Chapter 135 Zheng Tu
Being backward and ignorant does not mean being stupid.
The two small Franc aircraft and musketeers on the north wall were suppressed by tiger squat cannons, which greatly reduced the firepower. The Spaniards in the Muzhai also had to separate manpower to guard against the Ming army from the west coast, and were unable to suppress the huge number of indigenous people.
Even if they did not receive the signal from Magui, they would still seize this opportunity to attack Muzhai.
The axe and spear cast several ladders for climbing on the village wall. When the indigenous people climbed into Muzhai, in less than a moment, the indigenous people opened the village door and kept transporting everything they could use, and then burned the Muzhai.
They cheered and danced, and built a short mound structure next to the Muzhai with mounds, which looked like an altar.
Ma Gui did not try to enter Muzhai. His subordinates did not exert any power in this battle. They just continued to shoot a few shots into Muzhai with the opportunity of the north wall of Muzhai.
And he also knew very well that the killing caused by the tiger squatting cannon fired scattered spiders was limited.
He didn't care about the spoils of the Spanish, and as long as this Spanish camp disappeared from this land, his purpose would be achieved.
Compared to the spoils, Ma Gui cares more about the views of these indigenous people on the Ming army.
Not long after, some indigenous people slowly surrounded them. The leader was a large eagle feather crown with a black and red tattoo on his face. The clothes on his chest were discharged from two rows of long ox bones. He handed the bow and arrow to his subordinates at a distance of dozens of steps, and walked towards Magui and others with proud steps.
Behind him, someone was holding a blanket with a few cobblestone-sized nuggets of gold.
At the command of the leader, the indigenous soldiers held the lifelike fish and presented the birds with blankets to Ma Gui.
The leader said a few words, and when he saw that Ma Gui didn't understand, he sighed helplessly, and finally raised his hand to stroke his chest, and slowly and seriously repeated a few of the same syllables.
Ma Gui turned to Ma Jin and said, "Is he talking about the name? What is it? Fight, Fight rabbit?"
Ma Jin also repeated the syllable several times, and finally said confidently: "Zheng Tu! Zhen Guanxi!"
This made Ma Gui very funny. Zheng Tu, isn’t it Zhenguanxi in Water Margin?
Although this name was not very lucky when it met Luda, Ma Gui did not have the habit of being a teacher and was unwilling to change it.
"Okay, Zheng Tu, I'm Ma Gui." He probably told Zhenguanxi that he was appointed as the first rank of the imperial court. He couldn't understand it, so he simply omitted the introduction process and pointed to Huang Mingqi behind him and said, "Ming, we are Ming, yes, Ming army."
The two of them talked with each other for a long time, and Ma Gui didn't know if Zhen Guanxi had figured out what he was called. Anyway, it was quite interesting to learn from each other's words.
Not only did they accept all the pieces of gold and hemp, but they even accepted the wide piece of hemp woven blanket. However, he regarded this as a transaction. They passed by so many tribes and were familiar with the exchange of bartering.
A hand gun, a small bag of gunpowder, and dozens of lead balls were handed over to Zhenguanxi under the instruction of Magui. In addition, he also asked several bird guns to demonstrate to Zheng Tu how to use firearms.
As for the two sets of Ming army-style cloth iron armor and a Ming flag, it is a private gift from Magui.
Although General Ma did have a lot of armaments under his command, his subordinates left a huge amount of weapons and armor after a large number of non-combat reductions, but those things were not carried with the ship, so they could not give out any good things, but they were smart enough.
A big tree was cut down by the Jurchens, and then it was split into several sections. Each section was split into the center and took out the cannon chamber and medicine hole as thick as an arm. After the boat rope was tied, it became several simple wooden cannons.
Pour a pound of gunpowder, picked up a stone of similar size, inserted a medicine line and banged it towards the trunk of a tree more than twenty steps away.
Either the pine wood is soft or the charge is not much. The wooden cannon is like a large gun, not only not split, but also makes deep holes into tree trunks not far away.
When Magui's subordinates raised several wooden cannons and a bucket of gunpowder, and took out nearly one pound of wooden spoons to hold the medicine and put them in front of Zheng Tu, the face of the indigenous chief, who already had a nickname in Zhenguanxi, became very strange.
Everyone will feel this way, right? It’s like opening a gift package from Ming Kingdom and giving a few pieces of gold as a reward for hiring them to bombard the Spaniards with powerful weapons. As a result, they gave guns and armor, and finally gave a few cannons.
All of this is too novel to Zheng Tu.
‘How come this tribe who claims to be Ming looks like a big fool?’
This is the first time Zheng Tu led a tribal expedition, defeating an invader who built a house in his territory, and now another invader comes, but these guys don't look like an invader, what are they going to do?
Seeing Ma Gui keep pointing to the south and saying something he doesn't understand, Zheng Tu first pointed to the snow-capped mountains far north, then the mountains at the end of his eyes, and then pointed to himself, repeating again and again: "Zheng Tu."
Ma Gui probably understood and said to his left and right: "From this mountain to that mountain, it is their territory. It seems that this battle was fought by them to recover the lost land, and they did not mean to continue to go south."
There were not enough horses, nor enough cattle or donkeys to carry them, and they had such a wide range of actions. It seemed that they would be more greedy to expect them to continue to seize the land occupied by the Spanish.
Ma Gui bowed his fists and left two clever followers to Zheng Tu. He pointed to his subordinates, pointed to the sea in the northwest, and said, "Ma Gui."
Zheng Tu followed suit and also sent two young people to follow Ma Gui, pointing to the land under his feet, and said, "Zheng Tu!"
Just as Ma Gui was about to say goodbye and leave, the indigenous people who were captured suddenly broke out.
Ma Gui has always been curious about Zheng Tu's tribe rescuing these slave-turned compatriots. Some of them are obviously from Zheng Tu's tribe, and they rejoined the tribe from the beginning of the battle.
But even though more people look the same, they are not from Zhengtu tribe. Many of them want to run away but cannot escape. After being caught, they are tied up and pulled again, and they look like they have just changed places to be prisoners.
The commotion originated from a slave wearing a deer-painted blanket. He was a man who looked over 40 years old last year. However, the child who followed him was only in his teens. Perhaps it was just because of his work, he looked older and actually only in his thirties. When his blanket was pulled away by Zheng Tu's subordinates, people found large areas of pustipes on him.
The forehead, face, arms, abdomen, and behind the brown and yellow skin were everywhere. Some of the pustaces had broken down due to the rough pulling of the blanket, looking hideous and terrifying, and people were also catching them weakly, but the indigenous people quickly screamed and ran away like they were avoiding the plague.
This is the plague.
Ma Gui can no longer be familiar with it. This is a symptom of smallpox, and it is already very serious. It has not died at this level. If this person is lucky enough, he is likely to survive in the future.
In Zheng Tu's eyes, Ma Gui saw fear.
He realized that this was an opportunity to show strength to the indigenous people, so he raised his foot and walked over there. At this moment, he was blocked by Zheng Tu's powerful arm. Even if he couldn't speak, he could see the compassion and determination in Zheng Tu's eyes.
Ma Gui smiled, he shook his head and said in a firm tone: "You don't know what we have done to defeat the acne poison, it can't hurt us."
Chapter completed!