Chapter 192 Ambush Treasure Island

As Yu Xiaotian led the crowd to go to sea, the first old camp, although he did not completely abandon it after he took the dove's nest and went to Nanri Island. In Dazhai, more than 20 sea wolves will also be stationed regularly to maintain the facilities here to a certain extent.

After all, it is not easy to find a small island with sufficient freshwater resources along the coast, and after Xiaotian operated for a period of time, a small stockade was built, as well as a small dock and two trestles. It has relatively complete infrastructure. Once it is easy to give up, It's really a pity!

More importantly, Treasure Island is relatively remote, far from the mainland, and not on the route. It is a better hiding place. Usually, it is rarely noticed. Only a few ships passing through the sea will occasionally come here to replenish water and avoid the wind when they encounter a storm or lack of water. If the sea wolf releases it If you abandon here, it is estimated that it will soon be occupied by others. The various facilities built by Yu Xiaotian on the island are equivalent to giving them to others in vain.

In addition, as the starting place of the sea wolf, the brothers of the sea wolf are not willing to see this place abandoned emotionally, so Yu Xiaotian did not abandon the island for these reasons, but sent people to station here on a regular shift. Anyway, there is no shortage of these dozen people.

However, I didn't think that this Treasure Island was used by the sea wolves again. In early March, the sea wolf ships and crew returned to Nanri Island to gather, and were soon transferred from Nanri Island in large numbers on the grounds that they were going to clean up Chu Cai's old men along the coast of Fuzhou.

However, these ships and sea wolves did not go to the coastal area of Fuzhou separately as everyone saw on the surface, but first walked around the coast of Fuzhou in three or two batches, and then began to quietly sail to Treasure Island.

Gradually, Treasure Island, which had been silent for nearly two years, became lively again. The first to arrive here was more than a dozen sentry boats, which caught all kinds of ships within 30 miles around Treasure Island, including the people on the ship, were temporarily detained and locked in the Treasure Island Village first, and he We were quite lucky to catch a boat under Chu Cai, who was still in these boats and was operating in the sea near Treasure Island.

As for those unlucky fishing boats and merchant ships, after the sea wolf sent them to Treasure Island, they only temporarily detained them and gave them proper resettlement, did not rob their goods and ships, and comforted them, and told them that the sea wolves would work in this area to prevent the appearance of the wind, so they temporarily wronged him. We will compensate them afterwards and won't let them suffer.

Although these merchant ships are not happy, there is nothing they can do. Nowadays, sea wolves have the final say in the area of Fuzhou. Their boats have not paid for the way. They took a detour here to try to avoid the waterway, but they were unlucky to be caught by sea wolves. The sea wolves did not confiscate their cargo. They have already burned incense, so they arrived I don't dare to fart here.

As for the fishermen on the suspended fishing boats, after learning that the sea wolves were going to work in this area and got the assurance from the sea wolves to ensure their safety, and at the same time, when they let them go afterwards, they will be given a considerable amount of money. As compensation for delaying their fishing, these fishermen will have nothing. I'm so worried.

And the fishermen in Fuzhou are very close to sea wolves. After arriving at Treasure Island, they are not willing to eat and idle. Some fishermen even offered to help the sea wolves on this island for the time being, so they became temporary porters of sea wolves and began to help sea wolves. Loading and unloading goods.

After cleaning up the ships on the surface of this area, several large sand boats used as transport ships sailed to Treasure Island, docked at the dock, unloading a large amount of food and other supplies.

Then a large number of sea wolf warships began to sail to Treasure Island in twos and three places on Treasure Island to avoid the wind.

After all, Treasure Island is a small island with a total area of only one or two square kilometers, and the bay of the island is not large. In the past, when Yu Xiaotian was weak, three or two boats parked in the wharf and bay here seemed more than enough, but now the bay where the wharf is located needs to be stuffed with so many boats at once, so It can only be parked separately in three bays that can be sheltered from the wind.

These sea wolf warships gathered here, and there were two layers of blockade on the periphery. On the outermost layer, some fishing boats were sprinkled and pretending to be fishing. Once they found that ships were approaching, they immediately notified the sentry ships to intercept them. For the ships that accidentally broke into this sea area, the sea wolves were all directly arrested and detained on Treasure Island, so The waters in this area have completely become a vacuum, and no one can find that so many people and boats will gather on this small Treasure Island.

Now these ships and manpower, because of Yu Xiaotian's absence, were temporarily handed over to Wang Hong, while Ma Xiao served as his deputy. The two cooperated with the guys and continued intensive training on the sea near Treasure Island every day.

Sea Wolf's fleet has been training for two months after the New Year. Slowly speaking, the people on this ship are basically familiar with it. Even if they are just a group of novices, after these two months of training, they should be quite familiar with naval battles.

So the sea wolf people, who are already quite clean, have become much sharper after these two months of training. Everyone knows their own position and can almost recite various regulations. The most important thing is that through these two months of training, they have solved it. There are many previous problems.

In carrying out large-scale maritime operations on the ancient sea, the biggest problem faced by the fleet was the problem of command and cooperation. In this regard, Yu Xiaotian was actually a layman at the beginning. Although he also realized that he would encounter such a problem in the future and designed a set of simple flags in advance, this was not completely solved. Command issues during naval operations.

In a small-scale formation, the flag can also effectively command the fleet, but in a large-scale maritime formation, a fleet will spread out a very large area, and sometimes the ships may also block each other, making it impossible for some ships to see the flag from the handsome ship.

So the complex flag language cannot effectively solve the command problem at this time. On the contrary, it may also affect the actual effect and create greater confusion due to the excessive amount of information transmission.

Later, the sea wolf still found a person who had worked in the officer's naval division and learned from him some methods for the official naval division to command operations during maritime warfare. In this era, the main means of command are nothing more than flags, drums and horns. At that time, soundedium or rockets will be used to assist.

So Yu Xiaotian and his leaders made it easier to use these known things during this period to represent different meanings with different colors and flags, or to hang red lanterns, different numbers of lanterns to represent different meanings, supplemented by cannons and flags, and compiled a new set of Ordering method.

In this way, the problem of effective command of the convoy to other ships in large-scale maritime operations has been roughly solved. After determining the new mode of command, the sea wolf fleet has been popularized to ensure that the captain, first mate and superiors on each ship can effectively understand the contents of these signals. Righteousness.

Then during this period, when the sea wolf went out to train at sea, it mainly conducted drills to command and cooperate in this area, constantly allowing the fleet to change its formation at sea to solve the problem of mutual cooperation.

Moreover, the sea wolf is still based on three sub-teams. When fighting, all of them are mainly composed of handsome ships. At the same time, each sub-team also has a spare handsome ship. Once there is a problem with the handsome ship, the other two reserve handsome ships can take over the command at any time according to the situation or the order of the handsome ship, raise the handsome flag and continue to command the fleet to enter. Fight.

When the fleet was separated, the reserve commander-in ship became the commander-in-chief of the sub-ship. It could raise the flag of the sub-ship and command the ships under its command. In this way, the command and cooperation problem of the sea wolf fleet was basically solved, and there will be no more command failure and cooperation at the beginning of training. The situation is chaotic.

This is particularly important for the Sea Wolf Group, so that it can command more flexibly and play a greater combat effectiveness than its opponents at sea.

In addition, the sea wolf's fleet still focuses on practicing their unique linear queue. In addition, Yu Xiaotian also made a human-shaped array formation again some time ago, because this formation is more powerful than the long vertical formation, which can deliver more firepower to the two wings in a short time and give full play to the command ability of the fleet. Second, it is easier to tear the opponent's fleet than the vertical formation, and the command is more flexible, which is more suitable for large-scale fleet battles. Third, the fleet can concentrate or divide part of the force after tearing the other fleet in a shorter time to surround the enemy's divided fleet and better eliminate the enemy. , a local advantage can be formed in the number of ships and firepower.

After several recent drills, Wang Hong and others have responded well to the effect of this herringbone, that is, the inverted V-shaped queue. They believe that this formation has quite good practicality, and has initially decided to adopt this formation once there is a battle with Chu Cai's old fleet.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also prepared a big gift for Chu Cailao for this upcoming battle in the past two months, only waiting for Chu Cai to make a big mistake.