On April 15, the twelfth year of Tianwu, Zhu Cihong appointed Li Dingguo, the commander of the Jingwu Army Brigade of the Southern Military Governor's Office, as the general of the southern army to conquer Annan!

In the same month, the Nanyang Metropolitan Protector Lu Xiangsheng led 20,000 troops to conquer the south, and together with 50 warships of the Nanyang Fleet, he crossed the ocean to conquer Batavia!

On 25 April, Sun Yingyuan, the governor of the Southern Army's Governor's Office, personally presided over the departure ceremony in Kunming, which was attended by all the generals.

Thousands of soldiers lined up neatly in the wide square outside the city, and as far as the eye could see, countless battle flags were flying, and people and horses were pressed by black, and the sound of gongs and drums shook the sky around them.

The scene was very large, but there were only 5,000 soldiers on the expedition, and it could be seen that the Ming Dynasty did not take Annan seriously at all, thinking that 5,000 men and horses were enough to sweep the little Annan!

The families of the generals also gathered here to see off their relatives who were about to go on an expedition.

War is a death story, and no one knows whether the relatives who are jumping around in front of them will be able to come back safely after this expedition.

Coach Li Dingguo's relatives are also among them, his wife Liu, eldest son Li Puxing, and second son Li Sixing, they did not listen to persuasion and insisted on seeing them off.

The etiquette of the expedition ceremony was presided over by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, which was complicated and solemn, and the first reading was the "Edict on Annan" issued by His Majesty the Emperor.

The official of the Ministry of Rites was angry and recited loudly: "The law of punishment is clear, the way of the saint to punish the evil, the order will go out to the army, and the king will become the virtue of the chaos, so the three seedlings are solid, and Emperor Yu is so prosperous...... And the Annan Zheng clan, the beast is the heart, the fierce and cunning, the bad guy, the dare to make different plans, there is no loyalty in the matter, and the royal majesty is cruel......"

“...... Today, Li Dingguo, the governor of the Southern Army, is the general of the southern army, and Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, supplies food and salary, takes the post to enter the road, and meets the thief court! ”

"If Zheng thief binds the military gate in the face, pleads guilty in the mud, abandons evil and returns to sincerity, he can be comforted, so that everyone can be blocked, show the reason of obedience and disobedience, and the virtue of Bouz's leniency! If there is a small feudal clan with the same evil, dare to refuse the king's division, then do the best of the army, so that the punishment of heaven will be clearly announced, and it will be said that I am good! ”

In just a few hundred words, "Seeking Annan Zhao", strict and responsible, with momentum like a rainbow, said that Annan Zheng is an ungrateful villain who is inferior to beasts, and everyone in the world can ask for it!

The Ming Dynasty sent troops in accordance with the will of heaven and the voice of the people, and it was only the disobedient Zheng clan that had to be taught a lesson, and it had nothing to do with other effects or tribes.

If anyone dares to support the Zheng clan and join forces with Annan and fight with evil, then I'm sorry, the iron-blooded hero of the Ming Dynasty will unceremoniously destroy him on behalf of the heavens!

After the edict of the crusade was read, Sun Yingyuan, the prince of Qin, led the generals to sacrifice the military god first, and then the military flag, and then in front of all the soldiers, the seal representing the control of the whole army was awarded to Li Dingguo, the general of Zhengnan.

Sun Yingyuan knew that the emperor had always been optimistic about Li Dingguo and wanted him to make meritorious contributions, and this time he finally got the opportunity!

Li Dingguo led a group of generals to kneel on one knee, took the seal from Sun Yingyuan's hand, his face was full of excitement, he held the seal high, facing the neatly arranged soldiers, and roared: "The whole army is out!" ”

Under the guidance of the military flag, the cavalry of the vanguard regiment formed five columns and marched forward quickly, the sound of horses' hooves and the dust rolled up.

Watching the army dispatch, Sun Yingyuan walked up to Li Dingguo and Mu Tianbo, who were dressed in military uniforms, and said with a smile: "I'm waiting for the good news of your victory!" ”

With that, they turned to leave, giving them a chance to say goodbye to their families.

After saying goodbye to the officials and generals who saw them off, Li Dingguo, Mu Tianbo and the generals who went out also bid farewell to their families.

The Duchess of Mu Wangfu, Xia, threw herself into the arms of Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, regardless of her image, and cried, making Mu Tianbo smile at Li Dingguo with some embarrassment.

Li Dingguo expressed his understanding, Mu Tianbo is the eleventh grandson of Mu Ying, the king of Zhaojing in Qianning, but Shizhen Yunnan has never fought in several lifetimes.

"Daddy!"

The Duchess of Qianguo made such a fuss, and several of Mu Tianbo's children also came over with crying voices.

The eldest sons, Mu Zhongxian and Mu Zhongliang, are fine, they know restraint when they are teenagers, but the younger daughter Mu Jianping is crying vigorously.

"Yunnan's No. 1 Good Minister" Mu Tianbo had a big head for a while, desperately pretending to be a smile, and kept comforting his wife Xia: "I will only be able to come back in two or three months if I go here for my husband." ”

He squatted down again and said to his young daughter Mu Jianping: "Daddy is going to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, don't cry Ping'er, wait for Daddy to come back and take you to the capital, okay?" ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to the capital, the little county lord immediately stopped crying, and asked his father to assure him that such a move immediately caused the surrounding generals to laugh.

Li Dingguo smiled and said goodbye to his relatives, but fortunately, his wife and children were more gentle, but their eyes were red.

Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, saw that his delicate wife showed no signs of crying, and he didn't say anything anymore, that is, he turned around and got on the horse.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo also said goodbye to his wife and children and rode away.

Whenever attacking Annam, it must be attacked from Guangxi and Yunnan in two ways, which is almost a fixed routine, which has been used from ancient times to the present, and the main battlefield is generally on the side of Guangxi.

On the tenth day of the first month of May, the Ming army arrived in Pingxiang, Guangxi, which borders Langshan Mountain in Annam, and is known as the "South Gate of China".

In Pingxiang, Li Dingguo met an acquaintance he hadn't met for a long time, Mo Jingyu, the "emperor" of the Mo Dynasty in Annan.

In the sixth year of Jiajing, Mo Dengyong, a powerful minister of the Li Dynasty, usurped the throne and established the Mo Dynasty, and the Li Dynasty supported by the Zheng family during the Wanli period almost collapsed, but the Mo family power was not completely eliminated, and gathered in the northern part of Annam Gaoping and took refuge under the protection of the Ming Dynasty.

In the first year of Tianwu, Zheng Zhu of the Li Dynasty took advantage of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty to attack Gaoping and was defeated by Mo Jingyu.

Seeing Mo Jingyu here, Li Dingguo was quite surprised, hasn't this guy been nesting in Gaoping's nest? Why did you come to Guangxi?

From afar, Mo Jingyu, who was in the year of the sixtieth year, greeted him and greeted him loudly: "General, I've been waiting here for a long time!" ”

His steps were unsteady, and he trotted all the way, seeing that Li Dingguo was quite worried, for fear that this guy would suddenly lie on the ground and affect his reputation......

Li Dingguo dismounted and greeted him a few steps, and said, "Why did the general come to Pingxiang?" ”

"Alas! How can the general call me like this, it's really a frustration....." Mo Jingyu smiled and said.

Li Dingguo also smiled: "Then how can I call you good?" ”

Mo Jingyu didn't care: "Then follow the general!"

When Li Dingguo saw him talking like this, he said without secretly saying that he was a casual person, and those who didn't know him couldn't guess even if they wanted to break their heads, this uncle had been an "emperor" and was the tenth monarch of the Mo Dynasty.

Li Dingguo and Mo Jingyu chatted with each other, and finally figured out the meaning of this guy - pure sycophancy!

The Mo family was about to go out of business after being suppressed by Zheng Zhu, and the arrival of the Ming army this time gave them hope to rise.

No matter how the Ming Dynasty governs Annan in the future, people are always needed!