Cao Bianjiao and others hurriedly returned to the town from the fortress and found that the residents in the town were gathered at the entrance of the town, surrounding hunters returning from the mountains and forests.

"While they were hunting, they met an indigenous person. A hunter was injured by a stone and his scalp was broken!" When Cao Bianjiao and others arrived, a town citizen said to them.

"Did you meet an indigenous tribe? How many of them are there?" Cao Bianjiao looked solemn. When Jinshan Town was first established, it was very lacking in manpower. He also wanted to capture a group of people from primitive tribes to build villages and towns and cultivate farmland. However, it seemed that the surrounding indigenous tribes did not dare to provoke colonies on their own initiative, and lived in foothills and canyons with more prey, so Cao Bianjiao and others had never found an indigenous tribe.

Now Jinshan Town is self-sufficient, but it is not short of manpower. It will only require more labor unless it needs to export food, fur and mines to the mainland in the future.

"They had more than a dozen people who attacked us from behind. When we found out, it was too late. Fortunately, they did not have iron tools, otherwise we would probably not be alone. "The captain of the hunting team was still scared.

Suddenly being attacked by someone in the jungle made a cold sweat behind her back.

Cao Bianjiao has a deep understanding of this. He once served as the temporary commander of the corps and participated in the South China Sea War. The local tropical jungle was even more terrifying. Moreover, indigenous countries in Southeast Asia learned iron smelting technology from the Central Plains, and once purchased artillery from the Portuguese and the Netherlands. It was a painful and terrible thing to fight these indigenous people in the jungle. Once there was a skin injury in the tropical rainforest, it almost meant death. The high temperature of the tropical rainforest allowed bacteria to grow rapidly. Bacterial infection and tropical malaria are the difficult problems faced by the defenders, security forces, and the South China Sea fleet currently stationed in the South China Sea.

"If possible, try not to conflict with these people in the mountains and forests." Zheng Zhihu also participated in the war to annex the Nanyang stronghold in the Navy, knowing the dangers.

"Where are you going to hunt?" Cao Bianjiao asked.

"We saw that there were no large beasts around us, so a dozen people marched along the river to see if there were any wild boars and elks. Unexpectedly, we were suddenly attacked by primitive people. There was mist in the mountains and forests in the early morning, and we couldn't see how many people there were. After we used muskets to shoot them, they dispersed." said a hunter.

Cao Bianjiao and Zheng Zhihu looked at each other. According to the information, the indigenous people here have formed a clan society. Since there are indigenous people attacking the hunting team, it seems that there are indigenous tribes in the middle and upper reaches of the river where they are looking for gold mines.

"How is his injury?" Cao Bianjiao squatted down and asked Li Yizhu who was rescuing the wounded.

"He has used alcohol to disinfect his wounds, and the debris in the wounds have been cleaned up and ready to bandage them. But it does not mean that there is no danger of being infected by bacteria. It has been a while since he was injured, and the bandage is not sterile... Whether he can survive depends on whether he will have a high fever in the next place and whether he can hold on." Li Yizhu said cautiously, "It is best not to be injured. Being injured in such a place means walking to the gate of hell."

Because of the discovery of traces of the indigenous tribes and the injury of some people, the villagers of Jinshan Town were in a considerable panic. The sound of the horn just now had alarmed everyone.

"I wonder if the savages will find our town. If they break into our town under the darkness of the night, we might be killed!"

"A considerable part of our farmland is far away from the town. Will we encounter them when we go to farm work? What should we do if they attack us with weapons?"

"You're just fishing. You won't encounter savages on the river, right?"

"This is hard to say. If those savages attack us on bamboo rafts, we will be miserable."

The townspeople were worried. Their technology was much more advanced than the indigenous tribes near the Sacramento River Basin, but the other party was unknown, and the unknown often made people frightened. Even if they could be repelled, if they were injured in conflict, the wounds would easily become infected and suppurated, and the mortality rate was very high in this era. Unless they were at the height of Cao Bianjiao and Zheng Zhihu, they had to consider plundering labor. Ordinary farmers and hunters believed that they could obtain food and be self-sufficient with their own strength.

"It should be that our hunting team entered the hunting range of their indigenous tribes. The indigenous tribes thought that our hunting team had snatched their prey, so they attacked the hunting team..." Zheng Zhihu speculated.

"I have the same view as you. They make a living by fishing and hunting. A tribe needs vast mountains and forests to support so many people. We can quickly produce a large amount of food with farmland. For us, the hunting team is just to obtain meat and improve food. Our staple food is wheat." Cao Bianjiao agreed with Zheng Zhihu's idea.

"We should retaliate against them. They have injured our people, and we want to take revenge!" said the hunting team members.

Zheng Zhihu and Cao Bianjiao exchanged their eyes and shook their heads gently.

It is not the time to launch a war of conquest. The military headquarters funded this 500-man expedition team from Tianjin Weizhi Edo Castle, risking burying the sea. They needed to reclaim the land here for three years before they could return to the mainland in batches. During this period, every life was extremely precious, and unless it was necessary, there was no reason to waste precious lives and start a war. Moreover, the other tribe did not know where the mountains and forests were in the forest. It is estimated that more people died of snakes, insects, diseases and swamps on the way than those who died in real battles.

Currently, several people have died during the voyage of the North American expedition. After coming to San Francisco Bay, more than a dozen people have become ill or attacked by wild animals. They have fallen into the valley while opening farms and hunting, and fall into a swamp and die. They are short of people and cannot bear more losses.

"We have swords, muskets, and even a few cannons on large ships. The natives who only use stones are behind us than in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, so we don't have to be too scared!" Cao Bianjiao calmed everyone's emotions, "As long as we don't take the initiative to break into the mountains and forests and deep in the canyons, they will not pose a threat to us! Seeing that there are no fortresses at high places, our sentinels will always observe whether there are enemies invading our town. If they really dare to attack our town, we will use muskets to teach them a lesson!"
Chapter completed!