Chapter 768 Rainforest Adventure
The fleet took eleven days to finally arrive at Mayi. The port of Mayi has been completed. When the fleet began to approach the port, all of them, including the king of Mayi, Aroye, came to the dock to watch. They had seen the big ship, but they had never seen such a big one, let alone so many.
So many ships sailed into the harbor, which made the entire harbor extremely congested, and Yang Yi's ships and some ships could not enter the harbor at all, so he could only anchor outside the harbor.
For a time, the clouds and sails in the port and outside the port covered the sun, and the oars were like walls, which were extremely spectacular. Aroye was shocked and afraid. In fact, without Yang Yi leading the fleet, he almost became a puppet of the Western Indian Ocean Trade Exchange.
The Ma Yi country has only 2,000 households and a population of less than 20,000. Just the hundreds of "army" of Aroye, the weapons are diverse and uneven, which is not enough for Yang Yi to get stuck in the gaps between his teeth.
The Luzon Islands are a good place. In later generations, the Philippines ranked second in the world in gold reserves, and the minerals of copper, iron and silver were also extremely rich.
Yang Yi mainly lived in the southwest in his previous life. Although he had never been to the Luzon Islands, the gold mines in the Luzon Islands were too famous, so he still knew the distribution location.
Among them, the Baguio mining area on both wings of the central Luzon Island, the Masbat Island mining area in the southeast, the Surigao mining area in the north of Mindanao, and the Masla mining area in the southeast of Mindanao are all very famous.
But knowing that these can only provide a rough location. If you really want to find gold mines, you have to send people to the above-mentioned areas to explore repeatedly.
It is useful to keep Aroye, at least it is easier to find someone to mine in the future. Yang Yi took a boat to the shore, and Aroye was as obedient as a Persian cat, and ran to greet him happily.
Well, the obedient child had candy to eat. Captain Jack gave Aroye some exquisite silk and porcelain to him to expand outward actively.
Although Ma Yi is the largest country on the Luzon islands, his actual control range is not large. Just think about it. The 80-year-old lady, including three-year-old children, is less than 20,000. How big can she control her place?
In addition to Ma Yi, the books on the Luzon islands are also small indigenous tribes. Yang Yi was not scheming to climb trees and clean up one by one. Let Aroye go sort out some things. Let us pick peaches in the future.
With Captain Jack's support, Aroye was very happy and took the initiative to provide Captain Jack with a message that on a large island southwest of Luzon, there was a small tribe named Philo, who had picked up dog-headed gold in the mountains and forests.
The so-called dog-head gold is natural gold. This kind of gold usually has more impurities, and some high-purity gold content can reach more than 60%. This information provided by Aroye is consistent with the distribution location of gold mines on the Luzon islands controlled by Yang Yi. It is very credible.
After Yang Yi received this news, he left Mayi Port the next day and led his fleet to continue traveling south along the coastline to an island called Masbat Island at the southwest end of Luzon. The Masbat Island covers an area of 3,000 square kilometers. The island is mountainous and covered with dense rainforests. It looks lush from a distance.
Finally, I found a small tribe named Feiluo in a bay. The small tribe has a population of less than a thousand people. I live by mountains and seas, and the houses are made of bamboo and wood. The roof is covered with thatch and scattered in the woods.
The big ship could not dock here, so Yang Yi asked Qingniang and the others to stay on the boat and took five hundred people to ashore on the boat.
The three thousand horses who came from Lu'er have received two years of devilish training. All training subjects were formulated by Yang Yi according to the later Marine Corps in combination with the current reality.
In two years, the physical strength and combat skills of this team are already very skilled in land and naval combat. They have also been taken to Hokkaido to fight the Hokkien people. Everyone has seen blood. In this era, they can definitely be called an elite army.
Of course, this team has to undergo more tempering to meet Yang Yi's requirements. This time, Yang Yi should still be a practical training.
When Yang Yi led the team ashore, the elderly, weak, women and children of the Feiluo clan were already scared and hid at home and shivered. One or two hundred young and strong men were nervously guarding by the forest with wooden guns and simple bows and arrows.
Yang Yi ordered Asha to the translator brought by Ma Yi: "You go and tell the people of the Philo tribe that we have no malicious intentions to come here, but just want to make a deal with them and let their tribe leader come out and talk to me. Well, don't forget to tell them not to toast or eat the punishment."
Asa received the order, and while shouting, he carefully walked towards the Feiluo settlement. Soon, the Feiluo responded, but Yang Yi couldn't understand what they were saying.
Time passed for a cup of tea. Just when Yang Yi was a little impatient, a young man from the Feiluo clan came out. He was about twenty years old, thin and wearing thick veil clothes, and walked over with Asa.
Yang Yi once said that he came with a beautiful silk in one hand and a flintlock rifle in the other.
So, he asked Meng Yunshan, the commander of the first battalion who was ashore to bring two pieces of silk, and then said to Asa: "Tell him that these two pieces of silk belong to him, and ask who the people of their tribes where they found the gold-headed gold, and let the man take us there, and when we come back, we will have more rewards."
"Yes." Asa responded, and talked about bird singing with the young Philo tribe. The young man looked at the two beautiful silks, and the Adam's apple was moving up and down. Obviously, these two silks made him very moved;
Although small tribes like Philo have never seen silk, there are not many that can be afforded. Silk is definitely a strong temptation to them.
However, Captain Jack got the answer: No, no one has ever picked up the dog-headed gold, and no one knows where to find the dog-headed gold.
When the young man spoke, Captain Jack noticed that his eyes were flickering. From this point, it was not difficult to guess that he was talking about panic.
Captain Jack was not angry and snapped his fingers at Mengyun Mountain. Mengyun Mountain immediately took out a grenade, ignited it, and threw it at the Fero tribe's village gate.
boom!
With a loud bang, the fire and smoke rose up. The people of the Philo tribe were so scared that they were scattered, croaking and screaming, running around the mountains like monkeys.
The effect was good. Captain Jack turned around with satisfaction, but found that Asha and the young man who came to negotiate were gone. He looked at his feet and found that the two of them were lying in the grass and trembling. Their teeth were fighting and giggling.
Captain Jack showed a comfortable smile on his face and said to Asa, "Now, ask him again. Who has picked up the gold of the dog head? Would you like to take us to find it?"
This time Captain Jack got the result he wanted.
The huge fleet on the sea scared the Philo people very much. Most of the hundreds of people who came ashore were wearing camouflage uniforms, standing by the beach without moving like a mountain, full of murderous aura, giving people an endless sense of oppression. If you are blown up like this, don't mention it, you probably have a lot of pissed your pants.
Captain Jack brought five hundred men. Among them, one hundred Japanese servants made some necessary preparations. After leading the way, the young man named Maha of the Philo tribe began to cross the dense tropical rainforest and headed towards the place where they picked up the gold of the dog head.
This is the kingdom of trees, with extremely rich species. They grow evenly and generally lack obvious dominant species. The appearance of various trees is very similar to each other. The trunks are thick and straight like cylinders, and branches are only found near the treetops. The light-colored bark is thin and smooth.
They grow layer by layer, with the uppermost trees towering in the sky; there are also some short trees several meters tall in the middle, and there are not many such trees, and leaves often grow in clusters on the treetops;
The lower layer is ferns, fungi and moss. Ferns are usually at most high in height. They do not need much sunlight and can grow extremely lush.
In addition, vines and epiphytes are also particularly prosperous. Some ancient vines are thicker than human arms. They can reach one or two hundred meters in length. They use another method to compete for living space in dense jungles, and they are very successful. No matter how tall the trees are, they will climb to the top of the canopy and steal the sun.
This type of vines are considered villains in the tropical rainforest. They cannot become materials themselves. By clinging to others, they can climb to the top of the rainforest and take away the most sunshine and dew.
The rain forest is always misty, and a small amount of sunlight shines from the branches and leaves, like rays. The forest is very stuffy, and the smell of grass leaves is mixed with the smell of rotten leaves. Even if it doesn't rain, your clothes will feel a little wet after walking in it for a long time.
Countless birds and beasts live in the rain forest, with birds and insects everywhere, and the roars of large animals such as tigers and leopards can be heard from time to time. Yang Yi and his party walked through the forest paths where large animals such as elephants and wild boars came out with difficulty.
The one hundred servants led by Saburo Ozawa, walked in front with a big knife, and cut off the shrubs that blocked the road. The more they walked in, the denser the rainforest became, the more difficult the road was to go, and it began to rain.
Yang Yi often performed tasks in tropical rainforests in his previous life. He knew the climate of the rainforest very well. It was common for rain to occur, so they all carried cloaks;
But the rain seemed to be against them, and it was getting heavier and heavier, as if it would never stop. The light in the rain forest was dim, but when the heavy rain came, the light in the forest seemed to be dim, and people were tripped from time to time, which was very embarrassed.
Mengyun Mountain said: "Captain"
Yang Yi was stunned by this title, and after a while he realized that he had ordered all of them to call Captain Jack.
Meng Yunshan swallowed his saliva before continuing, "Captain, the light is dim and the road is difficult to walk. Why don't we take a break and wait until the rain clears before leaving."
Captain Jack shook his head and said, "This rain will not stop for a while. We must continue to walk, otherwise we will not be able to walk when it is really dark. There are many crises in this dense forest. You must go to a wide area before you can stop camping."
"Yes, Captain."
Meng Yunshan finished speaking, a sharp scream suddenly came from the servants walking in front of him. In a hurry, the servants were shouting in Japanese, which Yang Yi couldn't understand, but it was not difficult to know from the terrifying screams that something was wrong.
Yang Yi led Meng Yunshan and others to catch up quickly. The servants in front were already in chaos. Yang Yi grabbed Saburo Ozawa's collar and asked, "What's wrong? Tell me quickly."
Ozawa Saburo replied in a panic: "Snake, such a big snake, as thick as a bucket, it swallowed half of Noda Hachiro's body in one bite, from "
Before he could finish his words, Yang Yi rushed out because the traces of the python passing by could be seen on the ground. Meng Yunshan grabbed him and said, "Captain, you can't go, it's too dangerous."
"You are wrong. It has swallowed half of a person. There is not much danger at this time. Come with me. Once the snake gets food, it will not go too far."
Yang Yi led his men to chase after him quickly. After walking twenty or thirty steps, he saw a giant python. The snake body was not twenty meters long and as thick as a bucket. Yang Yi couldn't help but feel shocked when he saw it.
From his appearance, he could easily tell that this is the Overlord Python. The largest python species in the world is generally mild in temperament, but when he is hungry or provoked, he looks completely different and becomes extremely rough.
At this time, Noda Hachiro's entire body had been swallowed by the giant python, leaving only the calves below the knees exposed, which was shocking.
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