Daming pirates

It has to be said that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were insensitive to such matters. After Sea Wolf actually took control of the Zhoushan Islands, the officials of Ningbo Prefecture, Shaoxing Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture and other prefectures did not react much to this. It was only the reaction of some people.

After their interests were infringed upon, they made a fuss for a while, but seeing that things were irreversible, they could only acquiesce to this situation. (Ding Dian Novel)

The officers and soldiers of Zhejiang have experienced few wars in recent years, and the navy is also in decline. They are more than willing to deal with this kind of thing. Fortunately, after Sea Wolf took control of the Zhoushan Islands, they did not act recklessly there. On the contrary, they still

The local coastal area has become much more peaceful, and the number of pirate attacks on the coast has decreased day by day.

, it turns out that even if the Zhoushan Islands are a place where no one cares, the government has little influence. Now someone has integrated the pirate forces in the Zhoushan Islands and established order here. On the contrary, the local Ningbo Prefecture feels that the pressure has suddenly been reduced a lot.

So after two years, officials in Zhejiang became accustomed to it.

In the Zhoushan Islands, the Second Fleet has also stationed a detachment, which is mainly responsible for controlling the waters around Hangzhou Bay and the Yangtze River Estuary. This means that the coastal area of ​​​​South Zhili has also been included in their jurisdiction.

As for the Third Fleet, it has now officially become the Southern Fleet. It is mainly responsible for the control of Guangdong, Guangxi and Nanyang, including the control of the sea in Qiongzhou, that is, Hainan Island. Its home port is directly located in Hong Kong, making Yu Xiaotian appear

Now that the three major fleets have officially taken shape, each truly deserves its title and controls its own control area.

Although he has not been able to eliminate all pirates along the coast of China so far, he can basically control the important waterways, merchant ship access areas, and key coastal islands. However, he has not yet invested enough in the navy.

, has been controlling the scale of the development of the navy. Otherwise, his current formal naval establishment may only have 50,000, 60,000, or even hundreds of thousands of people, which would be just a joke.

In addition to the regular naval establishment, he is now temporarily under the navy, and has separated two departments: fishery supervision and anti-smuggling, but they are temporarily managed under the navy. These two departments also have considerable combat strength, which is completely acceptable

Cooperate with the navy's main ships to carry out operations, and usually do their own specialized things, either patrolling the fishing grounds set up by Sea Wolf, or conducting anti-smuggling activities on the main waterway. These two areas can bring huge amounts to Sea Wolf every year.

of revenue, so it can be regarded as two revenue-generating departments.

Like the fishery supervision department, since Yu Xiaotian came up with the idea of ​​demarcating fishing grounds on the sea for fishermen to operate, the development of the coastal fishery has entered the fast lane.

In the past, coastal fishermen, who were short of money, mostly used very small fishing boats or sampans to fish offshore. The harvest was small, but the risks were high. From time to time, they would be harassed by pirates, or they would be forcibly coerced into joining.

Pirates, or simply be killed.

In addition, their boats are too small and have poor ability to withstand wind and waves. If there is a sudden strong storm on the sea, many fishermen will be buried in the belly of the fish.

But since the fishing grounds were designated, the lives of these fishermen have become much better. They can go to the designated fishing grounds for fishing operations. Although they have to pay fishing tax to Sea Wolf, Sea Wolf's patrol boats are in the fishing grounds and can provide them with

Providing protection, in addition to expelling small groups of pirates from causing trouble in fishing grounds, it can also rescue fishermen who have fallen into the water when there are storms on the sea. Over the years, fish surveillance ships in various fishing grounds have rescued at least thousands of fishermen.

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Moreover, when fishermen catch fish in the fishing ground, their catch can be sold directly to Sea Wolf’s fishery department without being exploited by those fishing tyrants. The purchase price offered by Sea Wolf’s fishery department is higher than the price given by those fishing tyrants.

Much higher. Fishing tyrants in many places did not know the power of sea wolves at first and tried to fight against them, but were immediately swatted to death by sea wolves like flies. This also relieved the fishermen's worries.

In addition, Sea Wolf's bank also provided low-interest loans to fishermen, allowing them to purchase larger fishing boats and better fishing nets and fishing gear. This combined approach made fishermen quickly realize that fishing in fisheries controlled by Sea Wolf

The benefits of the operation have made life much better for fishermen in many places.

The fishery department of Sea Wolf has also become a pretty good income-generating department. They pickle or air-dry the various purchased and self-caught catches, or even simply freeze them, and supply them to land for sale, or

Supplying food to the military not only generates income, but also provides abundant protein and various nutrients to Sea Wolf's tribe.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian's maritime power is not limited to the navy. The scale of Sea Wolf's merchant fleet is already jaw-dropping. Sea Wolf is just a medium-to-large sea-going ship of various types, with more than a thousand ships.

There are so many sailors and crews, more than tens of thousands of them. They traffic all kinds of materials and commodities back and forth on the waterways across Asia all day long. The benefits they bring to Yu Xiaotian every year are equally astonishing.

Moreover, the sailors of these merchant fleets are all under semi-military management. They can be converted to a formal naval establishment at any time if necessary. Even if they are not converted to a naval establishment, they can still cooperate with the navy in various transportation and even combat operations at any time.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's current personnel strength at sea has reached nearly 100,000, and most of these people are not pure consumption, but people who can bring him huge profits, so that

There is no pressure at all to feed so many people and ships.

However, the army is different from the navy. The army is not as good as the navy in terms of revenue-generating ability. Only some special forces or special personnel can bring profits to Yu Xiaotian in peacetime. The rest of the army can only make profits during military operations.

Reap the dividends of war.

However, compared to the navy, the cost of arming the army is relatively low. An ordinary infantryman, even including the most expensive armor and muskets, does not cost much money to arm an infantryman.

Therefore, the size of the Yujia Army's army has been expanding in the past few years. Today, the army has more than 30 standard infantry battalions. An infantry battalion is based on 1,300 people.

Calculating the number of troops, the number is as high as more than 40,000.

In addition, the Yu Jiajun's army does not only have standard infantry battalions, but also has cavalry, artillery, baggage troops, engineers and other structures, plus special forces, the number is even greater.

Now the Yu Jiajun has armed five field artillery battalions and two siege heavy artillery battalions. In addition to the artillery, each battalion is also equipped with 200 to 300 mules and horses, which are used to tow artillery and ammunition vehicles.

It basically replaces the method of replacing animals and losing pawns, giving it stronger mobility.

There are also baggage battalions, with a total of eight baggage battalions. Each baggage battalion has forty to fifty standard two-wheeled carriages and four-wheeled carriages, which can transport a large amount of materials at a time for use by other military services.

As for engineers, there are currently only two engineering battalions. They are divided into ten engineering companies. They are mainly responsible for blasting or digging tunnels during critical battles, and they mainly cooperate with large-scale military operations in peacetime.

The cavalry is currently the focus of the Yu Jiajun. Currently, the Yu Jiajun has a total of three cavalry battalions. This is mainly due to opening up trade channels with Jiannu. In addition, after occupying Jeju Island, they obtained a large number of war horses.

, and then three cavalry battalions were equipped.

The main soldiers of these three cavalry battalions are mainly from the north, among which Liaodong soldiers and Shandong soldiers account for the vast majority. Some of these northern soldiers were prisoners captured during the Denglai counterinsurgency. After brainwashing and transformation, they surrendered.

After being carefully screened, he was absorbed into the army and served as cavalry.

Many of these Liaodong people have been exposed to horses since childhood, are familiar with horse nature, are good at riding on horseback, and have strong mobile combat capabilities. They dare not say that they can directly confront Jiannu's cavalry, but according to the equipment and training of the Yu family army,

At least they can compete with Guan Ning's army, not to mention the Yu Jiajun's cavalry. Their main responsibility is not frontal charge, but mainly used as light cavalry, responsible for reconnaissance, harassment, pursuit, cover and other operations.

Their combat method is mainly to cooperate with the main force in activities, so they will not be concentrated for large-scale cavalry group operations.

At present, Yu Xiaotian has armed three cavalry battalions, which is already too much for him. These cavalry are really expensive. War horses look majestic, but in fact they are very delicate. They need to be treated with care, and they also have food.

A lot. The consumption of one war horse in one day is as much as the consumption of ten infantrymen. Special personnel are required to serve them, otherwise problems will arise.

Even if Yu Xiaotian now controls Jeju Island, has acquired a large number of horses, and is equipped with so many cavalry, artillery, and heavy equipment, it is really too much for him. In total, these arms alone are equipped with more than 10,000 war horses and pack horses.

, draft horses, and many mules. In the short term, he will not be able to equip more horses.

However, the Army still felt inadequate and kept clamoring all day long to continue to expand the cavalry establishment. This voice reached many ears of Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian slapped them to death, cursing these Army soldiers.

, it’s because you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are when you’re not a householder.

As for the army, after gathering all its forces, the number has now reached 50,000. In addition to some of these troops being stationed in Fujian as officers and soldiers, the rest are stationed in Taiwan Island, Jeju Island, and Haitan Island.

, Fushansuo, and Zhifu Island area, some soldiers will exist as tuanlianxiangyong.

In addition, in the Halong Bay area, Yu Xiaotian also left two non-Manchu infantry battalions, including two artillery batteries, to guard the Halong Bay area and prevent the Le Chao army from counterattacking.

This number seems to be quite large, but for the area actually controlled by the Sea Wolf, it is actually a bit too small.

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