Thanh Hoa is located at the confluence of the Ma River and the Zhu River, and the estuary after the confluence of these two rivers is the mouth of the sea, which is only 20 miles away from Thanh Hoa City. [← 8 [← 8 [← read [← book, .2↘

The 100,000-strong army of Gao Pragmatic had already reached the Majiang line, and the main force of Zheng Rebellion of the Li Dynasty not only directly abandoned Ninh Binh, but also retreated all the way across the Majiang River and began to establish a defensive line along the river to defend Thanh Hoa.

It was impossible for an army of 100,000 to be concentrated together, so when he was heading south, Gao Shishi sent Cen Ling's troops alone to the direction of rejuvenation in the upper reaches of the Ma River, west of Henan, to cut off the connection between Thanh Hoa and the area north of this line.

After attacking a round of Qinghua, Ruan Ti really didn't dare to stay under Qinghua City for long, he knew that Zheng Song must be going back to help, so after a wave of Qinghua, he immediately turned around and left, and also retreated to rejuvenation.

Ruan Ti received an order to make him the new deputy general of the Right Route Army of the Southern Expeditionary Army, assist the commander of the Right Route Army, Cen Ling, and obey the latter's command, but Gao Shishi also gave him the right to report alone.

Ruan Ti only has 15,000 people, although he fought Thanh Hoa with one blow and left, he still lost more than 1,000, plus other losses on the road, now he only has 13,000 people in his hands, and in front of Cen Ling, who has nearly 30,000 troops, he is not aggrieved to be a deputy general.

Besides, what if you don't accept it? His home is in Thang Long, and all the people in his family are in Thang Long City, and now they are all hostages in the hands of Gao Shishi, can they still zào fǎn?

What's more, zào fǎn is not something that can be done with this little soldier and horse in his hand, it is better to continue to be a loyal minister, no matter whose Annan is in the end, he feels that in the name of his good war, he should not lose his job.

To be able to surrender to sincerity, now it is a blessing, I don't believe you look at Li Shun, Zheng Shun, after returning to Thanh Hoa, he immediately sent people to the direction of Shenglong, hoping to see Guangxi Patrol Yu Shi Gao Gong, the purpose is also very clear, that is, to admit it......

However, Gao Zhitai ignored it at all, and directly treated him as a traitor, and without receiving Zheng Song's envoy, he sent someone to let the messenger go back to pass the word: either tie his hands and personally come to Shenglong to ask for guilt, and everything will be resolved; Either wash your neck and wait for the coalition army to cut off the head of Yanjing.

Zheng Song has no way to retreat - Mo Maoqia was able to surrender because his ancestors surrendered, and he was originally the commander of the capital of Annan, but what is Zheng Song? Da Ming does not recognize any of his status, if there is, it is a traitor. [← 8 [← 8 [← read [← book, .2↘

There is only one way for a traitor to die.

So Zheng Song could only give up his illusions and prepare for war.

But the situation is completely reversed now compared to a month ago.

The enemy army he faced was even more powerful than before: Gao Shishi's headquarters currently had both land and water armies, including 5,000 Gao Jiading on the army side, 50,000 wolf soldiers in Guangxi, 30,000 Annan servant troops reorganized from the original Mo Yulin Department and Thang Long Defenders, 30,000 Annan servant troops from the original Mo Dun Rang Department and the current Mo Yulin Ministry, and 15,000 from Ruan Ti (2,000 people reorganized by Cen Ling and Thang Long}, a total of 130,000 troops.

In terms of the navy, it is composed of the Jinghua Fleet and the Mo Dynasty Naval Division, with more than 300 large and small ships {many small ships of the Mo Dynasty are excluded and only incorporated into slightly larger warships}, and there are nearly 20,000 people {There are few ships but many people on the Mo Dynasty side, and some of them belong to the nature of the "Marine Corps", which is different from the Jinghua Fleet. }

In other words, Zheng Song now has to face a siege of 150,000 troops.

The situation was already very bad, and something worse happened - Nguyen Huang, who had been driven to Hue further south by his father Zheng Jian, suddenly withdrew the Hue army that had been sent to Zheng Song to help him fight, obviously not optimistic about Zheng Song.

This Ruan Huang wants to introduce that he is the second son of Ruan Gan, and Ruan Gan is the powerful minister who escaped from Thang Long after Mo Dengyong's usurpation, found a descendant of the Li clan and assisted him in establishing the Later Li Dynasty.

In the twentieth year of Jiajing, Ruan Gan was poisoned to death by the generals of the Mo army in the camp. After that, the real power of the Li Dynasty court fell into the hands of Ruan Gan's son-in-law Zheng Zhen, and everything could be adjudicated cheaply and then played.

After Zheng was inspected, Le Chuang Zong entered Thanh Hoa. Since then, the Li Dynasty has been confronting the north and south of the Mo Dynasty for decades with the Qinghua stronghold. Zheng Zhen coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and was nominally the right minister of the Li Dynasty, but the Li Dynasty court was actually the Zheng family's bag.

Ruan Gan's two sons, Ruan Wang and Ruan Huang, are also quite martial arts and are jealous of Zheng Zhen. Ruan Wang's official position was on the left, and he was suppressed and ostracized by Zheng Zhan, and was finally killed. Ruan Huang was in a panic all day, and decided to retire due to illness to eliminate Zheng Jian's vigilance, and at the same time sent someone to ask Ruan Bingqian, who told him: "In the Hengshan area, all generations can be accommodated." ”

The so-called Heng Son refers to the Hue and Quang Nam regions, which were the southernmost part of the Annam border at this time, but it only extended to the central part of the territory of Vietnam in later generations. It is densely forested, with long mountains running through the territory, crisscrossed by rivers and valleys, and fertile plains between mountains and the ocean.

Ruan Huang's Ruan Bingqian's plan was intended to break away from Zheng Jian's clamp and regard the south of Hengshan as a new world. Through his sister Nguyen Ngoc Bao, he asked his brother-in-law Zheng Jian to allow him to leave the town of Hue.

At that time, Hue and Quang Nam had just experienced war, and the situation was not clear, and Zheng Jian's power was beyond the reach of the whip, and many locals even crossed the sea to the north to run to the Mo Dynasty. It was Zheng Jian who felt that he could throw this hot potato to Ruan Huang.

So Zheng Jian said to Emperor Li Yingzong: Hue must be guarded by good generals, and it is advisable to use Nguyen Huang to guard Hue, and Quang Nam is a horn for each other. Yingzong is just a puppet, so he naturally allows him to ask.

In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Nguyen Huang went out of Hue. In the first year of Longqing, Zheng Jian recalled the general army of Guangnan and ordered Ruan Huang to lead Guangnan and hand over 400 catties of silver and 500 horses of silk as tribute every year.

This was Zheng Jian's mistake of letting the tiger return to the mountain, which allowed Ruan Huang to stay away from the front line of the war between the North and the South.

Nguyen Huang relied on immigrants and prisoners from the north to develop Quang Nam and Hue, and in just over ten years, the area around Thuan and Quang became a place where "the city has no two prices, people are not thieves, and merchants from all countries gather".

Although the Mo Dynasty attacked Hue in the fifth year of Long Khanh, and bandits appeared in various parts of Thuan Quang from time to time, Nguyen Huang successfully defeated or repelled them, making the southern region a relatively stable rear. In contrast, in the north, plagues and wars continued, refugees from the north continued to pour into the south, and the capital of Nguyen Huang's independent secession was constantly enriched.

After Zheng Song became the second-generation leader of the Zheng family, although he knew that Ruan Huang was intent on separating the south, because the Mo family was still there, he couldn't help him, and just tried to maintain deterrence.

And Ruan Huang is also a very tolerant person, at least in the eyes of outsiders, he behaves very deferentially, not only handing over the silver and silk as usual, but also always sending a team of soldiers and horses to fight with Zheng Song.

And now, Ruan Huang suddenly withdrew this army of about 10,000 people, and his intention was naturally clear.

In fact, Ruan Huang's move was not just that he saw the wind and steered, but Gao Pragmatic sent him two letters.

One letter was written by Gao Shishi himself, clearly telling him that the Ming Dynasty could not tolerate Annan's constant separatist situation, and he had found out that the assassination of himself and the Tusi of Guangxi was not the mastermind of the Mo family, but someone sent by Zheng Song. For this kind of death move of Tai Sui's head, he is pragmatic and "bound to be punished", and hopes that Ruan Huang will not make mistakes.

The other is Nguyen Binglian's own handwriting, in which he carefully analyzed the situation for Ruan Huang, and determined that the battle of Annam was bound to be unified, and the Southern Dynasty had no life because of the offense against the Ming Dynasty.

Gao Pragmatic's threat is not a joke, Ruan Binglian's analysis is something that Ruan Huang definitely doesn't dare to believe, so he can only reluctantly give up the secession of one side, and even accumulate strength for the future.

It's just that he is still a little hesitant about surrendering immediately.

Or is there a bit of a fluke mentality - what if Gao pragmatic fails? What if after the defeat, Da Ming felt that it was not cost-effective to fight Annan and retracted again?

Therefore, it is not impossible to surrender to Cheng, but Ruan Huang still decided to take another look, at least, after the battle of Thanh Hoa is over.

Ruan Huang's 10,000 men and horses withdrew, and Zheng Song did not dare to stop it at this time, or he had no strength to stop it, so he could only watch as his army of 80,000 turned into 70,000, which was less than half of the "150,000" army mobilized by Gao Shishi in this battle.

In February, 100,000, the main force of Gao Shishi's headquarters arrived at Dong Phong in the north of Thanh Hoa City and on the other side of the Ma River, with more than 80,000 troops {leaving some wolf soldiers to garrison Thang Long City}, while his naval division was stationed in a bay only ten miles east of Dongfeng City, and could be dispatched at any time to launch an attack on Thanh Hoa, 20 miles east of the Ma River Estuary.

The Cen Ling and Nguyen Ti troops set out from Hui Chun, taking Zhengcun, Ngoc Le, and Neutral along the way, and arriving twenty-five miles northwest of Thanh Hoa.

Thanh Hoa City is about to be surrounded by three roads, and there is only one way to survive in the south.

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