Taking advantage of the fact that there was no news from the shark Zhang Hu's side, Yu Xiaotian ordered to start repairing the ship immediately, and at the same time sent Zhao Mazi again to Dalian Island to find the Li family, and handed over some of the whale oil, whale baleen and a small amount of whale bones that they could not use for the time being to the Li family for sale.

This shipment is also of great significance to them, this is the first time that they have obtained goods through their own labor, not through robbery and robbery, at least it shows that in addition to being pirates, they can also obtain more wealth through other methods.

Shun Yi Xiaotian deliberately asked Zhao Mazi to purchase hundreds of coarse porcelain bottles the size of wine bottles in the Li family, now they are fighting people at sea, lack of heavy artillery, many times they have to rely on the method of fire attack to deal with the enemy, they did not have enough fire oil before, even if it is such a primitive fire attack weapon, they do not have much.

But now they had plenty of whale oil, which, in addition to being edible and serving as lubricant, burned very fiercely, and was put in a porcelain bottle, and when necessary, it was used as an incendiary bomb to ignite and throw it on the enemy ship, as long as there were many of them, it was enough for the enemy to drink a pot.

After sending Zhao Mazi away, Yu Xiaotian continued to lead people to step up the training in groups and start repairing the ship, but Yu Xiaotian did not let everyone and the help of the two mules on the island first, through the slipway winch and pulley group, first pulled his ship Seawolf ashore and fixed it on the temporary simple slipway.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian wanted to clean up the Seawolf first was because after the Seawolf had been running at sea for a few months, under the immersion of the seawater for a few months, a layer of sea creatures had grown on the bottom of the ship.

In order to cope with the possibility of large-scale naval conflicts in the future, he must first repair the main battle ship to ensure that the chain will not fall off in a critical situation.

So this time, he still ordered his subordinates and Guo Fu's apprentices to repair the Seawolf first.

The bottom part of the sea wolf once again produced a layer of barnacles and other sea creatures, although it is not too thick, but this will also affect its speed, everyone worked together, only half a day's work, the bottom of the ship was cleaned again, Guo Fu from the blacksmith Zhang, found some iron filings, iron pieces and other materials, jingling nails to the bottom of the ship.

This can reduce the attachment of some marine organisms to some extent, if you can apply a layer of tar, whether it is wood tar or coal tar, before there is no modern coating, this is a more effective way to prevent the attachment of marine organisms, but unfortunately they do not have tar on hand at present, so they can only take some trouble to remove the bottom of the ship a few more times.

Moreover, Guo Fu took his son and apprentice to conduct a careful inspection of other parts of the Seawolf, plugged a few slight leaks in the hull, and strengthened the mast base.

Blacksmith Zhang helped, and gave the foremast that was somewhat split, and made three pairs of iron hoops, so that Guo Fu led people to press on the foremast and reinforce the foremast.

The amount of such overhaul work is not large, and Guo Fu is a relatively experienced shipwright, so it only took three days for the Seawolf to complete the overhaul, not to mention becoming cleaner and cleaner, and all parts of the hull have been reinforced.

On the evening of the third day, when the tide was rising, under the order of Yu Xiaotian, the bracket supporting the hull was removed, and under the impetus of everyone, the Seawolf once again squeaked down the beach along the slipway, and the hull stirred up a big wave in the sea, and the Seawolf returned to the sea again.

"Helm handle, there are a lot of sea maggots on this ship, I am afraid that it will be difficult to remove them for a while, and as time goes by, the sea maggots will penetrate the ship's board if they are not good, and the ship will leak at that time!" I'm afraid this ship will be ruined! Guo Fu walked behind Yu Xiaotian, who was watching the launch of the Seawolf, and pointed to the Seawolf and reminded Xiaotian.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Is it so serious?" How good is that? ”

Guo Fu shook his head and said: "The helm handle doesn't have to worry too much, there is a way to solve it easily, when the helm handle takes the boat out of the river in the near future, you might as well take the boat to find the mouth of the river, and berth for three or five days, the sea maggots at the bottom of the boat will naturally die, and there will be no trouble at that time!" As long as we send the boat to the river for a few days every once in a while, this sea maggot will naturally not be a problem! ”

According to Guo Fu, it is actually easy to understand that sea maggots are creatures that live in seawater, and they must have enough salt to survive.

So he hurriedly nodded his head in thanks, and made up his mind to go back and find an estuary as soon as possible to stop for a few days, and kill the sea maggots on the boat.

After the renovation of the Seawolf, it was the turn of the seal, at this time Zhao Mazi had returned from Dalian Island to Treasure Island, in addition to bringing back more than 400 taels of silver paid by the Li family, but also brought back more than 300 porcelain bottles, these porcelain bottles are all in the warehouses of various merchants on Dalian Island, stored sporadic goods, either a little defective, or the shape is not good, the backlog is not short.

The Li family came forward to collect these porcelain vases that were more in line with Yu Xiaotian's requirements, and the price was almost the same as giving them away for free, and handed them over to Zhao Mazi to bring back to Treasure Island.

Zhao Mazi came back this time and brought back a piece of news, that is, during the Chinese New Year, the mixed river dragon in the north became more and more arrogant, stretched out his hand longer, not only went south to the Matsu area, but even began to move in the Minjiang River Estuary and Aojiang Estuary after the year.

There are two pirates on the Fuzhou side, who ran into them and were even expelled by them, as well as Liu Yidao's boat, which was also almost caught by them, and now the trouble is getting worse and worse, it is estimated that the shark Zhang Hu will take action in the near future, and the Li family reminded Yu Xiaotian to let them be a little more careful.

After listening to the news brought back by Zhao Mazi, Yu Xiaotian calculated, more than half a month has passed since the festival, and the shark Zhang Hu is still dragging and has not made any reaction, which will inevitably make the mixed Jianglong side arrogant, and everyone will definitely think that the shark Zhang Hu has become less courageous, and he does not dare to meet his front, and it is strange not to take the opportunity to expand his territory to the south.

Now, if the shark Zhang Hu is still a shrinking turtle, then I am afraid that his position will not be guaranteed, and the small pirates around them, who are subject to Zhang Hu, will definitely gradually look down on Zhang Hu, and it is not impossible to switch to Mixed River Dragon, if nothing else, Zhang Hu should attack Mixed River Dragon in the next few days.

So I'm afraid there is not much time left for him to prepare, with his relationship with Wang Hong, he will definitely not be able to run this time and will be pulled into the water, and then he can only take someone to help Zhang Hu, if he doesn't speed up the preparation, he may suffer a loss.

So he ordered again that all the troops on the island should cancel their vacations, concentrate all their efforts, intensify their drills, and prepare for this challenge.

For a time, the island and the ship were shouting and killing day and night, and all the soldiers led their men to step up various drills.

The soldiers who were responsible for hand-to-hand combat, under the leadership of the black head, were led by Li Dazui as their deputy, catching or fighting in formations on the boat and the shore every day.

Under the leadership of Liu Laoliu and Hu Cheng and another helmsman, the helmsman and the helmsman were trained on the sea in the Sea Wolf and the Walrus.

In addition to participating in other training, the gunners also had to conduct artillery training under the leadership of Liu Tong, and they wrapped the gunpowder at hand into a columnar medicine bag with oiled paper according to the measurement, tied it tightly with cotton rope, and made a complete charge package that could be loaded at any time.

Liu Wang and other fighting personnel, in addition to practicing climbing masts, also have to practice martial arts to accept hand-to-hand training, they also have a few musketeers, and every day they also have to carry out more than an hour of training in operating muskets, practicing aiming and shooting skills.

And Guo Fu's master and apprentice put their energy into repairing the seal, including carpenters who knew how to do some craftsmanship such as Xu Laoshi, who went to help repair the ship, and strive to repair the seal before Xiaotian took people to set off, not necessarily let it also participate in the war, at least let the remaining personnel have one more usable ship.

The Sea Wolf tribe has gradually become accustomed to this kind of high-intensity training, including those guys who surrendered under Zhou Cheng's subordinates, where have they experienced such training before! But now, under the service of Xiaotian's carrots and sticks, he has begun to get used to this kind of life.

What's more, now they have fish and meat to eat every day, and no one wants to be driven out, Yu Xiaotian's words are now a holy decree for them, as long as they don't let them jump into the sea to seek death, these guys won't even fart.