Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 816

Southern Taiwan, Heliao Port.

The Dutch have occupied this place for more than ten years. During this period, they expanded their land and built a large number of port facilities and defense facilities, such as tall port lighthouses.Every night, the lighthouse at the port will ignite a raging fire, like a torch, illuminating the entire Luermen waterway. In the eyes of the uncivilized Gaoshan and Amis indigenous people, this can be regarded as an extremely magnificent spectacle, so Every time they see the fire from the lighthouse illuminating the open sea, they will regard it as a divine manifestation and worship it.The emotion of the Han people towards this lighthouse is not admiration, but cursing, because this lighthouse was built on their bones. In order to build it, how many Han Chinese laborers died of exhaustion, starvation, and abuse. !

Thanks to Yang Menglong, the Dutch have obtained a large amount of steel and cement from the mainland in the past few years, and the construction of infrastructure has become more effective with half the effort.Now the ground of Heliao Port has been completely concreted, the cement road between Chikan City and Taiwan City has also been repaired, and a quarter of the road connecting Tainan and Taipei has been repaired. Under these conditions, slaves from Japan, Southeast Asia, and even Africa worked day and night, felling thorns, clearing swamps, building river dams, and reclaiming large tracts of rice fields and sugarcane plantations. Under the whip, it showed a strong development momentum for the first time, and the Dutch East India Company was very excited, thinking that it had encountered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for development.However, at this critical juncture, a terrifyingly powerful army from across the strait was about to attack. All reclamation and infrastructure projects had to be temporarily suspended, and everyone prepared to fight.Therefore, for more than ten days in a row, the lighthouse in Heliao Port was not lit again, because they were afraid that the Ming army would use the lighthouse to guide the way and enter Heliao Port at night to attack Chikan City... There is no way, Taiwan is too big, and the East India Company Spreading some armed forces to the entire Tainan area is equivalent to the amount of beef in beef ramen, which cannot be prevented.The few Dutch soldiers guarding the lighthouse stayed bored in the pitch-black lighthouse, muttering and cursing the damn Ming Empire.In their view, this empire is really abominable. Even though they already have such a vast territory, they still hold on to every piece of land that can have a little relationship with them, even if it is an isolated island overseas. !
You will die if you give Taiwan to us?You have never worked hard to manage this piece of land. Those farmlands, those roads, and those water conservancy facilities are all made by us!Now that our business in Taiwan has reached a considerable scale, but you want to call to eat ready-made ones, how can it be so cheap!

The soldiers guarding the lighthouse didn't know that when they were complaining, two small boats carefully passed the Luermen channel and rushed towards the lighthouse under the moonlight.The Luermen channel is winding and narrow, and unless it is a high tide, the water is very shallow, and larger ships cannot navigate at all. Now that the tide is rising, the transport ship carrying more than 30 soldiers and a large amount of munitions can barely navigate, but there is no It is also very dangerous to light up the lighthouse and force navigation. If you want to pass this ghost gate smoothly, you must take down the lighthouse.Right now, eight scouts paddled their boats towards the lighthouse.

Due to the lax vigilance of the Dutch defenders, this small fleet passed through the ghostly Luermen channel without anyone noticing it, and approached the coast smoothly.However, they did not approach the trestle bridge. Instead, they rowed the boat towards the seaside cliff more than ten meters high, using the towering cliff to block the sight of the Dutch defenders.After the boat stopped, Asu, a Bo soldier, handed over his rifle to his comrades behind him. He carried a bundle of ropes made of flax on his back, and with a dagger-shaped thick spine in his mouth, he grabbed the protruding rocks and rock crevices and flew quickly. climb up.I have to say that the Bo people's ability in rock climbing is really unmatched. The 16-meter-high cliff makes me feel dizzy. He climbed up in less than 2 minutes and nailed the unedged bayonet into the crack of the rock. , tied one end of the rope to the handle of the knife, tied a stone to the other end and threw it down.

The scouts below grabbed the rope and climbed up one by one. The sailor who rowed them here was stunned by their courage and superb technique, and they cried inwardly: These guys are all gecko sprites! ?
The thick-ridged dagger-shaped military spurs cast in high-carbon steel are really durable. A scout weighs at least 65 kilograms, and all the weight is hung on it. There is nothing wrong with it, let alone deformed. , not even the handle is cracked.After everyone climbed up, Asu took up the rope, pulled out the military thorns, and together with the Hmong scout Doulaou, walked towards a wooden house by the sea. It was a small outpost of the Dutch defenders. There are two Dutch soldiers.

Since the main guard point of this outpost was the trestle bridge, and the reconnaissance team happened to avoid their sight, so they didn't realize it until Asu and Dulawu touched behind them.

So, they can go to hell.

Two scouts attacked at the same time.Asu touched and covered the mouth of a Dutch soldier from behind. Before he could react, the dagger-shaped army stab pierced his abdominal cavity and pierced his kidney.The unlucky Dutch soldier rolled his eyes and passed out from the pain without saying a word.You can do whatever you want with him in the future, even if you leave him there, he will die of excessive blood loss, kidney failure, and there is no chance of waking up.Another Dutch soldier sensed the movement and turned around just in time to see his partner being stabbed, screaming in horror.However, the scream was stuck in his throat—he just opened his mouth, and a small wooden arrow with a length of only a few inches shot into his mouth, pierced through the back of his head, and the river quenched on the arrowhead The fugutoxin killed him in an instant.

The two scouts dragged the body to a dark place, hid it, and pounced on the next target.At this time, Shi Tianbao had already led two scouts to climb up the six-story lighthouse with bare hands and quietly entered the interior of the lighthouse.The four Dutch soldiers guarding the lighthouse were still unaware of this and were killing time playing cards by candlelight.Shi Tianbao did not alert them. He just quietly took out a small bottle of high-concentration ether, uncorked it, poured it in through the crack in the door, and then retreated to a ventilated place.

The summer in Tainan is quite hot. Under the effect of high temperature, the highly volatile ether turns into gas in a blink of an eye, and permeates the entire room unconsciously.In less than a minute, there was no sound inside, and the scout quietly pushed open the door, oh, those four were all unconscious.A scout drew out his dagger and was about to kill them all. Shi Tianbao waved his hand to stop them, and said in a low voice, "Don't kill them, it's still useful to keep them."

The scout gave up and climbed up to ignite the blubber in the huge lamp.

The whale blubber burned violently, turned into a raging fire and rushed high, and the entire Luermen Channel was illuminated like daylight.The transport ship that had already groped its way to the middle of the channel immediately advanced at full speed and successfully entered Heliao Port. The scouts immediately turned off the fire, and everyone worked together to quickly unload the weapons and ammunition on the ship.It just so happened that there was a four-wheeled carriage outside the lighthouse, which saved the trouble. Everyone loaded these weapons and ammunition out of Heliao Port, moved them into the woods and buried them.These weapons can only be used after they contact those Taiwanese natives who still persist in resistance, and carrying them now can only be a burden.

The Dutch obviously haven't experienced this kind of combat mode. On this night that almost decided their fate in Taiwan, their response was extremely slow. I thought of reporting to my superiors.To benefit from this, the reconnaissance force successfully transported away all the weapons and ammunition. At the same time, they threw the bodies of the two killed Dutch soldiers onto the transport ship for them to transport away, and then cleaned the blood stains with water.After getting it done, they lit up the lighthouse again. With the light of the lighthouse, the transport ship, as light as a swallow, sailed out of the port and disappeared silently into the darkness.

After the transport ship sailed out of the Luermen Channel, Shi Tianbao ordered the lighthouse to be blown up, then quickly left Heliao Port, and got into the ubiquitous dense forest in Tainan area.

The few Dutch soldiers who were stunned by ether were still sleeping soundly. They didn't realize that a group of people had killed people under their noses and sent hundreds of rifles to Taiwan. They didn't know more than A scout stared at their heads with oily green eyes. If Shi Tianbao hadn't repeatedly asked to keep them alive, their heads would have long ago become spoils of war for some scouts who regard hunting the enemy's head as their highest honor.It wasn't until the next day that they discovered that the two sentinels in the wooden house were missing, and they couldn't find them after digging three feet, so they panicked.And just at this time, the superiors came to ask them why they violated the order and lit the lighthouse twice last night without permission.

The superior looked at these bastards with confused faces, and wanted to kill them: "Have you ever touched the lighthouse? If you haven't touched it, it will light up by itself?"

"We really haven't touched the lighthouse. We have been playing cards, and fell asleep while playing... Then when we woke up, we found that the two sentries in the wooden house were missing..."

No matter how interrogated, these four fools are always the same sentence: they haven't touched the lighthouse, they haven't done anything, they have been playing cards, and they fell asleep while playing... Their confessions make people fall into a state of confusion In the story, the disappearance of the two sentinels made the Dutch even more frightened and confused. They suspected that the Heluo New Army or the Zheng Group's army had sneaked into Taiwan and killed the two sentries, but this judgment was overturned immediately. : If the enemy has the ability to sneak into Heliao Port without anyone noticing, kill the sentinels, and subdue the guards inside the lighthouse to light the lighthouse, it is impossible to just kill or take away two sentries. If they really With such fighting power, how difficult is it to take down the entire Heliao Port!However, if the possibility of enemy invasion is overthrown, then the strange incident of the missing sentinel and the lighthouse being lit twice cannot be explained. It is inexplicable, really inexplicable!
Soon, the legend of haunting spread around Heliao Port. According to this theory, the two sentries were captured by water ghosts.The Dutch would not believe such rumors about ghosts and gods, but the rumors of noses and eyes still made them feel frightened. Every night, everyone was in danger and frightened.This is exactly the purpose of Shi Tianbao. Killing the four lighthouse guards is easy, but it is not of much value. On the contrary, letting them survive, confusing the Dutch people's judgment, and creating a strange and terrifying atmosphere can actually hit the Dutch more effectively. People's morale made them terrified, but also confused.While the Dutch were making confused guesses, he and his 38 brothers had already entered the dense mountain forests of Tainan and began to interact with the fierce Gaoshan, Atayal, Yami and other minorities living in Taiwan's mountainous areas. Ethnic contact is sharpening the knife and preparing to turn Taiwan upside down.

(End of this chapter)