Chapter 299 Reasonable

It is the twelfth month of winter, and the water flow of the Red River is still fast in this section.The roads on the river are spacious, but there are high mountains and ridges on both sides.Huang Zhong is a military general who has been leading troops all year round. Seeing this terrain, he is inevitably nervous.

However, after everyone passed Jiling Pass (old street), they gradually became much more at ease.Jiling Pass is one of the most important passes in the north of Annan Kingdom. Being able to pass this pass naturally makes people feel that things are going well.

The Chinese military official Lu Song squeezed out a smile on his face and said to Huang Zhong: Hu resented Chen Tianping, but he did not dare to act rashly to the Ming soldiers, let alone we are holding the imperial edict.

Huang Zhong agreed and nodded after hearing this: The envoy's words are reasonable.

After the Hu family usurped the throne, they sent envoys to the capital, hoping to escape and get the title of the Ming Dynasty court.It can be seen that they still dare not offend the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Zhong was ordered to escort Chen Tianping, with only 4,000 troops, not for provocation, and there was no need for Annan Kingdom to have any conflict with his thousands of people.

Besides, so far, both sides have been in peace and no dispute has occurred.

Lu Song said calmly: The former censor Li came to Annan and said that the Hu father and son were very respectful to him. General Huang came to Annan for the first time?However, you don't have to worry too much.

At this time, the former army had arrived at another pass on the Honghe River Road, Qin Station.

Huang Zhong was observing the Annan defenders on the city tower while walking into the open gate.Because Lu Song's words made sense, Huang Zhong was relieved at this time.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang... Suddenly, a dense sound of firecrackers sounded in the air.

Huang Zhong was very anxious and hurriedly held his mount and followed the sound to see what was going on.

I saw white smoke on the hillsides on both sides of the pass, as if a heavy fog suddenly broke out.

Of course Huang Zhong understood what that was, the smoke of the firearm!

Suddenly, many soldiers were injured by firearms and fell to the ground screaming.In an instant, there were sounds of killing sounds on the hillside, and countless ambushers rushed out!

Back!Huang Zhong shouted loudly immediately.

Many Ming soldiers had already passed the pass, and at this time they turned around and retreated towards the city gate. The road was crowded and messy.

There were ambushers on both sides. After rushing down, they fought against each other. Before they could come back to their senses, they fought around with ding-knocking clangs.

Huang Zhong led the crowd to retreat while fighting. His men and horses were on the road, and they were long snake-like. Suddenly, they were ambushed without preparation, and they were completely defeated and defeated.

The Ming army rushed out a hundred steps north before barely forming a defense line with infantry. The crossbowmen fired several times and shot the ground.

The Annan army rushed up without taking advantage of the victory, and Huang Zhong took the opportunity to yell, asking the generals to rectify their troops and line up to prepare for defense.At this time, on the hillsides on both sides, there were people and flags all over the mountains, and Huang Zhong was so anxious that his forehead was full of sweat.

Envoy Lv!Huang Zhong stretched out his neck and shouted, calling Lu Jun to come over and ask what was going on.

Envoy Lu is on the city tower!I don’t know who responded in the chaos army.

Huang Zhong looked up and saw Chen Tianping and Lu Song both on it, being caught by a group of people wearing bamboo hats... The situation was very chaotic just now, and Annan Army ambushed down; Chen Tianping and Lu Song were arrested, it must have been at that time!

Hearing that many Annan officials could speak Chinese, Huang Zhongba immediately stepped forward and was about to ask.

Unexpectedly, when the upper limit knife flashed, Chen Tianping's head was suddenly slashed by a big knife!

There is no sign, no reason.

The head rolled straight from the city tower to the post road, making a thud.

A word choked in Huang's throat and was swallowed by him again.The soldiers of the Ming army looked up and watched. The noise in the crowd gradually became quiet, and countless people were shocked by the scene just now.

At this moment, an Annan man shouted in Chinese: Kneel down and beg for mercy!

Lu Song struggled and straightened his neck and said: This official is the Ming Dynasty...

Snap!Before Lu Song could finish his words, a bloody big knife slashed down, and his head rolled down from the top of the city, and it fell to the ground, and it was covered with a lot of soil.

After a while, another Ming Dynasty official wearing a red round collar robe, tied with a rope on his body, was lifted up to the city tower.

Lu Song recognized that the man was Xue Yan, the minister of Dali Temple!

Xue Yan was a third-rank official and one of the three highest judicial officials. He was sent to Qinghua, Annan Kingdom before Li Qi.

Two consecutive heads fell to the ground, Huang Zhong could no longer imagine what would happen next.Xue Yan was twisting his neck and talking, vaguely saying that he was a relative of the King of Han.

But Xue Yan was still pushed to the top of the city, and the blood-dropped machete was raised high behind him.

A rude Chinese voice asked: Do you surrender or not?

Facing thousands of Ming soldiers, Xue Yan stood on the city tower and closed his eyes without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, there was an Annan man next to him, and he put down his sword.Several people dragged Xue Yan over like a sack.

Hahaha... A mocking laugh came out from the city tower, and then there were laughter everywhere on the city tower and on both sides of the hillside. The laughter was deafening, as if a grand festival party was being held.

Laughs came one after another in the mountains, and the sound of muskets mixed in between.Row after row of Ming army prisoners were pushed onto the city wall, some jumped off the city tower and fell half dead, and some were killed by muskets.

Only the thousands of Ming soldiers on the valley road did not laugh. Everyone was watching their officials and soldiers being insulted and killed, who could still laugh?

There was not even a word of speech in the crowd of up to three or four thousand people. They were sandwiched in the middle of the valley and were waiting for it, and no one said anything.Many people only have anger on their faces.

The bowstring next to him developed a tremolo of Titicaca..., but Huang Zhong reached out and made a gesture. He took a deep breath, looked at the people on the city tower with a complicated expression, and said, "Tell me the order, the rear army will be the front army and slowly retreat!

...In Yunnan Prefecture City, Zhu Gaoxu first learned about what happened at Annan Guoqin Station.This is ten days later, and the year has passed.

Kunming City is still shrouded in the atmosphere of the New Year, with lights and decorations everywhere, and the sound of firecrackers floating in the air.

Zhu Gaoxu's reaction was also stunned. He sat on the mahogany chair and couldn't say a word for a long time.

He felt unreal for a moment, but when he touched the letter Huang Zhong in his hand, the rice paper with a very texture was very real, and the words on it were described in a very detailed manner... I have to believe that this was indeed something that happened ten days ago!

It was not that the matter was serious and he was shocked. After all, Zhu Gaoxu had experienced many strong storms since he arrived in the Ming Dynasty; it was because he could not understand the Hu family of Annan and began to question his thinking again.

After all the calculations, Zhu Gaoxu never even thought about it. Annan would do this!

There were also two chief ministers, two guard generals and an eunuch standing beside him. Several of them looked at Zhu Gaoxu's stunned expression, looking curious.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu slapped his palm on the rice paper, pushed it forward, and looked at it.

After several civil and military officials circulated, they were all shocked and surprised.Zhu Gaoxu was relieved, at least he didn't feel that way.

Li Mo said: This news is reported to the court, and I am afraid it will not be fine.How will the court deal with this matter?

Zhu Gaoxu gradually calmed down and said: What else can be done?They prepared their own weapons and met on the battlefield.

Li Mo pondered again: What is the reason why the Hu father and son did this?

Zhu Gaoxu said: Maybe I feel that living is too tiring, so I will feel comfortable going to the underworld to meet my ancestors and ancestors!

After hearing this, a few people looked at each other. Some wanted to laugh but felt it was inappropriate, so they held it in their hands and didn't laugh.

Zhu Gaoxu was not trying to joke. At this time, he could only infer Hu's motives in this way, so that he could barely make sense of what was happening in front of him, and it would be reasonable.

Let’s talk about it when Chaoli knows the news.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.

Several civil and military men bowed one after another and said, "They were fists and bowed."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't move for a long time, and his thoughts were still very confused... Although he taught him a lesson when thinking about practice last time.

But Annan Country is not a small country, and he still doesn't want to believe that those who can take charge of the country's major policies will be like this?

Perhaps, the perspective of people’s thinking and value of what they value is still very different from Zhu Gaoxu.

He reread Huang Zhong's letter again, and a detail described in it aroused Zhu Gaoxu's interest...

The Annan Army ambush was fifty steps away from the main road, and suddenly the fire guns were fired, and many soldiers of the Ming army were injured or killed?

Zhu Gaoxu had contact with various firearms of the Ming army. Among them, the various types of fire guns and the ability to hit people outside ten steps basically depends on luck. Moreover, the distance is a little far, so it is difficult for soldiers wearing armor to break through.

This fifty steps away from the shooting range can also kill a lot, which makes Zhu Gaoxu feel a little strange.

However, at this time, some officials like to falsely report the number, and even Zhu Gaoxu himself was no exception. Last time he went to fight Sishi, counting all the guards and guards, and gathering together less than 10,000 people, but he claimed to be a 50,000 army... So Huang Zhong may have exaggerated the distance five times in the letter; and Huang Zhong was defeated by ambush and exaggerating the firearms of Annan Army, and also had a motive to shirk responsibility.

After Zhu Gaoxu speculated this, he still felt something was wrong.If the enemy ambushed ten steps, so many people were almost ambushing with their faces. How could anyone be careless at all unaware of it?

He thought about it, then picked up his pen and wrote two lines, greeted the yellow dog and said: Seal the letter and send it to the detention center.He asked Hou Hai to send two people to send the letter to Huang Zhong.

The yellow dog bent down and said sharply: I obey the order.

If you go back through the Honghe River in Huangzhong, you still have to go through Yunnan.You just need to ask Huang Zhong to come to Kunming City and ask in person, and the truth will be revealed.

Zhu Gaoxu had a low education before, and many of his knowledge were scattered.

For example, he knew about things like leverage because he had played strategy games.

But he mostly saw the specific types of muskets in the Ming Dynasty army, and did not have much knowledge.