Chapter 738
What does it feel like to be down-to-earth?
The moment he stepped onto the land, Song Zuan even had the idea of kissing the earth. After all, since the day he boarded the boat, he had been staying on the boat like other exiles, and later he was even trapped in the cabin, unable to even get out of the cabin.
Now that I finally arrived on land again, the feeling of being down-to-earth is really nostalgic. However, before he could have such an idea, someone shouted loudly over there.
"Listen, it's almost July now, but it's much colder here than in my hometown. If you don't hurry up and build a house, at most one or two months, winter will begin, and heavy snow will come. You will be the first one to freeze to death!"
The exile was a human being, but also a coolie. When the sailors were resting, the exile had to take saws and axes to log wood and build houses.
There is no way to stop them from breathing.
After getting ashore, Li Yide ordered people to use a thermometer to measure the temperature continuously. Even at noon, it was only about twenty degrees. This is true in summer, but how could it be in winter? I'm afraid it's much colder than in Liaodong. How thicker the snow will fall at that time. He doesn't know, but what is certain is that without a house, everyone will have to freeze to death.
Yes, build a house first!
Unfortunately, even if Li Yide is familiar with geography and knows what the Mediterranean climate is, he doesn't know that it is the Mediterranean climate. Xu Anlin knows that New Spain is warm in winter and cool in summer. However, those Spanish priests have also said that it will snow heavily in the north and freeze to death.
But only God knows how north is that? He is not God.
Be careful, there is no big mistake.
So nearly two thousand exiles took the time to build a house. The raw materials were ready-made, with big trees all over the mountains and fields, and they were worried about building houses without wood. Of course, they also reclaimed a piece of land and planted some peas. Although they didn't know when winter would come, the peas grew very fast and might be harvested before winter came.
While the exiles were busy building houses, Li Yide also sent sailors to form an expedition team and drove a boat along several rivers to explore inland.
When the expedition team was exploring inland, they did not know that in the dense forest on the river bank, someone was also eyeing them. Dozens of red-faced natives stared at the strangers on the ship, their eyes full of hostility.
Strangers will always be vigilant.
As the captain of the expedition team, Li Nan did not find that he was targeted. After all, those natives grew up in the dense forest since childhood, and they were able to hide themselves in the mountains and forests.
"Zhao Fuwang, you can take a few brothers to the shore to see if you can hunt some meat."
After the ship docked, Zhao Fuwang took his three brothers ashore and walked towards the forest. Just as they were carefully searching for prey in the forest, he didn't know that he had become someone else's prey instead, and the natives in the woods had already set their sights on them.
Suddenly, a stone axe attacked from a distance and directly hit a brother in the chest. He screamed and fell to the ground.
"Someone!"
At the same time, several stone axes flew from afar and screamed in shock. Zhao Fuwang saw someone rushing towards this side. He hurriedly picked up the flintlock rifle and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
Accompanied by the sound of gunshots, the people who rushed over fell down, but someone rushed over. The other two brothers around him also shot.
The successive gunshots caused Li Nan to stand up quickly and shouted.
"Something must have happened. Big man, Shandong man, come with me to kill and save people, and the others stay on the boat..."
As he spoke, he took the revolver and led the two brothers off the boat. As soon as he rushed into the forest, he heard strange screams.
"Huh...lala...huh...la..."
Amid the screams, naked natives flashed out of the woods, their bodies were red and their heads were covered with feathers.
"It's a savage!"
After raising his hand and shooting down a savage, Li Nan shouted.
"Zhao Fuwang, Zhao Fuwang..."
"Captain, I'm here"
Listening to the captain's shout, Zhao Fuwang responded while leading his brother to retreat. When he retreated, another brother was chopped to the ground by a flying axe. Facing the attacking natives, he had to use his long sword to kill the rushing natives. Amid the screams, another brother fell down.
Although there were many natives, Li Nan saved Zhao Fuwang and rescued him on the ship with his revolver.
"Where are the others?"
"Dead, dead..."
Zhao Fuwang shouted in horror. At this moment, a brother shouted.
"Look, what is that!"
Li Nan and the others hurriedly looked up the shore, and saw hundreds of savages yelling language they couldn't understand. They dragged three corpses out of the dense forest. They cut off the hands and feet of the deceased with an axe on the river bank and dismembered the deceased.
"He's what they're doing..."
The scene in front of him made the brothers on the boat yell. They took out muskets and aimed at the shooting on the shore. Although they knocked down several savages, they soon disappeared from their sight under the push of the flowing water.
On the same day, they returned to Yuzhang, and the news of their encounter with the Red Savages spread. Although it caused a sensation, because there was a circle of wooden walls built outside Yuzhang, there was no need to worry about the attack of the savages for the time being.
The book friends used the small book pavilion before.
The next morning, Li Yide personally led a team of more than 200 people, left Yuzhang City, and took more than a dozen small boats to rush towards the site where the attack occurred.
At noon the next day, the fleet arrived at the site of the attack. What appeared before them was an extremely fearful scene of the hacked waters thrown to the ground with hands, feet, intestines and lungs. The bones were thrown everywhere, and everyone was filled with traces of gnawing on the bones. Everyone was heartbroken.
"Food, eat life!"
Xu Anlin said in horror.
"Hao, marquis, yes, it's a life-saving life..."
"Life-eating?"
"Xiao, I heard from Spanish missionaries that there is a cannibalism in the north, and they will eat it..."
Once upon a time, he thought it was just a legend, but he never thought it was real. When he said these words, his face was pale and there was no trace of blood. Most of the others were like this.
Li Yide is not unfamiliar with cannibals. There are cannibals in Southeast Asia, especially in Borneo and other places, but he did not expect to encounter cannibals here. He did not know that for some Indian tribes, they believed that eating the enemy's corpses could gain the power of the enemy. Even in the Gold Rush Age, Chinese gold Rushers also had a record of "Red Cannibals". In the colonial era of North America, tribes with cannibal traditions have always been the targets of colonists' focus on attacks.
It’s nothing else, it’s related to the morale of immigrants. If they are not solved, immigrants will be scared away by their savages.
Looking at the tragic situation on the ground around him, Li Yide snorted coldly.
"Hmph, it's just a group of people. What's there to be afraid of? Eat the life of people, not accepting education, and just human-like animals. Everyone can kill them. Brothers will follow me to kill them."
Faced with barbarism, the only choice was to be more barbaric than them. With a command, except for leaving a few people to guard the ship, everyone else followed Li Yide into the dense forest. In addition to two hundred sailors wearing breastplates and muskets, there were more than a dozen hunting dogs. These hunting dogs were originally catching mice on the boat, but now they were tracking the smell left by the natives in the forest.
The natives obviously did not expect these outsiders to follow them. They had no concealment of their whereabouts. Perhaps because they were too confident, they believed that no one dared to resist them, at least in the world they knew, other tribes were all in awe of them.
Chapter completed!