Ruan Cheng said slowly: "One is not attached to people's hearts. Since the fifth dynasty, Annam has been separated from the Central Plains and established an independent state, if the county is forcibly enforced, the people will not be convinced, and the people will rise up one after another, which cannot be contained. The second is that the water and soil are not adapted. The soldiers of the Central Plains are all northerners, the mountains and forests here are dense, the miasma is rampant, the northerners come here, there are many epidemics, it is difficult to live for a long time. The third is that the grain and grass are not continued. The northern soldiers came, the grain and grass all depended on the Central Plains, the mountain roads were rugged, the transportation was difficult, and the grain and grass did not continue for a long time, and the army's heart floated, and it was bound to suffer a great defeat. Fourth, the officials are tyrannical. Most of the officials of the Central Plains came here as treacherous people, looting places, expropriating and expropriating violently, and the people could not bear to be disturbed, and it was difficult to stop them from rebelling at first. Therefore, Emperor Taizu Gao of your country once classified Annan as a country that was not to be conquered, saying that the land was not enough to supply, and the people were not enough to make orders. And the Yongle Emperor of your country does not respect the ancestral teachings, so he is so happy, and the county and county Annan are really wrong. ”

The generals Zhu Rong and Chen Xu next to him were furious after hearing this, pointed at Ruan Cheng and scolded: "You dare to insult my emperor, you will definitely take your dog's life today." After that, he stepped forward and beat Ruan Cheng.

Zhang Fu hurriedly waved his hand to stop them, and said with a slight smile: "There must be people in your army who are familiar with our domestic affairs, otherwise you would not be able to say such a big reason." Since you sincerely ask for peace, my father cannot refuse people. However, Annan has returned to the mainland, and can no longer be a vassal, and this prince can appoint your lord as the political envoy of Jiaozhibu, and you can return to your lord, and if you agree, the two families can stop the war and make peace. ”

Ruan Cheng nodded and agreed, returned to Thanh Hoa, and told Zhang Fu what he said, 1510.

Ruan Kang discussed with Ruan Dinh and decided to take up the post of political envoy of Jiaozhibu, just to get a chance to breathe.

Ruan Cheng reported back to Zhang Fu, so Zhang Fu first appointed Chen Tianping (Ruan Kang) as the political envoy of Jiaozhi Bu in the name of the general of the conquest, Ruan Ding was the commander of the capital, and the rest of the people had their own differences, and then reported to the imperial court for approval.

The two reached a collegiate agreement, and the Ming Dynasty army began to return north, and Ruan Kang and others finally breathed a sigh of relief, celebrated and relaxed their garrison.

Huang Zhan entered the palace to ask for the land of Sanzhou, and Ruan Kang shirked and said: "Master Kongyin, although I am appointed as the political envoy of Jiaozhibu, the land north of Qinghua Mansion is occupied by the Ming army, and they do not listen to my orders at all. At present, the main force of the Ming army is returning to the north, and the person left behind is Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qianguo, who was once a defeated general under General Chen Zhi, I can borrow 10,000 troops with you, and you take the land of the three states by yourself. ”

Huang Zhan said: "Okay, a word is a certainty." ”

When he returned to Zhang Shixing's mansion, he discussed with his disciples and masters about going north to conquer the land of Sanzhou.

Zhang Shixing pondered for a long time and said: "This Zhang Fu easily withdrew his troops, I'm afraid it's not right." Don't fall for the enemy's tricks. ”

Huang Zhan said: "Senior brother, don't worry too much. I heard that the Mongol Tatars and Warat invaded the border, and even the Yan thieves went to Beiping to patrol the border. This Zhang Fu is in a hurry to withdraw from Annan, and I am afraid that he will also go north. ”

Zhu Yunwen nodded and said, "Not bad." Kongzhi, time is running out, you immediately lead the troops north, and lay a foothold for us first. ”

Zhang Shixing had no choice but to borrow 10,000 troops from Ruan Kang and march to the north of Annan.

Na Mu Sheng led the Ming army to resist day by step, retreated all the way, and soon retreated to Shenglong City, the capital of Jiaozhou.

Zhang Shixing led the army to surround the city, and he took the time to go to Xingsheng Temple, only to see that the temple had been burned to a pile of rubble, and the previous treasure was no longer solemn. The faces of the abbot of Qingde, Mrs. Huiyin, Chen An and others seem to be still in front of them, but the Si people have gone, and there is no response. Zhang Shixing put on the incense, candles, paper horses, and paid tribute before returning to the camp.

As soon as he returned to the camp, Tanma came to report that Zhang Fu's army was divided into two routes, all the way from the land to Zhu Rong and Chen Xu, and the first was on foot. All the way from the Yellow River to the Shentou Sea, followed by Zhang Fu's self-led boat division. The army of land and water joined forces in Thanh Hoa, and the city of Thanh Hoa was breached, and the Emperor of Dai Viet had fled south to Hue.

Zhang Shixing was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly came to discuss countermeasures with Zhu Yunwen and others.

Zhu Yunwen patted his thigh and said: "This Zhang Fu is really cunning and led us to attack, but he sent troops to raid our lair." ”

Zhang Shixing said: "For today's plan, our army must return to Hue, otherwise it will be attacked by the Ming army before and after, and it will be difficult to fly." ”

When the counselling was finished, the army was assembled, and immediately went south.

Unexpectedly, Mu Sheng saw them fleeing south, and immediately led his troops to chase them out of Shenglong City, Zhang Shixing led his troops to resist, and occupied and retreated, along the way, the soldiers fled to death, and when they arrived in Shunzhou City, the soldiers were less than a thousand.

Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng met with the city of Shunzhou, there were tens of thousands, and the momentum was huge.

At this time, Ruan Kang made a desperate bet and sent dozens of giant elephants to be the front enemy, and the rest of the men were lined up behind to make the last fight.

Zhang Fu encouraged the generals in front of the battle: "Capture the thief in one move, and the opportunity must not be lost." ”

So he whipped his horse first, and the generals followed, and rushed straight into the enemy's ranks. Ruan Kang drove the elephant array forward, Zhang Fu opened his bow and took an arrow, and an arrow came, hitting Ruan Kang's shoulder, he screamed, rolled down the elephant's body, and was about to be trampled into meat by the elephant. Zhang Shixing slapped his horse and arrived, stretched out his hand to pull him onto the horse, turned around and fled.

Zhang Fu sent another arrow, this arrow hit the trunk of an elephant, the elephant was in pain, roared, knocked down another elephant running next to it, the elephant formation of the Vietnamese army was in chaos, trampling on each other, Zhang Fu led the troops to kill, the Vietnamese army was defeated, and was beheaded more than 4,000 levels.

Zhang Shixing escorted Ruan Kang and a group of remnants of the defeated generals and fled to Haiyunling.

It turned out that although the cottage they lived in had fallen into decay, they could barely accommodate it if they simply cleaned it up. Zhang Shixing helped Ruan Kang into the thatched hut where he lived at the beginning, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and he tossed desperately, and returned to the starting point, which was really like a dream.

In the chaotic crowd, he suddenly saw a familiar figure again, she was busy bandaging the wounds of the wounded, feeding water and medicine.

Zhang Shixing shouted to her: "Beautiful girl." ”

Deng Meiniang turned around and looked at him, with tears in her eyes, and she didn't know where to start with a thousand words.

Ruan Kang beckoned to Deng Meiniang and said, "Empress, come and bandage my wounds." ”

When Deng Meiniang saw Ruan Kang, she hurriedly wiped her tears, trotted all the way over, took out a white cloth, cleaned Ruan Kang's wounds, put herbs on them, and bandaged them again.

Ruan Kang complained to her: "Queen, you are the honor of a country, you must pay attention to your identity, and don't care about the idle affairs of those untouchables." ”

Deng Meiniang smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, we have reached this step now, and if we don't clean up people's hearts, I'm afraid no one will give us their lives." ”

Ruan Kang snorted heavily and stopped talking.

Zhang Shixing looked left and right, but didn't see Deng Chengda, so he asked, "Little sister, where is my father-in-law?" ”

Deng Meiniang smiled sadly and said, "Since we escaped from Qinghua, we haven't seen my father, and maybe he is no longer alive." ”

While he was talking, a soldier ran in and said to Zhang Shixing: "General Chen, go and see, I don't know what the Ming army under the mountain has set up?" ”

Zhang Shixing hurriedly went out with him, came to the halfway up the mountain, and observed carefully, only to see that the Ming army under the mountain had set up five high platforms with the corpses of the Vietnamese army, which were bloodstained and hideous and terrifying, making people unbearable to look at directly.

Zhang Shixing knew that this was the Ming army showing off its strength and deterring the enemy, but he didn't know much knowledge, and he really didn't know what it was called.

At this time, a voice came from behind him: "This is Jingguan." Jing, called Gaoqiu; view, que type also. The ancients killed the enemy, fought the corpse, and built the Beijing Temple, in order to show martial arts for eternity. ”

He looked back and saw that Zhu Yunwen, Huang Zhan, and Wang Shu were standing behind him, jumped up happily, went up and held their hands, and said, "Master, senior brother, junior brother, you are still alive." ”

Zhu Yunwen nodded with a smile and said, "Ancestor bless, we are still alive." ”

Huang Zhan looked at the Jingguan at the bottom of the mountain, shook his head, and said: "Although Zhang Fu's move can deter for a while, the handover will definitely hold a grudge, and it is not a long-term peace and stability strategy." ”

Wang Shu asked Zhang Shixing: "Senior brother, if we return to this Haiyunling, where will we go in the future?" ”

Zhang Shixing sighed and said, "Now that I am in turmoil and have no idea, you and Senior Brother and Master can discuss a way out." ”

Huang Zhan said: "Now it seems that we have no choice but to go to the Nanyang Three Buddhas Kingdom to take refuge for a while. However, the city of Shunzhou was captured by the Ming army, and we could not go to sea from this place, so it seems that we have to cross Haiyunling to the city of Zhancheng and go south from the port of Xinzhou to Srivijaya. ”

Zhu Yunwen nodded and said, "That's it." ”

Zhang Shixing said: "In this case, we will rest for one night, and tomorrow we will bid farewell to Emperor Xingqing." ”

So everyone went back to the cottage to rest, packed their luggage, and prepared to leave tomorrow.

Zhang Shixing thought that he would be separated from Deng Meiniang tomorrow, this farewell may be the farewell of heaven and man, and when he never saw each other again, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, thinking that he had married her as a brother and sister, and promised to take care of her for the rest of his life, but he did not fulfill his responsibility as a brother for a day, and he was ashamed in his heart. But what can he do, she is already married, and she is the queen, can she still take her with him?

Zhang Shixing was so cranky, he couldn't sleep, the fourth watch of the day, was in a daze, he heard a sound of rustling footsteps, he hurriedly jumped up to look, but saw that in the morning light, hundreds of Ming soldiers had been killed in front of the walled gate.

It turned out that the Vietnamese army in the village fled here, and the organization was chaotic, and they were exhausted, so they did not set up a sentry.

Zhang Shixing shouted: "There are thieves!" He rushed to the gate.

A large group of Ming troops rushed forward and surrounded him, Zhang Shixing slashed left and right, shouted and screamed, and finally woke up the people in the village, everyone cried and shouted for their mother, and fled in all directions.

Zhang Shixing cut down a few Ming soldiers, hurriedly rushed to the house, picked up Ruan Kang, took Deng Meiniang's hand, beckoned Zhu Yunwen and others to follow him, and fled to the back mountain.

The mountain trail is rugged, the shade of the trees covers the sun, fortunately Zhang Shixing they have lived on the mountain for a period of time, familiar with the terrain, three turns and two turns, they got rid of the Ming army behind them, came down the mountain, and fled into the border of the city.

Zhang Shixing had led a borrowed 5,000 Champa soldiers to conquer the city, so he learned some Champa dialect from Ruan Cheng, and he explained the situation to the border guards of the Champa state, saying that Emperor Xingqing of the Dayue Kingdom asked to see the king of Champa.

Among the border guards, Zhang Shixing knew that he was the general of the Great Yue Kingdom, so he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent someone to escort them to Xinzhou, the capital of the Zhancheng State.

Zhang Shixing and others entered the palace and saw Zhanba, the king of Zhanpa, Zhang Shixing introduced Ruan Kang to Zhanba, Zhanba looked at Ruan Kang's embarrassed appearance, and said coldly: "Emperor Da Viet, I borrowed 5,000 soldiers and horses from you, you promised to cede Hue Erzhou and me, and now more than half a year has passed, where are Hue Erzhou?" ”

After the general secretary translated this to Nguyen Kang, Ruan Kang smiled and said, "King of Champa, if you lend me another 100,000 soldiers and horses, I will cut the three provinces of Nghe An, Tan Binh, and Hue with you." ”

When the king of Champa heard this, he was furious, and he said: "What nonsense, you are now alone, and you dare to talk and deceive people, and you will be beheaded with me." ”

When everyone heard this, they were shocked. The forbidden army of Zhancheng couldn't help but say, rushed forward, and was about to push Ruan Kang out and kill him.

Ruan Kang struggled and shouted, "General Chen, Kong Wen, Kong Yin, and Master Kong Neng save me." ”