East Factory Governor

Chapter 807
Without saying anything, before Zheng Zhihu could speak, his left and right rushed up, and once again firmly pushed the messenger to the ground.

One person asked, "General Zheng, this thief dares to insult the imperial decree, how should we deal with him?"

Zheng Zhihu snorted coldly, "What is the crime of insulting the imperial decree?"

Said left and right, "Of course it's a capital crime, it's a death sentence."

Zheng Zhihu nodded, and said again, "But if he dies, no one will go back to preach the imperial decree. In this way, the death penalty will be avoided. Break his legs, cut off his nose and ears, and then let him go back. It's also good for the hole. King Wu knows that our Majesty is kind, doesn't he?"

When the messenger heard this, his face turned pale.

Shouted, "How dare you attack an envoy! I am an envoy from Dongwu, and the envoy will not be beheaded if the two countries are at war. Don't you call yourself a state of etiquette? You, you..."

The envoy probably read too many Han books, and believed that the Central Plains people would talk about rules and would not attack him as an "envoy", so he was so arrogant.

This is normal.At that time, when Ming people went abroad, they all behaved well and persuaded others with reason. Even when Zheng He passed through the land of barbarism when he was sailing to the West, he would never resort to force, but always maintain the image of a modest gentleman-but there is no such thing as later. Those European colonists were vicious.

So when he heard that Zheng Zhihu was really going to break his legs and cut off his ears and nose, the emissary realized that the Han books he was reading were all fake.

How can a person have such a good temper?
It is right not to behead the envoy, but there is no teaching in the Han Shu that you can insult the imperial decree.

Although the envoy didn't cry for mercy and kept his last integrity, he still shouted heartbreakingly that he is an envoy that cannot be humiliated, and even suggested that if he is released now, he can still take the imperial decree back and so on. up.

But it was too late.

Not long after being pushed out, after a burst of tragic howls, several bloody things were brought in.

Zheng Zhihu laughed, looked at it with great interest, and then asked people to send the envoy back to the boat they came from - of course, he did not forget to put the imperial decree in the envoy's arms.

Besides, the huge fleet is now at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River, and will not go anywhere at the moment, just waiting for King Dongwu's reply.

Why is it possible to go to war without declaring a full-time overtime, but to issue an ultimatum when playing Dongwu?
Because the two are different in nature.

The purpose of fighting all over the country is to fight for territory. There is nothing to talk about with European pirates like Portugal. Everyone knows the rules.

But the dongwu is different.Qin Shuhuai didn't intend to bring Dongwu into Daming's territory - the people here are tough, and there are many ethnic conflicts, and you will have a riot every now and then, and it's not easy to put down the rebellion. What else can you do if you take him down except to cause trouble? ?It would be better to let him be a vassal state honestly, and it would be more cost-effective to pay tribute as a minister.

Since it is not occupying the territory, it is just to defeat their King Talong's regime, that is to say, it is necessary to make the appearance that the Ming Dynasty Xingshi came to only target him and not the Dongwu people - after all, he will have to support a regime, let him pay tribute to Daming, right?
How can I make it look like this?

Qin Shuhuai even thought about the ten deadly crimes of King Long.

Needless to say, what invaded the land of Ming Dynasty and plundered the people of Ming Dynasty, even King Talong was arrogant and lustful, abused the people, even took the land of the Shan and Meng people for his own selfish desire, and forced the Shan and Meng people into slavery, etc. Going against the way of heaven and doing injustice, how can such a king "stand in the world".

Well, it's quite grandiose, and it's like a posture to help the people of Dongwu get rid of the tyrant.

But is it useful?
Absolutely useful, don't forget that the Shan people, Mon people and even many other people who have just been conquered still hate him, King Long, but dare not speak out.

Therefore, although the ten-day ultimatum period gave him a certain amount of time for King Long to dispatch troops, but in terms of public opinion, it must be a good deal.

Moreover, in just ten days, it would not have any impact on the battle situation at all.

As expected, King Talong did not give any reply within these ten days, neither came to submit a petition, nor sent envoys to reprimand or provoke.

King Talong obviously would not give in, but he would also use the ten days to dispatch troops.

In Dongwu, a massive mobilization has already begun.

King Talong summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs, personally presided over the ceremony outside the palace, and called on all Dongwu people to be soldiers, vowing to completely wipe out the invaders.

On the 11th day, another Dongwu envoy came with the will of King Long, denounced the invasion of the Ming army, and said that once the Ming army set foot on the land of Dongwu, the Dongwu people would retaliate with tooth for tooth and blood for blood.

In addition, the envoy triumphantly counted the wars between the Central Plains and Dongwu since the Qin Dynasty, saying that they had won every battle.Especially in the past few decades, how they defeated the Ming country.

That leaves nothing to say.

In the morning of that day, Qin Shuhuai ordered the whole army to march towards Daguang.

The fleet set sail again, preparing to enter the Irrawaddy River Estuary from the Andaman Sea in a mighty and swaggering manner.

After entering the Ayeyarwady River, forty miles along the river is Daguang, and it is only [-] miles from Daguang landing to the current capital of Dongwu, Pegu. Naturally, Dongwu will not fail to guard against such an important waterway.

But the problem is that the combined forces of all the naval forces at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River in Dongwubu have only more than 30 warships, and the largest is the Junker class. Don't say that the army has as many as sixty or seventy battleships. Five ships are enough to deal with them.

And the coastal defense artillery on both sides of the river mouth is really just a decoration - only a small part of those guns are cannons of the same level as the Hongyi Cannon, and most of them are homemade earthen cannons. The range of those earthen artillery is comparable to that of the Hongyi Cannon There is no comparison, so when they really fought, they could only kneel down to meet the artillery fire from the battleships of the Ming army, and they had no way to fight back.

Therefore, blocking the Ming army's fleet is destined to be an act of manipulative arms.

But what the Ming army didn't expect was that when they drove to the entrance of the Irrawaddy River, they really found the Dongwu fleet gathered there, and they were ready to fight.

The fierceness of the Dongwu people and the pride they have accumulated through victories for a long time can be seen.

Without further ado, Zheng Zhihu, who was in charge of the Vanguard Battalion, immediately ordered the thirty battleships of the Vanguard Battalion to form a battle formation, and then opened fire.

As soon as the two sides fought, the Dongwu Fleet discovered that its own naval guns could not reach the opponent, but the opponent's naval guns could easily hit itself—this is a bit like the Qing court navy in the late Qing Dynasty.

So they quickly turned the bow of the ship, braved the Ming army's overwhelming artillery fire and rushed over with a spirit of fearlessness, hoping to bring the Ming army warship within their range.

However, will Zheng Zhihu, a sea battle veteran, give them this chance?
While ordering the battleships to fire wildly, he ordered them to flank the enemy, sail straight ahead, and keep a distance from the enemy.

As for the small and medium battleships other than battleships, according to the characteristics of the opponent's eagerness to approach, they spread out in a fan shape in front and side of the battleships, forming an encirclement circle.

In other words, even if the opponent approached the battleship, he had also entered the encirclement of the Ming army.

To be honest, the other party is really dying to rush up like this.

But the tough thing is that the more than 30 warships of the Dongwu people really dared to come and die.

Even the Ming army was a little dumbfounded, and many soldiers on the battleship even remembered when they fought against the Demon Cult. It can be said that these Dongwu people are not inferior to the Demon Cult in terms of courage.

The reason here is that apart from the fact that the Dongwu people are relatively tough, there is another more important reason, that is, the system that has been practiced in Myanmar and has been greatly strengthened in the period of King Thalung - the Akhmedan system .

(End of this chapter)