After setting up camp, the craftsmen who burned bricks and tiles went to find clay, and the craftsmen who burned lime went to find limestone. Boss Wei followed the squad leader to search around, determine the surrounding terrain, and draw the map. On this day, Boss Wei
Ben walked deep into the jungle and found a campground.
Shengfan are the indigenous people of Taiwan Island. The civilization of these indigenous people is still in the stage of hunting, fishing and farming. There are different ethnic groups of Shengfan in Taiwan. The group of Shengfan discovered by Boss Wei's class live in houses made of bamboo and thatch:
The house uses thick bamboo inserted into the ground to make a roof truss, and other bamboos are placed on top of this bamboo trellis to make the floor and house walls, and then the roof is covered with thatch to make the roof.
Those students wore colorful clothes, and both men and women wore skirts. Their faces were tattooed with patterns of various colors, and the color of their skin was invisible. After Boss Wei discovered these students, the students soon also discovered Boss Wei's class.
Eight soldiers. These students were very unfriendly to outsiders. As soon as they saw the eight men of Boss Wei, thirty soldiers rushed up, howling and shouting, holding swords and spears.
Boss Wei's squad leader ordered the soldiers to shoot freely. Boss Wei had already loaded the rifle with bullets. At this time, he raised his rifle and aimed at a leader who rushed over a hundred steps away. The leader looked older and held a
Armed with iron-tipped spears, other students gathered around the leader.
Boss Wei pressed the trigger, sparks suddenly burst out from the fire door, and there was a loud "pop" sound. Then the entire rifle was set back, and flames and smoke were sprayed from the muzzle. Boss Wei's shoulder was pressed against the butt of the gun.
At this time, his shoulder was hit by the recoil of the rifle. When Boss Wei raised his head to look at the leader, the leader had already fallen to the ground and was twitching.
Boss Wei shouted excitedly: "I killed the leader!" However, no one paid attention to Boss Wei. Everyone was shooting and reloading. Boss Wei also quickly started to reload.
The soldiers here quickly fired more than a dozen shots, almost knocking down a soldier with one shot. Soon, the firepower here frightened the soldiers. They dropped the wounded on the ground and fled away.
go.
The squad leader did not pursue these indigenous people, but led the team back to the camp and reported to Commander Guan. Guan Shan frowned when he heard that there were soldiers not far away. In order to prevent accidents, Guan Shan asked the soldiers to deploy outside the camp.
Police posts were deployed day and night to monitor the security around the camp.
The three large ships have returned, and all the supplies on board have been piled up in the camps. The camp at the top of the hill is the core of the first batch of immigrants and must not be lost. The surrounding terrain has been basically figured out, and the map has been drawn.
There is no need to go out for reconnaissance anymore. Boss Wei never leaves the camp anymore. He only does basic training every day. The rest of the time is to dig trenches to protect the camp. Sometimes he goes down the mountain to cut down trees with his comrades and build roads leading to clay mines and lime collection.
Follow the road and do some miscellaneous things.
On December 24th, Boss Wei and a comrade were cutting wood at the foot of a hill. "Boss Wei, what do you think of Xiaoliuqiu, no, Taiwan Island?" Boss Wei slashed the fir tree in front of him with a knife and said: "
This island is quite good, with sunshine and water, but..." Boss Wei slashed the tree with another knife, paused, and said, "It's just too deserted! What?" Boss Wei slashed the tree with another knife, "There's nothing.
, what is it called except that it is a tree? This is called the land of transformation!"
"Aren't there savages?" "Are those savages considered human beings? We can't even say anything. We went back after four months of expedition. Then we won't have to stay in this alien land!" "You can marry when you go back.
"Daughter-in-law?" "My daughter-in-law is a handsome girl from all over the country, so she is worthy of me!"
Boss Wei's comrade smiled and said narrowly: "I heard, Boss Wei, when you first joined the camp, you said you would become an officer in one year!" Boss Wei's face turned red and he stood there speechless for a long time.
He slashed the fir tree hard with his knife and said in a deep voice: "I was ignorant at that time." The two of them were chopping wood, but suddenly they saw smoke rising from the police post to the east.
Soon, the rally horn sounded at the small mountain camp. Boss Wei and his comrades looked at each other, threw away the woodcutter, and ran up the hill.
Boss Wei ran to the camp, where the company commander was already forming his team. Not long after, all the sentries at the police posts ran back. The sentries who lit the smoke and Commander Zheng reported something. Commander Zheng walked over with a serious look on his face.
The soldiers in front shouted loudly: "Shengfan is coming to attack us! Everyone, get into shooting position!"
Boss Wei was not only negligent, he took off the rifle from his back and began to load and load the rifle. After loading the ammunition, he stood behind the trench and prepared to fight. Three deep trenches were dug outside the camp, expecting the soldiers to rush in.
Not coming up. Boss Wei waited for half a quarter of an hour before he saw the students appearing at the foot of the mountain.
In twos and threes, those students came out of the woods and stood at the foot of the mountain. They looked at the camp on the top of the mountain for a while and found that there was no danger at the foot of the mountain, so some people ran into the woods, probably to report the situation. After a while
At the meeting, several men wearing colorful hats with long feathers on their heads and stout figures, who were obviously chiefs, came out. Following them, more and more men came out and gathered at the foot of the mountain.
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Boss Wei quietly grabbed his rifle and waited for the Shengfans to gather. In the end, he found that more than two thousand Shengfans had arrived. These Shengfans had been seized by Yang Peng's men, and all other surrounding tribes were called to help.
A large group of wild animals gathered at the foot of the mountain, which looked quite spectacular.
The students all wore colorful dresses and coarse cloth hats. They held swords and spears in their hands. They kept shouting when they gathered, as if to encourage the people around them. They probably shouted at the foot of the mountain.
A quarter of an hour later, the courage of the Shengfans reached its highest peak. A Shengfan chief shouted a few times and pointed the spear in his hand towards the top of the mountain. The Shengfans grabbed their weapons and walked towards the Tiger Division on the top of the hill.
come over.
Three hundred steps away, two hundred steps away, Boss Wei aimed at a student walking in the front. The student was wearing a round hat with a long feather on his head. He looked very strong. He was a hundred steps away.
At forty paces, Boss Wei's platoon leader shouted loudly: "Fire!"
Boss Wei pressed the trigger and heard a loud snap. Boss Wei's body was pushed back by the recoil. The strong man wearing a feather hat in the distance had blood splatters on his body and fell to the ground.
On the ground. Mr. Wei laughed, gave up the shooting position on the left, and retreated from the right. He retreated to the last row of the three-row gun formation and loaded the rifle with gunpowder and bullets as quickly as possible.
While Boss Wei was loading the bullet, the two columns in front had finished shooting, and they all walked behind Boss Wei, and finally let Boss Wei move to the front again. Boss Wei picked up his rifle, and this time he aimed at a tall, bare-chested man.
The thick and short raw man. The raw man seemed to be stunned by the firepower of the rifle on the mountain. He kept looking around at the corpses around him and took a few steps forward for a long time.
"Shoot!" Boss Wei pressed the trigger and held the rifle back with his shoulder, confusing Boss Wei's vision. When Boss Wei looked forward again, he saw that the thick and short raw man had been shot.
He clutched his stomach and collapsed on the way up the mountain.
It seemed as if they were destroyed by Boss Wei's shot. As soon as Boss Wei finished shooting, the two thousand students began to run away. Where had these students fought against such a powerful enemy? They were like a group of frightened goats.
, panicked and collapsed down the hillside.
The chiefs at the foot of the mountain also turned and fled back the way they came. After a while, the two thousand students escaped completely and disappeared into the woods. The soldiers on the top of the mountain laughed when they saw how easy the battle was. Boss Wei said proudly
He patted the rifle, took out his bayonet and carved a horizontal line on the rifle handle. There was already one horizontal line on it, and with this horizontal line, there were two.
A comrade on the left looked at Boss Wei's gun handle and asked: "Boss Wei, didn't you kill two of them just now? Why did you only carve one line?" Boss Wei raised his head and said: "Can these soldiers compare with the Khitan?
A Khitan makes a horizontal mark, and three Shengfans also mark a horizontal mark. These days, when three Shengfans are killed, a horizontal mark is carved."
On December 28, Yang Peng's three large pointed ships returned. The ships returned almost empty, and there were only three couriers on board besides the boatmen. Yang Peng took the three couriers to the General Military Mansion and asked about the colony.
The development situation. "Squad Leader Di, have you successfully set up camp on Taiwan Island?"
When the squad leader surnamed Di heard Yang Peng's question, he stood up suddenly and stood up straight and replied: "Back to the city lord, Commander Guan found a small hilltop with a small river at the bottom, set up camp on the top of the hill, and dug three
A trench." Seeing that the squad leader was a little nervous, Yang Peng waved his hand and asked him to sit down, and asked with a smile: "Have the local students attacked the camp?"
The squad leader slowly sat down and replied loudly: "Back to the Governor, we detected a Shengfan tribe in the woods. But when we set sail back on the 18th, the Shengfan had not yet attacked the camp."
Yang Peng thought for a while and nodded. Seeing that Li Zhi stopped asking, the squad leader said: "City Lord, we encountered nine large ships of red-haired barbarians on the way back. Those red-haired ships seemed to be on the way to plunder.
When they saw our ship, they came up to rob it."
"Red hair" is what the Song people called the Dutch in this era. During this era, Dutch merchants or pirates had already reached East Asia, sometimes doing trade and sometimes plundering. They fought many wars with the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was robbed several times.
Later, the Dutch were prohibited from landing in the Song Dynasty, which caused the Dutch to lose the supply of goods from the Song Dynasty.
The armed merchant ships of the Dutch were active in the waters north and south of Taiwan. Yang Peng was stunned. Unexpectedly, the three ships encountered Dutch pirates on their way back and asked: "What happened next?" "City Lord, later Guan had to let go.
We three boats headed east, our boats were fast and we avoided the red-haired pirates."
Yang Peng nodded and said: "These Dutch pirates are looking for death! When we have more ships, we will blow them all into the sea." The three messengers reported to Yang Peng the various situations on Taiwan Island, and Yang Peng listened carefully.
I chatted with the messenger for a full hour. Yang Peng's three large ships stopped in Daku for two days, and before the New Year, they carried a thousand people to Taiwan. Yang Peng was determined to strengthen the armed forces at the Guanshan camp.
Another two hundred soldiers were sent there this time. Except for the soldiers, the other people who went to Taiwan this time were all farmers who had been recruited to open up wasteland. After arriving in Taiwan, these farmers will start building canals to reclaim wasteland, and strive to clear the land and start sowing by March.
Fang Laosan is the platoon leader of the Trap Regiment. He joined the army in the third year of Zhidao and is now a four-year veteran. Relying on the military exploits accumulated in previous battles, he became the company commander. This time, Fang Laosan did not even pass the New Year.
Laosan led 40 soldiers on board the ship and sailed to Xiaoliuqiu. This was the first time for Fang Laosan to take a sea ship. The pointed boat looked quite big, but it was bumpy in the sea. The big ship followed the waves.
Shaking up and down, Fang Laosan vomited more than a dozen times on the way, almost vomiting out his intestines. It took ten days to arrive in Taiwan, and Fang Laosan rested at the camp for several days before he finally recovered.
But when he arrived in Taiwan, Fang Laosan looked around and immediately understood that the journey of thousands of miles to Taiwan was worth it. This is a fertile virgin land. From the top of the hill where he camped, he could see everywhere in his field of vision.
They are all lush broad-leaved forests. Fang Laosan knows that the reason why these forests grow so densely is because of the fertile land. As long as these forests are burned with fire, these lands will become fertile farmland, and the ash produced by the burned forests will be even more fertile.
It is the best fertilizer.
A quiet river runs through a plain, and it is very convenient to get water. As long as you set up a dragon-tailed cart by the river, the river water will flow into the paddy fields endlessly. There are no officials who scrape the ground three feet away, and there is no Ming Dynasty that oppresses the common people.
Officials, instead of the despicable gentry who stare at the land of small farmers all day long, only have inexhaustible sunshine, water and land. As long as the farmers farm their fields carefully, they will soon become rich.
I heard that the General will give each man and able-bodied woman who opens up wasteland twenty acres of paddy field with irrigation canals. For every five men and strong women, they will be lent a buffalo, and the land rent will be 60%. The climate in Taiwan is warm and humid.
You can plant two crops of rice in the morning and evening every year, which is more than enough to harvest two and a half kilograms of rice per mu.
Calculated in this way, excluding the sixty shi of land rent for the general, a farmer and his wife can collect 40 shi of grain for storage. What is the concept? You must know that one shi of rice sold to the governor's cheap grain store can earn two silver.
Two or forty shi of grain equals eighty taels, which is equivalent to a monthly income of three taels or three taels of silver for each strong man. What kind of good life is it to earn more than three taels of silver a month?
Nowadays, as long as the young people in Tianjing New City enter the factory in Tianjing New City, they will become the most popular Wang Laowu, and the girls nearby can choose at will. And the income of these workers is only two taels of silver. Even including the money provided by the General
For food, workers only earn three to two five cents a month.
Farmers work in the fields and do not need to go out early and come back late to work in factories, nor do they need to compete with others for workers' positions, so they can live a prosperous life with a monthly income of three to three yuan. The couple each
With a monthly income of more than six taels of silver, I can feed a family of eight!
Fang Laosan thought this place was really good, so he decided to write to his eldest brother, sister and younger brother, asking them to sign up to come to Taiwan. Instead of the rest of his family, he would guard the more than 30 acres of farmland at home in Tianjing New City and eat chaff.
If you drink too much, you might as well go to the south and open up a new world.
Fang Laosan attended the General's night school to learn literacy over the years, and now he can write letters. His brothers and sisters at home are illiterate, but he can find someone who has read to read letters. Three large ships sail between Tianjin and Taiwan every month
One round trip. Fang Laosan's relatives will soon receive Fang Laosan's letter.
Thinking about the good life of his relatives in this new land in the future, Fang Laosan fell in love with this virgin land more and more, and he was in a good mood when doing things. Commander Guan has planned the location of the first batch of farmland these days.
The first batch of new fields were located on both sides of the river, stretching for more than 30 miles, just east and west of the camp, and enough for five thousand farmers to farm. Eight hundred farmers and four hundred soldiers were dispatched to cut and clear the areas around the planned new fields.
There is an isolation zone without vegetation, and the forest is ready to be burned.
On January 13th, before the Lantern Festival was over, Fang Laosan and fifty soldiers were busy in the woods, but suddenly saw a piece of smoke rising in the distance. Fang Laosan was stunned, doubting that he had seen it.
Wrong. He looked at one of his squad leaders. Fang Laosan's squad leader also had a look of shock. From his face, Fang Laosan knew that he was right.
Could it be that the rioters are here again? Fang Laosan shouted loudly: "Everyone goes back to the camp, everyone calls it a day! Go back to the camp!" Forty soldiers followed Fang Laosan and hurried to the camp. Half of them were gone.
At that time, Fang Laosan returned to the hill where the camp was set up. Fang Laosan walked into the camp from the gate of the camp and shouted to the soldiers standing guard next to the gate: "What's going on? Is Shengfan here?"
The soldier on guard replied: "It's not Shengfan, it's Hongmao who's here!" Fang Laosan was stunned. He didn't expect that it was Hongyi who came this time. I heard that Hongyi were all very tall and covered in red hair.
Like red-haired ghosts. These red barbarians drink blood and eat raw meat, just like wild beasts. The red barbarian fleet has been plundering along the coast of Fujian for a long time and killed many Ming people. I don’t know how many red haired people came this time.
Is the red hair coming here powerful?
Fang Laosan arrived at the assembly point with forty of his men, and the commander Guan Shan was there with his hands on his hips to encourage morale. "Only a few hundred people from Hongmao came, which is not worth mentioning. We have even killed the Khitan, and we have
Why are you afraid of these hundreds of red hairs?" Guan Shan paused and said loudly: "I just hope that all the people on their ship will disembark, so that we can kill them and seize their ship."
Hearing Guan Shan's words, the soldiers laughed and gradually became less nervous. Guan Shan waved his hand and said: "These red-haired people probably discovered our camp suddenly. They underestimated us and were probably planning to come in and grab a handful. Let's give it to them."
Show some color! Let them know that we are not easy to mess with."
"Two companies of 400 men are guarding behind the trench. Waiting for the red hair to come and charge the trench, we will kill them all in front of the trench." At this time, the three large ships in the harbor outside had already left the harbor and headed north, and there was nothing to do outside the camp.
Robbery. After Hong Mao disembarks, he will probably rush straight to the camp. There are pigs, sheep, cloth, ironware, grain and other supplies in the camp. If these supplies are robbed by Hong Mao, the development of Taiwan will be ruined.
The two company commanders shouted orders and began to arrange their teams. The soldiers and officers ran to their respective camps, put on their armor, took out their rifles and ammunition, and then ran out to stand in line. Fang Laosan, a platoon of forty people, had always dared to fight. At this time
They were placed at the forefront of the west side of the camp, with forty soldiers standing in three columns on the front line.
Fang Laosan was wearing an officer's uniform, holding a steel knife and standing next to the team to command. The winter uniforms of the Tianjing New City soldiers were the same color as the mandarin duck war jackets that were not available in the Song Dynasty, both dyed red. However, in order to adapt to the shooting of dense formations
To meet the needs of the battle, the hems and cuffs of the Huben Division's military uniforms are made very small. The left and right lapels of the military uniforms are fastened together with buttons, which are very strong. The trousers are relatively wide, and under the trousers are long leather boots that are easy to cross-country. The soldiers wear leather straps on their waists.
The belt, with a fixed bullet pouch hung on it, makes the whole outfit look very close to the modern military uniforms of later generations.
The uniforms of officers are darker than those of soldiers. Although both soldiers and officers wear captured chainmail, the color of the clothing underneath can still be seen through the gaps in the armor. Another difference between officers and soldiers is the helmet tassel.
Tassel: The platoon leader's tassel is blue, which is different from the red tassel of the soldiers. The company commander's tassel is yellow, the battalion commander's is green, the regiment commander's tassel is black, and the division commander Li Zhi's tassel is white.
At this time, Fang Laosan was standing on the far right side of the team wearing a dark red military uniform. He wore a set of chainmail armor outside the military uniform and a blue tassel armor on his head. Fang Laosan waited behind the trench for half an hour before looking.
We arrived at the red barbarian sailors who were slowly walking over. These red barbarian sailors were very tall, generally a head taller than the soldiers of the formation group. They wore wide-brimmed hats on their heads, skirt-like military uniforms, and a brown jacket outside the military uniforms.
, carrying a bag diagonally across his body. Most of the Hongyi soldiers held up matchlock guns and held a matchlock gun holder in their hands. Some Hongyi soldiers held up spears to protect the matchlock gunners.
Like the trap group on the mountain, the Hongyi soldiers also lined up in three rows. The first two rows of soldiers were matchlock gunners, and the last row of soldiers were spearmen. Fang Laosan took a closer look and realized that not all of these red-haired soldiers were
Some have red hair, some have blond hair, and some have black hair.
There were about 800 Hongyi sailors. They stood at the bottom of the hill and observed the top of the hill for a while. Apparently the trenches made the Hongyi officers at the bottom a little suspicious, so they gathered in front of the military column to discuss for a while.
Fang Laosan raised his right hand and shouted: "Reload the rifle!" The forty soldiers quickly finished loading the bullets and pointed their guns at the Hongyi below the hill.
Several Hongyi generals discussed for a while, and finally decided to attack the mountain. Just hearing the few Hongyi officers shouting something to the soldiers, the military drums of the Red Yi army rang. In the drum beat like firecrackers
In the middle, the Hongyi soldiers held up their matchlocks and pressed against the 400 soldiers of the trap group on the hill.
At a distance of two hundred steps, one hundred and eighty steps, one hundred sixty steps, and one hundred and forty steps, the Hongyi soldiers entered the firing range of the trapping group. Fang Laosan shouted: "First row to shoot!" Thirteen guns
The rifle spurted out tongues of flame, and the thirteen soldiers froze and swayed in the thick mist sprayed from the rifle. After shooting, the soldiers took a rough look at the result of the shooting and quickly retreated from the right.
Fang Laosan's first row had just finished firing when another platoon next door also started firing. Soon, all eight platoons had completed the first row of volleys. The Dutch sailors who were marching to the beat of the drum seemed to be called by name.
, fell down one after another. Before these Hongyi sailors understood what was going on, dozens of them fell into a pool of blood, shouting and twitching, and screamed repeatedly. The still alive Hongmao in the front row was splashed all over
His blood turned red all over.
The white smoke on the hill became thicker, and there was a choking smell of saltpeter and gunpowder everywhere. Fang Laosan opened his eyes to look at the Hong Yi in front, and felt that they were suddenly stunned. The Hong Yi did not expect that the Ming people on the mountain also had match ropes.
It is a gun, and it can hit such a long distance. There is no such powerful matchlock gun in Europe. The European matchlock gun can hit a dense array of enemies at a distance of 150 yards, or more than 130 meters.
Already considered lucky.
Even the Hongyi drummers who were playing the drums stopped for a moment and didn't know whether to continue moving forward. Finally, the Dutch officer jumped out and shouted something loudly. The Dutch people mustered up their courage and marched towards the mountain again.
Fang Laosan sneered and raised his left hand. To his left, the second row of thirteen riflemen had already aimed at Hong Mao, just waiting for Fang Laosan's order.
"Shoot!" Fang Laosan's platoon once again jumped in front of the other platoons and started the second row of shooting. Thirteen rounds of bullets were fired at Hongmao's line array, hitting the Hongyi soldiers who were advancing against the rain of bullets.
There were flowers of blood. The sailors from Europe were accustomed to shooting with matchlocks. They simply did not wear armor to protect against cold weapons. Mini bullets easily tore the clothes and skin of these Europeans, drilling through them.
Stir vigorously into the flesh and blood.
Next to Fang Laosan, other platoons also started shooting. Amidst the crackling gunfire, the Dutch soldiers at the foot of the mountain fell one after another. After they screamed a few times, they were like stone pillars that had lost their souls.
He fell to the ground and rolled down the hillside to the foot of the mountain.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.