On September 6, according to the predetermined plan, the second army will ignore the king of Annam and more than 10,000 remnants of Annam in the dense forest, divide the troops into six routes, and the garrison will follow up, and begin to attack other cities in Annam, preparing to occupy the entire territory of Annam in one fell swoop.

The Ming army carried the main force of the Annam Army and captured Hanoi and connected the counties of Annam.

In just one day, the armies of the two routes in the east reached the coast, and two days later, the armies of the two routes in the south also reached the border of Kangnan.

On the fifth day, as the last small county town in the east was also captured, the entire territory of Annan fell!

After capturing the entire territory of Korea in just a few days, Zhou Cao focused on besieging the dense forest where the king of Annam was hiding, completely blockading the eight counties and towns close to the dense forest, strictly restricting the circulation of salt and grain there, and cutting off the road for the king of Annam and the remnants of more than 10,000 soldiers in the dense forest to get salt and food.

From time to time, the king of Annam would also come out of the dense forest with more than 10,000 remnants of soldiers and plunder all the food and materials around the dense forest.

However, because the Ming army had already taken precautions, and the important materials were followed by the cavalry of the Second Army, so for half a month, the king of Annam was able to loot almost nothing useful.

Half a month has passed, and Zhou Cao calculated that the time was almost up, and ordered to start implementing the plan that had been formulated a long time ago.

Xiling County is a county town located in the west of the dense forest, close to the dense forest, with a population of nearly 20,000, which is the place where Zhou Cao plotted against the king of Annam.

Inside the jungle.

After more than half a month of living without food and salt, the king of Annam and the more than 10,000 remnants of Annam around him were so hungry that they were yellow and thin, and they were weak and weak.

Although the dense forest is large, it is not easy to feed tens of thousands of people, under the complete blockade, lack of food and salt, you can imagine how hard the life of the king of Annan and more than 10,000 remnants of the Annan army is, and many people have complained in just half a month.

They said that they were not afraid of the Ming army entering the dense forest to encircle and suppress, but if it goes on like this, it will not be long before the people's hearts will disperse.

In order not to let the hearts of the more than 10,000 centaurs around him be scattered, King Annan began to plot to improve his life a few days ago!

It was impossible to get food and salt just by sending a small force to plunder the people passing through the dense forest, so the king of Annam finally decided to attack the city.

He has more than 10,000 men, and it is not a problem to break through the small county towns around the dense forest by surprise.

The small county town may not be large, but there are always more than 10,000 or 20,000 people living there, whether it is to supply soldiers or supplies.

"Is it true that there are only less than two thousand Ming soldiers guarding Xiling County with swords?" King Annam asked a man who had returned from the investigation.

"Back to the king, you can't be wrong, the 20,000 most elite firearms army of the Ming army are all in Hanoi, Xiling County is dozens of miles away from Hanoi, and the Ming army stationed in the county seat is just an ordinary Ming army with swords! Not only the subordinates confirmed, but also the inner should in the city confirmed, as long as the king's army arrived, the inner should and the king in the city should join forces to take Xiling County! ”

After all, the king of Annam is the king of Annam, and he has ruled for many years, and there are still some squires and landlords who are loyal to him, he not only aims at the target, but also has a good internal response, and the spies go out this time, mainly to confirm whether it is safe.

"Okay, let's attack Xiling County!" King Annan decided.

It had been more than twenty days since he fled into the jungle, and after so many days of exploration and understanding, King Annam already knew that there were two kinds of Ming army, one was an offensive regular army with all firearms, and the other was a garrison army equipped only with swords to defend the city.

King Annan thought about it, and the Ming army was also powerful with 20,000 regular troops with all firearms, and he still didn't pay attention to the miscellaneous garrison army that also used cold weapons such as swords.

The reason why he aimed at Xiling County was not only because Xiling County was close to the dense forest, so what happened to escape back to the dense forest, but also because of the internal response in Xiling County, with the support of internal response, it was much easier for him to capture Xiling County than to capture other neighboring counties.

In this way, the king of Annan decided to immediately lead all his men and horses through the dense forest and kill them to Xiling County.

Hanoi City, the garrison of the Second Army.

A brocade-clothed Wei Qian, who was dressed in civilian clothes, smiled and walked quickly into the place where the army commander Zhou Cao was.

"Commander Zhou, there is good news! Our Neiying has succeeded in luring, and the king of Annan is preparing to go out of the dense forest to attack Xiling County! Jin Yi Wei Qian said.

Jinyiwei has developed so far, has already become the most important intelligence agency of the Ming Dynasty, eyeline all over the Ming Dynasty, as well as the states around the Ming Dynasty, long before the army attacked Annan, Jinyiwei secret agents infiltrated the entire Annan country.

Although the king of Annam was the king of Annam and had a certain prestige, Hanoi was defeated, lost most of the elite of Annam, and fled into the mountains with only more than 10,000 remnants, and the Ming army captured the entire territory of Annam very strongly.

The so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, and the Jinyiwei secret agent has infiltrated every Annan city, and now the city is under the control of the Ming Dynasty, with the ability of Jinyiwei, it is easy to rebel against the people who were originally loyal to the king of Annan.

What King Annan didn't know was that those who were going to cooperate with him to take Xiling County had actually been bought by the Ming Jinyi Wei secret agents a long time ago.

"Good! Hahahaha, it's hard work! Zhou Cao laughed.

"Pass the order, and the army will attack immediately and kill the king of Annan!" Zhou Cao ordered.

The soldiers of the Second Army had already been prepared, and as soon as Zhou Cao's order was given, the soldiers immediately turned on their horses, rushed out of Hanoi, and killed Xiling County, seventy miles away.

In a cellar in Xiling County, close to the South City Gate, fifty soldiers of the Second Army of the Ming Army, armed with rifles and four machine guns, hid here, waiting for orders. Although there were only fifty men, the firepower should not be underestimated, and once the order was given, they could kill out of the cellar and control the southern gate in an instant.

Not only the South City Gate, but also hidden in the cellar near the other three gates, there was also such a soldier of the Second Army of the Ming Army, especially the East City Gate facing the dense forest, which was ambushed by a hundred people and eight machine guns.

Suddenly, the cellar opened and a brocade guard agent in civilian clothes jumped in.

"King Annan is here, everyone get ready!"

As soon as this person's words fell, a large number of shouts of killing suddenly came from outside the eastern city.

"Kill"

When the king of Annam suddenly rushed out of the dense forest with his army and killed the city gate.

There was also the sound of weapons clashing and a burst of confusion in the city.

"Squeak" only a moment, the east gate was opened.

"Haha, Neiying has opened the city gate, rush" Outside the city, King Annan laughed, and led more than 10,000 men and horses under his command to enter the city from the open city gate.

The moment the remnants of Annan including the king of Annan entered the city gate, the hundreds of Ming garrisons that were originally guarding this city gate were immediately defeated and retreated to the other city gates.

With the cooperation of Neiying, as the Ming defenders retreated from the other gates, the king of Annam soon took control of the county.

"Hahahaha, the Ming army cubs are nothing more than that!" easily drove away the Ming defenders, and the king of Annan laughed arrogantly.

Immediately, the king of Annan ordered to collect grain, salt and other materials from house to house, and even directly captured the strong men in the city to replenish the soldiers.

"You can't take it, you can't take it!" An old man in his fifties desperately stopped the soldiers of the Annan Army who were robbing his family's grain, and now it is only September, and the autumn grain cannot be harvested, if the grain is taken away, how will his family survive these two months.

"you!" The soldiers of the Annan Army kicked directly over and knocked the old man to the ground.

"Father!"

The old man's son also came out to stop him, his son was just twenty years old, which was in line with the age of the king of Annan to arrest the strong man, and he was immediately tied up and taken away by the soldiers of the Annan army in the house.

Seeing that the family's food, salt and son were taken away by the soldiers of the Annan Army, the old man wanted to cry without tears.

Originally, when he just heard that King Annan had recovered Xiling County, he was quite happy, after all, he was an Annan after all, he grew up under the rule of King Annan, and his heart was more towards King Annan, but now he only has resentment towards King Annan.

The so-called winner of the hearts of the people wins the world, everything the king of Annan did in Xiling County is undoubtedly to push the people's hearts outward, but he can't care about these, he captured Xiling County, just to be able to continue to survive in the dense forest of food and salt, etc., only to survive in the dense forest, and continue to grow strength, he has the opportunity to consume the Ming army out of Annan.

It is not only the old man who has suffered like this, but in the entire Xiling County, it is bad from house to house, and even a beautiful young woman is ordered to be taken away by the general of the Annan Army who has been holding back for more than 20 days.

The Annan army did not dare to stay in the city for long, they wanted to take advantage of the Ming army's slaughter and flee back to the dense forest.

"Newspaper"

"King, it's not good, the Ming army's iron cavalry is coming to Xiling County, and there are still about ten miles!" A soldier hurriedly arrived.

"What! That's impossible! "King Annan was shocked, the Ming army's 20,000 iron cavalry are not all in Hanoi, with the distance from Hanoi to Xiling County, the fast horse also takes more than an hour, Xiling County was broken by him, passed the news to Hanoi, the Ming army iron cavalry rushed over again, this back and forth at least more than two hours, and he is now less than an hour away from just breaking through Xiling County, the Ming army is about to kill, too fast, unless he has not led the army out of the dense forest, the Ming army already knows that he is going to attack Xiling County, so he rushed over in advance.

"Could it be that the Ming army can anticipate the enemy's opportunity? Or does it mean that the army is deliberate, it is a ploy! King Annan's face was gloomy.

However, the Ming army's iron cavalry is about to be killed, and Xiling County can no longer stay, and must return to the dense forest as soon as possible, only the dense wooded jungle can stop the powerful Ming regular army.

"Quick, give the order to all of us to get out of the city and into the jungle." King Annam did not have time to hesitate, and ordered a retreat without hesitation.

Just when the king of Annan and the others were about to leave the city from the east gate and return to the dense forest, the figure that made the king of Annan and the remnants of the Annan army frightened came.

"Bang! Bang bang"

A group of about 100 Ming soldiers suddenly rushed out, they were on the right side, very close to the city gate, and after shooting and killing dozens of remnants of the Annan Army who remained at the city gate, they controlled the exit of the city gate.

I saw that the machine gun was set up, and without hesitation, he spit out one fire snake after another, and shot a large number of remnants of the Annan army who were about to rush out of the city from the east gate.

"Ahh

Eight machine guns and dozens of rifles completely blocked the east gate.

After killing and wounding many soldiers of the Annan Army, the soldiers of the Annan Army were so frightened that they kept retreating, and they did not dare to approach the city gate in fright, far away from the range of the Ming army.

"There are still soldiers of the regular army of the Ming army hidden in the city, and they jumped out to block the city gate at this time so coincidentally."

"Not good! It's not a trick, this is the Ming army's strategy! King Annan's eyes widened in horror.

It is estimated that the cavalry of the regular army of the Ming army will have at most five or six miles to kill the county seat of Xiling, if they cannot escape from the city before this and flee into the dense forest, what awaits them is a dead end.

"Quick, go to the other three gates!" King Annam roared, and although he expected that the other three gates might also be controlled by the Ming army's machine guns, King Annam still hoped otherwise.

There was no time to waste now, and before he knew the situation of the other three gates, he had to find a way to see if he could rush out of the east gate.

"Chong, the first person to rush out of the city gate will be promoted to three levels!" King Annam made a great promise and ordered his soldiers to begin storming the city gates.

"Kill," the Annan soldiers rushed towards the east gate.

Unfortunately, as soon as they came into range, they were greeted by a dense barrage of bullets.

"Da Da Da"

In an instant, a large number of Annam Army soldiers were shot and killed.

Faced with a fire blockade of eight machine guns and dozens of rifles, King Annam wanted to rush out of the east gate in a short time, which was simply delusional.

After several attempts and being beaten back without incident, King Annan's eyes began to redden, and he clenched his teeth tightly.

"Report, king, the other three gates have also been blocked by the Ming army's firearms!" A general of the Annan Army who had returned from the investigation came to report in horror.

King Annan staggered back a few steps in an instant, his face as dead as ashes.

The Ming army was so well designed, it must have been premeditated, and he dug a pit in Xiling County early and waited for him to jump in, but he was still stupid for the Ming army's scheme.

"Boom" The sound of a large number of war horses galloping from outside the city penetrated in, which further intensified the fear in the hearts of the king of Annan and more than 10,000 remnants of Annan.

"It's over! It's really over this time! It's all over! King Annan muttered desperately.

Outside the city, Zhou Cao led nearly 20,000 iron cavalry of the Second Army to surround the entire Xiling County into an iron bucket.

"Dismount, line up, and go into the city to destroy the king of Annan!" Zhou Cao ordered loudly.

Immediately, a large number of soldiers of the Second Army dismounted from their horses and formed an attacking formation.

"Kill!" With a wave of Zhou Cao's hand, the hundred soldiers who had originally blocked the city gate immediately moved out of the way, and a large number of soldiers of the Second Army entered the city through the city gate.

Seeing that the Ming army was holding a rifle, the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at them forward, and they were approaching violently, these were originally in the dense forest for more than 20 days, and were frightened by the Ming army at this moment The more than 10,000 remnants of the Annan army have not yet begun to fight, and they have not yet begun to fight, and they do not know that they continue to retreat under the approach of the Ming army.

"Nope! No refund! None of them are allowed to be returned! King Annan hissed and roared, faintly a little crazy, and extreme unwillingness and despair devoured his reason.

It's a pity that the people who dare to die have already died, and under the fierce persecution of the Ming army, no one listened to King Annan, and they still kept retreating in horror.

Suddenly, in the camp of the Annan Army, several people who were originally internal should consciously approached the Annan Army.

When they were less than a meter away from the Annan army, these people suddenly attacked, and slashed at the crazy King of Annan with steel knives in their hands.

"Poof!" The sudden attack caused the king of Annan to be stabbed three times in a row, and he fell to the ground with serious injuries in an instant.

"You you" under the dying, King Annan angrily pointed at these people who attacked him, these people were originally his internal response in the city, organized people to help him open the city gate, but now turned around and attacked him, he suddenly understood, these people have already betrayed him and defected to the Ming army, it must be these people who leaked, so that he fell into the Ming army's strategy and fell into a desperate situation at this moment.

King Annan was so angry that he wanted to kill a few people, but unfortunately he was stabbed several times in a row, and he was seriously injured and about to die, where did he still have this ability, as soon as he stood up, he immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell down again, this time he did die directly.