Chapter 384: Before the Decisive Battle

Three days passed in a blink of an eye.

The day of the war is just around the corner.

Zhu Houhuang had already withdrawn his entire army from Thang Long City, along with countless vehicles loaded with belongs.

In the past three days, Zhu Houhuang's more than 10,000 Yongjun troops and the Zhancheng army were all supplied with good food and drink. Zhu Houhuang also took out more than 100,000 taels of goods among the seized goods and rewarded the three armies.

However, it was not the Yong army that was most touched, but the Zhancheng army.

Most of the soldiers did not take the reward of the Yongjun army, but chose to take it home and distribute it to their wives and children.

One of the qualifications for Zhu Houhuang to choose these soldiers to join the Yongjun army is to have a small family, because the families are all in Dongyong, just settled, and because of Dongyong's financial constraints, so the people who have been resettled during this period of time are not as generous as they were at the beginning, everything is ready, and they can only guarantee that they will not die, and the men must work every day to make the whole family have enough to eat. Therefore, these Jiangxi soldiers all joined the army for money.

And after following Zhu Houhuang to win a few battles, he also cultivated some spirit, because Zhu Houhuang cherished the Yongjun quite much, so there were many rewards and few casualties, so as to do so. Sergeant Yong gradually began to trust Zhu Houhuang. There is not much fear of the coming war. Instead, there is an expectation.

As a general, it is easy to convince people that he leads his soldiers to victory.

Regardless of whether the soldiers of Yongjun are really normal or not, they are used to this rhythm anyway.

But not the Champa army.

In the eyes of the officers, the Cham army, especially the non-commissioned officers, was not much different from talking animals. Therefore, even if the battle is won, there is not much reward, because the reward is in the officer's place.

It is not for nothing that the Champa army was defeated by the Annam army so that the situation is irreparable.

These Cham soldiers have only been rewarded twice in their lives, once during the attack on Haiyun Pass, and once now. However, this time, it is much more than when it was in Haiyun Pass.

Zhu Houhuang treated everyone equally, treating the more than 10,000 Zhancheng troops as his own soldiers.

Along the way from Haiyun Pass to here, they enjoyed only a little worse than the Yongjun enjoyment, and all the soldiers and soldiers of Zhancheng were very moved, and one battalion after another of the soldiers went to thank Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang couldn't help but sigh: "The military heart is available." Enough for a war. ”

Ruan Runchen said: "Your Highness, do you want to take this Champa army for yourself. ”

Zhu Houhuang turned his head and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

After all, the Cham army borrowed it, how could Zhu Houhuang not pay it back, compared to the support of the country that occupied the city, the more than 10,000 Cham troops were nothing.

Don't look at the weakness of the Champa country, but if there is no support from Champa behind him, where can Zhu Houhuang easily occupy the south of Haiyun Pass and open up Da Nang Mansion?

Zhu Houhuang was short of scribes around him, and there were a lot of affairs to deal with here, the transfer of loot, as well as negotiations with the powerful people of Annan, and the complicated logistics of the army, Zhu Houhuang was really busy.

simply asked Ruan Runchen to put the coastal defense side away. Let him come to Shenglong to help.

If Ruan Runchen was before, there was still a trace of secret injustice about what Zhu Houhuang did. And now seeing that Zhu Houhuang actually conquered the Shenglong, the little sense of injustice now immediately disappeared.

"It's an opportunity." Ruan Runchen immediately understood, and said secretly: "If His Highness hadn't come to Zhancheng, my life would have been just an Annan city guard in a remote area. But now as a minister of His Royal Highness, he can follow His Highness to make meritorious achievements, and his future achievements are definitely above the Prime Minister of Annan. ”

Especially after Ruan Runchen learned that Zhu Houhuang was so short of people. Immediately feel the opportunity great. That's why I racked my brains to make plans for Zhu Houhuang. He took this opportunity and said: "Your Highness, Your Highness wants to use troops in Nanyang, but it is suffering from a lack of troops. Why didn't His Royal Highness recruit the Ming Dynasty and let them contribute soldiers and horses, when the Tang Dynasty pacified the Western Regions, he often recruited soldiers and horses from all over the world, with Han soldiers as the backbone, and coerced Yi soldiers. ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little tempted, Ruan Runchen wanted to make the move of Zhancheng borrowing troops long-term and regularized. And it's not a country that occupies the city, but a subject country of the Ming Dynasty.

If this is the case, Zhu Houhuang can use the name of the Ming Dynasty to master tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and with these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Zhu Houhuang can do a lot of things.

"It's a pity." Zhu Houhuang said secretly: "It's a pity that the current water war is won by ships and artillery, not by men, even if there are tens of thousands of horses, they can't run rampant in the South China Sea, but they can also relieve me of the lack of troops." ”

In fact, Zhu Houhuang knows that the most important thing in this method is the cost of raising soldiers.

These foreign soldiers, Zhu Houhuang does not need pensions, nor does he need to pay military salaries, or even equipment, these are all supplied by their home country.

Even Zhu Houhuang didn't need them to be more elite. After all, Zhu Houhuang only needed to train the soldiers and horses in his hands into sharp blades, and let these vassal soldiers wave their flags and shout behind them.

In fact, in ancient wars, it was a battle of hundreds of thousands of people. The ones who really saw blood and fought for their lives were just tens of thousands.

Otherwise, the Anxi Protectorate would not have used tens of thousands of Long March athletes to fight the invincible opponents in the Western Regions.

He just felt a little pity and said: "Don't talk about this matter yet, wait until after this battle, and then discuss it." Have I prepared everything you have prepared? ”

Ruan Runchen said: "It's all ready. The defense of the city was taken care of by the Zheng family, who recruited their own soldiers, plus the prisoners assigned to them by His Royal Highness, there were already about 10,000 people, with Zheng Huaixing as the main commander, and prepared something to ignite fire in the city. Once the other party attacks, the jade will be burned, and Lord Wu will be responsible for this matter. Absolutely foolproof. ”

Zhu Houhuang nodded, Shenglong Mansion no longer has much value to Zhu Houhuang, anyway, he just left in Shenglong, as for what he left behind after leaving, it was still a piece of ruin. Zhu Houhuang didn't care at all.

Zheng Huaixing also knows this.

Zheng Huaixing has already made a military order for Zhu Houhuang, and if there is a loss in the city, he will definitely come to see him.

Zhu Houhuang believed in Zheng Huaixing's promise, not because he believed in the battle of Zheng Huaixing's troops, but because he believed in the terrain within Thang Long City.

Outside of the large space in Thang Long City, that is, near the main gate of the Imperial Palace, the rest of the place, even the Great Dao, could not show its strength. If Zheng Huaixing really wants to drag out the next sentence, he can definitely drag it out.

"How's that going?" Zhu Houhuang asked. The people he was talking about were none other than the families of Mo's generals at all levels in the capital. When Zhu Houhuang raided his home, he never forgot this special group of people.

"Your Highness has all arranged, just above the head of the southern city." Ruan Runchen said. "When the war starts later, it will press the head of the city and disturb the morale of its army."

Zhu Houhuang said: "I really want to know how Mo Dengyong should deal with Lone's move." ”

Although this method is a bit dirty, it is also the principle of soldiers to do whatever it takes to achieve victory. It's just that Zhu Houhuang thought about it, and he didn't know what to do in the face of such a situation, so he was curious about what Mo Dengyong would do.

What will Mordenyong do?

A human head, on Mo Dengyong's desk. The blood stains on this human head had not yet dried, and his wide eyes were a bit deadly.

Mo Dengyong said: "Brother Lin, you and I are brothers, it's easy to go all the way, and the younger brother can't be sent far." As he spoke, Mo Dengyong's gaze swept over the generals below one by one.

The faces of these generals were extremely pale. Don't look at Mo Dengyong.

Mo Dengyong said: "Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, Brother Lin has failed me, and I can only send him on the road." Your family members are all in the Northern Korean army, and you don't want to be an enemy of the Northern Dynasty, for fear of hurting the lives of your close relatives, I can also understand, just tell me, I will let you go. Brother Lin shouldn't, shouldn't, want to betray me. If I leave openly, how can I not allow it. It's a pity that I had to behead Brother Lin to correct military law. Don't be misguided. Now tell me, if any of you wants to leave, I will let you go. ”