Erlongde simply arranged the next task! According to the map markings, there is a sizable settlement of displaced people in this area, with about forty or fifty shacks within a radius of five square kilometers. It is estimated that no less than 100 people will live in this area.

It is an impossible task for ten people to catch a hundred people in such a large area with complex terrain. But they have two advantages, the first is that Wong knows the specific location of each shack and the best route to get there; Secondly, the distance between each shack is at least two or three hundred meters, and there are many hills, miscellaneous woods and artemisia grass between them, as long as the movement is fast and quiet, they can be captured one by one.

The team then discussed the route of action and decided to set up a temporary detention point in a more central and hidden place in the operation area, and then escort them back together after arresting many people, so as not to waste time and physical strength by going back and forth. The contact information and action signals were double-checked until everyone was clear.

"Alright, let's go!"

The arrest operation lasted for two days, and Huang Ande successfully completed the task. More than 100 displaced people were arrested, and a batch of means of production and grain were seized.

Wang Rui took relevant photos and sent all the people and things to Bairen City to be delivered. The captured homeless people opened frightened and dazed eyes, and the columns tied up in a string of ten were taken away. As for the small fields they had already cultivated, they were all abandoned because they were too scattered and the roads were inconvenient.

The land confiscated from the three families of Fu You, Du De instructed that Fu Buji should be given the first tenant to cultivate to avoid abandonment, and the harvest was distributed according to the four people of the Gong.

Outside Bopu Port, Qiongzhou Strait. "This is Bopu?. Jiang Zhong revealed surprise.

The interviewer was about forty years old, and his face was dark and soft, apparently the result of years of exposure to the sea breeze. A pair of eyes are very spiritual. He stood on the deck of a brig common in the Qiongzhou Strait, staring at the Bopu harbor in the distance.

"Yes, ma'am." The person next to him replied quietly and respectfully.

"You forgot again!" The middle-aged man who was called an adult rebuked dissatisfiedly.

"Yes, yes, sir

"Is there anyone named Master Tanmin? The middle-aged man was very dissatisfied with his subordinates' inability to go around the corner, "I was told to be in charge of the house, and a bamboo tube was molded out from under the basket containing fish and shrimp, and when it was opened, a black utensil slipped out of it." It was one of the rarest things in China at the time, a Dutch-made monocular. I bought it from the people of Macao. Only a few generals in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian occupied the light of the buildings near the water, so they had this rare thing. You know, this thing has just been invented in Europe, and it has not been around for a long time.

The middle-aged man put the clairvoyant mirror in front of him, closed one eye according to the method taught him by the red-haired man, slowly pulled the lens tube, and his vision gradually became clearer, and he trembled immediately: he saw the fort on the embankment of Lingaojiao.

Of course, this fort was not built by the army of the Ming Dynasty. The middle-aged man knew this very well, and he took a closer look, the style of this fort was different from the ordinary fort, but it was the same as the "Western Fa Pier" advocated by Lord Sun Yuanhua. There are some similarities. It seems that this rumor is indeed true!

This person with a telescope in his hand is exactly the person who is mentioned every day by the military headquarters and intelligence department of the group: Tang Yunwen, who is also in charge of the Baisha Water Village and the Haiphong General Office in Daming, Guangdong, Qiongya, and other places.

From this long title, it is known that this person is the highest garrison commander of the Ming Dynasty on Hainan Island, and the Ming Dynasty water and land garrisons on Hainan Island are under his control. The first battle between the crossing group and the Ming government is to be fought with his subordinates.

Crossing the arrival of the group, Tang Yunwen knew not too late...... On the same day, Feng Ning reported to him: The beacon tower in Lingao was alarmed and there was a pirate invasion. This is nothing new: pirate invasions in this area are commonplace, and the garrison Liliang is unable to take countermeasures one by one, and adopts nothing more than the strategy of "holding the camp and blocking the city, waiting for the thieves to leave". Therefore, it did not attract much attention from him. More than ten days later, he received a distress letter from the Lingao County Ya, claiming that there was an "overseas giant canal." After landing in Lingao, he is currently building a camp in Lingao, which means "not going to go for a long time", and asks him to quickly send troops to expel him.

With his duty, such a distress letter should naturally send someone to investigate the field 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 large, and theoretically, the entire land and water garrison companies on Hainan Island are under his command, but in reality, there are only more than 2,000 main forces that can be used at any time to fight. The main thing is the water army. Baisha Water Village stationed in Haikou Thousand Households. In fact, "Baisha Water Plug Coastal Defense Counselor." is where his real authority lies.

That's what can be used to fight.

As for the garrison troops stationed on the island, they had no effect except for barely being used to "Fu Li".

The naval army of less than 3,000 people will also send a considerable part of them to be stationed: Daohuichang, Changniu, Yangjiao and other places will preach the sea to patrol them... Yes, but it is an unprecedented pressure on coastal defense. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the sea of Guangdong was full of all kinds of pirates, large and small, including professional pirates, businessmen and thieves, and coastal people. Westerners also came out from time to time to help, and the Portuguese, Spaniards, British, and Dutch traded and looted, hoping for an opportunity to find a foothold here.

The so-called fleas are not itchy, and debts are not worried. Tang Yunwen was completely numb to such a situation of coastal defense where smoke was everywhere and fires were everywhere. No matter how Wu Mingjin wrote and pleaded, Tang Yunwen was unmoved by how serious the situation was.

The gesture he made was to send two patrol ships to Bopu to check that this was originally the system of coastal defense, and the maritime patrol on the west road of Qiongzhou had to go to the high ocean every four days, but in recent years, money and food were extremely difficult, and the military salary had never been paid sufficient, and it was barely able to maintain without fighting. But the sailors cost a lot of money, and the ships need to be repaired and replaced; In peacetime, even if there is no war, it is necessary to replenish the shipwreckage, and the cost of one ship is much more expensive than the lives of dozens or hundreds of soldiers. Tang Yunwen not only did not get a new ship for many years, but even the public funds for repairing the ship every year were often deducted, and in order to ensure that there were ships available in case of war, he had to reduce the number of sails on weekdays as much as possible, and the result was that the patrol system was completely formal.

Tang Yunwen could only hope that the appearance of his patrol ship could scare off the pirates, and if the other party was too big and didn't put his two ships in his eyes, he would be helpless. Just as he has been helpless over the years, Zhu Cailao, Zhong Lingxiu, and Liu Xiang recently.

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

Tang Yunwen didn't believe it, interrogated him repeatedly, and after his subordinates pointed to the heavens and punished the curse, and after giving an extremely positive answer, he sent his cronies and generals to visit. The cronies who were also pale came back and said that Jiang Xi was indeed there. This surprised him, if the other party had such a large ship, wouldn't it be invincible in this Guangdong ocean? This group of overseas visitors was obviously not the red-haired man or the Franco-robot man he was already quite familiar with. Wouldn't it be just to rob Lingao, what kind of goods are there in this place that are worth robbing them in such a huge ship?

Tang Yunwen was in a dilemma, according to his duties, no matter what this group of people planned to do in Daming, it was very inappropriate to be stationed on the shore without permission and camp on the shore. He should have gone to Lingao immediately to drive this group of overseas visitors away. But if you want to send troops, don't say it, who will pay for the combat food and salary along the way? It is useless to count on the Guangdong Domain, since Wei Zhongxian transferred the more than 300,000 silver accumulated in the Guangdong Domain to Beijing as a major worker in the last year of the Apocalypse, the Domain's Treasury has been impoverished; As for Qiongzhou Mansion, it will definitely not be able to come up with this money and grain, let alone Lingao.

You can't fight without money. Even if he had the money to fight, he was not sure to win it. 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 cannon range was long, so the Ming army could not take advantage of the artillery battle no matter how far he jumped. Now the opponent is an invulnerable iron ship, how can this be good?

In desperation, I had to ask my staff if there was a countermeasure? Some people said that they would send warriors to board the ship at night with climbing locks, and some people proposed to make dozens of extraordinarily large "mixed river dragon" primordial mines and send small boats to sneak into the harbor and cast them."

Speaking energetically, one of the staff members said: "You are all offering strategies to break the enemy, but I just ask: Where is the food?" Where is the salary? ”

There was a sudden silence in the signing room. The staff looked at each other. That's the key question.

"Today's countermeasures, Zhan is the next decision, the person who spoke is surnamed Jiang, his name is old, he is from a good background, and he is an old bastard in the field.

Jiang Ruoling's proposal is: It is absolutely impossible to send troops, although money and food are on the one hand, an opponent has a huge ship, and the strength must be extraordinary.

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

As for the landing and robbery of pirates, it happens almost every day along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, and it is not a big deal at all. As long as the county seat of Lingao does not fall, whether there is a big iron ship or not, it is an ordinary sea robber landing and robbery.

Anyway, this method of concealing the mud has been used for more than a day or two. Everyone still thinks that this countermeasure is the most appropriate, so Tang Yunwen simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and turned a blind eye.