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Chapter 501 Vietnam Cao Mengde: Kill Zheng Chenggong first, then destroy the Ming Navy, Vietnam still has hope
To be honest, even Zheng Chenggong's fleet was divided into two, or even three.

However, Zheng Zuo and Ruan Fubin in Vietnam were able to put aside their old grievances and work together to make a concerted effort.

Then, the Vietnamese are still not sure of victory, and it can even be said that the hope of victory is not great.

But Zheng Zuo still wants to take a risk and take a gamble. This cannot be said that he is radical and adventurous, but because he knows that this is the best time for the Vietnamese to make a move.

If you wait in vain, Da Ming will make it clear that sooner or later he will take action against Vietnam. After Da Ming's southern expedition troops finish the previous battle and recharge their batteries to replenish their combat strength, then free up their hands to deal with Vietnam with all their strength, then Vietnam will only fight against Vietnam. Die worse.

Waiting for Daming to act first, it would be a narrow escape.

Zheng Zuo looked at the right time to sneak attack first, he thought that he could have seven deaths, three lives, or even five or five, so he took a gamble.

So Zheng Zuo first spent half a month contacting Ruan Fubin, showing his righteousness to the other party, and asking the other party to deal with foreign enemies together for the sake of being a subject of the Li Dynasty.

This kind of feeling is like when Cao Cao was coercing the emperor, he originally had a dog-headed fight with Sun Quan, but suddenly said that there are five Hus who invaded my big man, and Sun Quan and him should first resist the Northern Hus for the sake of being fellow Han officials.

Ruan Fubin played the role of Sun Quan in Vietnam. At this juncture, after all, he also had the face of a "loyal minister of the Li Dynasty", so he promised in name not to cause trouble for Zheng Zuo, and also said that he could send the navy to help the battle as appropriate.But only the navy, the army will never be dispatched.

Obviously, Ruan Fubin also has his own plans. He just wants not to offend others, and he will help secretly if he wants to. The sea is a lawless place, and the fleet is erratic. It is not easy to be held accountable for a sneak attack. .

And once the army makes a move, it will be difficult to get back. If a prisoner of war is captured by Daming and his identity is tortured, he will be tied to a chariot by Zheng Zuo. In the future, the situation will be unfavorable and it will be inconvenient to jump out of the chariot.

In contrast, it is very difficult to capture the opponent's warships in naval battles. As long as they are not captured, they will die without proof.

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It took Zheng Zuo more than half a month to settle Ruan Fubin, but he felt that he was still not sure enough. In consideration of attracting as many foreign aid as he could, he soon sent people to Guangdong, Guangxi and the coast of Luzon to spread the word The news diverts Daming's attention and makes more enemies for him.

What he did specifically was to spread the news in Guangzhou, saying that two years ago, the Spanish colonists carried out a new round of massacres against the Nanyang Chinese in Luzon next door.Daming claims to be the suzerain of the Han people in the world, but it is incapable of governing it, which is really chilling.

As for the trick that Zheng Zuo thought of, you can’t blame God for helping him. It is not clean, and has organized three very large-scale massacres of Han people in the past few decades.

Before Zhu Shuren crossed over, as early as the Wanli period in 1603, the Dayuan and the Chinese maritime forces in Luzon were still dominated by Lin Feng. At that time, the Spaniards slaughtered for the first time in Luzon because of conflicts with Chinese maritime merchants. After the massacre, there were less than 300 Chinese left in Manila.

Later, the second large-scale massacre took place in 1639, which was already 12 years after Chongzhen. Zhu Shuren had just crossed over that time, but he had not had time to establish influence at all, so he could not exert influence at all. It is said that the deceased had Sixty to seventy thousand people.

The third massacre in history should have happened in 1662. This time, it has been 23 years since Zhu Shuren crossed over. At that time, the national power of the Ming Dynasty entered the rising period again, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also wiped out, so there is a certain butterfly effect. ,

The Spanish colonists no longer dared to directly treat the Nanyang Han people as Kunlun slaves and kill them at will.The conflict between the Han colonialists was therefore delayed and endured for several years.

On the other hand, in history, the Spaniards slaughtered the Chinese in that year, and an important reason was that Zheng Chenggong just recovered Dayuan Island from the Dutch in that year.

Luzon is only a bus strait away from Dayuan, and the Spaniards on the other side quickly got the news. They also heard that the local aborigines provided Zheng Chenggong with military rations during the Dayuan battle, and "the king's army was greeted with a pot of milk".Therefore, due to the intensification of the chain of suspicion, the Spaniards were afraid that Zheng Chenggong would be favored by Lu, so they slaughtered all the Han people in Manila in advance to prevent the Han people from leading the way.

However, it is also a coincidence that although the third Luzon massacre in this life was endured and delayed, after all, the ability of the Han people to do business freely and make money is far superior to that of the Spaniards. There is no doubt about this.

Look at the Spanish businessmen of later generations, who open a small shop and often close on weekends, so lazy and expect to make a lot of money?And the Han businessmen are all so involved. As long as they compete peacefully and only work hard to make money, how can Westerners beat the Han people?
So after a few more years of procrastination, the influence of the Chinese merchants in Manila grew and they made more and more money. In addition, Daming also switched to encouraging sailing.The Spaniards in Manila only felt a growing sense of crisis, and some channels heard some complaints from the Han merchants in Manila. tens of thousands of people.

It's just that the Spaniards today also know how strong Ming is, so they didn't dare to publicize the murder. After the murder, they even preferred not to do business for half a year, and imposed martial law in Manila to delay the leak of news as much as possible.

However, the official businessmen of Ming Dynasty rarely go to Manila to trade nowadays, which led to the massacre that originally occurred in 1662 in history. What about news?

Given the lack of news at the time, it was quite normal that what happened in a remote archipelago had not been reported to the mainland for two years, and Jin Yiwei could not be blamed for his incompetence in snooping.

However, the Spaniards blocked the news from Daming, and other Portuguese and Dutch people in Nanyang still had some rumors, but the Dutch and Portuguese were too lazy to wade into the muddy water, so they didn't rush to complain to Daming here.In the end, it was Zheng Zuo from Vietnam, because he was frantically asking the Dutch and the Portuguese to buy warships in the past two years, and had frequent exchanges, so he got the news earlier.

Now he needs to share Daming's hatred value, so he took the initiative to disclose the news, hoping to take advantage of Daming's "Heavenly Kingdom" status to set up Daming so that Daming can't get down.

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This series of operations, of course, quickly aroused Daming's vigilance.

From the beginning of April in the sixth year of Xiaokang, the emperor and officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War in Guangzhou got a few pieces of news one after another.

First of all, on the Vietnamese side of the border between Yunnan and Vietnam, Zheng Zuo of Vietnam began to close customs and ban navigation, and built reefs and sandbars with weirs, destroying the Red River waterway.This is clearly a gesture of hostile force to resist Daming's possible Honghe logistics supply line in the future.

Although Zheng Zuo never directly declared war on Ming Dynasty, if he waits for him to finish all these preparations slowly, Ming Dynasty's attack in the future will definitely cause a lot of trouble.

Secondly, just ten days after hearing that Zheng Zuo had cut off the construction and closed the river, another news spread to Guangzhou, that is, Zheng Zuo finally sent troops to attack Gaoping Mansion controlled by Mo Jingyu.

Although Mo Jingyu used to be the monarch of the Mo Dynasty in Vietnam, in recent years, because of the increasingly difficult life, he had only dared to call himself Mo Dynasty internally, while he pretended to be a courtier to the Ming Dynasty externally, and was canonized by the Ming Dynasty. Guihua General Soldier and Annan Xuanwei Envoy.

(Note: Historically, Zheng Zuo's attack on Gaoping took place from 1666 to 1667, and here it is set to be delayed until 1668 because of the butterfly effect.)
Zheng Zuo dared to attack the comfort envoy of Annan conferred by Ming Dynasty. This problem is serious. Even if he argued that Mo Jingyu was actually a traitor in Vietnam and just surrendered to Ming Dynasty, this matter must not be up to him.

Zhu Ciyu, who lives in Guangzhou, is young and energetic, how can he stand such a provocation from the Vietnamese?So the next day, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War in Guangzhou were called to discuss revenge against Vietnam.

But Gu Yanwu from the Ministry of Rites advised him to be cautious for the time being: "Your Majesty, don't be reckless, now we have just completed the first round of negotiations with Mang Luo and Mang Liti in Burma, and Li Dingguo will continue to talk while beating military forces.

According to the progress of the previous negotiations, the canonization can be reached in at most one more month.With more than a month's march back, Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses will be able to return to Yunnan.And because Zheng Chenggong had to take the sea route and detour around Malacca, the whole journey was more than [-] miles, and it might take two months to return.

If the calculation is based on the recuperation of the troops for one or two months before they can go into battle again, then basically by August this year, we will be able to concentrate our forces on Vietnam.At that time, the hottest season in midsummer will have passed, and it will be another year of military deployment in autumn and winter. Everything will be as smooth as it was with Myanmar last year.

If it is necessary to send troops now, Li Dingguo has not yet returned to the army, and secondly, he will be mobilized in April and set off in May. May to July happens to be the hottest and most humid time of the year.Even if I have panacea and other antiseptic and deworming medicines in Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it will cause countless losses to the plague and miasma.You must hold back at this time! "

Zhu Ciyu had completely listened to Gu Yanwu's advice on the issue of Myanmar negotiations, but he was still so cautious about Vietnam, and Zhu Ciyu still couldn't hold back his face if he had to lose face for nothing for a few months.

He considered that he couldn't listen to the Ministry of Rites. After all, what was involved this time was not a negotiation, but a counterattack, so he asked the Minister of the Ministry of War who accompanied him to confirm whether the Ministry of War had a way to give the court a sigh of relief, save face, and beat Vietnam people without getting bogged down in summer combat in tropical jungles and mountains.

Of course, the people in the Ministry of War can't appear to be incompetent. Since they are only deducing this question from a technical point of view, the Minister of the Ministry of War thought it over and over again, and answered with confidence:

"Zheng Zuo destroyed the waterway of the Red River, and it is impossible to learn the tactics of the Yongle Dynasty when he mainly attacked from Guangxi and cut off supplies from Yunnan. The only way to attack by sea is to touch and go.

Don't want to attack the city, but want to burn, kill and destroy the hinterland behind the enemy first, so as to frighten the enemy.But doing so may also arouse the Vietnamese army and civilians to fight against the enemy and resist even more desperately in the future.Moreover, the attack at sea should be sudden. Once it is used for the first time, the enemy will be easily prepared if they want to repeat the same trick next time. This good opportunity for the first attack should not be wasted. "

The Minister of the Ministry of War did not say that he could not fight, but he just thought of a strategy that was relatively easy to implement, and at the same time emphasized that the suddenness of fighters is rare.In this way, if the emperor still insists on fighting, the follow-up progress will be unfavorable in the future, so it has nothing to do with them.

Gu Yanwu heard the people from the Ministry of War show off, and couldn't help being anxious: "Your Majesty! It's not a few months away! Even if the attack by sea is not afraid of tropical mountain miasma, should I ask the Nanjing court to brainstorm before making a decision?"

Zhu Ciyu's face was a little ugly: "A major matter of military aircraft, how can it be delayed for two months? Even if you want to ask for instructions, you should let the fleet go on patrol first, capture the aircraft, and deter the enemy. Since ancient times, there is a saying in the art of war that the general will be out, even if the king's order is not acceptable. What's more It's Yu Jia who is going out in person, so why should he ask for instructions from the courtiers who are two thousand miles away? It's not like the Ministry of War has no one to accompany him!"

When Gu Yanwu heard the words, he also realized that what he said was a bit unskillful, which hurt the emperor's face too much.After all, the emperor was in charge, and he personally patrolled the south before the enemy, so he did have the right to deal with emergencies.

In the end, Gu Yanwu also had no choice but to express his second opinion. As long as the fight is not for the time being, he can go back to North Korea and China for everyone to discuss, and at the same time let the only patrol fleet currently on hand to patrol the coast of Vietnam, looking for fighters.

And just ten days after the messenger who returned to Nanjing left, it is estimated that the messenger had arrived in Jiangxi. Another bad news spread in Guangzhou. Slaughtering the Han people, the Ming court was useless and incompetent and could not uphold justice."

After Zhu Ciyu heard about it, he was very angry again. Didn't this hit him in the face?He immediately asked the fleet to increase patrol deterrence in order to find fighters and save face.

There were not many naval battleships left in Guangzhou, most of which were taken away by Zheng Chenggong, and there was really no more gunboats, so Zhu Ciyu ordered that the escort fleet that had escorted him to the south for inspection before also send warships to Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. Hue and other places harassed the coast, and sent a reconnaissance fleet to Luzon.

Anyway, Zhu Ciyu is now living in Guangzhou, and his escort fleet is also idle.As long as Zhang Mingzhen, who is in charge of commanding and escorting the army, does not set sail, it will not hurt the court's face.

Naturally, the troops below will not disobey orders. After all, many of the troops brought out by Zhu Ciyu are Nanjing garrison troops. They have lived under the emperor for a long time and have enjoyed peace for more than ten years. They are generally a little proud and have not done much intelligence work. Do you think that with the 32-gun frigate of my Ming Dynasty now, can those Vietnamese monkeys still threaten them?

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It's a pity, maybe it's because the arrogant soldiers are easy to step on the pit. The escort fleet sent by Zhu Ciyu has only a few thousand sailors and a dozen ships. Among them, Zhu Ciyu's own ship is not good at artillery firepower because it is a high-speed sailing ship.

There are no slow-moving but invincible 80-gun sail battleships among the other ships. There are at most two 38-gun high-speed sail frigates, and there are still 32-gun ships and smaller ships than frigates.

The Ming Dynasty fleet set sail from Guangzhou on the second day of May, arrived in Danzhou on the eighth day for supplies, and then attacked the coast to harass and deter again.

Unexpectedly, on May [-], the fourth day after arriving on the coast of Vietnam, the Ming army encountered a Vietnamese fleet of all Western warships in the sea off Nili County near Hue.

There are four original Dutch heavy Galen gunships, the flagship of which is even a Manila-type heavy cover with a three-layer gun deck.In addition, there are more than a dozen ordinary military galleons and Portuguese carrack gunboats.Plus hundreds of traditional Vietnamese small warships.

Chen Jinnan, who was in charge of leading the reconnaissance and harassment fleet, was taken aback when he saw this, and secretly blamed Daming for his poor naval intelligence collection, and actually underestimated the Vietnamese.

"Why do these Vietnamese have Dutch Galen gunboats? Careless! Disengage quickly and use the speed advantage to pull away! Then raise the flag and tell these Vietnamese that we are just the Nanyang patrol fleet of Ming Dynasty. Open fire, just wait for Zheng Guogong's anger!"

It is also thanks to Chen Jinnan's coming this time, he has not gone ashore to burn, kill, and loot. He just came to show off his power and beat him. Using the terminology of later generations of international law, that belongs to "free navigation".

It goes without saying that the Vietnamese took the initiative to fire at the warship flying the flag of the Ming Royal Escort Fleet.

It's a pity that the Vietnamese are just villains in vain in the end.

Although Chen Jinnan was short of troops, he had a clear advantage in speed. Daming's sail frigate was far faster than the Dutch heavy cover.

In the end, it only paid the price of being sunk an old-fashioned Dafuchuan warship, a 32-gun frigate was burned by incendiary bombs, and several other Fuchuan were slightly injured.

In exchange for the results of sinking two heavy Karak gunboats and seven or eight old Guangzhou ship gunboats of the Vietnamese fleet, they retreated completely.

Just looking at Zhan Shenbi's words, Daming sank one ship and burned one ship, but the Vietnamese sunk and burned nine ships. Obviously, it was Daming who took advantage of it.The only fly in the ointment is that the 32-gun sail frigate burned by the Ming Dynasty must be more expensive and advanced than the heavy-duty gunships of the Vietnamese.

But it doesn't matter. After Chen Jinnan went back, he pleaded guilty to the emperor. The emperor didn't blame him, but said he wanted to reflect on why the intelligence work was not done well. I don't know that the Vietnamese navy actually asked Xiyang to buy a heavy gunboat.

That being the case, let's wait for Zheng Chenggong's main force to return, and then deal with them with Thunder Fury.

When the emperor was furious, he would of course send an urgent messenger to further urge Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong to return to the army.At this time, because it was already late May, when the messenger arrived in Myanmar, it was already early June, and the peace talks with Myanmar had already been formally implemented.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong was supposed to come back, and now it was nothing more than an expedited return voyage. After more than 20 days of sailing in a hurry, and a detour of more than [-] miles, he arrived in the coastal waters of Vietnam.

According to the original plan, Zheng Chenggong of course needs to go back to Guangzhou to recuperate first, because he has been fighting in Myanmar for several months, and the wear and tear is still relatively large. A lot of shells and gunpowder have also been destroyed. Only after replenishing supplies can he exert his full combat effectiveness.

It's a pity that Zheng Zuo also seems to know this situation. Of course, he doesn't want to wait for Zheng Chenggong to have sufficient supplies and restore his full glory before fighting Zheng Chenggong.

Therefore, Zheng Zuo dispatched a fleet to patrol the Hue-Da Nang sea in advance day and night, trying to intercept Zheng Chenggong who was returning.

On the second day of July, off the coast of Hue Prefecture, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Zuo's fleet finally encountered.

(End of this chapter)