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The vast majority of ordinary sailors and soldiers were easily dealt with here, and the few captains of the fleet who had followed Aror to the castle to meet the commander were not a problem - they did meet the commander of the fleet from Europe, and then the commander himself told them of their present condition, and the fact that his men had been taken prisoner of the Joan navy......

Of course, compared to the sailors and soldiers under their command, these officers were better able to surrender their guns in a more peaceful and "civilized" environment, and it was much more dignified than being escorted into a prisoner of war camp with their bare butts - when those officers saw their men covered one by one, wolf bèi could not bear to be escorted by the Chinese army to the prisoner of war camp on this side of the castle, even if they themselves were fully clothed, they could not help but feel a cold sweat on their backs...... Even if he had thoughts in his heart, such as being very unconvinced and thinking that Hua Jun was too shameless, he did not dare to show it at this time, lest he end up equally.

In this way, relying on the strategy of "Li Dai Taozhuang" formulated by Zhao Lide, as well as the outstanding performance of Yarol and others, the Qiong Navy did not fire a single shot, and no one was injured, and easily captured these two Spanish galleons from Peru.

With these two large ships as bait, the "Governor" was also freed, and soon Ling Ning led the large ship to a relatively hidden bay next to Cebu Island, where it joined the "Princess" and other ships, and continued to serve as a watchman, in case of unexpected situations that required the use of the fleet.

Of course, with this successful example of this first operation, the mode of action formulated by Zhao Lide has been determined, and now all the "playing" units have practical experience, know what they should do, what results they will achieve, and they can implement it in the future. It is estimated that the chances of using the fleet will only become less and less in the future.

When the news was transmitted back to Manila and Hainan Island, the rear was overjoyed. The happiest of them all was Wang Ruobin, the owner of the shipyard -- since the navy asked for a detachment, a large number of people stared at him all day asking for ships and ships. But the shipyard is so manpowered, the work efficiency is so high, and a large part of the energy has to be allocated to take care of the Qionghai, Wang Ruobin can't change more ships even if he has three heads and six arms.

In these years, shipbuilding was a very time-consuming and material-intensive project, and the fleet of the Qiong Navy was able to develop rapidly in a short period of time to the point where people wanted to divide up, in fact, it mainly relied on seizure and purchase - except for the Qionghai, their three main ships were captured Western ships, and the rest were civilian merchant ships. There were only four or five ships built entirely by themselves, starting with the "Snow Wind". Moreover, their self-shipbuilding mainly focused on speed and maneuverability, and did not pay much attention to artillery and armor, although the fast schooner was much more versatile than the slow big ship, but as the core force of a fleet, the warship was also indispensable.

Especially at present, in this part of Southeast Asia, in addition to reaching peace with the Ming Empire and the Zheng family, they are still in a state of full-scale war with the major European powers. Although they have never suffered losses on the battlefield so far, and all opponents who dare to come to find ballast have all returned, but it is mainly due to the Qionghai's cheating ability. As the years go by, the life of the Qionghai is getting shorter and shorter, and the maintenance time is getting longer and longer, and I believe that sooner or later she will truly become a noble "dock queen", lying in the dock and unable to get out.

In this way, they had to consider strengthening their own strength, and without the Qionghai, they would compete with the Western nations of the Age of Discovery, which would be irreplaceable. In fact, as Xiao Lang's steam engine was put into practical use, and the Qionghai gradually became old, some people had already asked Wang Ruobin if we could start researching and designing a large battleship that used a hybrid of steam and sails, and used metal protective plates as outer armor. To make up for the possible lack of combat power of the Navy after the retirement of the Qionghai in the future?

Although it is simple, it is obviously not a problem that can be solved in a year or two, and Wang Ruobin even feels that with the rapid progress of their technology, this type of large warship is likely to be obsolete after it is designed, let alone actually built on the slipway.

As a time-traveler from later generations, the greatest advantage of their group is that they fully understand and grasp the direction of technological development in later generations, but it is precisely because they know too much and are too accurate, they are unwilling to spend time and energy on those technologies that are destined to be eliminated - Wang Ruobin previously focused on the technology of schooners and clippers, because he knew that the clippers of the eighteenth century were very mature in technology, and there would be no more things that needed to be improved in the future, so it can be said that they had reached the end. Therefore, I can use it boldly and without worrying about the danger of outdated technology.

As for the use of mechanically driven steel ships, even if he knows that this is the inevitable direction of future ship development, Wang Ruobin does not have any confidence and dares to be an expert in this area - after all, he is just a classical ship model enthusiast, if you want to design sailboats, you can be called an expert among other companions, but for the serious modern ship design major, you never dare to say that they are much better than Xiao Lang, Xu Hui, Feng Yufei - everyone is a layman.

On the other hand, shipbuilding is an industry that requires a very high level of comprehensive technology, and because all the units here are trying to "restore" the advanced technologies of later generations, their technical level will improve every year, or even every month. On the contrary, Wang Ruobin couldn't decide what technology to use to build their big war ship - you finally decided on the drawings to use a certain type of machinery or material after repeated comparison and calculation today, and tomorrow the relevant units will come to you and tell you: We can come up with a better product! Isn't that maddening? Of course, Wang Ruobin can also artificially determine a point in time to freeze the technology, but in that way, the final product will definitely be a lot worse than the technical level they have mastered at that time, and it will inevitably be complained by those laymen at that time......

Therefore, Wang Ruobin does not want to build a big ship at all, at least until their technological development level stabilizes a little. Moreover, the current demand for schooners in the navy is not small, and all the slipways in the Lingao shipyard are running at full capacity. If he puts down these jobs, or even just vacates a slipway to study large warships, I'm afraid he will be rampaged again......

And now, the Spaniards took the initiative to send the ship to the door, which greatly helped Wang Ruobin, who was in a dilemma - these captured warships needed to be renovated, so that they could be used as the core of the fleet like the previous three. Although the modified ships are still a little backward in technology, the speed is also a little slow, and the armored artillery can be strengthened, but the navy has always been accustomed to using such Western ships, and the "big warships" they require only need to do this.

For all this time, Wang Ruobin has been working hard in the repair factory attached to the port of Manila, where he wants to repair and refit the ships of the European Fleet that were previously captured by Beiwei. And every time he came to the repair factory, Wang Ruobin couldn't help but muttered a few words in private, saying that this guy in Beiwei was too ruthless and so on - a dignified European expeditionary fleet, just one night, was beaten by Beiwei to the point that only seven or eight ships surrendered and washed the beach, leaving all filial piety to the Sea Dragon King. There are still half of these seven or eight boats that are seriously injured, and if the keel is damaged, there is no repair value. Therefore, Wang Ruobin estimated that in the end, only five ships could be used as trophies in the battle, and only five ships were incorporated into the ranks of his own navy, but fortunately, two of them were large sailing ships, which could be used as the core force of the detachment in the future.

And when the news came that Beiwei and Zhao Lide used tactics and successfully captured the complete Spanish warship on Cebu Island, Wang Ruobin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and now he no longer had to worry about the lack of ships. No matter how humble Spain's American fleet is, there are always more than a dozen ships, as long as Ade and they can continue to finish it so cleanly, it is possible to eat the entire South American fleet silently. By that time they will have nearly twenty Western sailing ships, not to mention that it will be more than enough to divide into two fleets, and to divide them into three!

When he was in a good mood, he would inevitably relax his thoughts, so Wang Ruobin didn't notice that in recent times, there was always an old man who came to their factory to probe his brain and ask questions -- it was none other than Shi Kefa Shi Xianzhi, who was sent to Luzon by the Ming Dynasty to serve as the first chief executive.

The Qiong navy had won the battle at the front, and of course they would not hide from their Ming allies in the rear, including Hainan and Luzon, who now had official officials from the Ming Dynasty. Wang Pu and others on Hainan Island did not see the results with their own eyes, but just expressed their congratulations. But Shi Kefa was on the front line and saw this large amount of seized materials with his own eyes. As a model of loyalty and patriotism, his mind moved at once......

-- Since this Luzon Island is the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and your Qionghai Town is also a minister of the Ming Dynasty who accepted my Ming Zhao'an, then your war capture, should you also have my Ming share? Even if the court doesn't take it all, half of this family should always be, right? RO