It's just that one of the two large plywood ships had a broken mast at that time, and there was no ready-made mast material on Nanri Island, so after the repair was completed, it had to be sent to the Tamsui City Ship Dormitory, where a large material was selected, made into a mast, and loaded on the ship to restore it completely.

After the restoration work was completed and the ship was undocked and launched, the ship was immediately sent to the Tamsui City Shipyard, which had already selected the wood for the ship, prepared the mast in advance, and began to load the mast on the ship as soon as the ship arrived.

Through this large-scale refurbishment of the two ships, the shipyard also obtained first-hand information on the construction of the Galen ship, made a thorough survey of the two ships, and asked a Spanish sailor who knew how to make a cartography to help the shipyard draw detailed structural drawings and line drawings of both ships, and calibrate the data.

In this way, the sea wolf's shipyard has obtained a certain ability to imitate this kind of Galen ship, and the next step is for Yu Xiaotian to build a replica Galen ship on the side of the freshwater shipyard to exercise the ability of his shipwrights to build this kind of Western-style galleon.

As for the sailors who operated the two boats, it began before these two boats were repaired.

Now they had a sufficient number of Spanish sailors, which could have fully met his needs for operating two galleons, but how could Yu Xiaotian rest assured that these two ships would be operated by these Spaniards, so their job was only to teach the skills of operating these two ships to the naval sailors of the sea wolf.

The biggest difficulty in operating this Western-style galleon is not the problem of steering, now both ships have been transformed into steering wheel operating mechanisms, but the Spaniards no longer know what to do, the main problem is how to operate the sails.

The sail of the Western-style galleon is very complicated, the operation is far more complex than the Chinese-style hard sail, and the skill requirements of the sailor are also very high, the sailor has to climb to the mast, walk back and forth on the mast against the strong wind and waves or even the wind and waves, operate the truss sail, and fall into a meatloaf if he accidentally falls down, even if he falls into the sea, under the strong wind and waves, there is no chance to rescue them, so he has no courage to do this kind of thing at all.

The Seawolves lacked experience in the operation of such galleons, let alone professional sailors, so they had to rely on the Spaniards to help them train their sailors.

The Seawolf's original training ship could not carry out such training work, and both ships were repaired in the dockyard and the masts were removed, so it was also impossible to carry out training.

However, Yu Xiaotian still wanted to put these two ships into use before the official army and the Dutch fleet came to attack Nanri Island in October.

So Yu Xiaotian simply ordered to build a simulated mast according to the masts of these two ships in the naval training camp in Tamsui City, and hang a full set of sails to simulate the training of sailors there.

As for the source of sailors, the sailors of each ship of the Navy were asked to sign up on their own, and then they were selected in a unified manner, and a group of sailors with good physical strength, courage, and strong balance ability were selected and sent to the Freshwater Navy training camp for training in a quantity of one to two, and a batch was eliminated and a batch was reserved, which was just enough.

In addition, there is good news, that is, the Spanish galleon that sits in the shallow water of Jonlong Bay, after several failed attempts with the sea wolf's huge investment of manpower and material resources, finally succeeded in floating, and dragged it to the shore, began a simple plugging repair, and then will be temporarily moved into Jonlong Bay for preliminary repairs, and will be sent to Nanri Island for major repairs before the end of the year.

After floating, the personnel of the navy have carefully inspected the ship, the main structure of the ship is not badly damaged, mainly due to the unlucky, the waterline position was hit by several near-arrow bombs of the sea wolf in a row, and several near-arrow bombs fell on the sea surface first, bounced up and continued to fly forward, just hit the waterline position of the ship, and hit several big holes in the waterline of the hull.

The ship was on the run, there was no time to plug the leak, and in order to break out of the encirclement, it made a large maneuver, which caused a large amount of seawater to pour into the hull from these holes, and by the time they wanted to repair it, it was too late, so they had to rush to the beach and sink in the shallow water, and the result was cheaper for the sea wolf.

The preliminary inspection concluded that the ship was still worth repairing, and that the age of the ship was only two years, so it can be said that it was in the youth of the ship, and the erosion in the sea water was not serious, after all, the time was relatively short, and the water depth was not large, so it was not seriously damaged.

So if this ship is also repaired, the Seawolf now has three large plywood ships, and it will be difficult to dominate the Chinese sea.

As for the guns originally loaded on these ships, Yu Xiaotian had already seen them, and he really didn't look down on these cannons cast by the Spaniards, although they were also well-cast, but the tolerances were much larger than those of the guns cast by the sea wolves, and the weight was relatively large, which seemed very clumsy.

Although these guns also used four-wheeled gun mounts, (the Spaniards used two-wheeled land gun mounts on the ships of the previous Armada, which was very troublesome to operate, and it was originally intended that after attacking the British islands, the ship's cannons could be unloaded to the shore for the offensive army, but in naval battles, the rate of fire and accuracy were greatly affected, and the operation was also very inconvenient, occupying a large area on the ship's deck, and the number of sailors on the ship who professionally operated the guns was insufficient, It was also the reason for the final defeat of the Spaniards) but these guns were still too stupid, so that the number of guns equipped with the whole ship was affected, not to mention, but also affected the center of gravity of the ship, making it a bit too high.

Therefore, after carefully inspecting these Spaniards' naval guns, Yu Xiaotian finally decided to replace all the naval guns on these two ships with the naval guns produced by Seawolf, so that if the weight of the naval guns remains the same, the weight of the projectile per unit time of fire delivery will exceed that of Western-style warships of the same level, and even if the firepower output capacity remains unchanged, the weight will be greatly reduced.

The most important thing is that the tolerance of the inner diameter of the Seawolf's self-made artillery is small, and the tolerance that the projectile can be manufactured is also smaller, so that the accuracy of the artillery can be improved, and the supply is also easy, and there is no need to cast shells specifically for these Spanish naval guns, which will reduce the pressure on logistics a lot.

As for these naval guns of Spanish origin, Yu Xiaotian will not be willing to smash them back into the furnace, in the future, he plans to sell these naval guns in batches, one cannon can earn thousands of taels of silver, these dozens of cannons, but they can be exchanged for a large amount of silver, which can be used to buy fine iron, at least enough for him to cast hundreds of cannons.

Therefore, during the repair of these two ships, Yu Xiaotian ordered the Keelung Fort to make a cannon and went all out to cast twenty-four pounders for these two ships, as the fire pillar of these two ships, and at the same time, in order to improve the intensity of the close fire of these two ships, he ordered the Tamsui City Cannon to be used as his casting 32-pounder Caron gun, and at the same time to make two 48-pounder Caron guns, ready to be installed on these two Spanish galleons.

After the successful test of the 32-pounder Caron gun, it has begun to be produced in small batches, and it is equipped with Feizi clippers and strengthened Fu ships, and individual ships with strong hulls can also be equipped with two, but Yu Xiaotian especially feels that he is insufficient, and feels that if he wants to make the sea wolf have an absolute firepower advantage at sea, it is necessary to continue to develop a larger caliber cannon.

Immediately afterwards, a request was put forward to continue the trial production of the 48-pounder Caron, and this 48-pounder Caron gun could be temporarily used as a super-heavy naval gun to equip individual ships, and now these two Spanish galleons have become the first batch of target ships for trial installation.

The 48-pounder Caron cannon can project shells weighing more than 40 pounds each time, and even if it is smashed, it can also smash the enemy ship, not to mention that this kind of cannon can be equipped with explosive grenades, and a lot of gunpowder can be stuffed into the hollow shells, which is much more powerful than the howites used by the 12-pounder guns and 24-pounder guns.

It was used to deal with the artillery batteries set up on the shore by the officers and troops, and then the 24-pounder guns were first suppressed by long-range fire, and then the 48-pounder Caron guns were used to attack them closely.

Even the large splint ships currently operating in Asia do not have heavy guns of this caliber for the time being, and as long as they are equipped with a small amount, the sea wolves will basically be able to run rampant along the coast of Asia for a long time in the future.

Under the supervision of Yu Xiaotian, all parts of the country have formulated production plans, according to the demand to go all out to start production, artillery will continue to cast a new gun, equipped to the navy and the army, guns are also a batch of new wolf tooth rifles continue to be produced, equipped into the army, and the navy accounted for most of the artillery share is different, these new wolf tooth rifles are basically equipped to the army.

This made the army officers such as Li Dazui and Meng Fei finally psychologically balanced, they have always coveted the cannons produced by the continuous production of those cannons, and they can only watch the continuous equipment to the navy, while the army can only play tiger squat cannons and small twelve-pounder mountain howitzers, at best, they control the shore guns in some batteries, but this time when the sea wolf made adjustments, the shore guns were assigned to the jurisdiction of the navy by Yu Xiaotian.

The army basically has no heavy artillery at all, and even some of the soldiers in the original army have been allocated to the navy along with the shore artillery, which makes the army quite unhappy about this.

But as compensation, Yu Xiaotian promised the army that in the future, the wolf's tooth rifles produced by the gun would mainly be supplied to the army first, which made the army guys a little satisfied.

(I talk about the cold wind, and from today this month it will return to two shifts a day, and I will never break my promise!) Today is the beginning of a new month, and I hope that all of you will raise your noble hands and leave your monthly pass to me, thank you for the cold wind! Besides, there are activities that are being carried out now, so you might as well participate in it, and it will be beneficial if you don't get it right! Hehe! The cold wind is here to thank you brothers in advance! ）