The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 488 Reinforcement
The reason why the southern tip of Qinzhou was chosen as the starting point for the cavalry attack on the Dayue Kingdom was because of the convenience of getting the support of the navy and the convenience of supplying the transport ships.

Here is on the southern edge of the Shiwanda Mountains, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and you can enter Jiaozhi by crossing the Beilun River whose source is not wide in the Shiwanda Mountains. arrive.

The roads of later generations of Vietnam Unicom Mong Cai, Hehui, Xian'an, Cam Pu, Halong, Guang'an, and Haiphong also follow the coastline.

Huang Mingdao and Huang Dongshan will lead the main force from the sea to the side wall where the North and South Vietnam used to confront each other, and directly use the stone side wall built by Guangnan State to build a huge city, cutting off the return route of the Zheng family of North Vietnam.

The side wall built by Nguyen Phuc Yuan, the ruler of Quang Nam, cut the long and narrow Vietnamese land into two sections.This broken city wall is located in the south of the Ling River, from the sea to the mountains, and stretched for more than [-] miles when it was finally completed.

The task of Huang Dongshan and Huang Mingli is to land here on the side of Guangnan Kingdom, which is close to the side wall, and then expand to the south for five or six miles, that is, to occupy dozens of square kilometers of Guangnan Kingdom’s territory and build a city. Huang Sheng even has a name Think it over, "New Suzhou".

The side walls built by the Huang family run directly from the sea to the foot of Kelong Mountain, and are also more than [-] miles long. The two side walls are six or seven miles apart, forming a rectangular city pool.

After Huang Mingdao finished assisting Huang Dongshan's army to gain a foothold, he left two men and horses to Cheng Quangong to defend the city.

Huang Dongshan led most of the troops to attack from south to north. The destination was the capital of the Houli Dynasty. Huang Mingdao led some troops to log in again, this time choosing the coast closest to the capital of Dayue Kingdom.

This is probably the Haiphong city of Vietnam in later generations. There was no such city as Haiphong in the Ming Dynasty.Now it's just a fishing village, and it's not called Haiphong.

Huang Mingdao still seized the coastal defense beachhead and built a camp to defend it. Han Guang and Ye Jiangong led their troops straight into the "Tokyo" city of Dai Viet, which is Hanoi in later generations.

The grass boats below and the warships along the Red River also raided "Tokyo". Huang Sheng's army naturally came from the north.

The city of "Tokyo" was first built in 621 A.D. It was the general manager of Jiaozhou in the Tang Dynasty of China, and later Songping County under the jurisdiction of Annan Dufu.

In the fifth year of Emperor Chengzu Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, which expelled the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, restored the hometown of Annan, and set up Jiaozhi Chief Envoy. It has been lost again, and now the Han people have lost this homeland for 200 years.

The "Tokyo" city of Dayue Kingdom is very large, fifty miles in circumference, and is divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city, and the inner city is divided into three parts: the forbidden city, the imperial city and the capital city.

The place where the king, empresses, concubines, and their descendants and attendants lived was called the Forbidden City. Surrounding the Forbidden City was the Imperial City, where the courtiers' offices were located.

Neighborhoods, markets, and residential areas outside the imperial city are the capital.The royal garden in the imperial city has beautiful scenery, the towers and palaces in the forbidden city are resplendent, and the pagodas in the capital are towering and there are many temples.

It's so interesting to take down such a city that took the Dayue Kingdom a lot of time, money and manpower, and has undergone countless expansions. Just thinking about it will make your mouth water.

The Dayue Kingdom uses the same calendar as the Ming Dynasty, and like the Han people, they also celebrate the Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, and Spring Festival.The Spring Festival is also the biggest festival of the year.

Many foods in Dai Viet are exactly the same as those of the Han people, including rice dumplings, fried spring rolls and so on.

Many surnames such as Ruan, Li, Zheng, Hu, Fan, Chen, Wu, etc. are no different from Han people. The names are also the first and last names. They also use two-character or three-character names, so a large number of Sinicized Dayue Jing people return to the Han nationality. Extended family is imperative.

Such an arrangement can be described as sinister and sinister. The first move is to control the side wall built by Guangnan Kingdom, and hold on to prevent the Zheng's troops from the Dayue Kingdom from invading Guangnan from returning, and let the Zheng's army fight without ground.

At the same time, Huang Sheng led 10,000 Ming army infantry, [-] wolf soldiers, [-] white rod soldiers, [-] private soldiers of the Huang family, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and [-] to [-] auxiliary soldiers to follow. There are also [-]+ families with military labor.

Such a large-scale and large-scale attack on the cities of Dayue State will cause the whole country to panic. Huang Sheng will slowly knock down the cities along the way one by one, leaving the army to cooperate with a hundred villages to defend bravely.

Leaving their capital and the largest city alone, they deliberately passed through Hanoi and continued to attack the small city, making Dayue think that the Ming army only had the ability to attack small cities.

Dayue Kingdom thought that there was a strong city and a big city to rely on. Naturally, many dignitaries and ordinary people fled to the capital "Tokyo" to seek refuge. Huang Sheng's troops tossed for several months, and the defense of "New Suzhou" should also be completed.

It was only at this time that the Ming army's attempt to encircle and annihilate the military and civilians in "Tokyo" was exposed, concentrating all mobilizable troops and manpower to encircle and kill the capital of Dai Viet.

Strategic purpose: to gather as many soldiers and civilians of Dai Viet as possible in the capital, and strive to win a battle, so as not to have too many active forces fleeing into the mountains to fight guerrillas and increase the difficulty of encirclement and suppression. Encirclement and annihilation are the best results.

It is necessary to ensure that after this battle, the elites of the Dai Viet Kingdom are completely destroyed, and the vital forces are completely wiped out.

Then there will be the Annan native land that has been slowly digested and consolidated, and then more than 80 Han people will gradually expand based on the two big cities. The territory of the country also restored the old place name "Jiaozhi" of the Han people.

Another big city is actually on the land of Guangnan Kingdom, and it is the city of "New Suzhou".

The fleet returned to Huangjiawan Island to transfer population and supplies. Huang Mingli had too many things to go back, so he sent the reliable and steady Cheng Quangong to take Ma Cheng, Guan Zhicheng and other excellent battleship captains northward.

This time, [-] high-level townspeople will be selected to serve in the South China Sea. These people are not coming with their families, they are out of missions to strengthen their combat effectiveness and management.

Since the Huang family's navigation technology has already mastered the upwind sailing technology of the Dutch coachman on the sea, they can sail all year round without waiting for the monsoon to come.

The so-called sailing against the wind adopts the "Bernoulli principle". The angle between the sail and the wind direction is kept small. The section looks like the arc of the sail being blown out like a wing, and the air will generate thrust when the sail is blown against the wind. You can follow the "Zhi" line, and you can completely advance against the wind.

However, the speed of sailing against the wind is much slower than that with the wind. In fact, it is not that the speed of the sailboat has decreased, but sometimes the speed of the ship is much faster.

This is because the straight-line distance to the destination is three times or even five times longer due to the large zigzag. Therefore, calculating the speed based on the travel distance, sailing against the wind may not even reach the speed of two knots.

Now the merchant ships of the Huang family can reach an average speed of seven knots when the wind is down, the warships can reach eight or nine knots, and the cruise ships can exceed ten knots.

The Huang family's fleet headed north at the end of August. The probability of encountering the north wind was too high, and the speed would be affected. However, the Huang family had unique propeller technology, and they refused to go in a big zigzag when the wind was completely headwind.

Only choose to take a small zigzag in the case of a northerly wind and use the wind force of a small headwind to sail northward. In the state of a strong headwind, fully lower the sails and use human power to drive the propeller forward.

Therefore, on average, each of the warships and merchant ships going northward brought with them the leaders of the Li people and a large family of officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty who were cleaned out from Hainan Island and prepared to be sent to Huangjiawan Island and "Huaxia Island" for labor reform or residential surveillance. Pushing the pedals hard to drive the propellers is their only job.

There are dozens of laborers on each ship. The sailors, gunners, and auxiliary soldiers on the ship lead them to drive the propellers in three shifts. It is not a problem at all. The speed of the ship exceeds three knots is guaranteed. Since the route is very familiar, hundreds of ships are sailing in formation. Traveling day and night is not an obstacle.

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