With new vassals, there will be new vassals.

On the playground in the middle of the Chihkan military camp, Han Xiaobo, in front of all 100 indigenous soldiers, announced an appointment to the big office with an electric loudspeaker: The "Provisional First Battalion" of the local troops under the jurisdiction of the Tainan Suppression General will be established with immediate effect.

The soldiers of the temporary first battalion are all composed of local aborigines, and the actual number of soldiers is currently 100, and the vacancy of 200 is to be filled.

The commander of the temporary first battalion is Wang Xiaohui, chief of the general staff of the Tainan Suppression, and Gong Da, deputy battalion commander.

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No native can understand Han Xiaobo's string of quick Mandarin, not even Gonda, who can already stutter and speak Chinese. But it didn't matter, soon a few young natives in military uniforms came over and began to explain to the tribesmen with difficulty.

Before this, the traversal group selected some "indigenous elders" from the new appendages, and the teenagers were assigned to some departments that often had to deal with the natives, and they were basically a certain follower of the traversal. In this environment of full-time follow-up, some smart teenagers quickly learned simple Mandarin daily language, and these few assigned to the troops were no exception.

The next step was to arrange a series of preludes for the natives to be recruited, such as dormitories and baths, in which 30 people were always standing in a military posture on the playground, sweating profusely, and everyone turned a blind eye to the noisy barracks.

It wasn't until just before dinner that the 100 indigenous soldiers were settled.

After the meal, it's time to change clothes. The main weapon of the 1st Battalion is still the javelin brought by the native soldiers, which is not intended to be changed: the main battle will be completed by guns, and the new annex soldiers will actually take whatever they want. Moreover, the opponent is also a native, who is not a high threat, and for a certain force that is now very short of iron, the primitive javelin is enough.

The offense can only be like this, but there is still something that can be done in the defense: rattan armor.

Born in the later generations of Yunnan Menghu Folk Customs Garden, the yellow rattan cuirass made of Taiwan's local yellow rattan through machine tool grinding, soaking tung oil, fumigation, machine weaving and other thirteen processes, this moment exudes a hard black shine, was awarded to the new annexed soldiers one by one.

This kind of rattan armor has a fine structure, staggered weaving, tough and rainproof, anti-knife and anti-gun stabbing, and is an excellent southern rain and hot zone armor, the only weakness is not fireproof.

After demonstrating the defense of rattan armor on the spot with indigenous shuttle darts in the middle of the playground, the morale of the soldiers of the temporary first battalion was extremely high - this kind of armor that can die with the opponent's javelin is equivalent to one more life between life and death, and most of the indigenous warriors who have fought with rival tribes and have headhunting experience understand the value of rattan armor at the first time, and this does not need to be translated at all.

The rattan armor lining was made of some homespun scraps, and soon a clever man who had traded with the Japanese proposed that the lining should be made of deerskin...... I'm going, there's a lot going on? Wealthy soldiers like the US imperialists want better accessories are all paid out of their own pockets, not to mention the current poor and white crossing forces...... Count, how many people want to upgrade, send someone back to the village to report the news, a pair of A is two deer skins counting the installation fee, and hand it over to the kiln area nearby, and receive the new model in two days......

Well, you don't have to kill people to burn down houses to coax the natives into handing over the deerskins, which is barely a little more clever than the Dutch.

A noisy day is finally over. Early the next morning, the two soldiers in the barracks began to line up in the playground. The soldiers of the temporary first battalion are armed with pike darts, wearing hats, rattan armor on the upper body, cropped pants on the lower body, and straw sandals.

The 30 army cadets were wrapped even more tightly: gauze hats, short coats and gloves on their upper bodies, leggings on their lower bodies, cloth covers and straw sandals tied on their feet, and their whole bodies were not exposed.

The troops, shouting loudly from an electric horn, began to pull out, and the destination was - to return in a circle.

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Untrained, run-in teams, at least here in the traversal, cannot be sent to the battlefield; Even if it is as rough as an indigenous warrior, it is as precious as it is now, and there is huge room for improvement, and after training into an elite warrior, it can save a lot of manpower and material resources in the future, which is very important.

The so-called elite warriors are actually not very demanding: if they can be in the Tainan wilderness covered by primitive vegetation in the 17th century, cooperate with the main force with AKs, and be a good auxiliary, it's OK.

This small goal will be implemented from today.

The first thing the soldiers of the 1st Battalion learned was to march in the queue. They had to learn to march in one or two columns, and to start and stop at any time according to the command. The requirements for them are not high, they do not need a neat march, they only need to understand the order, learn to line up to follow, like the workers in the big factory queuing up to eat, there is a basic order.

After the team started, they headed east and headed for the island. The speed along the way was not fast, and at intervals there would be soldiers wearing Penny hats, rifles, and short sticks to maintain order; The procession would often come to an abrupt halt at the command of the loudspeaker, and the indigenous warriors, in the process, quickly learned how to walk and follow in formation, pausing to rest, as they were greeted by ebony sticks.

30 jubilant cadets followed at the end of the line - finally no longer have to stand in a military posture to walk in the queue! With a woodcutter at their waist and a smile on their faces, the young men stepped neatly and felt the elasticity of the new weeds after the burning under their feet, and they were in a good mood like an outing.

The "rotten land" policy, with the Chihkan New Area as the center, has been slowly expanding to the island. The weeds near the coast were either burned or cut down to make straw sandals, and the land they left behind was sprinkled with rush seeds.

Inland shrubland and woodland are treated in the same way; Cobweb-like streams are being cleaned up and dredged, improvised wooden bridges are erected, and stagnant pools along the way are being filled.

Therefore, the movement of the large army today is still very easy, and the officers who are determined to train the formation did not add any difficult subjects today, that is, they simply familiarized the natives with various passwords, familiar with the formation, lined up to cross the bridge according to the requirements, and trekked the stream at the selected location.

The team walked around the "rotten land" with a radius of less than 5 kilometers, walked for most of the day, and ate a battlefield bamboo tube meal at noon: rice mixed with vegetables and diced fish was filled into the bamboo tube, and each person had one before departure, and at noon the troops lit a fire on the spot, and the bamboo tube could be eaten after heating.

This chowder itself has been cooked, so there is no need to add water temporarily, and it can be eaten by slightly heating it at this temperature in Tainan, which is convenient and fast, but the disadvantage is that it is not easy to store, and it is best not to eat it overnight.

According to the requirements of the training subject, half of the team ate hot food today, and the other half ate cold food directly, and after eating, all the bamboo tubes were discarded, and then everyone replenished their kettles with purified water in several orange folding buckets.

Before returning to the camp in the afternoon, the large army also deliberately went out of the safe "rotten ground" area and went to the vegetation area overgrown with shrubs and broad-leaved plants to take a small turn, and rushed back to the camp before evening.