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These indigenous soldiers can be said to be natural warriors. Not only are they very hardworking, but as long as they are well trained, they also have a strong sense of obedience. At the same time, these indigenous warriors who live in the jungle all year round are extremely good at jungle warfare, although they are not

They like to use hot weapons such as muskets, but they are very good at using various cold weapons in combat. Cold weapons such as bows, arrows and blowguns, which are not valued by sea wolves, can exert extremely strong combat effectiveness in their hands, which makes many

Seawolf's officer was shocked.

It can be said that these indigenous soldiers were present in all of Yu Xiaotian's anti-bandit operations on land in Fujian. They were good at hiding, tracking, setting traps, sneak attacks, reconnaissance and other operations. They often appeared mysteriously and attacked the enemy unexpectedly. In Fujian,

Suppressing bandits in the mountains and forests was an unstoppable feat, which made many Sea Wolf veterans marvel at their abilities.

Of course, the sea wolf depends on industry for its livelihood. Since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yu Xiaotian has invested in the construction of a large number of earthen blast furnaces in Tamsui.

During the initial operation of these earthen blast furnaces, the production was very unstable, and the quality of the products could not be guaranteed. No one knew what each furnace could produce or what kind of steel it was, and the waste of raw materials was also very serious.

But even under such circumstances, Yu Xiaotian still insisted on letting the earthen blast furnace carry out production, and found a group of capable craftsmen to make detailed records of the proportion of materials input into each furnace, as well as furnace temperature and other data, and then based on the product's characteristics

situation, constantly summarize and analyze, and accumulate experience.

After more than two years of continuous testing, these craftsmen have basically mastered some preliminary production techniques and can produce some relatively good steel materials. The waste rate of raw materials has also been reduced a lot, and the accident rate has also been greatly reduced.

By the fourth year of Chongzhen, the number of Hailang's earthen blast furnaces in Tamsui had reached more than thirty, which could produce dozens of tons of steel per day. In addition to being used for the production of muskets, these steels were also used in various applications.

Although the small industry still cannot meet the needs of the Sea Wolf, it has taken a valuable step after all.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian has not dared to be lazy in the past few years. Apart from being busy building the army in Fujian, whenever he has some free time, he will quickly get into a large room specially set up behind his mansion, while often racking his brains to draw pictures.

Some mechanical drawings, while directing dozens of skilled carpenters and blacksmiths to make various mechanical models, or explore some mechanical processing techniques.

Yu Xiaotian only regretted that he did not learn more mechanical knowledge when he was in college. Now that he is using it, Fangcai regrets that he has accumulated too little, so that many problems that may seem easy to solve in later generations cannot be solved by him.

However, it has become an insurmountable problem in my hands, and I can only rack my brains to explore.

In May of the third year of Chongzhen, Hailang's first hydraulic machinery factory in Tamsui finally produced the first "qualified" wheel bearing, and installed it on a carriage for testing. This carriage

Using cattle as power, it carried nearly a ton of cargo and ran for hundreds of miles before the bearings were damaged. Although this would only be regarded as a defective product in later generations, in this era, it is already considered an absolute black technology.

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The successful development of bearings laid a solid foundation for Seawolf's industrialization process. As various types of bearings began to be produced in small batches, some machines began to be replaced with bearings in the first batch, greatly reducing power.

The loss has also greatly improved the production accuracy of some earth machine tools.

Soon afterwards, Yu Xiaotian experimentally manufactured industrial gears using a soil hobbing machine based on the involute principle. A few months later, this kind of gears also began to be used in machinery factories. The first batch of modern and rather primitive gears

Industrial machine tools began to be officially put into use.

Of course, the failure rate of these machines can be said to be outrageous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that their quality is abysmal, but this is the first step after all. As long as you take this step, sooner or later it will be gradually solved.

The progress of industry has also allowed all walks of life to truly enjoy its advantages. Not to mention the military benefits, even the most low-level sugarhouses. In the sugarhouses of the Ming Dynasty, all the rollers used were

It is made of wood, and the transmission mechanism is also made of wood. When used, the juice yield of the rolled sugar cane is not even 40% or even lower, not even as good as the stone roller, but it has been used for hundreds of years.

Years without any improvement.

The huge waste caused by this is unimaginable. A large amount of sugar cane cannot be rolled to produce sugar cane juice, so it is treated as waste. Therefore, when Sea Wolf was planning to build a sugar factory, it directly abandoned this wooden rolling mill and used cast iron.

The creation of iron rollers, coupled with the subsequent application of bearings and gears, increased the juice yield of Seawolf's sugar mill to 70%, and when squeezed repeatedly, it can even reach more than 80%.

From the same sugar cane, the sugar cane juice that can be squeezed out in Sea Wolf's sugar factory is nearly twice as much as the sugar cane juice that can be squeezed out in sugar factories in Guangdong and Guangxi on land, and the sugar yield is naturally higher.

After repeated experiences, the quality of the sucrose produced by Hailang's Sugar House has improved rapidly. The exquisite white sugar is white, refreshing and clean in color, and naturally sells for a high price.

As a result, the profit that can be obtained from one acre of Hailang's sugarcane fields is at least twice that of the sugarcane fields in Guangxi on land. The cost of human and material investment is also much lower than that there, so it is natural to make a lot of profits.

Sea Wolf also attaches great importance to the use of various scraps. After the sugar cane is juiced, the remaining bagasse can be used to make wine. The brewed sugar cane wine has a sweet and sour taste and is actually very popular with the Dutch and Portuguese.

The people welcomed them, and a large number of exports were exchanged for money for them.

This is just a typical example. Things like this are reflected in various fields, such as wood factories, farm tools, vehicles, etc., and they have all benefited a lot.

The biggest benefit is probably in the military aspect. The application of bearings and gears has once again improved the operational performance of ships. The operational performance of heavy artillery has also been greatly improved, making it much lighter.

Especially for the Army, some artillery vehicles have adopted bearings on their gun carriages, making them much easier to tow. After installing screws with adjustable elevation angles, the operation has become much easier and more precise.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that with the production of steel and the application of various original machine tools, Seawolf's Wolf Fang rifle finally began to use steel instead of the original wrought iron, making the barrel

The service life has been greatly improved. In the past, up to a hundred or ten rounds of bullets could wear out the rifling, so that the Wolf Fang rifle could never completely replace the South Japanese flintlock rifle.

However, after the switch to steel as the raw material for barrel production, and the continuous improvement of original machine tools, the service life of the barrel of the Wolf Fang rifle was increased from dozens to hundreds of rounds.

The lifespan has been increased by more than ten times. It is no longer necessary to replace the barrels of the Wolf Fang rifle in large numbers as long as there is a battle.

A new Wolf Fang rifle can at least be used for a period of time, which greatly reduces the pressure on logistics. There is no need for the logistics department to reserve a large number of barrels and replace them at any time.

Instead of having to reserve a large number of reserve barrels, the production of Wolf Fang rifles has also been able to increase significantly. The army of the Sea Wolf Group can finally replace the Wolf Fang rifles in large quantities, and the combat effectiveness is increased by more than a few percent.

On the battlefield, Seawolf's troops equipped with Wolf fang rifles can crush enemies that are almost ten times their size.

In the past, because the barrel life of the Wolf Fang rifle was so short, officers did not dare to allow soldiers to fire live ammunition frequently. They could only use long-term gun aiming training and use ordinary South Japanese-style rifles for live ammunition shooting training. Such training results

, it is definitely not possible to be very good. A large number of soldiers who use Wolf Fang rifles cannot give full play to the advantages of long-distance precise shooting of rifled guns on the battlefield, and can only guarantee a relatively accurate shooting hit rate of about a hundred meters.

However, after improving the barrel material, the barrel life has been greatly improved, and the officers are no longer as stingy as before. Soldiers can use the Wolf Fang rifle more for live-fire training and better master it.

The long-distance precision shooting performance of the Wolf Fang rifle, within a short period of time, the musketeers using the Wolf Fang rifle, as long as they train carefully and sum up their experience, can basically achieve the goal of relatively accurate concentration of human-sized targets at a distance of 200 meters.

Target, this allows troops equipped with Wolf Fang rifles to have the ability to effectively snipe enemies from a distance of 200 meters.

Even those sharpshooters have also made a lot of profits. In the past, because they did not dare to shoot a large number of live ammunition, their ability to snipe targets from long distances could not be fully utilized. But now they can conduct a large amount of live ammunition training, making their shooting accuracy the same.

It has also been effectively improved. Coupled with the improvement in processing accuracy, the accuracy of the Wolf Fang rifle has been improved a lot compared to before, so that some sharpshooters can actually hit the enemy at a distance of 400 meters.

Such an effective sniping distance is definitely a terrifying figure in this era. Think about it, the enemy's cannon may not be able to shoot four hundred meters, but the enemy's gunner is within the effective sniping distance of our own marksman.

Sharpshooters can easily suppress the enemy's artillery on the battlefield. This battle is so easy to fight. If the battle cannot be won, the officer will be embarrassed if he doesn't find a tree to hang himself.

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