Chapter 136: Gift-giving
After the Seawolf vacated the slipway, the Seal was finally pulled ashore and successfully secured to the makeshift slipway.
There was originally a batch of hardwood for shipbuilding on the island, and when the village was built, Yu Xiaotian was reluctant to use these rare and good woods, and now they were handed over to Guo Fu's master and apprentice for them to use for ship repair.
Blacksmith Zhang helped Guo Fu make a batch of carpentry tools in advance, and the master and apprentice immediately began to work day and night on the beach.
Except for the tinkling sound on the whole island after midnight, the sea wolf tribe has to go to the slipway to help or help remove the sea creatures from the bottom of the boat, in addition to training.
It may be because Zhou Cheng offended too many people at the beginning, and his own conditions were limited, it was not easy for Zhou Cheng to repair the ship, so although the ship underwent a major repair more than half a year ago and replaced the damaged bow, the repair was not thorough, and the bottom cleaning was not in place, plus the basic immobility of the beach in the past few months, and the long-term immersion in the sea water made the bottom of the ship a thick layer of barnacles and the like, making the hull bulky, which greatly affected their ship speed and the flexibility and cargo capacity of the ship.
No wonder when Yu Xiaotian rushed back, Zhou Cheng didn't have time to escape, and Yu Xiaotian caught up with the boat that injured him, and took him down and killed him on the spot.
If the ancients wanted to do a good job, they must first sharpen their tools! This sentence is really very reasonable, if they don't even serve the boat, it will be a matter of time before they lose their lives.
That's why Yu Xiaotian attaches so much importance to the quality of his ship and equipment, and tries his best to repair the ship, and also collects weapons and equipment from his subordinates to strengthen their combat effectiveness.
After Guo Fu inspected the whole ship, he took his son and apprentice to remove some of the damaged planks on the ship, and replaced the damaged planks with the existing hardwood.
At present, they can't do such a thing, so Guo Fu made a change, reinforced the two ribs with hardwood, repaired the bulkhead inside the hull, reinforced the damaged parts, and then carried out an overall inspection and twisting of the hull to repair the leakage of the hull as a whole.
After the inspection, Guo Fu found that the previous craftsman cut corners, and the connection of the bow part was not reliable, and once it collided a little again, it may be completely damaged, and now let him replace it all, with the manpower and tools he has at hand are a little insufficient.
Therefore, after consulting Yu Xiaotian, Guo Fu took his apprentices to re-strengthen the bow part to ensure the minimum strength of the bow part, in addition to Guo Fu also had to repair the rudder plate and the connecting rod of the rudder, and the mast should also be re-reinforced, so it would be unrealistic to repair the ship for a while.
Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to let Guo Fu's master and apprentice father and son repair it slowly, don't rush the construction period, and repair the ship as much as possible to be stronger and stronger, and let Xu Laoshi replace the ship with a new pair of sails, expand the area of some sails, in order to increase the speed of the ship, in short, since it took so much effort, this time to repair the ship, as much as possible to repair it a little better, there is really no way to solve it, it can only be improvised, at least it can be used as a subsidy for the Seawolf, In the future, it will be their second main battle ship.
After the porcelain vase was pulled back, Yu Xiaotian asked the idlers or women on the island to start cleaning up these porcelain vases, more than 300 porcelain vases, all of which were filled with whale oil, and then plugged the mouth of the bottle with a wooden stopper, and tore some of the tattered clothes they had stored before into strips of rags, and put them in the wooden box with the Molotov cocktail as a trigger for igniting the fire.
Once you need to activate these Molotov cocktails, pull out the cork, stuff the cloth strip into the bottle, and ignite the cloth strip to throw it, think about throwing dozens of these guys on the enemy's ship at once, even if the enemy saves it, it will definitely suffer a big loss, and if you don't get it right, you can burn the enemy's ship on the spot, so these Molotov cocktails are definitely a sharp weapon for melee combat at sea.
However, these things are also dangerous to put on the ship, and they are most afraid of breaking and leaking oil, so after they are loaded, they are put into a wooden box filled with straw and stored carefully.
In addition, they already have four artillery pieces at the moment, two of which are their earliest big bowl guns, and the other two are Baizi guns, one of which is taken from Zhou Cheng, and the other is from a merchant ship, the two cannons are similar in shape, but the caliber is different, which makes Yu Xiaotian very helpless.
However, for him, this is already the most powerful weapon at the moment, even if it is crude, it is better than nothing, so Yu Xiaotian still attaches great importance to these four cannons, and during this time, he asked Blacksmith Zhang to help and re-polish the breeches of these cannons, and added a few iron hoops to each of them to strengthen the strength of the barrel and prevent accidental explosions and injuries.
After using their latest gunpowder, the power of these cannons increased, and the two bowl-mouth guns were temporarily placed in the stockade, and the two Baizi guns were placed on the Seawolf by order of Yu Xiaotian to be used as their main battle weapons.
Just as they were preparing intensively, news finally came from Nanri Island.
This time, not only Wang Hong came to Treasure Island in person, but even the old Wufang'an, whom Yu Xiaotian knew newly, also came to Treasure Island with Wang Hong.
For Wang Hong and Fang An's coming, Yu Xiaotian was very enthusiastic, personally welcomed them to the beach, took the two of them to the island, and received hospitality in the village, even their subordinates were invited to get off the boat, and they put a big pot on the outside of the village, a large piece of meat, and a big bowl of wine for hospitality.
Fang An came to Treasure Island for the first time, and he was also very surprised by the situation here, especially when he saw Yu Xiaotian and them actually repairing the ship by themselves, which made him and Wang Hong very surprised.
Their Shark Gang is much stronger than Yu Xiaotian, but at the moment they can only make minor repairs to their ships, but they didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to be able to overhaul their ships by themselves now, although there is no boat liao here, but they still built a simple slipway and dragged the boat ashore for repairs with a simple slipway.
This made them have to be even more impressed with Xiaotian.
What made Fang An even more surprised was that after arriving here, he really felt the quality of Yu Xiaotian's subordinates, they were all peers, but in contrast, these sea wolf subordinates under Yu Xiaotian were all in order, under the command of Xiaotian and several leaders, they were like an arm, and they did everything in a measured manner, and they were forbidden to do anything.
Looking up at the people on duty on the wall, although the island was very lively because of the arrival of their gang, but the guards at the gate and on the wall were still shy, standing like javelins, doing their things calmly, almost unmoved.
Compared to the subordinates they brought, this suddenly made Fang An feel a little ashamed.
Fang An has a strong self-esteem, and because of the disability of his left hand, he doesn't like to communicate with people very much, which makes him seem a little arrogant, but after arriving at Treasure Island recently, he had to put away his arrogance, and after entering the village, he carefully observed everywhere, and began to take the initiative to communicate with Yu Xiaotian.
"Brother Yu, this time my brother came over, and I didn't have anything good to send you, and this time I have to ask Brother Yu to help us, and the foolish brother can't let Brother Yu just do it for us!
So the foolish brother pondered for a while, but he couldn't do anything else, so this time he sent a Furlong cannon to his brother!
Foolish brother has seen the guys on your ship, those two cannons are not bad, although they are not as big as the cannons on my ship, but they are okay, but your hundred guns and bowls are too slow to load, once you fight with people, you will suffer a little, so foolish brother sent me the furlong machine I have on hand to you.
Come! Send the cannon to my brother! ”
When Wang Hong came over, he brought a few subordinates, carried two boxes, one long and one short, and after sitting down in the village, he regarded himself as a brother with a big grin, and said to Xiaotian.
After saying that, with a wave of his hand, he asked a few of his subordinates to carry the box over and put it in front of Yu Xiaotian.
When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, he didn't expect Wang Hong to be such a friend, this time he came to call him to help him, and actually sent him such a big gift.
So Yu Xiaotian hurriedly hugged his fists and thanked him again and again, saying that he didn't dare to be, and at the same time focused his attention on the two boxes sent by Wang Hong.
After Wang Hong's subordinates put down the box, they immediately lifted the lid of the box and presented the contents in front of Yu Xiaotian's eyes.
Yu Xiaotian lowered his head and looked carefully, the excitement just now cooled down a little, just now he heard that Wang Hong gave him a Furlong cannon, he thought that this guy must be not small, but after opening the box, he found that this Furlong machine was too small.
Even if the whole Furlong machine gun mother gun is only a little more than a meter with a handle on the tail, the outer diameter of the gun barrel is no more than seven or eight centimeters thick, and the gun tail has a square groove, which is obviously used to fill the sub-gun.
As far as he knew, under normal circumstances, the Furlong cannon would be equipped with at least six to nine guns to be considered a set, but this Furlong cannon only had five subguns, which was obviously not a complete set.
Fortunately, this set of Furlong cannons is cast in copper, which is relatively good, and the quality of this Furlong cannon is okay to look at, the gun body is polished relatively smooth, and there are no burrs or anything like the edges and corners, and the whole has been polished by craftsmen, and the quality seems to be okay.
(Today, I would like to thank yezhongye friends for their tips!) Let's make the red ticket more violent! )