The pirates were apparently intimidated by the Ming army.

Who has ever seen someone hit someone with a cannon, and the red-haired ghost in the past may not have been so ruthless.

I finally swam to the beach, and when I saw a small boat of the Ming army rowing towards the beach, these pirates were so frightened that their souls flew away.

More than 20 Ming officers and soldiers of the two squads followed the footprints left by the pirates and chased forward.

The island was obviously much larger than the Ming army had expected.

The Ming officers and soldiers chased through the dense rainforest, and I don't know how long it took to be blocked by a slope.

"Whoosh......"

"Ah.....h

Just as the crowd was blocked by the slope and were defenseless, an arrow came from the direction of the slope and hit one of the soldiers in the thigh, and the brother collapsed on the ground, and the thigh overflowed with bright red blood, and rolled down the slope.

Several officers and soldiers came over with several wooden rattan shields to protect the direction of the arrows.

Lin Xu grabbed the soldier who was hit by the arrow, pulled him to his side, and protected him behind several wooden shields.

This kind of bloodletting arrow can only be disposed of on a large ship, but the shaft of the arrow must be cut off, otherwise as the shaft of the arrow shakes, the wounded will bleed until the blood runs dry.

Lin Xu pulled out the short knife, gently pressed his left hand on the shaft of the arrow, looked at the young soldier and said, "Brother, bear with me." ”

"Click.....

Lin Xu fell with a knife and cut off the shaft of the arrow very quickly.

"This place has been occupied by us, you Ming people get out of here quickly." A Southeast Asian-looking man on the hillside shouted at the Ming soldiers in stiff Chinese.

And in response to him was the cold arrows of the Ming army.

"Deputy Associate Director Lin, these pirates don't know how to lift, give me a class, and promise to kill and kill these pirates." A big man immediately asked for battle.

"It's just you, I've only been in the army for a few months, or I'll lead the team to kill it, I cut off the head of the red-haired ghost when I was in Mingcheng, don't give me a squad, it's enough to give me three soldiers, no one is allowed to rob us." Another middle-aged man dressed in armor glanced at the big man in front of him disdainfully and said.

The Ming army used the head to record merits, and the head of a pirate could be exchanged for three taels of silver, and the Ming soldiers present looked at several pirates on the hillside not far away, and they were already eager to try.

When they were fighting, Lin Xu was like an old monk, and when they were almost arguing, he stopped: "Okay, I think, but it's obvious that these pirates have settled here, I'm afraid it's not just these people." ”

The Ming army was already far away from the beach, and those few people ran very fast, and more than 20 people of the Ming army plunged into the rainforest and chased for half an hour, and at this moment there was a dense rainforest all around.

What is infuriating is that at this time, the Ming army stayed at the bottom of the slope, and several pirates hid on the upper side of the slope, and the nearby area was blocked by trees and could not detect the situation at all.

"There's definitely a nest of pirates on this island." Thinking about the pirate ship that ran aground on the reef before, Lin Xu gritted his teeth.

"You guys are nimble and go around from there, and the archers suppress it." After Lin Xu finished speaking, he picked up an arrow and put a bow on the top of the slope.

There were obviously more than a few pirates, and from time to time there were some arrows passing through the slope, but fortunately there was a shield to cover it, and most of the arrows did not enter the shield.

Soon, several agile brothers rolled over and climbed to the other side of the slope.

"Ahh The screams instantly rang out above the slope.

"Kill." The veteran from before yelled and rushed down first.

Among the Ming officers and soldiers, who could wear armor, was basically a veteran who had gone south, and he rushed up to the top of the slope without taking a few steps, and slashed a pirate who had no time to react to the ground with a single sword.

The pirate's eyes widened in horror and he fell, tumbling down the slope.

The shouting lasted only a moment.

The six or seven pirates on the top of the slope were all hacked to death by the Ming army, and only one Ming soldier was killed and one wounded.

"Leave three of them, carry the dead brothers back and burn them, and then carry the wounded brothers back to the boat to heal their wounds." Lin Xu looked at the corpses of the pirates around him and said coldly.

At noon, the main force of the Ming fleet finally arrived in the north of the island.

Several clippers slowly sailed to the beachhead, and dozens of Ming officers and soldiers landed on the island, while also unloading two small Franky guns.

"Build a big camp here, this island is not small, and it can be used as a mooring and resting for sailors." Li Du said to the adjutant after he went ashore.

"General, there seem to be a lot of pirates on the island, and the vanguard seems to have encountered pirates." The adjutant frowned and pointed to the pirate ship stranded between the reefs not far away.

"It's just a group of lost dogs, just so that the soldiers from the mainland can see the blood, and send a team to pick up the brothers who landed on the island before." Li Du said.

Under Li Du's order, the construction of the Ming army camp began, and with the excavation of the soil in some areas around the camp, Li Du not only had people sprinkle lime around the camp for disinfection, but even spread dried wood on the ground in the construction area of the camp, and then sprinkled with lime after burning the ground.

Not only that, the safety of drinking water cannot be ignored, and the water flowing down from the mountains must not be directly drinkable, after all, the fresh water of the islands in the South Seas is full of parasites, and drinking it can easily cause parasitic diseases such as malaria and blood-sucking worms.

For the sake of insurance, drinking water cannot be drunk raw, but the men of the cooking squad collect fresh water, disinfect it with alum, boil it, and distribute it to the soldiers.

In fact, these operations were carried out by Liu Yu shortly after the Ming army arrived on Luzon.

At the beginning, it was implemented among Liu Quan's personal soldiers, but the soldiers of Weiwu Town did not listen to Liu Yu's advice at all, and as a result, malaria and some parasitic diseases broke out one after another shortly after arriving on Luzon Island, while most of Liu Quan's personal soldiers who carried out the implementation in full accordance with Liu Yu's methods were unharmed.

After the establishment of Huben Town, the drinking water and the disinfection and cleaning steps of the garrison camp were faithfully carried out by the Ming army.

Although the veterans of the Ming army have long been accustomed to it, for those recruits, there seems to be nothing wrong with drinking raw water, after all, they used to drink raw water when farming on the mainland.

When they received Li Du's rule, these mainland recruits didn't care.

A recruit was caught by patrolling Ming officers and soldiers after being thirsty and stealing water by a small stream.

According to the decree of the Ming army, if the offense is committed after the decree is issued, twenty military sticks will be severely punished.

Soon, the big man's ass was beaten and the flesh was blurred,

Seeing that the big man who secretly drank water was beaten so badly, everyone present muttered in their hearts, although they were very puzzled in their hearts, but no one dared to defy the law.

"Do you think that Lao Tzu will harm you by not letting you drink raw water, you know, this is an island, the miasma on the island is raging, it doesn't matter if you are infected and die, it doesn't matter if you die, it is Hou Ye, your life is Hou Ye's, Hou Ye let you die, you can die." Li Du looked at these recruits coldly.

"It doesn't matter where you came from or what you are doing, but today you came here with the Ming army, whether it is for your life or for the sake of the Hou Ye, you should obey the decree of the Ming army."