A group of Annan people did not know how long they had been waiting. It was not until the sun gradually moved to the center that they heard the sound of rapid horse hooves, and then saw the dozen or so fast horses that had been sent out to greet them come back at speed, far away.

Those who were far away shouted towards Zheng Gen: "The angels of the Qing Dynasty have arrived, the angels of the Qing Dynasty have arrived!"

The retainers of the Zheng family in Thanh Hoa, who were somewhat impatient in waiting, burst into an uproar with a buzz.

"Why is he an angel of the Qing Dynasty? Isn't he an envoy of the Western Netherlands?"

"Didn't the Qing Dynasty fall? Why did they send envoys here again? Could they be fake?"

"You still don't know, right? The Qing Dynasty did not really die. It was just replaced with a sign of Mongolia. I heard that it went to the Western Regions and India."

"Then why do they come to Annan if they don't just enjoy the blessings in the Western Regions and India?"

"What else can we do? Isn't it just to encourage us to fight to the end with Ming Dynasty?"

"Why? They themselves can't defeat the current Ming Dynasty, why should we let us in?"

Hearing the comments from the people below, Zheng Gen, the old loyal minister of the Later Li Dynasty, couldn't hide the anger on his face. Mr. Zheng was the descendant of Zheng Ke, the founding hero of the Later Li Dynasty. Their Qinghua Zheng family had been here for generations.

He was a loyal minister of the Li Dynasty - although he had killed the king and deposed the lord, he had never tried to replace the Li Dynasty. Moreover, the Zheng family of Thanh Hua had always implemented the "Emperor's Residence in Nanguoshan Henan" passed down by Li Taizu Li Li.

The route put the Li Dynasty in the position of the Southern Kingdom. Even if the country's power is limited, it has to deal with its powerful neighbor in the north. But after dealing with it, it should be called emperor when it should be called emperor, it should accept vassals and vassals, and it should engage in diplomacy.

Diplomacy. Not only does it act like an independent country, it even still regards itself as the Southern Kingdom of China.

Even though the country of Later Li Dynasty had been divided into several parts, the Zheng masters who controlled the Later Li Dynasty still did not really bow to the Northern Dynasty... Even though the Northern Dynasty kept supporting Gaoping Mo and Xuan Guangwu in order to subdue the Later Li Dynasty.

The Zheng family was in trouble with the Zheng family, and the Zheng family was also facing pressure from the Ruan family in Guangnan, but they never wavered.

Why are you so afraid when you hear that the new Ming Dynasty is coming to invade? The worst case scenario is to give up Thang Long temporarily, seize Thanh Hoa in the mountainous area to the west, rely on the mountainous terrain to fight against the Northern Army, and survive until the epidemic breaks out among the Northern Army, even if

Even if we can't win a complete victory, we can still force the Northern Army to negotiate for peace, right?

Besides, there are also Westerners and the Qing Dynasty who went to India to provide assistance to Dai Viet... so the Thanh Hoa Zheng family still has a little chance of winning.

And if the Zheng family of Thanh Hoa can defeat the Northern Army once, they will have the right to take over the Li Dynasty. At that time, even Li Emperor Li Weiji will willingly give up the throne, right?

Thinking of this, Zheng Gen coughed and told the weak-boned subordinates behind him to shut up.

When the people below saw that the old man was angry, they quickly shut up and stopped talking. As soon as they shut up, Mr. Zheng's words came out: "The envoys of the Qing Dynasty came from India on a Dutch ship...

Now the Qing Dynasty still occupies a large area of ​​land from the Western Regions to northwest India. The population and wealth are still greater than before, and the Eight Banners have become 58 and 40 Banners! Moreover, it also has alliances with the Netherlands, England, Portugal, Spain, Rakshasa, France, etc.

The Western powers have formed an alliance. However, the Northern Barbarians (referring to the Ming Dynasty) are arrogant, have too many enemies, and are internally unstable. They are already the public enemy of the world. Now they want to plot against me and Vietnam, which is really a way to die!

Moreover, we, the loyal ministers of the Li family, have been favored by the emperor in this life. Now that the Li family is in trouble, how can we only consider our own safety and honor? For the sake of the country and for the sake of Emperor Li, we will not hesitate even if our bodies are broken to pieces!"

The old man scolded him fiercely. This sixth-generation lord of Thanh Hoa's regime was one of the few loyal ministers who had not committed regicide and deposed his master. Now he was confident in his words of loyalty to Emperor Le.

Of course, in the original history, he still had to complete his own dethronement. In the 26th year of Zhenghe, he forced Li Xizong, Li Weiji, who had been emperor for thirty years, to abdicate. However, after abdicating, Li Xizong

He was not killed immediately, but remained the supreme emperor for eleven years... This Zheng Gen was really a loyal minister of the Li family!

The people below also knew Zheng Gen's loyalty. They became quiet as soon as he scolded them. They all lowered their heads in shame and looked at their feet. Just when they were ashamed, a yellow flag and a red strip of cloth finally appeared on the horizon.

The border was embroidered with a flying dragon with fangs and claws. Then there was a piece of black tassels on a jumping gun helmet. At the end, about fifty or sixty knights wearing yellow cloth armor with red edges were seen, surrounded by

A high-ranking official from the Qing Dynasty wearing a flowered feather and seven or eight foreigners appeared in sight.

Zheng Gen's son Zheng Li quickly raised his telescope and looked around. After looking for a while, he put down the telescope and said, "Father, I saw Campos, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, as well as Ben Gurlitt and General Tropp.

.....There is also a top-notch official from the Qing Dynasty."

Campos, Gurlitt, and Tropp have all been to Thanh Hoa, and Zheng Li was responsible for receiving them, so Zheng Li knew them.

Hearing what his son said, the smile on Zheng Gen's face became even more proud. He smiled and said to his left and right: "It seems that the Dutch and the Qing Dynasty still firmly support our country... As long as there are enough firearms to support us,

I, Dai Viet, can win even if I drag!"

Hearing what Mr. Zheng said, everyone on the left and right showed expressions of sincerity. The Dayue Kingdom used the same method to defeat the three northern powers of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qian Ming Dynasty. Now it uses the same method to defeat the "Hou Ming" government.

Why not? Compared with the situation when the Northern Dynasty was defeated three times before, the firearms have become more powerful now. And as long as Annan can get enough Western firearms, there is no reason why the Zheng family can't hold off.

When everyone was thinking about something good, the cavalry with yellow flags had already surrounded the Qing Dynasty official and seven or eight foreigners to a place only a dozen steps away from them. John Tropp, who had spent several years in Annan, was the first one.

He turned over and dismounted, then walked up to Zheng Gen and Zheng Li with a solemn expression, bowed, and then said: "King Dingnan, Duke Liangjun, are you ready to evacuate Dayue Kingdom?"

His words were translated into Annan dialect by an Annan official next to Zheng Li, which shocked the Zheng family father and son and the Zheng family retainers present.

"Evacuate?" Zheng Lu asked, "Why evacuate?"

General Annan translated this into Dutch.

"The Ming army is about to attack!" Campos took the question and said anxiously, "If we don't leave, it will be too late... Several armed merchant ships from Guangzhou brought us a very serious attack.

The exact news is that the Ming Dynasty Navy has gathered at least a thousand large or medium-sized warships to attack Dai Viet! If these ships are all filled with soldiers and baggage, the number of attacking troops alone will be as many as 150 to 200,000!

"

Tropp then said in an extremely heavy tone: "According to reliable information, this offensive force coming by sea has at least 80,000 desperate warriors recruited from Japan. The remaining troops are mostly from Guangdong and Guangxi.

They are the elite of the Ming Dynasty and should not be underestimated!"

Campos waited for Tropp to finish and then immediately added: "When we passed by Hoi An, we also found many merchant ships of the Nanyang Trading Company of the Ming Dynasty... It is said that they transported hundreds of cannons to the King of Guangnan.

And tens of thousands of flintlock guns. In addition, we also got news that King Guangnan will send an army of 50,000 to the north this time!"

After Campos finished speaking, Daban Gurit continued: "There is also news that the lord Zu Zeqing of Guangxi has joined forces with the Gaoping Mo family and the Xuanguang Wu family, and sent a total of 100,000 troops southward. The army has already entered Gaoping.

!”

After the three people's words were translated into Annan language, all Annan people, including Zheng Gen and Zheng Li, were shocked.

Two hundred thousand plus fifty thousand plus one hundred thousand, that’s an army of 350,000!

Is this too much?

"General, your Excellency the Governor," Zheng Gen still tried to maintain his composure, "The Dutch East India Company must have prepared a lot of Western firearms for us in Dai Viet, right? As long as we have enough Western firearms, we can still drag the war into a protracted war."

As soon as his words were translated halfway, Campos began to shake his head: "No more, no firearms..."

"No? How come there isn't?" This time there was no need for a translator. Zheng Gen also knew what Campos, a foreigner, was talking about.

Gurlit said: "You can't buy it! Now the Christian coalition forces in Europe are fighting against the Tianfang Sect coalition forces, and the arms consumption is amazing! There is a confrontation between the Qing Dynasty and the Mughals in India. Both sides are also buying arms at high prices, so

All the arms produced in the West have been bought by them. The only arms we can buy are products from the Ming Dynasty... But our eight countries are joining forces to fight a trade war with the Ming Dynasty and embargo the weapons and iron tools produced by the Ming Dynasty.

So we don’t have any firearms to provide to Annan, and we don’t have high-quality Guangdong iron materials to provide to Annan..."

Now the Annan people were dumbfounded! Because of the embargo on weapons and iron tools of the Ming Dynasty, they could only use backward matchlock guns to deal with the Ming army's flintlock guns and cannons! And not only did they not have weapons, they didn't even have tools that could be used to make weapons.

Guangdong bin iron (actually crucible iron) is gone.

Who is this damn person embargoing?

"Then...what should we do?" Zheng Li murmured.

The high-ranking official of the Qing Dynasty, Tu Haitu Zhongtang, had been waiting for this sentence for a long time. He immediately stroked his beard and said seriously: "Of course you have the thirty-sixth strategy... stay."

As long as the green mountains are there, we won’t have to worry about running out of firewood!”

Tuhai spoke in Chinese, and both Zheng Gen and Zheng Li could understand it without the need for an interpreter.

Zheng Genyi raised his hand and asked, "I wonder who this gentleman is..."

Tuhai laughed and said: "I am a bachelor of the Baohe Hall of the Qing Dynasty, the minister of the South Study, and the minister of political affairs. Ma Jia. Tuhai came to Annan as an envoy under the emperor's order, and I also brought a gift from the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to the king of Annan.

The imperial edict.”

"It turns out to be the hall in the picture. I have admired it for a long time. I have admired it for a long time."

Zheng Gen had heard of Tu Hai's name, but he didn't know that Tu Hai had abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, so his attitude immediately became more respectful. He then cupped his hands and asked, "I wonder where the Qing Emperor is now? What's the situation like?"

When can I call back?"

In fact, the relationship between Annan Zheng and the Qing Dynasty was not very good, because the Qing Dynasty had always supported the Gaoping Mo family and the Xuanguang Wu family. However, Zheng Zhu still maintained a superficial vassal relationship with the Qing Dynasty through the puppet Li Huang above.

Originally, when the new Ming Dynasty did not provoke Annan, Zheng Gen did not look forward to the return of the Qing Dynasty. But now that the Ming Dynasty has gathered 350,000 troops to destroy the country, Zheng Gen begins to miss the Qing Dynasty... Now

Not only the great powers all miss the Qing Dynasty, but also Annan Kingdom misses the Qing Dynasty!

Tu Hai smiled and said: "Although our Qing Dynasty lost the Central Plains, the country's achievements were not completed. After moving westward, it actually took a turn for the worse. The Qing emperor now went to the Western Regions and northwest Tianzhu, built Beijing in Samarkand, and designated Nanjing as Lahore.

.....We also established the Qing Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Confucian Eight Banners, the Indian Eight Banners, and the Hui Eight Banners. A total of forty elite banners were established. Their troops and horses were strong and even better than before. In addition, our Qing Dynasty also had Mongol and Jinzhang.

Khan, Kushote, Junggar, Bukhara, Khiva, Horqin, Sikh, Rajput and other vassal states. It also formed alliances with the Netherlands, England, France, Rakshasa, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Pope of Rome.

, ranked among the eight Western powers!

King Dingnan, the great emperor sent me to Nanyang this time just to contact the former vassals to fight against the pseudo-Ming... The great emperor knows that you Annan and the pseudo-ming have a feud, and Zhu Heji and

You are determined to retaliate, and I will not let you go. Therefore, I have issued a special edict to your king, asking him to lead his men to board the ships of the Dutch East India Company and take temporary refuge in India when something goes wrong.

It’s nothing to avoid the edge temporarily. As long as your strength is still there, you can fight back with the Qing Dynasty in the future! If you let the Pseudo Ming defeat all your strength, then there will really be no future..."

After Tuhai finished speaking, Campos took over again: "King Dingnan, Duke Liang... This is also what we in the Netherlands mean. The enemy is too powerful. We can only help you retreat for the time being.

Maybe you can leave some people to continue dealing with the enemy, but your main force should still withdraw. Otherwise, if you let the enemy catch them all in one fell swoop, you won't even have the strength to counterattack in the future. The enemy's large fleet is coming soon. Once they land near Thanh Hoa

, then it will be too late to retreat!”

After listening to the words of Tuhai, Campos and others, Zheng Gen and Zheng Li's faces turned pale. Because Tuhai, Campos and others should not say these words in front of so many Zheng family retainers.

talk!

Because the Ming Dynasty's troops were approaching, the Zheng family's retainers were already in panic. Now that Tuhai and Campus were talking about it, how could they think of resisting to the end? Not to mention them, even the Zheng family's father and son were heartbroken.

The people's hearts have gone cold. How can Annan State continue to resist like this? Zheng Gen and Zheng Li both sighed. Just when they were feeling desperate, Tu Hai had already taken out the imperial edict he had drafted to "help Kangxi" and said with a smile: "Dingding"

King Nan, Duke Liang, and the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty have this holy decree... You two should accept it. After accepting it, you will go to India with the Qing Dynasty. I will also make a flag for you when the time comes.
Chapter completed!