When Guo Qing reorganized the Sihai Battalion and let the soldiers recuperate, the coalition forces fought with the Spaniards for days, and also attracted the nearby aborigines.

The sentinels of the Four Seas Battalion even caught a few aborigines who were spying on the camp and sent them to Guo Qing. Guo Qing recruited the merchants in the fleet who were familiar with the local indigenous languages as interpreters, and after carefully questioning them, he gave them some gifts and put them back.

As a result, the next day, these released aborigines brought a few older and more gorgeously dressed aborigines to ask to see the Ming general.

These people were the elders of the Jinbaoli Society and the Big Chicken Coop Society, and the Sheliao Island, which the Spaniards had seized, was originally the territory of these two village communities. The Spaniards not only seized their territory, but also kept exploring inland, harassing many nearby villages, so the two sides had a lot of grievances.

It's just that the Spaniards' force was too strong, and they had to swallow their anger and take the cut off trade with the Spaniards as a means of resistance.

These aboriginal villages centered on Chicken Coop Harbor, as far east as the Three Sable Corners, all speak the same language and interact with each other. After the Spaniards occupied the port of Keelung, they called these aborigines the Bassians.

When they heard the sound of the battle between the allied forces and the Spaniards, they sent their people to watch the outcome of the battle. At first, they only dared to stand on the hill far from the battlefield and peek carefully.

However, when they found out that it was the Ming army that was fighting the Spaniards, they were a little relieved. The village community here often had Ming merchants come to collect sulfur and camphor, so they have an inexplicable sense of closeness to the Ming people. Only then did he run out of the mountains and forests, wanting to meet the general led by Ming Guo.

When Guo Qing showed kindness to them and gave them some small gifts, these natives who inquired about the news went to bring the elders of the clan to discuss with the Ming people how to join forces to deal with the Spanish.

The elders of these aborigines kept saying that they were willing to assist the Ming army in attacking the city of San Salvador, but they demanded that the entire island be returned to them after the war.

Xu Xinsu, who hurriedly came to participate in the discussion, naturally refused, Daming spent so much money, obviously not to do volunteer work for these aborigines.

The first discussion quickly collapsed, but as the village elders who had conflicts with the Spaniards continued to arrive, several elders who had only pleaded tactfully began to threaten the Ming army.

Although these villages and communities had a lot of conflicts with the Spaniards, after the constant harassment of them by the Spaniards, they wanted to stay away from their homes, whether they were Spanish or Ming.

When Xu Xinsu was irritable, Guo Qing persuaded him, and these days he ordered someone to re-measure the topography of Jilong Harbor and Sheliao Island, and investigate the hydrological data of the eastern waterway. On the contrary, he had a preliminary plan for how to attack Sheliao Island.

However, this plan requires a large number of manpower, and let the sergeants of the Sihai Battalion do these hard work, and it is estimated that the army, which is already not highly morale, will lose the confidence to fight.

Now that these aborigines have sent them to the door by themselves, Guo Qing feels that he can take advantage of it. As for the post-war land distribution, as long as the Spaniards could take down their castles, they would not be able to deal with a few uncivilized natives?

Under Guo Qing's persuasion, Xu Xinsu vaguely agreed to the conditions proposed by the elders, but asked each village to contribute a certain number of manpower to assist the coalition forces in the battle.

After receiving the gift from Xu Xinsu, these elders quickly agreed and sent people to obey the deployment of the Ming army.

After several encounters with the Spaniards, Guo Qing finally remembered what he had learned at the Army Military Academy.

The principle of all warfare is to weaken the enemy's strength to the minimum, and then fight against it in the way that is best for one's own side, and to disperse and cut off the enemy's armed forces as much as possible, so as to create a situation in which the enemy fights more and fights less locally.

The Sihai Battalion, who was born in Beijing, is actually best at defending the city, after all, their original task was to defend the capital.

When these aboriginal elders sent the young people in the clan, Guo Qing did not give them weapons and armor. Instead, they were sent in groups of 20 to cut down trees in the nearby forests.

From the eighth day to the tenth day, a large amount of wood was piled up on the south bank of the waterway, and Guo Qing's troops also changed from 1,300 Sihai Battalion to more than 1,100 aborigines in 1,300 Sihai Battalion.

After three days of labor, Guo Qing quickly figured out the temperament of these aborigines. These aborigines are similar to those they have encountered on the western plains of Taiwan, and they are also docile and hard-working.

But compared to the familiar ones on the plains, they are more xenophobic and more grouped. Although at the beginning, these young people who were arranged by the elders were still a little wary of the Ming army and were unwilling to obey the management.

However, after Guo Qing took out the sugarcane wine that was carried on the boat and made from the molasses left over from the sugar cane squeezed from sugar cane, these aborigines suddenly became much more obedient.

On the eleventh day of the fleet's arrival at the chicken coop, most of the morale of the soldiers of the Four Seas Battalion had finally recovered, and the natives were tired of chopping wood and wanted to go to war to claim their honor.

Only then did Guo Qing gather the commanders of the various units and introduce his battle plan to them. His idea was to build two small forts on the north side of the waterway as a starting point to cover the attack.

Then build a wooden fortress under the enemy's hill fort, the purpose of this castle is to separate the city of San Salvatore from the hill fort, so that the Ming army can attack the hill fort unaffected and seize the commanding heights on the island.

Guo Qing's battle plan came from a course on building a fortress at the military academy, which not only described how to build a fortress, but also put forward the idea of how to deal with the fortress, that is, to build a fortress against a fortress.

Although the hill fort has a concise terrain, firstly, the small fort was not completed, and secondly, the small fort lacked the most important business, that is, artillery. A fortress without artillery is equivalent to a tiger with its teeth pulled out.

Although Guo Qing's battle plan was time-consuming and labor-intensive, it was really a good plan compared to everyone's helplessness before.

When the Spaniards saw that the Ming people had stopped for a few days, they suddenly moved again, and immediately prepared for defense.

However, what stunned them was that this time the Ming people were not in a hurry to attack the hill fort on the island. Instead, three pontoon bridges were erected over a narrow waterway, and large quantities of building materials were transported to the island from the opposite shore.

Jonlong Harbor is an irregular half-day tide, and the difference between the water level of high tide and low tide is only 50 cm, so the three pontoon bridges were built in a very short time.

After watching these Chinese build a fortress under their noses, the Spaniards in the hill fortress finally changed color, and they rushed out of the fortress in an attempt to disperse the aborigines who were carrying wood to work, but this attack was quickly repelled by the prepared Ming army.

The Spaniard tried 4 times, but each time it ended in failure. In the evening, several fires were lit on the edge of the half-repaired wooden city, which was a measure of the Ming army to prevent the Spaniards from night attacks.

That night, the well-guarded Ming army never found the Spanish commander Valdes a chance to make a surprise attack.

At dawn the next day, Valdes had to send someone to inform the captain of the San Juan, asking him to try to destroy the Ming army's wooden city from the sea.

Seven or eight attempts were made in these days, only to be stopped by the ships of Peter and the Ming army. By this time, the captain of the San Juan almost knew that the hope of breaking out was slim.

Of course, he could not sit idly by and watch the Ming army capture the hill fort on the island, thus threatening the city of San Salvador, and without the protection of this castle, the "San Juan" became a turtle in an urn.

He obeyed Waldes' orders and prepared to turn the bow of the ship and bombard the wooden city from the sea in order to eliminate the threat of the Ming army to the Spaniards on the island.

But as soon as the San Juan moved, Peter took command of three plywood sailing ships and tried to take advantage of the opportunity to rush into the harbor of the chicken coop.

In this situation, the "San Juan" naturally did not dare to get out of the way. Although they were all sailing ships, the three plywood galleons of the East India Company were oared to cope with the inter-island voyage in Southeast Asia in the windless zone of the equator.

If they were allowed to rush in, the slow-moving San Juan would be a target. In desperation, the "San Juan" sent more than 100 soldiers on board to the island in small boats to assist in the defense of the city of San Salvador.

At noon on the twelfth day, the Ming army repaired the wooden city under the mountain, and Guo Qing once again carried 4 cannons from the ship to the island.

Guo Qing pressed the formation with artillery, and then let the aborigines form several troops and carry out a non-stop attack.

When the moon rose on the evening of the twelfth day, the Ming army finally broke through the castle on the hill, and the defenders of the fortress were slaughtered by the aborigines who had lost their minds due to the heavy damage they had suffered during the attack.

In this battle against the hill fort, the Ming army only suffered more than a dozen casualties, but the aborigines suffered more than 300 casualties, which is almost three times that of the defenders in the fort.

In the previous work of logging and building the city, Guo Qing organized these aborigines into basic units of 20 people, which were replaced and repaired after each round of attack. The good performance of the group was rewarded with food and drink, so that the morale of these aborigines was always high.

Although the battle cost the indigenous people nearly a quarter, because they came from different villages, the feelings of the villagers in each village were not all the same.

Although the elders of the Jinbaoli Society and the Big Chicken Coop Society, who suffered the greatest losses, were gloomy, some of the later village elders were quite elated because they had suffered relatively small losses and captured a fortress of the Spaniards.

After the news of the war between the Ming army and Spain came out, there were villages and communities that had been sending people to come, and when the Ming army captured the hill fort on Sheliao Island, the original * army in the Ming army soon broke through 2,200 people.

Looking at the aborigines whose numbers were still rising, even Guo Qing was a little jealous. Their mission was not to drive out the Spaniards and end it, but also to bring the area under the Ming Dynasty, and then send people to investigate the surrounding resources to determine the scale of development of Jonlong Port.

A powerful aboriginal alliance is likely to obstruct the Ming Dynasty's personnel from entering the chicken coop for development.

Guo Qing decided to use the hands of the Spaniards to consume some of these indigenous populations. Having seized the high ground in the middle of the island, everything in the city of San Salvador fell under his nose.

He noted that, with the support of the troops aboard the San Juan, the number of people in San Salvador had returned to 500.