Retracting the Line (1)

Time: May 20, 1636, morning.

Location: Zhenghe Island.

Between the turquoise sea and the sky, the Fortress standing on a black stone foundation suddenly appeared beside the coast. In an extremely disharmonious way, it forced the rude industrial civilization into the wilderness.

Gu Ming pushed open the wooden door hastily tied with branches and stepped out of the cabin where he was staying. Immediately, he was dazzled by the strong tropical sunshine.

Shaking his head, until his eyes recovered, he looked around expressionlessly.

The first thing blocking the view is the neatly arranged "shacks".

Although these so-called shacks vary in length, they are horizontally and vertically arranged, and are obviously planned according to military camps.

It is said to be a shack, but in fact the lower part is a standard brick-concrete structure, and even has glass windows. However, when it comes to the waist, the building materials are all replaced by wood, branches, thatch and various unnamed tropical bananas.

leaf.

Neatly planned, solid lower body, coupled with the scrawled upper body, it is self-evident what happened here.

"Hi" Dr. Ma, who was used to seeing life and death, drooped his eyes and looked at Er Yaozi with the eyes of a dead person: "Ninety-nine percent of this case is hopeless. You can contact the health team tomorrow. I think it will be cured the day after tomorrow.

about there."

Good times are always short.

Picking up the enamel tea jar and taking a deep sip, the Third Master put down the jar, wiped his mouth, then lowered his voice and secretly said to Gu Ming, "It's stable this time. A fleet of seventeen ships has left Saigon today."

The big ship with black smoke was steady and fast. When the heroes got out of the cabin again, they had already arrived at Shanghai Beach.

The foundation of Lizui Fort is a natural stone platform. After the stone platform was cleared, the total area was measured to be 1.6 acres.

It stands to reason that there will be no malaria patients in Fort Lidzu with strict health regulations. The Crossing Group, which has always regarded malaria as the number one enemy of expansion, has always paid great attention to this aspect.

He said a few words to the brothers one by one, patted this one and pointed at that one. Finally, he simply got on the bed, took out his cigarette, scattered it, and started puffing away together.

This slope did not exist originally. When the Fortress was originally built, considering the need for people and supplies to enter and exit, a gate and a gentle slope were built directly opposite the inner island.

"Is there really no medicine left?"

The foundation at this moment is not only covered with a thick layer of rammed earth and sand and gravel, but also covered with a thick layer of corpses.

Strictly speaking, it should be four walls. Facing outward is a thick low wall, and behind it is a high wall with shooting holes.

For a moment, he raised his arm, ready to throw it away. However, the next moment, he stopped his movements and put the vial back into his pocket: "You have to fill it with Hedinghong and return it to relieve your hatred!"

With a little pity, he looked at the half-grown boy in the corner who couldn't swallow the meat. In the end, Mr. Gu finally sighed, got up and went over, gave all the white fish fillets in his bowl to the boy, and then took some from the boy's bowl.

All the pieces of meat were brought back.

The quality of the lunch is quite good. To the naked eye, the snow-white Siamese rice has distinct grains, and you can smell the unique aroma of tropical carbohydrates from a distance away.

People were coming and going in the headquarters, and staff officers and administrative staff were all busy.

Armed with bamboo knives and wooden spears, the indigenous people are fearless and fearless of death.

The bizarre Guangzhou clearly flies the banner of the Ming Dynasty, but it already looks like an enemy country.

The dense tropical rain forest, like a thick velvet blanket, stands on the beach line fifty meters away. From Gu Ming's altitude, you can overlook the central mountain range of the island along the top of the dense forest.

Coming down further is Guangzhou.

After scolding, the old man was still not relieved. He pointed at the young man and said to Gu Ming: "I'm asking for it. You eat good meat and you have a tricky mouth!"

"Oh, there is still stock!" Dr. Ma glanced at Mr. Gu in surprise: "With these quinine, it should be no problem. He is allergic. As long as the malaria subsides, the allergic symptoms will also disappear."

Oh, by the way, in recent battles, more and more indigenous people have used metal knives. They have even formed a matchlock suppression team.

Seeing Gu Ming come in, a young man wearing a green coat and a stethoscope around his neck nodded to him. A smile appeared on Gu Ming's face and he greeted him politely: "Doctor Ma, let me see the injury number.

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"The turtle grandson of Rimeng!" An old man with a wrinkled face and a bald head next to him reached out and slapped him, slapping the young man's cries back to his stomach: "Escape from famine every year and survive every year.

Yes, how could you ever not eat two meals of human flesh? You are such a hypocritical mother!"

The Third Master was in great spirits today. He took Gu Ming and pulled him to the marching table in the corner. He took out a green military kettle from his private collection, poured two cups of Guyue Longshan, and asked Gu Ming to drink.

The arrogant young officer stepped on the cannon, pointed his thumb at the huge ship like a mountain behind him, and said contemptuously to the northern bumpkins: "It's not too late for you to get on the handsome ship now. You can't be stubborn."

Damn it, wait until the day when the grandpas make the Northern Expedition, pack them up and kill them all together with Chongzhen's son! Die! They all must die!"

Accompanying Gu Ming to the gate, Yusheng looked through the gap between the tree trunks: "It seems like nothing happened today. There has been no movement for half a month."

The pioneering team, which was attacked by countless natives, could only defend itself from the beginning. In every battle, countless corpses would fall under the fort wall.

"Um?"

After the meal, Gu Ming, who was full of worries, hesitantly opened the door of the headquarters.

The rough brick walls, whose surfaces have been hastily plastered with cement, extend twenty meters to both sides of the gate.

The heroes, who had been hungry for several days, could no longer care about anything at this moment. Everyone's eyes turned green and they shouted: "Join the gang, join the gang."

The obvious traces of old and new stacks, the stones mixed in the red bricks, and the knife marks, fire marks, and blood stains on the surface all tell the story of what happened to the two walls.

Today's gate is a temporary structure made of several ship masts as beams and wooden piles tied together to make the door. There is no time to peel off the bark of the tree.

Opening a wooden door with a red cross painted on it, Gu Ming lowered his head and got in.

After this, the pioneering team, whose intestines were filled with regret, began to try to destroy the road.

Gu Ming's eyes slid past the door that smelled of sloppiness and the circular fortifications piled with sandbags behind the door. Gu Ming looked at both sides of the door.

The gurgling blood donations flowed everywhere and gathered into a pool. The overwhelming tropical rain mosquitoes arrived one after another, greedily sucking the lunch donated by humans. Next, the rain mosquitoes flew in all directions, looking for the day's dinner nearby.

Frankly speaking, Mr. Wu really did not treat his brothers from the north in the slightest and treated them equally.

Aborigines wrapped in grass skirts, wearing masks, and covered in chalk.

Gu Ming didn't understand the technical terms, so he just asked: "Will it cost my life?"

As a result, large-scale malaria symptoms appeared. Up to now, almost everyone in Lidzuburg has suffered from malaria once or twice.

On the day when Two Hundred Heroes disembarked, the ship made three stops out of ten.

When he saw the food coming in, Mr. Gu clapped his hands and took the lead, carrying a bowl of rice, then pouring an iron spoon full of toppings on it, and eating it with a big mouthful.

"Master Gu is here to check the sentinel!"

The so-called headquarters is the only suite in the fort that is completely built with bricks and concrete materials. Needless to say, the person who sits in the headquarters is the loyal dog of the empire. I have Wu Meng and Wu Sanye, the most powerful suite in the Bund.

Gu Ming stood at the head of the bed and was in a daze for a long time.

The heroes behind them also filled their plates with rice one after another and began to eat quickly or slowly.

For a moment, the only sound left in the room was the sound of chewing.

As the core figure of Wu Sanye's team, Yusheng's current title is deputy captain and instructor. He is in charge of all the gunners in the fort, as well as the demolition personnel and demolition materials.

Suddenly, a half-grown boy squatting at the foot of the wall burst into tears for no apparent reason. While crying, he howled to Gu Ming who was sitting on the bunk: "Shopkeeper, I can't eat~"

"In general, it's okay." Dr. Ma stood up after hearing this and took Gu Ming to check the beds one by one: "This one is recovering well. The broken arm is not inflamed. He can get up after lying down for a few more days."

Scenes of tragic scenes passed in front of Gu Ming, reminding him that if he wanted to survive for two more days in this wonderful land without winter, he must first kill the natives in the dense forest opposite.

"Doctor Ma, what is this?"

Along the planned main cross road, Gu Ming smoked half a cigarette and walked to the main entrance.

It is precisely because of this that the Taihang Gang was able to go all out in the following battle and maintain the situation.

It turns out that Uncle Cao’s white rice is not that delicious.

When setting off from Guangzhou, most people gave in: it is common sense for those who come out to hang out with red tops and white people. Nowadays, the leader of Cao League is powerful, and it is not shabby to do business together. It is not just to kill a few barbarians who are not convinced by the leader.

Do you have a name? Brothers are good at this.

He took out a standard ZIPPO painted in military green from the pocket of his khaki cotton shirt, and then took out a box of unbranded military cigarettes from his trousers pocket. After lighting the cigarette, Gu Ming took a long breath and stepped away.

Legs, walk along the straight stone road towards the fort gate.

At this moment, behind the high wall, there were about twenty pioneer team members wearing the same khaki shirts and fisherman hats, standing on the bamboo frame, with muskets mounted on the top of the wall to alert the outside world.

The pioneering team suffered heavy casualties and was exhausted. They could not even finish the work of disposing of corpses required by epidemic prevention regulations, let alone the energy to cut off the circuit.

The young man named Eryaozi was trembling all over and did not answer.

The shape of the entire stone platform is an irregular quadrilateral. The first batch of builders used the red bricks and cement sent by the ship to repair the front and rear doors and some key buildings.

"What a life for that rich man?" The experiences of the past few months flashed through Gu Ming's mind like fast forward.

Such great good news, but Gu Ming smiled faintly: "Let's talk about it when we get there."

Yusheng, who has experienced more bloody battles, fully agreed: "What Mr. Gu said makes sense."

The first gate built in the early days has been torn to pieces in the fierce battle and turned into firewood.

The next moment, he reached into his arms and took out a small coffee-colored glass bottle. After shaking it, he found that only one-third of the pills were left in it. Gu Ming turned around and walked over, pouring the pills in front of Dr. Ma: "

Is this enough to save Eryao's life?"

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To be continued...