The fleet lifted anchor, went to the mouth of the Tamsui River, and went upstream along the river for more than ten miles, in addition to a large area of forest, there was a large area of river beach left, and there were wild deer and roe deer in the forest.

When Zhang San felt that he might be going upstream, he suddenly looked at the sailors on the upper floor and shouted: "There is a dock village in front, and there is cooking smoke, not cooking smoke, it is fighting." ”

Zhang San listened and hurriedly climbed the watchtower and looked in the direction of the water finger, and sure enough, he saw that a few kilometers away, a village surrounded by logs was being besieged by a group of people, Zhang San thought for a while and ordered the fleet to continue to move forward, at least to see who was fighting and how the combat effectiveness was.

After getting closer, Zhang San became excited, it turned out that there were rice fields in the woods, obviously this is a village that knows how to plant, and it may be someone from the mainland, because wild people can only hunt and can't plant at all.

After a mile away from the village, Zhang San ordered the fleet to stop, because Zhang San had already seen clearly, it turned out that this was a group of natives who were attacking a Han village, and the two sides were fighting back and forth.

At this time, of course, Zhang San was watching the tiger fight from the mountain, while standing on the watchtower to watch, he ordered the marines to get off the boat, anyway, it was still early, Zhang San waited patiently, waiting for the opportunity for this group of natives to break through the village.

This group of natives has more than 200 people jumping and shouting around the wall, shooting arrows at the wall from time to time, more than 100 men and women on the wall lie behind the wall, do not dare to show their heads, once the outcrop is either life or death or injury, the natives start to try to get close to the wall after shooting for a while.

The people in the stockade saw through the gap in the wood that the natives were trying to approach and immediately got up and drew their bows to shoot back, and the natives didn't take advantage of it and immediately began to enter the firing mode again, and then the people in the stockade were suppressed again.

After two or three rounds of reciprocation, the time entered the afternoon, and the natives were also anxious, and they screamed for a while, and began to rush up with a roar, and the villagers heard the natives' cries and fought back desperately, but in the end, there were few people, and the arrows that had been shot for so long were also out of strength, and there were not many arrows left.

The two sides stalemate for a while, the natives finally gained the upper hand and began to throw ropes on the wall, and then several people cooperated to climb the wall, and the villagers also began to beat gongs and drums, and men, women and children went into battle and began to fight with the natives.

Zhang San looked at the form almost clear, and ordered everyone to surround it with the marines, and half an hour later, when the people in the stockade were still fighting, Zhang San's encirclement outside the stockade had been completed, and Zhang San gave an order: "Kill in!" Kill the natives! ”

The men in the Marines cooperated to pull down the wall first, and then rushed in from different directions, and the natives didn't care about killing and looting when they saw that there were new Han people coming, and immediately wanted to run out, but they were killed by the Marines who were waiting everywhere.

Everyone doesn't understand the language, anyway, as long as they see the natives who resist, they will kill them, and after the natives have more than 100 people left, they finally understand that they can't beat this group of new Han people, and immediately kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, Zhang San first collected their weapons, and then tied them into a string, and then went to deal with the villagers in the village.

The villagers suffered heavy casualties, seeing the fierce style of Zhang San and others, the village chief took the initiative to stand up, Zhang San looked at this little old man in his fifties, the little old man also looked at Zhang San nervously, and finally the old man couldn't stand the pressure and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

Zhang San looked at him lightly, he could speak Chinese, Zhang San asked, "Don't ask us where we come from, what's going on here?" ”

As soon as the little old man heard that it was Chinese, he let go of most of his heart, and the same Han people at least would not kill them all like the natives, and the little old man said: "The little old man's surname is Li, this is Xiao Lijia Village, and there is a big Lijia Village ten miles upstream where the village chief and the natives of Yilan Village are trusted, and they have formed an alliance to ask our villages to provide labor and food to attack Hualan Village. ”

Zhang San immediately became interested and asked, "Oh? How many people are there in Dalijia Village, how many people are in Yilan Village, and how many people are there in Hualan Village? ”

This is not a secret, the little old man immediately replied: "These natives are Yilanzhai, they have a total of more than 1,000 people and more than 500 Zhuangding, this time there are 300 people who came to attack our Xiaoli Village, and there are more than 1,000 people in Da Li Village, 4500 Zhuang Ding." As for the Hualan Village, there are three or four thousand people, and one thousand five or six hundred Zhuang Ding. ”

Zhang San asked strangely: "Yilanzhai came to beat you, why didn't Da Li Zhuang come to help?" Have you been betrayed to Yilanzhai by Da Li Zhuang? ”

The little old man was speechless, and sure enough, he asked a native, this Da Li Zhuang really sold Xiao Li Zhuang, and agreed that Yi Lanzhai only needed to break through the village and let them rob it, as long as the captive population was returned to Da Li Zhuang, so Da Li Zhuang gave food back and forth.

Zhang San calculated, with his current strength, there must be no problem in defeating Da Li Zhuang, with the ballistas on the ship, not to mention attacking the Hualan Village, self-protection should be able to do it. So since Da Li Zhuang has done such a thing, he doesn't even need to find an excuse, just call the door.

Zhang San asked the little old man how many Han people there were in the vicinity, and the little old man said that there were dozens of Han villages by the Tamsui River, most of which were in the hundreds, and there were four or five in the larger Zhuangzi, all of which were one or two thousand people.

When Zhang San heard the news, he immediately became happy, which is equivalent to having a foundation of more than 10,000 people, with this group of experienced people, Zhang San does not have to start from scratch, just this time first take the Da Li Zhuang sacrifice flag, and then look at the next move.

It was not early, Zhang San asked the marines to assist the villagers in repairing the wall, and rested here at night, and then Zhang San took the children to start drawing a topographic map of the neighborhood under the guidance of the old man, inquiring about the information of the nearby villages, as well as the location of the local cottage.

After a busy night, I finally figured out the general situation here, most of these people migrated from the south in the late Tang Dynasty, and the Li family was the Southern Tang royal family, these people were afraid of being retaliated by Zhao and moved to Ryukyu Island to live here so far, in addition to the vicinity of the Tamsui River, there are also these Han villages on the island.

However, there is less communication between the villages, and there is no unity, so that they have been bullied by the natives, and there are some pirate nests on the island, but most of them are along the coast, and these pirates will rob these villages in addition to robbing passing merchant ships, so the village life here is relatively difficult.

This is another good news for Zhang San, the reason why Li Jun didn't see pirates when he walked around the island in the past few days should be that their ships were too fast, and Zhang San could rob the population with pirates, which was much faster than pulling people from the Great Song Dynasty.

What's more, pirates are more suitable for being soldiers and sailors, for example, the current Marine Corps is so fierce is not because more than half of the people are recruited pirates, Zhang San is only waiting for tomorrow to take down Da Li Zhuang and start attacking Ryukyu.