The Ming army Liu Sheng's troops took a boat to the mouth of the Majiang River, and defeated the Japanese troops at the city of Qinghua!The news reported to Qinghua immediately shocked the government and the country.
Originally, the defeat of the Grand Yue State Grand Tutor Ruan Shuai had already caused panic.
Ruan Shuai, who claimed to have an army of 500,000, attacked the Ming reinforcements and the military camp defense battle within about half a day, and then lost Beijiang Prefecture City.
Ruan Jian, the Minister of War, ran back to Qinghua and informed him of the details, and Chen Jikuo was so panicked.
Suddenly, there was news about Liu Shengjun, which was even worse.
The entire imperial capital, Qinghua City, was in chaos; because Chen Jikuo decided to leave Qinghua on the same day and retreat to his Longxing land, Nye'an City.
The defense of Qinghua will be handed over to Taibao and the general of the Vietnamese army, Ruan Jingyi.
Of course, Chen Jikuo had to bring the ministers and some guards to accompany him, and the matter was rushed, so that Qinghua City was in chaos.
Seeing such chaos, Ruan Jian finally remembered the pacification of Wang Lili... Those who advocated that Ruan Zheng's army should not gather troops to fight to the decisive battle, Ruan Jian could be said to be a hindsight; but Lili did strongly oppose it before the war started and proposed different strategies.
Now that I think back, Ruan Jian feels that Li Li's words are becoming more and more reasonable.
So Ruan Jian hurried to Li Li's residence in Qinghua, wanting to hear his opinion on the current situation again.
The people in the Li Mansion were also packing up their things and preparing to leave Qinghua.However, Levi's mansion was full of young and strong men, and his family was not here.Ruan Jian was taken to the living room and was also received with a cup of tea.
After meeting Li Li, Ruan Jian first looked sad and sighed.
Li Li also frowned, but he wanted to calm down a lot. He quoted a Han saying: Everything is planned, and everything is not planned, and nothing is done.The matter is coming, and there is no way to go in the situation in front of you. You can only think more about what to do in the future.
Ruan Jian said: The emperor will immediately lidu (Qinghua). Is this right?
Li Li shook his head and said: The monarch and ministers left the capital in a hurry, which shook the morale of the army. It was not easy for Taibao (Ruan Jingyi) to defend the emperor; the ship bandits (Han people, or shipmen) defeated the Japanese soldiers at the city. If they ask for an order to survive and die together with the capital, they are afraid that the emperor will not agree no matter what.Therefore, the situation in front of us can only be like this, there is no way.
However, the Great Vietnamese army on the other side of Dongguan still has time to arrange it.If they only retreated to the army, it would not be possible; they should disperse their troops and look for favorable terrain from the army to the Hwalu (now Ningping, Vietnam) and resist step by step, so that they could consume the ship bandits and delay time.
Ruan Jian said: It is reasonable for the King to pacify the emperor. I will go to the palace and strongly advise the emperor.
Li Li asked in confusion: Grand Tutor Ruan has a lot of people in Beijiang Prefecture. Even if he loses the decisive battle against the ship bandits, he will not be defeated so quickly?
Ruan Jian said with a complicated expression: What I saw on the battlefield with my own eyes, the Great Vietnamese Army was almost defeated!At that time, all units of our army had just approached the enemy's formation for dozens of steps, and the Ming army suddenly attacked with muskets and cannons, causing heavy casualties among our soldiers. When our army retreated, the Ming army's infantry and cavalry immediately flocked to us, alas...
Ruan Jian was still scared: The firearms of the Ming army were extraordinary.Muskets are by no means copper hand guns used in the past. Lead bullets are no more ruthless than bows and arrows that hit people; their cannons can bombard them with a mile of room, causing a large number of casualties.
Leli asked: What are shells made of?
Ruan Jian said: It’s just a round iron lump!He gestured and said, "I can see clearly in the military camp that the shells should have flew over, and they would jump around on the ground, and they could destroy the troops with one shot."
Li Li nodded slightly, not saying anything.He pondered for a while and said: By the way, I think if the emperor leaves the imperial capital and retreats directly to Yi'an, Yi'an will not be able to defend Yi'an.
(There are three cities along the coast from north to south, here: Tsinghua, Yanzhou and Ng An; Yanzhou is probably in Huangmei, Vietnam today, and Ng An is probably in Rong City, Vietnam today.)
Ruan Jian hurriedly asked: What are the wonderful strategies for pacifying the King of Ding?
Li Li said: Originally, we could also delay the enemy by relying on the imperial capital and defending.However, Liu Sheng's troops attacked very suddenly, and the city defense of Qinghua was unprepared. In addition, the monarch and ministers of Dayue fled hastily and shaken people's hearts. So I think there is no need to defend Qinghua. It is better to abandon it directly, and to save more troops.
Ruan Jian pondered: If the Ming army pursued us, can we get out?
Li Li sneered: It is strange that the ship bandits won a great victory in the north and occupied wealthy places such as Dongguan, but there are large groups of people coming on a boat; so we didn't expect that it is normal, the ship bandits are simply ill!There are so many ships in them that it is impossible to get ashore and gain a foothold in just a few days. They also have to strictly arrange military disciplines and arrange them properly, otherwise it will be very easy to be confused.When the ship bandits gathered to chase them, we had already gone away.
Ruan Jian felt something was right and pondered: No wonder King Pingding doesn’t look too panic.
Li Li continued: After our army retreated south, we could not defend Ng'an (Rong City), because the terrain around Ng'an was wide and was not conducive to our army's tactics.If you first defend Yanzhou (Huangmei) to the north of Nye An, you can find ways to rely on the numerous mountains, forests and rivers in the north of Yanzhou; use strategies such as tempting the enemy to ambush and break each one, and continuously consume the enemy's sharp troops and delay the enemy's rapid offensive.
With such deployment, the troops in the north of Yanzhou can also be sufficiently supplied from Yanzhou City in the rear.
Yanzhou's movement may still be unable to repel the attack of the ship bandits, and can only delay time.
Therefore, at the same time, the court should send people to Ng'an City, asking Ng'an's civil and military officials to transport food and grass along the Cha River to all the upstream areas.
Our army would build warehouses in the mountains and forests, hoard grain, and rely on Lunian County west of Nye An to prepare for subsequent wars.
After the war in Yanzhou ended, the departments continued to retreat south, fighting and walking.
At this time, we can no longer go to Ng'an City. As mentioned earlier, the terrain over there is only conducive to the strong attack and advancement of the elite infantry cavalry of the ship's bandits.
At that time, we would go west of Yi'an and go to the Chajiang River Basin, and move around Lunian County and around forest warehouses in various places; we would constantly arrange troops to ambush and harass, and deal with the ship bandits again.If the battle of Ng'an still cannot repel the ship's bandits, our army can continue to retreat in the direction of Hue.After one battle after another, will it end in a few months?
Lili spoke very smoothly. Obviously, he was not a temporary strategy, but had already thought about it.
He continued: Every time our army withdrew from a place, it burned all the remaining food and grass.After so many harassment and blocking, the rainy season will surely come.When the rainy season comes, boat bandits are short of food and clothing, disease and epidemics are rampant, and the roads are muddy.They can only ask for more blessings, and it is a blessing to withdraw their troops alive!
Ruan Jian nodded frequently when he heard this and said: I just regret it’s too late to know you!
It's not too late.Li looked at Ruan Jian with anticipation.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and they felt sympathetic.
Ruan Jian said: I hope it will not be too late as King Pingding said!I will say goodbye first, and I must persuade the emperor to adopt the strategy of pacifying the king.
Li Li said: Ruan Jun encourages him.This is the critical moment of Dayue's death. If the emperor spends only his troops and is defeated too quickly, he may be in a dark and deteriorating situation and will not be able to recover his vitality. He will fall into a dark and devastating country in countless years!
Ruan Jian bowed deeply and said: I will do my best!
For a moment, Ruan Jian, who was short and had a little big head, felt that both he and the King of Pingding became taller.
At this time, Li Li asked in a casual tone: Can Ruan Jun’s family be in Qinghua?
Ruan Jian suddenly cooled down a little from his generous mood just now, because Li Li's words made Ruan Jian think of some subtle things.
Ruan Jian's wife's surname is Ruan, who is a famous beauty in his hometown of Hedong (now Haiyang).
Li Li also has a disadvantage, that is, he is more lustful. Once when he met Ruan, his eyes were a little bit wrong at that time.
So when Ruan Jian heard Li Li’s question, he subconsciously became a little wary. He said calmly: I have settled down, thank you for pacifying Wang’s worries.
Li Li nodded and sent Ruan Jiang outside the door.
Ruan Jian left the Li Mansion and immediately rushed to the palace to ask for a meeting with the emperor, claiming that there was an important matter.
But he waited for a long time and only came out with a close servant from the emperor.
The closest servant said that the emperor was very busy and asked Ruan Jian what was wrong; he could tell him first and let someone tell him.
Ruan Jian said that there are good plans to pacify the king.
Unexpectedly, the nearby servant was no longer interested in listening and said, "Shilarious Minister Ruan quickly prepare, and it is not too late to report on the road when he leaves the city.
Of course, Ruan Jian was not satisfied with such a reply. If the emperor had already left the city, would he still let Ruan Jingyi withdraw his troops from Qinghua?
Ruan Jian kept talking about the seriousness of the matter, which was related to survival and critical moments. The sooner the court made decisions, the more capable he could turn the tide.
No matter how much the servant persuaded him, he simply went back impatiently.So Ruan Jian knelt outside the gate of the palace, with a strong aura of not giving up until he was a saint.
After a long time, a large group of people finally came out of the palace.
Many mules and horses carry heavy packages, as if they are lucky enough to be treasures.
Chen Jikuo was wearing a yellow robe and riding a horse, rushing over from the guards.
Ruan Jian, kneeling in the middle of the road, blocked the way, and soon a guard came over to carry him next to Chen Jikuo.
Chen Jikuo turned around and said: Ruan Aiqing follows me, what do you mean? He said slowly on the road, how can it be more polite to kneel here?
Ruan Jian had no choice but to follow the emperor's personal army.
At this point, Ruan Jian's family is not at ease, let alone the chaos on the road, and it is really inconvenient for women, children, elderly and weak to escape with the army.
Ruan Jian called a slave and asked him to rush back to the house, telling the old lady and taking her family to her relatives' house for a while.
There were so many people leaving the city, and the army was a little confused.
Fortunately, Liu Sheng's ship arrived at Majiangkou today, and Chen Jikuo was about to set off when he heard the news and reacted very quickly.
It was obviously difficult for the Ming army to immediately dispatch troops to attack; otherwise, the chaotic soldiers and horses around Emperor Dayue at this time would probably be defeated again.
Originally, the defeat of the Grand Yue State Grand Tutor Ruan Shuai had already caused panic.
Ruan Shuai, who claimed to have an army of 500,000, attacked the Ming reinforcements and the military camp defense battle within about half a day, and then lost Beijiang Prefecture City.
Ruan Jian, the Minister of War, ran back to Qinghua and informed him of the details, and Chen Jikuo was so panicked.
Suddenly, there was news about Liu Shengjun, which was even worse.
The entire imperial capital, Qinghua City, was in chaos; because Chen Jikuo decided to leave Qinghua on the same day and retreat to his Longxing land, Nye'an City.
The defense of Qinghua will be handed over to Taibao and the general of the Vietnamese army, Ruan Jingyi.
Of course, Chen Jikuo had to bring the ministers and some guards to accompany him, and the matter was rushed, so that Qinghua City was in chaos.
Seeing such chaos, Ruan Jian finally remembered the pacification of Wang Lili... Those who advocated that Ruan Zheng's army should not gather troops to fight to the decisive battle, Ruan Jian could be said to be a hindsight; but Lili did strongly oppose it before the war started and proposed different strategies.
Now that I think back, Ruan Jian feels that Li Li's words are becoming more and more reasonable.
So Ruan Jian hurried to Li Li's residence in Qinghua, wanting to hear his opinion on the current situation again.
The people in the Li Mansion were also packing up their things and preparing to leave Qinghua.However, Levi's mansion was full of young and strong men, and his family was not here.Ruan Jian was taken to the living room and was also received with a cup of tea.
After meeting Li Li, Ruan Jian first looked sad and sighed.
Li Li also frowned, but he wanted to calm down a lot. He quoted a Han saying: Everything is planned, and everything is not planned, and nothing is done.The matter is coming, and there is no way to go in the situation in front of you. You can only think more about what to do in the future.
Ruan Jian said: The emperor will immediately lidu (Qinghua). Is this right?
Li Li shook his head and said: The monarch and ministers left the capital in a hurry, which shook the morale of the army. It was not easy for Taibao (Ruan Jingyi) to defend the emperor; the ship bandits (Han people, or shipmen) defeated the Japanese soldiers at the city. If they ask for an order to survive and die together with the capital, they are afraid that the emperor will not agree no matter what.Therefore, the situation in front of us can only be like this, there is no way.
However, the Great Vietnamese army on the other side of Dongguan still has time to arrange it.If they only retreated to the army, it would not be possible; they should disperse their troops and look for favorable terrain from the army to the Hwalu (now Ningping, Vietnam) and resist step by step, so that they could consume the ship bandits and delay time.
Ruan Jian said: It is reasonable for the King to pacify the emperor. I will go to the palace and strongly advise the emperor.
Li Li asked in confusion: Grand Tutor Ruan has a lot of people in Beijiang Prefecture. Even if he loses the decisive battle against the ship bandits, he will not be defeated so quickly?
Ruan Jian said with a complicated expression: What I saw on the battlefield with my own eyes, the Great Vietnamese Army was almost defeated!At that time, all units of our army had just approached the enemy's formation for dozens of steps, and the Ming army suddenly attacked with muskets and cannons, causing heavy casualties among our soldiers. When our army retreated, the Ming army's infantry and cavalry immediately flocked to us, alas...
Ruan Jian was still scared: The firearms of the Ming army were extraordinary.Muskets are by no means copper hand guns used in the past. Lead bullets are no more ruthless than bows and arrows that hit people; their cannons can bombard them with a mile of room, causing a large number of casualties.
Leli asked: What are shells made of?
Ruan Jian said: It’s just a round iron lump!He gestured and said, "I can see clearly in the military camp that the shells should have flew over, and they would jump around on the ground, and they could destroy the troops with one shot."
Li Li nodded slightly, not saying anything.He pondered for a while and said: By the way, I think if the emperor leaves the imperial capital and retreats directly to Yi'an, Yi'an will not be able to defend Yi'an.
(There are three cities along the coast from north to south, here: Tsinghua, Yanzhou and Ng An; Yanzhou is probably in Huangmei, Vietnam today, and Ng An is probably in Rong City, Vietnam today.)
Ruan Jian hurriedly asked: What are the wonderful strategies for pacifying the King of Ding?
Li Li said: Originally, we could also delay the enemy by relying on the imperial capital and defending.However, Liu Sheng's troops attacked very suddenly, and the city defense of Qinghua was unprepared. In addition, the monarch and ministers of Dayue fled hastily and shaken people's hearts. So I think there is no need to defend Qinghua. It is better to abandon it directly, and to save more troops.
Ruan Jian pondered: If the Ming army pursued us, can we get out?
Li Li sneered: It is strange that the ship bandits won a great victory in the north and occupied wealthy places such as Dongguan, but there are large groups of people coming on a boat; so we didn't expect that it is normal, the ship bandits are simply ill!There are so many ships in them that it is impossible to get ashore and gain a foothold in just a few days. They also have to strictly arrange military disciplines and arrange them properly, otherwise it will be very easy to be confused.When the ship bandits gathered to chase them, we had already gone away.
Ruan Jian felt something was right and pondered: No wonder King Pingding doesn’t look too panic.
Li Li continued: After our army retreated south, we could not defend Ng'an (Rong City), because the terrain around Ng'an was wide and was not conducive to our army's tactics.If you first defend Yanzhou (Huangmei) to the north of Nye An, you can find ways to rely on the numerous mountains, forests and rivers in the north of Yanzhou; use strategies such as tempting the enemy to ambush and break each one, and continuously consume the enemy's sharp troops and delay the enemy's rapid offensive.
With such deployment, the troops in the north of Yanzhou can also be sufficiently supplied from Yanzhou City in the rear.
Yanzhou's movement may still be unable to repel the attack of the ship bandits, and can only delay time.
Therefore, at the same time, the court should send people to Ng'an City, asking Ng'an's civil and military officials to transport food and grass along the Cha River to all the upstream areas.
Our army would build warehouses in the mountains and forests, hoard grain, and rely on Lunian County west of Nye An to prepare for subsequent wars.
After the war in Yanzhou ended, the departments continued to retreat south, fighting and walking.
At this time, we can no longer go to Ng'an City. As mentioned earlier, the terrain over there is only conducive to the strong attack and advancement of the elite infantry cavalry of the ship's bandits.
At that time, we would go west of Yi'an and go to the Chajiang River Basin, and move around Lunian County and around forest warehouses in various places; we would constantly arrange troops to ambush and harass, and deal with the ship bandits again.If the battle of Ng'an still cannot repel the ship's bandits, our army can continue to retreat in the direction of Hue.After one battle after another, will it end in a few months?
Lili spoke very smoothly. Obviously, he was not a temporary strategy, but had already thought about it.
He continued: Every time our army withdrew from a place, it burned all the remaining food and grass.After so many harassment and blocking, the rainy season will surely come.When the rainy season comes, boat bandits are short of food and clothing, disease and epidemics are rampant, and the roads are muddy.They can only ask for more blessings, and it is a blessing to withdraw their troops alive!
Ruan Jian nodded frequently when he heard this and said: I just regret it’s too late to know you!
It's not too late.Li looked at Ruan Jian with anticipation.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and they felt sympathetic.
Ruan Jian said: I hope it will not be too late as King Pingding said!I will say goodbye first, and I must persuade the emperor to adopt the strategy of pacifying the king.
Li Li said: Ruan Jun encourages him.This is the critical moment of Dayue's death. If the emperor spends only his troops and is defeated too quickly, he may be in a dark and deteriorating situation and will not be able to recover his vitality. He will fall into a dark and devastating country in countless years!
Ruan Jian bowed deeply and said: I will do my best!
For a moment, Ruan Jian, who was short and had a little big head, felt that both he and the King of Pingding became taller.
At this time, Li Li asked in a casual tone: Can Ruan Jun’s family be in Qinghua?
Ruan Jian suddenly cooled down a little from his generous mood just now, because Li Li's words made Ruan Jian think of some subtle things.
Ruan Jian's wife's surname is Ruan, who is a famous beauty in his hometown of Hedong (now Haiyang).
Li Li also has a disadvantage, that is, he is more lustful. Once when he met Ruan, his eyes were a little bit wrong at that time.
So when Ruan Jian heard Li Li’s question, he subconsciously became a little wary. He said calmly: I have settled down, thank you for pacifying Wang’s worries.
Li Li nodded and sent Ruan Jiang outside the door.
Ruan Jian left the Li Mansion and immediately rushed to the palace to ask for a meeting with the emperor, claiming that there was an important matter.
But he waited for a long time and only came out with a close servant from the emperor.
The closest servant said that the emperor was very busy and asked Ruan Jian what was wrong; he could tell him first and let someone tell him.
Ruan Jian said that there are good plans to pacify the king.
Unexpectedly, the nearby servant was no longer interested in listening and said, "Shilarious Minister Ruan quickly prepare, and it is not too late to report on the road when he leaves the city.
Of course, Ruan Jian was not satisfied with such a reply. If the emperor had already left the city, would he still let Ruan Jingyi withdraw his troops from Qinghua?
Ruan Jian kept talking about the seriousness of the matter, which was related to survival and critical moments. The sooner the court made decisions, the more capable he could turn the tide.
No matter how much the servant persuaded him, he simply went back impatiently.So Ruan Jian knelt outside the gate of the palace, with a strong aura of not giving up until he was a saint.
After a long time, a large group of people finally came out of the palace.
Many mules and horses carry heavy packages, as if they are lucky enough to be treasures.
Chen Jikuo was wearing a yellow robe and riding a horse, rushing over from the guards.
Ruan Jian, kneeling in the middle of the road, blocked the way, and soon a guard came over to carry him next to Chen Jikuo.
Chen Jikuo turned around and said: Ruan Aiqing follows me, what do you mean? He said slowly on the road, how can it be more polite to kneel here?
Ruan Jian had no choice but to follow the emperor's personal army.
At this point, Ruan Jian's family is not at ease, let alone the chaos on the road, and it is really inconvenient for women, children, elderly and weak to escape with the army.
Ruan Jian called a slave and asked him to rush back to the house, telling the old lady and taking her family to her relatives' house for a while.
There were so many people leaving the city, and the army was a little confused.
Fortunately, Liu Sheng's ship arrived at Majiangkou today, and Chen Jikuo was about to set off when he heard the news and reacted very quickly.
It was obviously difficult for the Ming army to immediately dispatch troops to attack; otherwise, the chaotic soldiers and horses around Emperor Dayue at this time would probably be defeated again.
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