In other words, the current territory of Donghu is really not small, and the entire southeast peninsula is almost occupied by them except for a small strip in the east belonging to Annam and Champang, especially after suppressing Siam in the area of Ayutthaya, the territory of Donghu is close to nearly two million square kilometers, can such a large place be taken in a month?

According to Zhu Cijiong's original plan, one month is naturally far from enough, it turns out that he wants to work step by step, steady and steady, slowly advance with the railway line, and build the railway wherever it goes, so that the supply of grain and grass does not have to worry at all, with the strong strength of the Ming Dynasty, Donghu who can definitely fight has no temper.

However, now that the great powers are clearly going to intervene, he has to change his strategy and take a risk, the so-called capture of the thief first captures the king, he is ready to storm all the way, directly rush to the capital of Donghu, and force the landing of King Talong!

From Dacheng to Donghu, the capital of Donghu, it is only more than 1,000 miles, if you hurry up, you can reach it in three days, it seems that it is a very simple thing to take and rush to Donghu City, why do you say that this is a risky fight?

First of all, there are 200,000 troops in Donghu north of Dacheng, if you don't defeat these 200,000 troops and go straight to the capital of Donghu, is it a joke, waiting for people to attack from both sides? After the defeat of these 200,000 troops, it is not a hundred, they want to use the terrain to disperse and block the attack, it will be a big trouble, with the 300,000 Ming troops gathered in Dacheng, it is impossible to wipe out so many defeated troops in a short period of time.

In addition, the middle of Dacheng and Donghu City is not a flat river, and there are several mountains in the middle, and the terrain is complicated, so it is difficult for the army to march.

Finally, there is the most critical problem, if the king of Ta Long flees and abandons Donghu City, then everything will be in vain!

However, Zhu Cijiong can't manage so much now, there are a lot of problems, but it is not completely hopeless, because he is very confident in the forced landing of King Long, as long as King Long is surrounded in Donghu City, this guy will surrender nine times out of ten, because in history, the king of the Donghu Dynasty is not a diehards who resist to the end.

In fact, the Southern Burma that Emperor Yongli finally defeated during the Southern Ming Dynasty was the Donghu Dynasty, and as a result, as soon as Wu Sangui rushed over, King Talong immediately sent Emperor Yongli and his family to the Qing army, in order to ask the Qing army to retreat!

Of course, it is also possible that he does not want to go to war to protect Emperor Yongli and the Qing army, but when everyone comes to the door, you don't let go of a fart and admit it directly, which is enough to show that he King Long is a bully who is afraid of the hard.

Since they are afraid of hardness, then try hard with them, Zhu Cijiong directly ordered that the Beiyang Naval Division go to Annan to transport the Tianxiong Army over, and the matter of slowly advancing the railway is handed over to the Dingliao Army, the Wuwei Army and the Second Army of the Frontier Guard Army to be responsible, while the First Army of the Praetorian Guard, the Guanning Army and the Dongjiang Army are going all out to make dry food and prepare for a rapid march!

Annam was not very far from Siam, and two days later the Tianxiong army arrived in Ayutthaya, and Zhu Cijiong immediately gathered four main generals to discuss the plan of marching into Donghu.

In the process of marching and fighting, Zhu Cijiong generally tried to avoid red tape and etiquette, and the five of them discussed around the sand table model.

To march into Donghu, we must first solve the 200,000 Donghu army north of Dacheng, the camp of the Donghu army is quite important in the art of war, backed by the mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in front of the Ming army with an astonishing number of artillery, it is just a little more effort, and the most discussed is how to annihilate the 200,000 army in one fell swoop. As for what to do after the settlement of the 200,000 troops, it depends on the outcome of this battle, and everyone gave examples of various situations one by one, discussed various countermeasures, and a huge battle plan slowly took shape.

Early the next morning, Zhu Cijiong personally led the First Army of the Praetorian Guard Army and the Dongjiang Army to march 80 miles north of Dacheng, and set up camp opposite the Donghu camp to attract the attention of the Donghu army, while the Guanning army and the Tianxiong army lurked from the left and right flanks, separated by twenty or thirty miles, and surrounded the Donghu camp.

The main commander of the Hu army will be the prince of Donghu Pingdali, he is not as cowardly as King Long, the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, he thinks that the Ming army is just more artillery, if you really fight hard, you may not be able to beat the Donghu army!

The reason why he retreated a hundred miles was not because he was afraid of the Ming army, but because he didn't want to fight with the Ming army, and he didn't even understand the intentions of the Ming army, so he just fought with others, isn't he sick, he is not sick, so he is waiting for the Ming army to send a messenger to explain his intentions.

As a result, what he was waiting for was not the messenger of the Ming Dynasty, but an army of 200,000!

At this time, Ping Dali was directly angry, and early the next morning, he directly ordered the 200,000 troops to set up a formation on the plain in front of the camp, preparing to challenge the Ming army, so that they could see the strength of the Donghu army.

Zhu Cijiong was originally thinking about how to break through the Donghu camp, but he didn't expect them to run out by themselves and set up a formation to provoke there!

Dare to fight against the Ming army on the plains and look for death!

Zhu Cijiong immediately ordered 10,000 infantry to form a shield wall at the front to block the enemy's sight, leaving the infantry and cavalry to line up the left and right rear flanks of the shield array, while the artillery was all lined up directly behind the shield array, and the 200,000 troops slowly pressed forward.

Seeing that the Ming army was pressing over in such a formation, Ping Dali couldn't help but show a look of disdain, this Ming army general is afraid that he is sick, can the cannonball be blocked by a shield? He's got dozens of cannons! And he also has tens of thousands of elephant soldiers, such a shield array can be stepped on directly!

Zhu Cijiong naturally knew that the Donghu army had forty or fifty artillery pieces, so he lined up the one hundred Shenwei cannons with the farthest range at the front of the artillery array, just waiting for the other party to fire.

Behind the shield array, infantry and artillery generals on war horses kept estimating the distance between each other with binoculars, ...... six, five, four, and three miles.

The front row of the Ming army's shield array had just reached a position about two and a half miles away from the Donghu army, "boom, boom", the Donghu army finally couldn't help but open fire, but their artillery was all set up in the rear of the large array, and the range was a little insufficient, and the farthest shells were still hundreds of steps away from the shield array of the Ming army.

At this time, the Chinese army ordered the flag to wave, and the leading generals in front ordered according to the flag:

"Take a hundred steps forward and erect a shield wall."

"Take a hundred steps forward and prepare to charge."

"Go forward and set up a cannon at a hundred paces, ready to bombard."

After the entire formation of the Ming army moved forward a hundred steps, it suddenly stopped, and the Ming army in the front row of "puff puff" inserted the shield into the ground and quickly formed a shield wall, and the Ming army behind seemed to stop there without moving.

Just as Ping Dali was guessing what the Ming army was doing, a row of cannon barrels suddenly erected behind the shield wall, about a hundred, but the length was a bit amazing, and the shield wall was a big section high!

Seeing this, Ping Dali's face changed, looking at the length of this barrel, he knew that the artillery of the Ming army would definitely be able to shoot into his own large array, what should I do? A hundred cannons are not so terrible, at such a close distance, rushing over to receive a maximum of two hundred shells, fighting, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Beat the drums, the whole army assault." “

The war drums sounded, and the Donghu army roared in unison, driving the giant elephant to rush towards the Ming army.