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Thursday, July 18, 1624.

A fleet of more than 10 inland waterway vessels, carrying more than 1,000 tons of building materials, docked at the port in Porter. Hundreds of Nagansai hired men, urged by the European foreman, swarmed up and began to unload large and small parcels.

About 60 European and 40 Chinese families, more than 300 new immigrants who only arrived in North America this year, were also guided by the staff of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the dock. They were greeted by a group of old residents who had moved here from West Point or Silver Valley in the first half of the year.

In honor of Sergeant Porter, who died in the Battle of Albany's Northern Campaign early last year, the first town in the United States on the west bank of the middle and upper Song River was named Porter City. After nearly a year of survey and planning, the official construction will also start in March this year, and the construction of the first phase will form an estimate of a small town. The gradual increase of national strength has made the construction of Porter City different from the difficult location of West Point Town in the past, and it is expanding rapidly at a rate almost one day at a time.

After the heavy losses, the Mohoks no longer dared to show off their might in the region, and a number of small Indian tribes on the middle and upper reaches of the Song River, including the Nanaghams, quickly embraced the thighs of the United States, like the Pects and Mohicans.

The primary purpose of the establishment of Porter City was to firmly grasp the results of the original Northern Campaign and expand the country's influence and control to the middle and upper reaches of the Song River. Secondly, whether it is West Point or Silver Valley, the surrounding terrain is mainly mountainous and hilly, which is not conducive to the development of large-scale agriculture, and the vicinity of Porter City is almost all fertile plains. Historically an important agricultural base in New York State, Porter City will become the breadbasket of the American Republic of China in the future. What's more, it will be the bridgehead for future territorial expansion into the Great Lakes region, and the construction of Porter City is better than later.

According to the state's plan, by next spring. A number of large-scale farms will be built on both sides of the Song River around Porter City by the state-owned Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Group, with a total scale of 30,000 acres of farmland development, and various Indian tribes attached to the middle and upper reaches of the Song River. It will be the main source of labor for local agriculture, and the annual harvest of grain or livestock will feed at least 30,000 people. Only then will private farms be conditionally opened for approval. It is then that the country will finally solve the problem of food security that hangs on its head.

In addition to agriculture-related industries, Porter will become an important national base for wood processing and paper making in the future, taking advantage of the abundant primeval forests in the surrounding area, and even a high-quality open-pit magnetite mine and an anthracite mine have been found nearby, although the ore layer is shallow, it is extremely easy to mine and has enough reserves to meet the demand for many years to come. The Department of Immigration has shifted the focus of future immigration distribution to Porter, where more than 500 immigrants, both new and old, have made their homes here.

After four months of intense construction, the important military defense areas, municipal units and urban infrastructure on the periphery of the city have been basically completed, and now the first phase of the project in Porter City has entered the second phase of street and residential community construction. Large quantities of construction materials arrive in the fleet almost every day. The state-owned construction engineering group and the Oriental Construction Company, the two largest construction companies in China, have also invested a lot of manpower and construction machinery in this regard.

At the site of the Oriental Construction Company, the concrete piles were driven into the ground amid the roar of steam units, and groups of experienced construction workers built the outlines of the houses with cement prefabrications and masonry. Tang En, a Chinese senior engineer responsible for on-site engineering guidance. He was squinting and smoking a dry cigarette, and from time to time he swept his eyes on the drawing.

Towne's son, who now works on the site of a nearby state-run construction engineering company, a Chinese family that immigrated to North America the year before, is now accustomed to these phenomenal construction. According to Towne's estimates, there will be two or three more months. The construction of this town can be completed.

Looking at the buildings that were gradually forming around him, and the flat and fertile fields in the distance, Towne suddenly felt the urge to move his family here in the future. If it weren't for the fact that I have a stable life and a good income now, it would be a good day to buy hundreds of acres of fertile land here in the future.

The army stationed in Porter City is a new infantry company that was formed only this spring. In addition to the non-commissioned officers, almost all of the soldiers in this infantry unit are of Native American descent, all of whom are young people of the Delaware, Pequet or Mohican ethnic groups who have been attached to China and the United States for two years, with an average age of no more than 18 years old, and can be called "boy scouts", and many of them are even Indian smugglers from more distant places. These younger generations of Native American soldiers, accustomed to life in China and the United States, are now working hard for their families to fully join the collective.

Nata's older brother, Mochi, has been promoted to sergeant major this year, becoming the top master major of the new infantry company, and will continue to train at West Point for six months each year, and two years later will become the first Indian officer.

According to the slogan of the state's policy towards the Indian tribes, the Drava people, including the Dlaware, were already an integral part of the country, and the homeland of the Draware people expanded wherever the territory of the country extended. Such slogans have an almost magical incitement to an Indian young man like Mooch.

Mochi, who did not participate in last year's Northern Campaign, is now visiting the Army Cemetery on the outskirts of Porter City with a group of men. More than a third of the 40 Army soldiers buried here were Delaware, and now the cemetery is very neatly and beautifully maintained, with the lives and years of sacrifice engraved on every cross or square tombstone.

The crisp sound of gunfire echoed over the cemetery, remembering the comrades-in-arms in a way unique to soldiers, and also revealing the yearning for a peaceful and stable life.......

At the military base northwest of West Point, a group of representatives from the Northern Iroquois Indian Union has been living here for almost a week.

Last year's bloody Northern Campaign, after a crooked and hard-fought battle. It makes it difficult for both warring sides to persist in a long-term war confrontation, especially for the Mohoks, who were at the forefront of the war and the initiators of the war, after suffering the most painful population losses in the history of their tribe, they can no longer hold on.

Li Xiang, the leader of the peace talks faction who was good at dealing with Indians, basically lived in West Point with his wife Na Da for a week, and constantly communicated with the Mohok representatives of the Iroquois Indian League, trying to persuade the other party to give up West Point and the surrounding lands of Albany.

But except for the Mohok representatives, who were beaten up, accepted with silence. The other tribal representatives of the Iroquois Indian Union were adamantly opposed, and even made more bizarre demands.

Army representative, Brigadier General Chen Liwen directly withdrew from the negotiations with a sneer. Then, in addition to the Mohoks, representatives of the Iroquois Indian Confederation, led by the Senecas, also returned to the mountains and forests on the other side of the river in the northwest, and returned to their camped villages.

80 km to the south. The commissioning ceremony of the light cruiser "Long Island" is underway at the military dock in the Long Island New District of Manchuria; Fifty kilometres to the north, the completion of the hospital building in Porter is underway, but none of this has detracted from another "celebration" being held northwest of West Point.

When the peace agreement collapsed, the cabinet had to take a "limited" military action to wake up the diehards of the Iroquois Indian Union.

On Monday, July 22, 1624, an army combat battalion of more than three companies was marching out of West Point under the watchful eye of Army Commander Brigadier General Chen Liwen and Defense Minister Zheng Quan.

The chief of operations will still be Major Ho Yu, but more company and platoon officers will gain experience in offensive operations from this active attack on the Iroquois Indian Union. Because the bloody defensive battles at Albany Base Camp were not enough to be a complete lesson for army officers.

In addition to the improved Type 22A1 breech mini gun, two platoons of 60-mm mortars will be intensively used today. The eight 60mm 22C light mortars that have undergone many performance and production process improvements have become the Army's most relied on long-range firepower, and those old 6-pounder light breech-loading cannons that have been equipped with the West Point Military Fortress for more than a year have long been returned to the furnace as copper blocks.

Under the repeated blowing of the "March of the Soldiers". More than 300 officers and men of the army and more than 100 Pecot servants followed suit and crossed the creek directly from a shoal.

A few kilometers away, deep in the forest, on a hillside, a village that originally belonged to the Mohoks was built. During the long confrontation, the Mohoks also learned from these hateful Chinese how they built stockades, using the metal tools they once had limited access to, and simply stacked logs and boulders to build their "fortresses".

At least on the surface, this symbolizes a significant cosmetic leap in the architectural civilization of the North American Indians. The Mogridians were able to use their athletic skills to hide in all corners of the fortress and beyond. Dodging the fearsome muskets and cannons of the Chinese, they can also condescend to use their accurate archery and spear throwing skills.

It should be said that before the new equipment is fully replaced, even if Chen Liwen sends troops to attack, he may not be able to bargain from the Mohoks who are more familiar with the complex terrain here.

Relying on such a seemingly safe forward base, the Mohoks have taken the initiative in the past year, causing a lot of trouble to the Pecots on the other side of the river and even the Mohican villages on the east bank of the East River, plundering large quantities of grain or trade goods.

But now the stockade is home to the Iroquois Coalition who are heading south to support the Mohoks, and there are more than 1,000 Iroquois warriors hiding in the village and nearby forests, but fewer than 200 of them are Mohoks.

Passing through the undulating mountain forest, the edge of the dense forest on the hillside in front of you has appeared the simple civil engineering village of the Mohok people, and from a distance, a string of human heads swayed behind the wooden walls of the village.

The complex slope and valley terrain guides the traditional linear queues that cannot be arranged normally here, so in the eyes of the Mohoks, the current American officers and soldiers are more like scattered small ants advancing slowly and disorderly in the distance.

Less than 500 meters from the Iroquois fortress at the top of the hillside, more than 300 army officers and men stopped their advance and began to build their starting positions on the spot, and a simple breastwork made of nearby stones appeared at the bottom of the hillside.

Eight 60-mm mortars began to line up a few dozen meters behind the position, and nearly 60 officers and men of the artillery platoon were busy preparing for the shelling.

The officers and men of the army behind the breastwork all looked back curiously at their comrades who were waiting for the mortars. Soldiers who had not participated in the Northern Campaign could not connect these "thin iron pipes" with artillery at all. Because the mortars of Europe in this era will not be like this.

From the binoculars, seeing the puzzled faces in the opponent's messy stockade, a smile appeared on the corner of He Yu's mouth.

A dull mortar charge expansion impact sounded, and a 1.4-kilogram high-explosive shell flew into the air, and then fell in a beautiful arc towards the village a few hundred meters away.

A simple visual measurement calculation allowed the shell to fall directly behind the opponent's village, and the explosion was accompanied by a puff of gunpowder smoke slowly rising in the mountains and forests. It also startled the Iroquois warriors' cries of terror. After adjusting for errors, 8 mortars began to fire rapidly.

Within a minute, more than 50 mortar shells had smashed into a village that looked like a broken bowl waiting to be served. The explosion sent all sorts of wooden blocks, stones, and human debris into the sky. Smoke and dust blew in the staggered firelight and shock waves, and rolling thunder echoed through the mountains and forests.

Wooden villages inevitably caught fire in the dense shelling, and the whirlwind of air currents brought up by the heat brought up a large amount of scarlet burning ashes. The whole cottage is wrapped in extraordinarily bewitching.

The various miserable cries of the opponent had been drowned out in the roar and waves, and the army soldiers behind the breastwork were dumbfounded at this time, and they all turned their heads to look at the group of artillerymen who only knew how to stuff iron bumps into the pipe dozens of meters away. The more than 100 Pecot servants who followed closely behind the brigade were even more frightened and fell to the ground one by one.

"Obviously, today we only need to bring a platoon of troops to clean up the battlefield."

Captain Feng Bin, the commander of the military base in West Point, sat down by the breastwork wall boredly, lit a cigarette, and looked happily at the group of stunned soldiers, while talking to He Yu, who was standing beside him and continued to observe the results of the battle through the binocular.

"Alright, stop shelling. Let the soldiers go up! Otherwise, these losers will develop bad habits...... A mortar shell is $10! ”

He Yu looked back at the artillery position, and at this time slot, the losers in his eyes stuffed at least $150 into the mortar barrel.

"Get on the bayonet! Each platoon of stragglers attacks in formation, pay attention to cover! ”

Several platoon-sized officers began shouting behind the breastwork, and the noncommissioned officers carrying out the battle orders ripped up the European, Chinese, or Native American recruits who were in a daze behind the breastwork. Then kick the opponent's ass and drive them in the direction of the opponent.

The shelling had stopped, and apart from the columns of smoke and hula burning from the hot convective air, there was no longer any of the traditional whistles of the North American Indians, nor the bows and arrows and throwing guns that were falling from the sky, and everything was silent.

When the GIs were holding their guns and cautiously approaching more than ten meters. There was still no backlash from the village, as if there had never been anyone here.

The burning heat made the soldiers have to stop advancing, and hundreds of stragglers gradually surrounded the burning cottage, squatting or lying on their stomachs, wiping the hot sweat from the baking, and looking at each other.

More than 200 Iroquois fighters were killed, stoned, or burned in a matter of minutes, and less than 100 escaped from the village after the first cannon shot, and many more Iroquois warriors who hid in the mountains and forests near the cottage in an attempt to counterattack quickly and captured fewer than 200 prisoners.

In terms of the results of the battle, it can be called perfect, but from the perspective of the original intention of the operation, the combined attack of infantry and artillery was a complete failure, and the concentrated use of mortars could almost sweep away any opponent who was not psychologically prepared alone.

The battle lasted less than 15 minutes from start to finish, and the two mortar platoons dominated the battle, firing more than 200 shells in total, ending the entire battle at a cost of more than $2,000, while the rest of the infantry had not fired a single rifle bullet.

Not to mention the "servant army" who carefully thought about cleaning the battlefield and sharing the spoils, the Pecots who followed the battle this time didn't even catch half a hair, and there were many people who were scared out of the urine.

The next day, the Iroquois Indian Union representatives, with heavy faces, continued to the military base. This time, the Mohok representative spoke with an expression of impatience, and the Seneca and other members of the Iroquois could only nod helplessly.

An armistice peace agreement with fingerprints on behalf of members of the Iroquois Indian Union was finally introduced. The Mohoks will abandon the mountainous basin plains northwest of West Point; Starting with the city of Porter in the north, all Mohoks must also cede the large plains west of Porter. This adds up to more than 5,000 square kilometers of land ceded by the Mohoks.

In return, the United States of China will replace the European fur merchants, who have not appeared for several years, and will resume trading operations in Porter City after the beginning of spring next year, allowing domestic merchants to trade civilian goods with the Iroquois Indian Union there.

This result is neither good nor bad for the Iroquois Indian Alliance, but for the United States in the north, the five-year armistice peace agreement will provide a rare period of domestic peace and development, and may also be a good opportunity to infiltrate the Iroquois Indian Alliance in the Great Lakes region. (To be continued......)

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