Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 490 Tang Yunwen Arrives

Huang Ande simply assigned the following tasks: the leader's determination, the enemy's situation, and a specific implementation plan.According to the marks on the map, there is a fairly large-scale refugee settlement in this area, and there are about forty or fifty shacks within a radius of five square kilometers.It is estimated that no less than 100 people live in this area.

It is simply impossible for ten people to catch a hundred people in such a large area with complex terrain.But they have two advantages. First, Huang Ande knows the exact location of each hut and the best route to get there; second, the distance between each hut is at least 300 meters, and there are many hills and miscellaneous forests Separated from the wormwood, as long as you move quickly and keep quiet, you can catch them one by one.

The team then discussed the course of action and decided to set up a temporary detention point in a relatively central and hidden place in the action area. After capturing many people, they will be escorted back together, so as not to waste time and energy running back and forth.The contact information and action signals were checked repeatedly until everyone knew it well.

"Okay, let's go!"

The arrest operation lasted for two days, and Huang Ande successfully completed the task.More than 100 refugees were captured, and a batch of production materials and food were seized.

According to Wang Rui's relevant photos, all the people and things were sent to Bairen City.The captured refugees opened their terrified and dazed eyes and were taken away in a column of ten.As for the small pieces of land they have cultivated, because they are too scattered and the roads are inconvenient, they will all be abandoned and abandoned.

The land confiscated from Fu Yousan's family was ordered by Wu De to first be tenanted to Fu Bu'er for cultivation so as not to be abandoned.

Outside Bopu Port, Qiongzhou Strait.

"This is Bopu?" Surprise was revealed in the words.

The person who asked the question was about forty years old, and his skin was dark and chapped, obviously the result of years of exposure to the sea breeze.A pair of eyes are very divine.He stood on the deck of a two-masted fishing boat that is common in the Qiongzhou Strait, watching Bopu Port in the distance.

"Yes, my lord." The person next to him replied in a low voice and respect.

"You forgot again!" The middle-aged man called an adult reprimanded dissatisfiedly.

"Yes, yes, sir."

"Is there anyone called Master Fisherman?" The middle-aged man was very dissatisfied that his subordinates couldn't get around. Black utensils come.This was one of the rarest gadgets in China at that time - a monocular telescope made in the Netherlands.It was bought from the Portuguese in Macau.Only a few generals along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong have occupied the light of the nearby water towers, so they have this rare item.You must know that this thing has just been invented in Europe less than 20 years ago.

The middle-aged man brought the binoculars closer to his eyes, closed one eye as the red-haired man taught him, and slowly moved the lens barrel. His vision gradually became clear, and he trembled immediately: he saw the people on the embankment at Lingaojiao. fort.

Of course, this fort was not built by Daming's army.The middle-aged man knew this very well. He took a closer look and found that the style of this fort was different from ordinary forts, but somewhat similar to the "Xifa Pier" advocated by Mr. Sun Yuanhua.It seems that this rumor is indeed true!

The person holding the binoculars is a person mentioned every day by the military and intelligence departments of the Crossing Group: Tang Yunwen, the commander of the Daming, Guangdong Qiongya Land Road and other departments, who is also in charge of the Baisha Shuizhai Coastal Defense Adviser Office.

From the long title, it can be known that this person is the highest garrison officer of the Ming Dynasty on Hainan Island, and all the land and water garrisons of the Ming Dynasty on Hainan Island are under his control.In all likelihood, the first battle between the Crossing Group and the Ming government will be fought with his subordinates.

It was not too late for Tang Yunwen to know about the arrival of the time travel group. On the day of D, the beacon tower reported to him: the beacon tower in Lingao gave an alarm, and there were pirates invading.This is nothing new: Pirate invasions in this area are commonplace, and the strength of the garrison is weak to take countermeasures one by one. The strategy adopted is nothing more than "holding the camp and the city and waiting for the thieves to go".Therefore, he did not pay much attention to it.More than ten days later, he received a distress letter from the Lingao County Government, claiming that an "overseas giant canal" had landed in Lingao and was currently building a camp in Lingao. .

Based on his duties, such a distress letter should naturally send someone to investigate on the spot before deciding whether to send troops.But the situation Tang Yunwen faced really made it impossible for him to send troops easily.

Tang Yunwen's name is very big. In theory, the recruiting companies and guards of the amphibious garrison in Hainan Island are all under his command. In fact, there are only more than 2000 main troops that can be used for combat at any time.Mainly sailors.Baisha Water Village stationed in Qianhusuo, Haikou.In fact, the "Coastal Defense Admiral of Baisha Water Village" is his real authority.That's all the troops that can be used to fight.

As for the guards stationed all over the island, they have no role other than barely being used to "Fu Li".

The naval force with less than 3000 people will also send a considerable part to be stationed in Huichang, Changning, Yangjiao and other places on the island to conduct maritime patrols.But what they have to face is unprecedented coastal defense pressure.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the seas of Guangdong were filled with all kinds of pirates, large and small, including professional pirates, merchants and pirates, and coastal fishermen.Westerners also come and go from time to time to add to the fun. The Portuguese, Spaniards, British and Dutch robbed while trading, and they wanted to find a foothold here.

The so-called fleas don't itch, and debts don't worry.Tang Yunwen was completely numb to the coastal defense situation where smoke was everywhere and fire was everywhere.No matter how much Wu Mingjin wrote to plead, no matter how serious the situation was - Tang Yunwen would not be moved by it.

The gesture he made was to send two patrol boats to Bopu to check - originally this was the system of Haiphong, and the maritime patrol on Qiongzhou West Road had to go to Lingaoyang every four days, but in recent years, money and food have been extremely difficult However, the military salary has never been paid enough-it can barely survive without fighting.However, the navy spends a lot of money, and the ships need to be repaired and replaced; even if they are not fighting, they need to replenish the average ships. The cost of a ship is much more than the lives of dozens or hundreds of soldiers.Not only did Tang Yunwen not get a new ship for many years, but he was often deducted from the public expenses for repairing the ship every year. In order to ensure that the ship would be available in case of combat, he had to minimize the number of times he went to sea on weekdays. As a result, the patrol system was completely useless. form.

Tang Yunwen can only hope that the appearance of his patrol boat can scare off the pirates - if the opponent is powerful, he has nothing to do if he doesn't take his two boats seriously.Just as he has been helpless to Zhu Cailao and Zhong Lingxiu all these years, and recently he has been helpless to Liu Xiang.

After the cruise ship came back, Mr. Qian, who led the team, seemed to have been frightened, and said incoherently with a pale face that a "big iron boat as high as a city wall" had come to Bopu Bay.Not to mention the warships of the government and army, even the "plywood boat" of the largest red-haired man on the sea in this area is like a small sampan compared with it.

Tang Yunwen didn't believe it, so he cross-examined him again and again, and his subordinates pointed to the heavenly punishment curse, and after giving an extremely positive answer, he sent his trusted generals to visit.The confidant who also turned pale came back and said that the news was true.This surprised him very much--the other party has such a large ship, isn't it invincible in this Guangdong ocean?This wave of overseas visitors was obviously not the red-haired or Francois he was quite familiar with.It's not just for robbery—what kind of goods in Lingao is worth them driving such a huge ship to rob?

Tang Yunwen was caught in a dilemma. According to his duties, no matter what this group of people planned to do in Daming, it would be very wrong to camp in this way privately and camp on the shore.I should immediately send troops to Lingao to drive away this group of overseas visitors.But if you want to send troops, don't have to say, who will pay for the food and wages for this journey?It is useless to count on the Guangdong treasury. Since Wei Zhongxian transferred more than 30 silver accumulated in the Guangdong treasury to the capital for major projects in the last year of the apocalypse, the treasury has been impoverished; as for the Qiongzhou government, it will definitely not be able to afford the money , let alone Lingao.

You can't fight a war without money.Even if he had the money to fight, he was not sure of winning.How to deal with such a tall iron ship?Based on his previous experience in dealing with large Western ships, the opponent's ships were tall and the cannons had a long range. No matter how far they jumped, they couldn't take advantage of the Ming army. Most of them used fire to attack ships as the main means of combat, which often achieved good results.Now the opponent is an iron ship that is invulnerable to fire and water, what should I do?

In desperation, I had no choice but to ask my staff if there is a countermeasure?The aides were chattering, some said to send warriors to board the ship at night with climbing locks, and some proposed to make dozens of extra-large "Huangjianglong" (primitive sea mines), and send small boats to sneak into the harbor to release...

Speaking enthusiastically, one of the staff members said: "Everyone is offering a strategy to defeat the enemy. I just ask: where is the food? Where is the salary?"

The signing room suddenly fell silent.All the staff members looked at each other in blank dismay.This is the key question.

"The current countermeasure, war is the worst policy." The person who spoke was surnamed Jiang, surnamed Youling, who was born in Juren, and was an old bastard in the officialdom.

Jiang Ruoling's proposal was: Sending troops is absolutely unavoidable, money and supplies are of course one aspect - the opponent has a huge ship, so the strength is bound to be extraordinary, if you send troops rashly, nine out of ten you will lose the battle.

It's hard to justify losing a battle.As long as there is no war, there is no question of losing a war.

As for things like pirates landing and robbing, they happen almost every day along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, and it's not a big deal at all.As long as Lingao County does not fall, regardless of whether there is a large iron ship or not, it is an ordinary pirate landing and robbery.

Anyway, this kind of method of hiding the truth from the mud has been used for more than a day or two.After talking about it, everyone still felt that this countermeasure was the most appropriate, so Tang Yunwen simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, turning a blind eye.

(End of this chapter)