In fact, Nguyen Phuc is actually regretting it. If he had known that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom would only send cavalry troops, he would definitely have sent war elephant troops. Defeating the Ming army in front of the army is definitely very morale-boosting and raising the prestige of the Ruan army! This will have an impact on the subsequent defeat of the Ming army, even if the war breaks out again between the north and the south.

He was regretting it when suddenly, he saw a sudden change in the situation on the battlefield.

I saw that in the Ming cavalry army, a group of light cavalry suddenly increased their speed, and crossed the ironclad heavy cavalry to meet the charging war elephant first. After approaching the distance, instead of accelerating and charging with horsepower, they began to slow down, and finally even stopped, lined up in rows, blocking the way of the war elephant's charge.

"What the hell are these Ming soldiers doing?" Ruan Phuc was very puzzled, and looked at it closely, and suddenly, his face changed, because he had discovered the special features of these light horses.

In fact, by this time, let alone him, even Zheng Jie had already discovered the problem. But they all still have doubts, I don't know what the hell is going on?

If King Ta Long was still alive and could see this scene, he would definitely scream, shouting to hurry up and stop the war elephant.

I saw the Ming light horseman, and took a long musket from the horseback hook. At the beginning, Zheng Jie and others thought it was a special spear made by the Ming army, which was used to charge the battle. But at this time, it turned out to be a musket.

The soldiers of the Ming army took out a hook from the neck of the horse, and the spear hung on the hook, sticking out a long barrel, pointing directly at the war elephants of the Annam army. The handle of the gun was in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming army, and there was a fire fold in his hand, which was already burning.

Obviously, as soon as the elephants got closer, they would light their muskets and fire.

If it was an ordinary musket, Zheng Jie wouldn't care at all. Of course he had already tried, and the armor on the war elephant's body, the damage of an ordinary musket was very small. However, now that the musket was so big, he was a little bottomless.

On the battlefield of Dongwu, if there was no key play of Yan Yingyuan, a sharpshooter, the Ming army would have been greatly damaged by Dongwu's war elephants, and the reason was that the mobile gun was not enough.

There was such a lesson, when Emperor Chongzhen came to fight Annan, how could he not be prepared. Not only did they bring in more guns. And let the gun be put on the war horse. The carrying of the gun, which was originally fired by two people, can also be fired by a knight on horseback. Of course, shooting in this case would be worse than firing with two foot soldiers. It can even be said that there is no accuracy at all.

It is also for this reason that these lancers stood side by side, waiting in front of the battle for the war elephants to rush close enough before they concentrated their fire. Make up for the accuracy with numbers and deal a fatal blow to the enemy!

Closer, closer, closer......

"Woo Woo ......"

The sound of raising guns was far louder than ordinary muskets, and under the fire of several rows of raised guns in turn, even the horses were frightened and agitated.

Just hearing this voice, Zheng Jie, who was in the distance, secretly said in his heart that it was going to be bad, and at the same time, he saw that the more than 20 war elephants he sent out were as if they had hit an invisible tripwire, rushing forward and falling to the ground, and because of inertia, they also slipped far away.

Whether it is a war elephant or an elephant soldier on the back of a war elephant, even if he is not dead, he has almost fallen.

The sudden occurrence of this situation immediately frightened all the Annan troops. Many people can't understand why the war elephants are all gone all of a sudden, isn't it that the artillery of the Ming army didn't come up!

The Annan army that followed behind the war elephants, for them, the war elephants were their greatest psychological dependence, and if they followed the charge behind, they were not afraid of anything in their hearts. But suddenly, the war elephants all died in front of them, and they were dumbfounded. For a moment, many of them forgot to keep charging.

They are stupid, but the Ming army is not stupid. The ironclad heavy cavalry had already accelerated, and once again passed the lancers, and rushed towards the stunned Zheng army.

This Zheng army, yes, is indeed elite. But this elite is only compared to the Annan army. The ones who can deal with the ironclad heavy cavalry are the war elephant troops. Without the war elephant troops, even the pikemen in a tight line would have to be knocked out of the way if they were hit by the ironclad heavy cavalry. Not to mention, these Zheng troops actually didn't think about it at all, they also had to defend against the Ming army's ironclad heavy cavalry.

So, yesterday's scene happened again.

As the arrow of the Ming cavalry, the ironclad heavy cavalry ploughed over the Zheng army at once, piercing a large open space. The Ming light cavalry, which followed closely, continued to expand its results.

Zheng Jun's soldiers, whether elite or not, first of all, are human beings, and they will be afraid of death. In the face of this kind of impact of the Ming cavalry, it can even be said to be a massacre, and there is also the meaning of seeking a formation of confrontation, so he quickly turned around and ran away. Because they knew that if they formed a formation to fight, they would only attract a heavy blow from the Ming army's ironclad heavy cavalry, and they would die a miserable death.

When the Mo army and the Ruan army on both sides of the Zheng army saw this situation, they were so frightened that they dared to fight, and they hurriedly ran back, afraid that the ironclad heavy cavalry of the Ming Kingdom would rush over.

This time, the Ming cavalry did not fall in love with the battle, and after driving away a period of defeat, they did not chase and kill the other two Annan armies, and returned to Hekou City after making a detour.

"Daming Wansheng!"

"Long live the emperor!"

“……”

The cheers of the Ming army followed, loud and loud, and spread far and wide, welcoming the triumph of the cavalry comrades.

On the side of Annan's army, it was the complete opposite. Whether it is their leader or the low-level soldiers, their faces are ugly and they are dying!

The Annan Allied Army relied on the Ming army because of their large number of soldiers, including war elephant troops, and Xiyi's artillery.

However, from yesterday to today, they have fought a total of two battles, but they have seen the power of the Ming army's artillery, which is not inferior to the artillery of Xiyi; Although they have a large number of troops, each time the Ming army can win more with less; They had a war elephant army, but the Ming army had giant muskets that specialized in restraining war elephants, and they were still very mobile.

It can be said that every hole card of the Annan Allied Army was easily cracked by the Ming army. What will be the final result of this battle, on the side of the Annan Allied Army, from the leaders to the lowest level of soldiers, all have no confidence.

The outlook is not good, and it also erodes trust between them.

As soon as the war ended, Zheng Jie immediately ordered a military meeting, and at the beginning, he aggressively asked Ruan Fuwei and Mo Jingyu why they were defeated and betrayed Zheng Jun, just now, they should cut off the back road of the Ming cavalry from the side and annihilate this Ming cavalry in one fell swoop? Did the Ruan and Mo families really want to form an alliance, did they want to watch him Zheng Jun lose his troops and then attack him......

Angry he, barabala, roared.

However, whether it was Ruan Fuwei or Mo Jingyu, they were not his subordinates, why should they be angry with him, and immediately opened their mouths to refute, explaining that the national cavalry army came and went like the wind, and your Zheng army was defeated too quickly, how could they go to cut off the back road of the Ming cavalry again......

If the original three commanders were at odds with each other, this time, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the cavalry to only fight Zheng Jun's way of fighting, so that they could expose all the discord between them.

This situation is actually very understandable, and it was there when I was fighting Jianyu. No one will be in a good mood if they lose the battle, and few people will take the initiative to take the responsibility for the defeat. They were originally mortal enemies, and although they temporarily worked together due to external pressure, the rift would not be erased. Even if you don't complain about each other this time, there will always be a time when you complain about each other.

In this military discussion, the psychological pressure of several Annan leaders was too great, they collapsed a little, and they got angry with each other, but they still had a little sense, and in the end they didn't tear their faces, but they just broke up unhappily.

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the Taishi chair in Hekou City, closed his eyes and recuperated, his expression relaxed, as if there was no enemy army outside the city at all. But in reality, he was appreciating the quarrel of several Annan leaders, and finally saw them break up unhappily.

That night, when the moon and stars were scarce, Emperor Chongzhen issued another decree to select some elites, touched the camp of Annan, and sneaked over from the direction of Mo Jingyu's department.

This route or something, Emperor Chongzhen personally gave instructions according to the deployment of the Mo army that he overheard, so the soldiers of the Ming army successfully arrived at the designated place and continuously launched rockets at the Zheng army camp, and then, regardless of whether it was burning or not, immediately retreated in chaos.

This kind of sneak attack could not have too many people, so although the rockets fired by the soldiers of the Ming army caused a fire, they were quickly extinguished by the rotating soldiers of the Zheng army.

The next day, when the Ming army did not fight, Emperor Chongzhen continued to sit in the city and watched the leaders of Annan begin to quarrel, and a sentence that was deeply remembered by later generations flashed in his heart: the fragile trust between the tribe and the alliance began to break, and the earth-shattering war drums sounded again. Of course, now because the Ming army is in front of them, they haven't torn their faces and fought each other yet. But it can be expected that if Emperor Chongzhen leads his troops to retreat, they will be able to fight immediately between them.

In the next few days, whenever there is an opportunity, Emperor Chongzhen will send an elite to sneak attack; As for the main battlefield, if Annan does not come to fight, he will not fight; If you want to fight, you will fight with the most powerful Zheng Jun.

Among them, Xiyi was also sent out. However, the number of artillery of the Ming army is huge, and there are many Hongyi cannons, and the artillery has been popularized by Emperor Chongzhen, and it has also been trained by gunpowder artillery, which is not weaker than Xiyi.

Moreover, the Ming army was defending on this side, and Xiyi was attacking, and before they entered the preset position, they were "welcomed" by the Ming artillery, and after seeing the Ming army's quasi-head, whether it was Anders who didn't want to fight, or the Dutch who really wanted to fight, they were all frightened and retracted.

For these Xiyi, they have a way out, and they are definitely not here to fight for their lives, so it is impossible to fight back against the bombardment of the Ming artillery.

For this situation, although Zheng Jie and others were dissatisfied, they couldn't blame them, otherwise, if these Xiyi patted their butts and left, there would be no one to deal with the bombardment of Ming artillery.

When the war is like this, the situation is already obvious. However, Zheng Jie and the others have no way out, so they can only stalemate here, holding a hint of fantasy, hoping that there will be a turnaround or something.

But they didn't know that in fact, on Emperor Chongzhen's side, there was still a hole card that had not been played. He doesn't take the initiative to attack, he just waits for this hole card. Because of the existence of the eavesdropping system, it can also let him know the situation clearly.

After more than a month of stalemate, the morale of the Allied forces in Annam was already very low. But for them, it was another worse situation, and the last straw that overwhelmed them played a role.

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