Chapter 130: Occupancy
Magui didn't make it another two thousand miles south, and they witnessed a battle on land at sea 1,700 miles away.
The territory of the Yi people is larger than the Ming army imagined, at the end of the long strait, they found seven Yi villages, the people here rarely have dogs, which created convenient conditions for the Ming army to infiltrate, two Jurchen hunters who infiltrated the village brought back the news, this people's residence is a kind of long single room, there are large and small, large and even dozens of people sleep in one room.
There was no habit of wearing armor, but people had many ornaments such as feathers and painted stones, and the weapons spanned 3,000 years in China, ranging from wood, bone, stone to metal weapons made of copper and iron, which means that they may not know how to make iron, or that they have completed the steps of mining ore and smelting metal.
Ma Gui jotted down his doubts in his notebook: if the 'Yi people' they found belonged to the same tribe, then this tribe would be the largest tribe in the three years since he landed in North Asia, close to 3,000 people, and considering the vast area extending from the coast to the interior, the 'Yi people' might even be even more.
Because he had never found such a dense population of locals living in that area.
However, Magui soon found the reason for the settlement of the America natives, most likely just migrated.
On the sea a few miles from the coastline, most of the sails of the Fuchuan carrying more than 90 flag troops were lowered and sailed at a slow speed, followed by several small sloops of less than 100 materials, none of which were equipped with artillery, and in order to load as much baggage as possible in the limited space, Magui ordered all artillery to be unloaded in the port in Majia Port.
No one thought that there would be a battle in this land that the bird gun and the tiger squat cannon could not solve.
Magui had determined that this was a land of God's favor, with countless animals along the coast, and a large number of fish could be caught in the sea, but a cursory observation could not determine whether there were enough mineral deposits, but as far as they could find, the land was very fertile, and the untended land could grow lush fruits and vegetables.
Among all this gratifying information, the most striking are the tall and straight towering trees, they have seen patches of pine trees more than 20 feet high and equally tall cedar trees, with enough skilled craftsmen and manpower, in a few years this will develop into a shipyard beyond Xiangshan.
But it's not all good.
"They're on the march."
Ma Jin held the binoculars and said: "There are three sentinels and horses that can be seen, uh, there are no horses, they split their ways and rushed south, without carrying baggage, and the march should not be far." ”
The three sentinels in Ma Jin's mouth are actually three teams, they are carrying bows and arrows, spears and some hand axes and other weapons through the forest, running and jumping quickly.
Ma Gui turned his head and glanced at his brother in surprise, and said, "Will they bring baggage when they are far away?" I have never seen them have carts, wagons, ox carts, donkey carts, nothing. ”
"Let's keep up with them and see where they're going."
Ma Jin ignored his brother's doubts, the natives here have no awareness of building roads, and in this road situation, even if there is a car, they can't pull it.
The march of the northern Merica natives was farther than Magui and the others had imagined, and they ran south along the coast on two legs, joined by a tribal hunter with torches along the way, and continued their journey from day to night.
Until the march of more than 200 miles, at this moment, the troops of the Tumin have formed more than ten teams with distinct costumes but unity, with a total strength of more than 1,000 people.
Even in the two hundred-man teams that joined in the far south, their leaders rode tall horses that would make Magui greedy, and wore iron armor on their chests.
In the telescope, Magui seemed to see their target, a wooden camp standing on the shore, with two old dhows docked next to the pier connecting the harbor, which looked like a small supply depot.
Ma Gui is very familiar with this, on the long coastline from Kuwu Island to Majiagang, he has set up more than ten hundred households like this, this camp seems to be about the same size, and it can provide food and accommodation for more than 100 people at most.
The only difference was that there weren't hundreds of natives who were busy naked outside the hundreds of homes wearing only shorts.
This remote and humble wooden village is covered with a tall flag with a red cross, indicating that it is a supply point belonging to the Spaniards.
"That's it, 6,800 miles southeast of Majiagang, it seems that the land further south has been occupied by Xiyi."
Ma Gui looked at the camp on the coast with some reluctance, although he didn't know how far the so-called Mexico was from here, but he was sure in his heart that there was still a long way to go, in Xuanda, they were fighting with the Mongols for an inch of land, and now they were going to give up a large piece of land to Xiyi?
Ma Jin's expression was similar, but they all knew that Da Ming needed the Spaniards, the silver mine was in the hands of the Spaniards, and there could be no more trouble if peace had been negotiated.
At least they could not go to war with the Spaniards until a large number of reinforcements arrived.
Of course, everything else is fake, and there are only more than 200 troops on the 7,000-mile coastline in Ma Gui's hands...... The natives were able to drive him away from the wilderness.
Just when everyone was looking intently at the small camp in the distance, Ma Gui suddenly spoke.
"Full sails, continue south, bypass this camp."
When the flag army on the ship heard that the military order was naturally carried out, Ma Jin asked in surprise: "At most, most of the native people will come to the city, why don't you see how they fight, why do you want to open to the south at this time?" ”
This was a great opportunity for them to learn about how the Spaniards fought and how the natives fought...... They had been trained for a long time on Kuwu Island before their departure, and they knew almost everything that the Nanyang Military Government had known about overseas three years earlier, but they had never really seen it, and everything was on paper.
Ma Gui shook his head slightly, not knowing what he was thinking, and then said with a long breath: "Don't worry, I'll be back later." ”
The Spanish camp is not large, but occupies a vast land, it seems that they taught the cultivation method to the native slaves, most of the natives who did not even have clothes are working in the few fields reclaimed around, or carrying goods back and forth, the number of people in the whole camp is too far to see clearly, but Ma Gui can still see through the green lenses that there are a few soldiers wearing high eaves helmets and holding guns or spears on the camp.
The telescope gave Ma Gui the opportunity to observe them from a very long distance, and properly bypassed the camp, sailed south for more than 30 miles and did not find more Spanish camps, so the ship sailed north, and finally landed Hulan and other Mongolian soldiers and their war horses on the beach at a distance of ten miles south of the camp.
Ma Gui had only one order: "Blockade the camp and hide it, and let them go if there are more than five messengers or send a message to the east, and if there are less than five and send a message to the south, shoot them and leave them alive." ”
Ma Jin's eyes widened, and he said hurriedly: "What are you going to do here?" ”
"I don't want to give the land to Xiyi, this land is either theirs or ours, right? Let the natives do what they want, and it's good for us. Magui Nunu pouted, patted the side of the boat and said, "Let's go, let's go back and take down the two boats in the port!" ”