Chapter XXII: Development - Emu Cavalry and the "Navy"
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For example, these two emus, one male and one female, are mating and accomplishing the greatest thing they have ever done in their lives. Unbeknownst to them, behind a bush, two pairs of eyes were staring at them intensely.
"Lord Android, is your method really feasible?" Dong Si asked Zhao Le.
"Alas~ Don't believe yourself so badly, after they are mated, you can catch the male emu, take this, put it under its neck, and you're done." Zhao Le patted his chest and said to Dong Si.
"Okay." After Dongsi finished speaking, he waited quietly, and after they had finished mating, Dongsi found the right time, ran over, and suddenly a person appeared from the side, which made the male emu startled, and immediately ran away, but it was too late, and several people appeared from all around one after another, blocking the way out, Dongsi squinted, jumped violently, and held the emu's back with both hands, and went up to it.
Then he picked up something and put it under its neck, and the emu kept struggling, trying to get the man off his back.
This is not the later emus, not so small, the Ming Dynasty emu is almost the same size as its close cousin, the African ostrich, about two meters tall, on the Australian continent, except for the kangaroo, it is the most counted.
This is also why Zhao Le chose it, there is only one reason, it is easy to find.
Zhao Le has long wanted to form cavalry, for no other reason, the current Australian indigenous civilization is still very backward, so it is very simple to conquer them, but such a big place in Australia has really become a problem, only the cavalry can run fast enough to gallop on the land of Australia.
But where to find horses, there are no horses in Australia, most of them are kangaroos, but do you dare to ride them? It's guaranteed that you'll be out of touch after a few minutes of riding.
This thing is so shocking, in our Chinese language, it's too upside down.
You know, the horse is running, the kangaroo is jumping, how can this person stand it, so Zhao Le paid attention to the emu.
found Li Fugui to make a combination similar to a saddle and a horse pedal, and put it under the neck of an emu, and the person on it could be cut and killed.
After Donce tamed the male emu, several of them left with the female emu and a pile of emu eggs.
The same scene was played out on Cape Barron Island, and at noon Zhao Le saw that after the tribesmen returned, they brought more than a hundred emus, and selected twenty sturdy female emus from them, and let the sword and shield bearers ride on them, and the rest of the emus were trained by the tribesmen. Why did you choose a female emu, it is because the male emu wants to hatch the eggs, yes, you heard it right, the eggs are hatched by the male emu, not the female emu, it is really a group of sad babies, Zhao Le sighed.
Those people had been thrown into the sea by the tribesmen in canoes, and it was up to them to decide whether they would survive or not.
Zhao Le has been making things these days, as Zhao Le said, there is nothing here, and building a wheel can make the natives respect Zhao Le like a god.
The wheat seeds and rice seeds brought from the small island where Li Fugui lives have been planted, with the guidance of Zhao Le, Li Fugui and a group of traversers, the farmland is growing well, although the land in Australia is barren like the red earth, but on a small island like Cape Barron Island, although the land is not fertile, it is much better than the red land, and then Zhao Le gets the farmer's fertilizer to water, the fertility of the land still does not have to worry.
"It's been a month since we crossed over." Zhao Le said.
"Yes, our emu cavalry is almost finished, it's time to attack Flinders Island." Li Hua, who was sitting on the side, also replied closely.
"Qin Baichuan really came out of the special forces, and he has a set of military training, and this group of natives is now small in his hands."
"By the way, let me tell you something, Li Fugui's ship has been almost repaired by Zhong Lan, I think, do we want to find an opportunity to go to sea and change some necessary things, such as: cattle breeds, sheep breeds, pig breeds, chicken breeds, etc., as well as all kinds of skilled workers, among them, those who can build ships, dig iron and farm land must be brought as soon as possible."
"Well, I see, when we take Flinders Island, we'll go to Batavia to trade, and get back some necessary things first."
This is a conversation between Zhao Le and his good friend Li Hua, a month has passed, Zhao Le's tribal army has grown to more than one hundred and fifty people, and the people who were added later are mainly people from other tribes scattered on Cape Barron Island who escaped their lives, for the Wuke tribe to take these people, they are very grateful, and they are also very loyal to the Wuke tribe, after Qin Baichuan's devilish training, only eighty people are qualified, and the rest of the people are partly organized into a guard team by Zhao Le, responsible for maintaining the security of the tribe and protecting the safety of the tribe. The other part became blacksmiths, these people can become blacksmiths, all because Zhao Le's three-inch incorruptible tongue persuaded Li Fugui to teach the iron-making technique to the people in the tribe, otherwise, the tribe would not be able to beat so much iron.
The eighty tribal soldiers were divided into several parts by Zhao Le: twenty light cavalry, equipped with swords and shields (tribal elite), thirty spearmen, equipped with three-meter iron spears (backbone), and thirty archers, equipped with eucalyptus bows, and iron-headed arrows (long-range strength).
In addition to these "lands", the Uk tribe also has a "navy", so far, the navy of the Uk tribe under the guidance of Colonel Zhong Lan, the navy has successfully repaired the navy's "first big warship Fugui", and secondly, the colonel also guided the construction of light ships "Wuke" and "Wuji", of course, the predecessors of these two ships are lifeboats.
Now the situation of the tribe is unprecedentedly good, there are nearly 1,000 women and children, and there are nearly 200 teenagers over the age of 12, (Note: The natives generally come of age early, and the coming-of-age ceremony will be held in the 14th Five-Year Plan, and most people have children at the age of sixteen or seventeen, so in the indigenous tribes, those over ten years old are considered to be almost adults, which is equivalent to our sixteen, seventeen, seventeen or eighteen years old.) )
In two years, these teenagers will become warriors of the Uke tribe and will fight for the good of the tribe. In addition to this, there were eighty soldiers, thirty blacksmiths, and forty guards, and of course, the guards usually worked in the fields, and only when something happened would they be solved.
The captives of the war tribes were going back and forth between the fields and mines. Recently, however, they received a new order, that is, accompanied by a group of soldiers and guards, to travel to Tasmania on the "Wuji" to find gold mines, which can be used as currency in future contacts with the outside world.
Qin Baichuan was an instructor in the army, Zhong Lan was a colonel in the "navy", Zhang Guoqing was learning to strike iron with Li Fugui, Sun Kun was sent by Zhao Le to search for intelligence on the Australian mainland, Deng Zhiwen was studying how to raise fish, how to raise kangaroos and emus, etc., Li Hua was studying the situation and judging the way the Wuke tribe should take in the future.
The only one who is idle is Zhao Le, perhaps, as well as the group of elders and the Kefeng patriarch.