.

, there are many internal contradictions, so he made up his mind from the beginning to curb the occurrence of this situation from the system.

After going out to sea this time, the old subordinates and the old subordinates brought by Ma Xiao were more accustomed to activities on the ship, but the performance of the latest batch of subordinates who were deceived by them was really a bit miserable.

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Although the new batch of people gradually settled down and adapted to life on the island after a month of preliminary training in isolation, after all, Sea Wolf provided quite good services to the members.

Food supply, even before they became refugees, they rarely enjoyed such good food.

And here, in addition to having more rules, they have to be drilled non-stop every day, which makes them feel a little tired. But in the past, no matter what they did, it was never easy. They also woke up early and stayed late, but they were not necessarily able to take care of food and clothing. Here

But at least it gave them a sense of stability. In addition, Yu Xiaotian killed the chicken to scare the monkeys in the first place and let them see his ruthless methods. Basically, these people no longer want to go back to being refugees, and they also

Gradually I got used to obeying.

But after all, many of these people had never been to sea or worked on a ship. Suddenly they were asked to board a ship and go to sea. Many of them started to get seasick after being shaken by the ship. After going to sea, there were trainees on each ship.

The newcomers staggered around all of a sudden, vomiting into a mess. Not to mention letting them work, they felt extremely uncomfortable just lying down. It could be said that they were miserable.

For such a situation, Yu Xiaotian is mentally prepared. After all, it always takes a process of adaptation for people who have never been on a ship to suddenly switch to piracy. Once they go to sea more, these people will gradually get used to it.

Well, the group of people who came to Dongshan Village before came here like this. Now most of them are used to this kind of life, and some people stand out. Guys like Li Dazui have now become soldiers.

I can manage a lot of soldiers under my command.

Of course, there are some people who have never been able to adapt to the life on the ship due to their physical constitution. No matter how they do it, they will be dizzy as soon as they get on the ship. Therefore, some people were kicked out full-time and stayed in the village to either learn blacksmithing from Blacksmith Zhang or follow him.

Guo resumed his studies in ship repair, and some people were sent to learn the craftsmanship of bamboo craftsman from Xu Laoshi, but most of them could adapt.

After several ships went out to sea, they were practicing on the sea while looking for traces of whales. Due to the limitations of the conditions on board ships in this era, neither fishing nor whaling could solve the problem of preservation. The only thing they could use to preserve freshness was boiling water.

The sea salt is produced from sea salt, so this also limits them from going too far away for fishing or whaling operations.

Otherwise, no matter how much they catch, the catch will rot on the boat without them coming back for processing.

Therefore, this restricts them from carrying out whaling operations further away, and can only carry out activities near Treasure Island. Once a whale is captured, it can be immediately towed back to the island for segmentation and processing.

Fortunately, marine resources were very rich in this era, and the number of whales was many times greater than in later generations. In addition, this area was also an area where whales often visited, so whaling was not difficult for them.

Just over half a day passed before the Sea Eagle, which was at the forefront, spotted traces of a group of whales on its upper deck, so it immediately raised a flag to notify other ships and turned its steering wheel to start tracking the group of whales.

People who have had a whaling experience immediately became excited, but for people who came out to participate in whaling for the first time, it made them very nervous. Like the guys who went out to hunt for whales for the first time, they did not

It is simply unimaginable to believe that with the manpower of people like them, they can hunt down such a big sea beast.

If they hadn't eaten whale meat on Treasure Island and seen the whale skeleton lying on the beach, they wouldn't have believed that Yu Xiaotian and his men had actually hunted a whale.

The Walrus was slow and could only follow slowly behind the fleet, but the other four ships were relatively fast, especially the two bird ships, the Seal and the Sea Lion, were the fastest, so these two ships

Running in front, Yu Xiaotian followed closely behind with the new Sea Wolf and Sea Eagle, chasing the whales.

The group of whales they discovered this time was the same as last time. They were minke whales, which were the whales they were more suitable for hunting. After tracking for more than an hour, they gradually approached this small group of whales.

Each boat immediately put down its sampan, with whale hunting tools prepared on the sampan. Under the vigorous paddling of the sailors, several sampans quickly began to approach the whale group.

Yu Xiaotian still took the lead this time and boarded a sampan. After all, his group of guys still had little experience in whaling, and it was necessary for him to take them here again.

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