After Zheng Zhilong occupied Pahang and swept Johor, he found that it was difficult for the local people to rule.

The king of Johor was extremely extravagant, with heavy taxes in the country and a large number of wives and concubines. Judging from the standards of the Central Plains, he was definitely not a wise ruler.

Although Zheng Zhilong was driven out of the Central Plains by Gao Huan, he thought that he was not very strong compared to the Johor Sultan.

After the Luzon State captured the entire territory of Johor, Zheng Zhilong adopted a relatively tolerant policy, exempting a lot of taxes and reducing the burden on the people in hopes of receiving the rule of Luzon State.

Zheng Zhilong divided Johor into twenty-four counties and appointed local overseas Chinese leaders as county magistrates. He stipulated that the county tax rate was 10 to 2 taxes, and the income tax was 50 to 50 cents from the county and Luzon State.

The better the county development, the more tax the county magistrate can make, and the tax rate is stipulated, which avoids excessive exploitation of the people by the county.

This is a 50% tax that is entitled to Johor, which undoubtedly reduces the burden on the people. However, what Zheng Zhilong doesn't understand is that the local people still seem to be unwelcoming to him.

If this were in the Central Plains, the Luzon State could immediately gain the support of the people and the local area could be quickly stabilized, but in Johor, the local area was in turmoil and uneasy, and there were frequent incidents of Johor people attacking the Luzon army and overseas Chinese leaders' armed forces.

After thinking about it, Zheng Zhilong felt that the reason why there is such a difference is the difference in culture and belief, which has caused the people of Johor to reject the Luzon State.

If Luzon wants to control the Johor Sultanate at a lower cost, it still needs to unify Johor's culture and beliefs and reduce the degree of rebellion in the territory.

However, those Johor people who resisted Luzon's rule were hidden among the local people, and the Luzon army was difficult to distinguish, so it was very difficult to eliminate the rebels.

Now these rebels have jumped out by themselves, which is in line with Zheng Zhilong's wishes.

With the mortar and flowering bullets, Zheng Zhilong's confidence increased greatly. The rebels came and he killed as many as he killed.

Zheng Sen said: "The Johor rebels were almost wiped out by us. Now there is a sudden rebellion. It must be the British that have interfered with it."

Zheng Zhilong nodded slightly: "It seems that the British will take the Johor rebels as the front drive, and they should be fighting soon."

Li Weng said: "Your Highness, I have sent a ship back to Daqian to report the situation here to Your Majesty. Your Majesty attaches great importance to Malacca. I believe that it will not take long before the imperial army will come. Your Majesty does not have to worry."

"It's great to do this!" Zheng Zhilong felt more at ease. He said to Li Weng: "Since that's the case, let's go to the city immediately and deploy the artillery as soon as possible."

The British had the power to control the sea, and the Luzon army evacuated in large numbers, and would definitely be attacked by the British fleet.

If he retreated, 30,000 Luzon troops would be slaughtered at sea, and Zheng Zhilong would not dare to take the risk of retreating.

The Luzon army fought with the Johor and Mughal armies. They knew their combat power and their strength was indeed average, even Zuo Liangyu's 800,000 army was not as good as Zuo Liangyu's army.

The enemy has a large number of troops. The Luzon army may be submerged in the field battle, but if they stick to Pahang, the other side has no hundreds of thousands of troops, they will not be able to take Pahang.

Zheng Zhilong immediately ordered the Luzon army and the Han people in Johor to be withdrawn to the vicinity of Pahang City to set up defenses to prevent them from being killed by Johor rebels.

When the Luzon army was deploying defenses, a large number of Johor rebels began to burn down the Han people's villages, massacred the Han people who had not had time to retreat, and the Johor people who cooperated with the Luzon State.

They marched all the way, tried all the way, burned, killed and looted all the way, and rushed to the city of Paheng.

Pahang turned out to be the capital of Johor, but the capital of a small country in Nanyang is the level of a county town.

In fact, Johor City did not even have a wall, but the Luzon army built an earthen wall with a circumference of ten miles.

The Johor rebels, under the banner of restoration, struggled with nearly 50,000 troops and first approached Pahang. However, they were afraid of being beaten by the Luzon army, so they did not dare to approach Pahang. Instead, they stopped fifty miles away from Pahang and waited for the arrival of the Alliance troops in Malacca.

In August, the sun was scorching, and the climate near Pahang was hot and wet. The soldiers of Luzon were busy for a while and sweated all over.

The soldiers took off their armor, wore shirtless, wore shorts, reinforced the earthen walls, and dug trenches.

Zheng Sen led a group of subordinates to the artillery array constructed by the Gan Army to inspect and learn about the arrangement of artillery.

This time, Gao Huan sent out twenty mortar cannons in Luzon and sent a military gunner to teach the Luzon army to use mortar cannons.

At this time, the twenty artillery guns were all placed in the cannon pit, and a group of Zheng army gunners surrounded Gan Chao officers, learning the art of artillery operation.

"Criminal, do you want to shoot a shot?" Li Weng saw Zheng Sen surrounding the cannon, touching and looking at it, like a fool, and suggested with a smile.

When Liang and Zheng fought for the tyrants, if Gao Huan had no flower bullets, it would not be so easy to break. The Zheng family spent tens of millions of taels of silver to build a defense line in northern Fujian.

Gao Huan had advanced equipment such as mortars, flowering bullets, and hot air balloons, which made the defense line that the Zheng family worked hard to build became a scenic spot for Ganchao, making meager contributions to Fujian's economy, and repeatedly ridiculed by Ganchao's history books.

Zheng Sen stroked the black and thick mortar cannon and shook his head, "Forget it, I'd better wait for the enemy to attack the city and give them another surprise."

Behind the city wall, Zheng Sen and others were inspecting the artillery formation. The Luzon soldiers who were digging soil in the trenches outside the city wall stood up and suddenly found something moving in the distance.

The soldiers quickly looked at each other, and countless figures came from the wilderness in the distance.

"There is an enemy!" A scream rang out.

Zheng Sen heard the alarm bell from the top of the city and hurriedly said to everyone: "Look!"

At that moment, Zheng Sen and others hurried to the top of the city. Looking from above, a large number of enemy troops had pushed them closer to the sight.

"So many people!" Li Weng couldn't help but exclaim.

He had never fought a war and thought that the small country in Southeast Asia would have only tens of thousands of people at most. Unexpectedly, looking around, it was a vast crowd. It was not an exaggeration to describe it as a crowd of people.

Zheng Sen looked at the densely packed enemy troops like ants, but his face was calm. He glanced at the heads that were crowded outside the city, made a judgment immediately, raised his hand and said, "The one that is really threatening is the group of British who are wearing the red cross flag on white background, and the others are cannon fodder!"

Today's Britain is not completely intact, and it is not a rice-shaped flag.

Although there are many enemy troops under the city, most of them are cold weapons armies equipped with bows, arrows, spears, and some are not even counted as army. They are just tribal people and have no experience in war.

The British urged these people to come over, undoubtedly to die.

While Zheng Sen and others were peeking at the enemy situation from the city, Smith and others were also observing the city defense.

Zheng Sen was full of confidence, and Smith was also quite confident. He looked around and observed Pahang City, looked at the Luzon flag flying above the city, and sneered: "A earthen city also wants to stop the attack of the coalition forces. Today we will teach the arrogant Chinese a lesson. Prepare artillery and attack directly!"

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