On February 16, 1791, Ding Guofeng piloted the Thunderbolt and arrived at the sea off Hoi An, Annan, one day later than the original date. At this time, cannons were rumbling outside Hoi An City, and gunfire continued.
Fifteen 75mm fast guns hoisted from Beihai No. 1 and No. 2 were transported to the fortifications in the west and north directions of Hoi An City, and fired continuously at the attacking Tay Son Army. The Thor also stopped outside the mouth of the Qiuhuan River. The two howitzers on the ship would occasionally make a roar under the guidance of the scouts in front.
The tragic situation in the Imperial City of Hue made Emperor Quang Trung Nguyen Quang Binh furious. When he learned that the Northern Navy had occupied Hoi An, he immediately summoned 20,000 troops to go south and gather in Hai Van Ridge.
In order to boost the morale of his men, Ruan Guangping gathered his soldiers and issued a crusade: "The thieves from the north invaded our territory for no reason and killed our soldiers and civilians. Then they first destroyed the capital and then occupied Hoi'an. Do you know?" Between heaven and earth, the stars and fields are separated, the north and the south are at ease, and the border is peaceful. The people in the north are not of my race, and they are tigers and wolves at heart. Now the invaders are coming, and I cannot bear to sit back and watch the cruelty. I live my life with fish and meat, and take my wealth. You all have your own. If you know what you are capable of, you should work together with me to make great achievements. Don't just get used to the old ways and have two minds. If something happens, you will be killed immediately and no one will be spared. Move to the prefectures and counties, and let the envoys know about it."
The tragic situation in the Imperial City of Hue was seen by many people, so the entire Tay Son Army was incited to be indignant and motivated to fight. However, due to fear of the North Navy's artillery and the Thor, the Tay Son Army was unable to dispatch a fleet to cooperate from the sea. Moreover, Hoi An faced the sea to the north and east, so Nguyen Quang Binh could only station tens of thousands of troops at more than 40 meters northwest of Hoi An. Within Pan County.
This time, Nguyen Quang Binh led his army to conduct a personal expedition. He first ordered his men to cut down trees and build ships. At the same time, he continued to send small groups of troops to test the distance and density of the North Navy's firepower projection.
The total number of troops of the Northern Navy was less than a thousand, and the Chinese battalion in Hoi An was just established and lacked training, so it could only rely on city walls and moats to block the attack. However, due to the extremely fast rate of fire of the 75mm cannon, the long range of the North Korean Navy's weapons, and the intensive firepower of machine guns, this gave the Tay Son Army an illusion that there were at least a hundred cannons in Hoi An City and at least thousands of troops in the city.
Due to the aerial reconnaissance of drones, several night attacks launched by the Xishan Army were discovered. In the past few days, more than 3,000 people were lost. For a time, facing the hedgehog-like city of Hoi An, Ruan Guangping had no idea what to say. He found that the shield he had used to resist muskets and blunderbuss was as useless as paper in front of the Beihai Navy!
The Thunderbolt brought two battalions of troops this time. After the troops landed and entered Hoi An City, Wang Yuanfang was finally able to free his hands and let the special operations battalion be dispatched.
On February 18, after repeated reconnaissance by drones, four hundred soldiers from the North Navy's special operations battalion, led by local Chinese guides, took bamboo rafts to the south bank of the Qiuhuan River at night and rushed westward for twenty Five miles later, they swam again to the north bank of the Qiuhuan River and launched an attack on the right wing camp of the Xishan Army in the early morning.
Thousands of grenades were divided into two waves and rained into the Xishan Army's camp. Under the sound of explosions, the panicked Xishan Army could not distinguish the number of Beihai Navy and fled in all directions like headless flies.
The war king ordered from afar that no prisoners should be taken. Those Ewenki and Daur soldiers with camouflage paint on their faces were like demons coming to the world. As long as they saw someone dressed differently than themselves, they would shoot them with guns. Some people had no time to change the magazine and picked it up on the ground. Throw the fallen spear.
These Sauron soldiers have been trained rigorously by Wang Yuanfang for nearly two years, and have practiced martial arts with Wu Zhong for half a year. They are good at riding and shooting, and each of them has amazing arm strength. The spears they threw could often pin the Xishan Army to the ground, and some could even penetrate two people at once. Not to mention that the Xishan Army's liver and gallbladder were broken by such a scene, even the few Chinese guides who followed were so frightened that they peed their pants.
After this battle, thousands of Xishan troops were found dead on the river bank or drifted to the river, more than 40 warships were burned, and 32 cannons were blown up. In the end, only a few hundred people fled back to Dianpan County.
On February 21, the special operations battalion attacked again. They took dozens of reinforced large open-tail fishing boats and sailed upstream for more than 40 miles through the heavy fog. They blew up two pontoons and then used the mortars on the boats. Conduct artillery bombardment on the Taishan Army inside and outside Dien Pan County.
Nguyen Quang Binh's general Vo Van Dung sent a fleet to block the attack, but was hit by more than 20 rocket launchers from the North Navy and suffered heavy losses. Wu Wenyong was affected by the explosion of a rocket launcher from the North Korean navy. Although he was rescued after falling into the water, he was seriously injured and fell into coma.
The artillerymen of the Xishan Army could only shoot at the Qiu Huan River indiscriminately because it was difficult to distinguish the enemy's location in the foggy weather. Wang Yuanfang decisively sent a company of troops to land ashore in the chaos, looking for the sound and light of cannon fire. A few hundred meters away from the opponent's gun position, there was another rain of bullets. After the Xishan Army was beaten away, they immediately used grenades to blow up the artillery pieces one by one.
In this battle, more than 5,000 people were killed and injured by the Xishan Army. Nearly half of them were caused by panic and trampling on themselves during the shelling. Especially the elephants that ran around after being injured, and many more were trampled to death. There are as many as a hundred people.
The Xishan Army's land battles actually relied on elephant troops, and barefoot soldiers were vulnerable. Ruan Guangping had a force of 300 elephants under his command, which was also a strong guarantee for his victory over the Qing army on the Fuliang River.
It is said that Ruan Fuying was pressed to the ground and rubbed by the Taishan Army many times before, but he was defeated by the Xiang Army. You should know that although the Jiaozhi area is rich in elephants, there are none in Guangnan.
But what is interesting is that many generals in the elephant army of the Tay Son Army are women. For example, Bui Thi Xuan, the sister of Nguyen Quang Binh’s queen Bui Thi Ngan, commanded a detachment of more than a dozen elephants.
By noon, the fog began to dissipate, and Wang Yuancong led the fleet back to Hoi An. After this battle, Nguyen Quang Binh suffered heavy losses, so he led his army to retreat to the Hai Van Ridge line in the north of Hoi An, where he reorganized his troops and strengthened his troops.
On the other hand, in Hoi An, when the Tang people in the city saw a large number of corpses of the Tay Son Army floating down from the upper reaches of the Thu Hui River twice, they were all shocked by the ferocity of the Northern Navy. They began to paint the colorful Sauron on their faces. The soldiers called it the "Devil Army".
On February 23, the Thor and the Thunder, which had completed their oil replenishment, headed south to Con Dao Island. They would join the Quang Nam Navy and launch an attack on Binh Thuan.
When they saw the Thunder, which was twice as big as the Thunder God, whether it was the Frenchmen on the "Feng Fei" or He Xiwen's men, their eyes dropped to the ground again. The Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Marie Dayot, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Guangnan Navy, kept crossing himself on his chest and praised the Thunderbolt as a miracle. At the same time, he also thought that the strength of the Northern Navy was completely Can dominate the ocean.
On February 25, the Northern Navy began to launch shelling from south to north, from Fumeixun, Luoyixun, and Mali Haikou. Then He Xiwen's men began to land and attack the city. The cannons on board the Lei Shen and Jing Lei caused all the Xishan troops along the coast to flee. The officials guarding the city had no choice but to surrender one after another.
At the same time, the Guangnan army, which had already been prepared, also attacked from the land route, moved north along the coastline, and quickly took over towns one after another.
On March 6, the North Navy arrived at the Phan Li Seaport. The local navy bravely went out to fight, but the North Navy only fired two cannons and then dispersed. Two days later, Phan Thiet City, which was only more than 20 miles away from the sea, was bombarded. The defenders in the city were unable to respond. After looting the city, they fled north of the city.
Ruan Fuying, who was in charge of Jiading City, was overjoyed when the good news came back. He had been fighting with the Xishan Army for many years, and he was usually pinned to the ground and rubbed by his opponents. Never before had the progress been so smooth. The Guangnan Army had only lost dozens of people along the way.
In order to further close ties with the North Navy. Ruan Fuying immediately adopted the girl from the Chen family who served Deng Fei as his adopted sister, named her "Princess Zhenli", and ordered the construction of a large house for Deng Fei outside Bagua City, which was comparable in scale to the Guangnan Palace.
After defeating Pingshun, He Xiwen once again asked Deng Fei to surrender, and he was ready for a showdown with Ruan Fuying. At this time, He Xiwen no longer looked down on the third-rank officials in Guangnan. After listening to Deng Fei's deception, he planned to give all his black boats to Ruan Fuying for free. Instead, Beihai Town would buy them from Siam. Thousands of materials returned to Guangzhou ship.
Faced with He Xiwen's sudden move, Ruan Fuying, who was so excited, felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured on her head. She was angry and confused, but there was nothing she could do. In order to express his trust, he did not allow He Xiwen's family to live in Jiading City. Unexpectedly, this move made the other party's betrayal costless.
However, as a result, Ruan Fuying began to be wary of the Minh Huong Society group in Guangnan. With the support of the North Navy, who knows if there may be any illicit conspiracy among these people. After some consideration, he was worried that the Chen Shangchuan family, who had the status of leader of the Tang Dynasty, would follow in the footsteps of He Xiwen, so he wanted to take the eldest daughter of the Chen family as a concubine. Unexpectedly, Zheng Huaide, who was sent there, just mentioned that the Chen family's daughter The girl politely declined.
"Mr. Zhishan, I feel ashamed that Lord Ruan values me so much because of my appearance as a pu willow tree. However, my brother Jinan is still in the age of dancing spoons, and there are a group of old and weak women and children in the family who cannot take care of him. Besides, I have already made it clear that I will take over the family business when Jinan comes of age. I then built a nunnery, and from then on, I became the Ancient Buddha of the Green Lantern and ended my remaining life."
After the Jiading Massacre, all the adult men in the Chen Shangchuan family who stayed in Jiading were killed by the Xishan Army. Except for a few women in the main house, the only male descendant was only five years old and could not support the family business. The eldest daughter of the Chen family gave up the idea of getting married because her fiancé died. She started taking care of the Chen family's family business when she was only fifteen years old. She is now twenty-three years old.
Zheng Huaide looked at the mistress of the Chen family whose face was covered with gauze, and his eyes quickly passed over the ivory-white soft hair. He recalled that when he first saw this woman, he was like a Luo Shen, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of emotion in his heart. sigh.
Thinking about it, the Chen family has fallen into decline, but after all, it is the head of the Tang Dynasty in Jiading. It's just a matter of letting the descendants of the Chen family enter the court and serve as officials. It's really outrageous to even care about the old girl.
Zheng Huaide was about to stand up and leave when he heard the hostess of the Chen family say: "Mr. Zhishan, I heard that the Northern Navy is planning to send people to Siam to buy a ship?"
"Mr. Zheng also heard this matter mentioned by Mr. Ziping from the Northern Navy. Originally, Lord Ruan wanted to take care of it, but they have someone of their own who is said to be very familiar with the shipyard in Bangkok."
"Oh? Can I ask which one it is?"
"The Zheng family at the mouth of the Pearl River."
The violent military actions of the Northern Navy and the Quang Nam Army caught Nguyen Wen Yue, who was stationed in Jampang City, by surprise. The Taide Emperor, who was the first to launch the Tay Son Uprising and later gave way to Nguyen Quang Binh, indulged in drinking and sex, was debauched and brutal, and made the people under his rule miserable. After hearing the news about the fall of Binh Thuan, he was shocked and immediately sent Prince Nguyen Van Bao to lead the army.
In fact, without the support of Beihai Town, Ruan Wenyue would not be afraid of Guangnan at all, whether it was sea or land. If you want to make things smooth with just those broken boats, just dream!
After the Quang Nam Army captured Phan Thiet City, their morale was high, and everyone was very arrogant. The Imperial Envoy Commander of the Pioneer Battalion, who was in charge of leading the troops, was very proud of his military ambition. He even ignored the dissuasion of his deputy Nguyen Van Thanh, even without the cover of North Korean naval artillery fire. He led his army to directly attack Duohetu County, north of Phan Thiet City, completely forgetting the lesson of abandoning his helmet and armor when he was beaten by the Taishan Army two years ago.
No matter how bad Ruan Wenyue is, he still has to compare with others. Beihai Town couldn't defeat the Manchus, but it was more than enough to deal with the Guangnan Army. What's more, the Quy Nhon area north of Binh Thuan Province is the base camp where the Tay Son Army started, and it has strong military strength. So without the strong support of the North Navy's artillery, the Taishan Army once again experienced what is called "ravaging friction"; as soon as the Elephant Army composed of 60 elephants showed up, the Guangnan Army began to flee. If Wang Yuanfang hadn't sent a battalion to block the attack and beat the Xiang army away, they might even have to return the newly acquired Phan Thiet city.
Nguyen Phuc Anh was furious when he heard the news of Wu Xing's defeat. He dismissed Wu Xing from his post of leading the army and recalled him. At the same time, he sent his general Deng Chenchang, who served as the North City Soldier Cao, to guard Phan Chiet. This person was very cautious in doing things. Historically, after Nguyen Phuc Anh ascended the throne, he served as Minister of War.
On March 11, the Thunder bombarded the coastal defense post of Gan Cing Ao. The Marine Battalion landed by speedboat and quickly occupied the deserted Gan Cing Ao. Then, a large amount of materials and craftsmen were transported to the southwest end of the Citrus Peninsula to build a camp. He Xiwen's men and a battalion of the Northern Navy will be temporarily stationed here. The pirates will receive formal training from the Northern Navy here while waiting for the arrival of new ships from Siam.
At this time, the changes in the situation in Annan also spread to Guangxi. Knowing that the Northern Navy actually went to Annan to cause trouble, the governor of Guangxi, Chen Yongfu, immediately sent a 600-mile expedited message to the court and sent someone to report to Li Shijie, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Because of the emergence of Beihai Town, to be precise, it was Zhao Xin who made a big fuss in Guangzhou City, broke into the Governor's Mansion and captured Sun Shiyi. After several years of planning, it could no longer be stopped. As a result, Mr. Sun failed to go to Beijing to become the Minister of Military and Aircraft as he wished. Instead, he was exchanged with Li Shijie, the Governor of Sichuan.
Li Shijie was already old. He had written to Qianlong many times before, begging to resign and return to his hometown. However, this person was so useful that Qianlong could not bear to part with him. When he learned about the Northern Navy's attack on Annan, Li Shijie immediately ordered the Guangxi Green Camp to be on alert, and at the same time dispatched water divisions to patrol the Qiongzhou Strait to prevent unexpected events.
Two years ago, Ruan Guangping defeated the Qing army at Fuliang River, killing corpses of the Green Camp of Guangdong and Guangxi, and not a single one was left alive. In the end, the court held his nose and canonized him, and ordered him to come to Beijing to celebrate his birthday, which made the civil and military forces of Guangdong and Guangxi hold their breath. . Although the Beihai Navy were rebels, they actually traveled thousands of miles south to clean up the Xishan Dynasty, which made the Green Camp of Guangdong and Guangxi feel quite angry.
Seven or eight days later, when the Qing army stationed at Zhennanguan learned that the Northern Navy had attacked Hue and plundered the imperial city, they were even more happy and had a hearty meal.
Of course, it was impossible to do it blatantly. Everyone drank secretly without telling Shangguan. Just when they were wondering whether the North Navy would attack Thang Long Palace next, the Thor had already left Hoi An. They will head to the next stop on this trip, Batavia, the Netherlands.
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