A notice was posted in front of the yamen of the Governor's Mansion to recruit unity soldiers, which attracted many people who came to the Governor's Mansion to stop and watch. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing that many people dressed plainly and even patched came up but could not understand what was written on the notice, they asked each other.

Seeing this, Zhu Dan kindly read out the news published on the notice, because it was written in classical Chinese, even if it was read out, the people did not necessarily understand, so he explained it to the surrounding people word by word.

In order to ensure the safety of the people's reclamation, the Governor's Office decided to launch a westward expedition to clear the islands outside the southwest of the Taipei Basin. Because most of the defenders of the Governor's Mansion will go on the expedition, and there are not enough soldiers to guard the city and guard Fannu, a group of young and strong soldiers are specially recruited from the people to take on the garrison task before the army returns. During the period of unity and guarding, all the needs were borne by the Governor's Office, and a military ring was issued every ten years, which was a bucket of food. ”

After Zhu Dan finished reading, the onlookers blew up, why don't you go to the army if you have this good thing?

The unity soldiers are not soldiers for life, but only a temporary garrison of soldiers and horses, and they do not need to go to battle.

Moreover, it is only the end of February, and although there is no severe winter in Taiwan, it is not yet the time to sow seeds, so we have to clean up the wasteland purchased from the Metropolitan Governor's Office and wait for the arrival of April.

After all, only rice can be grown in the south, and early rice can only be sown before Qingming in April.

Ordinary people are not those rich businessmen and powerful people who carry enough grain and grass, and the people who will leave their homes to come to Taiwan Island to open up wasteland themselves are themselves landless or little land in their hometowns, and their lives are difficult to come to Taiwan.

For these poor people, how to survive in the months leading up to the autumn harvest is a big problem. At a time when the people who had obtained the land vouchers for purchase were worried about what to do when they ran out of food.

The Governor's Mansion appropriately introduced the policy of recruiting united soldiers, and the Governor's Mansion was responsible for food and housing, and the military sound of a bucket of rice could be received every ten days, which was simply a blessing for these poor people.

When Qingzhuang became a soldier, it was no problem not only to lose a mouth to his family, but also to give a bucket of rice to the family to eat wild vegetables for ten days.

A group of people who figured out the stakes rushed to the Governor's Mansion recruitment point to sign up, for fear that it would be too late to recruit the Governor's Mansion.

There were still people around him just now, but now there are only a few people around, Gu Cheng and Zhu Dan looked at each other and smiled, walked to a small tea shop on the side of the street and sat down, ordered a pot of tea and a plate of dried dates, and chatted while eating.

"Brother Gu, according to the notice, the wasteland granted to us by the Governor's Mansion is estimated to be still in the hands of Daofan, and we are afraid that we will have to wait for the army to triumph before we can reclaim it."

Gu Cheng also saw the taste from the notice, because they were a declining family, they only purchased 2,000 mu in the Governor's Mansion a few days ago, which was 1,000 mu less than the regulations, and it was not in the Taipei Basin, but in the upper reaches of Dahan River. The office's answer was that the land was not enough at the moment, so it could only be purchased, and he would come to purchase the remaining land after the Governor's Office announced the news.

"Anyway, there is still more than a month before the planting time, so we will go home first and prepare the manpower, utensils, and grain for the land, and it is estimated that it will be almost the same when we come back." Gu Cheng thought about it and replied.

After the two discussed it clearly, they took a boat back to Suzhou.

……

After recruiting more than 1,000 unity soldiers for a short period of training, Xue Maoxun took Commander Min Cheng as the general and commanded the remaining more than 200 soldiers and unity soldiers, and divided Taipei City, Keelung City, and Taishan City to garrison. Xue Maoxun personally led the remaining 600 soldiers and horses up the Dahan River and swept the Taoyuan Plateau, where Taoyuan City was located in later generations.

At this time, the Taoyuan Plateau was a vast grassland overgrown with rough weeds, and the thatch hurt people like a tiger, so that the hands of the soldiers on the march were often scratched by the dense thatch.

The island that lives on the Taoyuan Plateau is one of the Pingpu clans, the Kaida Gran and Daukas tribes, and there are mainly four tribes, including Nankan, Xiaoli, Guilun, and Kengzi, which call themselves the Nankan Four Societies. In addition to the Pingpu people, the Atayal people also live in the Taoyuan Terrace.

With the Tang army occupying the Taipei Basin last year, they later expelled Daofan and occupied the Linkou Basin in the western mountains.

The people from the two places, who were already related to each other, fled to the Nankan Fourth Society in the Taoyuan Plateau, and passed the news of the Tang people, of course, it will not be good news.

The chiefs of the four communities of Nankan learned that outsiders had come to the island and occupied the lands of the northern communities, whose tribesmen were either killed or handcuffed and shackled into slavery, and toiled to death every day.

The chiefs of the four societies of Nankan, who were worried that the Tang people would call, sent people to the north every few days to investigate and find out the latest movements of the Tang people.

With the influx of more and more Tang people into the Taipei Basin, the chiefs of the four societies of Nankan were very worried, and today they gathered together to discuss ways to jointly prevent the Tang people.

"Oh no, chiefs, hundreds of Tang people have crossed the Da Rong Creek, and they are coming towards our Nankan Fourth Society with sharp weapons in hand......

The four chiefs were shocked, and what they had been worried about finally became a reality, and hurriedly ordered them to go down and gather the young people of the headquarters to prepare to resist the attack of the Tang people.

One of the chiefs stopped the other three chiefs who were about to return to the headquarters and said worriedly: "Those who have fled from the north say that the Tang people are armed with bright and short weapons, and their bows and arrows are farther than those we use, and they wear hard clothing, and the arrows and spears we use cannot pierce at all, and they must be dealt with with weapons made of iron. ”

"But the iron weapons in our society are very scarce, and we can't gather forty iron knives with the strength of our four societies."

"It's not just weapons, I heard that the Tang people are tall and strong, and one person can beat five of us."

The four chiefs sighed, not expecting that the peaceful life of a generation would be shattered in their generation.

"The only way to do this is to put aside the grievances between us and the Atayal tribe and unite to deal with the Tang people from outside." One of the chiefs suggested.

Although they were approved by the other three, after many days of mutual vendetta between the two clans, how could the feud between the two clans be easily resolved by hunting the heads of the other clansmen?

Maybe the tribesmen sent to negotiate were hunted by the Atayal people who were ambushed in the grass early on the way to the Atayal tribe.

In no other way, the chief of the Nankan Four Societies decided to gather all the young men of the four societies and set up an ambush on the road where the Tang people came, which caught him off guard and beat the Tang people so that they never dared to come to the territory of the Nankan Four Societies again.

If the weapons are not comparable, they will use the numerical advantage to fill in, prepare more poisonous needles, and blow poisonous needles to break the sharp armor of the Tang people.

After leaving Dahan Creek, Xue Maoxun strictly ordered his soldiers to wear armor, except for their faces and hands, the rest of the parts should not be exposed, and they needed to be protected by armor.

When the island was cleared in the Taipei Basin and the mountains east of it and the Linkou Plateau, Xue Maoxun learned the benefits and disadvantages of the island poison needle, and lost dozens of subordinates in vain.

The six hundred soldiers he brought also experienced the battle with Shimaban, and he knew that Shimafan's most powerful method was to hide in the jungle and secretly blow a poisonous needle for you.

The mild toxicity can numb the person on the spot and recover after a while, and the beneficial one, the person who is poisoned will die on the spot.

Dao Fanxi set up an ambush and blew poison needles, so Xue Maoxun led the army to go slowly, waiting for the sentry to report the news ahead, and the army also brought ten big white geese responsible for calling the police.

Otherwise, with the combat power of Daofan's garbage, Xue Maoxun would have led the army to go on a rampage to destroy the village and destroy the society.