Hou Fangyu, who came with the army, looked at the mountains of gold sand and gold nuggets piled up in the barracks and was delighted: I have made a fortune! There are so many gold, even if everyone has divided it equally. And there must be gold mines nearby, otherwise where did the gold from those natives come from?

But then I thought about it and I was already a useless person. What's the point of having no amount of gold? Anyway, even if I have a mountain of gold and silver in the future, women will have nothing to do with me.

Just as Hou Fangyu was thinking about it, Fang Qiyi walked in: "Young Master Hou, you have a lot of books. There must be gold mines nearby. Can you find the location of the gold mine?"

Hou Fangyu said: "I'll try it. Let's look up along several streams and find where the gold mine is."

Afterwards, Hou Fangyu brought a group of people to the edge of the stream and went upstream along the stream. Every time he walked a distance, he asked someone to go to the stream to fill the sand with rice sieve. After screening for a few times, he sifted away the sand on the rice sieve, but he didn't see a grain of gold sand. After screening several times, he finally found two grains of gold sand.

"Let's go upwards. There is gold in this stream, but there is too little. But I can be sure that there must be a big gold mine upstream." Hou Fangyu said.

Hou Fangyu, with five gold miners and twenty mercenaries holding self-produced muskets, walked up the stream and walked for a long time. The stream broke into two streams in front. Hou Fangyu led his men to search for a while along a stream and found that the sand in the stream had no gold, so he went up another stream to search and found that gold sand flowed down from the upstream.

But after walking up the stream with golden sand flowing down less than ten miles, the indigenous Shengfan was blocked in front of him.

I saw a large group of short, disheveled hair, dark skin, various patterns tattooed on their bodies, and human bone necklaces hanging around their necks screaming and rushed towards Hou Fangyu and the mercenaries.

"Quick! Retreat and shoot!" Hou Fangyu shouted.

"Bang bang bang" The Dutch-made flintlock spit out the tongue of flames, and white smoke filled the air.

The six natives rushing in front screamed and fell down. The natives behind were obviously shocked by the fire-breathing tubes, and they were so scared that they fled in all directions.

But Hou Fangyu did not dare to move forward rashly. After all, the number of natives here is unknown. The stream ahead flows out of the dense forest. It is not clear about the situation ahead. I am worried that the rash advance will be ambushed, so Hou Fangyu ordered the withdrawal of troops back to the barracks.

After returning to the military camp, Hou Fangyu told Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi: "I have found a stream leading to the gold mine, but I have only twenty soldiers around me. There are many kinds of food and life in front of me, so I dare not move forward rashly, so I come back first, and wait for us to concentrate our people and explore the road ahead and find the gold mine before talking about it."

The next morning, Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi brought their eighteen servants and five hundred mercenaries, and from Hou Fangyu, five miners, more than one hundred local Han people and more than one hundred local native guides, upstream along the stream that they had been to yesterday and ventured upstream.

Following the stream flowing down the golden sand, we explored all the way upstream. Halfway, the local native Shengfan emerged from the jungle attacked the expedition team, but under the attack of the expedition team's flintlock rifle, bird gun, turtledove gun, strong crossbow and strong bow, the local native Shengfan dropped more than fifty corpses and fled in all directions.

After a whole day of exploration, the source of the golden sand was not found. So the expedition team set up camp by the stream that night. That night, the natives attacked again, but were discovered by the mercenaries on duty at night. They awakened their companions and faced the incoming natives.

After a night of fierce fighting, the invading native Shengfan left more than a hundred corpses and retreated in a panic.

The expedition team walked for four days and four nights and finally found the source of the golden sand. There, Hou Fangyu discovered a large gold mine. Although there were more than 2,000 natives guarding the gold mine, five hundred mercenaries launched an attack, and more than 2,000 natives could not resist it. In a flash, more than 600 people were massacred, and the rest fled one after another.

Although a large gold mine was discovered, Fang Qiyi and Sun Lin were suffering from too few people at hand, so things were still difficult to handle.

If the defense of gold mines is strengthened, it is not a solution at all. If the local natives come to harass each day, the miners will not be able to work with peace of mind. Moreover, people will always be tired and cannot be able to guard against thieves for thousands of days.

If you want to defend the gold mine, the best way is to eliminate future troubles forever.

The best way to eliminate future troubles is to slaughter the local cannibalism as much as possible and destroy their tribes one by one.

"Although our weapons are much better than them, there are dense jungles. It is probably not easy to find all the ogre tribes one by one." Sun Lin said.

"It seems that we only need 500 mercenaries, but there are still too few." Fang Qiyi said.

Sun Lin thought of a solution: "We can dig trenches around the gold mine to build wooden fences. After the camp is completed, all the bird gunmen will stay and station in the gold mine. If there are camps to block it, no matter how many natives can break through our camp. All the archers, knives, slingers and self-generated musketeers will follow us into the mountains to search, and if they find a tribe, they will destroy one."

Although Sun Lin only had thirty Manchu archers, eighteen servants could act as archers, and he and Fang Qiyi only had fifty archers, twenty flintlock spearmen, thirty crossbowmen, fifty sword card players and fifty spearmen, and only two hundred mobile troops, with the combat power of these two hundred people, it can be said that it was stress-free to kill a 2,000-many life-saving tribe.

The four four-pound cannons were unable to move, so they stayed to guard the mine and were not brought out. Only Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi came out to search the mountains to find the mountains, which was mainly composed of cold weapons.

Not to mention cold weapons, it is impossible to colonize opponents. When the Spanish colonized South America, the main force was cold weapons.

There were 180 Spanish people at that time, including only 20 cavalry and only 30 musketeers, carrying two cannons, and the rest were knives, saplings, halberds, and crossbowmen. In this way, a Spanish army of 180 people dominated by cold weapons actually defeated the 80,000 army of the Inca Empire!

Twenty cavalry were the key. The Indians had never seen war horses at that time. When they saw the Spanish cavalry riding horses, they thought their opponent had four-legged monsters to help the battle. Then they saw some monsters with fire-breathing iron pipes in the Spanish team. Then they saw the monsters with four-legged rushed over, and more than 10,000 Indians at the forefront were defeated. The 70,000 people behind saw the people in front and retreated one after another.

But now, the situation on Brahmin Island is different. The Donglin Colonial Corps has no cavalry, and in the tropical rainforest, even if there are cavalry, they cannot perform their hands and feet, so infantry is the key.
Chapter completed!