Chapter 80: Find a way to survive
"I've found out clearly. The people in the Council took away all the boats on the island a few days ago. The farmers now don't even have large wooden boards." Gold brought back bad news.
The remaining soldiers of Venetta who jumped out of the search net turned into pirates and walked around the port and headed eastward. Winters even asked Gold to come back with his head and exchanged money.
Most of the enemies are now searching for the Vineta people in the southwest of the island, while Winters and his group have already run to the east of the island. The situation is temporarily safe, and the next step is to find a way to get the boat out of the sea.
Bud rubbed the stubble that appeared on his chin: "As expected, the Akihiro Island Council had made great efforts to prepare such a big gift. Of course, they did not want to reveal any rumors. Even if there were islanders hiding the ship, they would never hand it over."
"Can we trust this person? Isn't he also a pirate? Or is he captured by us?" Andre's focus was not on the ship at all.
Winters was carefully looking at the map of Achiemu Island and said without raising his head: "I don't know why he stood on our side, but if he wanted to betray us, we would have died long ago, so I chose to believe him."
First he marched on the main road, then turned into a small road and walked a distance, and then Winters ordered to stop and rest.
The team stopped by a stream. The Venetta people who had survived death had just relaxed their tense spirits, and they were tired immediately approached them. Even the sentries were dozing off, and the other people's backs immediately snoreed as soon as they hit the ground.
"Four people who can still walk by themselves, plus a big cart." Winters meditated at his subordinates who were sleeping under the shade: "This is the last remaining of my Centenarians."
He tried not to think about what would be the result if he did not order "forward attack" at that time but chose to "turn back".
But as the backbone of this remnant soldier, he cannot think about "if" now, let alone rest. Warrant Officer Montane said to himself in his heart: "You must find a way out for these people."
"You two come and see the map." Winters called Bard and Andre to his side: "This picture scale is 1:10,000. I counted the steps all the way. After leaving Chiyi Port, we walked more than 4,400 steps on the main road, and another more than 3,200 steps on the small road..."
The number of steps Winters mentioned refers to marching instigation, each of the left and right feet is one step, and one step is about one point and two meters.
Bud immediately calculated the result: "We have walked almost nine kilometers from noon to now, and we are walking quite fast, almost forcing our troops."
"You don't even have a pot to eat, how can you not walk fast?" Andre rolled his eyes and said to Winters: "It's useless. It's useless to know how far we go. Have you brought a soft ruler?"
"I didn't bring it, but I have this." Winters smiled sly and took out a steel cone: "My steel cone is exactly fifteen centimeters long, no more or less."
The three warrant officers tinkered around the map for a while, picked up the skills of doing homework on the map, and finally determined their current location on the map based on the distance traveled and the streams around them.
They walked along the road and were about to reach the east coast of Chiyi Island. The straight line distance on the map was only about three or four kilometers.
"We can't bump into the headless flies now." Winters put away the map and said to the other two warrant officers: "The team is here for the time being. Bud and I will go to the east to reconnaise..."
"I want to go too!" Andre immediately became anxious when he heard that he would not take him.
"You're going to be the one who's going to do it," Winters pressed him back again: "If we're not three of us, don't the rest think that the three of us have run away? You stay."
When the sun sets west, Winters, who returned to the resting place, called everyone to a meeting.
The current situation is quite special, the team is complex, and he is not sure about his prestige, so he can only use this military democratization method to make the soldiers obey orders more willingly.
"The coastline is behind the hills to the east, less than four kilometers." He said nothing nonsense and looked directly at several naval sailors in the team: "Does anyone of you make rafts?"
"Sir, if you want to go to sea with a raft, I'm afraid it won't work." A bold naval sailor explained: "The raft not only does not carry a load, but it will also capsize if there are some storms, and... and we don't have tools to make a raft?"
"What if there are tools?" Winters asked back.
The navy sailors counted on their fingers for a long time: "If you want to put all of us, you have to cut at least fifty pieces of material, and you have to have enough ropes, preferably asphalt."
"Do you know about shipbuilding?" Winters asked again.
"I used to work in the shipyard." The navy sailor scratched his head.
"Everyone heard that the enemy had plundered all the boats, and it would be difficult even if we wanted to make some temporary rafts." Winters looked into the soldiers' eyes and whispered: "And Warrant Officer Bud and I went to the beach to reconnaise. There were enemy sentries everywhere, so we could never log and build ships under their noses."
The soldiers' eyes dimmed.
"But we have a way out." Winters's goal was not to attack the morale of the army. He calmly stated his plan: "Lt. Col. Contel's plan is to find a way to go to the sea and find a boat to go out to sea. But my plan is the opposite. Not only will we not go to the sea, we will also go northwest, and we will go to the more inland islands."
The temporary conference venue was silent, with only the gurgling stream. Although the soldiers were surprised and confused, they said nothing, but just listened intently.
Everyone stood in a circle, Winters placed the map in the middle and pointed a branch at the map and explained: "Although we were trapped on the island, the Tanirian ambush actually failed, our main force was not damaged, and we will land again soon. Because of this, Warrant Officer Bad and I found so many Tanirian sentries on the coastline, and their main defense direction was the coast. And the more inland, the fewer enemies will be."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Winters looked at everyone and said, "I don't want to say flashy words to you, 'Save power and wait for victory'. Now we are going to do everything we can to survive until the day Veneta conquers the island. And in my opinion, the possibility of survival is the greatest."
The soldiers of the chief brigade of the Third Legion are all professional soldiers. In the small team of Winters, several dozen captains have served for more than ten years, much longer than the military service of the three warrant officers.
But no officer has ever explained to them "why" in their service. Winters actually underestimated his authority. With the bloody battle in the forest and leading the team out of the siege, he has won the respect of the soldiers.
"Centurion Montane, we will all follow you! Just give the order and we will do everything!"
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early morning.
The silence of Tadong Village was broken by shouts and cries.
This small farm with only more than forty households in the hinterland of Chiyi Island broke into a group of uninvited guests.
Seven or eight fierce men dressed in machetes and sailors kicked open the yard of a farmer at the east end of the village. They first beat the male owner who wanted to resist, and then drove the whole family of the farmer to the yard.
"We are the grain collection team under Captain Kidd!" The leader of the pirates made the scimitar sound, and shouted with a sharp voice: "Take out any good things quickly. If you ask the uncle to find them yourself, don't blame the uncle for not reminding you."
"The cellar is here!" A surprise sound came from the backyard.
"Move!" The Pirate Huoya waved his hand.
Several pirates walked out of the backyard with bacon, pickled vegetables and noodles. These pirates could pick and pick good things.
"Don't be angry, let's give the money." The pirate Huoya shouted at the farmer's family jokingly, and then he put the scimitar on the confused male owner: "Say, where is the village chief's home?"
The woman and the child were crying loudly, and the old lady of this family cried while catching the legs of the pirate Huoya and cried: "You killed my son, you killed this day, you killed me too..."
The Pirate Huoya was also surprised and quickly took a few steps back to avoid the old lady.
The old man in the family quickly pulled his old woman back. He stopped his family and the pirates, stretching his arms out like a hen protecting a chicken, and his expression was stiff: "Don't hurt my son, I'll take you to the village chief's house."
"Okay, the head of the family. Tell your ladies not to cry, we are not here to kill people." The Pirate Huoya giggled and looked at the farmers' family. He couldn't move his eyes away as he looked at them. He walked towards the women and children who were snuggling together: "Your ladies are pretty, is your daughter-in-law or your daughter..."
The old man angrily pressed against the pirate Huoya, and said harshly, "You...you come to my house as a guest, you can take whatever you want... But you are not allowed to move my mother, unless you kill me."
Another tall pirate behind the Pirate Huoya reached out and grabbed the Pirate Huoya's shoulder: "Captain Kidd asked us to collect grain, not to let you play with women. Work first, when this matter is over, I will ask you to have a prostitute for expensive ones."
"You are the headmaster, you are too angry. I just see your mother crying pitifully and want to help you coax it." The Pirate Huoya raised his hands and took two steps back: "If you are not happy, you will be the headmaster, take us to find the village chief."
A large cart was parked outside the yard. When the pirates saw that they had loaded the goods into the car, they grabbed a handful of paper with handwriting from their belts, counted a few pieces and stuffed them to the old man: "Don't say we don't give money, this is called military tickets. After the war is over, we will go to the Gote Corridor Hall of Chiyi Port with the ticket to collect the money."
The old man humiliatedly took the "military ticket" and followed the pirates out of the yard step by step.
The tall pirate left here the last time. He raised his hand, and a silver coin drew an arc in the air, and fell into the old lady's arms accurately: "Please keep it, don't say we don't give money."
After saying that, he left and brought it to the door.
Because of extreme fear, the family did not realize that the tall pirate was talking about the sea blue and elegant voice with a straight and rounded voice.
However, there are all kinds of people in the pirate group, and it is not uncommon for the Venettas to be pirates.
The second person in the village chief's house was kicked open.
The pirates repeated the process of "beating the people who dared to resist - driving the whole family to the yard - collecting grain".
"Dear uncles, our Tadong Village has already paid the quota." The village chief lowered his head and said timidly.
"Fuck, you ate yesterday, and don't eat today? I have paid the previous quota, so don't pay the quota this time?" The pirate Huoya slapped the village chief's face with the scimitar's face: "We want flour, oil, meat, salt, we want everything. By the way, there are big cars, we still need six big cars. I don't want you to have too many things, fill me with three big cars, and I'll go to another village to load the three cars."
The village chief of Tadong Village looked at his son's bruised nose and swollen face and said bitterly: "Where can I find you six big cars?"
"Don't you know who has a big car?" The pirate of the Huoya stood up with his eyebrows, pressed the scimitar on the other party's neck, and smiled evilly: "It seems you are not afraid of Captain Kidd, right? Okay, come with me, William Kidd likes to slowly torture hard bones into cartilage..."
The village chief was so scared by his terrible laughter that he shivered, begging for mercy, and swore that he would pee his pants every time he thought of Captain Kidd, and Captain Kidd gave everything he wanted.
The Pirate Huoya nodded with satisfaction and asked casually: "By the way, where are the barbers in your village living? Are there doctors nearby?"
...
"My name is Captain Kidd
When I sail on the sea
I do everything
I'm doing evil
I killed William Moore
I killed William Moore
…”
The big cart crunched away, and the pirates were singing like howling. The village chief's house and several other rich peasants' carts and animals pulling the cart were requisitioned, leaving the farmers in Tadong Village holding "military tickets" in their hands and tears. Several women found that this group of vicious pirates actually snatched the iron pot.
"I've become a robber now." Winters sighed and sat in the cart, swearing: "I won't go to the military court in the future, right?"
Bud, who was driving the car, said calmly: "It's actually nothing. We mainly take side food, and we don't take much staple food, so we can't starve to death. During the sovereign war, even worse things are everywhere. The book only records the sentence "Every year is hungry, people eat each other." Hasn't it been discussed? If we want to move in the countryside without suspicion, we can only disguise ourselves as grain collection teams. If the grain collection team does not even have a big truck, what is the grain collection team?"
"Let's talk about the future." Winters sat up and said with a headache: "There is only one doctor who can bleed within a few miles, and it's still a planter. It's hard to deal with it now."
Lieutenant Colonel's vitality was amazingly tenacious, and thanks to the careful care of the three warrant officers, the lieutenant Colonel's condition stabilized. However, another problem arose, and Conteel, who was in a coma, began to have a fever.
Obviously, Contel had a fever because a foreign object was in the wound. After examination, everyone found that the lead bullet and a piece of cloth from the clothes were penetrated into Contel's body.
But even if you are familiar with the "Medical Classic", Bard, who has the best score in hygiene class, does not have the ability to open his stomach and get lead bullets.
If you help Lieutenant Colonel remove the lead bullet, he may still die. But if you don't help Lieutenant Colonel remove the lead bullet, he will definitely die.
Should I watch Lieutenant Colonel die, or would I give Lieutenant Colonel a pleasure, or would I find a doctor to do my best.
Chapter completed!