Chapter 176 The Dutch fleet has arrived

The biggest problem at present is that he does not have enough production capacity to arm enough soldiers, especially the scale of his shooting, which is limited by the number of craftsmen. It is difficult to improve the production of guns after reaching a certain level. After all, he does not have any modern machinery to replace manual work at present. We can only rely on some simple and original machinery to improve the production accuracy. The production of most parts still depends on pure manpower. It is also impossible to continue to increase production.

In October, although the two places worked overtime for production, they only provided more than 200 new wolftooth rifles to the Seawolf Army and armed a company of pure * hands. If you want to change his entire army into wolf tooth rifles at present, at least It will take another half a year, so if Yu Xiaotian wants to explode the army now, the bottleneck of * production alone makes it impossible for him to carry out.

After taking stock of the strength at hand, Yu Xiaotian can only sigh. At present, it is most important for him to do the things in front of him. After solving this matter of the entry and army, it is not too late to say anything else.

However, he is really not worried about the advance and suppressing of the officers and army. On the surface, it seems that Fujian officials have used a lot of troops this time, but the movements of the officers and troops have also been paying attention to him. In the past few months, he has sent a large number of detailed works, scattered all over Fujian, staring at the officers and soldiers everywhere. Prepare the training situation.

Although Zhu Yifeng has vigorously rectified Fujian officers and soldiers, building cannons and training troops in the past year, but where the Ming system is placed? With his own efforts, it is impossible for him to reorganize Fujian officers and soldiers into an elite division in a short time.

Although the officers and soldiers in various places have strengthened some training, because the grain and salaries allocated by the government to the army must go through the hands of many officials, these officials will not retract their dirty hands because Zhu Yifeng wants to fight Nanri Island. Although Zhu Yifeng tried his best to raise a lot of silver grain, it was allocated to the officers and soldiers. , it still needs to be stripped layer by layer, and after it is in the hands of officers and soldiers, there is still not much left.

This was a lot of officials in vain. They took the opportunity to make a lot of money and filled their own pockets. Naturally, officers and soldiers who could not get enough food and salaries would not train honestly. In fact, the level of Fujian officers and soldiers has not improved much. Although Zhu Yifeng ran towards the barracks in two days, He urged the soldiers to prepare for the war, but the generals only pretended to pull out the officers and soldiers at hand to practice and put on display when he went there.

Zhu Yifeng didn't know how to deceive the top and the bottom, but they all fell into the eyes of the sea wolf, and soon sent them back to the wolf's den with pigeons. It was simply a joke that the officers and soldiers wanted to drive his sea wolf from Nanri Island!

As for those officers and sailors, it seems that they have increased a lot of ships during this period and forcibly recruited many fishermen to join the army, but the drills are not very good at all. At best, they go to sea for a walk to let the soldiers and sailors on the ship familiarize themselves with each other and the skills of boating.

Although many ships have been modified with Hongyi cannons, these officially cast Hongyi cannons are dead, and the quality does not seem to be very good. In order to deduct some money, officials rarely let the officers and soldiers on the ship fire live ammunition. Many officers and soldiers gunners, very Not even a single shot has been released, and the official will report a lot of ammunition consumption.

The ammunition will be secretly sold by them to some people who want these things. At this time, many coastal and even mainland gentry have built their own castles outside the city and bought some artillery in private, but it is not easy to prepare gunpowder. This is a technical job, not Anyone can prepare gunpowder at will, so many gentry will contact the generals through private channels to buy gunpowder from the army at a high price.

As a result, the ammunition that was supposed to be trained by the officers and soldiers was sold by the officials. Even the sea wolf himself hooked up with Zhang Jiace, a deputy general of Fujian, through secret channels. A guy bought thousands of gunpowder and tens of thousands of pounds of cast iron shells and iron for casting shells from Zhang Jiace. .

Last year, Zhang Jiace was impeached and accused of his poor command and refused to send troops to rescue Nanri Village, which led to the burning of Nanri Water Village by sea wolves.

In order to avoid the crime, Zhang Jiace actually spent a large amount of money and made some blood, which saved his deputy general from being dismissed, but it also caused him a lot of losses. Now when he encounters such an opportunity, how can he not try his best to make money, so he tried his best to deduct food and salaries, and even reduce ammunition. Deduct it and sell it. As for who buys it, he doesn't care, as long as he pays.

It's a joke that the officers and soldiers also want to destroy the sea wolf. Let some officers and soldiers who have never fired guns fight with the fleet armed to the sea wolf's teeth is simply sending vegetables to the door. If the sea wolf's fleet can't take them, then the sea wolf should really find a place to wash and sleep.

A fleet of seven large Western-style splint ships finally appeared outside the port. The port's forts immediately sounded a roar of salute, and the Western-style fleet slowly sailing into the port also began to fire salutes, and the whole port suddenly became lively.

Peter, the governor of the Netherlands, who is stationed in the general. Nuiz immediately led his members to the dock and looked happily at the fleet sent by their East India Company from Batavia.

Recently, they found that more and more sea wolf boats appeared near Dayuan Port, and sea wolf boats often began to beat dogs in the south of Dayuan Port, and sent personnel to land to explore the dog port.

Such an action made the new governor Peter. Nuiz was worried. Not long after Xu Xinsu brought the official news of Ming Fujian last year and the two sides agreed to deal with the sea wolf together, Peter found that the sea wolf began to strengthen its activities near the members.

This is not his most worried thing. Since the end of August, the sea wolf's ships have appeared more and more frequently on the sea in the big man's area, and it has also blocked the route to the big man's area, so that after entering the end of August, no ship has ever entered the big man's port.

From this point on, Peter felt that something was a little bad. He felt that their agreement with the Fujian official of the Ming Dynasty may have revealed the news, which attracted the hostility of the sea wolves to them, blocked the waterway to the big man, and no longer allowed any merchant ships to enter the port of Dayuan.

For this reason, Peter also sent two warships stationed to try to drive away from these sea wolves' ships, but the result was not ideal. Either the sea wolves ignored them and immediately turned around and sailed away when they saw their warships coming out, or simply fought against them.

Although the firepower of these sea wolves is not strong, the sailors on the Dutch warships found that they have a very fast-speed sloop, which is not the style of a Chinese-style klang ship, but the style of their Western-style fast sailboat.

This kind of ship is fast and operates very flexibly. Although the number of artillery on the ship is not large, it is not easy to underestimate, because the artillery loaded on these ships are all Western-style guns. The projectiles fired are probably similar to the weight of the main gun on their warship, with a long range and high accuracy.

The two sides have had several conflicts on the ocean around the members. These dhow fast sailboats took the initiative to fight with their warships. The other side often used a one-shot fight. Several ships acted at the same time. After a long-range shelling, they immediately turned around and drove away without waiting for the two sides to close-range artillery battle. .

And these fast sailboats flying the sea wolf flag are fast, flexible, and have a high ability to sail, so that the Dutch warships that were beaten first can only stare and can't find a way to restrain the other party. They can only watch the other party stroll around them.

After several fights, the Dutch suffered losses, killed and injured several crew members, and the ship was also damaged, but it was not cheap at all.

The number of Dutch ships stationed by the officers himself is very limited. After learning about the situation, Peter dared not let the warships go out to expel these sea wolves' ships. He could only hope that the company would quickly send a fleet to lift the blockade of seawolves against them.

Now not only has the sea wolf blocked Dayuan Port and prevented others from going to Dayuan Port to trade with them, but also Yan Siqi, who used to deal with them, has stopped all interactions with the Dayuan Dutch.

The number of Dutch stationed on the staff is not large. In addition, there are many natives around them, who have always been hostile to them. In fact, the Dutch have weak control over the staff, far less powerful than others think.

Even if the Dutch have a lot*, these natives are difficult to deal with and always like to take a sneak attack against them. Once the Dutch are far away from their station, they will be attacked by the natives. This situation is not only encountered by the Dutch, including when Yan Siqi and Yu Xiaotian first landed in Taiwan. , and have also encountered it.

Dutch patrols often only dare to leave their station a few miles away, and dozens of people have to act together. Otherwise, if a few people leave the station a little farther away, they may be eaten by the natives, and their heads will be cut off by the natives, becoming a trophy for the natives to decorate their villages.

The natives of many tribes in Taiwan have the habit of headhunting. Sometimes they don't do anything, but because they like headhunting to decorate their villages and show off their power, so they will attack strangers.