After the dust settled on the matter of a few shipwrights in the secret base of Bengang, Li Tianyang and them were also a matter of concern.

In the past two years since they attacked Macao and robbed the three Portuguese warships, although the shipwrights and masters of the secret base have worked hard to specialize, due to the differences in each other's cultures and the lack of understanding of many details of the technology, the progress of imitating the Westerners' warships in the base has been slow.

It's not that the skills of the Westerners are sharp, it's really that Li Tianyang and their own team lack talents, and among the more than 100 craftsmen and apprentices in the base, there are very few masters who really have experience in building ships, especially building large ships. More people, Li Tian raised their dead horses as live horse doctors, and stuffed many carpenters into them to help with research and development.

With such a configuration, it is already commendable to have such an achievement as today, so although Li Tianyang is anxious, it seems that he has forgotten these craftsmen, and rarely sends people to urge them, because he knows that this matter itself is already a bit difficult for a strong man.

Until the appearance of seven professional Western warship shipwrights, for the first time, Li Tianyang thought of their secret base hidden in the depths of Bengang, if they can impress this group of foreigners, then their own shipbuilding industry will also embark on a new track.

Of course, in addition to these seven master shipwrights, there are several other master craftsmen and apprentices, but compared to these shipwrights, the help of other craftsmen to the team is not too great, and it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

If those few cannon casting masters had not died in the original Hongcheng offensive and defensive war, then Li Tianyang and the others might have been excited to get a few cannon casting masters at this time, but there were only a few apprentices left who had not learned much artillery casting skills at all, and it was not worth Li Tianyang's big move and bribery with money tactics.

Next, what Li Tianyang should worry about is the acquisition of more than 2,000 pirate warriors.

Since Wu Daofu and the others escorted nearly 300 Dutch sailors back to Jilong Harbor, pirates have come to Hong Tang's resident recruitment office in Jilong Harbor every day to inquire about the news and inquire about the recruitment conditions and treatment. In the same way, every day, there are always a few, a dozen scattered pirates who quietly come to join Hongtang, and sometimes, a team of pirates joins.

With the passage of time, by the end of May, Li Tianyang and the others had carefully selected 2,327 pirates and included them under his command.

With such a large number of people, coupled with the strength of Hongtang's existence, the entire team expanded by almost 1/3 at once. Among them, because the losses of Wu Juren's leopard department in this war were not large, Li Tianyang's supplement to them was not too much, and more was expanded by Li Tianyang to Wu Daofu's whale department.

Next, Hongtang's eyes will definitely focus on the prosperous route between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, and the Ryukyu Sea area. In addition, many pirates who originally lived in the Ryukyu waters have been absorbed by Hongtang, and the number of pirates in the Ryukyu area can be said to be the smallest, and it is also the most suitable moment for Li Tianyang to march into the army.

It was precisely based on this strategic assumption that Wu Daofu's whale division suddenly expanded from less than 1,500 people who had suffered heavy losses after fighting the Dutch to nearly 3,500 people, almost the size of the Hongtang shark department and the leopard department together.

It's just that now they want to march into the Ryukyus, so they are bound to train the more than 2,000 pirates they have just collected as soon as possible, and train them into a qualified army that knows how to cooperate and know how to advance and retreat, so that Li Tianyang and them can rest assured that they can advance eastward and occupy a larger territory.

The training of the new army, the first thing, almost provoked the collective resistance of the pirates. Speaking of which, Li Tianyang and them are already used to it, because of the harsh conditions on Dayuan Island, in order to avoid the breeding of infectious diseases such as swings and schistosomiasis, all the team members, including Li Tianyang, have shaved the heads of pots in later generations, which can not only reduce the breeding of parasites such as fleas and lice, but also facilitate everyone's personal hygiene.

Over time, everyone has become accustomed to this kind of dress, not only are most of the men in the team so sophisticated, but even many girls, especially the women who came out of Tanmen and received education in Tanmen, as well as those indigenous women, have also changed their appearance and lost their long hair.

And now, when training pirates, because of the closed life of the collective, many instructors who were temporarily transferred from various squads in Hongtang also began to force these pirates to cut off their long hair.

Originally, when more than 1,000 pirates were recruited last time, everyone did not make these pirates have too many ideas, but there was a lot of reluctance on their lips, but in the end, they all fulfilled the wishes of the instructors, and everyone had short hair of less than an inch.

I don't know if it's because someone is pandering in private, or because there are too many pirates this time, or maybe these new instructors are not competent enough to convince the public, etc., anyway, all of a sudden, the pirates in the training camps on several islands collectively began to make a fuss, babbling in their mouths: "The body is skinny, and the parents are affected!" Such sour texts are not cooperating with the orders given by the instructors to cut hair.

All of a sudden, there was a mistake in the entire recruit training plan, and the whole thing was parked there, and in the end, this matter alarmed Li Tianyang's ears, so that Li Tianyang had to pay attention to it.

"This matter must not be compromised, these pirates themselves are a group of lawless masters, if we back down this time, then it will be even more difficult for us to implement our training plan in the future, and it will be difficult for us to make the other party abide by the rules of conduct!!" Since he became the battalion commander and followed Wu Jie and their special operations battalion for a period of time, he has become more strict with the soldiers in his first battalion.

"Then you say, what should I do?" As the executor of this recruit training plan, Wu Daofu's own pressure is not small, who knows that such a thing will happen, if it is not handled properly, this matter is likely to make a big fuss.

"According to our ethics, first arrest those who take the lead in stirring up trouble, make an example of chickens and monkeys, and execute them with the most serious punishment in front of everyone to dispel their luck mentality." The method of virtue and talent was the experience of Wu Jie when he took the special operations battalion to train the first batch of pirate recruits before, and he was caught up in at this time, thinking that there was no difference from when Wu Jie and them were training before.

"No, you can't!" It was Yuan Qigang, the team leader of the Whale Division's Aircraft Division, who raised an objection, and before the words of the battalion commander of Decai landed, he quickly stood up and interrupted his words.

(End of chapter)