Li Mingxun did not explain to Baron, but took him to a smoky blacksmith shop next to the camp. Baron felt heat gushing out from the brick and stone building, and there were three burning stoves inside, as well as some casting molds. Several craftsmen and more than a dozen apprentices were working. The blacksmith waved the hammer and the apprentice pulled the bellows hard.

There are more than a dozen log shelves in the shop, full of weapons and farm tools, among which weapons account for the vast majority, but there are only two types: one is the forged sword strip and the other is the spearhead. On the side, several young craftsmen are opening the edges for these two weapons. As the grinding wheel rotates, the air is full of sparks and harsh sounds. Li Mingxun took two completely manufactured weapons and left the stinking blacksmith shop.

Now Li Mingxun's blacksmith workshop can only make two weapons: straight sword and spear. After all, the craftsmen collected by various means have only made farm tools before. At this time, several guards brought a few large baskets, all of which were made of green vines, including vine helmets and rattan cards. The vine helmets were covered with deer skin, and the rattan cards were covered with two layers of cowhide.

Li Mingxun waved his hand, and the two guards put on protective gear and picked up weapons. Li Mingxun said: "Balon, your two hundred people should be divided into two teams. Use the spear throwing team to be listed as the spear throwing team. The spear throwing team is good at fighting. The spear throwing team is wearing leather armor, equipped with spear throwing and stone throwing ropes, while the spear throwing team wears a vine helmet, equipped with rattan cards, iron armor, and holding a straight knife."

Baron looked at Lee Myung-hoon in disbelief. He didn't think the relationship between the two sides was so good that this guy could invest so many resources. He scratched his head and said, "This is too troublesome. My soldiers may not use it."

Li Mingxun said: "You should know that the difference between these equipment and those without these equipment. I invite you to fight is not to let the people from the Huweilong Society die. You have hunted the Red Maverick Yi and know how good the equipment of these outsiders is."

Baron nodded slightly, took a rattan helmet and wore it on his head. The soft deer skin was close to the scalp, which was very fitting. The rattan card was a little different. The natives also had rattan cards, which were usually round, but this rattan card was rectangular, more than four feet long and only two feet wide. However, the covered old cowhide was very tough, and ordinary weapons might not be able to break.

The sharp shining sword Baron has tried it a long time ago. He has also bought some of them in the previous trades. Killing people in the last few times is very suitable, but it is not suitable for hunting. Therefore, many hunters do not like it. The throwing spear is very sharp and has never been bought in the past. He lifted a throwing spear and weighed it. He felt that the weight was appropriate. He threw it hard, and the throwing spear flew out, pierced the air, and inserted it on a big tree thirty steps away. Most of the sharp spear tips were inserted into the trunk of the tree, and the bark around him also exploded. He pulled it out hard and looked at it. He didn't quite understand why there was a two-foot-long iron wrap between the spear pole and the spear tip.

In fact, this was originally a spear created by Li Mingxun for the spear team, so he had to use it as an emergency first. After all, with the qualities of the soldiers of the Huwei Long Society, it was impossible to form discipline within half a month. The most important thing is that the purpose this time was to seize the ship, not to fight head-on with the Spaniards.

"Okay, I will select the soldiers and make them familiar with these weapons within half a month." Baron said seriously.

Li Mingxun shook his head slightly and said, "Balon, training is not just that simple. I also need them to conduct technical and tactical training. Come with me."

Baron first arranged for people to distribute the weapons to the soldiers, and asked Li Mingxun to come out to teach them how to wear them. He followed Li Mingxun to Budai Port. Because there was not enough manpower, the salt fields here had not been dug yet. He just built a wharf between the cape and the inner port, and there was a lookout on the cape to prevent it from being seen by people outside.

In the sea on the side of the pier stands a tall building made of logs. It seems to be a wall, twenty feet long and five feet tall, with two rows of windows up and down on the wall. Baron immediately felt that it seemed like the "Devil City on the Sea" that Hongmao Yi saw back then. Of course, now he knows that those things that can spit out flames and iron balls are Hongmao Yi's warships.

The bulwark in front of him was built by Li Mingxun. After Baron's soldiers adapted to the new weapons, they had to practice how to invade the inside of the San Juan. The spear throwing team and the gunmen under Li Mingxun also had to practice backfire and suppress the convex gunmen on the deck of the San Juan and the stern stairs.

Li Mingxun briefly explained the function of this simple bulwark to Baron, but Baron fell into deep thought. He was silent for a while and asked, "Shopkeeper Li, you want to seize a warship."

Li Mingxun could not deny this, nor did he want to deny it. The difficulty was to persuade Baron and the soldiers of Huweilong Society to cooperate. After all, his purpose was not simply to seize the San Juan, because there were not many people under his command ever boarding the Taisie ship. Even if he gave him a Garen ship, his sailors could not operate it. For Li Mingxun, the best result was to occupy the San Juan and subdue the people above, at least half of the people.

However, this is inconsistent with the Huweilong Society, and the purpose of this village community is to kill all outsiders.

Baron finally realized that this matter was not that simple. Li Mingxun said: "I know that your Huweilong Society has a deep blood revenge with outsiders and wants to kill all outsiders to avenge. But Baron, you have to know that outsiders have not only muskets, but they also have cannons, castles and warships. If you want to take revenge completely, you can only have greater power, at least not weaker than them. Therefore, we also need cannons, castles and warships. Not only have them, but also learn to use them. In the initial stage, we can only learn from these outsiders."

Seeing that Baron didn't speak, Li Mingxun asked again: "Balon, do you want to live in revenge for the rest of your life? Have you never thought about defeating outsiders? As a warrior and leader, shouldn't you seek a better life for your tribe and open up more hunting grounds?"

Baron suddenly raised his head and said, "What you are talking about is my lifelong dream, but Manager Li, after this success, the warships, cannons and muskets belong to you. What does our Huweilong Society get? Do you only get the remains of the warrior and the head of the Red Mahogany?"

Lee Mingxun was stunned. He never thought that Baron's thoughts had changed so quickly. Although this guy was too ambitious, it was much better than ignorance and stubbornness. Lee Mingxun laughed and said, "We are friends, Tenglong Trading Club and Huweilong Club are also allies, aren't we? We have common interests, common enemies, what's the difference between warships in my hands and in your hands?"

Baron's face was a little serious and he said seriously: "Shopkeeper Li, you are Baron's true friend, but you have to know that in the Huweilong Society, revenge on the enemy is the most important thing."

After hearing this, Li Mingxun's face changed drastically. He would rather take his own people to take risks than bring such a group of barbarians who do not obey orders. But Baron said again: "This time I will make an exception, I will listen to you, but I will never do it in the future."

Although he hated Baron's arrogance, he still had to rely on Baron now, so Li Mingxun had to choose to compromise temporarily. Fortunately, Baron accepted the situation in front of him. After the two discussed, Li Mingxun had to agree to Baron's two conditions. The first was that this time he went to fight, and the Huweilong Club had to bring back eighty heads to show off his martial arts. The second was that when the soldiers of the Huweilong Club died over Hongmaoyi, Li Mingxun had to kill some Hongmaoyi and pay the same life to pay homage to the dead warriors.

Li Mingxun chose to agree to both conditions. After all, he wanted to implement them and it was only after he successfully went to the battle. However, he was a little confused about why Baron proposed this condition. It was not until he had close contact with the Huweilong Society that Li Mingxun learned the real reason.

Convincing Baron did not mean convincing the native barbarians of the Huwei Long Society. These guys were bloodthirsty and how to make their subordinates show mercy made Li Mingxun a little worried. In the end, he had to compromise and eventually divided the people on the ship into two types.

One is the sailor and the gunner, which is the person Li Mingxun wants. It hurts even if you lose one. As for the other people on the ship, the officers and the soldiers on the ship, they are Spanish military and technical divisions. They are not very useful to Li Mingxun and are also the most stubborn resistance force. It is better to eliminate them.

What distinguishes the two types of people is the weapons they hold and their outfits. Needless to say, the clamp gun is the target of attack, and on the one hand, Li Mingxun portrays the sailors as the underclass who were squeezed and from poor slaves to gain the sympathy of the natives.

After half a month of training, this small-scale army finally came out. All three ships of the trading company were conquered. The soldiers and sailors brought buckets of salted fish and bags of hard-dough cakes onto the ship. Of course, their favorite soju was indispensable in the supplies.

The Yongjin and the two bird ships have different missions. The wide cabin of the Yongjin is mainly used as a troop transport ship, while the supplies are placed on a bird ship. The two ships are arranged into a small fleet, while Song Laoqi drove another bird ship in front as a reconnaissance and alert to avoid encountering the Spanish patrol ship.

At the end of March, the southeast monsoon had already started, and the three ships took back the anchor chains, sails swaying, and they were sequentially showing Budai Port and heading north. Li Mingxun would not foolishly take the three ships straight to Jilong Port. After all, the investigation a month ago had awakened the Spanish defenders of Jilong Port, but the Spanish would never have thought that an army would attack them from the shore.

However, the small army under Li Mingxun included two hundred soldiers of the Huwei Longshe, fifty gun team and as many as seventy volunteers recruited from sailors and craftsmen. The total number exceeded three hundred. How to make this army appear behind the Spanish without anyone noticing is a big problem.

Obviously, the fleet cannot be too close to Jilong Port, otherwise it may be caught by the Spanish patrol boats, but it cannot be too far away. Otherwise, how to replenish 320 people will become a big problem. Of course, there is not a definite and easy-to-replenish road, that is, go east along the Tamsui River and turn back to Jilong River. This is a road that the Spaniards have long explored, but this waterway penetrates the northeastern area of ​​Taiwan, where dozens of villages and communities are there, and they belong to two different ethnic groups. Obviously, this is not easy to pass.

Li Mingxun needed to find a suitable mooring point that could not only avoid storms but not be seen by the Spaniards. This mooring point also needed to have safe Danshui. After the fleet sailed for two days to reach the mouth of the Tamsui River, everyone was on guard. After all, the Spaniards once built a castle here, and to the north they were once their sphere of influence.

Li Mingxun asked Baron and Song Laoqi to drive the indigenous canoes respectively to open the road in front of them. Even if the Spaniards saw it, they would not pay attention. Three days later, they finally found a suitable place, which was a huge bay. In the bay, a narrow and long headland blocked the view of people outside. After investigation, the water inside was twenty meters deep and three boats were moored.

The bay explored northward into the ridge of the sea, which looked like a turtle's head. After relocating the soldiers and ships, Li Mingxun led ten people to explore the nearby areas. In the narrowest place of the six places that explored the sea, a rocky desert beach appeared, and a strange stone attracted everyone's attention. In Ah Hai's words, the stone looked like a Thai lady he had seen in Dayuan Port, and Li Mingxun recognized at a glance that this huge stone was the Queen's Head, a famous tourist attraction in Taiwan, and that strange mountain was ** Mountain.

In this regard, Li Mingxun judged that the straight-line distance from Jilong Port is not more than twenty miles away. Even if you cross mountains and ridges, it will only take two days to go.

Li Mingxun handed over the brigade of troops to Song Laoqi and Balong and rested on the spot. After all, the native soldiers of the Huweilong Society were still in a state of seasickness. He and Gao Feng led a scout team of about twenty people out, crossed the messy beach and entered the deep forest, and there was no more road.

Walking on the newly opened road, Li Mingxun kept leaving signs with his flags. They sailed along the coastline, but their footprints were in the woods to prevent being seen by Spanish spinning boats that might appear on the sea. There were endless jungles along the way, with not many tropical trees, but there were pine and elm trees gradually increasing. Everything here seemed to have no one disturbed for thousands of years. It was not until a big river that was two hundred steps wide that Li Mingxun realized that he might be by the Jiluo River.

Soon, the scout found a village, but the huts and fences were burned down. Several burned bodies were hung on the flagpole in the village. It seemed that they had been dead for a long time. Obviously, this was caused by the tyranny of the Spanish. After Japan locked the country and refused to trade with Spain, Taiwan became a useless place. Jilong Port was just a stronghold and port. The Spanish no longer carried out island development, so naturally they were not worried about fishing out of the pond.
Chapter completed!