Chapter 676: The flag is in the people
Li Zhu fled to Nanding, and after the shock, he sent people to the Thang Long Lord's Mansion to report the news, and the people sent by Fan Yongjin to report the news were Thang Long City, which was entered on the front and back feet. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Hearing that the entire army of the Navy Division was annihilated, the Dayue courtiers of the Thang Long Mansion were all shocked, and the emperor Li Weiqi, who had always been ignorant of the world in the deep palace, was also shocked by this news, and sent someone to the main mansion to ask Zheng Zheng why the Ming people would attack on a large scale, what was the war ahead, and whether the Ming people would go deep into the hinterland to threaten the Beijing Division.
Although Li Weiqi is a puppet, Zheng Zheng still respects him on face. He didn't tell the emperor that the Ming army came to attack because he wanted to curry favor with the Qing Dynasty, so he detained the princess of the Ming Dynasty and her party, and in fact, until now, Zheng Zheng didn't know what the purpose of the Ming army's sailors came to attack.
Zheng Zheng sent people to tell the emperor that the Ming people were subject to the Qing army in the north, and the emperor abandoned the country, so they had nowhere to stand in the country, so they crossed the sea to attack, in a vain attempt to take one or two places in Dayue as a basis. In terms of warfare, although the naval division suffered a great defeat, the Ming army was unable to go deeper, and it was still in Haiyang Water Village.
In fact, the Ming army has now marched to Shannan Pass, but Li Zhu retreated too hastily, and after escaping to Nanding, he reported to Shenglong Mansion in a panic, and Fan Yongjin also did not know the inside story of the Ming army, so that neither of them reported the matter clearly. Zheng Zheng naturally didn't know the specific situation.
Li Weiqi was furious when he received this reward, and issued a decree that Zheng Zheng immediately sent troops to exterminate the Ming people, and the land of Dayue must not be occupied by the Ming people, and the people could not poison the Ming people.
After Zheng Zheng received the order, he summoned the courtiers to discuss the matter of sending troops to suppress it. The Zheng regime followed the official system of the Later Li Dynasty, but it was imitated by the Ming Dynasty in the north, which they looked down on, and the corresponding official offices were basically the same, but the Ruan regime in the south set up its own system, ruling with a system of officials such as the Messenger Division, the General Officials Division, the Order Officials Division, and the County Prefect.
Zheng Zheng was canonized as the king of Xiding by Emperor Li Weiqi, and it stands to reason that his place should be called Xiding Palace, but whether it is the courtiers or the common people, it is called the main mansion, which means the main mansion of the Zheng family. And seven or eight out of ten officials are from the lord's mansion, and the Zheng family firmly controls the power of this Great Yue Dynasty.
In the end, Zheng Zheng did not adopt the advice of the ministers Li Youde and Chen Yuhou to send people to negotiate with the Ming army, in exchange for the return of the princess in exchange for the withdrawal of the Ming army, but appointed the governor commander Tao Yurao and the general Wu Liang to lead more than 13,000 excellent soldiers to Nanding Mansion to counterattack the Ming army, and at the same time Xingwen Haiyang, Jingbei, Shannan, Nanding and other more than a dozen coastal prefectures and counties, ordered all localities to recall a soldier in the township, and recruit volunteers in parallel to fight against the Ming people.
Zheng Zheng was enraged by the destruction of the water division, since he took over the throne, he has been invincible, and he has not tasted a defeat, but now he is calling the Ming people who have died to bully the door, which can really be described as unbearable!
After resolutely fighting back against the Ming army, Zheng Zheng sent an edict to Ding Wenzuo in the north, asking him to immediately send people to Yunnan to get in touch with the Qing army, and on the premise of striving for the greatest interests for Dayue as much as possible, hand over the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty and her entourage to the Qing side, so as to completely cut off the hope of the Ming people.
When Tao Yurao led the army to the expedition, he met Zheng Zheng, and Zheng Zheng told him that he must not negotiate with the Ming people until he won a big victory. Tao Yurao asked whether to take the defeated Li Zhu Suo back to the capital to punish the crime, Zheng Zheng thought about it, and thought that Li Zhu was the third generation of the Zheng family, and he had always been loyal, and allowed him to make meritorious service in the south.
When Tao Yurao and Wu Liang led their troops out of Beijing, the eleventh town of the Taiping Army, under the command of Governor Zhao Ziqiang, had already captured Shannan Pass and was marching in the direction of Nanding. While leaving a brigade to garrison Shannan Pass, the 12th Town divided its troops to attack the left and right prefectures and counties to supplement the army with money and food.
The sailors were not idle, and Wu Yuan sent Zheng Chengkui and Zhou Sheng to lead a fleet to attack Hongji Port in the north and Thanh Hoa in the south. Zheng and the two men were given orders to plunder the food of the Annamite people as much as possible, and then to take the young men back to the ship and send them to Guangdong in batches.
When the Ming army was attacking on land and water, Zheng issued an edict to the locality, and the coastal governments at all levels under Zheng's control immediately recalled a soldier in the township and posted a list to recruit volunteers. When the people of all parts of the country heard that the Northern Wu people had come to attack again after two hundred years, they all shared the same hatred for the enemy, and enthusiastically signed up to participate in the volunteers, and actively supported and cooperated with the local garrison to fight against the invading Ming army. As a result, everywhere the Ming army went, it was resisted by the locals. When Zhou Sheng, the general of the naval division, led his division to the north to capture Hongji, and sent troops to plunder, the local people spontaneously organized to attack the Ming army, forcing Zhou Sheng to lead the naval division to retreat to Hongji Port.
On June 13, the 11th Town Forward Brigade of the Taiping Army arrived at Guo'an City, which was under the jurisdiction of Nanding Prefecture.
The timid Li Zhu knew that after the Ming army arrived in Guo'an, he was afraid that the Ming army would come to attack the city of Nandingfu, so he sent someone to start negotiations with Zhao Ziqiang without authorization, hoping that the Ming army could retreat. However, due to the harsh conditions proposed by Zhao Ziqiang, Li Zhu did not dare to sign it, and as a result, the news leaked, Zheng Zheng was greatly dissatisfied, and ordered Li Zhu to be dismissed, and Tao Yurao commanded Nanding to fight around the Annan army.
On the 17th, Zhao Ziqiang was dissatisfied with the sudden withdrawal of Li Zhu, and Tanma reported that he had found a lot of Annan troops in the near future, so he took the lead and ordered the eleven towns to capture Qing'an City, the gateway to Nandingfu City. Tao Yurao heard the news and sent 4,000 excellent soldiers to reinforce Qing'an. As a result, although the Annan defenders of Qing'an were brave and tenacious, they were finally broken by the Ming army because they were outnumbered. Wu Liang couldn't rescue, so he ordered more than 1,700 excellent soldiers to go out in the night, carrying rockets and spray cans, attacking Qing'an City at night, throwing fire and burning it, wanting to burn the Ming army in the city to death. The Ming army sent 1,500 troops to counterattack, throwing thunder in the night, but the Annan army could not resist the retreat.
Tao Yurao was unwilling to be defeated, and successively mobilized troops to prepare for a counterattack. On the 26th, Tao Yurao, with enough troops, decided to counterattack from three sides at the same time, trying to recover Qing'an, Shannanguan, and Guo'an in one fell swoop. As a result, the engagement was unfavorable, and they all withdrew to their original positions.
On the 29th, the C Brigade of the Twelfth Town stationed in Shannanguan took advantage of the situation to attack Shannan Mansion, and the Shannan Annan army was defeated, killing more than 2,000 people. On the 30th, hundreds of soldiers in the 12th town were ordered to arrest people and steal grain, which provoked the local people of Annam to resist, and 16 soldiers were killed. Subsequently, the men, women and children of the town of Annam gathered in the village, with the black flag as the order flag, and agreed that the flag would enter and the people would retreat. At the same time, he also contacted thousands of people nearby, armed with broadswords and spears, and attacked the Ming army garrison in the rain.
Due to heavy rain and damp gunpowder, the Ming army could not exert the power of firearms, so they engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the people of Annam, and 4 Ming soldiers died. The Ming army fought hand-to-hand all the way, and in the case of the huge disparity in the number of people on both sides, they actually defeated Annan and rebelled against the people, slaughtering all the way, resulting in more than 1,000 corpses of the people of Annan. In the early morning of the second day, tens of thousands of Annam people held high the black flag and surrounded the Ming army garrison.
The Ming army commanded thousands of households to send a message to Zheng Guocheng, the local governor of Annan, that if the people did not lift the siege of the Ming army's garrison, then the Ming army would slaughter all the people in the vicinity and not let anyone escape.
Zheng Guocheng knew the strength of both sides, his regular army had been defeated by the Ming army, and it was difficult for the people who had organized themselves to stop the Ming army, so in order to prevent the people from innocent death, Zheng Guocheng came forward to persuade the people to retreat, so as to avoid a tragedy. But Zheng Guocheng bore the notoriety of a traitor for this, and was beaten to death by the angry patriot son Yu Zhixian outside the yamen. (To be continued.) )