Chapter 163 Evacuation of Nanri Island

Due to the serious lack of animal power, the army has been limited in the number of guns equipped with artillery, and the types of guns equipped are always limited to light tiger squat guns and 12-pound mountain howitzers. Even if the mountain howitzer is already very light, the front car with gun rack and two ammunition boxes is less than 1,000 catties. However, the lack of mules and horses still allows them to be equipped with only one artillery company, with only eight guns in total. Each gun needs ten gunners to serve, and the remaining more than 100 people belong to the transporters of the artillery company.

During the operation of the artillery company, the remaining more than 100 soldiers are mainly responsible for replacing mules and horses towing artillery, or pushing a unicycle to transport ammunition, which is a standard method for animal soldiers. If they encounter long-distance or long-term exercise, it is estimated that the number of personnel transporting ammunition alone, and It needs to be at least tripled.

So the army is very dissatisfied with this. This time, in response to the large-scale attack on Nanri Island by the officers and soldiers, Yu Xiaotian specially allowed to add an artillery company to the army, but the personnel did not increase, but only increased the number of artillery, because their main land battlefield will be on Nanri Island, and artillery does not need to be carried out. Long-distance maneuvers are only short-range maneuvers on the island, so it can withstand an increase in the number of artillery.

The firepower of the artillery company immediately doubled, bringing it to 16 12-pound mountain howitzers, with quite strong firepower in this time and space.

In order to strengthen the firepower of the battle infantry company, Haiwolves now set up a reinforced artillery squad for each battle infantry company, a total of 20 people plus two donkeys, equipped with four tiger squat guns to strengthen firepower when fighting at close range.

In response to the next possible retaliatory action on land, Yu Xiaotian's special army added two more companies. The new barracks temporarily added some auxiliary soldiers and militia to each infantry company, selected personnel from each infantry company and formed two new infantry companies.

And *'s equipment has reached about 2,000 sea wolves at this time, most of which are the previously produced South Japanese tuff guns, that is, front-mounted smoothbore tuff guns, but by the end of September, the two guns had produced more than 300 new wolf tooth rifles for them.

Some of the new rifles were distributed to companies at all levels as sniper rifles, and three sniper teams were set up, each with four sniper teams, with a total of four sniper teams, so that they can directly hunt the officers among the enemy on the front battlefield during the battle.

A small part of the most accurate wolf tooth rifle was assigned to the special forces, replacing the precision smoothbore rifle previously equipped in the special forces, making it more wing-like and can fight the enemy hundreds of meters away.

However, for the remaining 200 wolf-tooth rifles, Yu Xiaotian did not adopt the distribution method of Sami, but concentrated on a light infantry company all armed with wolf-tooth rifles, canceling the formation of the spearmen in the company.

But this light infantry company is different from those light infantry in history, because some light infantry in Europe in history did not equip their thorn guns with bayonets, while the light infantry company newly formed by Sea Wolf was equipped with bayonets.

Yu Xiaotian specifically told the villagers of the immigrant village on Nanri Island that if they are worried, they can choose to leave Nanri Island now, but instead of driving them back to land, they can be moved to the freshwater and settled separately.

Some immigrants on Nanri Island accepted such a suggestion, because they also feel that Nanri Island is too close to the mainland and may be subjugated by officials from time to time. The safety of life here is not very high, and the land on Nanri Island is not very fertile, and there is little land that can be used as paddy fields. Only a small amount of rice can be planted, and others can only grow some dryland crops, such as sweet potatoes, sorghum and newly introduced corn potatoes. The yield is not very high, and irrigation is not very convenient.

Now the head of the sea wolf promised that if they went to Tamsui City, they could replace their land, how many fields were planted here, and how much waste land they would be given there for them to cultivate, so some people chose to leave here and go todan shui City to reset their homes.

But most people are unwilling to give up here, because they are really reluctant to abandon the hard-won land. The most difficult thing in farmland development is to reclaim wasteland. From reclamation to now, these lands have just begun to mature. It's really a pity to go on like this, so most of them It's better to choose to stay separately.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered to merge the original slightly scattered immigrant villages on the island, abandon several villages with small population, poor land and small arable land, and merge them into several nearby large villages. In this way, the large village built a strong village fortress and had strong defense, even in the future. When Rijima encountered the enemy attack again, all the villages did not have to withdraw to take refuge in the wolf cave as last time. After their village was closed and locked, they could use the militia organized by the village to protect themselves.

And the navy is also working hard to prepare for this war. In addition to stockpiling various war materials, the three naval fleets have not gone to their newly designated activity areas for the time being. Only a small number of ships of the Second and Third Fleet went to their control area to carry out activities and garrison first. To show their existence, all the main forces of the fleet stayed on Nanri Island, temporarily stationed in the eastern bay, and carried out large-scale combat training on the sea.

The key point is that the two captured Spanish sailboats have been repaired for a period of time in the Nanri Island Shipyard, and the original battered hull and broken boards have been removed, replaced with brand-new shipboards, and the damaged parts have also been replaced and added. Strong, there were many water leakage in the hull. This renovation carried out a thorough re-stitching operation on all hull seams, which solved the problem of original water seepage

At the same time, a large-scale cleaning of the inside and outside of the ship has been carried out, and the corners are not allowed to refresh the inside and outside. All the boards have been planed by the carpentry, revealing the original wood color.

During the renovation, some useless things on the ship were removed, and the damaged ones were replaced. The existing mast was maintained and strengthened, some iron hoop was added, the strength of the mast was strengthened, and the statue at the bow position was removed. The most important thing is to deeply transform the original operating mechanism of the ship. A set of now mature steering wheel operating mechanism has been replaced, which has improved the operational performance of the ship considerably than before.

After the repair of the whole ship, the bottom of the ship was also covered with a layer of copper skin to prevent the erosion of sea maggots in the future. Inside and outside the ship, it was brushed with tung oil, and some wood tar and asphalt were applied to the key parts for corrosion.

After this large-scale renovation, the condition of the two ships has returned to a state that has almost been built, allowing it to be used for a considerable period of time.

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