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The natives were soon given a batch of "good quality" iron tools, which they had never seen before, in the words of the scalper. Orchid Island is an extinct volcanic island, there are almost no minerals on the island except for granite and earth, and the best tools they can make on a daily basis are only stone, so as soon as such iron tools appeared, they immediately caused a sensation.

When these tools were delivered to the tribal leader, the natives who had been watching the "aliens" on the beach immediately flocked to him, and without saying a word, they picked up the tools closest to him and turned around and ran, and when the leader figured it out, there were no more tools left at his feet, and he quickly shouted and told his supporters to carry these remaining tools and run in the direction of the village, completely forgetting the outsiders who were busy like ants on the beach.

Without interference, the Naval Engineering Brigade naturally worked more easily, and with the work of the crane of the Vostochny Port, five more rhino amphibious vehicles were lowered to the surface of the sea, and after the boilers were boiled, they were quickly put into the construction of the camp. Some of the vehicles have snow ploughs on the front of the vehicles – originally intended for use in the north, but now large drainage ditches on the beach are perfect for them, and in addition to being used in the woods to knock down trees and bushes and bury puddles in the woods to reduce the breeding environment for mosquitoes. At the beginning of World War II in the Old World, the Germans captured Amsterdam and completely cut off the Dutch colony's quinine production routes, while the Japanese army marched into the South Seas and captured the cinchona production area in Java, bringing 95% of the world's quinine production to the Axis powers in just a few months. The next Allied malaria battalion in the Pacific was full of malaria, and more than four times as many soldiers died of malaria, and MacArthur said at the time that one-third of his troops were suffering from malaria, one-third had just recovered from malaria, and only one-third were able to fight, so that the American army's quinine reserves were completely depleted. The U.S. and Filipino armies on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered to the Japanese due to a malaria outbreak, making it the largest surrender in U.S. history. During the Pacific War, 70 percent of Australia's soldiers suffered from malaria, in 1942 the U.S. troops on Kuah Island all suffered from malaria, and 60 percent of the Allied forces in Southeast Asia contracted malaria. The malaria incidence rate in the U.S. military in the South Pacific is 4,000 per 1,000, which means that the average person got four bouts of malaria during the war, and a total of 60,000 U.S. troops died of malaria in Africa and South Asia. Japan is not much better, although it controls the global quinine raw materials, but Japan's chemical industry cannot keep up, and it is also short of quinine, so that it lost the battle of Kuah Island because of malaria.

The senators of the Senate are basically military houses, and they have long been familiar with these painful lessons in history, so they have stepped up the work of mosquito eradication from the very beginning of the landing in Annam, and they have also stepped up the work of water supply and drainage during the construction of the city, and they have made great efforts to eradicate the mosquito breeding environment wherever they go, and the reduction of malaria hosts has naturally reduced the probability of malaria outbreaks, so that except for the army barracks that once had an outbreak of malaria because the puddles in the nearby woods were not cleared, there were basically no malaria symptoms of more than 10 people.

Now in Orchid Island, although this volcanic island is an outlying island, it must not be taken lightly against infectious diseases, so the construction of the naval engineering brigade is to directly eradicate all shrubs within 20 meters of the camp and fill in the puddles in accordance with the requirements of the guidelines.

The scalper and his fellow refugees were standing on the beach, looking at the scene in disbelief, for this morning, when he was called out of the village, he had seen the beach, a beach that could not have been more ordinary, except for the sand, the trees on the muddy ground. But now he was in front of him in a different way. A pontoon-like trestle stretched far into the sea, and there were many boats parked on the sea, all of which were already anchored and waiting to be unloaded. The trestle was laid with long tracks that followed it all the way down to the woods on the coast.

The woods had now been cut down in large numbers, and many soldiers were busily moving the logs out and throwing them on the beach. The soldier with the red and blue flag in his hand waved the flag in his hand and shouted the password at the nearby soldiers from time to time. Strange cars that moved freely in the water and on the shore roared around them with black smoke and roaring, making them feel like a bunch of hillbillies had entered the city.

"Brother Niu, this ...... These people are officers and soldiers? A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy beside him asked with some confusion, and the scalper shook his head, "Definitely not, how can officers and soldiers be like this?" You've been on Phi Island for so many years, don't you know what kind of virtue officers and soldiers are? When did you see an officer and soldier set up camp? Aren't they all done by people? ”

"That's it," someone around immediately chimed in, "you see, their hundreds of households are also helping to work!" As he spoke, he pointed to a few people in white trousers in the distance.

Nguyen Van Ngoc was on the edge of the woods on the beach, and he was walking towards the beach with three or four soldiers carrying a large log. "One-two-one-two, be careful, turn left!" He shouted the password as he walked, and the Foreign Legion soldiers behind him carefully followed his orders.

"Sir! You put it down, let's just move! A soldier behind him said while carrying a log, and the soldier next to him also said in a loud voice, "Yes, yes! Sir, let's just move it, and see if we put it away. ”

"Fart!" Ruan Wenyu couldn't help but scold, "As an officer, I should take the lead, not watch the excitement from the sidelines!" Haven't you seen the couplet before the military academy? ”

"What couplet? Sir! The soldier immediately became interested, and hurriedly asked, "That's right!" Sir, we have only just joined the army, where will we have the opportunity to see the couplets of the military academy? We don't even know where the military academy is! "That's right! I knew where the crash course was. The soldiers behind him burst out laughing.

They were right, this group of soldiers were all recruits who had just been recruited from Annam, including both the aborigines before the port of Champong and the "excellent militiamen" selected from the militia units of the Ito Army, and after passing the cultural knowledge assessment, mastering 300 Chinese characters and addition and subtraction within ten, they entered the army by taking advantage of the expansion of the Foreign Legion.

Ruan Wenyu smiled, "That's what I said, that couplet is to be promoted to get rich and go elsewhere, don't enter the door if you are greedy for life and fear death, you know what it means!" ”

"I know, I know!" "Of course I do!" The soldiers hurriedly agreed, Ruan Wenyu nodded slightly, and continued to shout slogans and strode forward, "Then continue!" One, two, one! ”

These soldiers are all new recruits, as the first batch of new troops formed under the princess, Nguyen Van Ngoc saw this army grow up with her own eyes, the soldiers became soldiers under the education of the Senate, and participated in so many combat operations under the guidance of the Senate, which can be regarded as a great achievement. However, with the Shabak Rebellion, many former Forces nouvelles officers in the Foreign Legion led their soldiers to launch a rebellion, and the Foreign Legion was forced to fight in a panic, and a large number of outstanding non-commissioned officers and soldiers either died at the hands of their own men in the battle, or had to go into exile with the defecting officers in South Annan. So much so that the second company that Ruan Wenyu is leading at the moment is purely composed of a few veteran non-commissioned officers and hundreds of recruits, and even the three platoon commanders are all raw melons and eggs that have just been picked out from the officer's crash course. This time he went to the north, and the leaders who mobilized them all said that it was the trust of the Senate in the Foreign Legion, but in fact, in his opinion, this was a test of the Foreign Legion at all, to see if the Foreign Legion was really loyal to the Senate and could still have a brave fighting spirit. Therefore, he has long made up his mind that he must fight bravely on the battlefield and play the prestige of a strong army in the Senate. If you want your company to fight bravely, you must rely on the group of soldiers behind you to obey orders, and if you want them to obey orders, you must obey the soldiers, and the easiest way is to mingle with them.

After this expansion, the Foreign Legion was directly expanded to two battalions, and in this northward operation, they directly transferred some troops from each of the two battalions. Some of them came from the Annam soldiers, and the other part came from the Japanese soldiers, mainly in order to distinguish the combat effectiveness of the two different units and to serve as a reference for the formation of new units in the future.

Although it is said that 30 percent of the soldiers in the company led by Nguyen Van Ngoc are of Japanese descent, he still regards his company as a genuine "Annam Company" and wants to show the prestige of "Annamite" in this operation. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel more battle intent in his heart, and the wood on his shoulders became a lot lighter.

Maruyama Naoki didn't have Nguyen Van Ngoc now, although he calmly sat in the command room of the Oriental Port and watched the busy situation on the beach, but from his pale face and cold sweat, it could be seen that he was actually seasick. Naoki Maruyama was transported from Japan by the Medeno many years ago, when the cabin was stuffed with Japanese people like a large jar of sardines, whether it was old or weak, women and children, and strong men, many people died on the ship every day and were carried away and thrown into the sea, and he was able to reach Annam safely and then join the Annam army, which gave him supreme confidence that "Lao Tzu will not get seasick"! But the reality hit him hard, he was still seasick, and it was very powerful, just a little better than Guo Hao. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Guo Hao, who had just gotten on the boat.

This patriarch had just crashed into the command cabin in a rage, and now he was still sitting on a chair, judging from the footprints on his chest, he should have been beaten, and judging from the outline of the footprints, it was still a veteran who should have beaten him. He couldn't help but smile wryly, and then stared at the situation on the beach, where everything was being carried out in an orderly manner. Prior to this operation, they had conducted several large-scale landing exercises, and the navy had also sent an engineering brigade this time, so he was not worried about the progress of the construction, the only thing he was worried about was the seasick soldiers.

According to the data collected earlier, the number of seasick soldiers has accounted for about two-thirds of the total, and the number has seriously affected the next possible battles and marches in the north. Now that I've found an island halfway down the road to make a temporary stop, what's next? On the chart, the fleet has only traveled about one-third of the voyage, so it is conceivable that more soldiers will begin to get seasick and lose their combat effectiveness in the next crossing, and how will they land in Qingdao at that time?

Moreover, he has lived in Japan for many years, and knows very well what the winter in the north is like, even if it is an iron hoe on the hard land, it can't be dug in, and now although he has brought a lot of construction machinery, but he doesn't know how much ability he can play. And now there are so many seasick people, and the weather is so cold, it is inevitable that soldiers will freeze to death and frostbite at that time. He thought about it, and he was afraid that after he went ashore, he would still have to convene the joint command and strive to find another island that could be used for landing on the halfway to Shandong, so that the soldiers could have enough rest before landing in Qingdao, and only after resting could they do their work better.

The soldiers who work on the beach now are basically soldiers who do not get seasick, and there are even some soldiers who are not very seasick or who have heard that they are about to go ashore and the situation is getting better, and most of the soldiers who are in serious seasickness are still sleeping in their respective cabins at the moment, and most of them are now very luxurious to even get out of bed, and they need to be supported by sailors to get up and walk.

"Sir!" A voice came from the microphone, "I'm a lookout post and I found a lot of sailboats!" The location is on the south side of the island! ”

The lookout's report quickly attracted Yang Feng's attention, he hurriedly walked to the window, raised the telescope to the south, and looked at it, there were indeed a lot of sailing ships, but these sailing ships were not the Maidno ships that everyone can often see or the Fu ships of the Wu Dynasty, these ships were rough in shape, basically composed of several hollowed-out logs, with a deck laid with wooden planks, and the top was composed of a spinnaker, which at first glance looked very similar to the fast reconnaissance ships equipped by the navy. These are the fast catamarans or trimarans often used by the indigenous people of the Pacific. These ships travel fast on the sea due to their light hull and the ability of the sails to withstand the wind.

While Yang Feng was puzzled, the natives on one of the small sailboats said to the other native, "Don't be afraid, let's go to the nearest few small islands, such good things will definitely be exchanged for a lot of good things!" As he spoke, he raised an axe in his hand.

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