The Sultan of Yogyakarta, whose name is Lassan, is a descendant of the royal family of the Bajang Kingdom, and after the destruction of the country, he became the feudal lord of Mataram.

The country of Mataran was divided, and Central Java was divided into three parts.

One is the Sultanate of Solo, the second is the Sultanate of Yogyakarta, and the third is Semarang, which is occupied by the Han Chinese.

In Solo and Yogyakarta, the goods had to be transported to Semarang to the sea. Therefore, although the Han Chinese in Semarang were the weakest, the sultans of both countries were reluctant to go to war with the Han Chinese. First, it is more difficult to attack the city, and second, after the siege is defeated, they do not know how to engage in maritime trade.

Solo and Yogyakarta have been at war for several years, and eventually the Sultan of Yogyakarta won the victory, unifying the Central Java region except Semarang.

The Sultan of Yogyakarta, Lasang, was so proud that his next goal was to attack the Sultanate of Surabaya and take East Java into his pocket. Surabaya is Surabaya, and the Sultan is a Javanese aristocracy, but the Han Chinese also play an important role there.

After the unification of the Surabaya state, Semarang can be taken without a fight, and it will definitely be nominally subject to the Yogyakarta Sultan, and sending officials to collect taxes will be considered the way to rule.

Due to years of civil war, the population of Yogyakarta Sultan's territory has plummeted to about 200,000. Industry, commerce, and agriculture have been greatly damaged, and in the absence of food, sending more than 20,000 troops is already the limit.

Lasang personally led the army and marched towards Semarang.

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

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

As soon as the Lasang army arrived in the valley to the south, they were spotted by the soldiers who were on guard, and they quickly lit up the billowing wolf smoke to warn them.

"Governor, there's meat to eat!" Nongfentian said with a smile.

Zhang Xianzhong held a cigar in his mouth and puffed out smoke leisurely: "Try to kill as many people as possible, the more you kill, the better, and the south can be stable for twenty years." After leveling the south, let's go to the east to fight Danmu, which is the really useful territory. ”

Nong Fentian was a young man of the Zhuang nationality, and the 500 Datong troops sent to Zhang Xianzhong were all recruits recruited from Guangxi, and only a few officers belonged to veterans.

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

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

His plan was to defeat the country of Yogyakarta to the point that he would not be able to send troops for one or two decades. Then, all the way east, along the coast to the east is a large fertile plain. There is a castle of Tamme, the capital of the kingdom of Tamme, which once unified the island of Java, on the plain, but the walls have long since been destroyed.

The former governor of Semarang, Zheng Yongshou, was a small rich and peaceful wreck. Such a large fertile plain, the ruler is only a landlord and nobleman, and he has never brought troops to fight over, which is simply unreasonable in Zhang Xianzhong's opinion.

"Dangdang!"

When the iron bell rang in Huanghu Town, not only did the five hundred Datong troops quickly assemble, but the local Han men inside and outside the city also threw down their men and gathered.

All the Javanese people near the town were killed, and the shops, houses, and land were all distributed by Zhang Xianzhong to the Han people. These Han people, all of whom believe in the Green Religion, are all civilians in the city and tenants outside the city. They unexpectedly obtained the land of the store, and their loyalty was instantly full, and they were willing to follow Zhang Xianzhong to the death.

500 Datong troops and more than 1,000 Han youths slaughtered more than 20,000 Yogyakarta troops.

Lasang was still marching in the valley at this time, the baggage was transported by boat, and the soldiers were advancing along the riverbank.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

There was a muffled sound in the river, but after Zhang Xianzhong took Huanghu Town, he set up a large number of hidden piles in the river south of the town. Small fishing boats can pass through calmly, but boats with a slightly deeper draft are very likely to collide with hidden piles.

The enemy's baggage fleet was soon blocked there.

Lasang ordered his soldiers, who were familiar with the nature of the water, to go down to the river to uproot the stakes. But there are too many hidden piles, which are the result of Zhang Xianzhong's work for a month, and it will take at least a few days to completely clean them up.

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

Zhang Xianzhong led his troops for thirty miles, spent two days over the mountains, and had already circled to the rear of the Yogyakarta army. Then, walking day and night along the river valley, slowly touching the enemy's camp.

Sultan Lasang was still there to pull out the hidden stakes, and Zhang Xianzhong was already ready to poke the chrysanthemums.

At night, the river was full of camps, and Javanese soldiers were sleeping. To the north of the camp, facing the direction of the town of Yellow Tiger, the Javanese sentries there were quite competent. But the sentinels in the south were completely unvigilant, and they all sat on the sentry posts and took a nap.

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

As for Sultan Lassan, he smoked a handful of opium and fell asleep in a fluttering mood.

Thanks to the Dutch's hard work, opium had already spread throughout the island of Java, and the wealthy of all ethnic groups regarded opium as a high-end consumer product, and even used it to entertain distinguished guests. Even the children of aristocratic families smoke a few mouthfuls from time to time.

Anyway, Zhao Han gave a death order, whether at home or abroad, to ban the opium trade. Han Chinese who smoked opium were not allowed to serve as officials, and civilians who smoked opium were arrested and forcibly detoxified.

Let's put it this way, the more than 20,000 Yogyakarta troops in front of me, and the high-ranking generals are all opium ghosts! In the evening, they smoked opium collectively and slept soundly at the moment.

"Ignition!"

The officers of the Datong Army and the militia took out the fire fold and blew it up. Ordinary soldiers, on the other hand, took out primitive matches, went to the fire fold to borrow fire (which could not spontaneously combustion), and quickly lit the torch in their hand.

"Kill!"

Nearly 2,000 men broke through the barracks and set fire to marching tents everywhere.

The Javanese soldiers woke up from their dreams, shouting and fire, and running like headless flies. The rout became Zhang Xianzhong's help, and he was driven all the way north, and more people fled wherever he passed. These Javanese soldiers, let alone picking up weapons, many of them didn't even bother to wear shoes.

When Sultan Lasan woke up, his army of 20,000 had been broken and scattered. His first reaction was not to resist, but to run towards the river, climb onto a grain boat and shout: "Go back to Yogyakarta!" ”

The baggage fleet of more than 20,000 troops was densely docked by the river. After the boatmen woke up, they panicked and operated the boat in the dark, and the river was relatively narrow, and they collided with each other in the dark, and they didn't know how many capsized and sank.

The clever ghosts in the rout also ran frantically towards the ship. When they didn't have time to get on the boat, they jumped into the river and swam to hear the sound of the oars paddling, so they swam to grab the oars and try to climb up.

There was chaos on the riverside, and there was chaos on the river.

By dawn, the banks of the river were littered with corpses. There are more than 20,000 Yogyakarta troops, and I don't know how many escaped, anyway, Zhang Xianzhong didn't want to take prisoners, and when he saw the living mouths, all of them were hacked to death, and thousands of corpses were left.

It's a pity that the enemy's baggage flotilla either sank or fled, and did not capture any food.

Later, Zhang Xianzhong sent people to clean up the hidden pile, and by the way, he salvaged the boat, but there was some unexpected gain, and he actually fished out two artillery pieces and ** shells from the river.

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

Basically, they are leather armor and cold weapons, enough to equip tens of thousands of troops.

However, it was said that Yogyakarta Sultan Lasang fled the battlefield by boat for dozens of miles, and finally stopped in shock. It took him several days to gather the remnants of the army, and there were more than 20 baggage ships and more than 3,000 soldiers left. There must still be ships and soldiers surviving, but they have long since fled back to their hometowns, and it will not be easy to gather again.

Faced with such a miserable situation, Lasan did not think of revenge, but hurried back to the capital with his troops. As soon as the news of the defeat at the front comes back, maybe someone will rebel!

A month later, the treaty was signed.

The Sultanate of Yogyakarta, recognizing the possession of the Governor of Semarang to the town of Huanghu. After that, there was a truce, trade was resumed, and there was no interference with each other.

The threat from the south is settled.

Zhang Xianzhong is not the master of dissipation, he used the captured armor to train 6,000 troops. They are not paid military salaries, they work and farm in peacetime, and they are pulled out to fight at critical moments. There is a pension for those who die in battle, and there is a reward for victory, and those who have made meritorious contributions are given priority in the distribution of land.

Where have Han Chinese tenants, who have been living in the cracks for a long time, have been harboring on Java Island for more than 200 years?

Faced with the temptation of land, the Han tenants were aroused to blood.

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

When the Sultanate of Danmu fell, the walls of the Tammu city had already been torn down. The city was quite large, ruled by Javanese nobles and religious leaders, with only a thousand self-defense forces, and was independent from any power.

From Semarang to Danmu City, it is only 60 miles of land, and all the way is plain.

Zhang Xianzhong divided his army of more than 6,000 into three groups and attacked and killed indigenous villages along the way. All the men were killed, the women and children were snatched and distributed, and each team was followed by the merchants, who were responsible for eating the loot.

Before the army arrived in Tanmu City, countless indigenous refugees had already fled outside the city.

Hearing that the Chinese army was dispatched, the Danmu leader did not know how many people came, so he panicked and took his family, goods and personal weapons, 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 rich Danmu area was easily taken by Zhang Xianzhong in this way. There were at least 20,000 indigenous people slaughtered in this fight, and the 500 Datong troops were all damaged, and the missionaries in the army were at a loss.

The missionary is also a descendant of the wolf soldiers of the Zhuang tribe, named Wei Zhuang. He felt that he couldn't kill like this anymore, so he went to Zhang Xianzhong privately: "Governor Zhang......"

"Wei Xuanjiao is here?"

Zhang Xianzhong didn't wait for Wei Zhuang to finish speaking, so he took his hand and said with a smile: "Wei Xuanjiao, this governor has already selected the most fertile 100 acres of mature land outside the city, which will be used as Wei Xuanjiao's private land in the future." The three Javanese girls, who were concubines for Wei Xuanjiao, were all rich girls in the city, but they were not indigenous girls in the countryside. There are also a few Javanese women who work as maids for Wei Xuanjiao. There were also twenty Javanese slaves who worked for Wei Xuanjiao as tenants. ”

Wei Zhuang opened his mouth many times, but he wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhang Xianzhong took the Danmu Plain in the east, and then stared at a small plain in the west. It is also fertile soil, and although there are many forests, they can be cut down to clear the land for farming.

In one year, the Semarang Governorate, under the operation of Zhang Xianzhong, expanded its territory more than tenfold, and it did not stop until it was surrounded by mountains.

Zhang Xianzhong felt that it was too cool, the natives here were not beaten, and as long as they were not Han Chinese, they could be arrested and slaughtered at will. Bringing him to Semarang as a governor is like a tiger returning to the mountains 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 the island of Java in five years.

What kind of school indoctrination and what kind of slow development are not in line with Zhang Xianzhong's characteristics. He felt that the territory was very good, and he could lead his troops to kill and occupy it, and easily kill all the natives there, and distribute the few that were not killed to the soldiers as tenants.

What is the cost of rule?

No cost, only conquest!

(End of chapter)