Danao Island, as a place where we stayed for nearly a month during our voyage, is engraved in everyone's heart. It is deserted, rich and uninhabited, but it has a story buried there.
Now, we are organizing the ship, counting the number of people, preparing to leave it and continue our journey
It turned out that there were 117 people on the turtle boat and 71 people on the canoe. A total of 188 people took in the three Xu sisters and Liu Jiao and went to escort the 37 people on the gold boat.
Sangou and his mother, our total number now is: one hundred and fifty-three
Excluding non-combatants, the old lady, Jiang Wanqing's father, my father, Hua, Xiaoyue, Jiang Wanqing, Qi Xue, and King Tian generally do not need to participate in the battle, then our combatants are one hundred and forty-five.
King Tian said, we went to fight, not to go sightseeing. All the flowers and plants on the two ships were thrown into the sea. To deal with the white thorns, we wanted to conquer them openly. There was no need to be sneaky.
It only took less than an hour for us to reach the enemy. King Bazi Shimada divided our troops into five groups. Yes, one hundred and forty-five people can still be divided into five groups.
The three generals and I each led a team of thirty people to the island. The remaining twenty-five people were led by King Tian to sit on the sea and protect the base camp.
We analyzed that the current number of people in Baijing is not much more than the single team led by the four of us. At most, there are only about forty people left.
I made an agreement with the three generals that no matter who encounters a white thorn tree, they will immediately entangle him and not allow him to escape. He will also fire arrows to report the news, and the other three teams will immediately rise to support him.
I was not very familiar with the terrain of Madabazi Island, so I chose to go to the island in the middle of the long coastline. Fifteen archers and fourteen sharpeners headed due east along the edge of the island's forest.
On the second day, we had gone deep into the hinterland of Mama Bazi Island. The island was very mountainous. Along the way, we had a dedicated person responsible for inspecting the route and searching for human traces. A young sergeant said to me as we walked:
"General, where will we go after we destroy the White Jing?"
"It depends on the opportunity. In fact, our King Tian has already had a general goal, but I can't tell you now. Our current mission is Baijing. If we can't destroy him, we won't leave," I said
"It's strange, we've been on the island for so long and we haven't even seen a single local," the sergeant added.
"This place is not like us in China, with abundant resources and developed technology. We have been able to sail across the ocean to get here. But the people here are still scattered in different tribes. Maybe they are still looking at the Xihai and sighing. I don't know.
What kind of Danao Island, what the hell is Bazi Island?”
"No! The owners of Danao Island are just a group of wild apes."
"The leader of the ape group is still an orphan from our last dynasty."
Everyone was talking while walking, and suddenly a sergeant said, "Come and see!"
There are roadless mountains in front of us. Only on the right front is a natural pass. This is the only way for us to move forward.
At dusk, we had not gone far along the dangerous path in the pass when a stern inquiry came from the top of the mountain, "Who is it? Who is down there?"
The sergeants were a little nervous, but Sulu, who was walking in front, had already answered: "You can't tell who I am, but grandma, who else could it be? Those who are bluffing, be careful to attract the pursuers!"
The sound of human voices indicates that we are close to the people of Bai Jing. We didn’t expect them to hide so deeply.
There is a lonely island surrounded by several rivers. The island is covered with trees. There is a simple bridge on the river in front of the island. It can be seen that the bridge has just been built not long ago, and the trees used to build the bridge are still very fractured.
Xin Xin finally saw traces of crowd activity. Apart from Bai Jing, there would be no other people.
The person we sneaked in just now may be a secret sentry set up by the white thorns.
I ambushed fifteen archers and ten cutters in the trees on both sides of the wooden bridge. Their mission was to stop the enemies escaping from the bridge.
I took Sulu and three other swordsmen with me, and prepared to forcefully cross the bridge. I told an archer that if there was a fight on the bridge, he would immediately fire a loud arrow, and fire one every half hour to guide our reinforcements.
It was already very dark. Suddenly there was a flash of fire in a shack at the end of the bridge. Someone lit a torch. A sentry was hanging around outside the shack, and two figures were gambling in the shack.
As we approached, the sentry shouted, "Who is it?"
"Who could it be? General Bai sent us out on patrol and we just came back!" The five of us didn't stop, but the sentry panicked and turned around and shouted into the shack, "Has anyone been sent out to patrol?" The man in the shack said, "I don't know.
, come here first and ask.”
Before the words in the shack could be finished, the sentry outside had been knocked down by Sulu and another sergeant. The other two people and I kicked the shack over. The two men were covered by the shack, and they were randomly picking away the grass with their hands.
As soon as his head emerged, he was stabbed to death by two sergeants.
"Where is the white thorn?" I asked the sentry. He was pressed tightly to the ground, with sand in his mouth, spitting out, and did not speak.
Sulu hit him on the head with a knife and shouted in a low voice, "Don't tell me? I'll beat you to death!"
His head suddenly swelled up. Lao Gao said, "Oh, don't fight, don't fight. Where else can I sleep in the back!"
Suddenly, someone on the pass in the distance shouted at the top of their lungs, "Oh no, someone is coming, someone is coming!" The secret whistle we had just deceived sent a signal from a high place.
At the same time, our man who was ambushing by the bridge shot a loud arrow with a "chi" sound, and the silent valley immediately boiled.
It was just the five of us who rushed into the woods in the dark. It was better this way, so that Bai Jing didn’t know how far we had come.
After walking around in the forest, I found two houses made of white wooden boards. There were traces of fire damage on them. It seemed that Bai Jing had moved the remaining wooden houses here.
We kicked open the wooden door of a house, and there was a bonfire on the ground that had just been put out. There was a pot on top, and the wild duck stewed in it was just cooked, and it was still steaming. No one was there.
In the other room was a bed board with several pieces of clothing thrown on it. I recognized one of them as the big black coat that Bai Jing had worn, and a pair of men's underwear with stains on them.
The clothes were shaking under my clothes. I went over and opened the clothes with my hands. Underneath was a naked woman. Judging from her facial features, she should be a local resident.
This white thorn, when it reaches this point, still can’t forget to enjoy it
We rushed out of the wooden house immediately. It seemed that Bai Jing thought that we would not disturb him again and planned to live a stable life here. Unexpectedly, we followed him so quickly.
But where did they go?
We must not have gone too far. When we were searching the island, the troops of the three generals also arrived. There were more than a hundred people. We only found a mess of footprints by the river behind the island.
There were still a few semi-finished wooden boats. Bai Jing and the rest of the people ran away. Maybe he had discovered our footprints a long time ago and was ready to escape at any time.
Both the woman and the duck were brought over by Sulu. Now she only wears a white thorn coat and bare feet.
I grabbed a duck leg, put it in my mouth and chewed it, and said, "Eat the duck. The woman will take it back and let Song Kui ask."