However, even if Yang Feng gathered all the young adults, he would only pick out two hundred that could be used.

This is really useful.

It works.

There are no obvious physical defects, no diseases caused by severe malnutrition, there are not too many parasites in the body, etc., in short, it is completely strong by the standards of this tragic era.

But even these people are divided into two groups.

One of them acts as an army, one hundred and twenty people can not be more, just make up a sentry, fortunately, the requirements of the army in this era are very low, they will line up and aim and shoot, although the difficulty of fighting bayonets is high, but Yang Feng didn't expect these one hundred and twenty people to really fight, it was nothing more than to cover himself, saying that in this era, it is obvious that he can't play pig suddenly, even Baker's rifle can break the defense, he really can't imagine what will happen if a twelve-pound solid bullet hits his head, Yang Daxian was already ready to remake the shield and thicken the plate armor.

Eighty-three of the best of the water were left to serve as the navy.

This is very easy, both men and women here are all good water, so Yang Feng thought about it and selected twenty young and strong women to add to the navy, after all, eighty-three people to operate a battleship is still a bit too exaggerated, even a sixth-level ship has to be nearly two hundred people! Fortunately, the common people here have long been ignorant of Confucian etiquette, so there is no reaction to a woman becoming a navy, in fact, the couple go out on a small sampan to fight the wind and waves is a common phenomenon here, these fishermen are really struggling to survive, raising a woman with small feet to warm the bed is completely unthinkable, starvation in bed is 100%.

In short, the navy and army of the Ming Empire were thus formed.

And then there's the equipment.

In the onlookers of one hundred and twenty army soldiers, Yang Feng picked up a Charlville, this flintlock pistol that accompanied the glorious era of the entire French Empire is also a generation of classics, and the brown bass can be called a sign of the times, with a sigh for Xiao Na, Yang Feng's hand slowly stroked the barrel, the barrel became brand new at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it was even obvious that extremely slight changes were occurring, and soon Yang Feng's hand reached the head, and then a crosshair automatically jumped.

"Bring the bullets!"

He stretched out his hand and said.

A soldier next to him respectfully handed over a paper bag and a projectile.

After Yang Feng loaded the gunpowder, he held the projectile in the palm of his hand, and the original spherical lead bullet began to deform strangely and turned into a cylinder with a vertebral head in a blink of an eye, and there were ring-shaped grooves on the cylinder, and then he took a small piece of cork and turned it into a conical shape and stuffed it into the groove at the bottom of the cylinder, and a complete Mini bullet was made, and then it was stuffed into the muzzle.

That's what his army equipment is.

Mini bullets have actually been invented, but no country has adopted them, since this is of course he has to use it, more than twice the range advantage, enough for his soldiers to hang the enemy, in fact, if you really want to calculate the range advantage, it is nearly three times, the effective range of Mini bullets is almost the limit of the smoothbore gun ball bullet, not to mention the accuracy advantage brought by rifled guns, and the queue shooting will become a real queue shooting. And he captured more than 100 Charville this time, just when the full rifling was changed to rifled guns, originally in history, including Enfield, many of the first batch of Minnie rifles in various countries were rifled with smoothbore guns, and there would be absolutely no problem in quality, not to mention that when he was picking up the barrels, he also made material modifications for the barrels of these rifles, and the caliber was also reduced to 16 mm, in short, in addition to continuing to retain the old flintlock mechanism, this is already a reborn rifle.

"Take it, I'll give it to you!"

Yang Feng handed it to the soldier who handed the bullet and said.

This soldier named Chen Liu is the only one on the island who has actual combat experience, and was once a soldier of the Siamese army, so there is no need to delve into why he came here.

Well, isn't he a deserter!

"You, in charge of teaching all the brothers to put guns!"

Yang Feng said to him.

"Yes!"

Chen Liu replied with his head held high.

Immediately after Yang Feng took a Charville smoothbore gun, and then constantly turned it into the latest rifled guns, and distributed them to the hands of the one hundred and twenty soldiers, after completing the transformation of the gun, it was the transformation of bullets, all the bullets captured on the ship, even the shotguns of some artillery, were all taken, and he was responsible for turning them into a bunch of mini bullets, and those women were responsible for stuffing cork at the bottom, and it didn't take long for all the army soldiers to have all the bullets, and then learn how to shoot under the leadership of Chen Liu.

As for the artillery, they are not needed for the time being.

The main reason is that Yang Feng doesn't have enough gunpowder here, he just captured more than two tons of gunpowder from the ship, this is an armed merchant ship and not the battleship Victory, it is impossible to carry too much gunpowder.

And he has no military pressure in the short term.

The nearest to this side is Borneo, the northern part of Borneo, including Sarawak, is still owned by the Sultan of Brunei, West Borneo is by the Lanfang Company, and Singapore is British, and the nearest stronghold of the Dutch is in the old port of Sumatra, but their headquarters are farther away in Batavia, the merchant ship disappeared and the news reached Batavia, and the governor of Batavia checked it again, and then sent a ship to check it, which is difficult to complete without a few months in between. Even if the Dutch sent a ship over, as long as he destroyed the ship, he could not admit it, anyway, it is a very common thing to lose a ship on the sea in recent years, if the Dutch could not be sure that the ship was sunk by him, just because he grabbed the territory, then it is difficult to say whether the Dutch East Indies Governor would send an expeditionary force for a territory of 2,400 subjects! In these days, it is not uncommon for pirates to rob a small island as a lair, and if the Dutch East India Fleet finds one place and rushes another, then they basically don't have to do anything else.

It is said that in this era, even if a fleet comes out for a trip, it may be wiped out at any time.

The sea is the worst enemy.

In short, Yang Feng can be sure that he will not see the Dutch fleet in half a year, but those merchant ships that pass by here need to be careful, the merchant ships of this era may change their faces at any time, just to see how much benefit they can get, and Ambuna Island is just stuck on the main route.

So he also wants to build up his navy as soon as possible.

"Throw away the scrap steel!"

Looking at the soldiers who were happily learning to shoot not far away, Yang Feng said to Xiao Qian expressionlessly.

He's going to build ships.

However, the construction of iron ships is still too exaggerated.

In this era, even the Glorious Warriors have not yet begun to build! The same Bessemer converter steelmaking will have to be ten years later, this time still belongs to the era of wrought iron, steelmaking has to take a small crucible, he built a steel-hulled ship that is to recruit wolves, although he is not afraid of these hungry wolves, but if the British East India fleet is surging, he will not do anything, now he is still focusing on development, so ......

So an iron-ribbed wood-hulled schooner piston steam-powered propeller boat is enough.

Just dismantling this merchant ship, and then using those ship boards to build a new ship, is basically enough.

The steamship was invented long ago.

At this time, the British East India Company had it.

It's just that theirs is a paddle wheel, but the propeller was also invented by the British in this year.

Iron-ribbed wood-hulled ships are also not uncommon.

More than ten years ago, Europe was able to use wrought iron to make metal hulls, but the problem of anti-corrosion of metal hulls has not been effectively solved, so the iron ribbed wooden hull is the perfect solution, and now there are many such ones, just because the use of paddle wheels and the lack of power of the steam engine are not too big.

Therefore, Yang Feng's ship is indeed very advanced, but it is not enough to attract wolves, and if necessary, it can also be used to lure the British to do an exchange of interests, of course, he is not really ready to play on this island for a lifetime, his most important thing is to go north to recover his homeland, so that the Ming Empire can make a comeback. But before that, the population problem must be solved, and it is impossible for him to integrate those Malays, so the best way is to take people from the north, and if he can lure them, he can lure them and force them to take them away, in short, he can use all the means available to pull people here, as long as he has a brigade of land and a dozen warships, he can go north to grab territory, for example, to grab Hainan Island first.

As long as he occupies a city, such as Haikou or something, it is impossible for the Manchus to recapture it, and then he can continue to expand outward.

And all this is inseparable from the acquiescence of the British.

Otherwise, the expeditionary force on his side will go out to grab the territory, and the British East India Company fleet will have a lot of fun coming to raid the house, so he wants to make this place a fortress that can resist the invasion for a short time, and second, he still has to be friendly with the British as much as possible, so that a hook up between the two sides is indispensable, in short......

In short, the premise of everything is that he must increase his strength as quickly as possible.

"Immortal, Immortal Venerable, what should I do if this young man is organized into an army to farm and fish?"

Zeng Cheng asked cautiously.

A group of old, weak, sick and disabled people behind him also looked at Yang Feng with puzzled eyes.

Yang Feng is not only to select young people to form an army, he also has to build infrastructure, for example, he must dig a dock, he also has to repair the dock, he even has to build a city, although it will take a few days to build a city, after all, the current population is not enough to support him to build a city, but it is still possible to determine the location in advance and clean up the city foundation, so that in fact, all the people on the island have to work for him, a total of 2,400 people, he does so many things, how can anyone farm and fish again!

There's not much food left on this island.

Yang Feng was speechless for a moment.

Then he pointed to the sky with his hand, and then pulled down, in a large warehouse in the original time and space, Xiao Qian, who was about to teleport a pile of scrap steel to him, immediately replaced the target of the teleportation with the mountains of rice next to him, and bags of rice instantly surged out from the light gate, and soon began to pile up into mountains, making poor Zeng Cheng's legs tremble, and the old, weak, sick and disabled behind him fell to the ground at once.