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Fortunately, Sea Wolf has been implementing semi-military management within the control area. Every township and village has a militia. Each village has at least two militia squads, and a township must have at least one militia company, so the local

Under normal circumstances, the defense does not occupy the establishment of the regular army, but is left to these militiamen. These militiamen are not paid at ordinary times, but only conduct training during slack periods. Usually some personnel take turns to be on duty, so they do not need to spend too much money.

As for the arming of the militia, armor is not issued. Only officers above the platoon leader are issued armor, and the rest are not issued armor. The weapons are mainly cold weapons. A militia company only equips one platoon of retired South Korean soldiers.

Japanese-style muskets, and the rest of the militiamen mostly use long guns or swords as their main equipment, and are also equipped with some bows and arrows.

Therefore, the army is currently only responsible for guarding more important places, or places that have not been initially occupied for a long time. The rest of the places are handed over to the local militia for guarding. Even the militia is really not weak in combat effectiveness because of its good training.

, the militias in many places have fought against some bandits and even rebels, showing strong combat capabilities, and the Spanish phalanx tactics they used have shown a strong advantage against the enemy.

Nowadays, Yu Xiaotian does not dare to expand the army too much due to military expenditure issues. However, if necessary, he can recruit some additional militiamen at any time and form effective combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

As for weapons reserves, under the personal supervision of Yu Xiaotian, the Seawolf military industry department has been producing at full capacity over the years. Needless to say, long guns and single swords. The production process of these things is simple and semi-mechanized. Although the products cannot be said to be

It can be compared with handmade fine products, but among mass-produced products, the quality is still quite good.

For example, for single swords, Seawolf Arsenal uses semi-mechanized production. Although the quality is not as high as that hand-forged by skilled craftsmen, because the blade is made of Seawolf's own steel, the steel mouth is still quite good. The most important thing is

The price is low, and in addition to being equipped for use by Sea Wolf's own army, it can also be sold.

Because of their good quality and low price, Sea Wolf's cold weapons are also very popular when they are sold in the market. In addition, in addition to being a large natural pasture, Jeju Island itself also has a specialty, which is the island's specialty bow and arrow.

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After the Korean official slaves on Jeju Island were sent to Jeju Island, after becoming official slaves, they would be hired by some bow merchants on the island to make bows and arrows. There were many bow and arrow manufacturing workshops on the island, and the bows they made were very sophisticated.

, in addition to being sold to the Korean Dynasty on land, they were also exported as commodities.

Now that Sea Wolf has taken control of Jeju Island, it has begun to expand this industry, integrating bow and arrow manufacturing workshops across the island, producing large quantities of them, and supplying small quantities to Sea Wolf's own militia or for special purposes, leaving the rest

A large number of them were sold to the mainland of Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is full of smoke. Officials, rebels, and many local armed and rural warrior groups are practicing. The demand for bows and arrows and various weapons is very high. Therefore, bows and arrows are used as a projectile weapon in this era.

Cold weapons are also very popular, with very high profits, and they can be sold as much as they want, and demand exceeds supply.

Seawolf has even listed its matchlocks in its list of export products. The matchlocks semi-mechanically produced by Seawolf are of good quality and powerful, so they are also a very popular commodity. Although they are not as good as those used by Seawolf for their own use.

The South Japanese-style rifle has a simplified firing mechanism and a certain degree of cutting corners, but its quality is still far superior to those handmade by land craftsmen. Although it is a monkey version, its range is not too far, but its accuracy is still good.

A lot of these matchlock guns were also sold. The price of a matchlock gun was as high as twenty or thirty taels of silver, which really made Sea Wolf a lot of money.

Because over the years, Seawolf has built a large number of hydraulic factories and manufactured a large number of machinery, which has gradually entered the state of semi-mechanized production. The production efficiency has greatly surpassed manual production, and the output has increased day by day. Now it can produce more than 200 yuan a day.

A Wolf Fang rifle and fifty spare barrels.

As local steelmaking continues to accumulate experience, those local blast furnaces are constantly being improved, and the production process is also constantly improving. With the continuous accumulation of experience, product quality is also steadily improving, the scrap rate is gradually reducing, and the quality of steel is improving.

This enables the product quality of military factories to be continuously improved.

Now the effective life of the barrel of Sea Wolf's Wolf Fang rifle has been increased to 500 to 800 rounds of bullets before the rifling is bald. This lifespan is enough to meet the needs of the military. Even in the past, it was

Smoothbore guns may not be able to shoot so many bullets, but now rifled guns can actually withstand so many shots. It can be seen that the quality of the product has been improved by more than doubling or tripling.

Due to the improvement of steel quality and the improvement of quenching process, the quality of the gun firing mechanism has also been stabilized. In particular, the reed of the flintlock engine has been changed to semi-mechanized production. The use of pass and stop gauges ensures the accuracy of the parts.

, causing the firing rate of the Wolf Fang rifle to gradually increase.

As for artillery, it seems that no matter how much is produced, it is not enough. Nowadays, artillery production has become serialized. The caliber ranges from one-pound small guns to 48-pound carronades. The product series is very complete. Most of them are supplied to the navy, and a small number are used by the navy.

Supplying it to the army has made the firepower of both armies of the Sea Wolf jump to the strongest state in the world.

In order to expand the army in the next step and participate in the land hegemony operation, although the number of artillery guns currently equipped by the artillery is not large, the production of land artillery has never stopped over the years. A large number of army artillery are stored in the warehouse, including standard

The main ones are twelve-pound howitzers, and now there are at least more than 200 in storage.

In addition, a lot of lighter six-pound infantry cannons were also produced and temporarily stored as strategic reserves. At least sixty or seventy twenty-four-pound siege artillery used for attacking fortresses were also stored and can be used at any time as long as needed.

Armed a large number of artillery and launched into land operations.

The ammunition factory also produces and reserves large quantities of various types of ammunition, especially for the army. It has undergone strict moisture-proof treatment and is stored in the ammunition depot so that it can be allocated and shipped at any time.

So on the surface, the number of Sea Wolf's troops is not very large, but in fact, the weapons and reserve forces in reserve are a huge number. Yu Xiaotian can arm more soldiers and horses at any time and put them into battle.

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Moreover, in response to the current extreme expansion of military strength, Yu Xiaotian reorganized the army and set up brigades above the battalion level. The five-to-five system was still adopted. A brigade has five battalions, including one supply battalion and one transport battalion.

The artillery battalion, three standard infantry battalions, and an additional directly affiliated scout company and an engineer company can form a combat group with very strong combat capabilities. They can advance, attack, retreat, and defend. On the battlefield, one can be equal to ten.

In addition, in order to cope with future large-scale land group operations, Yu Xiaotian added a division-level combat organization to the brigade-level organization in advance. However, after reaching this level, he no longer adopted the five-five system organization.

, instead, three brigades were used as one division, and an additional division-affiliated siege artillery company, a division-affiliated engineering company, a division-affiliated cavalry battalion, and a division-affiliated supply battalion were added. In this way, a

The total strength of the division is basically more than 20,000, and it has a very strong offensive capability.

At present, he has organized the army on hand into ten combat brigades, about half of which can be put into combat at any time, and the rest must be divided into various places for use as reserve forces, or to guard some important places.

In other words, the troops he can put into combat at one time are only enough to invest one division in one aspect. In the next two years, he plans to increase this strength to two divisions, and he can invest one division in each of the two aspects.

of troops to form an effective combat force.

After taking stock of his family fortune, Yu Xiaotian now has basically a relatively sufficient grasp. When he engages in land battles in the future, he can rely on the navy and the army, with the navy as a supplement and the army as the main force.

In a very short period of time, he captured the coastal area, especially the Jiangnan area, which is currently the most important financial source of the Ming Dynasty. Once occupied by him, it will completely destroy the Ming Dynasty's economy and cause it to quickly enter collapse.

, this can be regarded as a vicious strategy that would kill the Ming Dynasty in an instant.

As Yu Xiaotian gradually became more powerful, by the ten years of Chongzhen, his power had basically penetrated into various places in Fujian and Guangxi, forming an underground power. His power had even eroded into places such as Zhejiang and Jiangxi, making

Throughout the southern provinces, a strange phenomenon has appeared, that is, local officials have issued orders not to leave the city, and if they do, they will be boycotted by other local forces.

This situation really began to arouse Chongzhen's concern. By this time, Chongzhen had completely realized the huge threat to the Ming Dynasty from Yu Xiaotian's Sea Wolf Group and the Yu Jiajun.

The local government's impeachment of Xiaotian flew to the capital like snowflakes and placed it on Chongzhen's Dragon Case. Only then did Chongzhen truly realize that Yu Xiaotian's plan might not be as simple as making a fortune.

By sorting out the ammunition and intelligence sent to the capital from all parties, Chongzhen suddenly discovered that Yu Xiaotian's current power had grown far beyond his imagination.

The politics and economy of the entire southeastern provinces are now almost controlled by Yu Xiaotian. As long as Yu Xiaotian intends to rebel and backslides, these southern provinces may soon fall into Xiaotian's hands.

Such a conclusion made Chongzhen feel only a cold breath, rushing from the soles of his feet to his hair, and his whole body felt cold and cold.

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