Guo Zhiyuan helped Liu Ruosi up, patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "General Liu, this battle is lost, it is not the fault of the war, you and I are too light on the enemy, knowing ourselves and knowing that the other side can win a hundred battles, jungle warfare is not General Liu's strength, we attack the enemy's strength with our own shortcomings, no wonder we will lose, the fault lies with me, General Liu does not have to blame himself too much, and go down to recuperate with peace of mind, I have my own plans......"

Liu Ruosi lowered his head in shame and retreated, Guo Zhiyuan also put away his smile, although he was very calm in front of Liu Ruosi, but in fact, he was in a bad mood, this was the first time he had encountered such a big setback, if it was not handled well, it was likely to cause panic among the new immigrants and disrupt his grand plan, so he had to immediately launch a second battle against those natives, and this time he could only win and not lose!

This time Guo Zhiyuan learned a lesson, first of all, he followed Liu Ruosi into the mountains with a few Pingpu guides, to learn from him about the attack on the seaside salt field of the Shengfan indigenous tribes, the original attack on the seaside salt field is a tribe of the Atayal tribe, the Atayal tribe is a relatively large number of ethnic groups among the Dongfan aborigines, the number of tens of thousands, the Atayal people are fierce and brave, hunting and mountain field burning for a living, believe in supernatural gods, so there is a habit of tattooing on the face, There is even a barbaric custom of making the enemy's skull into a wine vessel for sacrifice, so the other indigenous ethnic groups of Dongbo are a little afraid of them, and they dare not provoke them easily, because once they have a feud with the Atayal tribe, it is endless, and there is no concept of bowing their heads and admitting defeat in the minds of the Atayal people!

Guo Zhiyuan listened to the situation of the Atayal tribe introduced by the guide of the Pingpu tribe, his brows furrowed even tighter, this is the last thing he wants to encounter, the Atayal people are not afraid of being fierce and brave, he is afraid of this kind of barbaric and unreasonable minority who will not bow his head to death, he has enough confidence in winning the war with the Atayal tribe, but it is obvious that this is not a problem that can be solved by pure force, he can't wipe out the Atayal tribe, he needs to conquer far more than just the Atayal tribe, there are so many indigenous minorities in Dongbo who need to conquer, If he had used too drastic and bloody methods to suppress the Atayal tribe, it would likely provoke strong resistance from the other indigenous people.

Guo Zhiyuan couldn't think of a good solution for a while, and he could only take one step at a time, no matter what, he had to win the battle against the Atayal tribe first, and only then would he have the confidence to win the battle and seize the initiative in his own hands, so this time Guo Zhiyuan planned to personally lead the troops, and brought all the most elite regimental training township troops.

I heard that Guo Zhiyuan planned to lead the army in person, and his subordinates naturally tried their best to dissuade him, it is said that Guo Zhiyuan has reached his current status, and there is really no need to risk his life, but Guo Zhiyuan wants to have an in-depth understanding of these ethnic minorities in Dongfan, so he naturally has to go and see in person to have the bottom, and in the end, he still tried his best to lead the army to fight against the Atayal tribe by himself.

Personally led the regiment to train the villagers into the jungle, Guo Zhiyuan knew how bad the combat environment he was facing, he had also entered the jungle to fight when he was suppressing bandits in Gutian before, but compared with the jungle of Dongfan, it was a big deal, don't look at the mountains of Dongfan are not high, but because of the sparse people here, no one has cut down the trees at all, the trees grow densely, and they can't find the road at all, it is simply difficult to move an inch.

Fortunately, many of Guo Zhiyuan's regimental training township soldiers were once hunters in the mountains, like Xie Dahu and Xie Erhu, they all begged for a living in the mountains all year round, so they were not afraid to fight jungle warfare, but the advance speed was indeed too slow, in addition to dealing with dense jungles and various poisonous insects and beasts along the way, they also had to carefully eliminate all kinds of insidious traps set by the Atayal people, and walked for most of the day to cross a mountain.

There was still no trace of the Atayal people along the way, but Guo Zhiyuan became more and more vigilant, he couldn't help but repeat Liu Ruosi's mistakes, so when the team reached a relatively open valley, Guo Zhiyuan ordered to stop marching and camping early, Guo Zhiyuan himself was not good at leading the army to fight, so he simply became the shopkeeper, after Shen Junrong's formal military training, like Xie Erhu and their backbones have grown up, and this kind of thing is naturally familiar with camping, and there is no need for Guo Zhiyuan to explain, and arranged for the soldiers to cut down and camp.

Guo Zhiyuan pretended to go around the camp built by the soldiers with his hands behind his back and went into the camp tent and never came out, the soldiers came back with some game nearby, lit the bonfire, and started to barbecue meat and rice, in the middle Xie Erhu took the barbecue and bamboo rice into Guo Zhiyuan's main camp tent, and when he came out, he began to greet the soldiers to play, wrestling, fighting, and making loud jokes with meat, until the middle of the night, Xie Erhu loudly scolded the soldiers to go back to the camp tent to rest.

Soon the noisy camp fell silent, the bonfire was slowly extinguished, and the whole camp was gradually engulfed in darkness, and a few night patrol sentries could be faintly seen yawning and lazily walking around in the sparse starlight. At this time, several heads suddenly appeared in the dense forest above the valley, it was the Atayal people who Guo Zhiyuan had been looking for without a trace, the tattoos on their faces and the tattoos on their bodies allowed them to better hide their tracks in the jungle, and they couldn't find it if they didn't look carefully.

A few Atayal people carefully observed the camp below, and soon disappeared again, and even if anyone noticed it at this time, most of them thought they were dazzled, and after a while, suddenly there was a small but very dense sound of ropes in the woods, as if some wild beast was walking through the woods, but it quickly fell silent again.

A regimental training township soldier sentry in charge of the perimeter of the camp seemed to have noticed an abnormality, stood up and was about to approach to investigate, when he suddenly felt a pain in his neck, as if he had been bitten by a mosquito, and just wanted to cover it with his hand, the whole person fell to the ground as if he was drunk!

Without waiting for the other night patrol sentinels to react, countless Atayal people suddenly burst out of the woods, roaring like a tiger descending the mountain towards Guo Zhiyuan's camp, and the protective measures such as antlers and shallow trenches set up by the regimental training villagers outside the camp were simply useless to them, and the Atayal people easily jumped over with a slight leap of the kinetic energy of the swoop, and quickly rushed into the heart of the camp with lightning speed, and then began to set fire to the camp tent. Or throw a simple but very sharp bamboo spear at the tent in your hand!

In the imagination of the Atayal people, the next thing should be to see Guo Zhiyuan and his troops being killed by their surprise attack, screaming and screaming, and then the soldiers will start to flee in all directions in panic, and then it will become a carnival party for them to harvest people's heads, which is what they did against Liu Ruosi's troops before!