The confrontation between the North and the South of Annam has been going on for several decades, and both sides have the opportunity to almost kill the other, and they know each other even more than they know themselves. But because of the limitations of strength, the big plan can only stay on paper.

Now with the help of the Celestial Empire's army, the Southern Dynasty quickly came back to life, because the Northern Dynasty took the initiative to shrink, quickly regained the lost territory, and turned defense into attack, and was able to carry out the long-sealed plan of recovery - this plan believed that the northern dynasty would deploy heavy water and land troops to defend all the way to the south of the mountain. It's hard to get aspired. However, Shanxi on the road and Xuanguang, Xinghua, Taiyuan realm, the forest is deserted, the path is remote, I hope to meet with the main general of the town and county Gongwu Wenmi to guard Datong, and then go out of Tianguan, through Xinghua, cross the Taojiang River, according to Xuanguang, collect the domain chieftain, pass through Taiyuan, Langshan, march into Jingbei, use troops in Haiyang, Shannan, and finally form a 'face with the army of three, why not overcome? 'The situation.

This is a bold and well-thought-out offensive plan, which can bypass the Daluo defense line that the Mo Dynasty has painstakingly managed, and adopt the strategy of eating on Mo, whether it succeeds or fails, it will be a great destruction to the Northern Dynasty, but whether to implement it, the decision is not in the hands of Zheng Song, but depends on the coach Wu Baipeng and the main general Yu Dayou. Fortunately, both of them are full of praise for this plan, but they think that the details still need to be improved.

Before setting out on the expedition, Wu Baipeng secretly said to Yu Dayou: "Most of the countries of Nanyang are born and tamed, but Annan is the source of chaos since ancient times, and has rebelled against China several times, which is a big trouble for our national policy of always standing in Nanyang. Therefore, the fewer men in Annan, the better, but how can I, a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, kill innocents? In fact, this shouldn't be said so plainly, but Wu Baipeng is worried that Yu Daxia's ancient style is too strong, if he does anything to treat everyone equally, surrender and not kill, wouldn't he miss this great opportunity to let the Annan people carry the black pot themselves and come to kill?

Unexpectedly, Yu Dayou smiled faintly and said: "The last general originally wanted to cut first and then play, but now it seems that I underestimate you old." ”

Wu Baipeng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "I'm getting an axe." He remembered that when the Mo Dynasty was just established, the first emperor ordered Mao Bowen, the secretary of the military department, to send troops to quell the rebellion.

Later, Mao Butang saw his book, admired it very much, praised him, but did not use him. This incident made Yu Dayou depressed for a long time, and later realized that the imperial court didn't really want to fight at all, but just scared and scared Annan. Mao Butang's behavior can be explained, but Yu Dayou's ambition to pacify Annan is still difficult to pay.

Now in a blink of an eye, thirty years have passed, and the young general who was vigorous and powerful back then is now a weather-beaten white-haired general, but his sword is not old, and his heart that is eager to make contributions is still the same as before. So although there was some contradiction with Shen Mo, he still took the initiative to ask Ying to be the vanguard officer of the attack on Annan, and Shen Mo really didn't worry about others, so the two of them performed a play of 'making peace' before the battle, which can be regarded as a reunion.

And in Yu Dayou's plan back then, there was such a clause - to kill and wound the soldiers, so as to cut their blood and bravery!

So Yu Dayou and Zheng Song set off with a large army, and Wu Baipeng and Emperor Tianyou together sat in Thanh Hoa to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, as for Shen Mo Inspector, it is said that because of the water and soil, he could not afford to be ill, so he stayed in Da Nang to recuperate.

The Northern Expedition coalition army went out of Shanxi from Tianguan, to Xuanguang and Xinghua, along the way the Mo army was invincible, and Mo Xidao will Dingjun Gong Deng Ding, Xuanguang Shou General Wu Wenmi surrender to Li. Seven days later, the coalition army captured Jingbei, stationed in Shun'an Province, and moved to Xianyou Mountain. In the Spring Festival of the first year of Longqing, he divided his troops to attack Kuaizhou and Hongzhou. On the fifteenth day of the first month, he broke through Kuaizhou, Hongzhou, Nance and other prefectures.

During this period, the Ming army showed strong combat effectiveness, they not only had powerful weapons, but also cooperated tacitly, strict tactics, invincible, invincible, invincible...... If this can still make Zheng Song have mixed feelings, then another incident will make him extremely annoyed - although the Ming army has strict military discipline, it is extremely ruthless, and never leaves prisoners in every battle, even if the Mo army has surrendered on its knees, they will not be soft. Afterwards, Zheng Song protested, those people surrendered, they are our soldiers!

"We have enough troops." Yu Dayou said tepidly: "These people surrender to us today, tomorrow we will not occupy well, they will rebel again, rather than being messed up and affecting morale, it is better to kill them now." ”

"However, in this case," Zheng Song said with a bitter face: "The officers and soldiers of Mo know that we will not leave prisoners, and they will fight to the end and not surrender." ”

"So what?" Yu Dayou said contemptuously: "My children are not enough to kill." ”

Zheng Song was speechless, he could only watch the Ming army kill again and again, and repeatedly greeted Qi Jiguang's eight-generation ancestors in his heart. It's not that he didn't want to pit the Ming army and let them die more, but although Yu Dayou was in Annan for the first time, he knew the terrain and military situation here, coupled with his incomparably rich military experience and super-first-class battlefield sensitivity, he never put his subordinates in danger. Zheng Song, a kid who didn't have any hair, wanted to fool him, it was a pipe dream. So by the decisive battle a month later, the Li army had lost several thousand, but the Ming army had only three or five hundred dead......

What Zheng Song couldn't stand the most was that he thought that crossing the tropical jungle would cause the Ming army to contract miasma and greatly reduce the number of troops, but the Ming army had a medicine that was taken every day, and almost no one got sick. Knowing that the other party had come here with all the preparations, Zheng Song put away his ghost thoughts, and hurried to regain the lost territory wholeheartedly, and see at what price to send away these plague gods......

At the end of the first month, the goal of encircling on three sides was basically achieved, at this time, the Mo Dynasty had lost most of its territory, only the capital and Haiyang, but the army's losses were not large, and it was necessary to gamble on the decisive battle of the national fortune before the morale was completely low.

On February 2 of the sixth year of Longqing, Mo Jingdian mobilized all his troops...... Of course, the army defending Zhennanguan in the north did not dare to be transferred, otherwise the Ming army in Guangxi would go south, and it would be completely blown out of wax...... A total of about 100,000 soldiers and horses from the four towns, four guards, and five prefectures were mobilized to meet the enemy in array on the Red River Plain.

Three days later, coalition forces arrived from the north, and a major battle was imminent. Yu Dayou and Zheng Song were both on the front line to supervise the battle, and Mo Maoqia, the emperor of the Mo Dynasty, was also on the front line. Seeing that the monarch was coming, the morale of the Mo army was greatly boosted, and the elephant array composed of hundreds of elephants was the pioneer, and took the initiative to attack.

The coalition army fired intensively with 30 cannons, although the elephants were rough and thick-skinned, but they couldn't resist the shell hits, and after a dead and wounded, the rest of the elephants panicked, turned around and ran around, but they disrupted the line of the Mozambican army, and the Mozambican army retreated in panic, ignoring the left and right, and the rear did not care about the front. The coalition forces took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and beheaded more than 10,000 people under the opponent's general Kuang Dinggong and Qinjun Gong, and another 20,000 people were drowned, and they were captured and killed...... Mo Maoqia and Mo Jingdian fled with the remnants of the army to return to the dragon.

The victory was followed by New Year's Day, and the coalition forces rested for three days to prepare for the siege. Before the siege of the city, Zheng Song set up an altar to pay tribute to the emperor, Tianhou Tu and the emperors of the Li Dynasty, and then bound the soldiers with three rules: 'First, it is forbidden to trespass into people's homes and plunder property; Two must not fù women, three must not sī revenge killing! In fact, these words were more for the Ming army to hear, Yu Dayou was thin-skinned, and sure enough, the Ming army could abide by these three articles.

Zheng Song was overjoyed and said that he would definitely ask the king to reward the heavenly soldiers, but Yu Dayou did not take his stubble, but asked how the treasury of Shenglong was and where it was located? How much is in stock? After Zheng Song answered one by one, he turned to the soldiers around him and announced loudly: "Take Thang Long, the treasury of the Mo Dynasty is your bonus of the Li Dynasty!" ”

Daming, who has always lacked a sense of substitution for going abroad to fight, instantly boiled with enthusiasm and cheered.

Zheng Song was petrified in an instant, and he was still counting on the treasury of the Mo Dynasty to rebuild the country...... What's more, if the Ming army is rewarded so much, how should his own army be rewarded? But in front of tens of thousands of Ming soldiers, how dare he say a word? I had to grit my teeth and agree to come down first, and I would talk about everything after I won the dragon.

So the coalition forces divided their forces to attack Thang Long City. Seeing the Li army advancing, Mo Mao Qia evacuated the capital and lived in Bodhi Tud Village, and ordered Mo Jingdian, Ruan Ti and others to stay behind to defend Thang Long.

The coalition army surrounded Sanque Yi, and Zheng Song personally commanded the siege of the Li army, and when he saw that he was finally going to win, he couldn't help but increase his strength. So he went to the city through the base and raced to break through the base gate first. Most of the forbidden soldiers defending the city were from Shenglong, and in order to protect their families, they also had to fight hard, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Ming army did not participate in the siege at first, but repeatedly bombarded the city wall with artillery, and finally three days later, it collapsed a distance of dozens of zhang, and then dispatched the siege troops that had long been unable to hold back to launch a fierce attack.

The pressure on the Mo army suddenly increased, and it was suddenly unable to support it. To add insult to injury, Mo Jingdian happened to be on that section of the city wall, and was directly buried in the ruins, the Mo army, which had lost its commander, completely collapsed, the generals abandoned the city and fled, Nguyen Ti was captured, and the coalition army captured Thang Long.

Mo Maoqia, the emperor of the Mo Dynasty who hid in Tudu Village, was just a hairy child who had not yet given birth, and he was already crying with fright when he saw the defeat of the army like boiling soup and pouring snow. The Queen Mother asked Wang Mortun what to do, and Morton said that the only way to do it is to go north to Zhennanguan.

"Yes, we still have tens of thousands of horses, stationed at the border pass!" The Queen Mother's eyes lit up and said, "Let's go to them, and then fight to the death with the rebels of the Southern Dynasty and subdue the Thang Long ......"

"Let man know for himself!" Mo Dun gave her a look of disgust, and finally couldn't help but say: "You are just too self-conscious, if it weren't for the fact that you two made a covenant with that surnamed Wei, and ended up provoking the army of the Celestial Empire, how could we end up in such a field?" ”

"What's the use of saying this now...... "Since the Celestial Empire army sent troops, the Queen Mother has almost been scolded as a twist.

"No, no!" Modun let a depressed sigh and said: "We are not going to reorganize the army and fight again, but to surrender!" ”

"Surrender?" The Queen Mother didn't understand: "Since you want to surrender, you can't just pick up the dragon, why do you have to run so far." "The thought of having to climb so many mountains to reach Zhennan Pass made the pampered Queen Mother afraid.

"Do you think that if it falls into the hands of Zheng Song, he can let you live?" Mo Dunrang roared: "We are going north and surrendering to the Ming army in Guangxi, do you understand!" ”

"How can I understand if you don't say so?" The Queen Mother said aggrievedly.

After suffering huge losses, Zheng Song finally led his troops to capture Thang Long City. The Ming army also lost thousands of people, making Yu Dayou's face very unsightly, and as soon as he entered the city, he asked people to occupy the treasury, ready to pay money to reward the officers and soldiers, and compensate for the dead and wounded.

Seeing this, the Li army over there is naturally uneven, and we have to be rewarded for paying such a big price! They didn't dare to fight with the Ming army, but they dared to rob with the common people, and the Mo Dynasty nobles who were not as good as chickens, so the robbery soon spread, and fires broke out everywhere in the city. Zheng Song led people everywhere to put out fires, but he couldn't stop his subordinates who sent out beasts because of the tragic siege battle......

It was not until the next day, after killing hundreds of officers and soldiers who did not obey military orders, that Zheng Song regained control of the army. There was no time to settle the accounts carefully, he immediately led 10,000 troops directly under him, and went straight to Bodhi Tud Village, without killing the emperor of the Mo Dynasty, how could he be considered a victory in the war?

However, in order to quell the Thang Long Sāo Rebellion, he delayed for a whole day, so when he arrived at Tu Lum Village, he had no human hair left...... Zheng Song refused to give up and led the cavalry to pursue day and night, but Hanoi was only 260 miles away from Zhennan Pass, and the Mo family also ran desperately, and finally fled into Zhennan Pass.

Zheng Song chased dozens of miles away from Zhennan Pass, and he didn't dare to chase anymore...... If he pursued it any further, he would become a prey, so he had to return to Thang Long and prepare to join his army.

When Zheng Song returned to Thang Long City at dusk the next day, he heard that Yu Dayou was going to invite him to dinner and apologized for causing the Thang Long chaos. Although Zheng Song secretly scolded, if an apology is useful, what is the use of the government? But he didn't dare not give Yu Dayou's face, not to mention that this was a very face-saving thing.

So after freshening up, Zheng Song took off his battle robe, changed into a civilian robe, and took dozens of guards to the Ming military camp for a banquet. Yu Dayou's chief of the guard said that the marshal was waiting for him inside, and Zheng Song did not doubt that he had it, so he entered the big tent of the Chinese army alone, and his guards were naturally greeted by someone and went to the side tent to eat and drink.

After entering, Zheng Song didn't see the banquet, not even Yu Dayou's figure, only to see Emperor Tianyou's brother-in-law, Ruan Song, the prince of Songjun, standing there with a solemn face!

"Why are you here?" Zheng Song said vigilantly, and as he spoke, he wanted to quit this ghost place.

Behind him, several samurai with swords flashed, all dressed as the Li Dynasty Ouchi Guard......