Several ships on the sea formed a fleet, moving downwind on the undulating sea, all the ships under the leadership of a fortune boat, constantly according to the changing flags on the fortune boat, constantly doing various actions, sometimes left and right, sometimes separated, sometimes gathered.

Yu Xiaotian stood on the stern of the Fu Boat, observing the movements of the other four boats, frowning from time to time, or showing a smiling expression.

Now this lucky ship has been renamed the Seawolf, and has become his handsome ship, that is, the flagship of the Seawolf Gang, the previous Seawolf, at this time has been renamed the Sea Lion, and the newly captured ship is named the Sea Eagle by him.

Today is also the first time that these ships have set sail collectively, but their purpose is not to go to sea to plunder, but to have several other purposes, the first purpose is to test the effect of the newcomer after the end of a month of training, the second purpose is to test the effect of his revised flag order, and the third is to carry out another whaling operation at sea.

Needless to say, the purpose of the whaling operation was simple, to satisfy their need for meat, and at the same time to obtain more blubber whale oil for their goods and raw materials for making candles, and at the same time to temper the courage of the people and let them see the bloody scene.

During this time, Yu Xiaotian took the time to modify the flag order set before to a certain extent, making it more detailed, so as to better convey the information between their fleets, and at the same time meet his command activities for each ship.

In order to better meet the transmission of information between the ships of the fleet, all the fights at the moment have at the same time reduced the work of the heralds, in addition to acting as lookouts on the mast, they also have to pay attention to the flags hoisted by each ship, discern the meaning of the various flags, and report them to the captain of the ship.

At present, Yu Xiaotian has appointed full-time captains for the four ships, and in this era, among the official and military sailors, the person responsible for managing a ship is called a thief, and the civil merchant ship is called a steward, but Yu Xiaotian insisted on him, and called the captain of a ship the captain, which is simple and clear and directly indicates their identity.

The captains of the four ships are Liu Laoliu of the Sea Wolf, Meng Maniac of the Sea Seal, Hu Cheng of the Sea Lion, Ma Xiao of the Sea Eagle, and Zhao Mazi of the Walrus Zhao Mazi is not at home for the time being, so he is temporarily replaced by Han Xian.

These people are all old guys with very rich sailing experience, and Ma Xiao, as a former pirate leader, has experience in sea activities that should not be underestimated, and with his identity, it is reasonable to give him a ship commander.

It's just that what is more surprising is that Hu Cheng, who is usually not very conspicuous, was actually appointed as the captain of the Sea Lion in this personnel adjustment, which surprised everyone.

But Yu Xiaotian did this with his reasons, although Hu Cheng was not very bold before, and he was not willing to follow him as a pirate at first.

But after he was forced to follow Yu Xiaotian to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian took his family from Fu'an County, and at the same time, the arrival of the former boatman's children also made him understand that even if Yu Xiaotian let him go home, he would not be able to live.

So after Hu Cheng was taken to Treasure Island at home, he began to follow Yu Xiaotian with all his heart.

He used to work for a long time, and at the same time he had no problem working as a helmsman, and he had accumulated a lot of experience in sailing at sea all year round, and he could basically do anything on the ship, which was very important to Xiaotian.

The first few times he went to sea to hunt, Hu Cheng has been following, more and more bold, working harder and harder, plus he is older, and the younger generations are also obeying him, and finally when the first batch of captains were appointed, Yu Xiaotian selected him as the captain of the sea lion, which made Hu Cheng even more grateful to Xiaotian, and repeatedly said that he would never live up to Xiaotian and would definitely take the sea lion well.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also appointed a deputy captain for each ship, who could replace the captain when necessary and take over the captain's command of the ship.

Each of the five ships had a crew of six to eight men, one helmsman, one probationary helmsman, three to five sailors, and one anchor and man, who would not change at will in the future.

The other four ships that can go to war are each equipped with fifteen to thirty soldiers or trainee soldiers, the Walrus as a transport ship, usually not worthy of full-time soldiers, and will be temporarily deployed when needed, and the soldiers were also renamed as soldiers by Yu Xiaotian at this time, and the soldiers are usually responsible for doing rough work, fighting and killing is their main responsibility, and everyone has other division of labor.

Among these soldiers, some people are responsible for operating cannons, some are responsible for operating muskets, some are responsible for bows and arrows, and each ship also has a part-time person who is responsible for the damage management on board, including Shangdou are all incorporated into the soldiers, once they are involved with people, when they are far away, all of them use long-range weapons to attack the enemy, and once they are helped, then these soldiers have to change their swords and guns to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian's subordinates were small and could not divide the labor in detail, but now he has more ships and the number of his subordinates has increased a lot, so the responsibilities of the personnel on the ship are also more clearly divided.

In order to prevent a small group from being born within the sea wolf, Yu Xiaotian disorganized all the new and old personnel into groups, and the old departments of the horse owl were also scattered and distributed to each ship, including the old people from Xiaohuangdao, who were also scattered and separated, and the soldiers were divided into groups of five, and a team commander was set up to manage the remaining four people, and they were often deployed on each ship as a unit in the future.

In this way, it is very difficult for someone to form a small group if they want to form a gang, Yu Xiaotian doesn't want his subordinates to form a small group like the Shark Gang in the future, and they are full of internal contradictions, so from the very beginning, he made up his mind to curb the emergence of this situation from the system.

After going to sea this time, the old subordinates and the old subordinates brought by Ma Xiao are more accustomed to the activities on the ship, but the performance of the latest batch of subordinates who were deceived by them is really a bit miserable.

Although the new arrivals, after a month of quarantine and primary training, have gradually become more at ease and adapted to life on the island, after all, the sea wolf here provides a fairly good food supply for the subordinates, even before they become homeless, they rarely enjoy such a good meal.

And here, in addition to having more rules, they have to be practiced every day, and they feel tired, but no matter what they did before, it was also not easy, and they also got up early and greedy for darkness, but they didn't necessarily be able to take care of food and clothing, but here at least they had a sense of stability, plus the initial Yu Xiaotian killed chickens and monkeys, so that they could see his ruthless methods, these people basically no longer want to go back to being homeless people, and they are gradually used to obedience.

But after all, among these people, many people have never been to sea, have worked on the ship, and suddenly let them get on the boat and go to sea, many guys are shaken by the boat like this, and they begin to get seasick, after going to sea, there are trainees on each ship for a while, and they will stagger, vomiting is a mess, not to mention letting them work, they all feel uncomfortable to death when lying down, it can be said that they are embarrassed.

For such a situation, Yu Xiaotian is mentally prepared, after all, let people who have never been on a boat, suddenly change to be pirates, it always takes a process of adaptation, once they go to sea more, these people will gradually get used to it, the group of people who came from Dongshan Village before also came over like this, and now most of them are used to this kind of life, and there are people who stand out, such a guy as Xiang Li Dazui, has now become the head of the army, and his subordinates can manage a lot of soldiers.

Of course, there are also some people who have been unable to adapt to the life on the ship, no matter how they get it, they will be dizzy as soon as they get on the boat, so there are also people who have been eliminated from the village full-time, and stayed in the village to either learn to make iron with Zhang Blacksmith, or follow Guo Fu to learn to repair the ship, and some people were sent to learn the crafts of the craftsman from Xu Laoshi, but most people can still adapt to it.

After a few boats went to sea, they practiced on the sea surface while looking for whales, because of the restrictions of the conditions on the ship in this era, whether it was fishing or whaling, they could not solve the problem of preservation, and the only thing they could use to keep fresh was boiled sea salt, so this also limited them from going too far to carry out fishing operations or whaling operations.

Otherwise, even if they catch more fish, they will not have to come back to deal with it, and the catch will spoil and rot on the boat.

This also limits them to whaling operations further afield, and can only operate near Treasure Island, and once they are caught, they can be towed back to the island for separation.

Fortunately, the marine resources were very abundant in this era, and the number of whales was far more than that of later generations, and this area was also an area where whales often frequented, so whaling was not very difficult for them.

After just over half a day, the Seahawk who was walking in the front spotted a group of whales, so he immediately raised the flag, notified the other ships, and turned the rudder to start tracking the whales.

People who have had a whaling experience are immediately excited, but for the people who come out to participate in the whaling for the first time, they are very nervous, like the guys who go out to sea for the first time, they can't believe that with the manpower of their people, they can hunt such a large sea beast, which is unimaginable.

If it weren't for the fact that they had eaten whale meat on Treasure Island and seen the whale skeleton resting on the beach, they couldn't believe that Yu Xiaotian and his people had indeed killed a whale.

The Walrus was slow and could only follow the fleet slowly, but the other four boats were relatively fast, especially the two bird boats, the Seal and the Sea Lion, which were the fastest, so these two boats ran in front, and Yu Xiaotian followed closely with the New Seawolf and the Sea Eagle, chasing towards the whales.

This time, the group of whales they found was the same as the last time, belonging to minke whales, which is also the whale they are more suitable for hunting, and after more than an hour of tracking, they gradually approached this small group of whales.

Each boat immediately lowered its sampan, and the sampan was ready for whaling, and with the fierce paddles of the sailors, several sampans quickly began to approach the whale herd.

Yu Xiaotian took the lead this time and boarded a sampan, after all, these guys under his command are not experienced enough in whaling, and it is necessary for him to bring them again.

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