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  Chapter 651 648 [Tiger crouching cannon show off]

   Inside and outside the camp, a string of Mo family soldiers knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

   Some of them had already escaped, but ran into the pawns brought by Liu Xinyu and Ding Jiasheng head-on. There were not many pawns, only a thousand or so were brought over, and the rest continued to cross the river.

  Liu Xinyu glanced at the captives all over the ground, and ordered: "Tell them, don't panic, as long as they are not heinous people, Datong Heavenly Soldiers will not kill them."

   Immediately, dozens of military officials and civilian husbands ran to talk to the Vietnamese prisoners.

  These officials and civilian husbands are very special. Most of them come from the islands of Qinzhou, and a small part come from Yong'an Prefecture, which is the area around Fangchenggang and Beibu Gulf in later generations.

  Probably during the reign of Zhengde, Mo Dengyong usurped the throne of Annan, and the whole of Vietnam was in endless war. Many Vietnamese people escaped to the coastal islands of Guangxi and have multiplied for more than a hundred years. They are the Jing people in China. (By the way, Mo Dengyong was born in Dongguan and moved to Annan with his father. Mo Jingyu, who was beaten in front of him, is strictly speaking a descendant of the Han nationality.)

  After Zhao Han took Guangxi, the descendants of these Vietnamese people naturally lived a new life.

   During the expedition to Annan, all the towns, villages, peasants and soldiers in those areas, who could speak Vietnamese, were all transferred. Not only in the Guangxi Division, but also in Li Dingguo's side, communication along the way was not a problem.

  When fighting, they are translators.

  After Annan was recovered, they became officials, and they were promoted to three ranks as a whole, and those who performed well could even be promoted to five or six ranks.

Chen Haigui is a town mayor of the Yue nationality. He went to the captives and raised his voice to comfort the prisoners: "Don't be afraid, our Datong army does not kill indiscriminately. I am like you. My ancestors are also Annan people, but now I am the people of Datong China. Your Majesty the Emperor, treat all ethnic groups equally. The Han people are elder brothers, and all ethnic groups are younger brothers. From now on, everyone will be Chinese Yue people!"

  A prisoner dared to ask: "My lord ancestor, are we really from Dai Viet?"

  An Nanguo is China's name for Vietnam. The Vietnamese themselves like to call it "Da Viet".

Chen Haigui scolded: "How can there be Da Yue? From now on there will only be Datong China, you and I are all Chinese. Let me tell you, as long as the emperor rules here, there will be no Dingkou tax in the future, and there will be no need to pay labor money! As long as you grow honestly Land, I guarantee that each of you will be full!"

  Most of the captives here belong to civilians. Even if they participated in the burning, killing and looting, most of the looted goods belonged to the generals. To put it bluntly, they were a group of bitter people.

  Hearing Chen Haigui's words, they immediately became excited, and at the same time half-believed that it was not true.

   At this time, Annan, in terms of people's livelihood, got the script of the late Ming Dynasty.

  The gentry and the right colluded with the government, and they were all avoiding taxes and duties. Bureaucrats, nobles, scholars, and soldiers do not have to pay taxes and serve in the military, and the burden is all on the ordinary people.

  Farmers or tenants, in addition to the regular amount of land tax, have to pay tax, service money, water conservancy, etc. Even royal family sacrifices, village community city **** sacrifices, and imperial examinations and provincial examination funds have to be charged extra to the common people, and officials have to take the opportunity to earn a fortune.

  In addition, there are chaotic and exorbitant taxes, which has caused Vietnamese farmers who produce two or three crops a year to live on the verge of starving to death at any time.

   There is something even more funny, because there are many ethnic minorities in the mountainous areas of Vietnam, and the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers regard themselves as Chinese. They regard the ethnic minorities as barbarians, and let the village chiefs in the mountainous areas govern themselves. The village chiefs can be hereditary, and they only need to pay tribute to the central government. That is to say, in Vietnam, which is as big as a palm, there are still many chieftains in the mountains... Among them are Zhuang, Dai, and Miao chieftains.

  It is said that it is a chieftain, but in fact it can rule several villages.

  For these chieftain forces in the mountains, the imperial court will send corresponding minority officials in the future. Anyway, there will be no language communication difficulties.

Faced with the questioning of the Vietnamese captives, Chen Haigui simply asked the captives to gather together and said: "My grandpa's generation, more than a hundred years ago, crossed the sea and fled to the islands of Guangxi. They did nothing else but fished by the sea. In China's Ming Dynasty, the officials were very bad. Fortunately, they didn't care much about the islands on the sea, and only paid tribute fish to the government every year. But in the past few decades, more and more fish need to be paid. I often don’t have any fish to eat…”

"The heavenly soldiers of His Majesty the Emperor have come, followed by good officials. Your Majesty thinks that the island is barren and cannot grow much food. He also thinks that we fish hard and the tax revenue is very low. Because I can speak Chinese, I first became the village head. In a few years, he was promoted to mayor, and now he is sent by His Majesty to Annan..."

   "As long as everyone is loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, you will be able to live a good life in the future. There will be no tax, no labor money, and land taxes will be paid according to the number of acres. If you don't have land, you don't have to pay a penny..."

  Chen Haigui eloquently introduced good governance, which stunned the captives, wishing that Annan would soon become Chinese territory.

   And within the enemy camp, the final battle finally broke out.

Mo Jingyu saw that the morale of his elite troops was low, and they were already showing signs of breaking up and fleeing. He issued an order: "As long as this battle is won, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Those who have made meritorious service in battle will be rewarded with five taels for killing an enemy. If they can be killed Enemy generals will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and promoted to three ranks!"

   In this way, the morale of the army was finally stabilized, and those elite troops also had the courage to fight.

   But there were dragoons in all directions, and Mo Jingyu didn't know where to attack. While he was observing the battle situation, the Tiger Crouching Cannon of the Datong Mountain Cavalry was also dragged into the camp by the horses.

  A tiger squatting gun with a range of 500 meters, far exceeding that of a bow and arrow.

  At the same time, it can also fire shotguns. One cannon blasted out, one big bullet and one hundred small bullets.

   This thing is still a mortar, it can be projected!

   "Boom boom boom!"

   There was a long distance, and a tiger crouched with a gun, estimated the distance, and bombarded Mo Jingyu's elite troops.

   This style of play is really bullying. Mo's army was far away, and found that the sky was full of stone bullets, as if hail was falling from the sky, which was more terrifying than being bombarded by serious artillery.

   "Follow me to kill the enemy!"

   No need to think about where to fight, Mo Jingyu drew his sword out of its sheath, and personally led the troops to charge towards the source of the artillery sound.

   But his thousands of elites have already been bombarded by the tiger crouching shells, and one-fifth of them have been defeated. During the charge, some soldiers were affected by the rout and wanted to flee in fear.

   After finally rushing to dozens of steps away from the Tiger Crouching Cannon, they were facing hundreds of mountain cavalry. All the cavalry dismounted, lined up, and aimed their guns at the enemy.

   At this moment, the scattered cavalry gathered on their sides and rear, ready to seize the opportunity to charge.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  A volley of guns rang out from the front.

   Immediately afterwards, cavalrymen on both sides rushed up, mounted their horses and fired their guns, and then charged with their waist knives.

   Mo Jingyu's elite troops were attacked from three sides, and subconsciously turned around and fled backwards. The coach couldn't stop shouting.

   "Bang bang bang!"

   Gunshots also came from behind, and these soldiers finally broke down and ran away aimlessly.

  Mo Jingyu was riding a horse, stupidly froze in place, his soldiers had already fled.

   "Haha, Qi Shaobao's tiger squatting cannon made another great contribution!" Zhu Minru, the commander of the cavalry, laughed triumphantly.

  The Tiger Crouching Cannon was invented by Qi Jiguang, and it is specially used to fight in the mountains, hills or the south where paddy fields are all over the place.

   To deal with Japanese pirates, there are not only mandarin ducks, but also tiger squatting guns. One or two rounds of shotgun shelling can crush the Japanese pirates, and this thing is very light, it can be carried by a horse or carried by a human, and it can quickly reach the battlefield when encountering Japanese pirates.

   Later, when Qi Jiguang fought against the Mongols, the Tiger Crouching Cannon also became a sharp weapon against the Mongolian cavalry.

  At that time, Qi Jiguang formed a cavalry battalion. There were 2,700 cavalry in the first battalion, usually equipped with 60 tiger squatting guns, and each tiger squatting gun was equipped with three cavalry as gunners. At critical times, you can even attack the Mongolian cavalry with a tiger crouching cannon.

   When encountering Mongolian cavalry, first greet them with muskets and rockets, and then fire shotguns with tiger crouching guns. During close combat, the chariots blocked the cavalry, and the infantry formed an improved mandarin duck formation. The Mongolian cavalry retreated, and Qi Jiguang's cavalry pursued them. After catching up, they "dismounted and raised guns" and fired salvos—in fact, dismounted and raised firecrackers, which was Zhao Han's dragoon routine, which Qi Jiguang had already used.

   Now, based on actual combat experience, the northern army is also studying Qi Jiguang's tactics, and Lu Xiangsheng also wrote memorials suggesting improved tactics. For example, re-establish a chariot battalion so that we can go to the grassland to fight in the future. This thing is not effective against the Manchu Qing, but it is a sharp weapon against the grassland cavalry.

  Zhao Han is also thinking about adjusting the establishment of the northern army. Not only must new chariot battalions be added, but also the tiger squatting cannon will be listed as a standing weapon.

   Mo Jingyu was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly rode his horse and fled, and swung his knife at the rout soldiers blocking the way.

   Zhu Minru, this guy, was punished because of the one-on-one before the battle, and he still didn't hold back his temper at the moment. He was born in martial arts and always wanted to show off his martial power, but at this moment he even rushed up alone to chase and kill the enemy general.

  The Datong cavalry beside him naturally did not dare to neglect, and rushed up to follow.

  Zhu Minru beheaded more than 30 rout soldiers one after another, chasing from the west to the east of the camp.

   Just when he was about to catch up, more than a dozen Datong cavalry rushed out from the slope, and cut Mo Jingyu under his horse in an instant.

  This King Mo even died in a perfunctory manner.

   "I'm so mad!"

  Zhu Minru was very depressed, and the chance to take the head of the enemy general among the thousands of troops was gone again. He was a martial artist from the previous dynasty, and he couldn't use his abilities all over his body. Every time he fought, he used guns and cannons to get it done.

  Outside the camp.

   Knowing that Mo Jingyu was defeated and died, Liu Xinyu said to Ding Jiasheng: "Split the troops here. You go to Haiyang, and I go to Shenglong Mansion. After taking these two cities, immediately go south to follow Li Dingguo's division."

"it is good!"

  Thang Long Mansion is the capital of Annan, so the military achievements are naturally different.

  Ding Jiasheng didn't bother to argue, he was born as a scholar, he had a long-term vision, and he didn't have the same insight as Liu Xinyu, who was born as a miner.

  As for the Mo family army, it has not been wiped out at this time.

   Mo Jingrui, the son of Mo Jingyu, is leading troops to attack Shanxi.

  Don’t complain about place names, Taiyuan, Shanxi, Henan, Xining… These are all place names in Annan, Zhao Han will definitely change them in the future, otherwise they will sound too awkward.

  (end of this chapter)