Chapter 234: Grain and Grass
Yang Yandi naturally wanted to persuade Xiao Wu again, after all, sending troops to Zhenla was a big deal.
"My lord, since the civil strife in Zhenla, the Lord of Nguyen sent troops to Zhenla and finally set up two kings in Zhenla, Zhenla was divided into two parts, and now the southern Zhenla is controlled by the Hidden Lady, and this Hidden Lady is set up by the Lord of Ruan, everything is under the orders of Quang Nam, if we send troops to Zhenla, Quang Nam will inevitably send troops to intervene." Yang Yandi hurriedly said the form of Zhenla.
"Yes, General Xiao, Guangnan and Hidden Frog Wu are in collusion, we will send troops to attack the firewood stick, Guangnan will definitely send troops, not to mention that the Hidden Frog Qiu in the north has already wanted to unify Zhenla, if you rashly send troops, it will only lead to the union of the three parties, it is better to wait for the Ming Court to appease Dongpu before making plans." Huang Jin on the side also opened his mouth to persuade.
He was not willing to submit to the Ming court of Luzon, and now Xiao Wu actually wanted to use the military strength of the Meidi Ming people to attack Zhenla, isn't this a knife to kill people?
What's more, if only the Mei Di Ming Army and the Ming Army sailors who came from afar, I am afraid that they will not be able to take Zhenla.
It is not that Huang Jin despises the Ming army's naval division, but Zhenla is located inland, and the water network is dense along the way, and it is difficult for the army to be pulled, not to mention that the Ming army in front of him is mainly firearms.
The Luzon Ming army was particularly heavy on firearms, which was discovered by Yang Yandi and other Ming generals during the First Battle of Dongpu.
At the beginning, Li Liu led more than 100 Ming troops to aid Dongpu, and the required gunpowder, cannonballs, and other baggage needed to be transported by the Ming caravan and the Ming people of Dongpu along the way, so it took half a month to enter Nongnai City.
Now, if you want to send troops to Zhenla, you need ten times more guns than before, and so many guns and gunpowder need to be transported by manpower.
There is also the grain and grass needed after the army enters Chenla.
There are more than 3,000 sailors in the Meidi Ming Army, and when they are far away from Meidi after entering Zhenla, how much grain and grass are needed, and how many wooden boats and convoys are needed to transport them.
"My lord, if we really want to attack the firewood, we need to send at least 3,000 stone of military food to Zhenla, and there are countless gunpowder shells, and now Dongpu has just encountered a war, and Lu poster said that the Dongpu Ming people are in urgent need of grain and grass, so when Lord Li Du led the Fubo Town Sailor to Dongpu, he also took away the Minghai merchant fleet responsible for the escort of grain and grass, and now the grain and grass of my sailor can only last for half a month." Wang An, who was in the marine battalion on the side, spoke.
These days, thousands of Ming troops were able to travel across the ocean to reach the United States, and Ming Hai contributed a lot.
When Liu Yu established the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, he considered the Ming army's expeditions abroad, the transportation of grain and grass, and the collection of grain on the spot.
After thinking about it, Liu Yu finally decided to hand over the logistics of the Ming army to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, which led to the creation of Minghai.
These days, Minghai also lived up to Liu Yu's trust, and thousands of troops of the Ming army sailed from Dayu Island across the South Seas to the United States, and for two months along the way, the Ming army was able to maintain a normal diet and maintain combat effectiveness.
In addition to the storage of dry food and dried fish and meat by their own ships, the eighteen Ming Haifu ships that followed the Ming army on an expedition also made great contributions.
Now, due to the war in Dongpu, Li Du went to Dongpu to appease the Ming people of Dongpu, and all of these eighteen grain ships followed Li Du to the north, and now the officers and soldiers of Shuishi Town can only rely on the grain and grass stored on their own warships to survive.
Xiao Wu frowned, he had forgotten about it.
"My lord, as the so-called soldiers and horses go first before moving the grain and grass, if our army wants to send troops to Zhenla, it is necessary to prepare a large amount of heavy grain and grass, please give the last general two months, and the last general will definitely prepare March grain and grass for the army in the United States." Seeing this, Xue Wenjing, the town general of Liwu Town, hurriedly said.
"Okay, then follow the general's words." Xiao Wu nodded, and he could only postpone the time to send troops to Zhenla.
After all, Dongpu has not yet been appeased, if Dongpu is appeased, with the current chaos of Dongpu, the Ming court still needs to take a lot of silver taels and energy.
After thinking about it, Xiao Wu finally decided to postpone the dispatch of troops to Zhenla, and wait for Li Du to appease the Dongpu Ming people before making plans.
At this time, Dongpu can be said to be a house leak that happened to rain overnight.
Due to the invasion of the Zhenla people, the power of the Dongpu Ming people was greatly reduced.
In the entire Dongpu, the Ming army is only in the early 1,000s.
Now the place that Chen Shangchuan and others can control is the county community near Nongnai City.
In addition, the Zhenla soldiers burned and looted in Dongpu during this time.
As a result, Dongpu is full of displaced people and thieves.
On top of that, the Jinla people even burned the rice fields and plundered the grain of the nearby villages during these days, resulting in the starvation of people in Dongpu.
For this reason, Chen Shangchuan had to ask for help from the surrounding area.
Yang Yandi was naturally willing to help, and sent the 1,000 stone of grain and grass to the Ming people of Dongpu, and promised that the military rations sent to Meidi by land and sea would also be sent to Dongpu.
This is also the reason why Yang Yandi opposed Xiao Wu's dispatch of troops to Zhenla, because Meidi also had to send a large number of manpower and animal power to Dongpu to transport grain.
Ha Xian also sent a messenger to offer condolences, but did not give substantial assistance.
On the contrary, Quang Nam, who had been stabbing in the back, sent three grain ships to the coast of Dongpu, along with envoys sent by Lord Nguyen to offer condolences.
However, the generals of Dongpu Mingren have long hated Guangnan.
Directly ordered the city gate to be closed and refused to allow the Quang Nam envoy to enter the city.
The Guangnan envoy, who had eaten the closed door, could only leave with a curse.
When the merchant ships of Quang Nam left the coast of Dongpu, the sailors led by Li Du also arrived in Dongpu.
With the arrival of the Ming Army's water division, the entire Dongpu was boiling.
Unlike the Mei Di Ming generals who had a certain resistance and resistance to the arrival of the Ming court sailors, the Ming generals in Dongpu were ecstatic about the arrival of the Ming court sailors.
Li Du personally led the officers and soldiers of Huben Qian Town to Nongnai City.
What he saw along the way made the Tiger Ben officers and soldiers indignant.
By the way, he exterminated several groups of thieves who occupied the mountain as kings.
When the former army of Huben arrived in Nongnai City, Chen Shangchuan personally went out of the city to greet him.
For the Zhao'an of the Ming court, the generals of the Dongpu Ming people had already discussed it several times, and finally the generals of the Dongpu Ming people unanimously decided to submit to the Ming court of Luzon.
Therefore, Li Shi's recruitment of the Ming people in Dongpu was also smooth, and Chen Shangchuan did not even mention the food and salary of the soldiers, but only hoped that the Ming court could send troops into Dongpu as soon as possible, and at the same time send grain and grass to Dongpu to save the victims.
Li Du hurriedly agreed, and ordered Ming Hai to unload all the grain and grass on the grain ship and transport it to Dongpu.
With the import of tens of thousands of stones of emergency grain and grass into Dongpu, the victims everywhere in the Dongpu area have been able to survive.
The people of Dongpu immediately thanked the Ming court, and Chen Shangchuan even personally presented Li Du with Dongpu's household registration, taxes, and official fields.
"I didn't expect there to be so many official fields in Dongpu." Li Du was full of emotion.
Along the way, although there were homeless people everywhere and hungry people everywhere, the rice fields and paddy fields everywhere really shocked the tiger soldiers present.
I have long heard Lord Liu Yu say that the Dongpu area is fertile for thousands of miles, and it is the land of fish and rice.
It's just that Li Du didn't expect that Dongpu would have so many official fields.
You must know that in Luzon, after the Ming army expelled the Franco-Robot by force, it only occupied Laoag and other towns.
Cultivated land and so on were in the hands of the local princely states.
For several years, the Ming court only requisitioned some of the cultivated land from the local princely tribes by purchasing and seizing by force.
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