Although the Haihan had an absolute advantage in terms of force, it was still difficult to completely avoid casualties in the course of the battle, but fortunately, the casualties were acceptable. At present, only two soldiers have been killed in the battle, and more than 30 others have been wounded. However, in the case of a thousand-person battle environment, such a casualty rate is really quite low. You must know that the casualty rate of the other side of the war is much higher than this number, and after the battle, there are more than 140 corpses and more than 400 light and serious wounded. Due to limited medical conditions, it is unlikely that those seriously injured will receive timely treatment like the militia soldiers, and most of them will die in the next day or two.

In addition to these wounds, the militia army will probably execute a group of fugitives from the forced labor camp and the accomplices of Montenegro Pass here, and then take the remaining prisoners back to the Shilu mining area in batches. As for the village of Heishan Mountain, Qiao Zhiya did not intend to destroy it directly after seeing the environment here, he thought that it was completely possible to let those who were willing to rely on Haihan move to Li Tong Miao Village, and then carry out agricultural development on the surrounding mountain plains. Of course, he does not need to complete these tasks, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture will take over the follow-up matters at that time.

After visiting the wounded, Qiao Zhiya returned to his tent and began to draft a report on the situation of the battle to be sent back to Sanya.

“...... There is still a big gap between Li Tong and our army in terms of combat effectiveness in the Qiongzhong region, and under the condition that short-term combat supplies can be guaranteed, we can consider preemptively launching a preemptive strike and resolutely launching a military attack against the local forces that refuse to obey. In addition, the 2nd Battalion of Annam showed excellent adaptability to the mountainous combat environment during the battle, and built it to be used as the main force in the Qiongzhong area of Pingding. ”

At the end of the message, Qiao Zhiya attached some of his thoughts on the mission. As a member of the military, he is undoubtedly also a staunch pro-militant, so he is dissatisfied with the fact that the Executive Committee has been slow to come up with a feasible plan for the governance of the Qiongzhong region. In the past, every time the military proposed to use force to solve the problem of the reluctance of some areas of Qiongzhong to be included in the jurisdiction of the Haihan, some people would stand up and oppose it on various grounds, and in the end it could not be resolved. From a certain point of view, the riots in the Shilu mining area can be regarded as one of the consequences of the executive committee's long-pending handling plan for Qiongzhong.

Beginning the next day, the 2nd Annam Battalion led by Qiao Zhiya launched an attack on several Li Shan in the surrounding area with Black Mountain Pass as a base. These Li Tong usually look forward to the Black Mountain Horse, and they also contributed to participate in the Shilu riots, so naturally they can't escape this wave of liquidation afterwards. And the strength of these Li Tong is relatively weak, and the difficulty of attacking is not too great, so there will not be too much trouble to deal with. It took only two days for the militia army to break through the other three Li Tong and capture a large number of people.

Qiao Zhiya calculated, counting the fugitives and Li people captured in this operation, the number of prisoners in the hard labor camp should not decrease but increase. However, it is obviously not suitable for all the Li people arrested this time to be detained together, and some of them must be separated.

On 2 October, the armed sweep of Montenegro and the surrounding area was largely over, and the militia army and a large contingent of more than 2,000 prisoners began to return to Shiroku in a mighty manner. However, these captives were not the entire population of several Li Tong, and there were still some who were lucky enough to escape this wave of sweeps. Qiao Zhiya ordered Li Miaolian, who had coordinated the operation, to stay in the village of Montenegro for another month to avoid another resurgence of the resistance.

The Li riot that broke out in Shilu did cause relatively large losses to the production of the mining area, but on the other hand, this incident also prompted the Executive Committee to face the unresolved security risks in Qiongzhong head-on, and adopted military means to strike at the hostile forces of the people. To a certain extent, this riot can be said to have accelerated the process of Haihan's unification of the entire territory of Hainan Island, and also affected Haihan's policy bias in resolving civil hostile forces in the future.

Because the Qiongzhong region is located in the hinterland of Hainan Island, and most of the terrain is mountainous, the rule of the Ming government over this area is more of a formality, and many places still belong to the situation of the lord of the mountain and the owner of the village as the emperor of the soil. Prior to this, the Executive Committee was unwilling to use force to resolve the issue of jurisdiction in the Qiongzhong region, because the consumption of military means was huge and the short-term returns were very limited, and second, the Executive Committee did not want to intensify the contradictions with the Li and Miao ethnic groups under a good development situation, and found itself unhappy.

However, with the success of this campaign against Montenegro, a military solution to the Qiongzhong issue has become a viable option, and the operational environment that the top brass has been worried about does not seem to be an insurmountable problem. Especially for the Annan militia, which is good at mountain warfare, they don't even need much time to adapt to the environment, they can quickly enter the combat state, and they also show a tactical literacy that satisfies the military top brass in battle.

Of course, it was the Ministry of Security that was most pleased with the results. After half a year of investigation and arrest, Zhao Ye's case can finally be successfully concluded. In the past six months, half of the field personnel of the Ministry of Security have been busy inside and outside Danzhou, trying to arrest Zhao Ye as soon as possible, but in the end it was the military that achieved this goal, and the main owner of the Ministry of Security only played a role in assisting and dealing with miscellaneous tasks. But Lin Nan and Li Qingyang, who handled the matter in Shilu, would not blame the military for stealing their own limelight in this matter, but they were very grateful to the military for finally being willing to take action, otherwise Zhao Ye would have been hiding in the mountains and would not have come out, and the case would have been dragged on and could not be closed. Originally, the Ministry of Security had a merit in handling the Danzhou assassination case in March, but the case could not be closed because the main culprit fled, and this credit has been hanging in the balance. This time, when the two of them return to Sanya, most of what awaits them will be the commendation order issued by the Executive Committee.

At the same time, good news also came back from Fujian, and under the continuous persuasion of Qian Tiandun and others, Xu Xinsu finally agreed to temporarily hand over part of Kinmen Island to Haihan as the garrison of the military advisory group. Of course, this right of use is not just to build a few rows of barracks and build a training ground, but also an exclusive area where forts, shore defense batteries and military docks can be built, and the Haihan side will have extraterritorial jurisdiction in this area, which is basically the same as the treatment of the Haihan in Annam.

The reason why Qian Tiandun insisted on encamping on Kinmen Island was because the next strategy considered by the military was to attack the Penghu Islands, which was the shortest distance between the Fujian coast and Penghu.

The Penghu Islands are still the nest of the Eighteen Zhi, although in several successive battles, the Eighteen Zhi have lost badly, but by virtue of the geographical location of Penghu, they can still rely on the control of the Strait channel to obtain a certain income, so as to continue to survive, and this is obviously a situation that Haihan does not want to see.

So far, Shibazhi has not retaliated against the Fujian officials and troops or the Haihan, but he has not made any further attempts at peace talks. Qian Tiandun believed that Shibazhi was rebuilding his strength, and at the same time waiting for the Dutch to come up with a clear attitude - since the Battle of Nanri Island, the Dutch had remained silent, neither openly declaring war on Daming and Haihan, nor explaining their future attitude to Shibazhi.

Of course, the Dutch also have their own difficulties, but they can't explain them to the Eighteen Zhi, because the instructions from Batavia are to keep them silent, not to take the initiative to stir up trouble, and wait for the results of the negotiations with the Haihan people. However, the envoys sent by the East India Company to Sanya were still staying at the State Guest House in Shengli Harbor at this time. Although the negotiations between the two sides have been going on for dozens of days, the progress made is still almost zero, and Van Longen and Van der Wegen, plus a Sukeyi, are not willing to return to Batavia empty-handed, so they drag it all the way.

Schneider has long let go of this mess, and Yu Xiaobao is still in charge of negotiating with the Dutch. However, after a long tug-of-war of negotiations, the two sides are now not interested in engaging in meaningless debates on some details, and they meet every day more about the past and the present.

After a constant conversation, the three East India Company envoys also found that the young man's knowledge was definitely beyond their expectations, and although Yu Xiaobao claimed that the farthest place he had traveled was Guangzhou, his knowledge seemed to be no less than that of the old fur seals who had been running around the sea for many years. Especially in far-flung places, such as India, the Arabian Peninsula, and further afield on the continent of Europa, the young Haihan official seems to know a thing that is clearly not a clean up business.

On this day, when talking about the current state of war between the two sides, Yu Xiaobao's remarks once again surprised the Dutch envoys: "I can only express my incomprehension that you have been using war as a threat, is it possible that when the countries of Europa are fighting each other, do you still have enough energy to invest a large number of maritime forces in the Far East?

Of course, Yu Xiaobao's words did not come up with it himself, but came from Schneider and Ning Qi's guidance. Historically, the Netherlands had been under Spanish rule since the beginning of the 16th century, and by 1568, the Netherlands had fought the Eighty Years' War against Spain. When the United Republic of the Netherlands was proclaimed in The Hague in 1581, the first article of the declaration was to abolish the Spanish king's right to rule over the Dutch provinces.

Of course, the independence of the Netherlands is not just a few verbal declarations, the historical Dutch War of Independence from 1568 to 1648, it took 80 years to gain the independence recognized by the Spanish Crown, and the price paid during this period is really not small. As one of the major powers on the European continent at that time, Spain was significantly stronger, and it was always in an advantageous position in the war against the Netherlands. It was not until 1621, when Spain was embroiled in the Thirty Years' War, that the situation began to change.

The period from 1621 to 1648 was arguably the fiercest period of fighting between the Dutch and Spain, and the war between the two sides was not limited to Europe, but also in the American colonies and the Far East. A few years ago, the East India Company occupied the port of Dayuan in southern Taiwan and blocked the shipping route of Daming maritime merchants to Manila, which was one of the means. Later, the Spaniards also sent a fleet to occupy the port of Jilong in Taipei, trying to cut off the shipping routes between the Netherlands and the Ryukyus, Japan, Korea and other places, which was also a countermeasure.

There is basically no need to discuss this question, and although Spain is facing many problems and is mired in the quagmire of war, it is still a powerful empire after all, and it is far from being comparable to the local power in a remote corner like Haihan at present. Moreover, the war between Spain and the Netherlands can be said to be of a life-and-death nature, far from being comparable to the regional territorial dispute between the East India Company and the Haihan. The Executive Committee saw this very clearly, and they believed that the top management of the East India Company also understood it. The East India Company was not 100% sure of winning against Haihan, and it was very likely that the Spaniards would take advantage of it, which the Executive Committee considered to be a weakness of the East India Company.

After talking for so many days, Schneider thought that it was time to wake up the other party and let them realize whose hands the initiative was, so he instructed Yu Xiaobao to make such a statement.

"The war between us and the Spaniards is another matter, and you need not bother. After listening to Su Keyi's translation, Fan Longgen endured the surprise in his heart and said with a blank face.

Every time I go back to Batavia, I get the latest news on the war in Europe, but for these countries in the Far East, very few people know about the war that is taking place thousands of miles away, let alone explain its roots and meaning. And Yu Xiaobao's few words seem to have broken the reality that the Dutch don't want to face at present.

"It is true that we have no intention of interfering in the war between your country and Spain, but ......" Yu Xiaobao said as he recalled Schneider's words, trying his best to imitate his tone: "...... If the East India Company repeatedly threatens to use warfare, then we may be able to unite with other forces with the same interests if necessary, just as you have united with the Eighteen Zhi. ”

"No, you won't cooperate with the Spaniards, a bunch of insatiable liars and scoundrels who will do nothing but oppress others. This time, Su Keyi did not translate first, but responded directly to Yu Xiaobao.