Chapter 12, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (12)

The twelfth moment: the morning star flag on the island of Taiwan

Chongzhen fourth autumn, southern Taiwan, Kaohsiung

The autumn equinox of the fourth year of Chongzhen has just passed, and in the early morning air of Kaohsiung Port, there is already a faint chill.

-- Although Kaohsiung Port is located on the dividing line between the tropics and subtropics, it was still greatly affected by the abnormal solar activity during the Xiaoice period at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the 21st century, even in winter in Kaohsiung, the average temperature is above 15 degrees Celsius, and last winter, on the island of Taiwan, there were many places at higher altitudes, and there was actually a white snow and the climatic disorder that spread throughout the entire Chinese territory during the Xiaoice River at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It was early in the morning, under the light of the faint morning light, the morning fog that shrouded Kaohsiung Port was about to dissipate, and the entire port was coated with a layer of blurry colors by the soft morning light. Fishing boats set sail in the harbor, seagulls chirping over the harbor, smoke rising from cooking stoves, and melodious bugles sounding in barracks and fortresses...... All the qiē shows that the burgeoning city is waking up.

On the fort of Kaohsiung Harbor, a morning star flag with a blue background cross was fluttering high -- the Lingao Crossing Crowd directly "borrowed" the flag of NATO in later generations...... Suddenly, a puff of white smoke rose from the battery, and a roar shook the sea. It was a gun salute fired to welcome the arrival of a battleship.

“…… Is it Kaohsiung in front? Another place I've never heard of...... It's a big world."

Standing on the bow of the cruiser Kaohsiung, Ensign Jinhuan looked out at the vast island in front of him, as well as this vibrant new city, the eye-catching red brick customs building by the sea, the unfinished towering bell tower, and the seemingly infinite expanse of the vast sea around him......

Recalling that just two years ago, he was still only in that small Li Village, entangled in the boring power disputes among hundreds of people, the former young master of Li Zhai on Hainan Island, and now the "Second Lieutenant of the Aosong Fubo Army" Huan, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart for a while.

The regular 6th Army under the jurisdiction of the Senate of Lingao Travelers is mainly divided into two major systems: the Funing Army stationed in Fujian and wearing the skin of a Ming official, and the Fubo Army stationed on Hainan Island, in addition to many sporadic independent troops such as the sword drawing team, the militia team, and the national police as supplements. Last year, Taiwan was still the territory of the Funing Army, but this year, with the main force of the Funing Army stationed in Taiwan, 6 continued to be requisitioned to go to the Ryukyus and Japan, and then to war with the Spaniards in northern Taiwan, the standing force of Kaohsiung Port became quite empty, and the defense pressure suddenly increased a lot.

Therefore, in view of Kaohsiung Mayor Wei Bachi's repeated requests for help and the Fubo Army's repeated requests for battle, the Senate transferred two Li infantry companies from the Fubo Army's mountain infantry battalion and transported them to Kaohsiung for reinforcement by the steam-sail hybrid cruiser "Kaohsiung", which had just been launched.

-- Due to the huge gap in customs and culture, the Li Miao population on Hainan Island has long been unusable manpower for those who have traveled here, and it is also a potential unstable factor, which has made the executive committee suffering from the shortage of labor resources linger.

Fortunately, although these ethnic minority compatriots were not qualified workers and peasants, they were excellent forest hunters and warriors - therefore, in order to deepen the ties and bonds between the two sides, the Fubo army began to recruit the Li and Miao people of Hainan Island on a large scale into the army, and organized them into full-time mountain infantry to use: the local Li and Miao people on Hainan Island have been accustomed to walking through the mountains since childhood, tracking prey, and sleeping in the open all day without suffering. After joining the army, because of the nutritious diet, the efforts of the doctors to cure malaria, and equipped with rifles, grenades, crossbow arrows, and the famous Gurkha dog-legged scimitar, these warriors have further improved their suzhì and their combat ability has become stronger.

Ever since they formed an army on Hainan Island, these Li Miao mountain infantry have been moving to various counties on the island to carry out tedious and severe tasks of suppressing bandits -- with the cooperation of the Nationalist Army and the mountain infantry, almost no bandits can stop the attack of Fu Bo's army, and the dense mountain forests cannot become an obstacle for the Li and Miao soldiers, but on the contrary, these mountain infantry with amazing foot strength can often use the mountains and forests to ambush and sneak attack those Han bandits.

When the bandits broke down and fled, what awaited them was the most brutal pursuit - in the face of mountain infantry who could also walk like a fly in the jungle, even the most familiar bandits would often be at a disadvantage in degree and endurance, and it would be difficult to get rid of the pursuers. With the cooperation of military dogs, any bandits' delusions of trying to hide and hide could not succeed in front of these Li Miao warriors, who live by hunting and are good at tracking prey.

Even bandits who claim to be familiar with the road often cannot escape such tenacious and cold-blooded pursuits, gradually losing the will to resist, and finally suffering from hunger, fatigue and terror to the point of mental breakdown, slumping on the road and allowing their pursuers to slash and kill at will.

And even the bandits who still have the strength to fight have no chance of winning in the face of the mountain infantry who have undergone professional killing training - the Gurkha scimitar equipped by the mountain infantry has a stronger ability to cut and chop than ordinary broadswords. The scimitar itself distributes weight at the end of the blade to increase the power and power of the slash, while heavier blades can naturally inflict deeper and heavier wounds, or even cut through muscles and bones in one go

Therefore, the bandits who were pursued and bitten by the mountain infantry were usually surrounded by the mountain infantry in camouflage uniforms and with oil paint on their faces, as if they were hunting deer, and then rained crossbow arrows from all angles, taking the lives of those leaders. Then, before the rest of the bandits could react, the mountain infantry armed with scimitars sprang out of the woods and trees in droves, and quickly created a terrifying Shura field with blood splattered and severed limbs and heads flying together—anyone who was slashed by a scimitar must be either dead or maimed; Even the bandits who were lucky enough not to be killed because they surrendered in time are often scared out of their life's nightmares by this hellish scene.

The outstanding performance of the Li Miao mountain infantry and the great role played in the battle against bandits made the Lingao crossing crowd overjoyed. For example, the company commander of the first company of the mountain infantry battalion, Second Lieutenant Huan, is the son of "Aoya" (similar to the head man) of the "Trench to the Village" in Changhua County. After narrowly escaping the catastrophe, Xiaoda chose to leave the village and go to the territory of the "Australians" to make a living, and he was unwilling to return to the village to reconcile with Jinhuan again.

So, Young Master Zhanhuan, who forgot about love for the sake of love, then simply left the village to vote for the "Australian Shorthair", and after joining the Fubo Army, he was quite good - unlike other poor hunters who were bitter, Young Master Zhenhuan originally belonged to the upper class in Li Zhai, with sufficient nutrition, no worries about eating and drinking, strong body, and his hunting ability was also exercised quite well, so he was particularly outstanding in the training of recruits, and his scores on both shooting and fighting skills were excellent. Later, in the actual combat of the bandits, with the hunting skills that he had exercised since childhood, Jin Huan was always able to show the traces of the bandits first, because it has been difficult to win back the hearts of the girls who have been targeted, as long as they are the unlucky bandits who are targeted by him, they have become the punching bag for Jin Huan to vent his grievances: in the pursuit of the bandits, compared to the sneaky crossbow arrow sneak attack, Jin Huan especially likes to fight with a scimitar, and once cut off the heads of four or five bandits in a row in a battle, and the remaining dozen bandits saw those comrades who were slowly falling in a different place- Blood was still spurting out from the broken part of his neck, and Array Huan, who was covered in blood and looked like a demon god, was so frightened that he broke down and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

In addition to fighting hard, after Xian Xiaoda actually knew how to read and write, in order to make himself worthy of her, Jin Huan also made a request to the instructor to learn Chinese characters - few Li people are willing to learn culture, this request won the unanimous praise of the higher authorities, and it was immediately approved, and a study class was also set up among the mountain infantry, so that the Li Miao soldiers could voluntarily learn Chinese characters, which was regarded by the executive committee as a great progress in the work of ethnic integration.

By the summer of this year, the bandits on Hainan Island had been basically eliminated, and the mountain infantry of the Li and Miao ethnic groups had basically completed the run-in with the old troops of the Fubo Army. Zhen Huan was promoted for his outstanding performance in the battle against bandits, and was exceptionally promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, serving as the company commander of the first company, becoming the first Li person to be promoted to lieutenant. Later, he was ordered to lead a team to reinforce Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to fill the gap in troops due to the transfer of the Funing Army.

For the Li warriors who have never been to sea much in their lives, it is really a long journey from Qiongzhou to Taiwan -- although the cruiser "Kaohsiung" that Jin Huan took is already the ship with the largest displacement in the navy except for the "holy ship" (the cargo ship that carries traversers into this world), the first time he went to sea was a continuous voyage without docking for nearly three days, which made him still a little sluggish and weak.

After randomly inspecting the equipment of several soldiers and encouraging a few seasick subordinates, he led the first company of the mountain infantry battalion to disembark from the gangway, and then marched along a cinder paved road to the city of Kaohsiung -- as a military port and coal filling station for the navy, a large amount of cinder and coal ash left over from warships and armed merchant ships were piled up in Kaohsiung Port, which could be used for road hardening work.

Like other port cities, not far from the wharf in Kaohsiung, there is a commercial street that has begun to take shape, and it looks quite prosperous, although there is only one street of less than 6o meters, but there are all kinds of shops on both sides, all kinds of pastimes and handicraft workshops, and even a brothel. Sailors of different colors, 6 naval soldiers, merchants from Zhejiang and Fujian, fishermen, inhabitants of indigenous tribes, prostitutes from Nippon Village (the Japanese immigration base in Taiwan at that time...... Weaving through the streets and alleys. Overall, the business atmosphere is quite good

In particular, the Kaohsiung branch of the Lingao Cooperative established by the crossing public not only has the task of attracting small businessmen from the coastal areas of Fujian to come to Kaohsiung for trading. The Kaohsiung branch also undertook the import and export trade with the Dutch, so it was quite large-scale: a small two-story building with overhanging eaves and large glass windows. There are all kinds of "foreign goods" in it, and the middle-aged waitresses wearing green cloth "Hanfu style" dresses open their voices and attract customers with various southern and northern tones. In addition, there were a few Korean security forces armed with big sticks and hats - foreign sailors and natives often caused trouble in the streets because of alcoholism.

When Second Lieutenant Jinhuan led a group of Li warriors through the market, it immediately attracted the attention of many people - the Dutch's expressions were cold and complicated, the natives reacted with curiosity and trepidation, and many small traders and street warblers thought they had come to sell their goods and bodies to the soldiers, but they were all refused. All of them were just led by officers and marched towards the town hall.

Kaohsiung City Hall, which was just completed this year, is a small Western-style two-story western-style western-style building, although it is a wooden structure, but it is built on a half-person-high stone foundation, and the outside is painted with white lime, which looks magnificent and beautiful in the sun.

In front of the city hall is the gravel-paved Kaohsiung Municipal Square, which is also the future urban core, so along the ground around the square, plots are divided with bamboo poles and white lime lines, and various public and commercial buildings are being built in 6 years. Some plots of land have already opened with new shops, while others are still under construction. Stones, cement, sand, and lime heaps were everywhere. The professional construction workers and labor teams transferred from the headquarters of Hainan Island shuttled back and forth, and the steam pile drivers and labor horns echoed one after another, looking very busy.

At this time, many rattan tables and chairs have been placed in the center of the square, and next to it is a temporary kitchen shed, where a stove has been built directly in the open space, and baskets of pots and pans and various vegetables and fish have been made. The aroma of the prepared dishes can be smelled throughout the square. By the time the Li warriors arrived, the cooks were already serving plates of sumptuous dishes.

The main dish of the feast was venison, cooked in a variety of ways – Taiwan's second-largest export after deerskin. The venison is almost entirely lean, with little fat and a lighter taste, which is suitable for the hotter climate. Then there is the abundance of marine fish, shrimp and crabs, shellfish, tropical fruits and vegetables. In addition to rice wine and kvas, chilled lemonade is also available.

During the past few days of sailing, the officers and men of the mountain infantry battalion have been gnawing on the ship "sailing for food" and have already eaten their appetites. Seeing the delicious food and drink on the table, smelling the tempting aroma of wine and vegetables, all of them have green eyes and drool, but they are just abiding by military discipline and dare not move for the time being. When one of the officers in charge of greeting them announced with a smile that all the food and drinks on the square were a welcome feast for them. All the simple Li warriors were thunderous with joy, and they didn't care about continuing to be polite, so they rushed over one by one, sat down and ate big.

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Just as Second Lieutenant Jinhuan and his subordinates were eating in the open air on the square, in the city hall across the wall, Kaohsiung Mayor Wei Bachi was also on the terrace on the top floor of the flying star flag, overlooking the newly sent reinforcements from the "center" and looking at the appearance of these Li warriors.

“… It's only two companies, and although it looks like it's quite capable of fighting, it still seems to be a little too little......"

Sighing, he smacked his lips a little disapprovingly, and then looked up into the distance - from the roof of the city hall, he could see almost the whole picture of this "territory" under the rule of Kaohsiung: although the city hall was very magnificent, the squares, roads, docks, and commercial streets were also in shape. But when it comes to "really like a city", there is only such a small piece of the whole Kaohsiung.

As for the rest of Kaohsiung's current neighborhoods, they are simply a huge shantytown, but they are relatively neatly built. As far as the eye can see, there are rows of unadorned stilted wooden houses coated with coal tar. Most of them are single-storey, but there are also a few scattered two-story wooden houses - the island of Taiwan has a history of typhoons, earthquakes, and mudslides, and for the early settlers, such wooden houses were more adaptable.

Further beyond the shantytown, there is a fortification of earthen ramparts, bamboo fences, and moats, along which are thatched-roof watchtowers made of wood, thus drawing the line between the city and the suburbs. In the vast plains of the suburbs, some farmland and plantations have been carved out. and several unfinished and slightly messy roads, ditches and channels. Extending a little further along the road, you can see a dozen or so settlements, which constitute the satellite villages and towns of Gongwei Kaohsiung Port -- including the "standard villages" established by the Lingao Senate in the past two years, and the legacies of Zhang Wei and He Bin, who had been recruited by travelers Zhang Wei and He Bin in the early years to reclaim Taiwan, adding up to a total population of about 20,000.

Looking beyond these settlements, there are large areas of reckless wasteland and dense jungle, and even the vegetation is basically untouched. The vast beaches are covered with mangroves, and the rolling plains are full of dense banyan trees, cycads, bamboo...... Within the entire field of vision, there is very little arable land that has been reclaimed, and all traces of human activity can only be said to be the embellishment of natural vegetation.

From a purely touristic point of view, this is definitely a piece of pristine beauty of the tropical seaside that later generations of petty bourgeoisie loved. But for Mayor Wei Bachi, he would rather see the chimneys and golden rice waves, and the beautiful scenery in front of him would only make him deeply worried and under great pressure -- looking at the scenery of this wild colonial port surrounded by nature, I don't know how many years it will take to build this so-called Kaohsiung City into the capital of Taiwan Island, a regional transportation hub connecting Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, a fortress base for the navy, and a position to open up Taiwan.

Relying on the inheritance left by Zhang Wei before, as well as the displaced people from various provinces and Nanyang slaves collected and transferred by the Senate in the past two years, as well as some old Fujian immigrants who ran from Beigang (the Chinese settlement under the Dutch colony of Geranza in Taiwan), there are currently about 30,000 people in Kaohsiung's territory. But after there were more people, the pressure on Wei Bachi's head also increased. He knew that although the Executive Committee had not set a target for land reclamation, Kaohsiung City was facing the vast Chia Nan Plain, which was the most important agricultural area in Taiwan in the 21 st century, and the Senate had high expectations for agriculture here from top to bottom. If he can't come up with solid performance, the mayor of Kaohsiung will not be used.

-- You must know that although the Lingao gang sometimes laughs at themselves as "five hundred waste wood", in fact, this crossing team is definitely full of talents: masters can be formed into companies, doctors can be made into rows, there are countless turtles that have been gilded in European and American universities, and there are even in the government in the United States to shoot guns and planes. The position of mayor of Kaohsiung under Wei Bachi's buttocks, but I don't know how many people are eyeing him, hoping that he can take his place

Therefore, for the sake of the great cause of crossing the heights, Wei Bachi had to complete the initial reclamation of the Jianan Plain anyway, establish intensive state-owned farms, and then achieve self-sufficiency in grain and agricultural products, and preferably be able to come up with a large amount of surplus grain to support other areas.

However, with the equipment and manpower at hand, it is still a bit difficult to reclaim this kind of raw land on a large scale, which is all raw land and extremely dense vegetation - especially the vegetation here is so good that even if the land is ploughed with oxen after setting fire, there will often be a lack of oxen power. We had to rely on manual hoeing and ploughing the land, which made the labor required for reclamation extremely large, and various casualties were also one after another.

In addition, for Kaohsiung City's reclamation cause, the aborigines of Taiwan Island are also a major threat.

According to Wei Bachi's original idea, after the large-scale reclamation of Taiwan and the construction of Kaohsiung City, he had to play the classic role of a Western colonialist who took glass beads to deceive the aborigines of land and coaxed them to write land sales contracts. According to Zhang Wei, the forerunner, when he led a group of people to settle in Taiwan, he did take the lead in merging the immigrants and retired old pirates left by Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi before, and with the assistance of the Funing Army secretly sent by Huangshi, he fought a few battles with the natives, and only then did he barely gain a firm foothold.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Wei was beaten back to Penghu Island and Lingao crossed the crowd to take over the area around Kaohsiung Port, those old immigrants who used to be pirates had been under Zhang Wei's control for a few years, although they had already been obedient, even the Taiwanese natives had disappeared from the wind -- within a radius of 100 miles, although the scouts sent by Wei Bachi had found some native villages and fields, they had been abandoned for a long time, and the people inside had already fled to the inner 6.

During the construction process in the next two years, although there were occasional natives who came to quietly snoop, they never came into contact with the reclamation workers of Kaohsiung Port, let alone came to the port market to buy things...... However, the temporary "peaceful coexistence" does not mean that the threat of the indigenous people is gone, and such a strange calm makes Wei Bachi feel uneasy, and he worries all day about whether something unexpected will happen next.

Last year, because an elite Funing Army was stationed, there was no need to worry about the security of Kaohsiung Port. This year, however, the Kaohsiung Harbor garrison was sent by Yellowstone to attack Japan and the Ryukyus, and even now that the expedition has ended, the force continues to remain in the Keelung region of northern Taiwan, attacking the local Spanish stronghold in an attempt to seize the sulfur mines there. There are only a few miscellaneous guards, North Korean stick teams, and Japanese security forces left here in Kaohsiung Harbor, and Wei Bachi is worried about this all day...... Fortunately, now that the reinforcements have finally arrived, he finally breathed a sigh of relief......

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Although the thriving port of Kaohsiung seems so vibrant, in the eyes of others, it is just a desperate purgatory.

-- Arnoki is a native of the Malay Peninsula, and he was originally a small leader in the tribe, with a wife and children, and he lived a fairly prosperous life. Unfortunately, he was lost in an engagement with a rival tribe and became a prisoner. Subsequently, although Arnoky was not unlucky enough to be tortured and sacrificed to the gods, he became a "living commodity" for the elders of rival tribes to trade arms with the red-haired merchants, and he was turned from a captive to a slave.

Then, after a nightmare sea voyage, he was trafficked by red-haired merchants to Sanya, far from home, and became a slave of the "Australians". In that dark place, no one cared about Arnold's name, only gave him a cold codename: 33

After working in Sanya for a year, due to the large-scale agricultural development in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Arnold was transferred to Kaohsiung to work as a coolie for land reclamation.

Although it is a slightly chilly autumn and the Xiaoice period with global low temperatures, the weather in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is still very hot around noon.

In the dizzying sun, Adeno struggled to carry a basket of weeds and gravel and moved slowly—though his dysentery had only been cured for a long time and his body was still weak, he had to continue to live under the fierce clubs and whips of the overseers.

Compared with the Sanya slave camp on Hainan Island, which has survived the most terrible initial period and the mortality rate has dropped greatly despite the harsh and arduous conditions, Kaohsiung is still full of primitive jungles, and the reclamation process is very difficult and dangerous. Mosquito bites are even more difficult to prevent, and the tropical epidemic transmitted by Guò has been the number one cause of death among Kaohsiung residents in recent years.

Obviously, slaves without human rights are the most severely threatened by the disease in the entire port of Kaohsiung, and the group of people who have received the least medical care and rest. Arnokie didn't know how long he would live, but he knew that he would die if he stayed here any longer—he remembered coming here in the winter, and there were five or six of the same numbered people as him, but now, he was the only one left. So Arnokie had already planned his escape a month ago, preparing to escape with two dozen other slaves. Half a month ago, they had hidden some of the food distributed by the overseers and prepared it as food on the way to escape, and now they were just waiting for a suitable opportunity......

Today, Arnoldie is still tasked with clearing the land, and the "Australians" generally set fire to a piece of land, and then the slaves manually clear the trees, debris and stones that have not yet been completely burned to level the land - because the humid climate of the rainforest usually does not burn sufficiently and is quickly extinguished. The number of steam engines that could be used to level the land in Kaohsiung Port was limited, and most of the land preparation work was still carried out by slaves.

And this is the opportunity to escape in Arnold's eyes - it is impossible to escape from the camp, the camp where the slaves are held is surrounded by barbed wire, and there are tall guard towers, and there are security soldiers with military dogs patrolling back and forth day and night, although slaves still take advantage of the night to escape incidents, but most of the scattered and unorganized escapees can not escape from the camp at all, or before they can run out of the camp they are chased by the bullets of the security forces, and the few guys who are not killed will soon be pounced on the ground by the vicious hounds. But when the slaves went out to clear the wasteland, there were many fewer soldiers to watch over them, and the slaves had labor tools in their hands and no barbed wire around them, which was obviously the best time to escape.

Although even at the site of the reclamation, there must have been security forces and military dogs watching, but a single slave still could not escape. But if a lot of people run away in tandem, there will still be some people who will be able to escape - as for who will succeed, it will be up to chance.

Through Guò's observations between work, Arnold managed to find a natural trench that had been washed out by the rain, which could be used as a hidden path for his escape. At the end of the trench was the reckless mountain forest, a symbol of freedom, and there was only one time left - although the slave owner and Zhou Papi had much in common, the slaves who could run away were different from the long-term workers who could not run, so the overseers never let them out of the camp in the morning when the light was dark, but waited until the sun rose and the day was bright before the slaves were driven out to work, and they would call it a day before dusk. But the climate here in Taiwan is more special, and sometimes mountain fog suddenly rises even in the afternoon...... And that's the opportunity they were waiting for......

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In the afternoon, the mountain fog gradually dissipated, revealing puddles of water scattered among the mountains and forests, and suddenly, the sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the leaves, shining on the shallow puddles, reflecting dazzling flashes. The sound of birds and insects chirping in the jungle from time to time, and then suddenly there was a "brushing" sound of rubbing grass blades - I saw a fat and swarthy black mountain pig leisurely out of the jungle, sniffing around, as if looking for food.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, the boar looked up uneasily—although it didn't see anything unusual, some kind of survival instinct peculiar to wild animals made it feel as if it was being targeted by some terrible predator.

But before it could make any move, a sharp javelin shot out from behind the bushes, pierced directly into the boar's eye, and pierced its head deeply, and after a scream, the dying boar continued to scurry for a dozen steps, but finally fell weakly.

After a few more moments, several hunters wrapped in animal skins sprang out of the bushes, and the man was Mona, the young leader of the Madou Society, who was strong and strong, with tattoos on his chin and forehead, and although he had just hit a large prey, there was not the slightest joy on his face.

What many people don't know is that perhaps due to their long-term contact with the Central Plains civilization since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Li people on Hainan Island are relatively backward in social form, but they are by no means a cannibal. However, the natives of Taiwan Island, who came into contact with the Central Plains civilization late, are real cruel headhunters.

What's worse is that the aborigines of Taiwan often kill people and hunt for heads, often not for the purpose of looting property and vendetta - of course, it is better if they can kill the enemy or grab the property, most of the time just to prove that they can kill, or just to add decorations to the room, just like many Canadian and American hunting enthusiasts in later generations are very fond of making the head of a bear or elk they hunt into specimens and hanging them on the wall.

When Taiwanese aboriginal boys reach adulthood, these teenagers celebrate their coming-of-age by holding "weeding", or hunting heads, as a rite of passage, to sneak up on other tribes and then hang the heads on a shelf at the entrance of their villages.

-- According to the concept of Taiwan's aborigines, it seems that only a boy who has killed someone can be considered a man and is qualified to tattoo his face......

Year after year, Taiwan's aborigines live such a savage and bloody life: chasing wild beasts in the woods, seeking mountain springs to drink, beheading enemies, and dancing around campfires at night and munching on meat. For them, life is a sacrifice, and dying in battle is the highest pride.

As the son of the leader of the Madou Society, the largest indigenous tribe in the southern plains of Taiwan, with a population of more than 1,000 households, Mona has wanted to be the hero of the village since he was a child. And in the fourteen-year-old coming-of-age rite "out of the grass", he also really showed an excellent appearance, and with a clever ambush, he successfully killed two natives of the Xingang Society who were hunting, and evaded the pursuit of the Xingang Society, and successfully brought back the severed heads of these two unlucky ghosts.

From that day on, Mona gloriously passed the test of the ancestral spirit, obtained the qualification of the tattoo, and became a true warrior.

In the days that followed, in order to prove his greatness and extraordinary, to make the surrounding tribes tremble at the sight of his name, Mona was very keen to "get out of the grass...... Today, there are more than 30 collectibles in the house of this "hero", including old and young, men and women, most of whom are the heads of Taiwanese natives, some of whose heads belong to unlucky Han traders, and even a few heads of red-haired people.

Such frequent "grassing" naturally brought a lot of enemies to the Madou Society, but Mona and his father, the previous leader of the Madou Society, were not too worried about this. Compared to the other tribes on this island, the Madou Society itself has an exceptionally large population, and can mobilize more than 500 warriors, and has a crushing military advantage in the conquest with other tribes. And another large tribe nearby, the Jiawan Society, is also a close ally of the Madou Society. The red-haired people's "thunderbolts" are certainly very powerful, but they are few people, and the Madou Society is not afraid of them, as long as they are half a day's journey from Dayuangang, they will no longer be the sphere of influence of the red-haired people. So Mona and his father had always believed that there was no force in the world that could threaten their tribe and hunting grounds.

However, six years ago, the Madou Society finally encountered a real enemy: a group of Han Chinese aliens from the other side of the sea landed in the hunting grounds of the Madou Society6, and this group of people did not come and go in a hurry like the maritime merchants of the past, but cleared the land and cut down trees, built houses, and seemed to live here permanently.

If they had only occupied the deserted beach called "Fighting Dogs", the Madoushe might not have cared very much, but these Han people had to move inward6 and gradually approached several of the main settlements of the Madoushe. Mona's father naturally couldn't tolerate the encroachment of the tribe's hunting grounds, so he led the tribe's warriors to "get out of the grass", killed several of them, and then cut off their heads to pay homage to the ancestral spirits to punish them for their sins of offending the sacred hunting grounds of the Madou Society. But the other party also retaliated and burned down a small village in Madoushe.

Such sporadic battles lasted for a long time, and neither side could help the other. Although the Madou Society relied on its familiarity with the terrain and killed more Han people, the Han people always had backup from the other side of the sea Eventually, a decisive battle broke out, and the 400 soldiers of the Madou Society and the 200 reinforcements of the Mujia Slip Bay Society entered the Han village under the protection of the ancestral spirit. But they were greeted by a thick smoke of gunpowder and bursts of gunfire, more dense than the thunderstorm that Mona heard during the rainstorm, and they didn't expect that the Han people actually had so many "thunderbolts", more than the red-haired people in Dayuangang

For a while, I only heard the sound of "thunder" in the smoke, and the ping-pong pong came and went, and there were red fires everywhere. By the time the smoke cleared, all the tribal warriors who rushed to the front of the team had been defeated. Mona's father, who was also splashed with blood in his chest, was the first to fall in the dense gunfire, and Mona was horrified when he saw this, and quickly picked up his father, who was still bleeding, with a soldier, turned around and ran desperately towards the village.

And the sinister Han people, after releasing the "thunderbolt", rushed out from all directions, many spearmen in iron armor, blocked many warriors who did not have time to escape, and crushed their desperate resistance, so that they could never return to their homeland.

On that day, Mona had never felt that the journey back to the main village of the Madou Society was so far away, and his father's blood almost stained his clothes all over his body, but even so, his father, who only had his last breath left, still whispered weakly in his ear, he must protect the tribe and not let the enemy enter it...... Mona wanted to cry, but the warrior never had such an expression as crying, and could only vent the pain in his heart by constantly screaming.

Mona's father did not return to the village alive in the end, and the Madou Society warriors who came back alive were only half of what they had been, and they were unable to bring the heads of any of their enemies - the heaviest loss of the Madou Society in recent years.

In the midst of gloom and gloom, Mona inherited the position of the leader of the Madou Society. In the days that followed, the Han sent more large ships to Dagou, and there were more and more Han people on board6, so many that the warriors who went to investigate could not count the Cheng dù at all. In the face of such an irresistible enemy, for the safety of the Madou Society, Mona had to retreat with the tribe inward6 and abandon the hunting grounds near the Han Deng6 site, as well as many mountain fence rice fields that had been reclaimed...... Although the life of the members has become a little more difficult, they have finally avoided the disaster of destruction for the time being.

However, as time went on, more and more Han Chinese landed on the seashore, and they brought in people with incredible degrees - mostly Han Chinese, but there were also many strange aliens whom Mona did not know, and they continued to build houses and reclaim large tracts of land......

Is this the "power of civilization" that the red-haired man who came to preach last time boasted to himself? Mona stroked the red-haired missionary's already dried head, looking at this qiē change in fear and helplessness, after inheriting his father's position as the leader, he had to think about the survival of the whole clan, so he didn't want to continue to conflict with the powerful Han people, and he no longer often went to "grass" to prove himself as before.

But the problem is that those insatiable Han people not only occupy the original hunting grounds of the Madou Society, but also continue to burn the wasteland, and the forces are getting closer and closer to the new settlement of the Madou Society, and there have been some sporadic conflicts recently, and the two sides have had many confrontations, but in the end it ended with the concession of the Madou Society, and many young people in the tribe are angry, clamoring all day long to go down the mountain to the grass in the town of these aliens.

For such a situation, Mona felt infinitely entangled and confused: for the survival of the tribe, the elders told him to be patient. But the Han Chinese are taking over more and more land, converting more woodland into farmland. As a result, the hunting grounds of the tribal warriors shrank, and their prey became less and less. And if this continues, it won't be long before these hateful Han people will be reclaimed near the last territory of the Madoushe, and then the entire tribe will have no way to retreat, so they can either fight them to the end, or move to the mountains higher and farther to the east......

- Although the enemy's strength is really strong, if he continues to sit back and watch his territory being swallowed, then on the day he dies, when his soul is connected to the Rainbow Bridge, I am afraid that he will not be able to face the questioning of the ancestral spirit...... Mona thought bitterly, and then finally made up his mind: "...... O alien from across the sea, if your civilization wants me to grovel, then let you see my savage pride."

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At noon, on a reclamation site on the outskirts of Kaohsiung City, more than a dozen Japanese security soldiers who were responsible for supervising the work in the morning finally stayed up until lunchtime, and after changing shifts with another team, these hungry Japanese rushed back to the canteen of the station to enjoy the lunch they had been waiting for for a long time.

Lunch is the same rice, pickled radish and potato stewed vermicelli, but although the food of the security army is not as good as that of the national army, they still meet the meat every two days, and today everyone is allocated a grilled fish, which makes these little Japanese people quite happy - although Japan has been a rice producer since ancient times, it is trapped in the Japanese environment with many people and little land, and even after the end of the Warring States Rebellion, it is still a luxury for the poor Japanese people to have a full stomach. Many Japanese farmers will not be able to eat the rice they grow in their lifetime, the poor will have two meals a day of small rice with boiled radish, the rich will have two meals of rice a day with sauce-soaked radish, and only during the New Year and festivals will there be salted fish and tofu to beat their teeth. The Japanese who came to take refuge in the "Australian Chief" were basically worse than ordinary people. For the vast majority of Japanese mercenaries, being able to eat rice every day is already unimaginable in the past, not to mention having enough rice for a meal, three meals a day, and fish every three or five days.

When this group of rough people were gobbling up, only their platoon commander, the samurai-turned-security corporal Honda Kojiro, ate more reservedly - unlike those soldiers from poor peasants, Honda Kojiro came from Higo Province on the island of Kyushu, and said that he was a samurai, but in fact, when he joined the army, he was already unclothed, almost like a beggar, and only had a sword that never left him, and he could prove his samurai identity.

-- In the Battle of Sekigahara, which decided the ownership of Japan 30 years ago, most of the princes and daimyo of the Kyushu region were on the wrong side, reducing the feudal Because the feudal lord Konishi Yukinaga was beheaded to death, Kojiro Motoyama's father also became a ronin after the war.

Originally, his family still had a small piece of land, and although he starved every day, he did not starve to death. However, as the shogunate's persecution of Catholics became more severe and the ban on religion was issued, the remaining family was forced to flee to the sea after Kojiro's father was burned at the stake.

So, the Honda family went through a lot of tossing and turning, and finally drifted to Lingao in a daze, and in desperation, Motoyama Kojiro joined the army of "Australian Shorthair", which gave him a stable job. Because he was born as a samurai, Kojiro Motoyama soon became a platoon commander.

At this time, the special treatment enjoyed as a non-commissioned officer, on the table in front of Corporal Kojiro Motoyama, in addition to rice, pickled radish and potato stewed vermicelli, and grilled fish, there was also a cup of cool iced tea. With the climate here in Kaohsiung, it is indeed refreshing to be able to sit down and drink such a cold drink on a hot afternoon...... He leisurely sipped the iced tea, while contemplating whether to go to the brothel in the evening.

However, just after Kojiro Motoyama had just finished drinking iced tea, and before he had time to use his chopsticks to eat, with an emergency assembly order brought by the herald, his good mood for today suddenly fell to the bottom - not long after Honda Kojiro's team completed the shift change, a mist quietly rose in the wilderness, and then the slaves who carried out the reclamation task inexplicably gave rise to a large-scale brawl. Although the overseers quickly suppressed the slaves' rebellion with sticks, rifle butts, and bayonets, it was revealed that dozens of slaves had escaped without knowing what had happened

Then, because he still had to guard those disobedient slaves, even if the platoon commander Ushijima, who was in charge of overseeing the work, no matter how green his muscles burst out and roared like thunder, "How can it be repaired, Bage Yalu", his platoon could not immediately withdraw to pursue the fugitive slaves, so he could only send someone to ask Kojiro Motoyama for reinforcements.

So, Kojiro Motoyama took one last look at the rice that he hadn't had time to move, and grabbed his ancestral knife again......

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Meanwhile, Adno and his fellow fugitives were running along a shallow stream—no one knew what fate would come for them, but they all knew that if they didn't flee, death awaited them.

So far, the escape of Adno and the others has been relatively smooth - they have succeeded in provoking a brawl among the slaves, creating chaos, and while the guards were busy suppressing the slaves who were scurrying around, they immediately rushed into the trench washed out by the rainstorm, escaped the sight of the guards, and ran all the way down the stream. The shallow stream is just right to hide the smell on their bodies, thus delaying the degree of tracking by the military dogs.

After fleeing for a while, they finally moved away from Kaohsiung Port and went deep into the reckless primeval jungle. The climate in the tropical jungle was always hot and humid, and after a long struggle through the dense vegetation, the Malay fugitives were a little exhausted and had to stop to rest.

After a few bites of the moldy food, Adeno was about to discuss his next move with his companion, when he suddenly heard a wind whistle in his ears, and then was stunned to see a javelin grazing his ear and digging deep into the chest of one of his companions

Amid the splashing blood and terrible screams, before Adeno could react, he saw another javelin flying out of the dense forest, and the Malay fugitive slaves fell four or five again, while many hideous-looking students shouted and escaped from the jungle and killed the slaves...... The slaves, who were already like frightened birds, suddenly panicked, some raised their shovels and hoes in their hands to try to resist, and more scattered with their heads in their hands......

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Mona, the young leader of the Madou Society, casually shook the blood stains on the hunting knife and tied the head of an unlucky slave to a rope around his waist.

He had just hunted a boar when a member of his clan came to tell him that a group of aliens was approaching here. Mona was taken aback by the news, and while sending someone back to report the news, he took the group of warriors who had been hunting together just now to go over to see the situation of these alien invaders...... However, what he saw next made Mona breathe a sigh of relief - these invaders were just slaves of the Han people who landed on the shore.

Mona has known from a very early age that the Han people who have been driving a large number of slaves to reclaim the famine, not only the tribal warriors who went to reconnoiter have seen it from afar, but occasionally there will be sporadic slaves who have fled over, and finally it has either become a meal for beasts, or it has become a collection of Taiwanese students.

So, instead of going to the tribe to call for reinforcements, he directly led the hunting team around him to "go out of the grass", attacked this group of fugitive slaves, and successfully killed a few people, while the remaining alien slaves scattered in all directions screaming. Seeing that the enemy was so vulnerable, the warriors of the Madou Society also scattered in pursuit to hunt the heads of these fugitive slaves. Those young people who have never been grass in their lives are especially active, looking forward to cutting off at least one head this time, so as to qualify for tattooing and becoming true warriors.

However, just as Mona tied his head and lifted his sword again, ready to find his next prey, there were suddenly several "thunderbolt" gunshots in the distance, causing his pupils to shrink suddenly

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Kojiro Honda led his platoon of Japanese security forces, following in the footsteps of a military dog, to hunt down the fugitives in the sweltering jungle. Along the way, his mood became worse and worse with a hungry stomach, stumbling branches and vines, and worn and torn clothes.

These stupid slaves knew they had to run down the stream in an attempt to slow down the dogs' tracking, but they left visible footprints on the mudflats, making it easy for Kojiro Honda to track...... Suddenly, the military dog stopped, and a low warning sound sounded. Kojiro immediately stretched out his hand to signal the team to stop, and carefully observed the reckless green fields around him.

Soon, he saw a clump of thatch shaking not far away, and a panicked face suddenly emerged from inside, which was none other than some escaped Malay slave. This guy froze in great shock after the Japanese security forces who usually supervised and whipped them, but strangely did not turn around and run away, as if he was frightened stupidly. So, with a hideous smile on his face, Kojiro took out a short stick and came up scolding, ready to beat the slave violently to vent the pent-up anger in his heart.

But in the next moment, something surprising happened—another figure flew out of the grass in front of me, first kicking down the stunned slave, and then cutting off his head with a knife, and the whole movement was as smooth as flowing water. Next, this tattooed Taiwanese Shengfan just grabbed the head that rolled down, but when he looked up, he saw a team of heavily armed aliens, and the movements of his hands and feet froze suddenly.

This is almost what happened in an instant, Kojiro and his subordinates were all stunned on the spot, and the Taiwanese student who came to hunt for the head was also stunned by this unexpected encounter scene. The air in the dense forest seemed to freeze for a moment, until a gunshot broke the strange silence - as the first Japanese soldier subconsciously pulled the trigger, the other soldiers also woke up and opened fire on the Taiwanese Shengfan.

Regrettably, in this chaotic round of spontaneous shooting, not a single bullet successfully hit the target - the Taiwanese student just screamed, picked up the head of the Malay slave, turned around and ran without injury, and disappeared behind the grass in an instant. But the frightened Japanese security forces continued to fire indiscriminately at the grass until they were scolded by Kojiro Honda.

--Seeing the appearance of Taiwanese Shengfan, Honda Kojiro vaguely felt that there would be some trouble now, and the slaves they were chasing seemed to have fled to the vicinity of a certain Shengfan tribe, and there were still traces of unknown Shengban around him......

At this point, Honda Kojiro no longer cared about the life and death of those slaves, even if he saw a few fugitive slaves running wildly from not far away, he didn't have the heart at all, he just ordered his subordinates to reload their bullets, keep the formation and slowly retreat, ready to fight at any time Sure enough, Honda Kojiro and his subordinates retreated not much way, and they heard the terrifying howls of the people everywhere in the jungle. Looking up, there were shadows in the dense forest, and he couldn't see how many people there were, but the strange screams that were getting closer and closer made him feel a little bad.

So, Kojiro ordered to stop retreating, and all of them lined up to aim, and fired a salvo at a suspicious grass that was constantly shaking somewhere—the loud gunfire drowned out the roars of the students, and the salvo of more than twenty bullets temporarily suppressed the arrogance of the students, and it seemed that they had hit several targets......

Hearing the sudden disappearance of the Taiwanese students, Honda Kojiro once again ordered all of them to retreat, bent on getting out of danger as much as possible - because he didn't expect to start a battle with Shengban at all, his platoon only carried the minimum standard of ammunition when pursuing, and a quarter of it had been consumed by now, and if it continued to grind, it was inevitable that he would have to fight with the natives in a white-knuckle battle: although Honda Kojiro was very confident in his family knife skills, he had no choice but to have a group of rookies under his command, and only two of them were said to be samurai. Moreover, since the service, in addition to training and beating slaves, they have not seen blood, but now they suddenly want to fight the local natives in this strange tropical jungle, no matter how you look at it, it looks very hanging.

But they were unable to make it out, and were ambushed again at the edge of the jungle - without warning, a javelin burst out from among the trees, whistling past Honda Kojiro's face, and sliding a long trail of blood on his face, which stabbed to the ground. At the same time. Several other javelins also came from behind the security forces, causing three soldiers to be pierced by javelins. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of Madoushe soldiers also rushed out from behind the barren grass, brandishing machetes and killing more than 20 mercenaries of the Japanese security forces in the encirclement.

When it was extremely critical, Kojiro Honda first took out his revolver, aimed at the Shengban soldiers who jumped out of the grass and pulled the trigger, and shot out the bullets in the wheel in one go, knocking down the two Shengban. Then, he pulled out the sword hanging from his waist, and rushed forward with a brisk stride, slashing at the nearest Shengfan. The whole action was done in one go, and the sharp blade slid across the native's neck, and blood splattered Kojiro's military uniform......

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"Bang Bang"

“…… Kill and give—"

"Ahh

In the dense tropical jungle, a fierce battle is unfolding, Mona mobilized all the soldiers of the entire Madou Society, and set up an ambush here to besiege the Japanese security forces deep into the jungle - although he is very afraid of the sharp firearms of the aliens, but now the aliens have penetrated here, almost touching the door of the tribe, for the safety of the tribe, it is necessary to kill these invaders anyway, and use their heads to worship the ancestral spirits.

However, under the siege of Taiwan's Shengfan, these Japanese security forces were also trapped and fighting, desperately resisting with rifles, bayonets, knives and other qiē weapons. Glittering Japanese katana and rough stone axe hunting knives collide with each other, and roars in different languages come and go...... Although the Japanese security forces had advantages in weapons, training, and organization, they were too few in number, and the rugged terrain with vegetation made it difficult for them to wield their gun platoon tactics.

After a few hand-to-hand fights, Corporal Honda Kojiro was already drenched in sweat and blood, and there was a tingling pain from the bleeding wound on his face, and the beads of sweat on his eyelids made his eyes blur a little—although the sword in his hand was extremely sharp, the problem was that the blade was a little too long, and when wielded in the dense forest, it was often blocked by branches and vines. But with his ancestral knife technique, he successfully killed seven or eight Shengban, but unfortunately he also suffered several knife wounds, and it was precisely because of Honda Kojiro's bravery that many Shengban regarded him as the target of the siege, making it more difficult for him to parry.

“… Alas, who should have eaten that rice and grilled fish and then came out again, and who made me a descendant of the samurai? ”

Looking at these hideous-looking Ikuban, Kojiro, who was already exhausted, reluctantly picked up the sword again, glaring at these enemies who wanted to take his life...... Suddenly, a javelin stabbed out of the grass at his side and stabbed into Kojiro's stomach

Suddenly, he only saw blood spurting out of his chest, and his vision quickly began to blur, and the whole person staggered and lay down. The shouts of killing around him seemed to be inaudible, and the body temperature and blood were constantly flowing...... Am I going to be called by the Lord? The dying Kojiro muttered to himself, and at the same time noticed that the Taiwanese students around him were slowly surrounding, as if they were going to cut off his head.

So, after the last prayer, Kojiro Honda put together what little strength he had left, and pulled the fuse of the grenade hanging from his waist.

“…… Boom"

Although the explosion of the grenade did not kill any of them, the resulting loud noise and fire pointed the way to the reinforcements - a moment later, the warriors of the Madousha heard the barking of dogs and the shouts of Japanese, apparently the reinforcements of the aliens had arrived, and seeing that nothing could be done, Mona had to swing his knife and cut off the charred head of Kojiro Honda, and then with a whistle, he led his people back into the reckless jungle.

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A stone's throw away from the battlefield, the forgotten Malay fugitive slave Adeno managed to curl up behind the corpse of a Japanese security soldier, bullets flying over his head from time to time, so frightened that he could only lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, not daring to move.

It wasn't until he saw that Taiwan Shengfan had fled, and the Japanese security army's reinforcements had not arrived for a while, that Adeno took advantage of this short gap that no one cared about, quietly picked up a few bayonets and a rifle, and then quickly pulled the two fugitive companions with his hands and feet and disappeared into the vast jungle......

-- No one knows what kind of fate these Malayan natives will experience in the unfamiliar jungle of Taiwan.

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“…… The war with the aborigines of Taiwan has finally begun."

At dusk, in the office of Kaohsiung City Hall, Mayor Wei Bachi leaned on a wicker chair and read the combat report that the secretary had just submitted.

He was not surprised that armed conflict with the natives was a "foregone conclusion" that had long been anticipated -- as Kaohsiung's sphere of influence continued to expand, sooner or later it would invade the core territory of the aborigines, and even some of the cultivated land they were currently cultivating was the mountain fences and hunting grounds that the aborigines had voluntarily abandoned. Therefore, it is not strange that there is an armed conflict at all, but it is strange why it has been delayed until now.

Of course, although there were psychological preparations, the losses in this armed conflict were quite severe: forty Malay slaves escaped or died on the reclamation farm, and the platoon of the Japanese security forces in charge of pursuing the fugitive slaves was killed by two-thirds, the platoon commander was killed in battle, and the remaining soldiers were wounded. But they also killed twenty indigenous warriors and captured one prisoner, and according to torture, the enemy should be a member of the Madou Society......

Putting down the battle report, Mayor Wei leisurely lit a cigar, for him, the biggest effect of this battle report was to give him a reason to launch a brutal sweeping operation to exterminate Tainan Shengfan - as for the victory or defeat of the war, it was doomed from the beginning.

In the original history, the various indigenous tribes on the island of Taiwan were not much stronger than the American Indians in front of the colonizers, and the tribes in the mountains could still defend by virtue of the terrain, while the tribes on the plains could be bullied by anyone. Even the Madou Society and the Xingang Society, which once gave the Dutch a headache, later only dispatched dozens of European soldiers, plus hundreds of indigenous "Imperial Cooperative Army", to carry out a sweep against these natives, and it was solved lightly: killing hundreds of dozens of people, burning a few more villages, you can force them to surrender and pay tribute. The reason why the Dutch felt that the natives were a threat when they first arrived in Taiwan was simply because they had too few troops at that time, only a few dozen people.

With the industrialization strength that Lingao Crossing has so far, as well as the continuous replenishment of troops from the Big 6, these barbarian tribes with a population of only a few thousand at most are simply objects that can be crushed lightly on the battlefield......

Of course, fighting in the wild tropical jungle was, after all, a rather dangerous chore, where the vegetation was dense, the climate was changeable, wild beasts, snakes and insects were infested, and there were all kinds of miasma, and if the army rushed deeper, it was easy to cause serious non-combat attrition.

Fortunately, under the current Lingao crossing group, there happens to be a group of "first-class experts" who are also very familiar with the tropical jungle environment...... Thinking of this, Mayor Wei shook a brass bell in his hand, and after a while, a sturdy and straight, dignified second-lieutenant of the 6th Army, but with a tattoo on his face like the aborigines of Taiwan, pushed the door and walked in, and then "snapped" and stood upright, raised his hand and saluted:

“…… The commander of the first company of the mountain infantry battalion of the Fubo Army, Jinhuan, reported to the commander and asked for instructions"

“…… Second Lieutenant Zhenhuan, I heard that you have excelled in the Qiongzhou bandit suppression operations in the past, and you are especially good at mountain and jungle operations, which has been unanimously praised by the Senate and the 6th Army Headquarters. I transferred you to Taiwan precisely to better display your talents. Wei Bachi said with a kind expression.

“…… Thank you for the praise and the love of the Senate," the former Li Zhai young master Zhen Huan replied without humility or arrogance

“…… So, the Senate and the people have decided to give you a new task" Wei Bachi changed his words and finally got to the point.

“…… In the future, I will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire, and work hard to make new contributions to the Senate and the people," Jin Huan hurriedly took advantage of the situation to express his determination.

“…… Very good, I look forward to your watch," Wei Bachi said with appreciation, handing over an official document and a Morning Star Banner decorated with a golden tassel ribbon, "...... Second Lieutenant Jinhuan, according to the special authority granted to me by the Senate, I have appointed you as the captain of the Jianan Plain Theater Raid Captain, responsible for commanding all the Li mountain infantry, the Korean security army and the Japanese security army in Kaohsiung City, totaling about 600 troops, to carry out a sweeping operation against the barbarians of Madoushe, and we must completely eradicate this cancer that threatens the great cause of reclamation in Kaohsiung City within three months."

Ensign Jinhuan, who did not expect that he would be able to serve as the chief general as soon as he came to Taiwan, was so excited that his face turned red for a while, and he excitedly took over the appointment document and the Daystar flag, and at the same time replied in an extraordinarily loud voice: "...... Thank you for the long cultivation and never disappoint your trust guarantee to complete the task"

-- With the order of Mayor Wei, the loyal and martial Japanese samurai, the Korean archers with sharp archery, the Li hunters who are familiar with the mountains and forests, the aborigines of Taiwan who defend their homeland, and the Malay fugitive slaves who are struggling to survive, will soon use the vast jungle of Taiwan, the treasure island of Taiwan, as the stage, and use muskets and swords as props to stage an epic of conquest containing magnificent themes such as blood and fire, civilization and barbarism, survival and destruction......

The Dutch, who were also on the island, could only lie dormant in their castle of Geranza, helplessly acting as spectators.

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E: When looking at the allusion of Taiwan's aborigines "out of grass", there is a very hilarious thing - in 2o4, when a flood broke out in Taiwan's Gaoshan ethnic group, Annette Lu ♀ not only warmly comforted the victims when she inspected the disaster area, but said that the ignorant aborigines are not worthy of pity at all, and as superior civilized people, we should learn from the great United States and treat these dwarf and black inferior races like Americans treat Indians.

Immediately after the news spread, 3,000 (purportedly so many) angry "strong men" of the Gaoshan tribe rushed to Taipei's Kaida Grand Avenue, clamoring to carry out the "big grass" on this stinky woman, but in the end, of course, it was unsuccessful, and she was beaten to the ground......

Then someone drew a caricature of this incident, showing Annette Lu ♀ wearing a hat with a Stars and Stripes pattern, wearing western cowboy clothes, and holding a tomahawk to scalp the aborigines of Taiwan......

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