Chapter 234: Taiwan Reclamation VI
For Xue Maoxun, it was much easier to clean up these islands by taking the initiative to attack them than leading his army to find them one by one. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Under the first battle, even if it can't be completely annihilated, it can still severely damage the battleable young people of the island, and it will be much easier for the rest to break through the villages and villages of the island that have lost most of the young and strong.
Maybe when they arrived at those villages, the people would have been frightened and fled and moved to other places.
"Crossbowmen listen to orders, pay attention to those who are armed with blowguns, and be sure to shoot first when they find out."
The brigade academy and other officers reminded from time to time that the crossbowmen's eyes were wide open, for fear that those who were holding blowguns would run up and give themselves a poisonous needle.
Under the command of the headman, the clansmen of the Nankan Four Societies rushed to the Tang army's army formation without their lives, and shot arrows at the Tang army, but few people were shot down.
Seeing this, the leader was greatly annoyed, and under the order, the clansmen with blowing tools appeared, rushed towards the Tang army quickly, and when they reached the range of the poison needle, they raised the blow rod and prepared to give the Tang army soldiers a wave of poison needles.
But they didn't know that as soon as they appeared, they were targeted by the crossbowmen of the Tang Army, and the precious iron arrows in the eyes of the fans stared at them as if they had long eyes.
"Engage ......"
The people immediately rushed to the front, the officers at all levels shouted orders, the soldiers in the front row raised their spears and stabbed forward neatly, and a group of people who did not want to die rushed towards the gun array of the Tang army.
It was a bright spear that stabbed out, and the head of the spear that was retracted was bleeding.
The two sides tore and killed together, fighting whose weapons and armor were stronger and their physical fitness was excellent. The long-range shot crossbow lost its effect, and the crossbowman drew his horizontal knife from his waist and fought hand-to-hand with the rushing fan.
The poisonous needle, which was pinned on by the chiefs of the four societies of the Pingpu tribe, almost lost its usefulness in the face of the scene of the two sides being strangled together after losing the opportunity to ambush.
Even the armor that can't be pierced by the arrows of Fanren, let alone the poison needle, can only be shot in the face and hands. But these two parts of the Tang Army officers and soldiers were difficult to aim at on the chaotic battlefield, and one of them was not good but shot his own people to death.
Xue Maoxun, who was slashing and slashing on horseback, saw that there were dozens of fans with blowguns on the edge of the battlefield, looking for an opportunity to blow poison needles to his subordinates.
Xue Maoxun pulled the reins of his horse and led a dozen or so cavalry around him to rush towards these people.
The people holding blowguns saw Xue Maoxun, who was dressed in Xuanjia, holding a long knife dripping blood, and having a tiger-eyed wolf beard, riding a majestic Xuanmao-colored war horse, killing violently.
When the people saw the ghost killing, they were so frightened that they were terrified, and they hurriedly held a blow gear towards Xue Maoxun's cavalry. Dozens of poisonous needles didn't know where they blew to the hell, Xue Maoxun and the others were unharmed, and they rushed directly into the crowd to slash.
Xue Maoxun raised and fell with the knife in his hand, and there were no less than ten people who fell under his knife in an instant, and he still couldn't enjoy it, sighing that the best thing in his Xue clan was the horse lance, but on this wild island, the horse lance had no room to play at all.
Dozens of people armed with blowguns on the edge of the battlefield were even slashed by the cavalry that rushed up, and they closely followed the governor Xue Maoxun to turn their horses' heads and impact the crowd of people who surrounded the Tang army's fierce attack.
There are only a small number of iron weapons in the hands of the Fanren, which are not hard and sharp enough, and in the confrontation with the soldiers of the Tang Army, a touch is a gap. The iron knife in the hands of some people was cut into two pieces by the Tang army soldiers, and the fans looked at the iron knife in their hands that was missing half of it in their hands, and was sent to see his ancestors by the Tang army soldiers before they could reflect it.
Most of the Fanmen armed with sharpened bamboo poles faced the well-equipped and well-trained Tang Army, and finally fell behind. Although the number of people was more than twice that of the Tang army, and the Tang army was surrounded in the middle to fight, the result was that the Tang army did not suffer many casualties, but on the contrary, some people did not fall down with spears and horizontal knives in the hands of the Tang army, and one after another fell to the ground unwillingly, becoming a stepping stone for their companions.
The fifty cavalry of the Tang Army continued to rush and kill among the fans, and every time they rushed through, they would inevitably leave behind corpses and constant wails.
In the face of the Tang cavalry who only kept rushing like a human life harvester, the people had no choice, they didn't know how to form a formation and set up sharpened bamboo poles to protect themselves, and they didn't have the courage to face the shock of the war horses they had never seen before.
The corpses of the people were constantly piled up in front of the Tang army, and there were cavalry that could not be stopped.
The courage in the hearts of the people was finally scared in the face of the bloody facts, and the courage was discharged, and all that was left was to flee in fear and scream.
The leader in charge of the command couldn't stop it, leaving no resentment, and in the face of the fiasco, in addition to roaring angrily at the blue sky, why didn't the ancestors bless them?
The pursuing Tang army rode past the leader's side, the long knife waved in a dashing manner, and a warm blood was sprinkled, the leader's unyielding head turned over in the air, fell to the ground and rolled twice, and the headless corpse lost its support and fell to the ground with a bang.
"Soldiers, kill ......"
The people were defeated and fled, Xue Maoxun gave the order to pursue, and the generals shouted to their subordinates to pursue.
The excitement and joy of the soldiers after the victory hung on their faces, and they did not feel tired when they pursued the fans, and everyone fought bravely to be the first, chasing and beating the people who fled in terror.
The people were eager to grow two more legs and scurry around in the grass, hoping to escape today, and when they returned to the society, they persuaded the chief to move away with them.
The shouts of killing resounded in the sky around the river, and a captain frowned, came to Xue Maoxun's side and said: "Dudu, although the Fan people have been defeated and fled, there are still many of them left, and they are familiar with the nearby terrain. As the saying goes, the poor did not pursue, and it was obvious that fearless casualties were avoided, and our army was recalled to rest because of the cessation of pursuit. ”
"What Captain Fang said is reasonable, Mingjin withdraws his troops." Xue Maoxun wiped the bloodstained barrier knife, smiled and ordered.
"Ding Ding ......"
The jingle of Mingjin's troops sounded, and the soldiers who were chasing and killing people in the grass heard Mingjin's voice, and reluctantly gave up the pursuit, and successively withdrew to the small river to assemble.
According to statistics, 1,113 people were beheaded in this battle, 33 prisoners were captured, 35 were self-inflicted, and more than 200 people were seriously injured.
Xue Maoxun, who took the battle report, instructed, "Tonight, we need to learn the location of Fanren Village from the mouth of the captive, and order the soldiers to rest well, and kill the nearest one tomorrow." ”
"Whoa!"
Soon after the lieutenant retreated, screams of torture of the prisoners were heard in the camp.
Chaos Wei has been dealing with Daofan in Taiwan for several months, and there are soldiers in the army who speak the language. After some questioning, the captives could not bear the torture and confessed what they knew.
After getting the report handed in by the deputy envoy, Xue Maoxun smiled lightly after reading it, "It turns out that the Nankan Fourth Society of the Pingpu clan lives on this grassland, and there is also an Atayal tribe living here. ”
As soon as the morning dawned, the Tang army, who had eaten the meal, went to kill the nearest Hekengzi Society.
Because most of the young and strong people in the clan died in yesterday's battle, they didn't have time to flee. He was unable to resist the attack of the wolf-like Tang army, and it was broken in half an hour. The chieftain and the old and weak of the society were killed, and the young women, children and a small number of young people who were captured alive were tied hand and foot with ropes by the Tang army and escorted away.
In the next few days, in addition to the Xiaoli Society, which moved south before the Tang army attacked, the Guilun Society was broken by the Tang Army, and the Nankan Society bumped into the chasing Tang Army on the way south, except for a few who fled, none of the societies were raised.
In order to ensure that there were no foreigners living here in this grassland, Xue Maoxun ordered to drive the captured Qingzhuang of the Nankan Fourth Society to attack the Second Society of the Atayal Tribe.
After several days of fierce fighting, the Atayal tribe living here was either defeated or fled to the eastern mountains, and Xue Maoxun successfully took the plain of more than 700 square kilometers of Taoyuan Plateau in later generations.
Homeopathic invasion of the Taoyuan Plateau, the Hsinchu Plain of later generations, expelled the local Pingpu bamboo trench society.
He drove the captives to build a bamboo moat to defend the castle here, and built the victory city (west of Taoyuan City in later generations) by the small river that defeated the four societies of Nankan, and built the Pingfan Castle (the realm of Xinwu District, Taoyuan City in later generations) where the original Nankan Society was located.
Each of the three cities left more than 150 troops to defend them, and they depended on each other to guard them to control the Taoyuan Plateau and the Hsinchu Plain.