The emperor is dead!

For the Vietnamese who have been in Xingqian for four years, or the so-called Yongshou for seven years, this does not seem to be a surprise. Everyone can guess what happened.

One dynasty Zheng Emperor and one dynasty Li Emperor.

Since the dictatorship of the Zheng family, the Li Emperor of the Great Yue and the Zheng King of the Zheng family have alternated with each other, and every time before the Zheng King succeeds to the throne, he will either kill the Li Emperor or force the Li Emperor to abdicate, and then take the young son as the emperor, so that he can continue to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the Great Yue.

This time, although King Zheng was not yet old, the army of the Celestial Empire came to rebel, which still made King Zheng feel the crisis, and he was afraid that Emperor Li would defect to the Zheng family of the Celestial Empire, so he naturally chose the easiest way.

Let the emperor die.

Although everyone knew and knew it, this did not prevent Zheng Zheng, who hurried all the way to Thang Long City, wept and ordered people to mourn for Emperor Yongshou, and all the soldiers of the army wore white clothes, and then swore to avenge the emperor and meet the Ming army outside Thang Long City.

It was a clear day, and there was not a single cloud in the endless sky. On a high ground near Thang Long City, the Marquis of Binh Duong, Jin Tong Wu Zheng led several officers to observe the terrain with binoculars, Thang Long City is located on the south bank of the Red River, on both sides of the Red River is a plain, the plain is full of continuous rice fields. Since it had just rained a few days ago, the paddy fields under the bright sun at this time looked like mirrors. Jin Tongwu, who was standing on the mound, even felt the sunlight reflected in the mirror.

"Since it's Jiangnan, I'm afraid it's just that!"

Looking at the hundreds of miles of rice fields, Jin Tongwu, who was born as a farmer himself, couldn't help but praise. Although he is a native of Shaanxi, he has been in the south all these years, but he also knows that such fertile paddy fields, even in Daming, are rare.

"Master Hou, after this battle, we will be exiled here by Your Majesty!"

Hu Shundu's tone was somewhat dissatisfied, how could the flower world in Guangzhou be compared to such a wild place.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Jin Tongwu reprimanded softly.

"Today, I ordered you and me to be the clan guards, to love you and me, if you don't want to, you can hand over the military power and go home to be your peace and happiness, so good?"

Being reprimanded by Jin Tongwu like this, Hu Shundu stopped speaking, and looked at the several people around him, Ma Siliang, Wang Daoheng and others who were all unwilling, Jin Tongwu continued.

"Don't forget, I can be here today, it is all the king who fights for the court, if it is not for the king who does not hesitate to die, are you really ready to use your mantis arm as a chariot to compete with the hundreds of thousands of troops of the court?"

As soon as he said this, everyone who was still unwilling all smiled bitterly, they really didn't dare to compete with the imperial court.

It's not that you don't dare, but you don't want to!

In the past few years, they have long been addicted to the world of flowers in Guangzhou, competing with the court? At what cost? It is nothing more than the death of the body and the extinction of the clan. What about the family property they have accumulated over the years and the wives and concubines in the family? Who can give it?

Even, many of them had already made up their minds if King Jin insisted on going his own way. If the imperial court called, they would not mind surrendering to the imperial court in order to keep their glory and wealth.

Originally, the king of Jin went to Beijing, and they thought that everything was over, but who would have thought that the imperial court intended to place them in Annam, and let them lead the troops to fight them down by themselves, if they didn't fight, or were defeated, what would happen?

When the time comes, how can the thunderous wrath of the Son of Heaven be resisted?

A lot of times, they don't have any choice, they just go with the flow.

Ay...... Let's think this is Jiangnan!

At least, in the future, to be the founding minister of a country, in this way, is it better than being afraid in Daming, as for the flower world in Guangzhou, although it is good, but if there is no life, how can you enjoy it?

Just when they were standing on this land with mixed feelings, a group of artillerymen not far from them were busy placing twelve nine-pound guns. The heavy field guns crushed the turf on the grass, leaving clear rut marks. It is not easy to find such a suitable place for deploying artillery on the Red River Plain, which is full of paddy fields.

As for the infantry - a group of Ming troops wearing red uniforms, now even if it is the Jin army, they are also composed of the Ming army, just like the former loyal army, they are all Ming troops, and they naturally need to wear the red military uniforms of the Ming army, but here, they are wearing military uniforms sewn from a thin layer of cloth, and under the hot sun, the red square of officers and soldiers standing, and the competition is in the rice fields.

It seems that this is not a suitable place for line combat.

In the distance, a small group of Ming cavalry is searching everywhere, compared to the short military horses of the old times, after two generations of improved war horses, although the body size is still short, but it has obviously exceeded the past a lot, so that the cavalry is extremely powerful.

And when they were searching and guarding the flank, they suddenly found the Vietnamese cavalry on horseback, and the Ming cavalry rushed over immediately, and there were several figures faintly moving in the woods in the distance, and then after flashing a few times, they disappeared into the forest like ghosts.

It was a scout of the Vietnamese army.

Compared with the red military uniforms of the Ming army, the scouts of the Vietnamese army often wore green cloth or black cloth clothes, which could be easily hidden in the forest. So they immediately divided into two ways and fought into the woods.

Although the official battle has not yet begun. But the scouts on both sides have begun to secretly tear up, and in the past few days, the two sides have won and lost each other, with their understanding of the terrain, the scouts of the Ming army did not stand cheap, but suffered several losses.

However, everyone knows that it is not the clash between the scouts that will determine the outcome in the end, but the battle between the two sides in front of each other.

The officers on the same dirt slope, although they were talking about things unrelated to the war, their eyes were looking around, but their hearts were constantly thinking about the dynamics of the Vietnamese army over there. They kept staring at the black dots that appeared on the horizon and watched the Vietnamese army adjust their formations in the distance.

"There are more than sixty war elephants."

Suddenly, Jin Tongwu put down the binoculars and smiled at the brothers around him.

"More than sixty war statues, this King Zheng has made a lot of money!"

War elephants are the biggest feature of the southern barbarian princely states, once upon a time, Li Dingguo also used war elephants to defeat the Qing army again and again, and even their war elephants came from Annam, and the price of canonizing the king of Annam was that Annam paid tribute to thirty war elephants and elephant slaves.

But now, the war elephants have been eliminated from the Jin army, and the original battle of Guangzhou, the still gratifying war elephants did not play a useful role. And it has also been proved that under the lead of the firecracker, the war elephant that originally seemed invincible was vulnerable even if it was covered with heavy armor, not to mention the cannon.

However, despite this, Jin Tongwu still seemed extremely cautious, knowing that this battle was related to the future of the 50,000 brothers in the Jin army, he could not but be cautious, only to see him pointing to a simple map spread on horseback and assigning to a few officers on the side.

"Ma Siliang, you will wait a while once the main force of our army exchanges fire with the main force of the Vietnamese army. You will take the opportunity to lead your men and horses to take the left flank of the Vietnamese army, and Battalion Commander Sun, your artillery battalion must deal with the opponent's artillery when the time comes. Then the cavalry cut off the enemy's retreat, and if they fled to the east, they pursued and annihilated them. ”

In the past few years, the Jin army is also learning the fighting style of the loyal army, and the continuous firearms make them have to adapt to the tactics of the firearms era, at this point, the Jin army is quite far from the elite of the Ming army, and it is precisely because of this that he will be extremely cautious.

In fact, in the ranking of the combat effectiveness of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the combat effectiveness of the Jin army can only be ranked in the middle and lower, and even inferior to the Min army, because the Jin army was born in Liukou, which also determines that they cannot be compared with the regular army in terms of discipline, and even according to their combat effectiveness, at most, they think that they can only give the main force of the Ming army - the main force based on the loyal and righteous army to fight on the battlefield.

But no one would have thought that now they have become the main force, but it is enough to attack Annan.

"Brothers, I won't say much nonsense, this time is not only related to the Ming Dynasty, but also to the future of 50,000 brothers, whether the brothers can live and work here in peace and contentment in the future, multiply, but it all depends on today!"

I saw that the surrounding generals immediately confidently assured Jin Tongwu.

"Don't worry, Master Hou, we will definitely kill Annanyi today. I will never lose the face of our King Jin in this city! Isn't it just a group of Annan Yi, the brothers went with Lao Tzu to kill the barbarians! ”

"Kill the barbarians, kill the barbarians!"

Ma Siliang's words drew a burst of cheers from the soldiers behind him.

Although many of the Jin army were born in Southwest Yi and Pingnanyi, most of them now speak Chinese, and they have long regarded themselves as Ming people, and when they mention "killing Yi", their eyes not only have the slightest hesitation, but even flash with expectation.

They are looking forward to being able to prove themselves on the battlefield, and then use the head of the Annam barbarians to prove to the Han brothers around them that they are also Ming people, and of course Han people.

The mountains are barbaric, and the mountains are Han!

They have long been part of the Han Chinese!

Jin Tongwu didn't know about their mentality, he looked at these soldiers with high morale, and couldn't help but be infected, he smiled slightly, raised the horse whip in his hand and pointed at the flagpole of the Vietnamese army in the distance and shouted loudly.

"Today I am equal to this, not to kill barbarians here, but to punish the world's chaotic ministers and thieves, the Zheng thief is a thief who kills the master, and the people of Annan have suffered for a long time! I waited for the Heavenly Empire and Heavenly Army to come here in order to return the people of Annan to Lang Lang Qian, in order to kill the rebellious ministers and thieves! ”