It was the late winter month, and the water flow of the Honghe River was still fast. The roads on the river were spacious, but there were high mountains and ridges on both sides. Huang Zhong was a military general who led his troops all year round, and he was inevitably nervous when he saw such terrain.

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: "Mrs. Hu resented Chen Tianping, but did not dare to act rashly towards the Ming soldiers, let alone we are holding the imperial edict."

Huang Zhong agreed and nodded after hearing this: "I'm right."

After the Nahu family usurped the throne, they sent envoys to the capital, trying to escape and get the title of the Ming Dynasty. 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 to provoke him. There was no need for Annanguo to have any conflicts with his thousands of people. Moreover, so far, both sides have been in peace and no disputes have 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 front 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..." Suddenly, a dense sound of firecrackers sounded in the air.

Huang Zhong was very anxious and hurriedly tied his mount and followed the sound to see what was going on. He saw white smoke on the hillsides on both sides of the pass, as if a fog suddenly broke out. Of course, Huang Zhong understood what it was, the smoke from the firearm!

Suddenly, many soldiers were hit by gun balls and screamed and fell to the ground. 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 with each other. Before the people could come back to their senses, they fought around with "ding ding clatter" everywhere.

Huang Zhong led the crowd to fight and retreat. His men and horses were on the road, and they were long snake-like. Suddenly, they were attacked and ambushed without preparation, and they were completely 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, Huang Zhong took the opportunity to yell, asking the generals to rectify their troops and line up to guard the defense. At this time, the hillsides on both sides were filled with people and flags, and Huang Zhong was so anxious that his forehead was full of sweat.

"Envoy Lu!" Huang Zhong stretched out his neck and shouted, "Call Envoy Lu to come over and ask what's going on."

"Envoy Lu is on the city tower!" Someone in the chaos army responded.

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!

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

Unexpectedly, when the upper limit sword flashed, Chen Tianping's head was suddenly chopped off by a big knife! There was no sign or reason. The head rolled straight from the city tower to the post road, making a "bang" sound.

A word choked in Huang Zhong's throat and was swallowed by him again. The Ming army soldiers all looked up and watched, and 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, "I am the Ming Dynasty..."

"Crack!" Before Lu Song could finish his words, a big knife slashed down with blood. His head also rolled down from the top of the city, and it made a "bang" sound, 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 and 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, and Lu Song 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, "Surrender or not?"

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

Unexpectedly, Annan people next to him said "Ji Li" and put down the big knife. Several people dragged Xue Yan over like a sack.

"Hahaha..." A mocking laugh came out from the city tower, and then the hillsides on both sides burst into laughter everywhere. The laughter was deafening, as if a grand festival party was being held.

Laughings came one after another in the mountains, and there were also the sound of muskets mixed in between. Rows of Ming army prisoners were pushed to 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 the soldiers were insulted, abused and killed, who could 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 no one said anything. Many people only had anger | anger on their faces.

The bells next to him developed a tremolo of "ticticaca...", 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, "Send the order, the rear army will be the front army and retreat slowly!"

...In Yunnan Prefecture City, Zhu Gaoxu first learned about what happened at Annan Guoqin Station. It was ten days later, and the year ended.

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 was also stunned when he was sitting on the mahogany chair and couldn't say a word for a long time. He felt a sense of unreality for a moment, but when he touched the letter Huang Zhong in his hand, the rice paper with a 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, he was shocked. After all, Zhu Gaoxu had experienced many strong storms since he arrived in the Ming Dynasty; but 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 chiefs, two guards, and one eunuch standing beside him. Several people looked at Zhu Gaoxu's stunned expression, looking curious.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu slapped his palm on the rice paper and pushed it forward, "Let's take a look."

After several civil and military officials were circulated, they were all shocked and surprised. Zhu Gaoxu was relieved, at least he was not the only one who felt this way.

Li Mo said: "This news is reported to the court, and I'm afraid it's not good. How will the court deal with this matter?"

Zhu Gaoxu gradually calmed down and said, "What else can we do? We prepare our weapons and meet on the battlefield."

Li Mo pondered again: "What is the reason for the Hu father and son doing this?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Maybe I feel that living is too tiring, so I'd better go to the underworld to see 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 a hurry.

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 when Chaoli knows the news." Zhu Gaoxu waved.

Several civil and military men bowed and retreated.

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 the law last time, Annan Kingdom is not a small country, and he still doesn't want to believe that those who can take charge of the country's major affairs will be like this?

Perhaps, the value of what people value from what they think is still very different from Zhu Gaoxu.

He reread Huang Zhong's letter, 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 were basically lucky to hit people outside ten steps. Moreover, the distance was a little far, and it was difficult for soldiers wearing armor to break through.

This fifty steps away from the shooting range can also kill "very many", 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. There were less than 10,000 people together, 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 exaggerated the firearms of Annan Army, and also had a motive to shirk responsibility.

After Zhu Gaoxu speculated so, he still felt something was wrong. If the enemy ambushed at ten steps and so many people were about to ambush with their faces, how could they not notice it at all?

After thinking about it, he picked up his pen and wrote two lines of words, greeted Huang Gou and said, "Pack to seal the letter and send it to the defence station. Ask Hou Hai to send two people to send the letter to Huang Zhong."

The yellow dog bent down and said sharply: "So my servant obeys the order."

If Huangzhong walks through the Honghe River, he still needs to pass through Yunnan. You just need to ask Huangzhong to come to Kunming City and ask in person, and the truth will be revealed.
Chapter completed!