The first day of negotiations did not yield any results, but Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry, and in the next few days, Yu Xiaotian no longer contacted Blanco on the grounds that he was busy with affairs, and sent someone to take Blanco around Nanri Island.

So someone specially took Blanco to see some things that Yu Xiaotian wanted him to see on Nanri Island, and even Blanco, a barracks that usually does not allow civilians and idlers to approach, was allowed to approach and watch.

In the course of a few days, Blanco was deeply impressed by the many scenes on Nanri Island controlled by Yu Xiaotian, which was very different from what he had expected before he came.

Although the people here were not well dressed and even dressed in shabby, he did not see a single beggar on Nanri Island, and everyone on the island seemed to be healthier than the people of Guangzhou, the most prosperous city in China.

Blanco had previously sailed to the city of Guangzhou in Daming Guangdong to do business, and he had carefully observed the Chinese in the city.

Although the city of Guangzhou is very prosperous, there are still many beggars in the streets and alleys, some of them look rich, but the vast majority of civilians still look very poor, many people show their faces, it is obvious that most of them do not eat well, so they are very thin, especially some ordinary people outside the city, there are some farmers and coolies working on the docks, and they are all yellow and thin.

But the people here are obviously very rare, although there are not a few fat people here, but most of them do not look like they are in a state of severe hunger, most of them look relatively good, especially those who are dressed in the uniform costume of sea wolves, all of them are ruddy, and look very healthy and strong.

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

This is also the group of pirates he has heard and seen, uniformly equipping their subordinates, which is very surprising, because as far as he knows, the pirates are caught and worn, and he has also seen some Chinese pirates, these pirates wear all kinds of clothes, some wear silk and satin, some are in tattered clothes, and some even wear colorful women's clothes.

However, the sea wolf tribe all wore indigo or indigo clothes, which were simple and clean, more like an army.

Moreover, the guards here are very strong, there are sentry posts in many places, and the men of the sea wolves hold their heads high, guarding their posts, and no one is loose, and their mental outlook is quite good, which even their Spanish soldiers cannot match.

In addition, the Nanri Island Sea Wolf Dazhai here is not like the general Chinese built Zhaibao, the Dazhai here from the outside, the structure is very much Western-style fortress structure, although the construction method is still Chinese, but in terms of structural function, it is similar to the Western-style fortress, in many places on the wall, there are prominent watchtowers, on which artillery is displayed, and the firing range is quite good, can firmly block the walls on both sides, and form crossfire.

Such a fortress structure is very strong and extremely difficult to overcome, because no matter what angle the attacking party attacks this village, it will have to withstand fire from several directions.

Although Blanco was only a businessman, he had also been a soldier and had some knowledge of defensive facilities, and after seeing the sea wolf's fort, he was sure that there were masters here to give them guidance, and the village was built according to the structure of the Western-style fortress, so that they could give full play to their firepower.

In fact, since the end of the First Nanri Island War when Chu Cai came to attack them, the sea wolf began to renovate and repair the original Dazhai defense facilities.

Under the personal participation of Yu Xiaotian, in addition to reinforcing the original wall, many watchtowers protruding from the wall were added around the wall, and the Dazhai was transformed into a similar fortress structure, so that it had a stronger defensive capability.

In addition to thickening the wall, making it have a higher ability to resist shelling and blasting, a part of the watchtower was added, so that it could form side-firing fire on the side of the wall.

Any enemy who wanted to attack the wall had to be fired at by the artillery and muskets on the watchtowers on both sides, and it was extremely difficult for the enemy to form an effective attack.

In addition, in the case of not being able to excavate the moat, around the whole village, they set up deer and horses and other things, and also densely inserted a lot of bamboo sticks under the wall, all of these bamboo sticks have been roasted with fire, so that the surface is carbonized, can be anti-corrosion, barefoot even if you are wearing shoes to step on it, do not wear the foot, are light.

What's even more lacking in virtue is that after they arranged the bamboo skewer array, they also put a layer of fine sand on the bamboo skewers, and they usually can't see the bamboo skewers, and they will find that the soles of their feet feel uncomfortable after stepping on them, but it was too late at that time.

A few dozen paces outside the wall, a very strong wooden fence was added, which was exactly the best range for tiger squat guns and muskets, and if they were strong, grenadiers could also throw grenades here, forming a very dense fire coverage area here.

If the enemy attacks Dazhai, the personnel will inevitably be blocked by this fence, and they will be delayed here, and the large number of personnel will be gathered, which can be effectively covered by the fire of the sea wolves, and if it is not a resolute army, it will be scattered here.

In short, the current sea wolf village, compared with a year and a half ago, has been much stronger, especially this time after learning the news that the official army is going to attack Nanri Island again, the sea wolf spared no effort to strengthen the defense facilities, make it more perfect, and added a small urn city at the main east gate and south gate, and opened the walled gate on the side, making the walled gate also become much stronger.

Blanco looked at the situation here, and basically determined that it was by no means a simple matter to capture this village, let alone let the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty do it, even if they transferred their Spanish infantry and equipped with enough artillery, they might not be able to easily take this village.

So he understood why Yu Xiaotian was not worried about the Ming officials coming to attack his Nanri Island this time, with his understanding of the Ming official army, the official army was afraid that it would be bloody here.

In addition, he also observed the training of the sea wolf infantry here, the infantry training intensity of the sea wolf is very high, he wandered around Nanri Island for a few days, in the sea wolf barracks, every day there was a shouting of killing, the soldiers in the camp training ground kept carrying out a variety of queues and marching, attack and defense training, and he also saw that the arquebus used by these sea wolf infantry can be equipped with a short sword, making the arquebus a short spear, you can shoot the enemy with projectiles at a distance, and you can let the musketeer hold the musket and assassinate the enemy at close range.

This is a pretty good idea, as soon as the sea wolf does this, the musketeers will no longer be the kind of troops that must rely on pikemen and halberders for protection, and after loading this short sword, they also have the ability to fight the enemy in close combat, and they can improve their combat effectiveness a lot at once, Blanco thought to himself.

In addition, Blanco also saw that the sea wolves were arranging some fortifications on the island, and it was obvious that they were preparing for the next attack of the officers, according to the performance of the sea wolf soldiers he had seen, the army assembled by the pirates was quite elite, and they were no worse than the most elite Spanish infantry he had ever seen, both in terms of discipline and in marching and shooting, and even he secretly thought that they were 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 had seen, the officers and soldiers were definitely not their opponents.

Blanco then asked the escort that he wanted to go to the pier or the beach, and the escort also met his request and took him to the dock and some seaside for a few laps.

Blanco saw the fleet of sea wolves on the beach, and there were many sea wolf ships docked on the dock, although most of them were his usual Chinese-style Kron ships, but these sea wolf ships looked much cleaner and tidier than his common pirate ships, all the sails were repaired even if they were damaged, the hull was very neat, and all the items on the ship looked messy, but if you looked closely, you could find that the things on these decks were placed on the deck in an orderly manner.

The items on the same ships were placed in a very orderly manner, and there were sentries with guns standing in the bow and stern of each boat, who watched the situation around them vigilantly, and seemed to be very conscientious.

Including the berths where these ships are berthed, it is also obvious that they are carefully arranged, and all the ships are not haphazardly anchored in the harbor, but neatly and orderly in the harbor, one ship next to the other, and there is a passage, even if you want to pull any ship out of the middle, you can quickly move it out of the berth, without being affected by other ships.

And he also saw that there were cannons on the decks of these ships, most of which were covered with tarpaulins and wrapped with ropes, but the tarpaulins of some of the ship's guns were uncovered, and there were sea wolves who were surrounding the guns, wiping and maintaining the guns, although they could not be seen from a distance, but from the light reflected from the guns, he could also see that these guns of the sea wolves were very carefully maintained.

What made him even more alarming was that he saw that the guns loaded on the ships of these waves were no longer the tattered old guns commonly used by Chinese pirates, and he recognized at a glance from a distance that these guns were basically all Western-style artillery, although most of them were not large, but this was far more sophisticated than the artillery equipment of other Chinese pirates.