Daming Military Empire

Chapter 324 Annan Chaos
It is said that the Donghu dynasty has become so powerful, why didn't they take advantage of the trend to unify the southeast peninsula?Of course they think so too, but wars cost money. They have fought with Daming for so many years, and they have expanded around for so many years. The national power has gradually been unable to support such a high-intensity war. Abandoned the war of external expansion and turned to fully develop the economy.

The current Donghu Dynasty is recharging its energy. Except for continuing to conquer the remnants of Siam in the south, all other directions have died down. Perhaps, when they have accumulated enough money and food, they will set off a new round of expansion.

As mentioned earlier, in the southeast peninsula, apart from Siam, Champa, Chenla, and Annan are also vassal states of Ming Dynasty. So what is the situation of these vassal states now? It is far away, so the information detected by Jin Yiwei is relatively lagging behind.

After the investigation of Donghu's situation was almost complete, information on Champa, Chenla and Annan also came back one after another, but the situation was also not optimistic.

The Kingdom of Chenla was annihilated by Siam as early as the 22nd year of Wanli (1594 AD), and now all the territory of the Kingdom of Chenla has been occupied by the Donghu Dynasty, that is to say, the Kingdom of Chenla no longer exists.

The Champa Kingdom can still be stronger, but now they are also being beaten by the Ruan family of the Annan Kingdom and huddled in the southeast corner of the southeastern peninsula, lingering. It seems that it is only a matter of time before they are conquered by the Annan Ruan clan.

As for the current An Nan Kingdom, it can only be described with a random word, because their emperor has been controlled by his ministers, and the whole country has been split into two parts, the North and the South.

What's going on here? Why did Annan suddenly start fighting among himself?This also starts from the reign of Emperor Chengzu Yongle.

As mentioned above, during the reign of Emperor Chengzu Yongle, the monarch of the Chen Dynasty in Annan was usurped by his relative Hu Jishou. The Ming Dynasty overthrew the Hu family’s regime at the request of the survivors of the Chen Dynasty, and set up Jiaozhi Chengxuan to manage the various places in Annan, but Chengzu died. In the next few years, Annan began to rebel. The leader of the rebellion was Li Li. After defeating the Ming army, he established the Houli Dynasty, but the good times of the Houli Dynasty did not last long.

A series of successors to the throne after Li Li were fatuous and tyrannical, so the entire Hou Li Dynasty was in a state of civil war. Became Mo Chao.

Later, Zhuangzong Li Weining of the Later Li Dynasty successfully restored with the support of the Zheng and Ruan families, and occupied the southern part of Annan, and confronted the Mo Dynasty, which occupied the northern part of Annan. Annan began to enter a period of North-South division for decades.

To say that the life of the emperor of the Li Dynasty after this period of division between the north and the south was not bad, why do you say that, because although the Li Dynasty only occupied half of Annan during this period, he was still an emperor anyway, and Zheng The monarchs and ministers of the two families, Ruan and Ruan, worked together to deal with Mo Chao, and they lived a fulfilling life.In the 20th year of Wanli (AD 1592), after the monarchs and ministers worked together to destroy the Mo dynasty, the tragic days of the emperor of the Houli Dynasty began.

Because the Zheng family at this time has controlled the military and political power of the entire Houli Dynasty, the emperor of the Houli Dynasty has become dispensable in their eyes, so the emperor of the Houli Dynasty has directly become a puppet in the hands of the Zheng family , and the Ruan family simply monopolized the south of Annan, and confronted the Zheng family, and Annan fell into the north-south division again!

It stands to reason that the Zheng family should have an absolute advantage at this time, because almost all the troops of the Hou Li Dynasty are controlled by them, but the Ruan family is equivalent to starting from scratch, how could they do it better than the Zheng family!But at this time, a Portuguese caravan came to Ruan's territory, and it was even more coincidental that there were original Portuguese cannon-casting engineers in this caravan.

Portugal's cannon-casting technology should be quite good, otherwise they would not be able to divide the world equally with Spain as a mere small country. For example, the predecessor of the Daming ship's mother-child howitzer is the Franc cannon invented by the Portuguese. The howitzers of Ming Dynasty and the cannons of the Netherlands are not worthy of comparison in terms of range or power, but for a backward feudal country like Annan, the power is quite amazing.

At this time, the mainland of Portugal has been annexed by Spain. Many Portuguese are wandering around the world like ghosts without a master. Naturally, it is impossible for them to cast cannons for Spain. Annan Ruan treated them well, so they began to teach Annan Ruan cast Western bronze cannon.

As soon as the western bronze cannon was fired, it was really extraordinary. The Ruan family who was at an absolute disadvantage unexpectedly beat the Zheng family with no power to fight back!

After being bombarded several times by Western copper cannons, the Zheng family seemed to have their brains opened. They also began to seek help from the European powers. It happened that the Dutch came to Nanyang at this time, so the two sides hit it off and started to deal with the Ruan family and the Portuguese together.

The opponent also had artillery, and it was a more powerful cannon. Naturally, Nguyen couldn't bear it anymore, and began to retreat steadily. Fortunately, at this time, the Portuguese made another move. If they couldn't beat them, they would defend. There are several fortifications similar to bastions!
This time the Zheng family was in misery again. Nearly 10 people piled in one after another, but they couldn't break through these lines of defense, so they had to ask the Dutch for help. These lines of defense.

However, the range of this artillery was limited after all. The Dutch did not go ashore, but only bombarded at sea, and the support they provided was limited after all. Therefore, after Zheng only broke through one line of defense, he could not continue.

The news of Annan spread to the capital one after another. Zhu Cijiong was really taken aback this time. He was not frightened by Annan's chaos. It is not surprising that they come and go, the key issue is their weapons.

Nima, this Annan can even build artillery, this is really troublesome!
What's more troublesome is that the Dutch also got involved. He originally wanted to take advantage of the continental powers before they got involved, but he didn't expect the Dutch to get involved!
Zhu Cijiong originally thought that relying on the strength of Ming Dynasty, he could easily win Nanyang, but he dare not think so now. A Donghu dynasty is enough for him to drink a pot, plus this can even build artillery, and the Netherlands With Annan supported behind his back, Nanyang is simply more troublesome than northern Xinjiang.

His original idea was to transport troops by sea, find a suitable place to land directly, and then crush them all the way with advanced weapons. In the last Annan, at least 60 million troops had to be dispatched. With the current transportation capacity of the Ming Navy, let alone transporting troops, food and grass would not be able to be transported by then.

(End of this chapter)