Dashun has an elite field force of 600,000, but it once fell into the embarrassing situation of having no troops available on the declared war front. The main reason was because of the excessive militarism of Tianfa Emperor Li Laiheng, which caused the Dashun front to be too extended.
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In the first twenty years of the Shizu Dynasty, Dashun used large-scale troops in the four directions of southeast and northwest at the same time, flattening the central part to the west, suppressing the Mongols to the north, expelling the Manchus to the east as far as Japan, and conquering Bengal in the south.
Later, the Western Ming Dynasty fought in Burma and engaged in confrontation with the Zheng family who was entrenched in Taiwan, sometimes suppressing and sometimes pacifying.
Among the four major border troubles, the Zheng family in the southeast was the first to be completely pacified.
However, the surrender of the Zheng family and the establishment of the Nanyang Yanping Company brought not peace to the Dashun subjects, but a new war.
As early as the rise of the Zheng family in the southeast, a large number of pirates in South China came under Zheng Sen's command. Due to the rapid development of the early capitalist economy in Guangdong and Fujian, many people in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian went bankrupt and became hired workers, and then turned to work at sea.
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The prosperous South China Sea trade has made great profits for the large shipowners and merchants in South China, but ordinary shipwrights still live in poverty.
Many of these boatmen who were proficient in navigation skills hijacked ships when they had no livelihood, and became a small group of pirates who robbed merchant ships plying the waters off Guangzhou.
The South China pirates were once strongly supported by the Zheng family. Sometimes, in order to force the Zheng family to surrender, Shun Dynasty officials also adopted a more inclusive attitude towards the South China pirates.
After the Zheng family returned to Dashun, and with the establishment of the Nanyang Yanping Company, Zheng Sen, who changed his name to Li Chixin, suddenly intensified the conflict with the South China pirate group.
Because the Nanyang Yanping Company's greatest interest lies in maintaining the stability of the South China Sea trade routes, this is also Dashun's main interest in the South China Sea.
The South China pirates, who were once allies of the Zheng family, now naturally turned against Yanping Duke Li Chixin. Li Chixin, the surnamed prince of the country, received strong support from the Dashun imperial navy, so he began to use extremely harsh methods to raid the waters off Guangdong.
Clean up pirates in South China.
About a year after the Battle of Jinghai, the combined forces of Zheng's Navy and Shunchao Navy, under the guidance of a large number of internal agents, easily destroyed the main force of South China pirates, plowed through holes and wiped them out.
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The few remaining pirates from South China fled into the Annan Sea to seek refuge.
In Annam at that time, the Hou Le Dynasty and the Mo Dynasty, which had competed with the Ming Dynasty several times for hegemony, had both declined. The regime was dominated by the Zheng regime in the north, which took military power in order to destroy the Mo Dynasty, and the Nguyen regime in the south, which competed with it.
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In the late Ming Dynasty, Zheng Song, the general of the Later Li Dynasty, defeated the Mo Dynasty in the north, and the Later Li Dynasty returned to Thang Long. At this time, Zheng Song was so powerful that he appointed himself "Marshal of the City, Chief Minister of the State, Shangfu King of Ping An", and controlled the appointment and dismissal of officials, taxation, and cadres.
He had equal power to govern the people, his status was hereditary, and he was known as "Zheng Zheng". Emperor Le was only responsible for listening to government affairs and receiving envoys.
The southern part of Annam is controlled by the Nguyen family. As early as during the confrontation between the north and the south of Le Mok, Nguyen Hoang, the son of Nguyen Gan, the minister of the Le Dynasty, invited Zheng Jian to leave Hue on his own initiative because he saw that Zheng Jian was suspicious of him.
At that time, Hue and Quang Nam Province had just experienced war and the situation was uncertain. Many locals even crossed the sea to defect to the Mo Dynasty, which was regarded as "useless" by Zheng Kaun.
Nguyen Hoang actively operated in Hue, won over people's hearts, and gradually consolidated his rule, making Quang Nam Province a place where "markets have no price, people do not steal, and merchant ships from all countries gather together." From then on, Quang Nam Province became a place where merchants from all over the world gathered.
The southern Le Dynasty had a stable rear area, and it continued to absorb civilians fleeing the plague and war from the north of Annan.
In addition, Nguyen Hoang also extended his control southward into the remaining territory of Champa. He periodically sent his troops north to assist the Trinh regime and was at war with the Mo Dynasty for a long time.
In order to compete with the Zheng regime in northern Annam, the Nguyen regime took the initiative to contact the Portuguese colonists and obtained a large amount of advanced military technology from them. It also contacted Sun Kewang and his son who had restored the country in Bangladesh through Portuguese missionaries.
After acquiring India, Emperor Zhu Youlang of the Taiping Rebellion of the Western Ming Dynasty was canonized as King Annan.
The Zheng regime attached itself to the Shun Dynasty. In order to obtain the title of King of Annan from Dashun, the Zheng regime also sent troops several times to assist the Dashun army in suppressing the rebellious chieftains in Yunnan and northern Myanmar. In the end, due to this series of diplomatic efforts, the Zheng regime
He gained the favor of Li Laiheng and was crowned king.
Compared to the Trinh regime, which ruled a much more densely populated territory, the Nguyen also had some advantages. First, they were on the defensive. Second, the Nguyen benefited from their contacts with Europeans, especially the Portuguese,
They were able to purchase more advanced European armaments and hire European military experts in city defense. Third, the geographical situation was favorable to them: large-scale organized armies were only suitable for plain wilderness, and such locations were very rare in Annan; the mountains were almost squeezed into
Into the sea.
At Lord Zheng's repeated requests, Dashun also sent some artillery craftsmen to Annan to help Lord Zheng's regime establish an artillery force. However, because the terrain was not conducive to the northern attack, the dispute between Zheng and Ruan never came to an end.
After the South China pirates were wiped out by the Shun army, most of their remnants fled to the Annan Sea, accepted the appeasement of the Ruan Lord's regime, and were conferred various official positions.
After entering the Annan Sea, the Dashun Navy took the initiative to evacuate in order to avoid causing trouble. However, some shareholders of the Nanyang Yanping Company were eager to hunt down the remnants of the South China pirates and instigated some shareholders affiliated with the Yanping Company to recover their lost property.
The ships of the Nguyen regime entered the waters of the Nguyen regime without authorization, and simultaneously launched an attack on the navy of the Nguyen regime and the remaining pirates of South China, drawing Shun Dynasty into the Annan Civil War that lasted for many years.
However, the leader of Zheng Zheng's regime at that time, King Zheng Jie of Qingdu, had limited talents and was far less good at fighting than Nguyen Lord Nguyen Phuc Bin.
After the King of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Jie, obtained the support of the Shun Dynasty Navy, he rashly sent out the Royal Forest Army and tried, with the assistance of the Dashun Navy, to adopt a floating sea approach to bypass a series of dangerous mountains and rivers in central and southern Annan, until
Seize the headquarters of the Nguyen Lord's regime.
As a result, during the landing, Zheng's army and Shun's navy were not coordinated with each other. The Zheng's army that landed hastily encountered a fierce counterattack by Nguyen's army.
Ruan Phuc Bin drove hundreds of elephants straight towards the enemy formation, and then charged with infantry. The Zheng army was defeated and retreated, and was harassed and intercepted by South China pirates. The Zheng army suffered heavy losses in this battle, and more than 3,000 soldiers were captured alive.
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After this battle, the Dashun Army had to intervene in the Annan Civil War at a deeper level. In order to protect Zheng Zheng's regime from being destroyed by the Nguyen Lord's Northern Expedition counterattack, Li Laiheng ordered General Ma Chongxi to lead 15,000 Shun Army elite troops into the Annan area to fight.