didn't say anything, and without waiting for Zheng Zhihu to speak, his left and right rushed up, and once again firmly pressed the messenger to the ground.

One of them asked, "General Zheng, this thief dares to insult the Holy Decree, what should we do with him?"

Zheng Zhihu snorted coldly, "What kind of crime is insulting the Holy Decree?"

Left and right, "Of course it's a capital crime, and it's a thorough death." ”

Zheng Zhihu nodded, and said, "But if he dies, no one will go back to deliver the holy decree." In this way, the death penalty was spared, and his legs were broken, and his nose and ears were cut off, and he was sent back. So that the king of Dongwu knows that our holy mercy is not there?"

When the messenger heard this, his face turned white.

He shouted, "How dare you do it to an envoy! I am the envoy of Dongwu, and the two countries are at war without killing them, do you not call yourself a state of etiquette? You, you ......."

The envoy probably read too much Hanshu and decided that the Central Plains people would talk about some rules and regulations and would not attack him, the "messenger", so he was so arrogant.

This is normal. At that time, when the Ming people went abroad, they were all convincing people with rules and regulations, even when Zheng He passed through a monstrosity when he went to the West, he would never resort to force at every turn, but always maintained the image of a humble gentleman - but not as fierce as those European colonizers later.

So when he heard that Zheng Zhihu was really going to break his legs and cut off his ears and nose, the messenger realized that the Hanshu he was reading together was fake.

It's a human being, how can you have such a good temper?

It's true not to behead it, but the Han Book doesn't teach you to insult the Holy Decree.

Although the envoy did not shout for mercy and maintained his last integrity, he still shouted heartbreakingly that he was a messenger who could not be dishonored, and even offered to release him now, and he could bring the holy decree back.

But it was too late.

Not long after being pushed out, after a terrible howl, several bloody pieces of something were sent in.

Zheng Zhihu laughed and looked at it with interest, and only then did he send the messenger back to the small boat they had come from—of course, he did not forget to carry the holy decree into the envoy's arms.

Let's say that the huge fleet is now at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, and it will not go anywhere at this time, just waiting for the reply of the king of Dongwu.

Why is it possible to fight without declaring a war when fighting a full battle, but to make an ultimatum first?

Because the nature of the two is different.

The purpose of fighting is to fight for territory, and there is nothing to say about European pirates like Portugal, everyone understands the rules, whoever is strong in these years will belong to whom, and they all say that it is a robbery, so don't pretend to be a decent gentleman.

But the hole is different. Qin Shuhuai didn't plan to include this place in Dongwu into the territory of the Ming Dynasty - the people in this place are fierce, there are many ethnic contradictions, and he will give you a riot at every turn, and it is not easy to quell the rebellion.

Since it is not a territory, it is just to defeat their Ta Long King regime, that is to say, to make the Ming Xingshi come, only against his Long King and not against the Dongwu people - after all, he still has to support a regime when he goes back, so that he can pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, right?

How do you make it look like this?

Qin Shuhuai even thought about the ten deadly sins of King Talong.

What invaded the land of the Ming Dynasty and plundered the people of the Ming Dynasty needless to say, even the king of Talong was arrogant and lascivious, poisoned the people, and even forcibly occupied the land of the Shan and Meng people for his own selfish desires, forced the Shan people, and the Meng people as slaves.

Well, it's quite high-sounding, it's just a posture of helping the people of Dongwu get rid of the tyrant.

But does it work?

Definitely useful, don't forget that the Shan people, the Mon people, and even many other tribesmen who have just been conquered still hate King Talong, but they dare not speak out.

Therefore, although the ten-day ultimatum period gave him a certain amount of time for King Long to dispatch troops, it must be a good deal in terms of public opinion.

Moreover, in just ten days, it had no impact on the battle situation at all.

As expected, the king of Talon did not give any reply during these ten days, neither came to ask for a guilty table, nor sent an envoy to rebuke or provoke.

King Talong obviously will not give in, but he will also use these ten days to send troops.

And in Dongwu, a huge mobilization has begun.

King Talong summoned the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, personally presided over the ceremony outside the palace, and called on all the Dongwu people to join the army and swear to completely destroy the invaders.

On the eleventh day, another Dongwu envoy came with the will of King Talong, denounced the invasion of the Ming army, and said that once the Ming army set foot on the land of Dongwu, the Dongwu people would return a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood.

In addition, the envoy also proudly counted the wars of the Central Plains against Dongwu since the Qin Dynasty, saying that they had won every war. Especially in the past few decades, how they have beaten the Ming Kingdom to the ground.

There's not much more to say.

On the morning of the same day, Qin Shuhuai ordered the whole army to march towards Daguang.

The fleet set sail again, preparing to enter the mouth of the Irrawaddy River from the Andaman Sea.

After entering the Irrawaddy River, after forty miles along the river, there is Daguang, and from Daguang landing to Bago, the current capital of Dongwu, there is only 200 miles.

But the problem is that the total strength of all the naval divisions of the Dongwu Bufang at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River is only more than 30 warships, and the largest is the Junk class, not to mention that the army has as many as 60 or 70 battleships, even five are enough to clean them up.

And the shore defense artillery on both sides of the estuary is really just a decoration - only a small part of those cannons are cannons of the same level as the Hongyi cannons, and most of them are still their homemade earthen cannons, and the range of those earthen cannons is incomparable with the Hongyi cannons, so when it comes to a real fight, they can only kneel to meet the artillery fire of the Ming battleships, and there is no way to make any counterattacks.

Therefore, blocking the Ming fleet is destined to be an act of using the mantis arm as a car.

What the Ming army didn't expect was that when they drove to the entrance of the Irrawaddy River, they really found that the Dongwu fleet had gathered there and set up a posture to meet the battle.

The ferocity of the Dongwu people and the pride they have accumulated over the years through victory can be seen.

Zheng Zhihu, who served as the pioneer battalion, did not say a word, and immediately ordered the thirty battleships of the forward battalion to set up a battle formation, and then opened fire.

As soon as the two sides started fighting, the Dongwu fleet found that its own naval guns could not reach each other, but the opponent's naval guns could easily hit themselves - this is a bit similar to the Qing court sailors at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

So they hurriedly turned the bow of the ship, and with the spirit of not fearing death, they rushed over in the face of the overwhelming artillery fire of the Ming army, hoping to bring the Ming warship into their range.

However, will a naval war veteran like Zheng Zhihu give them this opportunity?

While he ordered the battleships to fire wildly, he also ordered them to turn to the side of the enemy, to sail straight ahead, and to keep a distance from the enemy.

Small and medium-sized battleships, other than battleships, fanned out in front of and on the sides of the battleships according to the characteristics of the opponent's eagerness to approach, forming an encirclement.

In other words, even if the other party approached the battleship, then it also entered the encirclement of the Ming army.

Seriously, the other party rushed up like this, it was really a death.

But the tough thing is that the more than 30 warships of the Dongwu people really dared to come and send them to death.

Even the Ming army was a little stunned, and many army soldiers on the battleship even remembered the time when they fought with the Demon Sect, and it can be said that these Dongwu people are not inferior to the Demon Sect in terms of courage.

The reason for this, in addition to the fact that the Dong U people were originally relatively strong, there is a more important reason, that is, the system that has been practiced in Myanmar and has been greatly strengthened during the reign of King Talung - the Ahmudan system.