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Sunday, April 26, 1626.

Although today is a weekend holiday, Jersey Town is bustling with activity because it coincides with the large-scale ripening of fruits and vegetables in the first season after the start of spring. Compared to Virginia and Quebec, which were another devastating drought year, this year's spring rain in China and the United States is relatively good, and the irrigation canals and artificial water storage projects in Jersey Town's farm area were put into operation at the beginning of the year, so the fruit and vegetable harvest is still not lower than usual.

In the vegetable gardens and orchards contracted by the townspeople, rows of peppers, tomatoes, onions, cauliflower, peas, celery, and lettuce are crisp and tender, and they are full of delicate eyes. The employment tide of Indian employees ushered in a small peak after spring ploughing. Large and small vegetable fields and shacks are crowded, boxes of fresh and tender vegetables are sent to the designated trading and acquisition points in the town like an assembly line, and groups of small wholesalers from all over the town are busy hitting the back of their heels, for fear of missing the trading period, and the carriage responsible for receiving them is even more overwhelming.

In addition to the bulk orders that go directly to the workshop of the Merlin Canned Food Company, most of the fruits and vegetables exported will be sent directly to the major stores in the capital city of Mancheng to satisfy the more than 26,000 citizens of the capital who have been "hungry" for a winter, and a small number will be shipped to Porter, Elm Town or Qingcheng City, where the local supply is still temporarily insufficient. At the wharf, more than a dozen inland river transport ships take turns to come and go.

However, the biggest fruit and vegetable harvest in Jersey Town this spring is potatoes. Watching the truckloads of yellow and round potatoes being transported to the warehouse, the mayor of the town, Wang De, who had been busy all day, was tired and happy. Looking left and right, he kept beckoning the town officials to check around to prevent any accidents.

The state-owned Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Group is located on a 1,800-acre potato farm outside Jersey Town. Although potato cultivation in the 17th century was just beginning, a total of about 2,500 tons of potatoes were harvested, plus the number of dependent Indian tribes to the west came to trade each year. Jersey Town has become the largest potato producer in the country, and there is even a group of old European or Chinese farmers who are trying to figure out how to make this "ground fruit" more productive.

Although this wave of large-scale potato marketing will have a big impact on domestic food prices, Congress and the government are obviously happy to see this market decline, and the pressure on the demand for imported food will gradually decrease, which is a good thing for the country. In addition, the grain exports to Quebec, France, and the Virginia colonies of England, which began this year, will also be dominated by potatoes, which will save a large amount of grain and exchange for precious raw materials such as blubber, whalebone, and whaleskin. Representatives of the Qingcheng Municipal Government finalized trade negotiations with the two places. The import price of various whale products is more than 50% cheaper than that of Europe, which makes domestic related enterprises squint.

In order to ensure this bumper potato harvest, the state-owned agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry group has paid a very considerable amount of labor services, whether it is the mayor Wang De or ordinary townspeople. At this time, they were all smiling from ear to ear, especially the first batch of hundreds of Daming farmers who had just arrived in North America for only a month this year, and they showed an unbelievable expression at the various "rare and exotic fruits" that they had never seen before.

While the town of Jersey was busy singing and laughing, a raft carrying horses, a Chinese businessman and a few Delawares came ashore from the Jersey River (Hackensack River) on the west side of the Jersey Peninsula. The Chinese businessman's face was covered in blood, his face was exhausted, and he could not find a few clean places on his clothes. It seems that he does not dare to rest at all. The Chinese merchant mounted his horse and ran straight to the farm, which loomed to the east.

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For several years, most of the Algonquin-speaking Indian tribes on both sides of the Song River were attached to the wing of the United States, and the Delaware were the predominant, but this does not mean that there was no threat west of the Song River. Since the year before. The Susquehana, who were not members of the Iroquois Confederation of North America, began to move north, and although they were not members of the Iroquois League, they had been dominant in eastern North America for the past few hundred years, often attacking mild-mannered tribes such as Drava.

Now. A migratory group of Susquehana had emerged more than twenty kilometres west of the Jersey River (Hackensack) in what would become the city of Irvington and attacked a small local village of the Delaware. This small village, which is far away from China and the United States, and has gradually adapted to agricultural and settled life, was occupied. Poor men from the small village of Delaware. At this time, most of them were working in the nearby farmland, but a litter of old and weak women and children was served by someone, and only a few people ran out when they saw that the situation was wrong.

A Chinese national of a small private trading company who was engaged in the Indian trade in this small village saw with his own eyes hundreds of Susquehanas shouting and screaming into the village. According to the safety instructions that citizens must carry guns when they go out, this Chinese businessman accompanied by a few Indian hired men, and under the protection of a few Delaware warriors, he relied on a revolver to kill a bloody road, and several Indian hired men died on the way, so he could escape back to Jersey Peninsula.

A bloody Chinese businessman walked directly through the town, ran into the Jersey Town garrison camp, and cried with snot and tears to Lieutenant Tang Wei of the cavalry company, the commander-in-chief of the local garrison. It seems that all the goods of this unfortunate merchant have been lost in this cannibalistic battle of North American Indians.

If it was an ordinary dispute between Indian tribes, as long as it was a dependency relationship, Tang Wei had been dispatched to mediate many times, but this time it was not as simple as a dispute, it was a strange Indian tribe who directly took his little brother under the knife! Although "Huayin goodwill" is the main tone at present, and the Huamei government naturally frequently assists the Delaware and other dependent villages in ordinary times, but this time Tang Wei did not dare to make decisions on his own, and directly sent the news to the army headquarters.

The Army Command was also distressed when it got the news, and the two infantry battalions of the current main mobile force of the army and the first battalion of the Foreign Legion were all rounding up the Caribbean natives on Guadeloupe, and the remaining two and a half battalion troops on the mainland. One of the full battalions stationed in Porter, a strategic northern location, to defend against the Iroquois Confederacy, is immobile, and the remaining companies are scattered in the capital, West Point, and the Azorean Concession. Could it be that if something happens to the Delawares on the entire east coast of North America in the future, the Chinese and American armies will rush over to it?

Chen Liwen politely signed his name on the telegram, and then kicked the ball directly to the Ministry of Defense without explanation. Zheng Quan is even more absolute. I don't have the right to decide on this, I have to look at it from the prime minister.

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At noon that day, the duty officer of the Prime Minister's Office dragged various ministers out of their homes, including the army commander Major General Chen Liwen, who was trying to be an ostrich.

"Lao Zheng, Xiao Chen, the Susquehana seem to be very belligerent, they are not just attacking the Draware, they are so close to us now, the potential threat to us should not be underestimated! In order to consolidate the dependence of the Dravares on us. This dispatch is very necessary, you must give me a positive reply, whether you are capable or not! Premier Qi Jianjun directly asked the Ministry of National Defense and the army commander whether there is currently an emergency transfer of army forces on the mainland.

"Excluding the Foreign Legion, the army currently has more than 1,700 soldiers. In the spring, it was reorganized into 16 companies and a number of garrisons. Seven of them were in Guadeloupe, three in Porter, two in Capital, one in West Point, one in the Azores, one in Jersey Town, and one in Elm Town and Tsing City. There is no mobile force at all, and now even the rotation of the garrison has been temporarily suspended. Chen Liwen had a bitter face and sold his poor with his hands.

"Can't you just draw points from all over the place?" Zheng Quan rubbed his forehead, which was also a little nerve-wracking.

"It's all about how much you need. Distance is also taken into account. Chen Liwen thought for a moment and proposed a compromise plan, "Don't think about the garrison in Porter City, it's too far." Cavalry companies stationed in Jersey Town can be fully dispatched. An additional platoon could also be drawn from the garrison in West Point and Long Island New Area. No more, even with the addition of the National Guard. Today, the military defense of the capital is already the smallest. ”

"That's about two companies of troops, and it should be enough to organize some men from the National Guard in Jersey Town and the capital!" Qi Jianjun's pencil slammed on his notebook, revealing a resolute expression, "I heard from the people who fled back that there are probably only a few hundred people in Susquehana. They have captured so many old and weak women and children, and now that the potatoes are ripe and there is a lot of grain in the fields, it is unlikely that they will give up the transfer immediately, and they may stay there for several days. ”

"But it's not possible to start right away. Even if we order the movement of troops now, it will be tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, and we are struggling to cope. Chen Liwen frowned, very depressed at Qi Jianjun's instruction to stand and speak without backache.

"Prime Minister, Brother Chen, mobilize them now, it's too late!" Li Xiang, the Minister of Immigration on the side, flipped through his exclusive notepad and looked at the situation of the village recorded on it, and his face was also solemn, "Although this village is more than 20 kilometers away from Jersey Town in a straight line, and there is a dense water network along the way, it is only a few kilometers away from the Pasayk River, and you can land from there by boat." ”

"And this village has a very good relationship with us, not only has nearly 1,000 acres of arable land, but also a small pig farm that we have guided the construction, from which we can trade at least 100 tons of potatoes, 100 pigs, and 500 pieces of various furs every year."

The ministers all looked at each other, surprised by Li Xiang's belligerent attitude for the first time, and even more disapproving of the big trade benefits of these sesame mung beans. In their opinion, maybe Li Xiang was affected by Zhou Kemin's sacrifice, and he also had a feeling that needed to be vented.

"Li Xiang's opinion is very good...... You may think that a small Drawa village dozens of kilometers away is not a big deal, and the trade of one or two hundred tons of grain is insignificant, but it is dispensable. There is only that much in one village, but there are more than a dozen Indian dependent villages around us, large and small, and the total amount is very large. The point is, the Indian trade is now all about the small merchants you look down on, and do we let our merchants know that this country has no regard for their interests? Don't forget, we now sell more than 400,000 US dollars of fur products to Europe every year, which can help many people solve their livelihood problems! Moreover, we must not make them feel that they do not feel safe attached to us, and we will inevitably expand westward in the future, and now we must make extensive use of the many conveniences brought to us by our dependents! ”

Qi Jianjun's reasons are also real, especially the elevation of the issue to the level of "national feelings and self-interests", and it has found an unshirkable reason for this military dispatch.

Sunday's Interim Council of Ministers was so efficient that even the Army Commander and the Minister of Defense discussed the battle plan on the spot. As soon as the meeting ended, several orders were sent to the garrison headquarters in West Point and Long Island New Area via Guò radio.

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In West Point, a number of officers and soldiers who were on weekend vacation were urgently assembled at the military base. The herald ran into the block. Sneak out of the bar and get all the drunken soldiers out of the bar, and then put them in full combat readiness, and organize a platoon of officers and men to go to the docks of West Point to stand by, ready to board the ship to Jerseytown to join up with the other troops.

At the same time, the Navy's offshore and inland river patrol ship USS Snail was heading for West Point at full speed, preparing to transport West Point troops to the south overnight. They would bypass the Jersey Peninsula and enter from what would become the Pasayic River and land directly in the future Newark region, where the banks of the river would be no more than five kilometres from the fallen village of the Delaware.

In the evening. The USS Snail docked at the docks in West Point. Under the shouts of the whistle, the infantry, having completed their preparations for departure, began to line up at the pier. After the Northern Campaign, it had not been three years since I had seen such a military movement without warning and a murderous atmosphere, which secretly surprised the busy residents of the dock area of West Point Town.

As for the country's military annexation of Butterfly Island, many residents of Old West Point raised their hands in favor. Scott and a group of West Point veterans shined at last year's promotion ceremony. It was enough for the townspeople to reminisce for half a year. Generous military treatment, high social status, and the eerie "Made in West Point Heroes" brand promotion have always seduced the boys of West Point. But they also have no concept of that distant island, they are simply judging with a pro-army feeling, and they don't care about how attractive the prospect of Butterfly Island promoted by the state is.

Mayor William and Old Judge Robert were also alarmed, and in their eyes this should be one of the few military operations that did not inform them, so that they did not have time to organize some farewell ceremony for the townspeople.

Walking with a cane. Accompanied by Old Man Robert, the one-legged William hurried to the dock and found that the army troops mobilized this time were very small, only more than 30. And it was going to be sent to the south overnight, and it seemed like no small thing to draw troops from West Point so urgently.

"Jonah! Who's looking for us? You little bunny, you spend your days loitering around town. I've finally seen you do something serious today! Swear to God that you will win the battle! ”

Looking at the sergeant major who was comforting a crying Indian woman in his arms in the ranks of soldiers. William habitually called out the name of the Scottish lad in the manner of an elder.

"Ah, dear mayor, maybe you can kill a few Saskaehanas with your cane!" Jonah, who has been a sergeant major for a few years after enlisting in the army, finally calmed down Delaware's wife, and then turned to Mayor William with a hippie smile, "We'll set off later, and we're going to beat them up!" ”

"The Susquehana?" Old Judge Robert next to Mayor William was stunned for a moment, he didn't know anything about this military-defined New Indian tribe, but he immediately smiled, "If it's the first time I meet you, then they will be very unlucky." ”

"Well, no matter what it is, you have to protect yourself anyway." Watching dozens of young soldiers happily board the Navy patrol ship, Mayor William spoke quietly.

In last year's Battle of Butterfly Island East Island, more than 20 young men from West Point Town were killed, and nearly 10 were severely disabled and retired. This year's Battle of the West Island is still underway, and it is unknown how many more West Point families will receive death notices. In the five years since the town was founded, there are not many veterans in West Point, especially young people like Jonah who came to West Point when the town was founded.

On the balconies behind the windows of the homes near the dock, a number of women, some of them holding babies in their arms, began waving to the soldiers in the procession or touching handkerchiefs to quietly wipe away tears.

A short time later, a platoon of Army officers and men began to board the Navy patrol ship Snail, which was to be urgently transported to Jersey Town for assembly at a rate of more than 12 knots per hour, and it was late at night.

In the garrison of the cavalry company in Jersey Town, the cavalry trumpets sounded the melodious sound of the battle readiness assembly, and a group of officers and men rushed out of the barracks to the stables, put their beloved war horses on their harnesses, and then led the horses one by one to line up on the camp playground.

According to the battle plan, Tang Wei will first send a cavalry platoon to serve as an outpost reconnaissance, and after the infantry from various places arrives, the main force of the remaining cavalry company will also set off by boat to fight with the infantry units in the Newark area.

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After that, Tang Wei proudly showed off the classic cavalry assault battle for almost a year. It happened in the early hours of April 28.

After more than half a day of lurking, more than 150 Huamei cavalry, who had reached the size of a reinforced company, launched an attack at 1 a.m. on the 28th, while a temporary infantry company returned to the south of the village early and set up a pocket formation. Under the command of Tang Wei, the cavalry company passed through the small village forcibly occupied by the Sasquehana in two directions.

The cavalry units were slightly different from the standard light infantry, not only did they carry rifles on their backs, but each of them carried a revolver shotgun and a cavalry knife on their horses, as there was almost no chance of reloading on horseback.

The "four-legged human" monster is galloping and whistling, constantly making a screaming sound and spewing flames in the night, and a "stone" that can explode with loud noises and flames. Let every Susquehana who comes close to him bleed all over his body. The Susquehana, who had never had any contact with the Huamei ** team, were terrified when they were attacked by a sudden night attack, and their collapse occurred two minutes after the cavalry assault.

Hundreds of Sasquehanas could barely do anything in the darkness, and many were knocked over by rows of shrapnel as soon as they burst out of their shacks. Many more ran around the village like headless flies, or hid themselves in the depths of their shacks and could not come out.

Hundreds of Susquehanas who had fled the village fled directly to the way they had come, only to run into a barrier formed by Chinese Army infantry and National Guard soldiers, killing a third on the spot, and the rest lay on the ground in tears. Overnight, in addition to rescuing hundreds of old and weak women and children of the Delaware. More than 200 Susquehana men were captured.

After having completely defeated the Posasquehana who had occupied the Dravare village, the cavalry company continued its pursuit south after dawn, and found the nest of the Sasquehana nearly 10 kilometers away in the forest and by a small river. It seems that these Susquehanas have planned to continue their flight south, and many women and children are packing their belongings. The whole relocation was a mess.

Although the terrain was no longer suitable for cavalry assault, Tang Wei didn't even want to wait for the infantry this time, and directly let the troops dismount and enter the battle. The cavalrymen with rifles or revolvers, demoralized by the early morning victory, did not care if they did not have horses. Directly with their two legs, they launched a line charge.

The Susquehana people who have escaped back to their place of residence in the early hours of the morning have sent back a terrifying message that has caused their families to collapse even faster. The few Sasquehana warriors who tried to resist were directly shattered by the revolver shotgun. Some fled into the forest, while more than half gave up resistance and fell to the ground shivering.

On April 30, hundreds of fleeing Susquehannes were captured from the nearby forest, and two companies of Chinese troops ended the clearance of the Irvington area, rescuing not only the fallen small village of the Delaware, but also more than 500 Susquehanna prisoners of war.

Most of the houses and shacks in the small village of Delaware were damaged, the only "high-tech industry" small pig farm was destroyed, and more than half of the farmland was destroyed by the Susquehana. Despite the terrible loss of their homeland, the old witch and the chief of the small village of Delaware held a celebration for the cavalry company in what they thought was the most solemn way possible. It is said that a Delaware girl almost used the traditional "Delaware matrilineal clan" privilege to "do" Tang Wei, if it weren't for Tang Wei, who is a "married man", who reacted quickly, got on the horse and ran away, otherwise he would have been forced to ride something else that night......

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The three-day "Susquehana War" was won by Lieutenant Tang Wei of the cavalry company, and the Chinese Army completely annihilated the Susquehana who had migrated to the vicinity of their sphere of influence at a small cost of only one killed and three slightly wounded, and provided hundreds of prisoners of war for the country's mines.

The only casualties occurred during the cavalry night attack, when a cavalry sergeant fell from a spear attack from the Sasquehana on his horse, and his allies avoided him, and the young cavalry who landed on the ground was crushed in the chest by the hooves of his horses.

Sadly, this young cavalry sergeant is the youngest and only son of Robert Jr., one of the first citizens of West Point and the current magistrate of West Point, leaving behind a pair of orphans and widows.

(To be continued)