Thanh Hoa is located at the confluence of Ma River and Chu River. The mouth of the river after the confluence of these two rivers is the outlet to the sea, which is only twenty miles away from Thanh Hoa City.
The 100,000-strong army under the command of Gao Pingshi has already reached the front line of Ma River. The main force of Zheng Ni of the Le Dynasty not only abandoned Ninh Binh directly, but also retreated all the way across Ma River and began to build a defense line along the river to defend Thanh Hoa.
It was impossible for a hundred thousand troops to gather together, so when going south, Gao Pangshi sent the Cen Ling tribe alone to the Huichun direction of the upper reaches of Majiang River in the west of Henan, cutting off the connection between Thanh Hoa and the Le Dynasty north of this line.
After Ruan Juan attacked Qinghua, he did not dare to stay at the gate of Qinghua City. He knew that Zheng Song must return for reinforcements, so he immediately turned around and left after attacking Qinghua, also retreating to Huichun.
The order Ruan Juan received was to serve as the new deputy general of the Right Army of the Southern Expedition, to assist the chief general of the Right Army, Cen Ling, and to obey the latter's command, but Gao Pragmatic also gave him the power to report independently.
Ruan Juan only had 15,000 men. Although he was able to defeat Qinghua with one blow, he still lost more than 1,000 people. Including other losses on the road, he now only has 13,000 men in hand. With nearly 30,000 troops, he still lost more than 1,000.
In front of Cen Ling, being a deputy general is not a grievance.
Besides, what can he do if he doesn't accept it? His home is in Thang Long, and all his family members are in Thang Long City. Now everyone is a hostage in the hands of Gao Pragmatic. How can he still rebel?
What's more, rebellion is not something he can achieve with the few troops he has. It is better to continue to be a loyal minister. No matter whose Annan is Annan in the end, he feels that with his reputation as a good fighter, he will not lose his job.
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Being able to surrender is already a blessing. If you don’t believe it, just look at Li Ni and Zheng Ni. After they returned to Qinghua, they immediately sent people to Shenglong, hoping to see Gao Gong, the censor of Guangxi. Their purpose was also very clear, which was to recognize him.
Coward...
However, Gao Jintai ignored him at all and treated him as a traitor. Without receiving Zheng Song's envoy, he sent someone to ask the envoy to go back and deliver a message: Either tie his hands and come to Shenglong to plead guilty, and everything will be settled; or he can wash his hands.
With his neck clean, he waited for the Allied Forces to behead him during the southern expedition and pass it on to Yanjing.
Zheng Song had no way to retreat - Mo Maoqian was able to surrender because his ancestors had surrendered. He was originally the commander-in-chief of Annan, but who was Zheng Song? The Ming Dynasty did not recognize any of his status. If he did, he would be a traitor.
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Rebellious ministers can only die.
So Zheng Song could only give up his illusions and prepare for war.
But compared to the current situation a month ago, it was completely reversed.
The enemy forces he faced face to face were more powerful than before: Gao Pangshi's headquarters currently has two armies: land and water. Among them, the army has 5,000 Gao family servants, 50,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers, and Annan who were reorganized from the former Mo Yulin tribe and Shenglong garrison.
There are 30,000 servants of Mo Dunrang's tribe, 30,000 of Annan's servants of Mo Yulin's tribe, and 15,000 of Ruan Juan (made up by the 2,000 people reorganized by Cen Ling and Shenglong), a total of ten
Thirty thousand troops.
As for the naval force, it is jointly composed of the Jinghua Fleet and the Mo Dynasty Navy, with more than 300 large and small ships (many small boats of the Mo Dynasty were eliminated and only slightly larger warships were incorporated), and nearly 20,000 people (the ships of the Mo Dynasty)
There are few but many people, and some of them are "Marine Corps" in nature, which is different from the Jinghua fleet.)
In other words, Zheng Song now has to face the siege of 150,000 troops.
The situation was already very bad, and something made it worse. Nguyen Huang, who had been driven further south to Hue by his father Zheng Jian, suddenly withdrew the Hue army that had been assigned to Zheng Song to help him fight. It was obvious that he was not optimistic about Zheng Song.
It means loose.
I would like to introduce this Nguyen Hoang. He is the second son of Ruan Gan, and Ruan Gan was the powerful official who escaped from Thang Long after Mo Theng Dung usurped the throne, found a descendant of the Li family and assisted him in establishing the later Li Dynasty.
In the 20th year of Jiajing's reign, Ruan Gan was poisoned and killed by a surrendered general of the Mo army in the camp. After that, the real power of the Li Dynasty court fell into the hands of Ruan Gan's son-in-law Zheng Jian, and everything could be decided cheaply and then reported.
After Zheng Jin was enthroned, Li Zhuangzong entered Thanh Hoa. Since then, the Le Dynasty has used its stronghold in Thanh Hua to confront the Mo Dynasty from north to south for decades to this day. Zheng Jin used the emperor to command the princes, and was nominally the right minister of the Li Dynasty.
But the Li Dynasty court was actually the possession of the Zheng family.
Ruan Gan's two sons, Ruan Wang and Ruan Huang, were also skilled in martial arts and were hated by Zheng Jian. Ruan Wang was the left prime minister and was suppressed and ostracized by Zheng Jian, and was eventually killed. Ruan Huang was in panic all day long and decided to retire due to illness.
In order to dispel Zheng Jian's wariness, he also sent someone to ask Ruan Bingqian for advice. Ruan Bingqian told him: "The Hengshan area is home to all generations."
The so-called Hengshan refers to the Hue and Guangnan areas, which was the southernmost point of the Annan border at this time, but only reached the central part of Vietnam in later generations. The forest here is dense, with long mountains running through the entire territory, rivers and valleys criss-crossing, and mountains
Between it and the ocean is a fertile plain.
Nguyen Huang's plan of Ruan Bingqian was to break away from Zhengjian's control and regard the south of Hengshan as a new world. Through his sister Ruan Yubao, he requested his brother-in-law Zhengjian to allow him to leave the town of Hue.
At that time, Hue and Quang Nam had just experienced war, and the situation was not clear. Zheng Jian's power was beyond his reach. Many locals even crossed the sea and headed north to Mo Chao. Therefore, Zheng Jian felt that he could just throw this hot potato to Nguyen Huang.
So Zheng Quan suggested to Emperor Anh Tong of Le Emperor: Hue must be guarded by good generals, and it is better to use Nguyen Huang to guard Hue, and it is the horn of each other with Guangnan. Anng Tong is just a puppet, so he naturally agrees to his request.
In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Ruan Huang left the town of Hue. In the first year of Longqing, Zheng Jian recalled the general soldiers of Guangnan and ordered Ruan Huang to concurrently lead Guangnan. He should hand over 400 kilograms of silver and 500 pieces of silk as tribute every year.
This was Zheng Jian's mistake of letting the tiger return to the mountain, which allowed Ruan Huang to stay away from the forefront of the war between the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Nguyen Hoang relied on immigrants and prisoners from the north to develop Quang Nam and Hue. In just a dozen years, Huan and Quang became a place where "the market has no price, people do not steal, and merchants and ships from all countries gather together".
Although the Mo Dynasty attacked Hue in the fifth year of Longqing, and there were bandits in Huan and Quang from time to time, Nguyen and Huang successfully defeated or repelled them, making the southern region a relatively stable rear area. On the other hand, in the north, the plague
As the war continued, refugees from the north continued to pour into the south, and the capital of the Nguyen-Huang independent regime was constantly enriched.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Zheng Song became the second generation leader of the Zheng family, although he knew that Ruan Huang wanted to separate the south, because the Mo family was still there, there was nothing he could do to stop him. He just tried his best
Stay deterrent.
Ruan Huang is also a very tolerant person. At least in the eyes of outsiders, he behaves very respectfully. Not only does he turn over the silver and silk as usual, but he also always sends a troop of troops to follow Zheng Song to fight.
But now, Ruan Huang suddenly withdrew this army of about 10,000 people, and his intention became clear again.
In fact, Ruan Huang's move was not just that he acted according to the prevailing situation, but that Gao Pragmatic sent him two letters.
One letter was written by Gao Jingshi himself, clearly telling him that the Ming Dynasty could not tolerate Annan's continued separatist situation, and that he had found out that the assassination of himself and the chieftains of Guangxi was not the one instigated by Mo, but someone sent by Zheng Song.
Regarding this kind of death-seeking behavior on Tai Sui's head, he is very pragmatic and "will definitely punish him" and hopes that Ruan Huang will not make a mistake.
The other letter was written by Ruan Binglian. In the letter, he carefully analyzed the situation to Ruan Huang and concluded that Annan would definitely be unified in this battle, and the Southern Dynasty had no chance of survival because it had offended the Ming Dynasty. At this time, it was already certain death to follow the Zheng family.
In this situation, it was not even possible to sway left and right. We could only draw a clear line with the Zheng family immediately. In the future, Hue would be promoted, and the two Xuanfu lands in Guangnan and Guangnan would surrender. "Maybe it can be saved."
Gao Pragmatic's threat was no joke, and Ruan Binglian's analysis was something that Ruan Huang would never believe, so he could only reluctantly give up on separatist parties, and even tried to accumulate strength for the future.
However, he was still a little hesitant about surrendering immediately.
In other words, there is a bit of luck - what if Gao Pragmatic loses? What if after the defeat, Ming feels that it is not worthwhile to fight Annan and shrinks back again?
Therefore, it is not impossible to surrender, but Ruan Huang decided to take another look, at least until the Battle of Thanh Hoa is over.
Ruan Huang's 10,000 troops withdrew. Zheng Song did not dare to stop him at this time, or in other words, he did not have the strength to stop him. He could only watch helplessly as his army of 80,000 people, which he had managed to gather, turned into 70,000 troops.
Half of the "150,000" army mobilized for this battle.
In February 100,000, the main force of Gao Pangshi's headquarters arrived at Dong Feng, north of Thanh Hoa City, on the other side of the Ma River, with more than 80,000 troops (some wolf soldiers were left to garrison Thang Long City), while its navy was stationed in Dong Phong.
In the bay that is only ten miles east of Fengcheng, we can launch an attack at any time to Qinghua, which is twenty miles away from the mouth of Majiang River.
Cen Ling and Ruan Juan's Western Route Army set out from Huichun, captured Zhengcun, Yule, and Zhongli (this is a place name) along the way, and arrived twenty-five miles northwest of Thanh Hoa.
Thanh Hoa City is about to be surrounded by three roads, leaving only one way to survive in the south.
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