The commander of the Annan Navy Division was Li Zhu, the minister of the Zheng family, who had been ordered to envoy to the Ming Dynasty in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and was very familiar with the domestic situation of the Ming Dynasty, and was the famous "Zhiming faction" of the Zheng regime. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but it is the knowledge that Li Zhu is anti-Ming. As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Hongguang regime, Li Zhu told Zheng Jie, the father of Zheng Zheng, that the Ming Dynasty had lost the state of Zheng, and China would be occupied by the Manchu Qing in the north, and that Annan should be friendly with the Ming Dynasty, so as not to be hated by the Qing Dynasty in the future. In addition, Li Zhu gathered a group of Confucian scholars, and preached in the country that the Ming dynasty was dead, and now China is in Annam, so that the Annam scholars often call themselves "Little China", it seems that from now on, Annam is where the Chinese orthodoxy lies, and the original suzerainty in the north is Hulu barbarian.

However, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty had entered the Central Plains at that time, the Ming Dynasty still possessed half of the southern part of the country, so Zheng Jie's move was undecided, both wanted to make friends with the Qing Dynasty, and was afraid that this move would offend the Ming Dynasty, which still had half of the country, after all, compared with the Qing Dynasty in the north, the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were close at hand, and there was still the Ruan lord regime in the south and his enemy, in case the Ming Dynasty sent troops to fight, the Ruan clan in the south would fall into the ground, and then there was the Mo clan that Gaoping had always been friendly with the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Jian was afraid that it would be difficult to resist, and the Qing Dynasty was far away from the water and could not save the fire. Therefore, after repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, Li Zhu's opinion was not accepted, and he still sent a delegation to the Ming Dynasty headed by the chief envoy Ruan Renzheng and the deputy envoy Fan Yongjin, and sailed to Fujian with the Ming Dynasty Governor Lin Shen to seek the title of the Longwu regime.

At that time, the Qing troops captured Fujian, but the Annam mission that arrived in Fujian failed to meet Emperor Longwu, and the deputy envoy Fan Yongjin and others were captured by the Qing army to Beijing, and Ruan Renzheng was forced to return to Annam. After the establishment of the Yongli regime, Nguyen Nhon Thanh went to Guangxi again to meet the newly enthroned Yongli Emperor. In the eighth year of Yongli, Yongli canonized Zheng Jie as the vice king of Annam.

In the seventh year of Yongli, Zheng Jie died of illness and was succeeded by his son Zheng Zheng, and after repelling the southern Ruan army, Zheng Zheng accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty on the one hand, but on the other hand, with the help of Li Zhu and Fan Yongjin who returned from Beijing, he began to establish a suzerain-vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty. With the continuous victories of the Qing Dynasty in the wars of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in order to gain the recognition of the Qing Dynasty, some radical pro-Qing factions in Annam, such as Ding Wenzuo, the northern town guard, and others were even ready to assist the Qing army in encircling and suppressing the Ming army on the border.

The sudden appearance of the Ming army sailor on the sea, and the two battles hit the Annan sailor, which made Li Zhu very inexplicable, and he didn't understand where this Ming army sailor came from. As far as he knew, Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty had long been occupied by the Qing army, and now there were two Han vassal kings canonized by the Qing court to rule, and the Ming army only had a small number of soldiers and horses operating in Guangdong, and it was difficult to protect itself under the heavy pressure of the Qing army.

What makes Li Zhu even more confused is that this Ming army naval division is not only extremely large, far exceeding the Annan naval division under his command, and so far the other party has not sent anyone to make any demands to the Annan side, not even accusations, just crossing the sea and fighting when they see it, quite like a market ranger who starts fighting without saying a word, which is completely inconsistent with the rules of war between the two countries. faintly felt that the Ming army's sailors were likely to be related to the Ming Dynasty princesses and envoys who were detained in Jianghe Mansion, so Li Zhu did not dare to be careless, and ordered all the sailors to shrink back to Anyang Water Village, and not to go to sea to confront the Ming army's sailors, so as not to suffer further losses; On the one hand, he sent someone to Thang Long Mansion to report the news.

When Zheng Zheng, the vice king of Thang Long, heard that there was a police at sea, he immediately ordered the coastal provinces to strengthen their coastal defenses to prevent the Ming army from going ashore to attack, and sent Fan Yongjin to negotiate with the Ming army's sailors to see what they wanted to do. At the same time, Zheng Zheng ordered the generals Zheng Gen, Huang Yijiao, and Pan Jian Quan, who were confronting the Nguyen army in Lan Jiang, to strengthen their defenses, in case Nguyen Phuc in the south would take advantage of the Ming army's invasion of the north and was ready to move.

Not long after, the Lang Son town guard sent a message that the Ming army had not been seen attacking the border. This news made Zheng Zheng breathe a sigh of relief, he was not afraid of the sailor alone. It was the Ming Dynasty that really wanted to overthrow his Zheng regime, how could he succeed with only the sailors. If the sailors can't beat him, they won't fight him, and they will ask the coastal provinces to set up more coastal defenses, so it is difficult for the sailors of the Ming army to land and invade Thang Long Mansion.

When Fan Yongjin was still on the road, he didn't know that his negotiator had set his sights on Anyang Water Village, and made up his mind to annihilate the main force of Annan Water Division in one fell swoop.

Anyang Water Village is the largest port base of the Annam Naval Division, located in Nanning Province, which is less than 200 miles away from Thanh Hoa, and only 400 miles away from Thang Long Province. The main force of the Annan Naval Division was anchored in the Anyang Water Village, with more than 80 large and small warships, and nearly 10,000 officers and men of the Naval Division and the artillery batteries on both sides of the Water Village.

Le Zhu had already rushed from Thanh Hoa to Anyang Shuizhai to sit in the town, and upon his arrival he issued a strict decree prohibiting any ship from going to sea except for the sentry boats, not even fishing boats. This move made some of the young and strong generals of the Annan Naval Division quite dissatisfied, believing that avoiding the war would damage the national dignity. However, Li Zhu was an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and he was deeply trusted by Lord Zheng, and the main battle generals were dissatisfied with his behavior of avoiding war, and they did not dare to disobey the order.

"Naval warfare, whether it can be avoided, should be based on the slow speed of the ship, the speed is fast, the victory is easy to chase, defeat is also easy to avoid, if the speed is disparity, then the blunt judgment, so the sea confrontation, I am afraid not to win."

Li Zhu proposed to Zheng Zheng the strategy of "protecting the ship and controlling the enemy", he believed that the number of ships of the Annan naval division was not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, and the ships were not as strong as the Ming Dynasty, and if he ventured to the sea to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, it would be difficult to win. But if it is to avoid the war, there is an Anyang water village, which is a containment of the Ming army's water division, such as a tiger in the mountains, insufficient attackers, and more than enough self-defense. The Ming army crossed the sea to attack, and the supply of baggage and heavy supplies was small, and it could not last.

Zheng Zheng sent an envoy to Anyang Shuizhai to agree to Li Zhu's method of "protecting the ship and controlling the enemy", and ordered Fan Yongjin to get in touch with the Ming army to find out what the other party was trying to do.

Zheng Zheng's views coincide with Li Zhu's, and they both believe that the Ming army's attack this time is just a simple sailor, and without an army, the foundation of the Zheng family will not be damaged. And the sailors can't last, they can't fight, they can't talk about it, and the Ming army will eventually have to retreat.

It is not that no one among the Zheng officials mentioned returning the Ming princesses and courtiers to the Ming army in order to seek the understanding of the Ming Dynasty. The spies sent to Yunnan found it clear that the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had abandoned the country and fled to Burma, and the Ming Dynasty was already dead, so there was no need to pay attention to the remnants of the Ming Dynasty. And Gaoping's Mo Shi was silent about the Ming army's attack, but this attitude gave Zheng Zheng a misjudgment, firmly believing that the Ming Dynasty was really dead, otherwise why would the Mo family, who had always had a close relationship with the Ming Dynasty, be indifferent. (To be continued.) )