The team members were also smoking and chatting in twos and threes, preparing for bed. A few of them are still sorting out today's exploration data in the light of the fire. However, in the evening, they heard a suspicious roar.

In order to ensure that the group survived the night, the exploration team lit a blazing fire and planted tripping signal mines around the camp. Soldiers and team members took turns keeping vigil and constantly refueling large quantities.

In the darkness they seemed to see some wild beasts coming out of the bushes and sneaking around the camp, and the two military dogs had barked at one time. But the night was spent uneventfully after all. The next day, they all got up at five o'clock in the morning and were ready to get back on the road.

After discussion, the Qianshui Association and Liu Zheng decided not to take the road they came from, but to take another road down the mountain, so that they could see more of the local conditions.

After a short rest, they descended from Dagou Mountain and headed inland along a small river. Because it is summer, the water is abundant and the water flow is fast. Liu Zheng thought to himself that the agricultural conditions here were much stronger than those of Lingao, and the water source alone was much richer, so it was no wonder that Wu Nanhai and his people were thinking about this "treasure island" every day.

The exploration team marched along the river beach, and without dense vegetation, the speed of the team was greatly increased. At about eight o'clock, the two military dogs walking in front of the group suddenly barked wildly.

"Attention, there is an enemy!" Qian Shuixie shouted, "All on alert!" As he spoke, he quickly opened the safety of the submachine gun on his shoulder, opened the shoulder rest and knelt down to his shoulder, ready to shoot.

Before he could finish speaking, a frenzied roar rang out from the grass and woods, and then, fifty or sixty natives, almost all of them, rushed out of the grass and woods with a roar, waving their weapons.

Qian Shuixie saw some dark brown figures pounce out of the grass, and the moment he pulled the wrench, "Back to back, fire!" He roared, and didn't look back, the special investigation team had already been trained a lot, turning all tactical movements into instinctive reactions of the body.

The spicy smell of gunpowder rushed to his nose all around him, the butt of the gun hit his shoulder briskly, the recoil of the 022 caliber submachine gun was very small, and Qian Shuiting easily controlled the beating of the muzzle. The second shot knocked out a native armed with a spear and a shield.

Qian Shuixie has participated in many shooting competitions and trainings, and has shot all kinds of humanoid targets, but has never shot a big living person. At first, he was a little flustered in his shooting, but he quickly controlled his emotions, stabilized himself, kept moving the muzzle of the gun, and harvested the figures of the ambushers who rushed out with three bursts, and those people kept stumbling to the ground in the sound of gunfire, and some people let out a loud scream, turned and fled into the deep grass.

Although the 02219 bullet is a small-powered ammunition for the police, it turns into a one-sided slaughter when it shoots a large and almost naked person 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 on its side, and the ambushers had disappeared cleanly.

"Stop shooting!" Qian Shuixie roared. The gunfire stopped, and there was a dead silence on the riverbank, save for the sound of the wind blowing through the grass and branches.

"Is it indigenous?" Liu Zheng was shocked and undecided, although he was a senior travel friend and had received a lot of military training, but his reaction in the event of an emergency was much slower, and the Gm∪7 pistol that he finally drew out only fired two bullets, and the battle was over. The enemy disappeared as quickly as they arrived, and the members of the exploration team did not dare to chase them into the grass. It still maintains the ring defense formation that was urgently formed just now.

Qian Shuixie nodded: "It must be." He looked around at the lower river beach, and it was quiet all around, and the two military dogs sprayed their noses and tried to chase them out, but they did not roar again, indicating that the enemy was far away.

"Check the casualties!" He asked, lowering the muzzle of the submachine gun.

"There were no casualties." The non-commissioned officer replied.

"Recover the shells!" Qian Shuixie stood up, although his fingers left the trigger, they still remained outside the trigger circle, in case there was an emergency, "Search the battlefield!" ”

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

All the corpses were men, and by the standards of this plane, they were tall, strong, strong, and beautiful, not unlike the short, obscene mō of the Austronesian natives in the imagination. It's just that everyone wears ear piercings and huge corks.

"That's probably . It's the so-called Kaliyan. Qian Shuixie said. A corpse lay at his feet on the pebbles of the riverbank, the water flowing below him stained red. These men were almost naked, with little defense other than small rattan weaving and shields of wooden planks.

"This should be a javelin," Qian Shuixie watched as the team members collected the weapons. Most of them were ordinary bamboo guns and wooden guns, and some of the bamboo javelins were thin and soft, and he held them in his hand and checked them, feeling that the center of gravity was well grasped. If it is projected together, it will also have a lot of lethality. In addition, there are several stone axes and iron knives that are very crude, and they are probably imported from the mainland. The Qian Water Association believes that it is unlikely that they will have the ability to smelt.

"They're going to ambush us?" Liu Zheng was a little surprised.

"We are strangers and outsiders, dangerous enemies to them." The Qian Shui Association does not want to say that Taiwan in the 17th century, where there are constant bloody conflicts on this coast, and the United States in the 21st century, will not necessarily be treated kindly in the poor and remote areas that go deep into the interior. They examined the body carefully and found nothing more worth mentioning. Qian Shuixie originally wanted to see if there were any captives who could be saved, and after healing the leading party, he could at least learn more about the situation of the local natives, but only a few who did not die immediately were also seriously injured, and they died soon after.

Qian Shuixie paid attention to the distance between the ambush of the attackers and the river beach where they were marching - the average distance was less than fifty meters, and if the enemy had a decent bow and arrow, they could fire first, and a rain of arrows would cause some injuries even if it was a soft bow and bamboo arrow. If you use javelins in the mix, you will definitely suffer some casualties.

It seems that the Dutch chose to fight in the winter quite justified. At least in winter, there will be no more recklessness of such a man for the enemy to hide.

In addition, the dog is very effective, the dog detects the enemy's ambush earlier than the spearhead, and in such a wilderness landscape, the dog's ability to quickly pursue is much more agile than the slow-moving infantry. According to the experience of the Dutch, the most useful crusade against the local natives was horses and dogs, which is similar to that of the Spaniards in the Americas.

If a military dog team of dozens of dogs is formed, whether it is to act as a spearhead or to pursue, it is very lethal to the natives who lack protection and weapons.

Qian Shuixie returned to the team, and Chandler reported: The Haitian was calling, asking what the gunfire had just done.

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

After this attack, the Qian Shui Association decided not to go inland, and after the other party suffered this big loss, it would either be frightened, or it would search for more Ding Zhuang to find a place. There are really hundreds of people, and the dozen or so of them will still suffer in the complex terrain.

As a result of the attack, the exploration team did not continue to venture deep into the interior, and Qian Shuixie and the team instead traveled along the coastline so that they could receive support from the Haitian at any time.

They concentrated on surveying the topography near Dagou Mountain and Dagou Harbor, measuring the water depth, and mapping the road in Jihua that penetrated into the Kaohsiung Plain.

During this period, the local natives did not clash with the exploration team again, and Liu Zheng had hoped that they would not send people to contact almost all the colonists and pioneers who had penetrated into the wilderness area, and they encountered such a process: attacked, repulsed, negotiated, exchanged gifts, and found the leading party. But they were in the area for four or five days, and no indigenous people came to the makeshift camp near the estuary.

Liu Zhengyuan wanted to establish a preliminary cooperative relationship between the two sides through contact with the indigenous people. In turn, he gained the freedom to move around the territory of the Society, after all, he had studied the historical materials left by the Dutch before his departure. There have been conflicts between several major indigenous communities in Tainan, including the Xingang Society and the local Tagaryan Society, where there have been land disputes, and there have been armed clashes between the two sides. The Newporters also ended up acting as accomplices to the Dutch.

The Dutch in Taiwan took advantage of the contradictions between the indigenous communities to act as arbiters and allies, constantly engaging in "inciting the masses to fight the masses". He felt that the Travelers had to come to this place if they wanted to gain a foothold in the first place. The easiest to exploit is the contradiction between the Tagariyan Society and the Xingang Society. The blow to the Xingang Society also indirectly hit the Shili of the Dutch, making it impossible for them to expand to the Kaohsiung Plain. Dayuan is only two days away from here, less than 40 kilometers in a straight line, and after a year of Christmas battles, the Dutch expanded their territory to the Kaohsiung Plain, and resettled Fujian immigrants to this area to open up wasteland and farm.

However, all this depends on finding a suitable contact, and Liu Zheng himself does not have the courage to go to the local natives alone. The natives of Taiwan have the habit of hunting for people's heads, and he went to find the natives himself, and probably turned his head into a dried trophy on a stake in an indigenous village.