Chapter 148: Retreat in embarrassment
It's okay not to look at it, but at a glance, even if Andong fought several battles with the Goguryeo people and the Silla people, Yu Hong, who was beheaded at the thirtieth level, looked at the black and pressed human head, and in the jungle where there was not a lot of movement, his scalp was numb. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Captain, let's, are we still fighting?" Zhang Heng asked vividly.
"Hit the ball, get out of here." Yu Hong turned around and left, suddenly turned around, and his eyes were sharp and startled Zhang Heng and the others who were about to run away.
"Give me to be smart, don't let the natives find out about us."
"Nuo, Nuo......" Zhang Heng and several people nodded hurriedly, and followed Yu Hong to quietly rush back as fast as possible.
The 100 or so brothers who were waiting in place were all restless, and there were thousands of natives coming, and if the captain who ran to investigate was caught by the natives, they would still be in the same place, wouldn't this be surrounded by the natives?
If it weren't for the fact that there were still twenty or so veteran sergeants in the crowd, maybe someone would have been a deserter.
Yu Hong, the long-awaited lieutenant, finally came back, but his expression was solemn, and Zhang Heng and the others were all shocked by the people who had passed by, which made everyone panic.
"Everyone immediately retreat to the camp as fast as they can, board the boat and leave here!" Yu Hong ordered expressionlessly.
"No!" Several teams were drinking their subordinates to turn around and retreat in the direction they were coming from.
On the way, Yu Hong ordered the whole team to keep the formation and run and retreat, if someone ran out of formation, the soldier and his team were being dealt with by military law after returning. Otherwise, although there are only one hundred and fifty people, if there is no military discipline, it will have to become a rout.
Wang Haichong sat on the deck of the ship, with a map drawn by the investigation of the surrounding coastline in the past two days, and drank the Biluo spring tea produced by Yanwangfu on the desk.
When he was proofreading the map against the coast, he found that the team that Yu Hong had led people to the Pingturen village had run back from the woods in a panic early in the morning.
"It can't be that the natives have beaten you back, right?"
The guards who were taking care of the camp on the shore watched Yu Hong inexplicably and they ran back sweating profusely.
Seeing this, Yu Hong shouted: "What the hell are you still doing in a daze? Get everything in the camp back to the boat as fast as you can, and get out of here. ”
"No!"
Although the crew members who stayed in the camp did not know why, they saw the captain and them running back in panic, presumably the crusade against the natives failed, and the natives came over and hurriedly packed up the things in the camp on the shore.
The soldiers who had returned also hurriedly joined in and packed up the camp.
Without the others noticing, Zhang Heng and five of his subordinates who had fled together yesterday ran back to the tent where they had rested last night.
The eight people who were seriously injured did not go out with them today, so they stayed in the tent to recuperate from their injuries, and they were very surprised to see Zhang Heng and the other five people who led the way this morning suddenly rushing into the tent.
"Team Zheng, why did you come back?"
"Those natives are too cunning, and on our way to their village, we found that these natives had gathered thousands of people to kill us out of nowhere. The lieutenant ordered everyone to pack up their belongings at once and withdraw to the ship. ”
Zhang Heng said, hurriedly walked to the bunk where he was sleeping, took out a small package from the bunk, and opened it to reveal that there was a golden gold, about thirty taels.
The other thirteen people also took out a cloth-wrapped small bag from their bunks, which contained the same gold, and opened it one after another to check whether there was any lack of gold inside.
Zhang Heng looked at the gold in his hand and thought, this bit of gold plus the one stored on the ship, there should be more than seventy taels of gold taken out of the river in the Jilong Bay of Daliuqiu last time, which is equivalent to more than seven hundred.
Hehehe! Overseas expeditions are a real way to make a fortune.
The others in the tent thought with joy in their hearts.
For the six brothers who died yesterday, Zhang Heng just mourned in silence in his heart. Since they want to get rich, they have to be ready to pay for their lives at any time, and it can only be said that the six of them have no lives to spend this money.
Zhang Heng frowned when he thought of yesterday's events, but he didn't expect the natives to react so quickly and the villages were so closely connected.
The original plan was to use the six brothers who had died in the Turen village yesterday to rob the gold and encourage the captain to take people to level the village. In this way, all the gold in the village can be snatched, even if the two hundred and fifty people are divided into their own hands. But you can learn from the stinky Taoist priest of Xiaoliuqiu's uncle Sun Kang last time, level a native village, and then conquer other nearby native villages, won't you be able to get more gold?
After all, it was a miscalculation, and the natives of Luzon were not the same as the natives of Ryukyu.
Zhang Heng looked at his brother who lived and died with him yesterday and asked, "Is it all cleaned up?" ”
"Packed up."
"Let's hurry up and board the ship, the natives will be killed immediately."
Zhang Heng and they rushed out, packed up the tent a few times, and boarded the boat.
"Brother Yu, what's wrong?" Zhang Qin, who received the report from his subordinates, hurriedly ran out and found Yu Hong, who was directing the retreat, and asked.
"These natives are too cunning, they actually went with me, and gathered thousands of people to kill us, if we hadn't discovered it early and retreated in time, it would be difficult for us to come back alive today." Yu Hong's heart palpitated.
"The crew members have withdrawn to the ship, just in case we leave here immediately."
"Okay, I'll go and set sail right away!" Zhang Qin said with a serious expression.
The crew struggled to pull the ship's anchor out of the sea, and the humming shouts came from the jungle on the shore, and the crew looked at the shore in horror.
Rushing out of the jungle in an instant, only covered by an apron made of leaves, holding a spear or bow and arrow with a thin pole in his hand, short in stature, with dark skin and an ugly countenance, rushed towards the ship with a scream.
(The dark yellow skin of the native people of Southeast Asia does not refer to the black skin of the blacks, but in the eyes of the Chinese at that time, it was another kind of black.) Just as the book describes the tanned skin of the poor peasant who toiled under the sun year after year, it does not mean that the skin is as black as that of a black man.)
The venom-smeared arrows in the hands of the natives were thrown far into the fleet, and the natives who rushed to the front plunged into the sea and swam towards the ships.
"Whoosh ......"
Dozens of arrows hit the deck of the ship, and the crew scrambled to dodge.
"Quickly paddle and raise the sails." Zhang Qin shouted loudly, but he knew that the arrows of the natives were basically smeared with venom, and the blood sealed his throat. The fleet itself did not have many people, and if innocent people were killed or wounded, the remaining task of exploring the entire island of Qing Luzon would be difficult to do.
The crew had a look of panic on their faces, but they still expertly hoisted the sails of the ship according to the captain's orders, and the fleet gradually moved away from the shore.
At this time, the shore camp of the previous fleet was crowded with black-skinned, short, ugly natives shouting at the distant expedition with their teeth and claws, and only stopped when they saw that the arrows could not shoot at each other.
Thousands of people on the shore shouted and cursed at the expedition, resounding for miles and miles, startling countless birds and beasts in the jungle.
Yu Hong leaned on the stern side of the boat and looked at the natives on the shore who were gradually moving away, his face expressionless.
Wang Haichong walked over and sighed: "Fortunately, you found out in advance, otherwise the expedition would have perished here." ”
"Is anyone hurt?" Yu Hong asked.
"There are four unlucky ones, the skin was pierced by the arrow, but the arrow is poisonous, and they are now poisoned, and the doctor is trying to find a way to see if he can save his life."
Yu Hong's eyes became colder and colder, and his panting became heavy, "Today I retreat in embarrassment, and I will return here again in the future and make these natives pay the price." ”
"Are we really going to come back?" Wang Haichong was puzzled, although he had stayed in the Yanwang Mansion for several years and learned a lot of novel astronomy and geography, he was also responsible for the geographical exploration task of the Southeast China Sea Expedition. Except for being surprised by Li Yu's curiosity overseas, he had no other thoughts.
Li Yu is not the only one who is curious about overseas in history. A few decades ago, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty sent Chen Ling and Zhang Zhenzhou to explore the Ryukyus, and then Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasties all sent envoys overseas to understand the overseas situation. But after those who went overseas returned to report the situation overseas to the emperor, there was no follow-up.
Wang Haichong didn't know, but Yu Hong had this premonition in his heart, and it wouldn't be long before the fleet would go south again after it returned.
His Highness feels that overseas places are more than just curiosity.