At the beginning of the new year, Zhao Xuening learned several pieces of news that made him chuckle secretly.
Dai Ying was finally defeated on the North American continent in October last year. The main force of the British army surrendered to the US military. Dai Ying will inevitably accept the final outcome of defeat.
In addition, the Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain seriously affected the interests of Britain. In order to ensure its interests in the Strait of Gibraltar, Britain was forced to fully support the war in Gibraltar.
Furthermore, because of the inevitable defeat on the North American continent, Daiying became angry and officially declared war on the Netherlands, preparing to regain the major benefits they had lost from the Netherlands.
The British navy easily defeated the depleted Dutch navy, and the last battleship of the Netherlands was defeated, and then the possibility of competing with the British was completely lost.
Of course, at the same time, they could no longer threaten Zhao Xuening. They had completely lost the ability to fight overseas.
However, Daiying did not stop his retaliatory actions. The failure in North America seriously stimulated the top officials of the London government, who decided to retaliate against the "accomplices" of the United States at all costs.
Anyway, the North American war has been determined to fail, so there is no need to spend huge military expenditures to cross the ocean to the United States. All the money saved can be invested in the European war.
Therefore, Lanfang's two major enemies, the Netherlands and Spain, should not be able to send troops to the Spice Sea to settle accounts with Lanfang for a long time.
In other words, as long as Dai Ying works harder, they will never have the chance to come back.
Anyway, the Netherlands must be like this. The blood in Spain is a little thicker, and there may be another chance in the future.
The situation in Europe is becoming increasingly chaotic. Having lost its interests in the North American continent, the British are about to plunder the colonial interests of Spain and the Netherlands like crazy, and the two countries will desperately make their final struggle.
With the roar of cannons on the European continent, the colonists temporarily had no time and energy to care about matters in the East. Zhao Xuening gained a very valuable period of development.
He invested a lot of money to develop agricultural production, build agricultural estates, integrate the population, and vigorously promote the progress of Lanfang's domestic productivity.
At the same time, he also paid great attention to the development of military industry and light handicraft industry, especially the military industry.
Currently, the production of carronade guns is on track. The first batch of fifty Lanfang-style carronade guns was officially delivered to the army in the first month of the third year of the Republic.
Five hundred Lanfang II model guns and 30 prototype cannons were simultaneously delivered to the army for training. Zhao Xuening held a large-scale military training operation for this purpose, requiring the army to conduct actual combat exercises on the new guns and artillery to see the specific effects.
As grain production continues to rise, the storage capacity of the Lanfang National Warehouse is also increasing day by day, and the amount of grain prepared for all-out war and national security is constantly increasing.
And just when Zhao Xuening led the Lanfang Republic to advance rapidly, the Indochina Peninsula was simply a mess.
The forces of Siam and Nguyen Phuc Anh in Guangnan competed for Chenla. The troops sent by Tay Sin and the troops sent by Ruan Phuc Anh faced each other in Chenla. The war was about to start, and the unlucky Chenla became the battlefield.
The forces of the Xishan Dynasty in South Vietnam also plan to march further south in order to completely eliminate Nguyen Phuc Anh's forces and solve the backyard problem.
The forces from the four directions come and go, and the fight is endless.
Zhao Xuening originally focused on Siam, thinking of taking advantage of the unrest in Siam to get involved and get some benefits. However, what he didn't expect was that on February 3rd, Zhao Xuening received a message that made him angry. Medium fever information.
Something happened in South Vietnam.
Vietnam has been divided and chaotic for hundreds of years. At the most, there were four political regimes in the north and south at the same time, making it a mess.
At this moment, the powerful regime that controls the largest territory in South Vietnam is the Tay Son Dynasty, which originated from the peasant uprising army.
More than ten years ago, the rule of the Nguyen dynasty in South Vietnam was corrupt. Three brothers, Nguyen Van Viet, Nguyen Van Lup, and Nguyen Van Hui, who were small landowners in the Tay Son area, launched the Tay Son Uprising. Within a few years, they overthrew the Nguyen dynasty and established the Tay Son dynasty.
During the establishment of the Xishan Dynasty, the Chinese groups living in this area gave great help to the Xishan regime.
The Chinese group cooperated with the Xishan regime after the uprising, and mainly formed two Chinese armed forces. One was the Loyalty Army organized by the Chinese businessmen Jiting of the Qing Empire, and the other was the Heyi Army convened by the overseas Chinese businessman Li Cai.
Most of the Zhongyi Army in Jiting were Cantonese, while Li Cai's and the Rebel Army were more mixed in composition and included overseas Chinese from all over South China. These two troops became the main forward force of the Xishan Army of the three Ruan brothers. Every time they fought with Guangnan officials, When the army fights, these two troops charge forward.
It can be said that they made great contributions to the establishment of the Xishan Dynasty.
But after the time entered 1777, the Xishan Dynasty, which had established a firm foothold, was uneasy about the growing Chinese power. It felt that their armed forces were too strong, their economic and political status also began to improve, and their mother country was in the north, so it was very likely that they would Threaten the power of the Xishan Dynasty.
The idea that people who are not our kind must have different minds seems to be applicable everywhere.
Therefore, the Chinese armed group that made great contributions to the establishment of the Xishan Dynasty did not receive any benefits. Instead, it was squeezed out and marginalized by the Xishan Dynasty.
It happened that at this time, Nguyen Phuc Anh's supporter, the former Nguyen dynasty general Do Thanh Nhan, made a big splash. He led his Dongshan Army to win consecutive battles and defeated a large number of Chinese armed forces, which made him famous.
In desperation, in the next few years, the Chinese forces turned to support their former enemy-Nguyen Phuc Anh.
Ruan Phuc Anh is actually a bachelor, because his power is weak and he is in urgent need of support. He will definitely be happy to have Chinese people to help him. As long as he comes, he will use it, grant him official titles, and give him everything.
Not only that, he also vigorously recruited Chinese pirates in the waters of eastern Vietnam, and after recruiting them, they were given official positions. Relying on the power of these pirates, he actually built a decent navy.
As a result, the power of the Ruan Dynasty began to resurgence, gradually gaining momentum, and began to threaten the Xishan Dynasty.
However, because Nguyen Phuc Anh suspected that he was ill last year, he killed his main supporter Du Qingren, and the Dongshan Army who had made great contributions to him also rebelled. As a result, the Xishan Dynasty invaded again.
At the beginning of this year, the Jiading area that was once recovered by Du Qingren was occupied again by the Xishan Dynasty.
At this moment, the large number of Chinese forces living in the Jiading area who stand against the Xishan Dynasty on the Ruan family's side are rather embarrassed.
I thought I had someone to rely on, but it turned out that my mountain would fall, and everyone would run away. Ruan Fuying was beaten away, but the monk who was able to run couldn't run away from the temple. The wealth of these people is here, and they can't run away for a while!
They hoped that the governance of the Xishan Dynasty would make things easier for them.
But I never expected that, perhaps in order to reward the army, perhaps out of resentment against the Chinese forces for defecting, or out of uneasiness about the growth of the Chinese forces, the Xishan Dynasty actually organized an attack on the Chinese armed forces and Chinese residents in the Jiading area. of massacre.
The Xishan Army arrested Chinese people from house to house. All Chinese, regardless of soldiers, civilians, or merchants, were arrested and beheaded. Blood flowed into the river. A large number of corpses were thrown into the Mekong River, and the river was covered with floating corpses for several days.
Every Chinese shop in the land of embankments and sticks was looted and then set on fire.
Lan Fang's intelligence businessman doing business in the Jiading area of South Vietnam quickly sent the news to Seoul. When Zhao Xuening learned about it, the massacre had only occurred a few days ago.
After receiving the news, Zhao Xuening was stunned for a moment, then became furious, pounded the table, and ordered a military meeting.
Many generals rushed to the president's office urgently, and then learned of the massacre, and they were in a very bad mood.
"I can't sit idly by when my compatriots are in trouble. Someone has to stand up for them. No one wants to go, so let me go! Send the order, assemble the army, and send troops to South Vietnam!"
Zhao Xuening made a decision.
Chief of Civil Affairs Fei Yongfeng spoke out to dissuade him.
"President, do you still need to consider this matter again? Sending troops to South Vietnam is tantamount to a military confrontation with the Xishan Kingdom. We have not made relevant preparations. Once the war breaks out, many of the current construction plans will be shelved. , think twice!”
Zhao Xuening shook his head.
"It's not a formal war with them, but to rescue all the Han compatriots. I can't just watch them being slaughtered and do nothing! This kind of thing happened many times more than 40 years ago, and no one offered them any mercy at that time. Help, but this time, I can’t turn a blind eye!”
"But if this matter is known to the Qing Dynasty, then..."
"Then you know! So what if you let it know?"
Zhao Xuening said angrily: "We people used to be dependent on others and were bullied. Many people ran away from the Qing Dynasty to make a living and suffered all kinds of sins just for a bite of food. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I angrily raised an army to give us Han people a sigh of relief." , hold an umbrella!
Although they are not under my rule now, they are still Han people and our compatriots. My compatriots are being slaughtered and I have a large army. How can I sit back and ignore it? If we ourselves are safe, then we don’t care about the lives of other compatriots? no! "
Zhao Xuening made up his mind and Qian Gang was decisive.
With his order, the First Army Corps, the First Fleet of the Navy, and a large number of transport fleets that were originally prepared for the unrest in Siam took action quickly.
They will rush to South Vietnam quickly and do everything they can to save their compatriots.
