At the end of the dynasty, the government's armament was lax and the officials were seriously corrupt, Sun Bin bought off several chief officials in Quang An Province by sending 7,000 taels of silver through the hands of a few Chinese merchants, and the large and small peasant armies scattered in Quang An Province quickly converged in the Ha Long area with the connivance of the Annan government with one eye and one eye.

There is money and food, and there is no panic in my heart. The northern part of Annam was driven out by the Qing army like a duck, and when I heard that the Halong area was rich in money and food, the nearby displaced Chinese flocked to it.

More than 10 days after the news broke, not only the large and small Chinese forces in Quang An rushed to Ha Long to take refuge, but also the Chinese in Lang Son, Bac Giang, Hai Duong and other nearby areas also rushed to take refuge.

The growing number of Chinese who had gathered attracted the attention of officials in the nearby province of Annam, where clashes broke out between the Annam garrison and Chinese forces on the border between Quang An and other provinces.

The number of Chinese gathered exceeded Sun Bin's expectations, and as a last resort, Sun Bin once again took out the silver to take care of the Annan garrisons in various places, and at the same time spread the news that the recruitment of Chinese was temporarily stopped.

With the force of both sides, a large-scale crowd of people poured into Xialong for nearly a month, and the total number of Chinese exceeded 10,000.

More than half of the more than 10,000 Chinese who defected were fleeing peasants living in the village, and a small half were the remnants of the anti-Qing peasant army.

After the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the peasant army armed forces in the divided areas continued to engage in tug-of-war and guerrilla warfare with the Qing army, and the people living in the Liangguanggui Province not only had to worry about the peasant army, but also guard against the scourge of the Qing army.

The military discipline of the Qing army was extremely poor, and after every battle, it was inevitable that the local people would be harmed, so the border peasants who could not survive in the gap between the Qing army and the peasant army left their hometowns one after another and fled to Annam to escape the war.

After Wu Yazhong's peasant army was defeated by the Qing army, Liu Yongfu, Huang Chongying and others erected a banner of recruitment, and soon regrouped a group of people.

Liu Yongfu, Huang Chongying and other peasant armies did not have a stable source of money and food, and the number of Zhuangding soldiers under them could only maintain a basic level, while Sun Bin was different, in order to obtain a sufficient number of immigrants, Li Mingyuan allocated three million taels of silver as funds in the first batch, and there will be funds to continue to invest in the future.

Among the various units of the Qing army, the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan was the most abundant, each soldier was given four taels of silver a month, and the reward was fifty or sixty taels a year, which was enough for the soldiers to live a sufficient life, and the requirements of the young and strong soldiers of the Chinese displaced people living in the Annam area were naturally not as high as those of the Huai army, and the qualified soldiers were temporarily given two taels of silver per month, and at the same time, as long as they were selected, they were immediately given five taels of silver to settle in, and the Chinese refugees who did not join the army were given enough to eat, and left Annam after two months waiting for the arrival of the transport fleet.

A total of 1,500 qualified young and strong people were selected, and some of the remaining 13,000 Chinese who were not selected were transported to Natuna Island, and the rest were repaired in Xialong.

Among the 1,500 young and strong people, there were 300 Yao and Zhuang mountain people, and Sun Bin organized these 300 people into a mountain battalion alone, with Chen Shangfa as the battalion officer and command, and the remaining 1,200 people and 300 soldiers of the National Defense Army were mixed into a regiment, with A Chen as the commander and Chen Zongbai, Ye Chenglin, and Wu Fengdian as the three battalion commanders under his jurisdiction.

The 1st Regiment of the Wehrmacht Nanyang and the Independent Mountain Battalion, with 1,800 soldiers in two improvised units, plus the 300 militia units remaining on Natuna Island, the total strength of the Wehrmacht in Nanyang exceeded 2,000 men.

A month passed in a busy time, during this period, Ye Chenglin met with Wu Yazhong, and took the messenger sent by Wu Yazhong to visit Liu Yongfu and Huang Chongying, and after seeing Wu Yazhong's handwritten letter to the two, Huang Chongying and Liu Yongfu agreed to follow the advice of the old master, stop making peace, and no longer attack each other.

After traveling through three places, when Ye Chenglin came back, the work of recruiting diaspora Chinese had been completed, and the young Zhuang who had recovered after a week of recuperation had also begun formal training.

In the coastal area of Xialong, the area of the original dilapidated village has expanded more than ten times, and it has been leveled into a training ground, Sun Bin pointed to the young soldiers who were training and said: "This is the 1,500 young men that I and a few brothers recruited in January, how do Brother Ye view them?" ”

"I haven't returned in January, and I don't want Mr. to recruit a young army, and after a little training, it is not difficult for him to surpass the troops under Leader Wu." The young and strong people on the wasteland trained hard, Ye Chenglin unconsciously compared them with Wu Yazhong's subordinates and praised them.

"Although the troops under Leader Wu have been in battle for a long time, after all, they are not regular field troops, the combat target of the troops we want to train is the Qing army, and it may not be possible to fight with the French army in the future, so Brother Ye should take a long-term view, and some Wehrmacht officers will arrive in the transport fleet in two months, and Brother Ye will have a great harvest when he communicates with them."

"Your brothers in the Wehrmacht have been fighting in South America for more than a year, and the opponents of the war are Americans, and their combat experience is not comparable to ours.

Ye Cheng said humbly.

"Knowing heroes and cherishing heroes, Brother Ye fought bravely, and after the brothers of the Defense Force from South America arrived, they would definitely be willing to discuss their combat experience with Brother Ye."

The times create heroes, Ye Chenglin is confined to the mountainous areas of northern Annan, and his reputation is not obvious, but Sun Bin is very optimistic about his future, and believes that joining the national defense army will soon find his own place.

After talking to Ye Chenglin for a while about the new recruitment, the two walked to a high slope.

"Thirty square kilometers of land in the vicinity have just been bought from officials in Annan, and this will be one of our strongholds in Annan."

"Although 30 square kilometers of land is not small, more than 10,000 Chinese have defected to us, and it is not easy to feed more than 10,000 people in this place."

Ye Chenglin was still the leader of the armed forces who occupied a small piece of land a month ago, and he knew the difficulty of supporting an armed force, so he quickly pointed out the disadvantages of developing in this place.

"Brother Ye is right, Xialong is close to Haiphong, the gateway to Annam, and making a big disturbance here will arouse the vigilance of the Annam court, so we have to find another place as an immigration base."

"Has Mr. Sun already chosen a place?" Ye Chenglin asked.

"Yes, Brother Ye guess what place it is?"

"Immigrants have to be transported away from the sea, and the main ports in the north of Annam are Haiphong, Ha Long, Kam Phu and Mong Cai, excluding Hai Phong and Ha Long, and there are still Kam Phong and Mong Cai, Mr. Do you want to choose one of these two places as a base?"

Ye Chenglin lowered his head and thought for a while before replying.

"It's also right or not, not only Jinpu and Mong Cai need to be controlled in our hands, but even the three provinces of Haining, Bac Giang, and Lang Son will also be fully occupied in the near future, otherwise, they will only occupy dozens of hundreds of square kilometers of land, when will they be able to complete the task assigned by the prince?"

Rio Grande do Sul needs not tens of thousands of immigrants, but millions or more, Li Mingyuan did not have time to emigrate slowly, and sooner or later he would have to conflict and war with the Manchus in order to obtain a large number of immigrants, so occupying several provinces bordering the mainland of Annam is an indispensable part of the overall situation.

"Is it too big for Mr. Sun to occupy the three provinces of Annan at one time? Although the combat strength of the Annam army is not good, but at that time the king of Annam will definitely ask the Qing army for help, so that our army is on both sides, and the situation is very dangerous. ”

"The plan to occupy the three border provinces will be advanced step by step, and now what we have to do is to occupy Hai'an Province first, and then make peace with all the Han forces in Annam before proceeding with the next step."

"There are millions of Han people in Annam, if you unify all Han forces, plus His Royal Highness the Prince provides weapons and arms, even if the Qing army goes out to attack, it can fight against it."

Hearing Sun Bin's explanation, Ye Chenglin let go of his unnecessary worries and agreed.