Lu Ming

Chapter 630 The Night Visit
The first round of the oil barrel gun was fired, and it was over after only three charges were fired.

When the follow-up reinforcements of the South Vietnamese came to the fort, they found that the stone fort had turned into a pile of tiles.What's even more frightening is that most of the former defenders were killed on the spot with bleeding from their seven orifices after howling a few times. It can be said that the entire army was wiped out.

This strange scene caused the morale of the defenders to plummet.

Next, after observing that the defenders had replenished their numbers, the oil barrel fired two more shots.

Not surprisingly, none of the defenders within the detonation range of the gunpowder could escape, and all of them were killed by the shock.

Ignoring the defensive facilities and making the defenders incapable of fighting back, the means of large-scale destruction caused the morale of the South Vietnamese to collapse rapidly.

The core fortress on the front of the battle line has now turned into ruins.No matter how the officers drove them away this time, there were no soldiers to serve as defenders.

Soon, officers will have nothing to worry about.Because not long after, the oil barrel cannon threw a few explosive packets from elsewhere.

It's different from mortars that often weigh several tons.To put it bluntly, the oil barrel gun is an oil barrel, and it is very easy to transfer lightly.This is to give Yue people an expensive + rare concept of "treasure of a town house", otherwise, a certain force can open dozens of doors in front of the formation without any effort and open fire in one go.

In this way, the previous extremely difficult battle ended suddenly in a jaw-dropping process.In the evening of that day, as Sheng Nan had boasted before, the North Vietnamese army slowly crossed the second line of defense that had been blasted to the ground, and approached the city of Hue.

By this time, it was obvious to the naked eye that the South Vietnamese separatist regime was over.Although there is still the last emergency line of defense under the city of Hue, whether this line of defense can survive tomorrow morning, all the soldiers of North Vietnam from the prince down are optimistic about it.

Some people are optimistic, others are pessimistic.

While the North Vietnamese were ecstatic, the South Vietnamese palace in Hue City was already in chaos.The third-generation leader of the South Vietnam regime, Duke Ren Ruan Fuyuan, was wearing a soft armor, looking downcastly at the civil and military noise below the throne.

Speaking of the Nguyen family in South Vietnam, like other countries from ancient times to the present, the founders of the country must be outstanding people.

When Ruan Fuyuan's grandfather Ruan Huang left the town of Hue as a general of the Li Dynasty, he had already planned the separatist regime.Before Ruan Huang passed away 20 years ago, he warned his tribe: "Shun (Hua) Guang (south) has the danger of Hengshan and Lingjiang in the north, and the solidity of Haiyunbei Mountain in the south. The mountains produce gold and iron, and the sea produces fishing salt. , It is a place where heroes can use their weapons. If they can tame the people and fight against the Zheng family, it will be enough to build a career for all generations."

Next, Nguyen followed this program line and began to implement the separatist regime in the south.

When it was passed down to Ruan Fuyuan's generation, he began to officially fight against Lord Zheng in the north because of the separatist regime.

In history, Nguyen Phuc Yuan was in power for 22 years. During this period, he organized a standing force of less than 2 and resisted seven large-scale "counter-insurgency" wars with more than 7 people in the northern Zheng family. The situation of separatism can be regarded as extraordinary martial arts.

However, in this plane, everything is messed up by barrel after barrel of oil.

In the Nanyue Palace at this meeting, the frightened courtiers were already discussing how to "surrender" decently, without any scruples about the thoughts of the Duke on the throne.

The Duke himself seemed to have lost his fighting spirit, but he was speechless, his face was gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

There is no way, we can't blame everyone for changing their minds too quickly, it is because the war collapsed too quickly.

Anyone who has been to the defensive line before is mostly in a state of psychological breakdown now.People in the seventeenth century had never been exposed to the concept of "face-to-face killing". Seeing the soldiers who died tragically in an instant and the fortifications that were blown up to the sky, people would feel fear, which has surpassed most people's understanding of war.

In addition, the most frustrating thing now is that the soldiers are all frightened and unable to mobilize.In other words, the command system of the entire South Vietnamese army has actually failed. This is the fundamental reason why the civil and military dignitaries "abandoned their illusions" and prepared to surrender.

However, surrender also has technical requirements.

All the civil and military personnel present know that if we don't take advantage of all the matters tonight and wait until the North Vietnamese army begins to attack the city tomorrow morning, it will be too late. .
The only one I'm sorry for is the father-in-law.After all, if other people are sensible, they can save their lives, and the Duke of the State, as the "first rebel", wants to escape from the hands of the North Vietnamese. This is a bit technically difficult.

However, the matter has come to this point, and the catastrophe is imminent, and they fly separately.Everyone has been greatly stimulated today, so they can't take care of that much.At this moment, the atmosphere in the hall was out of order, everyone was in panic, complaining and cursing each other, looking like the chaos of the end of the world.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, the high-ranking father-in-law suddenly spoke up.

Ruan Fuyuan's face was ashamed, and he probably finally digested the reality.He sighed and said: "Okay, this is the end of the matter, and we can't mess up. Even if we surrender, we have to act together, it's better than being slaughtered piecemeal. You are all people who come out of the picture and go to the general. , can't you see this clearly?"

As soon as the father-in-law spoke, all the people below became quiet, and then they felt relieved - just waiting for you to repeat this sentence!
The next moment, the civil and military officials chattered and started to make noise again: this time, they elected negotiators out of the city internally.

Seeing that this group of trash was in a mess, Ruan Fuyuan was really speechless this time, he could only smile wryly: "Forget it, let's take care of each other."

After he finished speaking, he shook his head and beckoned to the General of the Imperial Guard who had been standing by the side, his own nephew, and whispered in his ear: "I will drag you here, you go to the post house and invite those Franchise merchants to go to the apse." , don't make a fuss."

Seeing that his nephew was puzzled, Ruan Fuyuan explained helplessly: "Now that the matter is up to now, don't you know who the northerners took advantage of? You idiot, if you want to protect the wealth and lives of my Ruan family, no one can rely on it. It will fall on the Fran robot alone!"

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At nightfall, the Beida Camp camped under the city of Hue was noisy.

The first one is that after all kinds of hardships, they finally reached the city of Hue, so everyone was inevitably a little bit excited.

Second, shortly after dark, the north gate of Hue City opened wide, and the Southern Dynasty sent a negotiating team composed of many important ministers and several Frangji businessmen to surrender. Go down to Lord Zheng's Chinese army tent.

This scene further confirmed people's speculation.All Beiying soldiers knew that the war was probably coming to an end.

The same is true.At this moment, the big tent of the Chinese army is brightly lit, and Zheng Bing, who is blushing, is full of ambition, chatting and laughing happily with the visitors.

In other words, most of the people in power in the Northern and Southern Dynasties were ministers in the same palace in the Houli Dynasty before, so most of them were familiar with each other, and there was no barrier in communication.

The content of the negotiations between the two parties is actually obvious, but there is no need for any rhetoric.

In the East Asian Confucian cultural circle, the request to surrender has been routineized for thousands of years.It is nothing more than Kaesong paying the land, money and food documents, and the loser listens to the winner afterwards, and strives for leniency with the merit of dedicating the city.

His long-cherished wish could come true today, Prince Zheng had been looking forward to it for a long time, and he already had a plan for how to deal with him.

In the prince's vision, most of them can follow the usual route after entering the city tomorrow, but for the Ruan clan who have stubbornly resisted the Zheng clan for N years, and a group of core generals in the South Vietnamese Imperial Army, Prince Zheng is really true. I hate it to the bone, I have made a list long ago, and I will definitely not let it go.

The few ministers who came to negotiate naturally understood Prince Zheng's thoughts. This thought is probably understood by any scholar, so the two sides tacitly did not talk about Ruan's fate.

In this way, the negotiation process is greatly accelerated.Several important ministers from the delegation happily reached an agreement with Prince Zheng: tomorrow morning, Hue will take the initiative to open the city.

Prince Zheng promised: All the people in the south are citizens of my Dali Dynasty (he has not yet rebelled).

So, both sides are happy.After finishing their official business, the descendants of the delegation even left an old minister and old colleagues to drink and talk happily, preparing to have a long talk all night.

Lord Zheng readily agreed.

At this time, one of the Francine businessmen who had come to serve as the mascot also made a small request: he wanted to take this opportunity to visit one of his Dutch businessman friends.

Anyway, they are also foreign guests, so small requests will naturally be met.

So, this red-haired Portuguese named Nacho was politely led behind the line of defense by someone specially assigned to him, to the exclusive tent area of ​​the Dutch businessman in the Jiangnan Camp, where he met Lalo, a Dutch businessman he had previously done business with.

That night, under the guidance of Lalo, Nacho sneaked into a separate camp and met the target of his trip: Commander Sheng Nansheng.

And Sheng Nan didn't seem to be surprised by Nacho's visit, which can be seen from the tea and spring water he had already prepared.

"I would have made coffee if I knew it earlier. I thought it was a native who came looking for me."

After pouring enough tea into the green tea mug in front of Nacho, Sheng Nan smiled and said, "Mr. Nacho from Aveiro, welcome to my camp as a guest. Now, you can tell why you came."

The reason why Nacho was promised a lot of money and entrusted with a heavy mission to go deep into the enemy camp tonight was because he had stayed in Xiamen for many years and could speak Chinese.

"General Sheng, time is running out, I can only ask you to give me an answer frankly."

The next moment, Nacho bowed forward slightly, and then said nervously: "The employer behind me wants to know what price he needs to pay to keep his current power and status?"

Sheng Nan said with a playful smile: "Grandpa Ruan is not young, he has reached this point, and still wants power?"

"My employer has learned everything about Earl Daming Cao in detail from the Franchise Business Organization, so I got a judgment from my employer before I set off: You will definitely lend him a helping hand."

When Nacho said this, he smiled confidently: "After all, the warlords have the same thinking, don't they, my lord?"

(End of this chapter)