Chapter 646: Luzon (Part II)

Xu Yuan looked at the port where his ship docked in front of him, in fact, this is not so much a port, but an excellent sea bend, the east side of the sea bend is Luzon Island, and the southwest side stretches out a narrow peninsula, holding the entire sea bend in it, forming a triangular sea bend, just enough to shelter the ship from the wind and waves, in addition, there are few reefs in the sea bend, and the water depth is enough to meet the docking of large warships, which can be said to be an extremely good natural port.

However, this natural harbor is now very desolate, and the natives of Luzon Island generally only have small boats sailing on inland rivers, even if they go out to sea to fish, they are also on the coast, so there is no need for any harbor at all, which also makes this excellent natural harbor in a barren state, the shore is overgrown with shrubs and grass, and it is not easy to get ashore.

Xu Yuan was very satisfied with this sea bend, and even he had decided that if there were no other problems, then he would set up the first stronghold on Luzon Island here, but before that, he had to find out the situation in this area, such as which kingdom this belonged to, the attitude of the natives of this kingdom towards them, etc., these things Xu Yuan had already sent a guide Wu to find the natives here, but they had been there for almost two days, but there was no news, which made Xu Yuan a little worried.

Just as he thought of what he wanted, just when Xu Yuan thought of Wu Lai and the others who were leaving, he suddenly saw a warship coming from outside the sea bend, which was the warship that had gone to find the natives before, which made Xu Yuan finally feel relieved, but as the ship approached, he suddenly frowned, because he saw that there were traces of fire on the hull, and it looked like he had been attacked.

Seeing the traces on the hull, Xu Yuan also immediately asked people to prepare for the warship, lest the warship had already been controlled by the enemy, but it was obvious that he was a little too careful. When the warship approached, the soldiers on board also greeted Xu Yuan and them, all of them seemed to be in good spirits, and only a few of them seemed to be injured.

After the warship docked on the shore, the captain of the ship jumped off the ship with the guide Wu Lai, and before they could speak. Xu Yuan had already spoken: "What's the matter, did you encounter an attack by the natives?" ”

"Commander Wise, we were indeed attacked by the natives last night, it was too dark at that time, so our boat was slightly injured, but the natives' boat could not stop us at all, and finally let us rush out." The captain said with a look of shame on his face, if he had been more vigilant, those natives would not have had a chance to sneak up on them. It's a pity that he was too careless.

"What's going on, tell me the details!" Xu Yuan saw the expressions of his subordinates, and asked with a calm face at the moment.

"Commander Xu, you can't blame the brothers on the ship for this matter, if you want to blame it, you can only blame the natives we met for being too cunning, no one expected to entertain us warmly during the day, but suddenly started at night, which caught us ......off guard," Wu Lai next to him hurriedly said at this time. Then I told the details of what happened.

Xu Yuan and the others did not know which kingdom of Luzon they were in, so they sent Wu to their fleet to find the nearby natives to inquire about the situation. As a result, Wu Lai's boat went out of the bay and went south, and soon they saw a small tribe near the mouth of a large river, and many small boats could be seen fishing at the mouth of the river and in the sea country, and it seemed that this was a tribe that made fishing and hunting for a living.

The natives in the tribe also quickly discovered Wu Lai's boat, so more than a dozen small boats immediately surrounded them, and Xu Yuan and their treatment of the local natives was generally based on lure. If there is really no way to lure them, force is the last resort, after all, they have no foundation in Luzon, and it would be foolish to clash with the natives from the beginning.

That's why. Therefore, after seeing the small boats of the natives surrounding, Wu Lai immediately came forward to talk to the leader of the natives, and took out his own goods to exchange with the natives, these natives may have had experience in trading with people, so they also showed great interest in seeing Wu Lai's goods, and quickly put aside their hostility and took out the goods of their tribe to trade with Wu Lai.

Don't look at these native tribes seem to be very poor, those native people are all unclothed, but in fact, there are a lot of good things in these tribes, such as animal fur, gold, precious wood, etc., are the goods needed by the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, of course, this price is much cheaper, maybe take an ordinary white porcelain bowl can be exchanged for a piece of gold of the same weight, this is also the attraction of sea trade, a cent of capital may be exchanged for a hundredfold, a thousand times the return.

The goods brought by Wu Lai are not very good, most of them are cheap goods such as linen cloth and coarse porcelain, but the tribe they sent out does not seem to have any knowledge, and they have taken out various goods and products in the tribe in exchange, and in the end Wu Lai made a lot of money, and even the natives invited them to get off the boat to go to their tribe as guests, fortunately, Wu Lai still maintained a trace of vigilance in his heart, signaling the captain to refuse the invitation of the natives, otherwise they may not be able to come back.

That night, Wu Lai and their ship anchored in the open sea of the Turen tribe, and during the daytime transaction, Wu Lai had already inquired about the local situation, and he was going to inquire in detail tomorrow, trying to figure out the surrounding situation, so as to complete the task assigned to him by Xu Yuan.

However, it was also in the evening of the same day, because of the enthusiasm of the natives during the day, the soldiers on the ship relaxed their vigilance, coupled with the dark moon and high wind, the lookout could not see the situation on the sea, and the result was quietly touched by the natives' boat to the side of the boat, and then these natives swarmed to the boat, fortunately this is a warship, the hull was originally tall and strong, and the soldiers on the ship are also well-trained sailors and soldiers, so they quickly reacted, many people ran out of the ship naked, and began to fight back with weapons, In the end, they even used firearms, which only repelled the natives, but the natives set fire to the ship when they left, but fortunately they did not succeed.

After Xu Yuan heard what happened, he couldn't help but glared at the captain beside Wu Lai, Wu Lai is not a soldier, so he can relax his vigilance, but this captain is a soldier of the sailor, and it is already a dereliction of duty to relax his vigilance in that situation, so Xu Yuan immediately criticized the other party, and then demoted the captain to one level for probation.

Wu Lai didn't expect that the young commander Xu in front of him would be so strict in governing the army, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for Xu Yuan at the moment, and his attitude became more respectful, in fact, he didn't know that Xu Yuan was still the concubine of the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise he might be so frightened that he couldn't even speak.

"Commander Xu, although when we came out this time, His Royal Highness King Yue told him not to clash with the natives as much as possible, but since it is the natives who make the first move, should we teach them a lesson?" The evil ghost didn't speak just now, because the ship sent out was Xu Yuan's subordinates, and now that the matter was finally dealt with, he said excitedly, as a war maniac who would feel uncomfortable all over his body if he didn't fight, he had been suffocated in the past few years, and now he was finally released, so he naturally had to live a war addiction.

"Hehe, since it was someone else who provoked us, then we don't have any scruples, order the fleet to set sail immediately, Wu Lai, you lead the way, this battle will definitely raise my Great Song Guowei!" Xu Yuan also narrowed his eyes at this time and sneered, he was no longer the compassionate empty monk he was at the beginning, as long as he came to the sea, he would immediately become the cold and domineering leader of the Rakshasa Army a few years ago.

Seeing this familiar expression on Xu Yuan's face, the evil ghost immediately became very excited, because he knew that whenever Xu Yuan showed this kind of squinting sneer, it was the time to prepare for cruel revenge on the enemy, and now he could finally kill him.

With the order of Xu Yuan and the evil ghosts, all the warships in the entire harbor finally anchored and left the harbor, and then sailed south under the leadership of Wu Lai, after nearly a day of sailing, they finally came to a relatively open sea, where a large river flows into the sea, and on the south bank of the estuary, a small tribe is located there, it seems that there are hundreds of families, which is a rare large tribe among the native tribes, and they may even be the overlords of this neighborhood, There are hundreds of fishing boats of all sizes scattered on the sea, and they have no defense against the outside world, it seems that they are used to being the king here, and they don't regard Wu Lai and the others who escaped yesterday as a threat at all.

However, when Xu Yuan and their warships came to the open sea of this tribe, they immediately caused a riot among these natives, after all, although their civilization was lower, they were not fools, and when they saw a group of huge ships on the sea that they had attacked yesterday, they immediately understood that this was the other party who came to take revenge, so the boats on the sea immediately rowed towards the tribe, and at the same time, the tribe began to organize people to prepare for defense.

Xu Yuan did not have the slightest mercy for these natives who dared to sneak attack their warships, and when he saw the natives on the sea, he immediately commanded the warships on his side to crash into them with the momentum of Mount Tai, after all, the natives' boats were like ants in front of their warships, but they would definitely be pressed into the water if they were caught up, and the natives on those boats either jumped off ship and escaped, or were knocked unconscious and drowned in the sea.

After crushing the Turen's boat, Xu Yuan drew his sword and pointed at the Turen tribe that had entered the firing range, and immediately shouted: "Fire!" ”

"Boom boom~" With a violent roar, the guns on the warship and the ballistas fired together, and the solid shells and flowering shells were fired into the natives tribe one after another, and the whole tribe was surrounded by flames for a while, and the natives' wails and screams were endless. (To be continued......)