Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 931 First Contact

The team members were also smoking and chatting in twos and threes, getting ready to sleep.Several of them are still sorting out today's exploration data by the firelight.However, as night fell, they heard a suspicious growling sound.

In order to ensure that this group of people spent the night safely, the exploration team lit a pile of vigorous fires and arranged tripping signal mines around the camp.Soldiers and team members took turns to keep watch, and fuel was constantly added in large quantities.

In the dark, they seemed to see some wild animals coming out of the bushes and walking around the camp secretly, and the two military dogs had barked once.But the night passed safely after all.The next day, they were all up at five o'clock in the morning, ready to go back on the road.

After discussion, Qian Shuixie and Liu Zheng decided not to take the road they came from, but to take another road down the mountain, so that they can see more local conditions.

After overcoming the thorns and thorns, they came down from Dagou Mountain and took a rest, then marched inland along a small river.Because it is summer, the water volume is very abundant and the current is turbulent.Liu Zheng thought to himself that the agricultural conditions here are much better than those in Lingao - the water source alone is much richer, 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 speed of the team was greatly improved.At around eight o'clock, the two military dogs walking in front of the team suddenly barked wildly.

"Attention, there is an enemy situation!" Qian Shuixie shouted, "Everyone is on alert!" He quickly released the safety of the submachine gun on his shoulder, opened the shoulder rest and half knelt on his shoulder, ready to shoot.

Before he could finish his words, there was a frantic howl in the grass and woods, and then fifty or sixty almost naked natives rushed out of the grass and woods roaring and brandishing their weapons.

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 turning his head. The special investigation team had already undergone extensive training, turning all tactical actions into instinctive reactions of the body.

Suddenly there was gunfire around him, the acrid smell of gunpowder hit his nose, the butt of the gun hit his shoulder briskly, the recoil of the 0.22 caliber submachine gun was very small, Qian Shuiting easily controlled the beating of the muzzle.A second burst fell a native with a spear and shield.

Qian Shuixie has participated in many shooting competitions and trainings, and has shot various human targets, but he has never shot a large living person.At the beginning, he was a little flustered 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 ambusher who rushed out. Some staggered and fell to the ground, and some people uttered loud howls, turned around and fled into the deep grass.

Although the 0.22LR ammunition is a low-power ammunition for police use, it has turned into a one-sided massacre when it shoots a large living person who is almost naked at a distance of less than 50 meters.The gunfire lasted less than two minutes, and the river beach had become a bloody slaughterhouse, with more than 20 corpses and dying people lying in a haphazard manner, and the ambushers had disappeared completely.

"Stop shooting!" Qian Shuixie yelled.The gunfire stopped, and there was a dead silence on the river beach, only the sound of the wind blowing through the grass and branches.

"Is it an aborigine?" Liu Zheng was still in shock. Although he was a senior traveling friend and had received a lot of military training, his reaction to emergencies was much slower, and the Glock17 pistol he finally pulled out only fired a second shot. The bullet battle is over.The enemies disappeared as fast as they arrived, and the members of the exploration team did not dare to rush into the grass rashly.The ring defense formation formed urgently just now is still maintained.

Qian Shuixie nodded: "It must be." He looked around the river beach, the surroundings were quiet, two military dogs sniffed their noses, eager to chase them out, but they didn't roar anymore, indicating that the enemy had gone far away.

"Check the casualties!" He lowered the muzzle of the submachine gun and asked.

"No casualties." The sergeant replied.

"Recover the bullet casings!" Qian Shuixie stood up. Although his finger left the trigger, it still stayed outside the trigger ring in case there were emergencies. "Search the battlefield!"

The scorching bullet casings were recovered by a special person into a special pocket, and the team members covered each other and began to inspect the corpses on the river beach.

All the corpses were men. According to the standards of this time and space, they were tall, strong, strong, and beautiful. They were not quite the same as the short and wretched natives of the Austronesian origin in the imagination.It's just that everyone wears ear holes and giant corks.

"This is probably the so-called Tajialiyang people." Qian Shuixie said.A corpse at his feet was lying on the pebbles of the river beach, and the river flowing under him was stained red.These people are almost naked, with little defense except for small rattan 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 and wooden spears, and 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 projected together, there is no small lethality.In addition, there are a few stone axes and iron knives - very rough, probably imported from the mainland.Qianshui Association believes that they are unlikely to have the ability to smelt.

"Why did they ambush us?" Liu Zheng was still in shock.

"We are strange outsiders, and they are dangerous enemies." Qian Shuixie would like to say that Taiwan in the 17th century, where there were constant bloody conflicts on this coast, is the United States in the 21st century. Not necessarily friendly treatment. ,
They examined the body carefully and found nothing more noteworthy.Qian Shuixie originally wanted to see if there were any captives who could be saved, and healed them to act as a leader—at least they could learn more about the situation of the local aborigines. They all died.

Qian Shuixie paid attention to the distance between the attackers' ambush and the river beach where they marched - the average distance is less than 50 meters. If the enemy has decent bows and arrows in their hands, they can fire first, and a round of arrows rains down ——Even soft bows and bamboo arrows can cause some injuries.If you use javelins in addition, your side will definitely suffer certain casualties.

It seems that the Dutch choose to fight in winter is very reasonable.At least in winter, there will no longer be such a tall grass for the enemy to hide in.

In addition, dogs are very useful-dogs discovered the enemy's ambush earlier than vanguards, and in such a wild landscape, dogs' fast pursuit ability is much more agile than slow-moving infantry.According to the experience of the Dutch: horses and dogs are the most useful to crusade against the local aborigines-this is similar to the Spaniards in America.

If there is a military dog ​​team composed of dozens of dogs, whether it is serving as a vanguard or chasing them, it will be very lethal to the aborigines who lack protection and weapons.

Qian Shuixie returned to the team, and Chandler reported: Haitian is calling, asking what the gunshot was about.

He took over the microphone of the walkie-talkie: "We were attacked by the local natives... No, there were no casualties, and the enemy ran away. It seems that the other party has been eyeing us for a long time."

After this attack, the Qianshui Association decided not to move further inland—after the opponent had suffered such a big loss, they would either be scared out of their wits, or they would recruit more young men to find a place.If there are hundreds of people coming, the dozen or so of them will still suffer under the complicated terrain.

Due to the attack, the exploration team no longer continued to venture deep into the inland area. Qian Shuixie led the team to move along the coastline instead, so as to get support from the Haitian at any time.

They concentrated their efforts on surveying the topography and landforms near Dagou Mountain and Dagou Port, measured the water depth, and surveyed and mapped the planned road going deep into the Kaohsiung Plain.

During the period, the local aborigines did not have any conflicts with the exploration team. Liu Zheng originally hoped that they would send someone to contact them—almost all the colonists and pioneers who went deep into the wild areas encountered such a process: being attacked-repulsed- Negotiation - exchanging gifts - find the leading party.However, they have been active in the local area for four or five days, but no indigenous people have come to the temporary camp near the river mouth.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to establish a preliminary cooperative relationship through contact with the aborigines.Then he gained the freedom to move on the territory of the society-after all, he had studied the historical materials left by the Dutch before he set off.There are conflicts between several major indigenous societies in Tainan. The Xingang Society and the local Tagalyan Society have land disputes, and armed conflicts have occurred between the two sides.The Xingang people eventually acted as accomplices of the Dutch.

The Dutch used the contradictions among the indigenous communities in Taiwan to act as arbitrators and allies, constantly engaging in "stirring the masses to fight against the masses."He felt that it was necessary for the transversal people to gain a firm foothold here in the first place.The easiest thing to take advantage of is the contradiction between the Tagalyan Society and the Newport Society.A blow to the Xingang Society also indirectly hit the power of the Dutch, making it impossible for them to expand to the Kaohsiung Plain.Dayuan is only two days away from here, and the straight-line distance is less than 40 kilometers-after the Christmas Battle in 1635, the Dutch expanded their territory to the Kaohsiung Plain and resettled Fujian immigrants to this area to open up wasteland and farm.

However, all of this depends on finding a suitable contact person, and Liu Zheng himself has no courage to go to the local natives alone.The aborigines in Taiwan all have the habit of hunting heads. He went to find the aborigines himself, and probably turned his head into a dried trophy on a stake in an aboriginal cottage.

(End of this chapter)