"Just us? There are a lot of those bandits, if not three or five hundred, but two or three hundred, we have too few people, right? ”

Chen Qishan is still apprehensive about the situation that the previous rescue operation failed and lost more than 20 brothers, and now he still has lingering palpitations, and seeing that Hu Zhen and the others are only 100 people, and together with his own 18 people, the number is still less than that of the bandits, and when he heard Hu Zhen propose to save people, he couldn't help but ask.

"It's okay, there's a lot of us in the back, but it's enough for us here! We must save these Chinese compatriots, and we will definitely be able to save these Chinese people, please believe us! Soldiers, let's go now! ”

With hundreds of warriors, with weapons far ahead of this era, and the combat effectiveness honed by his brothers from the Red Sea to fight pirates along the way, the Malay Peninsula and the natives, Hu Zhen was very confident to go to the rescue, and he didn't want to waste time going to the beach to bring more people.

Chen Qishan was not a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, but he was worried about sacrificing more people because of the failure of the previous rescue operation, so he hesitated and questioned, but after thinking about it, if he didn't save people, what else could he do besides putting aside his deep hatred and running away.

Thinking of this, Chen Qishan suddenly felt a surge of enthusiasm in his heart, and stood up and said loudly to the other seventeen Chinese people: "Brothers, I am determined to follow our life-saving benefactor, Mr. Hu Zhen, to save people again. You can choose to fight the bandits with me, or you can choose to find a way to get out of here and live in a paradise where there is no threat of death. If you want to leave here, I still have a few taels of silver here, which can be used as travel expenses! The choice is yours! ”

"Promised Land? Where is the Promised Land? To go back to Tangshan, do we have a boat? I'm afraid that we haven't found the ship yet, and it was either captured by the Dutch, or killed by these indigenous barbarians! I, Ma Shaohao, will die on the battlefield of fighting with the enemy, and I will never be a timid deserter who is afraid of death! I'll go! ”

The speaker was a lean young man, with a slender body, dark skin, a short face, deep eyes, a wide chin, braids rolled around his neck, and a single-shot rifle in his hand, with a thick-backed mountain chopping knife diagonally behind him, and the red cloth tied to the handle of the broadsword was blown by the wind and swept over his shoulders from time to time.

Ma Shaohao's ancestral home is Xinhui, Guangdong, and Chen Qishan are good friends who grew up playing together since childhood, and he is also an iron-clad Chinese hero, who saved many Chinese compatriots when the Dutch attacked the Chinese.

"I'm going to save people too!"

"I'll go too!"

"I'm not going to be a deserter!"

"Who would be a deserter? I'll go too! ”

Of the seventeen soldiers, some were wounded, and most of them looked very tired, but none of them were willing to back down, and all of them had to go to the rescue.

"Good! It's all good. However, we can't do our own thing, we have to pinch our five fingers into a fist, the same reason, we have to be united, we must have a charter, we must always have a person to take command, determine the division of labor, such as the arm to the finger, decide to advance and retreat. This Mr. Hu Zhen is our life-saving benefactor, and I propose to follow his orders for today's life-saving operation! Do you think it's good? ”

Although Chen Qishan was rude on the outside, he was coarse and detailed, throwing out the question of unified command and asking everyone to respond to his suggestion.

"Good! We must obey our benefactor! "These men are very simple, except for saving people, they don't have too many other ideas, and when they see someone proposing, they respond one after another, and the matter of unified command is determined.

Chen Qishan and others led the way, and finally rushed to the vicinity of the bandits' den that night.

"The hill in front of you is the only commanding height in this vicinity, the stone watchtower on the hill is the outpost of the bandits, after this hill bag, less than a mile away, is the bandits' lair, a wall about two people high encloses dozens of tile houses and thatched houses inside, there are about two hundred bandits inside, at least two or three hundred Chinese people are locked up inside, if we don't save people in time, they will soon be sold out as slave labor, waiting for them will be a fate that is worse than death!"

In the night, Chen Qishan lay in the grass and pointed to a watchtower a few hundred meters away and whispered to Hu Zhen.

After hearing this, Hu Zhen held a telescope and observed for a while, except for the light from the two-story watchtower, it was hazy everywhere, and it was difficult to see more, and turned back to Chen Qishan to ask a large number of questions: "Do you know how many people the bandits usually garrison this watchtower, what weapons are generally equipped, how many sentry posts are there, and whether there is a secret sentry?" What is the situation inside the bandit siege? Are there any heavy weapons? ”

"According to a Chinese man who fled here, there are usually twelve or thirteen people stationed in this watchtower, and as for the weapons, in addition to foreign guns, there are ...... a few machetes, oh, and a few spears! It's the same in the stockade. What else can there be...... Heavy weapons, what kind of weapons are heavy weapons......? When he said this, Chen Qishan scratched his head, in addition to these cold weapons and foreign guns, he didn't know what other weapons would be in his brain, for Hu Zhen's question, he was puzzled, and he wanted to ask back, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he immediately stopped.

The army weapons of this era are very simple, in addition to rifles, they are powerful artillery, and Gatling heavy machine guns, Makqin heavy machine guns and other crazy weapons of mass destruction, although they have come out, but few countries in the Asian Far East are equipped, even if they are equipped, they are only in the nature of trial, Borneo is a backward colony of the Netherlands, a second-rate power in Europe, Chen Qishan's mind is full of cold weapons and rifles, and he has never seen such weapons, of course, it is not surprising.

Hu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then realized what Chen Qishan was thinking, thinking that he had leaked his mouth, and in the future, he would have to educate this "ancient" brother who was worthy of a heavy responsibility in the army, but now is not the time to talk about this, he just smiled: "In addition to foreign guns, do bandits have any heavy weapons such as cannons?" ”

"No, I, Chen Qishan, dare to vouch with my head, except for one or two hundred foreign guns, these bandits have absolutely no cannons or anything like that!"

According to common sense, these bandits in front of them must have no other weapons except for some single-shot rifles. But the "one or two hundred" mentioned by Brother Chen Qishan is very unreliable, whether it is one hundred or two hundred, I don't know?

But Hu Zhen understood that he could not be too harsh on this "ancient" who had not received formal military training, but he was determined to make him an important figure in the army.

As time went by, the night deepened, and the bandits in the stone watchtower could not escape the habits of animals for hundreds of millions of years, and after blowing out the lights, they went to make a fortune in their dreams, leaving only a sentry on the roof of the building dangling like a ghost.

Suddenly, there was a very slight sound, and the sentry on the roof of the building fell on the roof, and then, a few meters away from the watchtower, more than a dozen black shadows appeared, straight to the door of the watchtower. Due to the hot weather here, the bandits did not close the door at all, and more than a dozen black shadows poured in.

The Grim Reaper of the bandits is here!