Chapter 264 Sharks

By about nine or ten o 'clock in the evening I had Zombo set out. An hour later, they hurried back.

When they got on the boat, Jongbu said eagerly, "Chief, we have been spotted."

"Are the bodies of the soldiers finished?" I pulled him aside.

Zombo lowered his voice. "No, it's not finished yet, but they're too busy chasing us to mind the fire."

I patted him on the shoulder in understanding. In this situation, the twelve brothers could not return to the sea.

Back in the distance, I sent for John, and arranged three men to keep watch in turn. Then I went back to my cabin to sleep. But I had not slept long when I heard a noise outside. Hurriedly ran out to see, out of the sea more than ten boats came to us, and did not fire, have to carefully observe to see.

I quickly gathered all my men to fight back, and after I beat them off, I realized that night was not the time to confront them. They ordered the two ships ten kilometers out. Turned out all the lights outside, and let everyone rest as planned.

When, at daybreak, I returned again, and had a clear view of the harbour, I was startled to find that five large ships had been summoned.

"We'd better go back, chief. If these five ships come up together, we can't stand a chance." Zombo suggested.

"If we go like this..." I fear the coalition will not pursue them fully. But in this situation, we don't have the capital or the strength to fight head-on, so we have to try.

Once the crew is dispatched, we approach the harbor at full speed, and at 300 meters, fire at the harbor together. They're just getting ready to board. Even when we were holding them down, they used shields as a defense, and they moved men onto the ship.

I pulled out my pistol and fired two shots into the air. The two ships retreated together. When we had gone two or three kilometres, five large ships came abreast and attacked.

Five big ships, two or three thousand men. It hasn't completely moved their main force, but it has eased the burden of our attack on the new king's city.

At full speed we were able to keep within two or three kilometres of them. They were so close that we had no chance to turn around and escape. After a chase of two or three hours, the five ships turned back together.

It made me a little bit dumbfounded.

"They don't seem to be chasing us all the time, chief." John said.

"I know, probably not fully ready for battle."

"So what happens next?

"Stop the ship." I ordered.

When they drew near, he jumped up and asked, "Chief, what shall we do now?"

I beckoned him to me. "This is all we can do now. You take a few men and go to attract their ships, and I will take this boat and hide. How many men do you want?"

Jombu thought for a moment and held out a hand: "Give me thirty men."

"Give you fifty." I thought he wanted a 50. Several large ships were in pursuit, and if they had not men enough to keep up their speed they were sure to be lost.

"That's all right." Zombo nodded.

After he had arranged his men, the surplus provisions were transferred to our ship. When they returned, we approached brass Island from the other direction. Much of brass Island's shoreline is steep, wooded and wooded, allowing us to rest.

After more than two hours of sailing, we landed on a cliff more than three meters high, and moored the boat into a groove.

With twenty men on board, we began to assign tasks as soon as we landed. Wood gatherer wood gatherer hunt hunt. Our food supply is limited and we must take advantage of this opportunity to replenish our supplies for a protracted war.

I took several people to choose a big tree, climbed up to the top with the help of ropes, and built a simple wooden watchtower on top. You can even see a small island in the distance. They returned to the island of Bugu, where they could be seen from the watchtower.

After the busy work, rest, Li Wanxue ran to me and said: "Lu Fei, do you want to consider going down to contact with the tribes on the island?"

"Don't make contact yet. If anyone is unreliable, our plan will fall apart." Even if we did, we would not gain much in terms of military strength.

As soon as he had spoken, he heard a cry from among the trees.

Soon John returned with twenty or thirty prisoners, and the men who had gone hunting.

A short distance away, a chieflike man raised his hand and waved it vigorously at me. "Chief, chief."

The voice sounded familiar, so I went up and took a closer look. It was NAT.

He looked at me for three seconds, then burst into tears and fell to his knees, followed by the men, women and children behind him.

John ran to me and said, "Chief, they live in the woods. I caught them all."

I nodded, walked up and pulled NAT to his feet.

"O chief." Tears fell from his eyes and he squeezed my arm. "Why have you come so late? The Island of Brass has been taken."

"I know. Why are you here? Don't get so excited. Come and speak slowly."

As we sat down in the clearing, NAT told me that the five kingdoms had done a lot of business with us when I went to the other world, and then one day all of a sudden ten thousand allied troops from the five kingdoms came to the island. He arrived at the new king city, Cui Bin has been unable to resist, he found a boat, and cui Bin wanted to evacuate to bugu Island, the boat can not sit, he and the tribe can only stay.

"I am your first king, chief, and my kingdom is large and rich. I would never betray you. But I had too few men and tried to unite with the other masters, but they all surrendered, so I had to leave the tribe with my people and come to this uninhabited corner to survive. We had built a boat to go to Bukgu island, but bukgu Island was also captured, and we had to come back to live here."

I was touched by NAT's loyalty. After all, he didn't have to do that. He could live a good life by joining the Allied forces, though he had no followers.

"Do you know the whereabouts of General Cui Bin and others?"

"They were all killed." NAT began to cry again. "I heard they were all taken to the New King's City and beheaded, and hung in the square of the new King's City."

"You saw it with your own eyes?

Nath shook his head. "No, HOW dare I go to the new king's city? I got it from someone else. Chief, I've been waiting for you to return. Lead us back to the Island of Brass."

"Don't cry. I came back to take back the Island of Brass." I soothed.

Nutter nodded and wiped away his tears. Pointing to the men and women following him, he said they were his people. All will be loyal to me. I glanced around. There were only seven or eight young men.

He insisted on inviting me to their house, so I followed. When I saw where they lived, I only built a few wooden houses and opened up more than ten acres of land. The corn planted had grown into corn on the cob. He had his people break off a lot of corn on the cob, cook it and take it to the beach where we landed.

I explained to him our current strength and the situation we faced.

NAT was disappointed. "Does that make it difficult to recapture Cuckoo Island?"

I nodded. "There's still a chance. It's just hard."

Nath thought for a while and said, "Chief, if we can't get the Brass Island back, let's all evacuate to Cuckoo Island. There are a lot of people who don't want to join the union, especially the slaves you freed. In fact, except for the masters, the island is now almost slaves. The five Kings exploited us very hard. Everyone lives a hard life."

"You mean to get us all to live on brass Island?" I asked.

Nath nodded. "Well, with more men on The island of Cuckoo, it will be easier to hold the island of Cuckoo safely, and to stock up on food, build ships, and train more men."

"Wrong idea, but it's a long time. We must go back to Bukgu as often as possible."

When I said that, NAT said no more.

If I can't get the Brass Island back, sooner or later, I won't even be able to hold The island of Cuckoo before the Allies and the monsters attack me.