Think about it, when the pirates are happily blocking a merchant ship, and are happily preparing to jump over to rob it, suddenly all the boatmen on the merchant ship take out one of these things, and if they are on fire with these pirates, you can imagine what will happen to the pirates, even if they can't kill them, they can pull the rest of their crotch and run away.

Moreover, the merchant ship carrying these short guns is not eye-catching, which can play a very good hidden role, and take the enemy by surprise.

So in the past few months, the gun has been producing this short gun in large quantities, because the length of the short gun barrel is only a fraction of the long gun barrel, so it is much easier to build than the barrel of the long gun, and the speed is much faster.

And the most troublesome thing in this era is the production of the barrel, and the accessories of other flintlock devices are easy to solve after adopting the division of labor manufacturing method, and when there are not too many craftsmen, only the number of craftsmen who produce accessories can be appropriately increased to meet the current output demand.

Therefore, without reducing the production of long guns, the guns produced a large number of these short guns, and in a short period of time, the production of short guns exceeded the production of long guns, and began to be continuously equipped with a steady stream of sea wolf troops.

Initially, it was only distributed to a few chieftains and chieftains, but after a surge in production, it began to be distributed to the ship's soldiers.

Now all ships have begun to be equipped with a small amount of this short gun, if the amount of equipment is increased, it will greatly improve the ability of the sea wolf to fight at close range at sea, and the personnel who have already obtained this short gun in front of them can't put down this guy, and their courage is much stronger.

Think about how much this situation will improve the psychology of the holder when people dance with you with knives and guns, no matter how high his martial arts are, he can't stand you from easily knocking down the opponent with just a finger.

As for the gunpowder workshop, needless to say, after the first year of testing, they have formed a system network for purchasing soil nitrate, and as soon as the weather cools down, some businessmen who are willing to do this business will begin to go north, to Shandong, Beizhili and Henan to search for soil nitrate.

And when it comes to the Chinese New Year, it is the best season to sweep the nitrate, and after the New Year, many businessmen began to purchase ships of soil nitrate in the north and began to transport it back to Nanri Island.

In order to increase profits, some businessmen even carried out rough processing of locally procured nitrate in the coastal area of Shandong, refined it into crude nitrate, and then loaded it back to Nanri Island to sell it to the sea wolf, so that the transportation cost was reduced a lot, so that their profits also increased several times.

Yu Xiaotian specially asked the council hall to greatly increase the purchase price of crude nitrate, and even prompted some businessmen engaged in this kind of trading to find ways to refine it locally in the north to obtain greater profits.

Yu Xiaotian's approach is to hand over the initial processing to others as much as possible to reduce their own workload, and the cooperation between the two sides can be said to be mutually beneficial, and they have got what they want, which can be described as a win-win result.

In addition, the Spaniards in Manila were also happy to do this saltpeter trade with the sea wolf, so as to reduce their cash expenditure, find a kind of goods that can be sold in large quantities, in the way of barter, in exchange for more Ming products, after repeated bargaining, the Spaniards also lowered the price of saltpeter, so that the sea wolf in the saltpeter, sulfur supply has been guaranteed to a certain extent.

Nowadays, the gunpowder workshop has been expanded, and the refining of soil nitrate is extracted separately, gathered for rough processing, and the refined nitrate is sent to the gunpowder workshop for deep processing to make gunpowder.

There are also by-products of boiling nitrate, which can produce salt, and the salt is then refined to become snow-white powdered refined salt, which is still a hot commodity, which can be sold for money or used for personal use.

There is even a leftover brine, which can also be used to order tofu, there are not many food varieties in this era, tofu is a very popular food, and the council hall is also very willing to buy some beans, so that people can build a tofu workshop, specializing in making tofu, for the sea wolf people to eat.

In addition, the tofu is also made into dried tofu that can be stored for a long time and can be placed on ships, so that the sailors of the merchant fleet can also eat such a delicious taste at any time, and adjust their lonely seafaring life.

In short, in terms of material, the sea wolf is basically ready to meet most of the preparations for Chu Cai's attack, and as soon as Chu Cai's fleet comes, he can fight with it.

As for the personnel, in addition to the original mobilized fleet and sailors, the war barracks was expanded again a year ago, and a number of new recruits were recruited into the barracks, bringing the number of the war barracks to four or five hundred, not including the more than 200 soldiers now stationed in Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village.

These soldiers are now the main force defending Nanri Island, and their specialty is to fight land battles, which is much stronger than sailors and boatmen who fight land battles part-time.

And after the successful trial production of the flintlock pistol, the sea wolf began to produce a large number of flintlock pistols, equipping the sea wolf troops, but mainly used to equip the barracks, more than half a year, the gun over there under the leadership of Zhang Blacksmith, while the flintlock pistol was produced, while still making a small continuous improvement to the flintlock pistol, by this time, the firing rate of the flintlock pistol has increased to more than eighty percent, which is already very rare.

The soldiers have now been equipped with nearly 400 flintlock pistols, some of which have been deployed with the soldiers to Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village, and some are also equipped on Shuangfeng Island, but Nanri Island is an old battalion, and the war camp is also equipped with more than 200 flintlock pistols, so that the musketeers of the soldiers account for about half of the soldiers, and the proportion of musketeers will continue to increase with the continued production of flintlock pistols in the future.

With their current equipment situation and staffing ratio, they have basically reached a fairly high level in this era, and with them guarding the island, it is difficult for ordinary people to bargain under them.

Therefore, if Yu Xiaotian leads the fleet to fight, the old battalion has such four or five hundred soldiers stationed, he can basically rest assured, just with the equipment level of Chu Cai's old subordinates, if he wants to take down his wolf den and the business area, he will not die a thousand people, and it is estimated that he can't even touch the edge.

Therefore, whether it is in terms of personnel or material preparations, now the sea wolf is ready, Yu Xiaotian is not afraid that Chu Cai will not come, but he is afraid that he will not dare to come now.

But when he thought that everything was ready, he didn't wait for Chu Cailao's large fleet to attack, but waited for a news that surprised him.

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