open sea

Chapter 395 Desperate
There are so many savages under Chen Mu's command!

First there was Yang Zhaolong's [-] Xinming immigrant group, and later there was Lin Manjue, the King of the Mountains of Guam.

There is no way to sink the ship. There is no material to repair the damaged shark ship, not to mention he dare not cut wood to repair it in the enemy's territory. Lin Manjue does not want his ship to be captured by the enemy, and he is unwilling to flee back, so the only way is to sink the ship .

The folding masts of the five small shark boats were lowered by them. More than 300 people dismantled the nooses that pulled the anchors on the boats. It took a lot of effort to pull the five big boats to the shore. Being short also has its advantages, at least it is convenient to hide the boat.

It took a lot of effort to dig sand and fetch soil, and worry about the enemy's patrol, so that the five small shark boats were disguised as dirt slopes and rocky slopes. Not to mention, Lin Manjue felt that it would be too difficult for the boats to be buckled on the ground. Very convenient.

A few large stones were piled up outside the porthole of the gun port, leaving a hole for one person to enter and exit. Small boxes of objects that were too late to be transported were buckled in the boat, especially things that could last for storage, such as kimchi and tea, and they were moved back box by box. The roof of the ship in the past is regarded as the floor, and the bottom of the ship is just the plank of the ship.

Whether it's resourcefulness or cleverness, Lin Manjue's plan to go around and hide on the east side of the island was achieved by his strategy of making a detour and hiding in the east of the island. During the time of the situation, for a full eight days, their large force hiding near the ship once discovered an enemy ship sailing in the offshore, and did not find them.

Of course they couldn't find them. These ships were so disguised that even Lin Manjue couldn't find them when he went a little farther and came back, let alone more than ten miles away at sea!
"The commander-in-chief came to attack, and there was a strong wind in the middle. At least four months, we have to wait for six months, and we may not be able to wait for six months."

At night, Lin Manjue didn't dare to light a fire on the beach. They drank hot porridge in the boat and carefully opened the window to let the fireworks dissipate slowly. The sentry officers of each team sat around on the beach and listened to the general talk about the future plan.

"There is no reinforcements, and there is no follow-up equipment. The people on the island have two lives, and they can't understand the language when they capture the prisoners."

“大小火炮连虎蹲狼机94位、炮弹一千二百有奇，小旗箭26支、掌心雷七十颗；鸟铳手铳370杆、铳子九千余枚，火药大桶小箱一万四千斤；水粮……仅够我370六人66日所用。”

Lin Manjue let out a long breath. No one could see his face clearly in the night, but his tone sounded like he had no future. All supplies became consumables, things that would be finished when they were used up.

Anyone who encounters this situation will be discouraged, but after being dejected, they can only bite the bullet and move forward, they have to live.

"There is not much gunpowder, and there is not enough water and food. Tomorrow, I will take out two guns of five catties and ten guns of two catties. The rest will be hidden in the cabin. It will take too much gunpowder. As for water and food, I will forget it. I will eat enough for three months. Kimchi Put away the tea and tea first, General Deng said that it would be useful to eat when the mouth is bleeding, then eat it when the bleeding comes—Xiao Xiucai is here.”

The scholar's name is Lin Xiao, and he didn't pass the exam, not even a child student. He studied for a few years and is a descendant of the Lin family in the village. He has always been obedient to Lin Manjue. Now he wears a breastplate and joins the army. He bowed aside and said, "Uncle."

"From today onwards, find a notebook and write down everything I say. After two months, you will take them over the boat and head north. Even if you can't reach Luzon, you can still reach Guangdong and Fujian."

Lin Xiao asked, "Uncle, what about you?"

"If I don't find out the facts, I won't go back. To find out the facts, the commander-in-chief will need someone to lead the way. This time the enemy is a deadly effort. I knew it before I went to sea, and I would be close to death."

The narrow escape he talked about is neither real death nor real life, but a change of life.

Lin Manjue made a promise to 440 people under his command, and Chen Lin made a promise that when they found out the complete star map of the general's voyage to Guam and the deployment of enemy troops on the island, 44 people will be admitted to the naval lecture hall, each from the lecture hall When he comes out, he will be able to serve as the first-level general officer of Qianzong and Qianhu, and lead the fleet alone to be reused in the future.

Even if the person is dead, the heirs of those who have done meritorious service can go to school, and the brothers or nephews who have no heirs can go to school, so there are 44 people.

But Lin Manjue didn't want to tell his subordinates about this. They will know all this when they go back. He waved his hand and said: "The fishing nets and fishing gear are all ready. On the eighth day after landing on the island, there are enemy ships patrolling. When you see the enemy ships next time, you will know their identity." Patrol interval."

"There are also knives and axes. The wood cut in the past few days is enough to make a few small rafts, and the small boats put down on the boat will be picked up by the enemy to fish along the coast when they are not patrolling. In addition, 60 people with good bow and crossbow shooting skills will enter When hunting in the mountains, don’t use guns, there are only twenty bows and crossbows in the luggage, what you can hit is nothing, if you can’t hit it, pick wild fruits, and look for the water along the way.”

"I picked up the cluster of arrows, there are less than a thousand of them, and those things will be gone when they are used up."

If the arrow shaft is gone, you can sharpen it again, but if the arrow cluster is gone, they can't hammer it out by hand.

"The key is to find out the enemy's situation. Guam is not big. It takes only one day to sail from the west of the island to the east of the island. First find out the surrounding three miles before making follow-up plans."

Speaking of this, Lin Manjue's face became a bit ruthless in the night. He looked around at the sentry officers on the left and right, and said, "I may not die here, as long as I hide myself first, these things... can be snatched!"

Why did he visit Guam?Because this is the front line camp of Xiyi, there are ships and enemy troops here, so there must be a huge amount of food, grass and ordnance hoarded, this kind of thing can be guessed by any low-level officer.

And compared to the Xiyi army, even any army in the world including Daming, Lin Manjue did not believe that anyone of them could have more guns and firearms than them with the same strength.

370 six people, 370 guns, 94 guns, who can have so many firearms?

Even Chen Erye's personal troops were nothing more than that, and they didn't have as many guns as them. After all, there was no crazy person who specially unloaded all the guns on the ship unless it was a last resort.

However, things did not go as smoothly as Lin Manjue imagined. On the [-]th day when they landed on the island, several American search teams led by a Spanish lieutenant searched and returned from the northern part of the island, and roughly swept across the eastern coast of the island where they were located. Then sweep south.

Relying on early detection by scouts, the soldiers of Lin Manjue's battalion who were hiding in the cabin and the sand narrowly escaped the search, just in line with Deng Zilong's divination, and there was no danger.

With the help of the binoculars protruding from the cabin, a quick glance from a distance allowed Lin Manjue to see their enemies clearly. In the hot and humid tropical rainforest, led by a few Xiyi white men, a group of exceptionally strong people with wooden guns were looming in front of and behind the dense forest. Stone weapons, bare-chested or dark-skinned Indian warriors wearing strange cotton clothes.

He saw someone wearing a tiger-head mask.

But this also cast a haze on Lin Manjue's originally confident heart. The Xiyi enemy on the island has already suspected that they have landed on the island!

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)