Bright Spring

"So that's how it is." Zhang Fu suddenly said, "I didn't have any impression of you when I was in An Nanguo, and you weren't high-ranking?"

Yin Desheng said: "At that time, the last general had a hundred households."

Zhang Fu had a strange expression on his face, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Leading troops to fight, loyalty alone doesn't necessarily work. You just need to obey the military orders, and don't make up your own mind."

Yin Desheng said coldly: "I'm afraid the commander-in-chief may have misunderstood him. The last general, the marquis, did not come here by swindling. He has accumulated military merits with a knife and a gun. If the commander-in-chief doesn't believe it, you can ask about it."

Zhang Fu showed a half-smile expression, noncommittal.

Yin Desheng thought for a while, and stopped bragging.Maybe there are some things that can't be confused by Zhang Fu's old fritters. If it wasn't for the appreciation of the superiors, he wouldn't even have the opportunity to accumulate military merits; Liu Dagen in Guizhou.

But Yin Desheng just saw that Zhang Fu was not pleasing to the eye, so he couldn't help but said: "A few days ago in Lang Son Acropolis, the last general heard the commander's deployment, and used Huang Zhong and An Yuanhou's troops to kill the rebel queens in Jiangbei Prefecture. The road is completely broken. The rebels have nowhere to go, won't they fight us desperately?"

Zhang Fu said: "So what, dare to love Heyang Hou because he thinks he has gained too much in the battle?"

Yin Desheng frowned and said: "The last general is just suggesting that as long as you defeat the enemy, you can still capture most of them by chasing death and chasing the north. There is no need to kill every enemy soldier."

Zhang Fu didn't take it seriously, and said decisively: "The Marquis of Heyang must not be slack, let alone disobey the military order. Since I am in charge of the military according to the order, no matter what the background of the subordinates is, no matter who violates the military law, they will be treated equally and severely punished!"

Yin Desheng was speechless.

... The army marched southward, and when it was about tens of miles away from Beijiangfu City, Zhang Fu suddenly ordered the whole army to set up camp and stand firm.

Yin Desheng and the others originally thought that Zhang Fu would first ascertain the enemy's actual situation, and then fight again when he was safe.Unexpectedly, only two days later, after the Chinese army received the response from Huang Zhong and Liu Sheng to advance according to the military order, Zhang Fu immediately ordered the whole army to continue advancing.

Tan Ma has seen clearly the movement of the rebel Ruan Commander's Department. The main force has set up several large army camps ten miles north of the Fucheng, gathering all the troops and horses together, and there is no sign of defending the city.

This kind of military situation made the generals of the Ming army's middle army speculate: The enemy's occupation of Beijiang Mansion seems to be an attempt to attack the reinforcements of the Ming army who have just entered Annan? !

And Zhang Fu's deployment was not precisely to rescue Dongguan (Hanoi), he came to counterattack.As a result, as soon as the large groups of people from both sides approached, they quickly began to evolve into the main battle.

The situation was unexpected, but not a bad thing.It is the most efficient and shortest way of war at this time when the two sides gather troops to fight. A battle can quickly determine the direction of the entire war.

This is exactly what the generals of the Ming army would like to see, because the Ming army must achieve results as soon as possible before the end of the dry season, otherwise it will be difficult to continue to attack.The Annan War will drag on for a long time.

In late September, the armies of the two sides gradually approached in the north of Fucheng, and the distance was less than ten miles.Zhang Fu and other generals were unable to estimate the number of enemy troops more accurately; because although the terrain is very flat, it is also relatively complicated.

There are many ponds, dense forests, paddy fields and villages where the rebels are active.It was difficult for the scouts of the Ming army to penetrate into its depth and inquire about the details.However, judging from the size of the territory where the rebels were active, there may be more people than Zhang Fu's troops.

The battlefield was probably on the east bank of the Shang River. Yin Desheng led the army as the right wing, and he could already see the surface of the Shang River from the edge of the army formation.

After Zhang Fu inspected the battlefield, he found a place with few ponds and trees, and asked all the ministries to form a large formation.Then order a group of troops, composed of cavalry, archers, and spear and shield soldiers, to go to feign defeat to lure the enemy to come to a decisive battle.

The weather was clear with a thin mist between the sparse trees and grass.From a distance, the scene is a bit hazy and white, but there is no fog up close.Yin Desheng was on the right wing, and ordered each of the thousands of corps to form a large formation: to prepare for the battle, and not to act rashly before the fighter plane arrives.These are all military orders given by Zhang Fu to the generals.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of various firearms came from a distance; Yin Desheng couldn't see anything at a distance.However, he knew which firearms were released by the rebels, because the Ming soldiers who went to lure the enemy did not carry firearms.The sounds probably sounded like some muskets and sharp guns ringing.

Yin Desheng paid attention to the scene in front of him, for a long time he still only heard the sound of guns|cannons, and there was no movement.There is a plain in the south, with several villages, overgrown bushes, some paddy fields, and grassy wasteland, and the sky is shrouded in a white mist.

Apart from the wandering scouts ahead, there was not a single commoner.The army is approaching and the guns are firing. Even if there are civilians, they may find a place to hide.

The army waited for a long time, and finally a figure appeared in the distant mist.There were more and more people, and there were some loose archers and a few people on horseback in front, and they probably had entered within one mile of the Ming army's front line.

Teams of archers were not far from the large group of rebels in the rear. They seemed to be worried that they would be too far away from the main force and be attacked by the cavalry of the Ming army.The number of horses and the combat power of the cavalry of the Ming army are far from those of the Annan army; but in Annan, the cavalry often cannot fully function.

The noisy people and horses became louder and louder, and there was a sound of strings from time to time, and the rangers in front of the Ming army were driven away one after another.The enemy archers were still approaching hundreds of steps away.

There are many flags around Yin Desheng, including a Tuanlong Sunyue flag with a blue background and a yellow line, a military flag with the words "Zhengyi Right Deputy General" and "Yin" written on it, and bordered pennants of various colors.The flag was swaying listlessly, and there was no wind today.None of the ministries of the Ming army started to attack, and they all lined up to wait.

A large number of Annan Army troops have appeared. They have different armors. Most of the soldiers wear a kind of bamboo hat with a narrow top and a wide bottom. There are also soldiers who wear iron helmets similar to those of the Ming Army.While the flag was waving, it was probably written in Chinese characters.The rebel army has formations, but the military appearance of the Annan people always looks a little loose, not as clean as the Ming army.

It didn't take long before there were dense string sounds from several places in the east and west, and the two sides had gradually begun to fight.The vanguard of the rebel army took bows and arrows, and shot arrows at the Ming army formation indiscriminately. bow and arrow.Cries of pain came from all directions.

Yin Desheng watched the surrounding scene on horseback, and saw the rebels in the south of a forest, the crowd with firecrackers had already advanced in groups.He then shouted: "Beat the drum, order the teams, prepare to fight back!"

"Order!"

Not long after, there was the sound of slow-paced drums in the formation, followed by the sound of hoarse and rough horns.The yelling and cursing of the generals in the distance continued, and the Ming army's formation became more and more lively.

Chapter 738 It's an afterthought

On the green plain, there is a lot of voices and banners everywhere, and the sound of people shouting and cursing is like a downtown.Arrows roared in the air everywhere.

In some places, the Annan rebels even organized a salvo of bows and arrows, forming intensive long-range strikes with arrows.However, the formation of the Ming army usually has elite soldiers with more armor in front, and the front line is dominated by heavy infantry with guns and shields; in order to prevent the front line of the phalanx from retreating too quickly, which will affect the stability of the entire army formation.Therefore, if the rebels wanted to make progress with only bows and arrows, it would be a waste of physical strength.

Amidst the noise, the rebel infantry with spears and sharp guns came to the front one after another, and began to continue to approach the Ming army formation. (A sharpshooter is a fire door gun with a cast barrel, sealed with a wooden horse, and shoots arrow clusters.)

The rebels in the south let out ferocious shouts, but perhaps they were also covering up the fear before the fight.According to the weapons they were equipped with, the soldiers had to be at least within twenty steps in order to be barely lethal.

At this time, the flags of the Ming army were waving, and they were also changing formations.The spear and shield soldiers in front of each brigade ran in formation and retreated from the gaps in the phalanx one after another, and people with guns appeared one after another.

Not far from the right wing of the Ming army, there was a "rumbling" sound of horseshoes, and some cavalry started to run; but they did not attack forward, but gave way to the sides.On the edge of the woods, a row of bronze cannons shining with metallic luster revealed a hideous face.

"Bang bang bang..." A firecracker from nowhere opened fire first.Then there were bursts of firecracker-like explosions everywhere, and the smoke filled the air.Then there were screams everywhere, crying and screaming like ghosts crying.

The battlefield is fast and fierce, and the firecrackers are constantly flashing on the wide front.In order to prevent Mars from mistaking the gunpowder of his teammates, the Ming army kept a row of gunpowder soldiers at a distance of one person, and the sparse formation made it easy to change teams.The soldiers who loaded the firecrackers in the back quickly stepped forward, raised the firecrackers, and roughly aimed at the figure outside the smoke.

"Let go!" A general pointed at the crowded direction with his waist knife.Immediately there was another explosion, and a row of firecrackers fired again.Amidst the gunpowder smoke, the panicked enemy soldiers kept getting shot and fell down.

There were bursts of gunfire from all sides, and the battlefield gradually became chaotic.No one knows where the rebel army started to retreat first; not long after the war started, the rout of the rebel army continued to spread along the winding front.

In front of the right wing of the Ming army, there was a large piece of wasteland. The shrubs and weeds were half the height of a person in the most luxuriant place, where the largest number of rebels gathered.The retreating people rushed over there one after another.Compared with places with rice fields, narrow roads and paddy fields that are prone to sinking into mud, people are more willing to flee and retreat from wasteland with relatively hard ground.

The barren grassland is already in a mess, and too many people have come in, and the grass around has been trampled down.

At this time, on the edge of the woods in the north, flames suddenly erupted one after another, as if the whole forest suddenly caught fire, the bright flames were extremely dazzling.

"Boom boom boom boom..." At the place where the flames were shining, almost at the same time, a huge roar sounded, and the ground trembled like an earthquake.

In an instant, a large number of enemy soldiers fell into the grass, and dust rose up in the wasteland.Before the rebel soldiers came back to their senses, the iron balls weighing more than ten kilograms had bounced many times on the hard ground; when people saw the iron balls rolling on the ground, they had already slowed down.The rolling hot iron ball even ignited the weeds, emitting bursts of green smoke.

"Ahh..." The people who were screaming in panic, even rolling and crawling, were just frightened.Those who were hit by the iron ball were mostly bloody and bloody, and they could no longer move and make a sound.

An iron ball strayed too far and flew into a nearby village.A tile-roofed house that was hit seemed to be struck by lightning. The shells pierced through two muddy walls made of bamboo bones. The roof immediately collapsed and dust rose into the air.

The rout quickly spread in depth in the area where the rebels surged.Some people who were already in a loose formation could hardly distinguish the establishment at this time.On the other hand, the infantry of the Ming army in the north has already appeared many columns one after another. The gun shield soldiers and the firecrackers ran forward, and began to chase the defeated army that fled beyond the range of the firecrackers.

After the king of Han fired a volley, some cavalry also rushed out of the forest, and the cavalry on both sides of the forest also jogged out. "Kill! Kill..." The ferocious shouts kept ringing out, and the roar of horseshoes became louder and louder.The blades reflected a dazzling light, and the cavalry with cherry guns were patting their horses and galloping.

On the plain extending eastward from the Shang River, the entire battlefield seemed to be boiling, and crowds were rushing everywhere.

The situation of this battle changed very quickly. None of the previous battles of the "Battle of Criminology" participated by the soldiers of the Ming Army's Beijing camp were as rapid as this one.Not long after the war started, the battlefield was like a landslide, and the rebel army was almost defeated across the board.

... The Annan Army's main general in this campaign is Ruan Shuai. In fact, most of his troops are composed of "rebels" who revolted on their own.Leaders from all walks of life formed an alliance in Thanh Hoa and agreed with the orders of Emperor Dai Viet; usually Ruan Shuai could issue orders to various ministries, but could not directly manage the internal affairs of each army.

At this time, the front line suddenly collapsed, and Ruan Shuai felt that he gradually lost control of the army.He hadn't given the order to retreat yet, and the people behind who hadn't participated in the battle, seeing the situation so serious, had already "spontaneously" started to retreat southward.

Ruan Shuai sat on his horse and looked back to the south. He saw many flags waving and moving backwards.The situation on the front line has already collapsed, and countless people are running around in a mess.