Just as Ruan Guangping and his men entered the Qinghua Prefecture, the first wave of urgent reports from all over the country came one after another. From Jiangping to Donghai in the east, the Xishan Army was attacked by a fleet of unknown origin in all the water camps along the coast.

Ruan Guangping's first reaction was that Ruan Phoe-ying sent troops to attack, but he immediately denied the idea because the season was wrong.

You should know that all the sea ships in this year have to sail smoothly. Annan has a southwest wind every summer, and in winter, Nguyen Phuc Ying can only choose summer to attack. Moreover, Annan has a narrow terrain, and whether it is the Xishan Army to the south or Nguyen Phuc Ying's army to the north, they have to cooperate with water and land. Simply sending army or naval forces is not possible. At present, Nanruan is training and building ships with the help of the French, rectifying taxes and farmland, and its food and grass are completely insufficient to support such a large-scale raid.

Just as Ruan Guangping rushed to Hue without stopping and arrived in Phoenix City, Ng'an to inspect the progress of the project, the second wave of report came. Now he was so angry.

All the warships of each water battalion were burned, the cannons were destroyed, and all the weapons, materials and supplies were burned. What made the local officials most strange was that the fires set by the sneak attackers could not be extinguished with water. Moreover, when extinguishing the fire, some people were too close to the fire and were splashed into the water and could not be extinguished. It was not until the person's flesh was burned through and automatically extinguished. Local officials accused them in the memorials, not because they didn't work hard, but they really couldn't do it.

Moreover, not only did the Xishan Army under his command suffer heavy losses, but even the recruited Guangdong pirates were killed; Chen Tianbao's right-hand man, General Mo Guanfu, was also killed. After two years of hard work, the Xishan River Army that he finally got together suffered most of the losses. Not to mention robbing the coast of Guangdong, it would be difficult for Nguyen Phuc Ying to fight next year.

Just as Ruan Guangping and his ministers were guessing who was so vicious, an urgent report from Hue finally made him understand who his opponent was. When he saw the content of the emergency memorial, Ruan Guangping and the minister who went to Chengde with him suddenly became numb and his whole body was cold.

Three large ships of unknown origin suddenly appeared on the east sea of ​​Hue the day before yesterday and blocked the Xiangjiang River estuary. The other party came up and shot directly at the Xiangjiang River Water Camp and the sea defense fortress. The general Baode Hou Chen Tianbao led the naval warship to meet the enemy, but he was sunk less than an hour after he was on the boat. Chen Tianbao died in battle. The other naval forces were also shot by the dense artillery fire on the other party's ships, so they had to enter Xiangjiang to hide.

What’s so bad is that no matter the artillery on the shore or the cannons on the warships, they cannot attack the invading enemy at all, and they can only be passively beaten. Whether it is the Elephant Army or other troops, corpses bombed by the opponent’s artillery fire are everywhere.

The most terrifying thing is a large sailless ship with blue and white colors with the words "Thor" written on the bow. It has a giant cannon on it, which can be directly hit into the Hue Imperial City more than twenty miles away. And it was fired several cannons in an instant without stopping.

At present, the gate of the imperial city, Jinhua Hall, and Guanghua Hall were all blown up, and the city walls were damaged in many places. The prince Ruan Guangzhang and the two empresses had already gone to Baoshan Temple outside the city to hide under the protection of their ministers. At this moment, the city of Hue was in chaos, and the people took their families and went out of the city to hide. The Grand Tutor Pei Dexuan and the Secretariat Chen Wenji asked Empress Pei for instructions and were about to send people to negotiate.

After being reminded by his subordinates, Ruan Guangping immediately thought that this was Beihai Town, which had been at Dagukou last year and had no power to fight back. I never expected it! Beihai Town, which was far away in the bitter and cold place outside the pass, did not fight, but even traveled thousands of miles to find him to "visit".

In a palace in Phoenix City, Ruan Guang trembled all over and said angrily: "What's going on?! Our dynasty has never had any relationship with the North Sea pirates. Why did they want to fight to Hue and destroy my imperial city?!"

Wu Wenchu, a Duke of a country who accompanied him to Chengde, reported: "I think it's because of the fact that Nan Ruan and the Beihai pirates have colluded, so they have raised troops to our dynasty."

The other ministers looked at me, I looked at you, and then they all lowered their heads. It’s not that they didn’t want to express their opinions, but the problem was that no matter who was present, they didn’t know anything about Beihai Town at all.

What they heard in the capital was also popular, and the Qing officials naturally would not tell them such embarrassment, and the folk rumors were already unprovoked. The North Sea pirates all knew magic tricks, traveling 800 a day, traveling thousands of miles at night, liked to eat Rakshasa ghosts raw, etc.

Besides, what Wu Wenchu ​​said is just speculation, there is no evidence!

Ruan Guangping thought that if Beihai Town really colluded with Ruan Phoe, he would have to run to Shenglong Mansion. There was a hundred miles away from the sea, and the Beihai Pirates' cannons were definitely not reachable. Although they could flow up the sea through the Honghe River and Taiping River, the other party's big ship could not enter the Honghe River no matter what the other party said.

Although Phoenix Zhongdu is good, it is just like Hue City, just twenty miles away from the sea. The giant cannon of the North Sea Pirates cannon can hit Hue Imperial City, so it can hit here.

Thinking of this, he said to Wu Wenchu: "Issue an order. I ordered Ruan Wenxun to lead two thousand soldiers to protect the queen, the prince and the commander Pei to Shenglong Mansion. I ordered Chen Guangyao to be the general and transferred Qinghua troops to the north to protect Shenglong Mansion! I ordered Wu Wenyong to immediately investigate the movements of Ruan Meiying."

Wu Wenchu ​​bowed to take the order and then said, "How do you arrange it here for Your Majesty?"

After all, Ruan Guangping was born soon. He dared to go to Fuliangjiang Hard Steel with the Qing army, but he was a little brave. After thinking for a moment, he said: "I am in charge of the Phoenix Zhongdu, and wait for the news before making a decision!"

On the sea twenty miles east of Hue City, three large ships of the North Navy lined up in a row. Whether it was the two D30s raised high on the Thor, or the 75mm cannon exposed in the window of the No. 2 gun, they all seemed murderous and terrifying.

In the past few days after the shelling began, due to the shelling of the imperial city, the people in Hue City went out of the city to hide, and the fishermen on the coast did not dare to go out to sea to catch fish. After the soldiers and horses of the Xishan court learned about the artillery bombing of the Northern Navy, a large group of people evacuated westward to guard the prince and queen of Baolin Temple. Only a few sentry detectives were left along the coast, monitoring the movements of the Northern Navy at all times.

Whether it is the ministers and generals in the court or the common people, what they are most worried about now is whether the North Navy will send troops to land and loot the city of Hue.

At this moment, in the conference room of Thunder God, Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang were negotiating with the envoys sent in Hue City.

"Two generals, Master Pei asked me to tell you, begging you not to fire your guns into the city again, so as not to get rid of the creatures."

"My country has always admired China. Last year, it fought with the Qing Dynasty and defeated it. Somehow, it offended my border and killed my soldiers?"

The two people who were talking were Zen Master Xingquan, a monk from the Linji Sect in Annan. He went to Qingyun Temple in Dinghu Mountain, Guangdong to seek Dharma in the first year of Qianlong, so he spoke very fluently in Chinese. The other was Ruan Wenming, the Minister of Works of the Xishan Dynasty. He once went to the Qing Dynasty to seek peace as a member of the Xishan Dynasty mission.

Deng Fei said expressionlessly: "This is wrong. May I ask you two, have we bombarded other places in the city except the Imperial City?"

"Uh..." Xingquan and Ruan Wenming were speechless. This matter seemed quite magical to them. The North Navy's giant cannons were very accurate. During the days when the two sides fought, all the shells landed in Hue City were in the imperial city, and there was no one else in the city.

Ruan Wenming fought a war, and he also participated in the Qing and Vietnam War. In his understanding, it was common for siege and fire to injure innocent people in these days, and no one could guarantee that his cannons would hit wherever they pointed. Besides, the shells were made of iron balls, and they would jump when they landed!

It's not right... the North Pirate's shells do not jump, they explode when they hit the ground, and they explode a large area.

Deng Fei continued, "I advise you two not to talk about admiring China. In the past two hundred years, you have admired me enough! Not to mention anything else, how do you calculate the territory you have eroded and encroached on the borders of Guangxi and Yunnan?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Ruan Wenming's fear changed and immediately realized that these people in Beihai Town could not be good. Without thinking, he blurted out: "That was given to us by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Reward?" Deng Fei sneered, stared at Ruan Wenming's eyes and said, "What's going on with Nanlang and Celery Pond? What's going on in places like cattle, sheep, butterflies, and Puyuan? There are also the six villages in Kaihua Prefecture! Don't think that we don't know anything if we are far away!"

When Ruan Wenming heard this, cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead. However, the Sengquan next to him was confused.

During the Qing Dynasty, the main contradiction between Annan and China was the border issue. Like the Li Dynasty, since there were seas in the south, he could only plot against the northern territory. However, unlike the Li Dynasty who was beaten by Later Jin, Annan was much more blatant. The Li Dynasty relied on playing with word games and used geographical differences in name to steal chickens; Annan was the only one who was unstable within the Qing Dynasty or in chaos in the northwest, he would first take action to rob and then write a letter to ask for it.

It is said that from the Tang Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, the location of the Sino-Vietnam border has not changed much, and it is all based on the Great Pastor River. It starts from Qinzhou in Guangdong in the east, from Nanning, Taiping and Zhen'an in Guangxi in the west to Guangnan in Lin'an in Yunnan, and Kaihua prefectures. However, when the Ming and Qing Dynasties changed, the Li Dynasty at that time felt that there was an opportunity and intended to take advantage of the situation.

Whether it was the Li Dynasty, Mo Dynasty, and later the Xishan Dynasty, they all adhered to a "principle", that is, the territory of the Annan Houli Dynasty was inherited as the basis of inheritance. Any territory that was incorporated into China in history, regardless of how it repeated it, and whoever belonged to it, must be included in their own boundaries. This includes the land of North Vietnam that was taken back by Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, after the Hu Dynasty was eliminated by Zhu Di.

It is also because of this that from the alternation of the Ming and Qing dynasties to the late Qianlong period, whether it was the Li Dynasty, the Mo family, or the later Xishan Dynasty, they repeatedly engaged in the border areas of Yunnan and Guangxi, constantly eroding Chinese territory.

When the Qing army advanced south, the Qing court recruited Annan, but Li Chao did not respond to the orthodox position he was enthroned by the Ming Dynasty. Do you think he was looking forward to China and firmly supported the Yongli regime that had just come to power?

In fact, the Li Dynasty clearly saw the defeat of the Southern Ming Dynasty. The so-called "Ming people flew south and the situation was in poverty, so those who hoped to save our country were in Xinxi." They wanted to borrow the name given by the Ming Dynasty to seek the land of Qinzhou that Mo Chao had returned to the Ming Dynasty's Qinzhou caves, and even Guangdong wanted to annex.

At that time, Gaoping, who was only living in a remote corner, even invaded Guangxi many times under the banner of helping the Southern Ming fight against the Qing Dynasty, and was successively dealt with by the Southern Ming and the Qing Dynasty.

During the Three Feudal Rebellion, Kangxi sent a letter to the Li Dynasty to send troops to help suppress the situation, but the then king Li Weizheng watched the development of the situation. It was not until the Qing army won a great victory in the 18th year of Kangxi that Li quickly wrote a letter to express his loyalty.

In general, during the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, Annan wrote letters to the Qing Dynasty many times, but they were rejected by the Qing court, so they could only steal the chicken and play with the secret. If the local officials of the Qing Dynasty discovered it, they would be rogue; if they didn't find it, they would become theirs.

On the contrary, during the Yongzheng period, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Gao Qizhuo and the later Ortaiin Annan occupied the six villages of Kaihua Prefecture, and boldly sent troops to reclaim the big and small cursed the river Dulong, Nandan and other places, and set up new boundary markers and set up flood control camps. As a result, because of his troops in the northwest, Yongzheng used troops to calm the incident, so-called "compulsive for generations" Annan, and rewarded the 40 miles of territory occupied by the other party to the Li Dynasty.

Do you think Annan is so grateful? That’s not!

In fact, since the Li Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers of Annan had already understood that the Qing court was very proud of their face and boasted of themselves as the superior country of the Celestial Empire. As long as they recognized themselves as vassals, were humble and obedient on the surface, the Qing emperor would always be generous. Ruan Guangping chose to fight toughly in the early days and took the initiative to pay tribute in the later days. This was the purpose.

Since the Thunder God's troops arrived at Dagukou, Ruan Guangping, who heard the wind, went around the capital to inquire about the details of Beihai Town. When he learned the rumors that Beihai Town had defeated the Qing army several times, he felt that the opportunity was coming. Since the Qing Dynasty was busy dealing with Beihai Town, he would try his best to please Qianlong, who was very happy with the achievements. At that time, the Qing court was busy dispatching troops to deal with the north, and would have no time to take care of it, so he could only pinch his nose to tolerate his encroachment. When the Beihai Army fought from north to south, he would send troops north and continue to embezzle in the name of regaining the Han family's rivers and mountains.

The purpose of Zhao Xin's conquest of Annan this time was to kill the chicken of Xishanchao in order to achieve the shaking of the Nguyen Phuc Ying regime in the south. At the same time, through the attack on Hue City, it laid the foundation for the future of taking back the land lost in the Kangxi and Yongzheng eras. If Nguyen Phuc Ying was still ready to move, then he would not mind pushing the border to the Qinghua Prefecture at all.

At this time, Wang Yuanfang also spoke: "In addition, your king also recruits Guangdong pirates, provides ships and weapons, grants official positions, and plunders coastal ships in Guangdong to make up for national use..."

"This is a slander out of nothing! Those people voluntarily join our court. My king gave him an official position to wipe out the remnants of Nan Ruan!"

Seeing Ruan Wenming's angry look, Wang Yuanfang smiled and said, "Haha, we have evidence, both people and physical evidence are there!"

During the previous process of attacking the Xishan Army Water Village, the Northern Navy successively seized a large number of seals, pass tokens and orders issued by the Xishan court to the pirate leader. Ruan Guangping even followed the French and issued a plunder permit with the seal of the Xishan Dynasty.

"We don't know how you beat Nanruan. But your robbery of Guangdong's coastal business is very exciting!"

After Wang Yuanfang finished speaking, he slapped the table with a "slap", which scared Ruan Wenming.

Deng Fei stood up and said, "Go back and tell you Master Pei, put away your dirty thoughts! If you want us to withdraw our troops, you can sign a contract and promise not to recruit Guangdong pirates again, and return to the south of the Great Curse River by obediently!"

Ruan Wenming was almost stunned when he heard this, and after a while, he said, "You, you... are anti-Qing."

"Is it related to you to the anti-Qing in Beihai Town? Stop thinking about the beautiful things of fighting between snipe and clams! No matter how we are with the Qing Dynasty, I will spit out the land I had embezzled before."

Wang Yuanfang also stood up and said, "I'll give you two days to discuss. If there is no result in two days, we will continue to shell the palace and then go north to blow up the Phoenix Zhongdu. We have all cleaned up the Qing Dynasty. Do you think you will be better than the Qing Dynasty?"

Ruan Wenming felt that he could hold on for a while, so he stubbornly said, "Although our country is small, it is not a country that can be bullied! The battle between Fuliang River is not far away."
Chapter completed!