"Attention, the pile of stones piled up like a small tower is the symbol of the Mamat people's demarcation of their sphere of influence. If you see such regularly piled stones in the wild, it means that you will enter or you have already entered their territory. , if you don’t want to be scalped alive, you have to withdraw quickly; and if you insist on going your own way and rely on your own strength to continue to advance without the consent of the indigenous people, you will soon be attacked. Their powerful counterattack will shoot deadly and hard-to-dodge cold arrows and javelins in the grass, by the woods, by the piles of rocks, in all places you can't think of! And you will have no way to deal with this. The Kurut barbarians who hunt in harsh environments are very agile, and it is impossible to catch their traces with the slow-shooting muskets in our hands..." Along the way, Yu Shan, who was holding an ax and a cloth bag, took advantage of the opportunity. At the last moment of contact with the Kuruts, Dong Jimao, the leading officer of Chiyang's advance team, introduced the island's aboriginal people in detail, the Kuruts, who are famous for their fierceness and daring to fight. He hopes to use this method to reduce the losses of Chiyang's fleet. After all, he and his boss have to use Chiyang's power to return to the mainland. If Chiyang's people suffer excessive losses in the battle with the indigenous people, there will be extreme consequences. It may delay the process, and this is not what the boss behind him wants to see.
"Very good, that's a good point! However, can you tell us about your last battle experience with these Kuruts? I think this will help us assess the combat effectiveness of the Kuruts to a great extent..." In the face of Shan's nagging, Dong Jimao did not show any impatience based on the traditional virtue of humility of the Chinese nation. However, compared to these non-nutritious chattering, he was more concerned about the previous interactions between the Shan team and the Kurut indigenous people. That battle was because he wanted to understand the true fighting power of the Kuruts through Yu Shan's words. Although in his eyes, those indigenous people who were boasted by Yu Shan and others were as brave and good at fighting as the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was actually more similar to the bandits he had fought before, but as Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, "Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be invincible in a hundred battles." His huge sense of responsibility prevented him from being careless. After all, this was the first time he led a team into battle. If he screws up, he won't be able to get the good job of leading troops into battle next time, so he can't help but be cautious and go all out.
"That time, we were just like you, thinking that we had strong troops and that the Kuruts were indigenous and therefore vulnerable. But we were wrong. The Kuruts were not the primitive barbarians we imagined. They did not swarm us in battle. , fight us head-on, but use all the terrain that is conducive to them to attack and kill us. Mr. Dong, do you know that these short natives can reach 80 to 100 steps (120--160 meters) They can accurately shoot our people at a distance, and in close combat, haha, I can only describe it as haha. Their skill in using tomahawks and daggers is very good, and they eat meat for a long time, and their bodies are not as good as those of us who eat food. can be compared, so basically one Kurut can defeat two of our sailors head-on, and their elite, the warriors of the Kurut tribe, can easily defeat more than five of our sailors while ensuring their own safety. Sailor! Mr. Dong, you can’t truly understand if you haven’t fought with them. The bloodthirsty and ferocity of these people come from the bone marrow. When charging into battle, they never take human lives as one thing..." After Yu Shan's intermittent narration , Dong Jimao finally had a preliminary understanding of what the so-called Kurut people were good at fighting. It turns out that among the indigenous people, the Kuruts and even the more powerful Mamat people are only good at sneak attacks and attacks on maritime merchant groups with low organizational capabilities. Small and medium-sized pirates themselves do not have the ability to confront the regular army head-on. As long as they If I am careful enough and the team is not dispersed, this group of natives will not find a chance to completely defeat my group. However, in the face of strict queues and intensive volleys of guns, all the bravery and bravery of the natives will become a joke.
However, he apparently forgot that the peasant soldiers under his command who were carrying the water storage barrels were not regular soldiers who had experienced battles. Facing the attack of the Kuruts, their performance may not be better than that of Qiao Si's crew. How wonderful!
"Stop, everyone, please be silent to Dong. There seems to be something wrong in front of you. Wen Si and Wen Liu, you two are flexible and come with me to investigate and see what happened. The rest of you will wait. Put down the buckets, take out weapons and prepare for battle!" The water-fetching team advanced along the winding dirt road on the island for about half a mile. Looking at the growing vegetation around them, Dong Jimao, who was silently holding his short flower gun and just burying his head in walking, suddenly suddenly Yu Shan interrupted his eloquence and frowned, as if he noticed something was wrong. The next moment, under his order, more than ten emaciated peasants and soldiers put down the buckets they were carrying, picked up their spears, and began to line up with matchlocks to prepare for battle.
"Captain A, it's not good. The Jia Liu brothers we sent to inquire about the situation were surrounded by the Kuruts on the slope in front! There are many indigenous people and there are elite vulture shooters. We dare not rely on them. It's too close, so we can only wait and see from a distance. Commander, let's hurry up and summon the leader. There are more than a hundred Kurut indigenous warriors, including heavy ax warriors, snake pole warriors, and eagle shooters. They are not just us. A dozen or twenty people can't defeat him..." But just when Dong Jimao, Yu Shan and others organized their manpower to prepare to defend against the indigenous sneak attack, Wen Si and Wen Liu, who were ordered to go out to investigate the military situation, stumbled back, and at the same time , they also brought the bad news that Jia Liu and others were surrounded by a large force of Kuruts.
"What, a hundred natives?! What did Jia Liu and the others do? They asked them to inquire about the situation, but why did they collide with a large group of natives? We currently have less than twenty people on hand, and they are all not well trained. The peasants and soldiers are unable to rescue them at all. Wen Si, you are very agile. Go back and inform the leader and Lord Zanhua first, and ask them to send reinforcements quickly to support them. The others come with me. Let's make some noise first, okay? Relieve the pressure on Jia Liu and the others..." His subordinates were surrounded and the natives attacked with ferocity. This made Dong Jimao, a former rural teacher, a little panicked, but then he thought about it. He has practiced martial arts for many years, and his gun and stick skills are really not weak. In addition, With the main force of the Chiyang fleet as backing, there is no need to fear that the natives are fierce and good at fighting! Therefore, while he sent a messenger back to the ship to report the news, he began to organize his men to continue marching forward, hoping to attack from the flanks to attract the attention of some indigenous people, thereby alleviating the defensive pressure on Jia Liu and others in the encirclement.
The big island of Gejia has a short slope of Tutou.
The house stood at the bottom of the short slope and looked up at the aliens entrenched on the top of the slope, with a very complicated expression. He is in his early thirties, which is the most powerful age in a person's life. It has been more than ten years since he took over the tribal rule from his father at the age of twenty. His life has been ordinary, except for his relationship with In addition to fighting openly and secretly, Lori Aichal Khan and his Krels took an eight-legged boat to the depths of the ocean to hunt sweet gill fish, small whales, silverback sharks, etc. Occasionally, when he got interested, he would also fight with people from neighboring islands. Hu Ke took a boat together to the nearby island inhabited by the Tazimir people to do some robbery.
However, this life took a new change a few years ago. A fleet of aliens consisting of three wooden sailing ships appeared in his territory one summer afternoon. At the beginning, he and his old enemy Zhaerhan unanimously believed that these foreigners wearing cloth robes and turbans (they thought that the Ming Dynasty conquerors from another world were a large tribal alliance) were merchants who came with good intentions and could exchange for He and his subordinates had many daily necessities, so they entertained them warmly! But as the saying goes, "knowing people but not knowing their hearts", the simple Kurut people never expected that these "foreign businessmen" who traded fairly with them during the day would actually reveal their terrifying true colors in the dead of night! With the help of the Tazimir traitors who had been bribed in advance, forty or fifty strong caravan guards temporarily acted as bandits. They first set fires everywhere in the tribe, so that the sleeping Kuruts could not escape in a short time. Time to organize effective forces to resist, and then use a team of ten people to search for property and rob people. When the island guard Gaisha and the priest Zhaerhan gathered enough Krel and tribesmen, the impromptu bandits They had already carried a lot of property (poorly, the Kuruts did not have the habit of storing gold, silver and copper coins. What Qiao Si and others grabbed were only some furs, dried fish, seafood and the like. Of course, there were also a small number of horses. Copper, iron and other precious metals smelted by the Mat people themselves), escorted a dozen indigenous young men and women onto the boat.
Note: For the Kurut battle ax and dagger, the level of iron smelting of the Kurut people is not high. They cannot make knives of the required length, so they can only use thick iron containing a lot of impurities to make daggers similar to large daggers. Not every Kurut can equip this kind of short sword. Only the brave men of the tribe can use it. It is a symbol of power and status.
Note 2: The Kurut snake pole warriors are a unique type of arms of the Mamat people. They use a ten-foot-long snake-shaped spear. Their combat power is equivalent to that of the spearmen in the Ming army. However, the snake poles in their hands are more powerful than the spears. .
Note 3: This house, Mamat, is from Hu Ke, the big island of the Ge family of the Kurut people, which means small leader and island guard. The governance system of the Mamat people is very rough. Generally, small tribes only have Hu Ke, Luoliai (with Hu Ke and Creel both hold the three official positions of Mamat in the lineage, in charge of sacrifices and financial matters within the tribe) and Creel (more like a collection of hunting captains, attendants, and warriors).
Note 4: An eight-legged boat is a unique vessel of the Mamata people. It is composed of two or three canoes. There are eight wooden sticks similar to spiders on the outer wings to maintain the balance of the hull.
Note 5: The Taqimirs, a branch of the Mamat people, are good at fishing, breeding, and growing sea vegetables. Their combat effectiveness is at the lower end of the entire Mamat people.
