After getting the news, whether it was Hou Xianglin or Wei Hong, Xiao Pingguo, and Brother Pingguo all frowned in unison.

For Sin'anseong, this Dunno tribe has always been a haunted existence.

The area between the cities of Oecussi and Dili has been a place of conflict between Portuguese and Dutch and indigenous tribes, from the coast of Sian Ann to the southern mountains of Oecussi, and is said to have been the traditional sphere of influence of the Dunno tribe for centuries, and the Portuguese and the Dutch of Kupang had been fighting in the area of activity of the tribe for decades.

In the process of tug-of-war between the two sides, the Dunno tribe was also used by both sides - co-opted or eliminated, so the tribe has a long history of dealing with outsiders, and their tribal warriors are more familiar with the tactics of the Europeans, especially in recent times, the tribal warriors have also seen the power of the Australians.

Therefore, Wei Hong and the others believe that since these tribal warriors have reappeared, they must be prepared - as the so-called those who come are not good, and those who are good do not come.

With regard to the Dunno tribe, Wei Hong also received the latest information from the Loka tribe, which now appears to have recovered, and according to the Loka tribe, the Dunno tribe had received a lot of assistance from Dutch merchants before the Treaty of Oecussi.

It is no wonder that the Dutch, at that time Xin'an City as a new trading port that suddenly appeared, naturally attracted the attention of the Dutch, although the Dutch did not intend to be enemies of the Australians, but the Australians were close allies of the Portuguese - about this everyone can see, and at that time the Portuguese and Dutch not only had a conflict of interest, but also a religious conflict, obviously if the dispute between the Portuguese and Dutch continued, it would inevitably involve the Australians.

Therefore, arming the Dunno tribe to contain Portugal and Macao was the established policy of the Dutch East India Company at that time - this situation did not gradually change until the Treaty of Oecussi.

Therefore, in this context, the Dunno tribe, which had suffered heavy losses under the city of Sin'an, was quickly regained with the help of the Dutch, and it is said that the Dunno tribe was the main target of the East India Company's assistance on the island of Timor at that time, and the total amount of aid before and after the start may have exceeded 10,000 taels of silver.

The Dutch spared no expense in local investment, of course, to protect the Kupang Bay Area – at least to make the tribe a barrier in the jungle against the Montagnard Alliance and an advance base for encroachment into Portuguese-controlled territory.

This tribe was once the backbone of the Dutch influence in the jungles of the island of Timor.

To the disappointment of the Dutch, however, the fed Dunno tribe did not turn into a pro-Dutch force, and the Dutch soon discovered that the idea of this tribe as a barrier or buffer to their alliance with the southern tribes of the mountains after the Treaty of Oecussi was an illusion.

Because later the Dutch came to the aid of the Dunno tribe with one condition - to abandon the hostile attitude and practice towards the Portuguese and Australians, and to resist the mountain tribe alliance together with the Dutch.

As a result, the truth soon turned out to be completely opposite to the wishes of the Dutch, and the Dunno tribe did not hesitate to throw the weapons and various equipment that the Dutch had brought with them a while ago into the arms of the Southern Tribes Alliance.

Later, when the Dutch read the famous "Macao Declaration" issued by the Australians in Macao, they realized the essence of this declaration: "Only people with the same values can become reliable friends, otherwise, once the situation changes, those so-called allies will turn their faces on you faster than turning the pages of books." ”

Because the Dutch at that time never understood that the reason why the two forces of the tribe and the Dutch could not come together was, in the final analysis, that the values of the two sides were completely different, so it was a matter of time before they parted ways.

In fact, on the island of Timor today, almost all tribal leaders with a certain level of intelligence know that the arrival of these outsiders has the greatest impact on the tribe is the change of lifestyle, which leads to a change in the hearts of the tribe.

Imagine that when an ordinary person in the tribe can obtain resources to make a living by going out to work and do business, the bonds between people in the tribe will gradually disappear---- and it is inevitable that the privileges of these tribal leaders and priests will also disappear.

Therefore, on this principled issue related to the fundamental interests of their own class, as the upper class of the tribe, what choice to make is often related to the fate of the entire tribe - under normal circumstances, one of the choices is the choice of Daddy Loka, and now the Lova tribe has actually existed in name only, but all the men, women and children of the Lorka tribe, including Daddy Lorka, have entered a new world and started a new life.

Another typical choice is the choice of the Dunno tribe, who choose to return to the jungle and continue to stick to their traditions, fighting against all new things and external influences.

Obviously, it was because of this that the fate of the two tribesmen was very different.

Well, back to the present, anyway, this is the reality that Xiao Pingguo Wei Hong and their people are facing - the Dunno tribe that appeared near the copper mining area is not only difficult to be incorporated (or "naturalized" in Xiao Pingguo's words), but also quite unruly, and is the most powerful force in terms of weapons and combat power among the tribes of the Southern Tribes Alliance.

In short, this is an enemy that Sinanseong has to pay attention to.

Especially recently, the Dunno tribe, which is supported by the Shannan Tributary Alliance, often makes trouble for the Portuguese near the city of Oukuxi, and occasionally goes deep into the vicinity of Sin'an City to commit crimes.

As the governor of Sinan, Xiao Pingguo immediately sent a messenger to Kupang, who was from the Loka tribe and brought a letter to the mayor of Kupang in both French and Chinese.

In the letter, Xiao Pingguo asked the Dutch to provide information on the recent movements of the Dunno tribe, and then informed the Dutch that the Australian Commonwealth regarded the Dunno tribe as a threat to its own security and was determined to eliminate this threat, and then put forward a proposal that would be beneficial to the Dutch: if the Dutch side was willing to cooperate, the Australian Federation was willing to share the fruits of its victory, and these fruits would involve the trade interests of both sides.

Five days later, ten Dutch musketeers protected the messenger of the Loka tribe and rode back to Sin'an on fast horses, and the messenger brought a reply letter from the mayor of Kupang, which reported two things-

First things first: according to reliable information from Dutch merchants, the Dunno tribe is about to return to the mountains southwest of Oku, and if the Australians are not there, the jungle in the mountains south of Oecussi will return to the southern tribes, and the Dutch warn that the Portuguese will still be in an unsafe environment at that time.

The second thing: the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company has sent instructions to cooperate with the actions of the Australians as much as possible to eradicate the threat of the tribal alliance to Kupang Bay, so Kupang is willing to cooperate with the Australian Federation in logistics, intelligence and military operations of the army.

At present, Kupang has sent scouts to the Oecussi area, these scouts are pro-Dutch tribe warriors near Kupang, some of them are indigenous warriors from the Dunno tribe, they have rich jungle experience, so Kupang is sure to keep abreast of the movements of the Dunno tribe, and is willing to provide this information to the Australian Federation at any time.