Daming pirates

They have all experienced the power of the Wolf Fang Rifle. This new gun is almost the same as the South Japanese-style rifle in appearance. It just has a few more riflings. Now the rear sight of the gun has been improved and adjusted.

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But the range of this new gun is really appalling. After many tests, they found that even if the gun is four hundred steps away, the projectiles are still quite lethal and can easily penetrate leather armor and kill people.

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The accuracy within two hundred steps even exceeds the shooting accuracy of the South Japanese musket at forty steps. When firing concentrated fire, it can easily cause heavy damage to the enemy at a distance of three hundred meters. With this thing

After that, the combat effectiveness of their army no longer doubled. Their fire projection range and fire control area on the battlefield expanded many times.

The light infantry company that Yu Xiaotian ordered to form, all equipped with Wolf fang rifles, showed a huge combat advantage in the first exercise. After the deduction, they found that a light infantry company equipped with all Wolf fang rifles, a

The company could easily withstand the attacks of the other five companies, and also caused serious damage to these five companies.

As a result, all the army officers and soldiers were overjoyed. Compared with those bulky cannons, with the current miserable animal power level of their army, even if their boss agreed to give them to them, they would not be able to do anything about it and could only use these cannons.

Set up in fixed artillery forts, it is impossible to drag them for mobile operations.

However, with the use of the lightweight Wolf Fang rifle, they finally obtained an effective weapon that can suppress all enemy firepower on land. Although the official army is currently equipped with some Hongyi cannons, these Hongyi cannons are absolutely

It has not reached the level of popularity.

Moreover, these Hongyi cannons are very bulky, several times heavier than Sea Wolf's cannons. A Hongyi cannon that looks to be similar to the caliber of their mountain howitzers weighs more than two thousand kilograms. Although it can hit far, it is

In mobile operations, it is completely useless, especially in encounters, where the officers and soldiers have no chance to deploy these cannons.

Therefore, compared to artillery, there is currently nothing that can meet their needs better than the Wolf Fang rifle. Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian ordered the production of Wolf Fang rifles at full speed and equipped them to the army, these army officers suddenly

He grinned happily and no longer complained in private that they didn't have enough cannons.

In addition to gunsmiths, gunsmiths, ammunition factories, and gunpowder mills operating at full capacity in the past few months, the other two shipyards have also been frantically engaged in shipbuilding work.

For the time being, Tamsui Village's main energy is still focused on building the Feizihao Clipper. Since Yu Xiaotian "guided" them to adopt standardized production, Tamsui Shipyard's shipbuilding speed has been greatly improved, and a large number of craftsmen are no longer waiting to join the ship.

The ship is working, but standardized parts are directly produced in various workshops in the shipyard, and are continuously used directly on the slipway.

Moreover, under Yu Xiaotian's "care", they have long been accustomed to strictly controlling the tolerances of parts. Although the craftsmen in this era have things in their minds about how to build ships, they seriously lack the concept of tolerances. At the beginning, they produced

The tolerances of the parts on the ship are quite large.

To carry out standardized production, it is necessary to unify the measuring tools. This has been done by Yu Xiaotian a long time ago. He also specially produced some universal standard rulers for each workshop to use the standard rulers as their production basis.

Made a simple micrometer.

However, the craftsmen in the boathouse seem not to be very good at manufacturing parts according to fixed sizes and shapes. Although they have these standardized measuring tools, the first batch of parts they produced still did not meet the requirements, and even the tolerances were not met.

It was so outrageous that Yu Xiaotian couldn't even ask for it again and again, and Yu Xiaotian was half-dead.

Later, Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to use the Tongzhi rule method to solve this problem.

The pass-and-stop gauge is actually a fixed, special mold for inspecting parts. This has long been popularized and used in gun manufacturing, artillery manufacturing, and ammunition factory production.

Especially in gunsmiths and ammunition factories, when they first started to divide their work, and each craftsman was only responsible for the production of one or two parts, the tolerance of the parts produced was too large. Yu Xiaotian repeatedly emphasized that this was not acceptable.

The parts were too large, resulting in the final gun being unable to be assembled and used at all, resulting in a lot of waste products.

So in desperation, Yu Xiaotian implemented the rules and regulations in those workshops, specifically according to the pattern of standard parts, and made a standard mold for each part. After the craftsman produced the parts, he only needed

Place the part in the mold. If it cannot be put in, it means the part is too big. If it can be put in easily, it means the part is small. It must fit tightly into the mold. Only such parts can be considered basically qualified.

After using this method, the problem of too large production tolerances for gun parts has been completely solved. The parts manufactured by the craftsmen must pass the inspection of pass and stop gauges before they can be delivered to the assembly process. In this way, all

The parts are all made from the same mold without any difference, and the tolerances are controlled within the minimum range. Only then can qualified guns be produced.

The same goes for ammunition. The initially cast cannonballs and projectiles also had the problem of too large tolerances. This problem was finally solved through the use of pass and stop gauges.

Now the boathouse can only use this method to solve the problem of too large tolerances for ship parts. First make a mold for each part. When the craftsmen produce the same parts later, the parts must be exactly the same.

Only when it fits perfectly in the mold can it be considered qualified.

In this way, the standardized production of the shipyard is officially on track. Once the craftsmen learn to use this method to control the tolerances of parts, the quality of the parts produced will be quite good.

Various standard parts are continuously manufactured from the work shed, and then continuously sent to the slipway for assembly on the ship. All the holes have been made in advance, and the mortise and tenon structure is exactly the same. During assembly, only

With a very small amount of correction, it can be installed in place.

This made the shipbuilding speed of the shipyard suddenly increase by leaps and bounds like a rocket. It turned out that when the workers of the shiphouse used the old method to build one piece at a time, even if they worked overtime and worked all night long, it would take at least three days to build a flying fast ship.

to four months, maybe even five or six months.

However, after the standardized production process was adopted in the sixth year of Tianqi, the shipyard adopted the method of loading two ships at the same time on one slipway to speed up the construction, which greatly improved the construction speed of the Feizi Hao Clipper. After entering June,

The first batch of standardized-produced flying-size express boats began to be launched. After that, Tamsui Boathouse launched two flying-size express boats every month. By the end of September, Tamsui Boathouse launched a total of nine flying-size express boats.

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This makes the number of Sea Wolf's Feihao clippers exceed twenty, reaching as many as twenty-three, forming a certain scale, allowing Sea Wolf to also obtain a relatively abundant and controllable offshore rapid combat force.

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According to the shipbuilding speed of Tamsui Shipyard, seven to nine Feihao clippers will be built before the end of the year, bringing the number of Seawolf's Feihao clippers to a higher level. Such a fleet of light, fast and considerable capabilities will

A fleet with strong firepower will be a nightmare for any enemy.

The news from the Spaniards that Yu Xiaotian had been waiting for for a long time finally came. At the end of September, the Spaniards sent a person from Manila, but they did not send a ship. Instead, they took a Chinese merchant ship to Manila for trading and came to the South.

Japan Island.

This Spaniard's name is Blanco, a Spanish businessman in Manila and a member of the Manila Assembly. This time, he was entrusted by the Spanish Governor of the Philippines, Serva, to act as a Spanish envoy and come to negotiate with Sea Wolf.

To resolve the conflict between the two parties in the Jilongwan area.

Blanco is about thirty years old, has a beautiful mustache, and is well-dressed. He is a very handsome Spanish man, quite a bit of a gentleman.

Yu Xiaotian met the Spanish envoy in his front study and asked people to take him into the front study.

"Dear Chief, my name is Blanco, and I am a member of the Kingdom of Spain in Manila. This time, on the order of our Governor, I have come to pay a visit to Your Excellency the Chief!" Blanco stood in front of Yu Xiaotian, pretending to be calm as much as possible.

He looked like this and said to Xiaotian.

On the way here, he felt a little uneasy because he didn't know what attitude the Chinese pirate leader he was about to meet would have towards him.

In his impression, these Chinese pirate leaders were dirty, rough, cunning and cruel. They liked killing very much and seemed to regard killing or torturing people as a kind of enjoyment. This time he was ordered to come to negotiate with Sea Wolf, but he didn't know

What fate awaits him.

But he had to come, because if he didn't come, he would have no place in Manila in the future. In addition, he also had business to do. If he didn't agree to Shi Erwa coming to contact and negotiate with Sea Wolf, then his

The business can no longer continue.

So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agreed, boarded a Chinese maritime cargo ship that they thought was relatively sturdy, and came to Nanri Island. The boat he took along the way took more than a full journey.

It took several months before he was sent to Nanri Island.

It turned out that he wanted Shi Erwa to send him a boat to take him over, but this request was flatly rejected by Shi Erwa, because Shi Erwa was worried that he would rashly send a boat to the south without knowing the attitude of Sea Wolf.

If it's a Japanese island, it's very likely that this boat won't be able to return.

Therefore, only one Chinese merchant ship was entrusted to deliver Blanco to Nanri Island to avoid causing greater losses.

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