Chapter 152 The Maximum Value of Squeezing

Yu Xiaotian looked at the performance of these passionate captives with satisfaction. Everything was expected by him, because according to his understanding of human nature, when a person loses everything, including the most basic dignity, the despair will make him crazy.

And he first let these Spanish prisoners suffer in the quarry and live without dignity (these people have hardly worn clothes since they were captured!) He can imagine the depression in the hearts of these people.

Now, not to mention that he has offered such good conditions for these people, even if he only promised to dress them and make them full, he believes that these prisoners will immediately see blood like flies and beg him to serve him.

But he still sets out better conditions for these people, only requiring them to serve themselves for five years, which gives these people hope. In these five years, they will not have a negative slowdown because they can't see hope for the future. In order to make them work harder for themselves, he still doesn't The salary of these prisoners is not too low, which can motivate these prisoners to serve him seriously.

He took a fancy to these prisoners because they were still very useful to him. Among these prisoners, especially those sailors, were good at operating Western galleys, although it was impossible for him to return these two Western galleys to these guys to operate.

But he can take advantage of these sailors, especially some experienced sailors, who have high navigation technology, especially ocean navigation technology, which is not available to Chinese people at present.

Even he, who returns to this era from the future, does not have the skills that these Spanish sailors have.

At present, Chinese people are basically used to sailing along the coastline, keeping within a visual distance from the coastline, relying on coastal landmarks to indicate the course. At least there are some islands along the way to provide them with guidance. Although the Chinese have also been using a compass to indicate the direction, they will also Use the star technique to help find the direction and determine their position.

But the Chinese have never created the concept of latitude and longitude, and Western navigators have now created more complete navigation technology, and have also invented images, right angles and quadrants. The most important thing is the quadrant, that is, the quadrant, so that they can determine their in the sea through quadrants. Location.

So far, few Chinese people have understood this. Yu Xiaotian found a quadrant on the two Spanish ships captured this time.

And he doesn't use this quadrant at present. He just knows some principles. For the sextant, he knows what it is, but at present, he doesn't need to "invent" this sextant, because for the time being, he doesn't need to let his men sail. When he wants to let his men sail around the world, he will naturally However, it will be to get this kind of nautical artifact.

For the time being, he needs these experienced Spanish sailors to train sailors who are good at sailing for him to prepare for the future, and these people will have the value of being used.

And temporarily operate these two large splint ships. He also needs these Spanish sailors to teach his men how to operate these two ships, which may also be three, because another Spanish shipwrecked in the area of Chicken Cage Bay. At this time, Yu Xiaotian has arranged people In the past, several large sand boats were mobilized and began to salvage the ship.

If everything goes well, the ship should be salvaged in more than ten days and temporarily carried out basic overhaul on the side of Keelung Fort to see if it has repair value. If so, the ship will be towed to Nanri Island or the freshwater boat house for further repair work.

And among these prisoners, there are several doctors who know some Western medicine. Although Western medicine is not developed in this era and there are still many fallacies, they can also take advantage of them more or less to have some academic exchanges with the medical officers of the sea wolf so that the medical officers of the sea wolf can absorb some Western medical technology.

Even those Spanish infantry can't be said to be useless. Most of them are mercenaries, each of whom can skillfully operate muskets, and they are familiar with the formation of the Spanish phalanx, which can also make him absorb some of the current infantry combat methods of Western countries.

Before the rear-mounted rifle was invented, the way of shooting would have to last for a very long time. These Spanish infantry still have a certain role. After all, through the hearsay of later generations, the combat phalanxes he made in the barracks was still a little non-of-ordinary in some places. With these Spanish After the infantry, he can improve the infantry phalanx of his battalion, and with more infantry tactics he knows, so that his infantry combat effectiveness can surpass the combat effectiveness of the infantry phalanx of other countries in this era.

Of course, even without the addition of these Spanish infantry, after he began to equip his men with wolf-tooth rifles, the sea wolf's barracks battalion will quickly become the strongest infantry in the world. Because of the advantage in range, they can give a fatal blow to the enemy 300 steps away, and even if the enemy It has the best arson gun at present, with an effective range of only about 70 meters, and in most cases, the enemy can only have an effective range of about 50 meters at most. His soldiers can use wolf tooth rifles to easily defeat the opponent at a long distance without waiting for the other party to line up.

Even if he meets the enemy's cavalry, his infantry will not suffer losses, because even the strongest Taran cavalry at present must start the war horse beyond 200 steps when launching the charge. After 200 steps, the war horse will not be able to accelerate to the fastest speed and maintain enough physical strength. It's too early. At the beginning, when rushing to the front of the enemy, the horses have often lost their fastest speed and impact.

And 200 steps is also the most effective shooting range of the wolf tooth rifle. Before the opponent's cavalry begins to charge, his * hands can already have enough time to hit the opponent with fire before the enemy's whole team starts to charge.

But he still doesn't mind absorbing some Spanish infantry to help him improve his current infantry tactics, which will be of great help to continue to improve his infantry combat effectiveness.

So these prisoners, without exception, finally chose to sign a contract to serve him for five years, and these prisoners began to be re-screened after signing the agreement. In fact, before that, when these prisoners were in Keelung Fort, they had already carried out their commanders. Once registered and registered, this time to re-screen, it's just to ask them to supplement their strengths and try their best to do their best in the future.

The total number of prisoners with the first batch of personnel was 276, of which the number of infantry accounted for more than half, nearly 500, and the sailors accounted for more than 300 and less than 400. This is because the infantry in the chicken cage bay war, except for the first batch of people sent to attack * Taiwan suffered heavy losses. In addition, the rest of the infantry are basically peacefully disarmed, so the loss is not great.

The sailors suffered heavy losses. They were killed and injured a lot in the fierce battle. Some people sank into the sea with the ship and drowned alive, and only less than 400 people were finally captured.

So these people were reassigned according to their commanders. The infantry really had no advantages. They were assigned to the garrison of Keelung Fort and Tamsui City as ordinary soldiers and used in the military sequence. Some of the members who were good at infantry tactics were assigned to various battle units. The position was war. The technical instructor and another group of people were assigned to the new barracks of the soldiers as tactical instructors or artillery instructors.

However, prisoners who become instructors can get a higher salary, while prisoners of ordinary soldiers can only get the most basic salary. Of course, if they make achievements in the battle, there are still additional rewards.

As for the sailors, two captains, as well as several sailors and sailors, are assigned to serve as instructors in the marine new barracks and can get the highest salary, while ordinary sailors are assigned to serve as artillery instructors or ordinary sailors in the camp.

In this way, the sea wolf has suddenly gained a lot of manpower, and these people are professionals, which can play a good role in promoting the quality of the sea wolf, water and land armies in the future.

Although the sea wolf's gunnery is the best among its peers, it still lacks systematic education in terms of gun operation, especially in long-range shelling calculation, just relying on their exploration. Many of these Spanish sailors and infantry have received professional gunnery training and overall quality. To go beyond the sea wolf's gunners, the reason why they are used is to let the sea wolf learn some more practical experience and skills from them.

However, in terms of the use of these people, the sea wolf adopts surveillance, especially for some people who used to be officers, and strengthens the monitoring.

Yu Xiaotian also gave these former Spanish officers a task, which is to submit some military regulations and training methods they know in writing within two months. If they write well, they can be paid extra, but if they are perfunctory and refuse to write carefully. , their salary will be deducted, and they will be demoted, and even assigned to the quarry to continue to work hard.

Yu Xiaotian has always had a headache in compiling various regulations, because he is not a soldier and has a limited knowledge of the regulations formulated by the army. He can only explore the formulation of some regulations and norms, but it has never been systematic enough, and there are many shortcomings. Now After arresting such Spanish officers, they have served in the standard Western army and have learned a lot.

These things are exactly what Yu Xiaotian and the sea wolf need. Yu Xiaotian intends to squeeze out what they have learned as much as possible during this period of time, and then revise them for his own use.