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Chapter 1166 The Battle of Seven Civilizations ([-])

"Be careful! The enemy doesn't know if they have already left, so don't rashly reveal your position later, approach the riverside with the cover, and observe the situation by the riverside first. If you rush out rashly, you may be caught in another hard battle." Cao Bianjiao reminded.

The two of them hid in the bushes and watched their camp cautiously.

The two tents they set up on the high ground yesterday have been destroyed by the natives who attacked them, leaving them in a mess.On the banks of the American River, the expedition's sampan boat was not washed away by the river, nor was it dragged away by the natives, and it was stranded on the river bed.

"I don't know if those dry food, herbs, and tools have been taken away by them. If they do, it will be troublesome." Cao Bianjiao saw the two tents collapsed, and judged that the items in the tents had been taken away as trophies, even if they attacked them The aborigines don't know what a musket or a compass is.

Li Yizhu held the musket nervously, maybe the enemy didn't know where they would come from, after all, they were the aborigines who were familiar with this place.

"There are no dead bodies near the tent. Didn't anyone die in yesterday's conflict?" Li Yizhu revealed a pair of eyes in the bushes, but no dead body was found near the tent.

"According to the intensity of the battle yesterday, it is impossible that no one died in the battle. It should be that the dead and seriously injured were taken away by them. I don't know if it is due to some primitive custom, or because they know that the corpses are placed in the wild Ignoring it will cause a plague." Cao Bianjiao checked the musket in his hand to confirm that it would not malfunction temporarily.

"Wow!" On the sampan boat by the river, a Caucasian dog suddenly jumped off and barked in the direction where Li Yizhu and the others were hiding.

"This is Xiao Hei, it's still alive!" Li Yizhu said in surprise.

"Don't go out! There may still be people staying behind in the dark, watch for a while!" Cao Bianjiao stopped her impulsive behavior.

The Caucasian dog barked on the river bed for a while, then ran towards Cao Bianjiao and the others.

"Hey, it's coming!"

"You don't move here. I'll go out. If any enemies come out, you can attack them with a musket. As long as you keep a certain distance from them, their stone tools can't pose a threat to us." Cao Bianjiao came out of the bushes with a musket in his hand. Xiao Hei has exposed their position.

"Woo..." Xiao Hei had already smelled Cao Bianjiao's smell, and circled around Cao Bianjiao.

"Did you get scared by what happened last night?" Cao Bianjiao comforted Xiao Hei's back with his hand. He could feel the bloody smell on the giant dog's body, obviously he participated in last night's battle.

Cao Bianjiao looked around, no enemy came out to attack him, it seemed that the enemy had all left: "You can come out."

Li Yizhu came out of the bushes when he heard Cao Bianjiao's words.

Seeing that the owner was safe and sound, Xiao Hei was even more excited than seeing Cao Bianjiao. He shook his head and ran over to rub Li Yizhu's trousers.

"Xiao Hei, as long as you're fine! Where's Xiao Hui?" Li Yizhu almost cried when he saw that his Caucasian dog was still alive.If it wasn't for them protecting her last night, maybe she would have died long ago after experiencing such a bloody battle for the first time.

Xiao Hei didn't seem to understand Li Yizhu's words, and was still rubbing against Li Yizhu's trousers.

"Let's check to see if there is anything in the tent that hasn't been taken away..." Cao Bianjiao took the initiative to walk to the place where he originally camped, keeping his musket in his hand.

Li Yizhu then followed Cao Bianjiao.

Blood remains where the expedition had camped, especially on collapsed tents.The broken stone spears and the scattered cotton from the bedding showed that the battle last night was very fierce.

"It's really bad. The tent has cracks, and it won't be waterproof and windproof in the future." Cao Bianjiao put the tent away to check whether the items in the tent were still there.

Li Yizhu, a woman holding a musket, stood guard at the side. There were blood stains on the soil she stepped on, and the strong smell of blood made her a little sick.

"Almost everything in the tent has been taken away by the enemy as trophies." Cao Bianjiao found that the tent was empty, and only the punctured tent was not taken away.

"Are the others still alive?" Li Yizhu was more concerned about whether other expedition members survived.

"The sailors selected by Zheng Zhihu are veterans of the Nanyang Fleet. After they reacted, they should be able to escape the siege of the indigenous people in the mountains. We returned to the boat and waited for the other team members to return to the team. They might have fled to a deeper place. I can't find a way to return here." Cao Bianjiao felt helpless about the item robbed by the natives.

He and Li Yizhu are just two people now, with two muskets, a Tang knife and a dagger. With the ability of two people, it is almost whimsical to go deep into the mountains and forests to find the indigenous tribes and get back the supplies.

This is the first setback he encountered after leading the North American expedition team to arrive.

"Woo..." Xiao Hei suddenly bit Li Yizhu's trousers and pulled, as if he wanted to drag her away.

"What's the matter?" Li Yizhu was a little bit like a soldier now, thinking that there was another enemy attacking him.

But Xiao Hei just dragged her towards the direction of the boat.

"Is it trying to tell us something?" Cao Bianjiao carried the folded tent.

The two of them and Xiao Hei returned to the sampan boat. At this time, there was still a lot of water on the boat. The two of them saw another Caucasian dog, Xiao Hui.

At this time, Xiao Hui had a wound on his leg, and he was lying on the inside of the boat with difficulty, not daring to move, and let out a deep mournful sound.

Li Yizhu hurriedly cleaned Xiao Hui's wound, but she found that the medical alcohol was snatched by the enemy, so she could only use water, then burn a fire and use plant ash to stop Xiao Hui's bleeding, and then tore off the rags to bandage the wound.

"It's okay...you will definitely survive..." Li Yizhu comforted Xiao Hui's emotions.

Xiao Hei, who was not injured, stood by Li Yizhu and Xiao Hui, rubbing his head against the injured Xiao Hui from time to time.

Cao Bianjiao put the tent on the boat, cleared the water on the boat, and went fishing by the river.

Their food was also taken away, and they could only rely on fishing and hunting to obtain food.

Then the two of them found great trouble again, and neither of them had the strength to push the stranded sampan into the American River.If there is no sampan boat, they really can't escape here for a while!This place is three hundred miles away from the colonial Jinshan Town, and it is a wild and backward place. Without boats, if you want to leave, you have to go through river valleys and mountains.

"If it's not possible, we can wait until the river surges again before finding a way to leave, or make rafts, and plunder nearby canoes, but I don't know if the rafts and canoes will allow us to go down the river for [-] miles and return to Jinshan Town safely... If you encounter pythons and giant crocodiles, it is really difficult for people to rest assured that the rafts and canoes can support..." Cao Bianjiao was planning to escape back to the colony. Compared with crossing the valley by land, Cao Bianjiao chose the faster and safer waterway.

(End of this chapter)