Chapter 34: The Assault
Seeing Shabila's appearance, the first mate, Olier, turned around disdainfully and headed for the next cabin, where he wanted to carefully inspect the situation in each cabin.
"Move! Move out! Shabila secretly stuffed a large handful of eagles into his trouser pockets, closed the cover, and instructed his Javanese to begin to carry silver boxes to the deck, of course, he would check each silver box first, and at the same time, a handful of eagles fell into his pocket.
Oliel opened the sealed hatches and examined the cargo, the first four cabins contained a large number of wooden crates containing Eagle Ocean, but from the fifth onwards, he only saw ballast stones stacked in the cabin.
Although the Eagle Ocean in the first four cabins is already a huge amount of wealth, enough to ensure that every Dutch person on the "Shark" becomes a rich man, but greed is not enough is human nature, and Olier is still persistently opening the hatches one by one, hoping to find more wealth.
It wasn't until the tenth cabin that Oliel found all stones, and he opened the eleventh hatch by luck, and was surprised to see that the middle of the cabin was divided in half by a piece of silk hanging from the ceiling.
What's behind the satin? Eagles, gold coins, or jewelry? Olier felt his heart pounding, his breathing was much shorter, and with trembling legs, he walked to the satin, closed his eyes, and slowly pulled the satin away. He believed that when he opened his eyes, a huge surprise awaited him.
However, what awaits Olier is not surprise, but fright! When he opened his eyes, what he saw was not a gold coin or a jewel, but a long knife against his neck, and the smiling face of Mao Eighteen behind the long knife.
Olier looked at the long knife against his throat, as well as Mao Eighteen and the dozen or so Ming people with knives and guns around Mao Eighteen, and wisely closed his mouth.
"His grandmother's, hurry up and shut him up." At Mao's order, two men from Luzon stepped forward and stuffed a rag into Olier's mouth and tied him tightly with ropes.
"It's better to cut it with a knife to save trouble." Mao Eighteen muttered dissatisfiedly.
"It's easy to cut it, but the hostages are gone." Ren Siqi said lightly.
It turned out that before the crew of the Fuchun fled the ship, Ren Siqi and Fu Chun discussed the countermeasure that Fu Chun fled to the island with the Fuchun, while Ren Siqi took twenty-one men from Luzon to ambush in the cabin. Seeing the ship on the Fuchun where the crew had fled, the Dutch ship would definitely have sent someone to check it out, and since the crew on the deck had escaped by boat, the Dutch would certainly not have imagined that there were more than twenty people in the cabin.
Because of the fear of running aground, the Dutch ship must not be able to get too close to the Fuchun, so they can only send people to take the Fuchun on a small boat, and the small boat cannot accommodate too many people, so that when the Dutch board the Fuchun to check the bilge, the ambush will rush out, and they can catch all the Dutch who board the ship by surprise.
And with the hostages in their hands, the Dutch ships did not dare to fire again, and when the time came, they would either negotiate or fight again, and there would be room for advance and retreat.
The plan was good, but it was also difficult, first of all, to convince the twenty-one people from Luzon in the cabin to be willing to stay as ambush soldiers, and if the plan failed, these twenty-one people would die. Second, even if they agreed to stay, what if the Dutch found out? In that case, what awaits them is death.
Fu Chun hesitated, but he also knew that even if everyone landed on the island safely and saved their lives temporarily, the Dutch would definitely not leave the Fuchun to them again, and they would definitely sink the ship after emptying the ship's belongings. And without the ship, everyone has no hope of returning to the Ming Dynasty. After careful consideration, Fu Chun agreed to Ren Siqi's plan.
The plan was proposed by Ren Siqi, of course, and he was responsible for its implementation, Mao 18 was not worried that Ren Siqi would stay on the ship alone, plus he didn't want to miss the fight with the Dutch, so he had to stay. Some of the crew wanted to stay, but Ren Siqi was afraid that the Dutch in the distance would find a flaw, so they all refused.
Arriving at the bilge, convincing the twenty-one people from Luzon went surprisingly well. These men fought with the Spaniards for more than a year in Luzon, and none of them were cowardly people. It is their heart's desire to return to Daming, but if the ship is destroyed, I am afraid that everyone will never be able to go back.
So after listening to Ren Siqi's words, Cao Changjiang and the others agreed to stay and ambush the Dutch, which led to the scene just now.
Holding the flintlock short gun in his hand, Ren Siqi gave an order, Mao Shibai and the others rushed out of the cabin and rushed towards the enemies scattered in each cabin. Cao Changjiang and others, who were hiding in the cabin next door, also rushed out of the cabin.
"Be careful to keep your mouth alive as much as possible!" Ren Siqi hurriedly chased and shouted, looking at the murderous appearance of these people, he was really afraid that the Dutch in the cabin would be killed.
Cao Changjiang and other twenty-one people were bullied by the Spaniards when they were in Luzon, and they had long hated these Caucasians, although the Dutch were not Spaniards, but in their eyes they were no different. If it weren't for Ren Siqi's timely shouting to stay alive, they really wanted to kill all the enemies they encountered.
However, to their surprise, there were not many white people in the cabin, but more of them were dark-faced natives of the South Seas.
The two Javanese who were carrying the box were surprised to find that many Ming people had murderously killed out of a cabin, and under the fright, the box fell under their feet, the lid of the box was broken, and countless eagles rolled in the cabin.
Seeing that it was not a Caucasian in front of him, but a native of Nanyang, Chen Sheng, who rushed in front, was stunned for a moment, raised the long knife in his hand and slashed down, slashing at the neck of the Javanese man opposite, the sharp katana easily cut his neck, Dou Da's head rolled on the ground, blood gushed out from the headless neck, spraying Chen Sheng's head all over his face.
"You don't want to be so disgusting, can you?" The little white-faced Jin Yufei was splashed with blood, and shouted angrily at Chen Sheng, saying this in his mouth, the knife in his hand stabbed into the abdomen of another Javanese without hesitation.
Since Ren Siqi said that he was leaving the Dutch alive, these two natives were not included, in Luzon, at the instigation of the Spaniards, the natives of Luzon and the Japanese participated in the massacre of the Chinese, and more than half of the more than 20,000 dead Chinese died at their hands, and Chen Sheng and others hated these natives even more than the Spaniards.
More than a dozen Javanese were busy carrying the boxes, and they were caught off guard by the twenty-plus Ming people who rushed out at once, and most of the weapons were put aside in order to move the boxes, and when the Ming people rushed over, they couldn't even resist.