The Huludao stronghold, along with the surrounding small islands, began to become extremely busy, and Wan Liang was everywhere with a cadre of architectural elites commanding a group of strong men to shuttle between the islands.

This is to build living quarters for the newly joined pirate warriors in Hongtang, as well as various training facilities, the territory of Jilong Port is larger, and there is even the newly built Jilong Mountain station, but there are too many secrets that Li Tianyang and they are unwilling to do for outsiders, and it is impossible to rest assured that a group of pirates who have just joined Hongtang and do not even fully understand the minimum actual information will be stationed in Jilong Mountain.

Therefore, Li Tianyang and the others can only urgently dispatch a group of people from the construction personnel who are stepping up the repair of the chicken coop port, and take advantage of the opportunity that the Dutch have not moved now, and it is good to be able to belly train the new fighters for a day.

The Huludao stronghold is not bad, but the island is too small, many training methods cannot be used, and among the new recruits, there are too many problems such as loose style and unscrupulousness, which also need to be repaired and reinvented to transform the habits of these people.

With more and more familiarity with building construction, and there are building materials such as cement, which are almost cheating and cheating, as long as the supply of raw materials such as sand and gravel is timely, Wanliang's construction progress can be said to be the crown of the entire Ming Dynasty.

With the standard length and width of three feet of bamboo strips as the inside, supplemented by sea sand and cement mixed and matched concrete to wrap the front and back ends of the bamboo strips, after natural air drying, by Wan Liang they call the "movable board" of simple and convenient construction materials, in just a few days, can build a row of more than ten collective dormitories, convenient for people to stay.

No, in just over ten days, Wan Liang and the others have already developed and built a new training base that can accommodate 300 people on a small island four or five miles wide.

On the second day of completion, Youdecai brought a company of more than 200 people into the station, and began to train the soldiers in his hands against time.

In the battle with the Dutch, Li Tianyang and Wu Daofu found that in recent years, they Hongtang had fallen into a misunderstanding, that is, they neglected the importance of artillery and neglected the training of soldiers to manipulate artillery.

Before, Hong Tang has been facing opponents, all of them are pirates in the waters around Daming, to be honest, a group of pirates who even have to watch the sky when they eat, who has spare money to buy luxury things such as artillery!

Although Hong Tang has always been equipped with artillery, as mentioned before, in the early days, Li Tianyang didn't care about the number of guns and the caliber of the guns carried by his warships. Guy was affected by the opponent, most of the time, Hongtang and Ben didn't need to use hot weapons such as artillery to crush the opponent, or even annihilate it, in such an environment, who would care about the artillery that couldn't be used for a long time?

But now the battle with the Dutch has made Li Tianyang really sober up and opened their eyes. Unexpectedly, the guns carried on a battleship of the Dutch fleet could be described by the word "heaven and earth" in a salvo.

Lack of artillery training, although Li Tianyang thought that he had stepped up the deployment of a lot of artillery in the later period, but in several confrontations with the Dutch, a round of artillery bombardment, the shells that could finally hit the opponent's battleship were very few. In addition, the deck of the battleships of the Dutch fleet was heavy, and the power of the guns fired by the Hongtang warships was insufficient, even if they hit the opponent's warships, they were rarely able to pose a threat to the warships and seamen.

It was this kind of cognition that made Li Tianyang and Wu Daofu begin to pay attention to the artillery, as well as the speed at which the soldiers under them operated the artillery, and the accuracy of shooting.

The number of artillery pieces has increased suddenly for a while, and the poor Qixintang treasury really can't take out the extra silver, so let Li Tianyang and them go to purchase artillery. Moreover, Li Tianyang was also dissatisfied with the power of the copper cannons and iron cannons purchased from the Portuguese in actual combat.

Fortunately, the three warships of the Dutch were captured, and the heavy cannons on the ships made Li Tianyang and Wu Daofu hot. After seeing the power of the foreigners' salvos, the accuracy of the salvo, and the skills of naval warfare, Li Tianyang, especially Wu Daofu, and the high-level leaders of the Hongtang Third Division, began to review and ponder how they should train their subordinates in the future!

It's not that the members of the three departments of Hongtang are negligent in training, in addition to Wu Juren, the elder of Li Tianyang, and Wu Daofu's former boss have relatively more independent privileges, Wu Daofu's whale department and Wu Shu's shark department have never broken the drill every morning and evening, and there are actual combat training every month, and there are training competitions every year, so that Hongtang's combat effectiveness has always been second to none around the Daming Sea area.

But as I said just now, everyone was affected by the environment, did not pay enough attention to artillery, and the tactics of naval warfare were too outdated, and they always focused on closing the distance and fighting the enemy hand-to-hand.

But after being hit hard by the invasion, they finally got the hang of it, paying more attention to the skills of their subordinates to operate artillery, and began to learn how to fight Westerners.

Therefore, now, including many Hongtang veterans, Li Tianyang is also ready to rebuild them to strengthen their proficiency in operating artillery and accurate shooting skills within the effective range of artillery.

In the first island base, the first newly formed company under Decai became Li Tianyang's experiment.

Of course, first of all, it is necessary to reform the many rotten problems of this group of former pirates, and the instructors carefully selected from Wu Jiete's camp are all outstanding in battle, and their skills are extraordinary, and they are also ruthless. A rigorous recruit drill, from morning to evening, in addition to the time of three meals a day, even the toilet was inhumanely prescribed by the instructors at another time, otherwise even if you are pulled in your pants, you are not allowed to leave your post at will.

On the small desert island, there is not even a place to escape and hide, and the pirates who came up to the isolated island can't do it even if they want to retreat and quit Hongtang. In just two months of recruit training, the entire new company has been reborn like a huge change, and those bad problems learned in other pirate teams are not allowed to be eliminated, but they have also been cleaned up by these ruthless instructors of the special operations battalion.

In the past two months, three or four small island bases of the same scale have been built, and many new Hongtang team members who have been reorganized have been continuously driven to these isolated islands to carry out the unique refurnace rebuilding project of Hongtang!

(End of chapter)