The shape of Borneo looks like a fat hen, in which the chicken head is facing northeast, where it is closest to Luzon, and not far north of the chicken head, it is a long island, the northern end of the island is not far from Manila in Luzon, and the southern end of the island is Borneo, so this island looks like a bridge connecting the two islands, so this island is called Long Bridge Island by the Han Chinese, and in later generations, this island is also very famous, that is, Palawan Island, which is known as the "modern Garden of Eden".

The southeastern part of Longbridge Island is a fertile plain, and there were natives who cultivated rice here for a long time, and the grain production was quite high. However, just a few years ago, Longbridge Island was occupied by a slave hunter from Luzon, and all the natives on the island were taken away as slaves, and later the navy took a fancy to the geographical location of this island, so a military port was set up here, located on the east coast of the middle of the island, and a naval fleet with five capital warships was stationed, mainly to ensure the safety of the route south of Manila.

However, not long ago, Longbridge Island suddenly became lively, not only the navy doubled the number of warships on the island, but also countless ships came and went between Longbridge Island and Manila every day, some ships were also special troop carriers for the army, and every night, you could see that around the military port on Longbridge Island, there were all bonfires lit.

Half a month later, several fleets suddenly left the military port on Longbridge Island, and then approached Borneo from all directions like fierce sharks according to the original specific route.

As soon as one of the flotillas left the port, it headed southwest and then south along the west coast of Borneo. Until the base of the tail of this fat hen in Borneo, anchored at the mouth of a river called the Sarawak River.

The banks of the former Sarawak River. There are many indigenous tribes living there, and the land is relatively fertile. It is mainly used to grow rice. However, it is precisely for this reason that it attracted the attention of the slave trapping association, so at the mouth of the Sarawak River, a slave hunting stronghold was established, and after several years of development, the original simple stronghold has developed into a small port with thousands of residents, nearly half of whom are Han Chinese.

The fleet from Longbridge Island anchored at this small harbor at the mouth of the river. Then an elite force of 1,000 men disembarked from the ship, led by a burly young general, and entered the harbor to rest.

"It's so hot!" After Cheng Huailiang settled the 1,000 people he led into the barracks, he looked up at the hot sun in the sky, and couldn't help muttering.

This time, Cheng Huailiang was ordered to lead a team to Borneo to carry out a mission, and the 1,000 soldiers in front of him were mainly Han Chinese, and there were also a considerable number of Linyi people and dwarf black soldiers on Luzon Island, who were more accustomed to fighting in the jungle and were very familiar with the jungle. That's why they were mixed with Han Chinese soldiers this time.

In addition, not only Cheng Huailiang, but also Qin Huaiyu, Fang Yiai and other people who joined the army with him at the beginning, most of them also joined this operation or led the team alone. or to cooperate with others, and their main target this time is with the cooperation of some intelligence officers. It dealt a fatal blow to some of the natives of Borneo who did not accept the rule.

This operation, which was named "Clean-up" by Li Su, has been planned for a long time. It's not that Li Su didn't have the strength to fight the natives, in fact, the natives on Borneo were very weak. And don't look at the area of Borneo is very large, but in fact, the land development degree on the island is very low, and the number of natives is very small, maybe even less than a million, which is one of the reasons why Borneo has no value of slave hunting. It is even no exaggeration to say that if the millions of natives on the island are gathered together, then Li Su is full of confidence that he can defeat the other party with only a regular army of 10,000 people.

It's a pity that the natives of Borneo are very scattered, especially the natives in the coastal areas have fled to the central region after being brutally captured by the slave hunting team, so it is difficult for Li Su to know the exact location of their lives, and the jungle on the island is all over the place, so if you want to clear the natives on the island, the key is to find their exact location, and then deliver the army there safely.

In order to find the exact location of the natives on the island, under the order of Li Su, Wu Meiniang commanded the four guards to increase their penetration into the South Seas, not only bought a large number of natives, but even absorbed a group of native spies into the four guards, such as Lu Wan's right-hand man Liu Kata, who became the head of the maternal Kata department with the support of the four guards, and was also a senior member of the four guards.

Coincidentally, the small port that Cheng Huailiang and his army arrived at was called Kata Port, and in addition to the Han Chinese, the largest number of people in the port was the native people of the Kata Department where Liu Kata was located.

Because of the relationship between Liu Kata, the Kata Department was one of the first Borneo natives to make Li Su, so they were treated the best, not only allowed to live in the city, but also had special teachers to teach them Chinese, as long as they reached a certain level, they could be hired by the Han people to work, so the standard of living was greatly improved. Even the name of the port is named after Katabu, as a way to flaunt the friendship between the Han Chinese and the natives.

"General Cheng, regarding the nearby terrain, we have made a sand table, and now it will be placed in the City Lord's Mansion, please come with me, and then the lower official will explain the route of this trip to the general, as well as the places that need to be paid attention to on the way." Liu Kata is ostensibly the deputy city lord of Kata Port, and this time he is responsible for arranging Cheng Huailiang's army, and he is also an intelligence officer of the four guards, so he also needs to personally lead the way in this operation.

"Very good, then trouble City Lord Liu!" Cheng Huailiang opened his mouth and smiled. He knew that Liu Kata was not only an important intelligence officer, but also participated in the mission to discover Australia and the Americas, so he was not only very valued by Li Su, but also had a considerable reputation in society, so Cheng Huailiang was also very polite to Liu Kata.

Kata Port is not big, so Cheng Huailiang's 1,000 troops can only be stationed outside the city, and there is also a regular army stationed in the city, but there are only 200 people, but the walls of Kata City are built very strongly, and there are several cannons at the head of the city, mainly to prevent the local tribes in the central part from attacking the safety of the port.

After entering Kata Port, Cheng Huailiang found that this small harbor is not much different from other harbors, the streets are full of brothels and shops, among which the main customers of the brothel are the crew members on the ships, they generally have been depressed at sea for a long time, so every time they go to a port, the favorite place to go is the brothel, and the brothel also has the function of a restaurant, which can make the crew get the greatest relaxation here.

When Cheng Huailiang rode a horse past the brothels on both sides of the street, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, and the dark-skinned native women upstairs in the brothel were coated with thick powder and rouge on their faces, and they looked white and black from a distance, as if they had seen a ghost, and there were also some Japanese and Persian women, the number of these women was scarce, and they were more in line with the aesthetics of the Han people, so their business was much better.

The streets were filled with drunken crews dressed in short robes and bare-chested, drinking and singing with their arms folded, and when they saw a woman in a brothel, they would say goodbye to their companions, and then laugh and go in for a night of fun. Occasionally, some guys spent the last penny on a woman's belly, but they were unwilling to leave in the brothel, and as a result, they were carried and thrown into the street by the people in the brothel, causing a roar of laughter from passers-by.

Cheng Huailiang looked at the scenes in his eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart, although the life of these crew members seemed to be very erosive to others, but Cheng Huailiang felt that this kind of life was very free, and even in the deepest part of his heart, he was a little eager to live such an indulgent life with these crew members. Of course, this can only be imagined in his heart, otherwise Qinghe alone can tear him into strips of meat and fry him.

The street of Kata Port is not very long, and Liu Kata and Cheng Huailiang are both riding horses, so they will soon arrive at the City Lord's Mansion. The castle lord's mansion was built very large and very strong, surrounded by high walls, and soldiers could be seen patrolling the corner towers.

The reason why it is built so strong is because in a place like Kata Harbor, where the rule is not very stable, the City Lord's Mansion is not only the political center of the port, but also has a considerable defensive function, when the outer city wall is breached, it can also transfer a certain number of residents to the City Lord's Mansion to continue to resist, it can be said that the City Lord's Mansion is the last line of defense in the city, and only by breaking through here can it be regarded as truly occupying the entire port.

When Cheng Huailiang and Liu Kata arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord and a team officer in charge of the army in the city were greeting them at the gate. And Cheng Huailiang didn't have time to be polite to them, and immediately entered a temporary war room in the City Lord's Mansion, and in the middle of the room, there was a large sand table, on which the terrain of hundreds of miles around was marked with soil.

Cheng Huailiang first stepped forward to take a rough look at the terrain on the sand table, and then silently kept it in mind, and then looked up at Liu Kata.

Liu Kata also stepped forward and said, "General Cheng, presumably before you came, you had already received the combat mission notified by your superiors, right?" ”

"That's right, the superior ordered us to exterminate all the three native tribes in the upper reaches of Kata City, so as not to endanger the safety of Kata City in the future!" Cheng Huailiang said murderously, in fact, he didn't say a word, that is, in this battle, the superiors ordered them not to leave any living mouth, in order to deter those natives who missed out.

Liu Kata saw Cheng Huailiang's murderous appearance, but he was shocked and said: "Great, although these three tribes are quite far away from Kata City, they are located in the middle and upper reaches of the Sarawak River, so it is easy to attack us in small boats, and half a year ago, they joined forces to raid Kata City, almost allowing them to succeed, for which we also killed dozens of soldiers, if the general can solve them in one fell swoop, it is really a blessing for us Kata City!" (To be continued......)