Probably because He Rong's defeat was too painful, in just two days, the soldiers who delivered the message returned to Haikang Port in a small boat. When I arrived at Haikang Port, I rushed to the place where Yun Xi was. Two days later, on November 19, Yun Xi, who was patrolling the area of Leizhou Bay, received a report from He Rong.

Yun Xi was talking to Zhu Lu, Zhu Mo, Cao Xing and others about the location of this bay. Zhu Lu sat on the boat, looked at the sea water in front of him, and said: "Official, in my opinion, although the port of Leizhou Bay is good, there are still shortcomings. ”

"What's lacking?" Yun Xi smiled.

"Official, how windy is it in the South Sea, Leizhou Bay faces the ocean, it is okay in winter, but it is difficult for ships to anchor as long as it is windy in summer. I think the Suixi port in the north is good, Suixi is deep inland, and there are two islands in the south to block the typhoon, which should be the best port in the whole Leizhou capital. Zhu Lu said.

"Then I will order the expansion of the port in Suixi to make it one of the home ports of the Nanyang Naval Division." Yun Xi said.

"Official, there are too many ports of the Nanyang Naval Division, Guangzhou Port, Hong Kong, Haikou Port, Chaoyang Port, Haikang Port, Longmen Port and other ten ports are all ports of the Nanyang Naval Division, and the whole army is too scattered." Zhu Mo said.

"It's not much at all," Yun Xi said with a smile: "When Annan is conquered, many ports in Annan will also become the ports of the Ming Nanyang Naval Division." ”

"Speaking of Annan, He Rong should have landed in Annan, and I don't know what the results of the battle were." Cao Xing said.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to defeat any of the cities. The Annan people laid wooden stakes in the south of the Red River, and the big ships with more than 100 materials could not get close to the coast at all, and the siege equipment in He Rong's hand could not be transported to the shore at all, if he did not use the siege equipment and his shirtless siege soldiers, the casualties of the siege soldiers would be very large, He Rong would not do such a thing. Now he had probably taken a port and was clearing the stakes laid by the Annamites so that the ships could anchor. Zhu Lu said with a smile.

"Fortunately, it's winter, and there isn't much wind in the South Seas, so if it's summer, I'm afraid it's dangerous for the fleet to stop at sea." Zhu Mo also smiled.

Yun Xi also smiled, and was about to speak, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a soldier wearing a herald costume beside him, taking out a token and talking to one of his guards, Feng Xishan.

Feng Xishan looked at his token carefully, took him to Yun Xi, and said, "Your Majesty, General He has something to report to Your Majesty." ”

Yun Xi suddenly felt a palpitation. Although he didn't see the content of the recital, his intuition told him that the content of the recital was not good.

Not only him, but Zhu Lu and Zhu Mo also felt bad for a moment: He Rong should still be cleaning the wooden stakes laid by the Annan people at this time, and there is no need to give His Majesty a fold, and the time for routine reporting has not arrived. At such a time, it is possible to report only two things: an unexpected victory, and an unexpected defeat. For some reason, they all felt that it was more likely to be an unexpected defeat.

Yun Xi took the fold from the herald's hand, tore open the seal, took out the fold and looked at it.

After just a glance, Yun Xi's face turned pale, and he immediately shouted: "He Rong, I want to put you in prison!" ”

"Your Majesty, did He Rong lose?" Zhu Lu asked boldly.

"Not only did I lose, but I lost badly!" Yun Xi finished reading the recital and said: "More than 50,000 troops were sent to land near the city of Annan and were ambushed by the Annanes, and 40,000 soldiers were lost. ”

He didn't expect that He Rong would have such a fiasco!

The army fought in all directions, and it was normal to lose the battle, Yun Xi never asked the Ming army not to defeat the battle, but He Rong lost too badly! More than 50,000 people lost 40,000 soldiers, and even if the elimination of Annan soldiers was exaggerated, it would not exceed 8,000 at most. A casualty ratio of one to six.

Yun Xi didn't care about the damage of the barbarian soldiers, although the imperial court wanted to give them a lot of money as a pension, but Yun Xi was more willing to give them a pension than to lose the same Han army.

But this battle was lost too badly. The loss of troops is still secondary, the key is that after this great victory, the fear of the Ming soldiers in their hearts will disappear without a trace, and the people who are weak in the face of the Ming army and defect to the Ming will be greatly reduced, and this battle is bound to be more difficult to fight.

And this battle was a fiasco caused by He Rong's negligence, and Yun Xi definitely couldn't spare him.

"Decree, ordering the entire army of the Left Army of the Annan Expeditionary Army to return to Haikang Port for rest, revoke He Rong's post as deputy general, abolish his title of Marquis of Palembang, abolish his son's hereditary future, abolish his position as a lecturer in the Royal Academy and Lecture Hall, and return to the capital after the army returns to Haikang Port, and must not stay." Yun Xi immediately punished He Rong.

"Your Majesty think twice!" Cao Xing hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Your Majesty, now that the left army is in the midst of defeat, I am afraid that the whole army is panicked, if He Rong's position as deputy general is removed at this time and someone else is appointed as the deputy general, I am afraid that the army's morale will be even more unstable!" ”

"What about the unstable morale of the army? I didn't let them stay in the waters off Annam to fight the Annamite people? The whole army withdrew to Haikang, and there was time to pacify the soldiers. Yun Xi snorted coldly and said.

"Your Majesty," Zhu Lu also persuaded: "In this way, the army in Haikang said that it would be a month's rest, by then it is estimated that the Annamite people have been defeated and fled south, if there is no army to land south of Thanh Hoa, the Hu family father and son are likely to successfully escape to Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and other places in the south, when the time comes, where will the army go to suppress bandits, I am afraid that the war will be prolonged." ”

"Your Majesty should abolish his hereditary title as a punishment, and abolish his duty as a lecturer, but it is better to allow him to continue to command the army on the coast of Annam. He Rong is also a battle-hardened person and will not make the same mistakes. ”

Yun Xi listened to their words and hesitated slightly, so he didn't give an order immediately.

When it was late that day, He Rong's follow-up recitals came one after another, and everyone persuaded Yun Xi not to remove He Rong from his post as deputy general on the grounds that the defeat in this battle was not all He Rong's fault, and let him make meritorious contributions.

Even Chen Ji, who came with him, wanted to Yun Xi and said: "Your Majesty, although the minister is a civil minister, he also knows that it is not good to change the generals in battle, although the Marquis of Palembang made a big mistake, Your Majesty still allows him to make meritorious contributions." ”

Of course, Chen Ji immediately impeached Jinyiwei. As a civilian official, he was naturally dissatisfied with a spy agency like Jinyiwei, and he finally caught the big mistake they made, so he naturally couldn't let it go.

Yun Xi perfunctory the matter about Jinyiwei, and finally decided to give He Rong another chance: "I will give He Rong another chance." ”