Chapter 507: The country of villains is long Qi Qi
Just when Ruan Guangping led his men into Thanh Hoa, the first wave of emergency reports came from various places. From Jiangping in the east to Dong Hoi in the middle, the Taishan Army's water forts along the coast were all attacked by an unknown source.
fleet attack.
Ruan Guangping's first reaction was that Ruan Fuying sent troops for a sneak attack, but he immediately rejected this idea because the season was not right.
You must know that ships in these days have to have favorable winds to sail. Annan has a southwesterly wind every summer and a northeasterly wind in winter. Nguyen Phuc Anh can only attack in summer. Moreover, the terrain of Annam is long and narrow. Whether it is the Tay Son Army heading south or Nguyen Phuc Anh.
To the north, the army must cooperate with land and water. Simply sending out land or water troops will not work at all. At present, with the help of the French, Nan Ruan is training troops and building ships, reorganizing taxation and farming, and its food and grass are completely insufficient to support such a large-scale destruction.
Raid action.
Just when Nguyen Quang Binh rushed to Hue non-stop and arrived at Nghe An Phoenix City to inspect the progress of the project, the second wave of reports came, and now he was really furious.
All the warships in the water camp were burned, the cannons were destroyed, and all the ordnance, supplies and food were burned. What surprised the local officials most was that the fire set by the attackers could not be doused with water. Moreover, some people were away from home during the fire fighting.
If it is too close, it will be splashed by flames, even if you jump into the water, it will not be extinguished. It will not be finished until it burns through the skin and flesh of the person and extinguishes itself. Local officials apologized one after another in the memorial. It’s not that they don’t work hard, it’s just that it can’t be done.
arrive.
Moreover, not only the Xishan Army under his command suffered heavy losses, but also many of the recruited Guangdong pirates were killed; Chen Tianbao's right-hand man, General Mo Guanfu, was also killed. After two years of hard work,
The Xishan navy that was finally scraped together lost most of its troops. Let alone plundering the coast of Guangdong, it would be very difficult for Ruan Phu Anh Anh to attack next year.
Just when Nguyen Quang Binh and his ministers were speculating about who was so vicious, an urgent report from Hue finally made him understand who his opponent was. When he saw the contents of the emergency memorial, Nguyen Quang Binh and he
The minister who went to Chengde suddenly felt his hands and feet numb and his whole body was cold.
Three large ships of unknown origin suddenly appeared in the sea east of Hue the day before yesterday and blocked the mouth of the Xiangjiang River. The enemy came up without saying a word and directly bombarded the Xiangjiang water camp and the coastal defense fort. General Bao Duchou Chen Thien Bao led the naval warships to meet the enemy.
, the boat was sunk in less than an hour, Chen Tianbao died in the battle, and the rest of the navy was beaten to a pulp by the intensive artillery fire from the opponent's boat, so they had to escape into the Xiangjiang River.
The terrible thing is that neither the forts on the shore nor the cannons on the warships can hit the invading enemies at all, and can only be beaten passively. Whether it is the elephant army or other troops, the corpses blown up by the opponent's artillery fire are scattered all over the field.
The most terrifying thing is a large sailless ship in blue and white with the word "Thunder" written on the bow. It is equipped with a huge cannon that can hit the Imperial City of Hue directly from a distance of more than 20 miles; and
Several shots were fired in an instant without stopping.
At present, the gate of the imperial city, Jin Hua Hall, and Guang Hua Hall have all been blown down, and the city walls have been damaged in many places. The crown prince Ruan Guangzhen and the two queens have gone to the Baoshan Temple outside the city to take shelter under the protection of the ministers. At this moment, Hue City is already in chaos.
The people took their families and left the city to escape. Grand Master Pei Dexuan and Zhongshu ordered Chen Wen to ask Queen Pei for instructions and were preparing to send people to negotiate.
After being reminded by his subordinates, Ruan Guangping, the God of Thunder, immediately thought that this was the town of Beihai where troops came to Dagokou last year and defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was unable to fight back. It was really unexpected! It was far away in the bitter cold land outside the pass.
Beihai Town ignored the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but actually traveled thousands of miles to come to visit him.
In a palace in Phoenix City, Ruan Guangping was trembling with anger and said angrily: "What on earth is going on?! We have no contact with the North Sea pirates, why did they come to Hue and destroy my imperial city?!"
Wu Wenchu, a prince who accompanied him to Chengde, reported: "I think that Nan Ruan and Beihai pirates have colluded, so I raised troops in our court."
The other ministers looked at me, and I looked at you, and then they all lowered their heads. It's not that they didn't want to express their opinions, the problem was that no matter who was present, they didn't understand Beihai Town at all.
What they heard in the capital were all rumors. Officials of the Qing court would not tell them such embarrassing things, and the folk rumors were all myths. All the pirates in the North Sea knew sorcery and could travel eight hundred times a day.
, travel thousands of miles at night, like to eat Rakshasa ghosts alive, etc.
Besides, what Wu Wenchu said was just speculation, without evidence!
Ruan Guangping thought that if Beihai Town really colluded with Ruan Phuc Anh, then he would have no choice but to run to Thang Long Palace. It was hundreds of miles away from the sea, and the cannons of the Beihai pirates would definitely be out of reach. Although he could go from the sea through the Red River and Taiping River
We went upstream, but the other party's big ship couldn't sail into the Red River no matter what.
Although Fenghuang Zhongdu is good, like Hue City, it is only twenty miles away from the sea. The North Sea Pirates' cannon can hit Hue Imperial City, so naturally it can hit here.
Thinking of this, he said to Ng Wen Chu: "Draw up the decree. Order Nguyen Wen Xun to lead two thousand soldiers and horses to protect the queen, the prince and Taishi Pei to go to Thang Long Mansion. Order Chen Guangyao as the general, mobilize the soldiers and horses to go north to protect Thang Long Mansion! Order
Vu Van Yong immediately investigates Nguyen Phuc Anh’s movements.”
Wu Wenchu bowed to accept the order, and then said: "How will your majesty arrange it here?"
After all, Ruan Guangping was born right away. He dared to fight with the Qing army on the Fuliang River. He was a bit brave. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "I am sitting in Phoenix Zhongdu, waiting for the news before making a decision!"
On the sea twenty miles east of Hue City, three large ships of the North Navy were lined up, whether it was the two D30s raised high on the Thor, or the 75mm guns exposed in the gun windows of Beihai No.1 and No.2.
Millimeter guns all look murderous and frightening.
In the past few days since the bombardment began, as the imperial city was bombarded and severely damaged, the people in Hue City fled out of the city to take shelter, while the fishermen along the coast did not dare to go fishing at all. The soldiers and horses of the Taishan Imperial Court learned from the Northern Navy
After the artillery bombardment, the large group of troops evacuated westward to protect the prince and queen of Baolin Temple. Only a few sentries were left along the coast to monitor the movements of the Northern Navy at all times.
Whether it is the ministers and generals of the DPRK or the common people, what they are most worried about right now is whether the North Korean Navy will send troops to land and loot the city of Hue.
At this moment, in the conference room of the Thor, Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang were negotiating with the envoys sent from Hue City.
"Two generals, Grand Master Pei asked Naizi to tell you that you should not fire any more cannons into the city to avoid contaminating the lives of the people."
"Our country has always admired China. Last year, it fought with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and defeated them. Why did you invade our border and kill our soldiers for some unknown reason?"
One of the two people talking is Zen Master Xingquan, an eminent monk from Linji Sect in Annan. In the first year of Qianlong's reign, he went to Qingyun Temple in Dinghushan, Guangdong to seek Dharma, so he speaks Chinese very fluently. The other is from Xishan Dynasty.
Ruan Wenming, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, once served as a member of the Xishan Dynasty’s envoy to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to seek peace.
Deng Fei said expressionlessly: "That's wrong. I would like to ask you two, apart from the Imperial City, have we bombarded other places in the city?"
"Uh..." Xingquan and Ruan Wenming were speechless. In their opinion, this thing was quite magical. The North Navy's cannons fired very accurately.
All the cannonballs in Hue City were in the Imperial City, and there were none anywhere else in the city.
Ruan Wenming, on the other hand, has fought in the war, and he also participated in the Qing-Vietnam War. In his understanding, it is common in these days to attack cities and fire artillery to injure innocent people. No one can guarantee where one's own artillery will hit;
Besides, cannonballs are made of iron balls, and they will jump when they land!
That's not right...the North Pirates' cannonballs don't bounce, they explode when they hit the ground, and they explode in a large area.
Just listen to Deng Fei continue: "I advise you two, stop talking about your admiration for China. In the past two hundred years, you have admired enough! If nothing else, the borders of Guangxi and Yunnan have been encroached upon by you.
How to calculate the territory?”
As soon as these words came out, Ruan Wenming's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately realized that these people in Beihai Town could never be kind. He blurted out without thinking: "That was given to us by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty!"
"Rewarded?" Deng Fei sneered, stared into Ruan Wenming's eyes and said: "What's going on with Nanlang and Celery Pond? What's going on with cattle, sheep, butterflies, Puyuan and other places? And the Sixth Village of Kaihua Prefecture
!Don’t think that we don’t know anything because we are far away!”
When Ruan Wenming heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. But Xingquan next to him was confused.
During the Qing Dynasty, the main conflict between Annan and China was the border issue. Like the Li Dynasty, since the south was surrounded by the sea, they could only pursue the northern territory. But unlike the Li Dynasty, which was beaten up by Hou Jin, Annan's
But it was much more blatant. The Li Dynasty relied on playing word games and using geographical name differences to steal the chicken; Annan would first rob openly as long as the Manchu Qing Dynasty was unstable or there was chaos in the northwest, and then write a letter to ask for it.
It is said that from the Tang Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, the location of the Sino-Vietnamese border has not changed, with the Dachushu River as the dividing line. It starts from Qinzhou in Guangdong in the east, from Nanning, Taiping and Zhen'an in Guangxi to Lin'an and Guangnan in Yunnan in the west.
, Kaihua Prefecture, with a total length of more than 1,800 miles. However, when the Ming and Qing Dynasties changed, the Li Dynasty at that time felt that there was an opportunity and intended to take advantage of it.
Regardless of whether it was the Li Dynasty, the Mo Dynasty or the later Xishan Dynasty, they all adhered to one "principle", which was to inherit the territory of the heyday of the Li Dynasty after Annan as the basis for inheritance.
The territory, no matter how it was repeated or who it belonged to, must be included in its own territory. This included the North Vietnam land that was taken back by Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, after he destroyed the Hu Dynasty.
It is precisely because of this that from the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the late Qianlong period, whether it was the Li Dynasty, the Mo family, or the later Xishan Dynasty, they repeatedly carried out various activities in the border areas of Yunnan and Guangxi, constantly eroding Chinese territory.
I think that when the Qing army went south, the Qing court appeased Annan, but in order to obtain the orthodox status of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chao did not respond. Do you think he was sympathizing with China and firmly supporting the Yongli regime that had just come to power?
In fact, the Li Dynasty clearly saw the defeat of the Southern Ming Dynasty. The so-called "Ming Dynasty people fled south and the situation was in dire straits, so the one who hopes to save our country is Xinxi." They wanted to use the name given by the Ming Dynasty to seek for something that had not been done before.
The Qinzhou caves were returned to the Ming Dynasty, and even Guangdong wanted to annex them.
At that time, the Gaoping Mo family, who was only living in a corner, even invaded Guangxi many times under the banner of helping the Southern Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and was dealt a blow by the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty successively.
When the San Francisco Rebellion broke out, Kangxi ordered the Li Dynasty to send troops to help suppress the rebellion, but the then king Li Weizheng just waited and watched the situation develop. It was not until the Qing army's victory in the eighteenth year of Kangxi that Li quickly wrote a letter expressing his allegiance.
Generally speaking, during the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, Annan wrote to the Manchu Qing Dynasty many times to propose territorial claims, but they were all rejected by the Qing court, so he could only play dirty tricks. If the local officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty found out, they would
Playing rogue; if not discovered, it becomes theirs.
On the contrary, during the Yongzheng period, Gao Qizhuo, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Ertai later invaded and occupied the Six Villages of Kaihua Prefecture due to Annan, and brazenly sent troops to take back Dulong, Nandan and other places between the Da and Xiaoshu Rivers, and established new boundary monuments.
, set up flood control camps. As a result, because Yongzheng sent troops to the northwest, in order to calm the trouble, he opened his eyes to the so-called "respectful" Annan and rewarded the 40 miles of territory occupied by the opponent to the Li Dynasty.
Do you think Annan will burst into tears with gratitude? No way!
In fact, starting from the Li Dynasty, the emperors and ministers of Annan had already understood that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were very proud of themselves and claimed to be the supreme kingdom of heaven. As long as they recognized themselves as vassals, spoke humbly, and were obedient on the surface, the Manchu and Qing emperors would always be more graceful.
. Ruan Guangping chose to fight hard in the early stage, and took the initiative to surrender and pay tribute in the later stage. This was exactly the purpose.
After the Thunder God arrived at Dagong, Ruan Guangping heard the news and went around the capital to inquire about the details of Beihai Town. When he vaguely learned the rumors that Beihai Town had defeated the Qing army several times, he felt that an opportunity was coming.
Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty was busy dealing with Beihai Town, he would make every effort to please Qianlong, who was so happy with his success. When the Qing government was busy deploying troops to deal with the north, it would definitely have no time to take care of it and could only hold its nose and tolerate his encroaching behavior.
When the Northern Navy attacked from the north to the south, he would send troops to the north and continue to occupy the Han Dynasty in the name of regaining the Han Dynasty's rivers and mountains.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The purpose of Zhao Xin's expedition to Annam this time is to kill the chicken of the Tay Son Dynasty to defeat the Nguyen Phuc Anh regime in the south. At the same time, through the attack on Hue City
The crusade will pave the way for getting back the land that was lost during the Kangxi and Yongzheng eras. If Nguyen Phuc Anh is still ready to take action later, then he doesn't mind pushing the border to Thanh Hoa.
At this time, Wang Yuanfang also spoke: "In addition, your king also recruited Guangdong pirates, provided ships with weapons, granted official positions, and robbed ships along the coast of Guangdong to supplement the state..."
"This is an unfounded slander! Those people voluntarily defected to our court, and my king gave them official positions to wipe out the remaining evildoers of Nan Ruan!"
Seeing Ruan Wenming's furious look, Wang Yuanfang smiled and said: "Haha, we have evidence, both witnesses and physical evidence are there!"
In the process of attacking various military water strongholds in Xishan, the Northern Navy successively seized a large number of seals, passage tokens and edicts issued by the Xishan court to pirate leaders. Ruan Guangping even followed the example of the French and opened a large number of seals stamped with the Xishan court.
A permit for plundering from the Great Seal.
"We don't know how you are going to attack Nan Ruan. But your robbery business along the coast of Guangdong is quite impressive!"
After Wang Yuanfang finished speaking, he slammed the table, which startled Ruan Wenming.
Deng Fei stood up and said: "Go back and tell your Grand Master Pei to put away your dirty thoughts! If you want us to withdraw our troops, you can sign a contract and promise not to recruit Guangdong pirates again, and return to the south of the Dashu River!"
Ruan Wenming was almost dumbfounded, and after a while he said calmly: "You, you... are anti-Qing people."
"Does Beihai Town's rebellion against the Qing have anything to do with you? Stop thinking about the good things about snipe and clam fighting! No matter what happens between us and the Manchu Qing, I will spit out the land we have invaded before."
Wang Yuanfang also stood up and said: "I'll give you two days to discuss it. If there is no result after two days, we will continue to bombard the palace, and then go north to bomb the Phoenix Central Capital. We have dealt with the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, do you think you will be stronger than the Manchu Qing?"
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Ruan Wenming felt that he could persist a little longer, so he frowned and said: "Although our country is small, it is not a country that can be bullied! The battle at Fuliang River is not far away."
"Have some backbone!" Deng Fei stretched out his thumb and said with a smile: "After we blow up Phoenix Central City, we will go to Jiading to talk to Ruan Fuying. I think he will be happy to see us off!"