Chapter 044: The first battle of Tuhan.

At this time, Jiang Zhuang was also worried about the women and children in Hanxi Village, so he said to Wu Tianxiao: "Master Wu." There are many women and children in the village, so it is better to send them to the boat first. ”

Wu Tianxiao shook his head: "It is very unwise to send away women and children at this time. The natives still don't know our strength, so they stop and hesitate in front of the stockade. If we remove women and children now, it will expose the weakness of our hearts. At that time, these natives rushed over desperately, and it was really dangerous. This time, not only can we not show the slightest retreat, but we must also teach these natives a hard lesson. Otherwise, these natives will become our biggest problem in the future. ”

Wu Tianxiao used a deterrent method, that is, psychological warfare. What is needed is to give these natives a psychological impact, so that they do not dare to attack the Han village easily. Otherwise, the natives of Dongfan Island now far outnumber the Han Chinese, and their ferocity is no less than that of the Japanese pirates. Once the natives are psychologically convinced that the Han Chinese can be bullied, then they will treat the Han people like the Atayal people, and even if they can win against the natives, they will have to face endless harassment from the natives. So this time we must establish a deterrent against these indigenous people.

And this kind of consideration, Wu Tianxiao had already thought about it when he set foot on Dongfan Island. That's why Hanxi Village is regarded as an outpost, and there are towers and beacon towers, rather than just simple docks for the market. It's just that Wu Tianxiao was also very lucky, and at the beginning he encountered the relatively weak Atayal tribe, not the relatively strong Ami tribe.

The natives on the opposite side hesitated in front of the stockade for a while, and then sent a tall, strong native, with a tattooed face and a human head around his waist. As soon as this fierce-faced native approached Hanxi Village, regardless of whether he was within range of the bow and arrow, he strode towards the gate of the village. It stopped fifty paces away. Then he yelled and shouted: "......@#¥%......&*"

It's just that the native chirped for a while, but no one understood. Wu Tianxiao looked back at Yaqun and found that Yaqun looked frightened, and his people were also in a commotion. Wu Tianxiao guessed that it might be that the other party wanted to drive Yaqun and them out by himself, but it was just a guess. The current situation is very critical, there are hundreds of indigenous young men armed with weapons outside the village, once the impact comes, it will be a fight, so the people in the village cannot be confused. So Wu Tianxiao ignored the natives outside the village, but quietly confronted him.

The indigenous man outside the village seemed to be angry when he saw that he had been yelling for a long time, and he didn't see any reaction from the Han people. Then he waved the scimitar in his hand with one hand, untied the human head tied to his waist with the other, raised his hands high, and struck the human head with the knife. He screamed so hard in his mouth. His action immediately caused the other natives behind him to shout: "Oh...... Oh...... Wow......"

No matter how the fierce natives shouted, the Han people's stockade never responded, but this really annoyed the natives. I saw him throw away his head, brandish his weapon, and strode close to the stockade.

Wu Tianxiao was about to give the other party a shock, but even if he aimed at the advancing man, he shot him in the head: "Bang." When the gun rang out, the man fell to the ground with a bang, and suddenly there was silence.

Just a moment later, there was a burst of shouting from the natives, and the hundreds of natives shouted and rushed towards the village. Wu Tianxiao saw the natives rushing over in a messy manner, but he couldn't find the leader of the natives for a while. He carried an assault rifle and shouted: "Defense, defense, prepare for battle." Archers shoot. With the order given, seven or eight bows and arrows were fired at the natives, and the two musketeers also opened fire from the towers. At this time, twenty or thirty bows and arrows were also fired from the natives, but because there were sword and shield men in the front row covering in the stockade, and the distance was a little long, the natives' bows and arrows only hit the arm of an unlucky man.

Wu Tianxiao is still a little confident in his own side's defense. Hanxi Village, Guanhai Village and Wujia Village, the defense construction of the three villages is the same, there are towers on guard, beacon towers are warned, and there is a trench seven feet deep three steps outside the village. There are bamboo sticks and wooden sticks stuck upside down in the ditch, and people are not killed if they fall down. And Hanxi Village also has only two gates, one is the north gate facing the indigenous direction, and the other is the south gate facing the wharf, and the south is the wharf.

Because the Han people had defensive measures, it was difficult for the natives to harm the Han people with twenty or thirty bows and arrows. Although the Han people only had seven or eight bows and arrows, they caused a lot of damage to the natives. Because the natives had no defenses, most of them wore only a sackcloth or a hide around their waists, and they didn't even have leather armor on their bodies. Despite this, the natives outside the village still rushed over in groups.

When Wu Tianxiao saw the natives rushing up, he shouted: "Grenade soldiers, light the grenade to attack." ”

Under the command of Wu Tianxiao. Forty or fifty bamboo grenades were thrown into the crowd of natives when they reached twenty or thirty paces.

"Boom, ......boom, boom, boom" bursts of explosions exploded among the indigenous people, and blood and flesh flew all over the place.

A burst of grenade bombardment immediately made the natives who rushed to kill dumbfounded, where had they ever seen such a terrible weapon, and the people were blown away before they could rush up. What's worse is that some natives who ran in front of them and were not bombed, but rushed up by inertia, only to find that there was a trench in front of them. After stopping and jumping for a while, he fell into the trench, and suddenly a dozen or so people died in the trench. The Han people's stockade consisted only of a dirt road only three or four paces wide in front of the gate, and on both sides of the dirt road were extended moats, so that no one could get close to the village.

Although Wu Tianxiao was holding an assault rifle, he did not participate in the killing. Instead, they patrolled the stockade left and right, commanding and boosting the morale of the soldiers.

If at the beginning, the soldiers in the stockade were still a little nervous because of the large number of natives. Then, after seeing the tragic situation of the natives in a grenade bombardment, the soldiers in the stockade became excited. Because it's hardly a fight, it's a massacre. Because the natives can't get close to the village at all.

After two rounds of grenade bombardment, the natives who rushed in front were almost wiped out, and the natives behind were so frightened that they turned around and ran. This attack on the Han people's stockade caused 1,200 natives to be killed and wounded, and suffered heavy losses. After the aborigines were defeated and retreated, they ran four or five hundred paces away, but when they saw that the Han people did not chase them out, they stopped in twos and threes.

Wu Tianxiao didn't want to completely make an enmity with the natives, and if he made an enmity, it would be very troublesome in the future. Therefore, when he saw that the natives had retreated a mile away, he called a dozen brave soldiers and went out of the stockade with him to clean up the battlefield. It's just that Wu Tianxiao didn't pay attention to the natives who were blown up, but let people confiscate all the weapons on the ground, but as for the corpses and wounded, he didn't pay attention to them. After collecting the weapons, they returned to the stockade again and closed themselves up.