Dutch originated from ancient Low German and belongs to the western branch of the Germanic language family of the Indo-European language family, between German and English. However, as coachmen on the sea, most of the Dutch who sailed the world had mastered at least two languages in order to trade smoothly. Seeing that Mu Shabai and Wang Tom did not react, the man said a few more words in English. Mu Xiabai understood half of it now, but he still followed Wang Tom's instructions, pretending not to understand.

Seeing that the man couldn't communicate in English, he changed to Spanish and French one after another, and later even squeezed out a sentence of "thunder monkey", and even came out in Cantonese. This guy can speak five or six languages in one breath, and he can be considered a talent.

Mushabai made a gesture, and immediately an arranged Annan militia stepped forward and spoke to the Dutchman in Cantonese with an Annam accent. This Dutchman is really powerful, and he can actually understand a seven, seven, eight, eight

As seen by the Haihan militia, the Dutch, who were cowering in the stronghold, chose to surrender and save their lives after seeing the strength of their opponents. However, the negotiator demanded that the victor save the lives of all the Dutchmen and let them leave the island, in return for which the Dutch in the stronghold were willing to give up their personal possessions in exchange for their freedom.

After hearing this, Mu Shabai shook his head and rejected his suggestion: "We do not accept any form of quid pro quo, we believe in winner-takes-all. Order the men inside to surrender at once, and we will save all your lives, but all other conditions will be waived. ”

Before the Dutchman could say more, Muchaber had already impatiently given him an ultimatum: "I will now order a pillar of incense to be lit and make your decision before the incense is finished, or we will make a decision for you with cannonballs!"

Haihan's side had no intention of letting the people on the island leave freely, and of course he would not agree to the other party's quid pro quo. As for the redemption of personal property, this is even more of a joke in Mushabai's opinion - even people can't be saved, and they still want to keep their property?

The Dutch did not waste too much time to make a choice, in fact, surrender was their only choice, almost all the Dutch young people on the island died in the shelling of the port dock, and now the Dutch in the stronghold are mostly women, children, old and young, there is no way to resist the invaders outside with loaded guns, and if they do not surrender, they can only die.

Soon the Dutch lined up and walked out of the colony, where they would be taken to the few warehouses that had just been vacated on the docks to be held. Once the militia had brought the situation under control, the Dutch would be loaded onto ships and sent north. According to the militia count, a total of 167 Dutch people were captured, in addition to 174 indigenous people who were dependent on the Dutch, the vast majority of whom were Malays. The people of true Han Chinese descent do not seem to have the trust of the Dutch, and basically live outside the strongholds.

However, even Han Chinese are difficult to gain the trust of the Haihan militia, and in the next few days, the militia will need to screen these local people before relocating them to different parts of the north in batches. As for this island, in addition to stationing the infantry battalion transferred from Annan, after the situation stabilizes, some immigrants from Annan and Daming will be slowly sent to settle down.

Although there is no natural harbor here, the climate is very suitable for the cultivation of tropical cash crops, and the Ministry of Agriculture has long drawn up a list of plantings, waiting for the organization of collective farms on the island. The Ministry of Agriculture held a project promotion meeting at the end of last year to describe this place suitable for planting spice crops to the shareholders of "Qiong Development", and the Ming investors with a lot of money have already tasted the sweetness of Haihan-style agricultural development in Yazhou's collective farm investment, although there are only a few people among them who have been to the Natuna Islands, but this does not hinder the investment enthusiasm of the funders.

As early as January this year, the investment fund for the Natuna Island agricultural project registered by "Qiong Development" has exceeded 50,000 sea Han yuan. According to the operation mode of "Qionglianfa", the Ministry of Commerce of Haihan will also take the same amount to obtain the absolute controlling stake of the project according to the amount of capital contributed by the shareholders. In other words, before the militia started Natuna Island, Sanya had already prepared more than 100,000 funds to develop it. Although the military value of this place is relatively limited, it does not prevent it from becoming a fragrant bun in the eyes of investors.

However, before the area could be developed, the Haihan militia still had to make sure that the place would not be recaptured by the Dutch colonists. The Dutch defenses were obviously undesirable, and the Hahan could not afford to repeat the mistakes of the past after the occupation of the area, so it was imperative to build some more defensive coastal defenses.

The Haihan military and the Ministry of Construction also made corresponding preparations in advance, and removed a batch of the first batch of coastal defense guns that began to be equipped in Shengli Port in 1628 and transported them here for deployment. The Shengli Port side also happened to vacate the space to install a new type of coastal defense gun, which only began trial production at the end of last year. In addition to the coastal defense batteries, the more than 10 artillery pieces brought by the army this time will also be left here as heavy weapons for the local garrison.

According to the military's point of view, if the Dutch wanted to attack and retake it from the sea, they would definitely suffer a great loss under the attack of the shore defense artillery. Coupled with the assistance of these dozen or so mobile artillery, it may be difficult for the Dutch to defeat the garrison here without sending three or five thousand men. Moreover, in the absence of naval assistance in the local area, after the basic military facilities of Cam Ranh Port are completed in the second half of the year, an armed fleet will definitely be arranged to be stationed there, and if necessary, it can go south in time to rush to the aid of Natuna Island. In contrast, the Dutch's voyage from their base camp in Batavia in the south to here was at least more than 100 nautical miles farther than Cam Ranh Bay's southward journey.

After dealing with the affairs of the Dutch stronghold, Li Dagui, who had been waiting nearby, and another colleague, Du Rong, who disguised his identity as a barefoot doctor, were finally received.

"After I return to Sanya, I will truthfully report to the Executive Committee and your superiors, and there will definitely be rewards at that time. As soon as Wang Tom came up, he praised the two of them for their exploits, and took the initiative to ask for merit for them.

The intelligence information obtained by the militia before attacking Natuna Island was basically the work of these two people. It was precisely because of their long-term lurking here, collecting information, and providing very detailed information to the military as a reference for formulating a combat plan, that the militia was able to take this port town smoothly in less than three hours. After the war, the two detectives of the Ministry of Security must be recorded.

The two hurriedly thanked each other, after all, they wrote a report afterwards to ask for credit, and they definitely couldn't compare to a high-ranking official like Wang Tom to ask for credit on their behalf.

Wang Tom said: "You two divide the work, take one person to the dock, identify the Dutch we have caught, and see if there are any big fish or dangerous elements in it." The other person went to follow the militia to check the local people, and classified and registered craftsmen with skills, literati who could read and write, and veterans who had served in the army. When you go back and take away the immigrants, you can arrange a place for them to go. ”

The two of them answered, and each took the order to do something.

There are still more than 3,000 unidentified people on the island, and it is not a task that can be completed in a short time to complete these registrations in different categories. Although Wang Tom is the commander of the navy, due to the long voyage of the voyage to Natuna Island, the fleet is still a little insufficient to carry troops and supplies, so there are no civil affairs officials, and now the military can only temporarily take charge of the civil affairs on the island.

Mushaber led the Dutch stronghold to turn it upside down, received all the valuable things in the stronghold first, and ordered them to pack ships - these things were the spoils that had to be transported back to the base camp. As for the rewards for participating troops, the military will separately distribute them in the form of negotiable coupons.

The Dutch stronghold had a faint smack of a fortress, and was surrounded by stone walls about four feet thick but only about two meters high. The stone wall had four protrusions on the front, and originally had four small-caliber Franc cannons, which could be used to fire at the enemy attacking the stronghold gate in addition to attacking the enemy. There are also relatively simple musket shooting holes and lookout holes on the wall, but there are no protective facilities such as moats or moats outside the wall. Therefore, the Dutch in the stronghold decisively gave up resistance and chose to surrender to Haihan.

Although this stronghold of the Dutch is relatively simple, and even the name of the castle is a bit unqualified, but considering that the local population is only more than 3,000 people, and there is no special production, the Dutch have built such a stronghold, which is a great investment. However, from today onwards, the ownership of this stronghold will be controlled by Haihan. After seeing the architecture of the port, Mushaber had decided to convert it into a local residence and barracks.

Of course, at this stage, it is difficult to have the conditions to carry out a relatively large renovation project, that is, let the soldiers first clean up this chaotic place, and move things such as livestock huts out of the stronghold, so as not to smell in the whole stronghold all the time. The dwellings vacated by the Dutch were used to house the militia soldiers.

Mushaber first moved the battalion headquarters from the port, laid solar cells on the roof of the tallest roof in the stronghold, and then connected the radio to send the news to the base camp that Natuna Island was occupied. It was already about six o'clock in the afternoon, and the militia set out in the morning, and in just one day, they had taken the only port and town on the island.

Although it was easy to lay down this place, the preparations that Haihan had made for this in advance, and the work that needed to be done to renovate it afterwards, would last at least a whole year. The military spent more than 40,000 yuan on the operation, which is also to be made up for by the economic benefits of the development of Natuna Island.

Five days later, the registration of the local population was finally completed. In addition to the Dutch, who have been fully imprisoned, the current population is 3,471, and there are about 300 others scattered around the island, and it will take time to count them.

Among the existing population, Han Chinese or descendants of Han Chinese blood stand in the vast majority, and less than half of the natives in Southeast Asia. To Tom Wang's delight, Chinese and Chinese characters are still a relatively common means of communication among the local people, so that the temporary command can use the posting of reassuring notices to reassure the local residents.

Of course, the Anmin notice did not carry the banner of Haihan, but only claimed to be an overseas Han descent, and came here to rescue the Han people who were ruled by the red-haired ghosts. In order to reassure the people, the Haihan militia also distributed a small amount of salt and rice to the local people in the family unit. And this has achieved relatively good results, and the hostility of the people has been significantly reduced. In the eyes of these people, it is of course better to be ruled by the Han people than to be ruled by the red-haired ghosts, at least with the same roots and clans, not as terrible as the red-haired ghosts.

At the same time, the port was renovated, and the militia temporarily requisitioned more than 300 people from the local area to build shore defense artillery batteries near the port. When the Haihan militia set out on this expedition, they also specially shipped more than ten tons of cement for the purpose of building forts here. The sooner the fort is built, the sooner the security of Natuna Island will be assured.

On 24 April, the Command issued a second Proclamation announcing the change of Natuna Island to its pre-Dutch name, namely Ambuna Island. This decision was unanimously supported by the locals, and after the Dutch occupied it in the early 17th century, they renamed the island Ambona and later Natuna, slowly severing the relationship between the city and the Ming Dynasty. But now that the sky has changed, it is only natural that the name of the island should be changed.

Of course, this change will not return the island to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and it is only due to the personal opinions of the executive committee and several high-ranking military officials.

On April 27, a Dutch cargo ship from Batavia sailed into the port in a daze. The cargo ship, which was destined for the island of Taiwan, originally just wanted to replenish food and fresh water in this port, but it didn't expect that the owner had changed here.

In order to keep the island's secrets for the time being, all the personnel on board were temporarily detained, and the ship naturally became another trophy of the Haihan militia's trip.