Guo Huaiyi had no problem with Paul's arrangement, as neither he nor his men were directly involved in the battle.

His ships were responsible for providing logistics, with the most to assist in the handling of artillery and ammunition.

When Paul began to fight steadily, the Dutch, who had the advantage of firepower, quickly completed the landing, but the purpose of capturing the port to transport supplies was not achieved, because the Spanish artillery could cover the port, and Paul would not let his battleship appear in the area of the enemy's 1 artillery fire.

As a result, the battle proceeded more slowly, and it was necessary to build docks in bridgeheads outside of the Spanish artillery cover in order to transport the heavy artillery down.

Carl personally supervised the construction of the dock by the natives, and Guo Huaiyi couldn't intervene, but when the dock was repaired and the heavy siege artillery began to drag, Guo Huaiyi played some small tricks, and he laid some crotons on the four bullocks he brought with him, so that the cows were weak and weak.

Because no one knew, everyone thought that the cow was sick, after all, the weather was hot now, and even many soldiers on the expedition had all kinds of diseases.

Losing the oxen to tow the artillery carts, the siege was delayed again, and the Dutch had an advantage over the Spaniards, but they could not do it without fear of private ants, so the battle fell more and more into a boring and protracted battle.

On this day, four cows were killed, and the beef was distributed among the people, making it a rare delicacy.

At night, the aroma of beef stew filled the entire camp, the soldiers ate stewed meat on the front line, and the Chinese camp on the other side of the strait also stewed the beef bones softly, and in the dark night, three black shadows appeared in the tent where the supplies were stored.

"They're all eating, let's get some more ........." Matsushita Tomaki put a few pieces of bacon in his pocket, carried the bag of dry noodle cakes, and walked out of the tent with two men.

Suddenly, Matsushita Fuming stopped, and he felt that something was wrong.

"Brother Panasonic, what's wrong?" One of them asked.

Tomaki Matsushita said, "I smelled a smell, it was smoke. ”

"The Tang people are making fires and cooking, and of course there is smoke."

"No, it's the smell of tobacco." Matsushita Tomaki put down his two pockets and pulled out his knife, and behind a thick wooden stake in the distance, a little spark suddenly appeared, flickering and dimming, and the smell came from somewhere, apparently someone was smoking a cigarette pouch pot.

"Matsushita-kun, you're very alert." Guo Huaiyi's voice came, he came out from behind the stake, knocked the cigarette bag pot on his heel, inserted it in his waist, and glanced at the food carried by the three people on their shoulders, Guo Huaiyi asked: "What, I didn't distribute enough food for you, and Matsushita-kun came to get it himself?" ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Guo." Matsushita Fuming returned the knife and sheath, and motioned for everyone to put down the knife in their hands.

The two knew each other, the Dutch's Che Chi Dan was hired from Siam and was responsible for guarding several outlying forts, forts, etc., while Guo Huaiyi was a well-known leader of the family, and he was the leader of the local Chinese, and he knew each other from time to time.

"I'll take some of your things down here, and I'll give them back in the future." Matsushita Tomaki bowed and saluted, with a humble attitude.

Guo Huai smiled: "Do you want to use it?" Well, even if it's taken, it's not stealing, I don't know where Matsushita-kun is used? ”

"This ..... It is useful for itself, and it is inconvenient to tell you. Matsushita Tomaki said.

Guo Huaiyi lit a pot of cigarettes again and said, "Give it to those people in the forest." ”

Matsushita Fuming's hand immediately grasped the hilt of the knife and looked around, for fear that some Dutch soldiers would come out and kill him.

Guo Huaiyi smoked a cigarette and said flatly: "Panasonic Jun is a gentleman on the beam, it's not a day or two, I, Guo Huaiyi, am responsible for the supply of the whole army, if I even have this bit of vigilance, I can't say it." I just want to know if the group of people in the forest are the natives who are trading with you, or if they are your Chezhidan. ”

"Mr. Guo, please forgive me, I can't say."

Guo Huaiyi said: "If you let Master Paul know, maybe you will be able to say it." He took two sips and said, "It should be Chezhidan." ”

"How do you know?" Tomaki Matsushita tightened his grip on the handle of the knife and quietly took two steps forward.

Guo Huai leaned on the stake, enjoying the refreshing feeling of tobacco, and said: "It's just a guess, Captain Thackeray took sixty people to go, and it was a failure that night, but the Spaniards did not dare to divide their troops to search and suppress, so four soldiers fled back in the past few days, but not a single Chezhidan."

I also looked at the bones and hanging heads, all of them were yellow-haired, or natives, and there were no bones of your cut branches.

I think that either you, Matsushita Fuming, surrendered, or you all survived for some reason, but you were afraid that you would come back and be suspected by the Dutch, so you said that most of you died. ”

Seeing that Guo Huaiyi guessed something, Matsushita Fuming had nothing to hide, and said at the moment: "You are right, the people I want to help are indeed the rest of my subordinates, because of Thackeray's stupidity, the operation failed, but God willing, we Chezhidan are all alive." ”

Guo Huaiyi asked: "Then do you live like this?" This is the territory of the natives, and the neighborhood is full of raw flowers. ”

Matsushita Fuming wanted to say something, but he kept his mouth shut, he thought for a while and asked, "What does Mr. Guo mean by asking?" I think that if Mr. Guo wanted to harm us, he would have told Mr. Paul a long time ago, but you didn't, why did you remind me here, or want to help me. ”

Guo Huaiyi did not answer this question directly, but asked rhetorically: "Chezhidan in the forest, how are you going to settle it?" ”

"I wonder if Mr. Guo can find a small boat for Zai Xia and send him to Tamsui?" Matsushita Fuming took the initiative to ask, but also told his plan.

Guo Huaiyi smiled, and his heart was really the same as he guessed, those surviving Chezhidan soldiers, there was no other way to retreat except to go to fresh water. Guo Huaiyi asked: "Panasonic-kun, when you go to Tamsui, you have to take refuge in Li Zhaoji of the Oriental Trading Company?" ”

Matsushita Tomaki said, "There was also Kiritan in the Oriental Trading Company, and Nakata Yoshito was my childhood playmate when I was in Oshiro, and the two of us had a very close relationship. I'm sure he'll recommend us to Shopkeeper Li. ”

Guo Huaiyi chuckled: "It seems that you are envious of Nakata Liangren's treatment in the Oriental Trading Company." ”

Matsushita Tomiaki did not deny this, but Guo Huaiyi said: "Do you think that the treatment of Nakata Liangren and others in the Oriental Trading Company is the same as that of the guards, is it Li Zhaoji's justice?" ”

"Shopkeeper Li is broad-minded, not inferior to the ocean, I know this." Matsushita Fuming didn't know why Guo Huaiyi said this, and dealt with it carefully.

Guo Huaiyi took the cigarette pouch and said to Matsushita Tomaki: "Perhaps, but more importantly, the merits of Nakata Yoshito and others, especially Yoshida Shichiro under his command, assisted the Oriental Trading Company to capture Tamsui City and made the first contribution, but for some reason you never saw it when you were in Tamsui."

This time, you are desperate to vote, but Li Zhaoji is in the period of cooperation with the company, and it is not known whether he will take you in. ”

When Matsushita Fuming heard this, he couldn't help but look down, how could he not know this, in fact, he had thought of it a long time ago, but he had never publicly explained it to his subordinates. Because defecting to the Oriental Trading Company is the only way out, if it is gone, who knows what kind of extreme things his subordinates will do.

raised his head, but saw Guo Huaiyi waving at him, Matsushita Fuming pulled out a knife and handed it to his subordinates, and approached to show his trust.

Guo Huaiyi said: "Li Zhaoji does not want the Spaniards to be destroyed, but hopes that only the Dutch will be left on Dayuan Island. If you can help him here, he will protect you and give you the same treatment as Nakata. ”

Matsushita Fuming didn't expect this to come out of Guo Huaiyi's mouth, but he quickly understood the truth.

Matsushita Tomaki asked, "Mr. Guo, what can I do?" ”

"The siege artillery of the Dutch, because of the lack of livestock, is still parked by the sea, and if you go and blow it up, it will be a great achievement. Matsushita-kun, you blew up the cannon and hid it in the mountains and forests, I want to answer you, in two days, my boat will go to freshwater to transport rice, you can leave with me by boat. Guo Huaiyi said in a low voice.

Without waiting for Matsushita Fuming to agree, Guo Huaiyi pointed to a small tent in the distance and said, "There are two barrels of gunpowder there, you can go and get them." ”

After that, Guo Huai turned around and left singing a small song.

Matsushita Fuming hesitated for a moment, and Xindao had no other choice, so he ordered his subordinates to bring supplies to help his companions, and he went to get gunpowder himself.

By the time Guo Huaiyi returned, the two kegs of gunpowder were gone.

In the same night, the four siege guns brought by the Dutch were blown up in the dock area, Paul was furious, and the whole army searched, but found that Matsushita Tomimaki and his Chechi Dan men were missing, and naturally knew who did it, but they only thought that Chechi Dan surrendered to the Spaniards, after all, because of religious factors, the Chechi Tan warriors cooperated a lot with the Spaniards, so the responsibility for the failure of the previous sneak attack was also thrown to Che Chi Dan.

Two days later, Li Zhaoji saw Matsushita Fuming and others in Tamsui City, and Guo Huaiyi personally sent these people into Tamsui City.

"The work you have done is beneficial to me, so as Shopkeeper Guo said, this is a great credit." Li Zhaoji said to Matsushita Fuming, and he beckoned, and Liu Shun handed him a money bag filled with Spanish rial silver coins.

Panasonic Fuming held the money bag and said, "Shopkeeper Li, what we need is not a reward, but an opportunity to settle down." The Dutch will kill us if they catch us. ”

Li Zhaoji nodded slightly: "You mean, you want to take refuge in me?" ”

Matsushita Tomaki hurriedly said: "Yes, I am friends with Yoshito Nakata, and we can work for you like them." ”

Li Zhaoji thought for a while: "But if that's the case, you can't be in Tamsui City, I am at an important moment of cooperation with the Dutch at this time, and it will be a trouble to let the Dutch know that you are here." ”

"As long as the Dutch can't catch us, we can listen to your placement." Matsushita Tomaki put his posture very low.

Lee Zhaoji said, "Well, in the upper reaches of the Tamsui River, there is a stronghold of a trading company, and Shichiro Yoshida is also there. The stronghold is in charge of guarding against the attack of Shengfan, so you can go there for a while. The Dutch will not besiege the chicken coop forever, and when they return to the big man, you can come back. ”

"Well, as samurai, we would like to be at the forefront of the battle formation." Matsushita Fuming said impassionedly.

Somewhere in a valley where the Tamsui River is a long swim.

The dull sound of drums resounded throughout the valley, startling countless birds, especially the huge war drum in the center, which seemed to beat on people's hearts at once.

An old man dressed in colorful clothes and with paint on his face dancing around a campfire beats a tambourine and dances, his demeanor and decoration resemble that of a courting mountain fowl, but the high-pitched singing and low drumming give the ritual a primitive flavor.

After the dance, he walked to a large tree with a doe tied to it, and the old man cut the throat of the doe, and the cup made of bamboo filled with blood for a lifetime.

A man came on his knees beating his hands on his chest, he was extremely strong, his muscles exuding explosive power, and when he reached the old man, he stopped his battle song and said, "Great wizard, Kalaw is ready. ”

The Great Wizard dipped his dry fingers in the blood in the cup and wiped it twice on his face, and suddenly the whole person trembled, as if he was crazy, but the cup in his hand did not move at all, and the blood was only a little ripple.

"Kalaw........" When the Grand Wizard stopped, he said, "The Holy Spirit has commanded you to lead your men and sisters to conquer new lands, to seize more hunting grounds, and to bring back to our tribe the heads and glory of their enemies." ”

With that, the Grand Wizard handed the cup to Kalaw.

Kalaw stood up, held it high, roared, drank blood, looked at the soldiers gathered behind him, and shouted, "For the Holy Spirit, go!" ”

Everyone shouted arias, and the drums beat again, forming a quaint and rich melody.