Chapter 110: Nguyen Chi's Lang Son retreats

It's just that now Ruan Chi doesn't even have the power to be sick.

He was unconscious for two hours before he was rescued.

Once he came to his senses, he didn't say a word to cheer up and patrol the city.

Let the soldiers see what he looks like.

It's just that after I came back, I was already sweating, my legs and feet were weak, and I couldn't seem to stand.

How so?

Guo Deng's pressure is heavy enough, but for Ruan Chi, it is insignificant, even a happy trouble.

In the past few months, Ruan Chi has been under pressure that can make anyone collapse.

The life and death of his family and country are all in his thoughts.

Moreover, the offensive of the Ming army was also fierce again and again.

What you see is that the battle of Lang Son was in a stalemate, and the Ming army fought for a long time without success, but I don't know how many times it was almost dead and how much pressure it took Ruan Chi to survive under this long and fruitless battle.

I really thought Guo Deng was given for nothing.

It's just that the abilities of the two are similar under the blessing of additional factors such as strength and terrain, so that there is such a dynamic balance, and from the layman's point of view, it seems to be a very fixed situation. But only insiders know that any confrontation is the most unbalanced situation.

No matter how long the confrontation lasts, there is a possibility that in the next second, earth-shattering changes will erupt.

Nguyen Chi held out for so long, that is, to drag the war into the rainy season.

But Wang Yue's actions not only broke the balance, but also broke Ruan Chi's psychological balance.

After Ruan Chi went back, he retreated left and right, sharpened the ink by himself, dipped the brush with ink, and stood suspended in the air, but he didn't put down the pen for a long time.

It took a while before I slowly put pen to paper.

He wrote a recital for Li Sicheng again.

First of all, he explained all the situations on the Lang Son front one by one, then added Wang Yue's new change to it, and finally explained the change in his entire strategic thinking.

It's a retreat.

Withdraw the large army to the south of the Red River.

The retreat of Lang Son cannot be simply understood as the retreat of Lang Son. Rather, it was the general retreat of Annam in the area north of the Red River.

There's no way around it.

Once the empty door of Langshan is wide open and Gao Ping, it will be impossible to defend it. Between Lang Son and Thang Long, there is only one place that can be called a natural hazard, and that is the Red River.

Of course, the Red River is just north of Thang Long.

Threatens the security of Thang Long Province.

And although the Red River is called a natural hazard, it is not really a natural hazard.

As long as the Ming army is given time, it can be breached.

The battle above the sea proved one thing, that is, the strength of the Ming army's naval division was not weaker than that of the army.

Not to mention, there is another thing, and that is Champa.

In the previous battle, the intention of Champa to watch from the wall was very obvious, but now once the balance of the situation is broken, not only Champa, but also Laos, I am afraid that even Laos will end up and beat the water dogs. In such a situation, even Thang Long may not be able to keep it.

Nguyen Chi made it clear that he would send important ministers of the clan to sit in Thanh Hoa, and if there was a disagreement, he would return to Thanh Hoa from Thang Long.

Thanh Hoa is the land of Longxing in the Later Li Dynasty, the Li family was originally in Thanh Hoa for hundreds of years, after the Ming Dynasty destroyed Annam, the Li family was also based on Thanh Hoa, and struggled for more than 20 years to have the world.

Ruan Chi's words meant that Li Sicheng would follow the example of Li Li, the Taizu of Hou Li, and continue to fight against the Ming army in Thanh Hoa. In order to restore the world again.

Immediately, Ruan Chi explained the time of his retreat. He anticipated that the retreat from Lang Son to Thang Long would not be an easy road and that there would be many risks.

So he asked Li Sicheng not to wait for him, but to withdraw to the other armies first, and to gather a little vitality for Annan, which is a little vitality.

Ruan Chi knew that after Li Sicheng saw this letter, he must have been very angry, and he was not even allowed to retreat, hoping for a big victory to turn the tide.

It's just that Ruan Chi knows that this is almost all delusion.

Therefore, after this retreat was sent away, Ruan Chi immediately began to arrange the retreat. Chop first, then play.

Although Ruan Chi also knew that the Ming army had actually been waiting for him to retreat.

But at the moment he had no other way.

The world has never given the weak many options, generally bad and worse.

On the third day of the fourth month of the twenty-seventh year of Orthodoxy.

The moon is just a crooked boat.

In the darkness of the night, Ruan Chi arranged for the army to begin to retreat, and did not bring any gunpowder or artillery, and only took away food.

Without him, at this time, the price of food in Annan has been churning, and it can be said that even if there is money, it will not be able to exchange for food.

You must know that in the early years of orthodoxy, during the Hebei disaster, the Ming Dynasty bought a large amount of grain from Annan.

It's just that after such a ravage, there has been a large-scale food shortage in such a grain-producing area.

Although Ruan Chi's arrangements were precise, the retreat of hundreds of thousands of people was impossible to be quiet, and even not to be discovered by the enemy.

Almost on the night of Annam's retreat.

Guo Deng knew it. At that time, night battles were a difficult problem for everyone, and Guo Deng was also worried about whether Ruan Chi was taking risks, after all, Ruan Chi's task was to defend Lang Son against the Ming army, but now the situation has changed.

Will it make Ruan Chi change his mentality.

For example, if you want to take a gamble.

Different people have different styles, and if Shi Heng is here, he will naturally give the order to attack and decide the victory or defeat of both sides with a night battle, but Guo Deng is still a little cautious.

He ordered the whole army to stand by and wait for dawn.

By the time the daylight broke through the morning fog, all the armies of the Ming army had been waiting for most of the hour.

Guo Deng didn't say a word and ordered the attack.

He immediately discovered that the Annamites had indeed retreated.

The firepower and reaction on the other side of the Poor Strange River were not right at all.

Guo Deng didn't say a word, raised the general's flag, ordered the whole army to attack, and gave an order, regardless of the casualty figure today.

For a time, the poor Qi River was dozens of miles long, and the north bank of each section of the river had Ming troops crossing the river.

Some places are relatively shallow, and the Ming army simply waded across on foot, and in some places, there should naturally be sampans that had been built long ago, and there are still some places where pontoon bridges were built.

For a time, the eight immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers.

If such a supernatural power, if the main force of the Annan army is here, it will not play a role.

In fact, the reason why this poor and strange river here in Langshan can stop the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty is not that this poor and dangerous river is high, deep and dangerous, but that there is an army of Annam stationed on the south side of the poor qi river.

Now that the Annan army is gone, although some broken men and horses are left. But he couldn't fight with the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and before the morning, there were several good news.

The Ming army crossed the river several times, and the front of the troops pointed directly at the core area in the direction of Lang Son, that is, Lang Son City.

Guo Deng did not pay attention to the progress, and now immediately ordered Liu Ju to lead the main force of the Ming cavalry and go south first.

Before, the Qianqi River was blocked, and it was difficult for the army to fly across, but now the Qianqi River is broken, although there is still Langshan City, but Langshan City is only a city after all.

It is possible to get around.

Immediately in the afternoon, Guo Deng commanded a large army to besiege Langshan City.

First, shoot the book of persuasion.

After all, the soldiers in Langshan City were already at the end of their rope and were abandoned by the Annam people. If you continue to keep it, it's nothing more than a dead word.

But the Annanites did not react.

Guo Deng secretly said in his heart: "Annan can compete with me twice, it is really not for nothing, but now that Annan is determined, how can he maintain peace and stability for a long time?" ”

Guo Deng has already begun to think about what will happen after pacifying Annan.

Of course, no matter what he plans to do in the future, he will not let these people go. Of course, their unswerving loyalty to the Li family to the death made them very touched.

But such stubbornness is that even living is an obstacle to the future. I just remove it together.

Therefore, Guo Deng didn't care about what was missing one of the three encirclements, surrounded on all sides, attacked in a big way, and brought up the cannons first, but after a few rounds, the city wall of Langshan was crushed.

Then the army stepped forward to cover the killing.

Only the southern wall of Lang Son Fortress has not collapsed, and almost all of it has become a tall slope, so it cannot be called a castle.

But even so, Annan soldiers fought in the ruins until nightfall.

Guo Deng was very annoyed that tens of thousands of troops could not take a ruined city, and ordered a replacement to fight at night.

It's not that he doesn't care about the lives of his soldiers, but if he doesn't clean up Lang Son City, the army can't be put into the next battle. At this time, it is naturally as soon as possible, and it is not the time to pity the lives of soldiers.

So at midnight, after an explosion, Lang Son City was finally owned by the Ming army.