When Delga was learning the art of hunting at a young age, an old hunter once taught him that a hunter's patience is as important as the skill of hunting wild beasts, and that a good hunter cannot be successful without enough patience. Delgado has always kept this in mind and has maintained it to this day.

Delgado asked López to step forward and give the order to the last two of them, and then followed him himself, slipping down the wall along the rope. Because it was the breakthrough route he personally formulated, even if he couldn't see the figures of the two cannon fodder in front of him in the dark night, he could still accurately grasp the direction of their advance and the approximate speed of their march. Delgado fell far behind, carefully observing the wind and grass around him, he knew that there must be an enemy night sentry lurking somewhere nearby, and since the other party had already deployed troops to besiege the city during the day, he naturally thought that the city might arrange for people to go out to ask for help at night. Delgado's plan is to paralyze the enemy's nerves and make them think that they have exhausted the messengers for help.

Before Delgado could leave the city, sporadic gunfire could be heard from the fleeing directions of several other messenger squads. Obviously, they were not able to successfully avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Haihan army, but it is not known for the time being whether any of them will be able to escape by taking advantage of the darkness of the night. However, this was expected by Delgado, and the purpose of his sending multiple teams to break through from multiple directions was to expose the dark outposts of the Haihan army lurking in the night, and at the same time disrupt their deployment, making it difficult for them to judge the true intentions and direction of action of the defenders.

Delgado believed that even if the Haihan army had deployed some of its fighters outside the city, it would only be able to block a few major routes out of the city, and it was unlikely that the entire area would be cordoned off as it did during the day—if the commander of the Haihan army did that, then probably no one would have enough energy to continue fighting during the day. If Haihan only deployed several times his own troops in the area around Santo Domingo, there was indeed a good chance that he would be able to get through the trick. Of course, the best chance of success is definitely Delgado himself.

The two men who served as cannon fodder in front of them seemed to be lucky, and they were still safe and sound after passing through the two high-risk areas that Delgado expected, which made Delgado think that perhaps the first few groups of people had played a role in diverting the tiger from the mountain, so that the Haihan army transferred their limited manpower to other directions to intercept the messengers leaving the city. A short walk ahead, you can leave the most dangerous areas and enter the dense forest, and even if the Haihan army finds their traces, they may not be able to catch anyone.

However, this thought did not stay in his mind for long, and just as the two people in front of him passed between the two bamboo and wooden huts where the peasants lived, and then they were able to dive into the dense forest, several black shadows came out of nowhere, and cast fishing nets in different directions at the panicked two. There was no suspense, and the two people in shock didn't even have time to make a struggling movement, and they were covered tightly by several layers of fishing nets, and they couldn't get rid of it at all.

Delgado didn't know how long the enemies had been lurking in the dark, but it was clear that their patience was terrifying, because the two cannon fodder he had arranged had been lurking in the shadows for a long time before the final step, making sure that there was no movement around them before they took action. Unexpectedly, there were people in the shadows who did not observe that were more patient, and in the end they could not escape the fate of their prey.

Think about it, if Delgado himself was in the position of cannon fodder, he would probably let down his guard and choose to take a risk after observing for such a long time. He felt that if these enemy outposts were to be hunters, they would definitely be quite good candidates. Thankfully, he thought it through enough and arranged for two people to go to the mine in front of him, and lured all the opponent's people lurking here to show up. Delgado believed that in an emergency situation like this, it was unlikely that there would be someone lurking in the darkness nearby without activation.

These Haihan soldiers who had been lurking for a long time were sure that the captured target could no longer break free, so they lit torches and slowly surrounded them. The soldier at the head looked at the prey in the net and muttered, "There is no ...... the main one."

The soldiers of the special operations battalion now knew that the target of this mission was the Spaniards, and although none of them had dealt with the Spaniards before, they also knew that the Spaniards looked similar to the Portuguese. And these soldiers, who are mainly of Annamite descent, are certainly no strangers to the Portuguese, after all, before Haihan entered Annam, the coastal ports of this country were almost a paradise for the Portuguese.

However, since the landing, the special operations battalion has not even captured a single Spaniard, and most of the people captured so far are natives from all over the South Seas who have attached themselves to Spain, and even ethnic Chinese. In view of this situation, all companies and platoons of the special operations battalion were secretly competing, preparing to compete to see who could be the first to capture the Spanish prisoners. In order to boost morale, Takahashi Minami also gave a reward of 100 yuan for this.

Since these two cannon fodder are not Spaniards, they are of little value in the eyes of the soldiers of the special operations battalion. Several soldiers slowly untied the fishing nets on their bodies, and at this time, one of them pulled out the dagger he was carrying with his backhand and was ready to fight to the death, but before he could dance the dagger, he was hit on the wrist by a stick from the Haihan soldier, and with a muffled sound, the man suddenly screamed, but he was afraid that the wrist bone was broken by this blow.

"Search carefully! Don't let them hide other murder weapons on their bodies!" the Haihan soldier who took the lead ordered.

The others first took ropes and tied their hands and feet, and then searched them, and sure enough, a dagger with an almost identical appearance was also found from the other person.

"It's not a lot of ability, but there are a lot of tricks!" the leader sneered: "Take them away, take them back to pay the errand, although they are not Spaniards, but the bounty of these two guys is enough for the brothers to rub together a few good meals." ”

Only then did someone take out the handcuffs and shackles, and replace the rope that had been used to bind them. Someone led the way with torches, and the crowd pushed and shoved the two captives and slowly marched towards the Haihan camp to the east.

Seeing the group carrying the captives farther and farther away, Delgado was secretly glad that his method had worked. The gang won't be back anytime soon, at least until they've interrogated the captives and learned of Delgado's full plan. At this point, if you want to cross the blockade from this place, there is no difficulty at all. However, out of caution, he waited for another stick of incense to make sure that there were no other enemies lurking near the passage, and then he quietly moved his body, bent down and rushed out from the same position, and hurried into the most dangerous open area of Guò.

Although Delgado has had many adventures and even deaths in the past, he has never felt so nervous that his heart is almost jumping out of just a no-man's land. These Haihan soldiers are undoubtedly extremely powerful hunters, but they are still so patient compared to themselves. Once he was sure he was safe, Delgado paused to breathe, took out his hydration bladder to rehydrate himself, and re-tracked his direction. In the rest of the journey, he also needs to deal with all kinds of poisonous insects in the forest and avoid the native tribes in the mountains, but these guys are obviously much easier to deal with than the difficult Haihan army.

Almost at the same time, in the camp of Haihan. Takahashi Minami has not yet rested, and is listening to the report of his subordinates about the capture of the enemy's personnel out of the city.

“...... According to the confessions of the captives, there were more than a dozen of them, divided into teams of two or three people, and after leaving the city, they broke through according to different routes of travel, and their task was to cross the mountains to Jilonggang to ask for help after breaking through the blockade line of our army. In addition, each of their teams carried a letter that had been shown to the translator, and it contained the identity of the messenger, which saved us a lot of trouble in checking our identity. According to our current arrests, none of the people on the list have escaped, but three of them have been shot by the brothers and hung up on the spot......"

"Are there any Spaniards among the captives?" asked Minami Takahashi. He doesn't care about the life and death of these people, but pays more attention to their identities.

"No, they are basically Nanyang natives, but there are a few who know Chinese. ”

"Since they can think of dispersing and breaking through, there must be a master and a secondary, has the person who led this operation been caught?" Takahashi Minami was not carried away by the victory, and quickly grasped the main point.

"No ......" The officer in charge of the interrogation also looked confused: "According to the captives, the person who made the command of this operation was appointed by the Spanish officers in the city, but this man did not go out of the city with them, and his name does not appear in the few letters that we have in our possession. ”

"So this person may be acting alone?" Takahashi Nan frowned: "And we haven't caught it yet." ”

"Maybe he didn't leave the city at all...... his subordinates had a different opinion on Takahashi's inference: "If he hadn't come out, of course we wouldn't have been able to catch him." ”

Takahashi Nan shook his head silently and said, "Why did he send so many teams of messengers? It's because he expected that we would deploy a blockade outside the city, so he wanted to disperse and break through. But even that doesn't guarantee that someone will be able to break through our blockade, and if I do it instead, I'll be on the job myself. You look at the map......"

Takahashi Minami said, pointing out several locations on the map where the messenger was captured: "As we had anticipated when we made our plan, they were all passages into the mountains, and they set out in batches at a clever time, and if I hadn't arranged enough men, it would have been easy to find a situation where one would have been lost." Someone who can come up with this course of action, I don't believe he'll leave the outcome to luck. If I'm right, he's probably already in the mountains. ”

"But we have been staring at the main passages into the mountain, how can he slip through our noses and sneak by?"

"No matter how hard you stare at it, there will be loopholes. Think about it, what did you do next after you caught someone?"

"Escort the prisoners back for interrogation......" The officer said this, and suddenly realized what Takahashi Minami meant: "Battalion commander, are you saying that after we escort the prisoners away, the main lord will appear in the same place?"

"After all, we have limited manpower, and it is impossible to arrange several groups of people to squat in one place in the middle of the night. Takahashi Minami said regretfully: "One hundred secrets!"

"Didn't the reconnaissance platoon enter the mountain in the afternoon? Maybe they still have a chance to fill this hole. The officers still had expectations.

"I arranged for the reconnaissance platoon to enter the mountains so that they could first explore the range of activities of the nearby indigenous tribes, and I did not give them the task of intercepting the Spanish messengers...... But it's hard to say, this matter can only depend on the will of God. "At present, there is no way for Takahashi Minami to contact the reconnaissance platoon that has entered the mountain, so naturally it is impossible to give new orders to it. As for whether they could meet the escaped Spanish messenger in the mountains, it was only fate.

For a soldier, it is really unpleasant to leave the outcome of the battle to God. As a commander, what he pursues is the pleasure of mastering the changes on the battlefield, but an uncontrollable situation like this time is indeed unavoidable, although Takahashi Minami feels helpless, but he can only accept the facts. Fortunately, judging from the first day of engagement, Haihan had taken the initiative completely, and there was a good chance of taking the city of Santo Domingo with very few casualties. Before the courier arrives from Chicken Coop Harbor to rescue the troops, Takahashi Minami thinks he will have plenty of time to conquer the fort here.

Ten thousand steps back, even if the messenger can reach the chicken coop in a day or two, and the response speed over there is fast enough to immediately organize people and horses to come to the rescue, Takahashi Minami is confident that it will be repelled or even annihilated. Regardless of the water and land routes, Takahashi Minami made corresponding arrangements in advance, in order to prevent the other party's reinforcements from copying their own back roads.

But all fears seemed unfounded, and early the next morning, the reconnaissance platoon entering the mountains suddenly returned early to the base camp of the special operations battalion, two miles east of the city of Santo Domingo, and they did not return empty-handed, and captured a dejected Spanish soldier who had been dressed as a native of the country, but from whom the reconnaissance platoon had recovered a letter written in Spanish.

“...... We met this guy in the morning while fetching water from a mountain spring, and ran away as soon as he saw us pulling his legs. When Lao Tzu saw his reaction, he knew that he was not a native of the mountains. This rabbit cub ran quite fast, and the brothers chased two beams for almost ten miles of mountain roads before catching up with him, grabbed and searched his body, hehe, there is really a cat!" The reconnaissance platoon commander proudly boasted to Takahashinan about his experience.