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Sporadic sightings on what appeared to be native scouts were reported during the following days and foraging parties were shadowed from a distance; overall the majority of the Haiwang's crew were now uneasy and wanted to leave but Huang Mao insisted they could still talk their way out of hostilities. On the night of the 20th of April a force of natives possibly numbering on the thousands set up camp a few hundred meters from the walls of the Daxian camp. In case the camp was attacked and could not be held, escape would only be possibly by rowboat back to the Haiwang which was anchored some hundred meters away, and then some men would have to wait ashore as the number of boats limited a full evacuation. Huang Mao resolved to attempt to dialogue with the native host and get it to retreat. As he walked towards them away from the camp he was hit with darts, with one getting lodged in his neck and two on his right arm. As he was dragged back inside the palisade, the natives surged forward to attack. The fight raged for hours as the natives tried to climb the palisade walls or hacked at the gate with stone hatchets and the greatly outnumbered Daxians desperately tried to repel them. The darts that Huang Mao had been struck with were poisoned and his wounds soon went began to become necrotic. Seeing the situation all but lost, the crew abandoned the defense and their dying captain and made for the boats. Only around forty men made it back to the Haiwang, the rest presumably being killed on the shore or drowning as they tried to swim back to the ship. | Sporadic sightings on what appeared to be native scouts were reported during the following days and foraging parties were shadowed from a distance; overall the majority of the Haiwang's crew were now uneasy and wanted to leave but Huang Mao insisted they could still talk their way out of hostilities. On the night of the 20th of April a force of natives possibly numbering on the thousands set up camp a few hundred meters from the walls of the Daxian camp. In case the camp was attacked and could not be held, escape would only be possibly by rowboat back to the Haiwang which was anchored some hundred meters away, and then some men would have to wait ashore as the number of boats limited a full evacuation. Huang Mao resolved to attempt to dialogue with the native host and get it to retreat. As he walked towards them away from the camp he was hit with darts, with one getting lodged in his neck and two on his right arm. As he was dragged back inside the palisade, the natives surged forward to attack. The fight raged for hours as the natives tried to climb the palisade walls or hacked at the gate with stone hatchets and the greatly outnumbered Daxians desperately tried to repel them. The darts that Huang Mao had been struck with were poisoned and his wounds soon went began to become necrotic. Seeing the situation all but lost, the crew abandoned the defense and their dying captain and made for the boats. Only around forty men made it back to the Haiwang, the rest presumably being killed on the shore or drowning as they tried to swim back to the ship. | ||
==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||
The starving survivors of the expedition managed to sail the Haiwang back to [[Zhijun]], with a dozen more dead from the original forty that survived the island. They were interrogated for their accounts of the trip before being summarily fired by the company and then imprisoned for theft and misuse of company assets, namely the ship. Despite the grievous consecuences for the participants of the expedition ultimately it was a mere blip in relation to [[Daxia]]n endeavours around the [[Polynesian Sea|Polynesian]] and was not seen as a factor in favor of a policy of caution. Only three years later a [[ | The starving survivors of the expedition managed to sail the Haiwang back to [[Zhijun]], with a dozen more dead from the original forty that survived the island. They were interrogated for their accounts of the trip before being summarily fired by the company and then imprisoned for theft and misuse of company assets, namely the ship. Despite the grievous consecuences for the participants of the expedition ultimately it was a mere blip in relation to [[Daxia]]n endeavours around the [[Polynesian Sea|Polynesian]] and was not seen as a factor in favor of a policy of caution. Only three years later a [[Daxia]]n attack on [[Kiravia]]n [[Sarolasta]] known as the [[Siege of Dun-Kurrengev]] would end in another military setback. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||