open sea

Chapter 407
The sound of the artillery was like thunder in the sky, rolling towards Guam continuously.

The sound spread to the island. Except for the port on the shore, nothing could be heard in the dense jungle. It was like the slight sound of horseshoes in the distance. Intense naval battles.

What first caught Lin Xiao's attention was that the garrison on the island began to move towards the port, and the enemy army that was guarding them on the east side of the island seemed to also start to rush towards the west.

Lin Xiao, who was so frightened that he led troops on the island to fetch water and hunt food, thought that he had been discovered by the enemy—in order to reduce weight, they lurked on the island at night without any weapons except waist knives, and even the armor was unloaded on the boat. Once it is found that it cannot escape, it is a dead end.

Thirty battalion soldiers fetching water each had to carry seven two-jin water bags and some meaty wild fruits. If they wanted to go on a normal journey, they didn't have more physical strength to carry armor.

"They don't seem to be looking for us, they seem to be summoned. There is a port over there. What happened?"

Whether it is a search or a march, even if the race is different and the language is different, it can still be seen from the posture. Lin Xiao, who is climbing on the palm tree and looking out, clearly sees through the binoculars that the enemy has no intention of searching.

"Don't care about them, let's send the water bag to the shore."

Lin Xiao regards the turmoil in Guam as a blessing from the gods. There are no enemy troops on the east side of the island, which allows them to send the water bags back as soon as possible. Without these burdens, they can find food faster.

Water and food are all that can keep them alive, and nothing else is important.

Lin Manjue once smoked an obsidian pipe in the shipwreck camp and worried that he would die on the island, and he thought about teaching Lin Xiao something for his funeral.

Uncle said that once he was killed in battle, the sentry officers under his command would not have the ability to lead the rest of the people, and he, a scholar, would be needed to lead the way.Among junior officers, there is no distinction between high and low. If you want to be respected and followed by others, you have to be stronger than others and pay more. Especially in matters that must die, it is unpopular to sit in a safe place and assign others to die.

Unless he has cronies who are willing to lead people to work hard.

Lin Xiao has no cronies, so he can only let others stay in a safe place, and lead his people to the island to find food.

Only he bravely finds water and food, distributes water and food fairly, and his prestige and trust can allow him to lead the neighbors and soldiers to survive until the army comes to help them and bring them home.

Maybe Lin Manjue, who was tied up in the cabin and full of crazy thoughts, didn't even think that the successor he taught would put him under house arrest earlier and make up his mind for him.

The more he walked back, the more uneasy Lin Xiao felt. Maybe everyone who could give Paoze a boost in despair was a liar. gain confidence from people.

Lin Xiao studied hard for ten years and failed to pass the exam, but he used the wisdom he learned in the book to deceive people, but he was more convincing. In fact, he didn't really believe that the Ming army would come to help in seven or eight days.

It's just that he has to show determination to convince his illiterate brothers and uncles that the Ming army will really come to help in seven or eight days.

Lin Xiao kept telling himself: You are not talented enough, so don't have other distractions. Whether you can bring Paoze back to Guangdong is something you have to talk about, so how can you think about anything else.

But the more this happened, the more he wanted to know what happened to the port on the other side of the mountain.

Halfway through the journey, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to send a battalion to look out, but he couldn't put his hand up, so he put his arms around the shoulders of the battalion beside him, and said, "I'll go and see what's coming out of the other side of the mountain." What's the matter, you wait for me on the shore, if I can't come back in two hours, you can go back by boat, and ask uncle about everything."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the battalion to answer, he plunged into the deep forest and ran up the mountain. After the rest of the battalion joined up, two more guards ran over behind him.

When Lin Xiao climbed up the mountain panting, he picked up the binoculars that had been accidentally broken a few days ago and looked towards the port. Except for the increase in the number of enemy troops, there seemed to be no abnormality.

"Xiu Cai, did you hear that sound?"

Lin Xiao tilted his head and replied casually: "Thunder... No, there is a boat, the official army, the official army is finally here!"

In fact, he couldn't see anything clearly, but the phantom shadows on the sea in the distance were in the same direction as the rumbling sound. The most similar scene to this was undoubtedly a naval battle.

Lin Xiao almost rolled and crawled through the dense forest and ran towards the shore.

Everything pretended to be relieved at the moment when he saw the artillery fire in the sea. After being the leader for just three days, he just wanted to release his uncle who was under house arrest, and return to being the Lin Xiucai who should kill the enemy and record the record.

Being locked up in the cabin for three days also made Lin Manjue more sober. When the veteran with a thick beard was always helped out of the cabin by the battalion soldiers, he raised his leg and kicked his kneeling nephew who confessed his mistake.

It just made Lin Xiao a big somersault.

"The handsome is here?"

Lin Manjue glanced at the crew on the boat, pushed away the cronies who were supporting him and stretched his body, and there was a crackling sound from the joints.

The commander-in-chief he talks about has always been Chen Lin, the general of Nanyang. He hasn't mixed up enough to be able to call Chen Mu the commander-in-chief. They are all the old troops who fought with Chen Mu on the frontier, or the Nanyang commander. It can only be called by a first-level general. For example, when Chen Lin is discussing affairs, he can be called Marshal Chen Mu.

"Fuck it!"

Lin Manjue wanted to say that it was time, but he said this in his heart. After swearing, he said to the left and right: "Open the jar of wine in the boat, eat a full meal, and bring three days of dry food ashore!"

"Get up! Next time you dare to tie me up and beat you to death, you idiot."

Lin Xiao snickered and patted his shoulders with boot prints floating on the dirt. The sailors on the ship laughed like they were alive after a catastrophe.

Lin Manjue also laughed, and waited for the subordinates gathered around to disperse, then he looked at Lin Xiao and said softly: "You have done a good job, and you have a general ability. Don't take the Wenju exam when you go back, but take the martial arts exam." Let's pass the test in the future and be his commander!"

"Ah! Uncle, please spare my little nephew. It's really hard to be an official under my uncle." Lin Xiao said as he embraced his cronies, and put his hand out of his pocket as if he knew it all along. He took out two gold and silver rings and a silver necklace and stuffed them back in, saying: "Go back and buy some fields, and open a social school in the village. My nephew didn't become a scholar. I will teach a few scholars to the village in the future!"

Lin Manjue laughed, at this moment a ship came to the west, it was Zeng Xishun who brought the Hundred Banners Army and the dozens of fugitives with grain ships to rescue them, who knew that the sailors on the ship were feasting on their food, and they were separated for a few months When we meet each other, we don't gossip.

Lin Manjue gathered his sentry officers, took a sketch on the deck, and said: "You came just in time. The enemy troops on the island are gathering towards the port. There were hundreds of garrisons in the three camps to the east, but now the defense is empty. We will attack one by one. Plunder, assist the commander in attacking the island!"

"Wait for the officers and soldiers to capture Guam..." Lin Manjue glanced back at the towed coffin ship, pursed his lips and sighed deeply through his nose, and cheered up: "I can return home if I wait!"

(End of this chapter)