As expected, following the order of Annan Guozhong, in the first month of the fifth year of Yongle, people came to the Ming army camp almost every day to surrender.

Chen Yuanzhi, the servant of Annan, brought Princess Tianhui and the whole family to surrender; Then there were soldiers from the country of Annan who came with men and horses...... There was even a person named Ruan Rijian, who had no official position, but took advantage of the situation to kill the pacification envoy of Annan, and took his head to the Ming army camp to ask for merit.

There are more and more people who turn their backs on the Hu family and their sons, and if they continue to drag on, I am afraid that they will only end up betraying their relatives and being embattled.

In the camp of the Ming army, there are civilian officials in the Chinese army who generously make speeches, saying that those who win the righteousness and the hearts of the people will win! Zhu Gaoxu does not believe that righteousness is so magical, but he has to be sure that this kind of untouchable and invisible things have its effect, at least when the situation of the "immoral" side is not good, people will have more excuses to change their faces.

Zhu Gaoxu thought that the time was ripe and ordered the army to march to the chosen battlefield.

An army of 100,000 wants to ambush and sneak attack, and the tactical possibility is not great. This deployment of waiting for work is nothing more than a willingness to fight and a willingness to suffer.

…… In the middle of the first month, the sky was gray. The armies of the two large battalions of the Ming army set up positions on both sides of the Zhu River.

This section of the river flows from north to south, the east bank of the mountain is towering, the mountain is called Lang Mountain, and it continues until the riverside. So much so that the land road along the river on the east bank is very narrow.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's Chinese army camp was not on the east bank, but on the river beach on the west bank. He expected that the Annan army would attack the flat west bank with the main force, after all, it would be more difficult for the enemy to attack the Langshan camp on the back.

Under the gloomy sky, the Lang Mountain beyond the fog is filled with colorful flags to increase the momentum. Zhu Gaoxu withdrew his gaze, the terrain here is low, and his vision is not very wide, and he can only see the river beach and the heavy water vapor on the river surface.

On both sides of the Zhu River, at this time, each battalion had a total of 100,000 troops! However, at this time, it seemed a little empty, perhaps because the place was too big, and the military discipline of the Ming army was relatively good.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the hazy river, and he didn't even feel that a big war was coming.

In the distance to the south, the view was obscured by the morning fog, and there was not even the slightest movement. If it weren't for the scout's report on the military situation, Zhu Gaoxu wouldn't have known that the Annan Army would be coming today.

After waiting for more than an hour, the sky was still gray, and the fog had not completely dissipated. If it's a sunny day, it's all three poles in the day.

A subordinate general said: "I'm afraid that it will rain today, and firearms will not be used, and I don't know if the Annan army will come." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "Firearms cannot be used on either side, and the elephant soldiers of the enemy army are better." ”

As soon as the words fell, a faint shout came from the depths of the water vapor on the river surface. The distant shouting came from among the mountains and rivers, and the sound was very strange.

The soldiers of the Ming army, who had been waiting quietly for a long time, finally had some vitality and spoke one after another.

Zhu Gaoxu shook the reins, turned his horse's head and said to the generals: "We were originally the strength to attack the city, but now in the field battle, our army takes the initiative to choose the battlefield and wait for work, no matter what, it will definitely win!" Do as you have been told, and if it rains, you will use drums instead of cannons. ”

The generals saluted one after another, and there was a sound of response.

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and everyone slapped their horses and left the Chinese army, and they dispersed.

The shouts in the distance are getting closer and closer. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu felt a cold on the back of his hand, two drops of rain fell on his hand, and after a while, the sound of rain became a sound, "rustling ......" The sound of rain covered up some distant shouts, and the rain on the helmet was even more jingling and very crisp.

The air was covered with a curtain of rain, and the vision was even more unclear, and even the flags on the mountains on the opposite bank were gradually unable to see clearly.

At this time, the mast and the shadow of the ship on the river gradually came into view, and continued to drive north. It seems that the Annan army will not postpone the final battle of this war because of the rain.

Chifeng is miserable, wind and rain. The sky was dark, the ground was misty, and there was a sense of depression between heaven and earth.

However, Zhu Gaoxu's mood has not changed with the environment, this battle has not yet started, and victory is already in his heart. He didn't give any orders, just silently watched the changes on the battlefield, waiting for that moment to come.

As a king who has experienced battles since he was more than ten years old, and has experienced more than 100 battles, Zhu Gaoxu really can't think of a reason to lose this kind of battle!

…… The Annan warships that came from the misty water on the river were not hindered in any way on the water, and Zhu Gaoxu's troops did not prepare a naval division for this battle. Many warships had crossed the land line of the Ming army from the water, and the Ming army threw arrows into the river from time to time, but they were very sparse.

Rain affects not only firearms, but also bows and crossbows, many of which are made of animal tendons and glue, which are easy to soften when wet. It can be used barely at first, but it can be easily damaged. So when the two armies approached, a long-range attack was better than nothing.

At this time, the enemy crowd on land also faintly appeared, and this time the Annan army was advancing by land and water, and it was menacing.

The "rumbling" drums sounded in the noise of the rain. The shouts of the enemy army were even louder, and the crowd that appeared was chaotic, I don't know if it was because the battle formation of the Annan army was like this, or because the road was gradually muddy.

The spring rain was not heavy, and it did not rain for long, but there were too many people, and they repeatedly trampled on the dirt, so that the ground was all half-dry and half-wet mud. The enemy shouted and marched, but they did not know whether it was a brave roar or an outpouring of fear.

The artillery did not sound a word, and the two armies on the front had not yet engaged the enemy. At this time, the rear of the river beach on the west bank of the Ming army was already fighting at some point.

The flat-bottomed boats of the Annam army sailed straight to the sandy ground and shallow water, and the enemy troops on the boats jumped off the boat, wanting to attack the back of the Ming army, and flank the Ming army in front and rear.

However, they immediately engaged the Ming cavalry, and the cavalry Quanyong attacked from south to north along the river beach, breaking through the enemy infantry that could not form a formation, and the spears and swords waved with the iron hooves of the horses.

There was chaos and noise on the river beach, countless people and horses were struggling and trudging in the shallow water, and people were constantly screaming and falling into the water. The river was muddy, mud and blood quickly mixed together, and the muddy water was faintly red.

The cross-attack of the Ming cavalry Quanyong team delayed the disembarkation of the Annan naval army and gained a firm foothold. At this time, several phalanxes of the Ming infantry also successfully turned around, and a piece of iron party formation pressed towards the river bank, the mud was trampled and splashed everywhere, and the soldiers collided, shouted, screamed and cried, and countless voices floated on the water surface and echoed on the mountain wall of Langshan.

Some of the warships soon burst into flames, and even if it was still raining in the sky, it could not extinguish the flames of fierce fire oil and tung oil, and black smoke billowed and the flames soared into the sky. The smoke and dust mixed with the water mist, and the earth was even darker and misty.

…… The front of the Ming army's large array, at this time is also the sound of killing, several groups of enemy soldiers rushing in front, first collided with the Ming army's spear and shield heavy infantry, and then everywhere there were short soldiers, the front of the two armies, soon killed into one.

The Ming infantry phalanx was very densely arranged, the shields were almost connected into a wall, and the spears were like thorns. The infantry of the Annan Army attacked hand-to-hand and could not break the formation at all. There were screams everywhere, and some of the enemy soldiers were stabbed with blood from the two spears huddled together at the same time, and the spears in the second row were also stabbed through the gaps in the front row.

The red battle flag with the word "Ming" written on it crackled in the wind and rain, slowly moving forward. Underneath the flag, a phalanx of heavy infantry marched forward like countless iron chariots.

At this moment, the spear and shield men behind the various formations sent out from the flanks of each division and attacked in columns. The array of the infantry of the Annan Army was relatively loose, and it was completely unable to stop the column of the Ming army from attacking in depth.

I don't know where the enemy soldiers began to flee, and the rout began to disperse like a plague, and the front army of the Annam Army was defeated!

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard on the west side of the battlefield, and the Ming cavalry Quanyong Brigade was dispatched, and the iron cavalry unhurriedly jogged past the infantry formation, and killed the enemy soldiers who were scattered and fleeing.

At that time, the left flank of the Annan Army was the cavalry of the Ming army, and the right flank was the surface of the Zhujiang River. However, many of the enemy soldiers did not run back, but still fled to the two flanks, and countless people died.

"Woo! Whin......" The horn-like cry came from the hazy mist, and many tall elephants, like building ships, appeared behind the battlefield. It is no wonder that the enemy soldiers ran on both sides, and the war elephants and dense infantry behind blocked the rear road, and the defeated troops of Annam could not escape from that side at all.

Platoons of elephant soldiers were driven straight at the front, but the elephants were not fast in the mud. The war elephants kept roaring, and the shouts of the soldiers and soldiers of Annam were also earth-shattering.

The right wing cavalry of the Ming army, Quan Yong, detoured on the flat ground to restrain the momentum of continuing the pursuit.

At this time, the infantry column in front of the Ming army also retreated and returned from the middle of the various formations. The front column also cleverly changed one row to two rows to make the queue more sparse, and then replaced the back rows of infantry.

The guns and shields of the heavy infantry of the Ming army weighed dozens of pounds, and the soldiers in front of them fought fiercely for a while, and when they retreated, many people were out of breath.

The new soldiers were all alive and vigorous, and above the instigation of the generals, the shouts of the Ming army on the large array rose one after another.

A whole row of elephant soldiers on the opposite side was approaching, and the war elephants had sharp weapons on their teeth and noses, and some of them had some leather armor on top of the thick elephant skins. On the back of the elephant sat a variety of enemy soldiers, wielding long weapons in the air.

At this moment, suddenly, a gong sounded chaotically in the Ming army's large array, "clang, clang......". The tall and mighty, beast-like war elephant was so frightened that it frightened. Occasionally, bold war elephants rushed to the front of the Ming army.

There was chaos in front of the Ming army, and the war elephants rushed into the crowd in a frenzy. The infantry of the Ming army surrounded it on all sides, and the enemy soldiers on the back of the elephant were surrounded by wide-brimmed iron helmets, holding weapons and condescendingly not knowing who to attack.

A war elephant was stabbed with knives, slashing spears, and fell with a bang. The enemy soldiers on the back of the elephant screamed and were soon swallowed up by the sea.

At this time, the enemy infantry behind the war elephant took advantage of the situation to rush to the place where the formation was broken, and the fighting of the two armies became more and more chaotic.

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