open sea

Chapter 669 Occupying Land
Ma Gui failed to go another two thousand miles to the south, and they witnessed a battle on land [-] miles away at sea.

The territory of the Yi people is larger than the Ming army imagined. At the end of the long strait, they found seven Yi people villages. Few people here kept dogs. This created convenient conditions for the Ming army to sneak in. Two Jurchens who sneaked into the village Orion brought back news that the people's residences here are long single-room rooms, ranging from large to small, with even dozens of people sleeping in one room.

There is no habit of wearing armor, but people have many decorations such as feathers and painted stones. The age of weapons spans 3000 years in China, and there are metal weapons made of wood, bone, stone, and copper and iron. This shows that They may not know how to make iron, or they may have completed the steps of mining ore and smelting metal.

Ma Gui wrote down his doubts in his notebook: If the 'Izu people' they found belonged to the same tribe, then this tribe would be the largest tribe since he landed in North America three years ago, with nearly 3000 people, and Considering the vast area extending inland from the coast, there may be even more 'Yi people'.

Because he had never found such densely populated locals in that area.

But immediately afterwards, Magui found the reason why the Amerika natives formed a settlement here, and it is likely that they had just migrated here.

On the sea a few miles away from the coastline, the Fuchuan, which carried more than [-] flag troops, lowered its sails and sailed at a slow speed. Behind the Fuchuan were a few small one-masted boats, none of which were equipped with artillery. In order to load as much baggage as possible in the limited space, Ma Gui ordered all the artillery to be unloaded at the port in Majia Port.

No one thinks that there will be battles in this land that cannot be solved by bird guns and tiger squat guns.

Magui has already determined that this is a land bestowed by God. There are countless animals along the coast, and a large number of fish can be caught in the sea. It is only a cursory observation that it is not possible to determine whether there are enough mineral deposits, but the land they found is very fertile. Fruits and vegetables can grow luxuriantly on the ground under human care.

Among all the gratifying information, the most eye-catching are the tall and straight towering trees. They have seen pine trees as high as more than twenty feet and equally tall cedar trees. As long as there are enough experienced craftsmen With manpower, it will develop into a shipyard surpassing Xiangshan in a few years.

But it's not all good.

"They're marching."

Ma Jin held the binoculars and said: "Three sentinels can be seen. Uh, there are no horses. They marched south in separate lanes. They didn't bring any luggage. The marching distance should not be far."

The three whistles in Ma Jin's mouth were actually three teams. They carried bows and arrows, throwing spears, and some weapons such as hand axes through the forest, running and jumping quickly.

Ma Gui turned his head and looked at his elder brother in surprise, and said, "Will they bring luggage when they are far away? I have never seen them have a cart, a horse cart, an ox cart, a donkey cart, nothing."

"Let's follow them and see where they're going."

Ma Jin ignored his younger brother's doubts. The natives here don't have the awareness of road construction. With the road conditions, even if there is a car, they can't pull it.

The marching route of the natives of North America was much farther than Ma Gui and others imagined. They ran south along the coast on two legs. Along the way, a group of tribal hunters holding torches joined them, from day to night , Continue to set off the next day.

After traveling more than [-] miles, at this moment, the native troops have formed more than a dozen teams with distinct costumes and uniforms, with a total strength of more than a thousand people.

Even in the two centurions that joined in the southernmost part, their leaders rode tall horses that could make Magui greedy, and they also wore iron armor on their chests.

In the binoculars, Ma Gui seemed to see their target—it was a wooden camp standing on the shore, and two old single-masted boats were docked beside the camp connecting the port trestle, which looked like a small supply station.

Ma Gui is very familiar with this, and he has set up more than a dozen of such hundreds of households on the long coastline from Kuwu Island to Majia Port. live.

The only difference is that there are not hundreds of busy native slaves wearing only shorts and almost naked outside those hundreds of houses.

A tall flag with a red cross was erected on this remote and simple wooden village, indicating that it was a supply point belonging to the Spaniards.

"That's it, [-] miles southeast of Majia Port, it seems that the land further south has been occupied by Xiyi."

Ma Gui looked at the camp on the coast with some unwillingness. Although he didn't know how far the so-called Mexico was from here, he was sure that there was still a long distance in his heart. In Xuanda, they fought for every inch of the Mongols, but now they are Want to hand over a large piece of land to Xiyi?
Ma Jin's expression was similar, but they all knew that Daming needed the Spaniards, and the silver mines were in the hands of the Spaniards, so there should be no more troubles after a peace was negotiated.

At least they could not go to war with the Spaniards until a large number of reinforcements arrived.

Of course, everything else is false, just Magui's army of more than 200 troops stretching [-] miles along the coastline... the natives can drive him away.

When everyone was staring at the small camp in the distance, Ma Gui suddenly spoke.

"Full sail, continue south, and bypass this camp."

When the flag army on the boat heard the military order, Ma Jin asked in amazement: "At most an hour, most of the natives will be approaching the city. Why don't you see how they fight? Why are you heading south at this time?"

This is a good opportunity for them to understand how the Spaniards fight, and how the locals fight... These people have been trained for a long time on Kuwu Island before they set off, and they almost know Nanyang three years ago The military government knows everything overseas, but has never really seen it. Everything is paper knowledge.

Ma Gui shook his head slightly, he didn't know what he was thinking, and said after taking a long breath: "Don't worry, I'll be back in a while."

The Spaniards’ camp was small, but they occupied a vast area of ​​land. It seems that they passed on the method of planting to the slaves of the natives. Most of the natives who did not even have clothes were working on the few fields that had been reclaimed around them, or moving to and fro. Goods, the number of people in the entire camp is too far away to see clearly, but Ma Gui can still see through the green lens that there are a few soldiers wearing high-eave helmets and holding guns or spears in the camp.

The binoculars gave Ma Gui the opportunity to observe them from a very long distance, and he circumvented the camp properly. He sailed south for more than [-] miles and found no more Spanish camps. Then he sailed north, and finally arrived at an estimated distance of ten miles to the south of the camp. Landed Hulan and other Mongolian soldiers and their horses on the beach.

Magui has only one order: "Block the camp and hide it. If they send more than five people to send messages to the east, let them go; if there are less than five, and send messages to the south, shoot them. Stay alive."

Ma Jin's eyes widened, and he said anxiously, "What are you going to do?"

"I don't want to give the land to Xiyi. This land is not theirs, but ours, right? Letting the natives do what they want is good for us." Maguinu pursed her mouth and patted the side of the boat. : "Let's go, let's go back and take down the two boats in the port!"

(End of this chapter)