Chapter 167 Unexpected News

Think about when the pirates blocked a merchant ship happily and were happily preparing to jump over and help them. Suddenly, the boatman on the merchant ship took out a piece of this thing and hugged these pirates together. You can imagine what the end of the pirates would be. Even if they can't kill them, they can He pulled the rest of his trousers and fled.

Moreover, carrying these short scales on the merchant ship is not eye-catching, which can play a good hidden role and catch the enemy off guard.

So in the past few months, this kind of short gun has been produced in large quantities. Because the length of the barrel of the short gun is only a fraction of the barrel of a long gun, it is much easier and much faster than the barrel of a long gun. The time to build a long barrel can create many such short barrels. The drilling is also easier to control and faster, and the yield is much higher than the barrel of the long gun.

The most troublesome thing to make guns in this era is the production of barrels. After adopting the division of labor manufacturing methods, the accessories of other husk hair devices are easy to solve. Without adding too many craftsmen, only the number of accessories production craftsmen can meet the current production needs.

Therefore, while the production of long guns did not reduce much, they put into production in large quantities of this kind of short guns, and in a short time, the production of short guns exceeded the production of long guns, and began to be equipped with a steady stream of sea wolves.

At first, this kind of short bismuth was only distributed to some leaders and leaders, but after the production surged, it began to be distributed to the soldiers on the ship.

Now all ships have begun to be equipped with a small amount of this kind of short glove. If the amount of equipment is increased, it will greatly improve the ability of the sea wolf to fight at close range at sea, and the personnel who have already got this kind of short gloved before will love this guy and have much more courage.

Think about how hard he is when he dances with knives and guns with you, no matter how high his martial arts skills are, he can't stand it. How much this situation will improve the psychology of the holder. With these new guys in the future, it may be difficult to be timid when the sea wolf department fights in close combat.

As for the gunpowder workshop, needless to say, after the first year of testing, they have formed a system network for purchasing earth and saltpeter. As soon as the weather cooled down, some merchants who are willing to do this business began to go north to Shandong, Beizhili and Henan to search for earthen.

When it comes to the Spring Festival, it is the best season to sweep the nitrs. After the Spring Festival, many merchants began to collect the earth of the ship in the north and began to transport it back to Nanri Island.

Some merchants have better business minds. In order to increase profits, even in the coastal areas of Shandong, they roughen the localized earth and nitrification, refined them into crudexiaos, and then shipped them back to Nanri Island and sold them to sea wolves. In this way, the transportation cost has been reduced a lot, which doubled their profits.

Yu Xiaotian specially asked the board of directors to significantly increase the purchase price of crudexiao, which prompted some merchants engaged in this kind of business to find ways to refine on the spot in the north to obtain greater profits.

Yu Xiaotian's practice is to leave the initial processing to others as much as possible to reduce their own workload. Such cooperation between the two sides can be said to be mutually beneficial and mutually beneficial, and they have obtained what they want, which can be said to be a win-win result.

In addition, the Spaniards in Manila are also happy to do this saltpeter business with the sea wolf, which reduces their current silver expenditure and find a kind of goods that can be sold in large quantities in exchange for more Daming products by barter trade. After bargaining, the Spaniards also lowered the price of saltpeter, so that the sea wolf provided a certain guarantee for the supply of saltpeter and sulfur.

Now the gunpowder workshop has been expanded. The refining of earthxiao has been extracted separately, concentrated for rough processing, and the extracted nitrate is sent to the gunpowder workshop for deep processing to make gunpowder.

And there are also by-products, which can produce salt. If the salt is refined, it will become a snow-white powdered refined salt, which is still in demand. It can be sold for money or for your own use.

There is even leftal brine, which can also be used to order tofu. There are not many kinds of food in this era. Tofu is a very popular food. The director's hall is also willing to buy some beans and let people build a tofu workshop to make tofu for the sea wolves.

In addition, tofu can also be made into dried tofu, which can be stored for a long time and placed on the ship, so that the sailors of the merchant fleet can also eat such delicious food at any time to adjust their lonely sailing life.

In short, in terms of material aspects, the sea wolf is basically ready to meet the invading of Boss Chu Cai. As soon as Chu Cai's fleet comes, it can fight with it.

As for personnel, in addition to the originally mobilized fleets and sailors, the barracks were expanded again before the year and recruited a group of recruits to the camp, bringing the size of the barracks to 400 to 500, not including the more than 200 soldiers now stationed in Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village.

These soldiers are now the main force guarding the island of Nanri Island, specializing in land warfare, which is much better than part-time land warfare than mariners and boatmen.

And after the successful trial production of the tidal gun, the sea wolf began to put into production a large number of fang guns, equipped with sea wolves, but it is still mainly used to equip the battle camp. For more than half a year, under the leadership of Zhang Blacksmith, the gun has been producing the tlock gun while making small continuous improvements. At this time, the firing rate of the fl� gun has increased to more than 80%, which is very rare.

The soldiers have now equipped nearly 400 thorn guns, some of which are deployed to Jilong Bay and Danshui Village, and Shuangfeng Island is also equipped with some. However, as an old camp, Nanri Island is also equipped with more than 200 thorn guns, making the soldiers' * hands account for about half of the soldiers. As the production of jiggers continues in the future, the proportion of * hands will continue to increase.

With their current equipment situation and staffing ratio, they have basically reached a quite high level in this era. With them guarding the island, it is difficult for ordinary people to take advantage of them.

Therefore, if Yu Xiaotian leads the fleet to fight, there are so many 400 to 500 soldiers in the old camp. He can basically rest assured that he can rely on the equipment level of the subordinates of Chu Cai's veterans to attack his wolf den and the commercial warehouse area. If he doesn't die, he can't even touch the side.

Therefore, whether in terms of personnel or material preparation, now the sea wolf is ready. Yu Xiaotian is not afraid that Chu Cai will not come, but he is afraid that he will not dare to come now.

However, when he thought everything was ready, he did not wait for a large number of old Chu Cai's fleets to attack, but waited for a news that surprised him.

(Today's two update, it seems that the monthly tickets of some books this month are very awesome! Unexpectedly, I was kicked to more than 80, sadly, shouting, who still has a monthly ticket? Help me!)