Chapter Thirty-Three: Marching into Flinders - Raiding Their Nest

The soldiers in the square were all grateful, indeed, after Zhao Le came to the Wuke tribe, their lives seemed to be turned upside down, where did they know what the hell rice and flour were, how could they have iron pots, shovels and other convenient tools before, in the past, some people would starve to death in winter, and now, the warehouse is full of grain, which makes them feel extremely relieved.

Especially those of them who have become soldiers, the one who takes care of them at home is called a rest assured, there is a man in the family who is a soldier and gives twenty acres of land, and some families have two or three soldiers, and there should be fifty or sixty acres, but this will cause a landlord effect, so Zhao Le issued a regulation, a family only has a maximum of twenty acres of land, and the extra land can be sold to those who have no land, so that it can also be exchanged for some money, as for the output of twenty acres of land is not enough to eat, how simple is this, not enough to eat can be bought! What the? No money? If you don't have any money, you have to earn it, come and come, the land here is all to be cultivated, how about it, a penny a day, including food. What? Dissatisfied? Good! There are other jobs here, raising kangaroos and emus, fish, whatever, as well as apprenticeship in a blacksmith shop, and working as a waiter in a rich restaurant, whatever, the salary is about the same.

Everyone is living happily in Zhao Le's Wuke tribe, and these soldiers will naturally fight hard for the tribe, just like now, they have stepped on the warship, picked up the oars, and one trumpet after another burst out of their throats.

The atmosphere was particularly warm, because Zhao Le had already promised that as long as this battle was won, each soldier would be rewarded with ten acres of land, and the battle exploits would be counted separately, which would make many soldiers very happy, what is the purpose of being a soldier? It's not a war exploit, you can exchange money with military exploits, you can live a good life with money, as for being an official,...... What the hell is an official?

Zhao Le took this group of stupid big men and sailed towards Flinders Island in a warship.

The two islands were not far away, and with the soldiers' oars, Zhao Le's fleet soon came to the southern part of Flinders Island.

Anchors, tethers, and ships are all placed here, led by Colonel Zhong Lan to stay behind with ten navies, Zhong Lan can obediently stay behind, or Zhao Le promised to expand the navy after this battle, Zhong Lan gave in.

In Zhong Lan's muttering, the soldiers all got off the boat and came to the land, Zhao Le did not have much scruples, and asked the men with the army to bury the pot and cook immediately, and the tribes in the south of Flinders Island, which is close to Barron's Point Island, have all taken refuge in the Uke tribe, and there are almost no people here.

The soldiers were resting and preparing to eat, Zhao Le beckoned to Crook and called him over, "Crook, you immediately send scouts out to find out the situation, I want your news before dark."

"Yes, Lord Android." Crook replied, although Zhao Le is already the patriarch, and the ceremony has been held, but everyone will still call Zhao Le Android, hehe, get used to it, originally a group of traversers were still wondering who Android was, and when they finally knew that Android was Zhao Le, they all had black faces, understood, this is a black-bellied man.

Scouts on emu had been sent out, and the soldiers were walking in the direction of the north, and the sound of the iron armor vibrating could be heard far away, and many kangaroos and thylacines were awakened, and they saw with their own eyes that the atmosphere of civilization appeared in this land, even if it was war.

Crook led ten scouts across the prairie on emu, and after months of training, the emus had adapted to being ridden and appeared exceptionally docile.

After running for half an hour, both men and beasts were panting and sweating, and had to stop to rest, and find a place, and all the scouts sat down, took off the emu's leather bag, took some dried fish from it, and threw it in front of the emu. The emus quickly bit with their beaks, and without the sound of chewing, the emus swallowed it directly.

Seeing the emu eat the dried fish, the scouts left them alone and let go of the reins to find food on their own. The scouts took out another leather bag, took out a simple food from it, kangaroo meat and steamed buns, and ate the water in the water bag.

It's not that they don't have the money to buy anything else to eat, it's that the scout profession pursues every second counts, so the time to eat should also be compressed.

After eating, the scouts kept going, first leading the emu for half an hour, and then riding on it, and continuing to gallop.

Zhao Le and the others, who were marching, had already received a report from two scouts from the Haas tribe, and the men of the Haas tribe were gone, only the women and children were in the tribe.

Crook divided the scout squad into five teams, one to explore the Haas tribe and the other four to search for the battlefields of the Haas and Manta tribes.

Listening to the scout's report, Qin Baichuan immediately said, "What are you waiting for, just take the old nest of the Haas tribe, and then go to them to fight." "Brother Zhang, what do you say?" Zhao Le asked, "Put the old nest of the Haas tribe away, and then go to them and the main force of the Manta tribe to fight a decisive battle, well, it's good, otherwise we will have to come back to deal with these people after we kill the people of the Haas tribe and the Manta tribe, it is better to leave some people and send the people of the Haas tribe back to Zhong Lan, it won't be long before you come back and forth, Lord Android, what do you see?" Zhang Guoqing said leisurely.

"Good! That's it, Dons, you take two spearmen to collect the Haas tribe, and whoever dares to resist will be killed on the spot! Zhao Le gave the order, Dong Si hummed, turned his head and left, and led the two squad leaders to go in the direction of the Haas tribe.

"It's really lacking everything, if only there was a map, so you don't have to be busy here." Zhao Le sighed.

"Yes, Lord Android, are you going to make a trip to Batavia, our ship is ready." Zhang Guoqing said that he couldn't wait to develop the Wuke tribe, and he was extremely excited when he thought about the scene of leading the Wuke tribe to conquer the world in the future.

"Well, it's time, when this battle is over, build a big ship, and then go to Batavia." Zhao Le didn't say anything and agreed.

A group of people were marching silently, they were so boring before the battle, and they couldn't go too fast, otherwise they would miss the scout's report and deviate from the direction, so the soldiers were only marching in the direction of the north, and now the troops are still in the south of the island.

has been marching, during the rest twice, from the morning to the evening, Zhao Le ordered to rest in place, this is a large army has a special man, several men did not say a word, immediately buried the pot to cook, the rice is kangaroo broth, rice balls, steamed buns and dried fish, the food is much better than the scouts.

Zhao Le also eats these, nothing special, and there is no way to do it, only these things to eat, after eating, Zhao Le and the soldiers fell asleep, leaving a few soldiers to keep vigil, in fact, there is nothing to guard, at most it is just to guard against the beast.

There was nothing to do all night, and at dawn the next day, I heard a sound of running, Zhao Le and a group of traversers glanced at each other, Crook came with scouts, and the battle was about to begin.