Pear Blossom Station on the banks of the Ewha River.

The town with this poetic name is a border town that is extremely dilapidated, with no pear blossoms, no post stations, and no poets.

The word "pear blossom" in Pear Blossom Station comes from the Pear Blossom River, which is the Red River leading from Yunnan to Annam. The word "post" comes from a long-abandoned post station and a dismal battle of Annam.

In the years when Ming Chengzu conquered Annam, Ewha Station was really a post station. It is also an important post station for communication between Yunnan and Annam.

However, after Ming Xuanzong's revocation of Annan, there was no need for the Pear Blossom Station to exist, but the people who relied on the post station to live quickly found a new way to live. It is through the Ewha River, which can only barely sail to carry out some cross-border trade, which cannot make a lot of money, but it can also support the family, and the Ewha Yi town has been maintained for more than 200 years. It also gave Zhu Cizhao, the king of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, a temporary place to settle down before entering the territory of the Annan Metropolitan Division.

It is now the second day of April in the second year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, and the king of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, who gave up Kunming at the end of February and once again embarked on the road of escape, has lived a life of exile for more than a month. However, Zhu Cizhao, who has turned 18 this year, also has a strong physique inherited from Emperor Chongzhen, and he has not been very stable since five years, and he has long been accustomed to the days of constantly running.

So when he ran to Pear Blossom Station, the prince was still in good spirits.

And those who run with him are also masters of running habits. Daniel Zhang can't beat Dongyu, can't beat Liukou, can't he run?

And Qiu Lei is also good at running, five years ago when Beijing fell, he led troops in Shandong, and now he has run to Yunnan, how good he can run!

The princess Zuo Mengmei, who followed Zhu Cizhao, is now called Qiu Mengmei, and she is used to running around, and she has been to many places in the north and south of the world over the years!

As for the troops who followed the king of Yunnan into Yunnan, they were all good at walking - they not only had the leg strength that they had trained for many years, but also because they didn't bring their families when they entered Yunnan (their families stayed in Guizhou, and they planned to go to Yunnan again after they had completely done it), so they could just leave.

An army of nearly 30,000 people, plus more than 10,000 people leading horse-drawn carts, went all the way south after leaving Kunming.

Because they had been working with Sha Dingzhou and his wife in Lin'an Mansion for more than a year, they were all familiar with the road and knew where to raise grain and grass.

Therefore, more than a month of marching did not drag down this army dominated by the northerners and Jing people.

Even when they arrived at Ewha Station, they did not show the despair that a defeated fleeing army should have, not only with their weapons and armor, but also with sufficient supplies. Because more than 100 miles south of Ewha Station, along the Qilong River, is where Mu's Xunzhuang is located (this piece belonged to Vietnam in later generations), and there are large areas of fertile land in the valley of the Qilong River. The last time they fought Shadingzhou, Daniel Zhang and Qiu Lei knew that there was this Xunzhuang. So when he ran away this time, he sent elite soldiers to take the lead, first occupied Xunzhuang, and then mobilized the people from several Tusi in the annex to transport the grain to Lihuayi.

So when Zheng He, the prefect of the Naturalized Prefecture of Annan, took people and rushed to Lihuayi to take over the car by the decree of the king of Yunnan (now Annan is still nominally the commander of the Ming Dynasty), the old man's heart was hanging.

Although the old man looked dry and shriveled, he looked like an old peasant. But in fact, he is also a member of the Zheng family! Six years ago, he followed Zheng Zhu Zheng to attack Changyulei, took the lead and made great contributions, and then became the naturalized prefect.

As a veteran of the Zheng family's Imperial Forest Army, Zheng He's eyes are poisonous! Whether this army can fight or not, he knows at a glance.

And the so-called "fleeing army" in front of him clearly has the momentum of a hundred battles! Where is the half-way escape?

Zheng Heke joined the army with his hair tied and followed Zheng Jie and Quang Nam Nguyen to fight hard for more than 20 years. And he is very good at defeating battles, except for following Zheng Zhu to break through the Changyu base six years ago, he has lost all battles in his life (Zheng's army has been fighting with the Ruan clan since more than 20 years ago, and they are basically defeated), and he has seen too many defeated soldiers.

The defeated soldiers should have lost their armor, hung their heads, and could not live in fear.

How can there be such a so-called "fugitive soldier" here in Ewha Station? Almost all of the soldiers wore armor - and ran away with armor when they lost a battle? Not too heavy?

In addition, many soldiers carried spears that were more than a foot long...... Who's running away and carrying this thing?

Oh, and cannons and guns!

Fire guns are all turtledoves foot guns...... At first glance, you can tell that it is a good thing bought from the Dutch (in fact, it is purchased from Foshan). The artillery was a 3-pounder bronze field gun! It is exactly the same as the one used in the Nguyen army (all products of the Macau Bugarao factory), and it is very powerful to use!

And what made Zheng He most suspicious was that the arrival time of this Ming army was too strange...... The king of Qingdu (Zheng Zhu Zheng Jie) has just suffered a fiasco in Changdelei - a very miserable fiasco! Although the Zheng army has long been accustomed to defeat, this time it has been defeated to a new height.

The 100,000 Imperial Forest Army was defeated by the 20,000 people of the Ruan family (Lord Ruan's army was semi-Westernized, and it relied on Changde Base to fight a defensive counterattack), and the little half-Western-style troops that had been saved up were all wiped out! Moreover, even the Emperor Li Weiyou, who was personally on the expedition, died in the battle without knowing it......

Therefore, when the children of the Zheng clan of Annan learned of the fiasco, they all cried loudly!

And Zheng He is also in tears...... Before the tears were wiped away, I got the news that the king of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty was coming to take refuge.

If the Zheng family's imperial forest army did not suffer a crushing defeat, with the strength of Zheng Zhu of Annan, he would not be afraid of the Ming Dynasty attacking - Zheng Zhu had an army of 100,000, several Western-style warships, Dutch military advisers, and more than 10,000 and a half Western-style elite soldiers. Although this army could not defeat the Nguyen's Quang Nam army that was firmly holding on to Chang Duc Fortress, it was not afraid of the Ming army of the labor expedition.

But the question is...... Lord Zheng's 100,000 Imperial Forest Army was shattered, and before he had time to return to blood and lick his wounds, your Ming army came on point, this is too much, right?

If you say there is no conspiracy, who will believe it!

Although Da Yue will not perish, the Zheng family must be hopeless and will be wiped out......

As soon as he thought of exterminating the clan, Old Man Zheng couldn't help it, so he cried loudly...... I cried in front of Zhu Cizhao, Qiu Lei, Daniel Zhang and others!

"Old man, this old man, why are you crying? Was it bullied by anyone? Zhu Cizhao's reaction was still very fast, and others were still dumbfounded, so he had already asked sympathetically.

Of course, he speaks Chinese, which ordinary Annan people can't understand, but Zheng He is educated, he has also participated in the imperial examination, and he has been in the Annan Jinshi, and he understands Chinese.

After listening to Zhu Cizhao's question, Zheng He wiped his tears, did not kneel to Zhu Cizhao, and stood there and said with righteousness and awe: "King of Yunnan, you took advantage of the new funeral of our lord and the defeat of the soldiers of the king of Qingdu, and attracted tens of thousands of tigers and wolves to attack, and asked who the old man was bullied by?" ”

He spoke Cantonese Mandarin, and Zhu Cizhao had a little trouble listening to it, but he still roughly understood the meaning.

It seems that the kingdom of Annam has just lost the battle and died again...... I don't know if it was killed? Anyway, the country is full of dragons without a leader, and the people are panicked, so when they saw that they had fled with their troops, they became suspicious......

"Old man, you misunderstood...... Zhu Cizhao sighed, "The lonely king also lost the battle, and he came to join the Annan Metropolitan Division in desperation, and he definitely did not want to seek the position of the Annam Metropolitan Commander...... The lone king is a vassal king, can he still look at a metropolitan commander? ”

Still trying to deceive ......

How could Zheng He be fooled? Is this what a desperate army looks like? You're here to sneak attack!

"Humph!" Zheng He snorted, "Why does the king want to deceive each other? Zheng Mousheng is a native of Annan, and he will never surrender if he dies, so kill if you want to! ”

Kill anything...... Zhu Cizhao didn't know what to say! He looked left and right: "This old man seems to be crazy, or let's go to the territory of the Annan Metropolitan Division, anyway, it's all the land of the Ming Dynasty, where can the lonely king go?" When we get to Shenglong, let's talk about it when we see them. ”