Chapter Thirty-Eight: An Unexpected War

Zhu Qizhen didn't say a few words, and even looked at Annan's envoys.

Zhu Qizhen is not too arrogant.

However, everything that needs to be discussed below has already been discussed. Zhu Qizhen saw that he was just going through the motions.

When Zhu Qizhen was about to send Annan's envoys out, Huai En came from outside in a hurry and put a note on the side of Zhu Qizhen's case.

Zhu Qizhen knew at a glance that it was military intelligence.

It's not that the military situation won't be like this, regardless of Zhu Qizhen, he is still summoning foreign ministers.

Zhu Qizhen took it and looked at it, his hand tightened suddenly, his fingers pinched a finger print on the song, and suddenly smiled and said, "The monarch of your country is really wise and powerful." ”

Ruan Sheng didn't know what Zhu Qizhen meant for a while, and said, "Your Majesty Miao Zan." The foreign minister must convey it to the monarch of the contempt country, so that the king of the contempt country knows the emperor's appreciation of the king of the contempt country. ”

Zhu Qizhen's sneering became clearer, and the sneer in his eyes almost turned into killing intent.

For many years, Zhu Qizhen has not been played like this. And now he is still acting in front of him.

But even though he was furious, he also maintained the most basic demeanor, and the two countries did not fight each other, but he was no longer in the mood to look at this Annan envoy.

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and immediately asked the eunuch to invite Ruan Sheng down.

When Ruan Sheng went out, he didn't know what was going on, but a lot of news couldn't be concealed at all, and Zhu Qizhen had no intention of hiding it.

The war between the Ming Dynasty and Annam officially broke out.

Time is set forward by more than half a month.

The more than 100,000 troops gathered in Taiping Mansion had already received Zhu Qizhen's order to strike the troops and began to withdraw one after another.

After all, Taiping Mansion is relatively close to the Sino-Vietnamese border, but most of the nearby Tusi are garrisoned, and most of the grain and grass have to be transferred from the rear, which has a great burden on the local people and Tusi.

The soldiers and horses of the Tusi in various places have also been dismissed.

After all, the Ming Dynasty's recruitment of Tusi soldiers was not free.

But every soldier has to pay, or compensate the Tusi from other aspects, no matter how it is calculated, compared to the recruitment of soldiers in the north, a tael of silver per month, and the wolf soldiers in Guangxi can only fight a few pieces of cloth and grain at a time, and they will not be paid if they die, which is also very economical.

As for the Jingying, although the combat power is very strong, the further south they go, the more uncomfortable they feel.

Since the withdrawal of troops was ordered, they withdrew to Guilin in the first wave.

And the remaining army of Taiping Mansion, only the victorious army led by Mao Sheng to destroy Datengxia, is a lot, but only fifty or sixty thousand people will go down immediately.

These centaurs won't be able to withdraw much at this time.

After all, the Annan side also sent heavy troops, and the 200,000 troops defended Guangxi and Yunnan respectively, and the confrontation with the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi was only about 100,000.

Mao Sheng didn't think that they would dare to offend the Ming Dynasty when the imperial army had not withdrawn, but there was still some vigilance that should be there.

It is estimated that when Annan's envoys return from Beijing, Annan will also begin to slowly withdraw its troops.

In this way, this time the tension between the two sides has eased down.

And what happened next, I don't know if Annan thought of it, but Mao Sheng definitely didn't expect it.

Mao Sheng inspected the border once, and he had a goal in mind, it is true that the big war cannot be fought, but it is still possible to trim the border between Daming and Annan.

You can't go out with a big army, in vain, and do nothing.

Mao Sheng set his sights on Qinzhou Qitong.

To be precise, Qinzhou Qitong should be subordinate to Guangdong. After all, Qinzhou was still the territory of Guangdong in this era.

The issue of Qinzhou Qitong is a long story, and it has already been said before and after the Luchuan incident. In general, at that time, for the Battle of Luchuan, the attribution of Qinzhou Qitong was treated with a relatively vague treatment.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was conquering Luchuan at that time, and was unwilling to expand the battle of Luchuan into a war against Luchuan and Annan.

In this way, Qinzhou Qitong became a de facto land of two subordinates.

But now Mao Sheng asked the Huang clan in Qinzhou Qitong to expel the Annan officials and guard the border for the Ming Dynasty from then on, and even if the Huang clan agreed, he could pull out some weapons and food from the army to fund the Huang clan.

And give other benefits to the Huang family, such as the promotion of the Huang family to Tuzhi County, Tuzhi Mansion and so on.

Of course, if the Huang family doesn't know what to do, Mao Sheng can't beat Annan, can't he beat the Huang family?

As for what Annan's reaction was?

Mao Sheng didn't care.

If Annan took the initiative to commit a crime in the north, Mao Sheng would still have a little more to ask for.

However, after all, Annan is the new lord of the country, and since the external contradictions have been alleviated, how can the new lord not deal with internal problems, in Mao Sheng's view, it is impossible for the lord of Annan to take the initiative to cause trouble.

As for why Mao Sheng attaches so much importance to Qinzhou Qitong, it is because this Qinzhou Qitong is in the north of the border watershed, that is to say, Annan occupies Qinzhou Qitong and has its own right to enter and exit the Qinzhou Bay area.

Even Annan is still on the east side of Qinzhou Qitong by the sea, there is an enclave, that is, Yong'an Prefecture.

This is also a quick land for Zhu Qizhen to ask Annan to retreat.

Once Qinzhou Qitong was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the Yong'an Prefecture in Annam was not easy to manage, and could only be connected by sea.

Because on the side of the Ming Dynasty, most of them are controlled by Tusi.

Therefore, Annan has always had the intention of slowly encroaching on the land of the Ming Dynasty, after all, it is impossible for a single Tusi to confront a big country like Annan without the support of the imperial court.

And the civil officials of the imperial court actually did not attach much importance to the territory.

Especially for the corners and corners of many places. If you give up a little land, you can exchange it for peace, and many ministers are willing to do it.

Just like Qinzhou Qitong, in fact, many ministers have deliberately blurred this matter, just to maintain the status quo.

Mao Sheng's move also caused a reaction from Annan.

Annan countered-for-tat, demanding that the Huang family obey him, otherwise he would let the Qinzhou Huang chicken dog not stay. For a while, the pressure of the two countries fell on the Huang family in Qinzhou.

The Huang clan in Qinzhou can't advance or retreat, and they are in a dilemma.

They finally chose the Ming Dynasty, Mao Sheng was overjoyed, took more than 1,000 cavalry, entered the territory of the Huang family, comforted the Huang family, and asked the court to reward him, and also brought a lot of firearms and gave them to the Huang family.

It's not that Mao Sheng doesn't want to bring too many people.

First, Mao Sheng brought elite cavalry, even if there was something, he could go.

Second, Mao Sheng didn't think that Annan had the courage to attack Mao Sheng.

Thirdly, that is, the topography of Qinzhou Qitong, the place where Qinzhou Qitong is located is now the area of Dongxing, Guangxi, with undulating mountains and great restrictions on topography.

Moreover, the so-called Huang clan is only under the jurisdiction of more than 20 villages, speaking of which, compared to the strength of the Hou clan in Datengxia, I don't know how much worse.

Mao Sheng was worried that he had brought too many people, and the Huang family couldn't afford it.

It's just that this time it has caused a big war. Huang also suffered a great hardship as a result.

Because there was action on the part of Annan.

If it is said that Annan intends to provoke a war against the Ming Dynasty, it is not necessarily, but Li Sicheng's order to the front line does not want to provoke a war with the Ming Dynasty, but it also wants to give up an inch of land on the front line.

At the beginning, the atmosphere of confrontation between the two sides was very serious.

But since the Ming army began to withdraw, the Annan side has relaxed a lot.

The Ming army withdrew from Taiping, and the troops at the front also withdrew to Taipingfu.

The local toast is in charge of the front line, and the local toast has such and such a connection with Annan, just think about it. Between such a distance, Tusi is relatively independent, and between them and Annan, there is no problem at all, which is abnormal.

Therefore, the Ming army relied on Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and had achieved general control over the situation in Annan through various other channels. And Annan is not ignorant of the situation in this regard of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of the Ming army's moves, Annan believed that it must not back down. After the Huang clan in Qinzhou rejected Annan, they also decided to send men. Change Wong's attitude.

It was only because of the problem of information transmission that when the armies of both sides reached the vicinity of Qinzhou Qitong, neither side knew the other side's moves

In this way, a war between the two sides is inevitable.