Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian looked at the performance of these passionate prisoners of war with satisfaction. Everything was as he expected, because according to his understanding of human nature, when a person loses everything, including the most basic dignity,

, that kind of despair will drive him crazy.

And he first made these Spanish prisoners suffer a lot in the quarry, and lived without dignity. (This group of people had hardly worn clothes since they were captured!) He could imagine these.

The anguish in people's hearts.

Now let alone the fact that he offered such good conditions to these people, even if he only promised to give them clothes and food to eat, he believed that these prisoners would immediately be like flies seeing blood, Baba's begging

To serve him.

However, he still provided more favorable conditions for these people, and only required them to serve him for five years. This gave these people hope that during these five years, they would not suffer because they could not see the future.

In order to make them work harder for him, he did not hesitate to pay these prisoners a salary, and it was not too low, so that he could motivate these prisoners to serve him seriously.

The reason why he took a fancy to these captives was because they were still very useful to him. Among these captives, especially the sailors, they were good at operating Western-style sailing ships, although it was impossible for him to use these two ships again.

The Western-style galleon was returned to these guys to operate.

But he can make use of these sailors, especially some of them experienced old sailors, who have very high navigation skills, especially ocean navigation skills, which the Chinese currently do not possess.

Even he, a person who returned to this era from the future, does not have the skills that these Spanish sailors have.

At present, Chinese people are basically used to sailing along the coastline, staying within visual distance of the coastline, relying on landmarks along the coast to indicate the course, and at least there must be some islands along the way to provide them with guidance. Although the Chinese

They have also been using a compass to indicate the direction, and they also use star-finding techniques at night to help them find the direction and determine their location.

However, the Chinese have never created the concept of longitude and latitude. However, Western navigators have now created more complete navigation technology, and also invented the telescope, the right angle meter and the quadrant meter. The most important thing is the quadrant meter, which is the four-dimensional meter.

Quadrants allow them to determine their position in the sea through quadrants.

So far, few Chinese people understand this. Yu Xiaotian discovered a quadrant on the two Spanish ships captured this time.

And he doesn't know how to use this kind of quadrant at the moment. He just knows some principles. As for the sextant, he knows what it is, but he doesn't need to "invent" this kind of sextant yet, because he doesn't need to let his subordinates do it for the time being.

On a long voyage, when one day he wants his men to sail around the world, he will naturally get this kind of navigation artifact.

For the time being, he needed these experienced Spanish sailors to train him as sailors who were good at sailing and prepare for the future, so these people had the value of being utilized.

And to temporarily operate these two large plywood boats, he also needs these Spanish sailors to teach his men how to operate these two boats, or maybe three, because the other one was sunk in the Jilong Bay area, the Spanish sunken ship, this

At that time, Yu Xiaotian had already arranged for people to go there, mobilized several large sand boats, and started salvage operations on the boat.

If everything goes well, the ship should be salvaged out of the water within ten days, and it will be temporarily inspected at Keelung Fort to see if it has any repair value. If so, this ship

The boat will be towed to Nanri Island or Tamsui Boathouse for further repair work.

And among these prisoners, there are several doctors who know some Western medicine. Although Western medicine is not developed in this era and there are still many fallacies, they can be used to some extent, together with the medical officers of Sea Wolf.

Conduct some academic exchanges to allow Sea Wolf's medical officers to absorb some Western medical technologies.

Even the Spanish infantry cannot be said to be useless. Most of these people are mercenaries, and each of them can skillfully operate a matchlock. Moreover, they are familiar with the formation of the Spanish phalanx, which allows him to absorb as much as possible.

The current infantry combat methods in Western countries.

Before the invention of the breech-loading rifle, the combat method of platoon shooting would continue for a very long time. These Spanish infantry still had a certain role. After all, he created the combat square formation in the military camp through hearsay from later generations.

, it is still a bit nondescript in some places. With these Spanish infantry, he can improve the infantry square formation of his battle camp, and with the more infantry tactics he knows, his infantry combat effectiveness can exceed

The combat effectiveness of the infantry phalanxes of other countries during this era.

Of course, even without the addition of these Spanish infantry, after he began to equip his men with Wolf fang rifles in large numbers, Seawolf's combat barracks would quickly become the strongest infantry in the world. Because of the advantage in range, they could attack three

A hundred steps away, a fatal blow will be given to the enemy. Even if the enemy has the best matchlock gun at present, it only has an effective range of about seventy meters, and in most cases, the enemy can only have fifty meters at most.

With an effective shooting range of about 1 meter, his soldiers can use the Wolf Fang Rifle to easily defeat the opponent from a long distance without waiting for them to line up.

Even if they encounter the enemy's cavalry, his infantry will not suffer, because even the most powerful Tatar cavalry must be 200 steps away before they can activate their horses when launching a charge.

After taking a step, the war horse will not be able to accelerate to the fastest speed and maintain sufficient physical strength. If you start too early, the war horse will often have lost its fastest speed and impact by the time it rushes in front of the enemy's formation.

Two hundred steps is also the most effective shooting range of the Wolf Fang rifle. Before the opponent's cavalry starts to charge, his musketeers will have enough time to use concentrated fire before the enemy team launches a charge.

The method is to hit the opponent hard first.

But he still doesn't mind absorbing some Spanish infantry to help him improve his current infantry tactics. This will be very helpful in continuing to improve his infantry combat effectiveness.

So these prisoners, without exception, finally chose to sign a contract and serve him for five years. After signing the agreement, these prisoners began to be re-screened. In fact, before this, these prisoners were in Keelung Fort.

Their strengths have already been registered, and this time of re-screening is just to ask them to add to their strengths, so that they can make the most of their talents in the future.

The total number of prisoners, including those who surrendered in the first batch, totaled 876, of which the infantry accounted for more than half, nearly 500, and the sailors accounted for more than 300 and less than 400.

, this is because during the battle of Jilongwan, except for the first batch of infantry sent to attack the fort, which suffered heavy losses, the rest of the infantry were basically peacefully disarmed, so the losses were not significant.

The sailors suffered relatively heavy losses. Many were killed and injured in the fierce battle. Some of them drowned alive as the ship sank into the sea. In the end, less than 400 people were captured.

So these people were redistributed according to their strengths. The infantrymen really had no strengths and were assigned to the garrisons of Keelung Fort and Tamsui City. They served as ordinary soldiers and were incorporated into the order of soldiers.

Some members who are proficient in infantry tactics are assigned to various combat units and serve as tactical instructors. Another group of people are assigned to the new military camps to serve as tactical instructors or artillery instructors.

However, prisoners who become instructors can receive higher salaries, while prisoners who serve as ordinary soldiers can only receive the most basic salary. Of course, if they perform meritorious service in battle, there will still be additional rewards.

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As for the sailors, two of the captains, as well as several technical staff such as boatswain and navigator, were assigned to serve as instructors in the navy recruit camp, where they could get the highest salary. Ordinary sailors were assigned to the navy.

Among them, he served as a gunnery instructor in the camp or an ordinary sailor.

As a result, Sea Wolf suddenly gained a lot of additional manpower, and these people are all professionals, which can play a good role in promoting the quality of Sea Wolf's navy and land forces in the future.

Although the sea wolf's gunnery skills are considered the best among its peers, there is still a lack of systematic education in gunnery, especially in long-distance bombardment calculations. They just rely on their own exploration, and these Spanish sailors and

Among the infantry, many have received professional gunnery training, and their overall quality is much higher than that of Sea Wolf's gunners. The reason why they are used is to allow Sea Wolf to learn more practical experience and skills from them.

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However, when it comes to using these people, Seawolf adopts a surveillance approach, especially for those who were former military officers, and strengthened surveillance.

Yu Xiaotian also gave these former Spanish officers a task, which is to ask them to submit in writing some military regulations and training methods they know within two months. If they are well written,

You can give them extra high remuneration, but if they are perfunctory and unwilling to write carefully, their salary will be deducted, and they will be demoted or even sent to the quarry to continue to work hard.

Yu Xiaotian has always had a headache in compiling various regulations, because he himself is not a soldier and has limited knowledge of the regulations formulated by the army. He can only fumble to formulate some regulations and standards, but they are never systematic enough, and there are

There are a lot of shortcomings. Nowadays, there are so many Spanish officers captured. They have all served in the standard Western-style army and have learned a lot.

These things are exactly what Yu Xiaotian and Hailang need. Yu Xiaotian plans to squeeze out as much as possible what they have learned during the period when he can use these people, and then revise them for his own use.