Jeopard.

To the northeast of the island, from the coast of the salient near the island of New Guinea, the Nanyang sailors found a harbor suitable for a harbor to dock at, which was about the same time as the city of Cairns, Queensland, where a large camp was being built.

Naked Xia soldiers carried axes to cut down the surrounding trees to build an improvised harbor and a wooden wall to defend the camp, and a large number of baggage supplies were unloaded from the ship and transported to land, and in the center of the camp, a giant dragon flag fluttering in the wind was fluttering in the wind.

Inside the camp, sailors are constantly busy, and from time to time a team returns from the interior, carrying the carcasses of various animals that have never been seen before, singing loudly in their respective dialects to express the joy of returning from the hunt.

The sailor from Quanzhou casually put the corpse of a strange animal that he didn't know what its name was on the ground, and the officer in charge of recording on the side glanced at him, found the wounds on his body, and asked casually:

"Fukin, what's wrong with you? Did you get into a fight with someone while hunting?"

"Fart, is Lin Bei this kind of person?" The sailor named Fujin scolded, he subconsciously touched the bruises, gasped, and then angrily kicked the animal carcass on the ground with his foot, and said: "The beast here is really strange, it jumps and jumps like a rabbit when it moves, but it dares to fight with humans, you can believe it, the wound on my body was beaten by this beast, I am okay, I heard that a person was directly beaten to the point that his leg bone was broken."

As he spoke, he saw the fellow villager sitting on the side, said hello, and said, "Lao Lin, didn't you go out with another team, why are you sitting here now?"

"Because Lin Bei is the one who broke his leg bone!" Lao Lin shouted angrily, perhaps because he was too emotional, he was involved in the broken bones, which made him gasp, and the facial features on his face were wrinkled.

「……」

On the other side, Shi Lang looked at the corpse of the beast that was placed on the ground, and listened to the report of the officers around him, this beast not only ran fast, but also had a high attack power, and after being attacked, it would take the initiative to approach the soldiers of the Xia Army and swing their upper limbs to attack.

"Such beasts can actually hurt people in the form of brawls, and I don't know if they can be domesticated, if they can be domesticated, it is not bad to capture a few alive and send them back to Jiangning to pay tribute to Your Majesty." Shi Lang commented.

"If you want to domesticate this beast, you still have to contact the local natives first, maybe the local natives have a way?" Huang An said on the side.

"Speaking of which, did the men sent out find the local natives?" Shi Lang asked.

"Not yet." Huang An frowned and replied, "In the past three days since our army landed here, no trace of human activity has been found, could it be that this place is uninhabited?"

"It doesn't make sense." Shi Lang shook his head, "It stands to reason that the water and soil here are suitable for human habitation, and there are dense forest beasts that can be used as a source of food, so it really doesn't make sense."

What Shi Lang didn't know was that at the same time, a few miles away, a Xia Army team that was exploring south had already entered the eyes of some people. ….

"Continue south for half an hour, and if you haven't found it yet, go back the way you came."

Chang'an Sangui, who was at the forefront of the Xia army, held a waist knife in his hand and said to the nineteen subordinates behind him.

Since they left the camp to explore south, not to mention the traces of the activities of the natives, even the animals could not catch up, at first there were people who raised their bird guns to shoot at the unknown animals in the distance, but his marksmanship was really bad, and he directly scared those animals away.

Therefore, they have only hunted two or three smaller beasts until now.

As the Xia army continued to advance, in the dense forest in the distance, a group of dark-skinned natives with stone spears in their hands silently stared at the unaware outsiders, some of whom were armed with a strangely shaped dart that could fly back into their hands after being thrown, and were used as a sharp weapon for hunting.

"Scarf, you're talking about an outsider from the sea

Is that them?"

In the crowd, a middle-aged man who looked respectable asked a young man with various colorful decorations on his body, which distinguished him from the people around him and indicated his status as the leader.

"Yes, chief, I saw them coming from the sea in very large ships, speaking words they did not understand, and using tools they had never seen before." The young man named Scarfeather replied.

"Hmph, outsider." The leader snorted coldly, and he looked at the sixty or so people gathered around him, all of whom were male subjects of the tribe he ruled, each armed with a spear tied to a sharp stone knife, a weapon that was invincible in hunting and warfare against other tribes.

"Chief, are we going to kill them? They look like they have better weapons than we do." A man approached and asked.

"Let's do it, get the outsiders out!"

"Roar!"

With the leader's order, the sixty or so native soldiers hiding in the dense forest jumped out with a shout and rushed towards the unsuspecting Xia soldiers.

Xia Jun was startled by this sudden shout, and when they spotted the natives rushing towards them with their weapons held high, they instantly understood what was going to happen next.

Sentinel An Sangui quickly raised his waist knife and shouted, "Line up to meet the enemy! The Bird's Gun hands back and reload the Bird's Guns!"

As soon as his words fell, twenty soldiers quickly split into formation, soldiers armed with small round shields and waist knives stood in the front row to take cover, and ten soldiers with bird guns stood behind, and they set up bird guns in front of them, and reloaded the bird guns as soon as possible before the natives killed.

The bird guns used by Zheng's sailors are also equipped with paper-wrapped ammunition technology, so they can complete the reload quickly, and only need to make sure that the fire rope on the bird gun is not extinguished, and they can complete the shooting in a short time.

More than ten seconds later, the bird gun was loaded, and ten soldiers hurriedly raised the bird gun, and raised their guns to aim under An Sangui's order, and at this moment, the killed natives struggled to throw the darts, the darts spun and flew, and the soldiers in the front row hurriedly raised their shields to block, but there was still a dart flying towards An Sangui, who quickly slashed and cut off the darts directly. ….

"Put!"

Bang bang bang –

The three natives who ran in front were shot on the spot, and one was wounded by a bullet, but did not fall, and the rest were frightened by the sound of the bird's gun, and did not hesitate to turn around and flee.

The leader was also in the process of fleeing, and it seemed to him that the voice was like the roar of the gods in the sky, warning them not to attack the messenger of the gods again—to be able to use the weapons given by the gods, isn't that the messenger of the gods?

Seeing that the natives were actually frightened by these ten bird guns, An Sangui was a little speechless, but he was already accustomed to it, and when he was on the island of New Guinea before, the natives on the island were also defeated in this way.

An Sangui did not order the pursuit, his eyes fell on the three corpses, and said, "Carry the corpses away and return to the camp to report the matter to Lord Admiral."

……

When An Sangui and his subordinates carried the three corpses back to the camp, it immediately caused an uproar, and the sailors in the camp surrounded one after another, looking at the ugly black corpses and pointing.

Shi Lang and Huang An also heard the news, he did not dislike the smell of the corpse, observed the appearance of the corpse up close, and then gave a conclusion:

"The natives of Jeopardy are almost identical to those of the Big Island (New Guinea), most likely belonging to the same ethnic group, and may even speak the same language."

He was able to come to this conclusion based on the fact that the distance between the two islands was not very far, and the natives on the large island were able to build wooden boats to sail to sea, which provided the basis for communication and exchange between the two places.

Subsequently, Shi Lang asked the sentry chief about the attack at that time, and learned that the other party's scientific and technological level was as backward as the natives on the big island, and he was afraid of birds, Shi Lang was immediately relieved.

Now that you can determine the Jedi Island

There were other human beings on it, and the technological level of these human beings was far behind his own, Shi Lang had a different idea, he immediately returned to the big tent, ordered someone to prepare paper and ink, and wrote down the proposal to capture the Jedi Island and the Big Island.

Shi Lang believes that this place was first discovered by China, so it should be owned by China, and in order to discover this place, the Nanyang sailors paid a heavy price, if it is just given to others, it really should not be.

He proposed to settle to the islands and the islands, set up a governor's office, send officials to govern, and gradually develop, which happened to be able to solve the land annexation caused by overpopulation, which was not the end of the dynasty in history, which seriously led to many people having no land to cultivate and finally became homeless, and the homeless people evolved into peasant uprisings, in a sense, as long as they can capture as much land as possible, they can solve the problem of the people having no land to cultivate.

Shi Lang didn't think that his proposal would not be adopted, and it can be seen from the enthusiasm of the current saint for outward expansion that the current saint is a complete war maniac, and he is more enthusiastic about external expansion than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Ming Chengzu, how could he give up such a borderless land?

In order to prevent the ship returning to Luzon from being shipwrecked halfway, Shi Lang had a few more copies passed on and sent several more ships back to Luzon, Shi Lang was already able to predict that when he found the news of the island was transmitted back to Jiangning, his name would be praised by the people of Jiangning.

Tears.