Beginning with the dredging of the first section of the river on June 2, the fleet dredged two blocked channels, three shoals and one river in succession over the next month. By the end of the month, they had advanced to the river near the Thirty-Three Cities of the Afterlife.

Upon arriving, Shao Shude disembarked two hundred immigrants and one hundred pirate slaves, where they would build a new city and port where they would live in the future. The entire waterway stretches for nearly 200 kilometers from the Changshan iron ore mine to the downstream of Milin Lake, and even if they go downstream, these shallow inland water transport ships have to sail for about a week (no boats at night) to reach Milin Lake. Therefore, it is necessary to add ports and supply points in the middle of the waterway.

The city of Thirty-Three is located on the north bank of the Yi River, in the cross-alluvial zone of several tributaries of the Negro River, with abundant water, fertile land, and convenient transportation, and it is already located at the foot of the eastern side of the Great Kuchilian Mountains, so it is natural and necessary to build a town here. In fact, not only here, but also an inland river port will be built in the future where the Yi River flows into Lake Milin downstream, and with these ports and supply points along the way, this route will become smoother in the future.

Four shallow-water ships were sent back by Shao Shude to transport supplies, building materials, and a second group of immigrants, and the rest, including Shao Shude, all began clearing weeds and bushes, leveling the land, and excavating foundations to contribute to the construction of the new castle. The men level the land, dig the foundations, and build houses, while the women use rudimentary tools to dispose of the furs they have hunted in recent times.

The brethren of the cavalry battalion hunted more than 200 large otters using fishing nets, hooks and other tools, and some Chalua sailors used slings to capture more than 100 South American ostriches, not only replenishing the whole team with a large amount of fresh meat, but also obtaining a total of more than 300 high-quality furs.

Meng Hu, the biologist who accompanied the team, frowned, and he was not sure if the government had not ordered a ban, and if the government had not ordered a ban, they would have hunted all the aquatic animals that inhabited the banks of the Yi River in the future, because their fur could be sold for a lot of money.

Meng Hu was sent by the Ministry of Agriculture on a business trip, and he took two young assistants to follow the iron ore working group all the way upstream, investigating the ecological conditions of Milin Lake and the banks of the Yi River. He and Shao Shude are also old acquaintances, and the last time he went to Yazi Lake to develop coal mines, he squeezed into the expedition team and carefully investigated the ecology of the Yazi Lake basin. When he returned, he published his research diary in a National Geographic book he had made up himself, which vividly described the species and distribution of flora and fauna around Duck Lake, as well as the local aboriginal way of life, and had a large market among the travelers of Orient Harbor and a small number of immigrant senior staff.

This time, he was commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the fishery, forestry and soil fertility conditions on both sides of the Lake and the Yi River. For example, a large number of large otters inhabiting the marshes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yi River, schools of fish visible to the naked eye, and South American ostriches and jackals in the meadows on both sides of the river are his favorite subjects.

"I regret to point out that it is extremely short-sighted and foolish for us to hunt and kill giant otters for their fur for short-term economic gain. This will lead to a drastic reduction of the entire otter population and an imbalance in the ecological chain, which ultimately endangers our living environment. However, a certain high-ranking cavalry officer took a tacit and ignorant attitude towards this indiscriminate hunting and killing, and his eyes were only on economic interests. A human city has been established in a wetland area rich in water and grass, and thousands of South American ostriches, jackals, otters and other animals have been displaced and forced to migrate, all on the orders of a senior government official...... "The "disgruntled youth" Meng Hu, who traveled back to the 17th century from the 21st century, wrote his manuscript paper, insinuating that some of the leaders were directed.

"Teacher!" One of his assistants suddenly shouted, his voice shaking.

"Don't argue, I still haven't finished writing a paragraph, and I won't be inspired for a while." Meng Hu didn't raise his head, sat on the grass and continued to write.

"It's not! Teacher, there is a situation! Another assistant also shouted loudly, pulling Meng Hu up and running back as he shouted.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Meng Hu asked dissatisfiedly, but soon he shut up, and then, like his assistant, turned around and ran back, covering his head. Behind them were a large crowd of Charuas dressed in animal skins and linen with spears and... Muskets rushed over!

At this time, the people left behind in the camp had already discovered the anomaly here, and the crisp gong sound and the sharp whistle sounded almost at the same time. Shao Shude organized the personnel to begin distributing weapons, and hundreds of engineering construction personnel, technical personnel, and management personnel were each given a musket. Many of them had fought more than once, and at this moment they were a force that was not inferior to the regular army. As for the newcomers, they were given some spears, and Shao Shude gave them the order to wait for the Charuas to storm the barbed wire and form a tight formation to stab them with spears to stop them and give the musketeers more opportunities to shoot.

The musketeers, consisting of 72 officers and men of the cavalry battalion and hundreds of construction workers, scattered in the ranks of spearmen, loaded with ammunition, waited quietly through the barbed wire for the arrival of the Charuya. At this time, almost everyone was glad that they had carried a large amount of barbed wire before this departure, and that they had a good habit of pulling up the barbed wire and hanging barbs wherever they went. Sometimes, this kind of good habit can really save people's lives.

Xu Yu looked at the Charuya people who were rushing over quickly about 200 meters in front of him with a solemn face, as the highest-ranking officer here, the command had been handed over to him after the battle began. In normal times, it is very difficult for the army to catch some charuya people to replenish the population, but I didn't expect that at this moment, when they didn't need to appear, hundreds of people poured out at once, and this thing was troublesome! And there is an even more unpleasant thing, that is, these Charuas still have muskets in their hands!

Where did they get their muskets? How can they have muskets?! Xu Yu was depressed, although it seemed that they were all arquebuses, but they were also muskets, and there were almost dozens of them. Damn, it must have been given by the Spaniards! Those Jesuit missionaries, you can teach them how to farm, how to raise livestock, how to believe in God, why do you get them muskets! Isn't this intentionally adding to the blockage?

There is no more time for him to sigh. Because the Charuya had already rushed to a distance of about 100 meters, Xu Yu stood on the far right side of the queue and blew the copper whistle in his mouth violently.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "The first row of musketeers fired a volley in front of the barbed wire, and when they were finished, they quickly retracted into the ranks of the spearmen and began to nervously reload.

Meng Hu gasped, while lightly charging and loading the flintlock rifle in his hand, and then ramming the lead bullet with a strip, he kept muttering: "Bodhisattva bless, Taishang Laojun bless!" Lao Tzu hasn't fought for a long time, it's rare to go back to battle, swords and guns have no eyes, you old man must bless me with peace and security. ”

The musketeers in the second row also retreated after firing a volley, and the Charuas rushed closer. Meng Hu consciously stepped forward, and at this time he clearly heard the increasingly heavy panting from a tall blonde spearman on his left, he looked a little young, but also a little nervous, and his legs involuntarily trembled a little.

The musketeers in the third row also retreated after firing a volley, and Meng Hu patted him on the shoulder and dropped the sentence "Don't be nervous, you won't die!" Then he took two steps forward and stood still. Raise the gun, lay it flat, take aim, and then close your eyes and gently pull the trigger under the officer's sharp brass whistle.

The flint-wilted hammer slammed into the curtain of fire, and the resulting fiery sparks fell into the cauldron and successfully ignited the primer, and the musket was successfully fired. After the firing was completed, he did not look at the results of the battle, and quickly retreated into the spear bush again and began to charge and reload.

After four volleys, the Charuya fell a full seventy or eighty men. The remaining Charlua spearmen were still rushing forward with great fear, while their arquebusiers were already lining up in place to shoot. They had long arquebuses and tinder jars on them, and some of them had fallen off their arquebuses and some of them had extinguished their arquebuses during the brisk trot charge just now, and they were all scrambling to prepare for the shot.

But the precious time they waste on the battlefield proves deadly, as the enemy won't wait for you to light the arquebus before confronting you. The musketeers fired two salvos again, this time focusing on the Charlua musketeers in front of them. The dense formation of these rare Charlua musketeers made it easy to shoot and, of course, the enemy. So under the dense lead shot, the first Ruya musketeers fell in pieces.

The death of the first row of musketeers made the second row of musketeers even more panicked, and their lack of training was exposed. Some people started shooting alone after finishing the shooting preparations, while others were still scrambling to reload their ammunition, and some even inserted the whole strip into the barrel of the gun and fired it. Their sporadic firing resulted in the deaths of only a few soldiers on the Traversal's side, who responded with a more violent volley of guns.

The fighting qualities of both sides determined their fate in this battle, and the balance of victory had begun to tilt at this time.

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