1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 415 Annan Layout ([-])

In 1592, Zheng Song, a general of the Hou Le Dynasty in Annan, defeated the Mo Dynasty in the north, and the Hou Le Dynasty was able to return to Thang Long.At this time, Zheng Song's power was very hot. He took the post of "Marshal of the capital, general state affairs, father and king of peace", and had the power to appoint and dismiss officials, levy taxes, draw men, and govern the people. His status was hereditary, and he was called "Zheng Zhu". As well as receiving envoys, later historians described this situation as "the Li family is the emperor and the Zheng family is in power".

Southern Vietnam was controlled by the Nguyen family. As early as during the confrontation between the north and the south of Le Mo, Nguyen Huang, the son of Nguyen Gan, the minister of the Le Dynasty, invited Zheng Jian to leave the town of Hue because he saw that Zheng Jian was jealous of him. It was 1558 (the second year of Tianyou).Nguyen Gan actively operated in Hue, won the hearts of the people, and developed into the "Ruan Lord" regime in the future.Later, from 1593 to 1600, Ruan Huang assisted Zheng Song in sweeping up the Mo family's forces, but he was still jealous of Zheng Song. At the same time that the officials of the DPRK and China were conquering Zheng Song, Ruan Huang falsely claimed to Zheng Song that he would assist in the hunt for thieves, and took the opportunity to return to Shun. Hua, sent troops to guard Guangnan and control the south.Ruan Huang married his daughter to Zheng Song's son Zheng Bing, and they formed a marriage relationship, seeking reconciliation, but a confrontation between Zheng and Ruan had formed.

In order to unify Annan and eradicate Ruan, Lord Zheng carried out three southern expeditions from 1627 to 1641.The first time (1627, the ninth year of Yongzuo), the second time (1630-1633, the second year to the fifth year of Delong), and the third time (1635-present), but they were all blocked by the Ruan army and could not advance an inch , Zhibujiang (that is, Zhengjiang in Vietnam today).

Since the Ruan clan in Guangnan blocked the southward march of Zheng's army by virtue of the danger of mountains and rivers on land, making it impossible for the Zheng clan to break through, someone suggested to attack the Ruan clan's rear by water, occupy a key point, and then attack from both sides.

If it were two years ago, Lord Zheng (Zheng Bing, the fourth generation leader of the Zheng regime, titled Qingdu King) would not have adopted this suggestion. In 1633, the Zheng family put all their eggs in one basket and launched a large-scale Offensive at sea, but was defeated by Nguyen, and the navy was almost completely lost.

However, the way of heaven is reincarnation. Three years ago, Master Ruan didn't know what medicine he took wrongly, and provoked a southern force who called himself Hanzhou. He wanted to attack the small island occupied by the opponent near Cambodia, but he was defeated by the island twice. , Losing troops and breaking generals.Later, in order to retaliate, the other party attacked the coastal towns of the Nguyen family twice, sinking and capturing countless warships of its navy.Now, the Ruan family's navy has been seriously injured, and it is difficult to pose a threat to the Zheng family.

With such a god-given opportunity, the Zheng family should have dispatched a navy with a large number of landing troops to attack Ruan's side, making it hard for him to care.Four days ago, Zheng Zhaohe, the commander of Zheng's navy, led more than [-] naval warships, heading south along the coastline.When passing through Fuchun, the royal city of the Ruan clan, they met the warships of the Ruan clan. After a fierce battle, both sides lost more than [-] ships. .

More than [-] ships were separated to block the mouth of the Xianghe River to attract the attention of the opposing army.Zheng Zhaohe led the remaining forty or so warships to continue southward, looking for weak spots in the Ruan family's defense, and looking for an opportunity to land.

Zheng Zhaohe is the nephew of Zheng Bing, the real head of the Houli Dynasty. He was appointed as the commander of the Annan Navy five years ago to reorganize and restore Zheng's sea power.After several years of development, Zheng's naval warships have gradually increased to nearly a hundred ships, and there are more than [-] naval officers and soldiers.However, compared to the Ruan family in the south, their strength is still slightly inferior, and their maritime combat capabilities are far inferior to the opponent.

If it hadn't been for the fact that the Ruan family's navy had been defeated and severely weakened by the force called Hanzhou in the past two years, Zheng Zhaohe would not have dared to lead the Zheng family's navy to attack the south.The officers and soldiers of the navy under him have basically never experienced sea battles, and have been hiding on the water of the Red River in Thang Long Mansion (now Hanoi, Vietnam), transporting some supplies.

However, going all the way from the north to the south, I hardly encountered Ruan's naval warships. It was just that when I was in the waters near Fuchun, I fought with the Ruan's navy, and finally relied on the advantage of numbers to force the opponent back to estuary.Come to think of it, the whole Ruan family must have been terrified by the attack of the Zheng family's naval warships, and troops from all over the country would also gather in Fuchun to rescue them.Then, it is very likely that I will successfully land on the rear of the Ruan family with more than 500 troops, occupy a coastal town, and then defend accordingly, and then use naval warships to transport reinforcements one after another to fight with the northern army. Forming a two-sided attack, the Ruan family was finally destroyed in one fell swoop, and Annan was unified.

"Marshal, there are a lot of ships ahead!" Zheng Zhaohe was in a beautiful reverie, when suddenly a naval officer reported to him: "Moreover, the other side has many large ships... suspected to be Western gunboats!"

"Huh?" Zheng Zhaohe was startled when he heard this, and immediately raised his eyes to look forward.I saw dozens of ships clustered two miles away in front, and vaguely saw a huge Western gunboat among them, and the other party seemed to have spotted their navy warship, and was pulling up the sails, turning around and heading this way slowly Come.

"The whole army is on alert!" Zheng Zhaohe ordered loudly: "All ships disperse!...Retreat!"

On this vast sea, these small galleys encountered a few Western gunboats. Not to mention it was difficult to defeat them, they even had very little chance of escaping.Now he can only pray that the other party is not hostile to them. Everyone is passing by each other, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

"It should not be the navy of Guangnan Kingdom." On the Yangwu, Luo Rucheng held up a binoculars and carefully watched the many panicked boats ahead.They didn't seem to come to attack the Hanzhou fleet, but they seemed a little afraid of them. The ships began to scatter, and some turned around and retreated.If the navy of the Guangnan Kingdom saw the Hanzhou fleet attacking its coastal towns, they would have to come up and gesture a few times before retreating in defeat, so as to have an explanation to their superiors.

"Could it be the navy of the Zheng family in the north?" Zhang Wenqi said suddenly: "They come here at this time, presumably they should have the same purpose as us to attack the coastal towns of Guangnan country!"

"It's possible." Luo Rucheng nodded and said, "Are we going to beat them?"

"Their strength is much stronger than this Guangnan country, we can't afford to provoke them." Zhang Wenqi said.

"Then we force them back?" Luo Rucheng asked.

"Shouldn't we send someone over to ask them about their purpose first?" Zhang Wenqi suggested: "It would be bad if they mistakenly think that we are hostile to them. I offended the Annan Ruan family in the first place. It is not conducive to the development of Xinsheng Island."

Luo Rucheng nodded. Hanzhou's current strength is not enough, and it is difficult to project force here. According to the commander's intention, maintain a certain peaceful and friendly relationship with the surrounding forces, and work hard to maintain the balance of forces here.

The Hanzhou Fleet stopped one mile in front of Zheng's Navy, but still maintained an attacking posture, and then a small boat was put down, and an officer rowed towards the Zheng's Navy fleet.

"Are you the Hanzhou people from the far south?" Zheng Zhaohe looked at the pure-looking man in front of him and asked in surprise.

"Yes, we are from Hanzhou." Liang San said loudly, "Which navy are you from?"

"I am the commander of the Navy of the Dayue Kingdom. I was ordered by King Qingdu to come and punish the rebels of the Ruan family." Zheng Zhaohe said with a straight face.

"The rebellious officials of the Ruan family?" Liang San was taken aback for a moment, "Are you also here to fight this Guangnan country?"

"What Guangnan Kingdom?" Zheng Zhaohe said disdainfully: "The Ruan family separatized the regime without authorization and pretended to be a false king.

"Now our Hanzhou is attacking the Guangnan Kingdom, oh, it is the rebellious minister of the Ruan family you mentioned. Don't go any further, go back instead. We are already teaching this rebellious minister for your Dayue Kingdom!" Liang San said .

"If my navy doesn't retreat, what are your plans?"

"Two people are fighting, and the third person is watching with a knife. What do you think we should do?" Liang San felt that this Annan man was so ignorant. It can send you to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

Zheng Zhaohe was at a loss for words, looking at the unscrupulous Hanzhou officer in front of him.

Liang San also raised his head and looked at the other party without any fear.Three years ago, he was still a small flag in Zheng Zhilong's navy, following Chen Hui to intercept and attack Dutch merchant ships in the waters near Xinsheng Island.Later, when the large-scale Dutch fleet came, he and more than 100 Zheng Jun sailors had no time to escape, and took refuge on Xinsheng Island, and were finally incorporated by the Hanzhou Navy.A few years later, I settled down in Hanzhou and started to feel a sense of belonging.

"Oh, by the way, Commander Luo of our fleet asked me to tell you that Hanzhou respects you...Da Viet Kingdom, and is willing to maintain a peaceful and friendly relationship with you. If you are interested, we can also cooperate together. It would be the best to deal with this Guangnan country together, or to do business together and exchange needs." Liang San said.

After hearing this, Zheng Zhaohe softened his face a little. This Hanzhou person is still very particular, knows the general situation, and knows that we should not easily provoke our country of Dayue.However, blocked by them to the sea, they failed to capture the coastal towns of the Ruan family as they wished, and could not return to the king of Qingdu.

"Since this is the case, in order to avoid conflict between you and us, our army will temporarily retreat first." Zheng Zhaohe said: "After you Hanzhou has left, our Navy of Dayue Kingdom will make further calculations."

Zheng Zhaohe thought in his mind that there were more than [-] warships of his own in Fuchun, Ruan's royal city in the north, blocking the mouth of the Xianghe River, and there were large Hanzhou ships attacking its coastal towns in the south, so he simply retreated to the north and attacked the mouth of the Chaqu River. broad sense.At this time, the soldiers who must have been stationed there were either attracted to Fuchun, or were dispatched here. Maybe the defense was empty, so that he could hit him with one blow.

The place attacked by the Hanzhou plundering fleet is called Quy Nhon. It used to be the capital of the Champa Kingdom for five centuries. It was occupied by Annan hundreds of years ago. Now it is a coastal port of Guangnan Kingdom. It is highly recommended by Champa people target of attack.

"I think Zheng's naval warships must have turned their heads to attack other coastal towns in Guangnan." Zhang Wenqi watched many small boats of Annan Zheng's boats turn north, and said with a smile: "I can't say, this time we will If all countries inadvertently join forces to attack, it will cause huge losses to Guangnan Kingdom."

That year, on September 14th of the seventh year of Li Chaoyanghe in Dayue (the [-]th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty), Hanzhou, which is located in the southern mainland, joined Champa. Thousands of troops were sent to attack the important town of Quy Nhon in the south of Guangxi. The four fields will return after seven days, and all the troops in Guangnan are invincible.

On the same day, Lord Zheng of the north also sent a boat division to attack Fuchun, the royal city first, and then Guangyi, defeating the Guangnan army. , Blocking Ruan Jun for more than a month.However, Zheng Jun conquered the southern camp, took advantage of the gap to storm the strong fortifications of the northern border of the Ruan family, defeated several city defenses, and finally broke through the river, and the army approached its important town of Donghai.

Ruan Fulan, the ruler of Ruan in Guangnan, was terrified. He personally commanded the forbidden army in Wangcheng, went north to Donghe, and gathered troops from all the towns in the country here.In addition, he ordered his younger brother, Ruan Fuxi, to lead the army and horses of the towns in the south to quickly attack the Zheng army in general, so as to relieve the opponent's pincer attack.

The situation in Annan changed accordingly.

(End of this chapter)