"What the hell is this place? I originally thought that the primeval forests in Lingnan were bad enough, but I didn't expect that there were even worse places than Lingnan. ”

The weather was gray, the sky was constantly spreading rain on the earth, and the trees of the forest were constantly making strange noises in the wind and torrential rain.

The wind is blowing, the trees are pulled by the wind and make a "crunch" sound, and occasionally there is a "click" sound of the branches being blown off by the wind, coupled with the heavy rain constantly tilting on the leaves, all kinds of "popping" sounds are connected.

"I guess it's the Bangzi sonar that the archers are ordered to fire."

"And what about leisurely elegance and cranky thoughts? Let's figure out how to raise the fire! ”

The dim woods showed obvious signs of artificiality, the smaller bushes were cleared, the larger trees were cut down, and only the truly towering trees remained, and tents and other things thought to have been made appeared in what should have been a primitive landscape.

It has no name, but in modern times it is called Brunei, and the coastline is home to about a dozen large and small ships that rise and fall in the rough waves, the largest of which seems to be 600 tons and the smallest of which is 200 tons. From the outside, these ships are basically three-mast layouts, and it seems that the waterline is also designed to be relatively deep, such as the height of the six-hundred-ton three-mast warship is eight meters, but at least about five meters below the water level.

In fact, the design of the draft is not difficult to understand, and the increased draft of the ships used by the sea is to ensure that the ship is as stable as possible during the unquiet sea voyage, and will not sway greatly due to the influence of waves. In addition, because the voyage was uncertain when supplies would be available, the cabin structure was enlarged to carry more supplies and increase the sustainability of the voyage.

More than a dozen ships anchored in the waters not far from the coastline, and the vision shifted to the land, and the coastline was not a beach at all, but a state of green extending to the shore. That is, a type of tree that grows directly to the shoreline, and the branches fall into the water at high tide, revealing a bare, wet trunk at low tide.

Somewhere along the shoreline, where a large expanse of trees had been cleared for a landing, there were about a hundred small boats near the landing entrance, which were fastened to the trees on the shore with ropes, and swayed up and down and back with the crash of the waves, and each shaking could be heard with a bumping sound.

"Hey, hey, hey, get some!" The sound comes first. Then a figure in linen shorts appeared, he pushed aside the bushes, and in the dim light he could see the man's face with a full beard, and a short head directly on his head: "There's a cave over there." ”

It is true that the Imperial Navy has shaved its hair, and the concept of "parents of the body's hair and skin" is there, but it is not so sacred and constrained. For the sake of convenience and some precautions for navigation, everyone in the Imperial Navy, from the highest admiral to the lowest boatman, shaved off their long hair, and many times was bare. When you don't have time, your hair grows out and it's a short inch.

At a shout, a large group of people rushed out of the tents, most of them shirtless wearing only a pair of pants.

"Except for the formation of the team, everyone else stays in the tent honestly." A calm voice appeared. As soon as I heard it, it was an officer who was giving orders to restrain me.

What is the composition of the team? The man who appeared through the bushes was himself a captain, and the officer said that except for the members of his team, no one else should be fooled in.

A piece should be "No! There was a strong sense of disappointment, but no one disobeyed the officer's orders. Only those who belonged to that team should finish "Nuo" and ran over with pleasure and stepping on the mud under their feet.

Is Brunei a South Sea? There is no doubt that it belongs to the South Seas according to the region. What is the climate of the South Seas? Because of the different historical time periods, in fact, the regional climate of each historical stage is not so different. However, the South China Sea region is really a windy and rainy region, especially the islands in the sea, whether the islands are large or small, almost half of the year is in the rainy season.

"Captain, do you cut down some trees to set up a stop, or do you maintain the status quo and wait for the wind and rain to subside and return to the ship?"

Didn't wear a military uniform, almost everyone was in short clothes and shorts, and they could only rely on familiarity with each other to recognize each official position, and the one who asked was a military marquis, who only tried to keep it clean compared to ordinary soldiers, but only as clean as possible, and looked a little sloppy.

"No, you don't. It was only about forty miles from the stronghold, and when the weather was better, we would get on the boat. ”

That's right, they were halfway through the voyage when they suddenly encountered a violent storm, and for the sake of safety, they also found a random place to anchor and dock, and the reason why they went ashore was because the ship was too shaky, and it was not necessarily safer to be on board than to land, so the captain who commanded this fleet chose to land.

The Empire found this continent...... Or should I say an island? Although the land of this place is large, it is really an island, but it is a larger island, it belongs to the main island of the Philippines in modern times, it doesn't matter what the monkeys name it, China calls it Luzon.

The Empire's discovery of Luzon was not very long, according to the logbook it was 167 days ago, and the first landing after the discovery took place 183 days ago, the first landing did not take any twists and turns, and it quickly found a docking point with a relatively good draft, but what happened afterwards was not so smooth.

The first batch of the Imperial Navy landed on the Liangtun people, who spent about half a month carving out a clearing on the coastline, waiting for the clearing to be opened up and landing on Liangtun again, and then began to explore inland.

The landing soldiers are all well-prepared without exception, they are not wearing battle robes, they are a kind of mesh clothing specially prepared for the landing in the tropical rainforest, the head is indispensable to the hat, and then the net is made into a raincoat style, directly from the head directly over the whole body, the lower body is wearing thick cloth trousers, and the feet are long cowhide waterproof boots.

What is the most in a rainforest? If anyone who has been there will definitely say that there are so many mosquitoes and spiders that it is disgusting, but these two are not the most dangerous, but all kinds of poisonous frogs, and all kinds of ants that people are not careful, compared to these poisonous snakes are simply pediatric. Of course, a thick python that likes to coil in a tree......

The first men to explore inland were two groups of 100 men, and the weather was very sunny at that time, but they were forced to retreat after only about two miles inland. There were 100 people when they entered, only 87 people when they exited, and the 13 people who disappeared were permanently left in this green-looking rainforest that didn't poop.

Don't think that the two miles of tropical rainforest are very short, short is in a not harsh environment, and long because the island environment is far more "primitive" than imagined.

It took the expedition team a full day to walk two miles, and although the sky was clear during the day, the rainforest was covered with tree leaves, and unless they climbed to the top of the tree, there was no chance of sunlight at all. They walked forward as they opened, with rotten leaves and bushes under their feet, and they needed to pay full attention to the insects and poisons. Also be careful if you go to some swampy area.

Swamps are generally waterlogged, and primeval forests with frequent rainy seasons are never short of waterlogged areas, so it is not only necessary to avoid waterlogging comfortably in the summer, but also to choose highlands, but obviously there is no highland on the coastline.

There were enough precautions and precautions, and there were still six people stepping into the muddy swamp before and after the two miles, and the ropes had been prepared in advance to put ropes around each other's waists, and the companions who fell into the swamp were pulled up in time.

Encountering a swamp requires a detour, and the Vanguard Exploration Team has been detouring, detouring, and detouring all day. As a result, the whole day was spent on walking, except for the necessary rest, and only walked less than two miles.

Staying in the tent and listening to the "pop pop" heavy rain leaning on the tent, the captain was closing his eyes and recalling something, and the eyelashes of his eyes twitched when he closed his eyes, which didn't seem to be a pleasant memory?

A long howl suddenly reached the lieutenant's ears, and he opened his eyes with a "swish". A trace of palpitation and pain flashed in his eyes, and he stood up and shouted: "Prepare for rescue!" ”

Being bitten by a poisonous object will not be a roar as long as a sound line, only if you encounter some large beast and it is not fatal by a single blow will you still have the strength to roar.

What was the captain just recalling? It was the first landing led by him. The hundred-strong exploration team encountered a giant python, which was at least fourteen meters long and seemed to appear out of nowhere, and in the first moment, it swept two soldiers who did not react. The huge body rolled, and the sound of bones breaking sounded like firecrackers, and the two soldiers who were twisted by the huge body of the giant python died directly from vomiting blood in their mouths. When the comrades were in danger, the surrounding soldiers would naturally come to the rescue, and they used all kinds of weapons to attack the python continuously, and finally although the python was successfully killed, the total number of men lost was also lost.

When encountering danger, ordinary people are of course the first to retreat, but the soldiers of the army are not so easy to retreat when they encounter danger, they kill the python and restrain their comrades, and the body of the python is also cut into several sections and put aside to wait for the exit to be taken away.

Moving on, the hundred-man team after losing four comrades was more cautious, but many times it was not careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, a completely unfamiliar environment, I don't know when the danger will break out, and another soldier was buried under the strangulation of the giant python, and a soldier was directly bitten in the neck by a black shadow that suddenly appeared and died on the spot, waiting for their companions to lose their breath before they saw clearly that the black shadow was a completely black ocelot.

An ocelot in the rainforest? It was a very nimble and athletic feline, not only running very fast in the flat ground, but also jumping back and forth on the branches, and watching the soldiers who were constantly foaming blood from their mouths, and eight more people were killed in order to avenge their comrades. These eight people were not killed by the ocelot, but by a kind of colorful frog, but they were only spit a little bit of liquid by the unusually beautiful frog, and then they could not be saved.

"There's an ocelot on the top of the cave! There are a lot of frogs in there, too! ”

"The second baby was killed, and was pounced on by the ocelot and caught, and the stone shot the ocelot with a crossbow. But there are snakes, a lot of snakes, the kind of snakes that are very brightly colored! ”

The shouts pierced through the wind and the rain, and the lieutenant ran out of the tent to look in the direction where the sound came from, his eyes could not penetrate the green shade, and everywhere he could see was the haze brought by the heavy rain: "Retreat, retreat!" He turned his head to look at the soldiers around him: "Prepare to answer!" ”

There was a sound of soo and shuffling footsteps, and several figures appeared in view, running in front of two men who each dragged a corpse with one hand, and behind them two dozen soldiers who retreated while chopping something on the ground.

Dozens of soldiers with war knives in their hands leaned forward, and they also kept chopping things to the ground with their war knives, and the robe retreated behind the lines made of sulfur, and many people sat directly on the ground full of mud and rotten leaves, gasping for breath, but they were quickly dragged back by the robe around them, and the closer they were to the camp, the better.

"Record!" The captain's face was full of seriousness: "If you find a cave in the future, you can't approach it easily!" ”

It was hard to tell from his appearance whether he was a clerk or not, but he was a person who did what a clerk would do, and he also responded with a serious face: "Yes, I found that the cave can't be approached easily!" ”

After all, the Imperial Navy is really unfamiliar with the islands in the South Seas, and every time it explores, it will pay some experience in exchange for their lives. And these experiences that have been exchanged for lives will definitely be recorded and shared with all the naval colleagues who are exploring the waters of the South Seas.

The wind continued to blow, and the rain did not diminish at all, but the sudden accident made the camp a little silent, except for those soldiers who had to be on guard on the perimeter, the soldiers who could hide in the tents were all staring blankly at the pouring rain outside.

"It's different, it's really different. I was in the east, and I was one of the first members of the navy to discover Wajima. The island we found to the east had sandy beaches, and it wasn't a rainforest that was difficult to walk on. ”

"Can it be the same? The islands in the east, I heard that they are at the equator, and the geographical location here is subtropical. ”

"Hehe......"

One began to speak, and then someone spoke, and the silent tent had all kinds of words to talk to, but no one said anything too depressing, but no matter how you looked at it, the morale seemed quite low...... (To be continued......)