Daming pirates

Think about it, when the pirates happily blocked a merchant ship and were happily preparing to jump in and join the gang to rob them, suddenly all the boatmen on the merchant ship took out one of these and pointed it at the pirates.

If you hug the fire, you can imagine what will happen to the pirates. Even if you can't kill them all, you can scare the rest and pull up their pants and run away.

Moreover, these short muskets carried on merchant ships are not conspicuous, and can play a very good concealment role, catching the enemy by surprise.

So gun makers have been mass-producing this kind of short gun in the past few months. Because the length of the short gun barrel is only a fraction of the long gun barrel, it is much easier and faster to build than the long gun barrel.

It is also much faster. In the same time it takes to make a long gun barrel, many short gun barrels can be made. Drilling the bore is easier to control, the speed is faster, and the yield is much higher than that of a long gun barrel.

The most troublesome thing about making guns in this era is the production of gun barrels. After adopting the division of labor manufacturing method for other flintlock device accessories, it is easy to solve. When not adding too many craftsmen, we can only increase the number of accessories production craftsmen appropriately.

, which can meet the current production demand.

Therefore, while not reducing the production of long guns much, the gun maker put into large-scale production of this kind of short guns. In a short period of time, the production quantity of short guns exceeded the output of long guns, and a steady stream of equipment began to be supplied to the Sea Wolf Department.

among the crowd.

Initially, this kind of short musket was only distributed to some leaders and leaders. After the production increased, it began to be distributed to the soldiers on the ship.

Now every ship has begun to be equipped with a small amount of this kind of short musket. If the amount of equipment is increased, it will greatly improve the sea wolf's ability to fight at close range at sea. Moreover, we have already obtained such short muskets.

The staff couldn't put it down and they became more courageous.

Think about it when someone is wielding a knife or a gun with you. No matter how high his martial arts skills are, he can't stop you from knocking down your opponent easily with just a move of your fingers. How much such a situation will improve the holder's psychology.

The effect is that with these new guys in the future, it may be difficult for the Sea Wolf tribe to be timid in close combat.

As for the gunpowder workshop, it goes without saying that after the first year of experiments, they have formed a system for purchasing soil and saltpeter. As soon as the weather cools down, some merchants who are willing to do this business begin to go north.

Search for local saltpeter in Shandong, North Zhili and Henan areas.

The Chinese New Year is the best season for saltpeter removal. After the New Year, many merchants began to purchase shiploads of saltpeter from the north and began to transport it back to Nanyue Island.

Some merchants have better business acumen. In order to increase profits, they even rough-process the local saltpetre purchased in the coastal areas of Shandong, refine it into crude saltpeter, and then ship it back to Nanyue Island to be sold overseas.

Wolf, this way the transportation cost has been reduced a lot, and their profits have doubled several times.

Yu Xiaotian specially asked the Council to significantly increase the purchase price of crude saltpeter, which also prompted some merchants engaged in this kind of business to find ways to refine it locally in the north to obtain greater profits.

Yu Xiaotian's approach is to leave the initial processing to others as much as possible to reduce his own workload. This kind of cooperation between the two parties can be said to be mutually beneficial. Both parties get what they want, which can be said to be a win-win result.

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In addition, the Spaniards in Manila are also happy to do this saltpeter trade with Sea Wolf. In this way, they reduce their cash expenditure and find a product that can be sold in large quantities. They can exchange it for more goods through barter.

After repeated bargaining for Ming Dynasty products, the Spanish also lowered the price of saltpeter, allowing Sea Wolf to obtain a certain guarantee in the supply of saltpeter and sulfur.

Nowadays, the gunpowder workshop has been expanded, and the refined saltpeter is extracted separately and centralized for rough processing. The refined saltpeter is sent to the gunpowder workshop for deep processing to make gunpowder.

There is also a by-product of boiling salt, which can produce salt. After the salt is refined, it becomes snow-white powdered refined salt. It is still a hot commodity and can be sold for money or used for one's own use.

There is even leftover brine, which can be used to make tofu. There are not many kinds of food in this era, and tofu is a very popular food. The council is also willing to purchase some beans and has people build a tofu shop.

Make tofu and feed it to the Sea Wolf tribe.

In addition, tofu can also be made into dried tofu, which can be stored for a long time and can be placed on ships, so that sailors of merchant fleets on long voyages can eat such delicious food at any time to refresh their lonely sailing life.

In short, in terms of materials, Sea Wolf has basically made most of the preparations to meet Chu Cai Lao's large-scale invasion. As soon as Chu Cai Lao's fleet arrives, he can have a big fight with him.

As for personnel, in addition to the fleet and sailors that were originally mobilized and assembled, the War Barracks was expanded again before the year, and a group of new soldiers were recruited into the camp, bringing the number of people in the War Barracks to four to five hundred.

This does not include the more than 200 soldiers currently stationed in Jilongwan and Tamsui Village.

These soldiers are now the main force defending Nanyue Island. They specialize in land warfare. They are much better than sailors and boatmen who work part-time in land warfare.

Moreover, after Seawolf successfully trial-produced flintlock muskets, it began to mass-produce flintlock muskets to equip Seawolf tribesmen, but they were mainly used to equip combat barracks. In the past six months or so, under the leadership of Zhang Blacksmith, the gunsmiths have

While the flintlock gun is being produced, small improvements are still being made to the flintlock gun. By this time, the firing rate of the flintlock gun has increased to more than 80%, which is already very rare.

The soldiers have so far equipped nearly 400 flintlock rifles. Some of the soldiers have been deployed to Jilongwan and Tamsui Village. Some are also equipped on Shuangfeng Island. However, as Nanyue Island is the old camp, the war soldiers are still there.

Equipped with more than 200 flintlock muskets, musketeers account for about half of the soldiers. With the continued production of flintlock muskets in the future, the proportion of musketeers will continue to increase.

With their current equipment and staffing ratio, they have basically reached a very high level in this era. With them guarding the island, it is difficult for ordinary people to get any benefits from them.

Therefore, if Yu Xiaotian leads the fleet to fight, he can basically rest assured that there are four to five hundred soldiers stationed in the old camp. With the equipment level of Chu Cai's old subordinates, he wants to capture his wolf lair.

There was also a shopping mall area. If thousands of people died, I guess he couldn't even touch the edge.

Therefore, whether in terms of personnel or material preparations, Sea Wolf has now made preparations. Yu Xiaotian is not afraid that Chu Cai will not come, but he is afraid that he will not dare to come now.

But just when he thought everything was ready, he did not wait for Chu Cailao's large fleet to invade, but instead waited for news that surprised him.

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