On October 8, Xu Hao arrived in the territory of Daming on a warship, and then rushed to the front line on horseback, and the air was filled with a long-lost familiar atmosphere, the smell of war!

At the foot of the rolling green hills, the woods were cut down, and the endless military tents could not be seen at a glance. The grain delivered by sea through Champa greatly reduced the burden on the imperial court, and in order to feed the army, Xu Hao had already hinted that Lai of Champa could attack Zhenla at any time, if Zhenla was not interested.

The horse's hooves stepped on the grass, Zhang Fu led a cadre of generals out of the barracks, Xu Hao jumped off the horse with a long laugh, among which the generals from Beiping all looked happy, and they came forward to hug and salute, Xu Hao's appearance undoubtedly dispelled everyone's worries about the marshal's youth.

Xu Hao has a high prestige in the army, and his status is also above Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, and his appearance undoubtedly makes the generals see the hope of victory.

Zhang Fu himself was also very pleased, and was not dissatisfied with the arrival of his brother-in-law, this is the power of marriage, Xu Hao, as the only brother his wife loves the most, is also a good friend, and the family does not speak two words.

"Let's go to the mountains and have a look." Zhang Fu was not polite to his brother-in-law, and directly pulled the person to the top of a mountain opposite.

Xu Hao looked in all directions, and saw all kinds of city gates winding and undulating for 900 miles, and facing the mountain road was the fortified city of Duobang, and the entire defense line could be called the Vietnamese version of the small Great Wall and Maginot Line, full of various defensive equipment, it is said that poisoned arrows and firearms and projectiles were soaked in poison, and they were stained with death.

Annan, like later generations, mobilized nearly a million men across the country to join the war, and soldiers were everywhere from afar. It looks really majestic and overwhelming, no wonder he dared to fight with the Ming Dynasty.

The question is that is useful? Xu Hao asked, "Brother-in-law, how are you going to deal with it?" ”

Zhang Fu said in a deep voice: "As soon as this city is broken, it will be like a broken bamboo, and there will be artillery to attack, and the city defense will not help at all." ”

Governor Huang Zhong suddenly took the initiative to ask for help, and said: "Please allow the general to allow the last general to make meritorious contributions, and the four thousand people in our department are willing to make a life and death situation and take the lead in storming the city gate." ”

Zhang Fu said happily: "Yes." ”

Xu Hao looked at the unfamiliar Huang Dudu, and secretly said that this was a fierce general. Turning his head, he raised the clairvoyant mirror to take a closer look at the city of Duobang. Seeing that there is a deep trench under the city, there should be dense bamboo thorns inside, which is the specialty of the Annam people.

Xu Hao did not overstep his bounds, and he had no intention of interfering. In the past few days, Zhang Fu has brainstormed. Select 500 sharpshooters for the elephant soldiers to snipe at that time. Ordered craftsmen to draw a picture in the shape of a lion. During the battle, they hung on their horses and intimidated, and rushed out all kinds of siege equipment to reduce casualties as much as possible.

Twenty counts of Hu killing the former king and usurping the throne. The thieves killed the descendants of the Chen clan and wiped them out, punished them with the law, violently killed innocents, expropriated them violently, exploited the people, etc., and carved them on wooden boards and drifted down the river to the territory of Annam.

It is also said that the arrival of the Ming army is "to hang the hardships of the people and restore the ancestral hall of the Chen family", so as to shake the hearts of the people, and basically achieve half of the opportunity to win before the war starts.

At the head of Duobang City, General Annan Ruan Feiming said with confidence: "The Ming army is nothing more than this, it does not dare to fight for so many days, and there is no need to wait for the rainy season for the 800,000 army to collapse without attacking, please allow the general to go to battle." ”

However, Hu Hancang, the lord of the country who went to the front line to supervise the war, was confused by the number of 800,000 troops, and looked at what equipment the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had? The helmet and armor are holding sharp knives and guns, and the battle flag is fluttering, and the army is prosperous, on the other hand, his subordinates are like Hanako, half of them don't even have armor, just carrying a broken wood knife and a bamboo gun.

"The general must not be reckless." Hu Hancang hurriedly said, "The Emperor Taishang strictly ordered the defense, and you should not act rashly. ”

Ruan Feiming turned around and pointed to the thousands of elephants in the city and said, "The Ming people don't know elephant soldiers, so they may be scared by surprise." ”

Hu Hancang shook his head and said: "Otherwise, the two countries are fighting on the border for more than one day, how can the Ming people not know the war elephants?" These war elephants were domesticated with the power of the whole country and must be used at critical moments. ”

Ruan Feiming felt that there was some truth, thousands of war elephants against hundreds of thousands of troops were not enough to settle the battle in one battle, and it was probably necessary to stay at the most appropriate time to fight, and the worst could be reserved to turn the tide.

Three days later, Xu Hao quietly left the front line and returned the same way to prepare for the upcoming landing operation.

In Yangzhou City, the He family was sent to Jingshi for trial, and Mei cried when she learned of her daughter's misfortune, packed up her things and rushed to Beijing.

As for the Nie family, it is said that the Chang family is more withdrawn and old-fashioned, and everything is based on the family style, and he rarely pretends to be a color for his biological children, which is inevitably a little estranged from the phoenix.

restrains her daughter's rules and behaviors all day long, and severely reprimands her if she is not satisfied, which makes the mother-daughter relationship disappear over time.

When Feng Die was young, the late Mrs. Nie took the initiative to talk about giving Feng Die to Yuji, and she didn't want to be reluctant to Chang at that time, because of the sisterhood, she didn't refuse, and said that her daughter was still young, and she would talk about it when she grew up.

How do you know that Mrs. Nie thought that her sister had agreed to the family affair, and when relatives and friends talked about it happily, she was very angry when it reached Chang's ears, probably she looked down on the conditions of the Nie family, and Nie Yuji was not even a showman, and she wanted her daughter to find a son-in-law with Long Jia.

In the past few years, it has been caused by Mrs. Nie's mouth to create a fait accompli, and it is impossible to regret it, because Chang has remembered it in his heart since then, and after a long time, he and his sister have formed a deep grudge, which is also the reason why the Chang family does not rely on the Nie family to live, Chang asked himself if he owed his sister's family anything.

Sometimes Chang's heart is ruthless, and he would rather imprison his own daughter in old age and die in the depths of the boudoir than give the Nie family a wife. Unexpectedly, my sister died suddenly, Chang's just put aside the previous discussion and changed to a new question, who can understand these causes and consequences except Chang's own?

Since the funeral, Chang has found a few bricklayers to block the corner door between the two families, preventing each other from coming in, and is anxious to find a new house and want to move.

Seeing that his mother was busy with migrating all day long, he didn't dare to say much, he knew that with his uncle's illness and death, his family's family was getting worse and worse than before, so he had to quit the school and told his mother: "I want to find a profitable career." ”

Chang knows that his son is extremely filial and stable, and he doesn't have to worry about doing things outside. Chang Fengdie saw that the matter had come to this, and she was more sad than dead, and she didn't speak anymore after that, and let her mother go like a mute.

Although Chang Fengdie has been taught by Xu Hao for a few days, it is a pity that the time is too short after all, she is deeply influenced by her mother's words and deeds, where can she dare to fight for her life's events? It's nothing more than resigned to fate like most women nowadays.

Even if he saw Nie Yuji occasionally, for fear that his mother would suspect him and be reprimanded by his brother, he couldn't help but pay extra attention to the distance between them when they met, and he was worried that Yuji would accidentally say the wrong thing for a while, and he didn't dare to say a word about his heart, so the two of them became more and more estranged.

Only when Liang's mother came over, did she ask her cousin everything behind her mother's back. The fifth and seventh days of this day have passed, and the Chang family has already chosen a date for moving, and Liang's mother sighed and met the young master and told her about it.

Nie Yuji couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said half-loudly: "Great, wonderful." It is a common thing for life to gather and disperse. ”

Returning to the house in despair, Nie Yuji called Liang's mother into the house, saying that there were a few things for her to bring over, so as not to have entanglements after moving.

Liang's mother took it and took a look, but it was a pile of messy books and broken pen and ink, and Nie Yuji said with blank eyes: "You go and ask Mrs. Auntie, the things stored in this courtyard, just point them out to get them." ”

Liang's mother agreed, came out and turned a corner into Chang's house, at this time Chang's mother and son had something to go out, and only Fengdie was home alone.

Chang Fengdie was very surprised when she saw a bundle of messy books, why bother to make such a difference? Could it be that Yuji was angry when he heard about moving?

After Liang's mother said goodbye and left, she opened the book and flipped through it, all of them were old book scraps, only one was copied by herself in the past few years, and when she opened it, she saw a couplet written by Yuji, and the handwriting was vague and still recognizable.

"I didn't plant an acacia tree in this life, and I should be a sister flower in the next life."

Touching the scene, Chang Fengdie lowered her head and looked at it carefully many times, and couldn't help but shed tears again, and the whole person was stupid.

After that, the Chang family moved to live elsewhere, and Chang Lu found an errand as a servant. Time is like a sail, the time sequence is like a stream, and in an instant, the two families have been separated for three months, Nie Yuji's family business has been ruined, he can only study and will not do anything, and he will rely on reading to relieve his boredom during the day.

The kitchen has no rice and does not know how to raise it, and often asks Liang's mother to pawn useless utensils or boxes and cabinets when it comes to the end.

In just a few months, he sat down and ate empty, sold and sold even books and pen and ink, and was in a hurry to fill the house every day for two meals in the morning and evening. To say that his relatives persuaded him to leave a sum of money that day, who knew that as soon as Xu Hao left, Nie Yuji and his uncle quarreled, and as a result, he was angry and left, and all the money was used for a beautiful funeral.

Fortunately, Xu Hao didn't forget to leave someone to take care of him, and secretly redeemed the deed, otherwise he wouldn't even have a place to stand, and although Liang's mother couldn't bear to leave, she persuaded her to rent out the East Courtyard several times, but Nie Yuji had to keep her cousin, and then she simply didn't persuade her.

On this day, Nie Huihui covered her stomach and shouted that she was hungry, and Liang's mother thought about calling a drum bearer to come and sell something to buy rice. As soon as I went out, a mother-in-law suddenly came over and said, "Mother Liang is good! ”

Liang's mother hurriedly looked back, it turned out to be Mrs. Jia, who was talking about the matchmaker, and the two talked under the wall.

Mrs. Jia asked, "How is the uncle's family?" ”

Liang's mother sighed: "What else do you say!" As soon as the old lady died, the family business was spent, and the family affairs could not be mentioned, so make do with it. My aunt also cut off contact with my family, alas! ”

Mrs. Jia said: "Yo! No wonder, a few days I saw Mrs. Chang, she said that the girl was old and asked me to find a suitable family, I still remember that I touched the nail of the phoenix butterfly a few months ago, at that time there was obviously a very good family, she blindly refused to spit out, and what did she say and Yuji in the West Courtyard had already spoken, making me so shameless. ”

Liang's mother heard it like a thunderbolt sounded on her head, thinking that when Yuji was removed, Chang's would change her mind and complete a happy marriage, but who knew that she really vetoed the family matter, and her face became very ugly when she spoke.

Mrs. Jia gradually listened to Liang's mother's tone becoming more and more bad, and then said goodbye and left, looking at the situation here, she expected that since the Nie family had no hope of courting relatives, the Chang family was not willing to be married, so she just took this opportunity to think of a way to make money.

Remembering the three hundred taels of silver promised by the evil young man in the east of the city, Mrs. Jia left happily. (To be continued......)