Daming pirates

So is it the British? This is a possibility, because he has seen the British using similar ships. However, the British are currently in Asia. In addition to the ports they control in India,

They have no foothold near China. At most, they have a business house in Batavia. How can they sell such a ship to Chinese pirates? Anthony can't figure this out, but the British are the only ones worth doubting.

object.

The appearance of this strange European-style sailing ship gave Anthony an ominous premonition. The ship neither contacted them nor refused to leave. It just wandered near their fleet from a distance, constantly adjusting.

Direction, never intends to leave.

Anthony didn't like the feeling of being stared at so much, and wanted to send a ship to drive the ship away. However, the flexibility and speed of the ship let him know that among his fleet,

, no ship can catch up with this ship, and he doesn't want to fight with these Chinese pirates now. Since they want to monitor his actions, then let them watch.

So Anthony took out a map of Taiwan that the reconnaissance ship had brought back, looked at it, then raised his telescope and looked towards the shore. Under his command, the fleet continued to sail along the coastline for a certain distance.

Afterwards, finally under the command of Anthony, the fleet temporarily docked at a promontory in the northeasternmost corner of Taiwan Island.

To the west of this cape, there is a small bay where their fleet can temporarily anchor here to take shelter from the wind. So Anthony decided to stop here first, go ashore to take a look at the terrain, and see if they could use this place as their base.

A bridgehead.

The small boats in the fleet began to leave the fleet and sail into this small bay. As they walked, they detected the water depth and calibrated the water channel to prevent their large ship from running aground or running aground when entering the bay.

But after they boarded the cape, Anthony found that it was not a good foothold. There was not much flat land on this cape, not to mention its small area. It was also a mountainous terrain with dense woods, so it was not suitable for this place at all.

Build a castle as their bridgehead here in the future.

Moreover, this bay is too small to accommodate a few ships. It is impossible to serve as a trading port, so they must continue to find a suitable place to settle.

After a night's rest, the fleet led by Anthony abandoned the cape and began to continue sailing westward along the coastline. After another day of searching, they arrived at a place about two leagues away from the cape.

Found a bay again.

This bay was larger than the small bay they found yesterday, so they docked the fleet here, sent some personnel ashore, and began to conduct surveys on the shore to see if a building could be built here.

castle.

But after going ashore to survey, Anthony was still a little disappointed. Although the bay was larger and the conditions were relatively better, the terrain on the shore was still not flat enough, and there was no spacious land for them to build castles and various dock facilities.

At the same time on the shore, they also discovered a small pirate outpost set up here. The Chinese pirates stationed at this small outpost, that is, the Sea Wolf tribe, told them that this was already a Sea Wolf controlled area and asked them to

Must leave here immediately.

Of course Anthony ignored the threats from these Sea Wolf tribesmen, and just asked them to tell these pirates that he was sent by the Spanish Governor in Luzon and wanted to stop here temporarily, and asked them to inform their leader, hoping to

Meet with their leader to discuss some matters.

The small outpost set up here by Keelung Fort is actually just a peripheral surveillance post. In this bay, it is responsible for monitoring passing ships. In addition, it is also a temporary shelter for nearby fishing boats in case of a sudden storm.

It is not a fortress used for combat.

In addition, there were only a few of them and they did not have the strength to drive away so many Spaniards, so they had no choice but to send people back to Fort Keelung to inform Heitou that these dry silk people wanted to meet with him.

After Heitou discovered the Spanish fleet, he immediately released carrier pigeons and reported the news to Nanyue Island. At the same time, Heitou, Sun Baoqiang and other people stationed in Keelung Fort also admired Xiaotian's "unpredictable prophet".

They were so stunned that they didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian would guess everything.

Yu Xiaotian actually anticipated that these dry silk people might come to Taiyuan Island so early, and made all kinds of preparations in advance. In the past, they thought that Yu Xiaotian worked so hard to destroy the small Keelung Fort.

It was a bit exaggerated to be so heavily defended, but when they saw the Spanish fleet, they discovered that in fact, the things Yu Xiaotian had done for such a long time were not excessive at all. They were completely based on defense.

Defense facilities set up for fleet attack.

So while Heitou reported the news back to Nanyue Island by carrier pigeon, he also announced that Keelung Fort was preparing for battle, conducted a thorough inspection of the entire defense facilities of Keelung Fort, and ordered everyone to be on alert.

There are more than 300 soldiers stationed here, plus the sailors here, a total of more than 240 people, all of whom have been adjusted to prepare for war.

Including the craftsmen and immigrants in Keelung Fort, they were also ordered to prepare. According to the habits of the Sea Wolf, all craftsmen had to form a militia. In addition to their usual work, they also had to spend half a day every ten days.

For military training, practice team fighting and the use of cold weapons, the craftsmen's militia also receive regular musket shooting training so that they at least know how to use muskets when needed. Once used, they can always replenish the missing members.

Among the soldiers.

In addition, the local immigrants were also organized according to villages by Sea Wolf. Young and strong men were selected from the immigrants and organized into village warriors, so that the village itself had a certain degree of force and could easily deal with the harassment of some local natives or small groups of pirates.

Or maybe it was a bandit attack.

These warriors from each village are regularly organized to receive training from the Sea Wolf warriors. Of course, they mainly use cold weapons, broadswords, spears, etc., and they are also equipped with some projectiles such as crossbows.

Instead of equipping them with muskets, they will be equipped with cold weapons. At most, they will select some usable three-eyed blunderbuss, single-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss from previously captured weapons for them to use and receive training.

Although these local warriors are not very powerful in combat, they can be used as auxiliary soldiers. In addition, there are also a group of previously captured native coolies here. Some natives who are willing to work for Sea Wolf have also been selected to serve as auxiliary soldiers.

Therefore, the manpower that the entire Sea Wolf can mobilize in the Keelung Fort area is between 1,500 and 2,000.

Five hundred of them can be used as front-line combatants, and the militia team composed of 300 craftsmen can be used as supplementary troops. When necessary, they can be used on the front line as temporary combatants, but their combat effectiveness is definitely higher than that of real combatants.

The soldiers are much weaker.

In addition, there are 700 to 800 immigrants who can be used as auxiliary troops. These people can only be filled in at the last moment. During wartime, they are mostly used to transport supplies and ammunition and carry the wounded. Once they are needed to fill the battlefield,

By that time, there was basically no chance.

More than half of these combatants have to enter the fort to guard the fort. As the core of the peripheral defense line, the Heping Island fort needs to be stationed with 150 soldiers. Otherwise, the dozens of cannons in the fort will not be able to operate.

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In addition, in the battle plan, the fort must be equipped with a certain number of auxiliary troops, that is, rural warriors or militiamen, or even native auxiliary troops. These people are mainly used as laborers in the fort.

Because the twenty-four-pound cannons in the fort are very laborious to move. Even if they have wheels, it is very difficult to move the big guns weighing more than 4,000 kilograms without bearings.

Just to push the 24-pound cannons back into position, at least thirty people would be needed to serve them. The number of soldiers was limited, and the number of gunners was even smaller. If they were to be responsible for pushing the cannons throughout the entire process, they would probably not be able to fire many.

When the force is fired, they all fall down from exhaustion. Therefore, when the troops are limited, it is necessary to equip the fort with some country warriors or auxiliary soldiers to act as laborers and be responsible for pushing the cannon, while the gunner only needs to load and aim.

Okay, this can greatly save the gunner's physical strength, allowing the gunner to fight for a while longer.

According to Yu Xiaotian's requirements, for any Sea Wolf stronghold, even if it is just a stronghold like Nangantang, which is no longer very important, the personnel guarding it must formulate a set of combat plans in advance based on the number of their personnel.

, once encountering an enemy attack, you only need to follow the plan to start immediately, so that you will not be in a hurry and cause problems.

Keelung Fort is the stronghold that has been most threatened by the Sea Wolves in the recent stage. Of course, it also has the most complete plans. Yu Xiaotian personally participated in formulating the combat plan here, and as the armament situation here changes, it is still being developed.

get corrected.

So this time when the Black Heads and the others discovered that the Spaniards had appeared, they immediately activated the pre-set plan and launched the combat deployment in an orderly manner.

All fishing boats and whalers based in Jilong Bay were ordered to return to the port immediately to stop operations. There was a beacon on the top of the mountain, and three plumes of smoke were lit. The smoke rose into the sky. As long as there was no heavy wind or rain,

, you can see the beacon smoke from the beacon tower far away on the sea. The ships operating on the sea immediately began to rush back towards Keelung Fort. Unless there are some individual whaling ships that have traveled farther away, they cannot be notified quickly.

Upon arriving, the other various ships operating nearby quickly returned to the dock.

(Thank you, Brother Huluhulu, for the reward! I finally persevered this month! Considering that my son will be hospitalized for a long time, I really can’t hold on like this. Next month, I can only promise to update one chapter every day.

! I’m really sorry, everyone, please forgive me!)