Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 310 The Zheng family is destroyed, and the Ming army advances triumphantly

As for the Zheng family, because they controlled the court of the Le Dynasty and the most elite cold weapon army of the Le Dynasty, the Yulin Army, and they were not as economically as the Ruan family and did not have the help of so many Westerners, so the Zheng family vigorously trained the elite troops. Cold weapon army.

Anyway, Jiaozhi has good terrain conditions, high grain production, and a dense population of more than 1000 million people. Zheng wanted to find some suitable elite soldiers in the northern part of Jiaozhi under his control, and it would not be too easy to train them to become elite soldiers.

It's just that these elite soldiers are only compared to the Ruan family in the south and the tyrants in other places in Cochin.

If you compare it with the Ming army, hum, to put it bluntly, it's like playing a house.

After crossing the Zhennan Pass, over hills and mountains, Huang Degong, Du Yinxi and the others will be able to come to the core area of ​​Jiaozhi, the Red River Delta.

The soil here is fertile and very suitable for rice cultivation. It is the most densely populated and economically developed area in Cochin.

However, due to the internal situation in Cochin falling into chaos, the rise of powerful powers in various places, and the large and small families and warlords attacking each other, there is no smile on the faces of the farmers here.

Even when the army of the Ming Dynasty came here over the mountains, they just showed a little surprised expression, and then continued to cultivate in the paddy fields.

However, after seeing the Ming army, some people hurried to the city to inform the local ruler, telling him that a large army was coming.

The local ruler was the patriarch of a small family named Hu. Because agriculture was developed here, he had quite a lot of resources and troops. After hearing that a large army was entering the country, he without saying a word, ordered thousands of local peasants and soldiers to pick up swords and guns. Even hoes and rakes ambushed the Ming army on their marching route.

As a result, the invincible Da Ming soldiers casually shot a few arrows, and shot to death dozens of elite soldiers who were the vanguard of the little patriarch.

The rattan armor they wear can't protect them at all. After all, this is an old thing more than 1000 years ago. In the late Ming Dynasty, military technology has been innovated many times.

Even ordinary bows and arrows have the ability to shoot through cheap armor like rattan armor.

Seeing that the elite soldiers who were attacking the vanguard were all shot to death, the peasants and soldiers behind panicked one by one, but before they could retreat, the Ming army's musketeers came up, but the Ming army adopted the method of three-stage attack, three rows of people, In the blink of an eye, dozens of blunderbuss were fired, knocking down a group of peasant soldiers.

Seeing the firecrackers in the hands of the Ming army, those farmers and soldiers knew that the opponent was not provoked by themselves, so they retreated like a tide.

Even the little patriarch who wanted to supervise the battle and organize the retreat of the peasants and soldiers was trampled to death.

Cochin is located in the tropics, and the people here live a lazy life. They have never dared to fight, let alone have any sense of organization. Most of the small separatist forces in other places are like this small clan leader.

If you want to be a car with the arms of the mantis, you will be killed by your own people before the car crushes them to death.

Among them, like the little patriarch surnamed Hu, he was trampled to death and killed by his own retreating soldiers, and some of his generals had their heads cut off and dedicated to the Ming army.

Of course, more people still became heroes who knew the current affairs for a while. As soon as they found out that the Ming army was coming, they immediately presented letters of surrender, saying that they were willing to return to the rule of Ming Dynasty.

This is not a psychological burden for them. Jiaozhi separated from the Ming Dynasty, but after 200 years of history, scholars and knowledgeable upper-class dignitaries all knew that the Ming Dynasty was more qualified to rule this land than the so-called Li Dynasty.

And Jiaozhi, as the territory before the Ming Dynasty, was also known as the Little China, and the surrender letter presented was of course Chinese characters.

In fact, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiaozhi, North Korea, and even Dongying, although the languages ​​of each country were different, it was amazing that they could use words to communicate.

Because East Asia still belongs to China in this era, these vassal states, or regions and countries under the influence of China, all advocate the Four Books and Five Classics, and learn from China everywhere.

Intellectuals, even the elite, are familiar with Chinese classics everywhere, and some even speak the Central Plains dialect. Of course, because of the distance, the speaking is not standard enough.

After seizing more than a dozen small cities in the northern part of Cochin, the Zheng family, who were firmly seated in Hanoi, finally couldn't sit still. The northern part of Cochin was their sphere of influence, how could they allow others to invade.

Therefore, Zheng Yang, the patriarch of the contemporary Zheng family and the actual controller of the Li Dynasty, immediately decided to dispatch 3 horse infantry, 20 temporarily conscripted farmers and soldiers, [-] cannons, and [-] war elephants. An army of [-] fought a decisive battle with the Ming army.

There is no doubt about the result. Facing the fierce firepower and elite soldiers of the Ming army, the Zheng army collapsed at the first touch.

As soon as the [-] peasants and soldiers deployed on the flanks heard the sound of the cannons, they were frightened and frightened, and their footsteps were unstable. After walking a few steps, the formation broke up. He began to run backwards desperately, fleeing for his life.

Zheng Yang, the Lord of Zheng, was unwilling to lose to the Ming army in the first battle, so he ordered the war elephants to form a dense formation, accompanied by more than [-] horsemen, and charged the formation of the Ming army.

War elephants are well-deserved heavy weapons in the Indochina Peninsula. Once an elephant weighing several tons enters a crowd, it can easily injure and kill dozens of people.

Because the collision and trampling of war elephants are all blunt blows, it is useless even if the soldiers wear armor.

It's a pity that Huang Degong brought a large number of firearms such as Flang machines, rockets, and tiger squat guns on this trip. As soon as he saw Zheng Jun's war elephant rushing, he directed the gunners to shoot wildly.

Poor those war elephants, they only rushed a few dozen steps, and they were all killed and injured at a distance of [-] meters from the Ming army's position.

As for the Zheng's horse infantry who accompanied them in the battle, they were also crushed to death and trampled hundreds of people.

After seeing the power of the Ming army's firearms, Zheng's elite regular army collapsed without a fight, and started a great escape for tens of miles under the pursuit of the Ming army cavalry.

In the end, only Lord Zheng Zheng Yang and my 8000 personal troops beside me, plus the [-] defeated troops we encountered along the way, returned to Hanoi.

Tens of thousands of others either became deserters, or were killed or captured by Ming cavalry during the rout.

Zheng Yang, the lord of Zheng, realized that his family was unable to resist the Ming army going south, so he immediately decided to retreat to the south, abandoning the most affluent Red River Delta in the north of Cochin.

Unfortunately, the Ruan family had no intention of cooperating with the Zheng family. After learning that the Zheng family was attacked by the Ming army and suffered 10,000+ casualties, the Ruan family judged that the Zheng family was doomed.

So Ruan Shaowu, the current head of the Ruan family, made a decisive decision to send 2 troops, horse and infantry, 6 peasant soldiers, [-] war elephants, [-] heavy artillery, [-] light artillery, and [-] muskets to go north to conquer. Zheng's territory.

(End of this chapter)