Chapter XVII
Magui called them Yi people only because he heard them shouting Yi in pursuit, but in fact they had their own name, called Uchiko to accompany his son.
Well, Shao Tingda transliterated it like this, wife and children, it's very good!
Although the family itself does not mean this, he thinks that this clan name is good, he loves his family very much, and he is a manly man, how can he do it without caring for his wife and children?
When they shouted Yi, they were actually saying 'you', trying to make the cavalry under Magui stop, stand there and let them shoot with their bows and arrows.
"You mean, the Spaniards attacked them on horseback, so they saw that the riders were afraid, and because you were here, they were very happy at first and gave them gifts?"
In the longhouse of the tribal village, Shao Tingda holds a clay bowl filled with syrup, which is made by the aborigines by gathering the sap of a local tree and steaming it.
The surrounding aborigines sat around the fire in the longhouse, they couldn't understand what Shao Tingda was saying, and even the long-legged bear, who had learned Chinese, nodded his head violently for a while, and the two exchanged three points by listening and guessing.
"Spain is still beating us, and the champion bridge is gone." The long-legged bear said that there was no sadness on his face, and said: "Zheng Tu asked the long-legged bear to find Ma Gui, how to find Ma Gui?" ”
"You want to ask, where is Ma Gui?"
Shao Tingda laughed while drinking the syrup, raised his two fingers and pointed at the long-legged bear and said, "Good question!" I'm just here to find Magui, I'm lost! ”
"But don't worry about this, you are Zheng Tu's person, Zheng Tu is Magui's person, Magui is my brother's person, and you are all Ming people."
Shao Tingda was quite logical, patted the crockpot, pointed to the outside of the longhouse, and said: "The sugar water is good, I see that there is a well outside, and my boat should be replenished with fresh water, so as not to panic, you can make some efforts to help me carry the water to the shore." ”
"The weather here is not cold, let's stay on the shore for a few days, let the sailors on the ship take turns to rest on the shore, you light up the soldiers and horses, and enter the Shao fleet by land and water, and we will go and get the champion bridge back."
Shao Tingda said, turned his head to the black cloud dragon and said, "Huh! I was still a brother of the Ma family who ate and drank spicy food here, and I never thought that I would suffer a lot for my brother, not to mention, but also be bullied by that little Xiyi. ”
Shao Tingda didn't know what kind of life Ma Gui was living here, but he heard that Ma Gui was not happy in the country, and more soldiers under his men died than he did in successive battles in Nanyang, and he was posthumously named a living dead by the imperial court.
He can understand those, but he can't accept the fact that this seemingly newly acquired little brother was bulldozed by the Spaniards before he had enough connections.
Too aggrieved, right?
Think about their Nanyang Military Mansion, the Daming Sect Army, the warships, artillery, spearmen, what kind of situation is that? Look at this side again, there is no bird cannon cannon, and the armor is barely counted as a second leader, an archer spearman, and the most excessive is a stone weapon.
The only thing that can make the reckless insect look at it is probably the soldiers with high morale who have a large number of wives and children.
Since the tribal elders, who had been elected leaders of the war, issued orders to the surrounding tribes to assemble, more than a dozen villages in the north sent half of their hunting teams to participate in the attack in a few days, and more tribes in the south gathered their men on the way they had to go south.
They were poorly armoured, and it took about a dozen men to scrape together a pair of cotton armor without iron armor, and many more wore fur armor, some with wood or bone trimmed on the outside to strengthen their defenses.
The weapon is not bad, the stone spear and the bone spear are definitely not good, but the big bow is well-made and the arm strength is strong, if it weren't for those bone arrow clusters, it would still be able to enter Shao Tingda's eyes.
Shao Tingda, who had eaten two days of roasted bison, suspected that the arrowhead would not be able to hurt a large, thick-furred bison, but the long-legged bear helped him clear up this doubt.
In hunting activities, their bows are very powerful, and rabbits and wolves cannot escape the ambush of experienced hunters, but after all, stone and bone arrows have limited damage, and cannot be used against bears and bison, which are large beasts with thick skin and flesh.
In the hunt of large beasts, the longbow is designed to scare the beasts, who will choose to trouble the relatively thin, lone beasts during the winter months, when their fur grows at its best.
Use spears, bows and arrows to drive the beasts into the preset traps, and everything can be captured. If things don't go well, the spearmen need to fight for their lives, and the longbow is of little use.
A village of 100 people can hunt three bison in winter, and the stored winter food is enough to survive the whole winter.
The worms played with the rudimentary iron arrowheads, and they were very good at using fire, and they burned the stones they picked up in the river, sometimes with iron, but they didn't know where the iron ore was, and even if they did, they didn't know how to mine it.
As soon as a batch of iron arrows arrives, these hunters who can only shoot accurately will be able to pull up a step sharply.
Seeing the cotton armor worn by the aboriginal warriors, Shao Tingda could be considered to know why those Spanish soldiers seemed a little vulnerable in the battle of Linlai Island.
In this land, the enemies of the Spaniards before the Ming army came were the aborigines, and in the face of the weapons of the aborigines, in Chen Mu's words, the defense of the iron armor had overflowed.
Under what circumstances will people abandon iron armor?
One is that unless you wear iron armor that is so thick that you can't walk on the road, you still can't stop the lead shot from the bore; The other is to wear thick clothes casually, and it will be difficult for the enemy to hurt you.
The situation faced by the Spaniards in Asia during this period was clearly the latter,
In just a few days, a force of more than 400 hunters had gathered around the village and was waiting to march south with Shao Tingda's tribe, and before them, two aboriginal squads of 100 men had dispersed along the way, rallying all tribesmen to participate in the war for the Champion Bridge.
It's not that there are so many soldiers in the 'Yi tribe' that Ma Gui thought in the past or the 'wife and child clan' in Shao Tingda's mind now, but as the most powerful tribe along the coast, they are like a dam to stop the Spaniards who are expanding their territory to the north.
To the south, countless tribes had settled not far north of Mexico, only to be driven north by the Spaniards twenty or thirty years ago.
Now that they have a chance to fight back, they know that the target of the war is the Champion Bridge, but at least this is the beginning.
But just as everything was ready, the long-legged bear loaded ten barrels of syrup onto Shao Tingda's ship, and the navy and army were ready to march, the arrival of an uninvited guest interrupted the reckless worm's desire to rally the aborigines to the south.
It is not like Shao Tingda, who brought horses and ships and baggage ships to assemble a fleet with more than 20 ships, and there are only nine ships and ships.
An 800-material big shark ship is the flagship, followed by seven 500-material conventional shark ships, and a lucky ship carrying baggage, and the scale of the nine warships is not worse than the Shao Tingda battleship in terms of combat power.
Fu Yuan is here. /14_14088/