In late June, when farming was on track, bad news came: a lone farmer had died in a forest on the outskirts of a paddy field. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The farmer was killed when he went into the woods to catch rabbits. The murderer's methods were very cruel, after attacking and killing the peasant from the back, he cut off the peasant's head directly with a knife, leaving a pool of blood and a headless corpse.

After looking at the body of the deceased, Li Tu concluded that this was the headhunter of the Shengfan tribe. Li Tu has occupied the slash-and-burn land of the Shengfan tribe, and the Shengfan tribe has already set its sights on Li Tu's Deyuan City! There are 2,000 farmers in Deyuan City, and this volume makes the Shengfan tribe dare not make it easily. But the temptation was carried out little by little, and they hid in the shadows to observe, and gradually found that the peasants in Deyuan City had no combat effectiveness. Now, they have started to search for headhunters on the periphery.

The tragic situation of the deceased shocked the onlookers of the peasants. Since then, no farmer has dared to enter the forest alone.

It seems that the conflict with Shengban is inevitable!

Li Tu had the body cleaned up and the dead buried. In addition, sentry posts have been set up in several dangerous areas on the periphery of Deyuan City, and the sentry posts are equipped with fireworks and horses to monitor whether there are any activities at any time.

By the end of June, the first batch of thirty-one Mini rifles had been produced, and priority was given to equipping the crew of the Zaixing.

The crew, who got new guns and practiced shooting at the training ground, were all amazed by the range of the Mini rifles.

The firing range of the Daming Bird Gun is only 50 paces, and the Japanese iron cannon can only hit 80 paces if it is finely worked, while the Minnie rifle can actually hit a target of 300 paces. In the era of hot weapons, the firing range directly determines the combat effectiveness of the rifle, and more than three times the range gives the weapon user more than three times the combat effectiveness.

This is a technology that should have appeared in the 19th century, but it appeared in the 17th century. This is a revolution through and through! Jumped straight from the smoothbore gun to the era of rifles. One can imagine how much of a blow to morale can be when the enemy is rained down by Minnie's rifle at a distance of three hundred paces.

With these thirty-one Mini rifles, Li Tu and Shengfan have more confidence to fight.

The opportunity to make these thirty-one Mini rifles reflect the value of the Mini Rifle soon came.

In mid-July, the scorching sun bakes the earth and burns patches of water vapor in the paddy fields. The water vapor refracts the light from the ground attachment, creating a scorching distorted picture. Under the scorching sun, Li Tu was riding a horse in the fields to check the farmers' farming conditions, but he saw a puff of wolf smoke rising from the outpost in the north!

Enemy attack!

Seeing the wolf smoke, the gongs of the alarm sounded one after another. The leaders of the various groups, the selected crew members, shouted loudly and called for the peasants to flee from the paddy fields. The peasants withdrew like a tidal wave from their fields and hid back in their houses on the hills. The crew took their rifles off their backs and also assembled on the hill in the center of Deyuan. Xu San rode his horse and withdrew from the training ground with the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion. It didn't take long for seventy-four crew members and one hundred soldiers of the Election Battalion to assemble.

Seventy-four crew members were largely armed with flintlock pistols, and thirty-one of them were armed with Minnie rifles. And the soldiers of the Selective Battalion also had sixty-two arquebuses. After months of training, they were able to operate the weapon proficiently.

Smoke billowed not far away, and the scouts at the northern outpost fled on horseback. As soon as he got off the horse, he rushed to Li Tu.

"Dudu, it's the Shengfan tribe, there are hundreds of people!"

Li Tu patted him on the shoulder and asked calmly, "How many hundreds?" ”

The young man gasped and said loudly, "I don't know, I can't see clearly in the woods, there are at least four or five hundred people." ”

There are no more than 200 people in a tribe. With so many people coming together, it seems that many tribes have joined forces to attack Deyuan City. Although there is also a headhunting war between the students.,It's not friendly.。 However, Li Tu's large-scale reclamation was regarded by them as a large-scale invasion. The nearby Shengfan tribes all banded together to drive out the Han Chinese.

Hearing that there were so many students, everyone was a little nervous.

Li Tu said loudly to the left and right: "Shengfan is a rabble. We have guns and are not afraid of them. Everyone, column three-stage hit array! ”

Li Tu gave an order, and everyone lined up in line. Thirty-one Minnie gunners stood in the middle, with the others on either side. The soldiers of the Selective Battalion, who did not have rifles, stood at the back, knives raised, ready for hand-to-hand combat.

The hill in Deyuan City is steep on three sides, making it difficult to walk. Only one side is a gentle slope, which can be walked up directly, and Li Tu is lined up to defend on this gentle slope.

After waiting for half an hour, those students appeared at the edge of the grove at the foot of the mountain.

There was no queue among the students, but dozens of people in groups restrained by their respective leaders, standing together with their knives raised in twos and threes. They wore a variety of tribal costumes, mostly short coats made of animal skins, and none wore armor. Some of them wore animal heads and strange ornaments, and they had all kinds of weapons in their hands, scimitars of length and short, and some of them with curved bows.

Seeing the soldiers lined up on the hill, the Ikuban in front did not move forward, but waited in place for the Ikuban behind. More and more students came out of the woods behind them and gradually gathered at the bottom of the hill. Li Tu looked at it and felt that there were far more than four or five hundred people, at least more than eight hundred.

More than 800 people crowded the foot of the mountain, bringing a sense of oppression.

Facing so many enemies for the first time, Li Tu couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He raised his long knife and shouted:

"Reload!"

The gunners took the "early close" bamboo barrel from their chests, poured gunpowder and bullets from it, and began to reload their rifles.

The students finally assembled at the foot of the hill and began to howl loudly. The howls of nearly a thousand people converged into a deafening loud sound, like a ritual, boosting the morale of the students. This sound also made Li Tu's soldiers more and more nervous.

At the foot of the mountain, the students mustered up their morale and brandished their weapons to press up from the gentle side of the hill.

The battle is on!

Li Tu concentrated on estimating the distance of the enemy.

Five hundred steps.

Four hundred steps.

Three hundred and fifty steps.

Li Tu shouted, "First row of mini guns aim!" ”

The eleven crew members of the Zaixing in the first row raised their Minnie rifles and aimed at the approaching enemy at three points and one line.

Three hundred steps!

Li Tu shouted: "Shoot! ”

Eleven rifles in the first row erupted tongues of fire and shot at the slowly approaching students. Thermal weapons of the nineteenth century appeared in the seventeenth century and began to harvest the lives of the natives of Xiaoliuqiu.

Li Tu and these students have no grievances. But in this colonial era, the desire for land has brought the two together. There is no doubt that Li Tu was a bloody colonizer who led the Han Chinese to seize these raw lands. The Han people are greedy, not only occupying the entire Chinese mainland, but also robbing islands like Xiaoliuqiu. But the indisputable fact is that the era has come to 1624, and the civilization of fishing, hunting, and slash-and-burn farming is destined to gradually fade, thin, and even disappear from the earth of this Age of Discovery.

And Li Tu's massacre of Shengfan is a small link in the melody of this era.