Chapter 1362 The Traces of the Evil Spirit Disappeared in the Deep Sea
"Praise the Lord Huitzilopochtli! He is the highest and greatest, from the jungles of the plateau to the hot islands, his divine power is omnipotent!..."
"Fight for God, die for God! Kill! Kill! Roar! Roar!..."
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!"
The array of three hundred kingdom warriors and the cannons of six galleys brought an unparalleled shock to the Taino tribe of Havana! This was a murderous aura that they could not imagine, and it was also a warrior army they had never seen before. And the two thousand men of the tribe, in front of these three hundred warriors, were as fragile as turkeys in front of wolves, and like tomatoes in front of Hutia rats, which could be easily eaten...
"Good, good! The divine power of the Lord really made the people of the tribe come to him!..."
After this magnificent ceremony, the tribal elders of the tribes in Havana finally bowed their heads and chose to convert to the Lord. Although they knew the strength of the Longboat Tribe, this was the first time they actually saw the "army" of 300 Kingdom warriors. Because, before this batch of reinforcements arrived, the Kingdom's main force on the hot land of Cuba totaled only 600 to 700 people, and was mainly concentrated in the Cuban snakeheads in the east. In other words, this was the first time that the Kingdom's army showed its irresistible strength in front of the elders of the Havana tribes!
"Big Bannerman Kopili! The Havana tribes are very important in Cuba. Chief Priest Tomat may have given me the right to make decisions on the spot... and leave two warrior squads and 40 Kingdom warriors to assist the Lord God in preaching in the Havana tribes!... Don't worry! Their food, clothing, housing, marriage and home are all covered by me!..."
Before the fleet continued to travel east, the Taixing priest detained 40 Kingdom warriors to consolidate the hard-won Lord God faith of the Havana tribes. Kopili had no objection, as these supporting warriors were originally to be assigned to the Cuban tribes. And the location of the Havana tribe was indeed worth garrisoning. Moreover, with the status of the Taixing priest himself and his relative, the Taixier priest, in the Black Wolf Corps, it is worth making friends with them…
"May the Lord God bless you! Taixing priest, I will leave a ship and fifty warriors for you! Please help me supply the remaining ships, and tomorrow morning, the fleet will continue to travel east!…"
From Havana to the east, the entire central Cuba is relatively flat and suitable for development. Although there are many tidal flats and swamps, as long as the canals are built, there is the potential to turn into thousands of acres of fertile fields! The 600,000 Taino tribes in Cuba are far from reaching one-tenth of the limit of this rich island...
The fleet traveled two hundred miles east and arrived at the Taino people's Jinghe tribe, and left ten kingdom warriors here to cooperate with the local Lord God priest's missionary work.
The products of the Jinghe tribe are mediocre. There is a gold mine by the pond in the southwest of the tribe. Some elders in the tribe also have small gold ornaments handed down by their ancestors. This is probably one of the only two or three gold-producing areas on the island of Cuba, which is rich in minerals and has copper, iron, chromium and nickel. And such a small and barren gold mine, with the tribe's manpower working hard for a year, at most they can only dig and smelt hundreds of kilograms of gold sand... The kingdom has no interest in this at all. Instead of wasting time on barren gold mines, it is better to plant more high-yield cassava fields!
Three hundred miles east of the Jinghe tribe is the Yanbin tribe. As the name suggests, there are natural offshore salt fields here, which can easily boil less toxic sea salt. For such a valuable tribe, the kingdom will pay much more attention to it and has already included the Yanbin tribe in the arms of the main god! At the request of the local priests, the support fleet left a full team of 20 garrisoned kingdom warriors to help train the Taino militia. Well, the salt-producing tribe is definitely more valuable than the gold-producing tribe, there is no doubt about it!
More than 300 miles east of the Yanbin tribe is the Gabi tribe, which has 4,000 to 5,000 people in the middle of the Cuban Snake Island. To the west of the Gabi tribe is Western Cuba, and to the east is Eastern Cuba. The Taino tribe located in the middle has not yet completely converted to the Lord God due to insufficient missionary influence.
The local preaching priest Kelyan has just been preaching in the tribe for more than half a year. Seeing the supporting warrior fleet, he was naturally full of joy. He eagerly grabbed the warrior captain Copili and insisted on leaving 20 kingdom warriors! And the reason he gave was also very simple, enough to make Copili pay attention...
That is, a large copper mine was discovered in the south of the Gabi tribe, and a small tin mine a little further southeast of the Gabi tribe!
Copper mines plus tin mines are undoubtedly equivalent to the future bronze smelting center. In the Mexican plateau and Mayan jungle, copper mines are hard to find for thousands of miles, and iron mines are even rarer for thousands of miles. But on this Cuban Snake Island, there are copper mines almost everywhere, and there is also the amazing Mayari Iron Mine! The world created by the gods is indeed biased...
No, the reason why there are so many rich mines on the Snake Island in Cuba must be what the divine prophecy said. Quetzalcoatl fell and died here, his body turned into Snake Island, and his bones turned into mines!
"Hoo! God bless you!... Priest Kel Salt, then I will leave 20 warriors and a long ship here!... Please draw a signature board with 20 little people on it... so that I can report to the Chief Priest Tomat!"
"Okay, great! I will sign and draw for you now!..."
The kingdom's government order system is always so simple and unpretentious. The vast majority of samurai officers were illiterate and used easy-to-understand traditional simple drawings to hand over military affairs. After Copili carried the planks given by the four priests along the way, only two hundred of the three hundred warriors who supported the fleet were left. The fleet is still only a thousand miles away from its destination, the town of Iron Bay, a snakehead in eastern Cuba. But just before they set sail again, they happened to encounter a fast sailing ship, flying the hummingbird flag of the Lord God, returning from patrol in the Bahamas Islands in the north!
"Hiss! God bless you! This is the demon longship captured by the kingdom? There are so many complicated sails, no sailors are needed to sail, and it is as fast as the wind?!... Huh? Damn it! Why are there two white-skinned demons on the boat? ?”
"Yes! This is the longship of the evil devil... Ah! Kopili, put down the battle axe! That is the white-skinned tribe that has converted from evil and converted to the main god!... They are all outstanding craftsmen from the East China Sea, with special skills from the East China Sea. They are The chief priest of Tomat personally purifies and converts the important believers of the Lord God!…”
Seeing the group of fierce "Sipangu Warriors" appear, and seeing the "Warrior Leader" raising his battle axe, Boatswain Bartomelo and Sailor Operator Gonzalo looked at each other and gasped! They quickly raised the hummingbird amulets in their hands and chanted the name of the Lord God loudly.
"Ah! Praise be to the Holy Father of Huitziloppo! Praise be to the Holy Spirit of Huitziloppo!..."
"Are they a white-skinned tribe that has converted to the Lord God?"
Copili squinted his eyes, hesitated for a while, and then slowly lowered the battle ax in his hand. He looked at the "Pingta", oh no, it was the "Huitu" big ship named by Huitu himself, and the captain of the Kingdom who drove this big ship was none other than Huitu's close confidant, Tai Falcon, a warrior from Prepecha.
"God bless you! Captain Tai Falcon, we are the three hundred warriors sent by the commander of the Black Wolf Army to support the hot land of Cuba and fight against the invading evil spirits! Well, there are a hundred people stationed in the tribes along the way, and now there are still two hundred good warriors... you Is it a patrol boat from Tiewan Town? Have you found any traces of the demon?…"
"Ah, the Lord God bless you! Your Majesty bless you!..."
Captain Tai Falcon prayed devoutly for a few words before sighing and pointing to the north. To the north is the vast sea, and behind that sea are the Bahamas Islands, which have just been discovered by caravels, and the Florida Peninsula extending to the south, a barren land full of swamps, floods, and dense forests...
"We have been searching in the north for more than three months, and we have indeed found the traces left by the evil spirits... After they were defeated last year, they originally fled to the islands in the north and arrived at what the local Taino tribe said was 'big, good and beautiful'. The big island in the middle is the Bahamas! In fact, they arrived there first before heading south to the hot land of Cuba..."
"They deceived the trust of the local tribes, erected a wooden cross of the evil god, repaired it in the Bahamas for a month or two, and repaired the 'extremely large ship'... Then, they actually kidnapped the men of more than a dozen tribes. , including the grandson of the old chief, raised the three-masted sail and went straight to the depths of the East Sea..."
"After learning all this, we immediately revealed the true face of the white-skinned demon to the local Taino tribe! We told them the demon's greed, cruelty, ferocity, and endless greed for gold... It's just that those island tribes are too loose. They also have a docile and peaceful temperament and lack of metal weapons... If they encounter the demon's fleet again, even if it is just one or two ships, I am afraid they still won't be able to resist. The best they can do is avoid and run away..."
"Then, while visiting various islands and preaching the evil of the demons, we followed the supply traces of the demons to the end of the archipelago... There is no doubt that they sailed into the depths of the vast sea and returned to their tribal nests on the other side of the sea. ! And the distance to that nest is probably tens of thousands of miles, and it would take a speedboat two or three months to reach it..."
"Hey! This group of evil demon scouts has left and brought back information about the hot land of Cuba... I'm afraid the next batch of evil demon troops have already begun to gather! I don't know when and where they will appear?... I hope The Lord God bless Cuba and all the brothers of the islands!