"That's not right!" Xue Maoxun, who was the general of the Chaos Guard, reacted, and he knew how many military merits his soldiers had made on the battlefield last year, and how much money they had been rewarded. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Niu Dayun has made a meritorious contribution to capturing the flag, and he has received a lot of rewards, isn't it enough for him to marry a wife?"

Niu Dayang's fellow villagers smiled helplessly: "This guy said, now that he has developed in the army, if he wants to find a pure Chinese woman as his wife, those Chinese in Anton have been ruled by the Goryeo barbarians for hundreds of years, and he can't look down on his daughter, so he has to go back to the mainland of the Tang Dynasty to find it, and it can't be a poor family." ”

"You deserve to be a bachelor now." Xue Maoxun and the others couldn't help laughing and scolding, what a strange person who has been a bachelor for a long time and has asked too much.

When the southeast expedition discovered Keelung Bay, it was called a chicken coop as later generations, but Li Yu thought the chicken coop was indecent and renamed Keelung.

Fortunately, there are no living settlements around Keelung Bay, otherwise the Chaos Guard would have fought if they went ashore and said no.

In later generations, it was precisely because the Ryukyu envoy to the Qing Kingdom encountered a strong wind when the ship returned to the Qing Kingdom and strayed into the Shengfan Peony Society, and was besieged and killed by Shengfan, which triggered Japan's first invasion of Taiwan.

After the entire Chaos Guard army went ashore, Niu Dayang couldn't wait to lead a team of his subordinates to go deep into the interior to explore the way first. A few months ago, the Southeast China Sea Expedition was active on land, and the path carved out in the wilderness was still very clear, and Niu Dayang only had to follow the path.

There is also a camp left over from the Southeast China Sea Expedition on the coast, which has not been inhabited for a few months and has grown a lot of weeds, but it saves the trouble of the Chaos Guard setting up camp again.

When the sun goes down, the quiet bay ushered in fireworks that have not been seen in several months, the camp is full of people, and the Chaos Guards have a big feast since they set out to celebrate the landing in Taiwan, for the gold for the merit and for the land.

When the sky was bright on the second day, the Chaos Guards in the camp got up to wash and assemble at the sound of horns, dressed and armor-piercing with solemn expressions.

The morale of the soldiers under his command was high, and Xue Maoxun was very satisfied. The spirit of the army, which has been built by months of hard training and a well-balanced diet, gives the impression of a strong army that is difficult to defeat.

"Let's go!"

Xue Maoxun ordered the commander Min Cheng to lead an army of 200 and the crew of the fleet to stay in the camp, and he led a battalion of soldiers and horses to the Keelung River to find a site and build a city.

Yesterday, Niu Dayang led people westward to explore the section of the Keelung River with Jinsha, and there was no activity on the island along the way. After discussing with the generals last night, Xue Maoxun decided to build the city first and sent scouts to explore the distribution of the bay around the bay. After the city is built, it will attack the surrounding areas and plunder the population to pan for gold and open up the wasteland.

From Zhang Maokou, it is known that the topography of Keelung Bay is relatively closed, and only a small river valley in the south can lead to the inland, and the Keelung River, which produces golden sand, is over a gentle hillside.

Xue Maoxun led the army to this place, looked at the local terrain, and smiled at the generals: "I chose this platform to build a mountain city, even if thousands of people come to attack, it will not be broken, and the bay camp is not dangerous." ”

Xue Maoxun was referring to a plateau on the north bank of the Keelung River, guarding the small river valley leading to Keelung Bay at the back.

Zhang Maoyao pointed to the southwest and said with a smile: "The general builds a city here, and our army can go down the river and go straight to the river valley plain where the Shengfan is more than 20 miles away from here." ”

"Manager Zhang, I don't know how many people you are talking about in the river valley plain?" A lieutenant asked.

"About 10,000 people!" Zhang Mao said.

"If you catch the young and strong, you can catch one or two thousand."

"Gold mining and land reclamation, old and weak, women and children, can catch eight or nine thousand usable slaves." Several generals discussed.

"I'm not interested in catching Shengfan, Mr. Zhang, where do you say that the gold-rich land on both sides of the Keelung River is located? If there is a threat along the way, we need to go and destroy them first. Niu Da Hao said in his unique loud voice.

Zhang Mao responded with a smile: "Last time, our Southeast China Sea expedition team went up the Keelung River for more than 20 miles after detailed exploration, crossing the mountains east of the river, and on the slope of the back of the mountain, it is the most rich place for gold. The expedition team found a piece of dog's head gold weighing more than 90 taels there. ”

Hearing that all the generals have changed color, the value of more than ninety taels of dog's head gold in Datang is unknown.

Dog's head gold is rare, and its value is often more than several times more than the gold it contains, and the heavier the dog's head gold, the higher the value.

Niu Dayun was like seeing a beautiful lady who was naked and opposite, panting in his chest, annoyed that this piece of dog's head gold was not discovered by me after he arrived? I don't know who took such good shit luck!

"So what are you waiting for? Let's go and see the hillside with a dog's head now. Niu Dayang shouted, as if it was too late, and the gold in the hillside would be gone.

"It's just that there is a Shengfan village community with the custom of hunting human heads at the foot of the mountain, and it is a little troublesome."

"What are you afraid of, I'm going to take someone to level him." Niu Dayun stared at the thief with a pair of bull's eyes, and said violently.

Other generals and colonels also shouted one after another, is the student who hunts for people's heads more profitable than the ruthless people who are torn off on the battlefield?

"Build the city first, and then live your life!"

Xue Maoxun coldly dropped a sentence that instantly calmed the high-spirited fighting spirit of Niu Dayang and others, and helplessly followed Xue Maoxun to inspect the terrain and prepare to build the city.

Fortunately, when he set out to fight for the Ryukyus, he considered that there was no possibility that the Ryukyus would have no food and grass supply this year, and the Chaos Guard brought enough food for the whole army to eat for half a year.

For more than a month, the Chaos Guards toiled to build the city.

Fortunately, before they became soldiers, they were either bankers or craftsmen, even if they were born in government soldiers, they were only working as farmers to earn a living before they were recruited by the imperial court. After being a soldier for almost two years, it is not too rusty to pick up tools to build a city. First, Taishan City on the north bank of the Keelung River was built, and then the Keelung Bay camp was also transformed into Keelung City.

After the two cities were built, the radius of Keelung Bay was basically clear, and Xue Maoxun immediately led his army down the Keelung River to break into the Tamsui River Plain, where Taipei was later located.

This valley plain is formed by the alluvium of Tamsui, Dahan Creek and Keelung River, with three or four hundred square kilometers, flat terrain, abundant water and grass, and lush forests. The seven Shengfan villages that live here, with a combined population of more than 12,000 people, are exactly the source of slaves that the Chaos Guardians desperately need.

The people of the village community at the mouth of the Keelung River are following the custom they have lived here for generations, with men fishing in the Keelung River in front of the village, hunting in the surrounding mountains and forests, and women and children gathering fruit roots in the wilderness.

When the dawn of the morning came, the people of the village community were still asleep, and the Chaos Guards who had been ambushed outside the village were staring at this Fan people's village community.

Xue Maoxun made a gesture and said softly, "Up." ”

There was the sound of rustling footsteps in the low bushes outside the village, and the Chaos Guards approached with bated breath. They are here to capture slaves, so try not to wake up the Fanren and cause too much resistance and cause a large number of slaves to die.

The night watchman looked at the outside of the village with sleepy eyes and listlessness, and his consciousness was extremely blurry, and he didn't realize that the village community had long been surrounded.

"Whoosh......"

Several crossbow arrows were shot out of the forest in an instant, which seemed a little abrupt in the silent morning, and the people who were keeping vigil around the village community fell in response to the arrows.

"Hurry up ......"

The captains and brigade commanders waved the horizontal knives in their hands, and gently urged their subordinates to quietly touch towards Fanren Village.

Seven hundred well-equipped Chaos Guards entered the village community silently, everyone held a rope in their hands, and suddenly kicked open the door of the house that was not connected, and in the astonishment of the people who woke up in the room, they kicked the people down with a wave, and extremely quickly put the ropes in their hands around the necks of the people, and tied their hands and feet.

Unable to subdue the Fan people for a while, the Chaos Guards did not hesitate to cut them to the ground with a knife, and then several people worked together to knock the other Fan people to the ground like a pig in a trapping pen, and tied them firmly according to their hands and feet.

The originally silent village community was instantly occupied by the screams of women and children and the roars of men.