Next, Yadian's 5th Division and Li Xiaodong's 6th Division continued to expand westward, eliminating many natives along the way. And many of these natives have been annihilated in large numbers, because Yadian and Li Xiaodong often find excuses to clean up those natives, and they all have their own reasons anyway. There is no excuse for the so-called sin that they want to add, and they want to find a reason to clean up those natives, and they can have a reason. In this way, they defeated more than 100,000 natives, but the real appendix was less than 20,000, and these less than 20,000 natives were sent to the rear to work as coolies, and those natives hardly had many human rights. In addition to ensuring that they will not be killed casually, they all have to endure high-intensity labor, and the food is the worst, and the work they have to do is also the most dangerous work. As for the indigenous women, they were also married to the male aborigines, and their descendants were slaves. They are not even as good as the fourth-class citizenship status established by Taiwan.

And when they came to a tribe of about 20,000 people, and all the members of this tribe came out. And Yadian and Li Xiaodong didn't pay attention to this qiē, and they all started to prepare for battle directly. But a messenger came from the tribe, and he came with a white flag.

"How. Do you want to surrender? Li Xiaodong asked.

And the native immediately said, "No, no, no, we are not going to surrender, we are going to negotiate with you." We have more than 160 of you Chinese in our hands, and they are all in front of us, and if you attack, then we will put them at the front. ”

"What? Are you taking us Chinese hostages? Tooth Code was surprised.

Yadian and Li Xiaodong didn't expect that someone would take Chinese as hostages. In the past hundreds of years, many Chinese people have come to Kalimantan, which was called Borneo at that time. So now there are Chinese people being taken hostage, which is really difficult for them.

"What should I do?" Yadian asked Li Xiaodong and said.

"You ask me, who do I ask?" Li Xiaodong also grinded his teeth and said.

The two of them just stopped. Neither of them had a good idea. And they saw from the telescope that the people who walked in the front, they were all Chinese, and they were wearing some Hanfu, some were Qing Dynasty horse coats, obviously their ancestors came to Nanyang at different times. Long before, the Taiwan side also sent soldiers everywhere to deliver orders. Let those Chinese gather together in Dongwanlu to avoid being caught by the natives. But I didn't expect that at this time, there were still fish that slipped through the net, and there were actually more than 160 Chinese who were taken hostage.

"What should I do, once our soldiers open fire, then I'm afraid we Chinese will die first!" Tooth Dian said helplessly.

"Our soldiers' marksmanship is not so good at all, and it is impossible to accurately avoid accidentally injuring the Chinese. On the battlefield, bullets don't have eyes, and it's really difficult to deal with now. And. Who knows what these natives will ask of us? Li Xiaodong also said with a wry smile.

"Let's talk, though!" Tooth Codex said.

The two front-line supreme commanders didn't have any good solutions, after all, they all knew that the other party had hostages in their hands, so they were all fearless. And if he takes the initiative to attack, then I'm afraid he will really be injured by mistake first. If these more than 20,000 natives could directly break through with machine guns, it would be impossible for this process not to hurt the Chinese hostages. And those hostages are in their hands, so the machine guns are really unusable. And if there is a massive charge. But that would also hurt them by mistake, and even force the natives to kill the hostages. So. The only solution at the moment is to talk to them.

"What do you have to do to let these hostages go?" Tooth Dictionary asked.

The native negotiator immediately said, "Our chief has said that the first condition is that you must retreat on your own initiative and leave your weapons behind. I can't take it away! ”

"Joke, you might as well let us take the initiative to disarm and surrender!" Toothory snorted.

This native really got into the water on his own, and actually asked the Fifth and Sixth Divisions to retreat, and left their weapons behind. In this way, those natives can use these weapons to arm a lot of firearms troops, and then reuse them to attack the Taiwanese army. This is certainly not possible. Yadian and Li Xiaodong really felt that this native's brain was in the water, and they actually put forward such an impossible condition, so they both knew that this condition was impossible. If these weapons are really left to them, then I am afraid that the Taiwanese army will suffer heavy casualties at that time.

"We still have conditions!" The indigenous negotiator said.

"And? Okay, what's more, you guys all meow at once, you're welcome, we'll all listen! Li Xiaodong said.

"Also, all you Chinese, you must withdraw from our Kalimantan Island, and then compensate our tribe with 10 million taels of silver."

"Crazy, you're really crazy!" Tooth Codex said.

These natives are really hopelessly watered in their brains, and Toothory really wants to pry their heads open and see how much water is inside their heads. Such a ruthless condition can be proposed, this is definitely crazy for them. Let Taiwan withdraw from Kalimantan, even the Dutch can't do it at the moment, and the French and British don't have much good way to hold Taiwan. However, isn't it a bit naïve for these natives to rely on some so-called hostages to force Taiwan to give up its expansion plan?

And this has to pay a ransom of 10 million taels of silver for more than 160 people, which is simply ridiculous. Tooth Dian really doubted that this native didn't understand what a huge sum of money 10 million taels of silver was in China! You must know that the purchasing power of one tael of silver in later generations is hundreds of yuan, and ten million taels of silver are evenly distributed to each hostage, which is probably more than 60,000 taels of silver, and it will be a ransom of tens of millions of yuan in later generations. I'm afraid that such a high ransom payment, even the son of the richest man in the world may not exceed this value. So Yadian and Li Xiaodong, who have lived in China since childhood, of course know what a ridiculous price it is to ransom 60,000 taels of silver for each person, this is simply ridiculous, they really think that they have kidnapped the prince, and they can make conditions at will!

"That's too much for that!" Li Xiaodong said.

"No, our leader said that not a single copper plate can be missing, so you should be ready and retreat out of Kalimantan. And, leave your weapons and give them to us, and you can get out of here! ”

Yadian suppressed the idea of pulling this guy directly to shoot him, and then said in a cold voice: "This condition is too high, I want to ask our Lord Wang for advice!" ”

"Okay, you have to reply within three days, if you don't agree to our terms, then we'll ......," the native negotiator gave a murderous look.

"If you dare, if you dare to kill one of our Chinese, then I will kill a hundred of you to die!" Li Xiaodong said.

"Hmph, whether you can kill or not is still a question!"

The indigenous negotiator went back to report on the matter, and the indigenous leader immediately burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha, we have these hostages in our hands, and we are not afraid that they will not agree to our conditions." The indigenous leader said.

An elder next to him immediately said cautiously, "Chief, I think our conditions are too high, why not lower them?" I am afraid that the Chinese will not agree to these conditions! ”

But the indigenous leader said, "If they don't agree, then we will kill these Chinese hostages." Anyway, not a single copper plate can be missing, and with this money we can expand our population several times. Even if they leave those weapons behind, we can take the opportunity to conquer our Kalimantan Island and then become the overlord of Kalimantan Island. When the time comes, I will become the emperor of a great empire! ”

"But isn't that a bit whimsical? I'm afraid the Chinese won't agree! The elder said.

"What? You say I'm whimsical? You are really too cowardly, such an opportunity for us to become the overlord of Kalimantan Island should be missed? As long as we extort a sum of money from the Chinese, they will have to compromise. We have hostages in our hands, if they don't agree, aren't they afraid that we will tear up the ticket? At that time, I am afraid that they will all be held accountable! The native said Ling.

And this indigenous elder also shook his head helplessly, this leader has gone crazy, and he dares to blackmail the Chinese like this. Didn't he know that the Chinese might not necessarily care about these overseas Chinese? The Chinese have 400 million, will they give up the opportunity to attack Kalimantan for the sake of the lives of more than 100 people? More than 100 people, even the vast majority of tribes on Kalimantan Island will not care, will the Chinese, a country with a population of 400 million, give up the whole plan for the sake of just more than 100 people? What's more, the conditions of this indigenous leader are really ridiculous. This is no longer a lion with a big mouth, it is simply eating the sky with a big mouth, I am afraid that he will choke to death. The indigenous elders were very unoptimistic about the ideas and plans of this indigenous chief.

And the conditions of the natives were also sent to the Nanyang Military Region Headquarters in Dongwanlu by Yadian and Li Xiaodong, and the result suddenly surprised everyone.

"What, there are more than a hundred Chinese in the hands of the natives as hostages!" Wang Guorui exclaimed.

If there are hostages in the hands of the natives, it is really difficult to solve this matter, and everyone must discuss it together to solve it. (To be continued......)