After Lu Wenlu was killed by the Ming army, the king of Lamentation, Lan Hendon, was afraid and did not want to be an enemy of the Ming army. He specially sent an envoy to Zhu Gaosui to make friends, ask for tribute, and become a vassal state.

Chen Yuan's goal is to take down the prison of mourning and become the land of the Ming Dynasty, where will he agree. He sent the messenger back.

Lan Hengden relied on his vast territory and knew that the Ming army would not let him go, especially when the Li family brothers and sisters found him and were attracted by Li Yuyi's beauty, Li Yuyi agreed to be his concubine, and he was tempted to send troops to rescue Li Li several times, but he was repelled by the Ming army without accident.

When they were fighting, the earth shook, and countless rough and powerful howls rose up in the night, and the giant elephant strode with a probosci, and the elephant carried a boxy thing like a bamboo basket on its back, and used it as a cover, and someone hid inside to direct the activities of the war elephant.

The elephant is extremely large, with rough skin and thick flesh, and it is easy to hurt the vital point with a gun, spear and knife, and the huge elephant foot can trample on several Ming soldiers with only one foot, and a large number of mourning soldiers wearing black armor hide behind the war elephant, like a soldier who relies on a tank to advance, triumphant.

However, they didn't know that Chen Yuan had used a lion statue to scare off elephants.

The mourning soldiers are triumphantly driving the elephant forward, suddenly there are many firecrackers pouring out of the Ming military camp opposite, the fire guns are fired together, the sound is like thunder, the bullet rain is pouring down, the gunpowder smoke is filled, and the direction is suddenly not clear, the war elephant eats the gun is in pain and uneasy, disordered order, although under the constant urging of the animal tamer, he is not willing to continue to advance, at this time, the Ming military camp appeared shining male lions.

Chen Yuan's old tricks were repeated.

"Boom." Chen Yuan changed the command again, and the cannon bombarded in unison.

The person on the opposite side turned on his back and wailed.

Seeing this scene, the war elephant immediately turned back and rushed like a madman, and the four giant pillar-like elephant legs moved forward, trampling the black mourning soldiers into flesh, and the mourning soldiers who followed the war elephant were stunned, and they were in a hurry and had no time to react, and were trampled to death by the elephants.

"Kill!" Chen Yuan raised his sword, the Ming army shouted to kill Zhentian, chased after the elephant, slashed all the way over, chased dozens of miles, killed nearly 10,000 mourning soldiers, and the mourning generals Hu Ertai and Bai Wei were all killed by the Ming army in this battle.

After the loss of the army, Ailao no longer dared to talk about rescuing Li Li, and switched from offensive to defensive.

Ranhendon panicked, and he sent his army and all men of 100,000 men to defend it. They also sent their cronies to garrison the most dangerous areas such as Sichuan Khouang, which were high and deep in forests, and used the special environment of the jungle and wilderness to block the attack, and the Ailao people built countless defensive fortresses, dug trenches, and planted bamboo thorns in the trenches.

Armed with poisoned crossbows, imitation fire guns, and boulders, the Wailing Army hid deep in the jungle and war pits, and the city gates were connected for more than 400 miles.

On the waterway of the Lancang River, countless wooden stakes were dug along the shore to prevent the Ming army from landing, and at the same time, they took advantage of their advantages in water warfare to send warships to the mighty warships, intending to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army on the water.

Killing machines step by step on land, gathering heavy troops on the water, lamenting that this is to exert the strength of the whole country, and to defend the land no matter what.

Zhu Gaosui's troops, the troops from Nanjing, plus the local troops were 20,000, and the Annan troops were 5,000. There was a huge disparity in troops, so he hurried his plan to attack Ailao to Nanking two months ago.

Of course, Yang Shiqi and others are against it, Annan has scared them for more than ten years, and now they have to fight a bigger mourning prison in the region, if the people's hearts are not attached, the Ming Dynasty's spending in the south is not endless.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Yuan's sweet potatoes have been harvested, and in accordance with Chen Yuan's wishes, Dong Mingyan dedicated all the sweet potatoes to the imperial court. Zhu Di immediately ordered that Wu Zhong of the Ministry of Industry would be responsible for the promotion of sweet potato planting in conjunction with the Ministry of Households.

For the mourning prison, Chen Yuan's reason is very clear: "Daming is like a big radish, Annan is like a radish whisker, and the same is true for the mourning prison, only by taking the mourning prison, this whisker will be twisted into a section, firm and reliable, and will not be arbitrarily cut off." ”

Zhu Di made a decision immediately, ignoring the obstruction of the scholars, and immediately deployed 50,000 soldiers and horses, 50 cannons, and 200 rounds of firearms. Recruit 30,000 local troops. More than 100,000 are gathered in Jinghong and Pu'er.

Liu Guan, a scholar, was indignant and said angrily in private: "I have long said that the vertical son is the prime minister of cloth, what is the use of asking me to return." So he called himself sick and went to court no more.

The battle of Ailao was a battle with the most complex environment, the longest strategic depth, and the largest number of people participating in the resistance that the Ming army had never encountered.

On October 19, the 17th year of Yongle, Chen Yuan swore in Jinghong, and the army rushed to Ailao from the west and north.

In Lan Hengdon's opinion, their defense was already impregnable, but they still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and underestimated Chen Yuan, who defeated Li Li in the first battle. Before Chen Yuan set out, he had sent countless Jinyi Wei spies to infiltrate the mourning prison and spread the news everywhere, preaching that the division of the Celestial Empire was violent and allowed the people to cultivate their fields.

They did this, and every time they conquered a place, they gave the people the land.

This trick really worked, along the way, the people saw the Ming army coming, and did not panic to escape, and there were also those who sent water and food to feed the army, and they were very friendly to the Ming army.

During the reign of King Lan Henden, he was very brutal and appointed villains, Lu Wenlu was one of them, they spent extravagantly, exploited the people, caused the dissatisfaction of the tribe surnamed Qin, they joined the ranks of the Ming army, and used their knowledge of Annan to act as the vanguard of the Ming army, attacking the camp and recruiting companions and friends.

The Ming Dynasty did not have warships, so they avoided their shortcomings and took the land route, with the help of the Ailao army who were also familiar with the grass and trees of the Ming Dynasty, and were also good at jungle warfare, the countless death traps laid by Lan Hengden lost their effectiveness, and the killing power was not great, and the poisonous bow and crossbow were originally extremely sharp weapons in jungle warfare, but because the Ming army had the attached Ailao army, as well as the Annan troops, they were familiar with local medicinal herbs, and under their treatment, the Ming army suffered very few casualties.

The Ming army was overwhelmed for a while, and in less than half a month, it reached Luang Prabang, the capital of Ailao.

Subsequently, Chen Yuan's goal was directed at Luang Prabang, the capital of Ailao, and after preparing the siege equipment, he ordered the siege of the city at dawn, Chen Yuan commanded, Zhu Gaosui supervised the battle, and charged from time to time, which scared Chen Yuan so much that his throat smoked.

This time, the morale of all parties in the mourning army was exhausted, and Li Ying, Jin Shun, and Fei Zhen were all full of energy. There is also Teng Ding, a staff general who came later, and his meritorious service is in front of him, and no one is willing to lag behind.

They charged forward, and the morale of the three armies was greatly boosted and unstoppable, and in only a few hours, they broke through Luang Prabang, which the Ailao army thought was impregnable, and slaughtered into the city.

"Kill." Zhu Gaosui held a high flag and then entered.

Street fighting ensued, and the mourning army resisted passively and retreated.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace fled in all directions, and screams were heard everywhere.

King Langhendon was on his hands.

"Why, why did you lose again, sacrificed so much, and lost again." Li Yuyi remembered that she had to play a beauty trick every time, and remembered their disgusting eyes, she looked at Chen Yuan, who was riding a white horse and guarding her.

"I won't let you go." She gritted her silver teeth and gurgled her silver teeth, her eyes cold as ice, and her body disappeared into the fleeing crowd.