In the end, the battle was not serious except for the loss of five soldiers because they lost their way in the jungle, but it was indeed the first defeat of the Portuguese in Shannan, and Pimont was very annoyed by this result.

Due to the defeat in the battle, the momentum of the indigenous tribes rose, and a wave of expulsion of outsiders was set off in the jungle again, during which the Southern Mountain Tribes Alliance also sent thousands of warriors into the eastern and central jungles to expel and extort those small tribes who begged the Portuguese to make a living, and attacked the Portuguese merchants who entered the jungle to cut down trees.

Obviously, due to the deterioration of the security environment in the jungle, Pimont's investment in gold and silver mines may face a situation of chickens and eggs, and the duchess proposed that the power of the Australians should be borrowed, their firearms are very sharp, and their muskets are not afraid of water, and can completely beat the natives who only have wooden spears (of course, some wooden spears are wrapped in iron tips) and rattan shields, and even lack bows and arrows.

Pimont was reluctant at first, the main reason was embarrassed, anyway, Pimont is still a young man in his twenties, is a very strong person, he originally planned to solve it himself, but to solve the problem will cost money, today's gold and silver mining company has no income only to pay, there are already citizens to the governor's palace crying, saying that they want to withdraw shares, Pimont is now thinking about how to raise funds to recruit soldiers to buy weapons to Shannan to find the field back, withdraw shares? What a mess Nima adds! So it was flatly rejected on the spot, but Pimont's approach caused panic among the shareholders, and the whole city of Dili became disturbed by the small things of the joint-stock company.

In the end, Pimont had no choice but to agree to the Duchess's suggestion, and he personally ran to Xin'an City to find Xiao Pingguohou Xianglin and Wei Hong and others, hoping that this would give him a helping hand - the content of the aid was very clear: in addition to providing more explosives @ ammunition and grenades @ bombs to Pimont's army, he also hoped that the garrison of Xin'an City could also help, and at the same time, Pimont also promised to provide a certain "military operation subsidy" and abundant logistics.

However, at this juncture, there was news that the Shannan Tribes Alliance was going to besiege Dili City (actually Sin'an City), so all of Pimont's demands were temporarily put on hold, and the shareholders had to stop, after all, now that the nest was in danger, how could we talk about the distant gold and silver mines.

It's just that later, the situation became more and more obvious, it turned out that the Shannan Tribes Alliance planned to attack Xin'an City, not Dili City, so the shareholders of the gold and silver mine were relieved, and they remembered the gold and silver mine, after all, many people have invested all their net worth, and they have invested it for so long, and the splash has not been seen, isn't it worrying? In any case, whether it is good or bad, there must always be a clear prospect and benefits.

Of course, this time Pimont also became cautious, he found the two gold owners in advance - Lao Ba and Han Letian, informed the gold and silver mine development and his specific plans, and said that the Shannan Tribes Alliance obviously intervened in the obstruction of the development of gold and silver mines, so the current problem comes: Regarding the development project of this gold and silver mine, it is likely that because of these circumstances, the development process will be delayed indefinitely, in other words, there will be 50,000 taels of silver in the accounts of the two Australian banks. Lao Ba Han Lotian remembered President Yu's different opinions on his investment in gold and silver development, and suddenly felt that the whole person was not good.

However, Pimont was also ashamed, so he generously ceded a third of the shares in the gold and silver mines to the two banks, of course, on the condition that the Australian Commonwealth send troops to "protect the mineral development".

In fact, Lao Ba also felt a little ashamed at that time, he thought that he was working for a while, so that this investment caused chaos for everyone, but Han Letian was very happy, he saw that Lao Ba did not speak and immediately took over the shares of the mine in the name of the Federal Industrial and Commercial Bank.

After sending Pimont away, Han Lotian immediately found Wei Sufang's brother-in-law to drink, and when the brothers were happy, Han Lotian asked the brothers to "make up" for themselves, and send troops to clean up the natives of the gold and silver mining area.

However, the trouble is big, and the brothers are not the high school students of the year, and now that Xin'an City is facing this situation, how can they still send troops on an expedition?

Wei Hong and the others were groaning, but Yue Chu stood up and said, Brother Han's business is also the business of our shareholders, this gold and silver mine can't be won, anyway, my security team also needs to be honed and honed, just take this opportunity to pull out and wander, isn't it an indigenous tribe with less than a thousand people? The security team of labor and management, now there are more than 300 people, there are 200 small 57 rifles, and there are enough grenades @ bullets, this time we are careful when we walk and camp, plus Pimont's team, and the guides of the Loka tribe, the natives of less than 1,000 people, afraid of a wool!

So this matter was finally raised at the regular meeting of the Governor's Mansion that night, although the old king Kangda Hou Xianglin had some complaints about this dispatch, but it could not stand everyone to vote, and finally, Yue Chu's anti-bandit action finally began.

Anyway, with the support of the Australians, Pimont formed a raid team again, intending to go to the mining area to get the yard back, but because Sin'an City was facing the threat of siege, the garrison did not participate in the campaign - it was decided that the security team would be in charge of the clean-up operation.

A few days later, Pimont reorganized the team and organized an army of nine hundred people, including two hundred arquebusiers, three hundred shield archers, and four hundred pikemen, and also purchased a large number of five-seven grenades @ bullets from Hou Xianglin, this time the governor Pimont personally led the expedition, and the Xin'an City security team led by Yue Chu was in charge of the palace, and the security team also carried a large number of black fire @ medicine asphalt mixture, these black unknown substances were loaded into rattan baskets, and the soldiers of the security team each carried one, obviously this was Wei Hong's original "invention." Of course, Pimont knew the purpose of this thing, Wei Hong didn't plan to keep it secret, Pimont soon knew the recipe, so he urgently collected a lot of asphalt and black fire @ medicine, and asked his soldiers to bring it.

All in all, with the support and support of the Australians, he was confident that he would return to Pimont and plan to follow Wei Hong's example in the Chagan Basin - to burn everything, including the jungle in the mining area, in order to completely expel the rebels.

On 12 January, the well-prepared clearing of the mining area began, and it was clear that the leaders of the indigenous tribes had no idea that Sin'an (including Dili) would dare to send a "large army" to the mining area under the threat of a siege, so that when the Portuguese army appeared at the tribal garrison, they were unprepared.

Obviously, if you don't want a coward to abandon her women and children and escape into the jungle to become cowards, you have to resist – at the very least, to buy time for the women and children to retreat.

The Portuguese and Australians managed perfect tactical suddenness, the key factor being the strong assistance of the Loka tribe.

It is said that this tribe, like the tribe at the southern foot of the sacred mountain last time, had a very close relationship with the Loka tribe in the past, and the two sides have been marrying each other over the years, so the tribe does not have any secrets worth mentioning for Loka's father, including the relationship between the tribal leader and the tribe alliance in the south of the mountain, etc.