Hanoi, on the city tower. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Hongying looked at the army of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam densely packed outside the city, and a sense of weakness swelled in his heart.

A few days ago, Zhu Hongying took advantage of the opportunity of Liu Changqing, the king of Dingnan, to lead his troops to Shandong Town, more than 100 miles northeast of Hebei, to build a new city, and expelled all of Liu Changqing's cronies who remained in Hanoi City from Hanoi City and occupied the entire Hanoi City. Just as he was happily trying to celebrate his monopoly on the city of Hanoi, his subordinates reported that it was the existing imperial court of the northern mother country, and that the Chinese Empire had sent 20,000 troops from Guangxi to attack Vietnam, and many towns and villages of himself and Liu Changqing were occupied by the other side.

Zhu Hongying was taken aback. He didn't expect that just when his power was greatly developing, the Taiping Holy Kingdom (he had always thought that the Taiping Holy Kingdom was still in the north) would attack him. When his own forces were still very weak, he didn't see any movement from the other party, could it be that he was harassed a few times ago and angered the other party?

Now, Zhu Hongying already knows that the other party is a behemoth, and it is far from something that his own people can defeat.

A few months ago, he and Liu Changqing thought that they also had tens of thousands of men, so they sent their cronies to lead an army of 5,000 people, divided into two ways to attack Zhen'an Mansion and Taiping Mansion in Guangxi, and the result was hateful, 3,000 troops attacked Guishun Tuzhou in Zhen'an Mansion, but they failed to take it, and were blocked by the garrison of 500 captives who guarded the city of Zhou, and dragged them under the city. His 3,000 troops fled back to Vietnam, and there were only more than 1,300 men left, more than half of which were lost.

On the other hand, Liu Changqing's 2,000 troops were also defeated, with 2,000 men and horses, and more than 1,500 people died in Zhennan Pass.

Zhu Hongying knew from this that the Taiping Holy Kingdom in the north was no longer something he could deal with at all. The opponent's muskets were so fierce that they were simply Yama's troops. From then on, he put out the idea of developing to the north, and concentrated on expanding to the south.

Sure enough, the army of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam in the south, the weapons and equipment are the same as theirs, they are all long knives and even bamboo poles, Zhu Hongying according to the purpose of the Heaven and Earth Society, issued a slogan, they Ming Dynasty to the people to divide the land, everyone has a field to plant, each has a land, this slogan came out, it actually attracted a large number of local villagers, especially the people of the Miao and Yao people, responded positively, and competed for the army.

Zhu Hongying not only occupied the area around Hanoi, but also sent troops south to occupy Mai Chau. With his great increase in power, he didn't take Liu Changqing, the king of Dingnan, seriously. So, Liu Changqing knew that he couldn't stay in Hanoi, so he led his main force to Shandong Town in the northeast to build a city. So, by the way, he occupied the whole of Hanoi.

Unexpectedly, after only a few days, the Taiping Holy Army in the north did not fight, but the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty army killed it. Not only did he recover the Maizhou that he had just occupied, but he also besieged the city with heavy troops and surrounded the city of Hanoi.

He really didn't expect that this Nguyen Dynasty, which had always been weak, would be able to mobilize an army of 40,000 and divide the city of Hanoi inside and outside three layers of the periphery. You must know that today's Vietnam, after continuous wars with Siam and Cambodia, has been seriously damaged, and the country's military strength is less than 100,000.

When did Hanoi become so important that this Nguyen Dynasty ignored it and attacked itself like a mad dog? Zhu Hongying was completely confused. Zhu Hongying knew that he couldn't last long. The city of Hanoi is already in jeopardy.

The Nguyen Dynasty army kept attacking despite the heavy casualties. After five days of siege, more than 10,000 people were killed under the city of Hanoi, and Zhu Hongying in the city also lost more than 4,000 people, leaving less than 5,000 people. But the defense was even more difficult, and Zhu Hongying, in desperation, forced all the more than 10,000 people in Hanoi to be sent to the city wall to help defend the city.

Both sides are completely life-for-life momentum. If it weren't for Zhu Hongying's strict supervision, the defenders would have abandoned the city and fled.

On this day, while Zhu Hongying was waiting in pain for the capture of Hanoi City, he suddenly heard fierce gunfire and shouts of killing from outside the Nguyen Dynasty army outside the city.

He used his clairvoyance to climb to the top of the city tower to take a look, and found that the Nguyen Dynasty army outside the city was already in chaos, and they turned around and fought fiercely with the army behind him. And the other party held high the familiar five-star banner with red background and yellow, which was the army from the north.

"I said why did the Ruan Dynasty army suddenly turn around, it turned out that the Taiping Holy Kingdom's captive army had come over!" Zhu Hongying became excited, and then worried: "The captive army is even more fierce, and Hanoi City is afraid that it will not be able to be saved." No, you have to find a chance to break through and escape early, it's better than waiting to be destroyed. ”

Zhu Hongying ordered a small number of his men who had been secretly abandoned to hold on to the city of Hanoi, and he personally led the main force towards the southwest corner of the city, where the troops were the weakest, and prepared to flee while the two sides besieging the city were fighting.

A few hours passed, and the noisy gunfire outside the city shook Zhu Hongying's ears and became deaf. It was as if he was in hell: outside the city, there were corpses everywhere. Even a person like him, who came from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach.

He had just seen with clairvoyance that the Nguyen Dynasty army, which was invincible in attacking Hanoi City, was already listless, and in front of the vigorous and tiger-like begging army, no, it should have not met at all, and they were still dozens of steps away, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Zhu Hongying mourned for the Nguyen Dynasty troops. In his opinion, they were like being ticked by Lord Yama, like dry wood, and they fell to the ground one after another. Suddenly, the Ruan Dynasty army, which was originally extremely powerful in front of him, collapsed one after another like a deflated balloon at this moment.

Zhu Hongying found that he still underestimated the combat power of the captive army from the north. Originally, he thought that the soldiers of the begging army stationed in those places of Zhennan Pass were already amazing, but after seeing the soldiers of the begging army who were slaughtering the army of the Ruan Dynasty outside the city, he realized that the begging army stationed in Zhennan Pass was just a miscellaneous army.

Suddenly, Zhu Hongying saw that the army of the Nguyen Dynasty, which had originally surrounded Hanoi City, did not know what had happened after converting a small half of the troops, and suddenly began to scatter and flee, and retreated to the south one after another.

Zhu Hongying saw that the time had come, and directly ordered to go out of the city, and took the opportunity to escape from the west city gate.

He led less than 3,000 people, fled for several days and nights, and finally arrived at the small city of Wan'an on the bank of the Heishui River, which had just been occupied.

At this time, the merchants who fled one after another and the deserters of the Ruan Dynasty brought news, and he knew that the old country in the north had all been unified by the original holy king Feng Yunshan, and a powerful Chinese empire had been established. The Ruan Dynasty originally sent envoys to the Chinese Empire, asking the empire to remain the suzerain, and to help send troops to exterminate itself and Liu Changqing. Unexpectedly, for some reason, he offended the Chinese Empire, and the emperor was furious, so he first sent two large armies to attack Yuebei from Zhennan Pass and the mouth of the Red River.

This was the previous scene, in which the Nguyen Dynasty army besieging Hanoi was killed by the two encircled captives. These are not counted, in addition to the 10,000 people who died in the attack on Hanoi, the Nguyen Dynasty army also had nearly 30,000 troops, and they could resist, but they did not expect that when they were fighting, an astonishing news came from the south: the two forces attacking Hanoi were partial divisions, and the main force of the captive army was 30,000 troops, and directly attacked the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam by sea, seizing the largest plain and cultivated area in Vietnam in one fell swoop, and in three days, the three southeastern provinces of the Nguyen Dynasty, Jia Ding, Dinh Huh, Bien Hoa and Kunlun Island, were all occupied.

When the Nguyen Dynasty army outside Hanoi heard that the nest had been attacked, the army's morale was turbulent, and it collapsed in an instant.

When Zhu Hongying heard this, he couldn't help but gasp! This captive army, this Chinese empire in the north, is also too ruthless! Perhaps, the previous Nguyen Dynasty army desperately attacked themselves at any cost, and it was also their conspiracy. When the Ruan Dynasty army and himself were defeated, they suddenly killed, and they could easily defeat the exhausted Ruan Dynasty army, and then this was not enough, and they also chose a good time to deliberately let the Ruan Dynasty receive the news that the south was occupied by it, causing chaos in the Ruan Dynasty. This scheming, this calculation, thinking about it, Zhu Hongying shuddered.

If there is regret medicine in his life, he will never want to be an enemy of such a demonic captive army in his life.

Come to think of it, it's better to run away further, and it's better never to come into contact with this captive army.

As a result, Zhu Hongying led the remaining more than 2,800 people to ransack Wan'an City, and coerced more than 1,000 elites to join the team, and simply fled towards the Nanzhang Kingdom Sangnu City further west.