There is a sand and mud flat on the river bank that is nearly two hundred steps wide. Ann personally walked around the beach. Sometimes his calves could sink most of his calves. He had to try hard to pull his legs out of the river sand and mud. If people were walking on this beach, it would obviously be very difficult and slow.

This will surely be the burial place of the Ming army.

Ann had already arranged a large number of bows and crossbowmen to the front and approached the river beach. Once the Ming army crowd landed on a boat, they were trapped on this beach; the archers led by Ann would continue to shoot arrows and ruthlessly shoot and kill those enemy troops who were as slow as lambs to be slaughtered.

After the sun rose, the fog dissipated faster and his vision became clearer. Ann clearly saw that many Ming soldiers on the other side were gathering on the flatbed. He was a little excited and looked forward to it.

As for another Ming army fleet in the north, Ann didn't want to pay much attention to it for the time being. His mind was full of victory in front of him, and he could not wait.

At this time, a ship moored on the sea that could not be docked in the middle of the river, and there were noises, and waves of horns rang out across the earth in the morning. Ann observed carefully and found that a large ship was changing flags. The Ming army ship had already set sails and the masts were bare, so they were very obvious when they changed the flags.

Ann did not understand the sound of the trumpet and the meaning of the flag, nor did the real La people understand it. The flag signal of each army was determined by them and was different.

After a while, a dense drum sounded on several large ships lined up in the middle of the river. It sounded like some small drums, but the sound was not loud, and when people were a little far away, they could only be heard vaguely. However, the rhythm was very fast and the rapid beat made people suspect that the drum beaters were just pounding desperately.

Immediately below the side of the ship, a whole row of wooden holes suddenly opened, and many yellow things poked their heads out of the wooden holes. Ann suddenly felt something was wrong. People were always afraid of things they didn't know much about. However, he quickly guessed that it was a firearm, and some places in the Huihui Sect in the west were also using firearms.

"Boom, boom!" Two loud thunderous sounds came. In a short while, rows of fires shone on the side of the big ships, and the dense sound of cannons began to roar.

When Ann heard the voice and looked back at the army, the shells had already entered the archer formation of Zhenla Army. He didn't know what happened, but saw a turmoil everywhere in the crowd, just as thousands of troops were suddenly cursed by witchcraft, and people were panicked and fled everywhere.

The deafening sound of cannons stopped quickly. The sky was still noisy, and what followed was the Zhenla army formation on the river bank, with unstoppable screams and shouts. The formation was noisy and chaotic, and it was impossible to communicate.

Ann's mind was blank, and he had not yet recovered from the great inner contrast. Under his feet, he couldn't help but take a few steps back and watched the outline of the big ship filled with white smoke in shock.

He stared blankly for a while before turning around and hurriedly leaving the river beach. The followers beside him immediately nervously protected him from the front and back.

The archers of the Zhenla army were all retreating westward, and people suddenly rushed in disorder in one direction, and the crowd suddenly became very crowded. The noise was loud and the noise was buzzing. Behind the archer formation, the war elephants were also frightened by the thunderous cannon sound, turning around and trying to leave, the elephant tamer was stopping the elephant.

An En walked back to the army formation and finally came to his senses. He shouted: "I ordered all the troops not to panic, stabilize the position first, and line up and retreat!"

However, the situation seemed to be worse. After the guards went to convey military orders to the nobles in various places, the chaotic situation still did not improve. An En had no good idea for a while.

At this moment, An En suddenly saw a long list of soil and blood mist appearing in the wide crowd. Something was jumping through the ground at a speed that was hard to see clearly.

After a moment, a roaring cannon sound came from the direction of the river behind him. Long bloody roads were penetrated on the military formation, and some people fell to the ground. The people around him shouted in horror and ran around. The panic and chaos atmosphere was spread in the army by those timid people like plague.

Some of the brave Zhenla warriors who were originally brave were not scared and remained firmly in place; but those slaves, some cowardly soldiers with incompetent leaders, ran around and crowded, squeezing all the formations of the Zhenla army.

Another bombardment came, and the enemy's artillery could adjust the distance. This time the bombardment hit the depth of the Zhen La Army. An iron bullet rubbed against the side of the elephant soldier, smashing the head of a soldier, and blood splattered in the air. The elephant soldier was extremely frightened, and suddenly started to rush westward.

There were chaotic crowds nearby, and the elephant soldier quickly knocked down the person. The heavy and huge elephant's feet stepped onto the soldiers on the ground. A tragic scream of hissing sound suddenly came from the other side.

An En was so angry that he didn't even see the enemy soldiers, and his army became like this mess. The battle was so frustrating and frustrating.

However, things had become like this, and An En could do nothing. An En rushed to his army, which were all men he summoned from his territory, and he led his people to retreat to the direction of the camp. Only when he arrived at the camp and was far away from the Ming army's naval guns could he send people to inform the nobles and leaders to restrain the army to reorganize them.

The battle seemed to have not really started, but the Zhen La army had suffered heavy losses.

When Ann led his army to retreat westward, corpses and injured people who were screaming and crying for help were seen everywhere on the ground. Not only were there any casualties caused by ship gun bombardment, but many were also injured by elephants and their own people.

In the morning, the losses of the Zhen La army must have been far more than that. Because the army was in chaos, many people would run away, especially those slave soldiers who could not be caught for a short time after they escaped.

Most of the chaotic soldiers may eventually be able to gather again, but it will take time. The military strength of the Zhen La army will be greatly weakened in the near future.

An En returned to the camp and immediately dispatched a large number of guards and personal soldiers to find the generals of various departments and ask them to gather and rectify the army.

However, things failed again.

It is reported that on the tributary of the Tongnai River to the north, the Ming army had landed on the ship and was heading south! Some nobles heard the news and did not stop in the camp at all. They left behind various supplies such as tents, grain, and ran straight west.

While watching anxiously at the entrance of the Daying Village, An En saw the military flag given by the king, which was dirty on the ground, with footprints on the flag. An En was furious and stood on the ground and cursed, cursing the nobles and tribe leaders, who were as timid as a mouse and cowardly and incompetent.

He rectified his troops in the camp, and finally summoned several nobles to wait for his orders. Everyone gathered troops and decided to retreat westward first and leave the battlefield.

Now that things have come, even if An En doesn't want to escape, she can only do this for the time being.

The troops abandoned most of the baggage and had no time to pack up the tents, so the generals took the remaining infantry and elephant soldiers and turned northwest. They needed to move to Phnom Penh, the second largest city in Zhenla Kingdom, and cross the Mekong River nearby; then they could retreat to the Tonle Sap area and get people from the core area of ​​Angkor Thom in Zhenla Kingdom.

But before noon, Ann's army encountered the Ming army. It was estimated that those enemy landed on the north side of the Tongnai River tributary and finally intercepted a part of the Zhenla army.

The Ming people had no cavalry, and they seemed to be rushing to pursue them, and there were no terrifying artillery.

The nobles under Ann suggested that everyone scattered and fled, and only met again when they arrived near Phnom Penh City. In this way, the enemy infantry had no choice but to take most of the soldiers of the Zhen La Army.

However, this method is of course not the best. If the army runs away after defeat, the slave soldiers will take the opportunity to escape. When the main force of the Zhenla army returns to the royal city, even half of them will probably arrive.

Ann personally came forward to observe the enemy's lineup. But between the rice fields and the bushes, the enemy troops formed a long column like a dragon. They were all infantry, without baggage, and the number was not large.

As a famous warrior in Zhenla Country, Ann was never an indecisive person. He decided decisively: "We should gather our troops and repel this pursuer. Then we will order the troops to gather people and stop the escape. In this way, we will at least greatly reduce the losses."

The few nobles who were still following him were already scared by the unheard of battles. They believed that the Zhen La army was not the opponent of the Ming army, and they ran here and their morale was also very low and they should not fight again immediately.

But Ann felt that he had a great hope of repelling the enemy's pursuit with several times his troops. He decisively issued a military order.

So after a while, a nobleman secretly took his people away while An En was not paying attention.

An En was very angry, but he did not change his determination because of this. His eyes were covered with blood, and both eyes looked red, which was very scary. He was very emotional and could not control his voice, and his voice was a little hoarse, "If you capture the enemy, you will beat them alive until you die, you must make the Ming people pay the price!"

He personally went to the teams to boost morale and sent people to gather together into a military formation. After some rectification, Ann finally got a formation of thousands of people. They chose a gentle slope, with woods on the mountain behind them. The Zhen La army lined up here and prepared to counterattack the enemy columns coming from the northeast.

The archers were at the front, followed by only a dozen remaining battle elephants, and the infantry were deployed behind the battle elephants. Ann adopted the familiar attack method of the Zhenla army, first shooting and killing with the crossbow, and then using the elephant soldiers to rush forward to cover the infantry to fight.
Chapter completed!