54. Zhuluo Mountain

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After crossing Wuxi (note: that is, Da Belly Creek) and going north for about forty miles, he left the hometown of the Big Belly Kingdom that Liu Guoxuan had seized from Pingpu Fan. (The text was first published in the Cabinet biquge.info) Whether it was the original Dutch ruler or the current Ming Zheng regime, this land is a strange wasteland. However, with the footsteps of Shitai immigrants, this former wasteland has been filled with large and small tunzhuang.

With the rise of Xintunzhuang one by one, Tianxing Prefecture, which is located in Jialixing, Tainan, is a little beyond the reach of its jurisdiction. In order to improve the local units and ensure effective notification, Zheng Kezhang and Chen Yonghua seconded the proposal to set up a new county north of Tianxing Prefecture. The report of the two was presented to Siming, and Zhu Jin happily named it Zhuluo County, and appointed Chen Ke, the general, as the magistrate of the county. Although Zhuluo is only a "county", it is not subordinate to Tianxing Prefecture, and is still directly subordinate to Chengtianfu, but Chengtianfu is also in name at this time, so it is actually equivalent to a county directly under the central government of Ming and Zheng.

Although the establishment of a new county has been decided, then the problem also arises. Where is the county seat of the new county? According to the name of the county given by Zhu Jin, the county seat of Zhuluo County should naturally be located in Zhuluo Mountain. "Zhuluo Mountain" is derived from the transliteration of the name of the Hongya tribe, the aborigines of the Pingpu people, and the Dutch call it "Tirosen" society.

In its early years, Zhuluoshan was one of the strongholds of large-scale immigration from Chinese mainland to Taiwan. In the first year of Ming Qi (1621), Yan Siqi, a pirate originally from Zhangzhou, Fujian, led immigrants to land in Bengang and pioneered the land. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), the Dutch occupied Taiwan, and ruled the area of Anping and Tainan in the early days, and soon pacified the Pingpu people in the area of Zhuluo Mountain, and operated this place.

After Zhu Chenggong recovered Taiwan, Zhuluo Mountain was once located in the northernmost part of Tianxing County (Prefecture), and according to Zhu Jin's intention, it was obvious that he hoped to use this place as the county seat of the new county. Zhu Jin's choices were based on the fact that the local Yin had been subordinating to the Ming and Zheng regimes for a long time, and the ruling foundation was stable, but they were different from Zheng Kezang's ideas.

"Mr. Chen, Yu thought that Zhuluo Mountain could be carved out from Tianxing Prefecture, but the county governance of the new county was too southern, and Yu thought that in order to better pacify the North Road of Colonization, the county governance of the new county would be moved north as much as possible." Zheng Kezang's finger pointed at a very rudimentary map of Taiwan. "So, here."

"Lombok?" Looking at Zheng Kezang's finger, located somewhere north of Wuxi and west of the Big Belly Terrace, Chen Yonghua gasped. "Shisun, is this too northern, the county is about the safety of the whole county, in case there is a social attack, no, no, it's too risky." Chen Yonghua denied Zheng Kezang's location, but he also agreed that Zheng Kezang's county should be moved north as much as possible to facilitate the construction of the reclamation colony north of Wuxi. "I think it's better to choose this."

"Bamboo pond?" Zhutang is located on the north bank of the Turbidity River, although it is further north than Zhuluo Mountain, but it is closer to the core ruling area of the Ming and Zheng regimes than the Lombok Well where Zheng Kezhang first mentioned yƬ, so even if there are several groups of Babuza tribes such as Erlin Society, Meili Society, and Dongluo Society around, the security is much higher, but this is not what Zheng Kezhang wants. "It's still too southern, Yu thought that if Zhuluo Mountain was drawn out of Tianxing Prefecture, he would have to compensate the state for one or two miles, so that," Zheng Kezhang drew a line on the map, and assigned a considerable coastal plain to Tianxing Prefecture. "Mr. Chen, otherwise, the county seat of Zhuluo County is set in Luzai Port."

"Deer Boy Harbor?" Chen Yonghua thought about it, the place name of Luzai Port is said to be named because of the large export of deer skins here during the Dutch occupation period, and there is a relatively primitive Mazhi Society on the side, but this clan is extremely weak in force, and has long been subject to the rule of the Ming and Zheng sides, so there is no problem in security. "Nope." To Zheng Kezang's surprise, he thought that the port town had excellent room for development in the future was ruthlessly rejected by Chen Yonghua. "If this port is prosperous, what if the Qing army goes ashore directly from here?" The military tension between the two sides of the strait was the main factor in Chen Yonghua's rejection of Luzai Port. "I think it's better to put it in Xiushui."

There is a distance of less than 20 kilometers from Luzi Port to Xiushui, and if Zheng Kezhang does not build any cement county roads, it means more than a day's journey, so it may be possible to get enough warning time to set up the county seat in Xiushui. But this is only a possibility, once the Qing army really landed from Luzai Port, the county town of Xiushui can only do in a day or even less than a day's warning period is to either close the door or abandon the city and flee, there is no time to transfer reinforcements to carry out a counteroffensive.

So Zheng Kezhang still wanted to argue with reason, but when he looked up, he found that Chen Yonghua's sideburns exposed under his official hat were already white, Zheng Kezhang was immediately touched, so he decided to accommodate the other party's opinion on this non-critical issue: "Then report to your father as Mr. Chen said"

"Why, it's a little wilted." In the middle of summer, ordinary people will feel uncomfortable even walking naked and empty-handed under the big sun, not to mention this group of scouts who have just marched in full armor, but this groggy state is obviously not what Hong Hui, who has just been promoted to team leader, wants to see, so he stood at the head of the team and ordered loudly. "Drink water."

The scouts plucked water hyacinths from their waists, the experienced elders took a small sip, and the newcomers this year gulped down. The water hyacinth is filled with cold white boils, which usually do not feel so sweet when drinking, but at the moment it is like a rain that nourishes the boy scouts.

Seeing that his subordinates breathed a sigh of relief, Hong Hui ordered with satisfaction. "Keep going, start singing, Wang Changling, join the army, third!"

"Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass. Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned if it is not broken"

The young warriors sang in unison, and although their dialects were somewhat different, what they had in common was an unstoppable vigor. After a song, the re-motivated scouts did not wait for Hong Hui to continue to order, Wang Changling's seven songs were recited in turn from the military march, and the high-pitched song shook the forest birds resting on both sides.

"Hu Bottle's arms are purple and sweaty, and the autumn moon group in the west of the broken leaf city. Ming Xingchi sealed the sword, and Cijun took Loulan overnight"

"Your Excellency!" As they were singing, one of the young soldiers in the queue suddenly shouted. "Look," he pointed in, and in the direction of his finger, everyone saw a column of smoke rushing into the sky. "It's Wuyingtun!"

Hong Hui stood on his heels, his eyes were fixed, and then he swept the subordinates around him, gritting his teeth and ordering: "Everyone is wearing armor!" ā€

The Boy Scouts immediately obeyed the order to remove the chain mail from the ox carts they were driving, one for each other, and helped each other to get dressed in just forty snaps of a finger.

"Class A and Class B each leave a group of guards to guard the baggage, and the rest will come with the rest!" Dropping this sentence, Hong Hui mentioned that he was the first to move forward, and under his example, in addition to the ten soldiers left behind, a team of forty people quickly drove towards the incident point. "Eight Guys," Hong Hui commanded the heralds around him as he marched. "You go ahead and find out what the enemy is doing"

Running nearly five miles in one go, although it was not enough to exhaust the strength of these young soldiers who had undergone at least a year and a half of physical training, but in view of the unknown enemy situation, Hong Hui still arranged for them to take a break to ensure that they could wait for the body of the battle.

"Lord Baihu," Song Bagen, who was nicknamed Eight Guys, ran back breathlessly. "There are almost seventy clubs," Song Bagen gasped as he squatted and gestured. "All are concentrated on the side of the gate of the tunzhuang," because the outer walls of the new tunzhuang are made of bamboo-reinforced concrete, so to conquer such a tunzhuang, in addition to making ladders, there is only one way to directly break the gate. "It's the fire that is burning the door just now, but the fire is lit, but the fire is too big, and the company hasn't rushed in yet."

"Good!" Hong Hui's heart lowered slightly, and then ordered his subordinates who had just sat down for less than half a moment. "The whole team! Eight people stay, and the rest of the people line up, let's do a fair fight with these clubs."

Hong Hui commanded a long team of spearmen, but what was special was that the C squad was replaced by a musketeer. In this way, the two spearmen and the musketeers formed exactly three mixed teams, each consisting of two spear squads and one musketeers. This method of mixed organization can provide long-range firepower support while ensuring the troops' hand-to-hand combat capability, and it can already fight independently in Taiwan, where the intensity is extremely low, and it can also be adjusted according to the pattern of one team dispatching, one team renovating, and one team training. If it weren't for the fact that the number of musketeers in the Boy Scouts was insufficient, He Qian would still want to try to organize them with a squad of sword and shield bearers, a squad of musketeers, and a squad of spearmen. Of course, the artillery team, which is the elite of the whole battalion, will not be matched in an armed patrol of this level.

The appearance of the Boy Scouts also alarmed the besieging Tunzhuang Society, looking at the two-color pennants on the red and on the blue, the gang quickly split into two. Seven or eight of them continued to block the gate of Tunzhuang, and the remaining nearly sixty people came to Hong Hui after a burst of screams, because they wanted to fight more and less, eat Hong Hui first and then attack Tunzhuang.

The loaded firecrackers had already put the firecrackers on the stand, and when they saw the murderous Shefan dancing all kinds of strange things, some of them were still a little trembling, at this time Hong Hui shouted: "Steady, listen to Yu's orders!" ā€

One hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps, Hong Hui gave an order, and the firecrackers who had already put their hands on the trigger buckled desperately, which was very good, fifteen of the sixteen firecrackers in a class were fired, and at the moment when the white gunpowder smoke rose, several warriors who were at the forefront of the Shefan side instantly fell to the ground, and the momentum of their charge was stopped.

Before the firecracker who had not started was annoyed, he listened to Hong Hui continue to order: "Come again!" ā€

Except for this musketeer, the other fifteen men followed strict training procedures to clear, charge, compact, load, and aim, and although some of them trembled and missed the order to shoot again, this time thirteen muskets were fired again.

"Class C stand back! Post-reload gap shot! Hong Hui ordered. Class A and Class B stepped forward and let these fans taste the power of the boys' camp gun formation! ā€

Although the two squads of guns add up to only two columns, and there are only ten people in front of them, the attack radius of the three spears and the ferocious spurts of the scouts quickly made this group suffer - the bright spear pierced the opponent's body at once, and the blood rushed out after the head of the spear with a blood groove was enough to make the bravest feel chills - however, what made the club even more frightened was that when they finally broke through the spear formation and appeared in front of the scouts, they found that their weapons could not break through the opponent's defenses, Before they could understand what was going on, another wave of spurs followed

Stretching out his hand and pulling out the arrow shot at the chain mail, Hong Hui looked at the wolf fleeing with disdain. "The musketeers make up the shots, and the rest report casualties and inspect the battlefield."

In the sparse sound of shooting like a light rain, the older scouts cut off the heads of the dying Sheban with their close-fitting short knives, while the recruits who turned regular this year retched at the dead bodies one by one, but when the head of the armor in the tunzhuang walked out of the burned gate with a grateful face to greet him, the dust had already settled.

"It's so weak!" Hong Hui sighed as he dealt with the sycophant armor. "When will we really have a fight with the Tartars?"

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