As a barbarian living in the eastern region, Atta knew everything about the world based on his pitiful knowledge, and naturally knew very little about the science of rule. So he could neither debate Lee Siu Kee nor defeat him with facts.

The fleet stayed at the estuary for four days, and people from nearby villages kept coming to the door.

Some people denounced the abuse of Atayal commander Kalaw, others hoped that the Atayal people would exchange some cloth and food, some people did not share the sky with Kalaw, and some asked the trading company to save their village.

After the defeat in the Battle of Shengqiu, after several battles between Kalaw and Atta in the area of the Keelung River, he withdrew from that area, and Kalaw used a Hongmen banquet to kill the commanders and elders who were dissatisfied with him among the Atayal people, and then changed the tradition of the Atayal people.

Instead of headhunting the surrounding villages, they would gather Atayal warriors to besiege and threaten them, forcing them to hand over their hostages and pay deerskin and gold sand as tribute. Hearing this, Li Zhaoji suddenly felt that Atta's change might come from Kalaw.

Kalaw, on the other hand, sent clever tribesmen to gather at the mouth of the river under the guise of the Kaidagran or the Dawcas, and even to trade in freshwater, procuring large quantities of unrestricted axes, sickles, and hatchets, and transforming them into weapons, and then attacking and annexing more villages.

In fact, Kalaw has learned about the existence of the Jinguashi gold mine, and even sent people to Tamsui to test it, indicating that if the Atayal people return to control the Jinguashi, they will definitely protect the interests of the trading company there, so as to obtain the position of replacing the Kaidagran.

Liu Mingde, under the instruction of Li Zhaoji, did not refuse Kalaw, but only expelled his messenger, but in the following time, the restrictions on iron weapons and weapons were further relaxed, allowing more iron weapons to flow into the hands of the Atayal people, accelerating the expansion of Kalaw.

Li Zhaoji's purpose is very clear, the Atayal people are ignorant and backward barbarians, as long as the trading company concentrates soldiers and horses, they can eat it at any time, this fat pig, the fatter it grows, the more convenient it is for the trading company to swallow it.

"Here, it is Aberdeen's mouth, our trading company has beautified its name with its sound, called Jiangzicui, it is the intersection of Dahan Creek and Xindian Creek, in the past few days, we have received news from all sides that Kalaw has sent his troops and horses here, wanting to resist our army to continue to go deeper." Atta pointed out the location of Jiang Zicui on the map, and although the map was still a lot freehand, Li Zhaoji clearly saw that the water surface marked here was very wide.

Further upstream is the deep mountains and old forests, not to mention the turbulent current, and the water surface is much narrower.

Li Zhaoji looked at Yang Yandi, Tang Mu and Chunshu, all three of them nodded, Yang Yandi was responsible for receiving the people who came to vote nearby, and got the news from them, Tang Mu asked the Atayal soldiers in the Tamsui Battalion and the Yicong Battalion, and summarized some information, and Chunshu took two henchmen and personally drove the canoe to investigate.

"They have at least 80 canoes, and they have built a bamboo moat here." Atta said.

Haruki said: "They have more than 130 canoes, and the water village does have them, and they are also bamboo trenches, but they are different from bamboo trenches. ”

Atta was surprised, he deliberately said that Kalaw's troops were less, for fear that Li Zhaoji would cower, of course he didn't know, Li Zhaoji wished that Kalaw would bring as many soldiers and horses as possible, so that he could complete the battle.

Haruki explained to Atta, "I disguised myself as an Atayal to scout, so I know better. ”

Li Zhaoji said: "Then you will introduce it." ”

Haruki said: "This water village is located at the corner of the confluence of Dahan Creek and Xindian Creek, and there are no less than 600 people stationed in it, who have hoarded food, and this is not a temporary place, but a battlefield that has been arranged for a long time.

They planted sharpened bamboo and wooden stakes in the bottom of the water close to the shore so that our boats could not easily get close and those who launched would be stabbed. Because of the long-term erosion, there is a vertical height difference similar to a levee on the shore, at least seven or eight feet high, and bamboo thorns are also inserted on it.

What's even more terrifying is the outer defense facilities of the water village, which looks like a bamboo trench, but it is not, the bamboo trench is a fortification that cuts off the bamboo and weaves it, while the water village of the Atayal people uses the original bamboo, and the bamboo is rooted in the ground. We can't set the bamboo on fire or pull it down like the Battle of the Holy Hill did against the Big Chicken Coop Society. ”

Li Zhaoji nodded slightly, suddenly looked at Chen Ping, and asked, "General Chen, here, you are the master of the Ming Dynasty, ranking as a third-rank guerrilla, dare to ask what do you think?" ”

Zhao Wenji saw that Chen Ping was silent, and he said: "The general must not hide his clumsiness, and he will have to cooperate to break the enemy in the future." This time, you helped Shopkeeper Li break the ground, and in the future, Shopkeeper Li helped you destroy the four surnames, which is called having contacts and complementing each other. ”

Chen Ping put down the shelf, pointed to the dense forests and mountains behind the water village and said: "This is the barbarian preset battlefield, and when we are found to be advancing, we must hide the canoe in the upstream hiding place, let our troops attack the water village, and wait for our troops to be frustrated, or the soldiers are blocked from landing on the shore, and then rush down by boat, break our ship formation, and let me ignore each other." ”

Everyone looked at each other, obviously thinking so, Li Zhaoji said: "Since this is the case, then I will go with his heart." ”

On the second day, Jiang Zicui.

Standing on the tower of the water village, Kalaw listened intently to the howls in the distance, but all he could see was the sparkling water and the sea of green bamboos, he had already received the news that the Kaida Grans and the Eastern Trading Company had joined forces at the mouth of the river, but as a barbarian, he really couldn't understand the purpose of such a huge warship.

But this does not mean that he retreats, because the ancestral land of the Atayal people only has bamboo trenches, which is no different from the Great Chicken Coop Society, and he hopes to defeat the invading enemies outside the ancestral land, rather than all of them desperately die in the ancestral land or continue to flee.

In the distance, three huge fortress-like ships appeared on the wide water, with huge spinnaker tops and flags flying high.

One is the cyan strange snake flag, which Atayal knows, which represents the Fu Lao Han people of the Oriental Trading Company, and the other is the black bear flag, which is the flag of Ata.

The three huge ships rushed forward with an incomparable momentum, like water fortresses, and on the sides and behind them were a large number of canoes, on which were equipped with rattan plates and hook spears, and the rattan helmets born from the hard hats of the trading company were the symbol of the Kaida Gran soldiers.

"Don't move, stay in your place." Kalou shouted to reassure his men.

And the three warships had already begun to move, the long oars made the battleships maneuver very easily on the wide water, the three boats were lined up against the shore outside the water wall, and the Kedagrans took off their armor and clothes, jumped into the water with ropes, and dived into the water from time to time, each time they dived, there was one less rope on their bodies.

When these water ghosts returned to the canoes, all the canoes scattered, and with a dull sound, the three warships, driven by the oars, swung their huge hulls back and forth, left and right, and the wooden stakes and bamboo thorns buried under the water were dragged up, and the first line of fortifications of the water village was rendered useless.

When Kalaw saw this, his face had changed, and he grabbed his most trusted commander and said, "You take people to hold on here, and I will go to the fleet at once and bring them to support." ”

"Yes, Marshal Da Zheng!"

Under the guidance of the water ghosts, the three warships continued to advance, and after approaching the water wall, they slammed the hull horizontally, and then the rumbling cannon sound came from the ship.

The two Galie ships each had six guns to bombard the water, while the Tamsui River had as many as eighteen heavy guns to attack.

The six-pounder cannon on the turret swept the bamboo trenches on the periphery of the water village with large shotguns, although those bamboos were dense, but under the attack of the large shotguns, they could not be stopped at all, making a crackling sound, and were knocked down one by one.

The nine-pounder cannon on the Tamsui River was attacked with molten shells, which had already shown their might when they attacked Hirado, and the red-hot cannonballs smashed the bamboos and landed in the water village, where the huts and bamboo huts were not living creatures, they were all flammable, and they were quickly ignited.

Kalaw hurried to the bridge team, and the soldiers who were ambushed in the stream were all looking in the direction of the water village, where thick smoke was already billowing and filling the top of the dense forest, and they had no idea what was happening.

Kalaw knew that if he did not go out again, the water village would not be safe, so he immediately ordered the horn to be sounded, and the horn was heard, and it traveled a long way through the dense forest, and soon received a response from the boat bridge team that was ambushed in another stream, and Kalaw nodded in satisfaction and immediately ordered to set off.

"Suspend the shelling, cool down the artillery." On the Tamsui River, Yang Yandi gave an order.

In the distance, birds flew up from the dense forest in a panic, and the canoes guarding the mouth of Dahan Creek and Xindian Creek also approached at the fastest speed, waving the red flag in their hands.

Yang Yandi laughed: "The enemy has taken the bait, ready to meet the enemy." ”

With the order of the Tamsui River, all three warships retreated towards the wide and deep water, and under the manipulation of the oars, the three ships changed from a horizontal formation to a triangular position, leaning on each other and covering each other, while the canoes of the Kedagran burrowed into the waters between the ships before forming a triangular formation.

"Reel in the oars!"

With a sound of the order, the oarsmen put the oars outside into the hull, and then closed the windows inside to prevent the brutes from penetrating from here.

Soon, a vast number of canoes came out of the two streams, these canoes belonged to different villages, so there was no command at all, the canoe at the head of the canoe directly and frantically crashed into the galleys, making a muffled sound, but these battleships were extremely strong, and did not move like a mountain, but the canoe that hit, some of them threw the people on it out, and some simply cracked, and sank into the water.

"Fire!"

The guns and whirlwind guns of the three battleships opened fire one after another, spilling the iron projectiles filled with the bore, and dozens of cannons fired together as the only sound in the waters, and a large number of canoes were covered in the rain of bullets, and then became a mess.

No matter what kind of courage Gao Shanban has, what kind of identity he has, everything is equal in front of buckshot, and the unprotected barbarians are swept down in pieces, and the blood stains the Tamsui River.

The brute, who was close to the three battleships, faced the side of the ship at least seven feet high, but it was difficult, the hull was smooth, and there was no place to borrow strength, only the grappling hook and rope could barely climb, but it was full of soldiers, but there were only a few musketeers, because their efficiency was so low that when they shot down, people's projectiles often fell down in advance.

Everyone picked up the spear and threw it at the enemy outside the cabin, at this time, not to mention throwing spear, even with a stone, it could easily crush the barbarian who fell into the water to death.

At the climax of the battle, the oars were opened, and the six oarsmen pushed out the solid wooden oars as thick as their calves, and even if they didn't use force, just a natural fall could smash a large group of brute brains, and with the cooperation of the oarsmen, they could even lift the sails of a canoe full of enemies.

This is the gap in strength, and it is also the generation gap of civilization, Kalou's long-term preparation and planning, vulnerable in the face of real strength, he prepared to blow with all his strength, and was hit on the head and broke the blood flow on the heavy galleys.

And when the fleet led by Tang Mu and Haruki arrived respectively, outflanked the two wings, and blocked the escape route upstream, everything fell to the ground.

The fast crab and the musketeers on the dragon ship reloaded round by round with lead bullets and shot the brutes who fell into the water.

The surface of the water was littered with dead people, corpses slowly sinking to the bottom, or a cloud of blood from a lead bullet from nowhere.

"Turn the bow of the boat and go to the water village." Kalaw's canoe fell last, and the flag he hoisted high had been torn off by his own hands at this time, and in the face of the outflanking fast crab boat, he did not dare to escape, but chose to go ashore, at this time he only thought that he could escape to the water village, take his cronies, and then flee from the land.

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