Chapter 102 Block

After receiving the order, the rest of the soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, militia and villagers immediately entered the state of preparation. The fort, which was not satisfied at ordinary times, immediately replenished the soldiers. In addition, a large number of ammunition and fresh food were supplied, so that they could still be defended under siege. For a long time, you don't have to worry about ran out of food.

After learning about the commander of the dry silk man and wanting to see his request, Blackhead discussed with Sun Baoqiang and decided to meet the guy first and listen to what they wanted to do.

So the Blackhead sent a messenger to inform Anthony that he could send messengers to meet on the Peace Island outside Chicken Cage Bay.

After learning the news, Anthony sent a man under him, with his handwritten letters and some gifts, and took a speedboat to Peace Island outside Chicken Cage Bay.

Blackhead and Sun Baoqiang met the messenger sent by the Spaniards in the open space outside the Peace Island fort and asked them what they wanted to do this time.

The messenger sent by Anthony then informed Blackhead of their intention, indicating that they came here this time to build a Spanish castle and port here as a port for future trade with the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, he gave Anthony's letter to Blackhead, who couldn't understand these Spanish writings, so he simply threw it directly to his men and let the Spaniard say it directly.

So the negotiator sent by Anthony told Blackhead what they thought and directly showed that they were willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to buy the cage bay occupied by the sea wolf. In the future, the sea wolf's ships can enter the cage bay at any time to berth supplies and get discounts, and the Spaniards are willing to It is intended to sell them some artillery and rifles at a low price.

Blackhead laughed on the spot as soon as he heard it. Ten thousand taels of silver, these dry silk people are really naive and cute! You should know that in order to control here, Yu Xiaotian's human, material and financial resources invested here in the past two years alone may not be less than hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

And these dry silk people actually want to pay only 10,000 taels of silver, and they want to give this land to them. This begling can't be so small!

So the blackhead scolded the messenger sent by Anthony and asked him to go back and tell their Commander Anthony that there is nothing to discuss about this matter. Not only will the sea wolf not sell Chicken Cage Bay to them, but the whole northern Taiwan now belongs to the territory of the sea wolf, and the Spaniards are not allowed to get involved here. Full, they must leave here within three days, otherwise the sea wolf will expel them by force and drive them out of here.

When negotiating with the blackhead, the messenger had also carefully looked at the fort on Peace Island and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Because this fort does not look like a Chinese-style camp or fortress, it looks quite like some European bastions, at least in structure is the same as the bastions they had seen in Europe before, and the fort is built of stone, which is quite strong.

The human, material and financial resources required to build such a fort are quite huge. It is estimated that 10,000 taels of silver can't be built for such a fort, and they proposed to exchange 10,000 taels of silver for the whole chicken cage bay, which is a little too low.

And through Peace Island, you can also see in Chicken Cage Bay. The sea wolf has also built a castle, which is larger than the size of the forts on this island. It also adopts a burglar structure. The overall construction is very strong, including both sides of the mouth of Chicken Cage Bay, and there is also a large Two small forts formed a set of perfect fortifications.

Building such fortifications and castles, this group of Chinese pirates have invested a lot, and it is simply a joke to let them give up 10,000 taels of silver.

But the Spanish envoy still thinks that what these Chinese pirates say is nonsense. Even if they occupy the chicken cage bay first, it can't be said that the northern part of the whole Taiwan island is their territory. Why do they want the Spaniards to leave here immediately?

The negotiations between the two sides were very unpleasant. After the messenger returned to the place where the fleet was moored, he immediately reported the results of the negotiations to Anthony, the commander of the fleet.

After listening to his reply, Anthony also felt a little tricky, because the ships that came here to investigate last time were inconvenient to get too close to Chickenlong wan, and some Chinese pirates interfered with them, so he did not know much about the defense facilities of Chickenlong wan, but only through telescopes far away. Observed the situation outside Chicken Cage Bay.

At that time, they only saw a fort on Peace Island, and did not see clearly that there was a fort at the mouth of the west bay, let alone the small fort next to the unfinished eastern waterway.

After the people who went to Jilong Bay to negotiate this time personally landed on Peace Island, they almost saw the defense facilities set up by the sea wolf in Jilong Bay, and had a more intuitive understanding of the defense situation here.

However, the negotiators can only see the battery, but they can't see the number and situation of artillery displayed in the battery. They can only have a more intuitive understanding of the external situation, but they can't really understand the firepower situation of the sea wolf here.

After listening to it, Anthony also felt that the conditions they proposed were a little outrageous, and the amount of silver given was really a little too small. Before they left, Shi Weva gave them 20,000 taels of silver to redeem this chicken cage bay, but he didn't want to set the price at once, so the first The negotiations only said that 10,000 taels of silver could be made, which obviously could not satisfy the appetite of these Chinese pirates.

But Anthony still believes that it is better not to fight. These Chinese pirates should have seen the strength of their fleet. In Anthony's opinion, what they said is a little strong. If you give them some price, you are not sure that these Chinese pirates will retreat in the face of difficulties and him. We reached an agreement to withdraw from the chicken cage bay.

So he sent his men again to continue to negotiate with Blackheads. This time, they directly raised the price to 20,000 taels of silver. As a result, Blackhead still rejected their proposal and asked them to immediately withdraw from the anchorage and leave here, otherwise they would be treated as enemies. Next, strong Expel them by force.

So Anthony was annoyed, because the authorization he had obtained had been used up at this time, but he still could not reach an agreement with these greedy Chinese pirates, and the other party strongly pointed out that they should be expelled by force.

These Spaniards are used to domineering at sea. At the beginning, the Spaniards had the world's most powerful navy, the best soldiers and sailors. In the past 100 years, their footprints have spread to every corner of the world (a little exaggerated) , but they think so).

Although they are not as good as before, their invincible fleet has been defeated by the British and is almost destroyed. Now there are rising Dutchmen who have begun to compete with them for territory all over the world, but in their eyes, only the Dutch and British can be their opponents.

These Chinese pirates are not qualified to say no to them at all. Since they like this territory, this territory should be theirs. The Dutch occupy the south of Taiwan Island, so they must let the Spaniards occupy the north, and this territory here can't be allowed to say anything. Some damn Chinese pirates have the final say.

So Anthony decided that since the negotiations were fruitless, the next step was to use force to capture Chicken Cage Bay.

Although the use of force is not what he wants, since the Governor has entrusted this glorious mission to him to carry out, if he can't take the chicken bay, he may not be able to explain it to many legislators, members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Governor after returning.

What's more, this time they are not dealing with the Dutch and the British, nor the French, but just a group of Chinese pirates. If he can't even complete the task, then after going back, it is estimated that his future will be completely finished.

So Anthony unequirely rejected the blackhead's request to them and told the sea wolves who came to inform them that the Spanish believed that Taiwan Island was a no man's land and did not belong to anyone's territory. They came here without anyone's consent. The sea wolves were not the owner here, so the sea wolves had no right. Ask them to leave here.

The negotiations have been broken down, and then the two sides have entered a state of formal hostility.

But Anthony is not a very reckless person. He can do it to his extent that he is not an ordinary fool. As the appointed fleet commander, Anthony is still very clear that he must be careful.

So he personally took the boat and sailed to the outside of Jilong Bay, ordered his fleet to block the mouth of Jilong Bay, sealed the sea wolf's ships in the harbor, and first strangled the throats of the sea wolves in Jilong Bay, so that they could not obtain external supplies for a certain period of time.

At the same time, he also ordered the infantry to capture prisoners on the shore and obtain detailed information about the Chinese pirates in Jilong Bay through prisoners, but that's all. Instead of launching an immediate attack on Jilong Bay, he personally took a boat outside Jilong Bay and began to carefully observe the defense facilities set up by sea wolves here with binoculars. .

During this period, Blackhead was not idle. He sent several warships to sail out of Chicken Cage Bay and had a contact exchange of fire with the Spaniards who blocked Chicken Cage Bay on the sea.

However, this kind of exchange of fire is a low-intensity battle, and neither side has shown their strength, but after a tentative exchange of fire between the two sides, the two sides have a relatively intuitive understanding of each other's maritime strength.

Although the quality of sea wolves' equipment is absolutely dominant among Chinese pirate groups, they are still at a disadvantage in the face of these Spanish warships.

The warships stationed by the sea wolf in Jilong Bay are basically light warships, mainly sentry boats, bird boats and Cangshan. The displacement of these ships is only about 100 tons when they are fully loaded. Although they are also double-mapped ships, they are still too small compared with the Spanish splint ships, but Some of their sumat boats are similar to the so-called speedboats, and their speed is not yet superior.