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The biggest problem at the moment is that he currently does not have enough production capacity to arm enough soldiers. Especially the scale of his gun production is limited by the number of craftsmen. When the output of gun production reaches a certain level, if he wants to increase it, he can

It's very difficult. After all, he doesn't have any modern machinery to replace labor at the moment. He can only rely on some simple and primitive machinery to improve production accuracy. The production of most parts still has to rely on pure manual labor. He wants to continue to increase output.

, is also an unlikely thing.

By October, although the gun factories in the two places were working overtime day and night to produce, they had only provided more than 200 new Wolf Fang rifles to the Sea Wolf Army, and armed another pure musketeer.

It would take at least half a year for the entire company to be equipped with Wolf fang rifles. Therefore, if Yu Xiaotian wanted to destroy the army now, the bottleneck of musket production alone would make him unable to do so.

method to proceed.

After taking stock of the strength at hand, Yu Xiaotian could only sigh. At the moment, it was most important for him to do the things in front of him in a down-to-earth manner. After solving the issue of the army's invasion first, it would not be too late to talk about other things.

But he is really not too worried about the official army's attack this time. On the surface, it seems that the Fujian official forces have used a lot of troops this time, but he has been paying attention to the movements of the army. In the past few months,

, he sent a large number of detailed operations to various parts of Fujian, closely watching the preparation and training of the officers and soldiers in various places.

Although Zhu Yifeng has vigorously reorganized the Fujian officers and soldiers in the past year, building artillery and training troops, where is the system of the Ming Dynasty? With his own efforts, he wants to reorganize the Fujian officers and soldiers in a short time.

With an elite division, that is simply impossible.

Although the officers and soldiers in various places have strengthened some training, the food and salary allocated to the army by the government must pass through the hands of many officials. These officials will not retract their dirty hands just because Zhu Yifeng wants to attack Nanri Island.

Zhu Yifeng tried his best to raise a lot of silver grain, but when it was allocated to the hands of the officers and soldiers, he still had to go through layers of exploitation. When it was in the hands of the officers and soldiers, there was still not much left.

This actually gave a lot of officials an advantage in vain, allowing them to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune and line their own pockets. Officers and soldiers who cannot get enough food and salary will naturally not train honestly. In fact, Fujian

The level of the officers and soldiers has not improved much. Although Zhu Yifeng ran to the military camp every three days to supervise the training and preparation of troops, the generals only pretended to pull out the officers and soldiers to practice and show off when he went there.

It’s just a look.

Zhu Yifeng didn't know about these deceptions, but they all fell into the eyes of Sea Wolf Xizuo, and he quickly sent them back to the wolf's den with pigeons. Such an officer wanted to sea him

It’s a joke to drive away wolves from Nanri Island!

As for the naval forces of the government and navy, it seems that during this period, they have increased their fleet strength and forcibly recruited many fishermen to join the army. However, the training is not very good at all. At best, it is just going out to sea for a while to let the soldiers on board

The husband and sailors just want to get acquainted with each other and familiarize themselves with the techniques of boat handling.

Although many ships have been modified with red cannons, these officially forged red cannons are very heavy, and the quality does not seem to be very good. In order to deduct some money and enrich their own pockets, the officials rarely let the cannons on the ships be used.

The officers and soldiers fired live ammunition, and many of the officers and gunners did not even miss a single shot, while the officers would report the consumption of a lot of ammunition.

The ammunition thus seized would then be sold to some people who wanted these things through secret channels. At this time, many gentry along the coast and even inland had their own castles outside the city and purchased some privately.

Artillery, but preparing gunpowder is not easy. This is a technical job, and not everyone can prepare gunpowder casually. Therefore, many wealthy gentry will contact military generals through private channels and buy gunpowder from the army at high prices.

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As a result, the ammunition that was originally intended for the officers and soldiers to practice was just sold by the officer. Even Hailang himself hooked up with Zhang Jiace, the Fujian deputy commander, through secret channels, and bought it from Zhang Jiace.

We obtained several thousand kilograms of gunpowder, tens of thousands of kilograms of cast iron cannonballs, and iron materials for casting cannonballs.

Last year, Zhang Jiace was impeached because Seawolves bombarded Puxi Institute and burned Nanri Water Village. He was later impeached and accused of his poor command and refusal to send troops to rescue Nanri Water Village, which led to Nanri Water Village being burned down by Seawolves.

In order to be exempted from guilt, Zhang Jiace actually spent a lot of money and did some blood work, so that his deputy commander was not dismissed, but it also caused him a lot of losses. Now that he encountered such an opportunity, he

How could he not work hard to make money, so he tried every means to deduct food and salary, even ammunition, and sell them. He didn't care who bought them, as long as he gave them money.

It is simply a joke for such officers and soldiers to want to wipe out the Sea Wolf. Let some officers and soldiers who have never fired a cannon go to war with the Sea Wolf fleet that is armed to the teeth. It is simply a meal delivered to your door. If this Sea Wolf

If even the entire fleet cannot capture them, then the sea wolves should really find a place to wash themselves and sleep.

A fleet of seven large Western-style plywood boats finally appeared outside the port of Dazhan. The fort in the port immediately sounded a roar of salutes, and the Western-style fleet that slowly sailed into the port also began to fire.

The salute was fired, and the entire Danyuan Port suddenly became lively.

Peter Nuits, the Dutch governor-general who was stationed at the headquarters, immediately led his members to the dock and looked at the fleet sent by their East India Company from Batavia with joy. Finally, he felt that

It was put down.

Recently, they have discovered that more and more Sea Wolf ships have appeared near Da Yuan Port, and Sea Wolf ships have often started to visit the Dagou area in the south of Da Yuan Port, and have sent personnel to land at Dagou Port.

, go to land for exploration.

Such actions made the newly-appointed Governor of Da Yuan, Peter Nuiz, very worried. Since Xu Xinsu brought official news from Ming Dynasty and Fujian last year, and the two sides agreed to jointly deal with Sea Wolf, Peter discovered that Sea Wolf began to strengthen its control over Da Yuan.

The intensity of activity in the area.

This is not what he is most worried about. Since the end of August, Sea Wolf ships have appeared on the sea in the Damuan area more and more frequently, and they have also blocked the routes to the Damuan area, making it after the end of August.

Until now, not a single ship has sailed into Taiyuan Port.

From this point on, Peter felt that something was not right. He felt that the agreement between them and the Fujian officials of the Ming Dynasty might have been leaked. This led to the sea wolf's hostility towards them, and they blocked the channel to Danyuan and no longer allowed it.

Any merchant ship enters Taimuang Port.

For this reason, Peter also sent two warships from the garrison to try to drive away these Sea Wolf ships, but the results were very unsatisfactory. Either the Sea Wolves ignored them and turned around immediately when they saw their warships coming out.

Leave, or simply confront them.

Although the firepower of these sea wolf warships was not strong, the sailors on the Dutch warships discovered that they had a very fast single-masted clipper. This clipper was not in the style of a Chinese Kron ship, but in their Western style.

Clipper style.

This kind of ship has fast sailing speed and very flexible operation. Although the number of artillery guns on the ship is not very large, it should not be underestimated at all, because the artillery loaded on these ships are all Western-style artillery, and the projectiles fired are about the same weight as the main guns on their warships.

Similar, the range is also very long, and the accuracy is also very high.

The two sides had several conflicts on the ocean near Da Yuan. These dhows took the initiative to engage in battle with their warships. The other side often used a one-shot attack method, with several ships moving at the same time.

After a shelling shot from a distance, the two sides immediately turned around and drove away without waiting for the two sides to close to the point of a close-range artillery battle.

These clippers flying the Sea Wolf flag were fast, flexible, and highly capable of tacking, which made the Dutch warships that were beaten first stare blankly, unable to find a way to restrain the opponent, and could only watch helplessly.

The other party was wandering around them in a arrogant manner.

In several battles, the Dutch suffered losses. Several crew members were killed and injured, and the ship was also damaged, but they could not gain any gains at all.

The number of Dutch ships stationed there was very limited. After Peter learned about the situation, he did not dare to let the warships go out to expel these Sea Wolf ships. He could only hope that the company would quickly send a fleet to relieve the Sea Wolf's attack on them.

of blockade.

Now, not only have Seawolves blocked the Taiyuan Port to prevent others from trading with them, but Yan Siqi, who used to deal with them, has also stopped all interactions with the Dutch in Taiyuan.

However, the number of Dutchmen stationed at the high officials was not very large, and there were many natives around them who always had a hostile attitude towards them. The Dutch actually had very weak control over the high officials, far less than others imagined.

sharp.

Even though the Dutch have a lot of muskets, these natives are difficult to deal with. They always like to use sneak attacks to deal with them. Once the Dutch leave their base far away, they will be attacked by the natives. This situation is not only

The Dutch had encountered it, including Yan Siqi and Yu Xiaotian when they landed in Taiwan.

The Dutch patrols often only dare to leave their base a few miles away, and they must have dozens of people acting together. Otherwise, if a few people leave the base a little further, they may be eaten by the natives and have their heads smashed by the natives.

Cut it off and use it as a trophy for the natives to display in their villages.

The natives of many tribes in Taiwan have the habit of headhunting. Sometimes, for no reason other than because they like headhunters to decorate their villages and show off their military power, they will attack strangers.