Yuanjiang is the Honghe River. The army heads south and must first arrive at Yuanjiang and then go east along the Honghe River.

The troops under Zhu Gaoxu were divided into five routes. Except for Wang Bin's pioneer, the remaining troops were divided into four groups and advanced one after another. Zhu Gaoxu and tens of thousands of people passed Mengzi County, Lin'an Prefecture, and saw Yuanjiang within two days. It was early July.

When you march along the Yuan River, the roads are relatively easy to walk, mostly in undulating hilly areas. However, when it comes to clear weather, you can see mountains on both sides of the north and south, and there are high mountains and ridges in the distance. The ancient river has chosen a path for people without mountain barriers.

The weather is still hot in July, and Zhu Gaoxu cannot feel the breath of autumn and rain often falls. However, everyone is still on the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administration Office. Because there is no war, the military camp has purged the soldiers without casualties and no diseases have occurred. When we arrive in Annan, we need to prepare for the war, it is almost late autumn.

The army arrived at Jiling Pass (old street), an important town on the northwest border of Annan Kingdom, and there was no war and even conflicts did not occur. The Annan army abandoned this pass, digging gullies, and carrying rocks to block the road; however, it was useless. After reaching Jiling Pass, the terrain of the valley was flatter than in Yunnan. Wang Bin's troops of the pioneer army had cleared the road and marched towards Qin Station.

Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to camp near Jiling Pass. While waiting for the troops from all over the country to arrive and gather, he sent people to the villages around Jiling Pass.

Whenever the Ming army squad arrived at a village, they would first give a letter and ordered each village to requisition military rations according to the population size. Generally, each person would only collect one to two dou of grain. As long as the villagers paid taxes, the Ming army would post a list of people, promising to not commit any crimes and never kill the people indiscriminately. They also sent a banner of Chen's loyal ministers to the village for commendation.

This is something Zhu Gaoxu has been accustomed to doing since the "Jingnan Campaign". He does not advocate robbing soldiers. According to veterans, indulging soldiers can make everyone work harder on the battlefield. However, Zhu Gaoxu thought that this would aggravate the conflict between soldiers and locals, causing new troubles. He usually robbed the treasury in an organized manner, collected and scraped the land in proportion, rather than killing them all, and then wasted resources, or rewarded the soldiers, or established camp tricks, so that everyone could get real benefits.

After the Zhongyuan Festival, the Zhongjun received a report from Wang Bin that the first battle of the Ming army in Annan Kingdom took place at Qin Station. The Annan army had only two military camps and was easily defeated by Wang Bin's vanguard army.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered all armies to march towards Qin Station one after the deployment on July 20th, and he led more than 300 cavalry guards to Qin Station first.

The cavalry of the personal guards headed south along the official road on the bank of the Honghe River. As soon as Zhu Gaoxu left the Jiling Pass area, he immediately discovered that the landform here was different from that in Yunnan.

There are still rolling hills near the main road, with many low hills, but the woods are getting denser and the mountains are endless. However, the Annan Army did not guerrilla attacks in these places, Wang Bin's troops did not encounter any resistance, and Zhu Gaoxu's hundreds of troops were not attacked.

Zhu Gaoxu discovered that at this time, all the chieftains of all countries rarely used guerrilla tactics. After careful consideration, perhaps the enemy's army was not only due to conceptual problems, but also had conditions and restrictions. Many conditions at this time were not as good as those of later generations. The transportation of food and grass, the government's rule, and the killing and damage of weapons were not very good. Guerrillas even had to support them in the mountains. Therefore, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or Annan Kingdom, a real important town was not just about the terrain, but also had to pick up the surrounding land wealth, and whether they could support so many troops... For example, Jingzhou, a major town in the mainland.

Since the Annan Army did not understand jungle guerrilla tactics or could not do it at all, Zhu Gaoxu was already relieved a lot.

There is a city tower at the pass at Qin Station, and the building looks exactly the same as the city tower of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Gaoxu came to Annan Kingdom, except for the different languages, and looked at its scenery, and the illusion was that it was still in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Bin and other military generals came up. There was noisy under the city tower, and many enemy prisoners were crying and shouting, while the Ming soldiers around him were holding weapons and shouting.

"Greetings to the prince!" Wang Bin turned over and dismounted, held his fists and saluted.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately folded his fists and returned the greeting, pointing the messy situation downstairs with a horse whip, "What's going on?"

Wang Bin said: "At the beginning of the year, our envoys and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered here. I captured two Annan people from the military camp and were about to chop their heads here to comfort the soldiers."

Zhu Gaoxu did not stop everyone and immediately stepped forward to watch. Seeing this, Wang Bin waved his hands to the generals on the hillside. After a while, he heard a "crackling" sound of muskets. Then the Ming soldiers lined up with swords and guns and chopped them up as soon as they saw them. Most of the prisoners were tied with their hands and stringed them up with ropes. They couldn't run away and could not resist. The crying and screaming were even louder, and the smell of gunpowder and fishy smell in the air were pungent.

Most of the soldiers of the Annan Army wore wide-brimmed hats like bamboo hats, or because it was rainy in Annan, which made it easier to hide the rain. Military generals wore armor and helmets, which were quite similar to the Ming army.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu heard someone trembling in Chinese with inaccurate pronunciation: "The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground... My heart is for the Ming Dynasty, and I love poetry and Ming dishes the most, don't kill me... The peacock flies southeast..."

Zhu Gaoxu saw in the voice that an Annan Army general wearing armor was raising his head and crying in Chinese. Zhu Gaoxu immediately pointed at the man and said, "Don't kill him, bring him here!"

Wang Bin immediately shouted his subordinates to rush over and escort the man over. But the man was already unable to stand firm and was dragged from the ground by the two of them to Zhu Gaoxu's horse.

Zhu Gaoxu saw that this person's skin was whiter than other Annan people, and he was so scared that he was trembling all over. It seemed that he was not a general on the battlefield. He might have only become a military general because he had a good background... What's more, those who can recite poems and essays were mostly children of wealthy families even in the Ming Dynasty, let alone Annan people who could chant Chinese poems.

"Hahaha..." Suddenly, a burst of laughter came from around. Zhu Gaoxu smelled a stinking smell, and then he realized that the person in front of him had been wet, and he was flushed, afraid and ashamed, and was in a mess.

"Master, please spare me!" This man's Chinese accent was strange, but he spoke fluently. "I don't want to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, nor did I beg the thief to the Hu family! Hu knew that this place was not to be guarded, and all the trusted people were transferred away. The rest of us were abandoned..."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "What's your name?"

"Ruan Zhi."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "Ruan Zhi, are you willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light to restore the orthodox Chen family?"

Ruan Zhi nodded desperately without hesitation and bent down and said, "Thank you, the general for not killing!"

"Don't make things difficult for him." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.

Wang Bin clasped his fists and said, "Get orders!"

When Ruan Zhi was taken away, Zhu Gaoxu immediately asked directly: "Have you seized the Annan Army musket?"

Wang Bin said: "By the prince, there are! Most of the muskets from the two villages can still be used. Annan army used a large number of firearms."

"Go on the horse and lead the way." Zhu Gaoxu said briefly.

The crowd turned over and walked straight through the headless corpse and bloody under the city tower, and went straight into the Qin Station Tower.

When they arrived at a military camp, various captured firearms, weapons, armor were placed on the open space. The Ming army soldiers also built thatched huts to cover them above to prevent rain.

Zhu Gaoxu got off the horse and threw the reins to Zhao Ping next to him. Although Zhao Ping was a general who led hundreds of elite soldiers, he was still a groom in front of Zhu Gaoxu!

Zhu Gaoxu picked up a musket and checked. Wang Bin said beside him: "This musket is equipped with arrows, which is farther than our copper muskets! However, the cannons, bows and crossbows of the Annan Army are no longer as good as us."

As expected by Zhu Gaoxu, there is no essential difference between the Annan Army's muskets and the Ming Army. It is the same from casting technology to principle. Although Zhu Gaoxu is not a craftsman, he can also see that the casting and forging things are different. The muskets in his hand are still mainly cast with copper material; the difference is that the caliber is smaller than that of the Ming Army and slightly longer.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and remembered the steps | guns and guns | lengths of the barrels in later generations, which are longer than the guns and guns. The lengths of the guns and barrels are helpful to the range.

He also thought that the bullet actually had an acceleration from stationary to high-speed exit, which was Newtonian kinematics in junior high school.

The acceleration pushing force depends on the gas swelling caused by the fire and the medicine burning. When the thrust is almost the same, the longer the barrel, the longer the acceleration time, the faster the kiln is released... Zhu Gaoxu calculated it mentally and roughly understood the reason.

Zhu Gaoxu carefully observed each part. He gently picked up the muzzle with his finger and found a little wood chip, which was the residue of the Trojan horse. Obviously, An Nanjun also learned to use Trojan horses to increase air tightness, otherwise he would use arrow clusters as bullets and balls, which would not be sealed. It is estimated that the shooting range would only be hit in front of him.

He also ordered the soldiers to use the captured Annan musket to hit the target, and found that at a distance of twenty steps, such muskets could not penetrate the wooden board; and it was also a way to ignite open flames.

Therefore, the Annan Army's muskets were further away than the Ming Army's copper muskets, but the Ming Army also had bows, crossbows and artillery to make up for the long range.

Zhu Gaoxu made a judgment: the difference between the two armies' muskets could not fundamentally affect the outcome of the battle. For a moment, he felt better.

At this time, the generals predicted the victory or defeat of the battle, and still followed the concepts of thousands of years ago, with the right time, place and people's harmony. They mainly consider the righteousness, people's hearts, the pros and cons of the situation, climate, terrain and other factors. Generally, they also have to look at the other party's military appearance and discipline and whether the equipment is well-equipped.

Zhu Gaoxu knew about the fact that the enemy came to grab money and had the righteousness of a bird. Therefore, he also valued the weapons technology and tactical aspects. When a certain factor is fundamentally different, the philosophical thoughts of the ancestors will not be fulfilled.

However, Zhu Gaoxu will not face these problems at present. He also found that the army in the southern hot zones generally has poor organizational and military discipline, and the battle of the dignified formation is completely unsatisfactory!
Chapter completed!