On the eastern coast of Taiwan, near the southern part of Hualien, the central mountain range descends violently from here, thousands of meters above sea level, and the piece near the sea, most of which is a cliff. With towering cliffs on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, hundreds of meters of steep cliffs plunging directly into the sea are spectacular. This is probably one of the most beautiful places in Taiwan to maintain the original ecology and special scenery in the future, there are few modern buildings and machinery, and some are just original ecology and natural scenery.

At the beginning of the 20th century, under the premise that the problem of having enough food was not solved in the world, tourism was just a too insignificant thing, and Hualien, located in the east, many of the territory is mountainous, the harsh environment and a large number of aborigines, which is the norm on this coast.

In the history of Taiwan, the county of Hualien is also the last area to be entered by Chinese, but now, some changes have taken place, at least, the Wufeng Army came, not only into the Valley of Happiness, but also into the coast of the east coast.

Hehuan Mountain and Happiness Valley, just between Nantou and Hualien, after crossing the central mountain range, that is the chassis of the aborigines, just at the exit of the passage leading to the outside of the Happiness Valley, is the aborigines who were previously divided into Atayal people, and now they are divided into Taroko tribes alone, near the mouth of Hualien Creek, there is also a place called Taroko Canyon, which is one of the settlements of the Taroko people and a famous scenic spot in Taiwan.

This race is not the original inhabitants of Hualien, but migrated from the Taichung area to the Taroko Gorge in Hualien, where they lived in the towering peaks and migrated to the only flat land by the sea.

In this sense, the Taroko people are actually the same race as the aborigines of the previous Happy Valley, the valley is connected to the sea, and the sea fish they caught before also pass through the territory of Taroko. This gave the Wufeng Army a great opportunity, a chance to strengthen ties with the aborigines.

While Liu Ye was training the army, he also considered the issue of landing, although it was said that the Northwest Army had strong combat effectiveness and was not afraid of the threat of the aborigines. However, to a certain extent, it is still very suitable to maintain a certain intimate relationship with the aborigines, and the aborigines are also the backbone of the resistance to Japan, starting from 1895, a large part of the resistance movement started from Taiwan was initiated by the aborigines, especially after 1915, the Han people's resistance to Japan turned from an armed uprising to a spiritual and theoretical struggle. The aboriginal uprisings came one after another, especially the 1930 Taiwan Wushe Incident, which was Taiwan's last and most fierce act of resistance to the Japanese army, resulting in the resignation of the Japanese Governor General and the Chief of General Affairs of Taiwan.

With the help of the Lin family, under the meeting of some patriarchs who had been in contact, some beautiful ornaments, beautiful cloth, salt and iron. These are the aborigines lacking, and the former Qing government. The difference between the Japanese rulers is that the aborigines have never been a threat to the northwest, and if they can be included in the system, it can be regarded as adding a race to the future China, co-opting, and even helping to develop. The Northwest has enough confidence to embrace all rivers, which is a strong attitude.

A large number of gifts opened the way, and these Taroko tribes, who had come down from the mountains to beg for a living on the beach, happily agreed to Liu Ye's request. When the target was sent back to the command headquarters and then contacted the submarine through the command headquarters, the submarine was already about to arrive on the east coast of Taiwan, and assistance from the northwest was about to arrive, and Liu Ye valued 1,000 well-trained soldiers more than materials.

Unlike the gentleness of the west coast, the east coast, because of the geological process, there are not many waterways, but there are reefs everywhere, and some mountains and volcanoes extending down from the island of Taiwan have formed a group of reefs on the seabed.

The transport submarine fleet departing from Jiujiang made a large detour from the sea, detouring through the eastern part of Taiwan, which has entered the depths of the ocean, not a traditional sea route, except for pirates, few people come, even Japan, does not know the eastern channel of Taiwan.

In this sense, this kind of transportation is quite risky, but the northwest is really not an adventure, in Southeast Asia to clean up and co-opt pirates, really from the pirates, found some route maps, sorted out, as this sea chart, there were small submarines to explore, found a safer road.

With the charts, but this is the first transport, and the 12 submarines carrying a large number of people and supplies are still very careful. Just from 100 nautical miles to the east, it took 5 days to approach the east coast, slowly approaching the shore, the target is Hualien Creek, this river is only a few dozen kilometers, on the coastline, it is more obvious, it is impossible to enter the submarine like the Yangtze River, but it is a suitable place to dock, outside a swamp on the shore, looking for a strong and gentle place, as a landing site.

For safety, the northwest chose to land at night, this swamp by the sea is quite large, but also extremely dangerous, because of the typhoon and various reasons, within a dozen kilometers around, there is no one, even the fishermen, not here. This is a surprise, the commander in charge also specially prepared a batch of cotton cloth and cotton clothes to deal with the exchange of indigenous people, but I didn't expect it, it was saved.

The submarine carries a temporary dock, but it can dock 1000-ton ships, but it can barely let the submarine dock, some basic loading and unloading machinery, as well as on the submarine, more than 1000 soldiers, these temporary porters, this is not the monsoon season, the east of Taiwan, not like the northwest, there is rain all year round, even if there is no warehouse or the like, you can store it for a period of time, all the things that are carried up, can only be placed in the open air.

The heavily armed soldiers, the first to go ashore, they took advantage of the night, investigated the surrounding environment, with the help of the terrain, formed a stable position, and then relocated, the whole night of hard work, a rudimentary solid position was formed, with the help of sacks, local materials, with the sand of the sea, built a barracks, some large tents are also installed, in addition to the solidity is not strong, can not withstand the attack of heavy artillery, etc., this camp function is quite powerful.

At dawn, the unloading began to be carried out at full load, 1,000 soldiers, leaving 200 to guard around, guarding outside the solid position, and the rest began large-scale loading and unloading, 6,000 tons of materials, on average to each person's body, almost 6 tons, even with the help of various machinery, not everyone can have, Laping said, even if it is a ton a day, it also takes 6 days.

After gaining a firm foothold, the four company commanders in charge of the command of these 1,000 people, after thinking about it for a while, decided to send a telegram to Liu Ye, on the transport submarine, there is an ocean-going transmitter, which is only a few tens of kilometers away in a straight line, and it should be able to be notified, their soldiers, can't say that they don't work as porters, but I heard that Liu Ye has tens of thousands of people there, mobilize some over, let them do more suitable things.

In the last briefing, Liu Ye also briefly explained the current situation in Taiwan, a large number of people in Wufeng, as well as those in Nantou have been relocated, the Japanese launched a massacre in central Taiwan, conservative estimates, more than 10,000 people died under the butcher's knife, for this reason, Liu Ye specially asked the Northwest Staff Department for guilt.

For this, all those who know the details are full of righteous indignation, but his plea was not recognized, it is not his fault, it is the Japanese who are wrong, national liberation and national awakening, we must go through this road, Taiwan is just a special case, I hope that there will be no similar bloodshed and sacrifice in other parts of China.

The telegram was quickly sent, and the powerful ocean-going telegraph on the submarine was functionally similar to the transmitter that contacted Fuzhou in the northwest, and the east coast of Taiwan was quite close to Hehuan Mountain. Very easily, he received the telegram, after translating the telegram, Liu Ye was surprised and delighted, the Japanese had already begun to massacre in Wufeng, according to the report from the front, at least thousands of people were slaughtered, but he could only watch, the only reinforcement came through the transport submarine, and he was still thinking about when it would arrive, and it had already arrived, which made him think more about it.

Trained and qualified soldiers, it is impossible to be placed on the shore as stevedores, the current happiness valley, there is not much else, there is a lot of manpower in the prime of life, the location of Hualien Creek where they docked, not far from the happiness valley, which road from the valley to the outside world, is exactly in that vicinity, if all are in the prime of life, it should be able to arrive in one day.

Liu Ye did not hesitate, and almost the moment he received the message, he made a decision, asking Lin Long to find 10,000 young and strong, which is very easy for the current valley, and now the total number of people in the valley has exceeded 260,000, of which almost one-third are young and strong men. Removing some of the unsuitable for being soldiers, selecting the best from the middle, not adding to the Wufeng Army for the time being, but only supplementing the reserves, this kind of quasi-army that participates in military training twice a week, there are 50,000 people, all of whom are young and strong, and they are directly found out, and 10,000 of the strongest are dispatched to the seaside.

Originally, it was an organization, and a part of it was selected from the middle, brought a day's dry rations, and set off immediately, without much delay at all, and these reserves did not take long to train, but simple orders and marches could still be done.

On the third day, 10,000 people appeared on the seashore, almost frightened the Northwest Army, and on the east coast, where the population is not large, 10,000 people, is a very terrifying, very terrifying number, they thought it was a large gathering of aborigines, ready to attack them, 30 kilometers away, they saw signs of a large-scale march, and after reconnaissance, they found that it was a large number of people, and almost did not let the camp declare a state of emergency.

Fortunately, Liu Ye's first contact, by telegram, liaison, and then a large army, finally succeeded in entering the camp by the sea, and the two sides did not have any misunderstanding, and the two groups of soldiers who arrived in Taiwan finally met at the mouth of Hualien Creek on the east coast. (To be continued......)