Daming pirates

After the successful experience of hijacking a ship for the first time, Yu Xiaotian also changed his original idea and no longer just asked these people to practice. Through the last hijacking, he discovered many problems, but he also discovered that in actual combat,

Compared with single training, these people can improve their experience.

This is not just for the people under his command, including himself, who have never been in this industry before. He does not know many things at sea, let alone have any experience. Fighting at sea, following on land

Fighting is very different and involves many skills. It is impossible for Yu Xiaotian to copy everything that later generations know about the cat and the tiger. Therefore, even he also needs to accumulate more experience in fighting with people at sea.

, these experiences cannot be achieved through practice alone.

So after returning to Treasure Island and taking a short rest, he took everyone out to sea again and started a new round of hunting at sea. In addition, during this period, merchant ships were concentrated heading north.

If they miss this opportunity, they will miss this good opportunity this year!

Through this trip to Dalian Island, although they were not able to immediately obtain a supplement of firearms, the Li family secretly sent them a dozen more well-made single knives, spear points and hook guns to replace them on the ship.

Some of the messy inferior weapons they used before were removed, which allowed them to improve their combat effectiveness to a certain extent, and everyone felt more confident.

In addition, after their first ship hijacking experience, they learned some experience from it, which also made them more confident. After going to sea, they quickly turned the rudder south and sailed towards the Changyou merchant ship.

haunted waters.

Now that Hu Cheng has experienced what happened with Feng Scaru and Li Gouzi, although he is reluctant, he has given up completely and has begun to settle down, no longer always thinking about going home.

, and in order to appease him, Yu Xiaotian told him that he would send some money to his family later, and find a way to find someone to bring his family to Treasure Island, so as not to make his family angry with the Liu family, so everything happened.

By now, he had given up the idea of ​​going home and started working with Yu Xiaotian honestly.

He is the sailor on the Liu family's boat, and his skills in manipulating the sails are quite superb. After seeing that he had calmed down, Yu Xiaotian simply let him be the head of the sailor, and even appointed him as the captain.

Hu Cheng is the commander of the hand, and is responsible for training and commanding several handmen under his command. Hu Cheng is also very satisfied with this, and he has become more energetic in his work these days.

After observing Liu Tong for a period of time, Yu Xiaotian found that this man was also a kind-hearted person, very loyal, and also somewhat courageous. Moreover, they came together and were more trustworthy, so Yu Xiaotian asked him to

He became the gunner, responsible for taking care of the two bowl-mouth guns on the ship.

After these days of repairs for the bowl-mouth gun they broke last time, the carpenter who was captured made a new mount for the bowl-mouth gun, which restored the use of the bowl-mouth gun.

ability.

After passing the inspection, it was found that only a piece of the muzzle of the bowl-mouth gun was broken, and the barrel was still strong and no cracks were found, which made them feel relieved.

According to Liu Laoliu, who is more knowledgeable, these two bowl-mouth guns are produced in private workshops in Guangdong, and iron-making in Guangdong mostly uses charcoal instead of coal. Therefore, the amount of iron produced in the Ming Dynasty exceeds that of Guangdong.

The most sophisticated. Over the years, the Ming Dynasty's army has needed artillery. Guangdong has the largest production and the most sophisticated artillery. Therefore, their two cannons are not impressive in appearance, but they are also made of fine iron from Guangdong. They are useful in use.

You can feel more at ease.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian certainly understood why. Because coal contains a relatively high sulfur content, sulfur is harmful to iron-making. However, when charcoal is used to make iron, the sulfur content is relatively low, and the quality of the iron is relatively low.

It is relatively good, so it is not surprising that the quality of iron in Guangdong is high.

After the last experience of the gun mount collapsing, the people on the ship had certain psychological barriers to the artillery operation, and they no longer dared to touch this thing again. For them, this was a terrible thing.

Not a good thing.

After Yu Xiaotian carefully recalled the process of loading the cannon, he quickly found a solution. For a time traveler like him, this kind of thing can be solved easily.

The last time the gun mount of the Wankou gun collapsed, the fundamental reason was because Heitou and others got the wrong amount of gunpowder in the barrel out of desperation and loaded too much gunpowder, which resulted in an accident.

, the best way to avoid such accidents is to quantify the gunpowder.

So Yu Xiaotian did several experiments on the island these days. He directly weighed the gunpowder and then packaged it. He wrapped it directly with oil paper obtained from the Li family, and made it the same diameter as the inner diameter of the gun barrel.

The columnar shape forms a gunpowder packet. In this way, the problem of uneven charge of each charge is easily solved. It also solves the problem of unstable range and unstable power.

After two test firings, everyone saw that their two bowl-mouth guns were fired safely, and the range of the shells became much more stable, so several designated gunners regained their confidence and dared to play with it again.

This guy is here.

In fact, it is very simple to install gunpowder, but no one has used it before, and not many people have thought about it, so no one knows about it. But for Xiaotian, this is not a problem at all. From what he knows, let alone

It's custom-made gunpowder. If he has machinery, it won't be a big problem even if he makes a gun. But for now, it's too early for him to make his own firearms, let alone making guns and cannons.

, now if they are asked to make cold weapons like swords and guns, they can't do it, so there is no need to think about anything else.

The fixed-load gunpowder not only solved the safety problem of the artillery, but most importantly, everyone also discovered that after using this oil-paper package, the speed at which they charged the two bowl-mouth blunderbuss was also greatly improved.

In the past, they had to put the gunpowder into the gun barrel bit by bit and carefully tamp it down. But now they no longer have to do this. They can directly put the powder package into the gun barrel, then fill it with shells or cannon balls, and tamp it down with a pestle rod.

, then use an awl to pierce the oil paper packet in the gun barrel from the small hole in the fire door, pour some primer, and complete the preparation for firing.

As a result, the speed at which they reloaded the bowl-mouth gun was more than doubled compared to before. This made these people extremely happy. They were not pigs, and of course they all understood the consequences of this.

How great is the benefit? If someone fires one cannon, they will have ample opportunity to fire back with two cannons. This is equivalent to more than doubling their firepower. Even their four cannons may not be able to suppress the two of them.

Portal cannons, if you fight with people at sea, they will take advantage of them!

Originally, Yu Xiaotian wanted to get a paper bag with fixed ammunition for the limited number of firecrackers on the ship, but after carefully inspecting these firecrackers, he immediately gave up the idea. There were two of these firecrackers.

A three-eyed blunderbuss, two clichéd old men

There is also a gun that looks a bit like a bird gun, and two matchlock guns that seem to have come from nowhere. Each of them has a different bore caliber. I want to unify these guys.

Packing gunpowder is just a joke!

So Yu Xiaotian gave up the idea directly and waited until they had the conditions in hand to talk about this matter! At present, these messy firecrackers will basically not have much effect at sea. More

Sometimes, they still have to use their two hands to fight directly with others to decide the outcome.

This time they came out and arrived at the predetermined water area. After more than a day of cruising, they finally found a target again. A bucket on the mast shouted in front of the sea on the left. They found a two-masted ship heading towards where they were.

Come in the direction.

Yu Xiaotian and everyone on the boat became energetic as soon as they heard this. This time, instead of Xiaotian's instructions, everyone immediately started to make preparations according to Yu Xiaotian's previous request to them, bringing various weapons and ropes.

Rope hooks and other things were placed within easy reach, and everyone rushed to their stations, setting up a pergola and looking toward the sea.

Sure enough, after a while, they saw a ship appear on the sea level, sailing towards them with full sail.

Yu Xiaotian laughed loudly and immediately ordered: "Raise our golden wolf flag! Get ready to work!"

Everyone on the boat immediately cheered in unison, and Zhao Si acted as the flag bearer and rushed to take out their golden wolf flag, hung it on the mast, and began to raise it.

Hu Cheng also immediately called to his subordinates, and together they began to adjust the sails. Liu Laoliu took over the tiller, took the helm himself, and began to sail towards the ship.

The boat on the other side soon discovered them and reacted immediately. It began to adjust its sails and rudder and sailed towards the coast. It was obvious that they also realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape Yu Xiaotian and his gang.

pursuit.

Yu Xiaotian could not help much at the moment, so he could only order the command to be temporarily handed over to Liu Laoliu, who would be responsible for commanding the people on the ship to adjust the sails and rudder to pursue the merchant ship.

As the distance got closer, they saw that this ship was also a small and medium-sized fortune ship. It was a common merchant ship in this area of ​​Fujian and was their most delicious food. So everyone became excited and stared at it intently.

He took the boat and started a pursuit.

The two boats continued to chase each other on the sea for about an hour. Yu Xiaotian and the others gradually closed the distance between them to about a hundred meters. Yu Xiaotian once again picked up his wooden trumpet and stood on the bow of the boat and shouted.

Then issue a warning and order the other party to stop the ship.

The sail of the other party has a big word "Liu" written on it, indicating that their ship owner is a merchant named Liu. However, this basically has no effect on Yu Xiaotian and his new gang of pirates.

, they don’t know the origin of the surname Liu, in short, as long as they take a fancy to them, they will rob them.

The Liu family's boat was in chaos, and shouts and curses could be heard from far away on their boat. After hearing Yu Xiaotian's warning, the other party remained unmoved and continued to run away while fiddling with something at the stern of the boat.

After a while, the distance between the two sides narrowed to sixty or seventy meters. Yu Xiaotian took a closer look and suddenly saw a cannon at the stern of the other side's ship. Before he could identify the shape of the other side's cannon,

Then they saw a sudden flash of fire at the stern of the Liu family's boat, followed by a cloud of white smoke, and then a cannonball that was almost visible to the naked eye, flying quickly towards Yu Xiaotian's boat.