Chapter 101 Dilemma

"Boom, boom, boom." Cannons roared.

Because of the preparations, more than 300 artillery pieces of the Jingying Artillery Battalion were all transported to Lang Son City.

Guo Deng personally supervised the battle, and these cannons were all made by Shaofu, and they weighed at least 500 catties. Each attack can crumble the walls of the Annamite people into a gap.

Once the gap was opened, there were Ming soldiers rushing up.

Especially Ruan, Huang, Tian and other Guangxi Tusi children.

These people were placed in the army. Become a new force in the Ming army. I have seen the grace of Si Enbo, the head of the Ruan family, and they all want to make a name for themselves.

In addition, the Ming army was well paid.

Even before the attack on Lang Mountain, Guo Deng also ordered that all soldiers who participated in the Battle of Lang Son should be paid double salaries.

Twenty taels a year, even for a soldier from Beijing, is a figure that is not easy to achieve, let alone a Guangxi soldier, for many Guangxi soldiers, this is already a lifetime they can't make money.

This is not surprising.

You must know that the county master is only a few dozen taels a year.

Not to mention, the richer the place, the easier it is to make money, and the poorer the place, the less easy it is to make money.

Even if it is the same street sweeping, can it be the same as sweeping the street in Beijing and Shanghai?

For ten taels of silver a year, it is enough for them to work hard, and now under the double salary, they are even more excited and screaming. Not to mention, Guo Deng specially marked the reward, captured a certain place, how much was rewarded, and how much was rewarded for capturing a certain place.

In particular, he said that he could only ascend first in Langshan City, with a reward of 1,000 taels, and he was promoted to three levels in a row, and he killed Ruan Chi and was conferred.

Although everyone knew that in the face of the almost unrelenting resistance of Annan's soldiers, it was estimated that those who could get on the first could not come back alive, but they themselves felt that the money was worth buying their lives.

So one attack after another.

The war began in the 26th year of orthodoxy and entered the spring of the 27th year of orthodoxy, and in more than a month, the Ming army advanced 30 miles south.

It seems that these thirty miles are not far away.

But on the Great Wall of Annam, three gaps were cut. Pull down several small towns. More than 10,000 beheaded, as for how many people are alive after Annan retreats to the Qiqi River, it is another matter.

However, the number of Ming soldiers killed in battle was no less than that of the Annamite people

It's just that even the Ming army is desperate.

But the person who really inflicted heavy losses on the Annan army, and even shook the morale of the Annan army, was not the Ming army fighting desperately, but the artillery of the Ming army.

Because these cannons can hardly fight against the power of manpower, Annan's soldiers are terrified. The fortifications they had built for a whole year became a cake.

The morale of the military has been seriously dampened.

This was the direct cause of the defeat of the Annam army.

However, such a good thing was broken on the banks of the Poor Qi River.

Because there was a rumbling cannon sound from the south of the Qiqi River. The solid shells hit the north of the Qiqi River, and although no one was injured, the cheers of the Annan soldiers were earth-shattering.

For a while, morale was shaken.

Guo Deng secretly said in his heart: "Annan is really not a small country. ”

Although the artillery battalion of the Ming army has already shown its skills in the battle of the Yalu River and the battle with Seoul, it is normal for the people of Annam not to know about the speed of news transmission in this era.

As a result, just over a month ago, the Annan people built a cannon, which can be seen from Annan's national strength and scientific and technological level.

It turns out that for the length of history, East Asia has always been a monster house, with the exception of a few periods.

Guo Deng was distressed that the Annan army already had artillery, and the next battle would be more difficult to fight.

He didn't know what the Annanites had paid for this cannon.

To be honest, this breech gun casting technology was not lacking in Annan. Because this primitive artillery was no different from the large bronze casting.

What Annan lacked was bronze.

Annan has always been short of copper. It can be said that the smuggling of copper from Yunnan has always been one of the main channels for the copper mines in Annam.

And this channel, after the friction between Daming and Annan, was uprooted by Liu Pu and Mu Bin, together with Jinyiwei and the local government, and killed people's heads.

As a result, Annam's source of copper ore was cut off.

Annan was armed with a large number of firearms, although most of the firearms in Daming were made of iron, but a considerable part of them were made of copper in Annam.

Because of a massive build-up of armaments.

The consumption of copper mines in Annam is considerable

In the face of the cannon suddenly taken out by the Ming army, Ruan Chi could only try his best to cast the cannon to resist.

But for a time, where was there so much copper.

There is only one way.

That's money. Copper coins are also copper.

As a result, Ruan Chi melted almost half of the army's military salaries to create more than a dozen cannons, which were much heavier than the Ming artillery, and they could not be easily moved.

The artillery of the Ming army was still a matching artillery carriage, but the artillery of Annam did not have it

It's almost just a copper pipe.

But even this copper pipe can make Sergeant Annan very excited.

Gordon's prediction was not bad at all. Countless artillery and firearms on both sides fought frantically across a shallow and strange river.

Almost killed the Poor Strange River into a river of blood.

As Li Sicheng used almost all means to empty all the bronze artifacts of the entire Thang Long Palace and build cannons to transport to the front line, Annan's firepower disadvantage was reversed little by little.

For this situation, Guo Deng does not have a good way.

In such a war, whoever fights it is the same.

There is no room for roundabouts, and some can only stumble, die, die.

Therefore, before Guo Deng set off, he pinned his mind on several other people.

In Guo Deng's view, today's Annan is like an egg, and the hardest thing on the outside is the egg shell. As long as it is crushed, there is a ground of egg white and egg yolk underneath.

And this eggshell, no matter where it starts, there is no problem.

Therefore, Guo Deng fought so vigorously, although he had the idea of taking Langshan in one fell swoop, and the other idea was to involve the main force of Annan here.

Let the other roads have the possibility of breakthroughs.

The key to victory or defeat is certainly in Lang Son, and Lang Son has gathered the main forces of the two countries, but it does not mean that the opportunity for victory or defeat for both sides is in Lang Son.

It's hard to say where this opportunity is

Liu Pu had already led the Dian army down the Red River from Yunnan, and fought with Annan soldiers in the area of Laojie, and the battle was also quite fierce.

Liu Pu couldn't move an inch for a while.

Because the area around Laojie is a river valley, although it can't be called a husband and a man, and it can't be opened, but it can't show its troops. There can only be a small number of troops, and in this valley road, every step is a bloody battle to the death, and the rest of the army is waiting behind.

In this way, it is beneficial to the defending side.

In addition, the strength of the Dian army is actually inferior to that of Guo Deng's department. Guo Deng was able to suppress the Annam army with firearms, but the Dian army was generally strengthened even in terms of firearms

But the firearms of the Annan army are already very much different.

Naturally, it will be a bad fight.

Gao Ping Mao Rui is just a partial teacher.

Even if the personnel didn't say anything, in terms of road conditions, the situation in Gao Ping was worse than that of Lang Son. It's not even as good as Lang Son.

Lang Son can finally be set aside, and the formation will fight offensive and defensive battles.

But on Gaoping's side, the traffic capacity is too poor, and Mao Rui spends more time building roads. So that the baggage in the rear can be transported to the front line.

Mao Rui naturally also stopped under the fortified city.

Wang Yue attacked by land and water, but his head was broken and bleeding on countless islands outside Quang Ninh. The offense didn't go well either.

As for the Dongxing Department of Zhancheng, there are tens of thousands of good guys under his command, but when it is really counted, more than 10,000 people in the headquarters are Ming troops, and the rest are miscellaneous cards.

Even more embarrassing was the Champa army.

Now the city is divided into two, but the nobles of the city are very well informed, and there is such an idea within the city that they are seeing if the Ming army can achieve a decisive victory, and if so, the army of the north will surrender immediately. If you can't, leave some room for it.

It can't be the same as it was back then.

When Zhancheng helped the Ming Dynasty to attack Annan, he made a dead effort, but what was the result?

Daming patted his ass and left, and Zhancheng was beaten by Annan and died.

In a word, the people of Champa were frightened by the people of Annam. The problem is that Dong Xing's department has too many things that rely on Zhancheng, and since Zhancheng has this mind, it is natural that this war will be fought hard.