In addition to the training of the drill team, the sailors usually carry out more simulation training of various tasks on the ship, receive training such as sail handling, steering, fighting, anchor maneuvering, and supply operations on the ship, and also carry out some necessary combat training.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian allocated some old-fashioned arquebuses and put them in the training camp for sailors and soldiers to train in the use of muskets.

In addition, they also have one thing in common, that is, the operation training of artillery, whether it is a sailor or a soldier, they must receive artillery operation training.

To this end, Yu Xiaotian provided the training camp with five new imitation six-pounder guns and several old guns to use as their training guns, and let the recruits conduct practical training on these guns in batches every day.

On the whole, under the auspices of Xiaotian, the new training camp has basically developed in the direction of regular militarization, completely eliminating the disadvantages of ordinary pirates temporarily recruiting people and directly arranging them to work on ships.

Although the recruits are far from being qualified sailors after their training, they have a strong sense of obedience and discipline, and they can quickly accept the management of the ship and adapt to life at sea, so that they can soon become qualified sailors.

This is also the road of self-improvement that Yu Xiaotian wants to take, if he wants to protect his vested interests, then he must first have a division that is good at fighting, he must have a unique team, a fleet that can win in battle, and the personnel must naturally be the best.

Therefore, his investment in the boot training camp can be said to be sparing, in addition to giving sufficient guarantees in food, everyone who enters the camp will be given two sets of new clothes, and they will be given a sewing kit, as well as a full set of daily necessities, as long as it can be done, Yu Xiaotian will almost find a way to do it for these subordinates.

After the recruits entered the camp, they found that the treatment of working in the sea wolf was really good, but it was the training that made them a little overwhelmed.

Yu Xiaotian poured great expectations into this group of recruits, and after summarizing the experience of the previous training, he revised a new training outline and handed it over to the training camp instructors to do things according to the rules.

In addition to the training of discipline and obedience, the recruits also have strong physical training, they have to get up early in the morning to run first, followed by a morning drill training, and in the afternoon they are all kinds of physical training under the scorching sun, and after the evening, they have to gather together and arrange people to teach them to learn literacy for half an hour.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian has extremely strict requirements for recruit training, so he doesn't believe that he can control these recruits by saying it with his mouth! Therefore, the corporal punishment in the recruit camp is also very harsh.

If someone fails to meet the requirements in training, running laps is the lightest, and it is common for a person to serve with a stick and a whip for violating discipline or disobedience, and corporal punishment is the most effective way in any army, whether it is an old army or a new army, and there is nothing worth saying about this.

As a result, after such high-intensity training, many guys who were full of enthusiasm to come here to make a lot of money were a little unbearable, and soon after the boot camp opened, desertions began to appear.

But for these deserters, when Yu Xiaotian was recruited, he made it clear to them in advance that when they arrived here, they were sea wolf people, and there was only one end for deserters, that is, they would be punished as traitors and killed without mercy.

When the situation of deserters appeared, they were immediately arrested and sent directly to the torture hall for disposal, where they were convicted of hanging and sent back to the training camp in public and hanged on the training camp's demonstration platform.

In this way, the momentum of curbing the deserters under high pressure continued to develop, and the eggs of these recruits were packed up.

After Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island, he did not leave Nanri Island for two months, and devoted all his energy to the training of recruits and other affairs on Nanri Island.

As for the peripheral affairs, he handed them over to his subordinates to take care of, and every day the clipper boat traveled back and forth between the wolf's den and various places on Nanri Island, passing on the news back and forth, so that Yu Xiaotian could grasp the activities of his subordinates.

In addition, he set up regular routes in the three important places of Jilong Bay, Shuangfeng Island, and Nangantang, and sent traffic speedboats to and fro every five days to deliver news from these places, and in order to control the southern seas, he established a small village on Cormorant Island south of Nanri Island, which could directly control the Meizhou Bay area, and if it were not for the government's water village on Meizhou Island, he even wanted to take Meizhou Island down as an outpost for him.

In the past two months, Yu Xiaotian has not only focused on the boot training camp, but also poured more energy into the shipyard.

Now he is not short of money, the ship liao to build a new ship has also begun to start, now in the ship, there are more than 100 craftsmen of all kinds, and the types of craftsmen are also quite complete, to build a new ship for the Nanri Island shipyard, there is no problem in the technique.

The reason why the construction of new ships was only due to the fact that Nanri Island itself lacked timber resources, and the required timber had to be procured ashore and transported back to Nanri Island by ship.

In this regard, before Yu Xiaotian went to Jilong Bay last time, he had already arranged for the Council Hall to purchase a large number of various shipbuilding timbers from land, and to choose the best wood.

After two months of preparation, all kinds of timber have recently begun to be transported to Nanri Island in a steady stream, and stored in the shipyard, only to be ordered by Yuxiaotian to start shipbuilding.

However, after Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island, he was not in a hurry to let the craftsmen of the shipyard start building a new ship, but while he was busy with other affairs, he used the evening time to let a few joiners come to his residence and help him tinker with some new things.

Before Yu Xiaotian came to this era, his biggest hobby was only a model ship, except for sanda, but now he finally has time to pick up this craft again, as long as he has a little leisure, he immediately returns to his residence and takes a few joiners to tinker.

After more than ten days of cooperation with him and several joiners, a new sailboat was finally presented on his desk.

The hull of this ship is long and narrow, the ratio of length to width is about higher than four to one, lower than five to one, making the hull appear slender and beautiful, the bow is sharpened, a look at this ship, you can see that the ship has a fairly high speed, the bottom of the ship is still a V-shaped bottom, the upper part of the hull as a whole does not add compartments, but the whole ship adopts dense ribs, so as to ensure the structural solidity of the hull, but in the counterweight compartment and sub-compartment below the waterline at the bottom, the design of the large compartment is adopted, so that it has a little bit of the characteristics of a Chinese sailing ship, It effectively combines the Chinese and Western sailing points.

Another feature of this boat is that there is no superstructure, only a stern console, which makes the whole boat appear low and stable.

And this ship only used a mast, the mast is in the forward position of the hull amidships, on this mast, Yu Xiaotian hung two sails for it, the sails are very simple, all of them are Western-style soft sails, instead of the Chinese-style hard sails made of bamboo strips.

The two sails are triangular, one in the front and one in the back, the two sails are about the same in area, the back belongs to the main sail, which is fixed on a crossbar below, and the sail can be easily adjusted by swinging left and right, while the front sail is a corner directly fixed at the bow position, a corner is hung on the mast by a pulley, and the following is controlled by a sail cable, which can be adjusted to the left and right sides of the side of the ship at any time to obtain wind power.

If there were knowledgeable people at this time, they must have seen at a glance that this was a very common type of ship among later competitions and yacht sailboats, and it was called a sloop.

The hull of this kind of ship is not large, but because of the ingenious design of the sail, the low hull, and the simple sail installation, it is very easy to operate the sail, and the sailor who needs to operate the sail is very few, and the speed is very fast, it is very suitable for activities near the sea, the ability to drive against the wind is very strong, even when sailing in the open sea, it also has a great advantage, in case of a storm, its hull is low, the center of gravity is very low, it can effectively maintain the balance of the hull on the sea surface of the strong wind, and it is not easy to sink, and its effectiveness has been verified by later generations.

During the Anglo-American War, the United States made many ships like this and used them as armed merchant ships, which could not only evade the interception of British warships, but also serve as attack ships to harass British merchant ships.

The most important thing is that this kind of ship is not very complicated to build, and it is easier to handle with fewer sails, even if it is a sailor who has never touched this kind of sailing ship, after only a short period of training, he can operate it skillfully, and with its speed, he can come and go at sea with ease.

What do pirate ships need most? It's not how strong their firepower is, what they need most is speed and flexibility, so that the pirate ship is in an absolutely dominant position at sea, if they can fight, they can't beat and slip immediately, if they can't beat and don't want to slip, then they can also use the advantage of speed and flexibility to maneuver with the enemy at sea, stalking, and give the opponent a guy when they see the opportunity, sometimes the small wolf can't bite an elephant to death.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian has not been in a hurry to build new ships for so long is that he has been thinking about what kind of ships they should build, and now the Spaniards, Portuguese, and even the Dutch, British, and French are all using a large number of improved Clark sailing ships or better Galen ships, these ships are tall, have multiple decks, can be loaded with a large number of guns, have strong seafaring ability, and have strong combat effectiveness.

If they can build such warships now, they will have the ability to sweep through China's coastal counterparts in a short period of time, but the problem is that these Western-style sailing ships are relatively large, ranging from four or five hundred tons to one or two thousand tons.

With the current strength of the sea wolf, they can't build such a large warship in the shipyard of Nanri Island now, and even if it can be built, it will take a long process to let the craftsmen of the shipyard slowly explore the way to build, so it is obviously not a good choice to build such a Western-style warship now, or even a way to put the cart before the horse.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian thought about it for a long time, and finally set their new ship as this kind of light sloop.

(Thanks again to the Nanbo Wang brothers for the tip!) Thank you very much! ）