Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 263 The Nightmare of the Betsy Misarakas ([-])

After a battle, according to the practice of the East Bank, a post-war summary meeting will be held, but at this time Li Yi raised an objection.

"We should take advantage of the situation to attack!" Li Yi said, waving his arms, "Continue to attack! Have you forgotten what we were going to do in the morning? Yes, that's right, we were going to take the initiative to attack in the morning to destroy the barbarian lair in the south Yes, now we should go on. This battle was just an accident. In fact, these barbarians sent us a lot of trouble. Just think, they lost more than 700 strong men with us, the original tribe There must not be much strength inside, for such old, weak, sick and disabled tribes, when will we not conquer them now?"

Hearing what Li Yi said, Shi Qinjie also thought the idea was good, so he quickly agreed to the proposal to continue attacking the barbarian tribe.After calculating the current strength at hand, Shi Qinjie divided 5 platoons of army soldiers (80 people) and 100 slaves. These people will be led by Changshou Taoist, the deputy company of the 101st company.Of course, the full power of this operation was awarded to Lieutenant Li Yi of the Navy, and he unified the control of the navy and army in battle.

Before departure, Li Yi also ordered the interrogation of the captured barbarian captives.Regrettably, there was a language barrier between the two parties, and the interrogation was completely deadlocked.Only when "Bezimi Salaka" was mentioned, these barbarians had some obvious reactions and nodded repeatedly, which confirmed Shi Chinger's guess about the identities of these people from the side—these descendants of Malays really lived in Bezimi Salaka people on the east coast.

After handing over some of the wounded to the city, the four-ship formation with the "Red Trout" frigate as the main force carried the army soldiers again unanchored the anchor and raised the sails, left Xinhua Bay, and headed south along the coastline.The weather at sea is really changing rapidly. It was sunny when we went out. Unexpectedly, after sailing for a few hours, it began to rain heavily on the sea, and even the wind direction became an annoying southwesterly wind.

The sailors had to adjust the yards, and sailed slowly southward using the crosswind. The speed of the entire fleet was only less than 4 knots.However, slow speed also has the advantage of slow speed, because it can at least allow officers and lookouts on the entire east coast fleet to better and more carefully observe the situation on the coastline.

The fleet has left Xinhua Bay and sailed southward for about [-] nautical miles. There are large lush forests everywhere along the way, and there is no sign of human activities on the seashore.At this time, the wind direction changed again, and a southeast wind blew that was completely unfavorable to the course. In desperation, Li Yi had no choice but to order the bosun to lower the sail and let the ship drift forward along the ocean current.

"Captain, there are canoes on the coast, right at the mouth of the river leading to the sea!" The watchman on the mast tower suddenly shouted excitedly.

"Oh, let me take a look." Li Yi was overjoyed, and quickly stood on the top deck of the third floor of the stern building, raised his binoculars and observed the shore intently.

There is indeed the mouth of a river.The river is not very big, only about tens of meters wide.The river is also very turbid, and there are large floodplains near the mouth of the sea, and the canoes are moored on the shore of those broken floodplains.There are many houses on the shore that seem to be a mix of mud and wood. The top of the house should be thatched, which looks very simple.

There are many things like fishing nets drying at the door of those houses. It is estimated that these natives themselves wove fishing nets with some plant fibers, which are used for fishing on weekdays.A lot of farmland has also been reclaimed on the shore, and I don't know what kind of crops are planted. Indigenous people in twos and threes are still busy in the fields.

"It's here!" Li Yi put down the binoculars, and then said to Taoist Shou standing behind him: "It's five o'clock, and it's less than two hours before dark, enough for you to go ashore and make an assault. Now I order to destroy all the barbarian villages you see in the floodplain area of ​​the estuary, and punish this gang of thugs! All those who dare to resist are thugs, and I authorize you to dispose of them freely. Of course, for the natives who surrendered, We can also spare his life. Alright, Captain Shou, now, let's go!"

Taoist Shou put his legs together and stood at attention, shouted yes, then went down to the deck to organize troops to land.

The "Red Trout" gunboat and the "Galicia Flying Fish" transport ship put down many small boats, and then heavily armed army soldiers and 3 Eight Banners slaves armed with 100-meter spears began to board the boats.At this time, a small soft sail had been raised on the fast-moving boat, and the sail immediately swelled up under the infusion of the southeast wind. He rushed towards the shore like an arrow.

As early as when the big ship appeared on the sea, the natives on the shore seemed to have discovered them.However, they didn't seem too panicked at first, until they saw a large number of small boats rushing towards the shore aggressively, and the people on the small boats were also fully armed, they finally panicked.

They ran and shouted, spreading the news of the "pirate" attack everywhere.The farmers who were working on the ground also took their farm tools and rushed towards their homes.After hesitating for a moment, some fishermen who were repairing their fishing nets by the sea also abandoned the canoes and fishing nets that were close at hand, and ran to the depths of the land.

"Assemble, team up!" Daoist Shou was wearing a bright breastplate, holding his command saber high in his right hand.After seeing him standing there, the soldiers, under the leadership of the platoon leader, began to form a team with him as the head of the right platoon.The slaves, led by some 101st company sergeants, lined up in a crooked formation, holding spears, and began to advance towards the village before the army soldiers.

The specific longevity of the Taoist priest in this village is not clear, but the residents are scattered.Because the alluvial plain at the estuary is too broken, these farming Bezimisaraka people also live scattered on the flood plain of different sizes.At this time, one plain was attacked, and several other plains got the news one after another. Perhaps they have developed some primitive and effective means of information transmission in the process of dealing with pirates and plunder all the year round.

At this time, from Li Yi's telescope on the deck of the "Red Trout", it can be seen that the army led by Taoist Shou has basically completed its team and is heading towards the indigenous village.And in some harbors and rivers hundreds of meters ahead of them, a large number of natives paddling canoes with spears and short knives were yelling for reinforcements. There were about two hundred people.

After being cautious at the beginning, the Eight Banners slaves also began to speed up their progress, because they found that there was no resistance in the village at all.There are panicked old and weak women and children, as well as humped cattle running around.The slaves spread out their formation, and while catching livestock, they waved their spears and ordered the panicked natives, old and weak, to squat down.

At this time, the soldiers of the 101st company began to pass them and advance deeper.Soon, they encountered the native strong men who came for reinforcements in canoes, and the two sides had a short and fierce battle on the river beach.There was no suspense in the outcome of the battle. Nearly half of the more than 200 indigenous men who came to reinforce were killed in the volley of guns, and the rest either surrendered on the spot or jumped into the river to escape.The entire battle lasted less than 10 minutes. Of the 80 musketeers, only two were shot and killed by bows and arrows, and four were only slightly injured. The loss was extremely slight.

After defeating this largest resistance force, what is left is basically to clean up the battlefield and capture people and livestock.The slaves of the Eight Banners must be familiar with this, because they were captured by the people from the east coast in this way, but now they have changed their roles again, from the captured to the captor.They surrounded the village, took many ropes, tied the Bezimisaraka people together one by one, and drove them towards the coast.There, many naval sailors are waiting to receive personnel and supplies.

After clearing this area, Taoist priest Shou continued his efforts and took the soldiers and slaves in the canoes abandoned by the Bezimisaraka people and rowed upstream along the river.There are still a few villages over there, but it seems that most of the residents have already fled, leaving only some livestock and a few women and children who have time to escape in the future.

Li Yi put down the binoculars silently, and there was nothing to see anymore. The battle was actually over, and the harvest was huge.These backward and barbaric aborigines have almost no ability to resist under the attack of powerful enemies. It is no wonder that the European colonists of later generations can often gallop in many barbarian countries with dozens or hundreds of people. The level or the level of technology are too weak.

Of course, Li Yi does not deny that whether in South Africa or in New China over the years, what the people on the east coast have done is outright banditry, no different from those European colonists, and even worse than those Europeans in the process of conquest. Be more brutal.But who cares?This is the case in this era. After more than ten years, everyone has been assimilated by time and space, and the lower limit of morality has been refreshed again and again. As long as it is for the development of the country, all crimes can be hidden under this righteousness.

The landing crew returned before dark, but the operation of transporting the looted people and livestock continued until midnight.In the next few days, Li Yi's fleet traveled all the way south along the east coast, and even sailed to the vicinity of Tamatave in the south of St. Mary's Island at the farthest point.Along the way, a total of more than ten indigenous villages were destroyed, and nearly a thousand indigenous people were captured. In addition, there were more than one hundred humped cattle unique to the Maldives Island.

On November 11, Li Yi's fleet returned with a large number of people and supplies.

PS: Happy New Year everyone!

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