Chapter Ninety-Two: Into the Mountains and Conquering
In the end, he ordered to simply slaughter some more Han people, so that all the clansmen would fight for tooth sacrifices.
Tuo Suo reminded: "Patriarch, there are only more than a hundred Han people. If you eat like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to stick to the Ghost Food Festival! ”
He smacked his hand and smiled: "There will be no shortage of human flesh to eat in the future!" Don't save anymore! ”
Tuo Suo rubbed his hands happily when he heard this, it seemed that the patriarch was about to go on an expedition.
The Mao Blood Clan has 4,000 clansmen, who can pull out 900 strong, and is the most powerful tribe in the surrounding 100 miles, and among the nearly 100 tribes in the entire Haidong Island, its strength can rank in the top ten.
The Mao-blood people of Treasure Island are of the same origin as the famous Maori people of New Zealand, with close blood and the same customs.
The Mao blood clan likes to wear feathers, smear the skin of their faces with blood, and like drums made of human skin, sheng xiao made of human bones, and bracelets made of human teeth. They believe that these things bring strength and courage.
The Mao-blood people have a tradition of cannibalism, and they also love to eat human flesh, and even eat the flesh of their own people. However, the main food of the Maoxue tribe is still wild beasts, wild fruits and wild vegetables, and upland rice and yams.
After all, how can there be so many human flesh that can be eaten for dinner?
Therefore, whenever there is human flesh that can be sacrificed, those who can get a share of human flesh are very happy.
In any case, the Mao-blood clan is the most savage on the island. Even the headhunter races of each family don't like the custom of the Mao-blood clan to eat people.
At this time, on a slaughtering table in the Maoxue Clan's cottage, Tuo Suo ordered people to bring nine Han people, five men and four women, who had no clothes on their bodies, but they were not thin, and even a little plump.
They were taken to the cottage and kept in captivity. In the eyes of the Maoxue people, they are essentially no different from pigs and sheep in captivity, they are all meat.
Therefore, they are fed all kinds of grain in the wooden pen every day, just like pigs.
There is no way to resist, there is no way to escape, and it is not easy to kill oneself.
These five men and four women were immigrants who had been hunted back by the Mao-blood clan a few months ago. There were four or five hundred Han Chinese captured at that time, and now only more than 100 people are left to eat.
From the initial terror and resistance, but now the numbness and resignation to fate, there has been a tragic and bloody story in the middle.
However, their minds are still clear and they are not crazy. Ironically, the more painful people are, the harder it is to be crazy and stupid, and you will always remember the taste of pain.
Knowing this, I would rather die under the hooves of the Tartar horse, rather than live across the ocean for a lifetime, and take the initiative to send it over to Shengfan to eat.
All nine knew that they would soon be bled out, disemboweled, skinned, and dismantled like those who had already been eaten.
The eyes of the nine people were dull, like puppets, and they did not have any look of shame because they did not wear an inch. Even four young women are indifferent to their completely exposed bodies.
The men of the Mao-blood clan are not interested in their bodies.
They are too white and too soft, and in the eyes of the hairy people who are beautiful in black and strong, Han women are very ugly.
The patriarch walked out of the society, saw the nine Han people on the slaughtering table, and swallowed his saliva.
Unlike most of the clansmen, he prefers to eat men. It's not just because a man's flesh is "chewy," but he thinks it brings strength.
The sorcerer began to preside over the ceremony, human skin drums and human bone sheng were played, and a group of clansmen danced around the slaughterhouse with spears in hand.
Before slaughtering a living person, the Mao-blood clan must hold a ceremony. Through this ritual, permission to eat people is obtained from the ghost-faced god.
Without ritual blessings, the slaughtered will turn into evil spirits and haunt the cottage.
The length of the ritual depends entirely on the number of people to be slaughtered. Now that nine people were to be slaughtered, the ritual would take half a day.
What you didn't know was that when the Mao Blood Clan held a ceremony to slaughter Han people for food, Li Luozheng led his troops over the mountains and mountains.
Li Luo transferred 600 members of the security regiment, plus 100 personal guards, a total of 700 people. Because they were fighting in the mountains, everyone did not wear iron armor, but light leather armor.
Anyway, it's not easy to break through the protection of leather armor with a raw weapon.
The cavalry and the remaining hundreds of recruits stayed in the company to guard against the others.
Three stone cannon machines, which had just been built, were broken down into several parts and carried away by the newly formed crossbow fleet.
Li Luo is the coach, for safety reasons, of course, he will not be in front of the team. Zhang Yong and Yang Xu at the front, followed by Zhu Jaw and Xiao Bei.
The mountains are high and deep, rugged and difficult to walk, and no one knows where the cottage of the Mao blood clan is. Everyone completely followed the traces left by the Mao Blood Clan before.
Fortunately, the Mao Blood Clan has no consciousness of hiding traces at all, and there are many traces left, and the mountain road taken by the security team will definitely not be wrong.
However, the trees in the mountains and forests are extremely lush, and many places are shaded from the sky and the sun. In particular, there are many mosquitoes, and there are all kinds of poisonous snakes that cannot be named, either hiding in branches and grass, or slowly swimming under their feet.
From time to time, there are frequently frightened birds and beasts flying or running, making everyone cry out for pity. Because there is an order from above, it is strictly forbidden to shoot and hunt on the way into the mountain.
Accidentally climbed a mountain, climbed high and raised his eyes to take a look, but saw the vast forest sea, clouds and mist, I don't know where I am, and I don't know where I'm going.
From a military point of view, it is really risky to go dozens of miles into the mountains without a guide and without knowing the depths.
"Brother Zhu, why did the lord let go of the two families who took the initiative to attack ten days ago, and instead attacked the third tribe first?" Xiao Bei asked.
His doubts were normal. After all, the Mao blood clan has not gone out of the mountains to attack the Han people for several months. However, the Chuma tribe has just arrived, and they have come most frequently, killed the most Han people, and are also the closest to the immigration area.
According to common sense, it is reasonable to say that the Chuma should be the first to be attacked.
Zhu Jaw said: "Although the two families have not been here for a long time, they have lost more than 500 strength, and they must be greatly injured, and they must stick to the cottage, and they dare not go out lightly, which is no longer a problem." ”
Xiao Beidao: "Understood." The third tribe, though the farthest, was the strongest. Now the strength of the security team is limited, and it can only be strong first and then weak. ”
Zhu Jaw smiled: "That's exactly the reason. That's why the lord will go deep into the mountains for dozens of miles to conquer the farthest cannibals. ”
Xiao Bei nodded and said, "I don't know if I can get to that cottage today." There are many mosquitoes in this mountain, and I have heard that there is still miasma, so it is very inappropriate to camp in the forest at night. ”
Xiao Bei's concern is very reasonable. If it weren't for the fact that everyone was wearing leather armor, many people would have been bitten by mosquitoes.
Although the protection of Japanese-style leather armor is not as good as that of the Central Plains iron armor, it has the unique advantage of being equipped with face armor.
At this time, the lower armor is put down, and only a pair of eyes are exposed, although there are many mosquitoes, there is nothing to be done.
Everyone couldn't figure it out, in such a hot and mosquitoy mountain, why did those students dare to stomp bareback? Aren't you afraid of bites?
If you can't catch up with Shengfan Cottage, you can only spend the night in the forest, which is indeed a lot of trouble.
As soon as it was dawn today, the security team set off. At this time, it was already past noon, and it was estimated that I had walked fifty or sixty miles, and it was twenty or thirty miles into the mountain, but I had not seen the Shengfan cottage yet.
Everyone is starting to get tired.
Li Luo looked at his watch and found that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and he had walked for more than eight hours.
Cui Xiuning was also tired, and her face was red. After all, a woman's physical strength and endurance are still a little worse, even if she is a policewoman.
"Rest in place for half an hour......," Li Luo ordered Zhu Jaw.
Zhu Jaw shouted, "All obey the order...... Stand - ground! Rest in place for half an hour! ”
Everyone stopped together, and then sat down together on the mountain road.
The security corps is highly disciplined, and the strict and repeated queue training has shaped their habitual awareness of orders and prohibitions.