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The team members were also smoking and chatting in twos and threes, preparing to go to bed. [Read the latest chapter] A few of them were sorting out today's exploration data under the firelight. However, at nightfall, they heard a suspicious roar.
In order to ensure that this group of people could spend the night safely, the exploration team lit a strong fire and placed trip signal mines around the camp. Soldiers and team members took turns keeping vigil, constantly adding fuel in large quantities.
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 the night passed safely after all. The next day, they all got up at five o'clock in the morning and were ready to hit the road again.
After discussion, Qian Shuixie and Liu Zheng decided not to take the same road they came on, 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 headed inland along a small river. Because it is summer, the water is abundant and the current is fast. Liu Zheng thought to himself that the agricultural conditions here were much better than those in Lingao and the water resources were much richer. No wonder Wu Nanhai and the others were thinking about this "treasure island" every day.
The exploration team traveled 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 half-knelt on his shoulder, 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 their 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 shot knocked down a native armed with a spear and shield.
Qian Shuixie has participated in many shooting competitions and trainings and shot various human-shaped targets, but he has never shot a large living person. At first, he was a little panicked when shooting, but he quickly controlled his emotions, stabilized his body, kept moving the muzzle of the gun, and used three bursts to harvest the figures of the ambushers who rushed out. Some people stumbled to the ground and some people let out a loud howl, turned around and fled into the deep 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 gunshots lasted for less than two minutes, and the river beach had become a bloody slaughterhouse. More than 20 corpses and dying people were scattered everywhere, and the ambushers had completely disappeared.
"Stop shooting!" Qian Shuixie yelled. The gunfire 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 shocked and undecided. Although he was a senior travel companion and had received a lot of military training, his reaction was much slower when encountering emergencies. He finally pulled out the gm∪7 pistol and fired. After two bullets, the battle is over. The enemies disappeared as quickly as they arrived, and the members of the exploration team did not dare to chase them into the grass rashly. The circular defense formation that was formed urgently was still maintained.
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 anymore, indicating that the enemy was far away. .
"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 can be said to be tall, strong, strong, and beautiful in shape, which is different from the short and wretched bodies of the natives of the Austronesian Islands in the imagination. It's just that everyone wears pierced ears and huge wooden plugs.
"This is probably the so-called hooking up with the Galyan people." Qian Shuixie said. A corpse lay at his feet on the pebbles of the river beach, and the river flowing beneath him was dyed red. These people were almost naked and had almost no means of defense except for small wicker and wooden shields.
"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, and some bamboo javelins were thin and soft. He weighed them in his hands and felt that he had a good grasp of the center of gravity. If they are projected together, they will be quite lethal. In addition, there are several stone axes and iron knives that are very rough, probably imported from the mainland. Qian Shui Xie believed that they were unlikely to have smelting capabilities.
"Why did they ambush us?" Liu Zheng was a little shocked and undecided.
"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. You may not be treated kindly. , they carefully inspected the body 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 who led the way could at least learn more about the conditions of the local indigenous people. However, the few who did not die immediately were seriously injured and 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 soft bows and bamboo arrows can cause injuries to some people. If you use javelins together, your side will definitely suffer certain casualties.
It seems that the Dutch chose to fight in winter for a very reasonable reason. 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 detect the enemy's ambush earlier than the top soldiers, and in such a wilderness landscape, the dog's fast pursuit ability is much more agile than the slow-moving infantry. According to the experience of the Dutch: the most useful tools for conquering local indigenous people are horses and dogs. This is similar to the Spanish in America.
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 recruit more young men to find a place. If hundreds of people really came, the dozen or so of them would still suffer in the complex terrain.
Due to the attack, the exploration team no longer ventured 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 that went deep into the wilderness encountered this process: attacked - repulsed - negotiated - Give each other gifts - find the party that leads the way. However, they had been active there for four or five days, but no natives came to the temporary camp near the mouth of the river.
Liu Zheng originally wanted to establish a preliminary cooperative relationship through contact with the indigenous people. After all, he had studied the historical information left by the Dutch before setting off. There are conflicts between several major indigenous societies in Tainan. The Xingang Society and the local Tagalog Society have land disputes, and there have been armed conflicts between the two parties. The Newport people eventually acted as accomplices of the Dutch.
The Dutch took advantage of the conflicts between indigenous communities in Taiwan, acted as arbiters and allies, and constantly "provoked the masses to fight against the masses." He felt that if the Travelers initially wanted to gain a foothold here, they would need this skill. The easiest thing to exploit is the conflict between the Tagalyan Society and the Xingang Society. The attack on Xingang Society also indirectly affected the power of the Dutch, making it impossible for them to expand to the Kaohsiung Plain. It was only two days away from here, and the straight-line distance was less than 40 kilometers. After the Christmas Battle one year ago, the Dutch expanded their territory to the Kaohsiung Plain and resettled Fujian immigrants to open up wasteland and farm in this area.
However, all this depends on finding a suitable contact person. Liu Zheng himself does not have the courage to go to the local natives alone. The natives in Taiwan have the habit of headhunting. He went to find the natives himself, and probably turned his head into a dried trophy on the wooden pile of the native village. ! .
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