April of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's reign passed by in the blink of an eye, as Yang Zhen and the generals in Jinhai Town were busy with their troops.

During this period, Dorgon, Prince of Rui County of Manchuria, who was recuperating in Gaizhou City in the north, sent sentries and cavalry southward without interruption, but did not easily try to dispatch the army of Zhengbai Banner.

There seems to be a tacit understanding between the Manchu Tatar sentry cavalry and the cavalry of Xu Changyong of the Jinhai North Road Patrol Camp. Every time Garbush Xianchaoha of Zhengbai Banner went south, he almost always stopped north of the old site of Yongning Supervisory City.

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Correspondingly, every time Xu Changyong's cavalry went north to scout, they stopped at Guanma Mountain where Yang Zhen once won a great victory, and they easily refused to cross the river.

Although there was an overlapping area between the two sides, each other's cavalry came and went, but no one garrisoned troops or built a fortress in the area between Fudu River and the old site of Yongning Prison City.

Lv Pinqi, the chief soldier of the Jinhai North Road Assistant Guards, once intended to rebuild and build a fort at the old site of Yongning Supervisory City, and then garrison troops for defense, hoping that this could push the Jinhai North Road defense line sixty or seventy miles north.

But when he discovered that the sentries with the Tatar Zhengbai Banner were heading south again and again to keep watch, he hesitated and gave up.

Because after he separated from Zu Keyong's troops on the east route, he led his troops to garrison Fuzhou City alone, and his military strength was already a bit stretched. If the Yongning prison site was used before the division of troops, Fuzhou City's city defense strength would be even thinner.

Furthermore, at this time, in the northwest area outside Fuzhou City, Xu Changyong and his troops were stationed on the Xiping Mountain and Luotuoshan camps, which was enough to serve as an outpost outside Fuzhou City.

Based on the topography of Jinhai North Road, if we want to successfully capture Fuzhou City, we must first eliminate these Jinhai Town strongholds outside Fuzhou City.

But are the strongholds on Xiping Mountain and Luotuoshan so easy to remove?

Thinking back to the time when Dorgon commanded the Manchu Tatars' Two White Banners, Two Blue Banners, and the Han Army's heavy artillery troops, which numbered tens of thousands of strong troops, but they failed to capture Xiping Mountain in the end, it is enough to explain the problem.

Therefore, Lu Pinqi was basically content with the status quo in the end, and did not send troops to run the former Yongning prison city. Instead, he spent his main energy on repairing the Fuzhou city defenses that were severely damaged in the last war.

As for the former Yongning prison city, what he did was to order Xu Changyong to send people to patrol the city regularly to prevent it from being occupied by Manchu Tatar troops.

Fortunately, Prince Dorgon of Rui Commandery had spent his energy mainly on rebuilding the city defense of Xiongyue City since he was punished by the Manchu Tatar puppet emperor Huang Taiji.

And he himself did not have that much financial, material and manpower to send troops and horses to the old site of Yongning City to rebuild the city.

In this way, the North Road troops of Jinhai Town and the Zhengbai Banner troops of the Manchu Tatars carefully maintained an almost balanced situation.

Lu Pinqi did not dare to go north to provoke Dorgon, and Dorgon rarely had the idea of ​​going south again to attack Zhoucheng and its nearby garrisons.

Different from the calm situation on Jinhai North Road, both the water and land teams on Jinhai East Road were plunged into unprecedented busyness.

After the third batch of immigration teams were resettled on several major islands under the jurisdiction of the former Dongjiang Town, the fourth and fifth batches of immigrants from Dengzhou were also all assigned to the islands in mid- to late April.

We arrived below the defense zone on Jinhai East Road.

The fourth batch of immigrants, also consisting of 1,500 households, was ordered by Yang Zhen to be resettled on other islands in the former Dongjiang Town jurisdiction.

It is also compiled into five island villages, namely: Zhangzi Island Village, Mouse Island Village, Haiyang Island Village, Haoshan Island Village, and Wangjia Island Village.

As for the main islands of the former Dongjiang Town, such as Pi Island and Yuncong Island, which are relatively close to the coast of North Korea, Yang Zhen has not allocated immigrants there for the time being based on the principle of not wanting to alert the enemy too early.

Therefore, in late April, the fifth batch of immigrants who departed from Tuoji Island and North and South Chenghuang Islands after quarantine took the sea route on the east side of the Liaodong Peninsula and were transported to Zu Keyong's command.

According to Yang Zhen's order, the fifth batch of immigrants, also consisting of 1,500 households, was handed over to Zu Keyong's East Route Assistant General Military Mansion and asked to resettle along the east coast of the land.

The 1,500 households belonging to the fifth batch of immigrants across the sea were organized into five villages on the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula starting from Zhuanghebao in the north and ending at Hongzuibao in the south, namely: Zhuanghebao Qiantun, Zhuanghebao

Houtun, Jifuqiantun, Jifuhouhoutun, and Hongzuibaotun.

After the immigrants are resettled in relatively distant places like Jinhai East Road, it will be easier to resettle them in nearby places.

With the arrival of May in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and with the sweet potato seedlings emerging from the Longhe Nursery Camp and growing vigorously, the pace of immigration to Jinhai Town also began to accelerate suddenly.

Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, one of Yuan Jin's and Qiu Zhenhai's fleets sailed along the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula and brought the sixth batch of 1,800 immigrants to Jinhai Middle Road and South Road.

The seventh batch of immigrants, 1,500 households, was sent to the South Road.

Therefore, the west coast of Jinhai Middle Road was successively filled with four coastal villages, namely: Sansanlibao Village, Qidingshan Village, Qumaishan Village, and Daheishan Village.

On the east coast of Jinhai Middle Road, four coastal villages have also been added: Chengshahe Village, Wanghaiping Village, Qingyun River Village, and Dagushan Village.

At the same time that the household subdivision on the east and west coasts of Jinhai Middle Road came to an end, the Jinhai South Road area south of Nanguanling finally welcomed 900 households of immigrants under its own resettlement and management.

Yang Zhen was originally wary of the Pimple Plague epidemic in Guanli, and did not want too many immigrants from Guanli to be resettled on the peninsula land at the core of Jinhai Town.

Therefore, his instructions to Fang Guangchen and others who were in charge of resettlement affairs were always to start with the outer islands, then the coast, and then the land reclamation areas on the peninsula.

However, there are too many refugees gathering in Denglai, and there are not as many large islands suitable for resettling immigrants as expected on the sea off the Liaodong Peninsula.

There are indeed many islands on the sea on the east and west sides of the Liaodong Peninsula, but not all of them have fresh water.

Islands without fresh water may be able to rely on the weather and take advantage of the rainy summer conditions for land reclamation and farming, but this is not suitable for immigrants to settle on the islands in batches.

So in the end, as a last resort, Yang Zhen had no choice but to resettle a large number of immigrants to the land at the southern tip of the peninsula in advance.

On the one hand, large-scale land reclamation on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula also requires the arrival of a large number of immigrants.

On the other hand, Yang Zhen cannot sit back and watch the immigrants gathering in Dengzhou, at least those who have entered the maritime quarantine zone, stay in the crowded island quarantine facility.

In this way, in mid-May, Yuan Jin's fleet brought the eighth batch of 1,800 immigrants from Jinhai Town, and Qiu Zhenhai's fleet subsequently sent the ninth batch of immigrants from Jinhai Town.

Thousands and five hundred households immigrated.

The eighth and ninth batches totaled 3,300 resettled households, and the remaining 900 households on Jinhai Middle Road were all resettled on Jinhai South Road.

As for Yang Zhen, who was in Lushunkou, almost throughout mid-May, he was busy directing Zhang Degui and others to allocate and settle the suddenly increasing number of immigrants.

Fortunately, with several sea and land defense lines in the north of Jinhai Town, Jinhai Town South Road from Nanguan Ridge to the south to the end of Laotieshan can be regarded as a safe zone.

Without the consideration of safety precautions, although the area under the jurisdiction of Jinhai South Road is not large, there are many places that can be cultivated and resettled for immigrants.

Therefore, from Nanguanling to the south, on the west coast of Jinhai South Road, ten offshore villages were successively set up, namely: Jizhenpu Qiantun, Jizhenpu Houtun, Muchangyi Qiantun, and Muchangyihou.

Tun, Daheishitun, Xiaoheishitun, Sanjianbaoqiantun, Sanjianbaohoutun, Shuangdaowanqiantun, Shuangdaowanhoutun.

In the area around Qingni'ao on the east coast of Jinhai South Road, under Qiu Zhenhai's suggestion, four offshore villages were set up one after another, namely: Qingni'ao Qiantun, Qingni'ao Houtun, and Bangchui Island.

Tun, Shahekou Tun.

The so-called Qingniwa, later also called Qingniwa, was the name of Dalian during the Ming Dynasty.

When the country's national power was at its peak in the early Ming Dynasty, there was a beacon tower to prepare for Japanese wars, called Qingni concave tower, on the top of the land mountain in what is now Dalian Bay.

By the late Ming Dynasty, Qingni concave platform, like other piers and abutments along the fortress, had long been abandoned and unused, but the place name remained.

The location of Qingniao, which was later the location of Dalian Bay, was naturally extremely important to the offensive and defensive situation of the Liaodong Peninsula.

In the past, Yang Zhen wanted to garrison and fortify troops in the Qingni'ao area, but he suffered from insufficient troops. But now that there is finally a relatively sufficient population, it is natural to resettle immigrants there.

As for Bangchui Island Village, it sounds like an island village, but in fact the so-called Bangchui Island area has always been offshore land facing Bangchui Island on the sea.

As for the so-called Shahekou Village, the Shahe in its place name is the Malan River that now flows through the urban area of ​​Dalian.

Yang Zhen accepted Qiu Zhenhai's suggestion and set up four camps in succession near Dalian Bay. Considering the strategic position of Dalian Bay, Yang Zhen ordered Yan Shengsan to be promoted to Jinhai Middle Road Naval Battalion Guerrilla, and ordered him to

Led the middle naval battalion to move from Jinzhou Bay to Dalian Bay.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the strength of Yan Province's third fleet, Yang Zhen included Dagushan Tun on Jinhai Middle Road, Qingni'ao Qiantun, Qingni'ao Houtun, Bangchuidao Tun and Shahekou Tun on Jinhai South Road.

Yan Shengsan's distribution and management of the middle naval battalion.

And from the newly launched 100- and 200-material new ships from the Jinzhou Longwangmiao Shipyard for trial sea trials, five ships each were allocated to him, which was regarded as a reward for his smooth return from going south to buy sweet potatoes.

As for the naming of Dalian Bay, Yang Zhen once again followed previous precedents and directly used the name that would be well known to this area hundreds of years later.

Because no matter whether he uses the name Qingniao Bay or the earlier name Sanshanpu Bay, Yang Zhen feels that Dalian Bay is more smooth.

Although this name appeared more than two hundred years later, and even this name was probably not named by Chinese people, Yang Zhen still did not want to change the name that would be common after hundreds of years.

After all, when he mentioned the name Dalian Bay, he could immediately think of its location and its surrounding terrain, but using Qingniao or Sanshanpu would not allow him to do this.

What he explained to Qiu Zhenhai, Yan Shengsan and others was that the coastline in this area is extremely tortuous and there are many bays of various sizes, among which Dalian Bay has the most tortuous coastline and is also the largest among them.
Chapter completed!