Daming pirates

It's just that one of the two large plywood boats had a broken mast at that time, and there was no ready-made mast material on Nanri Island. Therefore, after the repair was completed, it had to be sent to the Tamsui City boathouse to choose a boat.

An aniseed was made into a mast and installed on the ship to completely restore it.

After the repair work here was completed and the boat was undocking and launched into the water, the boat was immediately sent to the Tamsui City Boathouse. The Tamsui Boathouse had already selected the wood for the boat and made the mast in advance.

When we arrived, we began to install the mast on the ship.

Through this large-scale renovation of the two ships, the boathouse also obtained first-hand construction information of the Galen ship, conducted a thorough measurement of the two ships, and asked a Spanish sailor who knew how to draw to help the ship.

Liao drew detailed structural diagrams and line diagrams for both ships, and calibrated the data.

In this way, Sea Wolf's boathouse has acquired a certain ability to imitate this kind of Galen ship. Next, Yu Xiaotian plans to build a replica Galen boat at Tamsui Boathouse to train him.

The ability of his shipwrights to build this kind of Western-style sailing ship.

As for the sailors operating the two ships, the work had already begun before the two ships were repaired.

Now they have a sufficient number of Spanish sailors, which can fully meet his needs of operating two large sailing ships, but how can Yu Xiaotian safely hand over these two ships to these Spaniards to operate, so their work

It is just a matter of passing on the skills of operating these two ships to the Navy sailors of Sea Wolf.

The biggest difficulty in operating this kind of Western-style sailing ship is not the steering problem. Now both ships have been transformed into steering wheel operating mechanisms, but the Spaniards no longer know how to do it. The main problem is how to operate the sails.

The rigging of a Western-style sailboat is very complex, and its operation is much more complicated than that of a Chinese hard sail. It also requires very high skills from the sailor. The sailor has to climb up to the mast and walk back and forth on the mast in the face of strong winds and waves or even strong winds and waves.

When operating the sail, if they accidentally fell off, they would be smashed into pieces. Even if they fell into the sea, there was no chance to rescue them under strong winds and waves, so they couldn't do such a thing without any courage.

Sea Wolf lacks experience in operating this kind of large sailing ship, let alone professional sailors in this field, so it must rely on these Spaniards to help them train crew sailors.

However, Sea Wolf's original training ship was unable to carry out such training, and both ships were being repaired in the dock and the masts were dismantled, so training was also unable to be carried out.

However, Yu Xiaotian also wants to put these two ships into use before the official army and the Dutch fleet attack Nanri Island in October. Time does not wait. He will wait for the two ships to be repaired and launched before training. Then

Even the cucumbers and vegetables are cold.

So Yu Xiaotian simply ordered a mock mast to be built based on the masts of the two ships at the Tamsui Naval Training Camp, and a full set of sail equipment was hung to train sailors there.

This can be regarded as solving the training problem of sailors. As for the source of sailors, sailors of each ship in the navy are asked to sign up on their own, and then a unified selection is carried out to select a group of sailors with good physical strength, courage, and strong balance ability, with a ratio of one to two.

The quantity is sent to the Tamsui Naval Training Camp for training, a batch is eliminated and a batch is reserved, which is just enough.

Another good news is that the Spanish galleon that sank in the shallow waters of Jilong Bay was finally successfully refloated after several failed attempts with Sea Wolf investing huge manpower and material resources.

It was towed to the shore and simple leak repairs started. It will then be temporarily moved to Jilong Bay for preliminary repairs, and will be sent to Nanri Island for overhaul before the end of the year.

After refloating, Navy personnel carefully inspected the ship. The main structure of the ship was not seriously damaged. The main reason was that it was unlucky. The waterline was continuously hit by several close-range missiles from Sea Wolf. Several close-range missiles hit the ship.

The missile first landed on the sea, bounced up and continued to fly forward, hitting the waterline of the ship exactly and punching several large holes in the waterline of the hull.

The ship was fleeing for its life and had no time to plug the leak. In order to break out of the encirclement, it made extensive maneuvers. As a result, a large amount of seawater poured into the hull through these holes. By the time they tried to repair it, it was already too late.

, I had no choice but to go to the beach and sit in the shallow water. As a result, the sea wolf got an advantage.

The preliminary inspection concluded that the ship is still worth repairing. According to the prisoners, the ship is only two years old. It can be said that it is in the youth of the ship. The corrosion in seawater is not serious. After all,

The time was relatively short and the water depth was not large, so it did not suffer more serious damage.

So if this ship is also repaired, Seawolf now has three large plywood ships, and it will be difficult not to dominate China's seas.

As for the artillery originally loaded on these ships, Yu Xiaotian had already seen it. He really didn't like the artillery cast by the Spaniards. Although they were well-cast, the tolerances were far worse than those of the artillery cast by Sea Wolf.

It is much larger and weighs more, making it look clumsy.

Although these artillery also used four-wheeled gun mounts (the Spaniards mostly used two-wheeled land-based gun mounts on their previous Armada ships, which was very troublesome to operate. It was originally intended to be used after attacking the British islands.

The cannons on the ship were unloaded to the shore for use by the offensive army. As a result, in the naval battle, the rate of fire and accuracy were both affected.

It had a great impact and was very inconvenient to operate. It occupied a large area of ​​​​the ship's deck. In addition, there were insufficient sailors on the ship to professionally operate the artillery, which was also the reason for the Spanish's final defeat.) However, these artillery still seemed too stupid. In this case

Not only was the number of artillery pieces equipped on the entire ship affected, it also affected the ship's center of gravity, making it a bit high.

So after Yu Xiaotian carefully inspected the Spanish naval guns, he finally decided to replace all the naval guns on the two ships with Seawolf's own naval guns. In this way, the weight of the naval guns would remain unchanged.

, the weight of projectiles per unit time of fire delivery will exceed that of Western-style warships of the same level. Even if the fire output capability is maintained unchanged, the weight will be greatly reduced.

The most critical thing is that the inner diameter tolerance of Seawolf's self-made artillery is small, and the tolerance of the projectiles that can be manufactured is also smaller. In this way, the accuracy of the artillery can be improved and the supply is easy. There is no need to cast shells specifically for these Spanish naval guns, which will put a lot of pressure on logistics.

Much lower.

As for these Spanish-origin naval guns, Yu Xiaotian is not willing to smash them and recycle them. In the future, he plans to sell these naval guns in batches. One gun can earn thousands of taels of silver. From these dozens of guns,

, coming down can buy him a large amount of silver, which can be used to buy fine iron, at least enough for him to cast hundreds of cannons.

So while the two ships were being repaired, Yu Xiaotian ordered the Keelung Fort artillery operation to go all out to cast twenty-four-pound guns for the two ships as the mainstay of firepower for the two ships. At the same time, in order to improve the two ships,

Due to the strong close-range firepower of the two ships, Tamsui City Artillery was ordered to cast thirty-two-pound carronade cannons, and at the same time, two forty-eight-pound carronade cannons were trial-produced and prepared for trial installation on the two Spanish galleons.

After the successful test, the thirty-two-pound carronade gun has begun to be produced in small batches and equipped on the Feizihao Clipper and the reinforced Fu ship. Some Guangzhou ships with strong hulls can also be equipped with two guns, but Yu Xiaotian especially felt that

Feeling inadequate, I felt that if I wanted to give the Sea Wolf an absolute firepower advantage at sea, it would be necessary to continue to develop larger-caliber cannons.

Immediately afterwards, a request was made to continue the trial production of forty-eight-pound carronade guns. This forty-eight-pound carronade can temporarily be used as a super-heavy naval gun and equipped on individual ships. Now these two Spanish galleons have become

The first batch of trial-fitted target ships.

The forty-eight-pound Caron gun can project a shell weighing more than forty kilograms each time. Even if it is smashed, it can destroy an enemy ship. What's more, this kind of gun can be equipped with explosive grenades, and a lot of hollow shells can be stuffed into it.

Gunpowder is much more powerful than the grenades used by twelve-pounders and twenty-four-pounders. When necessary, approaching the seaside and carrying out shore bombardment can easily smash the enemy troops on the beach into dregs.

To deal with the forts set up by the government troops on the shore, twenty-four-pounders were first used to suppress long-range firepower, and then forty-eight-pound carronades were used for close-range bombardment. The current government forts simply could not withstand such a bombardment.

Even the large Western plywood ships currently operating in Asia do not have heavy artillery of this caliber for the time being. As long as they are equipped with a small amount of equipment, the sea wolf will basically be able to run rampant along the coast of Asia for a long time in the future.

Under the supervision of Yu Xiaotian, production plans were formulated everywhere, and production was started with all efforts according to demand. The artillery industry continued to cast new cannons and equipped them to the navy and army. The gun industry also sent a batch of cannons to the navy and army.

New batches of new Wolf Fang rifles are continuously produced and equipped to the army. Unlike the Navy, which accounts for most of the artillery share, these new Wolf Fang rifles are basically equipped to the Army.

This made the army officers such as Li Dazui and Meng Fei finally have a much better psychological balance. They had always been envious of the cannons that were continuously produced by the artillery industry, and could only watch helplessly as they were constantly being equipped to the navy, while the army

But they can only play with the squatting tiger cannon and the small twelve-pound mountain howitzer. At best, they can control the shore artillery in some forts. But this time when the Sea Wolf made adjustments, the shore artillery was reclassified to the navy by Yu Xiaotian.

under jurisdiction.

The Army basically has no use for heavy artillery at all. Even some of the original soldiers of the Army were assigned to the Navy along with the shore artillery, which made the Army quite unhappy about this.

However, as compensation, Yu Xiaotian promised the Army that the Wolf Fang rifles produced by the gun manufacturer in the future would mainly be supplied to the Army first. This made the guys in the Army a little satisfied.

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