During this time, the Loka tribe also acted intensely.

Now, every day, Papa Loka sends spies out into the jungle to the south and west, and the message they bring back is becoming clearer:

The rebel tribes are indeed coveting Sinan.

All this made Hou Xianglin and Wei Hong very nervous, and at this time, the Duchess and Zezilia also sent people to suggest that they temporarily abandon Xin'an City, which was not easy to defend, and let the two of them bring the team into Dili City to hide for a while.

However, Hou Wei and the two did not agree, but the two did not say any big reason, they just comforted the ladies and said, rest assured, Xin'an City is indestructible, we have the ability and confidence to win the battle to defend Yunyun, in short, the two of them behaved very firmly in front of the ladies, quite a manly man.

But then again, the two are nervous, but it can't be considered a bluff, and their self-confidence is still based on it.

First of all, they also know that in fact, the indigenous tribes of this era are not strong in combat, and they rely on the courage of the crowd to fight, and if the leader or the bravest leading warrior hangs up, the rest of the people will almost be scattered.

In addition, the tactical organization of the natives is also backward, and when they start fighting, they are often a wave without a formation, and once there is a stalemate, it is very easy to suddenly collapse after the casualties reach a certain level.

The weapons of the natives were also extremely rudimentary, they had only a small number of soft bows with an effective range of less than 100 meters, apparently their range and power were not as good as the hard bows of the Europeans, and the soldiers fought naked, with little armor except for some rattan shields.

This is one of the reasons why it is not uncommon for Europeans to capture a stronghold with an army of several hundred people, and to defend a castle is a desperate choice for the natives with thousands of warriors.

Therefore, Hou Xianglin and Wei Hong were also determined to take a gamble.

Of course, they also prepared for the worst, and once the wooden wall could not be defended, they would retreat to the stilt house barracks near the wharf at the mouth of the river, which was an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, and could be boarded at any time.

And the recent information provided by the Loka tribe also confirmed the judgment of the two to a certain extent, according to the account of the father of Loka, the weapons of the indigenous tribes in the southern jungle are very rudimentary, they have no firearms at all, and there are few metal weapons, the main weapon is wooden spears, half of which are copper or iron, and bows and arrows are not popular.

However, it is a kind of melee throwing flying device that still has a certain lethality, but the effective killing distance of this weapon is very short, according to the description of Daddy Loca, the effective killing distance of this flying device is about thirty meters, and ordinary metal armor and rattan shields can effectively defend against the attack of this weapon.

Regarding the question of how to defend against the enemy's night attack, which Hou Xianglin was very worried about, Father Loka replied that it was never possible to fight at night in the jungle, because it could not be seen, unless it was lit with a torch, but if it did, it would become a living target for the enemy.

Therefore, the jungle tribes did not have a tradition of fighting at night at all.

Luo Ka's words made Hou Wei and the others suddenly realize, they had already heard Dr. Zhu say that soldiers in this era generally had night blindness, which was still for soldiers in European and Eastern countries with relatively good nutritional status, and as for the jungle tribes with worse nutritional status, night blindness was definitely more common.

Well, night fights? Unless the other side attacks the walls of Sinanseong with torches, but if the other side does this, as Daddy Loka said, the enemy will be in the light, and we will be in the shadows, in that case, this group of enemies will be easier to deal with.

What's more, if there is really such a group of people forcibly raiding under the wall, and wanting to attack these two- to three-meter-high double-layered wooden walls will definitely make them pay a heavy price.

On 5 April, spies from the Loka tribe reported that more than 1,000 tribal warriors were expected to emerge from the southern jungle within two days, and their target was Sin'an.

A battle is about to begin, which is undoubtedly a major life test for Hou Xianglin and Wei Hong, who fought at the beginning of the war.

At about five o'clock in the morning on April 6, the eastern skyline had just revealed a glimmer of bright color, and the watchtower of the wooden wall in the southern section of the west bank of the Xin'an River suddenly sounded with the sound of wooden drums.

Hou Wei and the others, who woke up from their sleep, jumped up, but the two actually looked at each other at the same time and breathed a sigh of relief, yes, what should come will definitely come, it's better to come early if it's late, since it's here, let's make a break!

At this time, on the inside of the wooden wall, the soldiers of the garrison who had been waiting here for a long time had also woken up from their sleep, and the sharp whistle and the shouts of the squad leaders and leaders came and went, and it turned out that the strict daily training was really not in vain, and the soldiers of the garrison appeared on the wooden wall in five minutes.

A few minutes later, Wei Hong and Hou Xianglin appeared in full gear on the two city gate holes in the south of the city, where the wooden city gate holes were built relatively tall, and each city gate hole had an open-air platform and fence, which could stand a dozen people, obviously this was the best place for the entire wooden wall to defend and lookout.

The division of labor between the two is very clear, they each led more than 40 57 riflemen, respectively, concentrated near the two city gate holes for mobile defense, as for the rest of the area, it was handed over to the garrison using cold weapons and arquebuses for defense, and in the western section of the wooden wall, although there was no sound of wooden drums for the time being, but the possibility of the enemy's division of troops to sneak attack could not be ruled out, so the two handed over this one-kilometer wall to more than 200 men of the Loka tribe, and they were strengthened by various iron construction tools, such as shovels, pickaxes and hoes, Of course, this also includes the wooden spears and a small number of bows and arrows that the tribe itself has.

Obviously, Hou Wei and the others put on an impromptu formation, they judged that in order to break through the wooden wall in one fell swoop, the enemy would definitely concentrate his forces to attack one or two points, and now it seems that this is the case, the terrain in the south of the city is flat and open, and it is indeed more suitable for the siege party to arrange troops, so this should be the enemy's main direction of attack.

When the sun finally shone on the artemisia plains in the distance, the soldiers on the wooden walls finally saw the figures of the crowds on the horizon.

The tribes of the southern tribes of Timor are the more savage tribes, who live all year round in the most remote southern coasts and mountains of the island, and they are far from the Portuguese city of Dili and the Dutch city of Kupang.

It is precisely because of its remote location that it has been the least influenced by foreign cultures, and it is said that these tribes still retain the custom of hunting human heads and eating human flesh, so that even compared to the tribes of the north and west, the southern tribe of the mountains is a barbaric and terrible existence.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of wooden drums in the artemisia grass in the distance, although the sound was far away, but it was still shocking, and after a while, a large group of men with dark bodies and a little chalk on their bodies and faces suddenly appeared on the grass a few hundred meters away, if it weren't for the fact that they suddenly stood up, holding a wooden spear in their hands, and for a moment they thought that a large group of spotted leopards had come from the grass in the distance.

With the more and more intense sound of the wooden drums, there were more and more "spotted leopards" in the grass, until the sound of the wooden drums stopped abruptly, and on the ground, about three or four hundred meters away from the wooden wall, it was as if suddenly emerging from the ground, and a large number of black people had gathered there.

Wei Hong stood on the platform of the city gate hole, took out his binoculars and looked at the opposite side, he estimated a little, there were at least fifteen hundred tribal warriors armed with wooden spears, each of them was wrapped in animal skins on the lower half of their bodies, and the chalk arranged on their bodies was also very clear, of course, there were various colorful patterns, which even rose and fell regularly with the breathing of their chests.