The ghost scout died without even expecting that he would end in this way.

Xu Bin held a sword in his right hand and walked out of the camp with the ghost scout's head with his left hand. A piece of blood was scattered on the sand of the camp.

Not far from the camp was the beach, and a group of pirates were marching. I don’t know what methods they used, but the previous pirates captured by the Ming army were actually among them.

At this moment, they were looking at the Ming people walking towards them with horror.

Those who can come here with ghost scouts are not good at it, they all live by licking blood from the knife.

But when he looked at the Ming man walking towards them in front of him, the pirates present stood up.

At this moment, their head was being carried towards them by the Ming man.

When he was about 30 steps away from the pirates, Xu Bin suddenly shook his hand and threw the bloody head on the beach.

The pirate souls present were frightened and looked at the head on the beach at a loss.

"Take your head back and tell Muhanweili that the Ming Navy will cut off his head and send it back to Rawag, let him wash his neck and wait." Xu Bin said coldly.

I don’t know if anyone could understand what Xu Bin said.

They were all stunned. Their leaders were still arrogant and domineering this morning. When they walked into the Ming army camp, they asked them to wait here, saying that the Ming army would welcome them in later and have a good time to entertain them.

Now, people have come out, but they are just being held by someone with their heads.

These pirates were also cruel. Seeing that their master had only one head left lying alone on the beach, there were also a few clenched knife handles, trying to rush up.

But after seeing the thin Ming man standing behind him, Ming officers and soldiers holding muskets and swords, they didn't dare to move.

They had suffered from the Ming munitions. A pirate quickly moved the ghost scout's head back.

More than twenty pirates began to panic and flee.

"Send a few bird boats to follow and find out which island they are entrenched on." Xu Bin ordered a general.

After receiving the order, the general of Bi hurriedly sent people to follow the pirate ship.

ravag, dock

Accompanied by Xu Ming, Liu Yu took local officials from Lavague to inspect Lavague's dock early in the morning.

When the Spanish ruled Lavague, the shipyard could only repair some large sailing ships and build some small and medium-sized merchant ships. However, after the Spanish Navy defeated and trapped Lavague, Sir Brent and the Navy expanded the dock. After the Ming army took Lavague, they mobilized thousands of workers to expand and transform the dock on a larger scale.

Xu Ming walked towards Liu Yu with a smile on his face and walked towards the dock. As Liu Yu entered the dock, he looked around and saw several three-masted sailboats and several big bird boats parked in the dock.

The current dock can accommodate more than 20 large ships after a series of expansions by the Spanish and Ming army.

"Sir." Several local local craftsmen hurried over and saluted them after seeing Liu Yu and his group.

Liu Yu respected the craftsmen in the shipyard very much. He not only gave the craftsmen and workers in the shipyard corresponding housing, but also had monthly salary to get. Usually, the ships of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce were damaged and repaired were not only given generous rewards, but also transferred a sum of money from the craftsmen and workers in the shipyard.

This was a generous position that had never been seen during the Spanish administration, which also made the shipyard craftsmen and workers work harder in the shipyard, and at the same time, they were even more grateful to Liu Yu.

After all, the craftsmen and workers in the shipyard were basically Luzon's local children, and they were still inferior to others when they were in Spain. However, when the Ming army was in power, their status rose, so why can't they be grateful?

"Xu Ming, how is the big bird ship in the shipyard built today?" Liu Yu waved his hand and signaled the local craftsmen present to go there.

"The two big bird boats built in Weigan have been launched and handed over to the Fubo Town Navy. Now, in the Lawag Shipyard, except for the several armed large sailboats that are being rebuilt, they are basically starting construction of big bird boats." Xu Ming's face was red, and it was obvious that he was quite proud during this period.

"When the Florians fled in a panic, they left behind the drawings of the Garen warship in the shipyard, and provided a large amount of first-hand information technology for the artillery deck transformation of the sailing ship, making us more handy in transforming the armed merchant ships."

Xu Ming pointed to an armed merchant ship not far away and said with a smile.

There are about twenty armed merchant ships in the harbor of Lavag, all of which are under the control of the Ming army. Except for several taken by Xiao Wu, they are basically incorporated into the Fubo Town Navy by Liu Yu.

The rest of the merchant ships anchored on the pier were basically fled to Lavague when pirates attacked the northern coast of Luzon. Liu Yu focused on the three-masted Galen sailing ships.

These large sailboats are actually very suitable for conversion into warships. In addition to the warship drawings left by Spain, Ming craftsmen such as Xu Ming modified more than a dozen Garen sailboats in one go.

These Galen sailboats were equipped with a layer of artillery deck and the hull was coated with a layer of copper. After the cannon was installed, it became an armed merchant ship.

Although it is unlikely to compete with the Spanish Navy, fighting pirate escorts or something is OK.

For example, during this period, eleven armed Garen ships were modified, and the Ming army installed twenty-four artillery pieces of big and small, including six nine-pound cannons and eight six-pound cannons. The firepower of the near-ship war was not lacking, which led to Liu Yu forming another Fubo Zhongzhen.

The launch of a large number of naval warships caused a sharp increase in demand for Ming army artillery and black gunpowder.

During these days, Liu Yu introduced artillery technicians from East India at a high price, and even focused his attention on the Portuguese in Macau and the Dutch in Batavia. He also recruited some artillery craftsmen. The three-pound and six-pound Flang machine cannon can be mass-produced, and the nine-pound Saiko cannon can also be imitated.

However, due to the lack of corresponding equipment and a series of reasons, the Ming army has been unable to produce twelve-pound long cannons, and the English and Macau Portuguese seemed to be in a mess.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! For small and medium-sized artillery under six pounds, the English and Portuguese sold at normal prices, but once the transaction of heavy artillery of twelve pounds and more is involved, all merchants kept silent and asked for sky-high prices if they were willing to sell it. For example, a red cannon actually costs as much as four or five thousand taels, and only old cannons are sold, and the number is only a few.

Liu Yu was so angry that he cursed, but later he calmed down and thought about it carefully.

Yes, these Westerners were not very willing to appear in Southeast Asia with a large Chinese-oriented force that threatened them.

By selling weapons, controlling the supply of Ming army and limiting the development of Ming army's military equipment, reducing the threat from the Ming court in the South China Sea to a controlled level, it has to be said that the British methods were still very vicious.

The Ming army also lacked black gunpowder. During this period, the Ming army also purchased saltpeter, sulfur, etc. from all over the Southeast Asian region through the channels of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. Gunpowder workshops in Vigan, Lavag and other places can also produce large quantities of black gunpowder, as long as the raw materials are sufficient.

The Ming army must hold the production of black gunpowder in his own hands.

"During this period, merchant ships in the four seas have been plundered by pirates. The newly formed Fubozhong Town will go to the coastal areas of Luzon to escort and train." Liu Yu said to a town general.

Now, Fuboqian Town, Zuo Town and You Town have been sent by Liu Yu to capture the Badan Islands. The entire northern waters of Luzon are heavily dependent on Xiao Wu's Navy Town.

As a result, Naval Town failed to stop the merchant ships in the four seas being plundered by pirates one after another, causing the merchants in the four seas to constantly complain to Liu Yu, but Liu Yu had not many warships to send out.

In the end, the Chinese businessmen could only pay out of their own pockets. Several major business companies gritted their teeth and collected money to solve Liu Yu's urgent need for the lack of funds for the construction of Xinshui Town, which could be regarded as adding some help to the Ming army's navy.
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