After cooking meat, drinking wine, and throwing a feast (although the main dishes were only bacon, dried fish, and seaweed intestines), the Mingren bandits did not rush to set sail and leave after they succeeded. Instead, they anchored the big ship at a distance from Gejia Island. Less than ten miles away from the sea, a carnival-like celebration party began. They did not think that their enemies could catch up, even if the natives also had boats, because as we all know, although the eight-legged boats were light and flexible, they relied entirely on human rowing for movement. They could not move with the wind and the current at all. Even if they catch up with the Ming merchants' hard sailing ships, let alone catch up, the natives will not get much benefit from the heavily armed Ming people bandits. After all, the Ming ships are equipped with muskets, bowl-mouth blunderbuss and general cannons. Not only the natives with bows and arrows can compete! Therefore, they just sailed the boat away from Gejia Island, but did not go far. In fact, these guys who are addicted to robbery are still planning in their hearts, whether they should take advantage of the free time tomorrow to do another job and take advantage of the situation. A nearby Beqi island has been served. Grab some furs, strong men and women, you know, a little fur is nothing, strong male and female natives are worth a lot of money, a strong native man can be sold to the mines on the mainland. You can get twenty taels of white grained silver. Although the native women have less, they are still worth ten taels of silver, so they can't help but these greedy thieves don't continue to use their brains on this.
However, they obviously underestimated the persistence and courage of the Kuruts! Although these natives who had just escaped from the primitive clan society were savage and ferocious, and would beat or scold those with lower status than themselves, they would never allow their family members or even their tribesmen to be kidnapped and sold like animals by foreigners! Therefore, at the call of Gaishe, the island guard of Gejia Island, five small tribes of Mamat people from three surrounding islands dispatched more than forty eight-legged boats of various sizes and nearly four hundred warriors to attack and rob property. , the alien bandits who plundered the population.
Using bows, arrows, javelins, and slings, the Mamat people attacked unsuspecting foreign bandits (or merchants) at night, using all possible means. Under the leadership of a group of elite Krel, the Kuruts , the Tazimir people, and the Bezi people all put aside their past prejudices about grievances and took advantage of the unique eight-legged boats. Under the cover of their respective archers and harpooneers, they approached the tall enemy ship and climbed onto the enemy ship with flying claws. On the deck, they had a fierce hand-to-hand fight with the drunken alien bandits.
In this case, the weapon advantage of the Akito pirates could not be reflected at all. The fire door gun could not be aimed accurately at all. In addition, they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people. Therefore, the Akito pirates had to resort to the weapons they were least good at. way to fight the enemy. But they really underestimated the fighting power of the indigenous people. These men who hunt in the woods or on the ocean all year round are flexible and skilled in combat. Often one Bezi or Tazimir is enough to deal with two Ming bandits, not to mention their explosive combat power. The Kuruts were so angry that they had no intention of holding back. Therefore, they quickly killed more than half of the eighty or ninety Ming robbers on the three ships, while the remaining half, led by the shipowners, could only take advantage of the chaos to seize the sampan that came with the sailboat and went crazy. Withdrew to the nearest Beqi island. Fortunately, at this critical moment, they remembered to take away the bowl-mouth gun on the ship. Otherwise, even if they retreated to the sampan, they would not be able to escape the pursuit of the indigenous eight-legged boat. , you must know that in the case of shaking, the scattering bowl mouth gun can play a much stronger role than the general cannon. At least, the scattered iron nails, broken porcelain shards, and lead pellets can make the Kuruts' overheated The head calms down a bit, and the strength in the rowing sailor's hands slows down a bit. (Others are looting the goods and weapons on the Akito robber's ship. Only the Kuruts are chasing after them)
However, the matter did not end there. Although the Akito bandits who had retreated to the island to wait for help defeated several small-scale attacks by the Kuruts, the most critical moment had also arrived! The gradually falling night gave the Kuruts the best cover. With the support of the Tazimir and Bezi people, the Kuruts, who had assembled more than a hundred troops, once again attacked the defense circle of the Akito bandits. assault! They first beat the waist drums made of whale skin and danced the unique war dance of the Mamata people. Then, under the leadership of Creel, they waved their foot-long snake spears and shouted with heavy stone axes as they rushed towards the small area occupied by the Akito bandits. During this period, although some people were occasionally hit and knocked down by inaccurate bowl-mouth blunderbuss and fire gate guns, most of them rushed to the enemy's formation without incident, followed by archers, harpooneers, snake-handlers, and stone axes. The hands then rushed forward, and a fierce hand-to-hand battle began...
Twelve people died and nine were injured. The extremely brave Kuruts paid a heavy price (compared to the poor population base of the Kuruts on Gejiada Island) to completely defeat the alien bandits. Except for the captain Akito who was captured alive, there were only two extremely lucky guys in the entire gang of robbers who escaped their pursuit in the chaos. The rest, whether dead or injured, were all scalped alive by the Kuruts. Use it to vent your anger!
Then, this incident quickly spread through the two Ming people who escaped. The merchants and pirate groups who depended on the sea for hundreds of miles around Gejia Island were all horrified. For a long time, no one was there. Don’t you dare touch the Mamat man’s tiger butt again. Even the Akito shipowner had one of his ears cut off, and after being released by the Kuruts, he sent people to send generous gifts to apologize!
The surrounding small tribes respected and feared the merchants of all ethnic groups. With their geographical advantages, the Kuruts on Gejia Island lived a comfortable and prosperous life. The appearance of a group of people is over! According to the report of Krel, who was in charge of patrolling, the island guarding officer instinctively felt that the aliens who sneaked up on his Gek without saying hello in advance were acting in a manner similar to Akito who was defeated by him a few years ago. The robbers, like all others, first show off to themselves (when the whereabouts of Jia Liu and his group were discovered by the Kuruts, the first thing they thought of was to give the natives prepared gifts, but the Kuruts ate too much of Shan's group) Unfortunately, they simply ignored Jia Liu and others), and then took advantage of the Seljuk descendants like themselves to relax their vigilance against them, burn down the tribe's houses, rob the tribe's belongings, kidnap the tribe's children, and treat themselves well. Er (meaning camp) made a mess.
But this is not what Gaishe and Zhaerhan (the indigenous priests of Gejiada Island), who hate foreigners, want to see. Therefore, with the help of elite Krel, Gaishe led dozens of strong male tribesmen to quietly surround the small slope where the alien scouts rested temporarily, and began to launch a tentative attack on Jia Liu and the others. When Jia Liu saw the behavior of the natives, he knew that the matter might not go well today, so he simply stopped pretending to be the third grandson and sent Dong Jimao to search while the Ku barbarians were not encircling him. Their two companions rushed up the slope and then stood guard, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
"Brother Jia, my short blunderbuss is almost out of powder!" On the short slope of Tutou, Jia Liu and his group, who were waiting for help, were leaning against the low shrubs to refill their blunderbuss. Below, the Kuruts, whose attack had been frustrated, had chosen to retreat temporarily. They carried their wounded and killed companions back to the original starting point, and Loriai, a member of the tribe, presided over the sost ceremony (a type of indigenous war dance ceremony). , pray for blessings and blessings for the soldiers, so that they will be more brave and fearless in the next battle.
"Warriors, the iron rods in the hands of the aliens don't have much medicine anymore (fortunately, the Ku tribe finally figured out that the flaming iron rods are not actually the devil's canes, and at the same time, they also need to be loaded with black Powder and metal soft pellets can be fired), if everyone works harder, we can rush up and kill them all!" Obviously, it was not the first time for the Kuruts to fight against enemies holding firearms. They also saw that Jia Liu and others The man's ammunition reserve has been exhausted. As long as he adds more force, the fragile defense of the aliens will instantly collapse. Therefore, under the command of the island guard and the blessing of the sacrifice, the Kuruts, holding coconut shields, carrying snake spears and stone axes, after a short rest, continued to launch a fierce attack on the short slope of the rabbit head.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Faced with the crazy attack of the indigenous people, Jia Liu and others were unwilling to sit still and wait for death! As a result, gunpowder smoke was everywhere up and down the slope. Hot lead pellets with orange gun flames broke free from the shackles of the barrel, flew over a short distance, and easily exploded the heads of the natives, or killed them. The limbs of the natives were broken! In short, the seven muskets, five short flintlock spears, and two long flintlock spears in the hands of Jia Liu and other seven people caused a lot of casualties to the Kuruts (previously it was also due to the fierce firepower of the defenders, plus the He was unwilling to lose a large number of his own people, so he did not launch a strong attack). Normally at this time, the island guard Gaishe would blow a horn made of conch, withdraw his warriors, reorganize their formation, and prepare for the next wave of attacks, but this time it was different. Hu Kegeishe, a Kurut man, seemed to have made up his mind. Determined to lose some of their manpower (this year, they annexed and recruited a large number of Kurut vagrants from other islands. The number of Kuruts on Gejia Island reached more than 400 for the first time, among which only the men who can take up arms to fight are There are one hundred, sixty and seventy people), and he will also kill all this small group of foreigners who dare to offend the Kuruts' power, and peel off their dirty scalps and offer them to the great Seljuk God!
Note: The Beqi people, like the Tazimir people, are a branch of the Mamat people, and their combat effectiveness is also at the lower end.
Note 2: The fire gate gun, Mingren gangsters, or the Haishang people are simply unable to equip advanced matchlock guns. They usually use the fire gate gun that has been eliminated by the regular army.
Note 3: Geke, Mamat language, means region, territory.
Note 4: The Kuruts divide the land. Since Yu Shan and others were defeated by the Kurut, Beqi, and Tazimir coalition forces, small and medium-sized maritime merchants have to carry out various trade operations every trade season in order to safely pass through the sea areas controlled by the Kuruts. They will bring a certain amount of gifts to the Ku people, including salt, cloth, ironware and other daily necessities.
Note 5: Seljuk, Mamat language, means sea god.
