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Chapter 503 Dismemberment of Vietnam
Since ancient times, the most tragic battles have been fought in which the enemy and the enemy are evenly matched.

Or at least each side feels that they have a chance, and I have the advantage, so they keep betting on the poker table, and they don't stop when they lose.

And Zheng Gen at this moment is obviously in this situation.

If there was no expectation and no psychological expectation at the beginning, then I am afraid that when Zheng Chenggong's fleet fired so fiercely just now, he should have directly shouted and chose to stop.

However, he firmly believed that Zheng Chenggong was at the end of his battle. When he returned from Myanmar, he was close to running out of ammunition and food, and urgently needed to go back to Guangzhou for supplies. The artillery fire in front of him was just a temporary bluff and had no stamina.

It would be even more impossible if Zheng Chenggong didn't take advantage of Zheng Chenggong's illness to kill him this time, and let Zheng Chenggong go back to the Guangzhou spring to refill his blood blue and then get two magic clothes before fighting.

As a result, naval battles naturally entered into a pure confrontation of fists to flesh, and artillery piercing armor.Groups of Vietnamese main gunboats rushed up frantically and fiercely, exchanging shells with Zheng Chenggong without fancy.

The 70-jin heavy iron ball smashed through the main gunboat of Vietnam one after another with penetrating wounds, water ingress occurred continuously, and finally the gunpowder magazine was occasionally pierced and exploded.

In the era of sailing warships, because the hull was made of wood and the weight was too light, even if the waterline was penetrated into the water, the ship rarely sank, unless too many holes were pierced and the reserve buoyancy was completely exhausted.

The main reason for the direct explosion and sinking of the warship is basically the explosion of the ammunition depot.It can be said that six or seven of the ten sunken ships were ammunition depot explosions, and two or three ships were destroyed by fire, and only one sank directly into the water due to penetrating injuries.

At this moment, the confrontation between the Vietnamese navy and the Ming navy's artillery was the same.A stick of incense, a quarter of an hour, less than half an hour, as the bombardment continued, several Vietnamese gunboats sank after the explosion of the ammunition depot appeared one after another, and several ships full of fire drifted like dead fish on the sea.

Zheng Chenggong's flagship alone detonated the gunpowder magazine and sank a Manila-type heavy cover with a three-layer gun deck, as well as two heavy Carrack gunboats.As a result, one Galen gunboat was pierced and caught fire, and two pierced and masts were broken, temporarily losing combat effectiveness.

From this point of view, Zheng Chenggong's flagship itself directly achieved three kills and three assists, and the exchange ratio reached six times. The key is that although the plank armor itself was pierced, except for the damage to the mast and sails to a certain extent, There were no fatal injuries.

"My lord is really far-sighted. The Shen family's understanding of naval warfare is no less than that of our Zheng family. He actually judged that the main reason for the sinking of the heavy gunboats was the explosion of the gunpowder magazine.

That's why when I designed the battleship in Ming Dynasty, I emphasized the need to install protective armor for the command cabin and gunpowder cabin. Now it seems that this little steel plate material is simply a stroke of magic. "

Zheng Chenggong himself was sitting on the flagship, hiding in the fleet command room, listening to the sound of cannons and the results reported by his subordinates, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion from the bottom of his heart.

Daming has Zhu Shuren as a traverser, so of course he is well versed in the most well-known experiences and lessons of the era of sailing warships.

In later generations, anyone who is a bit of a military fan will know that most of the sailing battleship Shen Yin was killed by gunpowder.

However, these experiences, in the real world, require the summarization of the three Anglo-Dutch wars, and even the later Napoleonic wars, before they can completely become a consensus. They are all lessons paid for in blood.

Daming can directly copy the answer. When designing a battleship, he focused on protection and added steel plates to two types of individual cabins. This is equivalent to being directly invincible in the era of solid iron ball shells.

After all, until the 1860s, during the civil war between the North and the South in another time and space, warships equipped with steel plates were bombarded with solid iron bullets, which could not be penetrated by scraping each other.

In the Battle of Hampton Anchorage on March 1863, 3, the "Virginia" of the Confederate States and the "Monit" of the Northern Confederates scraped against each other for a whole day, and finally only achieved zero penetration.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong's flagship is also a model of this absolute defense.Although the boards on the ship's side on the gun deck were indeed unable to hold the [-]-pound iron bullets within [-] steps, they were punched with several holes, but these holes did not affect the navigation at all, and they were all above the waterline. Just killed or injured some sailors, and blown up a few cannons.

No matter how much the Vietnamese insist on scraping, they will only be slaughtered unilaterally.

And as the artillery battle continued, half an hour, an hour, the Vietnamese finally confirmed two facts in desperation:
First of all, the defense of Zheng Chenggong's battleship is far beyond their imagination, and it will not lose its combat effectiveness no matter how hard it is bombarded. At most, its firepower will become weaker, and its mast and sail will be slightly damaged.

Secondly, the bet they have been betting that "Zheng Chenggong lacks ammunition, his arrogance is only temporary, and he will stop cooking after the gunpowder is used up" has not happened, and it seems to be far away.

What's more terrible is that as the battle distance is so close, both sides will use wooden horns to shout at each other's morale if they have the opportunity.And even if there is a lot of artillery and waves at sea, if you shout a lot, you will always be heard by the enemy.

Zheng Chenggong let his subordinates try their best to preach, "Zheng Zhagou thief, you have fallen into the trap of my country. The Dutch in Malacca have been overwhelmed by my Daming. The Dutch sold us my ammunition! You can suffer as much as you want!"

As the news spread wider and wider, the Vietnamese finally couldn't stand it anymore.

After Zheng Chenggong keenly recognized the wavering of the Vietnamese navy, he also decisively made a further attempt to overthrow the wall and disintegrate it.

"Temporarily contain Zheng Zuo's fleet, and then concentrate firepower on the gunboats of the left-wing Nguyen Phuc's forces, chase and bomb me! Let him know that if he dares to swim in this muddy water, he will die!"

Zheng Chenggong did his homework before the war, until the sphere of influence of the two dynasties and four surnames within the Vietnamese was complicated.Facing the strong Ming Dynasty in the north, the "Vietnamese Wei Emperor" and "Vietnamese Great Wei Wu King" may temporarily share the same hatred, but when it comes to life and death, they must still be dead friends.

Ever since, at the critical point of morale collapse, Zheng Chenggong chased Ruan Fubin's fleet for a while and concentrated on it. Finally, Ruan Fubin's fleet chose to leave the battlefield with oil on their feet, and ran away like Hideaki Kobayakawa in the Battle of Sekigahara. Even the disconnection between the remaining gunboats and Guangzhou Ships was ignored.

After defeating Ruan Fubin, Zheng Chenggong's pressure was greatly reduced, and then he turned his guns to deal with Zheng Gen, and it became even more devastating.

In the end, the tragic artillery battle lasted from morning to afternoon. As the three-story gun-deck Manila-type heavy cover that Zheng Gen personally took was beaten and sunk by Zheng Chenggong's fleet, this battle of the destruction of the Vietnamese navy, Finally came to an end.

The Ming army chased after death and chased the north, killing all directions, driving the remaining Guangzhou ships that had no time to escape, cutting vertically and horizontally, and smashing the Vietnamese formation to pieces.

On the ocean surface off the coast of Shunhua Mansion, blood-stained shipwrecks, wreckage, broken sails and broken sails were scattered everywhere, and the total number of sunken ships, large and small, was no less than a hundred.

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"Great victory in Hue! Vietnam's ugliness overestimated themselves and dared to intercept Zheng Guogong on the way back. He was killed by Zheng Guogong, and Zheng Gen, the commander of the Vietnamese navy! Burned and sunk hundreds of enemy ships! Killed more than ten thousand enemies!"

The news of the Hue naval battle, with Zheng Chenggong's smooth return, of course, immediately spread back to Guangzhou at a fast speed.

When the news was delivered, even the emperor Zhu Ciyu himself, who was on the southern tour, was directly shocked.

Because at that time, he was ready to go out of the city to the South China Sea Wharf to welcome Zheng Chenggong's triumphant return from his expedition to Burma, and then encouraged the soldiers and soldiers to make persistent efforts, and the supplies returned to good condition.

As a result, the wine, meat and fruits prepared by the soldiers for the victory in Myanmar have not yet been eaten, and the second good news has been superimposed directly. How can this not make the Guangzhou monarchs dumbfounded?

This is like what was originally said, you go back to the spring to get blood back to blue, and then get two magic clothes and go out again.As a result, after reading the scroll back to the city, what a guy—he had another pentakill on his body.

Two months ago, Zhu Ciyu, who was still blaming himself and depressed for the setback of the patrol squadron sent to the coastal waters of Vietnam for deterrence, was given a shot in the arm.Thanks to Uncle Zheng for helping him save the situation, after the southern tour is over, he doesn't have to worry about being educated by his father when he goes back.

Zhu Ciyu rushed to the pier with escorts and laborers' wine, meat and belongings. When Zheng Chenggong got off the boat, he poured wine for Uncle Zheng himself.

Gu Yanwu and others were also at the side, pouring wine for the other generals.

In addition to wine, meat and fruits, the rich merchants in Guangzhou also cooked hundreds of large pots of herbal tea to cool off the soldiers returning from the tropical expedition.After all, it is already the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the scorching heat and fever are no joke.

"Uncle Zheng is really my Great Ming's mighty man who holds up the sky, the God of Dinghai, and the mast and scull are wiped out in ashes while talking and laughing. That's what it means. With Uncle Zheng here, why worry about the thieves in the South China Sea not being wiped out."

"Your Majesty's reputation is too high. I just followed the regent back then, learned the essence of naval warfare, and mastered it with talent, so I'm lucky today.

It is all due to my great power, I was able to subdue the red barbarians in Malacca, Batavia and other places, and made them feel guilty about selling warships to Vietnam before. This time they had to take the initiative to sell ammunition supplies to our army, so that I can have enough ammunition On the way back, he defeated the intercepting enemy fleet. "

Zheng Chenggong was modest, which also let the emperor and Guangzhou officials know the inside story of this battle.

Although Zhu Ciyu solved the doubts in his heart, he still couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Even so, Uncle Zheng can predict the enemy's opportunity, think that the Vietnamese may intercept halfway, and thus prepare in advance, he can be regarded as knowing himself and the enemy, a master of military strategy."

Not to mention the rewards of the big banquet that day, the army rested and replenished for many days after returning to Hong Kong, and the battle-damaged warships were also pulled into the shipyard for repairs.

For the remaining few days in July, the imperial court was not in a hurry to expand its military force. In the blink of an eye, it entered August, and it became a little cooler, and the lightly wounded were almost fully supported.

Seriously wounded and damaged ships will definitely not be able to participate in the next phase of operations, so there is no need to use them.

Zhu Ciyu waited for Zheng Chenggong to recover before earnestly discussing the military plan with him to see when it would be appropriate to use troops against the land of Vietnam. During the discussion, he would naturally bring Gu Yanwu along to discuss the division and disintegration of the enemy, and to fight against one faction.

Zheng Chenggong said that there are not many remnants of the Vietnamese navy. He can fully maintain the maritime supply line from Guangxi to Thanh Hoa, the capital of Vietnam (near Hanoi today, but closer to the mouth of the Red River than Hanoi), and can even carry a small amount of army directly to launch a landing operation.

However, after consultations, everyone felt that there was no need for all the army to land, after all, it would take a lot of trouble.Because now the most dangerous mountainous area on the border of Vietnam, Lang Son and Gao Ping two mansions are still in the hands of Mo Jingyu, the comfort envoy of Annan, and Ming has divided troops to help him defend the city.

And as long as you cross Lang Son and Gaoping, it is not difficult to enter the Red River Valley by land.The only difficulty is that it is troublesome to transport supplies over the mountains, but it is easier for soldiers to walk on two legs.

That being the case, one thing more is worse than one thing less. After accounting, considering that Li Dingguo is still maintaining order in the newly occupied areas of Myanmar, the imperial court asked Sun Kewang, who was also a surrendered general like Li Dingguo, to support Mo Jingyu and attack Tsinghua from Gaoping land .

And Zheng Chenggong led the fleet and transport fleet, escorted Liu Wenxiu to land at the mouth of the Red River, and went upstream, cut and interspersed with Sun Kewang, and then replenished Sun Kewang with food, medicine and ammunition by sea.

As a result, the measure of "cutting off the shipping capacity of the upper reaches of the Red River" that the Vietnamese had been thinking about before was completely wiped out, because the Ming army did not need to transport materials from Yunnan to Vietnam through the upper reaches of the Red River—

To make a digression, the supply conditions of the Ming Dynasty today are actually better than those of later generations in the late 1970s.

Nowadays, Zheng Chenggong's navy has completely crushed the Portuguese and Dutch goods bought by the Vietnamese. This is an unprecedented and hugely favorable situation.

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The follow-up military operations against Vietnam have completely entered garbage time.

The Ming Dynasty was disintegrated, landing and direct attack were used together, and Zheng Zuo's main force was wiped out in batches. The Vietnamese army was killed, injured and captured no less than 20 people.Almost all of Zheng Zuo's all-powerful soldiers were destroyed.

And the price Da Ming paid was not high, because Mo Jingyu, a local snake, helped to fight the vanguard against damage.In the future, it will help Daming maintain governance and suppress civil resistance in Vietnam.

The condition that Daming promised was to take back Mo Jingyu's Gaoping and Lang Son prefectures, which are dangerous and poor in the mountains, and exchange him with the unsafe and fertile plains, Thanh Hoa, the former capital of Vietnam, and use Thanh Hoa as a Mo Jingyu's new territory, and allowed him to be the Xuanweisi for several generations,

As for whether to change the land and return to the people in the future, it is hard to say.But at least Mo Jingyu himself and his children and grandchildren should still be able to be used as Daming's pawns and have full use value.

And Ruan Fubin of South Vietnam, because Daming didn't have the energy to digest so many new lands for the time being, was temporarily overwhelmed by Gu Yanwu's envoy, accepted Daming's title in name, no longer insisted on Li Chao Zhengshuo, and was willing to help Daming attack Zheng Zuo in exchange for Daming Leave him alone and recognize his rule in the South.

After all, in the consideration of Ming Dynasty, the Red River Plain area in North Vietnam has been the territory of China since ancient times. The Jiaozhi County of the Han Dynasty was established here, and the Tang Dynasty also controlled it.After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Zhao family in the Song Dynasty threw away the waste, so it is reasonable for Daming to take it back now.

When Zhu Shuren in his previous life read his history books, he never recognized the so-called "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms", because this name was originally defined by the abolition of the Song Dynasty to cover up his shame, and it should really be "Five Dynasties and Twelve Kingdoms".
Because the Jiaozhi Kingdom and the Koryo Kingdom also established themselves in the decades between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Song Dynasty. In the eyes of people in the remnant Tang Dynasty, there is no difference between the Kozhi Kingdom and the Shu Wuyue after the Southern Han Dynasty.

If the Song Dynasty wants to boast that it has reunified the regime that was split after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, then it should recognize the Five Dynasties and Twelve Kingdoms, but it does not have the ability to fight back ten of the twelve, and the other two will be separated forever. The talented spring and autumn brushwork hides shame and only writes about ten countries.

However, the area south of Shun Hua and Da Nang is not counted as "since ancient times". It grew out of the 600 years of Vietnam's self-reliance after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The new territory really has nothing to do with the Han and Tang Dynasties.Things are prioritized, and assimilation is difficult or easy, so we don't step in the quagmire too much.

In this way, with Zheng Zuo's final defeat and death, the Le Dynasty in Vietnam came to an end.At the end of the Le Dynasty, the king was killed together with Zheng Zuo. Ruan Fubin declared that he would no longer recognize the Le Dynasty, proclaimed himself king and proclaimed his minister to the Ming Dynasty, and killed all the distant clans of the Le Dynasty in the southern region.

Although there are still countless rebels in Vietnam, which can last for many years, at least there is no need to involve too much military and material resources of Daming, let Mo Jingyu, a puppet, slowly clear them up.

(End of this chapter)