"Arrows!"

The crowd was shocked - someone was coming!

The expedition had planned for an attack on the road. At that moment, all the personnel who had guns drew their guns, and those who did not pulled out their machetes and quickly formed a circle. The man Wang, who was leading the way in front, was so frightened that he dodged straight back.

"Hold on to the cow, beware of the cow!" Xiong Buyou scolded as he took out Jerind's pistol from his pocket and put on his fire cap.

At the bend of a river beach in front of them, there appeared about twenty young men, all dressed in Meecho Lee, all armed with hook knives, and some with crossbow machines, looking like they were swords-rattling, blocking the way.

"There's someone blocking the way!" Yellowpaw shouted, "All on alert! Then the whistle sounded.

"It's the Li people!"

"Won't it?" Mu Min also rushed over from behind, "Our Li people have never engaged in roadblocks and robbing business travelers. ”

"Hmph, I'm afraid that they won't grab money and goods, but this treasure." Yellow Paw glanced at the man behind him, and the woman who had a lifeless look looked uncertain.

"Don't be in a hurry!" Mu Min shouted, calming the team members who were pulling out their guns, "They don't ambush, things still have to be discussed." ”

"I think most of them are here for the sake of the Fortune." Cui Yunhong whispered, "What should I do?" ”

Mu Min thinks that Mo is not Xiaoda's boyfriend. What Li Benqing said about the array of Huan is here? This man is really affectionate and righteous. This hooked up the sentimentality of a woman's nature, and when I thought of my husband who had no romantic feelings at all, I felt bad for a while.

"If it's really that Huan, I'll return it to him." She said.

"Well, we agreed to take her away—"

As they were discussing, they saw several people coming from the opposite side, one of them had a handsome face, was obviously wearing better clothes than the others, and wore pheasant feathers on his head, which did look quite powerful. He listened about 50 paces from the group and began to shout.

Now Xiong Buyou understood: he was speaking Hainan vernacular, although he was a little out of tune, he could generally understand it.

"Kao, it's really that Jinhuan!" Xiong Buyou said, "He wants us to hand over the Yuda. ”

"What should I do?" Everyone's eyes were fixed on Cui Yunhong and Mu Min. The former is the captain, and the latter is the person in charge of Li Miao's affairs.

"Hmph, a few broken knives dare to block the way, let you open your eyes." Yellowpaw muttered, breaking the hammer of Remington's shotgun.

"No, don't fire." Cui Yunhong hurriedly stopped him.

"There are only about twenty of them, and it's just a mess of guns."

"We don't know each other here, though they will lose in a fight. But if we provoke them into anger, bite us and harass and attack all the way, we may not be able to return to Changhua Fort peacefully if we have a gun. ”

"Well, that's right." Yellow Paw was right to think about it.

Xiong Buyou said: "Besides, these people are all in the village, and a few of them have really been killed." How will we cooperate in the future? ”

Mu Min said: "Let it go, anyway, it won't be of much use to us." I took her away just to save her life. Now that Jin Huan is so affectionate and righteous, why don't we hold on to it? ”

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Xiong Buyou walked out of the team with his bare hands and shouted in Hainan vernacular: "As long as you dodge the team, we will release people after we pass." ”

Jin Huan nodded and said, "You hand over the hostages first, and then we will release each other, so that I can trust it!" ”

When Xiong Buyou heard this, he was so angry that his lungs were about to explode. After D-Day, the crossing group can only impose unequal treaties on others, how can anyone be blackmailed. Seeing that he was only 30 meters away, his heart suddenly became murderous, and he held the Jerind pistol in his pocket. Within this distance, he could kill the corpse on the spot with one shot. Even if the opponent shoots an arrow, the distance of seventy or eighty meters may not be able to hit him. When the time comes, add a shotgun from the brothers, and simply kill them all.

Mu Min knew what Xiong Buyou wanted to do, so he hurriedly shouted in Mandarin: "Don't act rashly!" It doesn't end well in a fight. She turned to Cui Yunhong and said, "I'll be a hostage and let him get out of the way." ”

Cui Yunhong didn't say anything about it, but saw that Xiaoda, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly stood up and shouted in Li language. He said something quickly and urgently to Guide Wang, and Guide Wang said to Mu Min: "She said that she was willing to go and shout to Jin Huan and ask him to give way." ”

Mu Min nodded, thinking that it would be easier to make sense. He said, "Tell her that when they get out of the way, we will let her go." ”

After listening to the words of the Wang guide, a strange look appeared on his face, and he shook his head and spoke again.

"She said she was willing to follow Ba He."

Mu Min was taken aback, and for a while thought that the guide had translated wrongly, but seeing that she was resolute, she was not talking nonsense. He untied the rope and let her out.

When the other party saw that they had released the people, there was a burst of joy on their faces, and the crowd behind them also cheered, brandishing bows, crossbows, knives and guns.

Cui Yunhong saw Xiaoda walk in front of Jin Huan, and Jin Huan wanted to pull her hand, but she pushed her away. The man seemed a little surprised, and the two of them muttered to each other. Seeing that Jin Huan was getting more and more impatient, he kept waving his arms, and sometimes shouted to push her, but Xiao Da didn't move, only lowered his head and whispered, and shook his head from time to time. The attitude is very resolute.

This pantomime was played out between the two groups of people for a full ten minutes, and even the cows began to graze, and Jin Huan had an extremely irritable look on his face, and he turned around sharply and walked back directly. Within a few minutes, the Li people on the river beach walked cleanly. Only Yuda was left standing dumbfounded. Suddenly, she crouched down. Burst into tears. The people of the expedition team were stunned.

"What kind of play is this?" Xiong Buyou muttered to himself.

Mu Min sighed: "Keep walking." ”

Half a month after the expedition team set out, they returned to Changhua County, and after bidding farewell to Wang's men outside the city, the group returned to Changhua Fort, where Li Haiping had been engaged in capital construction for more than half a month, and the fort had begun to take shape, and a cannon had been erected on the fort -- in order not to irritate the local government, the cannon was hidden in the house, and it was pulled out when it was needed.

Seeing that the expedition had returned with a full load, Li Haiping was both happy and worried, there were no more than ten cows in the fort -- I don't know what breed these cattle were, they were all surprisingly large buffaloes, which looked about the same as half an elephant. At the moment, let the sailors do it, and built a simple cattle pen outside the fortress. A few seamen who had raised cattle were also appointed to be responsible for grazing. As for the goods returned from the trade and the gifts received, everyone was not interested, and they were directly piled up in the warehouse and waited for the ship to come and pick them up.

A group of people were idle in the fort, and every day in addition to going to the river by the Changhua River to bathe, they drank tea and farted under the kapok tree outside the fort. During this period, a capital construction was also carried out: a bamboo wall was erected at one end of the river for Mu Min and Xiaoda to bathe. What happened to the expedition team became the most talked about topic - at first it was just speculation. But slowly, for fun, it was deduced. This copycat version of the palace feud has become incomparably more complicated under the constant daily saliva. Slowly, some people asked to sign up to be the trick in it.

However, the heroine of this incident, Koda, has been silent, although she takes the initiative to help with all kinds of chores in the fortress: cooking, washing clothes, sweeping the floor, and feeding the cows. Since no one in Changhua Fort understood the language of Mei Foo Li, Mu Min was never able to communicate with her.

As for what use the array has been for the traversers in recent years, everyone can't say why. Saponaria is a good resource. But it was not urgently needed for the Crossing Group. Changhua Fort is very useful, now up and down every day to take a bath and wash clothes with this thing, I feel that the smell is fresh and pleasant, and the washing is quite clean.

The county seat of Changhua is now their only place to spend their pastime. The city was so big that after they entered the city many times, almost everyone in the city knew them, although it was strange for them to have a hairstyle. I am also familiar with the officials who watch the city gate, it turns out that there is not even a county order in this county, only the county is in the commission, and as for the thousands of households in Benwei, they simply live on the farm outside the city. Several yamen were all deserted and dilapidated in front of the door, no wonder they walked by several times and did not realize that those small tiled houses were yamen.

The money shopkeeper in the Guangzhou warehouse seems to have become their agent in Changhua County. Through the matchmaking of the money shopkeeper, the people in Changhua Fort can directly buy fresh vegetables, chickens, ducks and grains from the farms of thousands of adults outside the city. Senno-sama and his men apparently didn't think there was anything wrong with doing business with this group of people of unknown origin, especially when the goods they brought out were sugar, shochu, and other things that were seriously out of stock in the local area. Xiong Buyou bought dozens of sheep from the farm, on the one hand, to eat them himself, and on the other hand, he was ready to send them back to Lingao with the cattle.

The 15W radio station receives telegrams from the fleet and the main station of Lingao every day. Sometimes I would receive a telegram from the Guangzhou station, reporting to each other that I was safe. According to the telegram, it was learned that the expedition team had arrived at Yulin Port and was investigating another important target of the expedition: the Tiandu Iron Mine.

Yulin Port is the most Haode port in Hainan, and not only that, it is less than 12 kilometers away from the high-grade iron ore fields, which is far more difficult to mine than Shilu.

If you sail directly from Lingao to Yazhou, the coastal route can be reached in only four days. The expedition fleet departed from Changhua in only two days. Because of the way from time to time to stop the boat to go ashore for investigation, each time to half a day to a day, on the way also specially inspected the Yingge Sea Salt Field in Le'an, Yazhou, Yingge Sea Salt Field is the largest salt field in Hainan in later generations, but also the largest sea salt field in southern China, the sea concentration here reaches 3.5 degree of Baumé, is one of the most salty sea areas on Shijie after the Red Sea, known as the "bitter sea". At this time, there was still a coastal salt area, uninhabited. Mingqiu, who is quite familiar with the history of Hainan's development, told everyone that Yingge Haiyan Farm began preparations in 1955, and in 1958, the arrival of more than 5,600 professional soldiers made it enter the stage of great development

The huge amount of sea salt is undoubtedly the best raw material base for the chemical industry. Starting from Wang Luobin, they all looked greedily at this barren tidal flat. Hainan Island is truly a treasure island.

The fleet conducted field exploration in Yingge Sea before continuing to set off. On the sixth day after departing from Changhua, the lookout post of the Zhenhai found that the ship was sailing in a huge bay, and the snow-white sand, swaying coconut palms, and clear blue water on the beach all indicated that the place was close to Sanya.

"This is Sanya Bay." Chen Haiyang checked the latitude and longitude of the Navy cadets, "We are not far from Yulin. ”

Sanya Bay looked more beautiful and primitive at this time than in later generations. There are scattered villages at the foot of the mountains, and lattice-like salt pans along the coast.

After a few more hours of sailing, the lookout at the top of the mast saw the iconic 213-meter-high hill on the head of the deer's head.

When I arrived at Luhuitoujiao, I also arrived at Yulin Port. Luhuitou Military Port was an important base of the South China Sea Fleet in later generations, and Mingqiu stood on the deck and saw the familiar scenery in front of him, and was full of emotion. I remembered the days and nights when I was preparing for war here in 1974. I couldn't help but read out the Vietnamese I learned by surprise back then:

"Whoa! （zhanzhu！ ), old shrug! (Shoot or kill!) ), the cup pile is wide and coaxing! (We treat our captives well!) ）。 ”

"Old Man Ming," Mondstadt walked over curiously, "what are you talking about?" ”

"Vietnamese." It's very hot. The temperature on the deck has long exceeded 30 degrees Celsius, many people are shirtless or wearing undershirts, and Ming Qiu is still wearing a Type 87 navy summer dress, which is not messy. Standing on the deck made many otaku who proclaimed themselves admirals of the future crossing country feel ashamed.

"In the spring of 1974," Mingqiu said, pointing to Lu Huitou in the distance, "our troops were stationed there to participate in the pre-war mobilization to prepare for the attack on Xisha Yongle Island. That would the Yankees would not be able to fight in Vietnam and began to withdraw. The white-eyed wolf of North Vietnam is taking advantage of the opportunity to move south, and South Vietnam is almost finished. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles after the war, the chief gave the order to recover the Xisha Sea. I was a warrior—"

"You've also participated in the reconquest of the Paracels?" Mondstadt was in awe.

"Actually, no." Mingqiu shook his head, "I've been on standby here in Sanya all along." In the autumn of '74, our detachment was transferred to Lingshui to participate in anti-landing exercises. I also made a movie. ”

Mondstadt had just wanted to know more about the events of the year from him, and Chen Haiyang had already ordered the sails to be lowered and was ready to enter Yulin Harbor. He had no choice but to hurry back to his place.

Yulin Harbor is far superior to Sanya Bay next to it, which is too open and stormy. Therefore, there are ships going to the South Seas here all year round to temporarily moor and shelter from the wind. As the fleet sailed past Luhuitoujiao, it saw a number of ships moored here and there in the bay, some with towering masts, apparently merchant ships going to trade in Southeast Asia.

Note: This note is outside of body 4000 and is not billed

"Ba He" is the honorific title for a learned person in the Li language.