Hearing the sound of breaking the sky coming from overhead, Cao Tai and the people around him couldn't help but raise their heads to look at the sky.

I saw hundreds of balls the size of sheep's heads flying from the sky. A small part of them was smoking, and it seemed that it was about to fall on the heads of nearly 30,000 Ming troops.

"Quick! Get out of the way! Cao Tai said.

But he didn't take it too seriously. Although he had not seen it with his own eyes, he had seen trebuchets in ancient books and had heard about the use of trebuchets to fire incendiary bombs. But these incendiary bombs were of little significance in field battles, and they could not burn a few people to death at all; If they were planning to fight in formation, it would have been possible to disturb their formation, but he had not seen the Annam soldiers, and they had already built a simple fence out of wood, so there would be no loss.

But as soon as he finished speaking, an incendiary bomb had already landed on the grass more than ten steps away from him, and there seemed to be a clay pot inside, and there was a cracking sound of "bang", followed by a loud "boom", and a huge dazzling fireball burst into flames!

And that's not all, a black-looking liquid that spilled out of the clay pot splattered with sparks, and what splashed on the ground didn't cause anything, but what splashed on the wood that had been cut down immediately caused the wood to burn too!

"Hurry up, protect Commander Cao!"

"Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire!"

"What the hell is this? Why can you let these freshly cut wood burn! ”

Although Cao Tai had never seen such a situation, he was still quite clever, and after the fire burned beside him, he immediately rolled on the ground and extinguished the fire on his body.

But when he stood up again, he saw that several fires had been burned in the place where the camp had taken shape, and that many of the logs had been harvested had been splashed with the black liquid and were burning.

Cao Tai knew that although these fires were not big, as more and more wood was burned, it would be impossible to extinguish them even if those clever guys brought water back from the sea. He had seen a bolt of lightning strike and start a fire in the sky, which could not be extinguished even if it rained heavily.

'What's more,' Cao Tai raised his head and looked straight ahead: "Even if they were able to extinguish these fires, it would be impossible for the Annam people who threw these incendiary bombs to do nothing else." Now because of the fire, the whole camp has been chaotic, especially those southwestern barbarians, who are not from the same tribe, and there is little cooperation between them, even if the fire is extinguished, it is not possible to reorganize them in half a day. At this time, if the Annamites came to attack, they would be defeated. ’

"Light the beacon now!" Cao Tai quickly grabbed a person who was standing aside at a loss, and shouted at him: "Immediately take your soldiers to the beacon tower and light the beacon fire, and tell General He that we have been ambushed!" ”

He let go of the man, and then shouted at the other person beside him, "Didn't those sailors leave a few small boats behind?" You immediately get on the boat and let the boatmen row back to General Ho! ”

These two people were originally in a state of not knowing what to do upside down, but when they heard his words, they immediately subconsciously bowed down to receive the order and went with their own soldiers.

At this time, several of Cao Tai's guards also reacted and said loudly: "My lord, you can get on the boat and go back immediately!" The Annanites are about to come over, and it's dangerous here! ”

"It's because the Annan people are about to call me that I can't go back!" Cao Tai said: "I am the backbone of these 30,000 people, if I escape, these 30,000 troops will collapse immediately after the Annam people attack, and few people will be able to return alive." ”

"Besides, this battle is such a fiasco, as a commander, if I escape, I will definitely die!"

The guards were silent. On weekdays, Cao Tai, Lu Xian and He Rong are all noble families, and He Rong will save them some face; But in the event of such a fiasco, He Rong himself is the sin of cutting the lord, as a front-line commander, Cao Tai is a capital crime even if he does not run, at most he can give the grace of capital crime to avoid living crimes, if he dares to escape, he will be disposed of by raiding his family or even exile his whole family.

"And I don't have to die here! Our Ming Left Army has enough boats for more than 20,000 people to sit on! As long as you hold on here for a while, let's" Speaking of this, he lowered his voice and said, "Let most of the soldiers of the three Han guards successfully escape on the boat, and I can also withdraw together." ”

The guards perked up. Yes, these barbarian soldiers, Your Majesty may prefer to let them all die here, as long as the three Han guards are withdrawn, although Cao Tai will definitely be cut down, but as long as he is not deprived of command, he can continue to lead the army and make contributions, and there will still be a chance.

Cao Tai finished talking with the guards around him, calmed their hearts, and then asked them to shout in the loudest voices, to reorganize the Ming army of different nationalities that had become chaotic, even if it could only organize two or three thousand people, it would be able to resist the Annam people for a while, and delay until the boat returned.

While doing this, Cao Tai also thought about one thing: 'It is absolutely impossible not to come over after seeing the wolf smoke lit by the beacon tower, how did the people of Annam know that our army was going to land here?' ’

And how the hell did they hide? ’

……

……

Neither Cao Tai nor Lu Xian thought that their every move was actually under the noses of the Annan people.

In the small forest on a small dirt slope about two or three miles away from Pingzhang, Hu Hancang was raising his clairvoyance in his hand and looking at the Ming army who were busy on Pingzhang.

Clairvoyance was invented as early as the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, and now seven years have passed, and it has been sent to the Wei commander, the Annan people and other people from Fanguo, it is not a troublesome thing to steal or buy a few, they can even grind the glass to the same size as the lenses of clairvoyance, but because there is no technology to make solid color lenses, so the homemade clairvoyance is not very easy to use.

Hu Hancang just held his clairvoyance and looked at the Ming army in front of him, he didn't make any action when Lu Xian led his troops to land, he didn't make any action when Luo Shenzhen sent people to cut wood in the woods, he didn't make any action when Lu Xian led his troops to Xingxian Port, and even when Cao Tai just led the second batch of soldiers to land, he still didn't make any action!

It wasn't until all the soldiers got off the boat and those small boats sailed to the shore that Hu Hancang put down the clairvoyance in his hand and whispered: "Wait, wait until the ship goes farther?" No, it's going to get dark, and we can't put it off until night. ”

Speaking of this, Hu Hancang said to the people on the side: "You go and give the order immediately, and let the soldiers behind use trebuchets to ignite the jar with fire oil, and then throw it out." ”

Yes, those that burst open and cause a fire as soon as they are broken, and that can even be sprinkled on trees that have not been dehydrated to make them burn, are fire oil, that is, the oil of the Hereafter.

Hu Hancang turned his head to the other person and said, "You also go and give an order, so that all the warriors can come out of the woods and soil caves where they are hiding, and immediately line up to attack the camp of the Ming army." ”

"Light up the special fireworks and let the people over there in Xingxian Port do the same!"

"Push the gun cart forward, ready to fire before the warriors charge."

"All of you follow me forward, I don't borrow clairvoyance, I want to see the Ming army defeated by my Dayu soldiers!"

"Your Majesty, no, Your Majesty!" Someone immediately shouted: "Your Majesty, although the Ming army will definitely be defeated, and it is impossible for them to come with cannons, they may have a foot crossbow in their hands, which is very dangerous!" After the war with the Ming Dynasty, the Hu family father and son no longer recognized Zhu Yunxi as the emperor and established themselves as the emperor, so the subordinates called him Your Majesty.

"I don't play the banner of Emperor Dayu, how can Cao Tai know that I am here?" Hu Hancang smiled: "I won't go to the fence of the Ming army, it's okay." ”

The man had to say more, Hu Hancang waved his hand and walked out of the grove. These people could only keep their mouths silent and walk forward together.

Soon, Hu Hancang chose a place to watch the battle. This place is also located on a small dirt slope, about a mile away from the camp of the Ming army, you can clearly see the fire light coming out of Pingzhang, and countless people shouting loudly. Hu Hancang actually wanted to get closer, but he didn't care about his life at all, so he stopped here.

Soon, 5,000 Annam soldiers were assembled, lined up, and walked towards Pingzhang. These soldiers were originally the most elite part of Annam's army, so the formation was very fast.

Just as these Annan soldiers were on their way to Pingzhang, the people around Hu Hancang began to pat his horses. Everyone said: "Your Majesty is worthy of being Your Majesty, and you really guessed in advance that the Ming army would land here, so you prepared these early." The Ming army will be defeated in this battle, and maybe Cao Tai and Lu Xian will be captured alive! ”

"Maybe you can capture Cao Tai and Lu Xian alive! The two of them saw the handwriting of my Emperor Dayu, and they bowed their heads before they were all broken! If He Rong hadn't come down from the big ship, He Rong would definitely have been captured alive. ”

"Your Majesty should wait for He Rong to lead the army to also get off the ship before attacking, so that I can completely annihilate the entire left army of the Ming army, and the Ming Kingdom will definitely be very shaken, so that the army will stop and make peace."