Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 713 Soldiers Approaching the City (4 more changes)
The Jinghua Fleet stopped in front of the Xiangfumen Wharf in Shenglong City. Two hundred large and small sea ships almost covered this section of the Red River, and the black muzzles of the heavy artillery on the open deck were even worse. It is to make the entire Thang Long City silent.

Thang Long is the capital of Annan, and its structure is divided into inner and outer cities.

The inner city is divided into the capital city, the imperial city, and the forbidden city from the outside to the inside. Among them, the forbidden city is the residence of the emperors and concubines, which is the Annan version of the "Forbidden City". City guards are also markets, neighborhoods and residential areas.

As for the outer city, in fact, it should be called "outside the city" to be more precise. It is actually equivalent to a suburban area without city walls surrounding it.

Like countless cities in this era, Shenglong City was also built on the river, and Shenglong is on the right bank of the Red River.There are four gates in Shenglong, Xiangfu in the east, Guangfu in the west, Daxing in the south, and Yaode in the north. One of them exits Xiangfu Gate in the east city gate, which is the wharf.

Right now, Jinghua's fleet is moored in the middle of the river in front of Xiangfumen Wharf. The hulls of all ships are facing the city gate, and all deck guns, as long as the design allows it to be placed in the position aimed at Shenglong City, have been placed. At the position where the cannon can be fired at any time, there are countless black hole muzzles, like the mouth of a giant python that chooses to devour someone. One glance at it makes the scalp numb and the whole body tremble.

In particular, one point must be mentioned. Although Thang Long is the ancient capital of the N Dynasty and the largest city in Annan, the size of Thang Long City is actually less than one-tenth of that of Hanoi in later generations.

The Jinghua Fleet moored on the river outside Xiangfu Gate, even though the current naval guns are far less powerful than those of later generations, the range of the most powerful ones can cover almost half of Shenglong City, and because the Imperial City is relatively far away from the Honghe River. It is close, so this range is almost enough to send the shells into the imperial city or even the forbidden city.

After the boat was moored for less than half an hour, Gao Yu still did not wait for the response from Shenglong City. He was getting impatient, and was about to order the family guards to disembark and land to forcibly attack the city. Someone came to report that someone from Shenglong City had come.

The person who came was an eunuch surnamed Zhang—uh, it’s not that Annan’s commander made Mo Maoqia lose face, but that he hasn’t figured out how to deal with this fleet, especially if he even owns this fleet. I don't know who the chief general is or what level he is, but His Majesty the emperor, er, no, it's really inconvenient to come forward now because all of them are commanders.

When Gao Yu heard that the first thing the other party did was to send someone to ask about the "rank", he was really angry and funny.

What title does he have?
"I'm just the servant of Mr. Gao, the censor of Guangxi, and I'm the guardian of the servant, and I don't have any rank." Gao Yu said lightly: "However, I brought the order of the high official, you call your family Just come out and take orders."

Eunuch Zhang's face suddenly turned red—you f*cking boss, how dare you ask me, Emperor Dayue, to come out to take orders in an orderly tone?

Well, even if you calculate according to your Daming's official rank, that master of yours is only a seventh rank, so why should he point fingers at everyone from the second rank?
The muscles on Eunuch Zhang's face twitched, and he didn't say anything for a long time, Gao Yu was dissatisfied on the contrary, he sternly frowned, and said, "Why, the commander of your family wants me to fire a cannon to welcome you?"

Eunuch Zhang was taken aback for a moment: "Is there such a gift?"

"Hahahaha!" Gao Yu was amused by him, smiled at the naval guns on the nail plate, and said: "I have more than two hundred warships here, with two thousand cannons. If you all want to see the cannons fired , I don't mind bombing Shenglong City, let him see enough!"

The two thousand cannons are of course bragging, just like sending 30 troops to claim [-], not to mention the cannons on these ships, except for the [-] armed transport ships of Jinghua, they can barely be regarded as heavy ships in the East Asian region of this era Cannons, most of the naval guns mounted on other ships can also touch the side of the city wall. The so-called bombing and rising of the Dragon City is pure nonsense.

Oh, Boss Hu and Boss Li's boats are better because they were equipped with Jinghua guns, but they are actually only medium-sized guns, and they can make do with entering the city.

But eunuch Zhang obviously doesn't understand artillery. He only knows that the artillery on the big ship he is on is bigger than any cannon he has seen in the past. There are at least twenty such cannons, so if all the warships covering the sky and the sun in the Red River are firing at the same time...

Eunuch Zhang Ji Lingling shuddered.He felt that, not to mention Shenglong City, Mingren's own Nanjing City might not be able to hold it, right?

Of course, he dare not ask this question now, in fact, it is useless to ask, Gao Yu has never considered it from this angle.

"I, Da Yue... Uh, I, Annan, have always been a barrier of the Celestial Empire. Your army is here, so arrogant, aren't you afraid that Emperor Wanli will blame you?"

Gao Yu didn't expect him to know that the name of the current year is Wanli, but he still smiled and said: "I want to teach you to know that my master was born with the emperor's companion, and he sent me here this time because he asked for his will." Yes. Regarding the matter of Annan, the emperor asked my master to handle it... Well, you know what it means to handle it?"

Eunuch Zhang really panicked now, and said: "This... our family can't be the master, we have to go back and ask your majesty... Commander-in-Chief, please wait a moment for your army."

Gao Yu glanced at the hourglass and said, "Okay, I'll give you an hour. If you haven't opened the city to welcome after an hour, then... I will go to the city to question myself."

Eunuch Zhang didn't dare to make a sound, he hesitated, and ran away as if his butt was on fire.

Boss Hu and Boss Li walked out with a smile, and Boss Hu said: "Gao Tuanzuo, it seems that the Annan people are afraid, we went all the way to the outside of Shenglong City, they didn't dare to send anyone to stop them, but now they come to pester you What kind of title and etiquette are really ridiculous."

Boss Li also said cheerfully: "Yes, Gao Tuanzuo, although Shenglong City is empty now, no matter what, ten thousand soldiers and horses will always stay? There are tens of thousands of troops, but they dare not even stop them. Commander Annan... Hehe, it's really strange that they can still suppress Li Chao."

Gao Yu smiled slightly, and said: "I think it should be that the news of Lang Son and Gao Ping has reached Thang Long, and maybe even Lang Son and Gao Ping have been captured by Huang and Cen, especially Lang Son... …After Lang Son was lost, Annan Mo’s army went to fight in the south again, what did Mo Maoqia do to stop my master from taking revenge? Under such circumstances, it’s not surprising that he couldn’t get tough when facing us.”

Boss Hu looked thoughtful, thought for a while, and said, "Gao Tuanzuo, do you think Mo Maochao will really open the city and surrender?"

Gao Yu pondered and said: "It's hard to say, after all, he still has a large army outside. Although we came quickly, we came from the sea after all, but the fleet couldn't go ashore. This Shenglong City is on the west bank of the Red River... Even if he Afraid of the wolf soldiers from the Cen and Huang families coming from the northeast, they can also go directly to the west city and flee, and when the time comes to join his army for the southern expedition, whether it is war or peace, we can also make a long-term plan."

Boss Hu was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Then, should we send troops to block the west gate?"

Gao Yu shook his head with a smile, and said, "What are you doing blocking the city? The master gave me the task of taking Shenglong, but he didn't say that he had to fight Mo's army to death. If he really ran away, wouldn't he just kill him?" Has Shenglong City surrendered?"

Boss Hu was taken aback for a moment, and hesitated, "Isn't the plan to take Annan?"

Gao Yu raised his eyebrows slightly: "I don't dare to guess wildly whether the master wants to take all of Annan, but... even if the master has this plan, he didn't assign such a task to me. It should be able to achieve this goal, right?"

Boss Hu now understands—the members of the Gao family are all private property of Gao Chengtai. Since it is private property, how can it be wasted casually?You know, the death of a member of the Gao family is equivalent to losing the capital of the Gao family.What's more, Gao Yantai has a bunch of chieftains from the Cen and Huang families who can use them. These two chieftains have guarded western and southern Guangxi for hundreds of years. How can the two families have only fifty thousand wolf soldiers?
It can be seen that if necessary, Gao Jiantai can continue to encourage them to send troops-it is nothing more than paying money. The "price" of those wolf soldiers is so low that they are not at the same level as the servants of the Gao family.

Boss Li interjected at this time: "I think that if Mo Maoqia really escaped from the West City, it might be a good thing instead."

Boss Hu was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Lao Li, what do you say? If he runs away, and after that time gathers the army for the Southern Expedition, if he comes back after being killed, wouldn't it be a nuisance... Uh, a problem Big or small trouble?"

Boss Li smiled and said: "If he can really bring the Southern Expedition army back, it will be somewhat troublesome, but I think that as long as he leaves the city, it may not be so easy for him to come back."

Boss Hu cupped his hands: "I'd like to ask Boss Li about it."

"Don't you dare?" Boss Li said politely, "I just think that he sent troops to the south not long ago, and the south may have already received the battle. Can the army be withdrawn immediately? At that time, he lost Shenglong City, and the south is still fighting with the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty, and he wants to come back... Hehe, then he must first ask Zheng Song if he agrees."

"Oh, so that's the truth." Boss Hu thought for a while, nodded his head in agreement, and said, "If this is the case, it would be a good thing for Mo Maoqia to escape to the west of the city."

At this time, Gao Yu continued: "If Mo Maoqia really leaves, our infantry can enter the city, and the fleet can separate part of the mopping up the remnants of the Mo Chao navy in the Red River, and then gather together to prepare to deal with Mo Maoqia. Return to the main force of the navy."

According to Gao Yu's meaning, he intends that if Mo Maoqia really wants to run away, then he will occupy Shenglong City first, and then use the force of the fleet to draw the Red River as the boundary. If you can't beat yourself, then the essence of the Mo Dynasty in the northeast of Honghe River is all belonged to Gao Yushi; the part in the southwest of Honghe River was originally a good place, but these years of fighting with the Li Dynasty have destroyed those places a lot. Mo Chao, Mo Chao can't turn up any storms.

The only thing worth worrying about is whether the Mo Dynasty will come up with some way to reach an agreement with the Zheng family who is in power in the Le Dynasty. Not to mention turning the enemy into a friend, at least reach an agreement on a truce first, and then pour out troops to counterattack Thang Long, and Thang Long City On the west bank of the Red River, the fleet could not completely maintain artillery suppression.

When Mo Chao's 4000 troops come over, his [-]-odd steps may not be able to bear it—Gao Yu doesn't know that Mo Chao suffered a big defeat in the south.

He raised this question for the two ship owners and bosses to consult. Boss Hu and Boss Li looked at each other and fell into deep thought.After a while, Boss Hu said: "Gao Tuanzuo's worry is not unreasonable. Although Mo Chao and Li Chao are mortal enemies, after all, Zheng Song should know the truth of the bitterness of lips and teeth. From Zheng Song's point of view, Although the death of Mo Maoqia and others is not a pity, if the north is occupied by Daming, it will not be a good thing..."

Boss Li seemed to have a different opinion, and said in a deep voice: "Gao Tuanzuo, Lao Hu, do you think there is such a possibility that although Zheng Song watched Daming take Bei'annan, he felt that he could use the title of a vassal?" The way to ask the imperial court to return Bei Annan to him? Oh, of course, the premise is that the Mo family has already been destroyed by then."

Gao Yu suddenly felt a little overwhelmed. The two people's considerations had already shifted to politics, but he didn't want to think about this matter-this kind of matter is naturally considered by the master. He just needs to figure out how to occupy Shenglong City first. Stay, and then pull up the Red River defense line.

As for taking Shenglong City, it doesn't make much difference to him whether Mo Maoqia surrenders the city or abandons the city. Anyway, he tries to fight without bloodshed. Now it's up to Mo Maoqia's choice.
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After struggling with eyelids, I finished writing, and it's still more than ten thousand in four o'clock...

(End of this chapter)