Li Dashuai's sentence of "Spend the New Year in Thang Long Mansion" is still in the ears, and there is still more than a month to go after the full battle, and the time is still quite urgent, so in the face of the last organized resistance of the enemy army on the southern front, the Ming army did not hesitate to choose to forcibly cross the river.

However, the Ming army did not have to fill in their own lives this time, but chose to let the servant army go to lay the pontoon bridge first.

Of course, the reason why he had to cross the river in front of the enemy's camp was not the head iron of the Ming army, but the glue was only a few places where pontoon bridges could be barely erected, but no matter where there was, there were enemy camps guarding the river, and Li Jinglong just chose a place that he thought was suitable for forcible crossing.

It is best to force the crossing, if not, the Ming army has other options.

At the same time, in the face of the enemy camp on the opposite bank, the artillery units of the Ming army also began to perform.

"Bang Bang Bang~~"

A dull burst of cannon fire rang out.

The artillery of the Ming army is mainly mortar artillery and field artillery, the field artillery is to fire solid bullets and shotguns, and the mortar artillery is to fire stone projectiles or iron balls, because there is no need to shoot at a long distance, and the face is the enemy's fixed camp, so the mortar artillery with a large firing angle and low muzzle velocity has become a good choice.

Under the cover of large-caliber mortars, dozens of heavy stone bullets flew to the opposite bank with the sound of the howling wind, and smashed into the indigenous soldiers and serfs of Annam.

Yes, serfdom was still practiced in some places in Annam, and even the Lee dynasty at this time was considered progressive.

"Bang bang bang ~~boom ~~~"

Dense shells rained down on all parts of the camp, smashing the houses inside the camp into ruins, and some of the roofs were torn down, revealing the black pits inside.

Under the cover of such artillery fire, the enemy obviously did not dare to attack rashly, so he could only retreat into defense.

With bursts of screams and exclamations, many watchtowers and barracks collapsed, and mutilated bodies thrown into the sky by boulders, blood staining the grass on the riverbank.

The face of the Ming army who was arraying did not change at all, and he even looked at everything in front of him indifferently.

Because they know it's just a warm-up.

At this time, under the cover of artillery fire, the non-commissioned soldiers of the servant army were erecting pontoon bridges in the turbulent glue, and as long as the pontoon bridges were erected, they could immediately cross the river and then go straight to the enemy camp.

However, due to the flow speed and the shoal, this kind of small pontoon bridge is not easy to build successfully, and the boats that need to be used as support points are relatively stable in every part of the river, and they must be nailed with wooden stakes, otherwise it is easy to break, which is very dangerous for the miscellaneous soldiers of the servant army, and the slightest carelessness will be washed away by the current.

Sure enough, either the soles of the feet slipped or the waves crashed, and in a short period of time, more than a dozen soldiers of the Annan servant army were swept away by the river without a trace.

However, the craftsmen of the Ming army had rich experience in building bridges, and soon under the guidance of several carpenters, a simple pontoon bridge was erected.

The servants did the same, and built three more pontoon bridges.

Then, rows of Annan servants, armed with rudimentary weapons, crawled across the pontoon bridge under the supervision of the commanders' leather whips.

As soon as the servants crossed the pontoon bridge, Annan soldiers came out of the camp and attacked them, trying to prevent them from crossing the river.

"Whoa!"

With a shout in the local language, the miscellaneous soldiers of the Annan Army in the camp began to charge.

At this time, the servant army crossing the river finally reacted, and kept shooting arrows, but the accuracy was really a bit outrageous.

Soon, the soldiers on both sides exchanged hands.

"Ahh

"Poof!"

The two sides looked at each other, obviously compatriots, but they started a crazy slashing with each other as if they had seen the enemy who killed their father, objectively speaking, the Annan soldiers guarding the river were better equipped than these servant troops, although there was no iron armor, but the leather armor was still there, these soldiers of the Annan army had about half of the armor rate, and the inferior swords did not cause much damage to them, and often only the chest or abdomen, or the head and the like could give them greater trauma, but they still gritted their teeth and carried them dead, and used all their strength to kill forward.

Although the Ming army didn't mind psychologically bombarding the enemy now, considering the feelings of the servant army generals, they still didn't do this kind of thing, so they could only watch the servant army fall into the disadvantage.

In a short round of fighting, although dozens of Annan troops defending the river died, the servant army suffered even greater losses, and hundreds of people fell under the swords of the Annan army in just a few photos.

"Let the pawn attack."

Probably tested the combat effectiveness of the troops guarding the river in Annan in person, Li Jinglong no longer hesitated and gave the order.

Relying on these recently recruited servant armies composed of peasants and local tycoons, they are certainly not the opponents of the regular army of Annam, and the other party is only a guard force responsible for guarding the river, and there must be a large-scale mobile cavalry force ready to raid the Ming army, so the next challenge is the final problem for the Ming army to cross the river.

Five hundred elite hoplites of the Ming army began to cross the river, wearing heavy armor and carrying heavy weapons, slowly pressing towards the enemy position.

Although the defense line of the Annan army was tight, due to the lack of armor-breaking means, it could not stop the advance of the heavy infantry of the Ming army crossing the river at all.

Looking at the comrades who kept falling to the ground and wailing, the generals of the Annan Army were also anxious, and they asked for reinforcements.

After a while, more than 1,000 elite cavalrymen of the Annan Army stationed in the military camps around Glue City, who had learned the information about this place before, joined the war group and fought to the death with the Ming army.

It has to be said that these Annam cavalry, armed with scimitars, spears and bows and arrows, were indeed extremely brave, and after gaining the numerical advantage, they actually fought hard with the hoplites, and not only did not fall into disadvantage, but occupied the advantage.

The Ming army has been active on the south bank of the glue before, and the Annan army, which always pays attention to the movements of the Ming army, reacted quickly, and after determining the location of the Ming army's crossing of the river, the second group of cavalry also quickly arrived at the battlefield, and was bound to beat the Ming army halfway through.

"Kill!"

With the roar of the Annan cavalry general, the second batch of Annan cavalry with as many as 1,300 people quickly rode up and rushed up.

"Run!"

"Run back! Run! ”

The hoplites of the Ming army were still able to maintain a tight line, guarding the other end of the pontoon bridge, and were not shocked by the momentum of the enemy's cavalry, but the servant army was different, where had these guys seen such a battle, and they were immediately chaotic.

In this part of Annam, the cavalry is the strongest type of army except for the elephant soldiers, fighting on the plains, once the cavalry is dispatched, then the rebellious Tusi forces basically have to be crushed to death, unless you hide in the deep mountains and old forests, don't want to escape the pursuit alive.

However, the cavalry of the Annan army was not large, so it was rarely dispatched, which also made the servant army composed of these natives of Annam never encounter a real cavalry charge, let alone the unstoppable momentum of the cavalry charge.

Soon, the Ming soldiers came into contact with the enemy cavalry, as if two torrents had collided violently.

Whether it is the Ming army or the Annan army, on the not very wide riverbank, in fact, they can't use their fists and feet at all, and can only rely on their combat qualities, constantly waving the blades in their hands to fight the enemy on the opposite side.

However, this is unfair to the Ming army, the battlefield is on the north bank of the Jiaoshui River, and because the location of the camp here is relatively remote, it was built very large, and it also squeezed the battlefield, causing the Ming army to fight a little timid. However, the fundamental reason is that the glue is too turbulent, and there are only a few places where you can build a pontoon bridge to cross the river.

In the absence of any terrain to rely on, it was too difficult for the Ming army to hold this bridgehead with a small number of troops.

However, Li Jinglong seems to have expected this, and when the heavy infantry of the Ming army crossed the river, he issued an order.

On the south bank to the right of the enemy camp defending the river in front, there was a depression.

This depression is not big, but it is also not too deep, although it is a depression, in fact, there are many shallows that can be settled, enough for the musketeers of the Ming army to use as an extended foothold.

Although according to the normal width of the glue, the conventional long-range projection means of the Ming army, such as bows and crossbows, firearms, etc., could not hit the enemy on the opposite bank and thus support the friendly forces of the bridgehead, but if it could be extended on the south bank, then a "convex" position could be formed, and the firecrackers could fire in a formation at the salient, so that the range could be reached.

At that time, when the hoplites crossed the river, looking at this depression, Li Jinglong decisively gave an order to repair it.

The Ming army was very strong in engineering, and soon a large number of sandbags and planks were laid up, and a simple breastwork wall was made of sand to block the river and protect the firefighters.

When the second batch of cavalry of the Annan Army arrived, Li Jinglong did not rush to let the firecrackers enter the battle across the river, but at the moment when the enemy's neat formation was flawed, he ordered: "Pass my order, and the firecrackers are ready!" ”

Subsequently, under the command of the hundred households, the firearms unit began to organize into the "convex" terrain where the river beach was filled, and hundreds of gunners lined up behind the rudimentary breastop and began to load gunpowder and aim at the target in front.

These musketeers are elite men, they are well-trained and agile, and almost as soon as they have stuffed their ammunition into their chambers and compacted it with a loading lever, they can immediately adjust their posture and prepare to pull the trigger.

This action has been repeatedly trained, and it only takes about thirty breaths to complete a round, although the military technology point of [Paper Shell Fixed Ammunition] has not been pointed out for the time being, but the rate of fire of these elite Ming arms guns is still far beyond that of the same era.

"Put!"

The familiar sound of suona sounded rhythmically, and the Ming army began to fire unscrupulously.

"Bang Bang~"

"Bang Bang Bang"

The range of the Ming army's new firearms is very long, even far beyond the ordinary cavalry bow (the cavalry bow is usually shorter than the infantry bow because it needs to be pulled on horseback, so the range is also closer), even if it looks far away from the cavalry of the Annan army, there are dozens of steps across the river, but it can still easily hit the target, and for a while there was a burst of roar around the shoal.

The musketeers of the Ming army continued to shoot, and every time they pulled the trigger, it was almost accompanied by the bloom of a blood flower on the opposite bank.

Due to the two batches of Annan's cavalry, a full of more than 3,000 cavalry, although the Ming army was afraid that the friendly heavy infantry on the opposite bank could not open fire, the accuracy of the fire gun was extremely high in front of such a dense enemy, especially the enemy in order to impact the bridgehead guarded by the Ming army's heavy infantry, completely exposed the flank to the Ming army on the other side of the river. So they don't need to aim at all, they just hit it.

No matter how good the Annan people are in riding, they are just ordinary knights after all, even if they are wearing iron armor, but the war horses can't withstand the bombardment of the Ming army, and dozens of horses screamed and fell to the ground in an instant, and many Annan cavalry screamed and fell off their horses, blood mixed with the yellow mud raised by the horses' hooves was sprinkled all over the ground, the wind blew, and even the air was filled with a pungent smell of gunsmoke.

The Annamites also knew that it was difficult to destroy the firecrackers across the river, so they simply gathered all the cavalry and began to try to charge into battle, completely pushing the heavy infantry of the Ming army guarding the bridgehead off the glue and fighting for victory for their own side, but they were still wrong.

Anyone who has seen how the Western powers used firearms to beat the cold-armed armies knew that in the case of sharp firearms, the cavalry was very easy to be destroyed, unless the cavalry could bypass the defensive line and get close to the position of the musketeer.

But now this glue is not only an obstacle for the Ming army, but also for the Annan army.

Obviously, the Annan army did not learn any lessons from the previous defeats.

In other words, in the environment of the decisive battle on the plains of the large corps, they could not really feel the specific tactical effect of the firearms.

Because the firepower of the Ming army was very sharp, it completely suppressed the cavalry of the Annan army for a while.

The cavalry of the Annam army began to fall in large swaths as if they had been cut wheat.

The generals of the Annan Army on the opposite side didn't expect the firepower of the Ming army to be so powerful, and their faces were a little embarrassed for a while, after all, this is their main force! Cavalry is one of the most valuable troops in Annam!

Now that the use of light cavalry to impact the heavy infantry is already a forced choice, but if you can't move it, you can still be slaughtered like this, who can bear it?

"Turn around and fire arrows across the river!" The generals of the Annan Army gritted their teeth and said.

I saw that part of the Annan army accompanied the flag, began to turn the horse's head, and fired arrows at the Ming army gunners in the Annan salient, and the dense rain of arrows poured down towards the front, and the Ming army's position was also disrupted for a while.

Although it is difficult for cavalry bows to reach them, this is not absolute, and the aristocratic cavalry of Annam is serious, which also means that their weapons are self-prepared, so they always have strong people with heavy bows, and the arrows are also shot far, so they also cause some damage to the Ming army's gunners.

But at this time, the generals of the Annan Army knew that the most critical issue now was to kill the Ming army's river-crossing heavy infantry as soon as possible, otherwise, the cavalry under his command would be consumed alive sooner or later.

But the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and at this moment, a scout's report suddenly came from a distance.

"Report! The Ming army also began to divide its troops to cross the river ten miles to the west! ”

The generals of the Annan cavalry immediately looked at each other.

"No wonder we were given time to be alarmed, no wonder we had to send the servant army across the river first, instead of the main force pouring into the nest."

At this time, the people of Annam still didn't know that Li Jinglong, who was familiar with the art of war, had used the strategy of "repairing the plank road in the open and darkening the warehouse", but because of the geographical location, it was too late for them to stop it in time.

Seeing that it was no longer possible to stop the Ming army, and that their own casualties were getting bigger and bigger, the noble officers of the Annam cavalry, who had begun to lose confidence in this war, were somewhat shaken in their will to fight.

For the high-level of the Annan army, glue is indispensable, but for these people, if the Hu family's Dayu is doomed, then surrendering Chen Tianping is not an embarrassing thing, after all, they basically have deep-rooted forces in the local area, no matter who comes to be the ruler of Annan, they have to cooperate with them.

"Withdraw! I can't hold it at all! ”

"Don't let our men die in vain."

In the queue, there was Annan's general who shouted.

They knew very well that it would end sooner or later, so some generals decisively took the lead in escaping.

The cavalry, of course, was fast, and after dropping hundreds of corpses, ran away without a trace.

And those soldiers in the riverside camp who still wanted to resist stubbornly, they were not so lucky, they only had two legs, and they were soon caught up by the Ming army and killed.

Seeing that his men were slaughtered, the Annan generals in the riverside camp had no choice but to surrender.

"All the captives are taken down and locked up, and the decision will be made tomorrow."

At the same time, the Ming army divided a part of its forces from the north bank to consolidate its defensive positions and wait for the large army to cross the river.

————

Inside the glue city.

The old minister of Annan, Shaobao Wang Ruzhou, personally sat in the city, and several generals of the Annan army also gathered together.

"Continue to increase the attack!"

Pan Maxiu, who had been repeatedly defeated in the hands of the Ming army, roared angrily: "I don't believe it, we have 80,000 people, and we can't stop the Ming army from crossing the river!" ”

Pan Maxiu's words made everyone feel ridiculous, although they have 80,000 people, but how many stinky fish and rotten shrimp are there? What to fight with the Ming army?

said that it was to defend the glue defense line, but that was to say to the Hu father and son in Shenglong Mansion, can a piece of glue block the Ming army?

It's okay to deceive others, don't deceive yourself.

Wang Ruzhou said with a smile: "The old man thinks that Tianchang Road (Fenghua Mansion) cannot be lost, and our main force must not only hold Fenghua Mansion, but also work harder to drive the Ming army into the sea." ”

Hearing this, the generals of the Annan Army could only smile bitterly.

"Lord Shaobao, are you laughing at me?"

Pan Maxiu was furious, and his hand had already pressed the hilt of the knife.

"General Pan, what are you talking about?"

Tianchang Road is unified, Shaobao Wang Ruzhou immediately retorted: "We have 80,000 soldiers and horses in our hands, if we lose Tianchang Road, wouldn't we want to open the door of the Eastern Capital, so how can we hold on?" ”

Pan Maxiu wanted to refute but couldn't refute it from the bright side, his face became more and more angry, and he was about to turn red and warm.

At this time, Wang Ruzhou didn't want to completely anger him, and said: "Okay, let's think of a way, the first batch and the second batch of cavalry are already the vast majority of the forces that can move quickly in our hands, since they have all been defeated and retreated, even if the infantry is pressed up at this time, it will be too late in time, and they will only collide with the Ming army head-on." ”

"Having said that, if we lose the glue, then we can't hold on to a lonely city just by relying on Glue City, although Glue City is very easy to defend, but after all, we have 80,000 people, how many people can be stuffed in the city? Most of them have to be camped outside the city, plus they need to be replenished from the rear every day, and once they are surrounded by the Ming army, I am afraid that we will starve to death without fighting. ”

"The landing force of the Ming army is less than 30,000 people, and if you bring in those servant troops and the army of the city state, there are only 50,000 people, why do you surround us with 80,000 people?"

"We haven't won a field battle."

"So what? Could it be that let's give up Glue City? Do you think the enemy will let us go? ”

Pan Maxiu said angrily: "All we can rely on now is Glue and Glue City, if even these two places are lost, what will Annan use to fight against Daming?!" ”

Wang Ruzhou sighed: "Then we should order all the soldiers and horses as soon as possible, how much can be moved, take advantage of the fact that tens of thousands of people of the Ming army cannot all cross the river in a short time, and attack the enemy in Bandu, so that after recovering the glue and recapturing the various guard camps along the river, we will gather the reinforcements of the eastern capital to launch a counterattack against the Ming army." ”

Pan Maxiu glanced at the old man in surprise, nodded and said, "Yes, I also have this intention." Then now the various departments will immediately send troops, and they must hurry to the bank of the Jiaoshui River, do you agree? ”

The army is not Pan Maxiu's word, at this time the generals quarreled again, and finally had no choice but to take the hardcore generals of the Hu clan to act, and the other generals who were unwilling to lose their strength chose to shrink near Glue City.

"Shaobao, Pan Maxiu has already left the city."

Wang Ruzhou, as an old minister of the Chen Dynasty and one of the few remaining capitals, is not from the Hu family at all, and has been operating in Tianchang Road (Fenghua Mansion) for many years, so he naturally has his own interests.

"Pan Maxiu has a brave and unscrupulous generation, repeatedly defeated by the hands of the Ming army, I heard that Li Jinglong is a five-star general of the Ming army, known as a strategy, this time Pan Maxiu will also be a big defeat, we have to plan early."

"Yes, I understand."

Several henchmen replied in unison.

"But what about the other generals inside and outside the city?"

"Gather them over, in my own name, and if they don't agree, then detain them."

"Another ......"

After Wang Ruzhou was silent for a moment, he said: "Now send an envoy to secretly cross the river south from the ferry port under our control, go to the military camp of the Ming army, and express submission to Li Jinglong, so that the Ming may forgive us for our offense." ”

"Let's arrange it."

Soon, the generals of the other factions came.

After a period of psychological struggle, which was not too fierce, the vast majority of the generals chose to surrender.

Because according to the treatment of the servant army, as well as the situation of the captured soldiers, if these generals are really willing to submit, then the Ming Dynasty will definitely not mind sparing their lives, and even after Chen Tianping recovers the country, the high-ranking officials Houlu will also be at their fingertips.

Emperor Chen was so tyrannical and unreasonable before, they all endured it, and I think that his grandson should not be more outrageous than his grandfather.

It's not that Pan Maxiu and the others don't understand this truth, but they don't have a choice.

After all, they are all descendants of the Hu family, and they have long been unable to wash up the throne if they follow the Hu family to usurp the throne, and it is unlikely that they will jump ship, so even if they know that they can't win, they still choose to resist and are unwilling to give in.

However, the generals who were called up were still a little worried, what if the Ming were unwilling to accept their allegiance? Even more terrifying, like the Battle of Changping in Huaxia, killed all of them? In that case, the Ming Dynasty would have no losses, and it could also weaken Annan's military strength.

The so-called gains and losses are nothing more than this.

But in fact, these generals don't know, for the Ming Dynasty, their attitude of willing to surrender on a large scale is also very important, if they are willing to surrender, and offer soldiers and other resources such as food and grass, then the Ming can drive them to be cannon fodder without much effort, and clean up the remaining mess, after all, the Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses, food are also very precious.

And as long as the Annan army surrendered, the Ming could easily win the war, and then through the dismemberment of Annan, the actual control of the Red River Delta, and the economic colonization of the new Chen Dynasty, a steady stream of access to various resources.

In this way, the strength of the Ming Dynasty will soar, far surpassing the Yongle prosperous period in history, and can even dominate the entire world.

It's just a pity that although there are people like Wang Ruzhou in Annan, who are aware of current affairs, there are also people like Pan Maxiu who don't seem to be willing to give in to the Ming Dynasty, but are ready to resist to the end.

——————

Because the Annan army has too many troops, it has set up a lot of camps on the bank of the Jiaoshui River, and these camps have also become the target of the vanguard of the Ming army, among which there is even a small stone city called the White Elephant City.

The Ming army was like a bamboo all the way until it stopped in front of this small city.

Looking at this small city, Zhu Youjiao, the king of Runan County, who was in charge of playing the vanguard, shook his head, and then said: "Order, let the musketeers and the accompanying artillery all go into battle." ”

"Yes!"

The lieutenant general ordered to leave, and then conveyed instructions.

In a burst of orders, the Ming army's musketeers quickly lined up, and then raised their arquebuses in unison to aim at the enemy.

Because the city is not large, and there are more Annan troops stationed there, the Annan army chose to go out of the city and line up against the city wall.

This is not stupid, in fact, in the era of cold weapons, the defenders of the city will often choose to line up with their backs, such as the two battles of Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty and the defense of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty.

"Put!"

An officer in charge of delivering the order shouted.

In an instant, rows of lead pellets roared out and shot towards the enemy's military formation.

The Ming army's arquebuses were more powerful than the original arquebuses, and the rate of fire was fast, so rows of lead bullets flew out, and a large number of Annan soldiers were killed in an instant.

Under the dense firepower, the Annan infantry had no strength to resist at all, and could only hide behind the shield and shiver, and the shield's protective power was limited no matter how powerful it was, under the continuous fire of muskets and artillery, the shield was also penetrated, followed by lead shots hitting the Annan soldiers hiding behind the shield.

For a moment, the corpses were smashed by lead pellets and turned into a mass of meat sauce.

Such an attack visual effect had a considerable impact on the hearts of the Annan people.

And Annan's resistance became weaker and weaker, and finally some of the more timid Annanites chose to flee.

However, the Ming army still did not have time to take care of these deserters.

In the roar of the artillery fire of the small-caliber field artillery of the accompanying army, the offensive of the Ming army gradually approached the city wall, and then began to climb the wall of the White Elephant City.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

A sharp whistling of arrows piercing the air suddenly sounded, and the feathered arrows of the archers at the head of the city went straight to the Ming army below the city, trying to prevent the Ming army from ascending the city.

"Poof! Poof! ”

On the position of the Ming army, several soldiers fell, including a small flag officer.

But they did not pause and continued to charge.

"Bang!"

The light bronze field guns of the Ming army spewed flames from their muzzles.

Although the caliber of the field artillery is not large, the White Elephant City is really not a strong city, and if it goes down, even the stone city wall cannot bear it, and it is immediately blasted out of a big pit.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The artillery of the Ming army bombarded non-stop, constantly tearing the city bricks on the city wall, making the city bricks on the city wall continue to fall off, although few hit the city wall directly, but the splash damage of the city bricks also greatly hindered the output of the archers of the Annan army.

The soldiers of Annam also kept throwing rolling logs and stones under the city walls, but to no avail, except for adding to a wave of waste, it had no practical value at all.

"Damn the Ming army, how can they have so many cannons?"

Looking at the steady stream of cannonballs pouring down on the city wall, the general of Annan said: "Resist it for me!" ”

"But, the general......"

The general of the Annan Army, who was in charge of guarding the White Elephant City, was Pan Maxiu's cronies, and shouted angrily at this time: "Do you want me to bring people up personally?" ”

"The last general will not dare!"

Seeing that their master was so irritable, they were immediately shocked.

After all, everyone knows that this person is moody, and if he is provoked, he and others will suffer.

"Damn it!"

The man roared angrily, and then gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what the price is, you must defend this White Elephant City today!" It is absolutely not permissible for the Ming army to break through our blockade! ”

Hearing the words of his own general, the people below suddenly showed a sad look.

They all knew that part of the Ming army had already crossed the glue, and if the Ming army captured the White Elephant City, then the main force from the glue city would have to fight with the Ming army in the field.

But what are the chances of winning a field battle with the Ming army?

It is no exaggeration to say that if it is defeated, Annan is not far from destroying the country, so this inconspicuous little must be defended, and it must be defended at all costs!

So, they no longer hesitated, and immediately led the soldiers out of the city through the small gate on the other side, desperately resisting.

"Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang ......"

The Ming gunners took the opportunity to pull the trigger, and the muskets fired a volley, instantly sweeping down more than half of the Annamite people who rushed over.

Seeing that they were suffering one by one, the morale of the Annan people was extremely low, and they even began to doubt life in their hearts, how to fight this battle? How should this battle be fought?

"Kill!"

The Ming infantry broke through the enemy blockage of the back city formation and advanced forward, trying to climb the city wall with a rudimentary ladder.

The only remaining Annam people in the city tried to fight back, but to no avail.

The strength of the Ming army exceeded their imagination, and the Annam people could not resist the Ming army's rush and retreat.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjia immediately pulled out his waist knife and shouted angrily: "Kill~"

With hundreds of cavalry under his command, he pounced like wolves on the enemy infantry fleeing from the city.

The cavalry of the Ming army were all skilled in horsemanship, and they could control the movement of their horses when moving at high speeds, allowing spears and sabers to stab at the enemy.

And they cooperate very tacitly, once an enemy approaches, a Ming army will immediately step forward, so that the enemy army cannot rush over and break their formation.

"Poof!"

The Ming army was armed with a long knife and cut down one Annam people after another, and after a while, the city was full of corpses.

Zhu Youjiao's martial arts are extraordinary, he takes the lead, the long knife in his hand slashes left and right, blood splashes everywhere he goes, and several enemy soldiers were killed with a knife before they even got close.

The Annan people watched Zhu Youjia cut them to the ground like a killing god, and their morale collapsed for a while, and they were not the opponents of the Ming army at all, so they threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.

At the head of the city, the people around him looked at the messy scene under the city, their faces were full of disbelief, and they couldn't help but comfort: "General, let's run quickly!" The armies that went out of the city under the city were scattered, and this small city could not be defended. ”

"What to go, this is Annan's last hope, if we run away, Annan will really be finished!"

The Annan general gritted his teeth and insisted.

He knew that if he ran away at this time, he would have no chance at all.

And at this moment, a personal guard hurriedly ran in: "General Qiyu, the smoke and dust in the east are rising, and our reinforcements have arrived!"

When this person heard this, his originally dejected expression suddenly perked.

He didn't expect that a reinforcement army would really arrive!

And with the arrival of the army in the distance, the scouts of the Ming army also transmitted the news back to Zhu Youjiao, the king of Runan County.

"Fifty or sixty thousand Annan people came?"

Zhu Youjiao was stunned, this is the meaning of giving up the stubborn defense of Glue City, and wanting to fight to the death with the Ming army in the field!

"Retreat, abandon the siege, and return to join Cao Guogong."

Zhu Youjiao decisively gave the most correct order.

At the same time, seeing the retreat of the Ming army, the soldiers of Annan who were originally cowering in the White Elephant City also became brave, carrying their respective shields, swords and guns, and rushed to the city wall.

A soldier named Annan shouted, and then rushed to the city wall, and started a fierce hand-to-hand fight with the Ming army who had no time to retreat.

After the Ming army paid dozens of casualties, the forward troops began to retreat.

Soon after, Li Jinglong, who was supervising the crossing of the river by the Ming army and the servant army, heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from a distance, followed by several scout cavalry rushing from the northeast.

"Report to the prince of the country, the king of Runan County will spread the word, the enemy will attack!"

"What? Enemy attack? How many people? ”

Li Jinglong, who was about to rest, heard this, and hurriedly jumped on horseback and raised his eyes to look.

"The enemy should be able to move, and there are fifty or sixty thousand people!"

"Hahahaha! What a godsend! ”

Hearing the news, Li Jinglong excitedly slapped his fist with his palm.

Li Jinglong originally planned to wait for the camp along the river to be defeated and then fight a decisive battle with the enemy under the fortified city, but he did not expect that this enemy army would actually take the initiative to attack.

This is simply sending sheep into the tiger's mouth!

But it's okay to do this, you can get rid of them in one pot, and these enemy troops are already the enemy's entire strength on the southern front.

After this decisive battle, the Ming army can directly smash the enemy's eastern capital!

Just what he wants!

Li Jinglong was overjoyed and said to the generals.

"Congratulations to the military of all the kings first!"

The generals also shouted:

"Enter the Shenglong Mansion and capture Hu Jichen alive!"

(End of chapter)