Anthony and his captains couldn't figure out where these Chinese pirates got so many Western-style artillery, you must know that there are so many pirates off the coast of China now, in order to enhance their strength, these pirates are looking for cannons, but because their Spanish iron foundry in Manila has a small output, it is simply not enough to meet the needs of these pirates.

In addition, considering that these Chinese pirates could not be allowed to have too strong strength, whether it was them, the Portuguese, or even the Dutch, they were quite cautious when selling artillery, first of all, they would only sell some pirate artillery they trusted, and they would also control the weight of the artillery.

Only the Portuguese the year before last, a cannon from a British ship salvaged from the sea of Entrenchment Jingao was sold to the Ming government for 30 pieces, which is considered a relatively heavy artillery, and it is extremely difficult for other pirates to obtain such heavy artillery.

And this group of Chinese pirates, who call themselves sea wolves, don't know where Lu Dao got so many Western-style cannons, and there are still such heavy artillery, and this time things have become much trickier.

Anthony felt more and more uneasy in his heart, they seriously underestimated the strength of these Chinese pirates, so can he still take this chicken coop bay next? He put a series of question marks in his mind.

The artillery battle between the two sides was still going on at this time, the cannon sound on the sea surface became a one, and the smoke of gunpowder continued to rise from the ship or the fort, and the flash of the muzzle flame, like a series of lightning, kept flickering.

A large number of shells poured onto the island of peace, spilling on and around the fort, sending rubble flying and the ground shaking.

At this time, the other two batteries at the mouth of Chicken Coop Bay also began to fire, and these two batteries were also armed with unequal numbers of twenty-four-pounder guns, which could easily reach a mile away, and also posed a great threat to the Spanish fleet, and the two sides fought for about an hour, and almost every ship in the Spanish fleet was shelled.

However, under the fire of the Spaniards, these forts were as solid as a rock and were never destroyed, but some of the buildings still suffered some losses.

A heavy artillery shell was hit in a gun window on the Heping Island battery, which happened to be the weakest part of the structure, and after the middle gun, there was a collapse, and the rubble stirred up by the shell scattered in the inside of the fort, which immediately caused several gunners and more than a dozen villagers to be killed and wounded, and a twelve-pounder cannon was also destroyed on the spot and buried in the rubble.

But the Spaniards suffered more damage, several large ships were cut into holes, and dozens of crew and sailors were killed or wounded.

In the midst of the fierce battle, a cannonball fired from the Peace Island Fort hit Anthony's ship, narrowly missing Anthony's body and killing one of Anthony's guards.

Anthony, who was helped up, saw that they could not bargain much if they continued to fight, so they had to order a temporary ceasefire and retreat.

Looking at the Spanish fleet that had turned to evacuate outside Chicken Coop Bay, the sea wolf troops and the villagers in several forts immediately let out a cheer.

The black head personally took a small boat to the Heping Island Fort, celebrated Feng Twelve and them, and sent a large piece of meat to the fort, as well as a barrel of wine, as a reward for them, as for the merit, that is a matter of the future, for the time being, just reward them with wine and meat first.

Another group of builders was also quickly sent to Heping Island, and immediately began to repair the battle-damaged forts, using ready-made spare stones and the gaps where the gravel would be collapsed, and boiling some glutinous rice and corn rice syrup mixed with lime as a binder on the spot to bond the stones, and pouring this mixed slurry into some crevices, it would not take long for it to solidify and solidify.

Of course, this practice is also a last resort, but also a common method used by the ancients to build a solid building, if it is replaced with cement, it will be much simpler and more convenient, and the degree of solidity will be better.

As for the casualties in the fort, they were immediately rushed back to Keelung Fort, and the wounded were immediately treated, and the deceased arranged for their bodies to be washed and wiped, and then collected into coffins.

For this battle, the carpenters of Keelung Fort are busy enough, they also have to strengthen the defense facilities everywhere, rush to repair the sailor ships damaged in the first two days of battle, and work overtime to build some coffins, according to Yu Xiaotian's habit, as long as the people of the sea wolf are killed in battle, they must be buried thickly, at least to prepare a strong coffin for them, so that they can do the glory of the affairs after their deaths.

These things are done for the living to see, to let the living know that once they die for the sea wolf group, they will not be hastily discarded or casually dug a pit and buried and pulled down, the ancients because of superstition, are very concerned about the things behind them, so in this regard, Yu Xiaotian has always spared no expense, and the posthumous affairs of the soldiers who died in the war are beautiful.

In addition, in the morning battle, each battery consumed a lot of ammunition, several main heavy artillery, even more hot, had to stop halfway to wait for the barrel to cool down, whether it was the Xiang Yong who helped the battle or the main battle of the soldiers and gunners, each was tired and exhausted, when they saw the Spaniards withdraw from the battle, as soon as the cheers fell, many people lay directly on the ground, tired like dogs, and did not even want to move their fingers.

In this era, fighting artillery is an absolute heavy physical exercise, not to mention that they use heavy cannons with long barrels, which are more than 1,000 catties casually, and some 24-pound cannons weigh up to 4,000 catties.

This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian is willing to let his subordinates eat and drink well, that is, on weekdays, take care of their bodies, provide them with enough nutrition, and strengthen their bodies, in addition to improving their resistance, it can also increase their endurance, so that they have enough physical strength to devote themselves to the battle in wartime.

And now it seems that he has been rewarded very well for doing so, these gunners have all persevered in the high-intensity artillery battle, and their physical strength is far better than that of ordinary villagers, and after a short rest, they all recovered one by one, and hurriedly ate and drank, and hurriedly replenished their physical strength, ready to deal with the next battle.

At this time, under the command of Sun Baoqiang, a shipload of ammunition was loaded from Keelung Fort to each fort, and replenished into the ammunition depot in the flat fort, so that these gunners could fight again at any time.

The destroyed cannon was also removed from the rubble, and after inspection it was scrapped, it was loaded back to Keelung Fort Gun, smashed and returned to the furnace, and turned back to cast other cannons, and a new cannon was transported to the battery, hoisted into the battery with a winch, and placed on the gun emplacement.

In just half a day, the damaged batteries were basically repaired, including the damaged artillery also replaced, and the personnel, including the personnel, were also strengthened, and a number of tired and paralyzed villagers were replaced, so that the combat capability of the batteries was restored again before dark.

After the frustration of the first day's attack, Anthony returned to their temporary anchorage with the ship, and ordered the ship's craftsmen to hurry to repair the damaged ships and count their losses.

The results of the inventory made these Spaniards very discouraged, after only half a day of artillery fighting, their ships accumulated thirty or forty guns, most of which were heavy artillery shells, which caused some damage to the main ships of their fleet, although the damage was not too great, so that they would not be beaten and lose their combat effectiveness, but it was quite a blow to their morale.

These Spanish sailors and soldiers who came here with them no longer have the relaxed mentality they had before the war, and they no longer dare to underestimate this group of Chinese pirates here, they know that this time they have met a strong opponent, this group of Chinese pirates is by no means the Chinese pirates they knew before, this group of Chinese pirates who call themselves sea wolves, not only is the quality of their artillery not inferior to them, but also their combat skills are not weaker than them, and even stronger than their gunners.

This was evident from their observation of the rate of shelling of the Seawolf batteries, which were loaded with gunners at a rate that was faster than the gunners on their ships.

Moreover, the accuracy of the enemy's artillery bombardment should not be underestimated, these pirate gunners aimed very accurately, hit hard and accurately, if it were not for their ships after the artillery battle began, began to set sail and move, it is estimated that their losses in the past half a day would have been more serious.

In this first battle, they suffered more than 30 casualties and soldiers, and although it cannot be said that the blow was very heavy, it still frustrated the arrogant Spaniards.

"Your Excellency, these damned Chinese pirates are obviously not as bad as we first thought, they have a lot of long-range heavy artillery, which we didn't expect at first, and they have built strong fortifications and batteries outside Jilong Bay, making it difficult for us to break through their defenses and attack their castle!

So I think that if we want to conquer Chicken Coop Bay, we can only enter the bay and conquer their forts by sending infantry to conquer their forts, otherwise, even if we run out all the shells on the ship, I am afraid it will be difficult to destroy their forts! ”

In the conference room of the Anthony ship, the captains of the ships and the infantry officers sat at the conference table, discussing how to deal with the sea wolves, and one of the captains stood up and said to Anthony.

"Your Excellency, Commander, today we have seen that these damned Chinese pirates, with firepower that we did not expect, have caused us great losses!

At such a distance, we engaged in an artillery battle with them, and did not have an advantage, we could not give full play to our superiority in firepower, especially some of the light guns on the ship, which could not reach such a long range and were too powerful.

If we want to conquer these damned batteries, we will have to venture closer to them and take advantage of the large number of guns in our fleet to suppress their fire and destroy their batteries completely! The other captain then stood up and offered his opinion.