Although the bloody battle on the wooden wall in early April ended in a complete victory for the Australians, the losing side did not stop harassing Sin'an City, especially causing a lot of trouble for the natives of nearby tribes to enter Si'an City to work.

In particular, those tribes who hate the Portuguese, and incidentally also hate the Australians, often gather in the jungle on the outskirts of the wooden wall and in the artemisia grass jungle outside the wooden wall, killing and plundering the natives who return to the tribe from Xin'an City to work, especially some women and children.

Although the food is delicious, it is a matter of life, and people don't usually risk their lives for the sake of deliciousness, except for those with a strong sense of adventure.

Therefore, in the days after the war, the number of natives who entered Sinanseong every day was decreasing, and they were all young and strong men, and probably only such people could overcome the danger and enter Sinanseong, but the number was much smaller than in the past.

According to the information provided by the Luoka tribe, there were robbers among the people who entered Xin'an City to work, and these people robbed the natives who had left the city the night before, and then entered the city early the next morning to work, and in the evening, they were ambushed outside the wooden walls in groups to rob the natives who had left the city.

Faced with this situation, ** under the denunciation of the Loka tribe and the victim, several such people were arrested and handed over to the Loka tribe for disposal, and these people are said to have their heads cut off by the Loka tribe.

Obviously, with this deterrent, there seems to be less looting outside the city, but it has given rise to more professional robbers, and even small tribes that specialize in looting.

This is also the fundamental reason why when the Nicole arrived, Hou Xianglin had to stop other construction projects and concentrate all the labor to focus on loading and unloading the dock.

At that time, the labor stock in Sinangsung was only half of what it was in March.

Of course, in the face of the serious public security situation, Hou Wei and the others are also actively responding, and the first thing the brothers think of is to take the initiative to make the security near the wooden wall better, and they must not let these robbers run rampant under their noses.

At the very least, make the exterior of the wooden wall a safe zone.

In order to achieve this goal, Hou Xianglin and ** repeated the old trick, the first step, ** led the patrol team to a hundred meters away from the wooden wall, and used all kinds of tools at hand to open a fire isolation zone, now everyone should know the thoughts of these two, right? That's right, it's burning wasteland, and they're going to burn out an open field.

The fire began on the third day after the battle, and although the island of Timor had begun to rain by this time, the semi-dry artemisia plains outside the wooden walls could not stop the continuous arson, and about ten days later, a week before the Nicole arrived in Sian, the fire spread to the edge of the jungle two kilometers away, where the fire was finally extinguished by the humidity and heat of the jungle and a few rains.

However, the fire did turn a radius of about a kilometer outside the wooden wall into an unobstructed open field, and the area became relatively safe because of the loss of half-human or even one-man tall artemisia grass and grass, and the robbers of the indigenous tribe had little place to hide in this area.

Moreover, within this range, the patrol detachment of ** patrols non-stop in squads, and immediately attacks when the situation is discovered.

After all, the soldiers have the advantage of physical fitness and equipment, and those robbers who appear in front of the soldiers will be immediately attacked by the 57 rifles and bows and arrows, and there is no invisible advantage in the open field, even their own armored spearmen and shield bearers can easily defeat those low-stature native robbers.

After the initial security was achieved, ** also went deep into the edge of the jungle several times to carry out anti-bandit operations with the help of the Loka tribe.

Facts have proved that the Luoka tribe is indeed the most effective leading party, the most successful of which is in the edge of the jungle in the south of the city, the first to get the information in advance, with more than 80 selected elite soldiers, in the morning of the hazy moonlight, burst into a tribal camp in the jungle, killed more than 50 robbers who were still asleep on the spot, and captured more than 30 women and children, and seized a large number of iron weapons, including knives, spears and shields.

This tribe is said to have originally come from the Chagan Basin, was driven here by the pro-Pimont tribe, a while ago and the southern part of the mountain to participate in the battle to attack the wooden wall, after the attack failed, the tribe is still stranded in the nearby jungle, I don't know why, probably because of hatred, in short, the tribe men are not willing to go to Xin'an City to work to earn food, but take risks, in the edge of the jungle to do this business.

According to the follow-up report of the Loka tribe, the remaining small tribes who mainly engaged in raiding fled the jungle or moved to the west of the city, and these small tribes finally formed a smaller resistance alliance in the jungle outside the western wall, which was one of the reasons for the Western Wall grenade @ bomb battle at the end of April.

In any case, with the continuous security patrols and the development of bandit operations outside the wooden walls, the area around Sin'an City did gradually become safer than in the past, and a few months later, the law and order situation caused by the war deteriorated, and the negative impact on Sin'an City finally gradually disappeared.

Obviously, in addition to the use of force, there are also Huairou methods, especially as the news of Xin'angang's wage increase slowly spreads outward, and more and more jungle tribes have come out.

In this process, the Luoka tribe has played an important exemplary role, and the men of the tribe of Luoka's father are now the most active participants in the anti-bandit operation, in addition to the friendship with Hou Xianglin and the good relationship with **, the main reason is that whenever a small tribe of robbers is exterminated, the women and children of those tribes naturally become the spoils of the Luoka tribe.

Obviously, Daddy Loka is also very good at being a person, and in order to thank Hou Wei and the others, Daddy has to select the most "beautiful" girl in his eyes from the captives every time and send it to the two.

Of course, Brother Hou doesn't want it, well, I guess he doesn't dare to ask for it.

Then, Hou Xianglin would usually stare at **, and look at this Captain Wei with a smile on his face, in short, you can experience that kind of look yourself, so ** had to shake his head and say no......

However, the empathetic and human father Loka would never take them back by the donkey, after all, his gratitude to the Australians was sincere, so he was very clever enough to send the maidens to the duchess's estate, where labor was needed and female slaves were needed.

Obviously, the duchess would not hesitate to laugh at these women, so, after several battles, a total of twenty or so "prettiest" tribal girls entered the duchess's manor......

In short, all of these factors were combined, and by the end of May, the labor tension in Sinanseong began to ease, and the number of natives entering Sin'an Fortress through the wooden gate to find work gradually increased.

In particular, in the days since Nicole's second arrival, almost 800 to 1,000 men, women, and children have been working at the docks and construction sites every day, and the labor force of Sinanseong has finally returned to the state of the first few months of the year.