It was a small Caravel sailing boat.

At this moment, her triangular sail was blown forward by the sea breeze, and the hull of the ship tilted dangerously, jolting hard in the wind and waves.

Pimont, a twenty-six-year-old young man, was the owner of the ship, and his mood was as choppy and anxious as his ship......

Pimont is a descendant of the Portuguese royal family, Duke Mensa, and is said to be related to the pride of the Portuguese: King Noon II, who presided over the development of the Calicut Oriental Route more than 100 years ago.

Just over a decade ago, when Pimont had just entered the Portuguese aristocratic school in Diu, India, the Portuguese finally broke free from Spanish rule once again, and Portugal re-emerged as an independent kingdom.

In that year, Pimont's father, Pimont the Elder, as an assistant to the Portuguese and Indian governors, was killed in a battle with the Indian princely state armies in Diu, so the younger Pimont, who was less than ten years old, became the adopted son of the Portuguese and Indian governors.

Because of his birth and his father's relationship, Pimont received a good aristocratic education and seafaring training from an early age.

At the age of sixteen, he came to Macau with the trading ship of the Portuguese-Indian Company, and soon became the darling of Macau's social circles.

Noble blood, handsome appearance and good cultivation are the calling cards of the social circle.

In the years that followed, he served as secretary and trade representative to the Governor of Macau, Kubrick.

The young Pimont had an enviable flexible mind, an excellent memory, and a strong talent for language.

Therefore, in his exchanges and negotiations with the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British and the Chinese, he always allowed Portugal, a newly restored country, to obtain due benefits in the gap between various forces in Southeast Asia, and also allowed him to accumulate rich life and trade experience.

Five years ago, the death of the elderly Portuguese Viceroyalty of Timor left the island in turmoil between the natives, the Portuguese, and the indigenous and Portuguese mestizos, who fought and fought for the right to rule the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Timor.

For five years, this strife and the struggle for supreme power culminated in a war.

Due to the lack of information, the Portuguese and Indian Governor's Palace, which is far away in Goa, India, only really learned about the serious situation in this colony far away in the South Seas a year ago.

At this time, the Portuguese and Indian governor had not forgotten his old subordinate and his adopted son.

Soon, Pimont was appointed as the new Viceroy of Timor, the youngest Governor appointed by the head office since the establishment of the Portuguese-Indian Company.

Of course, Pimont also understood that one of the more important reasons why he was appointed Governor of Timor: the current position of Governor of Timorse was dangerous.

At this time, no one wants to come forward to pick up this hot potato.

Because since the death of the old Governor of Timor five years ago, several major powers on the island of Timor have begun to fight for control of the colony.

Among them, the mixed-race Portuguese, led by O'Neil, is the strongest, and he has been fighting on and off with the natives and native Portuguese for five years, and so far, the parties seem to show no signs of stopping.

It is said that the war was fought brutally.

Obviously, the appearance of Pimont at this time---- the so-called "legitimate governor" from afar, naturally became the target of public criticism.

Three months ago, the Viceroy of Pimont sailed south from Macau to the port of Dili, the capital of the Viceroyalty of Timor.

However, when the Governor's ship, the small Caravel Dawn, was entering the harbor, he was greeted by the roar of cannons from the harbor's west battery.

This is not an empty salute, the cannon of the West Fort fires a solid ball that burns red.

The West Fort is the largest fort in Dili Port, currently controlled by Orne, and he also controls two-thirds of the city of Timor, his core army has a total of more than 900 soldiers, including about 400 musketeers, more than 500 elite armored spearmen, although the total number of troops is not as good as the nearby indigenous tribes, but in terms of combat effectiveness, Orne's army is the strongest force on the island of Timor.

Fortunately, the East Fort did not belong to Orne, the leader of the native Portuguese: Dergus. Anwar, an old gentleman in Dili who started his career in the sandalwood business, led the remnants of the old governor to hold the East Fort and set up barricades to control the third of Dili City, with the governor's palace as the center.

He gathered an army of more than 600 men, most of whom were musketeers, and the Dutch coring guns on the east battery were sharp, so the two sides had been facing off since two years earlier.

In the vast countryside and estates, three to five kilometres outside Dili, more than 3,000, perhaps more than 5,000 rebels, of indigenous tribes gathered.

There were a large number of them, and at all times, they were staring at this rich, full of novelty and exotic trading cities.

Of course, since they only had simple bows and arrows and iron-tipped wooden javelins, their combat effectiveness was relatively weak, and they could not pose an actual threat to Dili City for the time being.

Pimont did not intrude into the port of Dili recklessly, he had a plan for the situation.

After the first landing was blocked, Pimont immediately contacted Dergus. Anwar, who agrees to form an alliance against Orne, a rebel.

Because of his alliance with Degus, the powerful Pimont was in high spirits, and he had sixty musketeers on his ship, which he had recruited from Macao. They also included a number of Han Chinese soldiers, who belonged to the remnants of the Ming army, and some even came from military households in the north of the mainland, and after these people were broken up by the Qing army, many of them entered the city of Macau to make a living, and then they were sheltered by the Portuguese.

The main reason why the Ming soldiers were sheltered was that these soldiers had been in the battlefield for a long time, after all, they had faced the Tatar cavalry, so they were relatively strong in combat.

With the help of Degus, Pimont soon landed and entered the Doge's Palace.

Pimont planned to hold out until February of the following year, when the Macau support fleet, about five ships large and small, and nearly 800 soldiers, would arrive in Timor, and then he and Degus would drive the rebels out of Dili.

Two months later, however, a trading ship from Macau brought the dismal news to Pimont: the Macao fleet was not coming, the British were now entering India in a big way, and the Portuguese trading base in Diu was seriously threatened, so the Macau fleet had to go to the support of the Diu headquarters.

At the same time, it seems that the Dutch are also preparing to move, and they actually ally with the feuding Spaniards to force Macao to open up to the Dutch and Spaniards, so Macau itself needs a fleet to protect itself.

As for the Timor side, the official reply:

"Please rely on your own strength, Mr. Governor, to quell the rebellion ......."

Pimont didn't get a support fleet from Macau!

Upon receiving the good news, Orne immediately went on the offensive, and he bought off the fleet of the Timorese Governor, two medium-sized galleons, the Princess Casa and the Archangel, who had just returned to the port of Timor.

The fleet then fought a not-so-fierce naval battle with four armed merchant ships of Caravel in Degus.

The result of the naval battle was not unexpected, and large military ships were indeed crushing-class for civilian small and medium-sized armed merchant ships.

Degus's fleet was defeated and had to retreat in the harbor, but Orne, who was in pursuit of the victory, repeated his old trick and forged an alliance with the natives outside the city by bribery.

Pimont was tired and annoyed that he had ignored the fact that Ornet's mother was native, but by the time he realized the danger, it was too late.

Five thousand natives swarmed in, and they plundered not only the area controlled by the Governor's Palace of the port of Dili, but also the inhabitants of the area controlled by Orne.

Dili City instantly became a world of robbers, a hell on earth.

Houses were burned, shops were looted, women were raped, children were sold and plundered, and the Portuguese had been robbed of their wealth in Timor for more than 100 years.

As for Pimont in the Doge's Palace, he naturally could not sit still, and he quickly led the remaining sixty-five musketeers out of the Doge's Palace and retreated to the Aurora.