Yu Dayou rose again, led the chief military officer of Guangxi, and stationed troops in Nanguan.

Chen Mu sent his righteous son Chen Jiujing to send a meager congratulatory gift to Yu Shuai, and at the same time inquired about the thoughts of the coalition attack.

Chen Mu forgot that this was the first time that Yu Dayou had been reinstated as the chief military officer, anyway, when there was a difficult war in Lingnan, Yu Dayou was always in the position of deposing before the war began, and when the war came, Yu Dayou always sat firmly as the chief military officer.

And what Chen Mu can do is that every time Yu Dayou is deposed, send someone to send some gifts to comfort him; Every time Yu Dayou comes back, send some gifts to congratulate.

It is also difficult to choose a gift, when it comes back, the gift should be light, the less valuable the better, a few books, a pen, must be a formality, otherwise Yu Dayou will not accept it.

When it was degraded, it was much easier, Yang Qingluan took the ugly chic and particularly cheap jewelry directly to the backyard of Yu Dayou's house and gave it to the old lady, there was no other meaning, and when it was difficult to make a living, he went to the pawnshop in Guangzhou Mansion to make a living.

Yu Dayou's incorruptibility is praised by everyone, and no one cares how the Yu family lives.

As for Liu Xian's side, Chen Mu didn't send anyone to ask, they were too far away to meet, but Yu Dayou sent troops from Zhennanguan, which borders the coast in the south, regardless of the baggage or troops, they can have some support.

Yu Dayou is a veteran, and the suggestion sent back to Chen Mu is to postpone the attack for half a month, pass it on first, and send it to the people and soldiers of Annan, one to tell the heavenly army is powerful, the second is to sue Mo's usurpation, the third is to blame its harsh government, and the fourth is to tell our army justice.

No matter who came from this place, Annan was a harsh government, the land was narrow and the people were narrow, and they could not afford to raise soldiers without collecting heavy taxes, especially in the chaotic times when the north and south were separating and using troops.

Not to mention the war season, according to the tax rate of the Ming Dynasty, it is not that the Chengzu period has not tried, only 70,000 taels of silver is collected a year, and even 10,000 troops cannot be raised, how can it support the Mo family to raise 100,000 soldiers?

Yu Dayou asked the staff to write an essay and send it to Nanyang, and Chen Mu wanted to laugh when he saw it.

He felt that if this text was changed to a name, it could also be used to crusade against the Li clan, and it was estimated that the text would be transmitted to the south of Annam, and the old ministers of the Li clan would be afraid when they looked at it.

Not to mention anything else, under the instigation of the Nanyang Military Government, the two provinces of Yunnan and Guangzhou, the three provinces of the army rose up, Liu Xian in Yunnan to recruit more than 100,000 troops in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan Province, divided troops to hold Longchuan, Nandian and other places in the west.

After laying out the defense facing Burma, Liu Xian led his troops to move to Lin'an Mansion in Yunnan, recruited troops from five Tusi, crossed the border in April of the second year of Wanli, and entered Xuanguang.

Guangxi's Yu Dayou was much more trouble-free, he served as the chief military officer of Guangxi, hung the seal of the barbarian general, and sat in Nanguan.

The people of the three counties of Gaoping sent soldiers to infiltrate the west pretending to be merchants, and posted proclamations along the way to disturb the morale of the army.

In late April, the vanguard general Wang Shike led 3,000 troops out of Zhennanguan, and commanded Qi Jimei, Yang Zhao and others to conquer 20,000 bird swordsmen in eastern Zhejiang, Huguang Yongshun hook knife hands and wolf soldiers, each of whom led the army and cheered out.

Compared with Yunnan and Guangxi, Chen Mu was slower, after all, he did not have a direct land route to transport baggage, and no one allocated grain, grass and armaments to him, so he relied on his own planning.

From Liu Xian's letter to attack Burma together, the Nanyang military government recruited 200 Hexing Shengdafu ships to transport the baggage to Qiongzhou and Malacca.

At the same time, the army was requisitioned from all sides, and the military government sent 3,000 households and 4,000 families, and led the fleet to move to Qiongzhou; Luzon, Sulu, and Borneo issued a banner army of 9,000, led by Deng Zilong, Shao Tingda, Huang Dexiang, and Lou Qimai into Qiongzhou.

In addition, the Shiqi Department led a thousand households into Malacca and took over the military affairs of the customs defense, and he had nothing to do with the next battle of Annam, preparing for Burma.

In April, Liu Xian had already sent troops, and Chen Mu's army was still nested in Qiongzhou, and only sent Lou Qimai's fleet and more than 800 fishing boats from Guangxi to sweep Mo's coastal ships and ships to find suitable landing sites along the coast.

Because he sent people to Thanh Hoa to discuss the alliance with the former ministers of the Le clan, he came back and told him that Thanh Hoa had been captured by Mo Jingdian, the famous general of the Mo clan, and the battle line had shifted further south, and the fishermen had another mission - to help him find out where the battle line between Mo and the Li clan had progressed.

At the end of April, Guangxi's Yu Dayou troops had already left Zhennanguan, and Chen Mu sent the new information he had obtained to Zhennanguan through Lianzhou, Guangdong.

Mo Jingdian, the general of the Mo family, sent 100,000 troops, surrounded Thanh Hoa, and sent the general Nguyen Ti south to Nghe An to threaten Hue, almost destroying the Lê clan.

But for the Ming Dynasty, it was a once-in-a-lifetime good time.

On May 3, Chen Mu ascended the altar to worship in the west port of Danzhou, the capital of Qiongzhou, and personally led the warships and soldiers to Annan in three routes.

Chen Mu's main fleet sent troops to face Ruan Ti, Deng Zilong's troops broke off Yanzhou in the north of An, and the last way was Chen Mu's 'Marine Captain' Lin Manjue, who had just become familiar with a full set of new military uniforms in Guangdong.

"General Lin, the most dangerous place for your trip is the northern part of Yanzhou bordering Thanh Hoa, at this time it is controlled by Mo Jingdian, the general of the Mo family, after landing, your south is the battlefield where General Deng cut off the back road of Ruan Ti's troops, and your north is Thanh Hoa surrounded by Mo Jingdian's tens of thousands of troops."

"You don't need to fight to the death, Bai Shuai has already cleared the enemy ships at sea one step ahead, and the coast is full of our fishermen's warships, and you need to make up everything for ten miles out of the sea, and there is only one goal."

There were still a hundred miles away from the coast, and the three huge fleets had not yet separated, Chen Mu summoned Lin Manjue to the Chihai ship, pointed to the unfolded map, and said: "When Mo Jingdian goes south, if I haven't defeated Ruan Ti, I want you to delay his southward journey as much as possible, just a few days." ”

"If you can't delay, you will sail around to the rear of the enemy, ask Bai Shuai to help, cut off his grain route, and have Chen to fight General Deng in a frontal battle."

Although the place where Lin Manjue went was dangerous, as long as he was not surrounded and ran to the coast with the help of the fleet, maneuvering was not a problem.

Hearing Chen Mu's order, Lin Sanlao's heart was a little relaxed, and the bearded man trembled with laughter, and said, "Chen Shuai's general this time is much easier than Guam. ”

"Easy is easy, but it's a pity that the war didn't give you time to familiarize yourself with the ordnance, and now you can only get familiar with it in the war." Chen Mu patted Lin Manjue's shoulder and said, "If the flintlock gun is not suitable, I have prepared an arquebus on your ship, and if it doesn't work, I will change it back." ”

Chen Mu said, the soldiers took out a wooden box from the cabin, and after opening it, a beautifully decorated flintlock handcuff was placed in it, and the difference was that there were six sub-wheels in it, and he handed it to Lin Manjue and said: "The new thing of the Ordnance Bureau, after firing a hand-turned magazine, you can put six guns." ”

"Although I have tried to refine it, there is still some air leakage, ten steps can barely break the armor, no armor can hit fifteen steps, no matter how far it is not accurate, take it for self-defense."

This gun doesn't look at the skills, just look at the decoration to know that it is extremely valuable, Lin Manjue accepted the handcuff and thanked him: "Thank you for the handsome!" ”

It is too time-consuming and laborious to build this, and it is not cost-effective to train the flag army, but it is okay for the general to have another year and a half to hold the self-defense.

Chen Mu bowed his head and said, "Go, General Lin, clean them up for me!" ”

He looked out at the endless sea, and he was going to war!

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The earliest flintlock revolver was made in 1597, the magazine and the firearm are integrated, can be turned but not removed, and are now stored in the McHaugen Museum in Lillehammer, Norway.