Daming pirates

When Yu Xiaotian received the news from the carrier pigeon, he felt a little complicated and secretly said, after all, he is here!

In the past two years, Yu Xiaotian has been worried about this matter, because his appearance has now affected the development process of history to a certain extent.

The most obvious impact is that his appearance has changed the composition of China's maritime power during this period in the history of old time and space.

First of all, because of his appearance, the Chu Cai Lao Group, which was originally rampant along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, was severely hit by him, causing its sphere of influence to be squeezed to the south of Zhangzhou Prefecture, while he controlled the north of Quanzhou Prefecture to the south of Zhejiang

A large area of ​​sea area along the coast.

Then because of his appearance, Yan Siqi's fate changed. Instead of dying young in the fifth year of Tianqi, he handed the huge plate to Zheng Yiguan, allowing him to easily inherit Yan Siqi's mantle and power, and then again

After taking over Li Dan's plate, they immediately became a very powerful pirate group on the Chinese sea.

But the one who was most affected was Zheng Yiguan. Because of his appearance, Zheng Yiguan did not take over Yan Siqi's power as in history. He only took over Li Dan's plate, but lost a person who could serve as his temporary base.

The territory and strength did not suddenly rise to a huge level.

Moreover, because his attempt to kill Yan Siqi failed, his reputation can now be said to be in disrepute, and he has become a person who is criticized by thousands of people. At sea, he was attacked by the three forces of Yan Siqi, Chu Cai Lao and Yu Xiaotian at the same time. It can be said that at the moment,

This period of time has been very difficult, and he is not as high-spirited as he was in the old time and space. Whether he can continue to survive on the sea of ​​China is probably the most important thing on his mind now.

The Shibazhi Group, which was once all-powerful in history, now seems unlikely to reappear.

The entire coastal area of ​​Fujian, because of his appearance in Yu Xiaotian, the historical process has been changed beyond recognition. Now he has replaced Zheng Yiguan and has become the most troublesome bandit to the Fujian government.

But this is not the place where he has the greatest impact on history. The place where he has the greatest impact should be on the island of Taiwan.

He occupied Jilong Bay more than two years in advance before the Spanish, and at the same time, he occupied the Tamsui area more than a year ago, which basically included northern Taiwan into his territory.

In this way, will the Spaniards go to northern Taiwan to grab territory like they did in the original time and space? He has been thinking about this for more than a year.

What is different from history is that when the Spaniards went to occupy Jilongwan and Tamsui River, there was no strong force there, so it can be said that the Spaniards gained a foothold without any effort, but now

After his intervention, two major forces emerged on the island of Taiwan. One was the Dutch who occupied Tainan, and the other was him. Of course, Yan Siqi also existed.

However, Yan Siqi's strength currently has no way to compare with him and the Dutch. Now Yan Siqi must depend on him to survive. In fact, he is one of his allies.

He was never sure whether the Spaniards would give up occupying territory on Taiwan Island because of his appearance. Although he also tried to send people to Manila to monitor the Spanish activities, under the current communication conditions,

Even if the people sent to Manila inquired about the Spanish's movements, it was basically impossible to get the news back to him as soon as possible.

Although carrier pigeons are the fastest way to communicate at the moment, Manila is too far away from Nanyue Island after all. It is difficult for carrier pigeons to fly so far in one go. They have to stop and rest in the middle. However, except for islands, there is basically the sea along the way.

Moreover, the weather conditions are very bad, and the carrier pigeons will most likely not be able to bring back the message.

Therefore, if you want to communicate at this distance, you still have to rely on manpower to complete it. From Manila to Nanyue Island, the fastest ship, even if it sails directly to Nanyue Island, will take more than a month. Sometimes

The merchant ship had to go to Guangzhou first, and then go up the coast. The journey would take longer, and even half a year was not impossible. By the time he received the news, the cucumbers and vegetables were already cold.

So now he can only wait for the Spaniards to come. As time goes by, he becomes more and more doubtful whether the Spaniards will come to the island of Taiwan.

It was only after he received the news from Keelung Fort this time that he was sure that the Spanish had indeed sent troops to Jilong Bay as they had done historically.

After this matter could be confirmed, Yu Xiaotian felt relieved. When things are uncertain, people will always worry about them, but once the dust has settled, even if it is bad news, people at least don't have to worry about it every day.

Random thoughts.

So as soon as Yu Xiaotian received the news, he immediately ordered the Sea Wolf fleet to enter a state of combat readiness, began to assemble the fleet, replenish sailors, ammunition, supplies, food and fresh water, and prepare to set off for Keelung Fort.

The entire Nanyue Island suddenly entered a state of war readiness again. Speedboats were quickly dispatched to various places to notify scattered ships to return to Nanyue Island. After receiving the order, batches of ships immediately began to head towards Nanyue Island.

Return to the island.

The Board of Directors is the busiest department. They have to make various supply preparations for the naval battle. Each warehouse is opened, boxes of ammunition are taken out of the warehouse, bags of food, and bags of food.

Packages of salted fish, bacon, and baskets of fruits and vegetables began to be transported to the dock in a steady stream, waiting to be distributed to navy ships.

Some of the artillery originally stored in the arsenal have also begun to be unsealed and transported to the dock, waiting for shipment. During non-war times, warships generally do not have too many artillery and ammunition on hand. First, they are maintained on board.

It is relatively difficult and has certain dangers, so under normal circumstances, the artillery on warships is not fully loaded, but when needed, these stored artillery will be loaded onto the ship in large numbers and prepared for combat use.

The navy originally had short-barreled flintlock muskets on board ships, but each ship was generally not equipped with much equipment. At this time, boxes of brand-new flintlock muskets were also unsealed and added to the ships.

In addition, a large number of incendiary bottles filled with refined whale oil are usually only a small amount of spare on the ship, including bamboo shells and iron shell hand grenades, and only a small amount of them are stored on the ship for spare use. At this time, large quantities of them are also needed for shipment.

The more advanced the equipment of the army, the higher the requirements for the logistics supply of materials, and the greater the consumption of materials. War is a matter of logistics.

The amount of firearms and equipment of the Sea Wolf is quite high in this era, so naturally its requirements for logistical supplies are much higher than those of its peers and even the Ming Dynasty's military.

This places high demands on the Board of Directors, which is temporarily responsible for logistics supply. For this reason, after the Battle of Chu Cailao, the Board of Directors set up a Logistics Office under the Board of Directors in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's request.

The department is responsible for supplying the Sea Wolf's military system, including allocating salaries and bounties to the Sea Wolf tribesmen. This is also the responsibility of the Logistics Department.

The purpose of doing this is to straighten out the material supply matters to avoid confusion when using them. This approach will naturally improve the efficiency of Sea Wolf's internal material distribution, allowing it to prepare for combat supplies faster.

Following Yu Xiaotian's order, Sea Wolf's war machine started up again, and this time they had to face not an opponent whose weapons and equipment were far behind them, but an army armed to the teeth.

Of course, the strength of this Spanish fleet is not very strong, but even so, the opponent's ships and firepower are still a strong opponent they have never encountered before.

Although Seawolf has greatly surpassed this era in cannon casting technology, due to the bottleneck of ships, the quality of Seawolf's warships has not been completely updated, even if it is equipped with more than a dozen new sloops

, but after all, these sloops have lighter and smaller hulls and cannot be equipped with a large number of artillery. Therefore, in terms of firepower, when facing the large plywood ships of the West, there is not much advantage at all. The caliber of the artillery and the ability to launch projectiles

The weight is also limited, which puts Western warships at a disadvantage when fighting.

But on the other hand, the Sea Wolves also have their advantage, that is, they have an absolute advantage in the number of ships and sailors, because although the Spaniards have concentrated a large number of troops in Manila this time, this is not a national war, it is just their

A colonial fleet.

Yu Xiaotian knows the situation of the Spanish better than anyone in the Ming Dynasty now. Although the Spanish still had an invincible fleet that could dominate the world a few decades ago, after the Great Battle between Britain and Spain thirty years ago, the Spanish's

The Armada was almost completely destroyed, causing the Spanish to suddenly lose their huge strength at sea. Now even if they have some big ships, they dare not leave the European mainland.

Moreover, they still have many colonies to protect. The Dutch and British are always eyeing their colonies and ships on the sea, so the number of ships and manpower the Spanish can send to Asia is very limited.

Judging from the number of ships sent by the Spaniards this time, Yu Xiaotian knew that their Philippine governor had spent all the capital he could get on hand. Except for this fleet and troops, they had no money in their pockets.

It was already empty, and it was impossible to send out more troops to capture Taipei.

So as long as we can give them a good beating this time, the Spaniards will be completely honest in the future. At least they won't have to worry about the Spaniards coming here again to cause trouble.

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