Now the Spaniards have been picked off by the British, and the Dutch and Portuguese are also strong contenders for the seas, and they are all trying to grab more resources and occupy more colonies for greater benefits, and naval battles are indispensable between them.

This also encouraged their shipbuilders to create better, larger, stronger, more powerful, and more flexible warships to serve their country, so that the navy could fight for more benefits for their country, including merchants, who also invested in new ships and went to the distant seas to explore and discover new continents, occupy new colonies, rob people, trade slaves and goods, and obtain great profits.

There are even some scumbags who simply buy ships, engage in pirate trading at sea, rob enemy merchant ships, and engage in unprofitable trading, all of which have greatly promoted the development of their shipbuilding industry and military industry.

But such an environment, in China is seriously lacking, the Ming court government does not attach importance to maritime trade, not to mention the idea of expanding the territory, only want to keep the ancestors left to them this ancestral industry, even if it is very satisfied, so the development of China's shipbuilding technology has completely stagnated, maritime trade is limited to the personal behavior of maritime merchants, want to promote the development of the shipbuilding industry, there is no such environment and demand, naturally it is impossible to promote the development of China's shipbuilding industry.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's question, Gu Feng hurriedly bowed down and replied: "If you go back to the big boss, the villain and these guys have already seen these two boats just now, although they haven't looked at it carefully, but they have also seen a rough idea!"

Most of the inside of these two boats are still very strong, and the damage on the outside looks not light, but in fact, the damage to the internal structure is not serious, so it is not very troublesome to repair, just remove some broken ship boards, replace them with the same new ship boards, and re-twist the seams to plug some cracks, and the ship is basically repaired!

The biggest problem is that one of the ship's masts has been broken, and now we don't have enough material here, I'm afraid we can't install a new mast, if it is spliced, I'm afraid it's not strong enough, this is probably the most difficult thing to do!

The rest is okay to say, the villain is not a big person, after entering the dock, three months at the earliest, to ensure that they can be repaired! By the way, we craftsmen can also learn how they built this ship! ”

Gu Feng's words made Yu Xiaotian very satisfied, because he had personally inspected these two ships in Keelung Fort more than a month ago, and the internal main structure was basically not damaged, but the hull and ship board were beaten more miserably, and the loss of sail gear was relatively large, and the most serious thing was the mast problem, as for the destruction of individual ship ribs, it was also a few, and it was okay to replace it when repairing the ship.

So on the surface, these two ships look in tatters, but in fact, they are really repaired, which is much easier than renovating the three-masted Daifuku ship, and it is not difficult for these shipwrights to be difficult at all.

As for the problem of masts, he knows a little bit, Western countries in history, especially the United Kingdom, there was a long time, their shipyards, also lacked the wood of the mast, so they came up with the method of splicing the mast, instead of using the whole log to make the mast, this method took a long time, although the structural strength is not as good as the whole log, but it is still improvised.

But he didn't plan to use this method, because it took a long time to experiment with this method, and it was difficult to estimate the strength of the spliced mast that was just beginning to be made, so it was better to use the whole log to make the mast.

Nanri Island certainly does not have suitable wood, but now that he occupies Tamsui and Keelung, Taiwan Island has rich timber resources, and Taiwan Island itself has a lot of wood that is very suitable for shipbuilding, such as redwood, Taiwan pine, camphor trees and other tree species, there is no problem with finding some mast materials, as far as he knows, there are many such materials in the timber storage yard of Tamsui Shipyard, and after the main body of these two ships is repaired, the ship with the broken mast will be sailed to Tamsui. Choose a mast material over there and install it.

So the repair of these two ships seems to be no big problem at present, so he and Gu Feng and others discussed the repair plan in the shipyard, and decided to dismantle some things on the ship first, unload the ship to reduce the weight of the hull, and also remove the mast to reduce the center of gravity of the ship, and then move the ship into the dock and start repairing the ship.

After saying these things, Yu Xiaotian summoned Luo Xianbin, who came back with the ship this time, and when he returned to Nanri Island to heal some time ago, he left Luo Xianbin at Keelung Fort to help the black head deal with the things after the war.

This time Luo Xianbin returned to Nanri Island with these two big splint boats, when he saw Yu Xiaotian, Luo Xianbin immediately excitedly congratulated Yu Xiaotian, seeing that Yu Xiaotian had basically recovered and was no longer in danger of life, they were happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and smiled: "Okay, thank you for always worrying about my injury, now there is no major problem, at the sleast it is estimated that in another month or two, the wound will be completely healed, this time I will definitely not die!" ”

"The big boss is a man from heaven and earth, it must be a blessing to the sky, this little injury we have long felt that it will be fine! Sure enough, the majesty of the big boss, even the Lord of Yama didn't dare to accept it, with the body and bones of the big boss, at least there was no problem with living a hundred years old! Luo Xianbin grinned and said to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian frowned, how could he think that his words were very familiar, wasn't this what the subordinates of the Divine Dragon Sect Hong Sect Master in the Lu Ding Ji often used to pat him on the back? Thinking of this, he laughed dumbly.

"Okay, don't slap my ass, if you pat my ass again, I can't reward you with a few taels of silver! Hehe! Let's talk about what the situation is like in Keelung Fort during this time! Yu Xiaotian took a bowl of decoction and medicine while speaking, and poured it down with a frown, this thing has been drunk for so many days, he wants to vomit when he smells it, it is really not convenient to eat pills without Western medicine, but there is no way at all, he must fully recover as soon as possible now, otherwise his physical strength and spirit will not be able to keep up.

Luo Xianbin immediately straightened his chest and replied: "Qiyu is the big boss, there is Brother Hei over there, and Deputy Commander Sun, they are very stable, and the prisoners are temporarily imprisoned in the temporary prisoner camp, and they have to open stones every day, and now they have become more obedient!"

Most of the damaged ships have now been repaired, and they will be returning to Nanri Island these days to continue repairs! The damaged fort is being repaired, fishing and whaling have now been restored, and the Spanish ship that escaped has never returned! ”

Yu Xiaotian put down the soup bowl, drank saliva, rinsed his mouth again, nodded and said, "Nonsense, I know all these things, how did the brothers who died in the war handle?" And how are the injured doing now? ”

Luo Xianbin hurriedly replied: "Qi Yu big boss, as long as the brothers who died in the war can find the body, they have all been buried, according to the instructions of the big boss, a cemetery was built on the side of Keelung Fort, and all of them were buried in Keelung Fort Cemetery, and the shape of the cemetery was repaired according to the Nanri Island Cemetery, which is very beautiful and the feng shui is also good!"

Some of the brothers who could not find their bodies were also prepared for them to be buried with the other brothers.

Our brothers in Keelung Fort, except for the staff on duty, all the rest attended their funeral, which was very solemn, please rest assured!

Among the other wounded, there were more than 30 brothers who did not survive in the end! He was buried in the cemetery! The remaining 50 or so wounded brothers, with the help of local medical officers, basically survived, but a few of them were probably unable to return to the ship, and they were crippled!

But they don't worry about anything, anyway, they can't be hungry with the big boss, they just heard that the big boss is seriously injured, they are very nervous, this time when they come back, they see that the big boss has recovered a lot, and they go back and send someone to tell them, so that they can rest assured! ”

Yu Xiaotian sighed slightly, this time their losses were really not small, two or three hundred people were killed in the battle, and dozens of people were injured, mainly because some sailors, after being injured and falling into the water, they were drowned without the ability to struggle, and there were also a few boats that sank too fast, and people didn't have time to jump into the sea to escape, and when the ship sank, they were also sucked down.

Therefore, the number of people killed in the battle was very large, but the number of wounded was not very large, but of the more than 80 wounded, only 50 survived and more than 30 died, and the mortality rate was still too high.

But if you think about it carefully, it is very rare that the mortality rate of the wounded in this era can be controlled to this extent, even if it is in European countries, the mortality rate is now at least more than half.

You must know that the wounded are very precious, and those who are wounded in battle are like half of a baptism, and as long as they survive, they will basically soon become the backbone of the absolute army.

So he turned his head and said to Li Gouzi: "This time I went to Jilongwan and killed many brothers, and the bereavement pension must be sent as soon as possible, and it must be sent to their families!" In addition, the aftermath of their death must be arranged, so that the brothers who died in the battle cannot be blinded by Jiuquan! It doesn't hurt to spend a little more money, you can arrange a memorial for them here!

This time, the weather was mainly too hot, and the bodies of many brothers could not be found, and it was inconvenient for the brothers who found the bodies to be transported back for burial, so I asked the black head to arrange to be buried on the spot at Keelung Fort!

If their family wants to go to Keelung Fort to worship their tomb, this matter should also be arranged as much as possible, do not push back, this is human nature, their family members can't even see their most rear, they can't live with them, if they want to go, they must arrange and take care of them! ”

(Today, I took my son and daughter out to play, and I came back late, and the update was late, so everyone forgive me!) In addition, thank you for the autumn maple forest and the two brothers who are not obvious enough! ）