Liu Tao came into contact with the Bantu people, a group of local natives who were relatively warlike. Liu Tao, www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion, decided to support the Bantu people first, after all, these people are easier to contact and close to the sea. If the people of this tribe were defeated, Liu Tao and the docks and houses they built would have to be abandoned, and the Ming army could only flee to the sea in small boats.

The huge battleship Nanjing had already returned, and the Ming army only had two small boats in their hands, and if they escaped to the sea, they would not be able to hold out for a few days.

After the hyena tribe arrived, men, women, and children all came down to work.

The aborigines cut down trees with stone axes, and the cut timber was moved to the sea under the command of the Ming army. Some people, under the command of Liu Tao, dug trenches in the ground, or stuck wood in the ground to build wooden fences. Others used the saws provided to them by the Ming army to cut the planks and build towers.

I have to say that the efficiency of black people in doing things is really low, and there is plenty of food in Africa, and they basically don't need any labor to get food. Because there was no habit of storing food, once there was a famine, endless wars began to reduce some of the people who wasted food.

Now it is related to the life and death of these tribal people, even so, their efficiency in doing things is still low, this is related to the tools of production on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also related to their habits, they have become accustomed to not working much, even when it comes to life and death, they are still slow to do things.

"Hurry up and get to work! Otherwise, the Sukuma people will come and die! The hyena shouted loudly, urging his tribe to work on the construction of the Tucheng barracks.

There were also many women and old people sitting on the ground, sharpening spear shafts. With the blades provided by the Ming army, the spear shafts made by these Bantu people could also be longer, making it easier to make longer spears. There weren't enough iron spearheads, so the natives made them out of stone and sharpened them to create stone spearheads. After that, the aborigines tied the stone spearhead to the shaft with a rope, so that the stone spear was completed.

The upcoming Sukuma people also used stone spears, and after the Bantu people had the iron weapons provided by the Ming army, they no longer used stone spears in battle, but this time the opponents were outnumbered, and the iron weapons were not enough, so they had to use stone spears again. However, with iron tools in the process, the same stone spear will be much better than the opponent's.

Still others, under the guidance of the Ming army, built wooden shields.

"Keep it up!" The natives shouted in their native language and nailed the logs to the ground to form a wooden fence. Later, four towers were erected, which were located at the four corners of the barracks.

Liu Tao had twenty Ming troops in his hands, stationed in four arrow towers, and five people on each arrow tower; There are also five black musketeers, who will be scattered and fired freely, specifically against some of the most powerful enemies.

The people of the other two tribes also came one after another, they were also Bantu, and they had followed the hyenas to wage war with other tribes, killing many Sukuma, so the people of those two tribes also dragged their families into the barracks.

When the two tribesmen arrived, they immediately joined the construction. They didn't know how to build a barracks, so they were sent by hyenas to cut wood.

After a whole day of construction, a barracks several grades lower than the Ming army barracks was erected by the sea. Such a rudimentary, shoddy, and crooked barracks would be vulnerable if it were taken to the country, and the opponent could easily break through, but here, such a barracks was already extremely strong.

The next morning, Liu Tao asked the hyenas to send people to simply reinforce the barracks.

At noon, the sentry outside came back and reported: "Chief! The Sukuma are coming! They're coming soon! ”

Liu Tao stood on the arrow tower in the northwest corner, picked up the binoculars, and looked ahead. I saw smoke and dust billowing from three miles away, and the black Sukuma people came out and pressed towards his large camp.

"Prepare for battle!" The hyena gave the order.

In fact, the hyena has seen the effect of those wooden fences, his warriors can hide behind the wooden fences, and use the spear at hand that is longer than the opponent to stab outside, and the opponent's spear is short, and his own side has a shield to protect him, and the opponent appears outside the wooden fence, that is, he is assassinated by his own side in vain.

The leader of the attacking Sukuma looked at the camp that appeared by the sea, but he was not impressed. In order to attack the Bantu people, he had been planning for a long time, and it took more than a month to unite more than a dozen tribes and pull out more than eight thousand people. Such a force is already a very strong force on the African continent.

The Sukuma are a relatively strong race in the area, and they are outnumbered and have wiped out many small tribes in the area. But who knows out of nowhere, a group of people came from nowhere, and provided their enemies with sophisticated weapons, so that they suffered great losses, and a large number of brave warriors were killed, and some were missing, presumably captured.

Later, through sending people to reconnoitre, it was learned that the enemy had received help from some people from afar, obtained excellent weapons, and there were many good things in the hands of those who came from afar, which were so eye-catching.

It is said that there is a good thing called sake, which makes people excited when you drink it, and there are cigarettes, and it is simply a pleasure to watch them smoke.

So the chief united more than a dozen tribes, and he must wipe out the Bantu people by the sea, rob them of their good weapons, and rob them of their good things.

"Test your opponent's strength first!" The Sukuma leader roared.

About 500 Sukuma people stepped forward in unison, stood more than ten steps away from the camp, and began to sing and dance. Well, this is a habit of black people, they also like to sing and dance when they are fighting, until the twentieth century, black people invented some fast-paced madness, hip-hop and so on, and rap and so on.

However, Liu Tao was not in the mood to appreciate their dance, but let people attack.

On the four arrow towers, the archers of the Ming army opened their bows and set up arrows, and shot arrows one after another with three-force bows.

The Ten Force Bow is a stone bow, one stone is equal to one hundred and twenty catties, and the three-force bow is about thirty-six catties of strength, which is a very weak weak bow, low cost, and small power, if it is a war in the country, such a weak bow and arrow has little effect, the range is short, and the armor-piercing ability is extremely poor. But in Africa, the bow is a very powerful weapon.

Because the force of the three-force bow is small, it basically does not consume much of the archer's physical energy, so the rate of fire is also fast, and the archer can continue to shoot arrows, and it is not easy to strain the muscles and not easily exhaust the physical energy.

The natives had no armor on them, and every arrow shot at them was pierced into their flesh. With a scream, the natives who had been hit by the arrows fell one after another.

The opponent had no armor on his body, not even clothes, and the archers of the Ming army did not even have a full three-force bow, and only used the strength of Erdou to shoot arrows. It took almost no effort, and in the blink of an eye, each archer had already shot more than ten arrows, and nearly a hundred natives who stood more than ten steps away to test the firepower fell under the hands of the Ming army!

In the wooden fence, the weak bows sold by the Ming army to the natives also shot arrows, although they were arrows of bone or stone, but the arrows were pierced on the aborigines without any protection, and a large piece was also knocked down.

"Withdraw!" The Sukuma leader shouted.

The small leaders of the Sukuma gave the signal, and the natives who had tested the fire retreated, leaving more than sixty corpses and more than a hundred wounded on the ground.

"What tactics are they? Why didn't you attack just now, and stood there in vain? Liu Tao looked at the aborigines who retreated, and asked the hyena very puzzled. Because the language was not very comprehensible, it took him a long time to get the hyena to understand.

The hyena replied, "They are trying to make our troops, counting how many bows and arrows we have." ”

Liu Tao was dumbfounded: "There is still such a tactic?" Test your opponent's strength and firepower with human lives? ”

It's ridiculous to say, but it's a way for the local natives, who don't have much reconnaissance and rely on this stupid way to test their opponents' firepower.

The hyena said: "The enemy is about to attack!" ”

Liu Tao sneered: "Just wait for them to come up and die!" ”

An earth-shattering shout rang out from the steppe ahead, and the blackened Sukuma charged the Bantu camp.

"Shoot the arrows!" The hyena shouted.

Countless arrows flew out of the camp like locusts flying in the sky, and red blood splattered in a black skin, forming a blood mist, and rows of Sukuma fell to the screams. But the range of these weak bows was too close, only twenty paces, and each archer drew his bow twice, and the Sukuma were already rushing to the wooden fence.

The archers withdrew, and the spearmen stepped forward, spears bursting out of the wooden fence, and the Sukumas standing outside the wooden fence were stabbed and fell with a cry of pain.

The Sukuma archers also shot arrows, but the defending Bantu had wooden fences and shields, and the more inferior bows and arrows of the Sukuma could not cause losses to the Bantu.

There are also bows and arrows that hit the arrow tower, but the Ming soldiers on the arrow tower have armor on their bodies, and those inferior soft bows and arrows made of bones cannot hurt the Ming army at all.

Many people began to climb on top of the wooden fence, but spears pierced from the wooden fence and pierced them mercilessly, and the half-climbed Sukuma fell from the wooden fence one by one.

"Bang bang bang" five black musketeers opened fire, and the smoke of gunpowder rose and the gunfire sounded like thunder, and several Sukuma who had been shot fell.

At the same time, the Ming soldiers on the arrow tower threw out the national surname bottle.

Boom burst into flames from the crowd, and ceramic shards and the thistles filled with them burst into flames, and a large area of Sukuma fell in a huddle, and a large area was vacated around the center of the explosion.

"Divine thunder from the sky?" Frightened by the firearms, the Sukuma turned and ran.

"Shoot the arrows!" Another volley of arrows shot out of the camp, and many of the fleeing Sukuma were left behind.

"It's just vulnerable!" Liu Tao sneered. (To be continued.) )