Chapter 208 Doing business is not easy
( .) The casualties statistics came out soon. The two ships sank, and the total amount of 100,000 kilograms of fine salt, 10,000 kilograms of strong liquor, and the corresponding 30,000 kilograms of daily necessities, etc., were all sunk to the bottom of the sea. ( ..)
What makes us feel most distressed is that the 385 naval soldiers who have been tempered and sank to the bottom of the sea. The blessing in disgrace is that the real top elites in the two ships all escaped desperately, including Ba Ye’s old brother Uemorino.
Such a huge loss naturally made us not feel good for the next two days.
However, there is another thing that makes us feel even worse, that is, after continuing to sail for two days, we realized that after the baptism of the storm, we had completely lost the direction we had set.
According to the navigation compass that Lao Lao had tried his best to invent, after looking at it for a long time, we found that we were not walking to the west, but drifting to a more northerly part of the Longduan Mountains.
The only thing I don’t know now is how far north is drifting to.
If you get to the opposite location of Kōnet City, it would be bad. According to Baye and his friends' exploration in Kōnet City for several months, there are ice and snow everywhere that have accumulated over the years, and you will accidentally hit a glacier.
Just as Lao Lauren ordered the leader of the "Bulgarian" to turn around, several soldiers standing near the mast suddenly started to scream wildly.
"land!"
"We see land!!"
"What a big land! Is that the Central Plains continent?!"
The two fathers who were discussing things on the board were shocked when they heard this and quickly climbed onto the mast.
My friends and I were naturally not willing to fall behind, and followed them one after another.
The upper crossbars of the two masts could only accommodate a few people, but we all squeezed on them. Anyway, they couldn't be crushed.
As we looked up, we saw small green spots in the distance, constantly emerging into our eyes.
"Master Ba. What is that?"
"That's the tall mountains of the mainland! Don't look at the fact that you are only as small as your fingers now, in fact, it is at least a thousand meters high, and it is hundreds of miles in a row!"
"Wow, that's so big!"
"It's so great! Finally, I saw the land! We can do business!"
"yeah!"
Not only were we children, but also the sailors who ran out after hearing the news, all jumped up with laughter.
After quickly sending out the flags of the land, we also heard the faint laughter and shouts from various ships. There were joy, excitement, relief, excitement, excitement, etc., and many people even cried bitterly.
But this is definitely a good thing.
The major setbacks encountered during the voyage and the low morale were completely eliminated by the surprise of discovering the mainland. What was brought to everyone's confidence and happiness full of expectations.
As we accelerated our way forward, three hours later, that is, one hour after noon, we were only five or six miles away from the mainland.
Looking at the mountains that were surrounded by invisible eyes, looking at the cliffs and clearings of varying sizes near the ocean, we were all becoming more and more excited.
"No one!"
"No one!"
The flag verbs on the two masts not only uttered flag verbs to the nearby ships, but also directly shouted at us their judgment.
Everyone's hearts fell suddenly, and their friends' faces turned even darker. Disappointment was expressed in words.
But I laughed, "Idiot! Since there is land, there will be people living in it! Even if we don't go inland, we just need to search along the coast for a while, and we will find the villages and cities where people live?"
"right!"
Master Ba smiled and said, "My son said it well, he can reach the mainland safely. That means he won most of the victory... Instead of worrying about not being able to find someone, you might as well worry that you will be so busy that you will not even take a break in a few days."
"Master Three, I am just worried that I can't make money and go home. I will never feel tired. Even if I'm so tired, we will be content." Goro flattered without any moral integrity.
"Not bad, Xiao Wuzi, you're so nice!" The Ba Master who was flattered was very comfortable, and his laughter couldn't help but become a little arrogant.
The laughter was the most infectious. Under his guidance, the mood of the people around him suddenly rose again with this beautiful expectation.
The fact is as I said. We walked all the way south and rested close to the shore for a night. We set off again in the early morning of the next day. When the sun shone in the sky in the morning, we found a small beach sandwiched between two recessed cliffs. There were dozens of stone houses about tens of meters inside. Behind the stone house was a continuous forest.
More than a dozen other small boats are casting nets to catch fish near the sea.
While we were cheering loudly, the fishing boats over there also saw us, but they were not happy, but were so scared that they all ran back to the shore. Hundreds of people ran towards the land desperately, and after a moment they had already disappeared into the forest behind the stone house.
In a short while, we were only about 200 meters away from the coast. From the environment we observed, this place is a good place to stop. There are not many hideous groups of reefs near the seabed on the coast.
Of course, if there are reef groups, there will be no small fishing boats going out to sea to catch fish. They chose this place to fish, so they naturally took a fancy to the open terrain here without any danger.
The next moment, our more than 30 leather rafts were put down. Master Ba, Dad Lauren, I took my friends and three hundred soldiers to row to the shore.
As soon as my feet stepped onto the soft beach, my friends and I screamed and knelt down.
I stayed on the sea for several days without stepping on the ground. I always felt that something was missing in my heart. Now that I have arrived ashore, I feel much more at ease.
"Haha, this place really looks like our Liuyin Harbour." Femisky smiled honestly: "There are also two concave cliffs, and behind them are also forests..."
"That's different. The harbor openings in our place are much larger than them, and the terrain is better." Zhang Zhuoqiang argued, and he sighed again: "But behind us is just a bamboo forest, not a forest... Look at the forests of others, how grand. I saw them on the boat just now, at least two or three hundred miles in a row!"
"No matter how much it does, it's not ours to live anyway." Bohan Qing raised his eyebrows: "Look at their houses and boats, they are even poorer than ours, Is there any place that is as rich as the Liuyin Harbour?"
Speaking of Liuyin Harbour, a group of people with indigenous intra-born are extremely satisfied, whether they are adults, teenagers, women, children and elderly people.
You can eat and drink enough and live in a warm house. Don’t worry about hearing the bad news of freezing to death when you wake up tomorrow morning. You can also see the continuous development and progress of Liuyin Harbour every day. This satisfaction of building your future is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary people.
After treating Liuyin Harbour as his home, Ironi's group of people supported everything about Liuyin Harbour. The last time the Hatan Army and the Tsuga Army fought from the sea, a group of people almost rushed up to fight with them. The excitement of defending the country was also not an illusion.
Everyone was resting and talking easily, waiting for the people over there to send someone to contact and inquire, and suddenly there was a loud shout.
"Kill!!"
We looked forward in surprise and saw two or three hundred cavalry suddenly rushing out of the forest. They ran out in dispersion and quickly synthesized a few strands, then shouted loudly, waved the weapons in their hands, and rushed towards us.
Originally, the forest was only two or three hundred meters away from the sea. As soon as they rushed out, the horses were getting closer and closer to us in a blink of an eye.
"Run!"
Dad Lauren quickly shouted, grabbed me and wade into the sea again, and jumped onto the raft in three or two steps.
The others were not slow to react and rushed back quickly. Fortunately, we didn't walk far away, and the raft was right beside us, otherwise where would everyone have the chance to escape?
First, a large number of people tried their best to push the raft into the sea, and then they jumped up. The people who were originally on the raft immediately used their strength and paddled into the sea with all their might.
"Swoosh!swoosh!swoosh..."
There was still a distance of about a hundred meters, so they had already put down their blades and skillfully and quickly pulled their bows and shot sharp arrows. The sharp arrows arrived in front of them in an instant.
Thanks to our usual caution, we brought weapons and shields before we got off the ship. Both of them played a role at this moment. Some people stood up and used weapons to pick sharp arrows, while others held shields for a while to cover them.
But the archery technique of these people was so accurate. After one or two rounds, casualties actually occurred on our raft. Fifteen or sixteen soldiers lost their lives in pain, and more than thirty people were shot.
The most hateful thing is that the leather raft cannot stand the attack. Many arrows shot onto the leather raft, which directly caused the leather raft to leak air and sank.
That is, in the near sea, there are no waves and the wind will not be strong, so after the raft sinks, they can still swim from the sea, run to the nearby raft, or dodge further away.
The beach on the coast is at least ten meters wide, and the horses are not smooth as they gallop, so when they rushed to the beach, we had already set a distance of more than thirty meters.
Moreover, our people have learned to be smart. After dozens of people were killed and injured, everyone jumped out of the sea and flipped the raft over, almost covering their heads. In this way, the knights' bows and arrows could not hit us directly, and the sea breeze was blowing, so their accurate heads were not so accurate at once. The distance was so close that they only shot a few people.
And if you climb on the raft, there will be no danger of sinking. It’s just like staying in the sea to train, and it’s not very uncomfortable. (You are welcome to support you, which is my greatest motivation.)
Chapter completed!