It is actually not easy for the North Navy to fight Hue. Although after several days of artillery attacks, Hue City has almost become an empty city, but it is quite difficult to enter Hue from the outside seas.

This is a city surrounded by mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. It is surrounded by Changshan Mountains in the west and is sixteen miles away from the sea in the east. Kusun and Sixianxun are two waterways entering the waters of the Xiangjiang River. The Xiangjiang River passes through the south of the city, and Puze three sources surround the left and right. Sanjiangtan, Qinglantan and Hezhongtan are three passes on the Xiangjiang River.

The Beihai No. 1 and No. 2 seized from Tsarist Russia are both British second-class sailboats. Although they do not need to be equipped with so many artillery after transformation, there is a layer of copper skin from the lower edge of the main waist plate to the bottom of the ship, and a diesel motor is installed in the cabin. Because the 75mm cannon is fast, the number of shells is also provided accordingly. In addition, the people and other supplies of the land war camp, the draft is not much smaller than before, almost six meters.

According to the results of the North Navy dispatched a small boat to conduct reconnaissance and measurement a few days ago, even the deepest waterway in the waterway, the water depth was only eight feet and five inches at high tide, and only seven feet at low tide. With the volume of Beihai No. 1 and No. 2, it cannot be entered at all.

If the charge boat is sent in, it will not be able to carry too much equipment and ammunition. There are 30 miles of waterways from the entrance of Xiangjiang River to Hue City. The Xishan Army will inevitably block the two sides of the Xiangjiang River, which will be very difficult to fight.

"Oh, I would have left two black boats to bring them here if I had known it. Even a flatbed with hundreds of stones would be fine!" Deng Fei shook his head and smiled bitterly after carefully understanding the situation of the Xiangjiang waterway to Ye Chengxiang.

Hearing the words of the leader of the North Navy, Ye Chengxiang said: "General Deng, there are ships in Hoi'an, but the northeast wind is blowing down now, so it may be difficult to travel north against the current."

"It doesn't matter, our ship is not affected by the monsoon. There is no problem with boating against the current. You can tow the ship back." Deng Fei asked quickly after explaining, "If you set out to Hoi An now, when will you prepare the ship?"

When Ye Chengxiang heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "The ships are all ready-made and parked in the port. There are two 300-material black boats under the name of "Lianchang Ji" in my Ye family."

“How deep is the drip?”

Ye Chengxiang said with great certainty: "If you have a full load, you will be eight feet."

"Is there any lighter draft?"

"That's a big fishing boat with a draft of three feet and six inches."

Deng Fei asked curiously: "Big Tail? What kind of ship is this and what size is it?"

Ye Chengxiang thought for a while and said, "It is eighty-four feet long and fifteen feet wide, and it can hold more than two hundred materials."

After hearing this, Deng Fei quickly converted it on paper with a pen and followed the saying of the leaves in the picture. The big end was 28 meters long, 5 meters wide, with a load of about 80 tons, and a draft depth of no more than 2 meters.

There are actually formulas for drafts of sailboats in ancient China. Taking the broad ship as an example, the hull width of a small ship is generally around 0.2 times the length of the ship, and no more than 0.3 times the maximum, and the draft depth is generally 0.38 times the width of the ship; while large ships are generally 0.47 to 0.5 times the width of the hull, the height of the main mast does not exceed 75% of the length, the foremast is 70% of the main mast height, and the tail mast is 70% of the foremast height.

"How many troops does the Xishan Army have in Hoi'an?"

"Only Huian Camp is the only one who is stationed fifteen miles west of the city. There are more than 40 ships of all sizes and sizes in the water camp, with troops ranging from about 2,000."

Deng Fei nodded and said, "Young Master Ye, the Thunder God will be shipped immediately. Let's go to Hoi'an together. You need that kind of big opening, at least twenty. I don't have enough sailors here, so I'll ask for your help."

"Please rest assured. Although there are not many merchants in the Tang Dynasty, there are fishing boats and people who know how to drive boats. Within two days, I will be able to gather all the boats and sailors that adults need!"

If you walk from Hue to Hoi'an, you will walk along the coast, the distance is only 120 kilometers, which is less than 65 miles away. At the speed of Thor, you will arrive in more than 4 hours.

Deng Fei left as soon as he said that he would leave. He immediately notified two sailboats, asking them to stay here to get their hands on the sea estuary, and at the same time monitored the movements of the Xishan Army. Then the Thunder started anchoring.

Ye Chengxiang was shocked by everything on Thunder God so much that he couldn't describe it in words. He thought to himself that his father had asked him to come here. He could rely on the ship of the North Navy, and the Ye family was just around the corner.

Shortly after Deng Fei and his friends left, a fleet of more than 20 black ships under the banner of the old Ruan suddenly appeared on the ocean ten miles north of Hue.

"Sir, there are sails ten miles away! It's a Western-style sailboat!"

On a black boat with the banner "Shi Duying He" hanging on the black boat, the sailor in the watchtower at the top of the mast observed with a thousand-mile mirror for a long time, then pointed to the southwest and reported loudly to an official waiting under the mast.

After hearing this, the official turned around and walked a few steps, and said to another official sitting on a Grand Master's chair in front of the stern building: "Sir Qibing..."

"I've heard it after shouting so loudly!"

The official said embarrassedly: "Isn't this what the adults have ordered? If you have any questions, you must report them layer by layer and do not exceed the level."

Under the cover of the red silk umbrella, an official in his thirties wore five long beards, with a squid head, a silver jewelry on his forehead, a purple robe, and a cowhide leather belt inlaid with tortoiseshell hanging on his waist. His outfit was not the official uniform of the Xishan Dynasty, but the costumes of the old Ruan followed Li Zheng. Judging from the Bai Zefuzi on his chest, he was at least a third-rank military officer.

"Yeah." The military officer curled his lips and turned to a 20-year-old general beside him and said, "Zhongtong, you are bold and meticulous and do things safely. Brother, uh, I'm the most at ease to send you there."

The young military general was named Huang Zhongtong, and his official position was "Flying Cavalry Escort", a fifth-ranked rank. He bowed and said, "Brother, we have taken over a lot of Mo Guan's help along the way. If they attacked this time..."

"Hey, you and my brother are under the command of King Ruan, and they are different from the group of rebels in Xishan."

"Yes. Everything follows the instructions of my elder brother."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The general touched his beard and said with a gloomy face: "Since they have attacked the city of Hue for several days, they must be friendly forces. If they can help King Jialong take down the city of Hue, hehe, this contribution is only one, and it is no problem to be a marquis! Chen Tianbao can be a marquis, and you and my brothers can help King Ruan in times of danger, why can't they be a marquis? Take my prayer post and remember that you must not be rude to the Northern Navy."

After saying that, the person next to him handed over a red famous post. Huang Zhongtong hurriedly took it, and saw three large characters "He Xiwen" written in the middle of the post, and small characters on the left, "Pursuing Haiduying in front of the Ruan Palace of Guangnan Kingdom, the third rank".

This military general was He Xiwen, a founding hero of the Ruan Dynasty in another time and space history. He was also the number one naval general under Nguyen Phuc Ying. After his death, he was honored as the Xianzhong Temple in Jiading and presented to General Zhaoyi, the navy commander, and the guardian.

The historical records about He Xiwen’s early years are very vague. The historical materials about his life experience are all provided by future generations and descendants, and there is a lot of water.

In the official historical materials of the Ruan Dynasty, this person was from Sichuan, whose original name was He Xianwen. He joined the Hunyuan Sect, which is a variant of the White Lotus Sect in his early years. It is said that he had pulled the flag in Sichuan and rebelled. Later, he transformed himself into a change and became the leader of the Tiandihui Society. So some people said that this person was the early leader of the Tiandihui Society of Vietnam.

Haha, the originator of Vietnam's Secret Society was the "Baoxiang Sect", which was founded in 1848. What was the early Heaven and Earth? The robber Luba who cheated and cheated, oh yes, I have to add a pirate.

In fact, according to the timetable of He Xiwen's appearance in Annan, it can be concluded that at least when Lin Shuangwen was in trouble in Taiwan, he had already taken his subordinates to Kunlun Island in southern Annan to occupy it. So he was probably just a minion in the Tiandihui in Chaoshan area, not even a leader. Because after the Lin Shuangwen's rebellion, the Tiandihui appeared in the vision of the Qing court. Sun Shiyi once strictly investigated the Tiandihui elements in the Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Gu

Furthermore, before the 51st year of Qianlong, there was never any White Lotus Sect uprising in Sichuan. There were quite a lot of rebellions in Luluzi, and the tentacles of the Hunyuan Sect only reached the edge of Xiangyang and Nanba Laolin. It is estimated that He Xiwen either did not make it easy to cheat money after joining the sect or was cheated of a lot of money, so he ran to Guangdong.

At that time, the "Heaven and Earth Mutual Aid Association" could join by paying a hundred and ten months. If he could get some people in the mountains, it would be a way to make money. Yan Yan and others used this to make money. However, after He Xiwen arrived in Guangdong, he soon became a pirate. After having some capital, he took his subordinates from Beibu Gulf to the Kunlun Island area to rob the passing merchant ships, and then met Nguyen Phuc Ying.

Speaking of his encounter with Nguyen Phuc Ying, it is quite interesting.

According to the "Jiading Tongzhi", in the spring of 1786, well, this is another story that happened in spring... At that time, Nguyen Phuc Ying's army was defeated by the Xishan army again, and he took a few subordinates to escape from Hexian. When passing by Kunlun Island, more than a hundred Chinese pirate ships suddenly surrounded him heavily. The other party's flagship was a large three-masted sailboat painted black and the deck was painted red, with the word "He" on its banner.

Needless to say, this is He Xiwen's fleet.

Nguyen Phuc Ying was only 25 years old at that time, but she had already fought against Xishanchao with the remnants of the old Ruan for ten years and had a rich political experience. After being surrounded by He Xiwen's fleet, Nguyen Phuc Ying, who was alone in power, sorted out her clothes, walked to the bow of the ship alone, told the pirates around that he was the king who was "destroyed by the country" and had nothing on the ship. If you all can help me defeat the enemy, you will be willing to divide the country and be king with the same country as the day of success.

Look at how bright this is. Follow me, and you will be the king of one word in the future!

By the way, no one will take anyone with a little emotional intelligence seriously. The so-called phoenix in trouble is not as good as a chicken. Ruan Phoenix is ​​purely a erhu in the grave, which is a terrible trick!

But He Xiwen and his pirates believed it, and they "killed the chicken's head and burned yellow paper". They swore on the spot, calling their brother... Bah! It's the king.

You should know that He Xiwen is still a good writer and is deeply influenced by traditional folk chivalrous culture (I read many operas, many storytelling books, and never read a serious book). I have been on the sea all year round, so I am quite convinced by Nguyen's remarks. Moreover, Nguyen's confrontation with the Xishan Army in the Jiading area for many years and called himself "Ruan Zhuo of Great Yue". So a group of pirates who had no future felt that the opportunity had come.

After that, He Xiwen sent his subordinates to escort Nguyen Phuc to Bangkok, Siam, and defected to Rama I. The next year, the Xishan Army had internal conflicts and Jiading was empty. Nguyen Phucing seized the opportunity to fight back to Hexian. This time, He Xiwen personally led a fleet to greet him, and Nguyen Phucing named him the third-rank patrol camp on the spot.

The year before yesterday - in 1788, Nguyen Phuc Ying re-occupied Jiading and gave He Xiwen 100 stag, twenty pieces of silk cloth and a large amount of rice and grain to reward him. He also asked He Xiwen to go back to Guangdong to attract more pirates to serve and fight against the Xishan Dynasty.

As a result, the pirates in Fujian and Guangdong became a hot commodity in Annan; Ding Qing was busy dealing with Beihai Town and had no time to deal with it, and the new Ruan and the old Ruan rushed to recruit him. However, Nguyen Phucing was quite sensible and knew that in order to unify Annan, he must be recognized by Ding Qing and must not be provoked, so he did not let He Xiwen rob the coast of Guangdong, otherwise he would be on Zhao Xin's "blacklist".

Last summer, He Xiwen took four black boats to the north, first reconnaissanced the movements of the Xishan Army, and then went to Lianzhou, Guangdong to recruit various pirates there.

Unexpectedly, in June this year, He Xiwen encountered the Qing Navy outside Hutou Mountain, Guangdong to chase and suppress a group of pirates. Out of his loyalty, he immediately helped, defeated the Qing Navy, killed a general, and seized the other party's yellow jacket and waist knife. Lord He didn't know at this moment, but his name had reached Tianting, and even Qianlong knew it.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Compared to Mo Guanfu's recruitment of pirates, who gave both officials and ships and guns, He Xiwen could not take anything except official positions, and could only recruit them with his loyalty and his own small money. He wandered around for a year, and it was almost done, so he brought the recruited 19 black boats and more than a thousand pirates back south more than ten days ago.

Unexpectedly, when they were walking back from the north, they met many pirates in small boats, all of whom were in a daze. After they caught them, they found out that there was a force called the "Northern Navy" that, with three giant boats and the "hundreds of fast cannons" on the boat, killed the pirates in Jiangping Town and even burned the ship.

He Xiwen was of course very happy when he heard this. This is a friendly army! He had heard of the name of the Northern Navy in Lianzhou. It is said that he had fought Guangzhou City a few years ago, and he used more than a dozen people to kill seven in and seven out, which made him really admire him. If the two sides could unite, fighting the Xishan Army would be like cutting melons and vegetables.

However, when he arrived at Jiangping with his fleet, he realized that the North Navy had not plundered the place, which was a bad thing. So he not only robbed Jiangping Town, but also incorporated many pirates who fled to surrounding villages. In addition, the bronze cannons that were blown up by the North Navy were also good things, and they could be rebuilt after being taken back and melted.

There is no way, King Ruan is too poor. Jiading and Hexian Town are repeatedly looted by war, and the people are so poor that they can't even pay taxes. If there were no French assistance, King Ruan probably can only squat on the island of Phu Quoc to eat taro, and even Hexian Town cannot be defeated.

So the Northern Navy fought and burned all the way in front, and He Xiwen followed him and his subordinates to get a good time. He was so happy that he followed behind and was crazy about "picking up the Yangluoer". It would definitely be impossible to catch up with the Northern Navy fleet.

Unexpectedly, just as he arrived at Donghai Camp, the news of the North Navy's artillery bombardment of Hue also came. When He Xiwen heard that the cannons on the North Navy ship could hit the Hue Palace and knocked down the Palace of Taihe, He Xiwen was both surprised and happy.

What was shocked that he had never heard of any cannons that were so powerful. No wonder Beihai Town could impose the Qing court in the north. What was happy was that since the Beihai Army had started to attack Hue, he had to hurry up and contact him. Then the two sides joined forces to capture Hue, and not only could they be promoted, but they would make a fortune.

When Huang Zhongtong finally contacted Beihai No. 2, he was delighted to find that there were people from the Hongqi Gang on the ship, so it became much easier for both parties to communicate.
Chapter completed!