Chapter 1204 - "Home Field Advantage"

After digging out the oil, Marin specially waited for a day. Then, 24 hours a day to count the number. To Ma Lin's disappointment, the oil output of this pit did not reach the 40 kilograms per day that Mr. Qiu Gou dug in later generations, but only half, that is, 20 kilograms per day.

"It's too low, it's all discounted!" Marin was dumbfounded. With such a small output, it is only 600 kilograms a month. If you use it to refine gasoline, it will be even less, and it will not be enough at all.

"By the way, I almost forgot about Zhuo Tsutsui!" Marin slapped his head sharply.

After finding the pit, Ma Lin led the team to sail along Houlong Creek in a small boat and found the big boat to return to Keelung. However, halfway through, he was attacked by local natives.

While the boat was sailing, a javelin suddenly appeared in the woods along the shore and struck the soldiers on board......

Fortunately, Marin was cautious by nature (afraid of death) and let the soldiers wear rhinoceros skin armor on the boat. Moreover, the javelins thrown by the local natives are actually the most primitive javelins, that is, the kind of javelins with sharpened heads. Therefore, in the end, the hundreds of people in the Marin belt were at most bruised and swollen by the impact of the javelin, but there were no casualties.

However, the attack of the natives also angered Marin. After returning to Keelung, Ma Lin arranged for Zhang Cai to send people to Zhuo Tube Well Town, Daying County, Shuzhong to hire people who knew how to dig Zhuo Tube Wells, and to purchase well sinking equipment made of local Nanzhu. At the same time, Ma Lin mobilized a large number of recruits and followed the 500 soldiers sent by Ma Lin to Houlongxi to fight the natives......

Marin's attack on the local aborigines was not a whim, but he realized a problem - if he didn't sweep the surrounding aborigines, he wouldn't be able to extract oil from the pit.

Therefore, Ma Lin planned to send troops to sweep all the several Fanshe villages near the sulfur pit and several Fanshe villages along the way to the sea at one time, so as to avoid problems in the future.

You know, although Marin recruited hundreds of militiamen among the Han immigrants, they did not use it. At least, their combat effectiveness will not increase much for a few months.

These novice militias may be able to defend the city and fight, but if they want to sweep the Daukas people along Houlong Creek on the other side of Miaoli County, I am afraid that they will not be able to do it. Even if we can defeat those Dawkas in the future, it may not be until a year or two later.

But Marin hopes that the sulfur pit can produce oil sooner, so that he can get more oil after accumulating. Therefore, before leaving, Ma Lin planned to personally lead the team and sweep the area along Houlong Creek again.

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In addition to the 500 elite veterans personally led by Marin, there were also 500 recruits accompanying him this time. But these 500 recruits are different from the 500 recruits recruited from immigrants last time, and 200 of the 500 recruits this time are 200 rattan soldiers that Li Cripple had formed a long time ago. Although these 200 rattan soldiers have been training for several months, they have never experienced actual combat. After Ma Lin took 500 people to attack the Taipei Basin last time, those 500 people benefited a lot. So, this time Marin sent troops, and Li Lame took the initiative to ask Ying, to let the 200 rattan soldiers he trained feel the actual combat.

Then the remaining 300 recruits were more complex. Because, among the remaining 300 people, 200 are actually aboriginal warriors......

Yes, you read that right, those 200 people are aborigines......

However, these 200 aboriginal warriors are not mainly from the Fanshe in the Taipei Basin, because Ma Lin can't trust them for the time being. These 200 aboriginal warriors are mainly from several Fanshe near Keelung that have a very good relationship with Kongtai.

The chiefs of those Fan Societies were bluffed by Kong Tai with a sun cooker, and they respected Kong Tai very much and were willing to cooperate with Kong Tai. Even, this time Marin sent troops to attack the Taipei Basin, and those few agencies also sent personnel to act as translators.

Moreover, during the last conquest of the Taipei Basin, Marin discovered a serious problem - his army was not familiar with the local terrain and environment......

Fortunately, the young Zhuang sent by the Keelung Fan Society to act as an interpreter is very familiar with the characteristics of the local forest and can accurately judge the whereabouts of the local people from the local environment. You can even avoid some of the traps dug by the locals.

As a result, Marin had the idea of recruiting a group of aboriginal warriors. With these warriors who are good at operating in the woodland, it will be easy to attack the local fan shrine in the future.

For this reason, Ma Lin sent troops this time, and specially recruited 200 young soldiers from those clubs with very generous treatment as auxiliaries for this operation. Then, Marin selected 100 young and strong Han people from the early immigrants in Keelung to form a new expeditionary force......

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And the 200 aboriginal warriors did not live up to Marin's expectations, and under their leadership, Marin's army moved freely in the complex subtropical rainforest of Taiwan Island and did not get lost in it. Moreover, these indigenous warriors also easily found several local Fanshe villages......

The rest of the matter is simple, although these societies stick to the village. However, most of the Fanshe villages are fence walls made of bamboo and wood, and the construction technology is very poor. Marin simply had Karn dressed in full-body plate armor and carry a sledgehammer to smash open the gates of those fence walls, and then the army rushed in and quickly settled the battle......

The 100 heavy infantry in plate armor led by Karn himself was a complete bug for the natives. Their weapons were useless against these warriors, and the clubs of these warriors, when they hit the natives, hurt very much......

So, Ma Lin led the army all the way to break through the Houlong Society and other societies, captured more than 2,000 aborigines, and fought all the way to the vicinity of the sulfur pit......

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After capturing more than 2,000 Dao Kasi aborigines from several nearby communities, Ma Lin thought about it and did not detain them in the same place, but sent them to the mouth of the Houlongxi River and loaded them on ships to Tamsui Port.

Then, Ma Lin ordered that the aborigines of the Kaida Gran tribe in the Taipei Basin, which is being developed, be divided into more than 2,000 people, and then swapped with more than 2,000 people......

After that, the more than 2,000 Daokas aborigines who were transferred to the Taipei Basin were scattered and distributed among the original more than 6,000 Keda Gran aborigines......

In this way, because they are not natives, these aborigines who have been exchanged for residence will become extremely honest. Because, they left their respective home stadiums and did not dare to act rashly.

Ma Lin was also a rural person in his previous life, and he knew that there was a problem with rural people - he was horizontal at the door of his house, but he had his tail between his legs when he went out......

Don't look at the rural people who carry snakeskin bags into the city so honest and timid, and look like they are cowering, it is because they are not in their own homes. If you go to the old farmer's hometown, you can see it. In their hometowns, the courage of rural people has doubled, which is completely different from the cowering when they go to the city. You city people can bully them in the city, go to the countryside and their hometown, you can try one? Even if they are black, they don't dare to easily run to other people's villages to bully people. Unless you bring a gun, the villagers will come up with farming tools such as hoes and shovels, and even the village dogs will enthusiastically help you fight...... In a wild countryside like the Northeast or the Greater Netherlands, it is estimated that the village will be plastered with propaganda slogans such as "It is illegal to beat up a police officer...... Well, in his previous life, Marin had heard such a fierce and strange slogan as "It is illegal to rob a police car......

Of course, that was a long time ago. Since the popularity of going out to work in the new century, the strong men in the rural areas have all gone to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to work, and there are no strong men in the village, only the old and the weak remain. Unlike in the last century, when the strong men were all nested in their hometowns, if they encountered such a lively thing as a fight, everyone would be happy to join in the fun. Many people come with hoes and poles, but in fact, they may not really come to fight, but purely to join in the fun. But outsiders don't know, and they are scared when they see the formation......

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Marin's idea was right, after swapping those Dawas and Kedagrans, they had just arrived in the new environment, and these people were very honest. Moreover, Marin broke them all up and reorganized. Without familiar folks and friends, these people are even more people with their tails between their legs. In this way, it will be easier for Kong Tai and Zhang Cai to manage......

This is like the home advantage in football, the general team will choose to be a man with their tail between their legs when they go to someone else's territory away from home, and play a defensive counterattack or something. Unless it is a giant, they dare to let go and attack on the road. Even if it is a giant, when it comes to the home of another giant club of equal strength, it will be conservative and cautious.

In their home turf, unless they face an invincible and powerful opponent, they will be emboldened and take the initiative to attack. Sometimes, at home stadium, some underdogs can even beat the giants in an upset. Under normal circumstances, most of the upsets of giants also occur away from home.

And Marin wants these aborigines to break their "home advantage" and send them to live "away". In this way, these aborigines will become honest for a long time. And after they got acquainted with the new environment, Marin's colonial rule on Taiwan Island had also been stabilized, and they were not afraid of making waves......