"I don't know if the oil team has found the oil field. They have been in the jungle for many days, and there may not be any news."

Huang Degong and other officers led the soldiers of the 12th Corps to be idle in Ponkaransusu. They used shovels and shovels to build local bastions and oil refineries.

Sumatra is still under the control of the natives of Aceh, and many surrounding tribes and kingdoms obey the orders of Aceh.

The battalion was built to resist the offensives of Aceh and the surrounding indigenous peoples.

Even for ordinary square cities, it is difficult to capture the Aceh country, which is mainly cold weapons. The bastion equipped with cannons and muskets is like a natural barrier for Aceh country.

"According to the time, they should return, otherwise the dry food they took away would not be enough unless they plundered the food from the villages in the jungle..." The people who stayed on the coast calculated the time.

In fact, if it is a twenty-mile distance, it takes less than half a day to make it a wide plain. The thorny tropical rainforest, uncertain of the location of the oil field, and carrying heavy equipment such as the rotor, made the drilling team delayed in the jungle for several days.

"We send a team to find them." Huang Degong said.

Because when drilling teams penetrate deep into the jungle, they will tie coarse cloth strips to passing trees as marks, so if they send a light-fitting team to find them, they can be found quickly.

Just when Huang Degong and other troops staying on the coast wanted to send a team to contact the drilling team that was infiltrated into the jungle, the drilling team happened to send people back to report to Huang Degong and others.

"It's oil!" When the drilling team saw Huang Degong and the others, they shouted in the first sentence.

"Long live!" The officers and soldiers of the 12th Corps who were left on the coast cheered.

Although they didn't know what the oil was meant, they knew that the two purposes of landing on Sumatra this time had achieved...

"No, our mission has not been completed yet. The indigenous army of Aceh has not yet appeared. We need to defeat the indigenous army of Aceh and make them lose the courage to attack the refinery. Otherwise, after the refinery is built in the future, they will be attacked continuously by them." Huang Degong said.

The Queen of Aceh seemed to have been summoning the indigenous troops for a long time, and Huang Degong and others practiced the prototype of the bastion next to the coast.

Compared with ordinary castles, the walls of the castle are not tall or even a little low, but the castle makes the muskets and cannons form a crossfire power, with almost no shooting dead ends.

The emergence of the bastion led to the war's protracted siege.

When the defenders have sufficient ammunition, it is difficult for the siege to conquer the castle.

"I think this Aceh country has come to an end, and he actually lets the king's king take over him later. A woman in power will be in chaos?"

"I don't know how the queen they call Alan looks. She must be very beautiful if she can be chosen as a princess by their king. If she catches her and presents it to the military commander, she might be able to reward us!"

"You're thinking too much. The army leader must have many Yingying and Yanyan around him. How could he look down on the women in Nanyang, and he was someone else's wife?"

While some soldiers were patrolling nearby, they couldn't help chatting, so they had no war.

In the jungle north of Ponkaran Susu, a huge indigenous unit is approaching.

"Moo!" A war elephant roared uneasy, and its thick long nose raised upwards, causing the elephant husband and several indigenous soldiers holding spears to come and subdue it in a hurry.

This army had hundreds of war elephants, towers on the backs of war elephants, and even early muskets.

In front of the war elephant are native infantry holding spears, scimitars, and shields. Their men are thousands, their weapons are not unified, and few have armor.

Behind the Elephant Force, there was an elite indigenous unit. Many of them were actually equipped with muskets and armor.

Even behind, an elephant pulled the cannon, and a gunner followed the cannon.

Aceh was a kingdom cultivated by the Ottoman Empire in the East, used to deal with the Portuguese and to buy pepper from here.

The merchants of the Ottoman Empire sold firearms that their empire eliminated to Aceh, so Aceh actually had many firearms.

In the middle of the indigenous army, a woman wearing a tall turban and a veil rode a war horse. There were many great nobles wearing Ottoman silk nearby, and many elite indigenous troops gathered around them.

The great nobles gathered together from time to time and whispered, not knowing what they were discussing.

The Queen of Aceh could understand their words, but the veil covered her expression and only showed her beautiful black eyes.

The last side of the indigenous army was the auxiliary soldiers who assisted the main army of the kingdom. They were almost unarmed and transported grain in almost the most primitive way with the grain from various villages.

The undeveloped rainforest lacks wide roads and there are many complex terrain along the way. Carrying food alone is a very troublesome thing. After the food is used up, these soldiers are likely to escape into the jungle to find food.

The warriors and auxiliary soldiers were about 40,000 to 50,000. Facing the powerful invaders, the Kingdom of Aceh mobilized warriors from almost all villages to prepare to fight the invaders to the death.

Their king was defeated by the powerful firepower of the 12th Corps in the battle against Malacca and was captured and executed alive. The fleet was annihilated by the Nanyang Fleet, and only a small number of people safely crossed the Strait of Malacca and fled back.

A riot suddenly came from the front of the 50,000 army.

The indigenous soldiers at the front quickly reported back, and their terror spread from the front line of the army to the back like a plague, making the indigenous soldiers at the back as if they were facing a great enemy.

The sentry in front ran all the way to the Queen's horse and reported to her and the great nobles around her in incomprehensible language.

The faces of the great nobles changed drastically, and even the queen's eyes showed a hint of nervousness.

They argued loudly, as if they had a disagreement on how to deal with sudden events.

Finally, under the Queen's ruling, the great nobles made a decision quickly.

The army of Aceh was urgently mobilized, and the leaders and soldiers grabbed their weapons and prepared to enter the war.

The army leader shouted to maintain the morale of the soldiers.

The 50,000 troops may be less than 20,000 troops in real combat. The most serious problem of this indigenous unit may be morale issues. Once a small group of troops are defeated, it is likely to lead to a great collapse of the entire army.
Chapter completed!