The Nanri Island Shipyard has not been idle in recent months, and has continued to intensify the construction of new sloops, which they call the Feizi Clipper.

In the past few months, Nanri Island Shipyard has added four more Feizi clippers to Yu Xiaotian, bringing the number of dhows owned by the sea wolf to as many as nine, enough to form a small fast light fleet.

However, Yu Xiaotian did not incorporate these new ships into the Feizi Clipper Detachment, but gave them one each to Jilongzhai, Tamsui City, and Shuangfeng Island, so that they could not only use them as sentinel ships, but also as liaison ships when necessary.

Even so, the sea wolf's ships were still insufficient as the training of Xinding was coming to an end, so Yu Xiaotian simply took out some cash and directly sent people to several ships in Fujian and Zhejiang on land, and ordered a batch of new ships to supplement the fleet for use.

In this way, the number of ships of the sea wolf in the past few months has also greatly increased, the number of warships available alone is now more than a hundred, if you add merchant ships and whaling ships and some smaller fishing boats, the number of ships that the sea wolf has at the moment can basically reach nearly three hundred.

With the scale of the sea wolf, although he does not dare to say that he is proud of the group at the moment, at least if anyone wants to be the enemy of the sea wolf again, then he really has to weigh it carefully.

During this period of time, the training operation of the sea wolf has also made great progress, and the new battalion in Tamsui Village has been carried out relatively smoothly under the leadership of Meng Fei and Liu Tong.

After Xinding was recruited, some of the unqualified personnel were eliminated after about half a month of isolation and quarantine on Nanri Island, and the remaining Xinding was loaded and transported to the new camp of Tamsui Village to begin the initial training.

Now, after so many times of training for the new Ding of the sea wolf, a set of more suitable methods has been summed up, and the entire training process is divided into several stages.

The new soldiers in the new battalion are now divided into two parts, the first part is a one-month initial training, and all the new soldiers in the initial training stage, regardless of whether they are soldiers or sailors, all receive the same content of training.

Now the initial training no longer requires the new Ding to carry out major physical exercises, mainly because Yu Xiaotian found that the vast majority of the new Ding recruited in this era because of the previous poor diet, lack of nutrition, resulting in low physical fitness, although these recruited new Ding are mostly farmers or fishermen, hard-working and hard-working There is no big problem, but in terms of explosive power and endurance because of the lack of physical nutrition, and serious deficiency.

In the past, when they practiced Xinding, Yu Xiaotian followed the hearsay of later generations or personally experienced the kind of general physical training that was stolen from the teacher, which was not applicable in this era, and when Xinding was allowed to receive general physical training at the beginning, there were a large number of Xinding who fainted or became dehydrated during training because their bodies could not bear it.

Later, Yu Xiaotian discovered the problem and realized that the people of this era were far inferior to the people of later generations in terms of physical nutrition, and it would be difficult for them to withstand such training intensity if they were trained at the beginning if they did not improve their physique.

So after the new battalion moved to Tamsui City this time, he discussed with Meng Fei and others, and decided to change the previous training method, in the initial training stage, no longer conduct general physical training for the new Ding, mainly for the training of the drill column and password, let them develop a sense of obedience first, and in the initial training stage, let these new Ding learn some more rules about the sea wolf, so that they can develop a good habit first.

In the initial training stage, Yu Xiaotian did not hesitate to spend more money to provide these newcomers with a friendly diet, and provide them with more meat and vegetables, and even add rare eggs, fruits and other things to them, so that they can obtain more nutrition and improve their physical fitness in the initial training stage.

After a month of training, Xinding's physique can basically be greatly improved, so that their endurance and explosiveness will be greatly improved.

And through the initial training, the new battalion has also formed a elimination mechanism, for the physical condition is seriously unqualified and during the one-month conditioning period, still has not been well improved, at the end of the initial training, can not pass the physical fitness assessment of the personnel, elimination, repatriation or exit from the new battalion, resettlement processing.

In addition, for a small number of people who do not obey the call and have bad habits, after repeated repairs in the initial training, the guys who have not been able to improve will also be eliminated before the end of the initial training, and the few of them will be spoiled with a pot of soup with a mouse.

For the new Ding recruited this time, Yu Xiaotian is more satisfied, he has recruited subordinates before, never like his peers, as long as he comes, no matter who he wants, and the worse it is, the more popular it is, although those who used to be bad embryos, after joining the gang as pirates, are indeed really ruthless, dare to fight and kill, but these people can follow others, but Yu Xiaotian absolutely does not want this kind of person to do things under him.

From the earliest times, Yu Xiaotian subconsciously wanted to build his own seawolf group into a team similar to a regular army, and if he wanted to create a team with a strong sense of obedience, obeying orders in battle, and daring to use his life, it would definitely not work to rely on these bad embryos, in that case, his military discipline would soon be corrupted by these guys, and these guys were slippery and slippery, and they jumped happily when they fought with the wind, once they encountered adversity or a bad situation, they would definitely immediately smear the soles of their feet with oil.

Once someone in a team does not obey the order and flees for their lives, it will affect the morale of the whole team, and nine times out of ten it will lead others to flee with it, and eventually lead the whole team to collapse without a fight.

Therefore, in this regard, he agrees with Qi Jiguang and the later generation Zeng Guofan when they founded the Hunan Army, for the concept of recruiting soldiers, they would rather choose honest young farmers or fishermen, and never accept the kind of scoundrels and ruffians in the market, so the quality of soldiers meets his requirements.

As a soldier, the most important thing is not to be smart, but to obey orders, and the honest peasant or fisherman is far stronger in obedience than those scoundrels and ruffians in terms of obedience.

Therefore, when the sea wolf recruited new people, it was based on Yu Xiaotian's idea to screen the people who should be recruited, but all those who were born in the towns and villages in the city were swept away in the first wave, and only fishermen in the coastal area and some mountain people or farmers near the shore were recruited.

Although they have the name of thieves, but the sea wolves have a good reputation in the coastal area, so there are many young people who want to enter the sea wolves to eat food, especially in recent years, there are more and more people who have lost their land, some people are poor and have no way to make a living, and they can be recruited into the sea wolves to eat food, which is undoubtedly a pretty good choice for many coastal landless people.

Therefore, as long as the sea wolf says that he wants to recruit new soldiers, many young people in the coastal area are very happy to try their luck, so when the sea wolf recruits soldiers, there is quite a loose choice.

After passing the initial training, these new soldiers began to be divided into two groups, some of them were previously fishermen, and they were assigned to the new battalion of the naval division, and the rest were transferred to the new battalion of soldiers for further training.

After entering this stage, it is time for these newcomers to start to increase their training volume, and their increased nutrition in the early stage also allows them to withstand such training intensity, and during these two months, they will also receive more specialized training.

The newcomers are trained in sailing, masting, anchoring, and artillery, as well as their fighting skills.

The training of soldiers is relatively simple, more queue training and combat training, supplemented by physical training with a large amount of exercise and primary training in jungle warfare.

The duration of this stage of training is two months, and after the new Ding completes these two months of training, after passing the examination, they can be assigned to the fleet or the war barracks, become trainee sailors or trainee soldiers, and receive more professional training on the ship or in the war barracks.

But before they were assigned, they had to go through the traditional test of sea wolves, that is, to follow some whaling ships out to sea to hunt whales, and after successfully hunting a whale and helping to complete a whale division work, they were considered to have obtained a pass to officially enter the fleet or war barracks.

In the past few months, the first batch of about 800 recruits have completed these new recruits and have been assigned in September.

The size of the fleet and the barracks have increased a lot, and Yu Xiaotian appointed a new batch of captains and first mates, and personally participated in the ceremony of Xinding's transfer to the team.

It was only at this time that the newcomers received the official uniform of the Seawolf, but a green strip of cloth was temporarily sewn on their chests to represent their status as trainees, and only after a period of time, they could be converted to regular personnel after their meritorious service or serious work was recognized.

And the remaining Xinding, who is nearly 1,000 people, is still in Tamsui City, receiving training, and it will take a month or two before they can be distributed.

At the beginning of September, Yu Xiaotian personally went to Tamsui City again, participated in the ceremony of ending the training of the new Ding, and personally awarded military uniforms to a group of personnel with outstanding achievements in the training.

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