The Jinghua fleet stopped in front of the Xiangfumen pier in Thang Long City, and two hundred large and small sea ships almost obscured the surface of this section of the Red River, and the black muzzle of the heavy guns on the open deck of that gate made the entire Thang Long City even more silent.

Thang Long is the capital of Annam, and its layout is divided into two cities: inner and outer.

The inner city is divided into the capital, the imperial city and the forbidden city from the outside to the inside, among which the forbidden city is the residence of the emperor's concubines, that is, the "Forbidden City" of Annan; The imperial city is the court and office space; The capital surrounds the imperial city, which is not only the imperial city arch guard, but also a bazaar, neighborhood and residential area.

As for the outer city, in fact, it should be called "outside the city", which is actually equivalent to the suburbs, and is not surrounded by city walls.

Thang Long City, like countless cities of this era, was built on the river, and Thang Long was on the right bank of the Red River. There are four gates in Shenglong, the east is called Xiangfu, the west is said to be Guangfu, the south is said to be Daxing, the north is said to be Yaode, one of them is out of the East City Gate Xiangfu Gate, which is the wharf.

At present, Jinghua's fleet is moored in the middle of the river in front of the Xiangfumen Wharf, the hulls of all the ships are facing the city gate, and all the deck guns, all of which are designed to be placed in the position of being aimed at Thang Long City, have been placed in a position where they can fire cannons at any time.

In particular, it must be mentioned that although Thang Long is the ancient capital of the N Dynasty and the largest city in Annam, the size of the city of Thang Long City is actually less than one-tenth of that of Hanoi in later generations.

The Jinghua fleet moored on the river outside the Xiangfu Gate, even if the current power of the naval guns is far less than that of later generations, but the most powerful of them can cover almost half of the Thang Long City, and because the Imperial City is relatively close to the Red River, this range is almost enough to send cannonballs into the Imperial City or even the Forbidden City.

The boat was moored for half an hour, Gao Jue never waited for the reaction of Thang Long City, he was already a little impatient, and was about to order the Jia Ding Escort Group to get off the ship and land to forcibly attack the city, when someone came to report that someone from Thang Long City had come.

The person who came was a eunuch surnamed Zhang - uh, it's not that Mo Maoqia, the commander of the capital of Annan, doesn't give face, but he hasn't figured out how to face this fleet yet, especially since he doesn't even know who the commander of this fleet is and what level he is.

The first thing Gao Ming did when he heard that the other party actually sent someone to ask for "rank", which was so angry and funny.

What is his title?

"I'm just the family member of the Guangxi Patrol Imperial Master Shi Gao, and I am the head of the family guard regiment, and I don't have any rank." Gao Jue said lightly: "However, I brought the order of Gao Press, and you can ask all the envoys of your family to come out to receive the order." ”

Eunuch Zhang's face suddenly turned a little red - why are you a special head of the family, and you dare to ask Emperor Dayue to come out to receive orders in an ordered tone?

Okay, even according to the official rank and grade of your Ming Dynasty, the old man of your family is only a positive seventh grade, why should he point fingers at the second grade?

Eunuch Zhang's muscles twitched, and he didn't say anything for a long time, but Gao Jue was dissatisfied, turned his face stiff, frowned, and said, "Why, the commander of your family still wants me to fire a cannon to welcome it?" ”

Eunuch Zhang was stunned for a moment: "There is such a courtesy?" ”

"Hahahaha!" Gao Jue was amused by him, smiled and pointed to the naval guns on the deck, and said: "I have more than 200 warships here, and there are 2,000 huge cannons, if you all want to see the cannons fired, I don't mind bombarding Shenglong City, let him see enough!" ”

Of course, 2,000 huge cannons are bragging, just like sending 80,000 troops to claim 300,000, not to mention the guns on these ships, except for the guns on the 60 armed transport ships in Jinghua, which can barely be regarded as heavy naval guns in East Asia in this era, and most of the naval guns installed on other ships can also touch the edge of the city wall.

Oh, a few of Boss Hu and Boss Li's boats are better because they are equipped with Jinghua's guns, but they are actually only medium guns, so they can make do with being able to enter the city.

But Eunuch Zhang obviously didn't understand artillery, he only knew that the artillery on the big sea ship he was on now was bigger than any cannon he had seen in the past, and this ship alone had at least 20 such cannons on board, so if all the warships in the Red River were now fired together......

Eunuch Zhang shivered. He thinks that not to mention Shenglong City, Mingren's own Nanjing City can't bear it, right?

Of course, he didn't dare to ask this question now, in fact, it was useless to ask, Gao Jue had never considered it from this perspective.

"I'm a big one...... Eh, I, Annan, have always been a fence of the Celestial Empire, and your army is here, so arrogant, aren't you afraid of the blame of the Son of Wanli? ”

Gao Ming didn't expect that he still knew that the name of the year was Wanli, but he still smiled and said, "I want to teach you that my master is the son of heaven and the son of heaven is born, and he sent me and others this time to ask for a will." The matter of Annan, the emperor asked my lord to watch it...... Well, you know what it means to look at it, right? ”

Eunuch Zhang was really panicked and said, "This ...... Our family can't be the master, so we have to go back and ask Your Majesty...... Commander, please wait a moment. ”

Gao Jue glanced at the hourglass and said, "Yes, I will give you an hour, if the city has not been opened to greet you after an hour, then ...... So I went into the city myself and questioned him. ”

Eunuch Zhang didn't dare to make a sound, so he replied, and ran away like his buttocks were on fire.

Boss Hu and Boss Li walked out with a smile, and Boss Hu said: "Gao Tuanzuo, it seems that the people of Annan are afraid, let's go all the way to the outside of Shenglong City, they don't dare to send someone to stop them, but now they are entangled in what rank and etiquette, it's really ridiculous." ”

Boss Li also said happily: "Yes, Gao Tuanza, although Thang Long City is empty now, no matter how you say it, 10,000 soldiers and horses will always stay, right?" Sitting on tens of thousands of troops, but they didn't even dare to stop it, this Annan was the commander...... Hehe, they can still suppress Li Chao to fight, it's really weird. ”

Gao Jue smiled slightly and said, "I think, it should be that the news of Langshan and Gao Ping has reached Thang Long, and maybe even Lang Son and Gao Ping have been taken by the Huang and Cen families, especially Lang Shan...... As soon as Langshan was lost, Annan's Mo army went to the south to fight again, what did Mo Maoqia do to stop my lord from taking revenge? Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that he is not strong in the face of us. ”

Boss Hu looked thoughtful, thought for a while, and said, "Gao Tuanzuo, do you think Mo Maoqia will really open the city and surrender?" ”

Gao Jue muttered: "It's hard to say, after all, he still has a large army outside, although we came quickly, but after all, we came by sea, and the fleet couldn't go ashore, and this Thang Long City is on the west bank of the Red River...... Even if he is afraid of the Cen and Huang wolf soldiers who came from the northeast, he can flee directly to Xicheng, and when the time comes, he will join his southern expeditionary army, and whether it is war or peace can also be discussed in the long run. ”

Boss Hu was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Then should we quickly send troops to block the West City Gate?" ”

Gao Jue shook his head with a smile and said, "What are you doing blocking the city?" The task that the master gave me was to take the dragon, but he didn't say that he had to fight to the death with Mo's army. If he really ran away, wouldn't he have given up Thang Long City? ”

Boss Hu was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Isn't it to take Annan all according to the platform?" ”

Gao Jue raised his eyebrows slightly: "Whether the master wants to take Annan or not, I don't dare to speculate, but...... Even if the master had this plan, he didn't assign such a task to me, and the 50,000 wolf soldiers of the Cen and Huang families should be able to achieve this goal, right? ”

Boss Hu now understands - the Gao family is the private property of Gao Press, since it is private property, how can it be wasted? You must know that the death of a Gao family member is equivalent to a high press on the platform to lose the capital. What's more, Gao Pressai has Cen and Huang two families of toast in his hand to use, these two toasts have guarded Guixi and Guinan for hundreds of years, how can the two combined only have 50,000 wolf soldiers?

It can be seen that if necessary, Gao Jitai can continue to encourage them to send troops - it is nothing more than money, and the "price" of those wolf soldiers is so low that it is not a grade of the Gao family.

Boss Li interjected at this time: "I think that if Mo Maoqia really ran away from Xicheng, it might be a good thing." ”

Boss Hu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Lao Li, how do you say this?" If he escapes, after concentrating the army of the southern expedition at that time, if he comes back, wouldn't it be a mess...... Uh, a big trouble? ”

Boss Li smiled and said, "If he can really bring the Southern Expedition army back, it will indeed be a little troublesome, but I think that as long as he goes out of the city, it will probably not be so easy to come back." ”

Boss Hu arched his hand: "I want to ask Boss Li for advice." ”

"How dare you." Boss Li was polite and said: "I just think that he sent troops to the south not long ago, and the south may have already engaged in the battle, and the two sides are enemies for generations, and the so-called enemies are very red when they meet, since the fight starts, where can the army be withdrawn immediately?" At that time, he lost Thang Long City, and the south was still fighting with the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty, and wanted to come back...... Hehe, then you have to ask Zheng Song if he agrees. ”

"Oh, I see." Boss Hu thought about it, nodded in approval, and said, "If that's the case, it's really a good thing that Mo Maoqia went out of the west of the city." ”

Gao Jue picked up at this time: "If Mo Maoqia really leaves, our infantry can enter the city, and the fleet can divide a part to sweep the remnants of the Mo Dynasty naval army in the Red River, and then gather together to prepare for the return of the main force of the Mo Dynasty naval army." ”

According to Gao Jue's meaning, he planned that if Mo Maoqia really wanted to run, then he would first occupy Thang Long City, and then use the power of the fleet to row the Red River as the boundary, as long as the main force of the Mo Dynasty naval army could not come back, or if he came back, he could not beat himself, then the essence of the Mo Dynasty in the northeast of the Red River would be returned to Gao Shipra; The southwest part of the Red River was originally a good place, but the war with the Li Dynasty over the years has destroyed a lot of those places, even if it is left to the Mo Dynasty, the Mo Dynasty will not be able to turn over any storms.

The only thing worth worrying about is whether the Mo Dynasty will come up with some way to reach an agreement with the Zheng clan, which is in power in the Li Dynasty, not to mention turning enemies into friends, at least reach an armistice agreement first, and then pour troops to counterattack Thang Long, and Thang Long City is on the west bank of the Red River, and the fleet cannot completely keep the artillery suppressed.

When the Mo Dynasty's 100,000 troops came over, he might not be able to withstand the more than 4,000 steps he had to take - Gao Jue didn't know that the Mo Dynasty had suffered a big defeat in the south.

He asked the two shipowners and bosses to consult each other, and Boss Hu and Boss Li looked at each other and fell into thought. After a while, Boss Hu said: "Gao Tuanzuo's concern is not unreasonable, although Mo Chao and Li Chao are mortal enemies, but after all, Zheng Song should also know the truth of cold lips and teeth, from Zheng Song's point of view, although it is not a pity for Mo Maoqia and others to die, but if the north is occupied by the Ming Dynasty, it is not a good thing......

Boss Li seemed to have a different opinion, and said in a deep voice: "Gao Tuanzuo, Lao Hu, do you think there is such a possibility, that is, although Zheng Song watched the Ming Dynasty take Bei Annan, he felt that he could use the method of claiming the title of a vassal to ask the court to return Bei Anan to him?" Oh, of course, provided that the Mohs were already destroyed by then. ”

Gao Jue suddenly felt a little big, the problem that these two people were thinking about had shifted to the political aspect, but he didn't want to think about it - this kind of thing naturally had the master to consider, he just had to think about how to occupy Thang Long City first, and then pull up the Red River defense line.

As for taking Shenglong City, whether Mo Maoqia surrenders or abandons the city and flees, it doesn't make much difference to him, anyway, he tries to be as bloodless as possible, and now it depends on Mo Maoqia's choice.

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The eyelids are fighting and the writing is finished, or is it more than ten thousand......