In Tokyo, Jiaozhi, there are advertisements posted on the streets: Boni continues to be gold miners, with high salary, monthly salary of 2 taels of silver, food and accommodation, and can also pay a certain amount of gold as a bonus based on the amount of gold collected at the end of the year. Interested people go to Nanyang Company to register.

This recruitment advertisement attracted a large number of Annan Jiaozhi people to sign up for the participation. Annan people who signed up for Boni miners were all queuing two miles away.

However, it is not so easy to be a gold miner. First of all, you have to withstand temptation. During the recruitment interview, the interviewer said that once you cannot withstand temptation, stealing gold is a death sentence and you will be beheaded on the spot. Secondly, those who have served in a soldier and have certain combat experience are given priority.

On the island of Borneo, there are rich mineral resources, including gold, diamond, tin, gypsum and iron ore, as well as valuable resources in the future such as bauxite, oil and antimony.

At present, Zhao Peng does not need iron, tin, gypsum and iron ore from Borneo for the time being. He wants gold and diamonds. Of course, Zhao Peng knows that in fact, the real value of diamonds is not very great. Diamonds are not rare elements such as gold and silver on the earth, but common carbon element crystals. Natural diamonds are the most expensive, and they are completely artificially fryed.

However, in this era, Westerners prefer diamonds. The larger the natural diamond, the higher the price, so once a diamond mine is discovered, you must get it as soon as possible and mine the diamonds and sell them to Westerners.

As the colonial group of the Nanyang Company advanced deep into the dense forest, one indigenous zodiac tribe after another was eliminated, and more and more gold mines were found by the Nanyang Company.

However, most of the cannibalism on the island were not destroyed, but were scared away by the powerful combat power of the colonial group and hid in the depths of the primeval forest.

The island is full of jungles, and once the local cannibalism hides in the deep mountains and forests, it will be difficult to find them. Therefore, the colonial group wiped out the cannibalism, and on the other hand, it is necessary to arm the miners. Therefore, when recruiting Annan miners, those who have experience in military service are given priority.

After the newly recruited Annan miners were sent to Borneo Island by ship, they first settled in the barracks on the Kun River and conducted concentrated training on them. Regardless of whether they had been soldiers or had used firearms before, they had to undergo strict training so that they could be familiar with the use of various firearms and make them qualified militias.

Li Fu and Ruan Liu are a pair of young children who have been playing since childhood. They have no experience in joining the army, but they are strong and fortunate to be selected by the Nanyang Company and become two militias in gold mines.

The requirements of militia are actually not high. You only need to be able to master the bird guns, complete the loading in the shortest time possible, and shoot out the bullets. Even if you are a qualified militiaman.

After three months of training, Ruan Liu and Li Fu followed other miners and militias, boarded a raft to go upstream to a newly found gold mine.

There was a gold mine that had just been found. The Nanyang Company had not yet begun digging gold mines here, but the colonial group came here first, drove away the surrounding zombie tribes, camped around the gold mine, guarded the gold mines and prevented the local zombie from digging gold, and waited for the arrival of the Annan miners.

After the Annan miners arrived, these half-army and half-people Annan militia immediately built a circle of earthen cities around the main vein of the gold mine under the command of the colonial regiment.

Under the command of mercenaries, the miners and militia cut down trees and bamboos, cut off thick bamboos, tied the long rows outside, and tied the short rows inside and a circle, and then laid wooden boards between the two rows of bamboos, thus forming a dirt city made of bamboo. Above the dirt city, wooden boards were also laid as roofs.

An 18-meter-high observation deck was built in each of the four corners of the city wall.

"The meaning of building a roof is that once an ogre comes on a rainy day, our people hide in fortifications with roofs, and the firearms in our hands will not be disturbed by rainy days, so that we can easily defeat them." The instructor said.

A circle of bamboo and wood on the outside has been repaired. Inside the village wall, a bamboo building serves as dormitories was built. The bottom of the bamboo building is hollowed out. People live on the second floor above. There are raised bamboo and wood bridges between the bamboo building and the village wall. The bridge also has roofs. In this way, when it rains, militiamen come out of the dormitory and enter positions, so that they can avoid being exposed to the rain from bird guns and gunpowder.

When everything was completed, the mercenaries of the colonial regiment evacuated here and handed over the defense work here to the half-millionaire Annan gold mine militias. The mercenaries of the colonial regiment continued to search deep into the dense forest to find other zodiac tribes and at the same time look for new gold mines.

After the mercenaries left, the gold mine began to work and mine. There were 360 ​​miners in the gold mine, of which 200 miners received bird guns, each of whom fired fifty rounds of fixed-loaded bullets and a bayonet; the remaining 160 miners each fired a spear and a piece of wooden armor, and a round, wide-eaves and iron helmet.

In addition to 360 Annan miners, there are also five Han managers, twenty Han guards and two Han chefs. Whether they are managers, guards or chefs, they are equipped with Dutch-made flintlock rifles.

After the official gold mining began, the 360 ​​miners here adopted a shift system, working sixteen hours a day, and then rested the next day, performing part-time alert tasks. These managers, chefs and guards were all Han people in the small Han town that originally settled in Kunjiangkou.

After the gold mine started mining, as Sun Lin expected, less than three days after the mercenaries left, local life-gods gathered nearby, gathered about 6,000 troops, and launched an attack on the gold mine.

"The life of the life of the people is here!" a gold mine militia in charge of alert shouted.

The gold mine manager immediately shouted: "Prepare for the fight! Don't panic! They can't rush in!"

With the order, the militia holding bird guns entered the city to organize defense and prepare to shoot ogres who entered the range; while the militia holding spears entered the bottom of the bamboo wall. Once the enemy approached the city wall, they could stab out from the gaps between the bamboo gaps, effectively blocking the attack of the zodiac.

"Kill all the Han people here!" The person who looked like a chief of the life-saving chief shouted in an indigenous language, "Eat the Han people here and take back our gold mine!"

The people of the world were screaming, holding stone spears, wooden bows, and animal bone arrows, and rushed towards the direction of the Jinmin Village.

When the cannibals entered within fifty steps, the gold mine manager ordered: "Open fire!"

"Bang bang bang" bird guns that extended out of the shooting hole spit out flames, and the white smoke spread around. More than 200 bullets were poured into the formation of the natives like rainstorms.

Only a row of screams were heard, and blood splattered everywhere on the front of the zombie, screaming and falling down.

The speed of the bird gun was still too slow. Before the militia could load them, the people of the zombies approached the city and tried to climb the bamboo wall. At this moment, countless spears pierced from the gaps in the lower layer of bamboo, piercing the natives who were trying to climb the bamboo wall one by one in the pool of blood. But some of the natives still climbed up.

Just as the natives climbed to the second bamboo wall, bayonets stretched out from the shooting hole of the bird gun, and stabbed into the bodies of the natives who were climbing in the air.
Chapter completed!