readx; King Benhato and his ministers gossiped and gave Zhang Huangyan a detailed account of the causes and consequences of Annam's invasion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It turned out that in this land, which Zhu Youzhen called the "Indochina Peninsula", human beings have multiplied since ancient times, and tribes have gradually formed a state. However, due to its tropical location, although the rainfall is abundant, there are also frequent disasters, and the terrain is complex and the transportation is inconvenient, so the development speed is far less than that of China, and the national strength of various countries is relatively weak.

Of these countries, six are larger and stronger. The westernmost is Burma, the Laos of Laos, Siam, and Chenla in the middle, and Annam and Champa in the east. Relations between these six countries have always been fragile, with frequent attacks on each other, and the strength of each other has been at odds, maintaining a fragile balance. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, these countries became nominally vassal states of the Ming Dynasty for various reasons. Due to the fear of attacking each other and causing the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, the countries temporarily stopped for a while.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, starting from the Jiajing period, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty gradually weakened, and he was too busy to take care of himself, how could he pay attention to these "foreign places". As a result, some of the careerists in these countries are ready to move and try to break the original order by force.

The most arrogant of these is Burma, which chose to directly challenge the Ming Dynasty, and since the Jiajing period, it has continuously sent troops to harass the Yunnan border, killing border people, and has been fighting skirmishes with the Yunnan border army. In the Wanli period, Mingshenzong could not bear it anymore and increased his troops in Yunnan to fight the Burmese army, and the famous generals Deng Zilong and Liu Ling were all generals who stood out in the war against Burma. Although the Burmese army suffered a heavy blow, relying on the complex terrain of Yunnan and northern Burma, it was always able to escape the pursuit of the Ming army, so that the war lasted for decades.

Compared with Burma's courage and inconsistency, Annan is far more insidious. The land of its country originally belonged to China during the Qin and Han dynasties. After Qin Shi Huang conquered Baiyue in the south, he set up three counties of Xiangjun in Nanhai in Lingnan, among which Xiangjun was the location of Annam later, with its land and many forests, there are often elephants infested, so it was named, and later it was also called Jiaozhi. From then until the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Xiangjun region was directly under the jurisdiction of the central imperial court, and counties were set up, making it undoubtedly Chinese territory.

Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the feudal towns were divided, the world was in turmoil, and then there were five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and the Central Plains region was divided and conquered endlessly, giving careerists the opportunity to split. Wu Quan, who was originally a general under the Jiaozhi Prefecture Mu, defeated the Southern Han army at that time, established himself as king, and officially broke away from China. However, in order to prevent the retaliation of the Central Plains regime, from the beginning of the founding of the country, it was under the Zhengshuo of the Central Plains Imperial Court and became a vassal state of China.

After many dynasties, to the Yongle period, the then Chen Dynasty had a usurpation of the throne by the powerful minister Hu Yiyuan, and Chen Tianping, the son of the king of the Chen Dynasty, fled to China and cried to Chengzu Zhu Di about the past. It happened that Hu Yiyuan sent an envoy to pay tribute in order to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty, and he did not dare to say that he was a usurper, and falsely claimed the throne of the king of the Chen Dynasty in an attempt to deceive Zhu Di. As a result, Chen Tianping and the tribute envoy confronted each other in the Golden Palace, and the lie was self-defeating.

Zhu Di had just ascended the throne not long ago, and he didn't want to use troops against Annan, but just wanted to calm things down, so he ordered the tribute envoy to reply to the letter, condemning Hu Yiyuan's usurpation and lying, and asking him to change his past mistakes and welcome Chen Tianping back to China and take the throne. Unexpectedly, Hu Yiyuan agreed quickly, and Zhu Di was very happy, so he sent an army to escort Chen Tianping back to China.

Unexpectedly, Hu Yiyuan was bold, he agreed on the surface, but in fact he wanted to lure Chen Tianping back to China. When Chen Tianping and his entourage entered the ambush circle, the Annan army ambushed all the soldiers and opened a killing spree, not only killing Chen Tianping, but even the Ming Dynasty officials who escorted them also killed a few. Then Tian shamelessly said that Chen Tianping was an imposter and had to kill him to set an example, not intending to offend Daming and ask Daming for forgiveness.

But who is Zhu Di, how can he be so easy to get along with? Cheng Zu was furious, and immediately sent 800,000 troops, Zhang Fu as the commander, with the overwhelming momentum of the south to conquer Annan, and soon defeated Hu Yiyuan's army, captured the Hu father and son, and sent them to Beijing. At this time, Chen was dead and there was no one to succeed to the throne, so Zhu Di re-established Jiaozhi Province in his place, and Jiaozhi returned to the bosom of China again.

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Unfortunately, a few years later, Annan rebelled, the Ming army was defeated, and had to withdraw from Jiaozhi. The Li family, who won the throne, was like Hu Yiyuan, who was very respectful to the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but in fact hated the Ming to the core, and had been secretly accumulating strength, in a vain attempt to avenge the "destruction of the country" back then. However, he did not dare to invade the Ming Dynasty by force, so he turned his attention to the south and expanded his strength by attacking Laos and other countries. Laos had limited strength and soon became a vassal state of Annam.

During the attack on the city, there was turmoil in Annam, and the Li clan was overthrown, and the Zheng clan held the real power of the imperial court, known as the "Zheng Lord", which was quite similar to the Japanese "emperor" and "general". At the same time, the Nguyen clan, who occupied the city in the south, was dissatisfied with the Zheng clan and supported the army with self-respect, and was known as "Lord Ruan". Both Zheng and Ruan wanted to destroy each other, get rid of the puppet Li clan, and then annex the kingdoms and eventually challenge the Ming Dynasty.

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Compared with the Central and Southern States, Annam's armed forces are very strong, and it is known as having a million armor. In particular, Lord Nguyen also had a strategic vision, purchased bird guns and Franc cannons from the Portuguese, and quickly defeated the Champ, and the king of Champ became the puppet of Lord Nguyen.

Later, the Nguyen lord used the city as a springboard and launched a surprise attack on Chenla in the west. Chenla was caught off guard, and the second has always been lax, and it was not the opponent of the Nguyen army, and soon lost the "Shui Chenla", that is, the most fertile Mekong Delta region, and could not hold Phnom Penh.

After listening to Zhang Huangyan, he already had a general understanding of the situation on the Indochina Peninsula. He was also very angry at Annan's aggression, and thinking about how Annan had been capricious towards the Ming Dynasty in the past, especially the occupation of China's homeland, made him even more depressed.

However, he calmed down and thought about it, whether the Ming army wants to intervene in this war is a major matter related to the political, military, economic and other aspects of the Ming Dynasty. So he said to Benhatto sincerely: "This is a big matter, the minister can't do it, you must play the holy one, please decide." ”

Benharto became anxious when he heard this, and begged bitterly: "Lord Zhang, if you want to play His Majesty the Emperor, I'm afraid it will take at least a year and a half. And the Annan army has already arrived under the city, maybe tomorrow it will attack the city again, how can the distant water quench the thirst! ”

Zhang Huangyan heard that what people said was indeed reasonable, and said that he was burdened with a heavy responsibility and planned to cooperate with Zhenla. If Zhenla is destroyed, who will you talk to? Therefore, after a little thought, he said: "Sending troops to help the war must not be planned." But if our army is attacked by the Annamite, it can naturally fight back! ”