Chapter 143 Evacuation

"And what's that in your hands?" Prince Zeno pointed to the gun in my hand. "You didn't have anything like this when you went to our island."

"Fly elder brother, you don't talk nonsense with him, we shoot him directly, his people will be in great disorder." Li Ding urged eagerly.

I glared at him and pretended to continue to negotiate with Prince Zeno. "This is a weapon we made ourselves. This is my island. Or your people will die here."

"You killed the Nano clan and the Banga clan?"

I nodded. "Yes, that's all you've got left. I give you two choices. You can all die here, or you can retire to the sea."

Prince Zeno pointed to us. "Most of our ships are there, and even when we retreat to the sea, we will stay on your island. And it's not easy for so many of us to come here. We can't go back empty-handed, can we?"

'So you want your ghost back? Zhang Yutong said teasingly.

Prince Zeno's face grew ugly. "Let's talk about it. Sell us five hundred of your weapons, and we'll give you five hundred cattle, plus enough food for all of you for a year, and give you back the island."

"So you think you're in a position to make a deal?" Not wanting to talk any more, I took a step back and waved, "All men with shotguns step forward and fire."

At this, two shields fell in front of Prince Zeno. A shotgun is not as deadly at close range as a rifle. A single shot cracked several of the shields, and the rest were riddled with holes. Killed two people.

Their shields were heavy enough to trap rifle bullets.

Seeing that we had another weapon, the people of the big tribe were frightened and retreated nearly fifty meters in a call. When it stabilized again, it started throwing rocks at us, like a little trebuchet, and they curved through the air and fell around us, injuring three or four people.

In this case, we can only choose to back off. Only by retreating to the vicinity of Waterfall Mountain did they escape the trebuchet's reach.

In case they turned on me, I told Nanova and his men to keep shooting at them. We brought our own people together.

"We must get down and off this island as quickly as possible. But we still have some ammo hidden in the tribe's basement, and we have to find a way to get it out. If they can't find what they want in the sinkhole, they will return to the tribe and search again."

Zhang Yutong said in a low voice: "We have taken a lot of bullets, if those with the words, they control back how to do?"

"That's what I was worried about," I said. Li Ding and Cui Bin, you two and most of our tribe will first go to the river to find our own boat, and quickly return to the tribe to take out the ammunition box, and find a place to bury the ammunition under the high ground. Then they'll bring their big boat and fetch us."

"Aren't you going to be here a long time?" Li Ding asked.

"Even if we can, we can't all go now. The great horde will be after us. You go ahead and meet me at the river in the wee hours of the morning."

Zhang Yutong said: "then we women all go, Cui Bin and Li Ding also follow us to go, the other people leave for you."

"Good." We use Huaxia, which none of the indigenous people can understand.

After the conversation, I called Nanova back and asked them where the boat was.

Nanova said they also brought several small boats into the river, with big boats moored at the spot where they landed. Small boats were used to carry food and weapons from large ships.

"Brother, when we enter the river, we can board the boat and leave directly. We are familiar with the route. You don't have to worry about anything." Nanova was more eager.

I waved my hand. "We can't go yet, brother. Prince Zeno will chase us if we do. We'll have to stay with them until after midnight, and then quickly get down to the mouth of the river and join our men."

Nanova thought about it, thought it made sense, and volunteered: "Brother, let me take someone to drive the boat to the entrance of the river here."

I pointed to one of my own men. "You have taken your men. Am I to confront Prince Zeno with these women? You stay with me and fight him. Let the women prepare."

Nanova nodded. "All right, big brother."

When I saw them off, I especially told Cui Bin that he could do something small on the remaining big boat of the big tribe. This makes their return journey difficult and dangerous. But they must not destroy their ship completely. They had not yet left The island of Cuckoo when we could not return.

When they had all left, I took Zhebe and a few other members of the Treehouse tribe and returned to the line with Nanova and his men.

The horde did nothing, as if waiting for something to happen on our side.

After a long time Nanova suggested, "Brother, knowing prince Zeno as I know him, he will attack us. We are on this side, he will know that we are retreating down the hill, and he will not allow us to leave. Let us take the initiative and make them think our object is to drive them towards the sea."

"Wait a moment. Prince Zeno must take his men into the cave and search it."

When the big tribes failed to find what they wanted in our tribe, they inevitably focused on the sinkhole. That's why I dared to leave only a few men to confront them.

After two or three hours, I split everyone into two groups and took turns defending. Bullets are limited. We never fire actively, only when they actively provoke us a few times. As soon as you push them back, stop.

In this situation, time slows down. Looking at the sky several times, I felt that the sun had not moved at all.

"Big brother." Nanova's voice came over, and when he reached him, he said excitedly, "They sent some more men into the sinkhole."

"The men we've kept in the house have rushed out, I suppose. Send down to rescue them." I waved his hand: "Nothing, continue to stare."

Nanova nodded and ran back with enthusiasm.

It's not that long, but you can already tell that Nanova is a young man with no plans. This kind of person is easy to get along with, don't worry about his bad intentions. I was still wary of him because I was afraid of the bad ideas of those around him.

By nightfall the horde had attacked us half a dozen times, and each time it had stopped short. Pretty much no interaction after dark. A number of fires were set up in their camp. When the wind blows, we can even smell the meat.

At midnight, NANova and I switched shifts. They'll rest. I'll hold the line with my men. There was no moon in the sky and we were in almost total darkness.

Every hour or so, the horde would fire a volley of bows and arrows at us, and we would shoot back. It's like we're telling them we're not running away in the night.

Later in the day, the two sides were so short of people that there was no interaction. There's only a few of them on patrol, and we're just watching.

When I felt it was almost time, I woke everyone up. They began to evacuate from the cliffs of Waterfall Mountain by the faint light of the fire.

When we were all on the ground, we quickly headed for the river. There were boats with lights on waiting for us when we got there.

"Brother Lu Fei, is that you?"

Hear zhang Yutong's voice, I hurried back: "yes."

As we approached, we boarded the ship directly and headed for the estuary.

Sit next to, see zhang Yutong yawn unceasingly, I ask a way: "how is you to pick us up?"

"I asked myself to come. The others are in the ship." Zhang Yutong surprised by the gesture: "You do not know, their boat is so big oh, each can stay under 100 people. It was connected by six canoes, boarded up, and built a great house."

I nodded, sleepy and made a gesture of hissing, and the two of them snuggled together and closed their eyes.

It was not long before the ships reached the estuary. I was surprised when I saw the ship with all the lights on. It was forty meters long and more than twenty meters wide, with six canoes at some distance from each other. The upper house was divided into two levels, the lower one for people, the smaller one for storing things and observing the sea.