Daming pirates

This is probably the best news that Yu Xiaotian has heard since he came to Jilongzhai. Ever since he led his people to seize Jilong Bay, he has discovered a big problem of his own, that is, whether his crew members are

Or soldiers, most of whom were transformed from fishermen along the coast.

Although these people are all good at boating and fishing, when they enter the mountains and forests, most of them are soft-footed shrimps. They are not familiar with the jungle at all, let alone fighting with people in the jungle.

The last time he led people to suppress the group of native tribes that attacked and killed the Sea Wolf tribe, if he hadn't coerced and lured several other native tribes to help, he had lured the group of natives out of the forest and defeated them with volleys of guns.

If so, it would be difficult for him to deal with these natives roaring back and forth in the mountains and forests with his own strength alone.

Although when he recruited combat soldiers last year, he began to pay attention to recruiting some hunters from the mainland of Fujian and added them to the combat barracks in an attempt to improve the combat capabilities of Sea Wolf's warriors on land, especially in the mountains and forests, but this

At present, the method does not have immediate results.

After realizing this, Yu Xiaotian decided to take advantage of Jilongzhai's unique natural conditions and the trust relationship it had established with the natives to let the soldiers here enter the mountains and forests to learn how to fight in the mountains and forests.

survival and combat skills.

When he came to Jilongzhai this time, he undoubtedly wanted to see how Heitou and the others were doing in this regard over the past year. Now after listening to Sun Baoqiang's words, Yu Xiaotian can feel relieved. At least he can be sure that he

This arrangement has had a certain effect, giving the Sea Wolf tribe stationed here a certain ability to survive and fight in the mountains and forests.

The next step is to implement this method to Tamsui Village, so that the garrison in Tamsui Village can also gain experience in this area, so that they can gain the ability to fight in the mountains and forests.

He is not just doing this to deal with the aboriginal people living on Taiwan Island. Since he has determined that Sea Wolf will establish a foothold and develop on Taiwan Island in the future, in addition to dealing with the harsh environment here, he also has to deal with possible dangers.

Enemies, including Western armies who have adopted firearms.

Therefore, it is very necessary for his soldiers to have strong mountain and jungle combat capabilities. This will also be his capital to firmly control the island of Taiwan in the future.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately smiled and nodded: "Well done! This is what I want! It's a pity that the weather is too bad now, otherwise I must check and accept your results immediately and see with my own eyes the soldiers here.

The level of hunting in the mountains and forests!”

The black head said proudly: "Please rest assured, boss, we are now equipped with more and more flintlock guns. Some time ago, we also sent forty short muskets, and they are all distributed. Our people

After entering the mountains, I am no longer as scared and timid as before!

Right now, Brother Sun and I go into the mountains for hunting with a different group of people every ten days, and we can basically kill them all, and we can also bring out a lot of prey!

In addition, in the past year, we have captured more than 200 native slaves here. These people are all monkey spirits in the mountains. After we dealt with them hard, one or two of them are now obedient to us.

They are very obedient, especially those who were injured and rescued by us, are even more obedient.

So Brother Sun and I incorporated dozens of them who were young, strong, and obedient into the fighting troops to serve as auxiliary troops for our people, and followed our brothers into the mountains.

With the help of these guys, it is much easier for our people to work in the forest. These guys are very smart and can run around in the forest like flying. Some of them even dare to hunt with bare hands, even more so by setting hunting snares and digging traps.

No problem!

And they are also good at using bows and arrows. We equipped them with some strong bows and arrows that we don’t use, and replaced the bamboo bows and arrows that they used to make good use of. These guys have become much more powerful. After having them, now

It’s not difficult to get into the mountains at all!”

After Yu Xiaotian heard this, he was quite surprised. He did not expect to use these captured natives to fight for them, but he did not expect that Heitou and the others came up with this method.

The natives have been living in the mountains and forests since they were young. Their familiarity with the mountains and forests cannot be achieved by outsiders in a short time. There are special skills in moving and surviving in the mountains and forests. If outsiders want to learn, it is really not very easy.

It's easy to learn everything.

It would be great if the natives could be transformed into their soldiers. The combat effectiveness of these native soldiers in the mountains and forests would definitely far exceed that of Sea Wolf's own soldiers.

This method was quite good, so Yu Xiaotian nodded again to express his satisfaction with this method, and wanted to see the capabilities of these native auxiliary soldiers later.

In the next two or three days, Jilong Bay was affected by the typhoon and it rained heavily all the time. The construction had to be stopped and ships could not go out to sea, so Yu Xiaotian could only stay here honestly.

I took the opportunity to take a good rest.

Since the stalemate with Mr. Chu Cai years ago, Yu Xiaotian has been busy preparing for the war. After finally winning the battle of Nanyue Island, various aftermath matters after the war came one after another, making Yu Xiaotian very busy.

I was on all fours, with no chance to breathe for a while. I finally managed to arrange things after the war in Nanyue Island, and then came the relocation of various workshops.

So he set off to inspect Tamsui Village and Jilong Village. This time, he happened to encounter a typhoon in Jilong Village, which forced Yu Xiaotian to take a rest.

Sometimes Yu Xiaotian wonders to himself, why is he so busy and tired? He seems to be in a state of tension all the time when he comes to this world. He has almost no chance to enjoy life, and he just devotes all his energy to protecting himself.

He took care of his plate and raised his plate with one hand, but he didn't have any time to rest for himself.

Sometimes even he himself couldn't figure out whether it was worth doing so. He just continued to be busy until he accidentally remembered the matter, struggled for a while, and then immediately forgot about it.

Calculating on his fingers, it is now five years since the Apocalypse. In the past few months, he has been busy dealing with Mr. Chu Cai, and has not paid attention to the current situation in the Ming Dynasty. A few days ago, he was leaving Nanyue.

Before arriving on the island, I heard news from the north that the slave-building army had captured Lushunkou at the beginning of the year. Generals Zhang Pan and Zhu Guochang were killed in the battle, and the city was destroyed. This was also a major defeat for Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army in recent years.

Speaking of Mao Wenlong, Yu Xiaotian admired him very much. Needless to say anything about Mao Wenlong, everyone knew that Mao Wenlong was a brave general of the Ming Dynasty. He single-handedly led a few soldiers to create a powerful Dongjiang Army in Liaodong.

When everyone almost gave up, he single-handedly established a base to contain the slave establishment in Liaodong. This made the slave chief Nurhaci never dare to invade the south on a large scale while Mao Wenlong was still alive. He was always worried about the intervention of Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army.

The sharp knife on their back will take the opportunity to kill their slaves.

It is a pity that Mao Wenlong never got what he wanted. Day after day, year after year, the imperial court invested countless military resources in Liaodong, but Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army never received enough food and salary support.

It was the limited military resources and salaries allocated by the imperial court. After layers of exploitation by officials from Shandong and other places, most of them were lost after they got into their hands. As a result, the Dongjiang Army has always been worried about food problems since its establishment, which also led to Mao Wenlong and

Relations with the civil service deteriorated.

Mao Wenlong was undoubtedly a very capable person and a general who was extremely loyal to the Ming Dynasty. However, he was unable to completely return the Liaodong Peninsula to the Ming Dynasty simply because he could not obtain enough resources.

The most annoying thing is that Yu Xiaotian has never figured out why this bastard Yuan Chonghuan did nothing after taking office, but went to kill Mao Wenlong first. Historically, Yuan Chonghuan has been described as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it makes no sense that he killed Mao Wenlong and claimed that the Ming Dynasty had an arm that could restrain Jiannu.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian has always had an unexplainable feeling about Yuan Chonghuan, because later generations' evaluation of Yuan Chonghuan is very controversial. Some people say that Yuan Chonghuan is a standard loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, while others say that Yuan Chonghuan is a complete bastard.

Even if this guy is not a traitor to the Ming Dynasty, he is still a guy who loves to talk big words in order to gain fame.

At least Yu Xiaotian felt that Yuan Chonghuan's murder of Mao Wenlong was truly unforgivable.

Last year, the people he sent to transport ice to the north came into contact with Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army in Shandong. The Dongjiang Army was indeed doing business at sea, selling some Liaodong specialties and some North Korean specialties, especially Goryeo.

Ginseng, Liaodong ginseng, deer antlers, skins, horns, etc.

This was also an important piece of evidence that later led to Yuan Chonghuan and other civil servants criticizing Mao Wenlong, saying that Mao Wenlong and Jiannu were doing private business, thus substantiating Mao Wenlong's crime of collaborating with the enemy.

But Yu Xiaotian scoffed at this statement. Whoever was in charge of Liaodong would have to find a way to feed so many Dongjiang Army soldiers and hundreds of thousands of refugees in Liaodong without receiving sufficient financial and food support from their own country.

The court could turn a blind eye to these matters, but as the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, Mao Wenlong had to find a way to feed these people if he wanted to take root in Liaodong and rely on these refugees to survive.

Now is the Little Ice Age, and even the winters along the coast of Fujian are extremely cold, not to mention the Liaodong area in the far north. There are only a few months without snow all year round, and it can get snowy from time to time.

Due to the drought, the food seeds planted in the spring did not even have time to mature before it started to snow again, and there was often no harvest all year round. Before he came to this era, he was not very clear about the impact of the Little Ice Age on this era.

But when he came to this era, he now experienced the power of the Little Ice Age.

So to a certain extent, the Little Ice Age was also an important reason for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty. Severe drought and severe cold occurred in the north, which caused severe famine in the north during this era, leading to the destruction of the Ming Mountains, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and Beizhili.

Large-scale peasant uprisings occurred in many places. At the same time, the slave-building Tatars living outside the customs also began to invade the south on a large scale in order to live a better life. In addition, the evil policies of the Ming Dynasty were so persistent that it was difficult to return, and eventually the edifice of the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed.