Chapter 169 Acceptance Results

Several ships on the sea formed a fleet and marched on the undulating sea. Under the leadership of a blessing ship, all the ships kept doing various movements according to the changed flags on the blessing ship, sometimes left and right, sometimes separated, and sometimes gathered together.

Yu Xiaotian stood on the stern of the blessing boat, observing the movements of the other four boats, frowning from time to time, or smiling.

At present, the lucky ship has been renamed the Seawolf and became the flagship of his handsome ship, which is also the Sea Wolf Gang. The former Sea Wolf has been renamed Sea Lion at this time, and the newly captured boat was named Seahawk by him.

And today is also the first time these ships set sail collectively, but their purpose is not to go to sea to plunder, but to have several other purposes. The first purpose is to test the effect of the newcomers after a month of training, and the second purpose is to test the effect of his modified flag order. The third is to carry out another sea whaling operation.

Needless to say, the purpose of the whaling operation is very simple. It is to meet their needs for meat, and at the same time, obtain more whale oil as their commodities and raw materials for making candles. At the same time, it also tempers the courage of the masses to let them see the bloody scenes.

During this period, Yu Xiaotian took time to modify the flag order previously set up to make it more detailed, which can better convey the information between their fleets and meet his command activities for each ship. This time, whaling is also just to test the effectiveness of the new flag order.

In order to better meet the transmission of information between the ships of the fleet, all the fighting at present have reduced the workload of the messengers at the same time. In addition to acting as watchmen on the mast, they also need to pay attention to the flags raised by each ship, identify the meaning contained in various flags, and report it to the boss of the ship on their ships. Know.

At present, Yu Xiaotian has appointed full-time captains of the four ships. In this era, among the officers and sailors, the person responsible for managing a ship is called robbers, and the private merchant ships are called stewards. However, Yu Xiaotian insists on him and calls the captain of a ship a captain, which simply and directly shows him. Our identity.

The captains of the four ships are Liu Laoliu, Seal Meng Maniac, Sea Lion Hu Cheng, Sea Eagle Ma Xiao, Sea Eagle Zhao Mazi, and Zhao Mazi are not at home for the time being, so they will be temporarily replaced by Han Xian.

These people are all old guys with rich navigation experience. As a former pirate leader, Ma Xiao's experience in activities at sea should not be underestimated. In addition, it is reasonable to give him a ship leader.

It's just that Hu Cheng, who is not very revealing at ordinary times, was appointed as the captain of the Sea Lion in this personnel adjustment, which surprised everyone a little.

However, Yu Xiaotian did this, but he had a reason. Although Hu Cheng was not very bold before, he was unwilling to follow him in the pirate industry at first.

However, after he was forced to follow Yu Xiaotian to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian took his family from Fu'an County. At the same time, the arrival of the boatman's children also made him understand that even if Yu Xiaotian let him go home, he would not live.

So after Hu Cheng was picked up by Treasure Island at home, he began to follow Yu Xiaotian wholeheartedly.

He used to work for a long time, and there was no problem with the helmsman. He has accumulated a lot of experience in sailing at sea all year round. No matter what happens on the ship, he can basically do it, which is very important for Xiaotian.

Several times when he went to sea to hunt, Hu Chengdu has been following him. He is getting bolder and working harder and harder. In addition, he is older, and the young descendants also obey him. Finally, when appointing the first captain, Yu Xiaotian chose him as the captain of the Sea Lion, which makes Hu Cheng even more grateful to Xiaotian, even Lian said that he would never live up to Xiaotian and would bring the Sea Lion.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also appointed a vice captain for each ship, who can replace the captain and replace the captain to command the ship.

Each of these five ships is equipped with six to eight crew members, as a full-time sailor, a helmsman, a trainee helmsman, three to five hand, and a sniper and a partner. These people will no longer change at will in the future.

The other four ships that can fight are equipped with 15 to 30 soldiers or trainee soldiers. As a transport ship, the walrus is usually not worthy of full-time soldiers and will be temporarily deployed when needed. At this time, soldiers were also renamed as soldiers by Yu Xiaotian. Soldiers are usually responsible for rough work. Fighting and killing is Their main responsibilities, and everyone has other divisions of labor.

Among these soldiers, some are responsible for manipulating artillery, some are responsible for manipulating firearms*, some are responsible for bows and arrows, and each ship has a part-time person responsible for damage management on the ship, including upper fighting, all of them are integrated into the soldiers. Once they fight with people, when they are far away, everyone attacks the enemy with long-range weapons, once they are helpful. Then these soldiers will change into knives and guns to fight with the enemy.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian's men were few and could not divide the division of labor in detail, but now he has more ships and the number of his men has also increased a lot, so the responsibilities of the personnel on the ship have also been divided more clearly.

In order to prevent the emergence of small groups within the sea wolf, Yu Xiaotian disrupted all the new and old personnel and grouped them. Ma Xiao's old departments were also scattered and assigned to each ship, including the old people from Xiaohuangdao, who were also scattered. Moreover, the soldiers were divided into five people and set up a commander to manage the remaining four people. In the future, they often Mobilizers are carried out on various ships.

In this way, it is very difficult for some people to form a gang to form a small group. Yu Xiaotian does not want his subordinates to form small groups like the Shark Gang in the future, competing with each other and have many internal contradictions, so from the beginning, he made up his mind to curb it institutionally first. The occurrence of this situation.

After going to sea this time, I was quite adaptable to the activities of the previous old subordinates and the old troops brought by Ma Xiao, but the performance of the latest group of subordinates deceived by them was really a little miserable.

Although this group of new people have gradually become at ease and adapted to life on the island after a month of isolation primary training. After all, Sea Wolf provides a quite good food supply for the people. Even before they become migrant, they rarely enjoy such a good food. The meal.

And here, in addition to having more rules, they have to be practiced every day and feel a little tired. However, in the past, no matter what they did, they were also not easy. They also got up early and were greedy for the dark, but they may not be able to take care of food and clothing. At least here they have a kind of The feeling of stability, coupled with the initial killing of chickens and monkeys by killing monkeys in Xiaotian, let them see his fierce methods, these people basically no longer want to return to being a migrant, and gradually get used to obedience.

But after all, many of these people have never been to sea. They have worked on the ship and suddenly let them go to sea. Many guys were shaken by the boat and began to get seasick. After going to sea, there were trainee newcomers on each ship who fell down and vomited in a mess, not to mention letting them work and lying on them. They all feel very uncomfortable, which can be said to be embarrassing.

For such a situation, Yu Xiaotian is psychologically prepared. After all, it always takes a process of adaptation for people who have never taken a boat to suddenly switch to pirates. Once they go to sea, these people will gradually get used to it. The group of people who came from Dongshan Village before also came here in the same way. Now most of them have They are used to this kind of life, and some people stand out. A guy like Li Dazui has now become the head of soldiers, and his subordinates can take care of many soldiers.

Of course, there are also some human constitutions that have not been able to adapt to the life on the ship. No matter what they do, they will faint as soon as they get on the boat, so some people are removed full-time and stay in the stockade to learn to make iron from Zhang blacksmith, or follow Guo Fu to repair the ship. Some people are sent to learn from Xu's honest craftsman. Craft, but most people can still adapt to it.

After several ships went to sea, they practiced on the sea while looking for traces of whales. Because of the limitations of the conditions on ships in this era, whether it is fishing or whaling, they can't solve the problem of preservation. The only thing they can keep fresh is boiled sea salt, so this also limits them from going too far. Fishing or whaling operations are carried out in the place.

Otherwise, even if they catch more, they will not come back to deal with it, and the catch will deteriorate and rot on the ship.

So this also restricts them from whaling farther away. They can only carry out activities near Treasure Island. Once a whale is caught, they can immediately be dragged back to the island for segmentation.

Fortunately, in this era, the marine resources are very rich, and the number of whales is far more than that of later generations. In addition, this area is also an area where whales often live, so whaling is not very difficult for them.

Just over half a day later, the upper bucket of the Seahawk in front found traces of a group of whales, so it immediately raised the flag, notified other ships, and began to follow the group of whales.

People who had a whaling experience immediately became excited, but for people who came out to participate in whaling for the first time, they were very nervous. Like those who went to sea for whaling for the first time, they couldn't believe that they could kill such a big sea beast with their manpower, which was hard to imagine. Elephant.

If they hadn't eaten whale meat on Treasure Island and seen the skeleton of the whale shelved on the beach, they couldn't believe that Yu Xiaotian had taken someone to kill a whale.

The walrus is slow and can only follow the fleet slowly, but the other four ships are relatively faster, especially the two bird boats Seal and Sea Lion, which are the fastest, so the two boats ran in front, and Yu Xiaotian took the new Sea Wolf and Seahawk tight. Then he chased the whales.

The whales they found this time are the same as last time. They belong to minke whales, which are more suitable for hunting. After more than an hour of tracking, they gradually approached this small group of whales.

Each ship immediately put down the sump, and the whaling tools were prepared. Under the sailors' hard oars, several sumps quickly began to approach the whales.

Yu Xiaotian was still the first to board this time. After all, these guys don't have enough experience in whaling, so he needs to take them again.

(Today, I would like to thank baggio770526, the wind and the ten-day full moon, hehe!)