Dragon Sea Empire

The aborigines of the Mujialiu Bay Society fled collectively. They struggled hard in the jungle, swamps, and streams. A group of dozens of aboriginal fighters ambushed behind the team, desperately trying to block the chasing Chinese company guards.

And the escort has a large number of native auxiliary soldiers, who can search them out in the jungle.In the rearguard battles, the indigenous fighters of the Mujialiu Bay Society were dead on the hills, bushes and streams. Along the way, at least four or fifty people were killed by the guards. , the distance between the two was once narrowed to the extent that it was visible to the naked eye, and it was impossible to get rid of it.

After Zhao Tie's sentry searched the village community, under the guidance of the indigenous guide of Xingang Society, they set out from another mountain road to encircle the indigenous people of Mujialiuwan Society.Yin Feng took the field artillery team and his own personal guards, a total of 100 people directly under the team, to station in Mujialiuwan Village.

In the evening, logistics personnel from the headquarters of the Taiwan Harbor Company brought news of another northward march.

The infantry of the first sentry guard under the command of Mai De did not attack Huwei Longshe immediately after arriving near Yaogang, but sent people to recruit more than 200 aboriginal fighters on the site of Xingangshe More than 200 Han Chinese coolies set out for Huwei Longshe.

The Huwei Longshe people and the Siraya people do not seem to be the same race. The Huwei Longshe people are a head taller than the natives of the four Siraya societies around Taiwan, and they are famous local warriors. They have deep fears.They often fight with each other for the hunting grounds, and most of the time the Xingangshe people are no match for the Huweilongshe people.

These are the intelligences that Mai De sent a large number of scouts to the surrounding area when he was staying near Yao Harbor.There is no more information, because the Han residents who did business with the Huweilong people were either killed or driven away a while ago, so the Han guides will not be found for a while; and the aboriginal guides are going to The territory of the Huwei Longshe was rejected with a wave of hands.

Mai De also thought about asking Yin Feng for reinforcements, but after thinking about it, he gave up.He is a direct descendant of the Mai family and a cousin of Mai Dahai.Because there are many descendants of the Mai family among the Danmin sailors, and there are many descendants of the Mai family who hold positions such as the captain of the escort fleet and the head of the helmsman. Therefore, outsiders are somewhat mocking them for relying on Mai Wan'er's nepotism.

Mai Dahai was stripped of his position as deputy commander by Yin Feng because he brought Zeng Rui to the warship privately; although there have always been gossips from others, but this time the members of the Mai family were a little bit embarrassed, and from time to time some people talked behind their backs: "Look, people from the Mai family always cause trouble..."

Mai De is the highest-ranking member of the Mai family in the infantry, so he is determined to fight for the Mai family.So he recruited more auxiliary troops within the scope of his authority, and set off on a rainy day with his first infantry and artillery.

Soon, under the leadership of the Han guides, the vanguard of Mai De had already seen Huwei Longshe, which had more than 2000 houses and a population of nearly 4000.On this day, the rain stopped, and Mai De's troops advanced along a stream towards Huwei Longshe.

After getting the news that the enemy was approaching, Huwei Longshe gathered all the middle-aged men, and a total of 800 indigenous warriors rushed out of the gate of the village, and took the initiative to attack the first post of the guards on the river bank.

Mai De deliberately marched slowly, just to wait for the opponent to come out to fight.So he directed the team to line up in three rows, with forty musketeers in each row.The native soldiers of the Newport Society were concentrated on the left wing, and the right wing was the professional artillery team, commanded by two Portuguese mercenary officers.After the formation of the troop, the Huweilong native fighters also rushed over in disorder. They didn't have any formation to speak of, but after a drum beat, they all shouted and rushed straight towards the guard's position.

Most of Med's first posts are veterans who have experienced too many battles with the Dutch, and many of them have also participated in the battles between Luzon and the Spaniards.Today, they have received long-term training in modern firearms warfare, using advanced flintlock muskets, and the enemies they face are tribal warriors who are not yet expected in primitive society, armed with spears and bone-headed bows and arrows.This gap in warfare technology cannot be bridged by numbers and courage.

The artillery fired first, and three solid iron shells bounced and smashed into the dense aboriginal crowd on the river beach, plowing out three bloody corridors in the charging team.During the Italian War in the 20th century, the artillery of the French army knocked down more than 20 people per shell in one battle, which was an unprecedented phenomenon at that time.Today, the three shells have similar effects, each knocking down more than [-] people.At this time, even the Huweilong warriors rushing to the forefront, the weapons in their hands could not endanger the guards of the China United Company at all.

"Crack, crack, crack!" The crisp sound of flintlock musket fire continued, and the Huwei Longshe warriors who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another.Three rows of bursts, compared with the matchlock gun, the high efficiency of the flintlock gun can completely shoot non-stop.The soldiers at the first sentry were the ones who trained the hardest in shooting skills, and at this moment they were sweeping the river beach with continuous firepower.

The artillery team was reloaded again, and fired shotguns at the approaching native troops!

Thousands of grains of iron sand swept across the battlefield, and the indigenous warriors of Huwei Longshe were hit like wheat harvested by a sickle, falling to the ground one after another.

Such momentum completely suppressed the bravery of the Huweilong fighters, they panicked and completely lost their will to fight.Before the field artillery fired the third shot, many native soldiers turned and fled.

Mai De ordered loudly: "Ten steps forward, shoot in salvo."

"Boom!" The power of the 120 musket salvos should not be underestimated. Dozens of native warriors who were still hesitating crashed and fell down. The last courage of the Huwei Longshe fighters also disappeared. Frightened and desperately ran away.

Before that, the poor Huwei Longshe soldiers had only seen muskets from the occasional Japanese pirates, and had never been in contact with firearms.But today they suddenly encountered the musketeers ahead of the times, and failure was inevitable.

"Load the bayonet, load the ammunition!" The soldiers of the escort team quickly completed the actions required by the password, and Mai De issued the next command: "Ten steps forward to shoot a volley, and the bayonet charges!"

After the guards fired another volley at the first whistle, the soldiers rushed up with their bayonets straight.At this moment, the warriors of Huweilong completely lost any courage to fight. They ran around and fled in all directions, even ignoring the gate of the village. As a result, the soldiers of the guard team rushed into the big village directly.

Mai De is not Yin Feng, there are not so many rules.While ordering the local auxiliary soldiers of the Xingang Society to pursue the fleeing Huwei Longshe people, he ordered the fire to be set on fire.Fortunately, he managed to restrain himself a bit, and just burned down a street of buildings.The Huweilong people completely lost the confidence to resist. They lost more than 250 lives on the river beach. Later, when they were defeated, 60 or [-] people were killed by the enemies of the Xingang Society inside and outside the village.

Such a catastrophe cannot be endured by an indigenous tribe with a population of less than 4000.In the blink of an eye, more than one-third of the adult males who were able to fight were lost, and the total population was reduced by one-tenth. This is simply a catastrophe of extermination!

When Mai De's men were still burning houses, the elders of Huweilong appeared. They held up the small betel nut trees and small coconut trees whose roots were wrapped in soil, and the military leaders held up their spears to express their surrender.Only then did Mai De give the order to stop the hunting, but the Xingang Society members did not have the awareness to obey the command, and continued to attack the Huweilong people. It was not until Mai De sent guards to fire warning shots that the Xingang Society people's massacre was stopped.

Huweilong, as the most powerful village in the northern part of Hong Kong, was defeated in the first battle, and the defeat was so complete and disastrous that the indigenous villages in the surrounding areas were shocked.In the next few days, villages such as Dongluo (D**olee), Erlin (Gierim), Maoergan (Vasikan) and other villages around Huweilong successively sent people to present small betel nut trees and small coconut trees as a token of respect. surrender.

Huweilong, after such a severe looting, was no longer able to fight against the Chinese company, so he could only accept the conditions of the Chinese company's agreement: almost the same as the Madou Club.Yin Feng was very satisfied with Mai De's achievements, so he sent someone to give him the covenant he signed with Madou Society, so the basic content of the covenant with Huwei Long Society and other village communities was a copy of Yin Feng's covenant.

Mai De stayed in Huwei Longshe for a few days, took over a few employees from the Ministry of Commerce from the company, and started to set up an animal skin purchase base in Huwei Longshe.After he signed the treaty with the aborigines, he immediately began to investigate the area ruled by King Dadufan in the north.

There are two routes from Taiwan Port to Tamsui and Chicken Coop.One is by sea, heading north from Taiwan to Jilong, and the other is from Dayuan to the east through Beinan and then to the north.Taking the sea route is greatly affected by the seasonal climate. You must choose the south wind season, and you must also guard against sea storms and pirates, and it costs a lot; take the land route, the mountains are high, the road is dangerous, and there are unknown aborigines living in seclusion in deep mountains and high forests. It is also extremely difficult.Therefore, opening up a land road leading directly from the north to the south has become an urgent problem to be solved by the China United Company.

Although the company's influence has expanded to the Dadu River basin today, there are still many aboriginal villages between Tamsui and Dadu River.The company learned from the Han Chinese pirates who used to live in Dadu Fanguo that there were 22 villages among them, and 18 of them were headed by a leader named Dadu Wang.The area he ruled, roughly speaking, included the waters between Dadu Creek and Dajia Creek, Shashi, and Niucao, Wuniulan and Puzaili in the east, Ashu, Maowuke and the south. With Dawu County as the southern boundary, Nantou, Beitou, Maoluo and other vast areas in central Taiwan.

Yin Feng's guiding principle to Mai De is: for the Huwei Longshe, first conquer and then appease; while for the unfamiliar Dadufan King's ruled area, it is mainly to explore the way, and then to use force to test.In short, the primary purpose is to open the way, not to conquer this "Fan Kingdom".

Med's escort soldiers are likely to be the first Chinese army to enter this area.He sent a few Han Chinese and indigenous officials to discuss the situation with the Dadu Wang in advance, using the excuse of borrowing the road to Danshui; it took a few days for Mai De to get the news, and Fan Wang's answer was: "No borrowing the road!"

Maid decided to ignore the message, and except for a small number of personnel left behind to help and protect the personnel of the company's business department, the rest went on the road together, marching along the coastline to the mysterious world of King Dadupan.Near noon, because the sea water began to rise, members of the company's escort team had to go through a lot of broken land and deep rivers into the sea, so they turned to the inland and came to an indigenous village.Residents there set fire to grass and bushes in several places, igniting the fire...