Chapter Forty-Six: The Great Army Is in Place

Mao Rui naturally wouldn't accept this possibility, and he should report it, so Mao Kai explained what he saw clearly.

Mao Rui was relieved.

At this time, Li Guang and his son came over to report on the situation of cleaning up the battlefield.

"Three thousand three hundred decapitations." Mao Rui also knew the numbers in his heart.

After all, people are not pigs, even if pigs want to run, they may not be able to catch up, and they are people?

Mao Rui is relatively satisfied with this number, but who is not very satisfied with the following figures. "The loss is one thousand and thirty, and there are more than a hundred seriously injured, and it is estimated that it will not be able to support it for a few days."

Mao Rui only felt a faint pain at the root of his teeth.

These are all the children of the Mao family, and even he remembered the thirteenth brother who had just died in battle, in the list of officers killed, there was more than just a surname Mao.

Mao Rui secretly said in his heart: "Annan is not a small country. He even thought of the Red Hats who had fought to a stalemate with his cavalry.

Secretly said: "If Annan has such 100,000 elite soldiers, it will be a little difficult for the imperial court to conquer the south this time." ”

It's just that now the anger can be puffed up but not vented, Mao Rui only dared to say such things in private with Mao Sheng, and he never dared to say such things in public.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, Mao Rui was stationed in Pingxiang City that night, and the army reported to the rear.

However, on the second day, Mao Sheng arrived at the foot of Pingxiang City.

This progress has greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

Almost at the same time that Mao Sheng sent Mao Rui to march, he took the people of his headquarters to take the lead.

The order in which the various units of the Ming army marched to Pingxiang was Mao Sheng's headquarters, that is, the men and horses who had participated in the battle of Datengxia, followed by the Tusi of each department, and finally the people and horses of Jingying. 、

It's not that Mao Sheng doesn't like Jingying.

It's just that because the Beijing camp brought a lot of firearms, it is estimated that the march was slow and fell to the rear.

There is another reason why Mao Sheng is so anxious, that is, there is not much time left for him. It's late March, and in the blink of an eye, it's April.

The rainy season in Annam is coming soon.

If he can't make a breakthrough in Annam before the rainy season comes, all his progress will be beaten back to its original shape when the rainy season comes.

and even forced to withdraw troops.

Therefore, Mao Sheng was very anxious.

Before the onset of the rainy season, for more than a month, he did not seek a big victory over Annam, but had only one goal, to break through the defense line of the Annamite people and occupy Lang Son.

After taking Lang Son, you can take a break.

Because after taking Langshan, the Ming army had a foothold in Annam, and the mountains on the border between the Ming Dynasty and Annam were also left behind by them.

The Ming army had too many sortie directions to choose from in Lang Son.

Even offensive and defensive changes.

If Annam wants to protect the country, he must recover Lang Son and seal the defense line before the next dry season, and then the people who brave the rain to attack the mountain will be the Annam army.

And if you want to achieve this goal, the only purpose is to be fast.

Therefore, as soon as Mao Sheng arrived in Pingxiang, without saying a word, he led the army to the north of Zhennan Pass to see how the defense in the Annan army was.

Zhennan Pass blocks a valley, which is also the southernmost point of the narrow valley of Pingxiang.

There is no room for many people, whether it is closed or closed.

It would be nice to be able to launch an attack with thousands of centaurs.

This is also the reason why the Ming army broke Ruan's division back, and there were not many reinforcements sent by Zhennan Pass.

It's not that I don't want to, but this really can't accommodate many people.

Annam's army was behind this narrow valley, on the other side of Lang Son.

This long and narrow mountain road is not only the natural danger for Annan to enter the Ming Dynasty, but also the natural risk for the Ming army to enter Annan.

Mao Sheng looked at it from a distance and frowned. He secretly said in his heart: "This place must no longer be handed over to the local Tusi, and the imperial court must garrison troops." ”

Although it is named after Zhennan Pass, this is not the Zhennan Pass built during the Taizu period, the reason is very simple, the Zhennan Pass built by Taizu, as the name suggests, is to defend the south.

And this checkpoint is to defend the north, and the traces are very new, many wooden structures, at a glance, you can know that it was urgently reinforced by the Annam army during this period of time.

However, relying on the mountainous terrain, it is not as strong as Zhennan Pass, but it should not be underestimated.

Not to mention, the Annan people are good at using firearms.

Mao Sheng had only heard about it before, but at this moment, he knew that what he said was true.

I saw that there were large and small artillery, firearms, rockets, and everything on the level, and if the orthodox former Shenji Battalion was moved over, it would be a lot different from it.

Because of the battle between Zhang Fu and Annan, each other's firearms competed with each other, and the Ming court also learned a lot of experience in using firearms from Annan, and even one or two firearms were originally from Annan and were borrowed by the imperial court.

Similarly, when the Ming Dynasty withdrew from Annam, many standard firearms were thrown into Annam, so after there were a large number of Ming firearms in the Annam army, they built firearms factories on this basis to imitate.

Therefore, Annam's firearms are at the same level as those before Ming orthodoxy.

Of course, strictly speaking, it is also at the same level as the current Grand Mercanite.

After all, Zhu Qizhen's meddling in firearms is more in terms of firearms preparation and production, but there is not much innovation, but the original messy firearms and firearms have become a unified system, which is convenient for production, easy to inspect, and ensures quality. There has also been no progress across the ages.

So when Mao Sheng looked at this, his heart sank suddenly, and he knew that if he attacked hard. I don't know how many Ming soldiers will die here.

It's like a few hundred thousand of the Tile Spur army, and it may not be able to capture one or two thousand elite cities guarded by the Ming army, this is the power of firearms in defense.

And such a dilemma appeared in front of the Ming army.

For a while, Mao Sheng also fell into the usual test, how to break this level, not to mention, from here to Langshan is all the bottom of the mountain valley, if Annan wants, such a level is definitely not the first, nor the last. Attacking everywhere, the casualties were too great.

Of course, Mao Sheng was worried about casualties, but as a qualified general, he was even more worried that he would not be able to achieve his goal after paying the heavy casualties.

After all, it is not the goal to penetrate here, after penetrating this narrow strip of land, it will have to face a decisive battle with the Annan army, but it is a great loss, can you still win the battle against the Annan army?

Who knows this?

Mao Sheng said secretly in his heart: "Let's wait, wait until the Beijing camp and the Tusi soldiers are in place, and then it's not too late." ”

First of all, he made sure that he felt that he needed cannon fodder here.

He was naturally reluctant to use the soldiers under his command as cannon fodder, and he did not dare to use the Beijing camp. Jingying is naturally the emperor's capital, not to mention that the generals of Jingying are self-contained, and they are not without backers.

There is a lot of loss for no reason, and there is no need for the emperor to come to him to settle accounts, naturally someone will clean him up.

Only the Tusi Division, although they are local emperors, there is no one to speak in Beijing. No matter how much you die, it's just a matter of giving more compensation.

Even for some toasts, they don't care how many people die.

The people under Tusi's rule are just their wealth, if the wealth can be realized, he doesn't care what way, as long as the court can afford to give silver, they are willing to die.

After all, it was the untouchables who died. and not their kinsmen.

In the next few days, with the various units of the Ming army in place one by one, the entire Pingxiang County was covered with large camps, and the roads from Pingxiang County to Taiping Mansion were also repaired. The repairs are not one, but two. So that the rear of the continuous flow of supplies, or from the interior to Guilin, from Guilin to Taipingfu, and then to the front, or from Guangdong upstream to Taipingfu, and then to the front.

Almost every day, the personnel and materials here in Pingxiang County will increase a lot.

At the same time, the pressure on Annan is increasing sharply every day. All the previous confidence in Da Ming was wiped out after the defeat in the first battle.

Many people's hearts were filled with trepidation, and they were reminded of a man who had died. That is Zhang Fu, Zhang Fu destroyed a country several times in July, and when I think of such a record, it makes the people of Annan tremble.

For a while, the atmosphere in Lang Son became tense.