Daming pirates

Treasure Island was the first old camp where Yu Xiaotian led his troops to the sea. Although he occupied the Jiuchao and went to Nanyue Island, it was not completely abandoned by him. More than a dozen of them were stationed in the village on a regular basis.

Ten Sea Wolf tribesmen are stationed and maintain the facilities here to a certain extent.

After all, it is not easy to find an island with sufficient fresh water resources along the coast. Moreover, after Xiaotian managed it for a period of time, he built a small village, a small pier and two trestles.

We already have a relatively complete infrastructure. It would be a pity to give up easily!

What's more important is that Treasure Island is relatively remote, far from the mainland and not on the shipping route. It is a relatively good hiding place. It is rarely noticed by people at ordinary times. Only a handful of ships passing through the open sea occasionally visit it.

When there is a storm or water shortage, come here to replenish water and take shelter from the wind. If Sea Wolf abandons this place, it will probably be occupied by others soon. All the facilities on the island built by Yu Xiaotian and his people will be in vain.

It's cheaper for others.

In addition, as the starting place of Sea Wolf, the old brothers of Sea Wolf were emotionally unwilling to see this place abandoned. Therefore, based on these reasons, Yu Xiaotian did not abandon the island in the end, but sent people to

Regular shifts are stationed here, and there is no shortage of more than a dozen manpower anyway.

But unexpectedly, this treasure island was used by the Seawolves again during this period. In early March, the Seawolf ships and crew members returned to Nanyue Island to gather, and were soon ordered to clear out the coastal areas of Fuzhou.

On the grounds that they were Chu Cai's old subordinates, they were transferred in large numbers away from Nanyue Island.

However, these ships and the Sea Wolf tribe did not go to the coastal area of ​​Fuzhou in separate groups as everyone saw on the surface. Instead, they separated in groups of twos and threes and first wandered around the coastal area of ​​Fuzhou, and then began to quietly

Sailed to Treasure Island.

Gradually, Treasure Island, which had been silent for nearly two years, became lively again. The first to arrive here were more than a dozen sentinel boats, which captured all kinds of ships within a thirty-mile radius of Treasure Island.

Including the people on the ship, everyone was temporarily detained and imprisoned in Treasure Island Dazhai. Moreover, they were very lucky. They actually caught one of these ships operating in the waters near Treasure Island.

The ship under the command of old Chu Cai.

As for the other unlucky fishing boats and merchant ships, after the Sea Wolf tribe brought them to Treasure Island, they only temporarily detained them and gave them proper resettlement. They did not rob their belongings or ships and comforted them.

Tell them that Sea Wolf is working in this area. In order to prevent the news from being exposed, I will temporarily aggrieve them. They will be compensated afterwards and they will not suffer any loss.

Although the people on these merchant ships are not happy, they have no choice. Nowadays, the sea wolf has the final say in the Fuzhou area. Their ships did not pay for the passage. They took a detour here to avoid the waterway, but were unfortunately caught by the sea wolf.

Come on, Sea Wolf will not confiscate their cargo. They are already burning incense, so they don’t dare to fart when they get here.

As for the fishermen on the temporarily detained fishing boats, after learning that Sea Wolf was going to do business in this area, they got the guarantee from Sea Wolf that Sea Wolf would ensure their safety and would also give them money when they were let go.

It was quite a sum of money as compensation for delaying their fishing, so these fishermen had nothing to worry about.

Moreover, the fishermen here in Fuzhou are very close to the sea wolves. After arriving at Treasure Island, they did not want to just sit around and have nothing to do. Some fishermen even offered to temporarily help the sea wolves on the island, so they

He became Sea Wolf's temporary porter and began to help Sea Wolf load and unload cargo.

After clearing the ships on the water in this area, several large sand ships used as transport ships sailed to Treasure Island, docked at the pier, and unloaded a large amount of food and other supplies.

Then a large number of Sea Wolf warships began to sail to Treasure Island in twos and threes, and docked in three bays on Treasure Island that provided shelter from the wind.

After all, Treasure Island is a small island with a total area of ​​only one or two square kilometers, and the bay of the island is not large. In the past, when Yu Xiaotian was weak, three or two boats could park at the pier and bay here, which was more than enough.

But now the bay where the pier is located has to cram so many ships into it at once that it can't accommodate them at all, so they can only dock in three separate bays for shelter.

These sea wolf warships gathered here. There were two layers of blockade on the outside. There were some fishing boats on the outer layer, pretending to be fishing. Once they found a ship approaching, they immediately notified the sentry ship to come and intercept them. For those who accidentally intruded

The sea wolves directly captured all the ships in this area and temporarily detained them on Treasure Island. Therefore, the waters in this area completely turned into a vacuum state, and no one could find them on this small Treasure Island.

, unexpectedly so many people and boats gathered.

Now, because Yu Xiaotian is away, these ships and manpower are temporarily handed over to Commander Wang Hong, and Ma Xiao acts as his deputy. The two of them work together to control the gang under them, and continue to carry out operations on the sea near Treasure Island every day.

Follow intensive training.

Sea Wolf's war fleet has been undergoing training for two months after the new year. To put it bluntly, the men on board are basically veterans, even if they are just a bunch of novices, after these two months of training

After coming down, you should be quite familiar with maritime battles.

Therefore, the members of the Sea Wolf tribe, who were already quite orderly, have become much sharper after these two months of training. Everyone knows their own battle positions well, and can almost know all the regulations by heart.

The most important thing is that after these two months of training, they have solved many problems that existed before.

When conducting large-scale maritime operations on the ancient seas, the biggest problem faced by the fleet was the problem of command and coordination. In this regard, Yu Xiaotian said that he was just a layman at first, although he also realized that he would encounter such problems in the future.

A set of simple semaphores was designed in advance, but this did not completely solve the command problem during maritime operations.

In small-scale formations, semaphores can be more effective in commanding fleets, but in large-scale maritime formations, a fleet will be spread over a very large area, and sometimes ships may block each other, causing some ships to

Unable to see the semaphore displayed on the handsome ship.

Therefore, complex semaphore cannot effectively solve the command problem at this time. On the contrary, it may affect the actual effect and create greater confusion because the amount of information transmitted is too large.

Later, Sea Wolf found a person who had worked in the navy of the navy, and learned from him some of the official navy's methods of commanding operations during sea battles. In this era of large-scale battles at sea, the most important command method is nothing more than

They are flags, drums and cannons, sometimes assisted by trumpets or rockets.

So Yu Xiaotian and his leaders used these known things to make continuous preparations during this period, using different colors of command flags to represent different meanings, or hanging red lanterns, with different numbers of lanterns representing different meanings.

meaning, supplemented by trumpets and semaphores, a new way of delivering orders was devised.

In this way, the problem of the handsome ship effectively commanding other ships in the convoy during large-scale maritime operations was roughly solved. After determining the new command method, Sea Wolf's convoy popularized it to ensure that every

The captain, first mate, Shangdou and others on the ship can all effectively understand the meaning of these signals.

During this period of time, when Sea Wolf went to sea for training, it mainly conducted drills on command and cooperation, constantly changing the formation of the fleet at sea to solve the problem of mutual cooperation.

Moreover, the Sea Wolf is still based on three sub-fleets. When fighting as a whole, the command ship is the main force. At the same time, each sub-fleet also has a backup command ship. Once there is a problem with the command ship, the other two backup ships can be used.

At any time, according to the situation or the command of the commander, he can take over the command, raise the commander's flag and continue to command the fleet to conduct operations.

When the fleet is separated, the spare commander ship becomes the commander ship of the sub-fleet. It can raise the commander flag of the sub-fleet and conduct command operations of the ships under its command. In this way, the command and control of the Sea Wolf Fleet are

The coordination problem has basically been solved, and there will no longer be the situation of command failure and chaotic coordination that occurred when the training just started.

This is particularly important for the Sea Wolf Group, allowing it to command more flexibly than its opponents at sea and exert greater combat effectiveness.

In addition, the focus of Sea Wolf's fleet is to practice their unique linear formation. In addition, Yu Xiaotian also created a herringbone array formation some time ago, because this formation is more convenient than the long column formation.

First, it can deliver more firepower to both wings in a short period of time, giving full play to the fleet's assault capability. Second, it can be more flexible than the column formation.

It is easy to tear apart the opponent's ship formation, making it more flexible to command, which is more suitable for large-scale fleet battles. Third, the fleet can concentrate its strength or dedicate part of its strength in a shorter time after tearing apart the opponent's ship formation.

The enemy is surrounded by divided fleets, which can better eliminate the enemy and form a local advantage in the number of ships and firepower.

After several recent drills, Wang Hong and others responded well to the effect of this herringbone, or inverted V-shaped formation. They believed that this formation has quite good practical performance, and initially decided to cooperate with Chu Cai.

Old fleets used this formation when there was a battle.

In addition, during the past two months, Yu Xiaotian also prepared a large gift for Mr. Chu Cai for the upcoming battle, just waiting for Mr. Chu Cai to attack in a big way.