Daming pirates

The interpreter quickly translated the words of the black head hysterically to these Spanish soldiers. Looking at the cold Sea Wolf soldiers pointing at their black holes, these Spanish prisoners were immediately discouraged. Since they were already prisoners, then they

I can only succumb to other people's power.

So the next cleaning process became much simpler. Under the supervision of the Sea Wolf soldiers, these Spanish soldiers were skinned into naked pigs, and everything was confiscated, including their military uniforms, all of which were classified.

They were packed together and put into big baskets.

This is actually the quarantine procedure of the Sea Wolf. These Spaniards are actually not much cleaner than the people of the Ming Dynasty. They still have fleas on their bodies and won't take a bath for many days. What's more, they are trapped here now.

The weather is already very hot now, everyone stinks, and many people still have diarrhea, so necessary quarantine is required.

As for the remaining two hundred craftsmen and the black-skinned monkey slaves from Luzon, it's even simpler. They don't have any decent clothes to begin with, and many of them are almost naked. After learning from the past, this gang

The guys who were half-starved to death were soon stripped into naked monkeys, and their naked buttocks were beaten by the Sea Wolf tribe. A group of ten people all tied up their right hands and began to lead them towards Keelung Fort.

go.

The entire war in Keelung Fort was finally over. For the next half month, the entire Jilong Bay was in a busy state.

A large number of damaged ships need to undergo preliminary repairs in Jilong Bay. Keelung Fort is not suitable for building boathouses because of too much rain here. It is also difficult for wood to dry naturally in the shade, so there are only

A small number of craftsmen can only perform simple repair work.

But fortunately, Sea Wolf will now be equipped with one or two rough carpenters on each ship. These rough carpenters are not good at building ships, but they are still capable of making some rough repairs. These people gathered together at Keelung Fort to repair the damaged ships.

After some simple repairs were carried out to restore its sailing capabilities, it was later carried out at Tamsui and Nanri Island boathouses for a thorough overhaul.

The two captured Spanish warships became Yu Xiaotian's treasures. After resting for a day, Yu Xiaotian immediately arrived at the dock, got into the two Spanish ships, and began to inspect them from the inside out.

Observed carefully.

In fact, the construction technology of Western-style sailboats is not much higher than the technology used by Chinese craftsmen. In many details, such as the mortise and tenon structure, they are not as good as Chinese craftsmen. However, after careful observation, Yu Xiaotian

I feel that Western shipbuilding craftsmen pay more attention to tolerance issues. The parts they produce have obviously smaller tolerances, and they are good at summing up experience. Among the shipbuilding techniques, there are also some techniques used by Chinese craftsmen.

In addition, the materials used in these large plywood ships were not all made of fine hardwood as he thought. Although European wood resources have not been exhausted, hardwood resources are not sufficient, and the Spanish have

With unique advantages, they are the first empire in the world on which the sun never sets.

As the pioneers of colonialism, the Spaniards were the first to enter the Age of Discovery, encircling lands all over the world, occupying a large number of colonies, and possessing great resource advantages. Therefore, it was much more convenient for them to use materials in shipbuilding.

There are a large number of oak forests in the Americas, which can be harvested for shipbuilding. Oak itself is the best material for shipbuilding. It is not because oak is much harder than other woods. The key is that oak is not only strong, but when shot,

The fragments produced are much less than those of other woods, which can effectively reduce the damage caused by fragments to people.

Some wood looks very hard, but once it is shot, it will produce a large number of fragments. These fragments fly around in the small cabin, almost like shotguns, so the harder the wood used in shipbuilding is not necessarily the better.

, and the characteristics of oak itself make it the best shipbuilding wood. It is tough and hard, and it is not easy to crack or deform after being soaked in water. It eventually became the most important wood for Western shipbuilding.

These two Spanish ships used a lot of oak, but in some non-critical parts, they still used a lot of fir and pine to replace oak to reduce costs.

The most important thing is that the internal ribs of these Spanish ships are very dense, which is much stronger than the rib structure used in Chinese ships. The keels are also made of whole wood, and the materials used are abundant, making their ship structures

It is very strong and has strong impact resistance.

Both ships took a lot of shells from Sea Wolf, but after being hit with so many shells, their internal load-bearing structures were basically undamaged. The main damage was to the side plates, masts and

Sail rope.

Therefore, as long as these two ships are carefully repaired, these two ships can still be used without any problems. Moreover, because these two ships adopt a through-cabin structure internally, it is more convenient to arrange artillery in the gun bay, and more artillery can be loaded.

Among them, the merchant ship did not have artillery because the cabin was used for loading cargo. Therefore, if it was converted into a gun ship, it would only need a small modification to install more artillery, greatly increasing its firepower.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian carefully observed the cannons loaded on their ships. The cannons cast by the Spaniards were well made. It was obvious that their casting technology was quite good, although the technology used was not necessarily much better than that of Ming craftsmen.

However, they pay more attention to tolerance control and produce artillery with very few air holes, which is inseparable from their rigorous style.

In addition, Spanish artillery does not adopt the British system, and the artillery certainly cannot be called the British system such as thirty-six pounds or twenty-four pounds.

These cannons are often cast with some patterns on the outside, which look very beautiful. They are also polished carefully and the craftsmanship is quite exquisite. This has a lot to do with the development of their European iron-making technology.

However, if you look closely, you can find that although the tolerance control of these cannons is much better than that of the Ming Dynasty's cannon makers, there is still a big gap between the cannons made by Sea Wolf.

This is all thanks to the iron mold casting method "invented" by Xiaotian. The advantage of iron mold casting is that the iron mold can be used repeatedly. Every cannon that is cast is made from the same mold, so the tolerances

Naturally, it is much smaller.

These Spanish gunsmiths have not yet mastered this technology. Of course, the tolerances of the cannons produced cannot be better than those of Sea Wolf's own cannons, and the gap is still quite large.

Another problem is that the weight of the Spanish cannon is much greater than the weight of the same type of artillery made by Sea Wolf, at least one third more than the weight of similar cannons of Sea Wolf.

The main reason for this situation is that Western gunsmiths also cannot guarantee that their molds are completely dry when casting cannons. There may also be some flaws inside the cannon walls when casting cannons. In order to ensure that the cannons

For safety, the cannon wall should be thicker when casting.

The Seawolf itself uses the iron mould-casting method, which has solved the problem of moisture in the gun mould. In addition, it now uses internal mold water-cooling technology. The quality of the cast cannons is quite good, and the scrap rate is also very low.

In addition, because the inside solidifies earliest and is the hardest, the barrel wall of the artillery can be cast thinner, and the weight of the artillery will naturally be greatly reduced. And from the current point of view, the dead weight of these artillery can continue to be reduced, at least it can be reduced further.

About one-third, making the artillery lighter.

The application of these technologies also provides the possibility for Seawolves to cast heavy artillery in the future. As long as they need it, they can open the mold at any time and cast heavy cannons or snake cannons of more than 36 pounds.

It's just that due to their current ship restrictions, they don't need such large artillery for the time being, so heavy artillery is temporarily unavailable. But as long as one day his big ship can be built, he will start casting heavy artillery, and then let these maritime powers

, and also experience the power of the Chinese maritime iron fist.

What's more, he knows more than these. One day, his ultimate goal is to use steam engines to replace sails and advance the era to the steam power era. By then, I'm afraid no country in the world can compete with him.

However, making a steam engine probably still requires a long time of technical accumulation. In addition, he has never been exposed to a real steam engine. He only understands the basic principles of steam engines from some materials. If he wants to build a steam engine, he does not have ten or twenty years of technical accumulation.

I guess it will be difficult.

As for the captured matchlocks, he just took a brief look at them, mainly focusing on the manufacturing of their barrels. The Spanish matchlocks should be heavy-duty matchlocks with a larger caliber than the muskets used by Sea Wolf.

It is larger, about 18 millimeters, or even 20 millimeters. This thing is so powerful that ordinary armor cannot stop it, and it can even kill a large wild boar at close range.

The barrel of the gun is also made of two layers of wrought iron. The manufacturing method is basically the same as that used by Ming Dynasty including his gunsmiths. However, in terms of craftsmanship, it is not much better than his gunsmiths. Now his guns

Production is no longer a small workshop-style production.

Sea Wolf's guns are completely made using a standardized production model. Each craftsman is only responsible for making one part, and has a special mold for testing. The quality of the guns produced is definitely not worse than the matchlock guns made by the Spaniards, not to mention now.

He has already trial-produced rifled guns and used Minie bullets. As long as they are put into production and modified in large quantities, his infantry will become the most powerful infantry in the world. If any country's infantry encounters them, they will be blasted from a distance.

scum.

All these things that are extremely awesome in the eyes of others are nothing at all in Xiaotian's eyes. It's just that these two boats are still very attractive to him. So far, he has not been able to build them yet.

This kind of Galen ship can definitely be called the overlord on the seas of East Asia for the time being. As long as he repairs it, he will probably not be able to find many rivals among his peers for a long time to come.

So he ordered that the two ships be temporarily repaired to restore a certain degree of navigation ability. After a certain degree of navigation ability was restored, the two ships were sent to Tamsui and Nanri Island Boathouses for thorough repairs.

Renovation and reinforcement of the bottom and a certain degree of modification.

In addition, he did not forget the ship that sank in the shallow waters of the sea. He didn't know how badly damaged the ship was and whether it was worth repairing, but at least there were a lot of artillery and various supplies on the ship, which was quite valuable.

valuable.

So after taking care of the hundreds of Spanish infantrymen on the shore, he immediately arranged for people to go to the place where the sunken ship was, and sent water ghosts into the water to explore the ship and check the damage to the ship.

But while doing these things, Yu Xiaotian felt very uncomfortable, because the wound on his leg actually started to become inflamed, and it started to cause him to have a fever.

(Special thanks to Hu Luhulu, Silent Passer-by, and the three brothers wandering in the south of the Yangtze River for their rewards! My wife and her father-in-law quarreled, and he ran away. Now it’s better, I became a full-time nanny! I’m so dizzy, I have no time to write!)