Zheng Kai naturally woke up.

He slept soundly, and immediately woke up at the sound of the screams of the patrolmen. But when he came out of the tent with his weapons disheveled, he reacted in the same way as the soldiers.

"Where is the enemy?"

He also stretched out his head and searched for a long time, but let alone the enemy, he didn't even have a hair.

"On the other side!"

"What is on the other side, why is it attacking on the other side?" Zheng Kai asked irritably, came to the high platform and looked across the river, and sure enough, he saw a large circle of soldiers advancing quickly along the river beach, because the river beach was not very wide, the team was winding like a long dragon.

What do they want to do!?

Zheng Kai was shocked!

Reinforcements arrived?

No, if the reinforcements arrived, they would directly eat their more than 20,000 soldiers.

Aren't they just over 10,000 soldiers? What are you going to do? What can you do at Cochin!? Really not afraid of death!?

"What about the artillery!? Pull the artillery over! Boom them! ”

Looking at the rapidly advancing Ming army, Zheng Kai had no time to think about it, and angrily ordered the soldiers to pull out the artillery and plan to attack the opponent's team.

However, a cannon weighs one or two thousand pounds, and when they built fortifications, they had already distributed the artillery in all directions, and it was not a simple matter to pull it out quickly.

A large group of soldiers surrounded an artillery, hurriedly pulling and pulling, seeing that the artillery was moving hard, Zheng Kai had no choice but to order the soldiers to turn the muzzle, and opened fire on the Ming army on the other side of the river according to the camp.

On the other side of the river, the 3,000 soldiers under Mu Tianbo had already escorted the musketeers and grenadiers out of the design range of the cannon, and at this time, it was the white pole soldiers under the command of Ma Xianglin who faced Zheng's artillery.

But the river beach is narrow, the line is long, and it can only accommodate a dozen people side by side, so not to mention that the artillery does not have this accuracy, even if it can hit, it can't take many lives.

However, the roar of artillery still stimulated the marching Ming troops, and the soldiers unconsciously quickened their pace.

"Speed up! Keep up! Two miles ahead is flat land! ”

Ma Xianglin shouted loudly on the side of the team to cheer up the soldiers.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to run away, Zheng Kai began to be anxious.

Even if the number of these Ming troops is not large, but the combat effectiveness is indeed not weak, if they are allowed to go to the hinterland of Jiaozhi, I'm afraid that I, the person in charge, will have to serve the first responsibility, even if I am the generalissimo's own brother, I am afraid that I will not be able to get any reuse in this life.

"Quick! Pass the order! Everyone attacked, and the Ming army must be stopped! ”

Zheng Kai thought about it, quickly made a decision, and decisively gave up all the efforts he had made in recent days, and more than 20,000 soldiers chased the Ming army frantically across the Taojiang River.

When Mu Tianbo and the others saw this scene, they knew that their goal had been achieved.

In any case, leading others by the nose will always occupy the initiative.

In an unexpected chase, in the Generalissimo's Mansion in Thang Long, Zheng Jie was looking at the handwritten letter written by Zheng Kai.

His face also began to become cloudy.

After a long time, he solemnly placed the letter on his rosewood table, and pondered for a long time.

"What the hell is going on with Zheng Kai and Sha Yuan?"

"I don't know if it's small."

Zheng Ji didn't get the answer he wanted, because the relationship between Zheng Kai and Sha Yuan was indeed like that, so he rarely mentioned it to anyone, let alone ordinary subordinates.

"Where is Shayuan now?"

Zheng Jie asked the chief manager beside him.

"Camp in the wilderness fifty miles away from Thang Long."

"What's unusual?"

"Nope."

"Didn't have contact with anyone?"

"No, they have never done anything out of the ordinary since they came to the territory of Cochin, and they can even be called cautious!" The chief steward pondered his words and said slowly.

"Cautious?"

"Yes, very discreetly. From them, there is no rebel rebellion, but it really looks like a persecuted obedient people. ”、

"Hey~ Shunmin, Shunmin won't turn out so many flowers. It seems that Zheng Kai is right, this time, the Ming people are not good, and they ask for a lot! ”

Zheng Ji sneered, looking like he had seen through everything.

All the people in the hall were silent, and no one dared to answer.

"Pass the order, allocate 40,000 elite soldiers, and encircle and suppress Shayuan! To see people in life, to see corpses in death! ”

"Yes!"

The chief steward slowly retreated, conveying Zheng Jie's orders layer by layer.

In Zheng Jie's previous cognition, whether there was a Sha Yuan or not actually had little impact on his strength, but Zheng Kai's statement really moved him. Expanding power is only one of the plans, and it is fundamentally a test of the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

But judging from the information conveyed in Zheng Kai's letter, this matter was not so simple from the beginning, indicating that he unconsciously stepped into the trap compiled by the Ming people from the beginning.

Zheng Kai didn't notice it, and he didn't notice it either.

At present, all the contradictions are concentrated on Sha Yuan.

Zheng Jie sent the elite of the elite in Thang Long City, and less than an hour after his order was given, 40,000 elites rushed towards the place where Shayuan was stationed.

This was a military operation that seemed to be real, and Zheng Jie planned to test Shayuan's troops.

If it resists, it will be directly destroyed.

If you don't resist, you will be wiped out.

In short, after receiving Zheng Kai's handwritten letter, this army that defected from the Ming Dynasty was sentenced to death in Zheng Jie's heart.

Regardless of whether Daming really suppressed bandits, he still had to get involved in Jiaozhi again, and set Jiaozhi as the political envoy to live Annan Xuanhui Division, Sha Yuan is the root of the problem. And the spearhead is precisely this seemingly harmless rebel army.

He planned to arrest Sha Yuan and then present it to the Ming army to test the attitude of the Ming army.

Whether you really plan to suppress the bandits, or do you want to get involved with Annan again, just draw a way. The Zheng Dynasty is not given for nothing, not to mention that you can do whatever you want in the territory of Jiaozhi in the Ming Dynasty.

The army sent by Zheng Jie was also commanded by his most trusted general.

Zheng Tao, after digging into the roots, is still a family member who has some blood relationship with Zheng Jie. Zheng Tao's ability is very strong, if you take the army of the Ming Dynasty as an analogy, Zheng Tao is at least a figure like Zhang Zhiji.

Less than two hours after Zheng Tao led the army to set off, Sha Yuan received the news that the army had set off from Thang Long.

He found his reputation with a heavy face.

"Lao Pu, we're in trouble."

"What to say." The general reputation, which has gone through all kinds of winds and waves, looks exceptionally calm.

"Zheng Jie, I'm afraid he will take us under the knife! Two hours ago, General Zheng Tao led 40,000 elites to march towards us, I'm afraid that the comers are not good! Sha Yuan's expression was gloomy, since they entered Jiaozhi, they had been cautious, but they didn't expect to get each other's trust.

"When will it arrive?"

"An hour at most!"

"Lao Sha."

"Huh?"

"Daming, we all dare to rebel, will we be cowardly when we get to this Jiaozhi?"

"You mean?"

"That's it."

(End of chapter)