The team members were also smoking and chatting in twos and threes, preparing to go to bed. Some of them were sorting out today's exploration data by the light of the fire. However, when night fell, they heard a suspicious roaring sound.
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In the darkness, they seemed to see some wild beasts coming out of the bushes and sneaking around the camp. Two military dogs were also barking. But after all, the night was passed safely. The next day, at five in the morning, they
Everyone got up at one o'clock, ready to hit the road again.
After discussion, Qian Shuixie and Liu Zheng decided not to take the same road they came from, but to take another road down the mountain so that they could see more of the local conditions.
After overcoming obstacles and coming down from Dagou Mountain, they took a break and then headed inland along a small river. Because it was summer, the water was abundant and the current was fast. Liu Zheng thought that the agricultural conditions here were much better than those in Lingao.
The water source is much more abundant. No wonder Wu Nanhai and the others miss this "treasure island" every day.
The exploration team marched along the river beach. Without the dense vegetation, the team's traveling speed was greatly increased. At about eight o'clock, the two military dogs walking in front of the team suddenly started barking.
"Attention, there is an enemy situation!" Qian Shuixie shouted, "Everyone is on alert!" As he said that, he quickly opened the safety of the submachine gun on his shoulder, opened the shoulder stock and knelt down half on his shoulder, getting ready to shoot.
Before he finished speaking, a wild roar rang out from the grass and woods. Then, fifty or sixty almost naked natives rushed out of the grass and woods while waving their weapons and roaring.
The moment Qian Shuixie saw some dark brown figures jumping out of the grass, he pulled the trigger. "Back to back, fire!" He roared without looking back. The special reconnaissance team had already gone through thousands of hard trainings and put all the weapons together.
Tactical actions turn into instinctive reactions of the body.
Suddenly there was loud gunfire all around him, and the pungent smell of gunpowder went straight to his nose. The butt of the gun hit his shoulder briskly. The recoil of the 022-caliber submachine gun was very small. Qian Shuiting easily controlled the muzzle of the gun. The second time
A single shot knocked down a native armed with a spear and shield.
Qian Shuixie had participated in many shooting competitions and trainings and shot various human-shaped targets, but he had never shot a living person. At first, he was a little panicked when shooting, but he quickly controlled his emotions and stabilized himself.
He stopped his body, kept moving the muzzle of the gun, and used three bursts to harvest the figures of the ambushers who rushed out. Those people kept staggering to the ground amidst the sound of gunfire. Some people let out a huge howl, turned around and fled into the depths.
in the grass.
Although the 02219 bullet is a low-power ammunition for police use, shooting at a large living person who was almost naked at a distance of less than 50 meters turned into a one-sided massacre. The gunfire lasted for less than two minutes, and the river beach was already a massacre.
The bloody slaughterhouse was littered with more than twenty corpses and dying people, and all the ambushers had disappeared.
"Stop shooting!" Qian Shuixie yelled. The gunshots stopped, and there was a sudden silence on the river beach. The only sound was the wind blowing through the grass and branches.
"Is he a native?" Liu Zheng was still in shock. Although he was a veteran traveler and had received a lot of military training, his reaction when encountering emergencies was much slower. He finally took out the GMU7 pistol and fired two shots.
The battle was over after firing bullets. The enemies disappeared as quickly as they arrived. The members of the exploration team did not dare to chase into the grass rashly. They still maintained the circular defense formation they had just formed urgently.
Qian Shuixie nodded: "Definitely." He looked around the river beach. It was quiet all around. Two military dogs snorted and tried to chase them out, but they didn't roar again, indicating that the enemy was far away.
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"Check the casualties!" He lowered the muzzle of the submachine gun and asked.
"No casualties," the sergeant replied.
"Recover the bullet casing!" Qian Shuixie stood up. Although his finger left the trigger, he still stayed outside the trigger circle in case there were any emergencies. "Search the battlefield!"
The hot bullet casings were recovered into special pockets by dedicated personnel, and the team members covered each other and began to inspect the bodies on the river beach.
All the corpses are men. According to the standards of this time and space, they are tall, strong, strong, and beautiful in shape. They are not quite the same as the short and wretched appearance of the Austronesian natives in the imagination. It's just that everyone wears pierced ears.
Wearing a huge cork.
"This is probably the so-called Takaliyan people," Qian Shuixie said. A corpse at his feet was lying on the pebbles of the river beach, and the river flowing beneath him was dyed red. These people were almost naked.
The body has almost no means of defense except for a small shield made of rattan and wooden boards.
"This should be a javelin," Qian Shuixie looked at the weapons collected by the team members. Most of them were ordinary bamboo spears and wooden spears. Some bamboo javelins were thin and soft. He weighed them in his hand and felt that he had a good grasp of the center of gravity.
.If they are projected together, they will have considerable lethality. In addition, there are a few stone axes and iron knives that are very rough, probably imported from the mainland. Qian Shui Xie believes that they are unlikely to have the ability to smelt.
"Why did they ambush us?" Liu Zheng was a little surprised.
"We are strange outsiders, and we are dangerous enemies to them." Qian Shuixie wondered not to mention Taiwan in the 17th century, where there were constant bloody conflicts on this coast, or the United States in the 21st century, which goes deep into the backcountry inland.
They may not necessarily be treated kindly. They carefully inspected the corpse and found nothing more worth mentioning. Qian Shuixie originally wanted to see if there were any prisoners who could be saved. After being treated, the party leading the way could at least have more.
I learned a little about the conditions of the local indigenous people, but the few who did not die immediately were seriously injured, and they died soon after.
Qian Shuixie paid attention to the distance between the attackers' ambush location and the river beach where they were marching - the average distance was less than fifty meters. If the enemy had decent bows and arrows, they could fire first and unleash a hail of arrows.
Even if you use soft bows and bamboo arrows, some people will be injured. If you use javelins together, your side will definitely suffer certain casualties.
It seems that it is very reasonable for the Dutch to choose to fight in winter. At least in winter, there will no longer be such tall grass for the enemy to hide.
In addition, dogs are very useful. Large dogs can detect the enemy's ambush earlier than the leading soldiers, and in such wilderness landscape, the dog's fast pursuit ability is much more agile than the slow-moving infantry. According to the experience of the Dutch: crusade against local
The most useful things for the natives were horses and dogs, which were similar to those used by the Spaniards in the Americas.
If there is a military dog team composed of dozens of dogs, whether they are serving as vanguards or chasing, they will be very lethal to the indigenous people who lack protection and weapons.
Qian Shuixie returned to the team, and Chandler reported: The Haitian was calling, asking what the gunshots were about just now.
He took the walkie-talkie microphone: "We were attacked by local natives... No, there were no casualties. The enemy ran away. It seems that the other party has been targeting us for a long time."
After this attack, Qian Shui Xie decided not to head inland. After suffering such a big loss, the other party would either be frightened out of their wits, or they would collect more young men to find a place. It would cost hundreds of people to come.
People, a dozen or so of them would still suffer in complex terrain.
Due to the attack, the exploration team no longer continued to venture deep into the inland areas. Qian Shuixie led the team to march along the coastline in order to receive support from the Haitian at any time.
They concentrated on exploring the topography and landforms near Dagou Mountain and Dagou Port, measuring the water depth, and surveying and mapping the planned road deep into the Kaohsiung Plain.
During this period, the local indigenous people did not conflict with the exploration team again. Liu Zheng originally expected that they would send people to contact them. Almost all colonists and pioneer teams who went deep into the wilderness encountered this process: attacked - repulsed - negotiated -
Exchange gifts - find the leading party. However, they have been active in the area for four or five days, and no natives have come to the temporary camp near the river mouth.
Liu Zheng originally wanted to establish a preliminary cooperative relationship through contact with the indigenous people, and then gain the freedom to move within the territory of the society. After all, he had studied the historical materials left by the Dutch before setting off. Several major indigenous people in Tainan area
There were conflicts between the Xingang Society and the local Tagalyan Society. There was a land dispute between the Xingang Society and the local Tagalyan Society, and there were armed conflicts between the two parties. The Xingang people eventually acted as accomplices of the Dutch.
The Dutch took advantage of the conflicts among the indigenous communities in Taiwan, acted as arbiters and allies, and constantly "provoked the masses to fight against the masses." He felt that the Chuang people had to do this if they wanted to gain a foothold here in the first place. It was the easiest way.
What they took advantage of was the conflict between the Tagalyan Society and the Xingang Society. Attacking the Xingang Society also indirectly hit the Dutch power, making it impossible for them to expand to the Kaohsiung Plain. The main members are only two days away from here, in a straight line
After the Christmas Battle, which was less than 40 kilometers away, the Dutch expanded their territory to the Kaohsiung Plain and resettled Fujian immigrants to this area to open up wasteland and cultivate land.
However, all this depends on finding a suitable contact person. Liu Zheng himself does not have the courage to go to the local aborigines alone. The aborigines in Taiwan have the habit of headhunting. If he goes to the aboriginals by himself, he is likely to steal his head.
Became a dried trophy on a wooden pile in an Aboriginal cottage.!.