Although everyone was well aware of their current situation, there was still a slight illusion in their hearts that they would suddenly see their ship appear on the surface of the sea, come and pick them up, and take them out of here.

But as the days passed, as their waiting passed, this hope became more and more faint, and by the fifth day, they had no illusions that Anthony would bring a boat to save them, and they had to face the problem of how to solve the problem of feeding first.

When Anthony asked them to go ashore and look for a sneak attack on the fort and the castle of Chicken Coop Bay, they did not unload all the food on the ship to the shore, their destination was not here, but their final destination should be Chicken Coop Bay, so most of the food was left on the ship, ready to supply them along the coastline at any time.

But the sea wolf's fleet came so quickly that it didn't even give them a chance to unload more food and supplies, so the war began, and in the end their fleet was defeated, leaving them with only a small amount of food left.

The unloaded food barely lasted for five days, and they had to deduct what the slaves they had brought to eat, and gave them only a little gruel every day, so that they would not starve to death and pull them down, and they themselves did not dare to let go of it.

Even so, when their food entered the fifth day, it was almost bottomed out, and at most, it would last another three or four days, and they would have to run out of food completely.

The commander of the infantry on the shore was named Gerald, and he had been leading his infantry for the past few days, desperately repairing the fortifications, fearing that the pirates would attack them.

But now he understood that the pirates didn't want to attack them at all, but had to watch them eat up their food little by little, and they couldn't walk until they were hungry.

Gerard can be said to be completely dizzy at this time, this is the island of Taiwan, a place they are not familiar with, and they have heard a lot of rumors here.

It is rumored that in the jungle here, there are a large number of indigenous and cannibal people, who haunt the mountains and forests, like ghosts, and specialize in hunting and killing people for food.

And in the mountains and forests here, the miasma is rampant, and there is no possibility of survival for those who are in it, and there are a lot of mosquitoes here, and there are many rainy days, they are in the camp every day, and it rains in the sky from time to time, which makes their camp muddy, and mosquitoes and flies are raging everywhere.

The soldiers were trapped like beasts in the rudimentary barracks, huddled in damp tents, and without clean fresh water, and after a few days, many people began to have diarrhea, and some others had fallen ill.

The bigger problem is that they are running out of food, and if they are trapped here, they will run out of food in a few days, and in only two or three days, they will be softened by hunger, and they will be completely unable to resist without pirates attacking them.

So some people began to propose, get out of here, escape from here, find a suitable place to live, away from these pirates, with their team of hundreds of people, the average natives would not dare to do anything to them.

The suggestion was very tempting, and it was immediately supported by many people, many of whom were clamoring to leave the place, and the sooner the better, and not to delay any longer, otherwise they would run out of food, and they would not be able to go there.

But this proposal was resisted by others, who also had good reasons, because they were very unfamiliar with the environment, and there was no map to refer to, and there was no guide to show them the way to get out of here and find a place for them to live.

It is impossible to march in such an environment without maps and guides, which are full of mountains and forests, overgrown with grass, infested with mosquitoes, and full of snakes and insects, and crashing into the mountains and forests is undoubtedly similar to suicide, and they have no chance to get out of the mountains and find a place for them to survive.

In addition, there are many cannibals in the mountains and forests, coveting them in secret, and they will be caught and eaten by cannibals if they are not careful.

It's chilling to think about these things, so many people would rather starve to death here than go into these strange jungles, and end up eating snakes, insects, wild beasts, or cannibals.

Both of these opinions had their own markets in the camps, so the arguments were so fierce that there were even fights over them.

As the commander here, Gerald has to consider it all, these two opinions, he was a little inclined to the first opinion at first, trapped here, there is no future, there is no need to think about attacking Chicken Coop Bay, there are so many reinforcements from people, and they don't even have a single heavy artillery, there are so many heavy artillery guns, if they dare to go, they don't even need to take a photo of their faces, they can use cannons to blast them into slag, so it is a more suitable choice for them to leave this dangerous place.

But after careful consideration, he found that the first opinion is indeed too risky, and the other part of the people is very reasonable, in this completely unfamiliar environment, they are cut off from supplies, no backup, no supplements, no maps, and no guides, hundreds of people are diving into these jungles, which is simply killing themselves.

This kind of dense jungle, devouring these people, it is estimated that there will not even be slag left for them, after they enter the mountain, it is estimated that they will soon get lost, and even the direction is estimated to be unrecognizable, just wandering around trying to find a place for them to survive, it is simply a joke, and the final result will definitely become a big meal in the mouth of cannibals.

So he gave up the idea of taking people out of here, but how long could he stay here?

In the past two days, he sent two teams of ten people to leave the camp and go to the nearby mountains and forests to hunt, hoping to replenish some food through hunting and gathering, but after these two teams left the camp, they never returned, but heard a few gunshots in the mountains and forests outside, and then there was no movement.

So he almost guessed the fate of the two squads sent, these pirates did not abandon them, in fact, the pirates had already sent men all around, staring at them deadly, the hunting team he sent must have encountered these pirates, either killed by them all, or captured by them.

So it was obviously a foolish decision to continue sending hunting teams abroad, but if they didn't hunt, they would soon be starved of food.

Gerald was so anxious that he didn't know what to do for a while, they didn't have a boat at hand, and the only two speedboats they had were injured at this time, stranded in the shallows on the shore, and it was obviously impossible to get out of here with so many people with them.

Escape from here, by land, not along the coast, the sea wolves control the sea, as long as they find them, they will immediately shell them, they only have to be beaten, so many people are bombarded by random artillery, there must be chaos, when the time comes, you can't collect it, needless to say when you go into the mountains, it is purely an act of looking for death.

So he could only bite the bullet and continue to send people out of the camp to hunt, and sure enough, the hunting party that went out this time had just left the camp for not a long time, when he heard a gunshot in the mountains and forests, and after a while, two or three soldiers who had abandoned their armor fled back to the camp.

"They are all devils! They are all devils! ......" The soldiers who escaped back to the camp were frightened white, and after entering the camp, they sat on the ground one by one and said incoherently.

It took a while for the three soldiers to calm down a little, and reported to Gerald: "They are all devils, we can't see them at all, so we were ambushed by them!"

One by one, we disappeared without even a sound, and they were taken away by the devils!

We shot in all directions, but crossbow bolts and blowguns flew everywhere in the forest, and we couldn't see where they were, and we were shot to the ground! ”

After hearing the report of these soldiers who had escaped, those who were still jumping high and asking to leave here were immediately deflated, if they did as these soldiers said, even if they entered the jungle in groups, they would be cleaned up one by one, and they might not even see the other party's figure, and they would die.

What people are most afraid of is not how strong the enemy is, but that they can't see the enemy, danger is around them all the time, and they must always maintain a high degree of vigilance, the time is short, but after a long time, people will completely collapse, this kind of thing, when they were in Luzon before, when they went into the mountains to chase some natives, they had encountered it, some people went crazy on the spot, and after fleeing back, they became nervous.

So now after listening to the words of these soldiers, even if they let them go, they will not dare to enter these jungles again.

"These damn Chinese pirates want to trap us here! Are they going to starve us all to death? ......" someone began to cry out in despair, holding their heads.

"Oh God! What kind of enemy we have encountered! Please come and save us......" Someone thought of their God again at this time.

The whole camp was in chaos, some cried, some screamed, some jumped, and some sat silently on the muddy ground with their heads in their hands.

While they were in a mess, someone on the camp shouted, "Look, there's someone over there!" There's a small boat on the shore! ”

"Ready for battle! Hurry up and get ready for battle! ......" As soon as Gerard heard this, he kicked the soldiers one by one against the barracks with his leather boots, and many of them hurried to take out their arquebuses, ran up the barricade, lay on the wall, and began to look out.