Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 311 The Ending of Li Dynasty and Zheng Ruan, Shanle Gong Li Weiyou

The Zheng family had already been defeated by the Ming army in the Red River Delta, and countless soldiers were lost. Even Lord Zheng escaped from Hanoi.

Ruan Shaowu's dispatch of troops this time was naturally smooth sailing, and it took almost no effort to lay down the front line that he and the Zheng family had maintained for many years.

Then he sailed into Pozhu and expanded his territory hundreds of miles in just a few days.

But soon Ruan Shaowu would regret what he had done, and even wanted to return the territories he had annexed to the Zheng family.

Because after defeating the Zheng family, Huang Degong and Du Yinxi have already regarded the Zheng family as their own, so what's the matter with you as the Ruan family at this time.

Originally, they also wanted to repair the army, send the royal family of the Li Dynasty and the Zheng family to the territory of Daming, and ask Zhu Cihong to deal with them.

But since the clown Ruan is impatient, Huang Degong and Du Yinxi are naturally happy to end him.

So Huang Degong and Du Yinxi led the army all the way south without saying a word, bombarding the city gates with artillery fire wherever they went.

Coincidentally, during the period, they also met the Portuguese who helped the Nguyen in the battle. Naturally, Huang Degong and Du Yinxi did not flinch. They launched dozens of cannons into the harbor without saying a word. People hit head-on.

At the same time, they also requisitioned dozens of civilian ships, filled them with firewood, grease, and gunpowder, and quietly came to the rear of the Portuguese while the artillery on land and the Portuguese were vigorously bombarding them.

In just a short while, the Portuguese ships ignited raging fire. Some ships loaded with more gunpowder, the power of the explosion even blew a big hole in their sailboats.

On one side is the bombardment of land artillery fire, on the other side is the raging fire on the ship, and there is a large hole in the bottom of the ship that keeps bubbling water.

Soon, these Portuguese lost the idea of ​​resistance, raised the white flag, and drove a few sailboats into the harbor.

They never imagined that they would encounter strong enemies when they only bullied the local monkeys in Jiaozhi without going to the territory of Daming.

On the other hand, on land, because of the strong economic strength of the Ruan family and the help of Westerners, the Ruan army was equipped with a large number of firearms. Although the quality was not as good as that of the Ming army, it also caused a lot of damage to the Ming army. Trouble.

However, during several days of combat, Du Yinxi found that the Ruan army only dared to shoot and bombard the Ming army. Once the Ming army's hand-to-hand infantry approached their position, the Ruan army would retreat urgently and never dared to fight the Ming army. .

The records of the few battles between the Ming army and the Ruan army also prove that the Ruan army is not good at hand-to-hand combat. Once in close combat, the soldiers have no fighting spirit and fighting spirit. They only think about how to retreat to the back of the team and survive for a while.

After discovering this weakness, Du Yinxi and Huang Degong immediately organized several teams of elite infantry, preparing to serve as commandos and rush into the Ruan army's formation to defeat them.

One day, the Ming army and the Ruan army were shooting at each other in the field. The Ming army temporarily suppressed the Ruan army with a large number of firearms.

By the time the Nguyen Army discovered it, the Ming Army had surrounded them on all sides and attacked them, especially the artillery positions in front of the Ming Army. They even carried light artillery such as the Fo Lang Machine and the Tiger Crouching Artillery to a distance of 100 meters in front of the Nguyen Army's formation, which was comparable to the Nguyen Army's formation. It is called the bayonet on the ancient version of the cannon.

After teams of Ming army melee infantry entered the formation, the soldiers of the Ruan army suddenly lost their fighting spirit, threw away their helmets and armor, and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

Even if occasionally a few Ruan soldiers had the courage to fight the Ming army, they were quickly defeated in front of the well-trained and experienced Ming army.

In this way, the Ruan family followed the Zheng family and were defeated by the Ming army in a large-scale field battle.

Next, the Ruan family, who lost their field forces, wanted to hold on to the city and use a strong city to resist the attack of the Ming army.

It's a pity that Cochin's backward construction technology, coupled with the humid climate of the Indochina Peninsula, made their city walls look like planks in front of the Ming army, and they shattered as soon as they were fired.

Even some occasional stone cities built with local resources were quickly captured under the siege of tens of thousands of Ming troops.

Ruan Shaowu, the ruler of Ruan, was defeated in a row, and finally had to flee to Da Nang, a large harbor city in the south of Cochin. He wanted to rely on the advantage of the city facing the water to resist the attack of the Ming army.

It's a pity that the Ruan family didn't have enough troops to defend the city at this time. You must know that Da Nang is a big city in Cochin. The city wall is more than ten miles long. Reserves, support staff, etc.

Without 2 people, Ruan Shaowu couldn't even talk about defending the city.

Unfortunately, many people know this.

So before the Ming army built the siege equipment and entered Da Nang City, one of Ruan Shaowu's generals cut off his head, opened the city gate and dedicated the city to the Ming army.

After Da Nang fell into the hands of the Ming army, the two major families of the Le Dynasty and Zheng Nguyen were completely destroyed, because members of the Le Dynasty royal family and the Zheng Nguyen family were captured by the Ming army and sent to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

On the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in Jiaozhi, only the local emperors and warlords were left in various corners. Most of the cities in Jiaozhi fell into the hands of the Ming army.

After the news of the recovery of Jiaozhi and the capture of most members of the royal family of the Le Dynasty and the Zheng Ruan family reached the capital.

Zhu Cihong happily promoted Huang Degong and Du Yinxi to one rank of title immediately. Huang Degong used to be Jingnan Bo, but now he transformed into Jingnanhou.

And Du Yinxi was also chosen a nice title by Zhu Cihong, and became Ding Nanbo.

As for the fate of the Li Dynasty royal family and the Zheng and Ruan families, the gap is quite large.

In line with the Confucian idea of ​​​​the emperor, the emperor, the emperor, the teacher, even though the Li Dynasty was a dynasty that betrayed the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cixiang still respected Li Weiyou, the monarch of the Li Dynasty, and his relatives. After all, he was also an emperor.

Although it belongs to Gadali, the corner of Jiaozhi, and it is still a puppet in name only, he is even more Han Xiandi than Han Xiandi.

But in the end, in order to show his kindness, Zhu Cihong was also dissatisfied with the Zheng Ruan family's disrespect for the monarch and their manipulation of Jiaozhi power.

Still, Li Weiyou's throne was cut off, and he was named Shanle Gong. He was rewarded with 1000 taels of silver every year, and a house in the capital that could accommodate 300 people was given to him to live in.

Except for his close relatives, and the Li Dynasty's direct clan, all were immigrated to Liaodong and the Western Regions.

One is to enrich the population of the newly recovered territory, and the other is to maintain the stability of Jiaozhi, so as to prevent that guy with a funny head from rebelling against Daming in the name of the Li Dynasty one day.

As for the Zheng and Ruan families, because they resisted Da Ming's soldiers and didn't respect their own emperor, they never showed much favor to Da Ming.

(End of this chapter)