In the first month of the fifth year of Taichang, the white-clothed army officially marched to Annam. 【Reading.com】

From the east, Guangxi and other places to the south, the main force is the Qin cavalry, and some local people's troops are coordinated, with a total strength of about 18,000 people. The commander is Mao Thirteen. He was originally in command of the battle in the Western Regions, but later Xu Xingxia rotated all the battalion commanders of the White Clothes Army, and Mao 13 was rotated to the Qin Cavalry Army, just in time for the war in Annam.

From Yunnan and other places in the west, the main force was the Han cavalry, and some local civilian armies cooperated, with a total strength of about 15,000 people. The commander is Lin Dacheng. Lin Dacheng was also adjusted to the Han Cavalry Army as the commander in last year's battalion commander rotation. Lin Dacheng, who has always followed others to fight in the past, finally has the opportunity to take charge on his own.

Xu Xingxia's deployment of the war in Annam was very simple. He only wants the result, not the process. No matter what plan the front-line commander takes, as long as he captures the southernmost area of Champa as quickly as possible and keeps it for himself for a long time, the task will be considered to have been completed. As for whether the rule in northern Annam is stable, Xu Xingxia is not too concerned.

What he needs most at the moment is actually Champa in the southernmost part of Vietnam. Not only was Champa the world's largest rice producing area at the time, exporting a large amount of rice every year, but it was also one of the most important ports in the Nanyang region. The port in the Champa area is in very good condition, capable of berthing dozens of 10,000-ton giant ships at the same time.

Obviously, at that time, the world did not have such a huge warship. At that time, the largest warship in the world had a displacement of less than 2,000 tons. Once the white-coat navy occupies this place, it will get the best port base, and can enter and exit the South China Sea at close range. This is very important for the white-coated navy to fight in the South Seas.

Of course, the battle to control Annan cannot be without a little twists and turns. The complex terrain of Annam, as well as the climate of tropical jungles and tropical rainforests, are definitely the biggest obstacle for invaders from the north. In the long river of history, I don't know how many invaders had to withdraw from this land due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil.

At that time, Annam was divided into two major parts, the North Vietnam Dynasty and the Vietnamese Dynasty, and for most of the Ming Dynasty, the North Vietnam Dynasty seemed to be relatively peaceful. After all, they were very close to the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't dare to make too much trouble. Even the most incompetent, the weakest, the most mediocre, the most corrupt, and the darkest Ming Dynasty was a mortal threat to the small land of the Northern Yue Dynasty. If the Yue Bei Dynasty did not want to find the disaster of killing himself and bring about his own destruction, he would definitely not take the initiative to provoke the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the Yuebei Dynasty was not completely obedient to the Ming Dynasty. At some special times, they will also do something sorry for the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps, subconsciously, the high-level leaders of the Yue Bei Dynasty felt that they had to react to some things in order to make the Ming Dynasty realize that the Yue Bei Dynasty was actually a country with reading power. They were not vassals of the Ming Dynasty. They should make their own reading voice.

Under the domination of this kind of thinking, during the Jiajing period, there was a killing of Ming Dynasty envoys in the Northern Yue Dynasty. Obviously, this is the reading sound that the North Viet Cho is trying to make. As a result, the Ming Dynasty reacted quickly. A general who was very corrupt and fought at the same time led his army to battle, and in three months, he hanged the king of the Northern Yue Dynasty in the palace. The wealth in the royal palace of the Northern Dynasty was all plundered by the generals of this contradictory aggregate. Of course, this history, in normal history books, is generally not mentioned.

However, the Ming Dynasty's control over the Northern Yue Dynasty was never perfect.

On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty did not have any territorial claims to Annam. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty have always been not enterprising enough, and they are not enough to keep their achievements. Including Zhu Yuanzhang, they all felt that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was large enough, and there was no need to continue to expand. Even Zhu Di's Northern Expedition is more of a defensive surname and has nothing to do with expanding its territory.

Since Huang Yanjing is like this, the following Wenchen military generals are even more needless to say. After the change of Tumubao, the strength of the military generals of the Ming Dynasty was greatly compressed. Emphasizing literature over military force, and using literature to control military force has become the norm. In order to prevent the military generals from counterattacking, which led to the rampant martial arts in the Five Dynasties period, the civilian official group avoided the war as much as possible. Because, once the war is frequent, it is almost inevitable that the military generals will return to power.

On the other hand, the situation in the North of Vietnam is very turbulent. The Yuebei Dynasty was originally composed of many large and small tribes, and whoever had a strong tribe was most likely to become a king. In other words, whoever has the greatest tribal strength will have the strength to carry out a palace coup. Therefore, no one in the king of the North Vietnamese Dynasty has ever been able to sit on the throne for more than ten years. The palace coup d'état in the North Vietnam Dynasty was simply commonplace, and it has long been unusual.

Perhaps the man who is still the king today will have his head on the ground tomorrow morning. Maybe today is still glorious and rich, drunk and gold-obsessed, but tomorrow it will be scattered and miserable. Due to the fact that there were too many palace coups in the Northern Dynasty and the political situation changed too quickly, the Ming Dynasty still thought that the king of the Northern Dynasty was so-and-so, but in fact, the king of the Northern Dynasty had already been replaced by another person. For such a chaotic land, the Ming Dynasty naturally avoided it.

As for the Vietnamese Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had some thoughts, but it was a pity that the whip was out of reach.

After Zheng He's fleet went to the Western Ocean, the maritime power of the Ming Dynasty was greatly contained, and after hundreds of years, it had long been wiped out. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to conquer the Vietnamese Dynasty, it had to dispatch sailors to cooperate, and it was incompetent to rely on the army alone. It's a pity that the Daming Naval Division simply does not have such ocean-going combat capabilities. In other words, the Ming Dynasty was absolutely powerless. Since there is a weak heart, no one will officially bring it up.

Objectively speaking, the Vietnamese Dynasty at that time was indeed relatively. They probably also judged that the Ming Dynasty couldn't help them, and they had natural talismans. They tried every means to quietly engage in conspiracy behind the back of the Ming Dynasty. They constantly instigated the Northern Dynasty to cause trouble on the border of the Ming Dynasty, but they hid by the side to watch the excitement.

Later, the Ming Dynasty army beat the Yuebei Dynasty, and even the king of the Yuebei Dynasty hanged himself, and the people of the Vietnamese Dynasty were a little more settled. However, it wasn't long before they started repeating their old tricks again. In fact, whether it is the Vietnamese Dynasty or the people of the Northern Vietnam Dynasty, they have always been not very sober, and they have always had a penchant for yang and yin for the Ming Dynasty.

This time, the white-clothed army entered the North Vietnam Dynasty and simply brought the local area to the bottom.

The so-called bottom to the sky means that everything has been cleaned from top to bottom. The upper-class figures of the Northern Yue Dynasty, as long as they had violated the Ming Dynasty, no matter what they were, they would pull out and cut off their heads. At this time, the white-clothed army newspaper, which used to like to join in the fun, must have lost its voice collectively. In fact, after the white-clothed army entered the North Vietnam Dynasty, no one in the outside world knew what happened to the North Vietnam Dynasty.

At the same time as killing the high-ranking figures of the North Vietnamese Dynasty, the White Army also organized a large number of poor people to carry out land reform. Agrarian reform is definitely a big killer in the East, and it is invincible. As long as you are a farmer, the desire for land is innate. However, the population of peasants is the largest. More than eighty percent of the population of the Viet North Dynasty was poor people who did not have their own land. Their desire for land is the same as that of the peasants of the Ming Dynasty.

Once these poor people are stirred up, they quickly form a firm basis for rule. They know that their land is from the hands of the White Army, and once they lose the support of the White Army, they will return to a state of nothing. Therefore, their support for the White Coats is quite loyal. This has almost nothing to do with national feelings.

Among these poor people, the white-clothed army selected some of the most prominent poor people to form the Anshun Army. The Anshun army was equipped with a large number of Yueyue guns and was responsible for the local garrison. Part of the Anshun Army also joined the White Army Navy and marched to the South Seas together. In terms of language communication and living customs, the Annan people still have certain advantages.

Subsequently, under the leadership of the Anshun Army, the White Army continued to march towards Vietnam.

Obviously, the army of the Vietnamese Dynasty is not an opponent of the white-clothed army at all. They can't even call it an army, they can only call it an armed rabble. And their weapons, too, are the most primitive and ugly. According to the information fed back from all sides, the equipment of the Vietnamese army was even more backward than that of the Ningxia Ming army before the arrival of Xu Xingxia.

In Da Nang, the White Coats and Vietnamese troops encountered, and a battle broke out between the two sides. As a result, a brigade of the white-clothed army beat more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops. More than 100 people were killed on the spot and 23,000 were taken prisoner. Such a ratio has to be said to be wonderful. The Vietnamese army in other areas, finding out that something was wrong, had long fled without a trace.

The dense jungles of the southeast peninsula, which are pinned on by the Vietnamese locals, and the strong miasma, do not hurt the white-clothed army very much. Because, in Guangxi, Yunnan, and other places, the white-clothed army has been training for two years, and it is quite familiar with operations in tropical jungles and tropical rainforest areas. This time he entered the Vietnamese Dynasty and turned the results of two years of training into actual combat.

In September of the fifth year of Taichang, the white-clothed army entered the city.

Located at the southernmost tip of Vietnam, Champa is the most fertile part of the Mekong Delta. The most famous material produced in the area is Champa rice. Champa rice has a high yield, with three crops a year, and has always been considered one of the most widely used rice. Before the Ming Dynasty, a part of Champa rice was also introduced, and it was promoted in the Jiangnan region. However, due to climatic and soil problems, the yield of Champong rice is always lower than that of the Mekong Delta.

The biggest advantage of the white-clothed army's control of Zhancheng is that it is one step closer to Nanyang.

After the army took control of the city, the white-coat navy quickly followed suit and established a local repair and supply port. And, with the passage of time, the scale of the port has become larger and larger, and various equipment and facilities have become more and more perfect. Later, Xu Xingxia personally gave instructions to build a ninth shipyard in Zhancheng. Eventually, a port called Saigon was quietly born.

Saigon, Brunei, Dernat, and Pakistan just form a radiating character shape. The white-clothed naval warships that traveled to and from these four ports just controlled the entire northern part of the South China Sea in their own hands. From this port, the warship stopped at three other ports, just in time to patrol the northern part of the South Seas.

Due to the continuous expansion of the patrol range of the navy fleet of the White Army, Manila, Malacca and other places are actually under the direct threat of the White Army and Navy. If the White Navy wants to, it can attack this area at any time. Moreover, judging by the garrison in this area, they have little chance of preventing the White Army from capturing the port.

However, in the southeastern half of the South Seas, it is still the world of the Dutch. Jakarta, Magasa, Surabaya, Ambona, Hanjerumazin and other places are still under the control of the Dutch. Dutch warships flew to and from these ports day and night, carrying out non-stop combat patrols. If the whites want to enter this area, war is inevitable.

In May of the sixth year of Taichang, the first fierce conflict finally broke out between the White Army Navy and the Dutch Navy near Ambona. At that time, the White Navy was heading south from Delnat, while the Dutch Navy was trying to go north from Ambona.

On the white-coat navy side, it was still the Fourth Fleet led by Chen Zhan who participated in the war. As for the Dutch Navy, it was the Dutch Far East Fleet led by Esco. However, after Robben's arrival, Esco's power has been basically stripped away. The Far Eastern Fleet led by him was actually similar to a detachment.

"It's him again!"

Esco was furious and scolded fiercely.

"It's him again."

Chen Zhan said lightly, without the slightest anger.

The battle between the two sides, at the very beginning, was in a fierce state.

On the navy side, of course, the white-clothed army used howitzers to continuously bombard the other side.

The Dutch Navy, on the other hand, was desperately assaulting forward, trying to get close to the battleships of the White Navy and engage in hand-to-hand combat. For the Dutch, their only chance to defeat the navy of the White Coats was hand-to-hand combat. They must fight hard to get the chance to fight hand-to-hand.

It's a pity that the white-coat navy also knows its shortcomings, and they resolutely refuse to give the Dutch navy a chance to fight hand-to-hand. The warships of the White Navy are very flexible and will never give the Dutch Navy warships a chance to get close. The howitzers equipped with the warships of the White Army Navy have a long range and great power, which gives the White Navy the ability to avoid hand-to-hand combat.

On the surface of the sea, grenades continued to explode, stirring up columns of water.

At a distance of about 1,300 meters, a battleship of the Dutch Navy was hit, causing a violent explosion on the spot. After the explosion, the battleship continued to float on the surface of the sea for about half an hour, and then slowly sank. The only good news for the Dutch was that there was an hour to escape, and most of the sailors survived.

Seeing that the opportunity was not good, Esco once again played his true colors as a Scud general and immediately ordered a retreat. Chen Zhan commanded the Fourth Fleet and slowly followed behind Esco, approaching the Ambona Sea. The Dutch merchant ships in the port of Ambona were surprised to find the arrival of the white-coat navy. They were obviously shocked by the appearance of the white-coated navy. However, they were already blocked inside the harbor and could not move.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The battery in the port of Ambona was constantly firing.

These batteries are equipped with large-caliber smoothbore guns, and the firing range is still relatively long.

Smoothbore guns with a caliber of more than 150 mm can indeed cause some effective damage if they hit the top of the battleship. However, the range of these batteries is basically comparable to that of a 75mm howitzer. The difference is that the howitzer of 75 mm caliber fires a blasting shell, and the damage to the battery is also quite large when a shell passes. Especially for the artillery, the damage is huge.

After several rounds of shelling, the batteries in the port of Ambona suffered heavy casualties. Not only did the artillery suffer heavy casualties, but the artillery was also badly damaged. The battery in the port of Ambona had a total of thirty cannons, and in less than half an hour of fighting, more than half of the cannons were destroyed. The rest of the Dutch artillerymen felt bad and hurriedly hid in the underground tunnels, not daring to fight again.

Without the cover of the fort, the Dutch merchant ships in the port of Ambona became a living target. The White Navy could sink all the Dutch merchant ships with just one round of artillery fire. Fortunately, the White Navy had no intention of sinking them, but simply ordered them to drive the ship out to Delnat, and the ship would stay and the people would go.

"Robbery!"

"This is blatant robbery!"

Robben felt that his nose was about to be crooked.

The white-coated navy came to such a ship, and the losses of the Dutch were indeed very heavy.

According to later statistics, there were almost 30 Dutch merchant ships docked at the port of Ambona at that time. The total value of the goods loaded on the merchant ships, all combined, exceeded one million taels of silver. These goods, if delivered within the Netherlands, are at least twice as valuable. However, now, these goods have been openly snatched by the white-coated navy.

"It's so shameless!"

"It's so shameless!"

When Afellai heard the news, he couldn't help but scold.

The white-clad navy is so hateful that they have completely torn their faces and revealed their ugliest side. To openly rob merchant ships is to openly declare war on the Dutch, and if the Dutch do not fight back violently, they will be laughed to death by others. The white-coated army and navy are all starting to on the heads of the Dutch!

"Go to war!"

"Go to war!"

So, under Robben's order, the Dutch Navy officially adopted a tough posture against the White Coats Navy. In fact, the two sides are already in full-scale war. The detachments of the two sides fought a number of naval battles in the waters near Ambona and in the waters near Pakistan. As a result, all the Dutch navy suffered losses, and the white-coat navy was unscathed.

At the end of the sixth year of Taichang, the control of the White Army Navy over the waters near Ambona was further strengthened. Chen Xinhai mobilized more warships and patrolled back and forth near Ambona. Fighting takes place almost every month on both sides.

(To be continued)