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Chapter 958 – 954 [The Tiger Returns To The Mountain]

Chapter 958 954 [The tiger returns to the mountain]

The Sultan of Yogyakarta was named Lasang, a descendant of the royal family of the Bachang Kingdom. After the kingdom was destroyed, he became the feudal lord of Mataram.

Matalam split, and Central Java was divided into three parts.

One is the Solo Sultanate, the second is the Yogyakarta Sultanate, and the third is Semarang occupied by the Han people.

For Solo and Yogyakarta, the goods must be transported to Semarang for sea. Therefore, although the Han people in Semarang are the weakest, the sultans of the two countries are unwilling to go to war with the Han people. One is that it is more difficult to siege the city, and the other is that after they are defeated, they do not know how to engage in maritime trade.

In the past few years, Solo and Yogyakarta have been at war. In the end, the Sultan of Yogyakarta won and unified the Central Java area except Semarang.

The Sultan of Yogyakarta, Lasan, is full of ambitions. His next goal is to attack the Surabaya Sultanate and take East Java into his pocket. Surabaya was Surabaya, and the Sultan was a Javanese nobleman, but the Chinese also played an important role there.

Once the Surabaya Kingdom is unified, Semarang can be won without a fight. It must be nominally subject to the Sultan of Yogyakarta, and sending officials to collect taxes is considered the ruling method.

Due to years of civil war, the population in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta has dropped sharply to about 200,000. Both industry, commerce and agriculture were severely damaged. In the case of insufficient food, sending more than 20,000 troops is already the limit.

Lasang personally led the army, marching towards Semarang mightily.

The town that Zhang Xianzhong captured, that is, Belgas, was renamed Huanghu Town. If Lasang wants to attack Semarang, he must pass through here.

Huanghu Town is surrounded by mountains, a river leads directly to the sea, and the town is located on the flat land between the mountains.

As soon as the Lasan army arrived in the southern valley, they were spotted by sentry soldiers and quickly ignited billowing smoke to warn them.

“Governor, there is meat to eat!” Nongfentian laughed.

Zhang Xianzhong, with a cigar in his mouth, leisurely puffed out the smoke: “Kill as many people as possible, the more you kill, the better. The south can be stable for twenty years. After the south is settled, let’s go to the east to fight against Danmu, which is really useful.” territory.”

Nong Fentian was a young man of the Zhuang nationality. The five hundred troops assigned to Zhang Xianzhong were all recruits from Guangxi, and only a few officers were veterans.

The Datong court expanded to the south, and especially liked to recruit descendants of wolf soldiers from Yunnan and Guangxi. First, it can alleviate land conflicts in mountainous areas, second, the people of Guangxi and Yunnan are more adaptable to the Nanyang environment, and third, these descendants of wolf soldiers are really fierce.

After Zhang Xianzhong occupied Huanghu Town, he did not intend to continue to expand south.

His plan is to **** the country of Yogyakarta so badly that it will not be able to send troops within a decade or two. Then, it has been developed to the east, and the east coast is a large fertile plain. There is Danmu City, the Danmu country that once unified Java Island. Its capital is on the plain, but the city walls have long been destroyed.

The previous governor of Semarang, Zheng Yongshou, was a wimp who got rich and settled down. In such a large fertile plain, the rulers were only landlords and aristocrats, and he never led troops to fight over it, which seemed unreasonable to Zhang Xianzhong.

“Dang Dang Dang!”

The iron bell in Huanghu Town rang, and not only did the 500 troops gather quickly, but the local Han males inside and outside the city also left their fellows and gathered together.

All the Javanese people near the town were killed, and Zhang Xianzhong distributed all the shops, houses, and land to the Han people. These Han people all believed in the Green religion, and they were all commoners in the city and tenants outside the city. They accidentally obtained the land of the store, and their loyalty was instantly full, and they were willing to follow Zhang Xianzhong to the death.

Five hundred Datong troops, more than a thousand Han youths, killed more than 20,000 Yogyakarta troops.

Lasan was still marching in the river valley at this time, the luggage was transported by boats, and the soldiers advanced along the river bank.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

There were muffled noises coming from the river, but it was Zhang Xianzhong who set up a large number of hidden piles in the river south of the town after he captured Huanghu Town. Small fishing boats can pass through with ease, but boats with a slightly deeper draft are very likely to collide with hidden piles.

The enemy’s supply fleet was soon blocked there.

Lasan ordered the soldiers who were familiar with water to go down the river to pull out the hidden piles. But those hidden piles are really too many, it is the result of Zhang Xianzhong’s one month’s work, and it will take at least several days to completely clean them up.

In the southeast of Huanghu Town, there is still a valley that can be passed through, and it was blocked by mountains after thirty miles.

Zhang Xianzhong led his troops for thirty miles and spent two more days crossing the mountains, and they reached the rear of the Yogyakarta army. Immediately afterwards, they walked along the valley day and night, slowly moving towards the enemy’s camp.

Sultan Lasan was still pulling out hidden stakes there, and Zhang Xianzhong was already preparing to stab the chrysanthemum.

At night, the riverside was full of camps, and the Javanese soldiers were sleeping soundly. On the north side of the camp, facing the direction of Huanghu Town, the Javanese sentinels there are quite competent. But the sentries in the south were not vigilant at all, and one or two were sitting on the sentry post to take a nap.

Zhang Xianzhong has already passed the sentries, and these sentries are still sleeping.

As for Sultan Lasan, he smoked opium and fell asleep in a ecstasy.

Thanks to the hard work of the Dutch, opium has long been spread throughout Java Island. Rich people of all ethnic groups regard opium as a high-end consumer product, and even use opium to entertain distinguished guests. Even children from noble families would smoke from time to time.

Anyway, Zhao Han issued a deadly order, no matter domestic or overseas, the opium trade is prohibited. Han people who smoked opium were not allowed to serve as officials, and civilians who smoked opium were arrested and forced to undergo drug rehabilitation.

Let’s put it this way, the more than 20,000 Yogyakarta army in front of us, the senior generals are all opium ghosts! In the evening, they collectively smoked opium, and they slept soundly at the moment.

“Fire!”

The officers of the Datong Army and the militia took out the fire pockets and blew them on. Ordinary soldiers took out the original matches, went to Huozhezi to borrow fire (it couldn’t ignite spontaneously), and quickly lit the torch in their hands.

“kill!”

Nearly 2,000 people broke through the fence of the camp and set fire to camp tents everywhere.

The Javanese soldiers woke up from their dreams, and there were screams and flames everywhere, and they ran like headless chickens in fright. The defeated soldiers became Zhang Xianzhong’s help, and they were driven all the way north, and the places they passed drove more people to flee. These Javanese soldiers, not to mention picking up weapons, many don’t even bother to wear shoes.

When Sultan Lasan woke up, 60% to 70% of the 20,000 army had been defeated. His first reaction was not to resist, but to run towards the river, climb onto a grain ship and shout, “Go back to Yogyakarta!”

The supply fleet of more than 20,000 troops docked densely by the river. After the boatmen woke up, they panicked and operated the boat in the dark. The river channel was relatively narrow, and they collided with each other in the darkness. They did not know how many boats capsized and sank.

The witty ghosts among the defeated soldiers also frantically ran to the boat. Those who didn’t have time to get on the boat jumped into the river to swim. When they heard the sound of the paddles, they swam to hold on to the paddles and tried to climb up.

There was chaos by the river, and there was chaos in the river.

By dawn, corpses were everywhere on the banks of the river. Of the more than 20,000 Yogyakarta troops, I don’t know how many escaped. Anyway, Zhang Xianzhong didn’t want to take prisoners.

It’s a pity that the enemy’s supply fleet either sank or fled, and no food was captured.

Later, Zhang Xianzhong sent people to clean up the hidden piles and salvage the boat by the way. It was a bit of an unexpected harvest, and he actually fished out two artillery pieces and several bullets from the river.

The rest of the harvest is the armor and weapons on the shore.

They are basically leather armor and cold weapons, enough to equip tens of thousands of troops.

But it is said that Sultan Lasan of Yogyakarta fled the battlefield by boat for dozens of miles, and finally stopped in shock. He spent several days gathering the remnants of the soldiers, leaving more than 20 supply ships and only more than 3,000 soldiers. There must have been ships and soldiers still alive, but they had fled back to their hometowns a long time ago, and it was not easy to gather them together again.

Faced with such a dire situation, what Lasan thought of was not revenge, but to quickly lead his troops back to the capital. Once the news of the defeat on the front line comes back, maybe someone will rebel!

A month later, the two parties signed the treaty.

The Sultanate of Yogyakarta, recognized the Governor of Semarang’s possession of Huanghu Town. After that, there was a truce and trade was resumed without interfering with each other.

The threat to the south is settled.

Zhang Xianzhong was not the master of silence. He used the captured soldiers to train an army of 6,000. They are not paid for the army. They usually work and farm the land, and they are pulled out to fight at critical moments. There are pensions for those who die in battle, rewards for victories, and land for those who have done meritorious service.

The Han tenants who have lived in the cracks for a long time have been useless in Java Island for more than two hundred years. Where have they encountered such a situation?

Facing the temptation of the land, the Han tenants were all aroused to blood.

As soon as the armistice treaty was signed with the Sultan of Yogyakarta, Zhang Xianzhong rushed towards Tamu City non-stop. Han Chinese merchants also joined the gang, and they organized people to help transport grain, waiting to take down Danmu City to sell stolen goods for Zhang Xianzhong.

When the Danmu Sultanate fell, the city walls of Danmu had already been torn down. The city is quite large, ruled by Javanese nobles and religious leaders, with only a thousand self-defense troops, it is an independent state that does not belong to any force.

From Semarang to Tammu City, it is only 60 miles, and the road is plain.

Zhang Xianzhong divided his army of more than 6,000 troops into three groups, attacking and killing indigenous villages along the way. All the men were killed, and the women and children were robbed for distribution. Each team was followed by merchants who were responsible for eating the plundered loot.

Before the army reached Danmu City, countless indigenous refugees had already fled outside the city.

Hearing that the Chinese army was dispatched, the leader of Danmu didn’t know how many people came. He hurriedly took his family, property and personal armed forces, and ran directly to Surabaya City by sea boat. When you arrive in Surabaya City, you can take refuge in the Sultan of Surabaya, and as long as you preserve your strength, you can continue to be a nobleman.

The affluent Danmu area was easily captured by Zhang Xianzhong. There were at least 20,000 indigenous people who were massacred here, and the five hundred troops were all led to ruin, and the missionaries in the army were at a loss as to what to do.

The mission officer is also a descendant of Zhuang wolf soldiers, named Wei Zhuang. He felt that he could no longer kill like this, so he went to Zhang Xianzhong privately: “Governor Zhang…”

“Wei Xuanjiao is here?”

Without waiting for Wei Zhuang to finish speaking, Zhang Xianzhong held Wei Zhuang’s hand and said with a smile: “Wei Xuanjiao, the governor has already selected the most fertile 100 mu of cultivated land outside Danmu City, and it will be Wei Xuanjiao’s private land in the future. Three Java Girls, concubines for Wei Xuanjiao, all rich girls in the city, not native girls in the countryside. There are also a few Javanese girls who serve as maids for Wei Xuanjiao. There are also twenty Javanese slaves who work as tenants for Wei Xuanjiao. “

Wei Zhuang opened his mouth many times, but he hesitated to speak.

Zhang Xianzhong captured the Danmu Plain in the east, and set his sights on a small plain in the west. There is also fertile soil. Although there are many forests, they can be reclaimed and cultivated.

In one year, under the operation of Zhang Xianzhong, the Governor-General of Semarang expanded its territory more than ten times, and it didn’t stop until it was surrounded by mountains.

Zhang Xianzhong felt very happy. The aborigines here are not beaten, and as long as they are not Han Chinese, they can be arrested and slaughtered at will. Getting him to be the governor of Semarang is like a tiger returning to the mountain and a dragon entering the sea. If it weren’t for the small number of Han Chinese, he felt that he would be able to unify Java Island in five years.

What kind of school education, what kind of slow development, these are not in line with Zhang Xianzhong’s characteristics. He felt that the land was very good, and he could just lead his troops to kill and occupy it, and killed all the natives there, and distributed the few who were not killed to the soldiers as tenants.

What is the cost of governance?

No cost, only conquest!

(end of this chapter)