At that time, a strange army of the Ming army was the first to attack the city of Beijiang Fucheng, and some people in the "Da Yue" army soon opened the southern gate and fled; Ruan Jian was locked up in a corridor in the palace, and he didn't quite know whose soldiers and horses were so ridiculous.

However, the situation in Bac Giang Province was chaotic, and Ruan Jian himself was a Da Viet official, so no one took care of him, and he was able to escape from the government.

Ruan Jian was born in a family of eunuchs and landlords who had been officials for generations, and his father Ruan Feiqing was a bureaucrat in the Chen Dynasty; Later, the Hu family usurped the throne, and his father continued to be an official in the court. The Hu family was originally a powerful minister of the Chen Dynasty, so there were many civil and military officers of the Chen Dynasty under his command, and it was normal for Ruan's father to defect to the Hu family.

Unexpectedly, the luck was not good, and the Hu family was wiped out by the Ming army soon after. Ruan's father was convicted by the Ming State's "Jiaozhi Political Envoy" and sentenced to exile in Liaodong on the charge of "aiding and abetting". From the southernmost to the northernmost exile of the Ming Kingdom, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious and less auspicious, life and death, Ruan recommended to send his father to Zhenyi Pass (Friendship Pass); Back in Thang Long, he was immediately placed under house arrest.

Later, a civil war broke out in the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming army of Thang Long City, such as Huang Zhong and Xie Jin, was in Thang Long City, mainly dealing with the spies sent by the Han King. Annam people like Nguyen have been loosened. He heard that Chen Jikuo, a native of Annam, was called emperor, so he found a way to escape from Shenglong, went to Chen Jikuo, and became a soldier in the "Dayue" court.

Then, this time, he followed Ruan Shuai, the commander of the North Road Army, to Bac Giang Mansion, but he fled again in chaos......

Ruan Jian seems to have learned a lot from the experience of running, and he is very skilled in the whole process.

At the juncture when Bac Giang City was in danger and people were in chaos, Nguyen Jian did not forget to break into a private house and find some dry food and clothes before leaving the city. In war-torn places, most of the people who have places to go will go out to take refuge, and there are many uninhabited houses. Ruan Jian changed into the clothes of the common people, destroyed the official uniform and the seal letter, and followed the rebellious army out of the city.

He is a little short, with a large and square head, and is inconspicuous in the crowd.

Outside the city, Nguyen Jian left the crowded route and walked south alone.

The Ming army stationed in Thang Long had already crossed the Yellow River (Red River) and was active in the Dongjiang Valley; A large force of the Dayue rout will inevitably be intercepted. Ruan Jian hid for two days and came to the north bank of the Dong River.

In order to cut off the retreat of the Vietnamese army, the Ming army had burned all the bridges on the Dongjiang River and forbade ships to sail on the river. However, the Dongjiang River, a tributary of the Yellow River, winds its way across the plains, with a slow flow and a river surface that is not too wide. Ruan recommended to search for rafts or boats, and he could also cross the river. He rowed across the Dongjiang River in a canoe at night.

Once on the south bank of the Dongjiang River, there was very little activity of the Ming army.

The Ruan family has been an official for generations and knows many people, and he can find acquaintances in the army without an official seal. He was going to rush to the southeast of Thang Long City and to another Vietnamese army camp; They were warned to immediately retreat to the mouth of the sea (near Nanding City), relying on the water and terrain to avoid being destroyed by the Ming army head-on.

Then he got a war horse from the army, rode to Thanh Hoa, and reported the serious situation on the front line to the Da Viet court: the combat power was not equal, and the frontal battle was simply a one-touch collapse!

…… The general who won the city in one fell swoop was Yin Desheng; He quickly interspersed from the right flank with surprise troops, crossed the main camp of the Annam rebels, and went straight to the Jiangbei Fucheng to seize the fighter plane. But this operation was Zhang Fu's military order, not Yin Desheng's own initiative.

Zhang Fu looked down on Yin Desheng who was born in a hundred households at first, and then gradually felt that although the right deputy general was a member of the Han Dynasty's mansion, he was quite easy to use. Yin Desheng is not greedy for merit at all, cherishes soldiers, and is not greedy for money, so that his subordinates can fight vicious battles, and Yin Desheng is very practical in executing military orders.

On the contrary, it was that Liu Sheng, which gave Zhang Fu a headache. Many people in Jingshi thought that Liu Sheng was from Zhang Fu's side, but Zhang Fu was very dissatisfied with Liu Sheng's performance in this battle.

"He's a mother!" When Zhang Fu heard the report sent by Liu Sheng, he scolded on the spot.

In the letter, Liu Sheng said that he had heard the exact news that the rebel commander, Nguyen Shuai, had been captured and that the officers and troops had won a complete victory; He decided to leave Zhiling County immediately and take a boat at the mouth of the Songtai River to avoid slacking off the military plane.

Zhang Fu's face was very ugly, and he walked around the city wall, almost tearing the letter in his hand to shreds on the spot! He looked at the plains south of Beijiang City for a while, and pondered for a while with the anger in his heart.

The main battle had just ended, and Liu Sheng actually went first and then wrote a letter to say hello, which caused Zhang Fu a lot of trouble. If Liu Sheng did not leave at this time, but waited for Zhang Fu's military order, he would march west from Zhiling County and along the Dongjiang River, and cooperate with the central part of Huang; It can completely cut off all the retreats of the defeated enemy army, and buy an opportunity for Zhang Fujun to completely annihilate the remnants of Ruan Shuai's army very quickly.

However, the reality is that Yoo Seung is running quite fast, and he seems to know in advance that if he doesn't leave, he will continue to stay. So Zhang Fu had to face a choice, either to let go of some of the rout, or to delay the time to continue the pursuit.

Zhang Fu was annoyed, but he couldn't do anything about Liu Sheng. Because the original deployment of the Chinese army was to let Liu Sheng cut off the enemy's retreat at the confluence of the four rivers in Zhiling County before the end of the Jiangbei War. Now that the war has indeed been won, Liu Sheng's departure does not seem to be a disobedience to military orders; Not to mention escaping, Liu Sheng went to attack the enemy army in Thanh Hoa, not to retreat.

And Zhang Fu knows the affairs of the imperial court very well. When this kind of battle is won, even if there is really a general who violates the military law, most of the yamen such as the military department and the governor's office of the five armies will stir up the mud and end it; To investigate the responsibility of the generals in the front, it is generally necessary to find someone to take the blame after suffering a defeat, and at that time, the generals who have violated military law deserve to be unlucky.

"Ben knows!" Zhang Fu glanced at the person who delivered the letter and waved his hand vigorously.

The man clenched his fists and said, "The last general will retire." ”

Liu Sheng should understand Zhang Fu's dissatisfaction, because the reply of "I know" is generally an obscure meaning that I disagree with but is not easy to hold accountable.

As soon as the messenger left, Zhang Fu really couldn't hold back the unhappiness in his heart, and finally said to the generals: "This Marquis of An Yuan, who made military achievements during the Northern Expedition, has already raised his tail to the sky!" Ben will look at him, and sooner or later he will suffer. Look at the right deputy general Heyang Hou, others followed the saint to fight the world, did they ever have the intention of acting without authorization and making their own opinions? ”

Some of the generals persuaded Zhang Fu to calm his anger, but some said with many words: "That traitor Chen Jikuo illegally claimed the emperor, he is really the culprit of the rebellion, the pseudo-capital is located in Qinghua, capture Qinghua, or capture Chen Jikuo, that is the first merit!" No wonder Marquis An Yuan was so bold that he didn't even care about brotherhood......"

Zhang Fu glanced at the man and said in his heart: You are smart, you can see it best!

But the "smart man" was telling the truth. Although Zhang Fu was very angry, he couldn't write a letter to impeach Liu Sheng, otherwise he was worried that the saint would be suspicious and Zhang Fu would be greedy and wanted to be the prince of the country as soon as possible, so he attacked his own people who were fighting for merit.

Those who can be promoted to the Duke of the Kingdom are either those who have made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty and made great contributions, or they have made great contributions to the throne of the current emperor, such as the guards and commanders of the Han Palace.

Zhang Fu knew that he was in the wrong place before the Wude Dynasty, and if he wanted to get back the title of Duke of the Kingdom that the "Jingnan Meritorious Hero" deserved, he must not only have military merits, but also find a way to become the lineage of today. Like the last time the waste prince was burned to death in the fire in Xiaoyao City, Zhang Fu thought very rationally that the saint had no reason to do so, and stood on the side of the saint; But this is far from enough, he still needs to wait for the opportunity, and must not be impatient and counterproductive!

"That's it!" Zhang Fu finally calmed down his anger, and then decisively ordered: "Order Huang Zhong to march east along the Dongjiang River and continue to clear the remnants of the rebels." Our army will advance straight in the direction of Dongguan (Hanoi) and launch a full-front attack on the enemy south of Dongguan as soon as possible! ”

The generals clasped their fists and said: "Order!" ”

Zhang Fu said again: "Send someone to order Yin Desheng, lead the men and horses of the headquarters as the vanguard, and speed up the march; After reaching the north bank of the Yellow River, the forward army should ensure that the bridge is built and the army can cross. Asked Yin Desheng to send people to Dongguan City to count the grain in the granary. ”

The pro-soldier general said: "Get the order!" ”

The rebels gathered two large armies, one was the Nguyen Shuai in Bac Giang Province, which had been routed by Zhang Fu; All the way to the southeast of Dongguan City, it seems that the group of men and horses originally seemed to want to gather troops to capture the important town of Dongguan.

Chen Jikuo's deployment of people and horses in this way is very absurd in Zhang Fu's opinion, and it is simply self-defeating. To tell the truth, Zhang Fu felt that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had never been afraid of anyone in the battle with the main force, including the iron cavalry against the Yuan army; The Annan army is even more nonsense, their formations and queues always feel a little loose, and the big formation can't withstand the fierce battle. On the contrary, the climate and terrain are the advantages of the Annan army.

Zhang Fu didn't care what the Annan people thought, on the contrary, he was quite welcome to such a battle that gathered more than tens of thousands of people. He was even a little impatient, eager to immediately advance to the front line of the Yellow River and immediately carry out the second big battle.

The officers and troops Zhang Fubu and Huang Zhongzhong marched in different directions to clear the remnants of the army. However, Zhang Fubu did not achieve much success in the pursuit, and tens of thousands of troops had quickly advanced to the north bank of the Yellow River near Dongguan City in three days; The army did not carry out much of the clearance at all, and mainly marched along the main road. Zhang Fu's target is another army of traitors.

At this moment, Dongguan City sent an urgent report.

The southern bandit army has abandoned the military fortress and the big camp and is retreating south along the Yellow River. Such news made Zhang Fu feel a little bad, thinking that it must be the news of the Battle of Beijiang that had reached the south, and the rebels finally realized the mistake of gathering troops to fight and were about to slip away!

Zhang Fu immediately noticed two places in the south, one was Haikou (Nanding) and the other was Hualu (Ningping). Both places have abundant food and grass, and one is sheltered by water; There are mountains and rivers in one place, Hualu City was once the capital of the Ding Dynasty of Annan, and the surrounding terrain is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But Zhang Fu's army, which came from the north, had no choice but to continue to advance south if it wanted to expand its gains.

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