Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 58: Attacking the Heart First
Lin Fei smiled sinisterly and said, "They just fell into the water and are in high spirits. If we go over there, they will definitely fight back desperately. Let's not rush over there. Let's wait until they swim in the water for a while and become exhausted before we go over there."
Chen Fu gave a thumbs up and praised: "This is a great idea!"
Lin Fei laughed and started to watch those people splashing in the water. They were all good swimmers. After splashing in the water for a few times, they began to swim towards the land. Lin Fei waved his hand and said, "Catch up with them!"
Everyone paddled and approached the few people. They had just used up a lot of energy swimming in the Feijian warship. They could not swim anymore after swimming for a while and were barely floating on the water. Lin Fei and his group approached them and easily grabbed them onto the boat.
A total of five people were captured, and two refused to surrender. They swam away and soon sank into the sea. The five captured people swam in the icy sea water for a long time. They were cold and tired. After getting on the boat, they collapsed into a ball and could not utter a word.
Lin Fei brought them back to the Nuwa ship and had someone give them some hot water and steamed buns. The five people drank the hot water and ate the steamed buns, and then they calmed down. Lin Fei first asked: "Do you know who we are?"
The leader, a bearded man, said, "You are just like the Spaniards, you are here to kill us, and you want to force us to betray Allah and convert to Catholicism!"
Lin Fei smiled bitterly and said, "Who told you these words?"
The bearded man said, "Giriqi Mullah told us this himself at the swearing-in ceremony before we set out. Could it be false?"
When Lin Fei heard the name of Jiliqi Mullah, he immediately remembered the elder who tried to snatch the guns from his subordinates at the city gate. Lin Fei was shocked and thought to himself, I have explained our identities very clearly to the Sultan Bazair, why does Jiliqi Mullah still say this about us?
Lin Fei was thinking about it when he heard Chen Fu explaining, "We are not here to kill you..." Then he repeated to the bearded man what Lin Fei had said to the Sultan of Bazair, and also told him about the meeting between Lin Fei and the Sultan of Bazair.
After hearing Chen Fu's explanation, the bearded man's eyes flashed with confusion. Lin Fei continued, "If we came here to kill you, why should I save you? Why should I give you steamed buns and hot water? Should I let you eat and drink enough to continue to fight us?"
The bearded man thought about it and felt that what Lin Fei said made sense, so he said: "If what you said is true, then why did Jiliqi Mullah lie to us?"
Lin Fei shrugged and said, "We don't know about this. There must be a major hidden secret."
The bearded man remained silent, his eyes full of confusion. At this time, a young man suddenly whispered something to the bearded man. The bearded man frowned, raised his hand and slapped the young man hard, and scolded him angrily. The young man looked aggrieved and shrank aside without saying a word.
Lin Fei quickly turned around and asked Chen Fu: "What happened?"
Chen Fu shook his head and said, "They spoke too fast. I didn't hear clearly. I'll ask now."
Chen Fu then asked: "What were you talking about just now?"
The bearded man laughed and said, "The kid is talking nonsense, don't take it seriously."
Chen Fu frowned and asked, "What is it? Tell me now!"
The bearded man was embarrassed for a moment, and turned to the young man and said, "Tell them what you just said to me."
The young man then said to Lin Fei and Chen Fu: "You just said that you met the Sultan of Bazaar and talked to him, right?"
Lin Fei nodded and said, "Yeah, is there anything wrong with that?"
The young man said, "Bazaier Sultan thinks you are not conquerors, but Giriqi Mullah thinks you are. I heard that Giriqi Mullah wants to seize the power of Bazaier Sultan. Could this be related to this incident?"
The bearded man then interjected, "I don't think it's possible. How could Jiliqi Mullah do such a thing?"
The young man explained: "I have a friend who is the attendant of Giriqi Mullah. He said that Giriqi Mullah often secretly complained about Bazaier Sultan and even revealed the idea of replacing him intentionally or unintentionally. One time, my friend accidentally called Giriqi Mullah "Sultan". Giriqi Mullah not only did not punish my friend, but also found a trivial merit and rewarded my friend heavily. Doesn't this prove something?"
Lin Fei frowned and said to Chen Fu, "What this young man said is very likely true. We were suddenly attacked in the city. It is very likely that Mullah Jiriqi wanted to usurp the power of the Bazair Sultan. So he said that we were conquerors like the Spaniards, and then slandered the Bazair Sultan for surrendering to the conquerors in order to seize power!"
Chen Fu thought for a moment and said, "Your analysis does make sense. So what should we do?"
Lin Fei thought for a moment and said, "We still have to attack the island, but we should focus on attacking the heart. So, let's call Li Mingbai over, and I will explain the specific strategy to him."
Lin Fei asked Ma Chengfeng to send a signal to Li Mingbai to come over. Li Mingbai quickly came to the Nuwa ship, and Lin Fei said, "Old Li, let me tell you about the attack on the island."
Li Mingbai listened attentively. Lin Fei said, "We will be on the island soon. The first thing we will do after we get on the island is to set up camp. We need a stable base on the island. I have already thought of the specific location. I will tell ."
"Once the camp is set up, we will send out a company to the enemy city of Bazar. We will definitely encounter the enemy during the march. Listen, now comes the key point. When we meet the enemy, we will first attack their hearts. If that doesn't work, we will resort to force. Do you understand?"
Li Mingbai asked, "But how can we win their hearts?"
Lin Fei pointed at the five prisoners and said, "They will help us."
Li Mingbai nodded and said "I understand". Lin Fei then said, "Then go back and prepare. We will go to the island in half an hour." Li Mingbai took the boat back to the Pangu ship. Chen Fu said to Lin Fei, "City Lord, you haven't asked the prisoners what the special burning weapon is?"
Lin Fei just remembered and asked the bearded man hurriedly. After listening to Chen Fu's translation, the bearded man said: "We use a kind of pottery jar. There are two layers in the pottery jar, one filled with black water and the other with hot stones. Then we throw it out. When the pottery jar is broken, the black water inside can burn."
Chen Fu didn't quite understand what he was saying, and said, "What is this nonsense? What are black water and hot stones?"
Lin Fei roughly understood it and thought that the hot stones inside were probably some kind of chemical substance that could release heat, and the black water was probably some kind of flammable substance. When the pottery jar was broken, the heat released by the hot stones ignited the flammable substance, which created the burning effect. He just didn't know what the black water was.
After asking about the enemy's special weapons, Lin Fei led the sniper team off the boat to meet up with Li Mingbai's main army. Before leaving, Lin Fei instructed Liu Daming to protect the rear of the army and never let the Feijian warships rush over.
Liu Daming agreed, and Lin Fei led everyone ashore. They soon set up camp on an open high ground. Lin Fei then led the first company of the first battalion to the city of Bazar. The sniper team scouted in front, and the first battalion followed behind. Half an hour later, the sniper team came back to report: "Captain, a large group of enemy troops were found ahead, with about a thousand people!"
Lin Fei looked at the terrain here and said, "The first company will dig trenches here and prepare to fight the enemy. Signalman, return to the camp immediately and notify the follow-up troops to come. Sniper team, lure the enemy here in half an hour!"
After Lin Fei gave the order, everyone began to prepare. Lin Fei equipped each army soldier with an engineering shovel to carry out earthwork. Earthwork was a basic skill for infantry in Lin Fei's era. Lin Fei conducted special training for his subordinates so that every infantryman mastered the basic skills of earthwork, which was leading in the world.
When the trenches were built, the sniper team was dispatched and lured a large number of enemy troops over. When these people saw the trenches dug by Lin Fei's subordinates, they immediately stopped advancing, hid themselves, and looked for opportunities to launch an attack.
Lin Fei pointed at the bearded man and said, "It's your turn now. Go and persuade them to surrender."
The bearded man nodded in agreement and led the four people to the other side. As he walked, he said loudly in their language: "The people of Yanhuang City are Chinese, different from the Spaniards and Filipinos!"
But just after a few shouts, dense feather arrows flew over from the opposite side. The bearded man and four men came running back. Then a group of people rushed out of the woods and headed straight for Lin Fei's position. These people held a rope in their hands with a clay pot tied to the end of the rope. As they ran, they swung the rope, causing the clay pot to spin rapidly above their heads.
Lin Fei knew that these pottery jars were their special weapons that could burn. They had ropes on them, so they could fly farther after being swung up. Lin Fei thought that he couldn't let them get close, so he shouted loudly from a distance: "Shoot!"
There was a burst of gunfire at Lin Fei's position, and the Muslim warrior running in the front was knocked to the ground in an instant. The clay pot in his hand fell to the ground, and a fire suddenly broke out!
Some bullets did not hit people but hit clay pots, which burned directly in the crowd. The people whose bodies were on fire screamed heart-wrenchingly and rolled . As they rolled over, the Muslim warriors' charge formation was instantly thrown into chaos. The clay pots in the hands of more people were smashed and flames burned in the crowd.
The people behind them were hastily pushed into the woods. They were so frightened by Lin Fei's automatic rifle and the people on fire that they didn't even know to go up and rescue their compatriots. Only a large group of wailing and screaming people on fire were left in the field...
