Because of the serious lack of animal power, the number of artillery equipped by the army has been limited, and the types of artillery equipped have always been limited to light tiger squat guns and twelve-pound mountain howitzers, even if the weight of mountain howitzers is already very light, the weight of the front car with a gun carriage and two ammunition boxes in the whole state is less than 1,000 catties, but the lack of mules and horses still allows them to only equip an artillery company, a total of only eight guns, each gun needs ten gunners to serve, and the rest of the more than 100 people belong to the transport of the artillery company.

When the artillery company was operating, the remaining 100 or so soldiers were mainly responsible for replacing mules and horses to pull artillery, or pushing wheelbarrows to transport ammunition, which was a standard method of transporting ammunition on behalf of animals.

Therefore, the army is very dissatisfied with this, this time in order to deal with the large-scale attack on Nanri Island by the official army, Yu Xiaotian specially approved the army to increase the equipment of an artillery company, but the personnel did not increase, only increased the number of artillery, because their main land battlefield will be on Nanri Island, artillery does not need to carry out long-distance maneuver operations, but only short-distance maneuver on the island, so it can withstand the increase in the number of artillery.

The artillery company's firepower was immediately doubled to sixteen twelve-pounder mountain howitzers, which was the most powerful in this time and space.

In order to strengthen the firepower of the battle infantry company, the Seawolf now has a reinforced artillery squad for each battle infantry company, a total of twenty men and two donkeys, equipped with four tiger squat guns, as a reinforcement of firepower in close combat.

In order to cope with the possible retaliation against the land in the future, Yu Xiaotian specially allowed the army to increase the strength of two more companies, and the new battalion temporarily increased some auxiliaries and militia to each infantry company, and selected personnel from each infantry company to form two new infantry companies.

At this time, the armament of muskets had reached about 2,000 Seawolves, most of which were Nanji-style flintlock pistols, that is, front-loading smoothbore flintlock rifles, but by the end of September, the two guns had produced more than 300 new wolf-tooth rifles for them.

Some of the new rifles were distributed to companies at all levels as sniper rifles, and three-person sniper teams were formed, each company was issued four, making a total of four sniper teams, so that they could directly hunt and kill officers among the enemy on the frontal battlefield during the battle.

A small number of the most accurate wolf tooth rifles were distributed to the special combat team, replacing the high-precision smoothbore guns that the special combat team was previously equipped with, making it more powerful and able to engage the enemy from a distance of several hundred meters.

However, there were more than 200 wolf's tooth rifles left, and Yu Xiaotian did not adopt the general distribution method of Sami, but concentrated on equipping a light infantry company armed with all wolf's tooth rifles, and canceled the establishment of pikemen in the company.

But this light infantry company was different from the light infantry in history, because some light infantry in Europe did not issue bayonets to their flintlock pistols when they were equipped with flintlock muskets, while the new light infantry company of the Sea Wolf was all issued with bayonets.

The bayonet used in the wolf's tooth rifle is basically the same as the bayonet used in the previous Nanji-style rifle, but the length of the bayonet has been increased to make it longer, and it is installed behind the muzzle, so that the total length of the gun has reached 1.6 meters, almost catching up with the 38-type rifle that is famous for the length of the gun in later generations, and it has become a short spear after the bayonet, so that the soldiers after the bayonet have a sense of security and dare to fight with the enemy with bayonets.

Of course, after the bayonet on the southern Japanese flintlock pistol, the length is not much shorter, it can still reach about one meter five, and now all the musketeers of the sea wolf, in addition to practicing the shooting skills of the musket, bayonet assault fighting has long become a compulsory course, and the training intensity is very high.

To this end, Yu Xiaotian also equipped the army with protective gear and wooden guns with thick cowhide, which were specially used for bayonet training, so that each musketeer, when needed, could be used as a melee infantry, and used the rifle with the bayonet in their hands to fight the enemy in close combat.

The bayonet is equipped with a bayonet, so that the combat effectiveness of the sea wolf infantry has been greatly enhanced, completely abandoning the previous musketeers can only fight the enemy from a long distance, once the enemy is close, the musket in their hands becomes a burning stick, so that almost all personnel in the infantry have the ability to engage the enemy in close combat, and the combat effectiveness is multiplied.

So don't look at the small size of the Sea Wolf's army, but when these infantry of more than 3,000 people can deal with an enemy army two or three times their size, their combat effectiveness can easily defeat the opponent, even if they encounter an elite enemy army that is more than five times that of them, they can also confront it head-on, and finally win.

This is Yu Xiaotian's elite soldier policy, using as few soldiers as possible to achieve the task that can only be completed by as many soldiers as possible.

This light infantry company, which is fully equipped with wolf's tooth rifles, has temporarily become Yu Xiaotian's direct company, because Xiaotian personally led and commanded, the members are also the top marksmen and second-class shooters drawn from each company, but the special marksmen in each company are not selected, because the special marksmen have become snipers in each company, and this company will be used as a surprise soldier and general reserve and assault force of the sea wolf.

After the reorganization of the army was completed, all army companies in various localities were engaged in intense training, and every day in the army camps everywhere, there were incessantly banging gunshots, in addition to the roar of fighting bayonets, the release of queues, and the sound of marching orders.

In addition to the strengthened training of the regular army, the militia in various places has also begun to strengthen the training, the militia of the townships and villages has been concentrated, and the instructors of the new barracks will be uniformly drilled, these militias will not participate in the front-line combat, but can be used as auxiliaries to help the regular army guard the flanks and act as a rearguard, and also as a logistics transport force, which can help the regular army transport supplies.

This time, Yu Xiaotian did not shy away from telling the residents of Nanri Island the news that the official army was about to attack, but the residents were no longer as nervous as when Chu Cai attacked last time, and each of them opened their eyes, watching the sea wolf grow stronger and stronger, the combat effectiveness became stronger and stronger, the equipment was getting better and better, and the soldiers were becoming more and more energetic.

Therefore, although they heard that the official army was coming to attack Nanri Island, and that Nanri Island would also become the main battlefield, although they still felt nervous and worried, they were not as panicked as last time.

Yu Xiaotian specifically told the villagers of the migrant villages on Nanri Island that if they were worried, they could choose to leave Nanri Island now, but instead of driving them back to land, they could move to Tamsui and resettle them.

In this regard, some immigrants from Nanri Island accepted this suggestion, because they also felt that Nanri Island was too close to the mainland, and from time to time it might be attacked by officials and soldiers, and the safety of life here was not very high, and the land on Nanri Island was not very fertile, and there was very little land that could be used as paddy fields, only a small amount of rice could be planted, and the others could only grow some dryland crops, such as sweet potatoes, sorghum and newly introduced corn potatoes, and the yield was not very high, and irrigation was not very convenient.

Now the big boss of the sea wolf promised that if they went to Tamsui City, then they could exchange their land, how many fields they planted here, and how much wasteland they would give them over there for them to cultivate, so some of them chose to leave here and settle down again in Tamsui City.

But most people are not willing to give up here, because they have finally reclaimed the fields, so abandoned, it is really reluctant, the most difficult farmland development is reclamation, these land from the reclamation to the present, just began to become mature land, just like this, it is a pity, so most people still choose to stay.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered the original slightly scattered immigrant villages on the island to be merged, giving up a few villages with a small population, poor land, and a small amount of arable land, and merging them into several nearby large villages, so that the big villages built a strong village fort and had a strong defense, even if Nanri Island was attacked by the enemy in the future, the villages would no longer have to retreat into the wolf's den for refuge as last time, and they would use the militia organized by the village to protect themselves after their villages were closed and locked.

In addition to stockpiling all kinds of war materials, the three fleets of the navy did not rush to their newly designated areas of activity for the time being, but only a small number of ships of the Second and Third Fleets went to their control areas to carry out activities and garrisons to show their presence, and the main forces of the various fleets all stayed at Nanri Island, temporarily stationed in the eastern bay, and conducted large-scale combat training on the sea.

The key point is that the two captured Spaniards galleon, after a period of repair in the dock of the Nanri Island shipyard, the original battered hull, the broken planks were all removed, replaced with a new board, and the internal damaged parts, also replaced and strengthened, the hull originally had a lot of water leakage, this renovation of all the hull joints carried out a thorough re-twisting operation, to solve the original problem of water seepage

At the same time, a large-scale cleaning was carried out inside and outside the ship, and the corners were not spared, so that the inside and outside were completely new, and all the planks were planed by the carpenter, revealing the original wooden color.

During the renovation, some useless things on the ship were removed, the damaged ones were replaced with new ones, the existing masts were maintained and reinforced, some iron hoops were added, the mast strength was strengthened, and the statue at the bow position was removed, and the most important thing was that the original operating mechanism of the ship was deeply transformed, and a set of now mature steering wheel operating mechanisms were replaced, which made the operation performance of the ship have been greatly improved than before.

After the whole ship was repaired, the bottom of the ship was also covered with a layer of copper skin to prevent it from the erosion of sea maggots in the future, and the whole ship was brushed with tung oil inside and outside, and some wood tar and asphalt were smeared on key parts for anti-corrosion.

After this extensive refurbishment, both ships were restored to almost freshly built condition, making them usable again for some time.

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