Chapter 188: Parting ways
Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the people of the foreigners retreated like a tide and abandoned fifty or sixty foreigners' bodies.
The hundreds of soldiers brought by Huang Jin also lost forty or fifty people.
Fortunately, except for a few people who were injured, most of the Chinese merchants on this trip were safe and sound.
The archers of the French people who were ambushing in the rain forest also evacuated. It seemed that the size of the French people who were ambushing them was only about one or two hundred.
Seeing that the sneak attack failed, he naturally chose to retreat.
"Where are so many soldiers from Dongpu's territory?"
Seeing that there were only four or five cavalrymen around him, Huang Jin whistled to the sky.
This is his subordinates whom he fought desperately from Guangdong and Guangxi to Annan.
It took a lot of money to raise these more than 30 servants, which can be said to be the foundation for his reliance on Meidi.
This trip brought half of it, but ten people lost halfway.
The baggage convoy guarding the rear and the soldiers of the Chinese merchants suffered heavy casualties.
Many soldiers robbed silver and were directly nailed to the ground by the foreigners' arrow clusters.
Huang Jin didn't care about the number of casualties caused by these soldiers brought by Meidi. He died and continued to recruit them from the local Han people.
As long as you have money and food, where can you not recruit soldiers?
But what really surprised Huang Jin was that the soldiers guarding the rear had already suffered all casualties in the cluster of arrows of the foreigners.
The more than 30 Ming soldiers guarding the rear actually repelled the attacks of fifty or sixty foreigners.
The people of the foreigners also abandoned twenty or thirty bodies.
Let’s look at the wise guards, except for some of them being injured by the foreign arrow clusters, they were basically unscathed.
On my side, ten people were lost to their servants.
"This firearm is very powerful." Huang Jin couldn't help but admire this.
Before, he thought that Mingren's firearm was just a fire stick, but who would have thought it would be such a powerful weapon?
"Mr. Huang, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time. Tighten up the packing of things and count the wounded and leave as soon as possible." Lin Xu rushed over and looked at the corpses and the wailing wounded soldiers on the ground.
After this battle, more than 40 soldiers were damaged and more than 20 wounded soldiers were also damaged.
To this end, the Ming army officers and soldiers specially cleared out four or five carriages.
The goods on the car were naturally carried by the Chinese merchants themselves.
Since most of the mule and donkey escaped before, the Ming people could only push the cart himself.
As a result, the speed of travel will naturally decrease a lot.
Fortunately, I have never been attacked by other people along the way.
After walking for about an hour, the group finally arrived at the next village.
But what was surprising was that all the people in the village had been emptied.
The huge village was empty, and even the chickens, ducks and other livestock inside the fences were missing.
I guess I moved early because I learned about the arrival of the foreigner.
The only good news is that the village was not destroyed, which gave the group a good place to stay.
After arriving in the village, everyone rested on the spot.
The soldiers carried down the seriously injured soldiers on the carriage.
During the bumps of more than an hour, four or five seriously injured soldiers were breathing.
And the remaining seven or eight people were already unconscious and probably couldn't survive.
The Ming Shang took out some herbs from the carriage and gave them to some wounded soldiers.
"Shui, water..." A wounded soldier was lifted from the carriage by several soldiers. The severe pain of the wounds woke him up, and his mouth kept murmuring.
The soldiers on the side hurried over and handed him a bowl of water.
After taking a few sips desperately, he seemed to be choking and coughing constantly. Finally, he coughed up a few sips of old blood and fainted.
"I didn't expect that Zhenla's life action was so fast. Mingren in Dongpu was in a bad situation." Brother Ding silently looked at the wailing wounded soldiers in front of him.
"The merchants in Minghai still want to continue moving forward." Lin Xu looked at the Huashang Road where he was resting.
Under the desperate escort of the Ming army, the more than 20 Chinese merchants on this trip were fine.
Ding Ge smiled bitterly, "Many of these merchants have been under the Spanish water prison. The Ming court exchanged them from Manila. If they were scared by just a few fans, they would not come here."
"But it's hard to say about those beautiful soldiers." Brother Ding pointed to Huang Jin in the distance.
At this time, Huang Jin was also in trouble. Looking at the wounded soldiers all over the ground and looking at the only four or five servants left beside him, he regretted taking this job.
There are more than 60 soldiers he brought with him, half of whom were injured.
In the wetlands like Annan, wounds are prone to ulceration and infection without treatment. Even the Ming Shang, who accompanied him, took out a lot of herbs and personally treated the wounds for these soldiers.
But more than half of the wounded soldiers fell down.
"I guess the arrows of these people were all poisoned, and the wounded soldiers forced themselves to run for more than an hour." A accompanying medical officer shook his head, and he had no good idea.
People in the Nanyang area are good at using poisonous arrows, so there is no way for medical officers to be injured, and they can only depend on their own luck.
Fortunately, only a few more than a dozen people were injured in the wounded soldiers, most of whom were seriously injured, and most of them were in their dying state at this moment.
"Sir, it seems that Dongpu has been occupied by the people of Zhenla. Let's go back to Meidi!" A servant said with a pale face and said.
There were so many soldiers suddenly appearing on the territory of Dongpu. He should return to Midi immediately to notify Yang Yandi instead of moving forward.
Huang Jin was also in a difficult situation at this moment. Yang Yandi ordered him to escort Ming Shang to Dongpu to meet Chen Shangchuan, but now he has arrived in Dongpu. But who would have thought that he would meet the foreigners of Zhen La? If he wanted to continue moving forward, he would meet more foreigners along the way. At that time, he would be trapped here based on these people.
Huang Jin naturally wanted to go back, let alone him, the remaining soldiers were scared and were unwilling to move forward if they were beaten to death.
"Master Lin." Huang Jin walked forward and bowed to Lin Xu.
"Mr. Yang ordered me to escort Chinese merchants to the Dongpu area. Now we have escorted Chinese merchants to Dongpu, and we should return to Meihuo."
Lin Xu and Brother Ding looked at each other and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that Dongpu's territory would encounter a life fan. It's okay, Lord Huang would take his soldiers back as soon as possible."
Since these Meidi soldiers wanted to run away, Lin Xu couldn't dissuade them. After all, they had indeed sent the Chinese merchants to Dongpu, and the next journey was only up to them.
"Then these wounded people." Brother Ding asked.
Huang Jin gritted his teeth, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, "Those who can walk will naturally walk, and those who can't move will naturally help."
After saying that, Huang Jin left without looking back, and several guards followed closely behind.
The group rested in the village for a night, and parted ways the next day.
Huang Jin fled in a panic early in the morning with more than 40 soldiers.
The wounded soldiers who could move naturally left with them, while the wounded soldiers who really couldn't move were simply killed.
Before the soldiers escaped, they did not forget to look at the carriages next to them with their greedy eyes, but the Ming army guards were beside them. Looking at these Ming people like Rakshasa, these soldiers did not dare to do anything.
Chapter completed!