1890 King of Southeast Asia

After the businessman left the office, Henry came out of the small room of the administrative officer.

"Are you sure the pirates will be excited? He is in a hurry as if he is in a hurry." Henry asked.

"Yes, I believe me, they will gamble, and they will not eat bait without fish, even if they know that there are sharp hooks under the bait."

Seeing Henry's doubt, the government official added:

"Major, we know that we want to leave them, they must also know that they don't want to divide money to us, but no matter what, we must get the money."

The government official paused:

"If there is no such thing, the pirate will not think of attacking Surabaya, because this is to find death, but now we expressed their cooperation, we only need to let them see sincerity, give them one that we can not destroy them, they will be like wild dogs Rush up, desperate. "

"In addition, Major Henry, you have to prepare. I want to know whether the Army has the ability to eliminate 2,000 or more pirates!"

Henry was taken aback: "Two thousand people, do we have such a large -scale pirates nearby?"

"No, it's just a group of Wuhe people. The pirates just now are the largest in the surroundings. There may be three hundred people? Four hundred people? Who cares. But they will be afraid and can not stand the temptation. The biggest may be to gather other pirates. Let's come together. Surabaya.

"Huh, that is, I want to deal with two thousand or more pirates that are not united?"

"Yes, you are right."

"Then I need to mobilize the Marine Corps to go ashore, otherwise I can't wipe out them all. I only have one battalion army. Human troops can be encircled by them. "

"If you don't mobilize the Marine Corps, it takes too long to take it. There are too many people, too scattered, and we can't keep it at all."

"Pirates are not difficult to deal with, especially with the support of coastal turrets and naval artillery. The biggest difficulty is that they can't keep them. Then I go to train militia first."

Major Henry got up and stopped at the door and stopped again.

"By the way, I heard that those Chinese gods and mysterious secrets seemed to be preparing!"

The administrative officer did not respond after hearing.

"Don't worry about the Chinese, Henry, they are like Mianyang, the same docile and valuable, we are like a farmer, but we cannot slaughter these Mianyang in person, and the natives and pirates are like slaughter, waiting for the sheep to be slaughtered by the slaughter. It's almost the same, we stop the slaughter, kill the pirate, maybe they will still praise us. "

"A wonderful metaphor, I am gone." Henry went out.

On the other side, the merchants walked out of the city when they left the city. The businessman greeted him and set off by a boat.

After three days

The fierce quarrel in the nest is the core of this businessman.

"Old seven, this is the original word of the Dutch?" The pirate head sitting at his head asked.

"This is what Surabaya's red -haired ghost said. I think there is fraud, and I don't have it." The merchant said, Lao Qi.

"Brother Seven, I think this is hanging, and the red hair ghost is not so good, but it is just to hit the Chinese with our hands. How can I not know afterwards!"

"Yes, these white people have been hitting us in the past few years. Who knows, he is afraid that he does not want to deceive us and become his credit."

"Sixth brother thinks too much, which one is clean up and down? What kind of government officials do the seventh brother do business with Surabaya? He dares to eat black?"

The entire hall is fierce debate. Most of them are unbelievable, but if there is no idea, no one will be so excited because of a joke!

"Big Brother, if this one was caught, we can be a rich man even if you wash your hands in the golden basin!"

"The second child, I am afraid of the elder brother, this money has life and no life!"

"Brother, I have an idea," said Lao Qi:

"Contact the boss of the surrounding boat, everyone eats this bowl of rice together, and thousands of people go ashore together.

"At that time, the Dutch wants to let us go ashore. We talked about the conditions for them, let them withdraw from the turret. When we go to the shore, stir the water, we will run for us for three days? Grab a day, go to the boat overnight, you can go! "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""

"Brother, Lao Qi said reasonable, do it!"

"Brother, the seventh brother is right, let the other homes give us back, do it!"

"Don't talk! Let me think about it!" The pirate head stood up and moved back and forth.

"Do it! Let Lao Tzu Bo him!" In the end, the pirate head said fiercely.

"Lao Qi, you should go back to the Dutch, discuss your time!"

"The five old, the old six, you two go to the other ship boss around. According to the articles of association between the Dutch and our cooperation, we say that our appetite is not lower, and ask them to eat together!"

"Others are ready to repair the boats. Let's go to Surabaya to grab it!"

As a result, the surrounding waters are boiling, and more than a dozen pirates in the sizes have been said after a short consideration.

Here, Lao Qi returned to Surabaya and was talking about conditions with government officials.

"We agree with your plan, but there are a few key points to talk about."

"My friend, there is nothing to talk about, let's talk about your conditions." Government officials smiled and said.

"First, all your people must enter the inner city. If we fight, we will be merciless. It will be bad if we accidentally hurt someone!"

"Second, the artillery must be removed. We have to leave a way out for ourselves. Third, your navy must go to Batavia. We will not start until we receive the letter."

"The artillery cannot be given to you, but everything else is easy to talk about." The political officer put away his smile.

"We must ensure that the way out will not be cut off!" Lao Qi also said firmly.

"We still don't trust each other, but I am willing to take a step back and give you the artillery, but we will send someone to supervise it. Let's do this. We will give up the artillery in the north, but you must also express your sincerity!" The political officer thought of something and took a step back.

"What do you want?" Lao Qi asked.

"No more than 20 people can be sent to the fort, and no facilities are allowed to be moved. Of course, you can send people to check first, and make sure we have all evacuated, and then enter the port."

"Who can guarantee that you will not retake the fort in that case?"

"You can watch our artillery enter the inner city before taking action."

Old Seven sat on the chair, shaking his hands and feet unnaturally, staring at the people in front of him for a long time.

"We agree!"

"So, when are you going to act? Oh, when are we going to act!" The political officer smiled.

"It's the beginning of the month now. I'll pass the message back and forth, plus the preparation time, let's go to the middle of the month!" Old Seven said, running in the dark by the moonlight at night in the middle of the month!

"Then on the 15th? There are still 12 days. To be honest, your efficiency is not very good! But okay, I agree. On the 14th, the Dutch in the northern fort and Surabaya will enter the inner city!" The political officer said.

"Okay!"

After that, Old Seven passed the news to the pirate leader. The pirate leader thought it was risky, but he could take a gamble, so the pirates around gathered together and prepared to make a fortune on the 15th. But there is a disadvantage of pirates, they love to brag! So, on September 15, the news that the pirates were going to attack the city reached Liu Yiming's ears.

It turned out that the pirates in Southeast Asia were gathering, and there were already tens of thousands of people, ready to capture Surabaya.

At this time, Liu Yiming was organizing the production of explosive packs for the conscienceless cannon. Twelve cannons had been made. This cannon was simple to make. Liu Yiming also improved the explosive packs to make it more aerodynamic and added a few small wings. After the experiment, the explosive packs finally stopped flying around, at least they would fly towards the target at a certain angle.

Because the saltpeter mine was not found and there was no source for explosives, only 200 ten-kilogram explosive packs were made from the nitric acid purified from the seized inferior black powder.

There must be saltpeter mines in the rainforest, because these black powders were made by the natives at a glance, but Liu Yiming didn't find them.

"Yiming, Yiming, find a place where there is no one, I have something to tell you." Chen Jiangtao suddenly came to the military camp at this time.

"What's wrong, Uncle Chen?" Liu Yiming took Chen Jiangtao into his wooden house.

"I got the news that the Dutch colluded with the pirates and prepared to attack Sishui! Now there are thousands of pirates gathered!" Chen Jiangtao said anxiously.

"What? Those pirates are so stupid?" Liu Yiming was surprised.

"I have an acquaintance among the pirates. He said that the Dutch will send the navy away and give the northern artillery to the pirates!"

"So? When will they start?"

"On the 15th! They said they would start on the 15th! Damn the Dutch!"

"Don't worry, Uncle Chen, let me think about it. Don't worry. The troops are about to complete all the training. By then, there will be no problem protecting all of us Chinese." Liu Yiming comforted.

"Really? But what about guns and ammunition?"

"In addition to the original 100 Henry rifles, there are also hundreds of guns collected from the Hassan tribe. I modified them and now have 400 flintlock rifles and dozens of Minié rifles. The Dutch are just like that. The infantry is only equipped with the old Mauser 1871, while we are equipped with the improved Martini model."

"In addition, we have seven cannons. In fact, these are not the most important. The most important thing is that the Dutch are afraid of death, but we are not. So, it is no problem to protect us."

"And we also have secret weapons, such as the secret weapons of the Hassan tribe. If things are impossible, I will use this weapon."

It took a long time to appease Chen Jiantao, but seeing his panic, I knew that things were not good and I had to do something to stabilize the confidence of the Chinese.

There was a fierce quarrel in the nest, and the core was this businessman.