open sea

Chapter 700 Allied Forces
Ma Gui called them Yi people only because he heard them shouting Yi during the pursuit, but in fact they have their own name, called neizi to accompany their son.

Well, Shao Tingda transliterated it like this, wife and child, very good!

Although the family doesn't mean it that way, but he thinks this family name is good, he loves his family very much, he is a man, what can he do if he doesn't love his wife and children?
They called Yi, but they were actually saying 'you', wanting Ma Gui's cavalry to stop and stand still for them to shoot with their bows and arrows.

"You mean, the Spaniards attacked them on horses, so they saw the riders scared, and because you were here, they were very happy at first and gave gifts?"

In the longhouse of the tribal village, Shao Tingda asked the long-legged bear with a pottery bowl full of syrup, which was boiled by the aborigines after gathering the sap of a local tree.

The surrounding aborigines sat around the fire in the longhouse. They couldn't understand what Shao Tingda was saying. Even the long-legged bear who had learned Chinese was confused for a while and nodded violently for a while. It depends on guessing.

"Spain is still beating us, and the Zhuangyuan Bridge is gone." The long-legged bear said without any sadness on his face, and said, "Zheng Tu asked the long-legged bear to find Magui, how can he find Magui?"

"You want to ask, where is Ma Gui?"

Shao Tingda laughed while drinking the syrup, raised his two fingers and pointed at the long-legged bear, "Good question! I'm here to find Magui, I'm lost!"

"But don't worry about it, you belong to Zheng Tu, Zheng Tu belongs to Ma Gui, Ma Gui belongs to my brother, and you are all from Daming."

Shao Tingda was quite logical. He patted the earthen pot, pointed to the outside of the longhouse, and said, "The sugar water is good. I see there is a well outside. My boat needs fresh water to prevent you from panic. Please do your best to help me carry the water to the shore."

"The weather here is not too cold. Let's stay on the shore for a few days, and let the sailors on the ship take turns to rest on the shore. You mobilize your troops and march with Shao's fleet by land and water. Let's go and bring back the Zhuangyuan Bridge."

As Shao Tingda said, he turned to Hei Yunlong and said, "Tch! I'm still a brother of the Ma family who eats hot food here. I never thought that I would suffer a lot for my brother and be bullied by that little Xiyi."

Shao Tingda didn't know what kind of life Ma Gui lived here, but he heard that Ma Gui didn't have a happy life in middle school. More soldiers died under his command than he had in successive wars in Nanyang, and he was chased by the court as a Put the living dead.

He can understand all that, but he really can't accept the fact that this seemingly new recruit was wiped out by the Spaniards before he has enough connections.

Are you too frustrated?
Think about their Nanyang military government, the Daming vassal army, and the spearmen of the warship artillery team, what is it like?Looking at this side again, there is no bird gun or cannon, and the armor can barely be counted as the second leader. The archer and spearman, the most outrageous thing is that there are stone weapons.

The only thing that Mang Chong can look at is probably the high morale warriors with a large number of wives and children.

Since the tribal elder who was elected as the leader of the war issued an assembly order to the surrounding tribes, more than ten villages in the north sent half of the hunting teams to participate in the attack in a few days, and more tribes in the south gathered their hands on the only way they must go south. .

Their armor was simple, about ten people could barely scrape together a pair of cotton armor without iron armor, more people wore fur armor, and some were even inlaid with wood or bone to strengthen their defense.

The weapons are not bad, the stone spear and the bone spear are definitely not good, but the big bow is well made and the arm is strong. If it weren't for those bone and arrow clusters, it would still be in Shao Tingda's eyes.

Shao Tingda, who had eaten roasted bison beef for two days, once suspected that this kind of arrowhead would be difficult to injure the huge and thick-fur bison. Later, the long-legged bear helped him dispel this doubt.

In hunting activities, their bows are very powerful. Rabbits and wild wolves cannot escape the ambush of experienced hunters. However, stone and bone arrows have limited damage after all, and cannot be used to deal with bears and bison. For a large beast, at most three out of ten arrows can pierce the flesh by chance and leave bloodstains.

In the hunt of large game, the purpose of the longbow is to scare the animals, who will choose to trouble the relatively thin and solitary animals in winter, when their fur grows best.

Use spears, bows and arrows to encircle and drive the beasts to the pre-set traps, and everything is easy to catch.If the situation is not good, it will require spearmen to fight for their lives, and the longbow is useless.

In a village of [-] people, as long as they can kill three bison in winter, they can survive the whole winter with the stored winter food.

Mang Chong was playing with iron arrowheads that were poorly made. People here are very good at using fire. They burn stones picked up in the river. Sometimes there is iron, but they don’t know where there is iron ore, even if they know it, they don’t Know how to mine.

As long as a batch of iron arrows arrive, the combat power of these hunters who can only shoot will be able to suddenly rise to a higher level.

Seeing the cotton armor worn by the aboriginal soldiers, Shao Tingda knew why those Spanish soldiers seemed a little vulnerable in the Battle of Linlai Island.

In this land, before the Ming army came, the enemies of the Spaniards were the aborigines. Facing the weapons of the aborigines, in Chen Mu's words, the defense of the iron armor had overflowed.

Under what circumstances would people give up their armor?
One is that unless the armor you wear is so heavy that you can’t walk, it still can’t stop the lead shot from the gun chamber; the other is that it is difficult for the enemy to hurt you if you wear thick clothes casually.

The situation faced by Asian Spaniards during this period is obviously the latter,
In just a few days, a hunter troop of more than [-] people gathered around the village and waited to march south with Shao Tingda's tribe. Before them, two hundred-strong aboriginal teams had dispersed to various parts along the way, calling people from all tribes to participate in the battle. In this war launched for the champion bridge.

It's not that there are so many soldiers in the "Yi tribe" that Magui thought in the past or the "wives and children tribe" in Shao Tingda's mind now, but as the most powerful tribe along the coast, they are like a dam, blocking the northward expansion of the territory. Spanish.

In the south of them, countless tribes originally settled not far from the north of Mexico, until they were driven from there by the Spaniards two or thirty years ago and were forced to migrate north.

Now there is a chance to fight back, even though they know that the target of the war is Zhuangyuan Bridge, but at least this is a beginning.

But just when everything was ready, the long-legged bear loaded ten barrels of syrup on Shao Tingda's boat, and when the navy and army were about to set off, an unexpected visitor interrupted Mang Chong's desire to gather the aborigines and head south.

Unlike Shao Tingda who brought horse boats and baggage boats to assemble a fleet of more than [-] ships, there were only nine incoming ships.

An [-]-material big shark ship is used as the flagship, followed by seven [-]-material regular big shark ships, and a blessing boat to carry luggage. The size of the nine battleships is no worse than the Shao Tingda battleship in terms of combat power.

Fu Yuan is here.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)