Chapter 106: Storming Chicken Coop Bay

Before Yu Xiaotian finished preparing for departure, the Feizi Clipper from Keelung Fort rushed back to Nanri Island and informed Yu Xiaotian of the specific situation of the Spaniards.

The information brought back by this Feizi clipper stationed in Keelung Fort is basically not much different from the information brought back by the carrier pigeons, but the details have to be improved a lot, so that Yu Xiaotian and his generals have a more detailed understanding of the strength of the Spanish fleet.

After having this information, Yu Xiaotian was even less anxious, the Spaniards were indeed limited in strength, and the ships and troops sent were not very many, which made them more sure.

After a period of busyness, the fleet of the sea wolves was finally ready to set off, each ship was loaded with enough food for a month's worth of food for the people on board, and it was also replenished with fresh water, and as for the ammunition, it was all placed in the bilge below the waterline, and the battle was taken out in batches and used on the deck, so as not to be hit by enemy shells in the ammunition depot and cause a martyrdom.

With Yu Xiaotian's order, the wharf of Nanri Island once again beat the war drums, lit the horn cannon, and the rumbling sound of the cannon spread throughout Nanri Island, and many people ran to the beach to watch the scene of the departure of the sea wolf fleet.

This time the fleet set off, Yu Xiaotian did not do anything to hide, the sea wolf now has enough strength to show his subjects, in the past two years, the sea wolf has used one victory after another, so that the residents and merchants of Nanri Island have more and more trust in them, a few days ago when the sea wolf began to assemble, most of them heard that the sea wolf is going to fight with people this time.

And this time the residents of the island are not as they used to be, they are at a loss when they hear that the sea wolf is going to do something with people, and now they have considerable confidence in the combat effectiveness of the sea wolf, and more people are not talking about what to do if the sea wolf loses the battle, but is discussing how many prisoners the sea wolf will capture this time and how many enemy ships will be captured.

Moreover, among many of the island's residents, there are also some children who have entered the army system of the sea wolf, although these people are worried about their children, but they have also received more preferential treatment from the sea wolf.

But all the direct military dependents of the sea wolf, the sea wolf will give special preferential treatment, the field endowment is halved, and the young children of the family can still go to the sea wolf's school, and even if their children are killed or injured, as long as they are killed or injured in the line of duty when doing things for the sea wolf, the sea wolf will give their families a large amount of pension, and will also bear part of the obligation of support.

The sea wolves will not abandon those who are disabled in the line of duty and can no longer continue to work in the army, they will retire from active service, pay them a considerable pension, and arrange for them to do what they can to ensure that they will not be abandoned and starve to death because they lose their ability to work after being disabled.

These measures are much stronger than their peers and even the government, and the injured people of the sea wolf are carefully treated, and they can be buried in the martyr cemetery of the sea wolf with glory when they die, and they will even be enshrined in the martyr's shrine of the sea wolf martyr cemetery, and some people will burn incense for these "martyrs" to keep the fireworks.

Yu Xiaotian's arrangement, in addition to greatly improving the loyalty of the sea wolf's subordinates, exempted them from worries, and also made many immigrants completely desperate to tie up the sea wolf's chariot, and prosper and lose together with the sea wolf!

Therefore, when the people on the island heard that the sea wolf fleet was going to go on an expedition again, they rushed to the dock or the shore to see off the sailing fleet.

And Yu Xiaotian was also wearing a linen single coat, standing on the brig clipper as a handsome ship, inspecting the fleet under his command.

Dozens of ships of various sizes, according to the flag orders issued by the handsome ships, began to sound their horns one by one and raised anchors, and a group of sampans that were responsible for towing the big ships off the shore leaned up, dragged the cables, and under the vigorous rowing and rocking of the sailors, slowly dragged the big ships away from the wharf or berths, and sent them to the mouth of the bay, until they raised their sails and began to eat the wind and make use of the bay.

Dozens of boats are neatly arranged in the bay, from left to right one by one anchor fish out of the dock, into the wide sea, the fleet of sea wolf flags flying high, although there are only dozens of boats, but it still gives people a strong sense of shock.

Yu Xiaotian took a long deep breath and cast his eyes on the sea in the distance, the sunlight reflected the sparkling waves on the sea, and the fleet blended into this beautiful scenery, which made him quite emotional, this is another challenge, but he believes that he can still win again, because he already has a good fighting team now, and there are not many people on this sea who can stop him from moving forward.

Anthony's head was full of black lines, and he was lifted from the deck in embarrassment, and even his telescope didn't know where he had been thrown at this moment.

A cannonball slammed into the side of his ship, and the sawdust flew on the side of the ship, almost sending Anthony, the commander of the fleet who was standing on the stern of the ship to command the battle, to see his God, but fortunately Anthony had God's favor, but a sailor next to him was broken to pieces by the cannonball, and he himself was splashed with blood, but he was unharmed.

But Anthony's mood was already extremely bad, he couldn't have imagined that this group of Chinese pirates actually had such a strong firepower, which had never been seen before, and this kind of firepower, even if it was placed on the European side, was definitely not bad.

This group of Chinese pirates occupying Jilong Bay is as stubborn as a stone, and no matter how much he demonstrates and threatens, this group will never give up this bay.

After leading the fleet to blockade Chicken Coop Bay, he blocked all the sea wolf ships in the bay, and ordered the fleet to line up outside the bay, opened all the gun doors on the side of the ship, made a threatening gesture, and once again sent people to Heping Island to persuade the sea wolf tribes to surrender, they could ensure the safety of the sea wolf tribes, and agreed to let them leave here with their ship supplies.

But this persuasion still did not have any effect, but the interpreter who was sent was insulted by the leader of the sea wolf, threatening that if the interpreter dared to talk nonsense again, he would cut off his ears, and told the interpreter that they sea wolves would never give up this place, so that Anthony had the ability to do it, as long as they dared to attack Chicken Coop Bay, they must be good-looking.

The interpreter returned to the fleet and told Anthony what the black head had said, and the Spanish officers in the fleet were furious, thinking that these damned and filthy Chinese pirates were really ignorant of the times, and that they had to use strong means to show them the determination of the Spaniards.

Until this time, these Spaniards still had a contempt for the Chinese pirates, feeling that with their strength, they only needed to give these Chinese pirates a few rounds of salvos, and they should surrender and get out of here.

Anthony did not despise the enemy in front of him as much as his officers, because he carefully observed the various defensive facilities set up by the Chinese pirates in Jilong Bay, and he had a sense of worry, because after careful observation, he felt that this group of Chinese pirates was very different from their other colleagues.

The architectural form here is basically not like a Chinese-style fortress, very much like a European-style fortress structure, this thing is not clear to others, how can he not know the way, the fortress structure of the fortress is exceptionally strong, ordinary artillery is extremely difficult to destroy it, but it is not as simple as the previous Chinese fortress, just a few cannons past, it will collapse a section, and then you can be slaughtered at will.

Moreover, observing several forts here, he also found that the forts built by this group of Chinese pirates were exquisitely set up, which could form a firepower network with each other, just firmly blocking the mouth of Jilong Bay, and their main fort was in the bay, which could not be reached by artillery fire on the sea, which showed that this group of Chinese pirates had anticipated the possibility of being attacked in advance, and built a perfect fortification here.

Although the number of ships he brought this time was not small, and there were also a lot of artillery, even so, it was not necessarily easy to conquer this place and drive these Chinese pirates out of Jilong Bay.

But the matter has come to this point, there is no possibility of negotiating a settlement of this matter, and they want to get a good harbor on Taipei's side that can be attacked and retreated, but they really can't find a very suitable place except here.

And there is a group of Chinese pirates who have fallen out with them here, which is not a good thing for them in the future, so no matter what he thinks, they must conquer this chicken coop bay.

So after thinking about it, Anthony thought that although this group of Chinese pirates had built relatively complete fortifications, they should not have many cannons, and it was unlikely that they would have heavy artillery, so relying on the strong firepower of their fleet, if they were beaten up, they could be suppressed by these pirates, so that they would retreat and finally abandon here.

Eventually, under Antony's orders, the Spaniards' fleet began to attack Chicken Coop Bay five days after their arrival.

One by one, the Spanish ships spread out outside Jilong Bay, blocking the mouth of Jilong Bay in a column sequence, and one after another the cannon doors were opened one after another, and the loaded cannons were pushed to the gun doors one by one, revealing the black holes of the guns, pointing to several batteries at the mouth of the bay.

As the flag on the Antony ship changed, the flagship of the Antony ship began to fire first, and on their ship, two layers of gun decks were arranged on two levels, loaded with more than thirty guns of various types, most of which exceeded the twelve-pounder guns, and the firepower was quite vigorous.

Although this ship is not a powerful guy among the sail warships in Europe, and it is not even a second-class ship, but on the Asian side, it is definitely a ruthless character.

I saw that the ship spewed out flames from the side of the ship from front to back, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up, and suddenly the gunpowder smoke enveloped one side of the ship, and then a series of roars were heard on the sea.