A Portuguese gunner was about to light the cannon fuse with a torch, but a Nguyen soldier pounced on him and knocked him down, snatching his torch.

The Portuguese fell to the ground, thinking that the Nguyen army had rebelled. But on closer inspection, the Ruan soldier was wearing a red robe with the mark of the meritorious king's guard. The red-robed guards of the King of Merit are also supervising the battle team on the battlefield, what are they going to do, the Portuguese gunner thought suspiciously.

The red-robed guard snatched the torch and threw it aside, pointing out of the city, "Open your dog's eyes and see clearly, that's the Lord!" ”

Nguyen Phuc Lan is the second son of the previous Nguyen lord Nguyen Phuc Yuan, Nguyen Phuc Yuan once liked his eldest son very much, but unfortunately he died first Nguyen Phuc Yuan, and finally the second son Phuc Lan and the third son Phuc Yuan competed for the inheritance. In the end, Ruan Phuc Yuan chose the second son, thinking that the third son Fu Yu was too arrogant. Because of this result, the third son later secretly colluded with Zheng Zhu, and prepared to act as an internal response when Zheng Zhu invaded the south, but Ruan Fuyuan noticed it and secretly controlled the third son, and waited for the Zheng army to advance by water, and waited for more than ten days at Rili Haikou on the border, but failed to get a response, so he had to retreat.

On the way to retreat, the Nguyen army launched a counterattack, and the Battle of Rili broke out between the two sides, and the Zheng army was defeated and forced to go on the defensive, and Nguyen Phuc Ao was executed after the battle.

Two years ago, Nguyen Phuc Lan succeeded to the throne and proclaimed himself the king of Gong, and the people of Quang Nam were called lords.

Because Nguyen Phuc Lan did not have a long time on the throne, he was not the heir at first, so his position in Quang Nam was not very stable, so he personally recruited a personal guard and asked the Portuguese mercenaries to train, because this personal guard all wore red robes, so they were also called red guards. These red-robed guards were very loyal to Ruan Fulan, and before Ruan Fulan went out of the city to pursue the Han army, he also left a group of red-robed guards to guard the city and supervise the battle.

The Ruan army at the head of Hue looked out of the city, only to see hundreds of red-robed guards hurriedly fleeing towards Hue with the lord in gold armor, and behind them, the Han cavalry chased after them. The rear team of the Ruan army had already mixed with the front team of the Han army, regardless of each other.

"Open the gates!" A red-robed man shouted.

The guards at the city gate trembled their lips and whispered, "My lord, the cavalry of the Han army is behind the lord, and the city is open at this time, I am afraid that the Han army will take advantage of the situation to break into the city." ”

"Kaesong, immediately!"

The red-robed men didn't care about that, they only saw that the Lord was in great danger at this time, and if he didn't open the city again. I'm afraid that the Lord will fall into the hands of the Han riders.

"Kaesong!" Several red-robed guards drew their swords and approached the city gate guards, their eyes showed a fierce light, as long as the guards dared to say a word, they would definitely cut him to the ground mercilessly, and then open the city gate themselves.

The guard gritted his teeth and shouted, "Put the drawbridge and open the gates!" ”

Under the city of Hue, there was a strange scene. The Nguyen army that went out of the city to fight was defeated, and the red-robed guards escorted Nguyen Fulan to Hue City in embarrassment, while the Han cavalry chased closely, and the two sides were mixed together. They all rushed towards the Hue gate. And along the way, those fortress batteries outside the city didn't dare to fire a single shot, so they let the Han army bite Ruan Fulan closer and closer to the city gate.

The drawbridge was lowered. The gates opened.

The red-robed guards escorted Ruan Phuc Lan and rushed through.

"Close the drawbridge and close the door!"

When the guard saw that the Lord had entered the city, he hurriedly shouted.

It's just that it's easy to open the door. It's hard to close the door.

The Ruan army behind the rout, the Han cavalry chasing soldiers have already chased after them, the suspension bridge is crowded with people and horses, and the soldiers guarding the door are desperately pulling the winch, but the iron rope creaks, but it can't be twisted.

"Close the gates, close the gates!"

The guards shouted in despair.

A team of Ruan soldiers hurriedly pushed the city gate, and the iron-clad city gate moved slowly, only moving a little, and then it could no longer be pushed. A large number of defeated pursuers had already crossed the drawbridge and poured into the city gates.

"Archer!"

"Defend the gates!"

Ruan Fulan, who had just fled into the city, was shocked, so he immediately turned around and commanded the soldiers to defend the city gate, and if the Han army was allowed to rush in, it would really be over.

Drawbridges, city gates, crowded with people.

"Throw grenades, take the gates!"

The Jurchen cavalry officers also roared hoarsely, and the victory or defeat was here.

The cavalrymen who rushed in front raised their left wrists one after another, blew up the fire rope that was lit around their wrists before the charge, and the end of the fire rope lit up, and the cavalry immediately took out the grenade to light the fuse, and then threw it hard into the city gate.

For a time, dozens or hundreds of grenades were thrown into the city gate hole.

A series of explosions sounded, and at the narrow door opening, the crowded defenders of the Nguyen army's city gate suffered a fatal blow, and the flesh and blood of the bombed flew sideways, falling in all directions.

A passage exploded through the city gate.

"Rush!"

The Jurchens also knew that now was the most critical time to compete, and they ignored the arrows and lead bullets, but just kicked the horse's belly desperately and rushed forward hard.

The first group rushed past and rushed into the city, while the people behind continued to rush forward, and some jumped off their horses and began to slash the remaining Nguyen army at the city gate.

Ruan's general Ruan Youjin was originally sitting in another city defense, but when he heard the news, he hurried with his troops, but saw that this city gate had been lost, and countless fierce cavalry were constantly rushing in from the open city gate.

How could this be the case that the Hue city gate was lost?

Ruan Youjin's heart is dripping blood.

Ruan Youjin was just an ordinary naval officer back then, but later he was favored by Ruan Fuyuan's mastermind and military advisor Tao Weici and strongly recommended to Ruan Fuyuan, and he began to be reused, and he was promoted from a small officer to the current general of the Ruan family. This Hue defensive counterattack was planned by Nguyen Youjin, especially the fire attack strategy.

The fire attack strategy achieved unexpected results, Ruan Fulan wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, Ruan Youjin opposed, thinking that he should accept it when he saw it, and took the opportunity of victory to negotiate peace with the Han Dynasty. But Ruan Fulan couldn't listen to it at all, so he let Ruan Youjin stay in the city, and then led more than 30,000 troops to pursue him.

With more than 30,000 horses, it is almost the entire strength of Nguyen Thi Hue City.

The Ruan family only occupies a corner of Quang Nam, although the Ruan family has been in business for several generations, but now it is only a million people, and their strength is only 50,000 or 60,000 people, and they have been stationed in the border fortress with the Zheng clan in the north. During this invasion of the Han army, they transferred back a lot of troops to defend Hue, but with the temporary recruitment of people and Zhuang in Hue, there were only more than 40,000 people.

Ruan Fulan was really defeated, even if the Han army did not have naval support, it was not something that the Ruan army could defeat, and it would not be possible to fight more and less.

Ruan Youjin narrowed his eyes, through the smoke and fire. It quickly became clear about the current situation.

Nguyen Phuc Lan was defeated and fled to Hue City, and the Han cavalry pursued closely, because the two armies were entangled, which caused the forts outside the city to throw rat traps, and did not dare to open artillery bombardment to intercept, for fear of accidentally injuring Nguyen Phuc Lan. He didn't expect that at the critical moment, the red-robed guards would forcibly ask the defenders to open the city gate, so that the Han army would capture the city gate without much effort.

In vain, he tried his best to preside over the city defense, but the red-robed guards opened the city gates.

The huge advantage achieved at the beginning has come to naught. Now even Hue City can't be defended.

"My lord, it's not good, the Han army is coming!"

A soldier came running out of breath, reporting with a panicked face.

"The defenders in the fortress at the head of the city and outside the city are **** and can't open fire?"

Ruan Youqi was extremely angry, "No matter what, we must take back the city gate, transfer a few cannons over, and hit the city gate." Even if this city gate collapses, it is necessary to prevent the Han army from continuing to rush in! ”

King Gong buried their victory, and Ruan Youjin was furious in his heart. If the old master is here, he will never make such a big mistake as the king.

On the top of the city. The sound of the horn is melodious, and the flag is unfurled.

The fortress fort outside the city finally rang again, but the Han army had already rushed into Hue City, and the defeated Nguyen family was full of defeated soldiers outside the city. and the Han army that rushed in.

The artillery roared from the fortress, but it was no longer possible to stop the frenzy.

Shells continued to fall in the ranks of the Han army, killing and wounding well. But it won't change the situation.

Soon, the artillery of the Han army also arrived, and the Yimenmen mountain grenade was pushed under the fortress, and the Han army returned fire with more fierce artillery fire.

Ruan Youjin has no other way, and now he is either the enemy or I die.

"Follow me!"

Ruan Youjin led the last complete reserve in the city, and they lined up on the long street to meet the Han cavalry attacking the city.

Ruan Youjin's men followed closely, but these people were only reserves, the most elite in the city were the elephant army, horse army and musketeers, and the European mercenary battalion, these troops were all taken out by Nguyen Phuc Lan before, and then all broke out of the city, only Nguyen Fu Lan fled into the city with a very small number of red-robed guards, and the rest of the people were now rampage outside like pigs, fleeing in all directions.

His reserve consisted of old men and children, many of whom were improvised conscripts, peasants, servants, artisans, apprentices, and even criminals. Most of the weapons in his hands are spears and swords. There are not many bows, and even fewer firearms.

Gunsmoke and ashes filled the air, the enemy army was charging fiercely, and the cannon outside was getting louder and louder, which meant that the Han artillery was also firing, which was not good news.

The defenders of Hue continued to disintegrate and collapse under the onslaught of enemy cavalry, and they scrambled to turn and flee, hiding in the streets and alleys, and even clinging into each other's companions and trampling over their comrades.

The Lord is gone, and his banner is gone.

Nguyen Youjin's heart was full of sorrow that Hue City and Quang Nam were the only ones left to resist with his subsequent rabble.

He kept shouting to cheer his men on.

A defeated soldier rushed towards his team, and Ruan Youjin raised his hand to him with a shot, killing the man directly to the ground.

"Escape from the battle, execute on the spot, brothers, follow me and drive the Han dog out of the city!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a buckshot struck his mount, lifting him from his saddle.

Ruan Youjin fell off his horse in an extremely embarrassed manner, the gunfire was loud, and the Jurchen cavalry directly fired a volley of guns on the narrow street, and in an instant, the front row of Ruan Youjin's team fell.

Ruan Youjin got up from the ground, dropped the handcuff that was too late to reload, drew his sword, and the enemy cavalry got closer, and then one by one black shadows fell from the sky, exploding wildly, blowing up one by one.

A cavalryman wearing iron chain armor galloped closer, and a heavy iron whip slammed into his back, Ruan Youjin's throat was sweet, a mouthful of blood had been spit out, and he lay on the ground again.

The rest of the situation is no longer in the sky.

The Han cavalry rushed into their ranks, like a tiger into a flock of sheep.

Swords and axes, horses and spears, this reserve of the rabble collapsed in an instant, and those reserves that not long ago were farmers, apprentices, craftsmen, traders, and even criminals threw away their spears, swords, and shields, and fled in all directions.

What followed was a massacre, and the reserve team that had lost their fighting spirit was willing to be chased and slashed by the Han cavalry, but refused to turn back and resist, they only cared about running, and kept running until they were chased and cut down by the Han cavalry, lying on the ground and not moving.

Ruan Youjin struggled to his feet, he cut off a horse's leg, and watching the knight fall from his horse, he pounced on it and stabbed the man in the throat with a dagger, blood like a fountain of scarlet, soaking his arms and half of his chest.

He stood up again, staggering and not knowing where to go.

A little spear tip leaked out of his chest, and a sharp pain came, and Ruan Youjin showed a bitter smile, and it was over.

Hue's defense is very strong, the new and three-dimensional new defense system, helped by the Portuguese to transform, the fortress fort and fortress-style city defense system outside the city, plus thousands of large and small artillery, and nearly 40,000 horses gathered in the city, such a Nguyen family base camp, if Nguyen Fu Lan can repel the Han fleet, can not hold out, in a short time, the Han army is difficult to attack.

If he took advantage of the victory in the water war to negotiate peace with the Han army, maybe he could be saved after Ruan Jiaken paid tribute to the Han Dynasty.

But now, the sky over Hue is filled with gunsmoke, cannon roaring, and shouting and killing.

The Hue city gate was lost, the Han army entered the city, the entire defense system has been broken, and the Han army smashed the Chinese army.

As far as the eye can see, both inside and outside Hue have become a battlefield of melee killing.

The Jianzhou cavalry rode their horses in and out of the city, defeating the gathered Nguyen army. Outside the city, the small fortress batteries were also cleared by the marines one by one.

Zhao Kang led the rest of the infantry, and he had also entered the city, began to wipe out the remnants of the enemy piece by piece, and began to control the city gates, treasury, shops and other places.

The die is cast.

Hue City has been captured, and all the important places in the city gates have been controlled, and only one Nguyen province is still resisting.

Zhao Kang and other generals rode to the front of Ruan's mansion and laughed unbridledly, laughing very happily.

First defeat and then victory, no one expected that it would be so abundant today.

"Bring in a few cannons and blast this damn Ruan Mansion away!" A Jurchen officer shouted loudly.

"Don't, let's surrender!"

Inside the high palace walls, a white flag stretched out and swayed from side to side.

Then the gates of Nguyen Mansion slowly opened, and the last resistance in Hue was finally abandoned.

The Quang Nam Nguyen clan, which has been inherited for four generations, has also come to an end.

I think that Ruan Huang opened up Guangnan, resisted the Zheng clan in the north, and occupied the city in the south, constantly expanding his territory and growing his power. Before he died, he once instructed the Ruan family, "There is the danger of Hengshan Lingjiang in the north of Shunguang, and the solidity of Haiyun Tablet Mountain in the south. If you can tame the people and fight against the Zheng family, you will be able to build a business for all generations. ”

However, it has only been thirty years since Ruan Huang's death, and the Ruan family has died! (To be continued.) )