The Mo's army finally retreated, and the retreat was quite hasty, and even some of the camps were hurriedly withdrawn before they had time to leave.

When the Zheng family in Thanh Hoa City received the news, they naturally high-fived and celebrated, overjoyed.

They all thought that their plot had succeeded, and the Ming had already sent troops, so the Mo clan hurriedly withdrew the army to defend Shenglong City.

As everyone knows, after the Mo army hurriedly retreated north for dozens of miles, it suddenly turned east and went straight to the coastline.

The Zheng clan knew that not only did the Ming army not attack Thang Long City, but the Ming Sailor was still assisting the Mo army in transporting grain and grass!

Mo Dengyong and Yu Dayou led an army of 100,000 people all the way to the east for five or six days, and finally came to the coastline near the mouth of the Yuanjiang River, and at this time, the grain on the beach was already piled up.

Not all of these grains were transported from Shenglong City, because the Mo clan did not have so much grain at all, and most of them were privately donated by Da Ming or Yang Cong.

Yang Cong was inspiring the Mo army to rush to Qinghua City to fight hard, because he knew that Jiajing's will would definitely be issued in about a month, and then the Mo family would have to send someone to the capital to surrender the table, if at that time the Mo family also went to Qinghua to attack the temporary court established in the name of the Li royal family after the Zheng family, it would be a bit of a slap in the face of the Ming Dynasty.

What are you kidding, you are a chaotic minister and thief who is plotting to usurp the throne, it would be good if Daming could accept your surrender, you are also attacking the Houli court protected by Daming while surrendering to Daming, wouldn't you treat Daming as a monkey!

Therefore, Yang Cong demanded that Mo Dengyong must take Qinghua within a month, clean up all the Houli royal family and the Zheng family, and then act as if nothing had happened.

Anyway, the Houli royal family and the Zheng family no longer exist, and no one came to Da Ming to complain.

The Zheng clan didn't know that a catastrophe was coming, and they had even begun to fantasize that after the Ming Dynasty cleaned up the Mo clan, they would return to Dragon City, take charge of Annan, and continue to live a luxurious life.

The Mo army has the grain and grass supported by the Ming Dynasty, and its foot strength has really increased greatly, and it was a bit difficult to walk fifty or sixty miles a day, but now it is still full of energy to walk seventy or eighty miles a day.

As for the reason, it's simple, because they're full.

They used to eat only half full at every meal, and their stomachs were hungry after a few hours, and how far they could go in a day.

It's different now, every meal is enough, you can eat as much as you want, that guy, they don't eat one by one.

Three days later, they came to the beach more than fifty miles northeast of Thanh Hoa City, and this place had already entered the realm of Thanh Hoa, and the Zheng family naturally received the news quickly.

The ups and downs of life come too fast, it's really too exciting, a few days ago they were still waiting for Daming to clean up the Mo family, and then sit back and enjoy it, but they didn't expect that this Mo army had quietly run along the coastline to a place only more than fifty miles away from them.

What to do, send a large army to intercept it?

What are you kidding, there is no terrain on the beach that can be used, 50,000 against 100,000, you can't sneak attack, it's just looking for death!

Zheng could only hurriedly transfer all the troops back to Qinghua City, preparing to hold on, and at the same time sent envoys to Daming to ask for support.

They thought that as long as they could hold on until the arrival of the Ming reinforcements, everything would be fine, but they didn't know that it was the Ming Dynasty who wanted to clean them up, or Yang Cong, the governor of the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty!

How could Yang Cong send troops to support them, even if the envoy arrived in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Cong would use the excuse to delay, not to mention that Mo Dengyong had already calculated this trick, so an ambush was set up around Thanh Hoa to intercept and kill the Zheng envoys.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, the Mo's army finally approached the city of Qinghua, and at this time, the city gate was also closed and heavily guarded.

Yu Dayou looked at Qinghua City from a distance, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a trace of contempt.

This city is also worthy of the title of "Western Capital"?

The width of the city wall in the east of Qinghua City is only two or three miles, and the city wall is only one zhang high at most, and its scale is not as good as Yong'an Zhou City.

If it is 100,000 elite Ming troops to attack, it is estimated that it will not take three days to make siege equipment to break the city.

It's a pity that the army under the Mo clan can't be compared with the elite of the Ming army at all, not only do they not have muskets and artillery, but even the equipment of cold weapons is not very complete, and the speed at which they build siege equipment is also very slow, Yu Dayou wants to squirt blood when he watches from the sidelines.

Finally, after waiting for five days, they finally built almost the siege equipment, and as a result, after more than ten days of storming, they still haven't taken down Qinghua City.

Mo Dengyong can't help it, the attack and defense of cold weapons is like this, in the case of the same quality of soldiers on both sides, if the besieging side wants to quickly capture the city, the number of soldiers must be at least five times that of the enemy, and the strength of his troops is twice that of Zheng, and in order to prevent Zheng's escape, he also divided his troops to garrison the other three directions, and the number of people attacking in the east is actually about the same as the number of people in the city, and there are only more than 50,000 people.

Seeing that a month was about to pass, but Mo Dengyong couldn't take Qinghua City for a long time, Yu Dayou was a little anxious.

At noon that day, close to noon, Mordenyong was still overseeing the siege of the city.

Although more than half of his soldiers have been killed or wounded, the impact on the siege is not great, because he can change the wounded soldiers to other sides to defend, so there are no wounded soldiers among the siege soldiers, and it seems that the momentum is still very strong.

It's a pity that the soldiers guarding the city under the Zheng family are not bad, and the people are condescending, even if he occupies the advantage of numbers, it is in vain.

Seeing that the siege soldiers were once again beaten down from the city wall, Mo Dengyong couldn't help but slap his thigh in annoyance, and then prepared to withdraw his troops.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Yu Dayou on the side suddenly said: "Lord Mo, the deadline for the Governor's explanation is about to arrive, if you don't capture Thanh Hoa again, the Governor will probably be angry." ”

When Mo Dengyong heard this, he couldn't help but stagnate, of course he knew that the time limit for the governor's explanation was one month, and when he calculated the time, from the detour to the march to the construction of equipment to attack the city, it would add up to almost thirty days, what should I do?

He frowned and pondered for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Xiaguan will bring his personal guards up, and he will definitely take Qinghua City today." Come, take my iron gun, civilization, leave this place to your command for the time being. ”

The reason why he was able to become the king of Annam was not by conspiracy, but by force, he was famous for his ability to fight, and almost no one in Annam was his opponent.

However, since becoming the king, he has rarely made a move, especially over the years, as he has grown older, his body is not as good as before, even if he goes to the battlefield, he is only in command in the back, and he has not been in battle for a long time.

At this moment, seeing that the deadline for the Governor's explanation was approaching, he had to go into battle in person, otherwise, if the Governor became angry, it would be a big trouble.

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