In three months, in addition to the original industries, under the continuous promotion of Xiaotian, the rapid development has been carried out, and new news has also been transmitted back from Jilong Bay.

Before the end of July, the fort in the northwest corner of Jilong Bay has been basically completed and can be initially put into use.

Moreover, Heitou and Sun Baoqiang also sent people to Nanri Island to send back the news that in July, a fleet of more than a dozen ships appeared in the area outside Jilong Bay.

The flotilla wandered around outside Jilong Bay for a while, and the black head immediately led the boat out to meet them, asking them for their identities, and the other party also inquired about their identities, and finally after the two sides reported their identities, there was no conflict, and the flotilla then bypassed the northern end of Taiyuan Island and went south along the west coast of Taiyuan Island.

The black head reported that the leader of this fleet was surnamed Yan, and he came from the Japanese country, the specific reason is unknown, and there were about three or four hundred people under his command, and there were both Ming and Japanese people on the ship, and it seemed that he was doing what they did.

However, because they saw that the ships and men of the sea wolves were very majestic, and they also discovered the forts outside Chicken Coop Bay and on Heping Island, they did not have a head-on confrontation with the black heads, and finally gave up the idea of docking in the bay and turned to leave Chicken Coop Bay.

Yu Xiaotian attached great importance to this news, because when he heard that the leader of this group was surnamed Yan, he roughly guessed the identity of the other party.

At this time, who else could lead the fleet to the island of Taiwan surnamed Yan, except for Yan Siqi, the famous founder of Taiwan in history, there is no one else.

Yu Xiaotian is actually very curious about Yan Siqi, when he read about Zheng Zhilong before, this person was mentioned in the article, and some people in history called him the king of Taiwan, and he was the first Chinese to lead the public to develop the island of Taiwan.

So he consulted some information about this person, there is some controversy about Yan Siqi in history, some people think that this person and Li Dan should be a person, but later there are historical materials to confirm that this person is not the same person as Li Dan, but there is indeed a person, but this person and Li Dan's life trajectory is very similar.

In his early years, it is said that he was also a native of southern Fujian, and in the Wanli period, because he offended the eunuch's family, he killed the slaves of the eunuch's family in a fit of rage, abandoned his family and fled, and ran to Kyushu Island, Japan, to make a living as a tailor, and secretly engaged in pirate trading.

Moreover, it is said that this person has a heroic temperament and likes to make friends, and has made many Hokkien people on Kyushu Island, forming a considerable force, and even the Japanese authorities have appointed him as the leader.

But this person is not a peaceful person, he can't get used to what the Japanese shogunate is doing, and he actually wants to participate in the rebellion, who knows that the matter is exposed, he was hunted down by the shogunate, and he had to flee Kyushu Island with his subordinates, and then he came to Taiwan Island to prepare to use Taiwan Island as his base, open up Taiwan Island, and prepare to do a great job.

It's a pity that this Yan Siqi is unlucky, although he is ambitious, but his life is not long, after arriving on the island of Taiwan, he didn't toss for long, he contracted the disease and died violently, and all the hard work he had paid before was in vain.

After Yan Siqi's death, his subordinates returned to Zheng Yiguan, and later because of their location, which was closer to Tainan, they clashed with the Dutch, and finally Zheng Yiguan had to give up Yan Siqi's property in Tainan, and led the people to withdraw to Quanzhou to start his pirate business.

So Yu Xiaotian has been paying attention to this matter for more than a year, and now Yan Siqi has finally appeared, and according to his life trajectory, he continues to walk towards the future.

Yu Xiaotian used to think about why Yan Siqi led the crowd to the central and southern regions instead of staying in Jilong Bay, and later after he checked the terrain of northern Taiwan, he figured out the reason why Yan Siqi did not choose northern Taiwan.

The topography of Taiwan affected Yan Siqi's decision, there are few plains in northern Taiwan, many hills and mountains, which are not very suitable for agricultural development, Yan Siqi's made up his mind, to carry out pioneering farming, it is necessary to choose a relatively flat plain terrain to gain a foothold, so he ran to the central and southern parts of Taiwan to gain a foothold.

To say that the place chosen by Yan Siqi is not bad, in the south-central part of Taiwan, the terrain is relatively flat, the land is relatively fertile, and it is indeed more suitable for cultivating wasteland, but for Xiaotian, he knows that the Dutch have also run to the Tainan area at this time, which is too close to the Dutch city of Geranza, and it will not be long before there will be a head-on conflict with the Dutch.

Zheng Yiguan later inherited Yan Siqi's inheritance, but he still failed to hold his own territory, and was forced to leave the island of Taiwan by the Dutch.

Yu Xiaotian secretly remembered this news in his heart, and he was also very curious about Yan Siqi, a legendary figure, and made up his mind that if he had time, he would go to find him, it would be best to know this person, make friends with him, and see if this person is as benevolent and heroic as the legend, if so, he would be happy to make friends with him.

He sent someone to reply to the black head and Sun Baoqiang them, for the time being, there is no need to care about the group of people surnamed Yan, just let them go, at present, the construction of the inside of Jilong Bay is the top priority, in addition to repairing the village, if the manpower is sufficient, it is also necessary to start building roads in the bay, connecting the various work points, in addition to facilitating the work and improving labor efficiency, but also to facilitate the movement of troops in the bay, and facilitate the handling of the surrounding enemy situation.

In addition, he sent a fleet of more than 10 artillery pieces of various types to Jilong Bay, which were added to the Heping Island fort and the newly built fort, and at the same time sent them a large number of ammunition and 20 newly made flintlock pistols to strengthen the garrison there.

Artillery and gunsmithing, the two most important arsenals in Xiaotian, have now been merged into one, and together with the gunpowder workshop, they belong to the ordnance institute under the council hall.

Nowadays, the number of personnel working in the armory alone has reached more than 200 people, which is already quite a large scale, and even the scale of some large iron yards on land does not necessarily exceed that of the sea wolf.

Manpower coupled with the advantages of technology and technology, so that the production of firearms in the Seawolf Ordnance Institute has been greatly improved, the former new hands after such a long time of training and learning, have gradually become proficient, the output of artillery is increasing every month.

Nowadays, the cannon can not only produce six-pounder light guns and twelve-pounder cannons, but also trial production of twelve-pounder cannons with extended barrels and gun walls, Yu Xiaotian renamed this twelve-pounder cannon as a twelve-pounder cannon, and the twelve-pounder short cannon produced before was renamed a twelve-pounder howitzer.

But the weight of the twelve-pound cannon is more than 1,500 catties, and after adding the gun carriage, it is more than 2,000 catties, which has exceeded the carrying capacity of the ship that the sea wolf currently has, and can only be temporarily used as a shore defense gun in the battery on the island, because this guy himself is heavy, powerful, and has a great recoil, and the Chinese ships, including those lucky ships, once this guy is loaded, it is estimated that it is the life of a cannon, and after a cannon is released, the ship will be shaken apart.

So although this cannon is very powerful, it can only make the guys on the ship drool, but they dare not load it on their ship.

Therefore, this twelve-pounder cannon can only be used in the fort for the time being, and during the three months of Xiaotianling's cannon construction, six were cast, four were transported to Jilong Bay, and two were left in the fort outside Dazhai on Nanri Island, only to wait for the new sloop to be built, and a few more were produced to be equipped to the bow position of the sloop and used as the main gun.

It's a twelve-pounder howitzer, because the weight is within an acceptable range, some of the larger ships in the Seawolf fleet, after being reinforced, can be carried, and have recently become the main product of the gun, which has been cast into eighteen guns in one go, and six guns almost every month, which has been equipped into the fleet, making the firepower level of the Seawolf's fleet go up a big step again. and victory.

Even if the sailors of the Fujian official army are asked to trouble the sea wolf now, the sea wolf's fleet is not necessarily afraid of them.

In addition to the gunpowder workshop is in full swing, the gunpowder workshop is also in full swing, and recently they have brought back a boatload of saltpeter from the Spaniards, which is of very good quality from Chile, and the gunpowder workshop is busy converting this batch of saltpeter into gunpowder every day, so that the gunpowder magazine of the sea wolf is now stocked with a full 40,000 catties of gunpowder.

40,000 catties converted into tons in later generations, it is probably more than 20 tons, although in later generations, this bit of gunpowder is nothing at all, but in this era, the application of firearms is still in its infancy, and the consumption of gunpowder is much lower than the ammunition consumption of later generations, so these 40,000 catties of gunpowder are enough for the sea wolf to cope with a considerable war.

The problem of gunpowder had been temporarily solved for Xiaotian, and then he began to toss again, and drummed up a new type of weapon, that is, grenades.

The grenade is actually not too new, and the structure of this thing is very simple, and it is easy to manufacture, but so far, Yu Xiaotian has not been able to solve the problem of the fuse for the time being, so he can only use the soil method and use the most primitive lead to solve it.

Yu Xiaotian ordered the blacksmith to cast a batch of bullet casings, poured gunpowder into the shells, plugged a wooden stopper, punched a lead into the wooden stopper, and sealed the joint between the bullet body and the wooden plug with wax for moisture protection.

So the first grenade of the sea wolf was announced, and once it was trial-produced, Yu Xiaotian immediately took someone to the shooting range for testing.

After a few roars, the result was a big disappointment for Yu Xiaotian, because he encountered the same problem that the Eighth Route Army encountered in repairing weapons.

That is, after all, the black powder has a low detonation speed and low power, and after being loaded into the iron shell, when it explodes, it cannot effectively explode the shell and form a large number of fragments.

After the grenade exploded, two of them were not even shattered, but only cracked, and after the other explosions, the best one only exploded six or seven pieces of shrapnel, most of which only collapsed in half, except for the sound was quite loud and frightening, basically there was not much lethality.

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