However, Wei Hong repeatedly asked for war, and said that there was no problem with his safety, because although he only planned to bring two infantry companies, there were still more than 500 Portuguese soldiers in the Chagan Basin, and in addition, most of the 30,000 natives there were tribesmen who had submitted to us, and these natives had made themselves rich through mining and logging, and these tribes were already inseparable from us, in other words, even if we entered the jungle, we had a large number of allies and guides.

Sun Lao finally agreed to Wei Hong's action, but asked Wei Hong to wait for half a month, when the Nicole brought him a Marconi transceiver and two telegraph correspondents who graduated from Zhuyuan.

In this way, he could contact Xin'an City in time, and Xin'an City could also provide timely support, Wei Hong was very grateful for Sun Lao's support, and he promised to start a military operation as soon as these support arrived.

In early December 1659, under the leadership of local guides, Wei Hong led two infantry companies of the garrison to finally arrive in the Laichagan Basin, and immediately launched a series of military operations against the rebel tribes with the assistance of the local tribes, including gathering a large force to march to the mining area where the rebel tribes were located.

The march went smoothly and was not disturbed by attacks along the way - thanks to the local indigenous tribes and the Portuguese, because on the marching route of the garrison, there were two circles of protection from the front and back, the outermost layer was the warriors of the local indigenous tribes, the inner layer was the five hundred Portuguese musketeers and shield bearers, and the innermost was the garrison, and Wei Hong himself, surrounded by dense garrison soldiers.

However, the thing that worried Wei Hong the most still appeared-the other tribesmen were very clever to hide in the jungle and not confront themselves head-on at all.

As a result, the campaign yielded little success, except for the local tribal warriors who looted some of the property that they did not take with them, and then burned down the thatched huts of the rebellious tribes, not even a single tribal woman or child was obtained.

Wei Hong realized that this was a very serious situation, for Wei Hong, he was very familiar with this kind of tactics - such as "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I advance, the enemy is stationed and disturbed, and the enemy retreats and I chase", which is the immutable law of the weak side for thousands of years to use the indigenous advantage to resist the strong enemy, this method from Zhuge Liang to the modern guerrillas are familiar with it, although these are the strategies of Chen Sesame and rotten grain, but it is really easy to use and effective.

Wei Hong knew very well that there were probably only two ways to deal with this rogue tactic -- the first was to use well-equipped and well-trained special forces squads to deal with guerrilla warfare, and the second was to carry out large-scale clearing of fortified walls and wilderness, changing the living environment so that the enemy could not gain a foothold in this area.

Obviously, the first method is definitely too late, and now the Xin'an City Garrison does not have a special forces as a unit.

Wei Hong, however, found the conditions to implement the second option – he had been in the hot mud spa area of Morro Bay a few days earlier – and by the way, there are many such hot springs on the island of Timor, which are remnants of active volcanoes from past geological ages that have now degenerated into hot springs and steaming fissures.

At that time, Wei Hong took the soldiers of the garrison to visit an erupting hot mud hot spring - in the old world, this kind of natural scene was usually only seen in travel magazines, and now he has the opportunity to observe this natural wonder in person, Wei Hong will not let go of it.

However, the trip was worth it - Wei Hong smelled the smell and found natural asphalt near the hot spring!

At this time, Wei Hong, who was in a dilemma, remembered these asphalts, so he decisively ordered a retreat, and then led this group of soldiers and indigenous tribesmen to this natural asphalt production area.

Wei Hong knew that this mineral was usually a companion of oil, and soon, he promised a lot of money to let the natives collect these asphalts everywhere, and then telegraphed to the Governor's Office of Xin'an City - asking Xiao Pingguo to send someone to bring him some explosives from the ammunition factory@.

A few days later, everything was ready, Wei Hong returned to the rebel tribe's garrison with the garrison soldiers, the Portuguese and the indigenous tribes, this time there was a windfall, arresting more than a dozen women and children of the rebel tribes, Wei Hong personally interrogated these women and children, and then handed them over to the elated pro-Portuguese tribal warriors and Portuguese soldiers - what fate these women would face, of course Wei Hong knew in his heart, but he had no time to care about these now.

Wei Hong's fortified wall clearing project soon began, and soon after, with the ore vein point as the core, in a square kilometer of land, it was ignited by a mixture of asphalt and explosives, and the pungent smell of smoke rose in the dense forest, Wei Hong and his soldiers withdrew from the reserved gap in time, and then stood on the high ground to watch his masterpiece - setting fire to the mountain.

The fire continued to burn for more than half a month, during which Wei Hong repeatedly sent people into the burned area to repeat the fire until the area was devoid of surface plants, and then then expanded the scope of the burning around the area with this as the center, until a month later, there was an open field with a radius of three kilometers, a total of nine square kilometers.

Next, a jungle dirt road up to fifteen meters wide was built from the Chagan Basin to the mining site, and then, with the ore vein as the center, several circles of wooden fence walls were soon built, and on the edge of the wall were hundreds of Portuguese musketeers and shield bearers, and at this time, there were more than 1,000 semi-armed tribal men and women mining on the ore vein, these people were holding iron tools provided by the Diao Company, which could be used as mining and weapons, and once the hand-to-hand combat began, these tools were much more convenient than the iron-tipped wooden spears in the hands of the tribal warriors. Then the company also gave these men and women "high salaries", so that these people drank the old captain's liquor provided "for free", and ate the rice, white flour and dried meat provided by the company "for free".

Therefore, anyone who dares to obstruct the way of wealth for the men and women of these tribes will have to pay a heavy price.

However, in the face of this situation, the rebellious tribes had to take the initiative, but after attacking the wooden fence several times at a heavy cost, the tribal warriors gave up the practice of storming the mine and turned to the way of guerrilla warfare to attack the road, but this played into the hands of Wei Hong, who sent a convoy as bait to lure these tribal warriors out on the road, so the soldiers of the garrison who were ambushed in the carriage beat the attackers with five-seven rifles and hand @grenade @ bullets.

After several such operations, the men of the rebel tribe were completely lost, and finally disappeared into the nearby jungle completely.

The whole process took less than a month.

Then, Wei Hong led his garrison soldiers back to Xin'an City unscathed.

Soon after, the smelting furnaces of the travelers as far away as Mornington were up and running, and companies began to obtain a steady stream of minerals and raw materials from the eastern part of the island.

Afterwards, Boss Sun praised Wei Hong's approach, and he praised Wei Hong at a hearing in the Federal Senate, saying that this young man is very studious and makes rapid progress, and it has been proved that Wei Hong has grown up, and we should no longer treat Wei Hong as an ignorant young man in the future.

Wei Hong, who was praised, was still very clear-headed—he knew that if he wanted to completely solve the security problem on Timor Island, he had to solve the Shannan Tributary Alliance, which was the root cause of all chaos on Timor Island.

This time, Wei Hong took aim at Oecussi again.