Chapter 408: Hanoi Meat Grinder

An Annan soldier lay on the ground, his knife frantically cutting through the barbed wire. The edge of the knife has been cut, and the wires of the barbed wire have been cut one by one.

Suddenly, a gap was opened, and several Annan soldiers rushed in through the gap, but the Annan soldiers behind them were sparsely packed, and a large number of them were killed by machine gun fire.

Both sides fell into a frenzy, and under the frantic strafing of machine gun fire, almost one out of ten Annan soldiers managed to rush to the front of the barbed wire.

And when destroying the barbed wire, they were shot in large numbers. Only a few Annan soldiers learned the art of dodging machine guns, lying on the ground to dodge bullets while destroying the barbed wire.

When these Annan soldiers broke through the first barbed wire, many of them encountered the second barbed wire, and some Annan soldiers collapsed immediately.

And the first barbed wire fence still plays a role, not all Annam soldiers can directly pass through the barbed wire passage, because the location is wrong, when they gather in large numbers towards the passage, they become the focus of heavy machine guns, and a random sweep of a row of bullets can sweep a large area to death.

It is equivalent to gathering the enemy who has become relatively thin in front of the barbed wire again, and the formation has become quite dense again.

And those Annam soldiers who broke through the second barbed wire fence entered the range of the muskets of the Ming soldiers, and bursts of gunfire suddenly rang out on the position.

These Annan soldiers who broke through could not pose any threat to the Ming troops on the position, and when these Annan soldiers broke through to a distance of forty or fifty meters, they were greeted by flying grenades.

The function of the infantry is mainly to protect the machine guns and guard the position.

Layers of barbed wire, and a steady stream of bullets, turned the battlefield into a terrifying meat grinder, and these Annan soldiers were equivalent to meat in the meat grinder.

The battle lasted more than ten minutes. A large number of Annam people on the battlefield have fallen in a pool of blood, and looking at it, it is almost impossible to see where there are dense Annam soldiers on the battlefield, and the Annamite people who can still stand on the entire battlefield are sparse.

The blood pooled directly into a river that flowed into the tributaries of the Red River. It then flows into the Red River. Let the red river water become darker.

The battlefield was full of corpses, and it turned into a Shura field.

And all this happened in just ten minutes. Although quite a few Annam people realized that lying on the ground could dodge machine gun bullets, they began to lie on the ground and play dead. But there are indeed too many people who have died, and the 100,000 Annan army has been completely disabled.

All the Annan soldiers looked at the situation on the battlefield and completely extinguished their hopes of victory. At this moment, the machine-gun fire stopped.

The bullets that **** everywhere on the battlefield are also gone. Those sparse Annan soldiers seemed to see the hope of victory again, and rushed forward one by one with shouts.

As they rushed in front of the barbed wire, machine guns rang out again, killing a large number of Annam soldiers again. A part of the Annan soldiers approached again to a distance of dozens of meters, and the gunfire on the position rang out again, and the Ming army inside aimed their muskets at these Nannan soldiers and shot them one by one. The Annan soldiers were powerless to fight back, and their weapons were poor. Long-range firepower is even more insufficient.

Rumble!

A grenade exploded outside the position, killing several Annan soldiers on the spot. The explosives inside these grenades are not black powder. The power is very large, and the undead within a radius of five meters are basically seriously injured, unless there is a meat shield protected by other cover.

An army of 100,000 is gone.

In less than half an hour, most of them were slaughtered by the Ming army, and the high-level officials of the Zheng group were already frightened at this time.

Brutal reality. It made the Zheng group realize that this was an impossible war to win, and the Ming army with powerful firearms was already an invincible existence in Annam.

Soon the army of the Zheng group retreated, walking cleanly, and the soldiers who were still on the battlefield were gone. All the remaining troops were withdrawn.

The Annan army besieging the Ming army outside the city was the main force of the Zheng group, because those peasants who were temporarily armed could not have the courage to follow one another.

In the battle outside Hanoi, the Trung group had already lost most of its elite troops, and it was impossible for this war to continue.

With the retreat of the Trung clique, the crisis in Hanoi was officially lifted, and at this time, the northern part of Annam was also in a state of political chaos.

The Ming army in the city first stabilized order in Hanoi, and then began to clean up the battlefield. There were too many corpses on the battlefield, and the Ming army had to organize the people of Annam in the city to help, and the climate in Annam was relatively hot, and if the corpses were not disposed of quickly, it was easy to have a plague.

Soon outside the city of Hanoi, black plumes of smoke rose everywhere, and corpses were burned everywhere. At the same time, the Ming army also invited a group of monks to spend their souls at the scene.

After some statistics, the Ming army was killed in this war, both of whom were killed by bows and arrows, three were seriously injured, and more than a dozen were slightly wounded, and the losses were minimal.

At the same time, tens of thousands of Annan soldiers were captured on the battlefield, more than 80,000 corpses were cleaned up, and more than 10,000 Annan soldiers fled or disappeared.

It's a terrible mess.

The body was burned outside the city for three days and three nights, before the last body was cremated, and a large amount of ashes were dumped into the Red River, which flowed into the sea with the water.

At this time, Gao Bangzuo, commander of the Nanyang Military Region, also transferred 5,000 troops from southern Annam into Hanoi and began to pacify the Zheng group. The 20,000 troops drawn from Golden State are already on the way, and it won't take long to reach Hanoi.

Soon after the withdrawal of the Zheng group, they sent envoys to Hanoi to express their submission to the Ming Dynasty, and they were fully aware that continuing to resist would only lead to a rapid demise.

When the news of Hanoi's victory was sent back to the capital by telegram, Zhu Youxiao was very happy and immediately asked the Supreme Command to reward him for his meritorious deeds.

Before the credit could be reported, the telegram that the Zheng group wanted to negotiate was sent to the capital again.

After reading the telegram, Zhu Youxiao instructed: "If the Zheng group wants to talk, then talk to them, let them completely give up their military power, and administratively accept the orders of the Ming Dynasty, you can reserve some interests for them administratively, and continue to fight if the talks are not appropriate." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Qian Guoxing immediately had the telegram sent.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao still did not have the idea of directly incorporating Annan into the rule of the Ming Dynasty, so Annan would inevitably be on fire everywhere, so it was better to give a little ruling interest to the Zheng group first, and let the king of Annan and the people of the Zheng group first form a puppet regime that obeyed the orders of the Ming Dynasty, and use the Annan people to suppress the Annan people. It is equivalent to co-opting a group, suppressing a group, and isolating a group.

Then continue to bleed Annan, and at the same time continue to influence Nan'an politically, culturally, and economically, after the Annan people completely accept the pattern of a large amount of capital and commodity intervention in the Ming Dynasty, they can kick this puppet regime away, and the Ming Dynasty will directly rule Annan.

Therefore, as long as the Zheng Group knows each other, it is natural that they can negotiate with them. But if the Zheng group doesn't know each other and is unwilling to give up military power, then there is nothing to talk about. (To be continued.) )