The murderous words didn't seem to have much effect, and the city neither fought nor cursed. Mo Jun scolded for a while, and also felt that singing a one-man show was not interesting, so he camped outside the city and prepared to attack Thanh Hoa the next day.

At this time, Zheng Zhan sent someone to see Mo Jingkuan and said: "Your Majesty, the foreign minister thinks that the port outside Thanh Hoa is suitable for the fleet to dock, and asks Your Majesty to allow the ministers and others to be stationed in the port after the war." The foreign minister is willing to send 3,000 troops to help His Majesty recover Thanh Hoa. ”

This is the threat of Hongguoguo, but in Qinghua, the artillery of the Ming army can play a great role. Mo Jingwan said indignantly: "It's too much to start the price temporarily." ”

Mo Jingkuan said with a smile: "Since they have been promised to give them a port, then there is no problem for them to propose to Qinghua Port now, sooner or later, what is there to worry about." ”

He said to the person sent by Zheng Zhan: "Please tell Commander Zheng that the port of Thanh Hoa can be given to the Ming garrison, and please cooperate with our army to attack Thanh Hoa City tomorrow morning." ”

The next morning, Zheng Zhan sailed the ship to the outside of Thanh Hoa City, but there were still four or five miles between the port and the city wall, and it was impossible for the artillery to hit the city wall. Just swept away all the Annam naval forces in Thanh Hoa.

Zheng Zhan said to Lin Shuzhen: "The rest will be handed over to Brigade Commander Lin, I wish you a victory." ”

Lin Shuzhen saluted him and said, "All for the Ming Dynasty, all for the Holy One." ”

Zheng Zha replied: "All for the Ming Dynasty, all for the Holy One." ”

Lin Shuzhen led 6,000 guards to disembark and complete the team. Although it was said that 3,000 people would be sent to help, the momentum of the lion and the rabbit ordered by Huang Kezhang when he came made Zheng Zhan insist on dispatching the whole army to avoid accidents.

Lin Shuzhen said to Mo Jingwan, who came to communicate: "Our army will attack the east city gate, and stop the attack when the city gate or city wall is broken, and your army will leave the east area for our army to occupy, is it feasible?" ”

Mo Jingwan naturally has no opinion, the official office of Qinghua City is in the southern city, even if the east side of the city is all allocated to the Ming army, the Ming army can only grab no more than a quarter of the property, and then there is no need to give them gold, silver and jewelry.

After receiving an affirmative reply, Lin ordered the artillery to advance under the cover of the infantry. The Zheng family army in the city looked at the siege team that had no ladder and felt very strange, everyone was pointing at the city wall, not knowing how they came to attack the city.

About 200 paces outside the city gate, the Ming army stopped advancing and began to erect artillery, and at this time, the army of the Mo Dynasty also came to 300 paces behind the guards. They had seen the power of the artillery on the ships of the Ming army, but they had not seen the siege of the Ming infantry, and they were also a little curious to watch the situation.

After the artillery was erected, the Ming artillery used solid bullets to measure the range, watching the iron balls fly towards the city wall, but they fell in the moat or did not even hit the moat, the Zheng soldiers on the city wall laughed mockingly, and the originally somewhat apprehensive mood also calmed down.

After the ranging was completed and the second test firing began, the Zheng soldiers couldn't laugh, this time all the solid bullets hit the city wall or the city gate hole, and the flying stone chips hit several soldiers, and a miserable scream sounded.

The artillery commander let the cannons attacking the city gate hole and the city wall near the city gate oil replace it with a flowering shell full of gunpowder inside, and with a wave of the small flag in his hand, more than a dozen shells flew out, two flew into the city gate hole, one fell outside the city gate hole, and the others fell on the city wall.

Two muffled whistleblows sounded, and a large amount of smoke came out of the city gate hole, and wood and stone debris flew out along with it. When the smoke cleared, the gates could already be seen.

And after Mo Jingwan gave the order, a large number of Mo troops rushed forward, each carrying a cloth bag containing soil. Running to the moat, he threw the cloth bag into the water, and soon filled a passage.

The commander of the Mozambican army blew the bamboo whistle, and the soldiers threw down their cloth bags and rushed through the passage towards the city with knives and guns.

The city gate has been lost, although the Zheng army continues to command people to block the city gate, but how to withstand the charging speed of the Mo army, gradually retreated backwards for a while.

More Mo Chao troops rushed into the East City Gate, and they were instructed not to rob the East City, but to quickly run towards the other three city gates. Soon the south and north gates were opened, and the Mo army, who was waiting outside the city gate, rushed forward like locusts.

Lin Shuzhen waited until the Mo army outside the gate of the east city entered the city before entering the city with 3,000 infantry. The guards lowered their guard as they walked, mainly to prevent the Mozambican army from crossing the border and entering Dongcheng to rob.

Two hours later, the Guards guard was fully in position. The artillery units outside the city were also protected by infantry and mounted on the ships. Zheng Zha sent another 2,000 sailors and 1,000 Guards infantry to live in Thanh Hoa City.

Lin Tanzhen began to assign robbery tasks, with more than 1,000 people on guard, all sailors participating in the robbery, and 2,000 guards responsible for protecting them in the robbery. It was specifically stipulated that robbery of the poor, murder and rape were prohibited, and that a certain reward could be given to those who assisted in the robbery.

After the Mo army entered the city, he was stunned by the prosperity of Thanh Hoa. At this time, Thanh Hoa was under the rule of the Later Lê Dynasty, and there were few wars, so it was far more developed than the war-torn Thang Long Province. And Mo Jun, who came from the barren Gaoping, was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and under the dazzle, he began a crazy robbery.

Mo Jingkuan knew that he couldn't stop it, so he went with them. Just send people to be careful not to behave too out of line. The people of the southern and northern cities saw an opportunity and fled to the relatively quiet eastern city.

In this way, the Ming army and the Mo army made a judgment, and the Annan people would rather be robbed by the Ming army, and then placed in a safe area by the Ming army, so that at least they would not be hurt twice, and the Ming army would also provide them with food, although these foods were actually robbed by the Annan people.

Soon, Mo Jingkuan sent someone to send Cui Chengxiu over. It turned out that he had just come to Thang Long Mansion when he encountered a power struggle between Zheng's uncle and nephew, and as a result, he was coerced by Zheng Ji to Thanh Hoa. When the Mo army rushed into the Qinghua Yamen and captured Zheng Jie, he also met Cui Chengxiu, who was imprisoned by the Zheng family, so he sent him to the Ming army.

Lin Shuozhen sent someone to send Cui Chengxiu to the ship. Zheng Zhan saluted and asked, "Will Yushi continue to go south, or return to China?" ”

Cui Chengxiu said: "Continue to the south, Annan three parties, the emperor thinks that the Ruan family is the most likely to succeed, I have already delayed a lot of time here in the Zheng family, I have to hurry up." By the way, Commander Zheng, if you help Mo Chao, can you easily defeat the Ruan clan? ”

Zheng Zhan shook his head and said, "Our troops are limited, and the Mo Dynasty's army is not strong enough to sweep away the Ruan clan. According to Fei Fu's spies, Nguyen Phuc Nguyen had learned the art of making cannons from the West and began to make copper cannons and arquebuses himself. The Mo Dynasty army was no match for them. ”