1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 409 We Are Pirates Now

Since the failure of attacking Pontianak, Andersen has been huddled in the camp and can't hold out.

Liang Yao also had no intention of chasing and attacking the Royal Dutch and Indian troops outside Pontianak City.

It's not that Liang Yao doesn't want to eat the main force of these Dutch and Indian troops.

After all, almost all the effective forces of the Dutch and Indian authorities on Borneo Island are concentrated in the military camp outside Pontianak City.

As long as this new force can be wiped out, the war in West Borneo will come to an end, and this military operation will not be far from victory.

Liang Yao also wanted to fight quickly, and he didn't want this war to last too long.

However, Pontianak's real and completely reliable new force at present is only a thousand people from the Western Brigade.

It is more than enough to defeat Andersen's Dutch and Indian army with a thousand people, but it is still a bit difficult to eat them completely.

Liang Yao wanted to wait for Elvis to return to Pontianak, and then he would join forces with Kruger on the coast defense line to surround and eat the main force of Andersen's Dutch and Indian army.

But before that, Liang Yao didn't intend to let Anderson live in peace.

Every night, Liang Yao either let the artillery fire at the camp of the Dutch and Indian troops, or let his soldiers carry scarecrows, and then fired at the camp not far from the Dutch and Indian troops.

The Dutch and Indian troops were overwhelmed, and Ante was so angry that he gritted his teeth and sent sharp soldiers to defeat the Chinese troops who attacked at night.

When these Dutch and Indian troops approached these Chinese troops, cheering and shooting to death those Chinese soldiers in their eyes, they suddenly discovered that none of the Chinese soldiers who attacked at night saw any of them. The human targets they shot were nothing more than scarecrows.

Just as they had just returned to the camp, they heard the sound of the Chinese army stealing the camp again.

"Shameless villain! What kind of soldiers are you counting on with these sneaky plots? How about we have a showdown on the battlefield?"

Anderson, who hadn't slept all night, was disturbed by the news and noise of the Chinese army's night attack on the barracks, and cursed angrily.

The tired officers around Anderson were silent.

On the battlefield. We may not be opponents on the battlefield.

The current situation of the Dutch Indian Army is also very embarrassing.

They are neither advancing nor retreating outside Pontianak City.

Go forward, you can't take down Pontianak City.

Go back, they are afraid that the Chinese army will come after them.

Now they can only stick to the barracks, waiting for Batavia to send reinforcements to support them in attacking Pontianak.

Anderson came to the watchtower in front of the gate of the barracks, and saw outside their camp in the night.

Hundreds of kerosene lamps danced like fireflies in the jungle around their camp.

The light from these kerosene lamps, as well as the sound of guns from time to time, made the guards on duty terrified.

"Let Alkadri cut down the trees, the bushes and the grass for three miles around our camp after daylight!"

Facing the Chinese troops who harassed their camp at night, Anderson didn't have any good ideas.

Sultan Alkadri of Pontianak Sultanate soon heard the news that Sultan Akamuddin of Sanfa Sultanate defected to Liang Yao.

After hearing that the Sanfa Sultanate had defected to Liang Yao, Liang Yaofei not only did not use the soldiers of the Sanfa Sultanate as cannon fodder for human shields.

Just let them pave roads and repair houses, and return food.

Alkadri and Pontianak Sultanate are full of people's hearts.

Many people in the Pontianak Sultanate believed that it might be a wiser choice to abandon the Dutch and go to Liang Yao than to work for the Dutch.

Even Alkadri himself wavered.

The war between the Dutch and Indian authorities not only deteriorated sharply on the land of West Borneo.

Even in the maritime field where they are good at, the situation is getting worse and worse.

After the East Indies Fleet of the Dutch and Indian authorities suffered heavy losses, the keen-sighted pirates quickly noticed this.

Among these pirates were those like Li Fengchun who, under Liang Yao's instruction, specialized in plundering Dutch merchant ships.

There were also other pirates who spontaneously plundered Dutch merchant ships.

Not to mention pirates, even Hong Mingxiang couldn't help playing the role of pirates in Southeast Asia, and asked his soldiers to change into ordinary people's clothes, pretending to be pirates, and specializing in robbery in the Java Sea near Batavia.

And this sea area has been a forbidden area for pirates in Southeast Asia before, because this is the home of the Dutch and Indian authorities and the headquarters of the East Indies Fleet of the Dutch and Indian authorities.

Only brain-twitched pirates would not think about robbing in this sea area.

The reason why Hong Mingxiang was so bold and plundered in the Java Sea near Batavia was because of the loach boat he owned.

Loach boats are fast and can sail regardless of ocean currents and wind directions. The merchant ships with sails they are targeting cannot run away from them, and the warships with sails chasing them cannot catch up with them.

"Damn it, being a pirate is really a good business with no capital and no profit. We have only been doing it for less than a month, and the brothers have been paid for two years. These red barbarians are so fucking rich!"

Hong Mingxiang's adjutant Kang Enze sighed in admiration.

"Haikou is really so easy to do, Li Fengchun can be such a dick?" Hong Mingxiang shook his head and smiled.

The reason why they have been pirates so easily in the past month is because the East Indies Fleet of the Dutch and Indian authorities was crippled, and there was a temporary power vacuum in the sea power of the Java Sea.

If you really want to be a pirate all the time, wait for the Dutch and Indian authorities to calm down and designate them to have no good fruit.

What's more, pirates in Southeast Asia don't have rare things like steam ships.

And even if there were, ordinary pirates didn't burn coal to feed their steamships.

"Hongjunmen! Hongyi Merchant Ship! Another piece of fat! Shall we grab it?"

While talking, a general pointed to the direction of the Dutch merchant ship and reported to Hongming Xianghui.

"In the past, you were not so active in suppressing pirates when you went to sea. I wish I could not see pirates. Letting you be pirates is like a bloodbath." Hong Mingxiang muttered.

The general just kept giggling on the spot, waiting for the instructions of the two superiors.

"Can you see it clearly? Is it a Dutch merchant ship? Don't rob the French merchant ship as if it were a Dutch ship." Kang Enze said.

Although he doesn't know much about Western countries, he has read "Tongjian of All Nations" and knows that England and France are among the most powerful countries in Europe, so it's better not to offend them.

After all, they are here to ask for money, not to cause trouble.

Because the flag of the Netherlands is very similar to the flag of France, they accidentally robbed a French merchant ship as a Dutch merchant ship a week ago.

"You can see it clearly, the three colors are lined up horizontally, there is no doubt that it is a merchant ship from Hongyi!" the general manager said with certainty.

Kang Enze was still worried, and he nodded to Hong Mingxiang and said, "Junmen is indeed a Dutch merchant ship, should we grab it or not?"

Hong Mingxiang gave Kang Enze a white look: "We are pirates now, if we don't rob merchant ships, are we still pirates?"

(End of this chapter)