Chapter 493: Strategies for Obtaining Grain (2) Wenshan County

The first is the strength of troops, and Wenshan County has a total soldier. There are four battalions under the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info which are the middle battalion, the left battalion, the right battalion, and the rear battalion. Among them, the left battalion and the right battalion each have one capital division, one garrison, two thousand generals, four generals, six external commissions, and four additional external commissions. In the middle battalion and the rear battalion, there is one guerrilla, one garrison, two thousand-generals, four generals, six external commissions, and four additional external commissions.

In total, the four battalions had a total of 130 horse soldiers, 1,142 infantry soldiers, and 1,474 garrison soldiers. For all the troops, it was two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

Before contacting the border guards, the left and rear battalions of Kaihua Mansion were all consumed by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there may only be more than 1,000 Qing soldiers in Wenshan County.

And the border guards who monitored them numbered more than 2,000 people. In terms of equipment and the quality of soldiers, they are several times better than the Qing soldiers with extremely poor discipline. Therefore, Nan Feng suddenly had a bad impression that the border guards were making a big fuss.

The commander, who was briefing, also knew this, explained. The garrison here also guarded against the Qing troops in Guangnan Province and Guangxi Prefecture. Among them, there were 800 Qing soldiers in Guangnan Province and 785 in Guangxi. Counting the young people who were called, the number may be several times higher.

Although the border guards are in force and are not afraid of them. But be careful to make the ship of ten thousand years! It is difficult to say that these Qing generals will suddenly be hot-headed and come to attack the Ming army.

And it's not without precedent!

For example, when the border guards were just stationed outside the city, the Qing soldiers in the city were delusional about sneaking up on the night. It's just that the Ming army set many traps around the camp. Especially in gunpowder, the Qing soldiers who attacked secretly suffered a lot of dark losses.

Under the lesson of blood, the Qing soldiers obediently retreated in the city and did not come out.

After reporting the troops, the commander reported to Nanfeng about the situation of the displaced people. The first is the number of people, compared with some time ago, the number of displaced people has entered a new peak. About 10,000 people pass through Wenshan County every day. Now, it has exceeded 20,000. In addition, the origin of the displaced people has also changed from Guangxi, Guangnan, Kaihua and other prefectures to Qujing, Dongchuan, Wuding and other places that are a little farther away. In addition, the number of displaced people in Guangxi and Guizhou is also gradually increasing.

According to the cross-examination of the displaced people passing by, in many places, it was not the cause of the war. Rather, it was the local soldiers, all of whom were taken away. As a result, banditry, banditry, and rampant in the territory have deteriorated public order. Many villages have been looted and looted. Coupled with the lack of access, the rumors of the White Lotus Sect going south became more and more popular. It made many people who did not know what was going on in a panic.

In order to escape the war disaster, many people left their homes and entered Vietnam. It is also the government of various parts of Yunnan, in order to avoid mixing with treachery and conspiracy. Therefore, the city gates were closed, so that many people who fled had to go all the way south.

I happened to meet the people who had migrated to the White Lotus Sect, so I followed them into Vietnam with a herd mentality.

It is precisely under these factors that Yunnan, which was originally quite stable, has also been artificially chaotic. More and more displaced people are entering Vietnam.

After Nanfeng learned about these news, under the escort of the guards, he visited Mengzi, Ami, Jianshui, Shipingzhou and other places in Lin'an Prefecture. Compared with the displaced people in Kaihua Province, these places are several times less.

It is also a border guard, which operates only south of the Hedi River in Lin'an Province. The cities of Mengzi and Jianshui are all north of the Hedi River. In addition, there are many high mountains and many rapids and rivers in the area. As a result, the displaced people are blocked by a complex geographical environment.

So I could only follow the line of the river at the bottom of the river and enter Kaihua Mansion.

After learning about this information first-hand, Nan Feng also had a plan in his heart. It's just a plan, and it's just an idea in his head. Therefore, the following people are also needed to improve it. He did not stay longer and returned to Vietnam.

When passing through Lao Cai, the speed of the displaced people entering the border has been greatly accelerated. The number of displaced people stranded at the border has also been greatly reduced. In stark contrast, on the side of Lao Cai, 12 camps have been built. According to the maximum capacity of 40,000 people in each camp, the 12 camps can accommodate a maximum of 280,000 people.

And that's counting the more than 130,000 people who had been contained before. The entire Lao Cai Migrant Reception Station has reached a scale of more than 400,000.

On the Qing-Vietnam border, there is not only one immigration acceptance station in Lao Cai. For example, Laizhou in the south of Lin'an Prefecture, Heyang in the lower reaches of the Panlong River in Kaihua Prefecture, Baole in Zhen'an Prefecture in Guangxi, and Zhennanguan in Taiping Prefecture have all set up immigration acceptance points.

The local homeless people are no less than here in Lao Cai. Therefore, it is estimated that the scale of the displaced people can reach at least four million.

This is still a conservative estimate!

Because the population of Yunnan Province is more than 5 million. Guizhou Province has a population of more than 7 million. The population of Guangxi Province has also reached 8 million. Combined, the three provinces have exceeded more than 20 million people.

This is not counting the displaced people in Huguang, Sichuan and other places!

So a conservative estimate of four million is only a little more.

Therefore, the supply of materials required is also massive.

Although Nanfeng brought more than 40,000 loads of food, as well as cotton blankets, clothes, shoes and other daily necessities from Nanyang. But with so many people, each person does not receive a little. What's more, most of these materials are 'tribute' sent 'voluntarily' by Siam, Chenla, Mysore, Maratha and other countries.

With the transportation conditions of this era, it was not possible to send all of them to Nanyang for a while.

Therefore, it is estimated that the current supplies will not be available for long.

Originally, Nanfeng was also very worried, but after walking around Kaihua, Lin'an and other places, he suddenly figured it out. That is what the Ming Dynasty does not have, and there may be a lot of storage in these Qing cities. Even if there is not much grain storage in the Qing government, those rich landlords can hide a lot.

Therefore, his idea is to get the materials that are in short supply from these places. Anyway, these rich landlords and county officials will not take out grain to supply the displaced people. Rather than letting them hide it, it is better for Daming to take it himself.

Before, the border guards did not move, one was limited in troops, and the other was due to the consideration of logistical supplies. Now with the grain and grass in these cities, the problem of material supply will be solved.

In front of the accompanying Nanyang overseas consular officials and the local special administrative region officials of Vietnam, he put his thoughts out on a tray. In fact, there are many people here who have this idea. It's just that he is afraid of the century-old prestige of the Qing Dynasty, and he is a little timid.

Now that Nanfeng has made this decision, then they only need to implement it. But those administrators still raised a lot of questions. The first is that if the Qing army insists on going to war with the Ming Dynasty, then the neighboring northern part of Vietnam is likely to be devastated.

If all the people here were Vietnamese, the Ming officials present would not care. It's a pity that this place is full of newly settled immigrants, and in essence, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the safety of their lives still has to be considered.