Chapter 101 Battle

So is it British? It's a little unlikely, because he has seen British use similar ships, but the British are currently in Asia. Except for the ports they control in India, there is no foothold near China. At best, they have a commercial hall in Batavia. How can they What about selling this kind of ship to Chinese pirates? Anthony couldn't figure out this problem, but the British were the only suspect.

The appearance of this strange European sailboat gave Anthony an ominous feeling that the ship did not contact with them and refused to leave. It wandered so far away around their fleet, constantly adjusting its direction, and never intended to leave.

And Anthony didn't like the feeling of being stared at like this. He wanted to send a ship to drive the ship away, but the flexibility and speed of the ship showed let him know that at present, none of his fleets could catch up with the ship. In addition, he didn't want to fight with this group of Chinese pirates now. Hands, since they want to monitor their actions, let them watch.

So Anthony took out a map of Taiwan that the reconnaissance ship had brought back, observed it on the map, then raised his telescope and looked at the shore. After the fleet continued to sail along the coastline for a distance under his command, finally under Anthony's command, the fleet temporarily leaned on Taiwan. A Cape in the northeastern corner of the island.

To the west of this Cape, there is a small bay where their fleet can temporarily berth and shelter from the wind, so Anthony decided to dock here first, go ashore to see the terrain here, and observe whether it can be used as a bridgehead for them.

The boats in the fleet began to leave the fleet and sailed into the small bay. As they walked, they explored the depth of the water and marked the waterway to prevent their large ships from hitting a reef or stranding when entering the bay.

But after they climbed this Cape, Anthony found that it was not a good foothold. This Cape did not have much flat land, not to mention the area was small, but also mountainous terrain and dense forests, which was not suitable for building castles here as their bridgeheads in the future.

And this bay is too small to berth a few ships at all. As a trading port, it is impossible, so they must continue to find a suitable place to settle down.

After a night's rest, the fleet led by Anthony abandoned the Cape and began to sail west along the coastline. After another day of searching, they found a bay again about two miles from the Cape.

The bay is bigger than the small bay they found yesterday, so they docked the fleet here, sent some personnel to land, and began to survey on the shore to see if a castle could be built here.

However, Anthony was still a little disappointed after the survey. Although the bay was larger and the conditions were relatively good, the land 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, they also found a small pirate sentry stationed here on the shore. The Chinese pirates stationed at this small post, that is, those sea wolves, told them that this was already the sea wolf's control area and asked them to leave here immediately.

Of course, Anthony would not pay attention to the threat of these sea wolves, but let people tell the pirates that he was sent by the Governor-General of Spain in Luzon and would temporarily stop here, and asked them to inform their leaders, hoping to meet with their leaders and discuss something.

The small post located here in 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 nearby fishing boat. In case of a sudden storm, the temporary shelter from the wind is not a fortress for combat.

In addition, they only had a few people and did not have the strength to drive away so many Spaniards, so they had to send people back to Fort Keelung, inform Blackhead, and tell Blackhead that these dry people wanted to meet with him.

After discovering the Spanish fleet, Blackhead immediately released the carrier pigeons and reported the news to Nanri Island. At the same time, Blackhead and Sun Baoqiang and other people stationed in Keelungbao also threw themselves into the five bodies of Xiaotian's "uncerest" admired by Xiaotian. They did not expect that everything was expected by Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian actually expected that these dry silk people might come to Taiwan Yuan Island so long ago and made all kinds of preparations in advance. In the past, they still felt that it was a little too exaggerated that Yu Xiaotian was so exhausted to make a small Keelung Fort so defensive, but when they saw Spain After the fleet, it was found that in fact, these things that Yu Xiaotian had done for such a long time were not too much at all, completely according to the defense facilities set up to resist such a fleet attack.

So while reporting the news back to Nanri Island with carrier pigeons, Blackhead also announced that Keelung Fort had entered the battle preparation, thoroughly inspected the defense facilities of Keelung Fort, and ordered everyone to enter the alert.

More than 300 soldiers stationed here, plus the sailors here, a total of more than 240, have been adjusted to the state of war.

The craftsmen and immigrants in Keelung Fort were also ordered to prepare. According to the habits of sea wolves, all the craftsmen have to be organized into militias. In addition to their usual work, they have to take half a day for military training, practice team exercises and the use of cold weapons every ten days. The militia of craftsmen regularly Receive * shooting training so that you can at least know how to use * when needed. Once used, it can be added to the missing soldiers at any time.

In addition, the local immigrants were also organized by sea wolves according to the village, selecting young and strong men from the immigrants and weaving them into villagers, so that the village itself has a certain amount of force and can simply cope with the attacks of some local natives or small groups of pirates or bandits.

These villagers will also be regularly organized to receive training from sea wolf soldiers. Of course, they mainly use cold weapons, big knives, spears and other things, and will also equip them with some ejective cold weapons such as bows and crossbows, instead of being equipped with *, at most, from the weapons captured before. Select some usable three-eyed, single-eyed and bird-eyed for them to use and receive practice.

Although the combat effectiveness of these villagers is not strong, they can be used as auxiliary soldiers. In addition, there is also a group of previously captured natives, from which some natives who are willing to work for the sea wolf to be used as auxiliary soldiers, so the whole sea wolf is in the area of Keelung Fort, adjustable. The number of people moving is between 1,500 and 2,000.

500 of them can be used as front-line fighters, and a militia composed of 300 craftsmen can be used as supplementary forces. If necessary, they can be used as temporary soldiers on the front line, but their combat effectiveness is definitely much weaker than real soldiers.

In addition, there are 700 to 800 immigrant villagers who can be used as auxiliary soldiers. These people can only be filled in at the last minute. In wartime, they are mostly used to transport supplies and ammunition and lift the wounded. Once they are filled in to the battlefield, they are basically almost out of chance.

More than half of these fighters have to enter the fort to guard the fort. As the core of the outer defense line, the Peace Island fort needs to garrison 150 soldiers. Otherwise, more than a dozen cannons in the fort will not be operated.

In addition, in the battle plan, the fort is equipped with a certain number of auxiliary soldiers, that is, villagers or militia, and even indigenous auxiliary soldiers, who mainly work in the fort.

Because the 24-pound heavy guns in the fort are quite difficult to move. Even if they have wheels, it is very difficult to push them without bearings.

If the 24 pound cannon is to promote their reset, at least 30 people are needed to serve them, and the number of soldiers is limited, and the number of gunners is even less. If you want them to be responsible for pushing cannons throughout the whole process, it is estimated that they will be tired of firing a few shots, so in the case of limited forces, it is necessary in the fort. It is necessary to be equipped with some villagers or auxiliary soldiers to act as laborers, specializing in pushing guns, while the gunners only need to load and aim, which can greatly save the gunner's physical strength and allow the gunner to fight for a while.

According to Yu Xiaotian's request, any stronghold of the sea wolf, even if it is just a stronghold like Nangantang, which is not very important now, the guards must formulate a set of combat plans according to the number of their personnel in advance. Once they encounter an enemy attack, they only need to follow the plan and can be displayed immediately. Don't go wrong in a hurry.

Keelung Fort is the most threatened stronghold of sea wolves in recent stage. Of course, the plan is also the most fully done. The battle plan here was formulated by Yu Xiaotian himself, and with the change of the armed situation here, it is still constantly revised.

So this time, after the Blackheads found that the Spaniards appeared, they immediately launched a pre-set plan and launched a combat deployment in an orderly manner.

All fishing boats based in Jilong Bay were ordered to immediately return to the port to stop operations. There was a beacon tower on the hill, burning three thick smoke, and thick smoke rose to the sky. As long as there is no strong wind and rain, you can see the beacon smoke of the beacon tower on the far sea, the ships operating on the sea, and horses Shang began to rush back to Keelung Fort, unless some whale ships ran a little farther and could not be notified quickly, and the rest of the ships operating nearby quickly returned to the dock.

(Thank you for the reward! I finally stuck to it this month! Considering that my son will be hospitalized for a short time, I can't stand it. Next month, I can only promise to update a chapter every day! It's really a big guy, please forgive me!)