Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 629 Attack

   Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao had no intention of killing Fang Jifan, and finally let Fang Jifan go.

  Fang Jifan gasped.

  Zhu Houzhao made some threats, and Fang Jifan was a little confused. What the sister-in-law did seemed to be very boring.

  However, it's good to see Zhu Houzhao so angry.

  Zhu Houzhao finally became serious again: "Tell me, can our plan come true?"

  Fang Jifan also became serious: "It depends on whether His Highness has confidence in himself."

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while, then sighed melancholy: "I have learned the art of war since I was a child, but there are not many times when I can really verify it, but I also know that things on the battlefield are changing rapidly. What is expected may not come true, but if we do not take action in this battle and only talk about it on paper, then what we think will never be verified. Look at Tang Yin, Shen Ao and others."

  Fang Jifan held his chin: "What if it fails? Your Highness, I mean, we need to plan ahead."

Zhu Hou shined his eyes and glanced out of the hall. There were more than a dozen windows in this hall, several of which were open. Behind one window, he saw a handsome figure with a hunched body. Liu Jin was a little tired, so he leaned on the At the base of the wall, he held a handful of fried soybeans in his hand, and from time to time, he stuffed a soybean into the mouth. He looked extremely bored, and followed His Highness to this place where the birds didn’t care. He couldn’t even eat well. The wall, standing with legs intertwined and crossed, eating beans while enjoying leisurely contentment.

  After experiencing too many things, Liu Jin looked away a lot instead. The fried soybeans were chewing in his mouth.

  …

  Fang Jifan saw Zhu Houzhao's eyes, and suddenly understood something.

Although... this excuse is obviously far-fetched, but the biggest role of the scapegoat is that what His Majesty needs is an excuse to get off the donkey. If such a big thing happens, one or two people must be killed to explain it. It wasn't Zhu Houzhao, it was Fang Jifan, or...the two spoke in unison, and Liu Jin was involved.

   "I really wronged him." Fang Jifan sighed.

Eunuch Liu is such an all-powerful man in history. Although his fate was a bit miserable, he can be the leader of the Eight Tigers, and he is even called the "emperor". The **** Liu, who was rampant for a while on the upper floor, is a bit of a contrast.

   "There is no way, someone has to take the blame." Zhu Houzhao said: "Who made him always say that he is willing to die for me, I will give him a chance."

  ...

Annan's geography is long and narrow, with high mountains in the north, but it is an open plain from the high mountains to Thang Long City, the capital of the king, and even to the south, there is a land of fish and rice like Champa. The rice here can reach three Ripe, the grain yield is extremely high.

His Royal Highness made a sudden call, and Guizhou's military guards began to gather, trying to go south. Annan received a warning message. If he said he was not worried at all, it would be a lie. Passes everywhere can be consumed with the Ming army.

  When Emperor Wen conquered Annan, the preparations for the war lasted for a year or two. Hundreds of thousands of troops marched together, and only then did they break through Thang Long in one fell swoop.

  Thus, although Annan was nervously preparing for the war and mobilizing various troops and horses to go north, he was not in a hurry.

They are confident that they have the experience handed down from their ancestors to deal with the Ming army, and Annan's terrain is already enough for the Annan people to occupy a large enough advantage. Therefore, Annan exerted all his strength, and transferred countless troops, horses, money and food to the north. The wandering army is endless.

  Guizhou military guards have already set up a formation in the north. They are the vanguard. If the court decides to go south, then the Yunnan army and horses of Duke Qian, as well as guest troops from all over the country, will also swarm in.

  The war is about to break out.

  But right now, it is the calm before the war, on this sunny day.

  The Annan Army stationed in Tsing Hoa, as in the past, went out lazily.

Tsinghua is the rear area, with Thang Long in the north and Champa in the south. Compared with the countless Annan troops who were transferred to the north, the Annan army stationed here does not seem to feel the tension of the storm. After all... It is too far away from the war here, and the Ming army is still thousands of miles away.

  But at this moment, ships appeared on the sea level.

   More and more ships gradually revealed huge shadows.

When he first sailed to the Western Seas, Xu Jing searched for waterways everywhere, and he had reached the nearby sea area. Not only that, he also recruited Champas to inquire about the hydrological information here. Xu Jing was also very clear about the waterways used by a large number of merchant ships to and from Champa, Luzon and other places during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. This comparison finally came to the conclusion that this place is a good natural port, and this place is connected to the capital of Annan. , Champa, the most important grain production base in Liannan, whether going north or south, the road is smooth and there are no rugged mountain roads. To go to these two places, you can go back and forth by land within a few days.

This is also the reason why Tang Yin chose Qinghua as his target. Here... the sea area around here is mostly deep water, and ships can go anywhere without worrying about hidden reefs. Moreover, this place is Annan's throat, and countless ships arrive at it. , on the deck, Hu Kaishan's eyes were red, looking at the land in the distance, he immediately roared: "Put down the landing ship!"

  The sailors have long been waiting for the battle, and each of them has a ferocious look in their eyes.

  Qi Jingtong yelled weakly: "After landing, don't get excited, don't get excited!"

   This is a daily call, and Qi Jingtong is used to it.

  The sailors were sharpening their knives, and their eyes were all red.

  What they saw was not land, but land of gold everywhere. Through the binoculars, Annan's army horses guarding the water village. These were not enemies, but human heads, with prices clearly marked and moving around.

  When they thought of this, they became excited, silver, this is all silver, they have traveled a long distance here, and if they don’t harvest these silver, they are not as good as pigs and dogs, sorry for their ancestors, sorry for themselves.

   They are a group of people who can endure the loneliness at sea, and they are tenacious. They dared to face the giant whale fearlessly, launched an attack, and never retreated. They swept across the overseas islands and wiped out the Japanese pirates entrenched there.

   They lick blood for a living, a group of desperadoes.

   One after another flat-bottomed ships landed on the big ship, and they swarmed along the rope, leaving behind the landing ships one by one.

   Immediately, on the sea. Hundreds of ships launched together, following the tide, the flat-bottomed ship rushed directly onto the beach.

  As soon as he landed, Qi Jingtong urgently ordered people to unfurl the flag. He was afraid that the excited sailors would attack without authorization, so he began to order everyone to gather.

And Hu Kaishan, wearing a chain armor and holding a huge axe, began to yell and curse: "I listened to Qi Qianhu's good advice, and I will die to him, gather, gather, whoever dares to attack without authorization, I will throw him in the ground!" Go to the sea to feed the fish."

  After a lot of cursing, the extremely reluctant sailors assembled.

   Immediately, Hu Kaishan took the lead and launched a charge.

   "Kill! Kill!"

  In fact, the Annan people never thought that the Ming army would appear here, and the Annan army guarding here was by no means elite.

  They were a little confused. Even before the Beiwawei landed, they didn't know what happened. But when the Beiwawei shouted and killed, and the tide of Beiwawei scrambled to kill them, Annan realized that the enemy had attacked.

   They fought hard.

But here, there are not many defensive offensives. What's even more frightening is that the opponents rushed in like crazy one by one. Their killing methods are extremely skilled. Three or five people form a team. Spearmen, with spears protruding from the back of the shield, with flanks with knives on both sides, and the gunners of the rear team obviously have no use at this time.

  These ferocious people are like a group of butchers, skilled and brutal. One team kills one person, and the other team has already rushed forward. Hundreds of such teams rushed forward in turn. In an instant, the ground was full of corpses.

  The Sancai Formation has been improved. The terrain here is narrow and cannot be used. Therefore, the small Sancai Formation is used, with five or six people in a team. Each small team has become a head harvesting machine.

But the most frightening thing is that the Annan people have just assembled to form an formation to resist, but the one who rushes forward is a man like a hill. The man is tall, dressed all over his body, with two giant axes in his hands, rushing in crazily. Annan's army formation, suddenly, a gap was torn out of the densely packed Annan army formation, behind him, countless crazy sailors rushed to them, and the gap continued to expand.

   This is the simplest tactic, but it is simple and efficient at the same time.

  They joined forces and turned into a sharp sword. Hu Kaishan pierced the tip of the sword, and the sailors rushed up quickly, fighting a **** path frantically, and finally divided the Annan people, and then encircled them.

The frightening thing is not only this, the sailors are not only fearless of death, but also have undergone rigorous drills. They are actually as strong as cattle. Fighting with cold weapons consumes energy, and in this era, no matter what Whether it is Daming or anywhere else, the vast majority of people, because they cannot get enough nutrition, nine out of ten people are sallow and thin, just like in later generations, Franji is tall and strong, but In this era, the general height of Frangji is only about 1.6 meters.

Therefore, Francois is often willing to recruit knights for combat, because most knights have fiefs, can barely eat enough, and can adapt to fierce fighting on the battlefield. Even the famous Tang army in ancient China also mostly recruited good families to fight Well, the so-called good family sons are actually people with certain assets.

  This group of sailors is an exception. They eat a lot of meat, especially fish, and can eat enough for three meals.

  (end of this chapter)