Lao Wang said and looked at the black coachman sitting in the row in front of him, and didn't say anything, Lao Ba and Doctor Quan immediately understood that this matter was probably sensational and could not be said in front of outsiders, so they didn't ask much, nodded silently and got into the car.

Then Lao Wang leaned out half of his body and shouted at the group of young people who were still laughing not far away:

"Xiao Hou! Wei Hong! Xiao Han, you should hurry up too! Go back to the Governor's Palace! There is something important to discuss, let's go first! ”

Lao Wang didn't wait for Hou Xianglin to respond after saying these few words, so he turned around and patted the coachman's back gently, so there was a whip, and the carriage quickly started and left the crossroads, heading towards the governor's palace to the north......

Forty minutes later, in the large living room on the second floor of the Governor's Palace.

At this moment, except for a few crew members of the Nicole who stayed on duty, all the current traversers in Xin'an City have gathered here - including Lao Wang, Lao Ba, Captain Gu, Hou Xianglin, Kang Da, Xiao Pingguo, Wei Hong, Su Gaofei, Zhou Rui, Yue Chu and Han Qisheng and other Nicole crew members, a total of twenty-one people.

The meeting was presided over by Lao Ba, because he now has the capacity of the president of the Senate, and now there are 21 people in the conference room to meet together, which can be regarded as a small Senate discussion.

At this time, the thick mahogany door of the conference hall, which was well insulated, was tightly closed, and Chen Jiujin and two soldiers of the garrison stood outside the door, and they were ordered by Governor Xiao Pingguo that no one was allowed to approach the gate - including the cooks and girls in the governor's palace, all the refreshments and other supplies could only be sent outside the door, and then Chen Jiujin himself sent them to the door, and he himself had to leave immediately after putting down the teapot and snacks.

Now, the people in the room are listening to Lao Wang and Xiao Pingguo tell an important unexpected situation that they obtained from different channels at the same time-

It is expected that the Shannan Tributary Alliance will concentrate at least 20,000 soldiers within two months to besiege Sinseong!

At that time, in the Doge's palace in Pimont, a naturalist who had just returned from an expedition to the jungle and his three native guides reported to the Governor of Pimont an urgent news that the southern tribe of the mountains was about to besiege Dili or Sin'an on a large scale.

According to naturalists, this tribal alliance had already mobilized at least 15,000 to 20,000 warriors a few days ago, and now these warriors are massing towards the Beilu plain, where they plan to march north along the valley of the Galaya River, and in a month they will reach the mountains southwest of Oku.

According to the three indigenous guides, the tribal warriors, having assembled there, would continue eastward along the northern slopes of the central mountain range, aiming for the city of Dili, or the city of Sin'an, which is located one mile west of the city.

The naturalist guide also said that not only was the largest build-up of troops ever made by the indigenous tribes of Timor, but also that the armament was also very strong, with many iron refrigeration weapons in the hands of the warriors, many of whom wore leather and even metal armor, and a considerable number of arquebuses and flintlock pistols in the hands of the tribal warriors, two of whom insisted that they had seen many bronze cannons drawn in ox carts.

Then Xiao Pingguo began to introduce the situation, and he obtained the news about this almost at the same time as Lao Wang - the source is the jungle scouts of the Luoka tribe, these scouts have a total of more than 30 people, and through the transfer of Luoka's father on weekdays, these scouts can receive a different amount of allowances from the Governor's Mansion every month, and since the beginning of the year, they have been specially in the jungle to find out all kinds of intelligence in the jungle for the Governor's Mansion of Xin'an City.

The news from the Loka tribal scouts is generally consistent with Pimont's naturalist account, only a little more detailed and professional.

According to the scouts, the southern tribe of the mountain was originally intended to attack the closer cities of Kupang or Oecussi, but the tribal warriors were afraid of the thick and high stone walls of these two cities and the hundreds of bronze cannons on the walls, so they finally chose to attack Sinanseong, which only looked weak-looking wooden walls.

After all, Sin'an City does not appear to have either tall stone walls or bronze cannons, which makes the warriors of the indigenous tribes feel that Sin'an City is relatively easy to capture.

Regarding the enemy's strength, the scouts brought relatively accurate information - a total of 23,000 armed men from 24 tribes participated in this military operation, of which there were 9,000 warriors from the six core tribes of the Southern Mountain Tribe, and among these 9,000 people, the most core and most powerful were more than 4,000 warriors of the Beilu tribe, because this tribe was a tribe personally commanded by the leader of the Southern Mountain Tribe, and it was also the tribe from which the leader was born.

With a population of about 20,000 and an army of more than 5,000 armed with iron refrigeration weapons, bows and arrows, arquebuses, Dutch flintlock pistols, and bronze cannons, the Belu tribe was fairly formally organized and apparently the most combative.

The investigators also reported that the leaders of the tribal alliance were aware of the fighting that had taken place under the wooden walls of Sin'an two years ago and of the bitter lessons learned by the indigenous warriors, including the Dunno tribe, under the city.

However, it is said that the leaders of the tribal alliance agreed that the main reason for the defeat at that time was the lack of troops for their offensive - it is clear that the leaders of the tribal alliance believed in crowd tactics and believed that they could rely on their numerical superiority to flood Sin'an in one fell swoop.

When Xiao Pingguo said this, there was silence in the living room, and at this time, all the traversers, including Hou Xianglin and Wei Hong, felt that the judgment of the enemy leader had a certain amount of truth - now, if the enemy relied on the numerical superiority and adopted the tactics of the sea of people with a decisive will to attack Xin'an City, the other party would not have no chance of winning.

Because, even if the other side pays a heavy price in human life, as long as it can break through the wooden wall from one direction with more for less, then the defending side will fall into a very passive situation, and Sinseong will suffer all kinds of losses - including both life and property.

Therefore, as long as the enemy breaks through the city walls and enters the city in this attack on Sin'an City, no matter what the final outcome is, it will be regarded as a great victory for the Shannan Tributary Alliance - obviously, the sacrifice of human life will never be put on the priority in the minds of the leaders.

Obviously, our own side is just the opposite, our people can't afford to lose, even if one for ten can't be drawn, our property and facilities can't afford to lose small, now there are not only all kinds of people in Xin'an City, but also a huge number of altars and jars, one is not careful, in case the city is broken, the impact will be too big and too bad.

There were also many people at the meeting who expressed incomprehension, because from a military point of view, the best battlefield for jungle tribes should be in the jungle, not in the wilderness - with the equipment of the tribal warriors, it is impossible to fight against even Portuguese soldiers, let alone fight against Australians with fortifications.

It was Wei Hongsu and Gao Fei who held this view, and they were a little skeptical about the authenticity of this information.

After all, in the eyes of these two military professionals, the wisest thing for the current enemy to do is to deal with us in the jungle for a long time, so that we don't have a peaceful life, instead of fighting a general battle with us in the wilderness.