The sky is vast and wild, the wind blows the grass low, but there are no cattle and sheep. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The north wind blew, and the lush thatch bent down, but there was no half figure in this vast grassland.

Nuofei knew that this was the island of Taiwan, and Xue Maoxun was about to treat this place as a grassland outside the Saiwai. Of course, this grass grows more lushly than the outer grasslands, and in many places the weeds are taller than people, making the whole team look the grassland.

"Governor, there are three sentry riders who have not returned."

"Leave them alone, if you don't come back on time, you won't be able to come back alive." Xue Maoxun waved his hand, and his sharp gaze swept the surroundings. The lush grass is a great place for ambushes.

A general with a little bit of brains will definitely use these bushes to ambush.

Xue Maoxun thought to himself that if he came to command, he would definitely let the invading enemy come and go.

"Can you find out the terrain ahead?" Xue Maoxun asked, pointing to the left and right.

"Dudu, there is a small river ten miles ahead."

There is a river with its own clear and clean water, and there is also an open land that is not obscured by weeds. Xue Maoxun had a plan in his heart, and ordered the whole army to march towards the small river and rest and cook on the riverside.

Since entering this grassland, Xue Maoxun and other generals have found that this place is different from the northern part of the island, such as the Taipei Basin. From the Linkou Plateau to Keelung Bay, there are lush forests, but this place is an endless grassland, and what is even more surprising is that when you enter the grassland, you don't find any slightly larger rivers, only some gurgling streams flow weakly and weakly, and a picture of the lack of water here is presented in the minds of Xue Maoxun and others.

Although it is a grassland, there are many animals living here, and after ten miles into this place, the deer herd saw a few and beat a few deer to add food to the soldiers.

When the army marched to the river, the thirsty soldiers rushed to the river, and the water in their hands was ready to be sent to their mouths.

Xue Maoxun, who was riding a horse along the river to look for a while, saw this, and immediately stepped forward and whipped these soldiers who drank raw water, and scolded: "You fools and stupid soldiers really don't have a long memory if you don't fight for three days, what does the military order say?" It is strictly forbidden to drink raw water, and the water must be boiled before drinking......"

Xue Maoxun waved the horse whip in his hand, and whipped a few soldiers who ran to the river to drink raw water in anger, and afterwards also whipped five whips from several teams that were not strict with the emperor, and once again strictly ordered Wushen in the army not to drink raw water, so as not to be infected with insect plague.

The army is not allowed to drink raw water, this is a strict order issued by Li Yu last year, which is written into military discipline. All guards and corps are required to provide only boiled drinking water to soldiers at all times, and soldiers are forbidden to drink raw water. Since it was an army that crossed the sea to colonize, all the senior and senior officers were gathered together before departure, and the doctors of the medical department popularized the way for the disease to enter from the mouth and the epidemic of the epidemic.

Li Yu even personally wrote a propaganda textbook for epidemic prevention, and clearly pointed out in the textbook that all kinds of epidemics caused by water and soil adaptation in history were caused by drinking local raw water. There are many small insects in the raw water that are difficult to see with the naked eye, which is the key to causing the disease.

Drinking raw water causes germs to enter the mouth and abdomen to cause epidemics, and then spread through excretion, saliva, and contact with others.

After Li Yu's repeated propaganda in the army, coupled with the fact that a group of doctors who were still confused about Li Yu's epidemic theory appeared, and by the way, he also fabricated the world-famous miracle doctor Sun Simiao to prove the correctness of his understanding of the cause of the epidemic and the spread of the media.

A group of officers at all levels who had little education were so brain-filled by Li Yu with a pot and poured them into staunch supporters of daily drinking boiled water. There are still many people who disagree with the group of big-headed soldiers with a lower level of education because of their habits of drinking boiled water to prevent diseases, and they need to be supervised by officers.

As for the immigrants who continue to come, the Taiwan Governor's Office usually advertises that water needs to be boiled to drink safely, but it's really hard to say how much it has been listened to.

Smoke rose from the riverside where the Tang army was resting, and it could be seen for miles.

Several groups of people who were responsible for monitoring the movements of the Tang army were killed by the Tang army's sentry cavalry, and the Pingpu people of the Nankan Sishe, who were worried that they could not find it, saw the Tang army's cooking smoke, and the leader of the leader was overjoyed, and took 1,500 or 600 Sishe people holding various weapons in the direction of the cooking smoke.

A group of Tang soldiers by the river were still eating a hot meal, but the ten big white geese in the cage suddenly croaked.

Hearing the sudden screams of the ten geese, the officers and men of the Tang Army who were eating quickly lost their rice bowls one by one after a short period of stunnedness, picked up the weapons in their hands, and gathered under the reprimand of the officers.

The bows and crossbows in the hands of the soldiers were all full of strings, aiming at the grass on both sides of the river, don't look at the grass at this time, it was silent, but for the six hundred battle-hardened soldiers under Xue Maoxun, the grass was full of change.

The ten big white geese still stretched their necks and croaked uncontrollably, so that only a loud goose cry remained for a radius of several miles.

"Governor, what should we do if we find out about these people and they don't come out?"

The corners of Xue Maoxun's mouth grinned, and he sneered: "If they don't come out, we will force them out." ”

On the other side of the river, a reed swayed, and Xue Maoxun snatched the crossbow from the hands of the soldiers around him, and shot an arrow in that direction.

With a whoosh, the crossbow arrow flew into the reeds and shot into the chest of a Pingpu tribesman with various patterns tattooed on his face, who stared at the crossbow arrow on his chest with unconfident eyes, and fell down in pain in the eyes of the clansmen lurking around.

He overwhelmed a reed in front of him, making a bigger movement, and was discovered by Xue Maoxun, who was staring at this direction, and immediately gave an order to the crossbowman.

"The crossbowmen obeyed the order and shot at me on the reeds across the river."

"Whoosh ......"

Without hesitation, the crossbowmen pulled the trigger on the opposite side, and more than 400 arrows poured out of the reeds on the other side of the river, and in an instant, the screams of many people who had been shot by the arrows were heard from the reeds.

"Keep shooting."

The soldiers mechanically loaded with arrows and shot round after round into the reeds.

The Pingpu tribe in the reeds was not beaten, and arrows were also shot at the Tang army one by one.

In terms of archery, these Pingpu people hunt all year round, and they are no worse than the Tang army, and their accuracy is even higher than that of the Tang army's crossbowmen.

However, their arrows are all bone arrows, and they can't cause much damage to the iron helmets and iron armor of the Tang Army, and at worst, leather armor, unless they hit the unprotected face.

The poisonous needle, which posed a major threat to the Tang army, did not play a role due to the problem of range.

A well-brewed ambush was detected by the other party before it began, and his own people were shot dead and wounded one by one.

The leader of the Pingpu tribe was greatly enraged, and screamed loudly, and 15,600 people who were ambushed in the reeds were killed, accompanied by all kinds of howls from their mouths, hoping to frighten the Tang people's courage.

It's the same every time, and the combat methods of these islands are the same.

Xue Maoxun and the other generals laughed disdainfully, these people ran in, and they would definitely take out a blowgun made of bamboo poles to blow poison and deal with them.