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Chapter 1160 Indigenous Traces

Cao Bianjiao and others hurried back to the town from the fortress, and found that the residents in the town had gathered at the entrance of the town, surrounding the Orion who came back from the forest.

"They met aborigines while hunting. One hunter was injured by a stone and his scalp was broken!" When Cao Bianjiao and others arrived, a townsman said to them.

"You met an indigenous tribe? How many people are there?" Cao Bianjiao looked solemn. Jinshan Town was short of manpower when it was first established. He also wanted to capture a group of primitive tribes to build villages and cultivate farmland. The indigenous tribes did not dare to take the initiative to provoke the colony, and they lived in the foothills and canyons with more prey, so Cao Bianjiao and others have not been able to find the indigenous tribes.

Jinshan Town is now self-sufficient, but there is not much shortage of manpower.Unless it needs to export food, fur, and mines to the mainland in the future, more labor will be needed.

"There were more than a dozen of them attacking us from behind. When we found out, it was too late. Fortunately, they didn't have any irons. Otherwise, we might not be the only one injured." The leader of the hunting team was terrified.

Being suddenly attacked by someone in the jungle, this feeling makes people sweat down the back.

Cao Bianjiao has a deep understanding of this. He once served as a temporary regiment commander and participated in the Nanyang War. The local tropical jungle is even more terrifying.Moreover, the indigenous countries in Southeast Asia learned iron-smelting technology from the Central Plains, and bought artillery from the Portuguese and the Dutch. It is a painful and terrible thing to fight these indigenous countries in the jungle. Once there is flesh and blood in the tropical rainforest Injury almost meant death.The high temperature in the tropical rainforest allows bacteria to grow rapidly. Bacterial infection and tropical malaria are currently thorny problems faced by the defenders, security forces, and Nanyang fleet stationed in the Nanyang region.

"If possible, try not to conflict with these people in the mountains and forests." Zheng Zhihu was in the Ministry of the Navy, and also participated in the war to annex the Nanyang stronghold, and knew the danger.

"Where did you go hunting?" Cao Bianjiao asked.

"We didn't see any big beasts around, so a dozen people marched up the river to see if there were wild boars and elk. Unexpectedly, we were suddenly attacked by primitive people. There was mist in the forest in the morning, and we couldn't see Know how many people there are on the other side. After we shot them with muskets, they dispersed," said a hunter.

Cao Bianjiao and Zheng Zhihu looked at each other. According to intelligence, the aborigines here have formed a clan society. Since there are aborigines attacking the hunting team, it seems that there are aboriginal tribes in the upper and middle reaches of the river where they are going to find gold mines.

"How is his injury?" Cao Bianjiao squatted down and asked Li Yizhu who was rescuing the wounded.

"Alcohol has been used to disinfect his wound, and the debris on the wound has been cleaned up and ready to be bandaged. But it does not mean that there is no risk of bacterial infection. It has been a while since he was injured, and the bandage is not without it. Bacteria...whether he can survive depends on whether he will have a high fever and whether he can survive." Li Yizhu said solemnly, "It's best not to get injured. Getting injured in this kind of place is like going to hell. suffered."

Because of the discovery of the traces of the indigenous tribe and the injuries caused by it, the townspeople of Jinshan Town fell into a lot of panic. The sound of the horn just now has alarmed everyone.

"I don't know if those savages will find our town. If they break into our town at night, we might be killed!"

"A considerable part of our farmland is far away from the town. Will we encounter them when we do farm work? What if they attack us with weapons?"

"It's good for you to be fishermen, you won't meet savages on the river, right?"

"It's hard to say, if those savages attack us with their bamboo rafts, we will be miserable."

The townspeople are worried one by one.Their technology was much more advanced than that of the native tribes near the Sacramento River Valley, but the other side was unknown, and the unknown was often frightening.Even if they can be repelled, in case of injury in the conflict, the wound can easily become infected and fester, and the mortality rate is very high in this era.Unless it is to consider plundering labor from the heights of Cao Bianjiao and Zheng Zhihu, ordinary farmers and hunters believe in relying on their own strength to obtain food and be self-sufficient.

"It should be that our hunting team entered the hunting range of their indigenous tribe. The indigenous tribe thought that our hunting team had stolen their prey, so they attacked the hunting team..." Zheng Zhihu speculated.

"I have the same opinion as you. They live more by fishing and hunting. A tribe needs a vast forest to feed so many people, but we can quickly produce a lot of food with farmland. For us, the hunting team Just to obtain meat and improve food, our staple food is wheat." Cao Bianjiao agreed with Zheng Zhihu's idea.

"We should take revenge on them, they hurt our people, we want to take revenge!" The hunting team said one after another.

Zheng Zhihu and Cao Bianjiao exchanged glances and shook their heads slightly.

Now is not the time to launch a war of conquest.The military department funded this 500-person expedition team to travel thousands of miles from Tianjin Wei via Edo City, and risked being buried in the sea. They needed to open up wasteland here for three years before they could return to the mainland in batches.Every life is precious during this time, and there is no reason to waste precious lives in war unless it is absolutely necessary.What's more, the opponent's tribe didn't know where they were in the mountains and forests. It is estimated that more people died on the way due to snakes, diseases, and swamps than in the actual battle.

At present, several people of the North American expedition team lost their lives during the sea voyage. After arriving in San Francisco Bay, more than a dozen people fell ill or were attacked by wild animals, fell into the valley and fell into the swamp and died while opening up farms and hunting.They were outnumbered and could not afford more losses.

"We have swords, muskets, and even a few cannons on the big ships, but the other party is just an aborigine who uses stones, which is still behind us in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. We don't need to be too afraid!" Cao Bianjiao calmed everyone's emotions, "As long as we If they don't take the initiative to break into the mountains and deep valleys, they will not pose a threat to us! See if there is a high fort, our sentry will always observe whether there is an enemy invading our town. If they really dare to attack our town, Let's use muskets to teach them a lesson!"

(End of this chapter)