Chapter 768: Rainforest Adventure
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It took the fleet eleven days to finally reach Mayi. The port of Mayi has been built, and when the fleet began to call at the port, including the king of Mayi, Aroye, they all flocked to the pier to watch, they had seen the big ships, but they had never seen such a big one, let alone so many.
So many ships sailed into the harbor, so that the entire harbor was congested, and Yang Yi's ship and some ships could not enter the harbor at all, so they could only anchor outside the harbor.
For a time, the clouds and sails inside and outside the harbor covered the sun, and the oars were like a wall, which was magnificent, and Aroye was shocked and frightened, in fact, without Yang Yi leading the fleet to come, he had almost become a puppet of the Western Indian Ocean Trading Company.
Ma Yiguo is no more than 2,000 households, with a population of less than 20,000 people, and there are only a few hundred "troops" in Aloye, with a variety of weapons and unevenness, which is not enough for Yang Yi to plug his teeth.
The Luzon Islands is a good place, and in later generations, the Philippines ranked second in the world in terms of gold reserves, and was also extremely rich in copper, iron and silver.
Yang Yi was mainly active in the southwest in his previous life, although he had never been to the Luzon Islands, but the Luzon Islands gold mines were too famous, and he still had a rough idea of the location.
Among them, the Baguio mining area in the central two wings of Luzon, the Masbate Island mining area in the southeast, the Surigao mining area in northern Mindanao, and the Masla mining area in southeastern Mindanao are all famous.
But knowing that these can only provide an approximate location, if you really want to find the gold mines, you have to send people to the above-mentioned areas to repeatedly explore.
It's still useful for Aloye to keep it, at least it will be easier to find someone to mine in the future. Yang Yi went ashore in a small boat, and Aloye was as obedient as a Persian cat, running to greet him.
Well, obedient children have sweets to eat. Captain Jack sent Aloye some fine silk and porcelain to him to expand aggressively.
Mayi is the largest country in the Luzon Islands. But the actual scope of control is not large, just think about it. Eighty old ladies and three-year-old children, counting them, are less than 20,000 people, how big of a place can they control?
In addition to Ma Yi, several books on the Luzon Islands are also small indigenous tribes, Yang Yi has no intention of drilling into the forest and climbing trees, cleaning up one by one, let Aroye sort it out, and let's pick peaches again in the future.
With the support of Captain Jack. Aroye was very pleased, and took the initiative to provide Captain Jack with the news that on a large island southwest of Luzon, there was a small tribe named Philo, who had once picked up a dog's head in the mountains and forests.
The so-called dog's head gold is natural gold, which usually has more impurities, and some of the gold content with high purity can reach more than 60%. The information provided by Aloye is consistent with the distribution of gold mines on the Luzon Islands that Yang Yi has mastered. The credibility is high.
After Yang Yi received the news, he left Mayi Harbor the next day and led his fleet to continue southward along the coastline to an island called Masbate Island at the southwestern tip of Luzon. With an area of 3,000 square kilometers, the island is mountainous and covered with dense rainforest. Lush from afar.
Finally, in a bay, I found the small tribe called Firo, which had a population of less than a thousand people. Living by the mountains and the sea, the houses are all bamboo and wood structures. Thatched roofs are scattered throughout the woods.
The big ship couldn't dock here, so Yang Yi asked Qing Niang and the others to stay on the boat, and he took five hundred people and horses to go ashore in a small boat.
The 3,000 men and horses who came from Lu'er this time have undergone two years of devilish training, and all the training subjects were formulated by Yang Yi according to the current reality of the Marines in later generations.
In two years, this team has become very skilled in physical fitness and combat skills, land and naval battles, and has also been pulled to Hokkaido to fight against the Ezo people, everyone has seen blood, and it can definitely be called an elite division in this era.
Of course, this team still needs to undergo more tempering in order to meet Yang Yi's requirements.
When Yang Yi led the team ashore, the old and weak women and children of the Feiluo tribe were already hiding in their homes and trembling, and one or two hundred young men were on guard at the edge of the forest with wooden guns and rudimentary bows and arrows.
Yang Yi instructed Asha, the translator brought from Ma Yi: "You go and tell the people of the Feiluo tribe that we are not here for any malicious purpose, we just want to make a deal with them, let their patriarch come out and talk to me, well, don't forget to tell them, don't toast and don't eat and drink." ”
Asha got the order, and shouted while carefully walking towards the settlement of the Firo tribe, and soon there was a response from the Firo tribe, but Yang Yi couldn't understand what was being said between them.
A whole time passed, and just when Yang Yi was a little impatient, a young man from the Feiluo tribe walked out, about twenty years old, thin and wearing coarse linen clothes, and walked over with Asha.
Yang Yi said that he came with a flintlock pistol wielding exquisite silk in one hand and a flintlock pistol in the other.
Therefore, he asked Meng Yunshan, the commander of the first battalion who came ashore, to bring two pieces of silk, and then said to Asha: "Tell him that these two pieces of silk are his, and ask them who their people are and where they found the dog's head gold, and let that person take us there, and when we come back, we will have more rewards." ”
"Yes." Asha answered, and spoke to the young men of the Firo tribe, who looked at the two beautiful silks, and their Adam's apples moved up and down, and it was evident that these two silks made him very excited;
Small tribes like Firo, although it is not unseen that silk, few can afford it, and silk definitely has a strong allure for them.
However, Captain Jack was answered: no, no one has ever picked up the dog's head, and no one knows where to find the dog's head.
As the young man spoke, Captain Jack noticed a flickering look in his eyes, and it was not difficult to guess that he was panicking.
Captain Jack was not angry, and snapped his fingers at Meng Yunshan, who immediately took out a grenade, lit it, and threw it at the gate of the Feiluo clan.
Rumble!
There was a loud bang, and the smoke of the fire rose, and the people of the Firo tribe were frightened, and they croaked and screamed one by one, and they scurried all over the mountain like monkeys.
It worked well, and Captain Jack looked back with satisfaction, only to find that Asha and the young man who had come to negotiate were gone, and looked further underfoot, only to find the two of them lying on their stomachs in the grass and shivering. Teeth are fighting, rattling.
Captain Jack smiled pleasantly. He said to Asha, "Now, you ask him again." Whoever has picked up the dog's head gold, is he willing to take us to find it? ”
This time Captain Jack got the results he wanted.
The huge fleet on the sea already frightened the Firo people, and most of the hundreds of people and horses who came ashore wore camouflage uniforms, standing motionless on the beach, murderous, giving people an endless sense of oppression.
Captain Jack with five hundred centaurs. One hundred of the Japanese servants, after making some necessary preparations, led by the young man named Maha of the Firo tribe, began to march through the dense rainforest to the place where they had picked up the dog's head gold.
This is the kingdom of trees, which are extremely rich in species, which grow evenly and in a mixed manner, generally lacking obvious dominant species. The appearance of various trees is very similar to each other. The trunk is as thick and straight as a column, and it branches near the treetops. The light-colored bark is thin and smooth.
They grow in layers, with the topmost trees towering to the sky; In the middle layer, there are also some dwarf trees several meters high, which are not many, and the leaves often grow in clusters in the treetops;
The lower layer are ferns, fungi and mosses. Ferns are usually up to one person tall and do not need much sunlight to grow extremely lushly.
Besides. Lianas and epiphytes are also particularly thriving, with some ancient vines thicker than a human arm. The length can be up to one or two hundred meters, and they are in another way. Competing for space in the dense jungle, they are so successful that even the tallest trees cling to the top of the canopy to steal the sun.
These vines are considered to be the little people in the rainforest, they cannot become timber themselves, but by clinging to others, they can climb to the top of the rainforest and take away the most sunlight and rain.
The rainforest is always foggy, a small amount of sunlight shines down from the branches and leaves, like rays, the forest is very hot, the smell of grass leaves mixed with the smell of rotting leaves, even if it doesn't rain, walking in it for a long time will feel a little wet.
Countless birds and animals inhabit the rainforest, full of birds and insects, tigers and leopards and other large animals can also be heard from time to time, Yang Yi and his party along those large animals such as elephants, wild boars and other forest paths through the difficulty.
The 100 servants, led by Saburo Ozawa, walked ahead with broadswords and cut down bushes that stood in their way. The further you went, the denser the rainforest became, the harder the road became, and it started to rain.
Yang Yi used to carry out tasks in the tropical rainforest in his previous life, and he knew the rainforest climate very well, and rain was a frequent thing, so they all wore cloaks;
But the rain seemed to be against them, and it became heavier and heavier, as if it would never stop, and the light in the rainforest was very dim, and when the rain came, the light in the forest seemed to be dim, and from time to time people were tripped and fell, and it was very embarrassing.
Meng Yunshan came up and said, "Captain"
Yang Yi was stunned by this title, and it took a while to react, and he had instructed these guys to call themselves Captain Jack.
Meng Yunshan swallowed his saliva before continuing: "Captain, the light is dim and the road is difficult, why don't we rest for a while and wait for the rain to clear before leaving." ”
Captain Jack shook his head and said, "This rain will not stop for a while and a half, we must continue walking, otherwise we will not be able to walk after it gets really dark, this dense forest is full of dangers, and we must go to a wide place to stop and camp." ”
"Yes, Captain."
As soon as Meng Yunshan finished speaking, a sharp scream suddenly came from the side of the servant army walking in front, and in the chaos, these servant soldiers shouted in Japanese, Yang Yi couldn't understand it, but it was not difficult to know from the terrible scream that something was wrong.
Yang Yi took Meng Yunshan and the others to rush forward, the servant army in front was already in chaos, Yang Yi grabbed Ozawa Saburo by the collar and asked, "What happened, tell me quickly." ”
Saburo Ozawa replied in shock: "The snake, such a big snake, as thick as a bucket, swallowed half of Noda Hachiro's body in one gulp, from"
Yang Yi didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he had already rushed out, because the traces of the python could be seen on the ground, Meng Yunshan grabbed him and said, "Captain, you can't go, it's too dangerous." ”
"You're wrong, it's already swallowed half of a person, it's not much danger at this time, come with me, once the snake gets food, it won't go far."
Yang Yi led people to chase after him quickly, and after only walking twenty or thirty steps, he saw a giant python, the snake body was afraid that it was not more than twenty meters long, and it was as thick as a bucket, and Yang Yi couldn't help but be secretly frightened when he saw it.
From the appearance, he could easily tell that this was the Overlord Python, the largest species of python in the world, and its temperament was generally relatively mild, but when it was hungry or provoked, it was completely different, and it would become extremely rough.
At this time, Noda Hachiro's entire body has been swallowed by the python, and only the calves below the knee are exposed, which is shocking
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(To be continued......)