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When Russell arrived at the city wall, it was already full of Mederno's dragoons, who were nervously holding on to the battlements one by one, looking at the situation on the river bank in the distance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 In the distance, a large number of people gathered densely on the north bank of the Jiehe River, among which many people on horseback rushed behind the crowd, and many people were marching towards the river with small boats on their heads.

Russell hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked into the distance, there were already several small boats rowing on the river, many soldiers were clustered on the boat, the boat was shaking on the turbulent river, some of the people on the boat were too crowded and had overturned, many heads were floating on the river, and the bottom of the two boats was floating on the river. More people on the north shore have put their boats on the river, and swarms of people are pouring towards them.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! With a shout, the soldiers on the city wall jumped out of the way, and a herald ran up with a map in his hand, came to Russell's side, and handed the map to Russell with both hands, "General! The map has arrived! ”

The soldiers were now wearing shorts and linen shirts with their sleeves cut off, and even then they were sweating profusely, and the heat from the sun in the sky was naturally a cause, and the surging enemy in front of them was also the reason for their sweating.

"Everyone return to the barracks and assemble and prepare for battle!" Russell hesitated slightly, and finally gave the order.

"How so?" "Isn't this a war for the Annamite people?" "That is, do you want us to fight for the Annanes?" "That's right, haven't the Annanites already returned?" The whispers of the soldiers buzzed Russell's ears at once. In fact, how could Russell not know that this was a war for the Annamite people at the moment? However, he knew better that the Nether Town was no longer the territory of the Annamite people, but the boundary town of Medno.

However, Russell couldn't explain the reason to his subordinates slowly, he just yelled, "Everyone go to camp!" Get ready for battle! ”

The heralds, who heard the order, hurriedly walked down the city wall and rode away in the direction of the barracks. Seeing Russell Tieqing's face, the soldiers under his command naturally knew that he was not joking, and they knew the fate of not obeying the order, so they hurriedly went down the city wall and ran in the direction of the barracks.

The assembly drums sounded rapidly in the barracks, and all over the city poured out of the houses of Medeno's infantry and dragoons, muskets, armour, and some even trousers, walking half-naked as they dressed.

In many of the rooms behind them, women's heads stuck out of their heads beckoned to them, but these soldiers had no time to say goodbye, and if they couldn't do it, they would die, and no one dared to give their lives to say goodbye.

"Inform all troops, assemble outside the city, and prepare for battle." Russell had gradually surrounded several heralds behind him, all of whom had just arrived in a hurry, their faces were covered with sweat, and the smell of foxes came with the breeze, which made Russell feel a little unhappy.

"Let the musket squadron drive over and block the river bank first." Russell gave the order as he looked at the map that had been drawn up a short time ago, held by two orderlies.

The staff officer next to him hurriedly said, "General, you can't do this, right?" The musket squadrons used firearms, so they were too close to the water at the front, and if the gunpowder was wet, wouldn't it be impossible to fire? "That's it, let them be a little later, next to the dock, the enemy must occupy the dock anyway, right?" "Yes, general, you might as well let the axe squadron come forward and kill first, the fighting ability of the Annam people is not very good, as long as you let the axe squadron rush up, you will definitely scare them away directly."

"Are you generals or am I generals?" Russell's face was full of anger, and he yelled at these staff officers, "Who are you listening to?" If you think you can command this battle, you will do it. As he spoke, Russell threw the telescope to the ground, and with a crisp snap, the brass telescope barrel was shattered and shattered into several pieces.

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The staff officer hurriedly stopped talking, and a herald hurriedly went down the city wall to give the order, and Russell was still full of anger, and turned to look at the river in the distance, but the telescope had fallen and could not see the situation in the distance.

With the sound of chaotic footsteps, Russell turned his head to see a group of musketeers in the distance, wearing cotton armor and brass helmets with feathers on their heads, running briskly down the street. The musketeers crossed the city walls and ran along the road towards the riverside pier in the distance. The distance from Jiezhen to Jiehe Wharf is about a kilometer or so, they carry ammunition bags on their backs, wear thick cotton armor, and wear copper helmets, all of them are so hot that they are miserable, sweat is like rain, many people can't see the road clearly with sweat in their eyes, but they are holding weapons in both hands, and they can't wipe the sweat off their faces at all.

The surface of the Jiehe River is quite wide near Jiezhen, reaching one hundred and sixty or seventy meters, so the speed of the river is relatively slow here, and the soldiers on the river row their oars quickly, and the soldiers without oars use their weapons to paddle the water to try to make the boat go faster in the water. The soldiers on the ship were also beating wildly, and in front of them were rumors of the very effective Medenor, and they were going to fight with the Medenor.

On the north shore stood several thousand Annam soldiers, and behind them was the commander of the army of the Northern Dynasty, about fifty years old, with a face full of meat, and a goat's whisker in his mouth trembling slightly with the breeze, and thirty or forty officers standing beside him. The group of officers looked far more nervous than he was, and someone leaned over and asked in a low voice, "General, it's still too late to withdraw the troops, and if it's too late to wait until they and the Medeno people are in exchange, it's too late to withdraw the troops." ”

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"Afraid of what?" The general placed a spear on the pylons on the side of the saddle, touched his beard and smiled, "The Medeno people are not four-eyed, two-mouthed, three-headed and six-armed, what's so scary?" It's nothing more than a sharp point of firearms, if you want to talk about dealing with firearms, aren't you Zhao Ximin familiar with it? Since you have such a deep hatred for the Medeno, don't you want to see your men crush the Medeno city defenses? Take back your own Boundary Town? ”

The person who spoke next to him was Zhao Ximin, speaking of Zhao Ximin, now it can be said that the phoenix that has lost its hair is not as good as a chicken, recalling that a month ago he was still a general who was majestic and led an army of 100,000 to suppress Ruan Re, but in front of the port of Zhancheng, he was hit head-on by the Chinese soldiers under Ruan Rei, and he was killed and wounded heavily. Originally, they had already captured the wooden city of Shabak, but they fainted a group of people inexplicably. This situation frightened his subordinates in front of him, and they shouted that they were haunted and cast magic spells, causing the whole army to flee. It was better for him to arrive, and he ran away directly with more than 6,000 personal soldiers before the battlefield had retreated, unlike Ruan Wei, who was blocked by the rout, and there was nowhere to escape, and I heard that he was captured by Ruan Wei.

Zhao Ximin, who escaped from Champong Port, was also full of grief and confusion for a while, and he didn't know what to do at all.

If you want to go back to the town, right? He still had an army of 100,000 at that time, but he could not resist the pressure of the Medenor and had to leave the east, and now even if he collected the defeated army, there were only more than 10,000 people, and if he returned to Jiezhen, he could not threaten the Medenor army at all. What's more, someone must carry the black cauldron of his defeat, and Ruan Wei will definitely have to let himself carry it if he is not there. With the attitude of swearing allegiance to the new emperor without mentioning the reward at all, Hue must have severely punished the general of the defeated army, and it is better to choose another way than to run back to Jiezhen to wait for the emperor's holy decree.

Thinking about it, there are not many roads left for him Zhao Ximin, and the place where he is with tens of thousands of defeated troops is the center of the four forces, Ruan Phuc Yuan in the southeast, Wu Dynasty in the northeast, North Annan in the northwest, and South Annan in the southwest. Ruan Fuyuan's side must be out of play, when he was loyal to the new emperor, he was already Ruan Fuyuan's enemy, not to mention attacking Ruan Fuyuan with an army of 100,000, naturally he tied Liangzi, and if he surrendered Ruan Fuyuan, if he didn't skin others, it would be considered Ruan Fuyuan's benevolence; Defection to the Wu Dynasty? That's even more impossible, you must know that he Zhao Ximin is an immigrant of the Wu Dynasty, went to other countries to become a general, and then led the armies of tens of thousands of subject countries to vote, doesn't this make the Wu Dynasty embarrassed? The Wu Dynasty would definitely reject him as soon as possible; It is absolutely impossible to go back to South Annan, so there is only one way left, to go to North Annan. Having made up his mind, he chose a relatively gentle river, snatched dozens of boats from the nearby people, and it took three days for all his men to cross the river. As soon as he crossed the river, he sent a messenger to the nearest city of the Northern Dynasty, demanding allegiance to the Northern Dynasty.

What made him curious was that the Northern Dynasty was unexpectedly calm about his arrival, and it took almost a few days for him to hear from a small servant, it turned out that someone from the Wu Dynasty had already heard the news, saying that the main force of the South Bank Army had advanced eastward, and the entire Jiezhen was completely empty, and now was definitely an opportunity to take advantage of, if you want to recover the entire territory of Annam, now is a once-in-a-lifetime good time. Moreover, not long ago, the Wu Dynasty sent new news, Zhao Ximin's South Bank Army was beaten under the Chinese and lost its armor, suffered heavy casualties, and lost its main force, if nothing else, Zhao Ximin should come to defect to the Northern Dynasty.

Zhao Ximin couldn't help but feel frightened for a while, he thought that his secrecy work was done very well, who knew that since the departure of his troops, he had been under the strict surveillance of others, and the analysis of the situation after being defeated, it was not bad at all, and he couldn't help but be disheartened, and wanted to take this opportunity to directly become a landlord of a piece of land.

However, North Annan is not a country with a lot of land, and there are many mountains and few places in North Annan, and the jungle is dense, so it is naturally impossible to find land for a southern thief general who came to surrender. What's more, the tens of thousands of defeated troops he brought, if there was no command from Zhao Ximin, such an army would inevitably become a hidden danger when incorporated into the Northern Dynasty army, so although the emperor of the Northern Dynasty warmly received Zhao Ximin, he did not agree with his idea of retreat at all. According to the orders of North Annan, Zhao Ximin and his men were incorporated into the sequence of "enemies" for many years, becoming one of the defenders on the north bank of the Jiehe River, and they were also under the control of the general in front of them.

Since there were only about 2,000 defenders left in Jiezhen, North Annan designated an attack plan and decided to choose a clear day around July to launch an attack across the river, and it was not the elite soldiers of North Annan who were in the vanguard, but the remnants of the former "enemy" -- the South Bank Army. You must know that the remnants of these South Bank Army are the former enemies after all, and it is absolutely impossible for them not to have a grudge against them, who knows when they will suddenly turn against the enemy and defect to the enemy? They've done it once before, and they won't mind doing it again. Rather than letting these former enemies be happy in the back, it is better to let them go to the front to fight and confirm their determination to surrender.

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Zhao Ximin's heart is now full of anger, most of the soldiers standing densely on the river beach in front of him were brought by him from the South Bank Army, these people are the elites he usually collects, and they can be regarded as the capital for him to turn over. But at present, North Annan's arrangement, just like what he arranged when he attacked Shabak, consumes other people's forces and strengthens his own strength. In the eyes of the officials in North Annan, this is nothing more than a way to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, which can not only weaken the strength of this army with unknown loyalty, but also preserve its own strength in the next combat effectiveness, so why not? It is precisely because he is now the general of North Annan that he has no way to make such an arrangement, so he can only honestly accept the command, and for the rhetorical question of the general in front of him, he can only say yes with a smile on his face, "Yes, yes!" The people of Maidno are insatiable and have stolen the country of Annam, so naturally they should be eliminated first, and then quickly, and it is naturally glorious for the subordinate army to be able to serve as the vanguard, but it is just ......"

The general didn't wait for Zhao Ximin to finish speaking, but just raised his right hand to stop Zhao Ximin's speech, and said lightly, "With General Zhao's words, it is enough to know whether your army can be loyal to my Annan, and you can naturally see it on the battlefield." ”

In the distance, the nearest boat on the south bank was only about sixty or seventy feet, but anyone could see that the Medenor marines were rapidly moving towards the river. There are only more than 20 people on one boat, and there are only so many boats on the North and South side of the river, even if they can be transported to the other side of the river normally every time, it is only the scale of three or four hundred people. In the distance, the number of Maidno marines was more than a thousand, and the cavalry did not know where to rest, and if they wanted to wait until they could get to the shore, they would have to be covered up by the Maidno cavalry, and by that time their elite soldiers really did not know how many would survive. Zhao Ximin's heart was like being tormented, but he couldn't show it, he was sweating profusely, his heart was flustered, and he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and he planted himself under the horse as soon as he sat unsteadily in front of him, and finally heard someone next to him exclaim, "General Zhao fainted!" ”

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