Chapter 46                        

Mao Rui naturally would not accept this possibility and should report it, so Mao Kai explained everything he saw clearly.

Mao Rui was relieved.

At this time, Li Guang and his son came over to report on the situation of cleaning the battlefield.

"Beheading level 3,300." Mao Rui knew the numbers, and he knew it.

After all, people are not pigs. Even if they want to run away, they may not be able to catch up. Besides, they are people?

Mao Rui was quite satisfied with this number, but whoever was not very satisfied with the following number. "The loss was 1,030, and there were more than 100 seriously injured people, which probably won't last a few days."

Mao Rui only felt a slight pain in the root of his teeth.

These are all soldiers of the Mao family. He even remembered the Thirteenth brother who had just died in battle. On the list of officers' deaths, he decided not just a Mao surnamed.

Mao Rui thought to himself: "Annan is not a small country." He even thought of the red hats who had been in a stalemate with the cavalry under his command.

He said intimately: "If Annan had such a hundred thousand elite soldiers, it would be a little difficult for the imperial court to conquer the south this time."

But now he is angry but not to let go. Mao Rui dares to say this privately to Mao Sheng and never say such things in public.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, Mao Rui entered Pingxiang City that night and the army reported the victory to the rear.

But the next day, Mao Sheng arrived at Pingxiang City.

This progress is much beyond everyone's expectations.

Almost as Mao Sheng's army entered the Mao Zedong army, he led his troops to take the lead.

The order in which the Ming army marched into Pingxiang was Mao Sheng's headquarters, that is, the people who participated in the Battle of Datengxia, followed by the chieftains of each army, and finally the people in the Jingying camp.

It’s not that Mao Sheng doesn’t like Beijing Camp.

It was just because the Beijing camp brought a lot of firearms, and the march was probably slow and it fell to the end.

There is another reason why Mao Sheng is so anxious, that is, there is not much time left for him. It is already late March, and in a blink of an eye, it is April.

The rainy season in Annan is coming soon.

If there is no breakthrough in Annan before the rainy season comes, all his progress will be restored to his original state when the rainy season comes.

Even forced to withdraw troops.

Therefore, Mao Sheng was very anxious.

Before the rainy season came, within more than a month, he did not seek a great victory over Annan. He had only one goal to break through the Annan people's defense and occupy Lang Son.

After taking down Lang Son, you can slow down.

After taking down Lang Son, the Ming army had a place to settle in Annan, and the mountains on the border between the Ming and Annan were also thrown behind by them.

The Ming army has too many attack directions to choose from in Lang Son.

Even offense and defense are easy to move.

If Annan wants to protect the country, he must recover Langshan and block the defense line before the next dry season. At that time, the people who attack the mountain in the rain will be Annan's army.

And to achieve this goal, the only goal is to be fast.

Therefore, when Mao Sheng arrived in Pingxiang, without saying a word, he led the army to the north of Zhennan Pass to see how the defense in Annan's army was.

Zhennanguan blocks a valley, which is also the southernmost tip of Pingxiang's narrow valley.

There are no people tolerating, whether it is closed or closed.

It would be great if it could launch thousands of troops attacks.

This is also why the Ming army defeated Ruan's army and returned, and there were not many reinforcements sent by Zhennan Pass.

It’s not that I don’t want to, but that this really can’t accommodate many people.

Annan's army was behind this narrow valley, which was the side of Lang Son.

This narrow and long mountain road is not only a natural danger for Annan to enter the Ming Dynasty, but also a natural danger for the Ming army to enter the Annan.

Mao Sheng looked into the distance and frowned. He said in his heart: "This place must not be handed over to the local chieftains anymore, and the court must garrison troops."

Although it is named Zhennan Pass, this is not Zhennan Pass built during the Taizu period. The reason is very simple. The Zhennan Pass built by Taizu, as the name suggests, is to defend the south.

This level is defending the north, and the traces are very new, with many wooden structures. You can tell at a glance that it was urgently reinforced by the Annan army during this period.

However, relying on the mountain is not as strong as Zhennan Pass, but it cannot be overlooked.

Not to mention, the Annan people make good use of firearms.

Mao Sheng had only heard of it before, but at this moment he realized that what he said was not false.

I saw all kinds of artillery, muskets, rockets, etc. on the level. If the former Shenji Camp was brought over, it would be quite different from that.

Because in the battle between Zhang Fu and Annan, their firearms were fought against each other, and the Ming Dynasty also learned a lot of experience in using firearms from Annan. One or two muskets were even native to Annan and borrowed by the court.

Similarly, when the Ming Dynasty withdrew from Annan, many standard firearms were thrown into Annan. Therefore, after a large number of Ming munitions were found in the Annan army, firearm factories were built based on this to imitate them.

Therefore, the Annan firearm is at the same level as the firearms before the orthodox Ming Dynasty.

Of course, strictly speaking, it is on the same level as the current open flames.

After all, Zhu Qizhen's intervention in firearms was more in the process of firearms and production, and there was not much innovation. However, the messy firearms and guns at the beginning had become a unified system, which was easy to produce, inspect and ensure quality. There was no cross-eracial progress.

So when Mao Sheng saw this, his heart suddenly sank, and he knew that if he had to attack, he would not know how many Ming soldiers would die here.

Just like the army of twatts with hundreds of thousands, it may not be able to capture the city guarded by 10,000 or 20,000 elite Ming troops. This is the power of firearms in defense.

But such a dilemma appeared in front of the Ming army.

For a time, Mao Sheng was also caught in the regular test. How to break through this level, not to mention that from here to Lang Son is all at the bottom of the mountain. If Annan wants it, such a level is definitely not the first or the last. Attacks everywhere, there will be too many casualties.

Of course, although Mao Sheng was worried about casualties, as a qualified general, he was even more worried that he would not be able to achieve his goal after suffering tragic casualties.

After all, breaking through this place is not the purpose. After breaking through this narrow area, you have to face a decisive battle with the Annan army. It is a huge devastating moment. Can you still win the battle against the Annan army?

No one knows this?

Mao Sheng thought to himself: "Let's wait a moment, and wait until the Beijing camp and the chieftain soldiers are in place, it's not too late."

First of all, he made a point of confirmation, and he felt that he needed cannon fodder to fight here.

Naturally, he was unwilling to use his soldiers as cannon fodder, nor did he dare to use the Jingying. The Jingying was naturally the capital of the emperor, let alone the generals of the Jingying formed their own line, and they were not without a backer.

If there is too much loss for no reason, the emperor doesn’t have to come to settle the score with him, so naturally someone will deal with him.

Only the chieftains, although they were local emperors, did not speak in the capital. No matter how many deaths there were, there was no problem, it was just to give more pensions.

Even for some toasts, they don’t care how many people die.

The people under the chieftains are just their wealth. If the wealth can be realized, he doesn't care what he does. As long as the court can afford the silver, they are willing to die.

After all, the dead are just the untouchables under their rule. They are not their relatives.

In the next few days, as the Ming army units arrived one by one, the entire Pingxiang County was covered with camps, and the roads from Pingxiang County and Taiping Prefecture were also repaired. The repair was not one, but two lines, so that the continuous supply of materials in the rear could be transported from the mainland to Guilin, from Guilin to Taiping Prefecture, and then transported to the front line, or from Guangdong to Taiping Prefecture, and then transported to the front line.

Almost every day, the staff and materials here in Pingxiang County will increase a lot.

At the same time, Annan's pressure also increased sharply every day. All the confidence in the Ming Dynasty was gone after the defeat in the first battle.

Many people became nervous, reminding them of a dead person. That is Zhang Fu. Zhang Fu destroyed a country in several battles in July. Thinking of such a record made the people of Annan frightened.

For a moment, the atmosphere in Lang Son became tense.
Chapter completed!