Taoyuan Salt Farm, Taipei County

The salt worker, who had been busy all day, took a bath in the stream comfortably, put on clean culottes, and walked towards the room shirtless, in front of the room, there was a, quite a beautiful village woman, surnamed Liu Mingcuiying, was carrying a wooden spoon and said loudly: "What kind of strength, don't look at the hour, don't come to eat!" ”

"Haha, sister-in-law Zhang, what are you doing in a hurry, it's still early, I miss Brother Zhang." The rough man's face was full of dirty smiles.

"Phew~ Look at that virtue, the smell of salt all over your body, be careful when you sleep at night!" Sister-in-law Liu said disdainfully.

A young man with clear eyebrows came over with a bowl, and looked into the room while cooking, and the appearance of standing out from the crowd made everyone laugh.

Sister-in-law Liu was even more angry, and knocked on the other party's head with a spoonful and said, "Prodigal, what to see!" ”

The young man scratched his head and said, "Sister-in-law, what about Sister Ying'er?" ”

"Ying'er, your name? Roll on~ Go on one side, next. Sister-in-law Liu roared with anger on her face, that spicy appearance, who is really afraid of seeing it!

"Mother~, the fish soup is ready!" A beautiful girl popped out of the room, wearing a coarse cloth shirt, although it was tattered, and the patches were patched, but it couldn't hide the beautiful appearance of the small jasper, hey! Look closely, isn't this girl the person Xie Yu pressed in the house that day, "Ah, ah! "That one?

"Ying'er, Ying'er, come on, come on, brother here." When the young man saw the person in his heart come out, he immediately shouted impatiently.

Sister-in-law Liu took the wooden spoon and knocked it up and said, "What are you looking at, what are you looking at?" If you want to be thin, tell Captain Yang to go, and see if you are peeled off.

Captain Yang is Yang Feng, a brave man screened out by the Xie family grange, leading two thousand soldiers to be stationed here to be responsible for guarding, this person is meticulous, kind and ruthless, training soldiers have a hand, the salt field is just more than ten days, that mighty, the three thousand salt workers in the town will have a sad face when they see it, and they here, there are only more than ten village women, responsible for food, there is a separate courtyard to live, a few days ago Taipei County promulgated the new law, insulting women is killed, everyone is doing a day's work, tired panic, just joking, I can't think of Sister-in-law Liu's heart, I was about to report to Captain Yang, and everyone was frightened and lowered their heads, "Whew, whew!" "Dibala started to eat, and no one dared to say a word more.

Sister-in-law Liu just "hum~", squinting and despising these stinky men, the same sister carried out several wooden barrels of fish soup and spooned them to everyone

The mountains were pitch black, and from time to time there were birds and beasts making terrible screams, and among the dense trees, countless black shadows hurriedly jumped flexibly in the mountains.

"Whew!" With a strange scream, these barefoot and naked, only covered their waists with animal skins, they quickly descended the mountain into the woods, and ran towards the brightly lit salt pans in the distance.

"Chief, these are the warriors of the Han people, I don't know where there are so many more people, probing during the day, the white things are all salty salt, there are a lot!"

The leader's name is Guda, and he is the leader of the Bone Tooth tribe, this hereditary inheritance, unless you are too weak and are challenged and lost by other warriors in the tribe, you will become the hereditary of other families, in this completely armed mountain forest, whoever is the strongest is the king.

Undoubtedly, Guda is very strong, there are countless finger bones hanging on his chest, and the skulls at home are densely packed, all showing off his strength, the Han people on the beach have lived here since he can remember, these people have lived here, they never go into the mountains, just in the surrounding activities, relying on their livelihood, don't want to, these days, various tribes want to go down the mountain to exchange the spoils of war for salt, and they do find that there are no people in those villages anymore, although they decide who is strong by force, but they also know that salt is this thing, can increase strength, if you don't eat for a long time, They will be weak, and they can't make salt, so they can only exchange with these Han people.

But those Han people are gone, replaced by Han warriors full of armor and spears and knives, especially in the basin over there, there is no end in sight, what do these people want to do?

Guda stood barefoot on a stone, although they were barbarians, they were not stupid, their tribe only had more than 3,000 people, and there were less than a thousand warriors who could fight, and if they went up to grab salt with these well-armed Han warriors, they would only suffer heavy casualties, but! It was impossible to do without salt, and in the evening, he led all the fallen warriors down the mountain to see if they could talk.

These Han people look cowardly, and their bodies are not as strong as the warriors in the tribe, but they are very smart and capable, when they were children, they saw the war eagle tribe and the Han people clash, the whole tribe was killed and wounded 600 warriors, and only then did they raze the two tribes, these Han people are very united, once which village is attacked, they can arrive in a short time and fight together, he can't figure it out, more than ten Han tribes should fight each other, so that one of the tribes becomes the strongest, but after so many years, he has never seen these people fight together.

And the most powerful warhawk tribe in the northern mountain range was devastated because of that battle, and was slowly eaten away by the surrounding tribes, and finally perished.

In the years that followed, none of the tribes fought against the Han tribes, and they were distinct and did not interfere with each other.

Guda still decided, he had to talk about it, if he could get the salt, then the warriors would be very powerful, and they could fight against the barbarian tribe and snatch back the women that belonged to them.

"Woo!" With two strange screams, all the warriors of the Bone and Tooth tribe carried antlers and spears, bows and arrows glowing with blue light, and neighed in unison, lined up in a row, and marched towards the salt field!

"Knock. The long and deep assembly drum sounded, and the two thousand soldiers of the entire salt pan quickly gathered within the wooden stake wall, climbed up the wooden wall, and the shining torches were lit one by one, and the whole sky was illuminated.

Yang Feng was neatly dressed, holding a waist knife in his hand, standing majestically on the wall, and an old man standing beside him, it was Yu Laozhang, Yu Rong.

The contact between the southern army and these people is certain, they must get the salt they rely on for survival, and the Han people in the north are gathered, so it will be difficult for these tribes to get supplies, and they will come down the mountain, Xie Yu is very thoughtful The entire Taiwan mountain range has as many as tens of thousands of people, and it is best not to make trouble for the Han people who have just settled here, try to treat them preferentially, and slowly integrate, there is really no way, in order to fight with these people who are as convenient as going to their own kang in the forest, the premise is that it is best not to go up the mountain.

"Wow, la, la." This is the most primitive howl, used to intimidate the shouts of enemies and beasts, and now, it is used by the Bone Tooth Tribe to deter the southern army, which makes Yang Feng a little funny: "Subordinate Officer Yu, these savages are so funny, are they screaming like this, do you want to scare us?" ”

Uncle Yu is now a subordinate official of the aboriginal Han people on the island, which was appointed by Xu Yanzhi, and he has jurisdiction over more than 5,000 Han people on the island, almost exactly 1,000 households, which makes this old man Yu very unexpected.

"Captain Yang, these savages are short of salt, we used to boil salt to supply them, and they would come to exchange it almost every half a month, calculate the time, it was just two or three days ago, presumably looking for us was not seen, and saw so many Han soldiers, they didn't dare to come, and they couldn't go down the mountain during the day, for fear of being attacked by other tribes, so they could only come now."

Yang Feng nodded after hearing this, and saw that the savages were all standing one hundred and fifty steps away and stopped, and couldn't help but wonder: "These savages know the range of this longbow?" ”

Yu Rong nodded and smiled: "For more than a hundred years, they have been fighting with these people non-stop, and they naturally understand." ”

Guda led two close warriors to the wall of the stake, waved his hand, and began to speak in the native language, chattering, and the soldiers who listened frowned.

This is the purpose of Yu Rong's coming, I saw him slowly holding on to the stake, and shouted in skilled native language: "It turned out to be the leader of Guda, bring the warriors here, but do you want to change the salt?" ”

Gu Da's eyes pierced by the bright light of the torches couldn't see, he stretched out his hand to cover the pergola, and said with a smile on his face: "Chief Yu, why is your tribe gone?" ”

"I also invited the leader of Guda to come in and speak, and more than a dozen Han tribes have migrated over there." As he spoke, he pointed to Taipei County in the northeast.

Gu Da listened to the other party let him in, and saw so many Han soldiers wearing animal skins they had never seen before, shining in the firelight, extending from the stakes, that calm posture like water, it was really a rare Han warrior.

Guda raised his hands, and all the tribal warriors behind him said, "Wow, lala." The ground roared, Yang Feng couldn't help but nervously hold down the handle of the knife, and the archers even took the bow and drew the arrow.

The anxious Yu Rong old face was frightened, and he reached out and pressed the scabbard and said: "The captain misunderstood, this is the leader who wants to enter another tribe, and the warriors are cheering for him!" ”

After Yang Feng listened, he put his hand down, turned his head and signaled, and the archers unloaded their bows and arrows.

The Bone Tooth Tribe shouted for a while, and Guda entered through the open wooden door with two cronies in a majestic manner.

Yang Feng went down the wooden wall, saw the other party's outfit, spared him to be calm, and he was also three points surprised, there were three Xiang Liang wearing finger bones, wearing them on his chest, and on the waist, it was clearly a belt made of children's skulls in series, which was shining with silver, presumably dyed with silver, and his face was painted black with unknown things, and on his forehead, there were bulging pieces of flesh, which were pierced by animal teeth, and his face was really hideous and terrifying, making people shudder.

Yu Rong explained: "Captain, only the leader of each tribe will use animal teeth on his forehead, which is a symbol of status, and those skulls around his waist are belts made by the heirs of each tribe leader after being killed, and the more heads, the more tribes that prove that this leader is perished." ”

Yang Feng couldn't help but gasp and sighed, "Then should his tribe be the strongest among the five?" ”

"No, facing south, there is a tribe of brutes, and that one is the strongest! The Bone Tooth Tribe is only the second or third! Yu Rong explained.