Chapter 43: Rainforest Battle
Just as Zhu Haitao won consecutive victories in the Majingdanau Sultanate, victory came one after another on the east side of the island.
In order to completely eliminate the Giant Eye Tribe Alliance, Zhu Haitao made a huge clamp-shaped offensive plan, which could completely wipe out the entire Giant Eye Tribe.
On the day Zhu Haitao went to sea, Tieniu led all his second division to mobilize. According to the plan, his purpose was to follow the middle road that had been investigated before and go deep into the primeval forest, and to wipe out these natives in one fell swoop.
After a arduous journey, the troops led by Tie Niu came to the tropical rainforest located in the central Mindanao. The humid air made people feel uncomfortable, and the miasma in the rainforest made some people with weak constitutions sick.
Fortunately, many of the people who followed the army were local doctors and hunters here. They knew that many herbs could cure diseases, which only cured many of the soldiers who were sick.
But after walking for so long, I only encountered a few local people gathering sites on the road, ranging from three or two to more than a dozen, and there was no movement from the large local tribe.
Tie Niu felt confused. Where have these natives gone? Could it be that he heard the storm in advance and was scared away?
From time to time, he sent out a small team of young people to search for the traces of these people.
But today's situation is a little different. Last night, five small reconnaissance teams were sent out. At noon when we were about to have dinner, we only returned to the fourth team. The first team sent out has not yet come back.
"Did you all see them? Is there any news about the natives?" In the tent, Tie Niu summoned these people to come and ask.
"We didn't see them, and the natives only met four, and they were all destroyed by us."
"We didn't see them either, and we didn't see even one of the natives."
Both teams said there was no news, which made Tie Niu a little anxious and looked at the third team eagerly.
The captain of the third team had a bad face and said, "We have no news about the first team, but we have found many traces of the natives' lives in the northwest region where we are stationed, including hammocks, fire seeds, and some chewed bones. Most importantly, we have found some chewed bones!"
"Human bones?" Tie Niu shook his head. These natives have the habit of cannibalism, and he is no longer surprised, but the captain of the third team seems to have little knowledge.
"Do you see who they are?" Tieniu continued to ask. He was not interested in these natives who could eat them. As long as they were not Chinese, they loved who they loved.
"I don't know this anymore. We only saw some people's intestines and skinned thighs. We just buried them." The captain of the third team said with lingering fear.
The captain of the fourth team spoke at this time: "Teacher Commander, we have also found traces of the natives in the brigade and saw these people eating human flesh, but what they eat is ours!"
"What? Have you seen it clearly?" Tieniu asked.
"It's true! Although we didn't see living people or our marks, there were our one-style rifles outside the tents of these natives!"
Tie New suddenly felt that things were not good and said, "Where are those natives? Have you ever contacted them?"
"They seemed to have just left before we arrived, and even the smoke from cooking was not wiped out! We just buried the bodies and brought the rifles back."
"It seems they know we are here." Tie Niu judged: "They must have set up an ambush in advance and destroyed the first team, and then saw you again, preparing to destroy you, but how could you come back safely?"
In fact, Tie Niu guessed it well. Although Ansama, the leader of the Giant Eye Tribe Alliance, was a little knowledgeable indigenous leader, he was a genius in military affairs. After learning that the tribe on the Farsai Road had been completely eliminated, he began to prepare for the upcoming war with this emerging Chinese country.
His strategy is very simple. He relies on his familiarity with the tropical rainforest to find clues of the Chinese army in advance, induce them to penetrate into the rainforest, and then disperse them, destroy them one by one in the rainforest, exhaust the Chinese army, and eventually let them collapse in the rainforest.
The troops led by Tie Niu were targeted by him. When Tie Niu's army approached his territory, he deliberately set up several tents to attract Tie Niu's army to disperse and gather and annihilate them. The first team was ambushed and eliminated by the traps they set up in the process.
The first team had ten people killed one by one by one by the cave in the soil and the traps hanging on the trees. Their bodies were taken down by the natives, and after the sacrifice ceremony, they were dismantled and feasted on them.
Next, Ansama discovered the traces of the third and fourth teams. He wanted to use the same trick again and guide them to several other ambush areas that had been ambushed in advance, so that they could also enter the belly of the natives and turn them into food.
But he didn't expect that at this moment, his subordinates sent him a bad news: his base camp was attacked by the Chinese army!
This made him a little scared. There were food and other things stored there. Although he could hunt in the rainforest to maintain the food supply of a few natives for a period of time, it could not support the consumption of a large number of troops after all.
Since the Chinese came here to cultivate food, a few diligent tribes of these natives also learned to plant fields to support themselves and entered the settled agricultural society. This is the case with some tribes of Ansama, who provide food supplies to Ansama's tribal alliance.
If they were taken away by a bunch of people, Ansama's team would immediately fall into the dilemma of food cuts.
Therefore, Ansama immediately made a decision to give up the Chinese team that was within reach in front of him and immediately replied to his nest to ensure the safety there.
However, he did not expect that his decision led to himself becoming the character of the mouse in the cat and mouse game.
Tieniu, regardless of the reason, made Ansama give up hunting the other teams. He led thousands of troops to launch an attack based on the general area transmitted by the two teams before.
After ordering the army, Tie Niu immediately led the army to pursue the pursuit. At the same time, another army led by Jin Hu had a confrontation with Ansama's brigade first.
Jinhu and Tie Niu were separated shortly after they set off. The two discussed and prepared to divide into two teams to search for the surrounding native tribes, while maintaining the scale of thousands of people, increasing the probability of successful searches.
But unexpectedly, this made the two armies completely different. Tie Niu spent a long time trying to find some clues, while Jinhu directly discovered a large mine. They did not expect that they could directly hit Ansama's nest.
Chapter completed!