223 A snare
Before he could say a few words to Colonel Lincoln, who was in the dinghy on the opposite side, a Spanish soldier who trotted over whispered a few words in Lieutenant Colonel Fijue's ear, which suddenly made his face extremely ugly.
"Sir, Captain Jack in your room is gone!"
This gentle sentence made Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue suddenly feel that something was wrong, but at this time, in the face of Colonel Lincoln, who came prepared, he forcibly held back his movements and did not expose it.
"Colonel Lincoln, please note that this is where my Spanish Timor colony is located, and I cannot tolerate you entering my zone with weapons without the orders of my Timorese Governor's Palace."
"And I don't know where you got the news? Is there any hard evidence? ”
The sudden disappearance of Captain Jack made Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue's behavior a little unexpected, and he faintly felt that in order not to expose his behavior, he could only be ruthless, and never let Lincoln and his party enter their harbor.
"Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue, I am not making a request to you now, this pirate gang has posed a serious threat to the normal trade of our East India Company. If you continue to cooperate with us in this way, then be ready to fight! ”
Zheng Zhilong, who was beside Lincoln, quietly hinted to Colonel Lincoln, indicating that the outermost Western ship docked in the harbor was the pirate ship they were tracking.
The evidence of the thief was close at hand, and after Colonel Lincoln received the prompt, his heart was agitated, but he was no longer so polite, and his tone was extremely tough.
Although they were afraid of the strength of the Spaniards, if they really wanted to start a fierce battle, whether it was the strength of the Spanish army in the current Kupang Port or the strength of the Spaniards in the entire Indonesian archipelago, they were no match for their Dutch Far East Fleet.
With these confidences, Colonel Lincoln, who was anxious to complete his mission, did indeed do things a little stiffly.
"Give you an hour to think about it, and in an hour, our army will attack!"
Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue gasped, Colonel Lincoln's tough attitude made him feel flustered, but he had a hot potato in his hand, but he had to continue to hold on.
Watching the dinghy on the opposite side slowly row into the rear fleet, Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue hurriedly hurried to fill the hole in front of him.
"Send a team of people to detain Jack's bastard ship first, the most important thing is to catch the sailors on board, remember to leave it alive!"
"Yes!"
"Send someone to rummage through the castle for me, and catch Jack for me!!"
"Yes!"
Fei Jue knew that as long as the pirate ship and the sailors on it could be caught, there might be room for him to turn the corner between himself and the Dutch as they testified.
But it didn't take long for the soldiers sent out to hunt down the pirate ship to bring back a message that made Captain Fei Jue and his despair: "The ship is empty!" ”
"What? When you entered the port, didn't you see that there were thirty or forty sailors on it? What about people now? Will they be able to fly right under your noses? ”
Fei Jue's entire Ren completely broke out, and he scolded the group of soldiers under his command, and after scolding them for more than ten minutes, he began to find a way to deal with the situation again after venting most of his anger.
"What about the cargo on board? They won't even disappear at night, will they? ”
"The goods are still there!"
The soldier hurriedly replied, but when he answered, he also reported one of the things he had doubted before: "The cargo on this cargo ship is far more than what is recorded in the account book they gave us, and it is completely different from the content of the account book. ”
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Fei Jue was stunned, he didn't even need to go to the ship to check the ownership and content of the goods on it, just by guessing, he could know that the goods on this pirate ship were probably related to the missing goods of the Dutch East India Company.
"Also, we found more than twenty corpses at the bottom of the cabin, although the corpses were somewhat decomposed, but in general appearance, they should belong to the Germanic population."
The worse news came, so that Fei Jue even had the urge to faint on the spot, this matter was a blame from the beginning, Jack said that he had never participated in the piracy against the Dutch East India Company, but in fact he was afraid that it was this series of actions he organized.
At the beginning, he was also blind, and he believed his rhetoric in a daze, but now it is good, the other party set up this game for himself at the beginning, so that he obediently fell into the trap, I am afraid that the information obtained by the Dutch people was also sent by him to release it, otherwise how could it be so coincidental, just when they were trading, the Dutch fleet ran into such a lonely harbor where they don't, and it happened to block them.
But why would Jack do this? What is their intention?
Fei Jue's mind began to drift, and when he really wanted to continue to investigate, suddenly the alarm bell from the steel structure pulled him back, and it turned out that an hour had passed since Colonel Lincoln's announcement.
"The local fleet is starting to raise its sails, and the artillery fire is already in place, and it is aiming at me to put the port!!"
The lookout on the high platform stared at the Dutch fleet on the sea, and at the same time reported to the Spanish soldiers below the city on the movements of the fleet ahead.
"Prepare for battle!!"
Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue is now a difficult horseman, UU reading If Captain Jack and his sailors were present, then he could still prove to the Dutch that he had little connection with the pirates who had participated in the attack on the East India Company.
But now that it can't catch any of the pirate members of Jack's gang, and second, there is a large number of cargo on board that must be closely related to the missing ship, and even if it wants to defend itself, the other party will not listen.
And the most important factor that made Lieutenant Colonel Fei Jue unwilling to compromise was the twenty or so white corpses that died in the cabin, although he did not know the origin of these corpses, but since Jack wanted to leave them in this cabin, together with a large number of thieves, it must also be related to the sailors and captains of the five missing ships of the East India Company.
And what Lieutenant Colonel Gu Feijue knew from the intelligence system in Spain that one of the big factors why Dandel, the governor of the Batavian colony in the Netherlands, had a brainstorm and sent manpower and material resources to search for the missing ship like a burning eyebrow, was that one of the captains of the missing ships was inextricably linked with a prominent noble family in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Fei Jue didn't dare to think that if the captain's body really came out of this pile of corpses, then how he would be devastated by the governor of the Dutch Jawa colony!