After the successful experience of the first ship hijacking, Yu Xiaotian also changed his initial idea, and no longer just asked these people to practice, through the last hijacking, he found a lot of problems, but at the same time, he also found that actual combat can improve the experience of these people more than a single training.

This is not only for his subordinates, including himself, he was not born in this line of work before, he doesn't know many things at sea, let alone any experience, fighting at sea is very different from fighting on land, which contains many skills, Yu Xiaotian wants to copy everything that future generations understand, it is not good at all, so even he also needs to accumulate more experience in fighting people at sea, and these experiences cannot be achieved by practice alone.

So after returning to Treasure Island, after a little rest, he once again took everyone out to sea and started a new round of safari operations on the sea, plus this time is the time when merchant ships are concentrated in the north, miss this opportunity, they will miss this good time this year!

Through this trip to Dalian Island, although they were not able to obtain the replenishment of firearms immediately, the Li family still secretly sent them to the ship with more than a dozen well-made single knives and spear tips and hook guns, replacing some of the messy and inferior weapons they used before, which made them more or less improve their combat effectiveness, and everyone had some confidence in their hearts.

Coupled with the experience of their first hijacking, they learned some experience and became more confident, and after going to sea, they soon turned the rudder and sailed south, heading for the waters frequented by merchant ships.

Hu Chengxian has now experienced what happened to Feng Scar and Li Gouzi, although he is reluctant, but he has completely lost his heart, and he has begun to become stable, and he no longer always thinks about going home, and Yu Xiaotian in order to appease him, told him that he would send some money to his family when he turned back, and find a way to find someone to bring his family to Treasure Island, so as not to make his family angry with the Liu family, so now, he also dispelled the idea of going home again, and began to follow Yu Xiaotian honestly.

After seeing that he had been relieved, Yu Xiaotian simply let him do the head of the hand, and also appointed him as the head of the hand, responsible for training and commanding several of his handmen, Hu Cheng was also very satisfied with this, and these days, he has also been energetic.

After observing Liu Tong for a period of time, Yu Xiaotian found that this person was also a person with a temperament, very righteous and courageous, and they came together, so they were more trustworthy, so Yu Xiaotian made him the commander of the gun, responsible for taking care of the two bowls on the ship.

The last time they broke the bowl, after these days of repairs, the carpenter who was captured made a new gun carriage for the bowl, so that the bowl mouth gun was restored to its usefulness.

After passing the inspection, the bowl mouth gun only collapsed a piece on the muzzle, and the gun body was quite strong, and no cracks were found, which also made them feel a lot more relieved.

According to the more knowledgeable Liu Laoliu, these two bowls are produced in private workshops in Guangdong, and the iron smelting in Guangdong is mostly charcoal, not coal, so the iron material of the Ming Dynasty is the most refined in Guangdong, and the artillery needed by the army in the Ming Dynasty over the years, the output of Guangdong is the largest, and the cannon is also the most refined, so they don't look at the appearance of these two cannons, but they also make it cast by the fine iron of Guangdong, and it can be used more assured.

After listening to this, Yu Xiaotian of course understood why, because the sulfur content in coal is relatively large, and sulfur is harmful to ironmaking, while charcoal ironmaking has a relatively low sulfur content, and the quality of iron is relatively good, so it is not surprising that the iron quality in Guangdong is high.

After the last time the gun carriage collapsed, the people on the ship had a certain psychological barrier to the operation of the gun, and they didn't dare to touch this thing anymore, which was not a good thing for them.

After Yu Xiaotian carefully recalled the process of their previous loading of the cannon, he quickly found a solution, which was easy for a traverser like him.

The reason why the gun carriage of the bowl mouth gun was broken last time was because the blackhead and others were in a hurry to make the wrong charge of gunpowder in the gun chamber, and too much gunpowder was loaded, which caused an accident, and the best way to avoid this accident is to quantify the gunpowder.

So Yu Xiaotian was on the island these days, so he did several tests, directly weighed the gunpowder quantitatively, then divided it, and wrapped it directly with the oiled paper he got from the Li family, and made it into a column with the same diameter as the inner diameter of the gun chamber to form a gunpowder bag, so that the problem of uneven charge of each charge was easily solved, and the problem of unstable range and power was also solved.

After two test firings, everyone saw that their two bowls were fired safely, and the range of the shells became much more stable, so a few designated gunners regained their confidence and dared to fiddle with this guy again.

In fact, the matter of ordering gunpowder is very simple, but no one has used it before, and not many people have thought about it, so no one knows about it, but this is not a problem at all for Xiaotian, with his knowledge, let alone fixed gunpowder, if there is a machine, even if he wants to make a gun, it is not a big problem, but at present, he wants to make his own firearms, it is too early, let alone make guns and cannons, now let them make cold weapons such as knives and guns, they can't do it, and they don't have to think about anything else.

Ordered gunpowder not only solves the safety problem of artillery, the most important thing is that everyone also found that after using this kind of oil-paper packaging medicine bag, they gave these two bowls the speed of charging gunpowder, but also greatly improved, in the past they had to hoard gunpowder into the gun chamber a little bit, but also carefully tamped, now they don't have to do it anymore, they can directly pack the medicine into the gun chamber, and then fill in the shell or cannon, tamp it with a pestle rod, and then use an awl from the small hole in the fire door to pierce the oiled paper medicine bag of the gun chamber, Pour in some primer and you're ready to launch.

In this way, the speed at which they reload the bowl mouth gun is more than double compared to before, which can make these people happy, they are not pigs, of course, they all understand how great the benefits of this are, if they put one cannon, they can have ample opportunity to return fire two cannons, which is equivalent to more than doubling their firepower, and the four cannons may not be able to suppress their two cannons, which is fighting with people at sea, and they take advantage of a lot!

Originally, Yu Xiaotian also wanted to get a paper bag for the limited number of firecrackers on the ship, but after carefully inspecting these firecrackers, he directly gave up this idea, these firecrackers, there are two three-eyed guns, two old-fashioned guns, and a guy who looks a bit like a bird's gun, and two arquebuses that look like they don't know where they came from, each guy actually has a different bore caliber, such a guy, if he wants to get gunpowder in a unified way, it's just a joke!

So Yu Xiaotian directly gave up this idea, and waited until they had the conditions in their hands in the future, and then talked about it! At present, with these chaotic firearms, they basically don't play much role at sea, and more often, they still have to rely on their two hands to fight directly with others to decide the victory.

After more than a day of cruising, they finally found a target again, a man on the mast and a two-masted ship, which was heading in the direction of their place.

Yu Xiaotian and everyone on the boat came to the spirit as soon as they heard it, this time it was not used for Xiaotian's instructions, everyone immediately followed Yu Xiaotian's previous requirements for them, and quickly began to prepare, put all kinds of weapons, ropes, rope hooks and other things in a convenient position, and one by one ran to their stands, holding a pergola and looking towards the sea.

Sure enough, in a short time, they saw a boat appear on the surface of the sea, heading towards them with full sails.

Yu Xiaotian laughed and immediately ordered: "Raise our golden wolf flag!" Ready to work! ”

Everyone on the boat immediately cheered in unison, and Zhao Si acted as the flag bearer, rushed to take out their golden wolf flag, hung it on the mast, and began to pull it up.

And Hu Cheng immediately beckoned his subordinates, and began to adjust the sails together, Liu Laoliu took the rudder, personally took the helm, and began to sail towards the boat.

The boat on the other side quickly spotted them as well, and immediately reacted as well, turning the sails and turning the rudder and heading towards the coast, apparently realizing that something was wrong and trying to escape from Yu Xiaotian's gang.

And Yu Xiaotian couldn't help much at this time, so he could only order the command to be temporarily handed over to Liu Laoliu, and Liu Laoliu was responsible for directing the people on the ship to turn the sails and change the rudder to pursue the merchant ship.

As the distance narrowed, they saw that this ship was also a small and medium-sized fortune ship, a relatively common merchant ship in this area of Fujian, and it was their most delicious food, so everyone was also excited, stared at the boat, and began a pursuit.

The two boats continued to chase on the sea for about an hour, and Yu Xiaotian and the others gradually narrowed the distance between the two sides to about 100 meters, and Yu Xiaotian once again picked up his wooden horn, stood on the bow of the boat and shouted a warning to stop the other party.

The other party's sail has a big character Liu written on it, indicating that their shipowner is a businessman surnamed Liu, but this basically has no effect on Yu Xiaotian, a group of guys who have just gone to the sea to be thieves, they don't know the origin of Lu Dao's surname Liu, in short, as long as they take a fancy to them, they will rob them.

The Liu family's ship was in chaos, and the shouting and scolding could come from far away from their boat, and the other party was unmoved after hearing Yu Xiaotian's warning, and continued to flee while fiddling with something in the stern.

After a while, the distance between the two sides was shortened to sixty or seventy meters, Yu Xiaotian fixed his eyes and took a closer look, and suddenly saw the stern of the other party's ship, and there was actually a cannon, and before he could identify what shape the other party's cannon was, he saw that the stern of the Liu family suddenly flashed a ball of fire, and then a cloud of white smoke was raised, and then a cannonball that was almost visible to the naked eye smashed towards Yu Xiaotian's boat.