Chapter Seventy-Five: Guo Deng's Hand

Although Zhu Qizhen has already finalized with the prince, going to Jiangnan is a matter of going to Jiangnan. But it's not that easy to implement.

Not to mention anything else, the relationship between the queen mother and the queen is not so easy.

You must know that after the crown prince was newly married Yan'er, the queen mother and the queen were all bent on repaying their son-in-law.

Only Zhu Qizhen didn't care much.

Because in his opinion, it may not be a good thing for the prince to come a little later with the prince's sister-in-law.

You don't have to face your own troubles.

And that's just the annoyance.

But Guo Deng in Guangxi had to face his own problems.

Last winter, he had been in Guangxi for only a few months.

All the thoughts are on rectifying the Guangxi toast.

The first thing he had to deal with was the internal strife within the Cen family.

At the time of Cen Ying's presence, although the Cen family spanned several prefectures and counties, the family held several official positions such as Tuzhi Prefecture and Tuzhi Prefecture.

It can be said that it is the largest family in the southwest.

But at that time, the Cen family could still be regarded as a whole under the auspices of Cen Ying, but after Cen Ying left, this contradiction was hidden.

If it is said that everything in Guangxi is like a scene, this contradiction can still be digested internally. But too many things happened after Cen Ying's death.

For example, the destruction of the Datengxia, the civil strife of the Huang family, and the battle with Annam, all kinds of changes will cause internal turmoil. Especially in the Battle of Annam, the Cen family suffered heavy losses.

It also led to two factions within the Cen family, one faction followed Daming wholeheartedly, and the other faction complained about Daming.

And Cen Ying's son Cen Rui can only rely on the Ming Dynasty to suppress other branches.

The reason is simple.

First, Cen Rui's ability is not as good as Cen Ying, and he does not have the ability to independently suppress the contradictions within the family. Second, the reason why Cen Ying was able to become the first person in Guangxi Tusi in the Ming Dynasty was that Cen Ying obeyed the call of the Ming Dynasty and called himself a loyal minister and filial son of the Ming Dynasty no matter when.

This is the reason why the Cen family is developing day by day, and even for Taizong, Renzong, Xuanzong, and the Empress Dowager to commend them.

In other words, Cen Rui is just continuing his father's policy.

Of course, the internal contradictions of the Cen family are not just such a simple division.

Among them, various interests, descendants and branches, land and property, all kinds of contradictions, eventually evolved into a game of standing in line.

In the past six months, Guo Deng has just sorted out the contradictions between the top and bottom. As for how to start, Guo Deng originally thought that it would take a year to clean up the Guangxi toast.

But now he doesn't have that time.

Faced with the current situation, he pondered for a long time, first of all, he was sure that he could not sit idly by and watch the battle between Annan and Champa. First, he attacked Annam in the future and lost the army in the south that pinned down Annam.

Second, it is also a great loss to the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, everyone knows that although Champa and Annan are feuds, but now Champa is in response to the call of the Ming Dynasty to use troops against Annan.

Once the city cannot be protected, who will still believe in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Guo Deng, as a general of the imperial court, was in charge of the war in Annam. It would be a grave dereliction of duty to allow such a thing to happen.

It is necessary to rescue the city, but how to rescue it is another problem.

The army in Guo Deng's hands now, if you row up, there are more than 300,000, but there are very few that can really be used for conquest.

First of all, the Tusi army, Guo Deng is about to start rectifying, and the people of Guangxi headquarters are being subordinates who are generally intersecting with the Tusi army.

This is what is used to suppress the situation, just in case.

As for the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Beijing battalion, they have been supplemented by a group of Hebei soldiers, and the establishment has been re-improved.

was pinched in his hands by Guo Deng. It is used as a general reserve.

First, to guard against the civil strife in the southwest Tusi, and second, to guard against the possible invasion of the Annan army, plus the garrisons in Guangdong, Guizhou, and Yunnan, although the total number is quite large, but on the whole it shows that the defense is more than enough and the attack is insufficient.

If the Annan army invades the Ming Dynasty, with the border checkpoints, there are also Tusi departments.

After all, the border is full of Tusi, and it may not be feasible for him to follow Daming's orders to attack Annan.

So in the face of the crisis of Cham.

Where did Guo Deng want to transfer troops from?

First of all, one thing is certain, the only army that can be sent to occupy the city is the water division. Now it can be transferred, but what is the combat effectiveness of the Guangdong army, Guo Deng has no bottom in his heart.

Because in the last war, the Guangdong army was not on the main battlefield. Naturally, there is no good performance.

Guo Deng immediately ordered Dong Xing, the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, to immediately take a boat to support the city.

Of course, in addition to the garrisons stationed in various places, the Guangdong army only has more than 10,000 and less than 20,000 mobile troops.

Whether Dong Xing can turn the tide, Guo Deng doesn't know.

However, Guo Deng also made some moves on the frontal battlefield.

Guo Deng attacked three places in Gaoping, Lang Son and Lao Cai in separate ways.

These places, even if they are not easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there are also a large number of Annam troops hoarded. The army will not attack it unless it is doubled. Otherwise, there would be no progress today.

With the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is nothing more than a bluff.

But Guo Deng also had to have some results, he ordered Wang Yue to order a partial division to attack Annan Yong'an Prefecture.

As mentioned earlier, Yongan Prefecture is an enclave.

To be honest, no matter what, when he withdrew from Annam during the Xuande period, he was really a little embarrassed. Many places on the border are occupied by Annan.

At that time, the main reason was that I didn't want to fight with Annan, so I didn't care too much about these places.

After all, this small discrepancy is nothing compared to the general trend of the two countries. At this moment, the Ming army attacked Guang'an Prefecture by land and water.

An Nam Nguyen Chi, who presided over the northern defense line, was also very knowledgeable, and had no intention of throwing troops into the enclave of Quang An Prefecture. Almost as soon as the two sides fought, Ruan Chi knew that his headquarters could not defeat the Ming army.

Immediately there was a countermeasure.

It is a big retreat.

There are only a few thousand soldiers in Yong'an Prefecture, ready to go south by boat.

But at this time, the Guangdong sailor appeared.

Just southeast of Qinzhou, on the sea east of Annam Quang Ninh, the first Guangdong Naval Division and the Annam Naval Division escorting Yong'an Prefecture started a water battle.

This water battle was naturally a complete victory for the Ming army, and then Wang Yue advanced along the coastline by land and water, and invaded the territory of Annam, opening up another passage for the army.

It's just a pity that it's in the middle of a bitter battle.

On the whole, the strength of the Annan Navy Division was weaker than that of the Guangdong Navy, but on the large sea east of Annam Guangning, the Annan Navy Division was not weaker than the Ming Army's sailors.

Without him, the sea conditions here are complicated, and there are many large and small islands.

Not only here, starting from the coastline of the border between Daming and Annam, all the way to the mouth of the Red River, on the whole, the sea conditions are not very good.

The three battles of the Baiteng River in history were all won under such complex water conditions.

That's why, the Annamites didn't think about the Ming coming from the sea.

It is because the strength of the navy or naval division is certainly restricted by the level of hardware, such as ships, weapons, artillery, etc., and is also restricted by the level of software. The level of each sailor, whether they know the local water situation or not, etc.

It is true that the Annam naval division is inferior to the Ming Dynasty, but if the Ming Dynasty penetrates deep into the Red River in this sea area, the Vietnamese have every reason to believe that the victor will be theirs in the end.

Just like they relied on the advantage of hydrology to defeat the Southern Han Dynasty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty.

History tells them that the forces that have the power to destroy Annam come from land, not from the sea.

Moreover, there are all kinds of unimaginable difficulties in landing operations in this era, and even amphibious operations in later generations are also a difficult point.

Not to mention this era.

This is the self-confidence of the people of Annam, if the Ming Dynasty does not have a foothold on land, it must overcome Annan's tight defense line on the border, and through several gaps, it can attack Annam itself.

It's just that the times have changed, always quietly.

The previous experience is a magic weapon that can make people win, as if a single Baiteng River saved three Annan national fortunes.

But now, the development of many technologies has made many impossible things possible.

Marching from a place where it is impossible to march is a problem that Wang Yue has to consider now.

Of course, now is not the time for a decisive battle, Wang Yue still has time to think about this problem, but Zhancheng has no heart to think about this problem.

Because Li Sicheng has already come to the city.