April 20, 1850.

Outside the city of Nanding.

In the wasteland that is only ten miles away from Xingdaowang Temple, the flags are waving, and the boundless people and horses under its banner seem to be magnificent, but they can be chaotic and noisy, the noisy voices, and the complicated uniforms and ordnance make these people look more like ordinary people gathered together, rather than soldiers.

"The emperor of Beikou has been killed, and the dragons of Beikou are leaderless, not our opponent!"

"How many of us can trample all the Beikou to death with our feet!"

"Lord Ruan Zhifang Ruan is really a genius, he used a trick to get rid of the emperor of Beikou and saved our Da Nan, what a god!"

"Not only did it save our Danan, maybe it could also break into Beikou's territory and fight all the way to Guangzhou! I heard that there are many good things in the city of Guangzhou, silk, cotton, rice, porcelain and silver, everything, if you beat it, you will get rich! ”

Peasants from Beiqi and Zhongqi, strange soldiers, and Jing soldiers, who were considered elite in Vietnam, gathered in groups to listen to their respective leaders cheer up.

"Go to Guangzhou and eat rice!"

"Destroy the North Kou! Bao Danan! ”

This cobbled together army of Nguyen Chi Phuong brought together the Vietnamese gentry from all over Beiqi and Central Ki and the Vietnamese regular army of 50,000 or 60,000 people, but there was really not much difference between the two. They all formed a team, and they gathered together in a mess. The weapons are similar, and most of the weapons of the people are shuttle darts and firewood knives. The weapons of the Vietnamese regular army are mainly cold weapons, with only a small number of bird guns and foreign guns, and some "Shenwei guns" with small calibers. Anyone who saw this scene probably wouldn't believe it, fifty years ago. The country used to be helped by the French. It was the first of all East Asian countries to start the "Westernization Movement". It once formed more than 50,000 people. Equipped with foreign guns and cannons, wearing Western-style military uniforms, and using a new army trained in Western France!

On the opposite side of the place where the "Southern Army" was incalculably numerous, the Ming army of about 20,000 men had also lined up in a neat formation like a knife and an axe, and on the watchtower temporarily erected behind the Ming army's front, Zhu Jishi was watching the battle side by side with the French ambassador Bourblon, the Duke of Siamese Pakon and the military advisor Luo Zenan. Probably seeing too many enemies, Duke Pacan's face was a little ugly, and he closed his lips tightly and said nothing. Bourblon had a contemptuous expression. It doesn't take seriously the sea of people, which may exceed 200,000 or more. But Emperor Zhu was very emotional.

"Mr. Ambassador, are you really sure that the Vietnamese had a Western-style army of tens of thousands 60 years ago?"

Hearing Zhu Jishi's question, Bourblon snorted: "Not only the Western-style army, they had a Western-style navy composed of 2 fourth-class warships and 15 frigates as early as 1792, which were also trained by French officers. At that time, the strength of the army and navy of the Nguyen Dynasty was absolutely second to none in East Asia, even stronger than the Manchu Qing Dynasty! ”

Burbulon spoke in Chinese, so Luo Zenan could also understand it, and he sighed and said to Zhu Jishi: "Emperor, what Mr. Ambassador said is true, and the minister has recently collected a lot of historical materials of Vietnam. Only then did I know that the road was broken by the Ruan Dynasty 50 years ago, and the military strength of the Xishan Dynasty was not weak. In the second year after the Nguyen Dynasty recaptured Gia Dinh (the predecessor of the Nguyen Dynasty was Quang Nam with Gia Dinh as its capital), the Tay Son Emperor Nguyen Hue also defeated the Qing troops commanded by Sun Shiyi, the governor of Liangguang, in Hanoi. Later, he also plotted to attack the land of Liangguang, with strong troops, and openly asked the Manchus for peace and pro-claim Liangguang. Such a powerful country was destroyed by the Nguyen Dynasty 10 years later, and the royal family was captured to Hue and executed by Nguyen Phuc Anh Ling Chi. ”

Zhu Jishi sighed: "I already know that Emperor Lu Dao Side is not the king of the dead country, and the ministers of the Ruan Dynasty are not the ministers of the dead country, but the Ruan Dynasty cannot escape the scourge of the extinction of the country!" Its demise and extinction did not begin today, but began with Nguyen Phuc Anh! I think the history of the rise and fall of the Nguyen Dynasty should be taken as a warning! Strategist, after the city of Hue is broken, you can go and gather some Chinese Confucian students in Vietnam to compile a "History of the National History of Vietnam", and after it is published, all the Ming officials will distribute a copy, so that they can know why Vietnam died! ”

"The minister understands what the emperor means." Luo Zenan paused for a moment, and said to Zhu Jishi seriously: "Your Majesty, the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty is all under His Majesty's body, and His Majesty should be serious, and he must not take any more risks." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded: "The next time I fight with the Russians, I won't be on the front line again...... But should the military advisor also know what I expect from Xiong'er? I don't want a Ming monarch like Emperor Ming. Because the era in which we live is unprecedented in 3,000 years, if we can follow the trend and have the courage to change the country from one side, stick to the old ways, and blindly reluctantly, we can only destroy the country and destroy the species! ”

"The minister knows it." Luo Zenan glanced at the chaotic army on the opposite side, and sighed, "If the Ruan Dynasty still has 50,000 Western-style troops, I won't come here......"

Zhu Jishi smiled with satisfaction. Turning the Ruan Dynasty into a negative teaching material is probably an unexpected gain from coming south this time, right? It is a long-term process to brainwash the Chinese scholar class, what are the thoughts in the hearts of these scholars who read the books of sages and sages and read a little stupidly, just look at the Ruan Dynasty and know the Tao, if it were replaced by Japanese samurai with such a Western-style army, it would have been militaristic a long time ago!

At the same time, Ruan Zhifang was holding a "former enemy meeting" with several college scholars who led the troops. Seeing the strict formation of the Ming army, they had already guessed that Emperor Zhu had not been assassinated and killed. But they were already ready to shoot and had to send it. It is not easy for more than 200,000 people to gather, and if they disperse, I really don't know if there will be a second chance. And now that there is a ten-to-one advantage, it is probably still possible to fight. If the French minister of the Nguyen Dynasty let . Baptiste. Shaino is still here, and there must be no such absurd idea now.

This scholar knows the soldier, and the same professional officer is not the same thing after all.

"Although the Beikou is strict, but after all, the number of people is too small, as long as their formation is disrupted, we will not lose if we beat 1 of 10 of them!"

"When the Xishan thieves broke the Qing army, they used elephants to carry cannons as the vanguard, and they won a great victory by rampage in the Qing military camp. Now we can follow its example and use 500 war elephants as the vanguard to charge the enemy's ranks! ”

Elephant soldiers are a characteristic type of troops in Indochina and India, and the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam is no exception. This time, Ruan Zhifang organized 500 elephants carrying small cannons. With a roar, he was driven from behind to the front of the formation.

Seeing hundreds of elephants leading the overwhelming crowd approaching, Zhu Jishi did not seem panicked at all, but chatted with the French ambassador Bourblon about the post-war disposal of Vietnam.

"Mr. Ambassador, in view of Nguyen Phuc Thi's treacherous assassination, I do not see the need to keep Nguyen Dynasty and the Vietnamese state any longer. Vietnam can be divided into two, bounded by 17 degrees north latitude, with the north under the occupation of the Ming Dynasty and the south by the French. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, France is not opposed to the equal division of Vietnam, but it is difficult for us to rule this colony without the sign of the Nguyen Dynasty. So, if you don't plan to maintain a puppet regime in North Vietnam, we'd rather be willing to take over the Vietnamese court in Hue entirely. ”

"Nguyen Phuc Shi must die!" Zhu Jishi didn't talk nonsense with Burbulon, and directly put forward his own request, "None of the Ming Emperor's family can inherit the throne." ”

"Yes." Bourblon Road.

This is the rumbling sound of artillery on the battlefield, it is the Ming army's 12-pounder cannon and 12-pounder howitzer fire, as the flowering shells exploded around the Vietnamese war elephants, these powerful giant beasts were immediately frightened and frenzied.

Burbulon glanced at the sea of Vietnamese soldiers, who were already chaotic and now became even more chaotic, and asked lightly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, then what are you going to do with the Yue people north of 17 degrees north latitude?" You don't want to kill them all, do you? ”

"Of course I can't kill them all, but what should I do with them?" Zhu Jishi also glanced at the front line, there were many Vietnamese war elephants who were rampage in their own sea of people, and some had already fallen to the ground, and I don't know whether they were killed by the Vietnamese soldiers who controlled the war elephants, or were killed by the artillery of the Ming army. The Ming army's offensive also began, and several horizontal formations were approaching the sea of people dozens of times their size, and at the forefront were the brocade guards brought by Zhu Jishi, all of whom were equipped with Bessemer breech-loading rifles that imitated the Dreiser needle rifles...... (To be continued......)