Although in the past two years, the ships of the sea wolf have begun to appear frequently on the northbound channel, but at that time, the number of ships was limited, and the size of the fleet was not very large, and at most it was only more than half a year when Yu Xiaotian was ordered to go north to Denglai to quell the chaos, and the sea wolf fleet was relatively intensive.

However, after the Denglai Rebellion was put down, although the ships of the sea wolves often appeared along the northern coast, they were not very numerous, and occasionally encountered large-scale fleets to move together.

But for such a long time, such a large number, such a large number of seawolf fleets like this time, and then turned back from the north, it has basically not happened in the past two years.

Therefore, people with a heart paid more attention and secretly speculated that there would be any movement in this Yu family's army, but few people thought that Yu Xiaotian would go north to plot rebellion.

From September 11, the Seawolf's fleet was assembled, including some mothballed ships, which were put into use, and even some sailors of fishing boats were called on board to start a super-large transport.

A large number of food, weapons, ammunition, armor, tents, quilts, cotton clothes and boots and other materials were loaded onto ships and transported to the north, and a large number of army soldiers and horses were also loaded and transported to the north.

At this time, the entire Seawolf's war machine was at full power, and groups of militia began to be recruited into the regular army, and the strength of the army began to expand at an accelerated pace.

The new barracks were organized by Yu Jia's army in various places, not only on the island of Taiwan, but also in Fujian, many places directly controlled by Yu's army, and at this time they had already become the jurisdiction of Yu Jiajun, and all townships and villages had already accepted Yu Xiaotian's control, and according to Yu Xiaotian's method in Taiwan, militias were organized in various local villages.

A group of these militiamen were ordered to join the Yujia Army, were organized into a new barracks, and began to be transferred to intensive training.

The workers of the major military factories have also changed to two shifts, each shift of six hours, working at full speed day and night, producing all kinds of weapons, ammunition and armor.

During this period, the quilt factory and some workshops specializing in the manufacture of sails were also at full capacity, recruiting many women who were idle at home to work in the workshops, continuously producing all kinds of military uniforms, gloves, cotton clothes, cotton boots and other military supplies, and also undertook the work of weaving some armor pieces into armor.

Yu Xiaotian has always adhered to the creed of providing the best equipment for his generals as much as possible, so he has never been stingy in arming his generals, as long as he can take out a large number of things, he will not hesitate to equip those generals under him.

This is also an important table of Yujiajun different from other officers and soldiers, the Ming officers and soldiers, for the generals almost no do not drink the blood of the soldiers, they try their best to deduct anything that can be deducted from the officers and soldiers under their hands, in order to fill their own pockets, in addition to treating their own soldiers will be more generous, will equip them with better armor, ordinary officers and soldiers can not even get a decent military uniform, the mandarin duck jacket worn on the body does not know what year and month it is old, it is a mess.

And most of the weapons are some shoddy and cut corners to make old guys, coupled with the usual lack of maintenance, rusty and even some of the armor pieces in the cotton armor, have rotted, poke a hole, can not play any protective role at all.

But on the other hand, in the home army, the navy warships are all new, military uniforms are issued at least two years a complete set of spring and summer military uniforms, the north can also get winter cold-proof cotton clothing, and even issued cotton coats, officers serving in the north, even issued sheepskin fur coats, weapons not to mention, the navy is equipped with thousands of cannons of various types, each ship, including merchant ships, are issued with at least dozens of long and short guns.

As for the army, according to the requirements, a set of spring and summer military uniforms is also issued every two years, and the soldiers stationed in the north of Shandong and Jeju Island are also issued with cotton boots and cotton clothes, and they are also equipped with quilts and felt pads for moisture and cold protection.

Once the clothes are damaged during combat or training, and the director can no longer repair them, they can also temporarily apply for a new military uniform, and the army officers in the north are also issued with sheepskin coats to ensure that they will not be frozen in winter.

As for weapons and equipment, Yu Jiajun's army, looking at the world, the weapons in their hands can be said to be the most advanced, in addition to being equipped with a lot of artillery, their most powerful is the wolf tooth type one and type two rifles used in their hands, and the elite battalions are basically all issued cuirass helmets.

With such a level of equipment, looking at Daming, even Guan Ningjun is not so luxurious, which makes people blush when they look at it.

However, the side effect is that the logistical pressure has increased dramatically, so many factories below the Seawolf Group have to serve the army, and an average soldier must have several workers to ensure various military supplies for them.

Over the years, Yu Xiaotian has spared no effort to continuously increase investment in industry, and many products were actually produced at that time and were not useful, but they were all stored, so that when Yu Xiaotian decided to send troops to Gyeonggi, all kinds of material reserves were piled up in the warehouses of the sea wolves.

Even so, Yu Xiaotian ordered the navy and merchant fleet to start transporting a large amount of supplies to the north after September, and temporarily stockpiled them in Yangma Island, Fushansuo, Lingshan Island, Zhifu Island, Changdao and other places to ensure the needs of large-scale military operations he launched in the north in the future.

In three months, the Seawolf Group has sent nearly 1,000 ships to Shandong, transporting hundreds of thousands of tons of various materials, such a scale of transportation is absolutely a jaw-dropping number in this era, the total amount of materials transported north by sea in three months is many times more than the total amount of materials transported north by sea through the Daming Canal, which is estimated to vomit blood on the spot if Chongzhen knows.

Daming has been plagued by the problem of Cao Yun over the years, which has always given Chongzhen a headache, because Cao Yun has involved the interests of too many people, from the high-ranking officials in the court to the lowest boatmen on the canal, there are millions of people who want to get a piece of the Cao Yun and rely on the Cao Yun to eat.

Every year, the grain transported north through the guò canal, but where it is transported to Beijing with one stone of grain, two stones of grain or even more will be consumed on the way, which is undoubtedly a huge burden for the Ming finance, which is not abundant, there have been some people of insight, who have already rushed to call out, change the sea to replace the Cao Yun, and pass the guò sea route to transport the grain and materials directly to Tianjin Wei landing, so that the Ming Dynasty will reduce the huge financial waste every year.

But Chongzhen has always been worried that if the sea ship is released on the sea, it is likely to encounter too many materials in the wind guide, and in addition, it is such a cry that greatly touches the interests of those powerful people who want to make money by Caoyun, and they have always been resisted to death, even if Chongzhen wants to change to sea transportation, there are so many people who resist, and he has no way to implement it.

But Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf group is different from the Ming court, they started from the sea, they have been eating at sea, they know the sea better than anyone else, they know better than anyone else about the temper of the sea, and under the efforts of Xiaotian, they have mastered the most advanced navigation technology in the world, built the largest ship in the Ming Dynasty, and trained the Ming Dynasty can even be said to be the best sailor in the world.

In the eyes of others, such an almost impossible task of long-distance transportation of large-scale military supplies is not a difficult task in the eyes of the Seawolf Group, and it is not even necessary to do all its best, just to dispatch a part of the ships to do this, and such a transportation task can be completed without strictly affecting the capacity of other major commercial routes, so this is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian dares to do it directly in the north.

By December, the overall deployment of troops and material preparations for the Sea Wolves had basically been put in place, and at this time, three infantry battalions and one artillery battalion had landed in Fushan alone, almost reaching the size of a brigade.

In addition, just in Fushansuo, the Seawolf Group has hoarded hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, which is enough to feed many people for a long time.

Of course, the sea wolf suddenly sent troops and materials to the Shandong area on such a large scale, and it was not that no one found out, even if the sea wolf blocked the surrounding areas within a radius of dozens of miles such as Fushansuo, Zhifu Island, and Yangma Island, but it couldn't cover everyone's eyes, and the local officials were still vaguely aware of the recent people in Xiaotian, sending a large number of materials and even troops to the north.

People who have a heart vaguely feel something, and their hearts can't help but pinch up, and they even want to remind the current court to pay attention to this aspect of the matter and make preparations in advance.

But Yu Xiaotian's chosen time was very appropriate, just when he was dispatching troops to the north and transporting a large number of supplies, it was also the time when the Jiannu army was raging in Beizhili and Shandong.

The urgent documents and military reports sent by the local government to the Beijing division every day have filled the entire Beijing division, so that all the information about the movements of the family army sent by the Shandong side to the Beijing division has been submerged in this large pile of slave army.

At this time, almost all the bigwigs in the government and the opposition focused on the matter of Jiannu going south, and anything unrelated to it was automatically blocked by them, and no one paid attention to what happened in other places at all, and even the matter of the Central Plains suppressing the exiled people's army was no longer valued at this time.

Therefore, no one in the Beijing division thought that Yu Xiaotian would choose this time to have a showdown with Daming, nor did he expect that in just a few months, Yu Xiaotian had gone to Shandong in person, personally sat in Fushan, and mobilized more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Yu family army and moved to various coastal areas in Denglai, Shandong.

Such a large-scale mobilization of troops, although it cannot be said that the sea wolf has done his best, it can be regarded as a test for Xiaotian.