Ulong Dagger

Enemy Defense Post

Ulong's party stopped the horse in a place where there were not too many trees.

In the help of moonlight lighting, Ulong, Awang, Putra, Arman, and Mat Kecik changed their clothes with the uniforms of the company soldiers they had just stripped on the bridge crossing.

This was also part of the stratagem that Ulong and Awang had planned from the beginning.

"The face you have to be disguised so as not to happen like before, there are company soldiers who recognize" Ulong told Awang.

Awang turned his head towards Ulong, "yes as well" he thought.

"Pay is indeed a famous person Wang" said Mat Kecik laughing.

"Yes we had a chance to see my brother" said Mardiani, Salhah also nodded confirming.

Awang looked at the two girls groggyly, his thick eyebrows furthest up, making him look even more handsome.

Arman and Mat Kecik saw Awang's expression then exchanged lyrics and laughed silently.

Awang pretended there was no incident, ignored the meaning of the glance and laughed his two friends.

"Either what these two men are doing, do not know they if these two girls are still children, they are only ten years old under me" said Awang.

Not stopping just there, Arman came over, "here bang let me disguise the handsome face of brother" said Arman teasing Awang.

Arman took the extinguished torch hanging beside the saddle then rubbed his hands there to pick up the nettle, after his hands were black exposed to soot he applied in several places on Awang's face.

"Well this is how handsome brother can not be recognized anymore" continued Arman.

"Udah don't make a behavior that you're not Man, make me ashamed" whispered Awang wrong behavior.

Although grumbling but he did not protest Arman put soot on his face.

Arman smiled broadly at the grunts of his friend.

Ulong and Laksmi smiled seeing that, Awang and his people behaved the same, like to joke.

"It's not just bang Awang, you two also bang, you're always together everywhere. It is likely that you will also be recognized" Ulong said again.

Simultaneously Mat Kecik and Arman looked at Awang, "ooh yes" they thought.

Awang grinned widely "here change", he said then rubbed his palms into the torch.

Mat Kecik also did the same thing by applying soot to his own face.

"Hey that is mostly, later the enemy even suspicious" Awang told Mat Kecik.

He saw Mat Kecik rubbing soot with both hands onto his face until his entire face was black.

Ulong and the others so laugh to see it, "here", said Arman then leave Awang who wants to put soot on his face.

Arman, wiping part of Mat Kecik's face with his clothes.

Mat Kecik despite his name Kecik but his body is high, the same height as Ulong and his body is more robust. While Arman is medium in stature, slightly higher than Awang.

So Arman had to look a little at the face of Mat Kecik.

While Awang and his two friends apply soot to their faces discussing back to finalize the strategy, so that no one step is missed.

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They again continued to drive the horses down the public road, towards the Company Defense Post in Klambir Lima.

Luckily, the moon was shining brightly enough, so they could race horses without the need to light a torch.

Just about a kilometer from the burning bridge, seen in the distance in front of the many torch lights twinkling towards them.

"Enemy ahead" said Awang, then signaled for the group to stop.

As previously agreed upon when he crossed paths with the patrol, Laksmi, Anggu Razak and the two girls immediately got off the horse.

They led their horses and their supply-carrying horses, hiding in the thickets of trees and thickets by the roadside.

Ulong and the others disguised as company soldiers stopped for a while, giving Laksmi and the others time to hide.

Laksmi gestured with a thumbs up to Ulong signaling they were ready, Ulong replied with a nod.

"Let's move" Ulong told his friends.

As they had expected, the group carrying the torch was a company patrol.

Ulong and his entourage passed by those who were patrolling from the direction of Klambir Lima.

Ulong counted the number of patrolling companies as fifteen

"It's quite difficult for us to fight them in an open war" Ulong thought.

Awang and Ulong glanced at each other.

Ulong advanced on his horse to approach the company soldiers.

"Master, please, the bridge is attacked and the enemy has burned" Ulong said with a gasp as he arrived before the company soldiers.

The company's soldiers were shocked to hear that. Moreover, seeing the appearance of Ulong and his friends is so convincing, dirty, and their clothes bleed here and there (the blood of soldiers who own uniforms they kill).

The faces of the three of them were even black-black hit by soot.

"How many attackers did you lose? asked their commander to Ulong with a tense expression.

"I don't know the exact number, they came from everywhere, only we survived" Ulong said.

"We are seconded here, it turns out that our number is less" Awang continued, adding, then he lowered his head coughed, "Uhuk.uhk". (pretend).

The commander thought for a moment, he stared at the bridge one kilometer ahead. It looks like there is a red light in the sky.

The light was certainly not from the burning of the bridge, but came from the fire in the field that has not been extinguished until now.

The commander sent two of his men back to the post to ask for help.

He watched the two members drive the horse away, then he looked back at Ulong, "you came with us to help hold the attackers while waiting for help to arrive, we can't let them move forward too far" he said.

Ulong nodded his ass.

"Let's move, let's beat the extremists!!!", exclaimed the commander to his army.

Awang heard the commander's words back coughing, this time the cough was real.

"Come attack!!!" said some company soldiers.

"Strike!!", connect the others.

Ulong and his entourage followed the company's soldiers who were so eager to drive horses, heading back towards the bridge.

It didn't take long for them to arrive where Laksmi's entourage was hiding.

"What's wrong?" asked the commander, Ulong put his mouth on his lips hinting for them to be quiet, then he put his hands on his ears as if he were listening.

The company soldiers who were with him were on standby, looking back and forth.

Ulong deliberately stopped and pretended like that to give Laksmi and the others an easier chance to take aim.

And three arrows shot out of the darkness and three company soldiers fell from their horses.

Only Laksmi, and two girls Angku Razak release arrows.

Anggu Razak is quite adept at archery but not for long distances due to the influence of his eyes that have begun to fade.

As for disguising himself as a company soldier and joining the Ulong troupe he is old, until now he just watched while hiding in the dark.

"Awas, the enemy is left!!!" the company's patrol commander shouted and then pulled out the gun and fired it towards the arrow coming from their left.

"outside".

Laksmi and the others once finished archery instantly hid behind the trees.

Without being given the command again the rifles of some of the company's soldiers immediately barked in reply to the unpretentious following the firing of their commander.

Bullets whizzed through where Laksmi was hiding, the trees she was targeting. Shards and bark of trees fly in the place of the bullet.

"outside.. Duar, duarr!!!"

Some of the soldiers jumped down taking cover beside their horses while shooting towards the arrow coming from.

Ulong and his friends shoot like firecrackers, but not towards Laksmi who is hiding, but toward the soldiers closest to them.

Five more soldiers of the company collapsed lifelessly, including its commander.

The remaining enemies gasped in shock, they gazed towards Ulong and the comrades with puzzled looks.

Not lost to their shock, Ulong and his friends each stabbed the bayonet

"Let's attack!!!", said Mat Kecik as he stabbed his bayonet into the neck of an enemy soldier.

The remaining company soldiers also collapsed following his friends who had already died.

The bodies of the company soldiers were scattered, white gunpowder smoke filled the location where they were.

"Aaaahh.. uhh. curly my nose" said Mat Kecik while fanning with his hands to drive away the smoke in front of him.

Laksmi, the other two girls, and Anggu Razak came out from hiding behind the trees unharmed.

"You're all okay, right?" ask Awang.

Those asked nodded. The boy and his son Anggu Razak smiled shyly, very sweet.

Awang was given a smile like that so misbehaved and averted his eyes.

The son gathered the horses of the enemy and gave the ropes to Laksmi and the others.

After making sure no one was hurt, and making sure the company soldiers were all killed, Ulong and the rest of the group resumed their journey, heading for the Company Post a few more kilometers ahead.

Nearly half an hour they rode without speaking, until in a moment they would arrive at the Company Post.

Crews beckoned the others to stop their horses.

"Why bang?" ask Ulong.

"We almost arrived at the company headquarters, about ten or fifteen minutes after passing the uphill road ahead" he said.

"Ooh", Ulong said as he looked forward, to the uphill road.

"Then we have to wait until most of their troops come out" Ulong said.

"Why did they take so long, did they not want us to visit their post?", unknowingly Mat Kecik said.

Arman punched his friend's shoulder with a laugh.

Just now Mat Kecik said like that seen a flickering torch light at the end of the road uphill in front of them, first only one then followed by a few more behind him.

"That's them out of the base" said Awang.

One by one the torches carried by the company's troops were extinguished because the holder drove their horses down the road.

In the dim moonlight, they look like black shadows racing down.

"Let's get ready" said Anggu Razak.

Ulong and the troupe hurriedly got away, all over.

This is the most important part of the plan.

Before long they hid, the company troops passed them by the number of about thirty or more people, consisting of Dutch and indigenous soldiers.

The riders left dust-headed behind them.

Ulong and the others quietly waited and watched until the group passed.

The number of horses that passed simultaneously caused a rumbling sound, the sound was even still heard until they moved away.

After they had passed and the galloping of the horses could no longer be heard, the Son came out of hiding to lead his horse and stand on the road.

He made sure for a while, then after it felt completely safe he gestured with his hands calling his hiding friends to come out.

Simultaneously Ulong, Awang and the group came out from hiding in the grove of trees and shrubs.

They immediately drove the horse as fast as possible towards the company post that could be ascertained at this time almost empty of guards.

As Awang said, about ten minutes after passing the ramp saw the military post in front, fenced in white walls, decorated with yellow light torches that were set there.

Soon they jumped down from the horse and led him towards the teak trees south of the post.

From there they were quite free to observe without being seen by the enemy.

The defensive post looked quite spacious, approximately thirty square meters.

Around the post was empty land with a width of about forty meters on each side.

The empty land without any plants on it was provided so that the soldiers in the military complex could see if any enemies were approaching.

The five-meter-high wall fence became a barrier with empty land around it. And on the four corners there is a seven-meter high guard tower.

In each tower, there was a soldier standing guard.

"This place is too big to be called a post" Ulong thought as soon as he saw the building.