When the camp was set up, the brick-burning craftsmen went in search of clay, and the lime-burning craftsmen went looking for limestone. Boss Wei followed the squad leader out to search, determine the surrounding terrain, and draw a map. On this day, Boss Wei's class walked deep into the dense forest and found a shengfan camp.

Shengfan is the indigenous people of Taiwan Island, and these indigenous civilizations are still in the stage of fishing, hunting and farming. There are different ethnic groups in Taiwan, and the group of students found by Boss Wei's class live in a house made of bamboo and thatch: the house uses thick bamboo inserted into the ground to make a roof truss, and other bamboos are placed on top of this bamboo frame to make the ground and house walls, and then the roof is covered with thatch to make the roof.

Those students wore colorful clothes, and both men and women wore skirts. They have patterns of various colors tattooed on their faces, and the color of their skin is invisible. After Boss Wei discovered these students, the students soon discovered the eight soldiers in Boss Wei's class. These students are very unfriendly to outsiders. As soon as they saw the eight people of Boss Wei, the thirty students howled and shouted, and rushed up with swords and spears.

Boss Wei's squad leader ordered the soldiers to shoot freely. Boss Wei had already loaded his rifle with bullets, and at this time, he raised his rifle and aimed at a young leader who rushed over a hundred paces away. The leader looked older, armed with an iron-headed spear, and the rest of the people gathered around him.

Boss Wei pressed the trigger, and sparks burst out from the fire door, with a loud "pop", and then the entire rifle fell backwards, spewing tongues of fire and smoke from the muzzle. Boss Wei's shoulder rested on the butt of the gun, and his shoulder was rushed by the recoil of the rifle. By the time Boss Wei looked up at the leader again, the leader had already fallen to the ground and convulsed.

Boss Wei shouted excitedly: "I killed the leader!" "But no one paid attention to Boss Wei, everyone was shooting, loading. Boss Wei also hurriedly began to reload again.

The soldiers here quickly fired a dozen shots, almost knocking down a single shot. Soon, the fire from this side frightened the students, and they left the wounded on the ground and fled into the distance.

The squad leader did not pursue these natives, but led the team back to the camp and reported to the Guan commander. Guan Shan frowned when he heard that there was Shengfan not far away. In order to prevent accidents, Guan Shan asked the soldiers to set up police posts on the periphery of the camp and monitor the safety around the camp in shifts day and night.

The three large ships had already returned to their sails, and all the supplies on board were piled up in the tents. The camp on the hilltop was the core of this first batch of immigrants and could not be lost. The surrounding terrain has been basically figured out, the map has been drawn, and there is no need to go out to scout again. Boss Wei never left the camp again, only doing some basic training every day, and digging a trench to protect the camp the rest of the time. Sometimes I would go down the mountain and work with my comrades to cut down trees, build roads leading to clay mines and lime collection sites, and do all sorts of things.

On December 24, Boss Wei and a comrade-in-arms were cutting timber at the bottom of the hill. "Boss Wei, you said this little Liuqiu, no, is Taiwan Island good?" Boss Wei slashed at the fir tree in front of him with a knife and said, "This island is very good, there is sunshine and water, that is" Boss Wei slashed on the fir tree again, paused, and said: "It's too wild and uninhabited!" What" Boss Wei slashed at the big tree again, "nothing, except that the tree is a tree, what is it called?" It's called the Outer Lands! ”

"Aren't there savages?" "Are those savages humans? I won't say that we will go back after four months, and then we won't have to stay in this outer land! "You're going to marry a daughter-in-law when you go back?" "My daughter-in-law, that's a handsome girl from ten miles and eight towns, so I'm worthy of it!"

Boss Wei's comrade-in-arms smiled and said narrowly: "I heard that when Boss Wei first entered the camp, he said that he would be an officer in a year!" Boss Wei's face turned red, and he stood there speechless for a long time. He slashed hard at the cedar wood, and said in a deep voice: "At that time, I was not sensible" The two were chopping wood, but suddenly saw wolf smoke rising from the police post in the east.

Soon, the horn of the assembly on the small mountain camp sounded. Boss Wei and his comrades-in-arms glanced at each other, threw away the logging knife, and ran to the top of the hill.

Boss Wei ran to the camp, and the company commander was already in the whole team. It didn't take long for all the sentries at the various police posts to run back. The sentry who lit the wolf smoke and Commander Zheng reported something. Commander Zheng walked up to the front of the soldiers with a serious face and said loudly, "Shengfan has come to attack us!" Everyone, get into the firing position! ”

Boss Wei not only neglected, but also took the rifle from his back and began to reload the rifle. After loading the ammunition, he stood behind the trench and prepared for battle. Three deep trenches were dug outside the camp, and it was expected that the students would not be able to rush up. Boss Wei waited for half an hour before he saw the students who appeared at the foot of the mountain.

In twos and threes, those shengfan came out of the woods and stood at the foot of the mountain. They looked at the camp on the top of the hill for a while, and when they saw that there was no danger at the foot of the hill, some people ran into the woods, probably to report the situation. After a while, several stout men wearing flowered hats with long feathers stuck in them, apparently the chief's sons, stepped out. Following them, more and more people came out and gathered at the foot of the mountain.

Boss Wei quietly grabbed the rifle and waited for the assembly of Shengfan, and finally found that more than 2,000 Shengfan had come. These students were seized of land by Yang Peng's men and horses, and all the other tribes around them were called to help. A large group of students gathered at the foot of the mountain looks quite spectacular.

The students were all dressed in colorful skirts and coarse cloth hats. With swords and spears in their hands, they kept roaring as they gathered, as if to cheer up the people around them. After shouting at the foot of the mountain for about a quarter of an hour, the courage of the students reached the highest peak. One of the chieftains shouted a few times and pointed his spear at the top of the mountain. The students grabbed their weapons and walked towards the tiger master on the top of the hill.

Three hundred paces, two hundred steps, Boss Wei aimed at a student who was walking in the forefront. He was wearing a round hat with a long feather pinned to it, and he looked very strong. One hundred and forty steps away, Boss Wei's platoon leader shouted, "Fire!" ”

Boss Wei pressed the trigger, only to hear a loud bang, and Boss Wei's body was taken back by the recoil. In the distance, the sturdy man in the feather hat sprang out of his body and fell to the ground. Boss Wei smiled, gave way to the shooting position on the left, and stepped back from the right. He retreated to the last of the three rows of guns and loaded his rifle as fast as he could.

At the moment when Boss Wei loaded the bullet, the first two columns finished shooting, walked behind Boss Wei, and finally let Boss Wei go to the front again. Boss Wei picked up his rifle, this time aiming at a shirtless, stocky Shengfan. That Shengfan seemed to be stunned by the fire of the rifle on the mountain, and kept looking left and right at the corpses around him, and it took a few steps forward for a long time.

"Shoot!" Boss Wei pressed the trigger, and the rifle slammed back with his shoulder, making Boss Wei's vision confused. When Boss Wei looked forward again, he saw that the stubby Shengfan had been shot, and he fell on the way up the mountain holding his stomach.

It seems that he was broken by Boss Wei's shot, and as soon as Boss Wei finished shooting this shot, two thousand lives began to run away. Where have these students fought against such a powerful enemy? Like a frightened herd of goats, they crashed down the hillside in a panic.

The chieftains at the foot of the mountain also turned and fled back and forth. In a short time, the two thousand lives escaped and disappeared into the woods. The soldiers of the trap regiment on the top of the hill laughed when they saw that the battle was so easy. Boss Wei patted the rifle proudly, took out a bayonet and carved a horizontal on the handle of the rifle. There's already one horizontal on it, and with that one horizontal it, there's two horizontals.

A comrade-in-arms on the left looked at the handle of Boss Wei's gun and asked, "Didn't you kill two of them just now, Boss Wei?" How can you only engrave one? Boss Wei raised his head and said, "Can these students compare with Khitan?" One Khitan is horizontal, and three births are also horizontal. These days, three lives have been killed, and there is just one horizontal. ”

On December 28, Yang Peng's three pointed ships returned. The ships came back almost empty, with only three messengers on board except for the boatmen. Yang Peng sent three messengers to the palace of the general army to inquire about the development of the colony. "Captain Diban, have you successfully set up camp on the island of Taiwan?"

When the squad leader surnamed Di heard Yang Peng's question, he stood up abruptly and replied straightly: "Back to the city lord, Commander Guan found a small hill with a small river at the bottom of the mountain, set up camp on the top of the mountain, and dug three trenches. Seeing that the squad leader was a little nervous, Yang Peng waved his hand to sit down, and asked with a smile: "Is there an attack camp for local students?" ”

The squad leader sat down slowly, and replied loudly, "Back to the Grand Duke, we have detected a Shengfan tribe in the woods. But when we set sail on the 18th, Ikuban hadn't attacked the camp yet. ”

Yang Peng thought about it and nodded. Seeing that Li Zhi didn't ask, the squad leader said, "City Lord, we met the nine big ships of Hongmaoyi on the return trip. The red-haired boats seemed to be on their way to plunder, and as soon as they saw our boat, they came up to rob them. ”

Red hair is the name given to the Dutch by the Song people in this era. At this time, the Dutch maritime merchants or pirates had already killed East Asia, sometimes trading and sometimes plundering, and fought many battles with the Song Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty was plundered several times, the Dutch were forbidden to land in the Great Song Dynasty, which deprived the Dutch of the Song Dynasty supply.

The armed merchant ships of the Dutch were active in this sea area north and south of Taiwan. Yang Peng was stunned, but he didn't expect that the three ships would also encounter Dutch pirates on the way back, and asked, "What happened later?" "City Lord, later Guan had to let us sail three ships to the east, and we were fast enough to avoid the red-haired pirates."

Yang Peng nodded and said, "These Dutch pirates are looking for death!" When we have more ships, we will bombard them all into the sea. The three messengers reported to Yang Peng about the situation on the island of Taiwan, and Yang Peng listened carefully and chatted with the messenger for a full hour. Yang Peng's three big ships stopped in Dagu for two days, and before waiting for the Chinese New Year, they carried another thousand people to Taiwan. Yang Peng had the intention of strengthening the armament of the camp in Guanshan, and this time he sent another 200 soldiers over. Except for the soldiers, the other personnel who went to Taiwan this time were all peasants who had been recruited to open up the wasteland. When these farmers arrive in Taiwan, they will start building canals to reclaim wasteland, and strive to clear the land and start planting seeds by March.

Fang Laosan is the platoon commander of the trapping regiment, he was enlisted in the army for three years, and now he is a four-year veteran. Relying on the combat exploits accumulated in previous battles, he became a company commander. Before the New Year had passed, Fang Laosan led forty soldiers to board the ship and sailed to Xiaoliuqiu. Fang Laosan was on a sea boat for the first time, and the pointed boat looked quite big, but it was very bumpy at sea. The big boat swayed up and down with the waves, and Fang Laosan vomited more than a dozen times on the road, and his intestines were about to vomit out. It took ten days to reach Taiwan, and Fang Laosan recuperated in the camp for several days before he recovered.

However, when he arrived in Taiwan, Fang Laosan looked around and immediately understood that it was worth coming to Taiwan for thousands of miles. This is a fertile virgin land. From the top of the hill where the camp is encamped, there are lush broadleaf forests everywhere in sight. Fang Laosan knew that this forest grew so densely because of the fertilizer of the land, as long as these forests were burned with a fire, these lands would become fertile farmland, and the grass and wood ash burned by the forests was the best fertilizer.

A quiet river runs through a plain with easy access to water. As long as the dragon tail cart is erected by the river, the river water can be irrigated into the paddy fields endlessly. There are no officials who scrape the ground, no Ming officials who oppress the small people, no despicable gentry who stare at the land of small farmers all day long, only inexhaustible sunshine, water and land. As long as the farmers work hard, they will soon become rich.

I heard that the general wanted to give each man and strong woman 20 acres of paddy fields with irrigation canals. For every five men and strong women, a buffalo is lent to a buffalo, and the land rent is sixty percent. The climate in this part of Taiwan is warm and humid, and two crops of rice can be planted in the morning and evening a year, and it is more than enough to harvest two and a half stones of rice per mu in a year.

In this way, after deducting the 60 stone rent given to the general, a peasant husband and wife can collect 40 stone of grain and put it into the warehouse. What is this concept? You must know that one stone of rice sold to the Governor's cheap grain store can get two taels of silver, and forty stone of grain is eighty taels. It is equivalent to the monthly income of each strong man three taels of silver. What kind of good life is it to earn more than three taels of silver a month?

For example, as long as the young people in Beijing New Town enter the factory of Tianjing New Town, they will become the most popular Wang Lao Wu, and the girls in the neighborhood can be picked at will. And the income of these workers is only two taels of silver. Even if the food provided by the general is included, the worker's monthly income is only three or five cents of silver.

Peasants, on the other hand, work in the fields, do not need to go out early and return late to work in the factory, nor do they need to compete with others for the position of a worker, and they can live a rich life with a monthly income of three or three yuan. The couple earns more than six taels of silver a month, which can support eight people!

Fang Laosan felt that this place was really good, and he decided to write to his eldest brother, sister and younger brother and ask them to sign up to come to Taiwan. Instead of a few members of the family guarding the more than 30 acres of dry land at home in Tianjing New Town, eating bran and drinking thin chaff, it is better to come to the south to open up a new world.

Fang Laosan has participated in the night school of the general to learn literacy over the years, and now he can write letters. Brothers and sisters in the family are illiterate, but they can read letters to someone who has read a book. The three large ships make a round trip between Tianjin and Taiwan once a month. Fang Laosan's relatives will soon be able to receive Fang Laosan's letter.

Thinking of the good days of his relatives in this new land in the future, Fang Laosan became more and more fond of this virgin land, and he was in a good mood to do things. Commander Guan has planned the location of the first batch of farmland these days, and this first batch of new fields is located on both sides of the small river, stretching for more than thirty miles, just on the east and west sides of the camp, enough for 5,000 farmers to cultivate. Eight hundred peasants and four hundred soldiers were dispatched to cut down and clear a strip of vegetation around the planned new field, ready to burn the forest.

On January 13, before the Lantern Festival ended, Fang Laosan was busy with fifty soldiers at the edge of the forest, but suddenly saw a wolf smoke rising in the distance. Fang Laosan was stunned, suspecting that he had made a mistake, and looked at one of the squad leaders under him. Fang Laosan's squad leader was also stunned, and from his face, Fang Laosan knew that he was not mistaken.

Could it be that Shengfan is here again? Fang Laosan shouted loudly: "Everyone go back to camp, everyone call it a day!" Back to camp! Forty soldiers followed Fang Laosan and hurried towards the camp. After rushing for half an hour, Fang Laosan returned to the camping knoll. Fang Laosan walked into the camp from the gate of the camp and shouted to the soldiers standing guard next to the gate, "What's the matter? Shengfan is coming? ”

The soldier standing guard replied, "It's not Shengfan, it's Hongmao!" Fang Laosan was stunned, he didn't expect that it was Hongyi who came this time. I heard that Hongyi is very tall, with red hair, like a red-haired ghost. These red Yiru hairs drink blood and eat raw meat, just like wild beasts. Hongyi's fleet plundered the coast of Fujian for a long time and killed many Ming people. I don't know how many red hairs came this time, and whether the red hairs that came were powerful.

Fang Laosan arrived at the assembly point with forty of his men, and the commander made Guan Shan cross his waist there to boost morale. "The red hairs only came with a few hundred people, so it's not worth mentioning. We have even killed the Khitan, how can we be afraid of these hundreds of red hairs? Guan Shan paused and said loudly: "I just want all the men and horses on their ship to disembark, so that we can kill them and take their ship." ”

Hearing Guan Shan's words, the soldiers laughed and gradually became less nervous. Guan Shan waved his hand and said: "This batch of red hairs probably suddenly discovered our camp, they looked down on us, and they were probably ready to come in and grab a handful." Let's give them a little color to see! Let them know that we're not to be messed with. ”

"Two companies of 400 men stood behind the trench, and when the red fur came to rush the trench, we beat them all to death in front of the trench." At this time, the three big ships in the harbor outside had already left the harbor and headed north, and there was nothing to grab outside the camp. After the red hair gets off the boat, it is estimated that he will go straight to the camp. There are pigs, sheep, cloth, iron tools, grain and other materials in the camp, and if these materials are robbed by the red hair, the matter of opening up Taiwan will be yellow.

The two company commanders shouted orders and began to arrange the team. Soldiers and officers ran to their tents, put on their armour, took out their rifles and ammunition, and then ran out to take sides. Fang Laosan's platoon of forty people had always dared to fight, but at this time they were arranged at the forefront of the west of the camp, and forty soldiers stood on the front line in three columns.

Fang Laosan was wearing an officer's uniform and holding a steel knife and stood next to the team to command. The military uniforms and winter clothes of the soldiers of Tianjing New City and the mandarin duck battle jackets that the Great Song Dynasty did not have were of the same color, and they were both dyed red. However, in order to adapt to the needs of the shooting array in a dense formation, the hem and cuffs of the Tiger Division's military uniform were made very small. The left and right plackets of the military uniform are buttoned together and are very strong. The pants are relatively wide, and under the pants are long leather boots that are easy to off-road. The soldier wore a leather belt around his waist, and a regular bullet pouch hung from the belt, making the whole outfit look close to the modern military uniform of later generations.

The color of the officer's clothing is a little darker than the soldier's uniform. Although the soldiers and officers were wearing captured chain mail, the color of the garments below could be seen through the gaps in the iron armor. Another distinction between officers and soldiers is the helmet tassels: the platoon leader's tassels are blue, unlike the soldiers' red tassels. The company commander is yellow, the battalion commander is green, the regiment commander is black, and the division commander Li Zhi's tassels are white.

At this time, Fang Laosan was standing on the far right of the team in a crimson military uniform, with a set of chain mail on the outside of the military uniform and a blue tassel armor on his head. Fang Laosan waited behind the trench for half an hour before he saw the Hongyi sailors walking slowly. These Hongyi sailors were very tall, and generally a head taller than the soldiers of the trapped regiment. They wore wide-brimmed hats on their heads, skirt-like military uniforms, a coffee-colored jacket over it, and a bag diagonally over them. Most of the Hongyi soldiers were holding arquebuses and holding an arquebus stand in their hands. Some of the Red soldiers were armed with spears to protect the arquebusiers.

Like the trapping regiment on the mountain, the Hongyi soldiers also lined up in three rows. The first two rows of soldiers were arquebusiers, and the last row of soldiers were spearmen. Fang Laosan took a closer look, only to find that these red hairs were not all red-haired, some were blonde, and some were black-haired.

There were about 800 Hongyi sailors, and they stood at the bottom of the hill and observed the top of the hill for a while. Obviously, it was the trenches that made the Hongyi officers below the mountain a little suspicious, and they gathered in front of the military column to discuss for a while.

Fang Laosan raised his right hand and shouted, "Rifle load!" Forty soldiers quickly finished reloading their bullets and turned their guns on Hongyi below the hill.

Several Hongyi generals discussed for a while, and finally decided to storm the mountain. I only heard the Hongyi officers shouting something at the soldiers, and the snare drums in the Hongyi army sounded. In the beat of the drums like firecrackers, the Hongyi soldiers held their arquebuses and pressed towards the 400 soldiers of the trap regiment on the hill.

Two hundred paces, one hundred and eighty steps, one hundred and sixty steps, one hundred and forty steps, the Hongyi soldiers entered the range of the trapping regiment. Fang Laosan roared: "The first column shoots!" Thirteen rifles erupted tongues of fire, and thirteen soldiers staggered, crooked in the thick fog from the bolts. After the shot, the soldier took a cursory look at the results of the shot and quickly retreated from the right.

As soon as Fang Laosan's first column finished shooting, another platoon next door also began to fire a salvo. Soon, all eight platoons completed the first column salvo. The Dutch sailors who were advancing to the beat of the drums seemed to be named, and one by one they fell. Before the Hongyi sailors could understand what was going on, dozens of them fell in pools of blood, screaming and convulsing, screaming and screaming. The red hair that was still alive in the front row was splashed with blood, and the whole person turned red.

The white smoke on the hill was thick, and there was a choking smell of saltpeter gunpowder everywhere Fang Laosan took his eyes to look at Hongyi in front of him, and felt that they were stunned all of a sudden. The Hongyi didn't expect that the Ming people on the mountain also had arquebuses, and they could fight so far. There is no arquebus so powerful in Europe, and it is lucky that a European arquebus can hit a dense enemy in a formation at a height of 150 yards, or more than 130 meters.

Even the Hongyi drummer, who was playing the drum, stopped the drum beat all of a sudden, not knowing whether to continue moving forward. Finally the Dutch officer jumped out and shouted something. The Dutch plucked up their courage and marched up the hill again. Fang Laosan sneered and raised his left hand. To his left, the thirteen riflemen in the second column had already aimed at the red hair, just waiting for Fang Laosan to give the order.

"Shoot!" Fang Laosan's platoon once again preempted the other platoons and began the second column of shooting. Thirteen bullets shot towards the red-haired line, shooting bloody flowers on the Hongyi soldiers who were advancing against the rain of bullets. The sailors from Europe were accustomed to firing arquebuses, and they simply did not wear armor against cold weapons. Mini tore through the clothes and skin of these Europeans with ease, burrowed into the flesh and stirred violently.

Fang Laosan's side, other platoons also began to shoot. Amid the crackling of gunfire, the Dutch soldiers at the foot of the hill fell one by one. After a few screams, one by one they fell to the ground like soulless pillars and rolled down the hillside to the bottom of the mountain.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.