Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 725 Sanluwei Qinghua! (4 more)
Tsinghua is located at the confluence of Majiang River and Zhujiang River. The estuary after the confluence of these two rivers is the estuary, only twenty miles away from Tsinghua City.

The [-] troops commanded by Gao Yushi have already reached the front line of the Ma River. The main force of Li Dynasty Zheng Ni not only gave up Ning Binh directly, but also retreated all the way across the Ma River, and began to build a defense line along the river to defend Thanh Hoa.

It is impossible for an army of [-] to gather together, so when going south, Gao Yushi sent Cen Ling's troops alone to the upper reaches of the Majiang River west of Henan in the direction of Huichun, cutting off the connection between Tsinghua and the area north of this line.

Ruan Juan really didn't dare to stay in the city of Tsinghua after attacking Tsinghua for a round. He knew that Zheng Song would definitely come back to help, so he turned around and left immediately after a round of attacking Tsinghua, also retreating to rejuvenate.

The order Ruan Juan received was to let him serve as the new Deputy General of the Right Route Army of the Southern Expedition Army, to assist Cen Ling, the leader of the Right Route Army, and to obey the latter's command, but Gao Yushi also gave him the right to report independently.

Ruan Juan only had 5000 men. Although he fought Tsinghua in one blow, he still lost more than 1000 men. In addition to other losses on the road, he now only has 3000 men. In front of Cen Ling, who has nearly [-] troops , I am not wronged to be a lieutenant general.

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 Yushi. Could it be possible to rebel?

What's more, rebellion is not something that can be accomplished with the little soldiers in his hands. It is better to continue to be a loyal minister. No matter whose family Annan is in the end, he feels that in the name of his good fighting skills, he should not lose his job. .

It is already a blessing to be able to surrender. If you don’t believe me, look at Li Ni and Zheng Ni. After returning to Qinghua, they immediately sent people to Shenglong, hoping to see Guangxi Xunshi Yushi Gaogong. The purpose is also very clear, that is, to recognize counsel...

But Gao Yitai ignored it at all, and directly treated it as a traitor, and sent someone to ask the envoy to go back to deliver a message without meeting Zheng Song's envoy: either bind your hands, come to Shenglong in person to plead guilty, and everything will be dealt with; Clean the neck and wait for the coalition forces to cut off their heads and pass them on to Yanjing when they marched south.

There is no way for Zheng Song to retreat—Mo Maoqia was able to surrender because his ancestors surrendered. He was originally the commander of Annan, but what is Zheng Song?Daming doesn't recognize any status of him, if he has any status, he is a traitor.

Traitors can only die.

So Zheng Song can only give up his illusions and prepare to fight.

But the current situation is completely reversed compared to a month ago.

The enemy he faced face to face was stronger than before: Gao Yushi's department currently has both land and water armies, of which the army has 2000 members of the Gao family, 13 Guangxi wolf soldiers, and Annan, who was reorganized from the former Mo Yulin's department and the Thanglong garrison. [-] servants, [-] servants from Mo Dunrang's department and Annan's current Mo Yulin's department, and [-] from Ruan Juan ([-] people assembled by Cen Ling and Shenglong), a total of [-] army.

In terms of the navy, it is composed of the Jinghua Fleet and the Mo Chao Navy, with more than 2 ships of different sizes (many small ships of the Mo Dynasty were excluded, and only slightly larger warships were included), and there were nearly [-] people (the Mo Chao side ships There are few but many people, and some of them belong to the nature of the "Marine Corps", which is different from the Jinghua Fleet.)
In other words, Zheng Song now has to face the siege of an army of 15.

The situation was already very bad, and something worse happened—Ruan Huang, who had been driven further south to Hue by his father Zheng Jian, suddenly withdrew the Hue army that had been assigned to Zheng Song to help him fight, obviously he was not optimistic about Zheng Song loose meaning.

I would like to introduce this Ruan Huang. He is the second son of Ruan Gan, and Ruan Gan is the powerful official who escaped from Thang Long after Mo Dengyong 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, Ruan Gan was poisoned to death by a general of Mo Jun in the camp.Since then, the real power of the Li Dynasty court has fallen into the hands of Ruan Gan's son-in-law Zheng Jian, who can make a cheap ruling on everything and then go to court.

After Zheng Jianfeng, Li Zhuangzong entered Qinghua.Since then, the Le Dynasty has used Thanh Hoa as its stronghold to confront the Mo Dynasty from north to south for decades.Zheng Jian coerced the emperor to order the princes. In name, he was the Duke Youxiangliang of the Li Dynasty, but the Li Dynasty court was actually in the pocket 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 Wang, who was on the left, was suppressed and rejected by Zheng Jian, and was finally killed.Ruan Huang, on the other hand, was in constant panic, determined to claim his illness and retire to dispel Zheng Jian's vigilance. At the same time, he sent someone to question Ruan Bingqian.

The so-called Hengshan refers to the Hue and Guangnan areas. It was the southernmost point of the border of Annan at this time, but it only reached the central part of the territory of Vietnam in later generations.There are dense forests here, long mountains run through the whole area, rivers and valleys criss-cross, and there is a fertile plain between the mountains and the ocean.

Ruan Huang's strategy of Ruan Bingqian intends to break away from Zheng Jian's restraint, and regards the south of Hengshan as a new world of foothold.Through his sister Ruan Yubao, he asked his brother-in-law Zheng Jian to allow him to leave the town of Hue.

At that time, Hue and Guangnan had just experienced war, and the situation was not clear. Zheng Jian's power was beyond his reach.Therefore, Zheng Jian felt that it was just right to throw this hot potato to Ruan Huang.

So Zheng Jian said to Li Emperor Yingzong: Hue must be guarded by good generals, and Ruan Huang should be used to guard Hue, and each other with Guangnan.Yingzong was just a puppet, so he naturally agreed to his request.

In the 37th year of Jiajing, Ruan Huang left the town of Hue.In the first year of Longqing, Zheng Jian recalled the general army of Guangnan and ordered Ruan Huang to also lead Guangnan, and pay 400 catties of silver and 500 horses of silk as tribute every year.

This was Zheng Jian's mistake of letting the tiger go back to the mountain, which enabled Ruan Huang to stay away from the forefront of the war between the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Ruan Huang relied on immigrants and prisoners from the north to develop Guangnan and Hue. In just a few decades, the Shun and Guangxi areas became a place where "there is no second price in the city, people are not stolen, and merchants and ships from various countries gather".

Although the Mo Dynasty attacked Hue in the fifth year of Longqing, and there were bandits in and out of Shunguang from time to time, Ruan Huang successfully defeated or repelled them, making the southern region a relatively stable rear.On the other hand, in the north, plagues and wars continue, refugees from the north continue to flow into the south, and the capital of Ruan Huang's independent regime is constantly being enriched.

After Zheng Song became the second-generation leader of the Zheng family, although he knew that Ruan Huang wanted to separatize the south, but because the Mo family was still there, he couldn't do anything about him, and he just tried to keep a deterrent.

And Ruan Huang is also a very tolerant person. At least in the eyes of outsiders, he behaved very submissively. Not only did he hand over the silver and silk as usual, but he also always sent a troop to fight with Zheng Song.

But now, Ruan Huang suddenly withdrew the army of about [-], and his intention was naturally clearer.

In fact, Ruan Huang's move was not just because he acted according to the wind, but because Gao Yushi sent him two letters.

One letter was written by Gao Shishi himself, telling him clearly that Daming could not tolerate Annan's continued separatism, and he had found out that the assassination of himself and the chieftains in Guangxi was not instigated by Mo, but by someone sent by Zheng Song.For this kind of act of breaking ground on Tai Sui's head, he is highly pragmatic and "is bound to be punished", and I hope Ruan Huang will not make mistakes.

The other letter was written by Ruan Binglian. In the letter, he carefully analyzed the situation for Ruan Huang, and concluded that Annan's war would inevitably lead to unification, and that the Southern Dynasty had no chance of life because it had offended Ming Dynasty. At this time, following the Zheng family is already a must. In this situation, it is not even possible to sway left and right, so we can only draw a clear line with the Zheng family immediately, and in the future, Hue and Guangnan will surrender, "may be preserved."

Gao Pragmatic's threat is not just for fun, and Ruan Binglian's analysis is absolutely unbelievable to Ruan Huang, so he can only reluctantly give up the separatist side, and even accumulate strength for the future.

However, he still hesitated about surrendering immediately.

Or a little bit of luck—what if Gao Pragmatism fails?What if after the defeat, Daming felt that it was not worthwhile to beat Annan and retreated again?

Therefore, it is not impossible to surrender, but Ruan Huang still decided to take another look, at least, wait until the battle of Qinghua is over.

Ruan Huang's 1 troops withdrew, and Zheng Song didn't dare to stop them at this time, or he didn't have the strength to stop them. He could only watch helplessly as his army of 15 men after finally getting together became [-], which was not yet high-level. Half of the "[-]" army mobilized for this battle.

In February [-], the main force of Gao Wushi's Department arrived at Dongfeng in the north of Tsinghua City and across the Ma River, with more than [-] soldiers (some wolf soldiers were left to garrison Thang Long City), while its navy was stationed in Dongfeng. In the bay just over ten miles east of Fengcheng, they could be dispatched at any time to attack Tsinghua, which is twenty miles away from Majiang Estuary.

Cen Ling and Ruan Juan's West Route Army set out from Huichun, captured Zhengcun, Yule, and Zhongli (this is a place name) along the way, and arrived 25 miles northwest of Qinghua.

Tsinghua City is about to be surrounded by three roads, leaving only one road to the south.
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