In the early morning, in Jilong Village, fires surged into the sky and thick smoke was pouring out. The natives who besieged Jilong had already lit the Yingzhaizhai and some arrow towers. The officials of the Maritime Warehouse Division stationed in Yingzhaizhai were commanding the soldiers to fight back, but they had little effect.

This camp, which was established at the beginning of the year, is now shaking under the fierce attack of the natives.

There were originally 800 soldiers stationed in the camp, but because of the lack of adaptation to the local conditions, some people fell ill one after another, and there were still a large number.

All the sick people were transferred to Ryukyu, so there are only 300 soldiers stationed in the camp now, plus the officials of the Maritime Bureau, as well as some craftsmen and civilians, the number of people is barely over 500.

In contrast, the natives besieged Jilong Village were powerful, and the number of people seemed to be at least over 1,000. Although the opponent had a low A-rate rate, it was more than a thousand. The archers in Jilong Village were suppressed by the native archers and could not stop the opponent from approaching the camp.

The natives had different appearances from the Central Plains. They were mostly short, decorated with feathers, wore native cloth, animal skin, wore rattan hats, and held rattan cards and various weapons. Although they had iron swords, their blades were thin, which was probably due to iron deficiency.

The bows and arrows used were mixed with a large number of bone arrows, but the arrows were stained with venom, and the throat was blocked with blood. In addition, there were many people, the defenders of Jilong Village could not resist it.

For the natives, this is their hunting ground, and a large number of people are about to be hunted, and the gods will be very happy about this.

Jilongzhai is a trade base established by the Maritime Bureau in Yizhou. The officials stationed in Jilongzhai were in contact with local native tribes in accordance with the purpose of making peace and wealth, and tried to do business with each other.

Because of the language barrier, the officials of the Maritime Commission and the maritime merchants specially brought "common news", which were natives on Ryukyu Island and had contact with the natives here.

However, as an outsider, the Maritime Bureau occupied the area near the river entrance to establish a village, which attracted the local native tribes to be very alert, with great hostility, and the contact was progressing slowly.

Not to mention that these native tribes like to hunt heads, cut off the enemy's heads and hang them on trees and shoot them with arrows to worship the gods. Therefore, they are very unfriendly to outsiders. If they are not careful, they will easily be cut off by the other party.

But hard work pays off. After several months of trying, the two sides were finally able to contact and communicate in advance.

Maritime merchants in the Maritime Service brought beautiful silk, exquisite porcelain, exquisite glassware, and affordable cloth to the local people, while the other party brought out various fur goods and gold and silver.

Of course, gold and silver are good things, but fur goods are not very good. This transaction is generally a bit of a loss, but for marine merchants, it is very important to make friends, so the goods brought with them are quickly traded out.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. If you take the first step, the next road will get better and better. The maritime merchants think so, but things are not as they imagined.

In summer, several tribes broke out in epidemics one after another. The officials and maritime merchants of the Maritime Department thought of a way to try every possible way, which was to send doctors to treat local people and take this opportunity to gain more favor from each other.

However, the disaster came later.

The natives believed that the sudden outbreak of the epidemic was all disasters caused by outsiders, so they took their anger and killed the doctors, and then began to attack Jilong Village sporadically.

There must be some misunderstandings in this, so Jilongzhai tried to save the situation, but the officials sent out to communicate and the natives who were in charge of the affairs were killed, their heads were cut off, and now they were carried by the natives with spears, looming in the fire.

The shouts of shouting were heard, and the natives broke through the wooden fence, waved various weapons, rushed into the Jicheng Village from the break, and wanted to kill the outsiders who brought disaster, and then cut off their heads to worship the gods, so that they could ask the gods to lower their power to eliminate the epidemic.

However, what the gods descended was thunder.

The defenders of Jilong Village threw thunderstorms one after another, causing the natives to turn in a daze. The offensive collapsed instantly. The natives trampled on each other while rushing to escape, and countless casualties were killed and injured.

The surprise soldiers who were detouring outside in advance cut off the retreat of the natives who besieged Jilong Village. After a wave of arrow feathers, the natives completely collapsed.

When the hunter turned into prey and faced an enemy with "divine power", the natives were so scared that they knelt down and begged for mercy.

Xiong Ji, who was leading the troops, looked at the natives who kept kowtowing without any pity: "Want to surrender? Haha, let's kill 270 people!"

One subordinate felt a little heartbroken: "Admiral, more than 200 people can sell a lot of money!"

"Sell money? They killed twenty-seven of us, and paid for our lives by one to ten. Only those who killed two hundred and seventy people were qualified to make a living!"

Xiong Ji made a gesture, then screamed. In the cold light, blood splattered everywhere. More than 300 people were killed by the surrounding people. The rest were trembling in fear and did not dare to resist. They were tied up one by one by the soldiers.

Some soldiers stayed to clean the battlefield, while the other soldiers were divided into several strands, using several prisoners as guides to advance to the other village.

The men who came out to hunt were finished. The elderly, weak, women and children who stayed in the village were the trophy of the winners. The native women, no matter how ugly or ugly they looked, were women, right?

The purpose of Maritime Affairs is to bring wealth with harmony, but another purpose is to fight blood for blood and teeth for tooth. The consequence of the shamelessness of the natives is that the whole family is unlucky.

The Maritime Bureau has a trade fleet and a murderous army. For native tribes that cannot communicate and are inconsistent, there is no need to "suppress others with virtue" in order to carry out trade.

The admirals of the Maritime Bureau want to use their military power and teach unreasonable island barbarians how to be human.

There are indeed only 300 defenders in Jilong Village, but this does not mean that the Maritime Bureau allows the Jilong Base to survive and fend for itself. When they learn that the native tribes have increased their hostility towards Jilong Village, the Maritime Bureau naturally needs to increase troops immediately to make a decision.

Admiral Xiong Ji was ordered to take three thousand tiger and wolf barbarians from Langya Port by boat, take the newly opened route, float directly into the sea near the estuary of the Yangtze River, arrive at the Chicken Cage in Yizhou, and then start the action.

As King Bin pacified the Dabie Mountains barbarians in Henan, some of them returned to the mountains after the war, and some of them were incorporated into civilian households by the Bozhou General Administration Office and became good citizens.

Some people still followed King Bin, obeyed King Bin's orders, and rushed towards the enemy without hesitation, clearing all obstacles for the Maritime Bureau.

Xiong Ji, who was born in Jiangzhou, was now the admiral of the Maritime Warriors and was sharpened to the island barbarians for the benefit of the family and the Maritime Warriors.

The rising sun rises and the sun shines on the earth. Xiong Ji looks back at the Jilong Village in the north and sees the black-bottom white rose flags on the flagpole waving in the wind, like a hand waving towards the mountains in the south, and extending cordial greetings to the native tribes living in the mountains.

Xiong Ji put his knife into the sheath and walked towards Jilong Village. Before going to the expedition, King Bi said that since the island barbarians in Yizhou are hostile and serious business is difficult to do, then the original "plan" of the Maritime Bureau needs to change, that is, to start catching slaves in Yizhou (catching Shengkou).

In the Lingbiao area, it has been popular for hundreds of years to capture the livestock for sale, such as the Chen family in the Longzhou and the Xian family in Gaoliang. Many of the people in their clans engage in this "promising" business.

Xiong Ji felt that the climate of Yizhou was somewhat similar to that of the Lingbei area. It was tall and dense forests, and was filled with miasma. Then the Li Liao soldiers who were safe and sound on the Lingbei should not be dissatisfied with the local conditions in Yizhou.

The court was too lazy to look at the Yizhou in the overseas world. In the eyes of the court, it was just a barren land. The island barbarians on it had no meaning to deal with it, so let the Maritime Bureau take care of it.

The Maritime Bureau has already signed up to let the chiefs who helped the government to suppress the rebellion, treat Yizhou as a new hunting ground for hunting slaves (Shengkou), and take the Maritime Bureau's sea ship to Yizhou to make a fortune.

There are no valuable delicacies in this broken place. The natives are the best specialties. The natives here are different from the Ryukyu natives. Most of them cannot sail, so their only value is to be slaves.

The vacant villages and fields were taken over by the victors, and their children and tribesmen would have their own villages in Xintiandi and spread their branches and leaves.

As the admiral, Xiong Ji will now assist Jilongzhai in sweeping nearby hills and establishing a "forward base" to prepare for the coming slave capturing teams to carry out slave (shengkou) trade in Yizhou.

Think about it, how much money can you make after sailing from the chicken cage with a large number of slaves?
Chapter completed!