Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 168

Mu Sheng was near Liangjiang and captured all the cities here.

The defense line prepared by Hu Jiyou was completely broken by him, and he was about to reach Hanoi and capture the northern part of Annan. The Ming army was invincible, with a rainbow of momentum and great morale!
  "Marquis Xiping!"

At this time, the scout came back, bowed and said: "We finally got in touch with His Highness. Your Highness has followed General He and Lord Cen and is approaching Hanoi."

"At the same time, His Highness also defeated Hu Yuancheng's defense line in the north. Now Hu Yuancheng led a group of defeated soldiers and fled back to Hanoi. Hu Jima knew that he was defeated by the Ming army, so he prepared to abandon Hanoi and flee to Thanh Hoa further south."

The scout told the latest military information in detail.

Mu Sheng thought for a moment and said loudly: "Guo Ze, you lead 10,000 troops to pursue Hu Jisao who has abandoned Hanoi and is fleeing south. Fight if you can. If you can't, you can retreat."

"Yes!"

The deputy general named Guo Ze responded and quickly left with 10,000 people.

Mu Sheng added: "Go to Hanoi first and meet up with His Highness and the others."

Hu Jisao was still within the scope of Annan and could not escape far or escape. Mu Sheng was not in a hurry to take his head. It was more important to meet Zhu Xuan.

It would be best if Guo Ze's ambush can defeat Annan's deserters. If it cannot defeat it, it will be regarded as consuming Hu Ji Ya's troops, dampening his confidence and increasing pressure.

After the arrangements were made, Mu Sheng gave the order to march and headed for Hanoi.

On the other side of the warship, he left two thousand men to garrison, and Zheng He was there, so it would be safe, so there was no need to worry for the time being.

Mu Sheng led his troops to the west. After walking for a long time, they finally arrived in Hanoi. All the guards here ran away and followed Hu Jiyou.

Those nobles in the city will also not stay.

Various officials in the Hu Dynasty also followed Hu Jiyou southward.

Now only some ordinary people remained in the city. Seeing Mu Sheng leading his troops in, the Ming army quickly took control of the entire city. They were also worried that the Ming army would be detrimental to them.

However, Mu Sheng did not harass the people, he just controlled everything and waited for Zhu Xuan and others to arrive.

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Hu Ji Yao fled in a very embarrassed state. In addition to 20,000 of his own guards, there were also 20,000 remnant soldiers brought back by Hu Yuancheng, and 10,000 remnant soldiers defeated by Mu Sheng.

There are more than 50,000 people left in total.

Now that he has a lot of troops, he should have fought hard with the Ming army, but the Ming army has many more powerful firearms, which has defeated their morale. It is difficult to gather resistance and the only option is to run away. .

Besides the officials, there were also two sons beside Hu Jiyou.

One of them is Hu Yuancheng.

The other person is the eldest son Hu Hancang.

"The Ming army didn't catch up, did they?"

Hu Hancang asked worriedly.

An Annan general came back and shook his head. There were no Ming troops pursuing him in the rear.

Hu Hancang said again: "Father, I can't walk anymore!"

As the eldest son and the heir to the Hu Dynasty in the future, Hu Hancang is not like Hu Yuancheng. He has always been a literary student and studied the Confucian classics brought back from the Ming Dynasty to facilitate his future succession.

As a weak scholar, if he ran away with such high intensity, even if he was sitting in the carriage, the carriage would be bumpy. At this point in his escape, his body could hardly hold on.

Hu Jiya was also out of breath from exhaustion and waved his hand: "Since the Ming army is not pursuing us, let's stop and rest first!"

After saying this, other Hu Dynasty officials breathed a sigh of relief.

Just when they were about to relax, something happened.

Guo Ze led his troops on a hasty march.

The escape of Hu Jiyou and others, dragging their families and belongings with them, was not very fast. They were overtaken by Guo Ze and others long ago and were ahead of them.

Guo Ze was waiting in the woods beside the road. When he saw Hu Ji Ya and the others stopping here to rest, he hesitated and launched an attack directly. He also brought two squatting tiger cannons over and asked people to load the shells. Fight out from the woods beside the road.

Boom... Hearing the sound of cannons suddenly appearing around them, Hu Jisao and the others were suddenly shocked. Before they could slow down, the shells were fired out and splashed on the soldiers.

"No, there's an ambush from the Ming Army here. Let's go!"

Hu Yuancheng shouted.

The people who followed the escape were immediately in chaos.

Hu Ji Yao didn't care about anything else and asked his personal guards to protect the three of them, father and son, and fled south. The remaining ministers and soldiers hurriedly followed behind him, and they were no longer afraid of being tired.

Guo Ze fought his way out of the woods, and continued bombarding with the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and then ordered his bow to be fired. The arrows rained down, and a group of Annan's soldiers quickly fell.

"Chase!"

Seeing that the Annan people fled without fighting, Guo Ze ordered them to pursue them.

"Come ten thousand people, and stop the rear!"

Hu Jisao looked back and said anxiously.

A general from Annan had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead 10,000 people to cut off the rear and fight with Guo Ze and the others.

Guo Ze's 10,000 men were not many, but they were intercepted by these ten thousand enemies and killed the general. In the end, he could only escape with more than 3,000 people, and the rest fell under the swords of the Ming army.

Hu Ji Ya and the others even ran away without a trace.

Guo Ze did not pursue too deeply and retreated when he saw this.

He also understood that what Mu Sheng did was just to consume Hu Jisha's strength, and he did not expect that ten thousand people could drive Hu Jisha to an end.

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Zhu Xuan came to Hanoi and met with Mu Sheng.

"Uncle Mu!"

"You came faster, where is Zheng He?"

Zhu Xuan asked as soon as they met.

Mu Sheng said: "Zheng He is still on the boat. If we were not familiar with the terrain, we would have captured Hanoi. We might even have trapped Hu Jima in Hanoi."

Cen Rui asked: "How is Hu Jiya now?"

"Escaped, fled in the direction of Thanh Hoa."

Mu Sheng added: "I have sent someone to chase him for a while, but he shouldn't be able to kill Hu Jima."

While he was saying this, Guo Ze happened to come back and reported the situation of the chase. Mu Sheng was not surprised by this, so he didn't think it was anything, so he asked Guo Ze to take the people down to rest.

Zhu Xuan asked: "Uncle Mu, are we going to chase him again?"

Mu Sheng nodded and said: "Of course we have to chase him. Can the little emperor grandson still march?"

Zhu Xuan affirmed: "I can do it."

Mu Sheng also felt that the current Zhu Xuan made him feel like he had grown up and was different from before. He smiled and said, "Okay, let's chase him tomorrow."

That night, they rested in the city.

After fighting for such a long time and traveling for such a long time, Zhu Xuan was almost too tired to walk. However, after a night's rest, he was resurrected with full health and alive. Early the next morning, he continued to follow Mu Sheng south.

After leaving Hanoi, they chased for a long time and came to the edge of Mufan River. To the south was the Huangjiang River.

Mufanjiang River and Huangjiang River connect.

Hu Jiya arranged for Hu Yuancheng to lead his troops and stationed them on the Yellow River, preparing to resist the pursuit of Mu Sheng and others. Hu Jiya and others fled to Qinghua, gathered as many troops as possible, and continued to recruit troops to fight with the Ming army. Fight to the end.

This is the last force they can muster.

(End of this chapter)