How many people were there in Dongjiang Town, which was very famous in the history of Mao Wenlong in the late Ming Dynasty?

According to the research of historical materials, the regular army of Dongjiang Town was about 20,000 people. However, this is obviously not the entire population of Dongjiang Town. Mao Wenlong accepted refugees in eastern Liaodong, and the total number must be at least 70,000 or 80,000.

After all, in the historical materials of later generations, in the "Battle of Dingmao" between Jin Jurchen and Mao Wenlong in Korea after 1627, Mao Wenlong's casualties in Dongjiang Town reached more than 11,000 and more than 15,000 were captured. Later, there were only more than 3,500 casualties on the Kim side.

Judging from this data, in connection with the fact that in 1629, Yuan Chonghuan had no scruples about beheading Mao Wenlong without the will of the imperial court, and the casualties of Mao Wenlong's regular army in Dongjiang Town in the "Battle of Dingmao" were obviously very large. It's the level that hurts the vitality.

The warlords of the Guanning Army under Yuan Chonghuan, like Zu Dashou and others, had about 2,000 loyal family members under his command, and Yuan Chonghuan did not dare to do anything to them. And if Mao Wenlong really had 20,000 regular troops under his command as said in the history books, he would not dare to kill Mao Wenlong without scruples if he gave Yuan Chonghuan a hundred guts.

That is, in 1628, when the marines of the temporary formation of the First Fleet of the Baathist Navy landed on Phi Island and established a beachhead, the entire town of Dongjiang was at its weakest.

This weakness manifests itself quite obviously. As a militarized unit and the organ of Dongjiang Town, the Dongjiang Army on the Phi Dao side was only organized a force of about 1,000 men a few hours later. And this force simply did not dare to directly attack the beachhead of the temporary fleet on the pier. They just watched from afar in a scattered formation, very vigilant.

Fighting with the regular army of the Houjin Nuzhen, and killing more than 3,000 of them, if you want to achieve such results, it is definitely not enough to use the ordinary people who fled to the territory of Dongjiang Town as cannon fodder.

The regular armed forces of the Dongjiang Army were the so-called "elites" selected by Mao Wenlong himself from the southern "soldiers" transferred by the imperial court from among the refugees in Liaodong. The average combat effectiveness of these people is at the level of ordinary bandits.

In the Battle of Dingmao, more than 11,000 people were killed and more than 15,000 were captured, and even if half of the 26,000 people were Liaodong refugees who were cannon fodder, the regular army of the Dongjiang Army now has less than 7,000 people left. And these 7,000 people are not all directly in the hands of Mao Wenlong. You must know that in the warlord army, it is normal for soldiers to be generals.

From this point of view, Mao Wenlong can gather more than 1,000 people in the first time, which is the current mobilization limit of Phi Dao.

However, Wang Shuhui found from the report of the First Fleet that the condition of more than 1,000 people was not very good. In the words of Wu Hongjie, the political commissar of the fleet, the so-called more than 1,000 armed men, "if you don't look at the worn and rusty spears in their hands, just look at their clothes, you will think that they are beggars and outcasts who can't get along." ”

If Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town wants to survive the military offensive of the Later Jin Jurchens, it will inevitably put their most elite armed forces on top. And most of these elite forces, such as Mao Wenlong's personal soldiers, must have been among the casualties of about 11,000 troops.

In fact, from the perspective of the Renaissance Army, the family members of these warlords and the like actually have little combat effectiveness. However, compared to the ordinary regular army, they must not be so bad at least in terms of weapons and equipment, at least in terms of clothing. And because most of them are well fed, they can't be as thin as the "regular army" and the homeless.

However, in any case, the First Fleet is still scratching its head when faced with this confrontation situation. If more than a thousand people came to attack the beachhead of the marines, then the fleet, of course, would have immediately and comprehensively counterattacked. But this kind of confusing state of onlookers made Xu Yuanzhi, the commander of the First Fleet, a little overwhelmed.

The fleet staff didn't know what to do with it. But this kind of confrontation can't be maintained forever.

In this case, at the request of the political commissar of the fleet, Wu Hongjie, the leadership of the fleet held a meeting.

"Comrades, have you forgotten what our mission is to Phi Dao this time? We are here to establish a business relationship with Dongjiang Town. Let's not forget that."

After saying this, Wu Hongjie glanced at Xu Yuanzhi, who was a little groaning, and continued:

"Mr. Wang asked us to adhere to the principle of self-centeredness in our external work, and we did a very good job of this. In the face of the military provocations of the Dongjiang Army, we resolutely dealt a blow to their arrogance. This fully embodies the principle of putting ourselves first in the party's foreign relations. ”

"However, we must not forget that the main task of our operation this time is not to destroy the existence of the Dongjiang Army militarily, but to exchange materials for the poor refugees under the rule of Dongjiang Town by means of establishing commercial relations. Establishing business relations and rescuing the suffering masses is the main task of our operation."

It's easy to kill, but it's hard to save.

For the Baath Party, as soon as the cannon is fired and the machine gun is fired, hundreds or thousands of lives are instantly reimbursed. But saving hundreds or thousands of lives is not something that can be achieved with machine guns and artillery.

Whether it is the Baath Party or the Baath Army, the concept of the people's soldiers and the principle of serving the people have all been implemented in the minds of every party member and every soldier. In the continuous education and practice of the whole party and the whole army over the past 10 years, every party member and every soldier of the revival army can correctly understand and understand such a concept.

From the people, for the people, this is the concept that the Baath Party and the Renaissance Army have established from the very beginning, from the deepest depths of their minds.

So as soon as Wu Hongjie said this, everyone agreed.

"In that case, should we send someone out to contact them, after all, it will be too much time to continue to confront them like this."

Sun Guocheng, chief of staff of the fleet, also figured out this problem, so he immediately reacted.

"I'll do the job. This degree is not well grasped by ordinary people, and we can't let Dongjiang Town think that we are weak, but we can't be too tough, and it's better for me to grasp this degree. ”

After Wu Hongjie saw that everyone had a unified opinion, he immediately took the most difficult communication work on himself.

The representative of Dongjiang Town, who asked about the identity of the First Fleet by boat, was Kong Youde. Now the person who leads the "armed forces" of more than 1,000 people to confront the marines is still Kong Youde.

Kong Youde has met Wu Hongjie. So when he saw Wu Hongjie coming over alone, he was really relieved.

For Kong Youde, this battle was very unjust.

At that time, after Kong Youde found out the identity of the First Fleet, he didn't believe that the First Fleet was here to do business. That's because, first, there's no business to do here in Dongjiang Town. Under normal circumstances, there will be no merchant ships at all. Second, since the Baath Party's ships are so huge, there is no possibility that such a force would be an ordinary caravan.

But when Kong Youde went to the Chinese army to report back, Mao Wenlong was resting. It was Mao Wenlong's adopted son, Mao Chenglu, the deputy commander-in-chief of Dongjiang, who was presiding over the Chinese army.

This Mao Chenglu is also quite reckless. As soon as he heard that a merchant ship was coming, he didn't care whether they were merchant ships or not, and how powerful they were, he immediately ordered the navy to arrest them and prepare to interrogate the spies. The result? A big ship is not for fun. The twenty warships sent out by Dongjiang Town were beaten up in less than an hour.

At this time, Mao Chenglu, who was still pretending to be big, heard that there were big generals on the ships, so he was a chicken. In the end, the commander who woke up was able to hold it, and ordered himself to lead a thousand soldiers to explore the truth