Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Fifty-Two The second fight, the thunder of the 'natives'!
The northeastern coast of Cuba, the Gulf of Gibara, and the mouth of the Gibara River.
The turbulent river water is laden with sediment and washed down from the brown hills and plains in the upper reaches of the south. In Jibala Bay, where the river merges, the sea water is turbid green, and the tidal flats are also silted yellow and white. The freshwater estuary brings
Nutrients from the upstream deposited fertile fields along the downstream coast, which also attracted fish swarming around the bay. Between the river mouth and the bay, there was a continuous stretch of tribal villages and large areas of farmland surrounding the villages.
To put it simply, this is a place rich in resources and food, and naturally a large Taino tribe of two to three thousand people, the Spider Cave tribe, one of the Brown Hills tribes, has gathered.
The spider den is located on the northeast coast, approximately at the neck of the Cuban snake. Two hundred miles east from here is the Mayari part of the Cuban snake's head. And a hundred miles southwest is located in the middle of the snake's neck inland.
The Brown Hill Tribe. The Spider Cave Tribe and the Brown Hill Tribe have a very close relationship. The two large tribes not only share the same origin and ancestors, but also share the fertile brown soil belt.
If the snake head in the east of Cuba's Snake Island is a mineral area rich in iron, copper, chromium and nickel, then the neck of the long snake is the most fertile agricultural area, a flat and fertile brown soil zone! The brown soil here
Loam soil has a high humus content and is close to black soil in terms of fertility, which can ensure long-term and stable high yields of cassava. The only disadvantage here is that the soil has poor water permeability, which can easily form waterlogging and swamps in low-lying areas. If you want to further cultivate it, you must build a large number of
Water conservancy projects regulate constant and abundant rainfall...
The Brown Hill Tribes settled in the fertile brown soil belt and were the most adept at farming in the entire Snake Island of Cuba. They planted tobacco leaves on the drier hills and cotton in the low-lying areas and mildly saline-alkali lands.
The fertile soil is widely planted with high-yielding cassava. With relatively excellent agricultural output, the largest Taino population naturally gathers here. With the Brown Hills as the center, there are 150,000 to 200,000 people gathered within a radius of two hundred miles.
The Taino tribe is the most densely populated area on the island of Cuba!
In later generations, this fertile brown soil area with a radius of only 200 miles was home to two million Cubans. And the food production here accounted for 20 to 30% of the entire Cuba in later generations, which can be called Cuba's "
"Land of Abundance"!…
The Spider Cave tribe in front of us is located on the northern coast of the brown soil belt. It has a rather special status among the tribes of the Brown Hills. Because they occupy a sacred and ancient Taino ancestral land, which stretches for dozens of
There is a group of underground caves with no end in sight, the "Cave of Silence" (Cueva de los Panaderos).
This ancient and sacred underground cave of astonishing scale is not only rich in a large amount of bat guano, but also rich in the darlings of the God of Death, the blue scorpion and the blue spider, which are revered by the Taino people. There have always been many tribal myths circulated.
In the eyes of the surrounding Taíno tribe, the "Cave of Silence" is connected to the place of the dead in the underground world, and is a place where the elders of the Brown Hill tribes voluntarily disappear. In the view of Tomat, the chief priest of Cuba, although there are many poisons here,
Mysterious and dangerous, it is an extremely rare source of saltpeter and fertilizer, and a kingdom stronghold that must be focused on management!
In fact, the Spider Cave Tribe is the third Taíno tribe in addition to the Mayari Tribe and the Red Soil Tribe to have all its tribes converted to the Kingdom. It is an important fulcrum for the Kingdom to control the fertile brown soil belt. There are more than 20 teams stationed here for a long time.
The warriors of the kingdom and Yao Yu, a missionary priest from the Mexican Alliance, personally take charge of the overall situation!
Of course, the arriving Castilian fleet did not know this. At this moment, the three ships were anchored on the coast of the river mouth, one or two miles away from the tribal village. The captain and important crew members gathered at
From the bow of the boat, you can see the large tribe of native people from a distance.
"Move forward! Move closer! ... Lord! This is the largest native village we have ever encountered! Phew, I don't know how much coveted gold there is in this village.
And wealth!…”
On the flagship, Columbus, wearing a coquettish admiral's hat, tiptoed eagerly and looked greedily at the prosperous native villages. He looked at the wooden houses and shacks and the harvested cotton fields around him, his face filled with tears.
To let out light.
This native village obviously has a large population, and there are nearly a hundred canoes on the beach. At this time, the Taino fishermen on the canoes had already sent back the news of the appearance of the three sailboats and the white-skinned demon.
In the village. After a while, the whole village was filled with people shaking and shouting, like a boiling soup pot!
"O God of the Sun! The evil spirits are the white-skinned evil spirits in the prophecy! They have really appeared!..."
"O ancient gods, the evil demon has finally appeared!...Quickly, please come out with the longship priests and warriors to suppress the evil demon on the big ship!..."
"Yes! Please bring out the Lord God's Thunder Golden Beast again!... Lord God! Please protect us!..."
The Taino tribesmen were crowded, and each of them had the sun-hummingbird emblem of the main god engraved on their forehead. At this moment, they were praying devoutly and looking towards the center of the village, a stone-built shrine to the main god.
Soon, a priest of the main god wearing a feather crown walked out of the altar solemnly, holding his staff high. He frowned, his eyes were cold, while looking at the three strange sailing ships on the seaside, while listening to the armored warrior leader.
Excited feedback.
"O Lord God! Priest Yao Yu, is really a white-skinned demon! A white-skinned demon who came in a big boat! The evil enemy predicted by His Majesty finally came from the sea by boat three years after we arrived at Snake Island in Cuba.
Appeared! This is truly an incredible miracle!…”
"Your Majesty's divine revelation! The prophecy has been verified, and it is the miracle of the Lord God that has appeared!... Leader of the Osprey Warriors, we traveled thousands of miles to the Snake Island of Cuba, but it is for these evil spirits in the prophecies, for these things that the Lord God has indicated.
O divine enemy!… Please lead the kingdom’s warriors, summon the Taíno militia, and prepare to fight the evil spirits!”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Yes! Praise the Lord God! I will definitely fight for the Lord God and kill the evil devil! ... That's right! The evil sea ship suddenly appeared, surrounded by Tylenol
I'm afraid the ministries don't know... Please also light the beacon warning and call for reinforcements from the palm hill tribes in the south! Then send troops to the Youshui tribe and Mayali tribe two hundred miles away, and to Tiewan Town three hundred miles away, especially
To the respected Priest Tomat and the brave Battalion Commander Puap...send a messenger immediately to inform you!..."
"Okay! I will arrange for devout tribal believers to travel day and night to deliver the message!..."
The shrill sound of the conch horn sounded on the side of the turbid bay. Along with the continuous sound of the conch horn, the swarming tribal militiamen kept pouring out of the villages on the shore like wasps in a hornet's nest!
"O Lord! One hundred, two hundred, three hundred... there are at least five hundred native spearmen! ... Ten, forty, eighty... There are a hundred elite natives wearing leather armor inside! ... Ah!
There are one, five, ten...twenty more! A total of twenty native warriors in platinum and bronze armor!..."
On the flagship Santa Maria, the navigator Pedro opened his eyes wide and counted the strong natives gathered on the shore, as if he was seeing a swarm of fire ants. And he counted the number of leather-armored spearmen.
It's like counting the poisonous big spiders. As for the twenty warrior officers in platinum and bronze armor, they are terrifying poisonous blue scorpions. Just one sting can kill people!
"Diamine! In this large tribe of natives, there are actually twenty natives wearing bronze armor?! Vaffanculo! They are like this... are they hostile to us and want to declare war on us?!..."
Columbus cursed in horror and took a breath of air. His eyes were fixed on the militia mobilized by the natives, assessing the enemy's strength.
Although there are many undressed natives, they are probably just farmers who can be scattered with a blast, and are not worth mentioning at all. As for the native militiamen wearing simple leather armors and cotton armors, their combat power is equivalent to that of the Apennine city-states.
The weakest peasant soldiers can only cause some trouble by relying on their numbers. Only those bronze-armored native warriors may have the strength of the Castilian standing army or elite mercenaries, and can be regarded as a real battlefield fighting army! And like this
The regular army wearing armor and holding spears is not something they, the sailors on the exploration ship, can face and fight head-on with!
"O Lord! They lit the beacon fire! There is no doubt that this is complete hostility! They regard us as invading bandits or pirates... I believe that they are not a separate tribe. There is probably another tribe behind them
alliance or kingdom!…”
Seeing the reaction of the native villages, the royal butler Gutierrez was worried, and his face showed tension for the first time. Since arriving on the coast of this strange archipelago, he has been observing the peaceful and ignorant natives on various islands.
tribe, observing the primitive savages who did not even have iron weapons. He secretly laughed in his heart, laughing at the ignorant and shouting Columbus. He never thought that the islands where these savages lived would really be some kind of rich Indian Islands, or some kind of golden west.
Pangu Japan. Sometimes, he even feels that this may be a brand new archipelago, or a new continent that has never been known to anyone!
However, when the fleet really discovered a unique book with square characters a few days ago, the royal steward's old understanding suddenly collapsed! He was stunned and couldn't explain it at all, so he could only choose to believe it! He began to believe that maybe there was something here
As Columbus stubbornly claimed, it was really the outer sea of Khitan, really India or Japan!
Therefore, when he encounters a large tribe lighting beacon fires, he will be particularly worried. The opposite side is really a powerful Indian or Japanese aboriginal kingdom. And this Eastern kingdom is full of hostility for some reason and is hostile to the Kingdom of Castile.
Enmity may even threaten the kingdom's foothold in the east and affect the establishment of new routes for flowing wealth...
"Merda! What the hell?! We just arrived here and haven't done anything. We haven't even sent an envoy yet... These natives just came out like wasps that exploded their nest and want to start a war with us inexplicably!... Damn it! Damn it!
!What the hell is going on?!”
Columbus was frightened and anxious as he watched the native militia pour out of the village and form an array under the command of the armored warriors. This familiar scene immediately reminded him of the fighting he had fought during the last attack on the large native tribe, and his expression gradually faded.
Turning white. After a moment, the fear that vaguely arose in his heart turned into an angry rage. The brave commander of the expeditionary force looked down from above, punched the side of the ship hard, and cursed angrily.
"Diamine! These arrogant, ignorant and arrogant Sipangu natives! How dare they challenge the majesty of the Kingdom of Castile?... Alana! Raise the flag for me! Let the fleet fire guns and cannons!...
"
"Yes! Commander!..."
"Boom! Boom!... Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Soon, the three exploration sailboats emitted the roar of thunder and the sound of cannons! Three 3-pound stone bombs flew up and landed on the beach on the shore, splashing up a large cloud of sand. At such a distance,
The artillery has no accuracy at all, it just releases the sound of thunder to scare the unsophisticated natives. According to the experience of the Spanish-Portuguese exploration team, thunderous firearms are invincible. As long as the sound of cannons and matchlocks are fired, the natives will be frightened.
Fleeing in confusion and fear!
"Boom! Boom!... Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The artillery roared twice in the distance, and the native spearmen on the shore really became confused. Under the contemptuous smile on Columbus's lips, the natives made noisy and panicked shouts, and retreated into the village in disorder.
The spear formation that was finally formed immediately fell into disarray.
But a moment later, with the cry of "Huitziloppo", these native militiamen who had collapsed without a fight were organized again! They lined up in front of the village fence again, their shining spearheads facing the big ships. Among them
At least one fifth of them are gray and black iron spears!
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There was another round of intimidating artillery fire, but the impact of the bombardment on the morale of the natives was getting weaker and weaker. After a moment, the native spear array suddenly separated, and several priest apprentices wearing feather headdresses stood up.
Carrying a shiny golden copper pipe, they walked from the center of the village to the shore. Then, the zealous Taino believers dropped the earth bags they had just prepared, placed the copper pipe on it, and pointed it at the big ship on the seashore.
"boom!…"
Under the frozen smile of Columbus and the astonished gaze of the royal steward, the golden copper pipe suddenly ignited, pointed at the Castilian fleet on the shore, and let out the first shocking thunder! There is no doubt that the spurt out
The one-pound stone bullets and the rising acrid smoke are demonstrating the power of the native army...This is actually the artillery of the natives!!...
"Merciful Lord! How could this happen?! These ignorant natives actually... actually have artillery!..."
Separated by a distance of several hundred meters, the copper cannons on the shore were as harmless as the cannons on the ship. But the "thunder" of the natives had a huge impact on the morale of the Castilian sailors.
Better than thousands of bows and arrows and spears! At this moment, they were condescending, confident and contemptuous, and their indestructible inner superiority was like the fragile silver mirror of the Venetians, which was suddenly smashed by the roaring stone bullets!
"Holy Mother! The artillery of the natives!...Ah! This must...must be the powerful Kingdom of Japan that Marco Polo said!..."
"What to do? What to do?! They are not afraid of artillery and muskets! They are not afraid of our firearms!..."
"Ah! Lord! They boarded the boat screaming wildly! There are more and more of them!... They actually want to attack us!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! He descended the divine realm of light and issued a roar of thunder to protect His devout believers and people! He said: Don't be afraid, don't shrink back! The souls of the warriors who died fighting for God will ascend to the red Kingdom of God!
...As long as you kill an evil demon, you will immediately be noticed by the Lord God and ascend to heaven after death! Enjoy the beauty forever!..."
Under the nervous and panicked gaze of the Castilians, Yao Yu, the preacher of the Lord God, performed a crazy sacrificial dance, shouting out the Lord God’s will and decree! Then, he suddenly raised his staff and pointed at the three ships on the shore.
Haichuan roared loudly and enthusiastically.
"Roar! Bless the Lord God! Board the small boat, besiege the demon's big ship, and fight for the Lord God!... Roar!..."
