Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 13: The Creation of an Army
Chiyo Mika listened to Lin Fei's words and thought to herself: "He is right. If he wanted to... kill me, he could have done it on the boat. I am definitely no match for him. Although he was the one who took me abducted on the boat, he has always been very nice to me. I didn't trust him, but I trusted that gangster Spaniard, and let him do this to me... I am so confused!"
Chiyomika was filled with remorse, tears streaming down her cheeks like beads from a broken string. She lowered her head and bit her lips, her delicate hands tightly grasping her belt, and said like a little girl who had done something wrong: "I'm sorry, I was wrong about this, please punish me severely."
Lin Fei's heart softened when he saw her expression, and he said, "Sit down, this matter ends here, don't tell anyone else, don't worry, my promise will not change. Today I found out about a Japanese businessman, but unfortunately he has a bad character and sells girls as prostitutes. I dare not hand you over to him."
Chiyo Mika hurriedly stood up and said, "Mika betrayed you, and you still did things for Mika. Mika is really too ashamed..."
Lin Fei smiled and said, "Miss Meixiang, it is my duty to do these things for you. If I hadn't held you hostage, you would still be a carefree girl. I won't say much. It's getting late now. You should go to bed quickly."
After Lin Fei finished speaking, he stood up and walked outside. Chiyomika took Lin Fei to the door. Lin Fei persuaded her to go back while reaching out to push the door, but the door did not move. Lin Fei pushed with all his strength, but the door still did not move. Lin Fei pushed a few more times, but it still did not open. Only then did he realize that the door was blocked by someone from outside.
Lin Fei shouted at the top of his voice: "Who's outside? Open the door !"
Yu Xier's voice rang out from outside: "Mr. Gunner, I learned a line from a poem, 'A moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold coins', you must cherish it!"
Yu Xier walked away after he finished speaking, muttering in a sarcastic tone as he walked: "When Jade lost her virginity, she put out the candle and took off her silk dress, then she lay on her lover's lap, her whole body fragrant with orchids and irises..."
Lin Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and shouted through the door: "Why don't you learn something good? You just learn these erotic poems!"
Yu Xier didn't move at all. Lin Fei pushed the door twice, but it didn't move. He walked to the window and pushed it twice, but it still didn't move. He thought to himself, "I'm so stupid. How could Yu Xier close the door without closing the window?"
Chiyomika didn't understand Chinese. Seeing Lin Fei pushing the door and the window, she was very surprised and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
Lin Fei said helplessly: "My brother locked me here?"
When Chiyomika thought about spending a night alone with Lin Fei in a room, her face turned red and her heart was beating fast. Lin Fei saw Chiyomika's shyness and said, "You sleep on the bed, I'll just sleep on the table for one night." After saying that, he lay down on the table.
At this time, Chiyo Mika gently called "Lin Feijun" with a sweet voice. Lin Fei felt numb when he heard it. He turned to look at Chiyo Mika and asked, "Miss Chiyo, are you calling me?"
Chiyo Mika asked cautiously: "Lin Feijun, can I call you that?"
Lin Fei nodded repeatedly and said, "Of course."
Chiyo Mika said: "Lin Feijun, can I ask you something?"
Lin Fei nodded, and Chiyoko asked, "Why did you escape from the prisoner-of-war camp?"
Lin Fei smiled helplessly, thinking that this girl was really naive. There was no reason for a prisoner of war not to escape! Lin Fei smiled and asked, "Then tell me why you don't escape."
Chiyomika said, "Your life in the prisoner-of-war camp must have been pretty good."
Lin Fei was finally amused by the girl's innocence and asked, "How do you know that life in the prisoner-of-war camp is not bad?"
Chiyomika said: "Aoki-kun is a very gentle person, he will definitely treat you well!"
Lin Fei sighed and said, "Miss Chiyo, have you ever been beaten?"
Chiyomika shook her head and said, "My father said that no matter how big a mistake a girl made, she should not be beaten, so my father and mother never beat me."
Lin Fei unbuttoned his shirt, revealing a whip mark, and said, "This was done by Aoki Ryokazu himself. My men have even more injuries. He doesn't need a reason to beat people. Do you know why he whipped me? I want to hear the sound of the whip hitting me."
Chiyomika looked at the whip marks on Lin Fei's body and shook her head, muttering: "No, it's impossible. How could Aoki-kun hit someone?" She repeated it several times and suddenly burst into tears. Lin Fei hurriedly sat in front of her and wanted to hug her in his arms, but he felt it was inappropriate. He retracted his hand halfway and comforted her: "Don't cry, what is there to cry about?"
Chiyomika cried and said, "My fiancé... turned out to be... such a person... wuwu... I'm so scared." Chiyomika cried pitifully, and Lin Fei didn't know how to persuade her. At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly slammed, and Chen Jingui's ghost-like voice rang out outside: "Grandpa Lin, something bad has happened!"
Lin Fei's heart trembled, and he walked a few steps to the door. He stretched out his hand to push the door, but it didn't open. He cursed himself in his heart: "I fainted from the crying of the little girl and forgot to lock the door!" Lin Fei shouted at the top of his voice: "The door is bolted from the outside!"
There was a sound of bolts and the door opened with a crash. Lin Fei saw Chen Jingui trembling all over and asked hurriedly, "What happened?"
Chen Jingui said: "Denison... is... faking death!"
Lin Fei's eyes almost popped out when he heard this, and he cursed, "Stop talking to me about these mysterious things! What's going on? Tell me in detail."
Chen Jingui said: "I wanted to find the scabbard of the sword for grandpa, so I went back to the restaurant to look for Dennison's body, but it was gone..."
Lin Fei asked: "Have you found all the bodies?"
Chen Jingui nodded repeatedly and said, "I checked all the bodies one by one! There was no body of Dennison! He must have faked his death and ran away!"
Lin Fei recalled the scene of stabbing Dennison. The knife hit the left side of his chest where his heart was. He did not look at it again. Could it be that Dennison's heart was on the right side and his knife was not fatal? Dennison woke up from the pain and secretly escaped?
When Lin Fei thought of this, he felt a buzz in his head. He thought, "This is bad. If Denison escapes back to Luzon and reports the situation here, the Spanish army will come. Although we have guns now, no one knows how to use them except us. How can we resist the large army?"
Lin Fei took a deep breath, calmed down, and said to Chen Jingui, "Don't scream, kid. Dennison is not a resurrected corpse. I didn't stab him to death, so he ran away! Now I have to prevent him from escaping back to Luzon. Is there any ship from this island that returns to Luzon?"
Chen Jingui replied: "There is a steamer, right at the south dock!"
Lin Fei reached out and grabbed the Mauser M1893 at hand, and said to Chen Jingui: "Lead the way! Chase!"
Chen Jingui ran all the way south, and Lin Fei followed with Sun Yong and his two brothers. After crossing a hillside, the sparkling sea appeared before their eyes. There was a boat parked at the dock. Chen Jingui pointed at the boat and said, "That's it."
Seeing that the ship was still there, Lin Fei knew that Denison had not left, and he was relieved. At this time, everyone had already walked close to the dock. Chen Jingui suddenly screamed. Lin Fei was so angry that he turned around and scolded Chen Jingui: "Are you a man? Why are you yelling?"
Chen Jingui pointed his finger at the sea and said in a trembling voice: "My boat is gone!"
Lin Fei asked: "Why is your boat missing?"
Chen Jingui said, "Grandpa Lin, how could you have forgotten? I also came here by boat. My boat was parked here, but now it has left!"
Lin Fei frowned and said, "How can your boat sail away by itself?"
Chen Jingui said: "The men on the boat are all my men. They will not sail without my order, unless Denison gets on board and tells the men to sail away."
Lin Fei asked angrily: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had a boat?"
Chen Jingui said innocently: "You didn't ask me!"
Lin Fei looked at the sea shrouded in the night, knowing that it was impossible to catch up with Chen Jingui's boat, so he said to everyone: "Okay, let's go back first, have a good rest tonight, and talk about everything tomorrow."
The next morning, Lin Fei gathered everyone together, 200 natives, 150 men, 50 women, 50 infantrymen, 10 sailors, and 36 sugar-making and wine-brewing technicians, all Chinese, plus Chen Jingui and Chen Fu, father and son, Yu Xier, and Liu Daming, who were all Lin Fei's men.
Lin Fei first said to the technicians: "Just keep doing your work, I will give you double the salary!" The technicians were delighted. After all, they were just doing hard labor. They would work for the Spaniards or for Lin Fei.
After Lin Fei finished speaking, he told the natives through Chen Jingui that they still worked the same as before every day and the food they ate was much better than before. The natives regarded Lin Fei as a god and naturally had no objection to his words.
After Lin Fei arranged the technicians and natives, he said to the rest of the people: "Brothers, if you want to conquer the world, you need an army. From today on, we are an army, and I am your commander!"
As soon as Lin Fei finished speaking, he saw Li Mingbai kneeling down, and the forty-nine infantrymen behind him also knelt down in unison, shouting: "Greetings, Grand Marshal!"
How can there be a general who only manages dozens of people? Lin Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up, there is no etiquette of kneeling in our army." Everyone stood up, and Lin Fei said, "We now have fifty infantrymen, ten sailors, and two naval officers, Yu Xier and Liu Daming, so our army is divided into the army and the navy."
"There are fifty people in the army. Thirteen of them will be transferred to serve as sailors. The remaining thirty-seven people will be temporarily organized into a platoon. I am the platoon leader and Li Mingbai is the deputy platoon leader responsible for assisting me. The remaining thirty-six people will be organized into three squads, with twelve people in each squad. Niu Dalong, Niu Dahu, and Bifang will serve as squad leaders of the three squads respectively."
"After talking about the army, let's talk about the navy. The Pangu whaling ship is our only warship. I will be the captain, and Yu Xier and Liu Daming will be the vice captains. We will each have our own duties. From now on, everyone will address me as Captain Lin. Do you understand?"
Everyone shouted "Understood" in unison. Lin Fei looked back at Chen Jingui and said, "Chen Jingui!"
