Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 522 Breaking the Xishan Army

On February 1791, 2, Ding Guofeng drove the Jinglei, one day later than the original date, and arrived in the sea off Hoi An, Annan.At this time, outside the city of Hoi An, there was already rumbling gunfire, and the gunfire continued.

Fifteen 75mm fast guns hoisted from Beihai No. [-] and No. [-] were transported to the fortifications in the west and north of Hoi An City, and fired continuously at the attacking Xishan Army.The Thunder God also stopped outside the mouth of the Qiupan River, and the two howitzers on the ship would occasionally roar under the guidance of the scouts ahead.

The tragedy of the Hue imperial city made Guangzhong Emperor Nguyen Quang Binh furious. When he learned that the Northern Navy had occupied Hoi An, he immediately summoned an army of [-] troops to gather in Hai Van Ridge.

In order to boost the morale of his men, Ruan Guangping gathered his soldiers and issued a crusade: "Northern thieves came to invade, invade our sea and territory for no reason, and kill our soldiers and civilians. After that, destroy the capital first, and then occupy Hoi An, do you know? Between the heaven and the earth, the stars and fields are separated, the north and the south are at ease, and the border is peaceful. The northerners are not my race, and their hearts are tigers and wolves. Today, when the invaders come, I can't bear to sit and watch the cruelty. Fish and meat are my livelihood, and my wealth is included. You and others have their own If you know the ability, you should work together with me to make Daxun use the collection. Don’t just practice the old ways, have two minds, kill as soon as the incident happens, and no one will be forgiven. Move to the prefectures and counties, so that you can know the news.”

Many people have seen the tragic situation in the imperial city of Hue, so the Xishan Army was provoked by indignation and enthusiasm, and everyone had fighting spirit.However, due to the fear of the North Navy's cannons and the Thor, the Tay Son Army could not send a fleet to cooperate from the sea, and Hoi An faced the sea from the north and the east. within the county.

This time, Ruan Guangping led the army to conquer. He first ordered his men to cut down trees and build ships. At the same time, he sent small groups of troops to test the firepower projection distance and density of the North Navy.

The total strength of the Northern Navy was less than a thousand, and the Chinese battalion in Hoi An had just been established and lacked training, so they could only rely on the city walls and moats to stop them.However, because of the extremely fast firing rate of the 75mm guns, the North Navy's weapons have a long range and intensive machine gun firepower, this gave the Xishan Army an illusion that there are at least a hundred cannons in Hoi An City and at least thousands of troops in the city.

Because of the reconnaissance of drones in the air, several night attacks launched by the Xishan Army were discovered. After a few days, more than 3000 people were lost.For a while, Ruan Guangping couldn't speak in the face of the hedgehog-like city of Hoi An.He found that the shield used to resist musket guns was like paper in front of Bei Haijun, useless ass!

Jinglei brought two battalions of troops this time, and when the troops landed and entered Hoi An City, Wang Yuanfang was finally able to free up his hands and let the special warfare battalion dispatch.

On February 2, after repeated reconnaissance by drones, 18 soldiers of the Beihai Special Warfare Battalion, led by local Chinese guides, took bamboo rafts to the south bank of the Qiupan River at night and rushed westward for 25 miles. After that, he swam again and entered the north bank of the Qiupan River, and launched an attack on the right-wing camp of the Xishan Army in the early hours of the morning.

Thousands of grenades were divided into three waves and rained into the Xishan Army's camp. Under the sound of explosions one after another, the panicked Xishan Army could not tell the number of Beihai Navy, and fled around like headless chickens.

This war king Yuanfang ordered not to take prisoners. Those Ewenki and Daur soldiers with camouflage oil paint on their faces were like demon gods descended into the world. Drop the spear and cast it.

These Sauron soldiers have undergone nearly two years of rigorous training by Wang Yuanfang, and have followed Wu Zhong to practice martial arts for half a year. They are good at riding and shooting, and each of them has amazing strength.The spears they throw can often pin the Xishan army to the ground, and what's more, they can penetrate two people at once.In such a scene, not to mention the liver and gallbladder of the Xishan Army, even the few Chinese guides who followed were so scared that they peed their pants.

After this battle, thousands of Xishan Army corpses were piled up on the bank of the river or drifted to the surface of the river. More than 32 warships were burned and [-] cannons were blown up. In the end, only a few hundred people fled back to Dipan County.

On February 2, the Special Operations Battalion attacked again. They took dozens of reinforced fishing boats with open tails, traveled upstream for more than forty miles through the thick fog, blew up two pontoon bridges, and then used the mortars on board to Shelled the Xishan Army inside and outside the city of Dipan County.

Ruan Guangping's general Wu Wenyong sent a fleet to block it, but was hit by more than 20 rocket launchers from the North Navy and suffered heavy losses.Wu Wenyong was affected by the explosion of the North Navy's rocket launcher. Although he was rescued after falling into the water, he was seriously injured and unconscious.

The gunners of the Xishan Army could only shoot at the Qiupan River indiscriminately because it was difficult to distinguish the enemy's location in foggy weather.Wang Yuanfang resolutely dispatched a company of troops to take advantage of the chaos to land on the shore, looking for the sound and light of cannon fire, and a few hundred meters away from the opponent's emplacement was another rain of bullets.After the Xishan Army was beaten away, the artillery was blown up one by one with grenades.

In this battle, the Xishan Army was killed and injured more than 5000 people, nearly half of which were caused by trampling each other in panic during the shelling, especially those elephants that ran around after being injured, trampled to death and injured hundreds of people. There are so many people.

The land battle of the Xishan Army actually relied on the elephant army, and the barefoot soldiers were vulnerable.Ruan Guangping had an army of [-] elephants, which was also a strong guarantee for his victory over the Qing army in Fu Liangjiang.

It is said that Ruan Fuying was pressed and rubbed on the ground by the Xishan Army many times before, but he was defeated by the Xiang Army.You must know that although the Jiaozhi area is rich in elephants, there are no elephants in Guangnan.

But what is interesting is that many generals in the elephant army of the Xishan Army are women. For example, Pei Thi Xuan, the younger sister of Nguyen Quang Binh's queen Pei Thi An, commanded a detachment of more than a dozen elephants.

At noon, the heavy fog began to dissipate, and Wang Yuan conveniently led the fleet back to Hoi An.After this battle, due to heavy losses, Nguyen Quang Binh led his army back to the front line of Hai Van Ridge in the north of Hoi An, reorganized the team, and prepared troops.

On the other hand, in Hoi An, when the Tang people in the city saw a large number of corpses of the Xishan army floating down from the upper reaches of the Qiupan River twice, they were all shocked by the ferocity of the Northern Navy. They began to paint those colorful faces of Sauron The soldiers are called "magic army".

On February 2, the Thor and Thunder, which had completed their fuel supply, headed south to Con Son Island together. They would join the Quang Nam Navy and attack Binh Thuan Province together.

When they saw Jinglei, which was twice the size of Thunder God, whether it was the French on "Fengfei" or He Xiwen's team, their eyeballs dropped again.The Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Marie Dayot, who was the commander-in-chief of the Guangnan Navy, kept crossing his chest, admiring that the Thunderbolt was a miracle. Can dominate the ocean.

On February 2, the Northern Navy began shelling from south to north, from Fumeixun, Luoyixun, and Malihaikou all the way, and then He Xiwen's troops began to land and attack the city.The cannons on the Thunder God and the Jinglei made the Xishan Army all over the coast flee. The officials who defended the city had no choice but to offer their cities and surrender.

At the same time, the Guangnan army, which had already been prepared, also attacked from land, and went north along the coastline, quickly taking over one town after another.

On March 3, the Beihai Navy arrived at Fanli Haikou.The local navy fought bravely, but the Thor fired only two shots and then dispersed.Two days later, the city of Phan Thiet, which was only 6 miles away from the sea, was shelled. The defenders in the city were unable to fight.

The good news came back, and Ruan Fuying, who was in Jiading City, was overjoyed.He has been fighting with the Xishan Army for these years, and he is usually rubbed on the ground by his opponent. He has never progressed so smoothly. The Guangnan Army only lost dozens of people along the way.

In order to get closer to the North Navy.Ruan Fuying immediately accepted the girl from the Chen family who served Deng Fei as a righteous sister, named her "Princess Zhenli", and ordered to build a big house for Deng Fei outside Bagua City, which was comparable in scale to the Guangnan Palace.

After winning Pingshun, He Xiwen once again asked Deng Fei for refuge, and he was ready to showdown with Ruan Fuying.At this time, He Xiwen no longer looked down on the third-rank officials in Guangnan. After hearing Deng Fei's flickering, he planned to give all the black boats under his command to Ruan Fuying for free, and Beihai Town would buy them from Siam instead. The thousand materials Guangzhou Ship returned.

In the face of He Xiwen's sudden move, Ruan Fuying, who was excited, felt as if a basin of ice water had been poured on his head. He was angry and brainless, but there was nothing he could do.In order to show his trust, he didn't let He Xiwen's family members live in Jiading City. Unexpectedly, this move would make the other party's betrayal costless.

But in this way, Ruan Fuying began to be wary of the Mingxiang community in Guangnan.With the support of the Beihai Navy, who knows if there will be any secret conspiracy under these people.After some consideration, he worried that the Chen Shangchuan family, which was the leader of the Tang Dynasty, would follow in the footsteps of He Xiwen, so he wanted to take the eldest daughter of the Chen family as his concubine. The woman politely declined.

"Mr. Zhishan, Lord Ruan valued the beauty of willows, and I am really ashamed of myself. However, my brother Jinan is still in the age of dancing spoons, and there are a group of old and weak women and children in the family who cannot take care of them. What's more, I have already made it clear that when Jinan grows up, he will take over the family business. I then built a nunnery, and since then the ancient Buddha with the blue lamp has passed away."

After the Jiading massacre, the adult men of the Chen Shangchuan family who stayed in Jiading were beheaded by the Xishan army. Except for a few women in the main house, the only male offspring was only five years old at that time, and they could not support the family business at all.The eldest daughter of the Chen family gave up the idea of ​​marrying because of the death of her fiancé. She started to take care of the Chen family's business when she was only 15 years old. Now she is 23 years old.

Zheng Huaide looked at the mistress of the Chen family who was covered with a veil, and his eyes quickly skipped the pair of ivory-white soft clothes. Recalling the first time when he saw this woman, he was as surprised as meeting a Luoshen. sigh.

Thinking about it, the Chen family is in decline, but it is the head of the Tang Dynasty in Jiading after all.It's nothing more than letting the descendants of the Chen family enter the court as officials, and even the old lady of the family is worried about it, which is really shameful.

Zheng Huaide was about to stand up and leave when he heard the hostess of the Chen family say: "Mr. Zhishan, I heard that the North Navy is going to send people to Siam to buy a ship?"

"Mr. Zheng also heard about this matter from Mr. Ziping of Beihai Navy. Originally, Mr. Ruan wanted to take care of one or two, but they have someone on their own. I heard that they are very familiar with the shipyard in Bangkok."

"Oh? Can I ask which one it is?"

"The Zheng family at the mouth of the Pearl River."

The violent military operations of the Northern Navy and the Guangnan Army caught Ruan Wenyue, who was sitting in Japan City, by surprise.The Emperor Ted, who was the first to launch the Xishan Uprising and later gave way to Nguyen Quang Binh, was addicted to wine and sex all day long, licentious and brutal, and made the people under his rule miserable.Hearing the news of the fall of Binh Thuan Mansion, he was shocked and immediately sent Prince Ruan Wenbao to lead the army.

In fact, without the support of Beihai Town, Ruan Wenyue would not be afraid of Guangnan at all, no matter whether it was sea or land.If you still want to sail smoothly with those broken boats, go ahead and dream!
After the Quang Nam Army captured Phan Thiet City, their morale was booming, and everyone was so bullish. The commander-in-chief of the Vanguard Battalion, the imperial envoy Qi Wu, who was in charge of leading the troops, was full of ambition. Leading the army to directly attack Duohetu County, north of Phan Thiet City, completely forgetting the lesson of being beaten by the Xishan Army two years ago.

No matter how bad Ruan Wenyue was, he had to be compared with whom.Beihai Town and the Qing Dynasty could not fight, but it was more than enough to deal with the Guangnan Army.What's more, the Quy Nhon area north of Binh Shun Prefecture is the base camp where the Xishan Army started, with strong troops.So when there was no strong support from the artillery of the North Navy, the Xishan Army repeated what is called "ravaged friction"; as soon as the elephant army composed of sixty elephants showed up, the Guangnan Army began to flee.If Wang Yuanfang hadn't sent a battalion of troops to stop the attack and drive away the Xiang army, maybe even the newly acquired Phan Thiet City would have to be returned.

Ruan Fuying was furious when he heard the news of Wuxing's defeat. He dismissed Wuxing from his position as the leader and recalled him.This person is very cautious in his work. Historically, after Ruan Fuying ascended the throne, he served as Minister of the Ministry of War.

On March 3, Jinglei bombarded the Ganlingxun coastal defense post, and the Marine Battalion landed in a speedboat, quickly occupying the deserted Ganlingao.Then, a large amount of materials and craftsmen were transported to the southwestern tip of Ganling Peninsula to build a camp.He Xiwen's men and a battalion of the Northern Navy will be temporarily stationed here, where the pirates will receive formal training from the Northern Navy while waiting for the arrival of new ships from Siam.

At this time, the change in the situation in Annan also spread to Guangxi. Knowing that the Northern Navy had actually gone to Annan to cause trouble, Guangxi Governor Chen Yongfu immediately sent an urgent request of six hundred miles to the imperial court, and sent someone to report to Li Shijie, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Because of the appearance of Beihai Town, it is correct to say that Zhao Xin made a big disturbance in Guangzhou City, broke into the governor's mansion and captured Sun Shiyi. , but swapped with Li Shijie, Governor of Sichuan.

Li Shijie was old, and he had written to Qianlong many times before, begging to resign and return to his hometown, but this person was so useful that Qianlong was always reluctant.When he heard the news that the Northern Navy was attacking Annan, Li Shijie immediately ordered the Guangxi Green Camp to be on alert, and at the same time dispatched naval forces to patrol the Qiongzhou Strait in case of accidents.

Two years ago, Ruan Guangping defeated the Qing army in the Fuliang River, and the corpses of the green camps in Guangdong and Guangxi were piled up. In the end, the imperial court held his nose and ordered him to go to Beijing to celebrate his birthday. .Although the Beihai Navy is a rebel, they actually went south to clean up the Xishan Dynasty, which made the Guangdong and Guangxi green battalion feel quite disgusted.

Another seven or eight days later, when the Qing army stationed at Zhennanguan learned that the Northern Navy had attacked Hue and looted the imperial city, they were even more happy to have a drink.

Of course, it's impossible to be blatant. Everyone drank secretly without telling Shangguan.Just when they were wondering whether the North Navy would attack Thang Long Mansion next, the Thunder God had already left Hoi An.This trip they will go to the next stop, the Dutch Batavia.

(End of this chapter)