Five years of garrison on the border, shocked Zhu Yuanzhang who went south to inspect

Chapter 359 Encircle and suppress Annan, the powerful Daming Navy
The relationship with the local warlords is a temporary alliance.

Of course, Hu Jiyao, who has mastered more than [-] forbidden troops, is naturally the most powerful here.

"Hu Xiang, according to the present situation, the Ming army is less than a month away."

"We're not going to obstruct them on the road, do we have to wait until they hit the city before we fight back?"

"I'll sit here and discuss every day, what can be the result of the discussion."

"In my opinion, why don't we go to the vanguard of the first army first and fight against this Ming."

Many times of deliberations were fruitless, and there was a local warlord in charge, and his patience was gradually worn down.

Coupled with the increasing pressure, the mood has become extremely irritable.

Finally, he couldn't help it and started to explode.

Immediately, more local managers raised dissatisfaction.

Hu Jiyao's eyes were gloomy. He knew that the local army wanted to take this opportunity to make trouble and get more benefits from him.

Annan's interior can be regarded as not monolithic.

The contradiction between the local army and the central army has always been extremely sharp.

The central army looked down on the local army's suffering, and the local army believed that the central army had taken too much supplies.

For example, now, for the ratio of logistics, there are endless debates in Hu Jiyao's prime minister's mansion.

Everyone feels that their army should need more food and pay.

Hu Jiyao also felt a little headache.

In fact, according to the original plan, he was going to slowly take back the military power of these local armies.

Because of the relationship with the former king of Annan, Hu Jisha has great influence in the local army, and many of the generals under the command of the local army commanders are Hu Jisha's people.

Among them, more than half of the managers were arranged by Hu Jishu.

But because of the situation, Hu Jishou could only summon all the people back.

"The battle must be fought, it just depends on how to fight it now."

"The army of Daming has gathered in Longzhou now, and the two passes of Aiyi and Jiling are ahead."

"Although these two levels are not bad, it must be extremely difficult to stop Da Ming's footsteps. It depends on whether it can cause certain damage to Da Ming's army."

"I intend to deploy 15 troops to occupy the two passes of Aiyi and Jiling respectively, to kill the spirit of the Ming army. What do you guys think?"

Hu Jiyao said calmly to all the local military commanders present.

He knew very well in his heart that he could no longer avoid it.

Although the current situation is not very good, Hu Jiyao also has his own capital to rebel.

Annan's topographical characteristics are not conducive to large-scale military operations, and it is difficult for the Central Plains Army to stay in the Annan area for a long time.

It is indeed difficult to defeat the Ming army, and it is even almost impossible in terms of the quality of the soldiers on both sides.

But Hu Jishou doesn’t need to fight against the main force of the Ming army, he just needs to do everything possible to delay the war, and if the war is long enough, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army will continue to decline, and finally reach the goal of not attacking itself. to the point of breaking.

Around the two passes of Aiyi and Jiling, Hu Jishou took advantage of Annan's topographical advantages to dig trenches near various rivers in the northern region, build defensive fortresses, and densely place bows and crossbows.

Its bows and crossbows are all soaked in poisonous water, and just opening the wound can kill people without a doubt.

Its city and mountains are connected for nine hundred miles, and a large number of militiamen are recruited to defend.

Annan mainly lies in the east and the west.

The eastern capital is Thang Long, and the western capital is Thanh Hoa.

These can also be said to be the two political and cultural centers of Annan. Once these two capitals are lost, it means that the entire territory of Annan has been completely taken down.

After Aiyi and Jiling, there is Duobang City.

Duobang City is the gateway to the north of Annan, and its geographical location is quite important.

Once opened, it would be very difficult for both East and West to stop the Ming army.

In other words, Duobang City will be an important decisive battle between Annan and the Ming army.

Hu Jishu's heart was steady.

Because he had already arranged his secret weapon in Duobang City.

Under this secret weapon, he believed that it could definitely cause huge casualties to the Ming army.

On the Ming Dynasty's side, the 30-strong army formed a long queue while walking.Because the mountain roads are rugged and the jungle is dense, it is difficult for most people to walk.

Ye Sheng, the Marquis of Jingning who led the army for a long time, soon realized the problem.

Immediately called Chen Huan, Marquis of Puding.

"Our army has too many people and it is difficult to move. Aiyi and Jiling are just ahead. If we go directly and try to take it all at once, we will definitely cause a lot of damage."

"You divide up one hundred thousand troops and take a detour from the left side, and I will attack in two directions."

"In this way, we can break through the level faster."

Puding Marquis Chen Huan nodded in approval

Walking on such a narrow road, it is not a good thing for the army to stretch the front and rear too long.

In this surrounding area, some Annan Rangers harassed from time to time.

But for the time being, it does not pose any danger to the Ming army.

Fortifications such as those built by Hu Jishou were completely meaningless to the Ming army.

The high-efficiency range of the arquebus can completely target them.

The opponent's crossbow and firearms couldn't reach the Ming army at all.

Especially artillery bombardment.

When encountering one of these small fortifications, it usually takes only a few shots to solve it.

Zhu Yunwei attaches great importance to firearms, not only in the modification of matchlock guns, but also in the accuracy of artillery.

It has always been the key research direction of the Gunpowder Department.

Although there has been no leapfrog progress, the accuracy is now much higher than before.

For a fixed position, it has been able to reach one out of ten.

That is to say, if ten shots go down, basically one shot will hit, and the error is only about ten steps.

Such accuracy is already very high.

You must know that the previous artillery is completely a random projectile, and the error is beyond the range of fifty paces. There is no accuracy at all. For both the enemy and the enemy, it is simply fate.

The longer-range firearms and higher-accuracy artillery made Hu Jisha's arrangement completely useless, and he could only passively accept the baptism of guns.

On Daming's side, he didn't care about the consumption of gunpowder at all.

In Fucheng, Guangxi, there is a gunpowder manufacturing factory, and it doesn't take a month to complete supplies for the army.

Chen Huan, the Marquis of Puding led [-] soldiers to detour, and the marching speed of the Ming army was even faster.

When there are too many soldiers, the marching speed will not be fast at all.

half a month later.

The two armies arrived at Aiyi Pass.

As the name suggests, Aiyi Pass is even narrower, and some roads can only be passed by two people.

Normally speaking, it would take a lot of troops to attack.

If it was earlier, it would have been a hassle for the Ming army to attack.

It's a pity that with the development of artillery and firecrackers, such a juncture can no longer be a strong obstacle.

Still a simple flat push.

The artillery bombarded, and the firecrackers opened the way.

This kind of tactics is simple and rude, and it is also invincible.

If you want to block the bombardment of artillery, only relatively large cities can do it. Small checkpoints like Aiyi Pass and Jiling Pass are difficult to stop.

In front of Jiling Pass, thirty artillery pieces were set up.

"Your Majesty has an order, fire the cannon!!!"

Boom boom boom boom boom! ! !
Thirty artillery pieces were aimed at the tower of Jiling Pass, and they bombarded continuously.

After bombing for almost two quarters of an hour, it stopped for a while.

(End of this chapter)