Chen Mu's first battle went smoothly, and he led his troops along the almost parallel sea route of Ruan's retreat to Yanzhou.

On the ship, Bai Yuanjie's subordinates sent the news that Yu Dayou's troops had left the town of Nanguan to fight against the Mo clan in the Langshan area.

The Ming army out of Nanguan was stuck at the eastern gate of Thang Long and could not advance an inch, and the soldiers of the Mo Dynasty relied on their familiarity with the location, not only did they not tie their hands and capture, but they fought several times after the success of ambushing Yu Dayou.

The battle report said that it was a big war, but the actual situation was not a big war in Chen Mu's opinion, and the Mo clan sent troops to the north without knowing how much, but the number of troops was not too much, and the exact number of troops that were implemented into the battle between the two sides was even less.

There were seven battles in the middle of the month, all of which were small local battles between hundreds or even thousands of troops.

The casualties were even less, the Ming army's seven battles were counted together, and the casualties were only more than 200, and the Mo generals were similar, close to being evenly matched.

The armor and artillery of the Ming army were slightly finer, while the Mo clan was more familiar with the terrain, and there was not much difference in the results.

The biggest reason for the limited results of the battle is that the terrain in that area is too dangerous to fight.

"The country of Annam is high in the west and low in the east, the mountains and mountains in the north of Thang Long, Lang Mountain is the place of the key, and if you capture Lang Mountain, Shenglong can be passed on." Chen Mu discussed with the generals on the left and right in the cabin of the Chihai ship, and pointed to the tea case and wrote: "Yu Shuai wants me to send an elite army to cut off the enemy's grain route from the enemy's back. ”

"Yu Shuai originally wanted Bai Shuai to send a boat, and he sent Deng Quan to lead the army to cross behind, but Bai Shuai meant to use our soldiers."

For a long-standing country, its borders are bound to be dangerous, and the same is true of Annam, with high mountains in the west and north as a natural barrier, and the richest Phang Long area is firmly protected by the principle of peace in the area.

However, like the Central Plains, its long coastline is its biggest weakness.

Chen Muneng saw from the letter that Yu Laoshuai's combat thinking had also changed, and if he wanted to put it aside, he would definitely divide his troops into five outposts to break through the cottage, which was Yu Dayou's usual tactics to suppress bandits in Liangguang, and it was very powerful.

This time, he chose a simpler method of warfare, taking the sea route to transport troops and attacking the enemy's rear route.

"I'll go!"

"Dashuai, why don't you send me!"

As soon as Chen Mu's words fell, all Shao Tingda, Lou Qimai, Huang Dexiang and others who were originally under Deng Zilong all asked for battle, but Deng Zilong smiled and was not in a hurry, and said to the generals: "Don't ask for war, you can't invite yourself in this battle." ”

The generals were puzzled, Chen Mu raised his head and smiled: "What General Wuqiao said is not bad, you can't be invited, honestly follow Chen to fight Qinghua, someone invited to this battle, this kind of letter fell into the hands of Bai Shuai, can you still give it to you?" ”

Only then did everyone suddenly realize, yes, there is still a Bai Yuanjie in Qiongzhou Mansion who is anxiously waiting for the battle, but people are almost waiting for Bai Tou.

"Bai Shuai has led the fleet to Xin'an Mansion to help Yu Shuai break through Langshan Mansion, you will follow Chen to relieve the siege of Qinghua as soon as possible, and after Yu Shuai breaks Langshan, he will not be far from the soldiers under Shenglong City."

Lang Son Province can be described as the eastern barrier of Thang Long, there is Lang Son Province, then Thang Long is safe, once Lang Son is broken, Yu Dayou besieges Thang Long is only a matter of time.

Of course, that is a regular way of fighting, if it is just as upright as Chen Mu said, his army should not land in Yi'an, and directly attack the empty garrison of Shenglong from the mouth of the Red River, and the surrounding rumors will be determined.

Of course, such a victory was not convincing, and it would be followed by endless rebellions.

Therefore, the victory he pursues must not be a little flattering, and he must be deterred, not just victory.

Deng Zilong saw that all the generals were wilting like frost-beaten eggplants, chuckled, and then pouted and said to Chen Mu: "Chen Shuai should go back to the Qinghua war, Mo Jingdian resisted stubbornly on the coast, although our army did not suffer much losses, it was not able to land. ”

"Drifting on the sea is not a long-term solution."

Deng Zilong was majestic in Yanzhou, Ruan Ti collected nearly 10,000 defeated troops on the way to flee north, and was chased and beaten by Deng Zilong on the way through Yanzhou, and he finally collapsed the defeated army from the battlefield of Yi'an.

If he didn't dare to lead the army deep into the hinterland, I'm afraid Ruan Ti wouldn't have been able to leave the state.

However, this time, Lin Manjue did not achieve good results in blocking the enemy in Qinghua, and he was left downstream, and there was no chance to attack.

The Annan people are not arrogant Spaniards, and when they saw that the Ming army did not dare to send a hundred-man team to run around the ground, the Chen Bu camp was very successful, even if there were no several times the number of troops in the camp, they were constantly fighting each other's horns, so that Lin Manjue had no idea where to start.

Even when Deng Zilong led the fleet to the coast of Thanh Hoa, their camp was set up on the shore, Chen Mu did not arrive, Deng Zilong did not dare to let his subordinates have too many casualties, and they retreated because of the mutual support of the enemy troops around them.

"Mo Jingdian is a famous general of the Mo family, and there is no vain under his fame, which has been revealed in his war with General Lin."

Chen Mu said this, in fact, Mo Jingdian and Lin Manjue did not fight each other, not once, but obviously they had already been recruited, "He pinched General Lin from the sea, and he didn't have much baggage, so he didn't fight, and the land of Qinghua was cleared by the Southern Dynasty as early as when he attacked south, and there was no food and no village, so he couldn't take advantage." ”

"But now that Chen is here, with more than 10,000 soldiers, he can fight him hard, he has a lot of people, and I think we don't dare to do anything with him."

When Deng Zilong heard this, he hurriedly persuaded: "Marshal, the enemy army has elephants on the shore, and it is not easy to deal with." ”

Just kidding, what is Deng Zilong's character? If it was easy to fight, it would be Chen Mu's turn to come over, he would have led his troops to rush ashore, "There are fortresses and forts on the shore, and when my army came, Mo Jingdian increased his troops one after another, the more ships I have, the more enemy troops, especially in Ruan Ti who fled back, there are no less than 20,000 today." ”

"During this period, there are many guns, although they are not as sharp as mine, but the strong attack will inevitably cause too many casualties, not to mention that it is not difficult to land on the shore, the difficult thing is to march to the northwest, their war elephants are like walking on the ground between the difficult roads, and it is difficult to be injured by the guns, and they can only fight at close range."

Deng Zilong shook his head and said: "If you don't release the gun just once, you may not be able to kill the elephant, if the elephant is not dead, the banner army will definitely die, and the battle formation cannot be strictly organized, and it will be broken if it is scattered." ”

This is a lesson bought by blood and tears.

Chen Mu had also seen the majesty of the war elephants in Yi'an, but the war elephants were not impacting his formation, he asked: "What about the artillery, thirty cannons are pulled out, and they can't kill the war elephants?" ”

Deng Zilong let out a long breath, looked at Chen Mu's eyes with unusually resentment, and said: "That must be accurate, the whole army, the artillery that can hit the war elephant at four hundred paces is only the military guard." ”

To put it bluntly, skilled artillery is very rare in the entire Nanyang, and the old artillerymen of the Xiangshan Qianhu Institute in the past have now become Chen Bazhi's subordinates, and the rest of those who can shoot accurate artillery are all martial arts students, and they who are proficient in ballistics are more powerful than the old artillerymen who rely on skilled skills.

But these most precious people, who are not found anywhere else, are all officers in the military guard.

"The military guards are the elite of field warfare." Deng Zilong knew the combat strength of these people, and he said: "Instead of using the military government guard and fighting to the death with the garrison on the shore, it is better to let the army under the lower lead all the way to land from the southwest, at most around the first half of the moon, the same can be uprooted along the way, and then the army will land again." ”

"Don't worry, just tomorrow, I will personally meet their war elephants." Chen Mu shook his head and said solemnly: "If you can't succeed tomorrow, it's not too late to retreat and attack his abdomen and back with the meaning of Wuqiao!" ”