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Gan Yu said worriedly: "What if the Han soldiers lose? The Zheng family will settle the score after autumn, and the family will be ruined!"

Gan Shoudao said: "If this goes on like this, sooner or later we will lose our family!"

The Zheng regime had a standing force of 56500.

Among them, 5000 people defended the king, 6000 people defended the Lord Zheng, 30000 people were distributed in various places, more than 10000 people were stationed in Ngee An and the major Buzheng Prefectures, and the remaining more than 4000 people were stationed in Thanh Hoa.

It can be seen how important Ngee Ann and Thanh Hoa are, and there are more troops garrisoned than frontier defenders.

Under normal circumstances, a strong attack is necessary, but the Datong Army took advantage of the loophole, and Zheng led the soldiers and horses of the two places to fight, and they were defeated and almost wiped out.

However, Zheng's territory has a total population of only 300 million, and it needs to support more than 5 standing troops. It is conceivable how heavy the taxes are.

What's even more nonsense is that they have to support the royal family and Lord Zheng.

The annual income of the Annan royal family is Yiganshe (a thousand villages), which accounts for one eighth of the country's total.Master Zheng's Tang Muyi is also close to Yiganshe, accounting for one-eighth of the country.There is also support from the clan, which accounts for about one-twentieth of the country.

One-third of the country's land tax is used to support these people, and the rest can go to the treasury to support soldiers and officials.

The people in Annan, with two crops a year and three crops a year, can't afford such exploitation, even the landlord's family has no surplus food.

By the way, Lord Zheng's Yiganshe Tangmu Township is all located in Tsinghua.

Zheng Pi's old mansion has been copied by Li Dingguo!

Gan Shoudao and his slaves rushed to the other side of the river in Nanding city day and night.There is Yuan Shizhong's military camp by the river, and Li Dingguo is stationed in the city with his troops.

Gan Shoudao was caught as a spy, and after crying, he was taken to see Li Dingguo.

"General, help!" Gan Shoudao knelt down.

Li Dingguo asked: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Gan Shoudao replied: "The grass people are the people of Xing'an Prefecture. The Zheng family is cruel and ruthless. They plunder the people's rations to fund the army. If there is any resistance, the family will be destroyed. Please send troops quickly to save thousands of people from the fire and water." !"

Of course Li Dingguo sent spies out, and he also knew that Zheng was sending troops to plunder the people.

But, just by looking at Gan Shoudao's clothes, you can tell that he is a landlord.Being able to force the landlords to surrender to the enemy shows that the Zheng family has lost popular support and the time for a decisive battle is ripe.

Li Dingguo asked Gan Shoudao to stay as a guide, and then ordered: "Let's march tomorrow, and distribute food to the people along the way!"

The Datong army is not short of food. Zheng Pi's hometown in Qinghua collects one-eighth of the country's land tax every year.Except for those who were transported to Thang Long Mansion, except for those who were engaged in grain business, the rest of the grain was piled up in the warehouse.

What's even more funny is that more than half of the [-] Annan officers and soldiers stationed in Tsinghua usually guard Zheng Pi's granary outside the city.

The food there is all cheaper than Li Dingguo.

Chapter 646 [Third Party Intervention]

"kill!"

Under the city of Taiyuan, Mo Jingyu led his troops to attack the city.

Eight thousand standing troops and more than ten thousand civilians were brave enough to attack and fight against the city with only five hundred defenders. The gates of the city were opened, but there were internal responses in the city.

As an important military town in northern Vietnam, Taiyuan has attacked here many times, but succeeded only twice.one of the times,

He went directly to Shenglong Mansion, the capital of Annan, but was soon killed by Zheng Shi and returned to the ravine. .

This time, in order to deal with the Datong army, Zheng Pi took away the Taiyuan defenders and immediately gave Mo Jingyu a chance.

The general soldier in Taiyuan died in battle, and Pan Chunzhi, the deputy general soldier, was the brother of Pan Chunfu who slaughtered pigs and sheep to welcome the king's teacher.

With the help of Nei Ying, Mo Jingyu captured the city and interrogated Pan Chunzhi himself: "Why are there only a few hundred people left in the Taiyuan garrison?

"Bah! Thief!"

Pan Chunzhi spit it out.

This is not because Pan Chunzhi is so strong. If he is captured by the Datong Army, he will probably surrender.

But Mo Jingyu is different. The Mo regime represents the interests of the Vietnamese gentry.

And Pan Chunzhi, who was born in Huan (huan) lovers, that is, Thanh Hoa and Ngee An gentry group.

The two gentry groups have been in conflict for thousands of years.When one faction gains power, it will definitely suppress the other faction, and there is almost no possibility of compromise.

If we use religion as a metaphor, for Pan Chunzhi, the foreign Datong Army is a heretic, while Mo Jingyu is a heretic.It is possible to cooperate with heretics, but it is absolutely impossible to give good looks to heretics!

Mo Jingyu was spit on his face, angry from the heart, he drew his knife and chopped Pan Chunzhi, and asked: "Who knows what happened to Shenglong Mansion? If no one answers, I will kill five with one stick of incense until the Until you finish killing!"

After seeing most of the incense stick time, a captured official finally said: "Han soldiers attacked Tsinghua from the sea,

Your Highness... Mrs. Zheng has sent troops to fight the Han army. "

"The Han army sent troops to Qinghua?"

Mo Jingyu was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he laughed loudly: "It's God who helped me! This Zheng family thief will kill himself if he does many unrighteous deeds. He dared to swallow the Mujiaxun Village. He really thought he could hide it from the Chinese emperor. ? Evacuate the Taiyuan treasury, and follow me to the Shenglong Mansion!"

Mujiaxun Village, which was swallowed up by Annan, is next to Mo Jingyu's site.

Before Zheng Pi and Li Dingguo had a decisive battle, Mo Jingyu broke through Taiyuan City and went straight to Shenglong Mansion, the capital of Annan Kingdom.

Instead of encountering resistance along the way, the soldiers fought more and more.A large number of northern gentry took the initiative to recruit village braves,

Follow Mo Jingyu to fight together.

These northern gentry were crushed miserably by the southern gentry, and they always hoped that Mo Shi would come back.The peasants in the north, who were also exploited on weekdays, simply rebelled against the landlords.

When Mo Jingyu arrived at Shenglong Mansion, his army had grown to 3!

Mo Jingyu preached on the way, with the slogan: expel the false king, slaughter the Mo family, rejuvenate the Li Dynasty, and treat the gentry well. Of course, he only treats the northern gentry well, including the gentry around Thang Long Mansion.

The gentry in Shenglong Mansion had the worst life.

Because they are located around the capital, the Zheng family rewarded land, often enclosing land here.Beijing officials who were born as gentry in the south also liked to buy land near the capital, while the area of ​​land occupied by northern landlords continued to shrink.

On the second day after Mo Jingyu besieged Shenglong Mansion, the local gentry also came to help.You are dozens, I am a hundred, all of them bring their own bravery.

The officials in the capital city of Shenglong Mansion were already in a hurry.The state treasury has been emptied of food by Zheng Pi, and there are not many defenders left. They can only organize officials and civilians to defend the city.

"Your Majesty, let's go!"

Zheng Rongfu, who knew Li Fan, rushed into the palace with his slaves, anxiously looking for the Empress Dowager Zheng Yuzhu.

Zheng Yuzhu asked: "Can't you keep it?"

"There are no soldiers in the city, how can we defend it?" Zheng Rongfu asked anxiously, "When the rebels fill up the moat, Shenglong Mansion will definitely fall, and if we don't leave, it will be too late!"

Zheng Yuzhu immediately asked the court lady to pack up the bundles, and board the ship with large and small packages, intending to take the boat overnight to find Zheng Pi.

There was too much commotion in the palace, and the ships on the pier were forced to be confiscated. How could they hide it from the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty?

The empress dowager was about to run away, so they naturally didn't dare to stay, so the good show of snatching the ship quickly took place.

Even Mo Jingyu, who was outside the moat, was alarmed. He sent people to the lower reaches of the Red River in advance to intercept them. After nightfall, a large number of nobles and officials fled.

The same scene happened decades ago.It was also Mo Shi who took advantage of the vacancy and entered, and fought all the way back to Shenglong Mansion, all the noble officials in the city rushed to escape, and Mo Shi went into the city to kill all those who did not escape.

At night, six or seven miles downstream of the Red River.

The fleeing fleet headed by Empress Dowager Zheng Yuzhu brought gold and silver goods here.Suddenly, all the ambushes on both sides of the bank came out and shot arrows towards the river.

Immediately afterwards, lights were lit in the river.

Mo's army set up small boats, some even rode bamboo rafts, rowed over and surrounded the fleeing fleet

"Leave none of the men, kill them all!"

Mo Jingyu's son was named Mo Jingrui, who was attached to the Manchu Qing in history, so he changed his name to Mo Yuanqing.

This guy is only over ten years old, and he is responsible for leading the army to intercept and kill.

Moreover, the murderous nature was particularly heavy, and all the southern gentry were to be killed.If these southern gentry hadn't rebelled, his Mo family would still rule the whole of Annan, regardless of whether the Zheng family or the Ruan family's territory belonged to his Mo family.

In the early morning, Mo Jingrui seized all the goods on board, and the wives of gentry and nobles were escorted ashore.

Mo Jingrui asked: "Where is the concubine of the false Empress Li?"

"Your Highness, those are the concubines of the false emperor." The general under his command pointed to more than 50 women.

Mo Jingrui asked suspiciously: "Why are there still older ones?"

The general explained: "The concubines of the two false emperors are here."

Mo Jingrui thought for a while and said with a smile: "Don't want the old ones, give them to the soldiers. Take the young ones back to Shenglong Mansion!"

In fact, they are not particularly old. The eldest concubine of Emperor Li Shenzong is only in her 50s, and the youngest is only in her 20s.

Mo Jingrui boarded the boat that Zheng Yuzhu was on. The boat was full of blood, and it had been cleaned for a long time.

This guy didn't dislike him either, he ordered the fleet to return to Thang Long Mansion, and entered the cabin with Li Zhenzong's queen in his arms.It doesn't matter if they are older, these are Li Huang's women, their unattainable status is enough to excite them.

Even Zheng Yuzhu, who was nearly 50 years old, was dragged into the cabin by an officer.

The Mo family regime is not a good guy either. Although they hide in the ravine, they have always been extravagant.It is also necessary to raise soldiers, build a palace, and even overhaul temples, which will arouse the people to rebel almost every ten years.

When Mo Jingrui was sleeping with the queen in the cabin, his father Mo Jingyu had already captured Thang Long Mansion.

The officials and nobles have all fled, so why do soldiers guard the city?

Mo Jingyu rode a war horse through the door opening, and told the left and right: "This capital is ours, and no looting is allowed. Except for the southerners (southern gentry), as long as they speak with a southern accent, all the men will be killed, and the women will be rewarded." General!"

With this order, there was a sudden chaos.

These soldiers were like bandits, and they carefully distinguished their accents at first.Killing, killing, no matter where you are from, rush into the mansion when you see it.

He was even afraid that someone would sue him afterwards, and while robbing the property, he would kill all of them. Only the young woman with outstanding looks survived.

The entire Shenglong Mansion was killed like hell.

"Boom boom boom!"

In the direction of Lang Son, the Datong Army is shelling Guancheng.

During Zhu Di's period, Zhang Fu led his troops to conquer Annan four times, and they all followed this path.

The first expedition was the prince of the Chen Dynasty of An Nanguo, who came to China to join the court.The Li family pretended to ask him to return to the country for restoration, and Zhu Di sent five thousand soldiers to escort him.Unexpectedly, the Li family was so bold that they ambushed the Ming army, not only killing the prince Chen Chao, but also killing the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty to Annan (the outgoing Minister of Dali Temple).

In less than a month, Zhang Fu broke through the Yuebei checkpoint, and reached the Taiping River in two months.This has already penetrated the Shenglong Mansion, Annan's ruler and ministers abandoned the capital and fled, not even daring to go by land, and fled to the sea before giving up.

In this way, Annan Kingdom became Jiaozhi Province, and it took about two months from the war to the destruction of the country.

Moreover, Zhennan Pass was in the hands of Annan at that time, and it was called Jiling Pass.Before Jiling Pass, Zhang Fu also broke through Aiyi Pass.The attack on these two great passes is also counted in those two months.

The remaining three expeditions were all to quell the Jiaozhi Rebellion.

At this moment, Liu Xinyu and Ding Jiasheng have also broken through two passes, both of which were built after the restoration of Annan.

Lang Son City is the third hurdle they attacked.

Just when the defenders were about to be unable to withstand the shelling, a fast horse came from the south, entered Guancheng and shouted: "The Mo family sent troops and took Shenglong Mansion!

The defenders were shocked.

Lang Son's deputy commander-in-chief had already lost the ball at the previous pass, and Tao Zhongren, the commander-in-chief of Lang Son, was defending at the moment.

Tao Zhongren grabbed the messenger by the skirt and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

The messenger said with tears: "The Mo family has really sent troops, and the Shenglong Mansion has fallen."

Tao Zhongren froze in place, when suddenly the gunfire rang out again. After waking up, he gritted his teeth and said, "Kaicheng surrendered,

Meet the Heavenly Soldiers! "

Soon, the city gate opened.

Liu Xinyu was a little disbelieving, and said: "The previous two pass cities were defended very tenaciously by the enemy, and even the deputy commander died in a fierce battle. Why did they surrender all of a sudden?"

Ding Jiasheng said: "Either there is a change in the enemy's rear, or the general of Lang Son is greedy for life and afraid of death."

While the two were still talking, Tao Zhongren had already taken off his armor, led his troops out of the city and knelt outside, and at the same time sent someone to invite the Datong army to enter the city.

Liu Xinyu led his troops over and asked, "Why did you surrender suddenly?"

Tao Zhongren said: "The rebel Mo family will surely kill countless people when he captures Shenglong Mansion, please send troops to rescue the people quickly.

"Mo's?" Ding Jiasheng also came over, "This guy is well informed, and he took advantage of the opportunity to capture Shenglong Mansion.

This man ruled the people brutally. In the past few years, many Yue people fled to Guangxi to survive.If he captured Shenglong Mansion, he might really plunder the city. "

During the Guangxi Datong Army's journey, the enemy suddenly changed. Mo Jingyu would not hand over the Shenglong Mansion easily, and he would definitely be beaten by then.

Chapter 647 [Mountain cavalry, aggression like fire]