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Chapter 1167 Seven People's Battle of Civilization ([-])

"Why did they take the initiative to attack us? We didn't take the initiative to provoke them..." Li Yizhu waited for a long time, but no other members of the expedition team returned.

She and Cao Bianjiao hid in the side of the wooden boat and stuck a knife in the bow to remind other members of the expedition team who might return that they were near the sampan.

"As outsiders, we affect their survival. It is normal for them to attack suddenly. In our countryside, two adjacent villages may compete for water and land. Especially the chieftains of the former Chief Secretary of Yunnan because of hunting grounds, The competition for farmland often leads to large-scale bloody conflicts. The people here are backward in technology, and each tribe needs a large territory to survive. Even if we have not threatened them now, we will develop gold mines when we find gold mines in the future It is necessary to send people to build wooden houses in the mining area. With people stationed for a long time, it is necessary to reclaim farmland, hunt and dig wells, not to mention that we ourselves lack labor.” Cao Bianjiao said.

At this time, there is no international order and law, the law of the jungle is generally in a state, and wars in various places continue.

"Is there no way to resolve such a contradiction?" Li Yizhu asked.

"They are thousands of years behind us, and this is an irreparable gap... It is said that the Westerners have already established a stronghold in this new continent one step ahead of us, and their hundreds of cavalry can easily defeat the tens of thousands of troops of the local indigenous empire. Westerners occupied hot places to grow tobacco and spices, and found silver mines in the south, and they were more than 100 years faster than us in this regard."

"In order to survive, sometimes people can be very cruel..." Cao Bianjiao drew a circle on the river bed with a branch, not knowing what he was thinking, "But we lack labor, if they are willing to work for us, we can provide them with Grain and selling some commodities to them... Of course, the outflow of ironware must be strictly controlled. Metallurgical technology and gunpowder technology must not be passed on to the outside world. Some Westerners sold artillery and matchlock guns to Nanyang in order to exchange fur and spices with the natives. Many tribes have caused a lot of trouble for our pacification of Nanyang. Their approach is quite short-sighted..."

Li Yizhu saw that Cao Bianjiao's speech was more like talking to himself, as if Cao Bianjiao didn't focus on this incident.

For Cao Bianjiao, living in the American River Valley did not seem to be enough to scare him.

The two waited until noon before the two team members returned to the place where the sampan boat was.They looked around vigilantly, and found Cao Bianjiao's Tang knife inserted in the bow.They probably understood the clues of Cao Bianjiao and found Cao Bianjiao and Li Yizhu hiding behind the boat.

"Captain!" The sailor uniforms of these two soldiers were scratched by tree branches. They looked a little embarrassed, and they cried bitterly when they saw Cao Bianjiao.

"It's good to come back alive." Cao Bianjiao patted their shoulders.

Two players have returned to the team, and they already have four of them!
"Do you still have your muskets?" Cao Bianjiao calmed down the emotions of the two of them a little, and then cared about the supplies on them.

Now a group of people are trapped here, and their supplies have been robbed by the natives. They must gather all the supplies that can be collected now before making the next decision.

"We were being chased by the enemy all the time. I shot and wounded one of the enemies with a musket during the escape, and we fled to the depths of the forest. My musket is still intact, and I still have 17 rounds of paper shells on me," said a sailor. .

"My musket fell into the mud. I don't know if it is still useful. I have more than 30 rounds of paper shells and a bayonet here." Another sailor who returned to the team took off the sheath hanging from his waist, It contained a bayonet matching the Dreiser rifle.

A musket with a bayonet and a musket without a bayonet are two completely different weapons. A rifle with a bayonet can also be used as a short spear.A well-organized bayonet charge can also easily defeat trailing Horde warriors.

"Clean up the musket and see if it can still be used. One more musket will give us more firepower." Cao Bianjiao said.

"Where are the others?" asked the two returning sailors.

"At present, only the four of us are still alive, and the whereabouts of the others are unknown. We will stay for two more days and try to give them time to return. If they haven't appeared in two days, I'm afraid it will be a disaster." " Cao Bianjiao said with a heavy tone.

There was a silence between the two sailors.This time they were suddenly attacked by the natives, and suffered heavy losses.

"The guy Hammer was in charge of the night watch last night, but he didn't find the approaching natives." Someone mentioned the night watch soldier who led to the surprise attack yesterday.

"Maybe it's because we haven't dealt with the local aborigines head-on. Everyone thought that we would never encounter them, let alone that this is a warlike tribe, so we didn't take the enemy's sneak attack seriously. The facts tell us If Hammer is still alive, he will pay the price for his dereliction of duty last night. I also have to bear some responsibility for this." Cao Bianjiao said.

"Although we are soldiers who have been on the battlefield, we have to say that after we left the front line of the Nanyang battlefield, we have become more and more lax in training. No matter in terms of reaction or physical fitness, we are no better than in the barracks. Last night was too embarrassing. Even loading bullets Sometimes the paper shells will accidentally slip off..." The two sailors felt lingering fear.

They were supposed to be the most elite group of sailors in the empire, but they were chased away by a group of natives, and there were casualties. It was a shameful thing for them.

"When people realize their shame, they will be courageous. Although our weapons must be advanced, we still must not fail in drills!" Cao Bianjiao took advantage of this moment to lecture them.

"We know, captain!" snapped the two ashamed sailors.

In the evening, two more people returned to the team one after another. One of them was stabbed in the arm by a stone spear in the battle last night, and he just rubbed grass juice on the wound.

Because they were attacked by the indigenous tribe last night, they were in two teams of six to keep watch at night to prevent another sneak attack.

The indigenous tribe seemed to think that Cao Bianjiao and others had been driven away, so they didn't come to check this place again.

Another person returned the next day, one of the two mineral experts, and he also brought a bad news: "My companion stumbled and fell into the cliff while avoiding pursuit. He should not survive... I think I strayed into the vicinity of their tribe, they live in a semi-underground room, I have been afraid to move, so I escaped back now."

(End of this chapter)