In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao ordered to attack Annan.

Gao Bangzuo had already communicated with the naval governor Zhang Yan, and the navy was ready to cooperate with the army to attack Annam, and when they received the holy decree, they immediately launched an attack on Annam.

The attack was divided into two routes, the north and the south, with the main force of 20,000 marines on the north route, who landed directly on warships from the sea and land to attack North Annan, which was controlled by the Zheng family.

The Southern Route Army consisted of two infantry divisions adapted to the tropical rainforest climate that had been trained by the Army, and these two infantry divisions attacked the southern part of Annam directly from the Champa state.

At this time, the Champa state had not yet been completely annexed by Annam, and the southern border of Annam had only expanded to the Quy Nhon area of Vietnam in later generations.

After the Ming Dynasty intervened in the Indochina Peninsula, it immediately took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, very obedient and obedient, and responded to the requirements of the Ming Dynasty's commercial expansion, just for the sake of peace.

This purpose of the king of the Champa Kingdom has also been achieved, and now the Champa Kingdom is indeed very peaceful under the protection of the Ming Dynasty. It is basically impossible for Annan to continue to expand southward, because this time the Ming Dynasty has already taken the initiative to trouble Annan.

The Ming army on the northern road took a warship, under the cover of gunboats, and easily completed the landing battle in the port of Haiphong in later Vietnam, the Annam people did not have any reliable shore defense artillery, under the bombardment of the gunboats of the Ming Navy, the infantry successfully landed on the beach, and then occupied the entire port, and then advanced in the direction of Hanoi.

The Zheng clique, which rules northern Annam, was shocked when they received the news. I didn't expect Da Ming to really do it to them, I thought it was just to scare and scare.

But there is no regret medicine to take in this world, so the Zheng group has no choice but to gather an army to meet it. There were only 20,000 Ming troops. The Zheng Group is not too worried. After all, they have an army of nearly 100,000 at their disposal. They were worried that after defeating the 20,000 army, the Ming Dynasty would not send another army to attack Annam.

The troops drawn by the Zheng group were assembled one after another, and the troops in front fought and retreated, and the main forces of the two sides finally met 200 miles away from Hanoi and set up a decisive battle formation.

The Annan army concentrated about 80,000 troops, and there were more than 2,000 war elephants, while the Ming army only had 20,000 troops and no large-scale cavalry. Most of them were infantry.

The gap between the two sides in terms of strength is extremely large, Annam at this time is not the Vietnam of the future, the military force is still good, the north and the south have just been in the stage of confrontation, both sides do not have a comfortable environment, and the military strength is naturally not too bad.

The battle soon began, and the army of North Annam launched an attack on the Ming army, opened the way by the war elephants. The Ming army bombarded the Annan army with artillery fire, and one shell after another quickly blasted out a bloody road in the Annan army, whether it was a man or a war elephant. Under the bombardment of artillery fire, the war elephants also had to lie down.

There are also some war elephants under fright. Stampeing allies everywhere.

Under the fierce artillery bombardment of the Ming army, the 80,000 troops in North Annan were not vulnerable at all, and they quickly became chaotic, but fortunately, the Ming army was not so strong, and North Annan did not directly put all its troops into the battlefield, so the Ming army did not directly launch an attack, so the chaotic Annan army withdrew.

However, the Ming army was pressing forward step by step, and the second battle broke out again, and this time the Annamite people finally had a long memory, and did not use the war elephant again as a sharp weapon to trample on friendly troops. These war elephants had never faced such a strong firearms scene, and it was not something that could be done in a moment or a half if they tried to get used to it.

During the second engagement, the Annan army survived the artillery bombardment phase and rushed to the front of the Ming army in a steady stream. The Ming army then launched a volley with flintlock pistols and dealt blows with shotguns.

Shotguns and bullets were overwhelming, and the Annan soldiers fell one after another, and under the platoon of guns and shotguns, as soon as they fell, they were all people, which caused a strong visual impact on those Annan soldiers. It was as terrifying as if they were queuing up to shoot them, and the Ming army's salvo was a bit fast, and just fifteen seconds after the salvo, the second round of salvo was already coming.

And those shotguns are even more terrifying, as if there is a feeling of a goddess scattering flowers, and it is easy to kill dozens of people directly with one shot.

Row after row of Annan soldiers fell on the battlefield, and the scene was like a massacre.

Finally, under the impact of these Annan soldiers, these Annan soldiers finally touched the front of the Ming army and started hand-to-hand combat with the Ming soldiers.

These Ming soldiers did not wear any armor, and the Vietnamese soldiers did not have any armor on their hands. However, the Vietnamese army model is a fancy mixture, with soldiers having all kinds of weapons in their hands and then cooperating with each other, which is a panacea.

But in the mode of the Ming army, which was fully equipped with bayonets, it suffered a big loss, and the Ming army was in a tight formation, and when the Annan soldiers rushed to the front of the formation, they had become sparse, and the two sides were short-handed, and the Annan soldiers were stabbed to death by bayonets one after another.

The brutal hand-to-hand combat did not start for long, the Annamite people could not hold on, the Ming army's formation was as solid as a rock, they could not break the Ming army's formation at all, they could only be sent to death in front of the Ming army's bayonet wall one after another, the collapsed Annan soldiers were quickly defeated and retreated, the Ming army took the opportunity to launch a pursuit, killing the Annamite people to the cold, and directly defeated the defeated soldiers all over the mountains.

After this battle, the Zheng group in North Annan was also frightened, and did not dare to fight the Ming army head-on, but retreated into the city of Hanoi after collecting the rout.

Before the Ming Dynasty ruled Annam, Annam was split from China for more than 400 years, during which it was not that there was no political power to recover Annam, but that Annam had no cities to defend at that time, and they were all cities enclosed by wooden fences. After the capture, the Annam people ran into the rainforest and did not take them at all.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to rule Annam was mainly because Annam built the city during this period of time. Hanoi is the largest city in Annam, but its walls are comparable to those of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the walls of ordinary prefecture-level cities.

The Zheng group did not come out of Hanoi, and the Ming army directly put out the artillery and began to bombard the city walls of Hanoi, all of which were heavy artillery, and it was not a problem to deal with the city walls of Hanoi of this level in Annam.

Under the successive shelling, the wall was quickly blasted out of a gap, and then collapsed with a bang. The morale of the Annan people in the city suddenly plummeted, and the Zheng group ran away directly with the puppet emperor, and the city was suddenly in chaos.

The Ming army then stormed the city, with little decent resistance, and after some commotion, Hanoi was successfully captured by the Ming army. (To be continued.) )