Li Tianyang's heart is also with the same idea as Tan Songyun, among the people he trusts, Wu Jie, Wu Daofu and others are more likely to be in military naval battles, Yumo is a woman, and Bengang can't do without her, only Gan Dabiao has this ability, and is worthy of Li Tianyang's trust and trust, so it's strange that Li Tianyang doesn't consider him!

However, this kind of major event is not something that Li Tianyang can do alone, after all, the relationship between Gan Dabiao and him is there, so Li Tianyang waited for the end of this discussion meeting before he made a decision with Gan Dabiao and persuaded him to lead the team to Clawwa.

Of course, although Gan Dabiao has many shortcomings on weekdays, he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he likes to love money, but when Li Tianyang, his childhood partner, needs help, even if he is reluctant, Gan Dabiao still agrees to Li Tianyang's request.

In the following days, Li Tianyang was busy negotiating with Lai Qichen about the number of prisoners to be released, and at the same time preparing the best ships and sailors for Gan Dabiao and his imminent expedition.

It is said that it is a negotiation, but except for the seven warships of Luke and his party, which are unknown outside the chicken coop port, Lai Qichen, who has no basis for negotiation, is actually more just grasping Li Tianyang's willingness to reconcile with the Dutch and winning a few favorable conditions from Li Tianyang to release his henchmen.

The final result was exactly the same as the conditions negotiated by Li Tianyang and Tan Songyun, and 10 lowest-ranking nobles were selected from among the 20 Dutch nobles, and Gan Dabiao went south to visit Cohen, the Dutch governor of Java.

Soon, the warship that Li Tianyang prepared for Gan Dabiao and their trip was also fully loaded and docked at the dock of Jilong Harbor. This is one of the three warships that Wu Daofu and they captured when they attacked the Hongcheng Fortress on Magong Island, in addition to the one that was snatched by Wu Juren, Wu Daofu and they brought back two, and this one is the only fourth-class battleship among the two.

This is also the best warship that Li Tianyang and their team can take out now, and the battle with the Dutch, the fly in the ointment is that they were not able to wipe out their fleet, not only let the Dutch fleet have been circling around Jilong Harbor, putting pressure on them Hongtang, but also failed to capture these sharp guns and strong ships to replenish themselves, so that their own strength has increased greatly.

The sailors who accompanied the ship were all strong and strong Hongtang elites personally selected by Li Tianyang and Wu Daofu, and through more than ten days of assault study, plus more than ten African slaves who were rescued by them and were willing to join the team of Hongtang on the island, it was a solution to the embarrassment that Hongtang soldiers did not know how to operate Western warships.

Anyway, there is a lot of time along the way, so that the soldiers are familiar with the operation of Western warships, and most of the sailors selected are good at this, although the differences between Eastern and Western warships are different, but the so-called different ways are the same, and the things on the ships are always the same purpose, so Li Tianyang They are not worried about manipulating the warship.

His only concern was that it was already mid-May and the weather was starting to get hot, which meant that typhoons in the northern hemisphere were starting to wreak havoc on the ocean. Compared with man-made disasters, the danger of natural disasters is the most feared and the most difficult to fight through manpower in this era.

Only if you have actually lived along the coast and seen the scene of a typhoon passing through it with your own eyes will you understand the power of nature and the terrifying images that make the whole world tremble.

Fortunately, Li Tianyang and them had foresight, and He Yong's ocean-going fleet had already traveled two or three times on the route between Luzon and Daming, which could also reduce many troubles for Gan Dabiao and them along the way.

Reluctantly, Gan Dabiao said goodbye to his wife, and in the farewell of Li Tianyang and Wu Jie and their partners, he took a battalion of sailors and followed the Nanyang fleet led by He Yong, who had just returned not long ago, and headed towards the vast sea

After saying goodbye to Gan Dabiao, it would take at least half a year to get the news that Gan Dabiao brought back, taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Tianyang had already begun to ask Tan Songyun to recruit and tempt sailors with skills among the Dutch captives, and lure these low-level sailors to pass on the knowledge they had in their hands to the sailors in Hongtang with better living conditions and rich reports.

Operating the sails of Western-style warships, learning the tactics of Western naval warfare, and the way of aiming Western artillery, Li Tianyang and the others used the only three Western warships in their hands to pull the Hongtang sailors on board the ship in turn, and handed them over to the Dutch sailors who were bribed by them for training, so as to master all the knowledge of these Westerners about the sea as soon as possible.

The two warships that were originally destroyed by Hongtang's self-exploding sailboat during the attack on Jilong Harbor and later abandoned by the Dutch have been rescued by the craftsmen and masters of Qixintang, although they cannot be said to be refreshed, but they have been able to float on the sea again and become one of Hongtang's many warships.

It was precisely with the addition of these warships that Li Tianyang and them were able to organize the Hongtang soldiers to learn how to operate Western warships.

At the same time, the work of the Hongtang Recruitment Office was also in full swing, although Wu Daofu and their escort of the Dutch captives back was late at night, but under Li Tianyang's deliberate celebration, many well-intentioned pirates also witnessed hundreds of dejected Westerners being escorted into the Chicken Coop Harbor.

This made many pirates who still thought that the news was wrong no longer question it, and it also made many pirates who were originally hesitant to make up their minds and join the Hongtang team.

In just a few days, the Hongtang Recruitment Office recruited 3,000 pirates, including nearly 5,000 of their families, and after careful selection, the pirates who were officially included in the team by Hongtang totaled more than 1,900 people, not only completely making up for Hongtang's losses in the battle in the past few months, but also having more team members to expand Hongtang's strength.

Moreover, these selected pirates, because they are strong, and most of them have seen blood, have been on the battlefield, and can basically be said to be a qualified warrior.

It's just that these pirates have poor teamwork skills, as well as too many bad habits developed as pirates, which requires Li Tianyang to re-train and standardize them.

Fortunately, although the several training camps that Li Tianyang asked Wan Liang to build around Huludao were occupied by pirates before, many of the buildings in the camp were concrete fortifications made of cement, which were not so easy to destroy, and they could be put into use again soon.

In addition, Wan Liang and the others are busy again, building new buildings on many islands and reefs east of Chicken Coop Harbor as a base for training pirates.

(End of chapter)