The Song army of 3,000 was divided into five teams, respectively guarding the five exits of Dazhai, the Song army was very well-equipped, the soldiers were wearing iron helmets and iron armor, holding spears and bows and crossbows, while the natives only had stone spears and poisonous arrows, and they were defenseless, and the two sides were too far apart in equipment.

If you are not shot in the face by the opponent's poisoned arrow, or the stone spear thrown from a high place, it is just a flat battle, and the opponent's poisoned arrows and stone spears cannot pierce the armor of the Song army at all.

Five teams have been distributed in place, with Fanning's order, a rocket rose into the air, shooting towards the stockade, the Song army used gunpowder arrows, mixed with sulfur powder, high calorific value, burning rapidly, the stockade soon caught fire everywhere, the fire borrowed the wind, spread very quickly, only a moment, most of the stockade was covered with smoke, the fire was burning.

Fanning watched the battle from a distance, and the high canopy was replaced by a sentry, at which point the sentry shouted: "The enemy is ready to break through from the southwest!" ”

Wei Cheng, the general commanding the battle, ordered in a loud voice: "Quickly order five hundred soldiers from the east and five hundred soldiers from the south to assemble at the southwest entrance!" ”

The natives in the stockade fled in panic, and two thousand young soldiers escorted the chief to break through from the southwest entrance, where there were six hundred Song soldiers, led by a commander, seeing the black and oppressive natives rushing out, the commander immediately ordered, "The front row is a spear formation, and the back is shot with crossbow arrows!" ”

Three hundred soldiers lined up, holding up shields and spears to seal the exit, and there were another three hundred soldiers behind with crossbows to shoot, dense crossbow arrows shot like a torrential rain, the indigenous soldiers who ran in front fell down one after another, but the front fell, and the back immediately rushed up, after more than two hundred casualties, the indigenous soldiers finally rushed down the mountain, and the Song army's spear array fought fiercely, at this time, the crossbowmen behind also put down their bows and crossbows, and rushed up with shields and spears in their hands.

Six hundred Song soldiers firmly sealed the southwest exit, leaving the indigenous soldiers in a dilemma.

The cottage was completely engulfed in flames, most of the women and children were killed in the fire, and only more than 1,800 indigenous soldiers at the southwest entrance of the whole cottage were left to protect the chieftain to break through, and the Song army began to arrive from all directions, gradually surrounding the indigenous soldiers.

Brutal killings erupted at this moment.........

The cottage burned for two hours before it was gradually extinguished in a sudden twilight rain, but the entire cottage had been completely burned down, more than 3,000 people were killed in the flames, and the soldiers who escaped were basically slaughtered by the Song army, leaving only the indigenous chieftain and a few of his cronies, this was Fanning's special order, and he also needed to know the specific locations of the other two cottages.

However, after destroying this cottage, the threat of Ryukyu City was basically lifted, and the other two cottages were in the south-central part of the country, far away from here, although they did not threaten Ryukyu City, but once the Ryukyu Prefecture expanded south and set up a county in the center, they would inevitably become a new roadblock, and they must be wiped out to solve the problem.

At this time, the general Wei Cheng stepped forward to report the battle situation to Fanning, "Envoy Qi, the brothers have killed thirty-one people, wounded fifty-five people, killed two thousand and one hundred enemy soldiers, and killed countless people in the fire, which is difficult to count.

Fanning nodded, "The corpses of the fallen soldiers will be burned on the spot, the bones will be brought back to the county seat, and the natives who died in battle and burned will also dig deep pits and bury them to prevent epidemics." ”

"Obey the order!"

The Song soldiers rested for the night, and the army returned to Ryukyu Prefecture early the next morning.

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Fanning entered the county seat of Ryukyu for the first time three days after arriving on Ryukyu Island, and it is fair to say that although the Ryukyu Prefecture was weak in expansion and difficult to be self-sufficient, the county seat was well built, with a circumference of thirty miles, spacious and tidy, and there was actually a sewer, and sewage was discharged into a river in the city, and finally flowed into the sea.

All kinds of houses are also well built, mainly wooden houses, overhead below, about a foot from the ground, it is estimated that it is also relatively humid, a way to prevent poisonous snakes, but the buildings are relatively large, the living conditions of every household are good, the road is also very spacious, there are various shops on both sides, but most of the shops are not open, only one grocery store and three restaurants and two green buildings are open for business, business seems to be good.

The whole county looks clean and tidy, much better than Fan Ning imagined, what it is like here in normal times Fan Ning doesn't know, but the whole county is filled with a cheerful atmosphere these days, not only the supplies have arrived, but more importantly, the security problems that have plagued them for many years have been solved.

When the Song army wiped out the natives, the news that the entire nair of the aborigines had reached the county seat last night, the whole county was jubilant, people beat gongs and drums to celebrate, and almost stayed awake all night.

Although most of the people were sleeping at home at this time, there were still many people on the streets, with happy smiles on their faces, and years of dissatisfaction and gloom seemed to be swept away overnight.

Fanning came to the prefectural office, and at present, the Ryukyu government office is temporarily located in the overseas economic and strategic government office, and there is no government office on the island.

The county government was located in the middle of the county, and Fanning listened to the reports of several county officials, and immediately discussed with everyone the arrangements for land reclamation and silver mining.

"Envoy Qi, it's still early February, and it's completely too late to arrange farming."

The one who spoke was the county Cheng Ding Min, who was born in Jinshi, only twenty-five or sixteen years old, and he had stayed here the longest and knew the situation best.

"At present, Ryukyu County has reclaimed 150 hectares of fertile land, all of which are paddy fields, which can be planted three seasons a year, and produce three stones of rice per mu, so that the annual output of rice is 130,000 stones, and there is no problem in feeding the people of the whole city.

Fanning waved his hand and said: "I want to know the potential of agriculture now, the imperial court has approved the relocation of another 20,000 families to settle on Ryukyu Island within five years, how can their food self-sufficiency be solved?" Like Ding Xiancheng, I am going to recommend you to go to the southernmost part of Ryukyu Island to be responsible for the preparation of Ryunan County, and to serve as the first governor, you have to tell me where you are going to start. ”

Ding Min was excited in his heart, he actually directly served as the magistrate of the county, no longer the county order, he was about to express his position, Fan Ning smiled: "I understand the determination, now let's not talk about Ryunan County, you talk about the potential of Ryukyu County to develop agriculture." ”

Ding Min calmed down and thought for a while: "Qi Qi envoy, the southwest of the county is a hill five miles wide and more than 20 miles long, and beyond this hill, it will stretch for nearly 100 miles of plains, if we build a road from the hills, then there will be as much agricultural land as there is, and it is very fertile, this is the greatest potential, and the west of the county can directly open up 200 hectares of land this year, and by next year, Ryukyu County alone will be able to feed 30,000 people." ”

Fanning said with a smile: "I put forward two urgent suggestions, first, build the road from Ryukyu County to the wharf, this is the most urgent thing, of course, planting grain can not be delayed, you negotiate and arrange it yourself;

Second, the county lieutenant Gao wants to organize a militia group, and the first task of the militia is to clean up poisonous insects, and I found that there are many poisonous snakes here, which is not good, and it is necessary to clean up all the poisonous insects around the county seat and the mine. ”

Speaking of the mine, Zhang Ying, the magistrate of the county, said with a sad face: "Don't hide it from the envoy, our biggest problem now is the lack of manpower, now the county has a population of more than 10,000 people, and there are only 3,000 young men, not to mention the army, they want to suppress bandits, then these 3,000 young people will be divided into 500 people to farm, and the rest will go to build roads, and it will take half a year to repair roads at the earliest, so what about mining?" And what about the militia groups? Let's see if you can help us bring in some labor? ”

Fan Ning also knew that he was telling the truth, no one, everything he wanted was in vain, he nodded and said: "I will contact Kunzhou as soon as possible and bring in 25,000 Japanese laborers for you to be responsible for mining, road construction and logging, and your young men will be responsible for farming.

If you want me to say, 350 hectares of land is still too little, since you have 2,000 households, then each family is divided into 2 hectares of land, that is, 4,000 hectares of land, just like Kunzhou, as long as the land is distributed to each family in time, their enthusiasm will be quickly mobilized, and 4,000 hectares of land will be guaranteed to be planted with rice.

I believe that in two years, you will surpass Kunzhou and become the largest grain producer overseas, and as long as every household is very wealthy, it will be easy to bring in 20,000 households. ”

Several officials stood up together and saluted Fanning, "I beg the envoy to bring in Japanese laborers for us as soon as possible!" ”

They are very realistic, with labor, it is easy to do at any time, but Fanning is very big, and there are many things to bring in Japanese laborers, their accommodation, all kinds of medicines, and their wage payments, etc., there are many troublesome things!

However, since Fanning agreed, he was ready to leave for Kunzhou immediately, and first settle the labor matter.

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