March 1, 1641

Christmas Island Flying Fish Bend Base

"Bang, bang, bang."

After a few gunshots, in the dense primeval rainforest, dozens of natives with wooden spears finally stopped attacking and hid back in the dense rainforest behind them again.

"Damn, where did these natives come from?" Makarov quickly hid himself in the trench after a shot, he didn't want to be wounded by the native's flying spear like that fool in Yushan, it seemed to him a very shameful thing, he was a sergeant.

Originally, I thought that Christmas Island was just wet and rainy, and there were many mosquitoes, but just two weeks ago, the unlucky Yu Shan was just urinating in the woods, and suddenly encountered an attack by unknown armed men.

This made the crowd on Christmas Island nervous, because before the landing, according to someone who had been to Christmas Island at the Manchester City base, there were no people here, not even natives, in the 17th century, but only because of the discovery of phosphate mines.

It is precisely because of what this guy said that Xiao Baitu He Yu and others have not paid much attention to the attack, because since the landing for more than half a month, they have not encountered the natives, and even He Yu sent people to search the surrounding two kilometers of tropical rainforest, and they have never found any traces of human life. This makes everyone believe that this is an uninhabited island.

It wasn't until the unlucky guy Yu Shan was urinating and was attacked by a wooden spear that everyone knew that there were natives here, but fortunately Yu Shan was not too badly injured, but his scalp was scratched a little.

At this time, Makarov and others hid in the trench, holding a 1640 flintlock rifle in their hands, staring at the dense tropical primeval rainforest ahead, as long as there were natives emerging from there, they would not hesitate to shoot.

"What's the matter, we still have a few bases for ammunition." Xiao Baitu sat in the unfinished wooden building with a depressed face smoking a cigarette.

"Two bases, about 600 rounds of bullets, in the past two weeks we have directly used up three base bullets, killing more than 50 natives, I knew that there were natives on this island, we should have asked the military department to equip us with a few sub-cannons, that is very lethal, one shell is a piece in the past."

"Yes, but it's useless to talk about it now, the Sea Blue is going back this time to overhaul and refit, and there is not a month at all to come to Christmas Island, even the supplies from Batavia will take two weeks, I just hope that we can make it to the ship by then."

At this time, the two people sitting in the wooden house fell into a sense of melancholy, because of the irregular attacks of the natives, the progress of the construction of Christmas Island has become very slow, and at the same time, they are afraid that the existing aboriginal laborers will take the opportunity to escape, so the daily work of the natives has been changed from the original all the people to 50 people.

Now there are 58 people in the entire Christmas Island base, including all kinds of civilian personnel and soldiers, including 30 Ming immigrants.

Although the natives' attacks have so far killed no one and only Yu Shan's bad luck has been injured, this kind of attack has seriously endangered the safety of everyone, and now the number of soldiers standing guard every night has increased to half.

Considering that there are too few soldiers in a squad, the 30 remaining Ming young men have been forcibly recruited into the garrison by He Yu, and after the remaining spare guns are distributed to them, the rest of those who have no weapons will be issued with broadswords and axes, etc., in this way, the armed forces of Christmas Island have been directly expanded from 20 to 50 people.

Although the attack of the natives caused a lot of trouble to the progress of the project, He Yu's soldiers were also tempered in this defensive battle, from the initial nervousness of seeing dozens of natives rushing out of the jungle, to now calmly letting the other side only shoot 80 meters away from the defensive trench, which is already a big progress.

For this reason, He Yu also joked with Xiao Baitu that if there is enough ammunition, or if there is a company of soldiers guarding here now, I believe that a group of soldiers who are not afraid of the battlefield will be trained in a month.

"Qiao Yan, you say, will we die here, I heard that we are running out of ammunition, and the next batch of ships to deliver supplies will not be until two weeks." Yu Shan, who had gauze wrapped around his head, whispered to his fellow villagers.

"No, Yu Shan, we will definitely live, it's just a group of natives, you have also seen them, they are no different from the natives we usually meet in training, as long as we can persevere, there will be no problem," Qiao Yan patted the other party's shoulder and said with certainty.

"Okay, I believe so, I still want to wait until I have saved enough money to buy a few acres of land to marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to a fat son, Qiao Xian, we said okay, if any of us don't believe in the war and die, the first child in the future will be passed on to each other as a son, so that every year Qingming will not be afraid that no one will burn paper for us."

Yu Shan's conversation with Qiao Yan was fortunately not passed into Makarov's ears at this time, otherwise he would definitely count Yu Shan's cowards again.

"It's not a way to go on like this, we have to take the initiative, Brother Xiao, I plan to send someone out to check the situation, focusing on exploring the inland, I suspect that these indigenous settlements should be not far from the inland, and it is very likely that they are two kilometers away from our search range."

Regarding He Yu's proposal, Xiao Baitu frowned and asked with certainty, You really plan to send someone to the inland to investigate, although you can learn about the situation of the natives on the island by doing so, but the danger is very great.

"Well, it's decided, it's not a way for us to keep spending time with the natives, not to mention affecting the progress of the project, and it will keep everyone in a state of exhaustion for a long time, which is very dangerous, if we can find out the specific population of the aborigines, we can give him a pot to completely solve the threat, and we can also add a lot of labor."

He Yu looked at Xiao Baitu with a firm face, and after speaking, he got up and shouted towards Makarov in the trench.

"Sergeant Makarov, now I have a difficult task for you to complete, can you complete it?"

"Yes, sir, I can do it no matter how difficult the task is." Makarov replied seriously.

"It's been two weeks since the base was attacked by indigenous enemies, and this situation cannot continue, as the Australian Army, we have advanced weapons in our hands and are actually attacked by a group of indigenous people in a primitive state, can you accept it, sergeant, tell me."

"No, sir, it's a shame on us."

"Very well, Sergeant, you have behaved bravely worthy of a soldier, and now we need to send a team of three out to find the natives' lair, and then take a pot on the natives. Can you be the captain of this mission?

"Yes," Makarov replied loudly with a military salute to He Yu.