My son A Fei has the appearance of a sword master

Chapter 151 annexation
Li Tianxin and Shen Lang Panda'er looked at the corpses of nearly a hundred boys neatly arranged on the ground with ugly expressions.

The soldiers of the Ming army stood silently behind him, exuding a frightening murderous aura, making the air pressure in this space extremely low.

These people are not soldiers who have never seen blood in peacetime, otherwise they would not be sent by Wang Lianhua to follow Li Tianxin.

But they had fought so many battles, killed so many enemies, wiped out several countries, and killed women who dared to attack them, but they had never pointed their guns or blades at their children.

The behavior of these indigenous people has obviously touched their bottom line, which should also be the bottom line of human beings.

The aboriginal men held the shovels and hoes they had just received and silently dug the graves.

The murderous aura exuded by the soldiers of the Ming army brought substantial pressure to them, making them dare not even breathe.

If they understand the Chinese culture, the words that come to their mind at this time will definitely be the words "divine power is like prison".

In their eyes, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army were gods. When the gods were angry, they only had endless fear in their hearts and no other thoughts.

The women in the tribe were weeping aside, while the old chief was circling the child's body, mumbling something.

The wooden stick with an animal tail tied in his hand slowly draws some unique trajectories in the air. This is a funeral ceremony belonging to the indigenous people.

Paul and Daniel, with their grape swordsmen, dug a large pit outside the tribe to bury the bodies of the invaders.

The remaining eight captives were all executed after being interrogated by the old chief's son, and the aborigines also knew their origins.

When the funeral was over and the dead boy was buried, everyone looked at Li Tianxin silently.

Li Tianxin said in a deep voice: "Brothers, give your sabers and stab-proof clothing to the native brothers."

Without saying a word, the Ming army officers took off the Yanling knives from their waists and handed them to the natives. Then they put on the stab-proof clothing that they did not wear except in war.

The soldiers of the Ming army no longer wear armor. The original armor was replaced by stab-proof clothing with a buffer layer and an alloy layer.

The protective power of this thing is no less than that of armor, and it is much lighter than armor. Just fill the buffer layer with ceramic blocks or iron blocks, and it can become a stab-proof and bullet-proof dual-purpose protective clothing.

It's just that in this era, stab protection is enough, and bullet protection is not necessary for the time being.

At this time, the aborigines could fully understand what Li Tianxin and the others meant, and they all took the knives and allowed the other party to put on stab-proof clothing for them.

But from their blank expressions, it can be seen that they don't understand the use of these clothes.

Seeing this, Zhang Qianhu opened the bayonet under the barrel of his automatic rifle and stabbed an aborigine who was wearing stab-proof clothing.

The aborigine was shocked at first, but in the end he only felt a slight pain in his chest, and the bayonet did not penetrate.

He touched his chest in disbelief and looked at Zhang Qianhu with wide eyes, only to see Zhang Qianhu smiling and nodding to him.

Seeing this scene, the other aborigines finally understood the function of the clothes. Then one by one they drew their swords from their sheaths, raised them high and let out a roar.

After all the aborigines put on their stab-proof clothing, Li Tianxin also pulled out his Qingfeng sword, pointed his finger toward the west, and shouted: "Revenge."

The Ming army soldiers shouted in unison: "Revenge, revenge, revenge..."

It's just two very simple syllables. The aborigines don't know what it means, but they can roughly guess the meaning of these two sounds.

At that moment, they also shouted: "Revenge, revenge, revenge..."

After what happened today, Li Tianxin would not let all the soldiers go out to do things again.

From today on, at any time, there must be at least one general flag guarding the tribe.

The team that goes out to herd sheep must also be escorted by a small flag.

After leaving a general flag behind, 260 Ming army officers, 520 three Portuguese swordsmen, and [-] six aboriginal warriors began their mighty killing spree looking west.

On the way, Shen Lang asked Li Tianxin: "What are you going to do this time?"

Li Tianxin said solemnly: "Originally, I wanted to annex other tribes without any bloodshed, but I chose to give up on this tribe and leave it to the native brothers to deal with it on their own."

Shen Lang was silent. He didn't say much. In fact, the tribe's killing of children had touched the bottom line of all Ming people.

The native brothers wanted revenge, and they had no position to stop them. The only thing they could do was to prohibit them from killing each other's children.

They didn't need to care about the situation of the indigenous people in the past, but from now on, any conflicts and wars can no longer affect children.

In war, it is understandable and natural to kill the enemy's capable warriors, but the children are innocent after all.

Unless it is the kind of child that can indeed pose a threat to one's own life, but can pose a threat to the life of adults, it can no longer be called a child.

Just like some children who are no more than twelve or thirteen years old, but are born with great strength and rapid physical development, they cannot be treated as children.

Maybe they kill people more ruthlessly than adults, and they are more fearless of death.

The bottom line is the bottom line, and principles are principles. But adhering to the bottom line and adhering to principles are not pedantic.

Li Tianxin was very impressed by this. Later generations of Chinese and Turkish armies suffered such heavy losses in their wars with southern Xinjiang countries.

The Lighthouse Country has also suffered numerous losses like this in the Middle East, so Li Tianxin and the others define children as being under 1.2 meters tall and unable to even hold up stone spears and axes.

So when passing through a jungle, Li Tianxin went to chop some wooden sticks, all of which were 1.2 meters long.

He brought the stick in front of the chief's son, stood next to him, pointed at the top of the stick, made a motion to raise the stick, and then made a slashing motion with his hand knife.

He gestured lower than the wooden stick, then waved his hands, and finally showed a questioning look to the chief's son.

The chief's son looked at the stick, thought about it for a moment, and understood, with a look of surprise on his face.

He nodded slowly and hesitantly.

Li Tianxin patted him on the shoulder and sighed softly. He couldn't say anything to him because he didn't understand the language.

Now I have to give them strong orders first, and then I can explain to them later when they can communicate.

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About 30 miles to the west, there is another tribe living by another river.

This tribe is much more powerful than the tribe where Li Tianxin and others belong, with a population of more than twice.

Among them, there are nearly a thousand young and strong men, more than [-] women, and more than [-] old and weak people.

There is no doubt that this tribe can develop to this scale and often annex other tribes.

Nearly [-] young people were wiped out by Bai Feifei and the others, and there were only more than [-] young people left in this tribe.

When that tribe appeared in front of Li Tianxin and his party, the people in the tribe naturally saw them, and the entire tribe was instantly alarmed.

The young men quickly gathered together and took the initiative to leave the tribe to prepare for the battle.

But when they saw that Li Tianxin and the others were more than ten times their own in number, were dressed in the same standard, and had weapons that glowed coldly in the sun and looked extremely sophisticated, they couldn't help but feel despair on their faces.

When the opponent's young men were assembled, Li Tianxin and his aborigines, led by the old chief's son, howled and charged forward.

Li Tianxin told the soldiers behind him: "Shoot out the other side's archers. Don't worry about the rest. Leave it to the native brothers to deal with it themselves."

"Yes." The snipers among the Ming army soldiers picked up their sniper rifles and ran towards the two wings.

On the opposite side, seeing the opponent launching an attack, they became crazy in despair. They grabbed stone spears and stone axes and howled to meet them.

People holding bows and arrows opened their bows and set arrows when the two sides approached 50 meters.

"Bang bang bang..."

However, before they could release their arrows, a thunderous sound suddenly sounded, and the archer suddenly fell to the ground with blood all over his body.

Seeing this, the aborigines on Li Tianxin's side became even more angry.

"God's help" is an adjective, but for these aborigines at this time, they really have divine help. Who do they need to fear in the future?

Dozens of archers were killed by snipers, leaving only a few hundred or so hostile natives. The two sides quickly fought hand to hand.

Facing the stone spears and stone axes that were stabbing them, the aborigines wearing anti-stab uniforms just avoided the vital points of their heads and faces, and the attacks on their torsos were ignored by them.

The stone spear stabbed their chests. Although it hurt a little, it couldn't hurt them at all.

With a wave of the scabbard of their left hand, they knocked away the stone spear, and then the Yanling knife in their right hand slashed down diagonally, killing them with one blow.

The aborigines found that this weapon was many times easier to use than the stone axes they used before. The key was that it was sharp enough.

When they used their wild goose feather knives to fight with each other's stone axes, the vines binding the axes were cut off immediately, and the axes fell to the ground.

With another backhand slash, the opponent's life can be harvested.

This was a one-sided killing. In front of the indigenous people wearing stab-proof clothing and holding wild goose feather knives, the indigenous people of the hostile tribe were basically powerless to resist.

In just a moment, dozens of hostile aborigines were slaughtered, and the price paid by our own aborigines was only a dozen minor injuries.

After the Ming army soldiers bandaged and applied medicine, he could recover as before in a few days.

After getting rid of the capable warriors of the enemy tribe, our own natives rushed into the tribe aggressively and started killing mercilessly.

In the end, only young women and children were left, and they were all driven into the open space.

They strictly followed Li Tianxin's order and placed the 1.2-meter-long wooden sticks in the middle, and asked the children and teenagers of the tribe to step forward to measure them one by one.

Those who were lower than the height of the stick were asked to stand on the other side, and those who were higher than the height of the stick were dragged outside the tribe and killed.

The women looked at this scene numbly, their eyes empty and confused.

Most of them were also kidnapped from other tribes by the people of this tribe. They don't have children yet, and now they are just living in another tribe.

As for those who have children, they are basically people who originally belonged to this tribe.

They were once proud of the strength of their tribe. Whenever the men went out to plunder and returned with full harvests, they would happily welcome the heroes back.

But now when it was their children's turn to be slaughtered, they, like the women in Li Tianxin's tribe, would cry and beg for mercy.

In fact, through the performance of the people in the previous tribe, Li Tianxin could tell that the tribe he belonged to had not robbed other tribes, at least not in recent years.

Although their tribe is an agricultural chiefdom, it is also a clan tribe.

In other words, their tribe itself is a big family, and the people in the tribe are basically related to each other.

Even if some of them were robbed from other tribes, they must have lived in the tribe for many years and have been completely integrated into it.

This made Li Tianxin and others feel inexplicably comfortable, and at the same time, they were even more angry at the slaughter of their children.

At this time, they stayed outside the tribe, digging holes to dispose of the corpses, and did not interfere with the aborigines' revenge.

However, this tribe is very wealthy, with more than 3000 sheep, and the land near the tribe is also very wide. When the food matures, they can harvest a large amount.

Coupled with the food existing in the tribe, they will not be short of food in a short time.

Li Tianxin told Zhang Qianhu: "It is not possible for all of this tribe to be relocated for the time being. It will not be too late to move after the food is harvested."

"You send a hundred households to guard here, and I will leave them two hundred women to look after the food in the fields."

"Yes."

After Zhang Qianhu received the order, he went to arrange for the manpower to stay on guard. Li Tianxin called Zheng Baotou and told him: "Let the brothers use local materials to build some carts to transport food. "

Chief Zheng took the order and immediately took the manpower to handle it.

After Li Tianxin arranged all the matters, he smiled bitterly at Shen Lang and others: "It seems that the brothers will be very busy recently."

Shen Lang and others were also a little helpless. After all, they were different from the aborigines who were responsible for killing and not burying them.

The aborigines could just rob and leave without paying any attention to anything, but what they wanted was not pure plunder, but complete annexation, and there were many aspects to consider.

The base still needs to be built, and the living conditions of the tribes need to be improved. They need to build many houses.

Today, the total population of the tribe is more than 7000, which is the population of a large town even in the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, more than 3000 people were harvested this time, including more than 400 young and strong women, all of whom can work.

In addition, there are more than 700 people ranging from babies to young girls, including boys, more than half of whom are capable of working and can usually herd sheep and so on.

Among them, there are more than 100 babies and young children. Li Tianxin plans to teach them directly according to the children of the Ming Dynasty, so that in the future they can understand two languages ​​​​at the same time.

Children's acceptance ability is always stronger than that of adults.

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For convenience of naming, Li Tianxin named his tribe "Original Tribe", implying that this was their initial starting point in the American continent.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon that day, the aborigines of the original tribe returned to the original tribe with more than 2000 young and strong women and a group of children.

With the tools provided by Li Tianxin and others, it should be no problem to build a house big enough to accommodate these people before dark.

After all, the aboriginal houses are very simple. A group of several people can build one in two or three hours, which is just enough for a group of people to live in.

Li Tianxin asked the officers and soldiers of the Baihu Station who stayed behind to select two hundred women, and the others followed and returned to the original tribe.

Zheng Baotou led half of the craftsmen to build carts here, and waited for the large army to arrive in a few days to help transport the food back to the tribe.

Li Tianxin would not rush to expand and annex other tribes before other tribes took the initiative to come to him.

First digest the existing population resources and initially build a standard Middle-earth township, and then consider the issue of expansion.

The main thing now is to build infrastructure and start collecting coal as soon as possible to prepare for the return journey.

On the first return trip, Li Tianxin did not plan to go back. He would just send two ships back then. Those who wanted to go back could go back first. Anyway, they could come back at any time in the future.

At least one of Panda'er and Shen Lang must go back. Without them to guard the team, Li Tianxin would not be at ease.

(End of this chapter)