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. 【←八【←八【←Read【←Book,.2↘
The 100,000-strong army under the command of Gao Pragmatic 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 pragmatically sent the Cen Ling tribe alone to the Huichun direction of the upper reaches of Majiang River west of Henan, cutting off the connection between Thanh Hoa and the Li 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. However, 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. Adding in other losses on the road, he now only has 13,000 men. With nearly 30,000 troops, he still had 1,000 men. In front of Cen Ling, being a deputy general was not aggrieved.
Besides, what if you don’t accept it? His home is in Thang Long, and all his family members are in Thang Long City. Now they are all hostages in the hands of Gao Pragmatic. Can he still be able to fǎn?
What's more, zào fǎn is not something he can achieve with the few soldiers and horses he has. It is better to continue to be a loyal minister. No matter whose family Annan is in the end, he feels that with his reputation as a good warrior, he should not lose it. rice bowl.
Being able to surrender is already a blessing. If you don’t believe it, look at Li Ni and Zheng Ni. After they returned to Thanh Hoa, they immediately sent people to Thang Long, hoping to see Gao Gong, the censor of Guangxi. Their purpose was also very clear, which was to recognize Coward...
But 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 a clean neck, he was waiting to be beheaded by the coalition forces during the southern expedition and passed 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. 【←八【←八【←Read【←Book,.2↘
Rebellious ministers will only die.
So Zheng Song could only give up his fantasy 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 in the army, 30,000 in the Annan army in the original Mo Dunrang tribe and now Mo Yulin's tribe, and 15,000 in Ruan Juan's army (completed 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 Mochao Navy. There are more than 300 large and small ships {many small ships of the Mochao were eliminated and only slightly larger warships were incorporated}, and nearly 20,000 people {Mochao’s ships 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 sent 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 Ruan Huang. 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 Le Dynasty court fell into the hands of Nguyen Gan's son-in-law Zheng Jian, who could decide everything easily and then report it.
Zheng Jianfeng later Li Zhuangzong entered Thanh Hoa. Since then, the Li Dynasty has used Qinghua as its stronghold and has been in confrontation with the Mo Dynasty from north to south for decades to this day. Zheng Jian held the emperor hostage and ordered the princes. He was nominally the right-hand minister of the Li Dynasty, but the court of the Li Dynasty was actually the possession of the Zheng family.
Ruan Gan's two sons, Ruan Wang and Ruan Huang, were also quite skilled in martial arts and were hated by Zheng Jian. Ruan Wangguan 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 claim his illness and retire to eliminate Zheng Jian's wariness. At the same time, he 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. It was the southernmost point of the Annan border at this time, but it 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 crisscrossing it, and fertile plains between the mountains and the ocean.
Ruan Huang's plan of Ruan Bingqian was to break away from Zheng Jian's control and regard the south of Hengshan as a new world for his foothold. Through his sister Nguyen Ngoc Bao, he asked his brother-in-law Zheng Jian 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, and 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 Ruan Huang.
So Zheng Quan suggested to Emperor Anh Tong of Le Di: Hue must be guarded by good generals, and it is better to use Ruan Huang to guard Hue, as it and Guangnan are the horns of each other. Yingzong is just a puppet, so he naturally agrees to his request.
In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing reign, Ruan Huang came out of Hue. In the first year of Longqing, Zheng Jian recalled the general soldiers of Guangnan and ordered Ruan Huang to lead Guangnan. He handed over 400 jins 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 bandits appeared from time to time in Huan Quang, Nguyen and Huang successfully defeated or repulsed them, making the southern region a relatively stable rear area. On the other hand, in the north, plagues and wars continue, refugees from the north continue to pour into the south, and the capital of the Nguyen and Huang independent regimes is constantly enriched.
After Zheng Song became the second-generation leader of the Zheng family, although he knew that Ruan Huang wanted to separatize the south, he could not help him because the Mo family was still there. He just tried his best to maintain deterrence.
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 his 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 was naturally clear again.
In fact, Ruan Huang's move was not just that he acted according to the prevailing situation, but that Gao pragmatically 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 he had found out that the assassination of himself and the chieftains of Guangxi was not the instigation of 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 war, and the Southern Dynasty had no chance of survival because it had offended the Ming Dynasty. At this time, following the Zheng family would already be fatal. In this situation, he could not even sway left and right, he could only draw a clear line with the Zheng family immediately, and in the future, if the two Xuanfu lands in Hue and Guangnan surrendered, "it might be possible to save it."
Gao Pragmatic's threat was no joke, and Ruan Binglian's analysis was something Ruan Huang would never believe, so he could only reluctantly give up on the idea of separatist rule, and even accumulate strength for the future.
However, he was still a little hesitant about surrendering immediately.
Or maybe it's a bit of a fluke - what if Gao Pragmatic loses? What if after defeat, Ming felt that it was not worthwhile to fight Annan and retreated 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, which he had managed to gather, turned into 70,000, which was not as high as pragmatic. 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 and on the other side of the Ma River. It had more than 80,000 troops (part of the wolf soldiers were left to garrison Thang Long City), while its navy was stationed in Dong Phong. In the bay which 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.
The Western Route Army of Cen Ling and Ruan Juan set off from Huichun, captured Zhengcun, Yule, and Zhongli {this is a place name} along the way, and arrived twenty-five miles northwest of Thanh Hoa.
Qinghua City is about to be surrounded by three roads, leaving only one way to survive in the south.
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