Daming Haikou

After gaining the experience of successfully hijacking a ship for the first time, Yu Xiaotian also changed his original thinking, and no longer only asked these people to practice. Through the last time he hijacked a ship, he found many problems, but at the same time, he also discovered that actual combat It is better to allow these people to improve their experience than a single training.

This is not only for the group of people under his command, including himself, he did not come from this line of work before, and he did not know many things at sea, let alone any experience. Fighting is very different, and it contains a lot of skills. Yu Xiaotian wants to copy all the things that later generations know, but it is simply impossible, so even he needs to accumulate some experience in fighting people at sea , These experiences cannot be achieved by 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 safari at sea. In addition, this period of time was the time when merchant ships were concentrating on going north. If they miss this opportunity, they will miss this good opportunity this year!

Through this trip to Dalian Island, although they did not immediately obtain supplementary firearms, the Li family still secretly sent them a dozen or so well-made single swords, spear points, and hook guns to replace them. Some of the messy and inferior weapons they used before have improved their combat effectiveness more or less, and everyone has a little more confidence in their hearts.

In addition, after the first experience of hijacking a ship, they learned some experience from it and made them more confident. After going out to sea, they soon turned their rudders to the south and sailed towards the usual merchant ship. Infested waters.

Now that Hu Cheng has experienced what happened to Feng Baoyi and Li Gouzi, although he is reluctant, he has completely given up his mind, and he has begun to calm down, and he no longer always thinks about going home. , and in order to appease him, Yu Xiaotian told him that he would send some money to his family in the future, and found a way to find someone to bring his family to Treasure Island, so as not to let his family be angry with the Liu family. Up to now, he also gave up the idea of ​​going home again, and began to follow Yu Xiaotian honestly.

He himself is the head of the Liu family's boat, and his skill in handling the sails is quite exquisite. After seeing that he has calmed down, Yu Xiaotian simply let him be the head of the Liu family, and even appointed him as the head of the boat. Hu Cheng is also very satisfied with Liaoshou, who is in charge of training and commanding his subordinates. He has worked hard these days.

After observing Liu Tong for a period of time, Yu Xiaotian found that this person is also a man of love, very loyal, and also has some courage, and they came together, so they are more trustworthy, so Yu Xiaotian let him As the gunner, he was in charge of taking care of the two muzzles on the ship.

The last time they broke the blunderbuss, after these days of repairs, the carpenter who was caught back made a new gun mount for the blunderbuss, making the blunderbuss back to use. ability.

After passing the inspection, only a piece of the muzzle of the bowl-mouth gun was broken, and the gun body was still solid, and no cracks were found, which reassured them a lot.

According to Liu Laoliu, who is more knowledgeable, these two bowl-mouth guns are produced in private workshops in Guangdong, and most of the ironmaking in Guangdong uses charcoal instead of coal. The most refined. Over the years, the artillery needed by the army in the Ming Dynasty has the largest output in Guangdong, and the artillery is also the most refined. Therefore, these two cannons are made of refined iron in Guangdong, and they are easy to use. You can be more at ease.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian understood why, because the sulfur content in coal is relatively high, and sulfur is harmful to ironmaking, while charcoal ironmaking has relatively low sulfur content, and the quality of iron is relatively low. It is relatively good, so it is not surprising that the quality of iron in Guangdong is high.

After the experience of breaking the cannon mount last time, the people on the ship had certain psychological barriers to handling the cannon, and they didn't dare to touch it again. Not a good thing.

After Yu Xiaotian carefully recalled the process of their previous loading of the cannon, he quickly found a solution. For a time traveler like him, this kind of thing is easy to solve.

The root cause of the collapse of the gun carriage of the bowl-mouth gun last time was that Heitou and the others mistook the amount of gunpowder in the gun chamber in a hurry, and loaded too much gunpowder, which resulted in an accident. Therefore, the best way to avoid such accidents is to quantify the gunpowder.

So Yu Xiaotian did several experiments on the island these days. He weighed the gunpowder directly and divided it into packages. He wrapped it with oil paper he got from the Li family and made it the same diameter as the inner diameter of the gun bore. The columnar shape forms a gunpowder bag. In this way, the problem of uneven charge of each charge is easily solved, and the problem of unstable range and power is also solved.

After two test shots, everyone saw that the two guns were fired safely, and the range of the shells became much more stable, so the designated gunners regained their confidence and dared to fiddle with it again. This guy is gone.

In fact, it is very simple to pack gunpowder, but no one has used it before, and not many people have thought about it, so no one knows, but this is not a problem for Xiaotian at all. It is a custom-made gunpowder. If there is a machine, it is not a big problem even if he is asked to make a gun. But at present, it is too early for him to want to make his own firearms, let alone make guns and cannons. , Now let them make their own cold weapons like knives and guns, they can't even do it, so naturally they don't have to think about anything else.

The fixed gunpowder not only solved the safety problem of the artillery, the most important thing is that everyone also found that after using this kind of oil paper package, the speed of charging the two bowls and mouth guns has also been greatly improved. In the past, they had to put gunpowder into the gun barrel little by little, and carefully tamp it down, but now they don’t have to do this anymore. They can directly put the gunpowder into the gun barrel, then fill it with shells or guns, and tamp it down with a pestle. , and then use an awl to pierce the oil-paper ammunition bag of the gun bore from the small hole of the fire door, pour some primer, and the launch preparation is completed.

In this way, the speed at which they reload the guns has more than doubled compared to before, which made this group of people very happy. They are not pigs, of course they all understand what this brings. What are the benefits? If someone fires one cannon, they will have ample opportunity to fight back two cannons, which is equivalent to more than doubling their firepower. Four cannons may not be able to suppress both of them. Men cannons, if they fight with people at sea, they will take advantage of it!

Originally, Yu Xiaotian wanted to get a paper package for the limited number of firecrackers on the ship, but after carefully inspecting these firecrackers, he directly gave up this idea. A three-eyed gun, two old-fashioned fire guns, a guy that looks a bit like a bird gun, and two matchlock guns that look unknown. It's a joke for such a guy to get gunpowder uniformly!

So Yu Xiaotian directly gave up this idea, and wait until they have the conditions in their hands, let's talk about this matter!At present, with these messy firecrackers, basically they can't play much role at sea. Most of the time, they still have to fight with people directly with two hands to decide the outcome.

After coming out this time, after arriving at the predetermined waters, after more than a day of cruising, they finally found a target again, a top bucket on the mast high above the sea in front of the left, and found a two-masted ship heading towards the place where they were. Come in the direction.

Yu Xiaotian and everyone on the boat became energetic after hearing this. This time, they didn't need to use Xiaotian's instructions. Everyone immediately started to make preparations according to Yu Xiaotian's request to them before, putting all kinds of weapons, ropes, Rope hooks and other things were placed in easy-to-reach positions, and one by one rushed to their positions, setting up awnings and looking towards the sea.

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

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

Everyone on board 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.

And Hu Cheng immediately greeted his subordinate Liaoshou, and together they began to adjust the sails. Liu Laoliu took over the rudder, steered the helm himself, and started to sail towards the ship.

The boat on the other side quickly spotted them and reacted immediately. It began to adjust its sails and steer towards the coast. It was obvious that they also realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape Yu Xiaotian and his group. pursuit.

But Yu Xiaotian couldn't help at the moment, so he could only order to temporarily hand over the command to Liu Laoliu, and ordered Liu Laoliu to be in charge of commanding the people on board to adjust the sails and turn the rudder, and chase the merchant ship.

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

The two boats continued to chase on the sea for about an hour, and Yu Xiaotian and the others gradually narrowed the distance between the two sides to about [-] meters. Yu Xiaotian once again picked up his wooden horn, stood on the bow and shouted Then issued a warning and ordered the other party to stop the ship.

There is a big word Liu written on the other party's sail, which shows that their shipowner is a merchant named Liu, but this basically has no effect on Xiaotian and the gang of newcomers. Well, they don't know the origin of the surname Liu. In short, as long as they are fancy, they will rob them.

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

After a while, the distance between the two sides was shortened to 70 meters. Yu Xiaotian took a closer look and suddenly saw a cannon on the stern of the other party. Seeing the stern of the Liu family's boat suddenly flashing a ball of fire, then a cloud of white smoke rose, and then a cannonball that was almost visible to the naked eye flew towards Yu Xiaotian's boat at high speed.