Chapter 208: Declaration
The rumbling sound of cannon and hail of lead bullets that fell on him became Kalaw's talisman, and he jumped into the water, threw away his weapon and status symbol, and struggled to climb ashore.
The fortifications on the shore that he had designed to hold back the enemy's attack were now all impassable moats, the bamboo bars on the cliff wall cut through his skin, the traps in the bamboo forest, pierced the soles of his feet, and by the time he returned to the water village, many of the soldiers here had fled, and those who did not escape were also taken into the wet bamboo forest by Kalaw's men to escape the flames.
"The devil, it's a water fortress sent by the devil, and they spit out scorching steel, bringing thunder and fire to kill ........" The moment a few Atayal people saw Kalaw, they almost went crazy and told him about the horror of the enemy, but in reality, they didn't even see the enemy's face.
Kalou slapped the panicked commander to the ground, then pulled out the man's silver-handled hatchet.
The firewood knife is not restricted in the goods of the trading company, so the Atayal people bought it in large quantities, and Kalou gave different firewood knives to his loyal subordinates, his own gold-handled, the silver-handled ones of the commander-level soldiers, and some small leaders who were copper-cladped, these are all custom-made from the Oriental Trading Company, but his gold-clad firewood knife has been thrown away just now for the convenience of going ashore.
"Gather the soldiers at once, let's get out of here and return to our ancestral land." Kalou said.
The soldiers gathered around the disheveled Kalou, who was now embarrassed, and all the things that symbolized his status were gone, but Kalou was especially feared at this time, and after the defeat of the Holy Hill in the first battle, it was the mad Kalough who killed all the dissenting people and became the true leader of the Atayal people.
The Tamsui River was stained red with blood sacrifices, and the dejected Takayama barbarians fled to the shore, and all their physical strength was consumed in the struggle in the water, and when they came to the shore, they lay motionless on the ground, and let the soldiers who surrounded them tie them up with ropes.
Not only did they lose their strength, but the defeat just now also destroyed all their fighting spirit, so a single canoe could capture several times the mountain barbarians. On the water, the canoes of the Dawkas were gliding, and the group thought they would be cannon fodder for the Folks, but now they were only used as finishing touches.
Their lack of training and weak equipment were regarded by all the commanders as a hindrance to the belly of the fish and a waste to cover the artillery line, only Tang Mu saw through the political significance of this, gathered them up, and turned them to the battlefield.
Dawkas used a grappling hook to drag the corpses and the ownerless canoe to the shore, looking for weapons on the corpses, even if these mountain barbarians died, some Daukas men did not dare to face the former headhunters, in their eyes the mountain barbarians were a group of murderous demons hidden in the mountains and forests, fighting with them for hunting grounds and land, and cutting off the heads of their relatives.
But now, the once invincible demons have become dead, they are minced by a meat grinder consisting of battleships and artillery.
There were also brave Daukas who roamed the blood-red waters in canoes, and from time to time they sank to the bottom and scooped up one weapon after another, except for those hatchets covered with gold, silver and bronze, any weapon that could be taken by the captors as their own.
And for each special chai knife fished out, they were rewarded with two canoes, which were the favorite thing of the traditional Dawcas, and having a canoe was a basic requirement for them to be able to marry a wife.
When they fled in the direction of their ancestral land, the Atayal people who had fled back came back with the news that Fu Lao had set up an ambush in front of them, and that they were waiting for them with huge beasts and steel-spitting weapons.
This is Jiang Zicui, the merchant company armed with water mobility, far faster than the escaped Kalaw, and in the end, the remaining more than 400 Taiya warriors were forced back to the water village.
At least there was still unburned rice and remnants of fortifications.
The next two days were the torture of the Atayal people.
Countless galleys and canoes patrol the waterhouse, and any Atayal who tries to swim and escape will be smashed in the head by an oar, while the waterhouse between two large rivers has only narrow roads leading to the outside, where various armed forces have set up ambushes.
One night, Kalaw personally led the team to kill the Dawkas sentinels, breaking through the first barrier, but accidentally entered the elephant camp, and when the elephants let out a fierce roar, the Atayal scattered in all directions, losing hundreds of people.
And Kalou also died that night, in the water battle, he did not dare to sail the ship to storm the Tamsui River, betrayed his men, and in a desperate situation, he armed with a bamboo spear, with the only courage left in his life, rushed to the four-legged beast roaring in the night, and then threw the elephant to the side with his nose, breaking the bones, and as he struggled, he did not know which elephant crushed his chest.
Thankfully, his head was intact, allowing his enemies to recognize him.
Kalaw's head was presented to the Tamsui River, and the men sitting around the round table looked at the ugly head with their own expressions.
Lee asked, "Are you sure it's Kalaw?" ”
"Yes, the great treasurer, I asked four people separately, including the captive commander, the elders of the rest of the ethnic groups who had been oppressed by Kalaw, and the merchants who had seen him, and the answer was the same, he was Kalaw." Tang Mu replied.
Li Zhaoji nodded, and pushed the plate with the human head to Atta: "Ata, here you go." ”
"What do I want this thing for, and I can't serve it as a drink." Atta waved his hand and said casually.
Li Zhaoji said: "I remember that after the Battle of Shengqiu, I asked you about the meaning of the head, and you said that the head of a special person can be used for sacrifice. ”
"That was before, and now the people of Kedagran have a new tradition." Atta said lightly, glancing at the spring tree on the side.
Only then did Li Zhaoji remember that Atta had already fallen out with the great wizard of the Kaida Gran, and what Atta needed now was the glory and authority brought by victory, not the pleasure of the ancestors and revenge with a head.
Yes! Yes!
A sharp scream came from under his feet, and the listeners were disgusted for a while, Tang Mu carried a knife and immediately went to ask what was going on, and soon brought six people who were shackled.
The shackles of the six men were joined together, which was the standard for slave oarsmen, and on the Tamsui River, they would operate a long oar together, eating, drinking, and even dying.
Six people knelt together, the middle of which had a bloody face and half an ear drooping, apparently bitten off like this.
Tang Mu said: "The person who was bitten is Kalaw's cronies, a silver sword commander, and the other five people are Gaoshan barbarians, but not Atayal, they are warriors of Gaoshan villages and communities conquered by Kalaw." The five of them believed that the Atayal had harmed them like this, so they attacked the Silver Blade Commander in the oars. ”
"Is there a lot of such things?" Li Zhaoji asked.
Haruki nodded: "I've seen it too, I've seen the Dawkas people secretly kill our captives, and people from nearby villages have come and asked us to kill all the Atayal." ”
Li Zhaoji smiled, waved his hand and asked Tang Mu to take these people down, he said: "Everyone, the battle is over, but the war is not, it's time to end it, we are going to the ancestral land of the Atayal people." ”
The so-called ancestral land is the valley where the Atayal people originated, there is a huge red cypress tree, like an umbrella cover, covering the small half of the valley, and there is a stone house under the tree, which was originally the residence of the great wizard, but now, there is no great wizard here, and there is no war drum to communicate with the living beings.
The people and affairs that had taken away from Kalaw's authority were gone, and they were lost in the bloody conquest of Kalaw.
On a cool day, many people gathered here under the red cypress trees, the troops of the Eastern Trading Company, the Kedagran soldiers of Atta, the representatives of the Daucas people, and the elders or representatives from the surrounding villages.
Beneath the red cypress, there were rows of spears, each with a head made of lime nitrate, making them look even more terrifying.
Led by Kalaw, each of them was famous in the region, and under their heads, there hung a knife in the shape of a wood knife, but with a handle wrapped in gold and silver.
No one doubted the news of the death of Kalaw and his minions, and many of the barbarian elders wept.
With a roar of the beast, Li Zhaoji rode an elephant to come, he sat in the war basket on the back of the elephant, and at each of the four corners stood a soldier with a spear, the elephant came from the crowd captured by the Atayal, everyone crawled back in fright, and the women covered the children's mouths to prevent them from crying.
Under the red cypress, the elephant used its dexterous trunk to hold Lee down so that he could stand on a white boulder, and everyone was at war except Atta, who sat on a bamboo chair with his black bear totem stuck in the back of the chair.
Li Zhaoji didn't care about Atta's arrogance, he spoke loudly to everyone around him, and when the first sentence came out, he understood why the Atayal people put the place of supreme power here, and spoke here, through the amplification of the valley, so that more people could hear.
"In everyone's memory, the mountain barbarians are the enemies of all the tribes in Pingpu, and the hunting is the enemy of rice cultivation, and the Atayal people are feared by everyone, and Kalaw is feared by all Atayal people." Li Zhaoji pointed to the open space full of people's heads and said, "However, Kalaw and his lackeys who created all the evil and fear are dead.
The original era is over, and the Pingpu tribes who grow rice and fish don't have to worry about the Gaoshan tribes coming to hunt their heads, and the Gaoshan tribes don't have to worry about the Atayal people leading by Kalaw to compete for hunting grounds.
There is a new order here, and the creator of the order, the victor who took place in the Battle of Fort Boat, ........ ”
Whether it was the allies or enemies of the Oriental Trading Company, even the trading company itself, they were amazed at the combat effectiveness of the giant galleys represented by the Tamsui River, and people were no strangers to the lead bullets and flames spewed out by muskets and cannons, but they were shocked by the unbreakability of the galleys.
The galleys were called bunkers and named after the water battle, and Lee accepted the name thanks to its popularity and shocking effect.
“....... There will be no more slaughter in my order, but those who have created countless years of panic should pay for it. Fortunately, you have lost to me, and I will not cut off all your heads, but make you my slaves.
My slaves, like the cattle and horses I own, are my personal property, and I will protect you as I protect them.
So, whether it's my slave or my slave's former enemy, think about my bunker and my behemoth ...... before you want to harm my property. ”
Under the command of the elephant slaves, the elephants cooperated and let out a huge beast roar, suppressing everyone's whispers.
Lee continued: "And I will take my slaves, and as for this land and those who once rebelled against Kalaw, you will have a new master, Atta, my most sincere friend, the leader of the Kedagrans. ”
Atta stood up and accepted the cheers of the crowd, and it was clear that everything he had was too ordinary compared to Lee Siu Ki.
"As my friend, Atta will be the enforcer of the new order, he will clean up the remnants of Kalaw, and he will maintain the new order." Lee Siu Kee issued a final declaration.
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