1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 285 Vitality ([-])

"This is a chance for us in a desperate situation!" Xu Chuanxing said with emotion.

"That's called a ray of hope." Qi Dalu shook his head and said, "This little food can at most save us half a month."

Two weeks ago, Qi Dalu killed more than 100 natives and threatened the survivors to lead them to a tribal camp and surrounded them all.Then began to count and seize, mainly rice, sago, beans, and dried meat.

Half of the people were assigned to carry it once with shoulders and shoulders. After more than 300 immigrants from Dili City arrived, all the people immediately took away all the food in the tribe.As for the future life of the more than 200 natives here, no one has asked, let alone cared.

Next, the Marine Corps continued to intimidate the natives and led them to defeat two native tribes, killing dozens of natives, but the food they got was not satisfactory.

Considering that if they continue to go deep into the jungle, there may not be much harvest, so the marines ended a period of looting the food of the natives.In order to obtain these grains, the Marine Corps, rural soldiers, and immigrants lost more than [-] lives in the jungle, and the price paid was not small.

As a result, after a little inspection of the various types of food that came from the looting, it was discovered that even if the more than 20 people in Dili City saved food, it would last for more than half a month to [-] days at most.The shadow of hunger still hangs over the city of Dili.

"How about cutting off the food for those captives and starving them to death!" Zhou Zuwang said, "Anyway, even the Dutch don't want them anymore!"

Although there are captives who die every day due to physical vanity, the Hanzhou soldiers in Dili City still give all the captives a bowl of gruel every day, barely hanging their lives.

Xu Chuanxing looked at Qi Dalu, he was the one who prevented the captives from starving to death every time, saying that in the future, he would use these captives to bargain with the Dutch.

Qi Dalu silently looked in the direction of the grain depot, sighed slightly, then turned and left.

"What's wrong? What does Captain Qi mean?" Zhou Zuwang looked at Qi Dalu who was going away, and turned to ask Xu Chuanxing.

"It's not interesting. You can figure it out!" Xu Chuanxing shook his head and turned to leave.

Ever since the soldiers of Hanzhou threw the bodies of the captives into the pier for the Dutch blockade fleet to see, they had actually offended the Dutch severely.Therefore, no matter what circumstances caused those captives to die in the future, the Dutch would count them on the heads of the Hanzhou people.

That being the case, choosing preferential treatment, or choosing to continue to maintain the lives of those captives, seems a bit insignificant.

"It's the first time I've seen prisoners killed, and I'll starve to death!" Zhou Zuwang murmured as he watched the two Marine Corps chiefs leave one after another.

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Major Manfred Eigen, commander of the squadron of the Dutch East India Company, held a telescope in his right hand and observed the port of Dili for a while.Immediately, he turned his head and asked his first officer: "The Hanzhou people are still the ones who abandon us at the pier every day?"

"Yes, Major." The first officer said with gloomy eyes: "As of noon today, they have abandoned 20 of our people into the sea in more than 84 days."

"Oh!" Major Manfred Eigen sighed softly, "The Hanzhou people will definitely be destroyed together with Dili City in the end, and they will definitely do that."

"They're fighting us hard."

"Yes, they not only disregard the life of the enemy, but also disregard their own life." Major Manfred Eigen said: "This kind of enemy is particularly terrifying."

"Many of the natives of the East Indies are sometimes as indifferent to their own lives as they are."

"However, the Hanzhou people have creativity that the natives did not have. The weapons they hold are the same as ours, and their fighting skills are much higher than those of the natives."

The first mate listened and nodded silently.Looking at the Dili Port Wharf again, I thought, maybe Hanzhou had the idea of ​​fighting the Dutch at the very beginning.

"I found a... small boat in the east!" Suddenly, the watchman on the boat shouted loudly: "There is only one."

Hmm, could it be Hanzhou's scouting liaison ship?Major Manfred Eigen looked in the direction of the signal flag waved by the lookout.

A small boat appeared about two or three miles east of the fleet. It seemed that it had also spotted four armed merchant ships of the East India Company. It adjusted its direction slightly and began to sail towards the left rear of the Dutch fleet.

Surprisingly, the speed of this small boat was very fast, and in just a moment, it had already sailed to the place where the Dutch fleet was 800 meters away.Then, it started heading north again.Looking at the model, the displacement of this small boat is no more than sixty or seventy tons, but its hull is very slender, like a long and narrow leaf, floating on the sea.

"Litou, it's about the same! If you keep going around the Dutch warships like this, if they fire at us provocatively, it's not easy!" Said a sailor in the cabin of "Flying Fish No. 1".

"Don't worry, they won't be able to hit us." Li Gengsheng carefully observed the Dutch blockade fleet with his binoculars in hand.

Just as he was talking, he saw two armed merchant ships from the Dutch blockade fleet rush towards "Flying Fish 1".

"Flying Fish No. 1" immediately hoisted its full sails and quickly fled to the north.

"Oh, look, man, that little boat goes so fast!" whistled a sailor on a Dutch armed merchant ship, watching the slender boat quickly pull away from the two sides.

"Yes, it seems to be running faster than our fast liaison ship. It's about ten knots."

"No, I guess it must be going over ten knots."

"Hey, it seems to be coming around again." A sailor exclaimed, "It seems to be playing tricks on us!"

Immediately the two Dutch armed merchantmen parted and moved forward, right and left, to outflank the daring boat.

"Flying Fish 1" deftly drew a beautiful arc, turned 700 meters in front of the two Dutch armed merchant ships, and headed east.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The Dutch armed merchant ship fired, and several huge water jets rose more than 1 meters away from "Flying Fish 100".

"Let's go, go!" Several sailors urged Li Gengsheng loudly.

"How exciting!" Li Gengsheng said with a smile, "I just like watching the Dutch people help us!"

Major Manfred Eigen waited until the boat was out of sight before he put down the telescope, feeling a sense of absurdity in his heart.When will our powerful Dutch navy be played by a small boat from Hanzhou?
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"Did you hear that?" On the city wall of Dili, Qi Dalu grabbed Xu Chuanxing's arm, "The sound of artillery can be heard from the sea! It must be our warships coming to rescue the siege!"

Xu Chuanxing held up the binoculars and looked at the sea vigorously, but limited by the distance and angle of view, he couldn't see any clues at all.However, like Qi Dalu, he was very excited.Perhaps, our Hanzhou warship rushed over, and they came to rescue us!
However, after a few cannon shots, there was no more movement from the sea.The two of them turned from ecstasy to doubt gradually, and finally to deep disappointment.

Standing at the top of the city for a while, after confirming that there was no more movement on the sea, Xu Chuanxing sighed, patted Qi Dalu on the shoulder, turned and left.

Qi Continent looked at the sea again unwillingly, there seemed to be nothing but the boundless sea and the emerald green coast.

Perhaps, the bunch of shitty Dutchmen were frying fish just now.Qi Dalu thought angrily in his heart.

"Captain Qi, a large number of natives have been found in the southern city, and they seem to be attacking me. Captain Xu has already brought people there, and he asked you to guard the northern city, as he suspects that the Dutch will take advantage of the situation to attack." A marine soldier came to report to Qi Dalu .

"The Dutch landing force didn't even come over, what kind of attack is there to guard against!" Qi Dalu was stunned for a moment, and then he muttered softly.However, the marines and rural soldiers at the head of the city were quickly summoned to guard, and the immigrants in the city were mobilized to prepare for the battle.

Outside the southern city of Dili City, more than 200 natives gathered far away on the edge of the dense forest, and they did not appear to be attacking.

"Natives nearby? Or Dutch servants?" Xu Chuanxing asked suspiciously.

The platoon leaders and squad leaders on the left and right looked at each other and shook their heads.Just the two hundred or so people outside the city and more than 100 marines went out, and they would be wiped out in one battle.

Just when the officers and soldiers of the Hanzhou Marine Corps at the head of the city were puzzled, the group of natives walked out of more than a dozen people and slowly approached Dili City.As the distance got closer and closer, it was discovered that among a group of natives, there was a man who looked like a Ming.

"What the hell, maybe the natives captured our people." Xu Chuanxing cursed in a low voice.

When there were more than 200 meters left, the native stopped, but the Ming man walked over on his own.

"I'm Qiao Bensheng from the Black Clothes Guards. Who's the Marine Commander at the head of the city?" the Ming man below the city shouted loudly.

"Black-clothed guard?!" Hearing this, the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps at the head of the city were both surprised and happy. After being blocked and besieged by the Dutch for more than four months, they actually saw a Hanzhou black-clothed guard appearing under the city of Dili. .

"I'm Xu Chuanxing from the [-]rd Marine Corps." Xu Chuanxing shouted loudly, "Brother Qiao came from... the mainland of Hanzhou?"

"The mainland of Hanzhou?" Qiao Bensheng smiled wryly, and said, "I haven't been back to the mainland of Hanzhou for eight months."

"Then... where did you come from?" Xu Chuanxing couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

"From the natives." As he spoke, Qiao Bensheng had already walked under the city wall and raised his head. "A few days ago, how many native tribes did you bring?"

"Huh?" Xu Chuanxing was stunned, and then replied: "We brought a few native tribes and got some food to eat."

"Hey, you are attacking our own family." Qiao Bensheng shook his head and smiled wryly, "Those tribal natives are all the tribal forces of General Natatuka that our Hanzhou advocated to support."

"Huh?" Xu Chuanxing was taken aback, "When did you black-clothed guards get together with the natives...do they have anything to eat?"

"Food? Of course there is." Qiao Bensheng looked up at Xu Chuanxing suspiciously, "Aren't you always short of food?"

(End of this chapter)