435th V (III)

In the face of the existential crisis of the country, the vested interests of the country's maritime trade decisively abandoned the orthodox king Wei Fengcheng, and instead took advantage of the chaos to desperately seize power. During the period of Vietnam's military occupation of the country, the autonomy of the colonies such as Penglai became higher and higher, and the system became more and more independent. If it weren't for the fact that the current population of Penglai is still small, and the high-level of vested interest groups are greedy for profits from maritime trade, Penglai would even dare to take the opportunity to establish an independent state.

The Vietnam War lasted for several years.

The allied forces of the feudal domains had different thoughts, and they were in awe of the military power of the Yue State because of the Yue Chu War, and they were unwilling to fight to the death to defend the country.

For example, the five feudal states of Nanyang and the Cochin feudal states responded to the royal family's will in the name of conquest, but they refused to send a single soldier to fight against the Yue Kingdom. At the same time, the commercial cooperation between the six feudal states and the Viet Nam was as steady as Mount Tai, and all ports were peacefully opened to the Viet Nak. Even, when the Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamluks and extended its tentacles to the Red Sea and even the Gulf of Aden, the Six Vatories also formed an eight-nation alliance under the leadership of the Yue Kingdom to fight with the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East Peninsula.

Another example is the Ming vassal state, which refused to send troops from the mainland in the name of long and difficult roads, and only sent a total of 9 Qinwang troops to Zhili. Ming Guo is simply joking, what can 9 soldiers do? In fact, these nine soldiers were all middle and high-ranking officers of the Ming Kingdom. They came to King Qin in the east to observe the Yuewei War at close range, and to introduce the latest military tactics in time to avoid the Ming State from collapsing at the touch of a button like the Chu State at a critical juncture.

Other vassal states also had a similar idea, and the Qinwang army they sent was calculated in single digits, tens, and hundreds, and their combat effectiveness was negligible.

Emperor Wei Fengfu was disheartened and simply acquiesced in anger to allow Yue Guo to actually control the country.

For now, Viet Nam is the clear winner.

If the Yue Kingdom slows down the pace of expansion, it is very likely that it will truly annex the Wei Kingdom and become the only empire in the world on which the sun never sets. It is a pity that with the victory of the Yuechu War and the Yuewei War, it was completely scattered to consider the conquest of the coalition army, and the ambitions of the Yue Kingdom swelled sharply.

In 1536, when the situation of the defense of the country was somewhat stable, the Yue State continued to expand northward and invaded the Wu State with an army. Similar to the routine of defending the country, the puppet king of the state of Wu also supported the puppet king of the state of Wu, and hypocritically said that he had no intention of annexation, but was actually ready to integrate the coastal essence of the state from the state of Wu to the state of Yue.

However, Yue underestimated Wu's sensitivity.

In the Jin Succession War in the past year, in order to weaken the comprehensive strength of the imperial family, the northern feudal states completely extinguished the ambition of the imperial family to reduce the feudal domain, they carved up Henan Province in the north, and forced the imperial family to separate the Wu vassal state in the south. In other words, the existence of the state of Wu was a security guarantee for the northern vassal states to curb the ambitions of the imperial family to reduce the feudal domain. In particular, the coastal states of Zhao and Lu established an intricate alliance of offensive and defensive alliances with Wu by sea.

At the same time, geopolitics also determined that Wu could not escape the continued influence of the imperial family. In particular, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places in the north of Wu were almost completely integrated into the economic circle of the provinces directly under the imperial family, and the relationship between Wu and the imperial family was equally complicated.

The royal family, the state of Lu, the state of Zhao and other vassal states would never allow the state of Yue to annex the state of Wu.

Although the weak naval armies of Lu and Zhao could not support Wu at sea, and although the contradictions between the royal family and Lu and Zhao led to many problems in land support, they still supported Wu in various ways in their struggle against Yue.

For example, the imperial family forbade the armies of Lu and Zhao to support Wu by land through Jiangsu Province, but tacitly allowed Lu and Zhao to transport war materials to Wu.

For example, the royal family united with the vassal states of Lu and Zhao to set up a military base in Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, to help Wu train combat troops in batches at any cost.

With the full support of the three great powers, the state of Wu quickly evolved into a quagmire of war.

The Vietnam-Wu War was particularly brutal.

Wu Di is almost single-handed, and there are small bloody clashes at every moment.

Horizontally comparing the real world, the Zhu Ming Dynasty in 1536 was in the middle of the dynasty, and even if the Zhu Ming Dynasty was worried about the Japanese invaders, life in the coastal provinces could hardly be as cruel as the Vietnam-Wu War. The Wei Xia Dynasty evolved to 1536, and the disadvantages of the feudal system became more and more clear, just the aforementioned Battle of Chu, the Jin State Succession War, the Thirteen-Year War of Weihui Luoyang, the Yue Chu War, the Yue Wei War, and the Yue Wu War, the people of the Central Plains who were full of disasters and hardships were extremely envious of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, which was like a peaceful and prosperous era.

Moreover, there are only a few wars mentioned in the main line, and there are countless wars and conflicts between various vassal states and within vassal states.

If you look at the Weixia Empire as a whole, there were wars almost every year.

The people of Wei Xia did not have the comparison of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, they were born in the troubled era of the feudal system, and they had no choice but to accept the fate of continuous wars. Wei Dongsheng had the real world as a contrast, and when he returned to China to experience the cruelty of the Vietnam-Wu War up close, his emotions became more and more melancholy. The Vietnam-Wu War in Wei Dongsheng's eyes was a civil war without justice, and he was unwilling to help Wu fight Yue, nor was he willing to help Yue fight Wu. In the end, Wei Dongsheng simply had an ostrich mentality, out of sight and out of mind, and stayed in the Penglai Continent forever, spending his energy on cultivating barren lands and expanding the living space of Zhuxia's descendants as much as possible.

The camera returns to the Viet-Wu War.

When the strategy of the Yue Kingdom to achieve a quick victory failed, the quagmire of the Wu State unexpectedly became the imperial grave of the Yue vassal state. As the war continued, Vietnam's military spending became higher and higher, and the war benefits became smaller and smaller, and the soldiers' war-weariness grew. By 1547, the finances of the Yue Kingdom were bankrupt and could no longer be sustained, so they had to withdraw from the border of the Wu State with a disgraced face and a puppet king of the Wu State.

The Vietnam-Wu War, which ended with a tiger and a snake tail, dealt a heavy blow to the passionate style of the Yue State since its great voyage, and the Yue vassal state has since turned from prosperity to decline.

After withdrawing from Wu, Yue sent an envoy asking for peace.

It's a pity that taking advantage of your illness to kill you to beat the water dog is the norm in the world, who in the Central Plains Domain is willing to let go of the Yue Kingdom that shows its decadence?

The vassal states of the Central Plains ignored Yue's overtures to withdraw from the border of Wu, and instead judged that Yue was incapacitated, and used Wu as an advance base to gather troops, preparing to attack the royal capital of Yue from the land. The navy has always depended on the land of the home country, and when the army cannot hold the coast, the combat effectiveness of the navy will also decline significantly.

In 1553, the Yue gathered their main fleet to blockade the ports off the coast of North China in an attempt to force Lu and Zhao to make a peace agreement with it. In order to show the invincible superiority of the navy, Yue Guo even arrogantly put his home port on the border between Wu and Weiguo: "I just gathered the warships here, do you have the ability to fight them?" ”

Unexpectedly, the Mandate of Heaven is not in the Yue Kingdom.

Not long after the Vietnam country gathered its main fleet, a hurricane suddenly struck, and all warships lost the ability to go to sea to fight. The allied forces of Lu, Zhao, and Yue took advantage of the opportunity of the imminent hurricane to resolutely ignore the threat of the hurricane and quickly capture the home port of the native fleet of Vietnam.

In this battle, the Triple Alliance sank and captured at least 110 warships.

The native fleet of Vietnam collapsed at one time.

Taking the experience of Wei Dongsheng IV as an example, the Yue State was limited by the size of its population, and in recent years, it has advocated the absorption of immigrants from various vassal states to serve the country. The members of the Vietnamese navy include the Wei people, the Chu people, the Ming people, the Lu people, the Zhao people, the Yan people, the Lang people, and the population of the provinces directly under the royal family, and so on. When the Yue State was strong, just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shang Ying, Li Si and other heroes continued to flock to the Qin State, and these talents were also loyal to the Yue State regardless of their place of birth.

However, if you come for a strong country, you will leave when you are weak.

The local fleet of the Yue Kingdom suddenly collapsed, and the situation in the Yue Kingdom was very critical, and it was very likely that the royal capital would fall if it fell. These talents with disordered origins naturally came up with the idea of casting for another Mingjun. The vassal states of Lu, Zhao, and Wu had long been envious of the profits of the maritime trade of the Yue and Wei Kingdoms, and had always wanted to build an ocean-going fleet like the Yue and Wei Kingdoms, so they all waved gold and silver treasures and official rewards to recruit these captives. With the transformation of the Vietnamese navy captives to serve Lu, Zhao, Wu and other countries, the navies of the three countries also quickly completed modernization and became maritime powers overnight.

However, there is a saying that hundred-legged insects die but do not stiffen.

The navy is expensive shipbuilders and mature seamen, and Lu Guo, Zhao Guo, and Wu Guo can dig up some of them, but it is difficult to empty all the reserves of Yue State. Vietnam launched emergency measures, while summoning warships stationed all over the world, while digging out their own funds to build new ships, and at the same time taking advantage of the terrain of the country to build a defense system, quickly recovering a small half of its strength, and gradually stabilizing the situation.

At the same time, the coastal vassal states such as Lu, Zhao, Wu, and Yan all wanted to carve up the void left by the Yue State. There is countless maritime trade of gold and silver waving to everyone, who is willing to fight to the death for the sake of defending the country? In this way, when the Yue Kingdom longed for peace, the allied forces of the vassal states bit and did not let go; When the native fleet of Yue collapsed at one time, Yue became safe, and the defense of the country was able to get away with it.

Among the coastal feudal states, the Wu Kingdom was close to the water and ate crabs first.

The Vietnam-Wu War was a cruel hell and a test of intensity. In the war, Wu continued to innovate the details of the policy of the Wu Wu soldiers to a small extent, and gradually formed a phalanx tactic with the characteristics of the Wu State, which is called the Wu Wu Wu Pawn Phalanx. In the later period of the Vietnam-Wu War, under the same conditions, the Wu Wushu phalanx was often able to successfully defeat the Yuewu phalanx. The progress of the Wu Wu Phalanx against the Yue Wu Phalanx was the main reason for the Yue Guo's slippery withdrawal from the Wu State, and it was also the guarantee that the Triple Alliance Army could successfully raid the seaport.

With a navy like a nascent sunrise and an invincible phalanx of Wu Wushu, Wu began to challenge the colonial empire of the Yue Dynasty like a sharp knife.

At the same time, the coastal vassal states such as Lu, Zhao, and Yan also provoked the Yuewei Alliance like a vicious dog out of the cage, and then used the four oceans as a chessboard to start a new competition.

In 1564, Wei Dong fell ill and died at the age of 57.

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