Chapter 169 Show strength to the enemy

The first day of the negotiations did not come to any results, but Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry. In the next few days, Yu Xiaotian stopped contacting Blanco on the grounds of busy affairs and sent someone to take Blanco around Nanri Island.

So someone specially took Blanco to see something that Yu Xiaotian wanted him to see on Nanri Island, and even Blanco, which was not allowed to approach civilians and idle people at ordinary times, was allowed to get close.

In a few days, many scenes on Nanri Island controlled by Yu Xiaotian left a deep impression on Blanco. This Nanri Island is very different from what he expected before coming.

Although the people here are not well dressed and even their clothes are still worn out, he has not seen a beggar on Nanri Island. Everyone on this island seems to be healthier than the people in Guangzhou, the most prosperous city in China.

Blanco has previously taken a boat to Guangzhou City in Daming, Guangdong Province to do business. In Guangzhou City, he has carefully observed where Chinese people are.

Although Guangzhou is very prosperous, there are still many beggars in the streets and alleys. Some people look relatively rich, but the vast majority of civilians still look very poor. Many people look dished. Obviously, most of them do not eat well, so they are very thin, especially some people outside the city. Some farmers and the coolies working on the dock are all yellow and thin.

However, it is obvious that there are few people here. Although there are few fat people here, most people do not seem to be in a state of serious hunger. Most of them look better, especially those wearing sea wolf uniform clothes, one by one. It looks rosy and healthy.

It can be seen that Yu Xiaotian, as a manager and ruler, is not stingy with his opponents. At least in terms of eating, he is very generous to his subordinates, so that they can eat enough and look well, but the fabric of these clothes is not good, but compared with ordinary people in Daming, their clothes It's already quite good.

This is also the pirate group he heard and met, which equips his men with uniform clothes, which is very surprising, because as far as he knows, the pirates catch what to wear, and he has also seen some Chinese pirates with his own eyes. These pirates wear a variety of clothes, silk and rotten clothes. There are even people wearing colorful women's clothes.

However, the sea wolves all wear indigo or indigo clothes, which are simple and clean, more like an army.

And the guards here are strict, and there are sentries in many places. The sea wolf's subordinates raised their heads and stayed in their posts. No one was loose and had a good mental outlook, which is not comparable to even their Spanish soldiers.

In addition, the sea wolf village here is not like a fortress built by ordinary Chinese people. From the outside, the village here has a western-style fence structure. Although the construction method is still Chinese, it is similar to a Western-style fence in terms of structure and function. In many places on the fortress wall, there are prominent watchtowers. , there are artillery on it, and the shooting boundary is quite good, which can firmly block the walls on both sides and form crossfire.

Such a fortress is very strong and extremely difficult to conquer, because no matter whether the attacking side attacks the fortress from any angle, it has to withstand firepower in several directions.

Although Blanco is just a businessman, he has also been a soldier and has a good understanding of defense facilities. After looking at the sea wolf's fortress, he can be sure that there are high-level people here to give them advice. The fortress is built according to the structure of the Western-style fen, so that they can give full play to their firepower. .

In fact, since Chu Cailao came to attack their first Nanri Island War, the sea wolf began to renovate and repair the original Dazhai defense facilities.

With Xiaotian's personal participation, in addition to strengthening the original wall, many towers protruding the wall were added around the wall, transforming the village into a similar fort structure, making it have a stronger defense capability. The last time, because they did not attach great importance to the construction of Dazhai defense facilities, as a result, several times they were almost Chu Cai's men, who had a weak attack ability, broke through.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian began to send people to strengthen the sea wolf village after the war. In addition to thickening the wall so that it has higher shelling ability and explosion resistance, he also built some towers, so that it can form side fire fire on the side of the wall.

Any enemy who wants to attack the fortress wall must be shot by artillery and * from the watchtowers on both sides. It is extremely difficult for the enemy to form an effective attack.

In addition, in the case of not being able to dig the moat, they set up deer and horses around the whole village, and also inserted a lot of bamboo sticks under the wall. All of these bamboo sticks have been roasted by fire to carbonize the surface and can be anti-corrosion. Even if they are stepped on barefoot with shoes and do not wear their feet, they are all Light.

What's more immoral is that after arranging the bamboo sticks, they still put a layer of fine sand on the bamboo sticks. Usually, they can't see the bamboo sticks. After stepping on them, they will find that they feel uncomfortable under their feet, but it was too late at that time.

A very strong wooden fence has been added at a distance of dozens of steps outside the wall. This distance is exactly the tiger squat gun and * the best range. In addition, if it is strong enough, the projectile can also throw * here to form a very dense fire coverage area here.

If the enemy attacks the fortress, the personnel are bound to be blocked by this fence, where they will be delayed, and a large number of people will gather, which can be effectively covered by the firepower of the sea wolf. If it is not a determined army, it will be dispersed here.

In a word, the current sea wolf village has become much stronger than a year and a half ago, especially after learning that the officers and soldiers are coming to attack Nanri Island, the sea wolf has spared no effort to strengthen the defense facilities to make it more perfect, and added a small barn city at the main east and south gates to make the village The door opened on the side, making the wall door much stronger.

Looking at the situation here, Blanco can basically be sure that it is not a simple thing to capture the fortress. Let alone let the Ming officers and soldiers do it, even if they transfer their Spanish infantry and configure enough cannons, they may not be able to easily capture the fortress.

So he understands why Yu Xiaotian is not worried about the Ming official coming to attack his Nanri Island this time. With his understanding of the Daming officers and soldiers, he is afraid that the officers and soldiers will touch their heads here.

In addition, he also observed the training of the sea wolf infantry here. The sea wolf's infantry training intensity is very high. He wandered on Nanri Island for a few days. In the sea wolf's barracks, he shouted killing every day. The soldiers kept carrying out various queues and marches, attack and defense training on the training ground in the camp, and he also It can be seen that the fire rope guns used by these sea wolves can be equipped with a dagger, making the fire rope gun become a short spear. You can shoot the enemy with a projectile in the distance, and you can hold your hand* to assassinate the enemy nearby.

This is a pretty good idea. When the sea wolf does this, * hands are no longer the kind of arms that must be protected by long gunmen and halberd soldiers. After installing this kind of dagger, they also have the ability to fight close to the enemy, which can improve a lot of combat effectiveness at once. Blanco thought to himself. .

In addition, Blanco also saw that the sea wolf was building some fortifications on the island. Obviously, they were preparing for the next advance and suppression of the officers and army. According to the performance of the sea wolf soldiers he saw, the army formed by this pirate was quite elite, whether in discipline or in line and shooting. On the other side, he was no different from the most elite Spanish infantry he had ever seen, and he even secretly thought that it was much more than their Spanish infantry.

He didn't know how the leader of the sea wolf could train these rabble pirates into such an elite army, but based on the performance of the sea wolf infantry he saw, the officers and soldiers were definitely no match for them.

Next, Blanco proposed to his accompanying staff that he wanted to go to the dock or the seaside, and the accompanying staff also met his requirements and took him to the dock and some seaside for a few times.

Blanco saw the sea wolf fleet at the seaside and docked many sea wolf ships. Although most of them were his common Chinese Kerong ships, these sea wolf ships looked much cleaner and tidy than his common pirate ships. Even if all the sails were damaged, It has been repaired, the hull is very neat, and all the items on the ship look messy, but if you look closely, you can find that these things on the deck are neatly placed on the deck.

The items on the same ship are placed in a very regular manner, where they are placed, where they are placed, and where they are placed. There are sentries with guns standing in the bow and stern of each ship. These people observe the situation around them with vigilance and seem to be very conscientious.

It is also obvious that the berths of these ships are also carefully arranged. All ships are not parked in the harbor in a disorderly manner, but are moored in the harbor in an orderly manner, with a ship next to a ship, and there is a passageway. Even if you want to draw any ship from the middle, it can be quickly Transfer it from the berth without being affected by other ships.

And he also saw that there were artillery on the deck of these ships. Most of the artillery were covered with oilcloth and wrapped in ropes, but the oilcloth of the artillery on some ships was uncovered, and the sea wolf's troops were surrounding the artillery to wipe and maintain the artillery. Although it was not real from far away, it was from the cannon. He can also see the light reflected on his body that these cannons of the sea wolf are very carefully maintained.

What surprised him more was that he saw that the cannons loaded on these wave ships were no longer the tattered old guns commonly used by Chinese pirates. From afar, he recognized that these guns were basically Western-style artillery, although most of them were not big. But this is much more sophisticated than the guns equipped by other Chinese pirates.