In the end, Zhou Cao decided to send a part of the army into the deep mountains and dense forests to encircle and suppress the king of Annan.

In the dense forest, the soldiers of the Ming army were slowly advancing.

"Whew!"

"Ahh

Suddenly, an arrow shot out of nowhere and hit the chest of a Ming soldier, who was immediately unable to do so.

"Bang Bang Bang"

The soldiers of the Ming army scattered a row of guns everywhere, but unfortunately there was no effect except for the large number of broken branches and green vines, and not even a single soldier of the Annan Army was seen.

The general of the Ming army had an iron face, the dense forest here was too dense, it was difficult to see even ten meters away, and all that came into view were trees and weeds.

The Ming army has no experience in fighting in the dense forest, but the Annan army is different, many people even grew up in the dense forest, they are extremely familiar with the dense forest, they are good at hiding, they run after shooting arrows, and they can't catch up.

"Keep going!" Although the generals of the Ming army were angry, they had no choice but to order the army to continue to advance.

After advancing for a distance of dozens of meters, a Ming soldier who was suddenly walking in front screamed, stepped into the trap, was pierced through the body by the sharp bamboo in the trap, and died on the spot!

Seeing another soldier die, the faces of the Ming generals were so black that ink could drip out.

Walked less than thirty meters away.

"Kill" In the dense bush nearby, more than a dozen soldiers of the Annan Army suddenly killed.

Because the distance was too close, less than ten meters away, the Ming soldiers did not have time to shoot before they were killed by these dozen Annan soldiers, and a fierce battle began, the Annan soldiers brandished broadswords, and the Ming soldiers fought with bayonets.

In such close combat distance, the power of the broadsword is much stronger than that of the bayonet, but fortunately, the soldiers of the second army are all from the Yinglong army of the year, and they are the elite of the elite, and they will not fall behind one-on-one, and the Ming army has a large number of soldiers, and soon strangled more than a dozen soldiers of the Annan Army, and the Ming army also paid nearly ten casualties for this.

"Damn!" The generals of the Ming army gritted their teeth.

"Division commander, since entering the forest, our army has suffered more than 100 casualties, and only killed less than 50 soldiers of the Annan Army. A Ming regiment commander said.

This division commander was another division commander of the Second Army in addition to Han Hu, and Zhou Cao allocated 8,000 men for him to go into the dense forest to hunt down the king of Annan.

"If it goes on like this, the gains outweigh the losses, and the order will go down, and the whole army will withdraw from the dense forest and return to Hanoi to rest!" The division commander gritted his teeth and ordered.

This is a last resort, the soldiers of the Second Army are all treasures, not to mention paying three to one casualties in the dense forest The remnants of the Annam Army are exchanged, even if it is a one-to-one casualty, it makes people's hearts bleed.

In the end, the Ming army slowly withdrew from the dense forest with the corpses of the dead and wounded.

In the depths of the dense forest, when he heard the news of the defeat of the Ming army and the exit from the dense forest, the king of Annan laughed.

"The Ming army relies on sharp guns and cannons to dominate, but this dense forest is our natural barrier, and the Ming army is coming in, let them lie down and go out!" King Annan sneered, he was already preparing to establish a foundation in the depths of the dense forest and resist the Ming army for a long time.

"One day I will take back Hanoi and drive out the Ming army!" King Annan said confidently.

I think that when the Yuan Dynasty was in the beginning, the Mongols also captured Hanoi, and the king of Annam of that generation also took more than 10,000 troops to avoid the dense forest, fought against the Mongols for a long time, and finally dragged down the Mongols, so that the Mongols had to withdraw from Annam, and now use the same method to deal with the Ming army, and the king of Annam is also confident that he can drag down the Ming army.

After all, it is impossible for the Ming army to stay in Hanoi all the time, and once the main force of the Ming army withdraws, he will counterattack.

Since you plan to establish a foundation in the dense forest, then some preparations are still necessary, whether it is salt or food, you need to get some in, otherwise although there are a lot of things to eat in the dense forest, it is still very difficult to feed tens of thousands of horses, and salt is also a big problem, without salt, the soldiers will become more and more thin, and it is very weak for the future rise.

Thinking about it, King Annan sent a team of men and horses to sneak out of the dense forest secretly.

Hanoi.

Knowing the battle situation after the army entered the dense forest, Zhou Cao's face was also very unsightly.

"The soldiers of our Second Army are so elite, they have to pay three to one casualties in the dense forest, and the gains really outweigh the losses, and it is not easy to exterminate the King of Annan inside!" Zhou Cao gritted his teeth and said, unable to think of any way to deal with it for a while.

At this time, he already regretted a little, regretting that he was careless at the beginning, and did not block the other city gates during the siege, so that the king of Annan and tens of thousands of remnants of the Annan army fled.

"Don't stand still, let's think of a solution!" Zhou Cao said to the other generals.

After speaking, Zhou Cao also fell into deep thought, hoping to come up with a complete strategy.

"Commander, why don't I take a few good men, secretly go into the dense forest, find the location of King Annan, and shoot him!" Han Hu thought about it and stood up and said his suggestion.

Han Hu had been a mountain bandit for ten years in his early years, and he was quite familiar with the hidden nature of the mountains and forests, if he personally led people into the dense forest at night and assassinated the king of Annam with a rifle, there was a slight possibility of success. However, there is also a certain danger, no matter whether the assassination is successful or not, Han Hu and the others will be in danger of being besieged.

Zhou Cao was slightly stunned, but immediately shook his head and rejected Han Hu's proposal: "No, even if after killing the king of Annan, the remnants of the more than 10,000 Annan army in the dense forest are leaderless, but after all, they are still a force, once they turn into many mountain bandits, we will also have to spend a lot of effort to exterminate them, besides, you are the commander of my second army, just one king of Annan, it is not worth exchanging your life!" ”

The last sentence is the main reason, Han Hu is the second general of the Second Army after him, and he is reluctant to let Han Hu have an accident.

Seeing Zhou Cao's refusal, Han Hu didn't say anything.

Next, Zhou Cao and the others continued to ponder, and this time, a group of people pondered for a long time, but they couldn't come up with a foolproof solution.

Just when everyone was about to give up, Zhou Cao suddenly loosened his eyebrows and slapped his head fiercely.

Everyone was shocked by Zhou Cao's action, and they all looked at Zhou Cao.

Zhou Cao laughed and said: "I'm really worried, although the king of Annan fled into the dense forest with more than 10,000 remnants, but he is not afraid, not to mention how the dense forest can feed so many of them, let's just say that we are still afraid of them coming out?" You can rest assured that you can continue to send troops to capture other Annan cities, as long as you capture all the Annan cities and block that dense forest, it will not be difficult to completely annihilate them when the time comes! ”

Zhou Cao immediately said his plan, although the dense forest where the king of Annan and the remnants of the more than 10,000 Annan army were hiding was very large, not dozens of miles in a circle, but there were cities in all sides of the dense forest, as long as those cities were captured and blocked, they could cut off the salt and food replenishment of the king of Annan and the remnants of the more than 10,000 soldiers, and then after a period of time, he pretended to withdraw his troops and sold a flaw in the city to the king of Annan, luring the king of Annan to come out and attack the city, and wiped out the king of Annan and the remnants of the more than 10,000 soldiers in the city.

Zhou Cao's plan can be described as clever, calculating all the weaknesses of King Annan, and if he does it well, he can let King Annan plunge into the trap and catch them all!

After setting up a strategy and handing over Hanoi City to the garrison, Zhou Cao led the Second Army to attack various Annam cities in multiple ways, as if he did not take the king of Annam hiding in the dense forest in his eyes at all.