Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 777
There are hundreds of thousands of black slaves in Bahia!

When Luo Sigong received the news, he couldn't believe his ears.

However, he believed it now because he had seen it with his own eyes.

He was standing on the top of a mountain that was more than a hundred miles high, turning the binoculars, scanning the situation more than ten miles away.

From such a long distance, people naturally couldn't see him, so he could investigate unscrupulously.

The reason why he came here himself was not just to see these black slaves.

The main reason he ran over was that all the scouting teams were unable to detect any more news.

Because the anti-Habsburg army immediately went crazy, driving the black slaves to cut down the primitive jungle, centering on Salvador, the main city of Bahia, the trees within a radius of three or four hundred miles were almost cut down by these guys up.

Moreover, such logging teams are everywhere on the edge of the jungle.

With the jungle gone, the scout team lost their natural cover. They were completely different from others in terms of clothing and appearance.

In this case, how do they investigate?

They will be recognized by others as soon as they rush out of the jungle!

If Qing Zhuang, a North American Indian tribe, was sent to pretend to be a member of the primitive tribe here to investigate, it would be like sending slaves to people, and they would definitely use iron chains to catch them and work without hesitation.

The problem is that it's not enough to just check the outside, they have to go inside to check the situation clearly.

To put it bluntly, if people followed Sun Chengzong's example and built dozens of fortresses within a range of hundreds of miles, Shenwuying would have to kneel when they rushed in.

Therefore, it is useless to detect outside the light, they must find a way to go in and have a look.

They had never encountered such a situation before.

All his subordinates were screwed, so he had no choice but to go out and see for himself.

Luo Sigong frowned and glanced around for a while, suddenly his eyes lit up.

Because I noticed the team that transported the wood.

There were quite a lot of such teams transporting timber, and the long convoys were everywhere, and there were more than a dozen such teams within the scope of his telescope.

The reason why his eyes are bright is that in addition to the team of pure black slaves in these teams of transshipment timber, there are also teams of pure local primitive tribes.

Moreover, this kind of team is composed of dozens of soldiers from the anti-Habsburg alliance detaining thousands of people and pushing hundreds of flatbed carts.

There is another detail that he also noticed. There are almost ten people next to each flatbed cart.

This is why?

The colonists were not so kind. They were afraid that these slaves would be tired, so they arranged ten people in each cart to push them in turn.

They didn't treat the slaves as human beings, and they wouldn't feel bad even if they exhausted the slaves to death.

There is only one reason why ten people are arranged to push each car in turn, and that is that they have a long way to go.

If there are only one or two people pushing, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach the destination due to exhaustion.

This distance is estimated to be at least several hundred miles!
Where is it hundreds of miles away?
About three or four hundred miles away from here is Salvador, the main city of Bahia, and further east, it will be pushed into the sea.

Obviously, these people pushed the timber to the port terminal in El Salvador, then loaded it on a ship and sold it to the continent.

No wonder the army of the anti-Habsburg coalition here frantically drove the black slaves to cut down trees, and they took the wood to Europe to sell it for money!

Even if the wood in Europe is not as expensive as that in Ming Dynasty, a ship of good wood can be sold for at least tens of thousands of taels. People have cut down all the trees in a radius of three or four hundred miles. How much is that?
It seems unmistakable, these timbers must have been pulled to the port terminal in El Salvador.

If they can take down such a convoy and replace all the soldiers and slaves pushing the carts of the anti-Habsburg alliance with theirs, wouldn't it be clear about all the news!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help turning his head to look at Desiera.

Desierra is inexplicable.

Why are you looking at me all of a sudden?
Luo Sigong looked him up and down, and then asked: "Can you speak French? Or Dutch and English."

Uh, this.

Desierra said with some embarrassment: "I can speak a little Dutch, but my subordinate Desilau can speak French.

His family used to do business with the French. After Spain annexed Portugal, his family's business could not be done, so he followed me as a mercenary. "

That's fine, some people can speak French, some can speak a little Dutch, and they look similar to them, so it's definitely not a problem to impersonate them.

Luo Sigong immediately said solemnly: "If you are asked to take someone to El Salvador to investigate the situation, would you dare?"

Uh, this.

De Xie La was stunned for a moment, and then said carefully: "My lord, it's not that I dare not go, the question is, how can I go like this?

I'm afraid people will be able to tell something is wrong with our attire at a glance.

Who asked you to investigate in this military uniform.

Luo Sigong adjusted the focus of the binoculars, then beckoned and said, "Come and see this timber transfer team."

De Sierra moved his eyes to take a closer look, and immediately raised his head and said, "You mean, let us pretend to be these escorted anti-Habsburg alliance infantry?"

Luo Sigong nodded slightly and said: "Yes, this kind of team must not be able to move fast when pushing heavy logs, and it is not bad if they can walk twenty or thirty miles a day.

We can pinpoint the direction in which a team is going, and then rush up in the dark, knock out all the escorts, and replace all the young men of the primitive tribes with the young men of the North American tribes.

Then we dragged all these people to Pernambuco and made them disappear.

In this way, as long as you deal with it carefully on the road, you should not be discovered. "

Uh, this.

De Sierra thought about it carefully, and then said cautiously: "My lord, since we can knock their people unconscious and take them back, why don't we directly interrogate these captives?
It may take at least half a month to push the wood to El Salvador from here, and even if we can come back quickly, it will take at least ten days.

It took more than 20 days to go back and forth this time! "

Hearing this, Luo Sigong couldn't help being taken aback.

This seems to make sense, wouldn't it be faster to interrogate the captives directly?

After thinking about it carefully, he still shook his head slightly and said, "We can't just rely on interrogating captives to find out information, because captives may sometimes tell lies to deceive us.

Moreover, what the prisoners know is not necessarily what we want to know, and even if they know a little, it is unlikely that they are familiar with all we want to know.

When investigating the enemy's situation, if our own people do not go to see it, it will not work, and it will definitely affect our subsequent strategy formulation.

Besides, doing so will definitely scare the snake away.

Think about it, a team of thousands of people suddenly disappeared, can this kind of thing be concealed? "

This one.

De Sheila thought for a while, and then said cautiously: "After we came back, didn't the team of thousands of people suddenly disappear, wouldn't they notice it?"

You guy, don't want to go or what?
Luo Sigong said helplessly: "At this time, we haven't finished investigating the periphery of Bahia, so we can't startle the snake yet.

By the time you get back from El Salvador, we're sure we're done exploring.

Moreover, it will take at least half a month for people to find out that something is wrong after you disappear.

With this time, the emperor can rush over from Xinmacheng, and we will definitely start corresponding actions.

At that time, we don't have to worry about making mistakes.

De Siera really didn't want to go because it was too easy to expose.

However, he is not the kind of person who is afraid of death.

After all, he has done mercenaries licking blood on the tip of a knife before, so he is afraid of a ball!

After thinking about it, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll take someone there."

That's right.

Luo Sigong nodded in satisfaction, then waved his hand and said, "Come on, let's go back and get ready."

Soon, everyone packed up their things and hurried down the mountain.

In the evening, they came to the Silla River, boarded the Spike warship, and went straight to the Petrolina Fortress.

The reason why Luo Sigong was sure to drag thousands of people back to Pernambuco was because of the Silla River.

After the Silla River went around in the mountains for more than 200 miles, it turned into a Bahia colony in a sharp turn.

Moreover, because the Silla River is too far away from El Salvador, there are basically no farms on both sides of this section of the river, and this section of the river is not on the map of the Portuguese colonists, so they don't have to worry about being exposed.

After they returned to the Petrolina Fortress, they needed to prepare a lot.

For example, weapons and equipment. After all, this trip is too dangerous. It is definitely not enough for Desiela and dozens of people to bring weapons and equipment.

They also had to prepare something similar to a mezzanine, hiding the young and powerful weapons and equipment of the North American Indian tribes under those flatbed vehicles.

Also, it would definitely not work if thousands of young men from North American Indian tribes followed De Sierra and his party, because none of these people had much experience as scouts.

They had to disguise the elite scouts of hundreds of brocade guards into their bottoms and pretend to be young men from the North American Indian tribe, and follow them.

In fact, this makeup is very simple, because the appearance of the North American Indian tribe is not much different from that of the Ming Dynasty. The only obvious difference is the skin color.

It's quite simple to change this skin color, you only need to prepare some special potions, heat them up and let people soak them in it.

De Sierra watched the elite scouts of the Jinyiwei keep holding their breath and sinking in the big bathtub as if they were diving, and couldn't help asking curiously: "My lord, can this work? Can they really become as young and strong as the North American Indian tribe? "

Is this not a trivial matter?

Luo Sigong said flatly: "If you want them to become like you, it is indeed a bit difficult.

Because you are too white, and people have the same skin color as you, it is easy to see the flaws.

It's as simple as making them like the North American Indian tribes, they just need to soak in this potion.

Anyway, you are not very familiar with the Indian tribes, as long as the skin color is the same, it is difficult for you to see the difference. "

Well, this one does.

He saw that the young and strong North American Indian tribes were similar to the primitive tribes here. If it weren't for the people of the primitive tribes here who didn't like to wear clothes, he couldn't even see the difference between them and the young and strong North American Indian tribes.

However, there is one more problem.

De Siera asked again: "Then what if it rains?"

Luo Sigong still said calmly: "Don't worry, this kind of potion can't be washed off with boiling water. It can only be washed off by boiling another special potion and soaking it for a while."

Well, no problem then.

At this time, several Jinyiwei elite scouts in the bathtub had already come out.

They didn't wear any clothes anymore, just took a leaf and tied it around their waists with a straw rope.

De Sierra took a closer look, and really couldn't see any difference between them and the primitive tribes here.

(End of this chapter)