As a matter of fact, the Weisu army in Fuguang and Guangzhou provinces is no better than its counterparts in Zhejiang, and the Weisu army along the coast of Guangdong, especially on Qiongzhou Island, has been completely hollowed out by the Haihan army a year or two ago, leaving behind an organizational framework and a group of officers who eat empty salaries, and the local defense has been completely taken over by the Haihan army. The Fujian side was slightly less affected by www.biquge.info Fujian side because of its close cooperation with Haihan, but almost all of the officers at the level of more than 100 households in the coastal prefectures had received military training from Haihan, and even if they were not of sufficient rank, they had never been to Sanya, at least they had gone to Zhangzhou to attend a short training course.

Fujian has been poisoned by pirates for many years, once bitten by a snake for ten years afraid of the well rope, after turning over, the government is also very willing to spend money on border defense, in addition to regularly inviting Haihan instructors to the local area to teach these low-level officers classes, but also purchased a lot of guns and ammunition produced by Haihan to arm these grassroots troops. Although the establishment of the Fujian Coastal Guard Station has maintained its original system, its tactical command and weaponry have clearly moved closer to that of the Haihan. This trend is becoming more and more obvious in the upper echelons of the Fujian military, and the elite troops under Xu Xinsu are almost about to copy the Haihan military system and training methods, which is one of the main reasons why he will boldly hand over the command of the Ming army troops to the Haihan.

In terms of combat effectiveness, among the three provinces in the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River, Fujian's Weisu Army is undoubtedly the strongest, and Zhejiang is definitely not the weakest. Only a powerful armed force like Haihan would dare to step on their faces with such a direct kick.

The surrender of the defenders of Shipu did not make the coalition forces relax their vigilance, in fact, at the same time as the landing of the large army, the elite of the special operations battalion had already infiltrated the mountains around Shipu City from the north to prevent the defenders of the city from abandoning the city and fleeing to Xiangshan County in the north. If the rebels in the city had really planned to do this, they might have suffered more casualties on the way to escape than if they had chosen to defend the city.

"You're Ma Qianhu?"

During the takeover of Shipu City by the Haihan Army, Ma Ling was taken to the tent of the Chinese army's headquarters to be questioned by Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen. They all had extensive experience in interrogating prisoners of war in the past, so Ma Ling's interrogation was also conducted separately so that more information could be obtained from him.

"In Xiamaling, I hope that your army will keep its promises, and don't harm the soldiers of our Ming army. As a general of the defeated army, Ma Ling has no confidence to hang his head, and now that his life is in the hands of the Haihan people, he can only hope that the Haihan people can keep their promises.

"Don't worry, everything we said counts, as long as your people are honest and don't make trouble, no one will harm them. Qian Tiandun first gave Ma Ling a reassuring pill before continuing to ask: "Let's talk about the staffing of your Shipu Institute first, how many people are actually there, we need to check." ”

When Ma Ling went out of the city and surrendered, he had actually presented the roster, but there were a lot of empty names in this roster, and it was very different from the actual situation, so he had to ask him as a commander. Qian Tiandun is not afraid of what tricks he plays, no matter how much he reports or how little he reports, as long as he waits to count the number of people, the difference is too big, and Ma Ling will naturally have to take the blame.

Ma Ling didn't have the heart to resist at this time, and besides, he could also think that Haihan would never judge him alone, so he honestly reported the number, and added at the end: "There were two boats going west before, and there were still sixty or seventy people on those two boats, and the deputy below was also on board. ”

"Well, you don't have to worry about this, we've already intercepted those two boats. Shi Diwen replied with a smile: "Lord Deputy Qianhu came here before you. ”

Ma Lingxin said Fortunately, Lao Tzu didn't say the wrong thing, otherwise he might have to be sold. His deputy was born as a sailor, and he had a close relationship with the pirates of the East China Sea, and after being caught by these Haihan people, he was afraid that the first thing he would do was to throw the pot to his side in order to get out.

Sure enough, Shi Diwen continued: "Your deputy thought we were pirates at first, and he wanted to get close, saying that he wanted to help us persuade the Ming army in the city to surrender. Later, when I heard that we were here to fight pirates, I immediately changed my tune and said that it was you Ma Lingma Qianhu who colluded with pirates in Shipu Office. Hehe, that's interesting!"

Ma Ling said angrily: "This guy talks about people when he sees people, talks nonsense when he sees ghosts, and is a capricious villain! If the two of you can't believe it, you can ask him to come out and confront him face to face!"

Qian Tiandun said lightly: "There is no need to confront each other, the situation you explained, who is lying and who is an honest person, we will naturally have a judgment." Whoever wants to play tricks with us, we have a way to make him regret it! Ask you about it, and you answer honestly, maybe you can continue to be your Ishiura Senhu in the future, understand?"

Ma Ling didn't want to be too low in front of the enemy generals, but the power of this Haihan general was too strong, so he subconsciously responded. Although I feel that the other party's words may not be credible, but Qian Tiandun's sentence "You can continue to be your Shipu Qianhu in the future" made Ma Ling have a trace of thought in his heart - this Haihan people have no foundation in Zhejiang, if they want to settle here, they must find someone who is familiar with the local situation to manage it on their behalf in the early stage, I heard that they also use a large number of Ming people in Fuguang to do things, is there a more suitable candidate than Lao Tzu in this Shipu Port?

Before the coalition fleet came here, it only determined the strategic location of Shipu Port as the forward base for this operation, and the target was still the Zhoushan Islands. But after coming here to see it on the spot, Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen both think that this place has the value of long-term occupation, but how to operate it still needs to be carefully calculated.

This Shipu harbor is crescent-shaped, the port area is more than 20 square kilometers, the wind and waves in the port are light and flat, and the wind above 10 can be avoided, and the water depth in the port can accommodate 10,000 fishing boats to moor, even if the 10,000-ton sea ship can also move freely in the port, in terms of the port conditions of the natural port, it is even better than Zhoushan. This place is more than 100 miles away from Ningbo Fucheng, and there is also an Xiangshan Port Bay and many mountains in the middle, which is farther than the distance between Zhoushan Islands and Fucheng, and can be regarded as an enclave under the rule of Ningbo Fu. Moreover, this place belongs to the jurisdiction of the garrison, and in addition to the fishermen, the local people are the families of the garrison soldiers who are stationed here, and the civilian situation is relatively simple, and they only need to control the leader of the garrison.

In the eyes of Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen, there is no difference between these officers of Shipu Office, but now they need to appease the emotions of the local people, and it is necessary to find an available spokesperson to come forward. The level of the hundred households is slightly lower, and their prestige may not be convincing to the people, so they can only choose a suitable person from the thousand households and the deputy thousand households to do this. So far, Ma Ling, who is relatively cooperative, is obviously a little more reliable than the deputy Qianhu who has a repeated attitude.

In addition to the specific situation of the garrison in Shipu, the information that Qian Tiandun and others were more interested in was the local development situation. Although there is Xu Ke in the army, a hidden stake that has been lurking in Xiangshan for several years, his understanding of Shipu is definitely not as good as that of the local snake here. Ordinary people must not know information such as resident population, cultivated land area, grain production, deed tax income, etc., and must inquire more reliable data from official channels.

While Ma Ling was being interrogated in the Haihan army, Takahashi Minami had already marched into Shipu City with his troops. However, this small city is only used as a coastal defense base for the Shipu defenders, not a city in the real sense, so the area of the city is not large, and it is basically filled with dense barracks and logistics facilities. The task of the troops led by Takahashi Minami was to count the people and property in the city and ensure that the profits obtained here were included in the list of the allied spoils of war in a timely manner - most of which naturally belonged to the Haihan.

After the Ming army of Shipu was disarmed, the weapons were all gathered at the city gate and stacked, and Takahashinan casually picked up a firearm used by the Ming army, first weighed the weight, and then raised it to try it. The length of this gun is similar to that of the rifles used by the Haihan militia army, but the weight is heavier, because the material is not strong enough, so the structure of the gun body and barrel must be made thicker. But such old-fashioned arquebuses have basically been eliminated from the Haihan militia, and only some militia teams organized in towns and villages are still in use.

And even this relatively primitive rifle, the proportion of equipment in the local Ming army is only about 30%, plus the military leaders in order to reduce military expenses and deliberately reduce the amount of training, a year may not have the opportunity to carry out several live firing training, the Ming army can play a combat effectiveness can be imagined.

As for artillery, Takahashi Minami is even more disdainful. Several of the Franco cannons in Shipu Suocheng are small-caliber guns, each weighing about 300 catties, and the mother gun is equipped with four sub-guns, which are pre-filled with ammunition for backup, and are loaded into the mother gun in turn to fire during wartime. Due to the poor airtightness of the chamber and the extremely limited firing range of this kind of artillery, the coalition forces dared to deploy artillery positions in close proximity to the outside of the city, ready to fire at the head of the city. However, the defenders were intimidated before the battle, and a few test shells destroyed their fighting courage and saved the attackers a lot of trouble.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the defense here is not as strong as the two strongholds of the Spaniards in Taipei, although the Spanish defense also failed to create much trouble for the Haihan army, but at least there are some city defense cannons that can make the Haihan army more fearful. Even if the defenders dared to use these cannons to confront the coalition forces outside the city, Takahashi Minami thought that their chances were to fire all the loaded ammunition again, and in front of the experienced Haihan artillery, they probably wouldn't have the opportunity to reload the ammunition again.

For the Haihan Army, these weapons obviously have no recycling value, and can only be disposed of as scrap copper and rotten iron. However, Xu Yuzhuo may be interested in these things, after all, this is also the official standard weapon supervised by the Ming Military Department, and it can be more or less useful when transported back to Fujian.

However, when the material warehouse was counted, Takahashi Minami was taken aback, and there were still a lot of good things hidden in this rural place. Needless to say, there are many things in the treasury that obviously do not belong to military supplies. For example, 500 horses of high-grade silk produced in Hangzhou, nearly 1,000 catties of clay pots encapsulated in Longjing tea, hundreds of jars of Shaoxing daughter red, etc., among which there are even more than 20 boxes of glassware produced in Haihan, Gaoqiao Nan opened a few boxes and looked at it, and estimated that the market value of this batch of goods in Zhejiang can reach 10,000 taels of silver.

With the financial resources of these officers of Shipu, they probably can't operate such a large business, and these things can be transported into the warehouse of Shipu City, which is undoubtedly the passing goods of some bigwigs, but this time they didn't wait for them to be transported, and they were cheaper than the Haihan people who suddenly entered Shipu Port. Gao Qiao Nan only looked at the two warehouses, and felt that the value was too great, so he hurriedly went to tell Qian Tiandun.

Qian Tiandun was also a little surprised when he heard the news, and immediately handed over his question to Ma Ling, the only answerer: "We have found a lot of good things in the warehouse in the city, Ma Qianhu, these goods can't be yours, right?"

Ma Ling said with a sad face: "In the lower district, there are 1,000 households, and the annual military salary is only more than 100 taels of silver, where can I buy so many good things...... Most of the goods in this Shipu City belong to the adults of Ningbo Prefecture. ”

Although he knew that the Haihan people would definitely find these goods, when the news really came, Ma Ling still felt that his eyes were dark and he almost fell to the ground. He didn't lie, most of the goods in the city did belong to some big people in Ningbo Prefecture, and they were only temporarily stored here. However, the remaining small part was the goods that he Ma Ling paid for -- he had thought of a lot of ways to buy more than 20 boxes of Haihan glassware from Wenzhou related households last month, and planned to put them on the Ningbo market one after another to make a steady profit. This batch of goods cost thousands of taels of silver, and Ma Ling almost pressed all the belongings in it, but this time it was raided by the Haihan people, and I am afraid that there will not be even a single hair left.

Ma Ling was afraid of interrogating his two Haihan generals, and he didn't dare to tell the truth, so he could only blame it all on the big men of Ningbo Mansion. But thinking that even if I could save my life this time, I lost these goods, and it was difficult to explain to the above afterwards, and my heart was really anxious and painful.

Qian Tiandun asked: "Since it is a big man in Ningbo Mansion, why don't you just ship these goods back and store them in Shipusuo?"

Ma Ling slowly adjusted his breathing, and then responded: "There are many reasons for this, some of them are because the cargo ship is damaged by wind and waves, and after entering the port and unloading the cargo, the ship will first go back to Xiangshan Port or Ningbo Mansion for maintenance." There are also some that are inconvenient to trade openly in Ningbo Prefecture, so they are placed here and waiting for the merchants to pick them up by themselves. There are also some businesses that want to look at the market in Ningbo and release it little by little to make money, so they need to find a reliable place to store it first. Although the castle is small, it is guarded by a garrison, so it is perfect to store these valuable goods. ”