On the bank of the Luoshui River, Zhu Gaosui sat in the big tent of the commander of the military camp with a sad face. The heavy rain overnight made him a little uncertain, and he didn't know whether to fight.

Although Chen Yuan had already been on a combat mission last night, now there was a sudden rainstorm, and his subordinates complained one after another, and some generals even said that Chen Yuan was a scholar who had not dried up, and the battle was regarded as child's play, so Zhu Gaosui severely punished him and gave up the battle plan.

One guerrilla said: "Your Highness, it is raining heavily, the sergeants are tired, and the power of the cannons is damaged. If you attack at this time, your morale will be greatly damaged, and it will be very detrimental to our army. ”

Zhu Gaosui walked back and forth in the tent, his expression was complicated, on the one hand, he believed in Chen Yuan very much, it was he who let him show his face in front of his father, so that his father was impressed by him. He contributed to the strategy of entering Annan and the previous cracked night attack. However, this heavy rain, Zhu Gaosui, who has been in the army for many years, also knew that it was indeed not suitable to cross the river to attack.

At this time, the tent secretly reported Zhu Xiaotian's treason, and Zhu Gaosui was furious and split the Shuai case into two sections with one knife. The generals in the tent were startled, and Zhu Gaosui said angrily: "How can this be reasonable, what about Zhu Xiaotian?" ”

"I've been killed by Master Chen."

Zhu Gaosui eased up a little and asked, "Does he have anything else to say?" ”

Qin Wei said: "Lord Chen said that because of the heavy rain, Li Li will also think that we dare not attack the city, we just happened to be surprised, and because of the heavy rain, their city walls will be more fragile, please act according to the plan." ”

"Lord Wang, by all means, the water is rising, and I am anxious and sad, isn't this taking the lives of my brothers to send them to death?" The soldiers admonished.

Zhu Gaosui was furious when he heard this: "Raising troops for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, how can you retreat because of a little rain." I, Zhu Gaosui, have never wanted such cowards, artillery battalion, get ready, as soon as the rain stops, fire immediately! Violators, behead! ”

"No!"

Zhu Gaosui was angry, everyone had no complaints, Li Ying was very dissatisfied, and could only follow the order.

Gunpowder has been used in the military at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and after 500 years of development, there are guns and artillery. However, at that time, the artillery power was very small, you can imagine, the Song Dynasty existed for three hundred years, and there were also cannons, but they basically never won battles, and they were often abused by the cavalry in the north.

At that time, the cannon was not pure enough, there were many impurities, the steel smelting technology was not up to standard, and it could not withstand extremely high temperatures. Therefore, the highly mobile cavalry is basically finished with artillery.

During the march, Chen Yuan had a serious understanding of the artillery of this era. So he assigned combat missions and did not rely mainly on artillery. Even if there are twenty cannons like this, Zhu Di gritted his teeth and gave them. It costs tens of thousands of taels of silver to maintain it.

"Boom!"

As soon as the rain stopped, Zhu Gaosui's artillery battalion began to fire artillery, and even though it was wet, it still fired two cannons, waking up the Li Li soldiers who were defending on the opposite side.

"Ah, the Ming army actually attacked?" A subordinate reported to Lu Feng, the guard general who was guarding the town opposite, Lu Feng had a big beard on his face, and watched the Ming army hurriedly launch the boat and get on the boat. Because of the turbulent current, the Ming army was not in good water, and some boats were washed away directly, and the soldiers fell into the water and kept tossing.

"Haha-" Lu Feng and his soldiers laughed. looked at the Ming army sarcastically!

Li Ying's face was black, and he secretly scolded in his heart that it was all a faint idea, he blackened his face and shouted: "Sons, rush!" ”

Luoshui is not very wide after all, Su Yu, the boat of the Ming army rowed to the center, threatening the opposite shore!

Lu Feng has been in the army for many years, and he has already put his troops in formation, and when he saw the timing of the Ming army's charge, he shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

Arrows flew like a flurry of arrows, shooting at the Ming army who rushed to land.

The Ming army raised their shields one after another, rowing boats, blocking arrows, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner!

After five rounds of arrow rain, the Ming army that landed first suffered slight casualties, and because of the short weapons they held, they were not suitable for land combat, and Chen Yuan's previous deployment was also not allowed to attack it. When they reached the opposite shore, they feinted to retreat, but the boats still in Luoshui continued to rush forward. Hundreds of ships scattered to attack from all directions, stretching for ten miles from Luoshui. The artillery of the Shenji Battalion was fired occasionally.

"Boom!" A cannon exploded not far from Lu Feng, and the mud kicked off made him smudge.

"Brethren. Kill me, kill the dog! ”

"Kill!"

"Boom!" Two cannon shots rang out again, exploding in Lu Feng's army, and more than a dozen soldiers were swept away, and they had heard the power of the army's artillery before, which made them frightened.

Cannons are rare, and the Ming army has fought with Annam for more than ten years, mainly using cavalry and infantry archers.

Seeing the Ming army coming like a tide, Lu Feng was actually timid, and said anxiously: "Go and report to the king, the main force of the Ming army is attacking our army in Luoshui, and send reinforcements quickly!" ”

At this time, Li Li, Ruan Diao, Chen Yuanfang and others were planning to give the Ming army an active attack.

The Ming army opposite them died down, the camp was scattered, and their internal response, they were determined to win.

Li Li sat firmly on the handsome seat and asked the generals standing below, "Who is willing to attack the Ming army?" ”

"The last will go."

"Lord Wang, the last general will ask for battle." Ruan Diao and a white-faced general, Chen Kang, came out of the queue almost at the same time and replied loudly. The two looked at each other again.

Ruan Diao was a wealthy clan that later attached, and Chen Kang was Le Li's original subordinate.

Ruan Diao fought bravely, and looked down on the white-faced general a little in his eyes. Lu Kang is even more, thinking to himself, you are new here, you want to take all the credit, we are watching the play on the sidelines, how can the king still give orders.

Li Li frowned in his heart when he saw that Ruan Diao and Chen Kang were on the shelf, in his heart, he also wanted to give credit to his descendants, Ruan Diao was brave in battle, but he was attached later, the credit was too great, and everyone was not allowed to follow him in the future? He laughed and said, "The courage of the two generals is commendable, Lord Ruan, your elephant soldiers are infinitely powerful, but the speed is difficult. When we were playing for the first time, we had to be caught off guard. Chen Kang listens to orders! ”

When Chen Kang heard the call, he knew that the task was on him, and when he saw the Ming army camp, because of the heavy rain, the soldiers were depressed and unstable, thinking that the great credit for this day was his own. Secretly happy: "Yes." ”

"Order you to take 5,000 soldiers and assault the Ming army camp!"

"Don't worry, the king will definitely kill the dogs!" Chen Kanghao is dry!

Opposite the camp of the Ming army, Chen Yuan had just cleaned up Zhu Xiaotian and issued a combat mission, when suddenly a thunder exploded in the sky above the tent's head, and a strong red light flashed outside the tent. A moment later, a drenched sergeant of the guards entered the tent to report that the flagpole of the Chinese commander's flag had been struck by lightning and broken in two.

The soldiers in the battalion were shocked, the ancients were very superstitious, Jin Shun said: "My lord, the handsome flag is broken, which means ominous, and it is not good for our army, please think twice!" ”