Chapter Forty-Nine: The Mountains of Fireworks

Under the mountains on both sides, there were more than 1,000 Annan soldiers walking on the road with a large amount of supplies, which were loaded by carts, but the carts were not pulled by horses, but mostly cattle, especially buffaloes, and some elephants.

This is to transport supplies from Lang Son to Zhennan Pass. By the way, add some soldiers.

You must know that with the intensity of the battle in Zhennan Pass, if there were no large number of supplements, Zhennan Pass would have persisted a long time ago.

It's just that this ordinary transportation behavior can't go on normally.

Almost at the same time, countless arrows flew over, each of which seemed to have eyes, and the first wave of arrows brought hundreds of soldiers.

There were even several arrows that hit one person.

After all, the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are the elite of the 100,000 army, and they dare not say that they have 100 shots, but the accuracy of the arrows is also far from ordinary people.

After a round of arrow rain, before the Annan people reacted, more than a thousand soldiers were killed, but after a cup of tea, there was not a single Annan soldier left, and all of them were in different places.

Not even the one who escaped.

"Quick." As soon as Mao Sheng gave the order, these people immediately moved the convoy across the road, and piled up a lot of freshly cut wood on the road.

More than 1,000 soldiers became lumberjacks. Little by little, it's piled up here. On both sides of the mountain, large and small pieces of wood are piled up on the road.

The more they are piled up, they are tens of meters wide.

It was at this time that Sergeant Annan realized that something was wrong. Someone came to investigate, and naturally they were killed cleanly, and even the corpse was thrown into the obstacles.

When thousands of Annam's army came from Lang Son.

The Ming army threw countless torches into it.

There was gunpowder to fuel it, and almost instantly, the fire spread.

You must know that the road here relies more on the natural terrain, so the road is very narrow, and this man-made flammable material has become a wall of fire by the way.

The fire field with a thickness of dozens of meters cut off the main artery of the Annan army in Zhennanguan.

Fire and water are merciless.

The terrain here is already narrow, and it is not easy for the Annam army to put out fires. Not to mention, there were Ming troops behind the fire, interfering with the Annan army to fight the fire.

Many times, such flames are irretrievable.

Even now, the real wildfires that burn out are all built to burn out by themselves.

And the fire ground that the Ming army worked so hard to build is too much to say, and it may not be able to burn out within a few days. It is enough to be able to use it to block the army of Annam.

And when this fire was ignited, it was soon known to the Ming army.

Let's be honest. These more than 1,000 soldiers ran over the mountains and mountains for three days, and if they followed the route they walked, they had hundreds of miles, but if they talked about the straight-line distance, they were only one or twenty miles southwest of Zhennan Pass. The camp of the Ming army was under the south pass of the town, and the fire here was immediately discovered by the Ming army.

This is a signal for attack.

Wang Yue personally commanded.

There is no other reason.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp can be said to be proud soldiers.

When Zhu Qizhen was dispatched, in order to make it easy for Mao Sheng to command, he did not transfer the system, but drew a lot of soldiers from various departments.

As a result, the generals of their battalions are much worse than Mao Sheng's official positions, and they dare not be presumptuous in front of Mao Sheng.

But there is a problem in this way, there is no general in the Beijing camp who can hold the field.

This time, the main attack on Zhennanguan was not at all possible in the Tusi Division.

First, in the previous many attacks, the losses were all the elites of the Tusi, and they had already suffered heavy casualties. Second, the strength of the various departments of the Tusi is not as good as the elite of the Beijing camp. Now that the final word is finalized, it is natural that the toast cannot be served.

Wang Yue also had his first command of the battle.

Wang Yue has had the desire to lead troops to fight since he was a child, but now his dream has become a reality. Although he was excited in his heart, he could still control himself.

He gave an order: "Release." ”

Wang Yue wanted to put not firearms, but smoke.

One by one, poisonous fireworks balls were smashed out with trebuchets, not on the south pass of the town, but under the city wall.

Wolves rose into the sky.

In an instant, the battlefield was filled with coughing sounds, pungent smells everywhere, and many people couldn't open their eyes and couldn't tell the direction, let alone fight.

In an instant, the firearms superiority of both sides was neutralized.

Immediately, Wang Yue ordered the march today.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp carried wet towels on every mouth and nose, and they could barely breathe, but the irritation in their eyes was inevitable. Everyone's eyes were red like rabbits.

Wang Yue pondered as usual and let go of the cigarette.

After all, smoking is a routine operation in ancient tactics.

But the risk of releasing smoke should be considered, and now it is the turn of spring and summer, the south has risen, the army is north of Zhennan Pass, and the wolf smoke is released, who is coming.

Now although Wang Yue has made preparations, he also depends on the direction of the wind. Just take advantage of the lack of wind to smoke cigarettes.

Anyway, Wang Yue didn't think about it, and used smoke to smoke down Annan's soldiers. He just wanted to hide the sight of both sides and drag the battle into hand-to-hand combat.

Moreover, the previous Tusi siege the city for more than ten days was not without any use. At least all the defenses before Zhennan Pass have been emptied.

At this moment, among the Annan army, the morale of the army is extremely fluctuating. Everyone has no intention of fighting, and they all care about one thing, that is, what is the fire in the south?

What's going on?

Seeing this, Ruan Tingmei ignored the wolf smoke above the city and personally went to the city to supervise the battle. Nguyen Dinh My still has some prestige in the Annam Army, and with him, no matter what the sergeants and soldiers think, they have temporarily settled down. But at this time, all kinds of siege equipment of the Ming army were set up on the top of the city.

Generally speaking, the checkpoint established by the Annan people should be said to be the Zhennan and Nanguan, and the Zhennan Pass established by Emperor Taizu should be said to be the Zhennan Nanguan.

In fact, the north and south passes of the town are not as good as the south and south passes of the town.

If you think about it, if the topography of Zhennan Nanguan is better than Zhennan Nanguan, then why did you choose Zhennan Nanguan to build a checkpoint during the Taizu period, instead of this.

The entire North Pass is one or two hundred meters long. However, Zhennan Nanguan is a checkpoint of dozens of meters, which locks the hole, and there are mountains on both sides. Now one or two hundred meters below the wall, ladders, goose carts, etc., countless siege equipment have come over.

Annan's artillery was out of service for a while. Or rather, it's not that they can't be used, but that the firearms of both sides are hurting each other.

The Annanites began to use more and more 10,000 enemies.

When a 10,000-strong enemy fell from the top of the city and exploded, the entire wall trembled slightly. As for the Ming soldiers, they were within a radius of a few zhang, and they fell to the ground one after another, and there was no physiology.

It's just that at this moment, everyone knows that it is a critical moment.

Mao Rui and others could not hold on to the rear for a long time.

Once Annam's reinforcements arrived, all the advantages occupied by the Ming army were returned to their former positions in an instant.

Therefore, at this moment, Wang Yue did not ask about the casualty figure at all.

It is true that the Beijing camp is a military strength that Zhu Qizhen attaches great importance to, but Zhu Qizhen values combat effectiveness, not anything else, and whether there is combat effectiveness depends on the present.

Therefore, under Wang Yue's supervision, the battalions of the Beijing camp followed one after another.

There was a fierce battle around the wall of one or two hundred meters long.

Ruan Dinh My sat on top of the city pass and threw his own soldiers into battle, in general, the Ming army suffered more casualties, but the more Ruan Dinh My looked, the more anxious he became.

First of all, the last batch of supplies did not arrive, Ruan Dinh My here food supplies are fine, but the gunpowder is a little insufficient. It has not yet been transported, there were a number of casualties before, and there is no replenishment later.

The Ming army can not care how many people die, anyway, one by one, but Ruan Tingmei can't ignore it. After all, in ancient times, few people could fight to a single soldier, and more often they were damaged to a certain extent, and collapse was inevitable.

Nguyen Dinh My was worried that this moment was coming soon, but reinforcements were still far away.

He wanted to know what was going on in the south, but he couldn't afford to send a single soldier to see it.

Ruan Tingmei was worried, and suddenly his face was cold, but it was a drop of rain that hit his face, and he felt a sigh in his heart for a moment, and he was sad for a moment.

Now Annan's soldiers are all supported by firearms, and once it rains, the consequences will be unimaginable.