"Whoa!"

The four treasures of the study rolled to the ground.

When the Tang newspaper of Le Phuc's defeat and death was reported back to the Prime Minister's Mansion in Hanoi, Zheng Nahu, who was pacing back and forth with his head bowed and his hands behind his back in the back hall of the inner courtyard, jumped like thunder.

Zheng Nahu has a long bronze face, a pair of slender eyes but bright eyes, a wisp of goat's beard floating on his pointed chin, he is thin but very tall, don't look at him is over the old, but he is full of energy when he speaks, and his voice is as deafening as Hong Zhong.

"Rubbish! Idiot! ……”

Zheng Nahu's eyes widened with rage, his eyebrows were raised, and a piercing sound erupted from his mouth, and he roared in anger, and the roar spread throughout the inner courtyard like heavy thunder.

When he heard that Haiphong was occupied by bandits, Zheng Nahu did not listen to Emperor Li Weizhen's advice and insisted on sending Li Fu to lead the Janissaries to the expedition, with the intention of letting Li Fu earn some military merits.

With so many people going out to encircle and suppress hundreds of bandits, even Zheng Nahu himself was a little embarrassed, obviously killing chickens with a knife!

Zheng Nahu waited for good news in Tokyo every day, but he never expected that what he was waiting for was a thunderbolt on a sunny day!

Li Phuoc's army of more than 10,000 was not only defeated, but also defeated! Only more than 2,000 people fled back to Hanoi and Hai Duong one after another, and the highest official position was only one hundred households named Zheng Lianhuan, and none of the other officers survived.

After calming down, Zheng Nahu personally went to meet the dejected Baihu and asked him about the battle. It's a pity that Zheng Lianhuan only participated in the naval battle, and did not participate in the main battle, under repeated torture, Zheng Lianhuan just repeated that he led the team to fight bravely, but the enemy's artillery was fierce, and the fire guns were extremely far and accurate, and they could not break through the enemy formation at all.

Although he knew that the petty officer must not have told the truth, Zheng Nahu was still shocked.

After the torturers of the other defeated soldiers reported the situation of the land battle, Zheng Nahu almost collapsed in his heart, and sat down in his chair without saying a word for a long time.

Who is this unknown bandit? They all use firearms, and there are bursting firearms?

The next day, when he entered the palace and went to court, the emperor Li Weizhen, who had always been weak, was unusual, and strongly asked Zheng Nahu to transfer troops to the king on the spot, actively prepare for war, and counterattack coastal defense.

Zheng Nahu looked at Li Weizhen suspiciously, he didn't approve of sending troops a few days ago, why did the Praetorian Guards become active after losing the battle?

This is not scientific!

Although Zheng Nahu's ascension to the court was just a formality, and the emperor's words could not be listened to at all, in front of many ministers, Zheng Nahu also had to give some face and pretend to be loyal and patriotic.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the rebellious ministers and thieves in the south are the henchmen of our dynasty. Although the bandits in Haiphong are fierce, they are still just a disease of scabies, and now that our forbidden army has been newly defeated, the old minister thinks that he might as well take a strategy of appeasement to quell the rebellion, and those bandits, or the pirates, will escape if they get some money and food. ”

Zheng Nahu could no longer send the Praetorian Guards, which were his guards to guard the imperial city and prevent the Li and his ministers from rebelling.

His idea is to fight if he can fight, and appease if he can't fight, which is the conventional way of thinking about dealing with Haikou.

Now that the Praetorian Guards haven't won, let's give some blood to appease, maybe those people will take some money and food and leave, so there is no need to fight hard.

"Fussing? Aiqing thinks it's better to take out how much food to go to appease? Could it be that Aiqing thinks that the rebellious people and thieves must be appeased, so where is the majesty of my court? Li Weizhen did not give up and screamed.

"Although the rebellion in Haiphong is small, it is too close to the imperial city, and the initial defeat of the forbidden army has affected stability, can it still be regarded as a trivial matter?"

"But the forbidden army has been newly defeated, and now there are no strong troops around the imperial city, and the border soldiers cannot be moved lightly. The old minister thought that it was not appropriate to start the war lightly, and hoped that His Majesty would think twice. ”

Although Zheng Nahu's words were respectful, he was very disdainful in his heart.

The Praetorian Guards have all been defeated and returned, how can there be a decent army nearby, if you have the ability, you will drive the expedition yourself!

"Then transfer Zheng Ke. 100,000 border soldiers, 120,000 will not affect the overall situation, right? ”

Li Weizhen said undoubtedly, there was one sentence he couldn't bear to say: The Praetorian Guard was defeated, is that your Li Fu incompetent?

"Transferring some more local garrisons must be enough to destroy this bandit, protect my people, and strengthen my heavenly might."

"Your Majesty, Zheng Ke must not be moved! If the south takes advantage of the chaos to make a big mistake, the situation will be out of control. Zheng Nahu was shocked when he heard this! He looked up and glanced at Li Weizhen fiercely.

The shaft knows a fart!

The long border defense line between the North and the South has been painstakingly operated by Zheng Nahu for many years, and it has been all thanks to Zheng Ke and these 100,000 people to maintain a balance of power with the Ruan clan in the south for so many years. Once the south finds out that this side has sucked people away, then you, the emperor, will be done, and everyone will be finished!

"Then let Zheng Ke fight quickly! If this bandit is not destroyed, sooner or later it will be a problem to raise tigers, and if there is an emergency on both sides at that time, won't the situation be even worse? ”

For so many years, Li Weizhen, the emperor, has been too aggrieved, and he is determined to be the master himself even if he offends the Zheng family in death this time.

He even felt that even if he was destroyed by the Southern Dynasty because of this, it was not necessarily a bad thing, but the Southern Dynasty was only against the Zheng family, and nominally respected his Li family, maybe life would be better by then!

The two of them quarreled with each other, and the conversation collapsed!

Seeing that the emperor was so tough, the ministers were not willing to be lonely and jumped out to echo it...... Zheng Nahu dominates the dynasty, and many people are not used to it.

“…… The old minister obeys the order! ”

Zheng Nahu was upset, so he simply didn't want to be long-winded.

Let's fight, it's a big deal!

Zheng Nahu sighed.

……

At that moment, Zheng Nahu urgently transferred another confidant general, Zheng Ke, the general of Zhennan, to lead his troops to Haiyang to organize the army to prepare for the second encirclement and suppression.

Zheng Ke was not in Tokyo at ordinary times, and had been leading troops to guard the border of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, monitoring the movements of the Southern Korean army.

This time, Zheng Nahu couldn't care so much, Li Fudu, who was also good at fighting, died in a battle, and sending others to deliver food was not even better.

After the order to transfer troops was issued, Zheng Nahu has been unsettled for several days, locking himself in the back hall all day long, pacing back and forth.

At present, various local garrisons have been marching towards Hai Duong one after another, and only more than 10,000 Janissaries are left in Tokyo. The Praetorian Guard was originally all under the command of Li Fu, and there were originally more than 20,000 people, but now half of them were left by Zheng Nahu to defend the city in Tokyo.

However, this half of the Praetorian Guard had several arquebus units, and there were dozens of various artillery pieces on the city walls.

Although Zheng Nahu is not confident that these firearms will be used to defend the capital, he expects that the bandits will not directly attack Tokyo, and Haiyang is blocked by Zheng Ke.

Now, everything that needs to be done has been done, and all that remains is to sit back and wait for Zheng Ke's good news.

I hope it's good news! If you lose again, then ...... Thinking of this, Zheng Nahu couldn't help but gasp.

……

Just when Zheng Nahu was suffering from gains and losses in the Prime Minister's Mansion, the news came!

But it's not good news, it's an alarm - the bandits are coming to the door!