Chapter 45: The First Victory

"Abba, it's time for us to move." Li Guangning said.

Li Guangning is the son of Li Cheng. At the moment, he was a little eager to try. He seemed to see an opportunity to make a difference.

"Shut up." Li Chengli drank and said: "Our family has a little capital, what do you want to do, don't do anything, if the court wins, it's not too late to open the door." ”

Li Guangning said: "If the imperial court is defeated, how can the people of Annam tolerate us? ”

For a while, Li Cheng didn't know what to say.

The Li family knows from top to bottom that the reason why the people of Annan do not attack Pingxiang is that they want to leave room for it, and at this moment, the Ming army is doing this, which means that no matter what they do in the future, they are going to fight a battle now.

Annan will not show mercy to the Li family of Pingxiang.

At that time, it is not easy to say what the fate of the Li family will be.

But Li Cheng also knew that in the war between the two countries, thousands of soldiers of the Li family could not participate in it at all, and even in today's battle, all the strong men of their Li family participated in it, but it was just a splash, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye.

I won't say whether it will help the victory or defeat for the time being, but the people who died were all members of the Li family.

In a big country like Daming and Annan, tens of thousands of people may just feel pain, but for the Li family, hundreds of people have already broken their muscles and bones.

He instinctively wanted to be conservative. It's inevitable.

"Abba," Li Guangning continued, "It doesn't matter if the court wins or loses, but the court is fighting with Annan, and we are watching from the sidelines, and the court will clean us up like this." ”

When Li Cheng heard this, he sighed and said, "Okay, you go and gather people." ”

This sentence broke all Li Cheng's luck.

He just calculated that if the imperial army was defeated, he would retreat with the imperial army, and he didn't want this Pingxiang City.

Although Pingxiang City is the territory of his family for generations, what is more important than the territory is the lives of the children of the Li family. Hearing Li Guangning say this, he understood.

Sandwiched between the two big countries, the small Li family had no ability to preserve their strength at all.

Li Guangning was very excited, but in a few moments, he gathered all the strong men in the city and distributed all the weapons, which was estimated to be 5,000 people.

But these 5,000 people are simply a rabble. But it is already all the strength of the Li family.

"Abba, let's go." Li Guangning said.

Li Cheng scolded sharply: "What do you know, even if you send troops, it's not this time? ”

Li Guangning was reprimanded by Li Chengyi and didn't dare to speak, so he could only watch the battle at the head of the city like Li Cheng.

Although Li Cheng wanted to send troops, he still had the idea of preserving his strength, after all, almost all of these 5,000 men were related to the Li family.

If you can die one less, you will die one less. Li Cheng looked hard, wanting to see how the battle situation was?

At this moment, the cavalry dismounted by the Ming army is colliding with the Red Dou Lian Annan Army, this is the most difficult enemy the Ming army has encountered, well-trained, well-coordinated, don't look at the height is a head shorter than the Ming army, but the attack is ruthless enough, poisonous enough, and fatal.

Some soldiers and soldiers even died together.

If the whole army is this kind of red hat soldiers, Mao Rui is estimated to be defeated.

Unfortunately, not.

These soldiers with red hats are all the elite of the Anjing camp. And the red hat is one of their symbols.

The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and finally suppressed this army.

This army also seems to be related to the morale of the Annam army. When many Annan soldiers saw that they were not opponents of the Ming army, they suddenly began to collapse.

This collapse is not something that can be prevented by strict orders.

"Major General, go quickly. It's not too late to tell the Hou Ye everything. Ruan Shihui's people around him persuaded one after another.

Ruan Shihui's face was extremely pale at this moment, his eyes were distracted, and he said, "Go, go, go." ”

He also saw that Annan had no chance to fight this battle so far, and he Ruan Shihui was not the one who had to die here.

Just flee to the south for more than ten miles, and it is Zhennan Pass, where there is Annan's army. It's not too late to take revenge in the future.

After all, Ruan Chi is now the first powerful minister of Annan, and even Li Sicheng's queen is from the Ruan family. Although it is not Ruan Shihui's sister.

The Nguyen family is also a big surname in Annam, claiming to be after Nguyen. There are many branches, but they are all connected by blood.

Ordinary people have struggled for most of their lives, and if they fail once, they will never have a chance again, but for people like Ruan Shihui, how many times they have failed, they have their father's back.

Therefore, if he goes back, even if there is a punishment, it will not be great. When the limelight passes, it is not impossible to re-lead the troops.

It's just that it is not easy for Ruan Shi to think about leaving.

He took the remaining hundreds of red hats, drove a dozen war elephants, and withdrew from the camp. The Annan soldiers in the camp suddenly lost the courage to persevere.

In an instant, the birds and beasts were scattered, and at this moment, the gate of Pingxiang City was also wide open, and the Li family poured out, and whether the five thousand people could fight or not was not said for the time being, but it was ten out of ten in terms of momentum, so the last bit of morale in the Annan army also collapsed.

In an instant, there was chaos on the battlefield.

But even so, Mao Rui didn't want to let go of Ruan Shihui, and immediately sent his younger brother Mao Kai to lead people to chase, but the Ming army suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and there were so many prisoners to guard, so he couldn't tell how many people and horses there were for a while, so he could only give Mao Kai 500 horses

Mao Kai took 500 horsemen, ignored the rest of the Annan army, and bit Ruan Shihui to the death.

It's just that the dozen or so elephants that Ruan Shihui used as a cover, which made them feel very difficult for a while.

Since the Ming army used firearms to break the elephant soldiers several times, whether it was Annam or other countries, they all made a decision, that is, to put the elephant soldiers from the main arms to the auxiliary arms.

Even war elephants of a certain size are rarely involved in battle.

And Ruan Shihui returned to these dozen elephants, all of which were used to transport supplies. After all, the elephant is also a reliable animal power that can compensate for the logistical capacity of the Annan army.

But at this moment, the Ming army has no way to take them.

It's not that they don't have firearms in their hands, but they have all been wiped out in the battle just now, and some people don't even know where they threw their handcuffs.

It's not impossible to shoot an elephant with just a bow and arrow in your hand, but it's not something that ordinary people can do.

The two sides confronted each other for a while, and suddenly saw the smoke and dust rising from the south, and Mao Kai immediately knew that it was the reinforcements of the Annan Army that had arrived.

After all, Zhennan Pass is not too far away from Pingxiang, and the two sides have been fighting for more than half an hour, so how can there be no movement in the direction of Zhennan Pass.

Mao Kai glanced at it from a distance, and at first glance, he wanted to laugh for no other reason. What he saw was Annam's cavalry, about one or two thousand.

But their war horses were at least one head lower than those of the Ming army.

It can't be said that they are shorter than donkeys, but if you look at them individually, they are actually not bad and have a good posture, but if you look at them together with the cavalry of the Ming army, then there is no way to look at them.

If it weren't for the large number of opponents, coupled with the fact that they had become tired soldiers after a long battle, Mao Kai would have wanted to rush.

Mao Kai confronted him for a while, although Mao Kai was small in number, but as cavalry they had a kind of self-confidence, if they wanted to go, those bantam horses would not be able to catch up.

The Annan army seemed to be frightened by the cavalry of the Ming army, and did not dare to offend easily, and after a confrontation for a while, they retreated.

Seeing that the other party was gone, Mao Kai didn't chase after him, and slowly retreated.

When he came back, he saw that the cavalry were resting, and all the people in the entire Pingxiang City were mobilized by the Li family to clean up the battlefield for the army.

The old, weak, women and children went into battle together, and some people cooked for the Ming army.

Of course, the Pingxiang Li family worked so hard, and some of the worthless, heavy and stupid things in this loot belonged to the Li family if Mao Rui didn't look down on them.

The Li family is naturally 10,000 willing.

Mao Rui was worried that the Annan army would return, so he stood guard outside. Although he was resting, he kept breaking a string. Seeing Mao Kai coming, he immediately got up and asked Mao Kai to come over for questioning.

Mao Rui first threw a water bag to Mao Kai and said, "How is the south?" ”

Mao Kai took the water bag, drank it all, wiped his chapped lips and said, "I didn't catch up with the thief general, but I saw the Annan people answering the people, they shouldn't dare to come over today." ”