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The northeastern coast of Cuba, the Gulf of Gibara, and the mouth of the Gibara River.

The turbulent river water carries silt and sand and washes down from the brown hills and plains of the upper reaches of the south. In Jibala Bay, where the river flows into, the sea water is turbid green and the tidal flats are silted yellow and white. Freshwater estuaries bring nutrients from upstream, depositing fertile fields along the downstream coast, and attracting schools of fish that swarm around the bay. Between the river mouth and the bay, there is a continuous tribal village and a large area of ​​farmland surrounding the village.

To put it simply, this is a place rich in resources and food, and naturally a large Taino tribe of two to three thousand people, the Spider Cave tribe, one of the tribes in the Brown Hills, has gathered.

The burrow is located on the northeastern coast, approximately at the neck of the Cuban snake. Two hundred miles further east from here is the Mayari region of Cuba's snakeheads. A hundred miles to the southwest is the large brown hill tribe located in the middle of the interior of Snake Neck. The Spider Cave Tribe and the Brown Hill Tribe have a very close relationship. The two large tribes not only have the same ancestors and ethnic marriages, but also share the fertile brown soil belt.

If the snake head in the east of Cuba's Snake Island is a mineral area rich in iron, copper, chromium and nickel, then the neck of the long snake is the richest agricultural area, a flat and fertile brown soil zone! The brown loam soil here has a high humus content and is close to black soil in fertility, which can ensure long-term and stable high yields of cassava. The only disadvantage here is that the soil has poor water permeability and can easily form waterlogging and swamps in low-lying areas. If you want to further reclaim land, you must build a large number of water conservancy projects to regulate constant and abundant rainfall...

The Brown Hill Tribes settled in the fertile brown soil belt and were the most adept at farming in the entire Snake Island of Cuba! They grow tobacco leaves on the more arid hills, cotton on low-lying areas and lightly saline-alkali lands, and high-yielding cassava on the fertile soil in between. With relatively excellent agricultural output, the largest Taíno population naturally gathered here. With the Brown Hills as the center and within a radius of two hundred miles, there are a total of 150,000 to 200,000 Taíno tribesmen gathered. It is the most densely populated area on the island of Cuba!

In later generations, this fertile brown soil area with a radius of only two hundred miles was home to two million Cubans. The food production here accounted for 20 to 30% of the entire Cuba in later generations. It can be called Cuba's "Land of Abundance"! …

The large Spider Cave tribe in front of us is located on the northern coast of the brown soil belt, and has a rather special status among the tribes of the brown hills. Because they occupy a sacred and ancient Taíno ancestral land, which is a group of underground caves that stretch for dozens of miles with no end in sight, the "Caves of Silence" (Cuevadelos Panaderos).

This ancient and sacred underground cave of astonishing scale is not only rich in a large amount of bat guano, but also rich in the darlings of the God of Death, the blue scorpion and the blue spider, which are revered by the Taino people. There have always been many tribal myths circulated.

In the eyes of the surrounding Taino tribes, the "Cave of Silence" is connected to the place of the dead in the underground world, and is a place where the elders of the Brown Hills tribes voluntarily disappeared. In the view of Tomato, the chief priest of Cuba, although there are many poisons and mysterious and dangerous places here, it is an extremely rare source of saltpeter and fertilizer, and a kingdom stronghold that must be focused on management!

In fact, the Spider Cave Tribe is the third Taíno tribe, in addition to the Mayari Tribe and the Red Earth Tribe, to convert its entire tribe to the Kingdom. It is an important fulcrum for the Kingdom to control the fertile brown soil belt. There are more than 20 teams of kingdom warriors stationed here for a long time, and there is also a missionary priest from the Mexican Alliance, Yao Yu, who personally presides over the overall situation!

Of course, the arriving Castilian fleet did not know this. At this moment, the three sea ships were anchored on the coast of the river mouth, one or two miles away from the tribal village. The captain and important crew members gathered at the bow of the ship and looked at the large native tribe from a distance.

"Move forward! Move closer! ... Lord! This is the largest native village we have ever encountered! Phew, I don't know how much coveted gold there is in this village. And wealth!…”

On the flagship, Columbus, wearing a coquettish admiral's hat, tiptoed eagerly and looked greedily at the prosperous native village. He looked at the wooden huts and shacks and the harvested cotton fields around him, and his face shone with light.

This native village obviously has a large population, and there are nearly a hundred canoes on the beach. At this time, the Taino fishermen on the canoe boats had already spread the news of the appearance of the three sailboats and the white-skinned demon back to the village. After a while, the whole village was filled with people shaking and shouting, like a boiling soup pot!

"O God of the Sun! The evil spirits are the white-skinned evil spirits in the prophecy! They have really appeared!..."

"O ancient gods, the evil demon has finally appeared!...Quickly, please ask the longship priests and warriors to come out and suppress the evil demon on the big ship!..."

"Yes! Invite the Lord God's Thunder Golden Beast out again!... Lord God! Please protect us!..."

The Taíno tribesmen were crowded, and each of them had the sun-hummingbird emblem of the main **** engraved on their forehead. At this moment, they were praying devoutly and looking towards the center of the village, a stone-built shrine to the main god.

Soon, a priest of the main **** wearing a feather crown walked out of the altar solemnly, holding his staff high. He frowned, his eyes were cold, and while looking at the three strange sailing ships on the seashore, he listened to the excited reply from the armored warrior leader.

"O Lord God! Priest Yao Yu, is really a white-skinned evil demon! The white-skinned evil demon who came in a big boat! The evil enemy predicted by His Majesty finally came from the sea by boat three years after we arrived at Snake Island in Cuba. Appeared! This is truly an incredible miracle!…”

"Your Majesty's divine revelation! The prophecy has been verified. It is the miracle of the Lord God that has appeared!... Leader of the Osprey Warriors, we have traveled thousands of miles to come to Cuba's Snake Island, but it is for these evil spirits in the prophecies, for these things that the Lord God has indicated. O divine enemy!…Please also lead the kingdom’s warriors, summon the Taíno militia, and prepare to fight the evil spirits!”

"Yes! Praise the Lord God! I will definitely fight for the Lord God and kill the evil devil!... That's right! The evil devil's ship suddenly appeared, and the surrounding Taino tribes probably didn't know about it... Please also light the beacon warning and summon the brown hills in the south Reinforcements from all tribes! Then to the Youshui tribe and Mayali tribe two hundred miles away, and to Tiewan Town three hundred miles away, especially to the respected chief priest Tuomat and the brave Battalion Commander Puap...immediately Send a messenger to announce!…”

"Okay! I will arrange for devout tribal believers to travel day and night to deliver the message!..."

The shrill sound of the conch horn sounded on the edge of the turbid bay. Accompanied by the continuous sound of conch horns, the overwhelming tribal militiamen, like wasps that have been stabbed in a hornet's nest, continued to pour out of the villages on the shore!

"O Lord! One hundred, two hundred, three hundred... at least five hundred native spearmen!... Ten, forty, eighty... There are a hundred elite natives wearing leather armor inside!... Ah! There are one, five, ten...twenty more! A total of twenty native warriors in platinum and bronze armor!..."

On the flagship Santa Maria, the navigator Pedro opened his eyes wide and counted the natives gathered on the shore, as if he was seeing a swarm of fire ants. And he counted the number of leather-armored spearmen as if he were counting big poisonous spiders. As for the twenty warrior officers in platinum and bronze armor, they are terrifying poisonous blue scorpions that can kill people with just one sting!

"Diamine! In this large tribe of natives, there are actually twenty natives wearing bronze armor?! Vaffanculo! They are like this... are they hostile to us and want to declare war on us?!..."

Columbus yelled in horror and gasped. His eyes were closely watching the militia mobilized by the natives, assessing the enemy's strength.

Although there are many naked natives, they are probably just farmers who will scatter in a flash, and are not worth mentioning at all. As for the native militiamen wearing simple leather and cotton armor, their combat strength was equivalent to the weakest levied peasant soldiers in the Apennine city-state, and they could only cause some trouble with their numbers. Only those native warriors in bronze armor may have the strength of the Castilian standing army or elite mercenaries, and can be regarded as a real battlefield fighting army! And such a regular army wearing armor and holding spears is not something that the sailors on the exploration ship can deal with and fight head-on!

"O Lord! They lit the beacon fire! There is no doubt that this is complete hostility! They regard us as invading bandits or pirates... I believe that they are not a separate tribe. Behind them, I am afraid there is another tribe alliance or kingdom!…”

After seeing the reaction of the native village clearly, the royal butler Gutierrez was worried, and his face showed tension for the first time. Since arriving on the coast of this strange archipelago, he has been observing the peaceful and ignorant native tribes on various islands, observing the primitive savages who do not even have iron weapons. He secretly laughed at the ignorant and shouting Columbus. He never thought that the islands where these savages lived were really some kind of rich Indian Islands, or some kind of golden Sipan ancient Japan. Sometimes, he even feels that this might be a brand new archipelago, or a new continent that has never been known to anyone!

However, when the fleet discovered a unique book with square characters a few days ago, the old understanding of the royal butler suddenly collapsed! He was dumbfounded and couldn't explain it at all, so he could only choose to believe it! He began to believe that perhaps, as Columbus stubbornly claimed, this was really the sea off Khitan, really India or Japan!

Therefore, when he encounters a large tribe lighting a beacon fire, he will be particularly worried. The opposite side is really a powerful Indian or Japanese aboriginal kingdom. And this eastern kingdom is full of hostility for some reason and is at odds with the Kingdom of Castile. It may even threaten the kingdom's foothold in the east and affect the establishment of new shipping routes for the flow of wealth...

"Merda! What the hell?! We just arrived here and haven't done anything. We haven't even sent an envoy yet... These natives just came out like wasps that exploded their nest and want to start a war with us for no reason!... Damn it! Damn it! !What the **** is going on?!”

Columbus was shocked and anxious as he watched the native militia pouring out of the village and forming an array under the command of the armored warriors. This familiar scene immediately reminded him of the fighting he had fought during the last attack on the large native tribe, and it also made his face gradually turn pale. And after a moment, the vague fear in his heart turned into anger that turned into embarrassment. The brave commander of the expeditionary force looked down from above, slammed the side of the ship, and cursed angrily.

"Diamine! These arrogant, ignorant and arrogant Sipangu natives! How dare they challenge the majesty of the Kingdom of Castile?... Alana! Raise the flag for me! Let the fleet fire guns and cannons!... "

"Yes! Commander!..."

"Boom! Boom!... Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Soon, the roar of thunder and the sound of cannons erupted from the three exploration sailboats! Three 3-pound stone bullets flew up with a bang and landed on the beach on the shore, splashing up a large cloud of sand. At such a distance, the artillery has no accuracy at all. It just makes a thunderous sound to scare the unsophisticated natives. According to the long-standing experience of the Spanish-Portuguese Exploration Team, Thunder's firearms are invincible. As soon as the cannons and matchlocks were fired, the natives would panic and run away in fear and chaos!

"Boom! Boom!... Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The artillery roared twice in the distance, and the native spearmen on the shore were really confused. Amidst the contemptuous smile on Columbus's lips, the natives let out noisy and panicked shouts and retreated into the village in a chaotic manner. The spear array that was finally formed also immediately scattered.

But a moment later, with the cry of "Huitziloppo", these native militiamen who collapsed without a fight were organized again! They arrayed themselves again before the village palisades, shining spearheads against the ships. And at least one-fifth of them are gray-black iron spears!

"Boom! Boom!... Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There was another round of intimidating artillery fire, but the impact of the bombardment on the morale of the natives was getting weaker and weaker. After a moment, the native spear array suddenly separated, and several priest apprentices wearing feather headdresses came to the shore from the center of the village carrying a shining copper pipe. Then, the zealous Taino believers dropped the earth bags they had just prepared, placed the copper pipes on them, and pointed them at the big ship on the seashore.

"boom!…"

Under the frozen smile of Columbus and the astonished gaze of the royal steward, the golden copper pipe suddenly ignited, pointed at the Castilian fleet on the shore, and let out the first shocking thunder! There is no doubt that the one-pound stone bullets sprayed out and the acrid smoke rising are demonstrating the power of the native army... This is actually the artillery of the natives! …

"Merciful Lord! How could this happen?! These ignorant natives actually... actually have artillery!..."

Separated by a distance of several hundred meters, the copper cannons on the shore were just like the cannons on the ship, with no lethality at all. But this native "thunder" had a greater impact on the morale of the Castilian sailors than thousands of bows, arrows and spears! At this moment, their condescending, confident and contemptuous, indestructible inner advantages were like the fragile silver mirror of the Venetians, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net suddenly smashed by the roaring stone bullets!

"Holy Mother! The artillery of the natives!...Ah! This must...must be the powerful Kingdom of Japan that Marco Polo said!..."

"What to do? What to do?! They are not afraid of artillery and muskets! They are not afraid of our firearms!..."

"Ah! Lord! They boarded the boat screaming wildly! There are more and more of them!... They actually want to attack us!..."

"The Lord God bless you! He descended the divine realm of light and issued a thundering cry to protect His devout believers and people! He said: Don't be afraid, don't shrink back! The souls of the warriors who died fighting for God will ascend to the red Kingdom of God! ...As long as you kill an evil demon, you will immediately be noticed by the Lord God and ascend to heaven after death! Enjoy the beauty forever!..."

Under the nervous and panicked gaze of the Castilians, Yao Yu, the preacher of the Lord God, performed a crazy sacrificial dance, shouting out the Lord God’s will and decree! Then, he suddenly raised his staff, pointed at the three ships on the shore, and roared loudly and fanatically.

"Roar! Blessed by the Lord God! Board the small boat, besiege the evil demon's ship, and fight for the Lord God! ... Roar! ..."