On the Huai River, the warships of the Ming army flaunted their might, with towering masts, bamboo hard sails covering the river, and black holes on the side of the gun, aiming at the north bank of the Huai River.

Gao Yihuan saw the ship of the Zheng family in Fujian, his brows furrowed, the Zheng family is the overlord of the sea, and the Dutch in East Asia have to stand aside, they help Zhu Cihong, this battle is not very easy to fight.

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng family split, Zheng Chenggong used the remnants of the Zheng family to resist the Qing Dynasty for decades, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally took the old nose to capture Taiwan.

Now that the Zheng family is a complete body, plus Zhu Cihong, if you want to destroy it, I'm afraid it will still be a little difficult.

Zheng Zhilong's goods are now the Taishi of Nanming, and he has been crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, I don't know if he can win him over, if he makes a stupid move, it will be much easier to destroy Nanming.

Gao Yihuan thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Is there any way to deal with them?" ”

Xu Heihu said, "At present, we can only set up an artillery position on the north bank and bombard them, but it is still not possible to cross the river." The Ming army was very cunning, they all let us cross part of it first, and then the warships were killed, even if we set up artillery arrays to bombard, we could not sink their ships for a while, and they only had to knock over our warships, destroy the pontoon bridge, and let the brothers who crossed the river have no reinforcements, and the men and horses who crossed the river would be all over. ”

It seems that Xu Heihu has suffered a loss and is deeply touched, and this is only the Huai River, the Yangtze River in the south is wide, and the problem may be even greater.

Gao Yihuan pondered for a while, in history, the southeast was destroyed, most of them fought from Chu to the bottom, first attacked Wuchang, then broke Anqing, and finally captured Nanjing, and there are few examples of directly entering Jiangnan from Lianghuai.

Historically, the Qing army entered the south of the Yangtze River, proud of the eastward rebellion of Zuozhen, coupled with the surrender of the four towns, and the river defense had no soldiers, so it was lucky to successfully cross the river.

Another well-known example is the crossing of the Yangtze River by a million lions, and the premise is that the three major battles were carried out when the elite of the national army was lost, and the artillery was fierce at that time, and it could be fought directly from the north bank to the south bank.

Now the Ming army is shrinking to the south of the Yangtze River, and the troops are abundant, which does not match the above two situations, and it is really difficult to deal with.

At present, the Wei army wants to dominate the world and destroy the Southern Ming, which is nothing more than to go down the river from Huguang and cross the Yangtze River from Lianghuai.

Judging from the intelligence mastered by Gao Yihuan, Huang Degong's defense of Wuchang can be said to be impregnable, and the Wei army must pay a heavy price if it wants to build a fortress, and now it seems that it is quite difficult to attack Nanjing from Lianghuai, even higher than that of Jianling.

Gao Yihuan frowned and thought for a moment, it was not easy for Wei Jun to enter Jiangnan from Lianghuai, but he did not give up, so he turned around and said, "Let's go, go and take a look elsewhere." ”

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Southeast Peninsula, Thang Long City.

The Western Army had occupied the area for several years, and Sun Kewang had been managing it with his heart and gradually taking the entire Annam region firmly in his hands.

In December, goose feather universities are falling in the north, and the cold wind is also blowing in the south of the Yangtze River, but in Thang Long City, it is like a warm spring.

In recent years, the Central Plains has undergone tremendous changes, many major events have occurred, and wars have continued, but the Southeast Peninsula is quite tranquil, and the economy and people's livelihood have developed rapidly.

After the initial frenzied expansion, Sun Kewang gradually felt the weakness of the follow-up, and turned to stabilize his foundation, carrying out land clearance, promoting officials, opening up the branch and recruiting scholars, and large-scale relocation of Han people into Annam to consolidate the occupation of Annam.

At this time, on the Indochina Peninsula, there were only two forces that could compete with Sun Kewang, one was the Donghu Kingdom in the west, that is, Burma, and the other was the Dutch on the island in the south.

In fact, with Sun Kewang's strength, he could still conquer more land, but the reason for the population, coupled with these two major forces, blocked his path to the west and south, so his development was restricted.

The Taungoo and Dutch are external factors, and population is internal.

The population here does not refer to the population of the western country, but to the Han people of the western country.

Because there were too few Han people, Sun Kewang already felt that it was a little difficult to control the existing area, so Sun Kewang could only choose to stop the war, and as long as the surrounding tribes and countries were nominally subservient to him and regarded him as the suzerain, he would not attack.

At this time, Sun Kewang controlled a population of more than 15 million, of which more than 2 million were Han people, and the rest were the people of the southwest and the people of the southeastern countries.

The territory directly controlled by the Western Army is Yunnan, the nobility, most of Guangxi, and Annam, and the vassals that are subject to it include Nanzhang, Zhengzhu, Zhancheng, and Zhenla, which can be said to be a big empire.

However, the large territory and the small number of Han Chinese in the population structure also made the Western regime unstable.

At this time, the New Year is approaching, although it is located in Tiannan, the flavor of the New Year is as strong, which is mainly due to Sun Kewang's decree, and all places need to celebrate the New Year with Hermes-Epitek.

Just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, with a small and large approach, no sense of security, and forced the Han people to respect the Manchu customs, after Sun Kewang occupied Annam, although he continued to move to the Han people in Annam, gave him land for free, and absorbed many Han people, he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

Therefore, Sun Kewang issued a decree that all prefectures and counties must use the calendar of the Great Western Kingdom to calculate the year, official documents need to use Chinese characters, and all vassal states also need to celebrate various festivals of the Han people, and use subtle means to assimilate them.

In the early morning, when the sky is bright, there are bursts of crisp sound of watching, echoing in the alleys of Thang Long City, the sound is sounding, and it is accompanied by the loud chanting of the watchman, "The time has come, the sunrise is shining, the morning is cool, you must prepare clothes..."

The sound broke the silence of the city, and the neighborhoods in Thang Long City came to life at once, and many vendors began to come out to peddle, and the city slowly became noisy, and the sound slowly boiled.

Looking at this situation, the people in the city seem to feel that they are in some city in the Central Plains, but he is actually Thang Long City in Annam.

Early in the morning, Sun Kewang changed into a regular suit and walked to the street with Prime Minister Xu Yixian, on both sides of which were all kinds of breakfast stalls, and the small shops on the street and the Lang who walked through the streets and alleys were surrounded by people who bought New Year's goods.

Xu Yixian said: "The king, the minister thinks that the people of Annan are the same as us, most of the nobles can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and the customs are not beneficial to the Central Plains, we should accept them and tie them together with interests, so that we will immediately have more than six million helpers, and it will not be a problem to completely control Nanzhang, Zhenla and other places." ”

Sun Kewang and Xu Yixian entered a restaurant, sat down at the table, listened to the noisy conversation, and asked, "What does Mr. mean?" ”

Xu Yixian said: "Referring to the Manchu Eight Banners system, absorb a group of Annamite people, and use their strength to rule Nanzhang and Zhenla, and fight against the Donghu State." In this way, the Annamite people went from being ruled to assisting in the rule, and they gained benefits, which reduced the resistance of the Annamite people. Secondly, when recruiting the Eight Banners of Annam, we can set some conditions, such as that they must be able to speak simple Chinese, so that the Annamite people can learn them spontaneously, so as to quickly digest them. ”

Sun Kewang groaned slightly, Annan used Chinese characters, but spoke the local language, if they were allowed to use Chinese, they would also speak Chinese, and at the same time emphasize that they used to be a county in the Central Plains, and it would not take long to stabilize.

"That's a good suggestion!" Sun Kewang said in a deep voice: "This matter will be handled by Mr. ”

At this time, while the two were talking, a guard walked in and whispered to Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang's face sank and he stood up, "Nanming's envoy has arrived, and Mr. and Gu will return to the palace together." Then you will meet the messenger first, see what he has come to do, and then report back to Lone. ”

When the group returned to the palace, Sun Kewang returned to the study, while Xu Yixian went to meet the envoy.

Not long after, Xu Yixian came to Sun Kewang's study, and Sun Kewang couldn't help frowning: "Why is it so fast?" ”

Xu Yixian said: "The king, the envoy of the Southern Ming Dynasty brought two things, one is that Gao Yihuan is the emperor, the country is called Dawei, and the year is called Wuding, and the Nanming hopes that we can go to the secret covenant." The second thing is that Nanming wants to borrow food from us! ”

Sun Kewang stood up suddenly, "Gao Yihuan is still the emperor after all!" ”

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