As the capital of the Nguyen family in Guangnan, Hue City can be called the classic heroic city of Annan Kingdom. All the buildings in the city are basically modeled after Beijing City. The square city wall is tall and large, with four gates and a moat.<
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This city was built on the bank of Xiangjiang River, close to Yuping Mountain. It was originally a famous land of fish and rice, rich in rice and lotus. Rice was harvested three times a year, and rice was cheap, making it easy to live.
It is a pity that the great Annan Kingdom King Zheng Jie, the Qing capital, was not willing to make it easy for the people of Hue to live in Hue. He wanted to capture this majestic city and realize his dream of unifying Annan, even if there were rivers of blood and millions of corpses.
No matter what.
Zheng Zhenxiong stood on the high building cart, looking through the telescope, and saw the numerous flags of the Ruan army on the North City. He snorted coldly and ordered: "Concentrate all the heavy artillery to the North City and blast them hard!"
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He spent a lot of money to buy a large number of barbarian cannons using blooming shells from the red-haired barbarians.
In this era, the firearms production technology of the Annan people was still relatively advanced. After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of skilled craftsmen fled to Annan, which made Annan's firearms production technology advance rapidly. After the Ming Dynasty conquered Annan, he actually appointed Deng Ming, Chen Jixuan, Li Cheng, etc.
Annan captives made firearms for themselves. Mao Yuanyi's "Military Bei Zhi" says: "When I reached Jiaozhi, I got the magical method, so I set up a special secret practice."
Artillery carts loaded with barbarian artillery and Annanguo's homemade artillery were concentrated towards Beicheng.
Zheng Jun's central army waved the command flag, and Zheng Gen led his army to slowly advance towards Beicheng.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Youjin, the general of the Ruan army in the north city, hurriedly ordered his soldiers to climb to the city from the Tibetan Soldier Cave under the city, and prepared stones, rolling wood, gold juice, wolf fangs, "ten thousand enemies" and other items.
Looking upstairs, Zheng Zhi saw the Ruan troops from Beicheng gathering on the city. He sneered and ordered the artillery fire.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Countless cannonballs rained down on the defenders at the top of the city, causing a mess and countless casualties.
Zheng Jie secretly praised that this barbarian artillery was really useful and must be imitated by gunnery fields at all costs.
"Attack the city", as soon as the sound of artillery stopped, King Qingdu issued military orders on the high carriage, letting the north wind ruffle his white hair, and remained motionless, as if he were a statue of the God of War.
"Dong dong dong!"
Rapid war drums sounded, and the well-trained Zheng Army officers and soldiers, with heavy armor and shield soldiers in front, light infantry pushing ladder carts behind, followed by archers, musketeers, and behind them were catapults and ballistae.
Over the years, the Zheng family's army followed Zheng Zhi in the north and south, and they fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, which can be called "well-trained".
Zheng Gen habitually looked back at the figure of his grandfather standing on the carriage in the middle of the formation, and immediately became more confident. After decades of fighting, Zheng Jie has become the military soul of Zheng Jun.
"Bang bang bang", Zheng Jun's catapults began to throw stone bombs at the top of the city.
"Bah bang bang", the crossbow started firing, and a heavy crossbow shot toward the city head.
Zheng Jun started to charge with shouts, and the shouts of killing were loud.
Archers and gunmen, in groups of three or five, rush to the blind spot of the artillery under the city wall, shoot the enemies exposed on the wall, and cover the siege of the city by their own troops.
Under the cover of the carriages and heavy-armored shield soldiers, ladder vehicles climbed up the city wall one after another, and Zheng Jun ascended the city via ladders. In addition to ladders, there were also a large number of wooden ladders. These wooden ladders were relatively simple, and it was difficult to break the city with them.
Mainly used to distract the defenders.
Zheng Gen lost his temper, and even ignored his noble status and climbed to the city in person. Seeing Wang Changsun rushing to climb the city, Zheng Gen was all excited, shouting and climbing to the top of the city, like a war monster that knew no pain.
The Zheng armies on the east, west, and south sides, also under the command of Zheng Kai, Ruan Youdeng, and Qi Puzhong, fiercely attacked the city wall.
The Ruan Army in Beicheng first suffered heavy casualties under the artillery fire of the Zheng Army. As soon as the sound of artillery stopped, the Zheng Army came and was unable to react. There was a gap in the defense.
Zheng's troops boarded the city one after another, and Zheng Gen also led his bodyguards to seize the city wall. Suddenly, he heard wind blowing in his head, and Ruan stabbed Hu Yu's spear.
What a good Zheng Gen, he listened to the wind to identify his position, turned his head, avoided the spear, and killed Hu Yu with a backhand knife.
Zheng Jun cut down many Ruan Jun flags in succession, and cheers continued.
"It's so easy to break the city?"
On the carriage, Zheng Jie saw it clearly and was overjoyed. He murmured: "My ancestors bless you!"
When the Ruan army guard Ruan Youjin saw the ferocity of the Zheng army's attack, he could not help but be frightened and wanted to retreat into the city. General Chen Qi stopped him and said, "General, this is the Ruan family's clan, and this is the royal capital. If you withdraw, the centuries-old inheritance of our ancestors will be wiped out."<
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"But Zheng's army has already entered the city, what can we do?"
"The last general is willing to lead his army to delay Zheng's army. The general will quickly catch the gunman, gather in formation, and shoot the enemy."
Ruan Youjin nodded in agreement.
"The Lord is worried about the humiliation of his ministers. How dare we not fight to the death after being so favored by the wise Lord? Follow me and kill." Chen Qihu roared and led his 300 troops to rush towards the Zheng army that had already entered the city. He killed several groups of Zheng army and dispersed them.
With such bravery, Zheng's troops ascended the city and their momentum stagnated.
Zheng Gen was furious, "Today there is no enemy but me, and I am invincible. Let me kill you." He faced Chen Qi and killed him.
Seeing how brave Wang Changsun was, Zheng's army regained its morale and attacked Ruan's army regardless of life or death.
After fighting for half an hour, Chen Qi could not resist and was killed by Zheng's army.
Chen Qi's sacrifice gave Ruan Jun's gunmen time to form an array. Ruan Youjin put together hundreds of gunmen, arranged them into three formations, with six rows in each formation, and sent them to various parts of the north city. When they encountered the dense Zheng army, they
Shoot them with guns. This linear tactic was learned from the Portuguese. Just like there were many Dutch instructors in the Zheng army, there were also many Portuguese instructors in the Ruan army.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Row after row of Ruan troops raised their muskets and fired at the densely populated areas of Zheng troops. They squatted down; squatted down and fired??
This tactic was very effective in defending the city and caused heavy casualties to the Zheng army.
"Wang Changsun, be careful." The guards knocked Zheng Gen down, but he was riddled with bullets.
"Please, Wang Changsun, please retreat quickly," the other guards begged.
Zheng Gen saw that most of Zheng's troops who had ascended the city had been shot dead. Knowing that it was impossible to break the city today, he sighed deeply and with the desperate cover of his guards, he pulled down the city wall.
Although Hue was not captured today, Zheng Zhi, who has experienced many battles, knows in his heart that according to this strategy, Hue city will be captured within a month.
He stepped off the carriage and summoned the generals: "Be prepared, the Ruan army will attack the camp tonight."
Zheng Kai was very surprised, "Brother, how did you know that Ruan Jun would attack the camp tonight?"
Zheng Jie smiled and said, "Today our army attacked so fiercely that the Ruan army was pushed into a desperate situation. Cattle and sheep will kick people when they are anxious, not to mention the Ruan family in Guangnan with big trees and deep roots? Tonight, they will come." p>
A veteran who has been fighting for a lifetime, his battlefield intuition is very accurate.
Nguyen Lord Ruan Phuc saw that Zheng's army was attacking very fiercely today and almost captured Hue City. He urgently summoned Ruan Youyi, Ruan Youjin, and Ruan Phuoming to discuss the matter.
"Now that the city of Hue is in danger, do you have any good ideas?"
"Wise Lord, the Zheng army is so arrogant today that they must underestimate our army. I suggest that we attack the enemy camp at night and break it." Ruan Youyi offered advice.
Ruan Fulin felt that what Ruan Youyi said was reasonable, so he ordered Ruan Youyi and Ruan Youjin to attack Zheng's army at night.
At the beginning of Haishi (9 p.m.), he sneaked in front of Zheng Jun's camp and suddenly rushed in. Unexpectedly, Zheng Jun had already prepared and set up a fake front camp, but secretly set up an ambush in the middle camp.
As soon as the two generals arrived at Zheng's stronghold, Zheng's generals Zheng Kai, Zheng Gen, Ruan Youdeng, and Qi Puzhong attacked from all sides, and Ruan's army was in chaos.
Ruan Youyi and Ruan Youjin fled back to Hue in embarrassment, losing more than ten thousand soldiers.
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The city of Hue was filled with gloom and mist. Nguyen Phuc Bin's eyes were red, and he no longer had the high spirits he had when the war started.
Looking around at the generals, he said: "Unexpectedly, the Ruan family's century-old foundation will be buried in my hands." He drew his sword and wanted to kill himself.
The generals are eager to dissuade you.
"Good Lord, victory or defeat is a normal matter for military strategists. I have a plan to turn defeat into victory," Ruan Phuc Ming said.
"Oh, what's the plan?"
Ruan Phuc Bin's eyes regained some sparkle, and he looked at Ruan Phuc Ming expectantly.
"Wise Lord, didn't the Ming Dynasty say that as long as we are willing to cede Gia Lai and Kun Hao provinces, they will send troops to rescue Hue? You might as well respond."
"This~"
Ruan Phuc Bin hesitated, "How can I give away the land of Quang Nam Kingdom for free? How can I see my ancestors after a hundred years?"
Ruan Phu Ming was anxious, "The wise Lord is wrong! Gia Lai and Kunhao are the territories of the Gia Lai people, not our Guangnan Kingdom. The land is mountainous and the output is limited. Since I captured the two provinces, Jia Lai has
The Lai people are constantly rebelling and our army is exhausted, so it is better to hand over this burden to the Ming army. If the Ming army joins the war, the Zheng family will be defeated. The land of the Jia Lai people ceded by our army can be compensated by the Zheng family. Guangping, Guangzhi
, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, where are the undesirable places? The land of Zheng family is richer than Gia Lai. This is called exchanging poverty for wealth. A wise master will think about it."
After Ruan Phuc Bin listened, his eyes suddenly brightened up. Yes, he only thought about the disadvantages of cutting off the land, but did not think of the advantages. The two provinces of Gia Lai and Kunhao are all mountains, and they are very poor. The people of Gia Lai still sometimes
There is a rebellion in the land, and the taxes collected from the two prefectures are not enough to supplement military expenditures, so I might as well give it to the Ming army. If I defeat the Zheng family, seize Guangping from the Zheng family, and govern all the prefectures in Guang, the gains will be far greater than the losses.<
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As soon as his thoughts changed, Ruan Phuc Bin immediately said to Ruan Phuc Ming: "You go to negotiate with Governor Hu of the Ming Dynasty and tell him that our country of Quang Nam is willing to cede Gia Lai and Kun Hao, but the Ming army must help our army to capture it.
Guangping, Guangzhi Erfu".
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Ruan Fuming took a sea ship to Huaying Mansion and asked to see Hu Zhigong, governor of Annan in the Ming Dynasty. As soon as Zheng Ruan started the war, Hu Zhigong and Yang Wu moved from Qiongzhou to Huaying Mansion in the south of Annan, ready to march into Guangnan at any time.
Hu Zhigong was a scribe who paid great attention to etiquette, enthusiasm and friendliness, and entertained Ruan Fuming thoughtfully. His attitude was so good that Ruan Fuming was flattered.
"What's the purpose of your visit?" Hu Zhi asked with a respectful smile, as kind as a Maitreya Buddha.
Ruan Phu Ming bowed and replied respectfully: "The wise master sent an envoy to ask the Celestial Empire to send troops to assist me in Guangnan. I, Guangnan, would like to dedicate Gia Lai and Kun Hao to the Celestial Empire, but the Celestial Empire must send troops to help me."
The army captured Zheng's Guangping and governed the second mansion of Guang."
Upon hearing this, Hu Zhigong agreed happily, "Yes, as soon as our army takes over the land of Jia Lai and Kun Hao, we will immediately send troops to rescue Guangnan and help your lord capture Guangping and Guangzhi." p>
The negotiation went smoothly, and the Ming and Ruan parties reached an agreement over a cup of tea. Hu Zhigong immediately ordered General Feng Anping to lead an army of seven thousand troops to take over the two houses of Jia Lai and Kun Hao.
After sending Ruan Fuming away, Annanbo Yang Wu asked Hu Zhigong in confusion: "Futai, the emperor's decree is clear. We should suppress the strong and support the weak, get rid of the strongest Zheng family, and weaken the second strongest Ruan family.
Family. But you helped the Ruan family seize the land of the Zheng family. The Ruan family lost the barren Gia Lai and Kunhao, but gained the rich Quang Binh. Wouldn't Quang Zhi become stronger? It is not in line with the will of the Holy One.
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Hu Zhigong laughed loudly, "Bo Annan is such a kind man! I will take Jia Lai and the land of Kunhao first. As for when we will send troops to help Ruan, only God knows!"
