Annan Military Camp.
The envoy Jiang Jie successfully completed his mission and was quickly promoted to the fifth rank of Hubu Lang by Prime Minister Hu Jiyou. He was somewhat satisfied with his ambition.
After thinking of Fu Youde's words, he decided to inform Hu Jishao of the matter.
"Master Xiangguo, after I saw the Ming general, he said some incomprehensible words to me."
"Oh? I wonder what he said?"
Hu Ji Yao, who was originally laughing, suddenly heard this, his smile suddenly froze on his face, and he asked displeasedly.
Jiang Jie answered very quickly:
"The general asked the villain, is there a rebellion in our country?"
"What? How did he know there were rebels in our country?"
Hu Jisao and Chen Zheping were shocked. They did not expect that the Ming army even knew about such a thing.
"Sir, not only that, they even know the specific number of people involved in the rebellion in our country."
Jiang Jie's next words made Hu Jima and Chen Zheping feel as if they were struck by lightning, and their pupils trembled.
"Does the Ming army have spies in our country?"
After a long time, Chen Zheping seemed to have thought of something and slowly asked.
Without even thinking about it, Hu Jiyou insisted, "That's for sure. Otherwise, how could the Ming army know so much about what's going on in our country?"
"Okay, let me just say that the last sneak attack was so secretive that it was actually ambushed by the Ming army. It turned out that we had a mole in our midst."
"Don't let the truth know who that person is, otherwise the truth will have to cut him into pieces."
Hu Ji Yao's tone was cold, and his snake-like eyes slowly scanned the audience, like a poisonous snake staring at its prey, which made people's hair stand on end.
At this moment, Jiang Jie already regretted his talk. Just as he was about to say goodbye, he was suddenly stared at by Hu Jiya, "Mr. Jiang, you are not talking nonsense, are you?"
"Your Excellency, I am very loyal to Annan. The sun and the moon are clear, and I will never dare to have second thoughts!"
Jiang Jie hurriedly clarified, fearing that Hu Jima would pull him out and chop him into pieces if he was a moment and a half too late.
Hu Jiyou did not let Jiang Jie go, but continued to ask:
"Then the Ming army general said besides saying there was a rebellion in our country, what else did he say?"
"He also asked the villain if he needed help from their Ming Dynasty, but the villain politely refused."
Jiang Jie told Hu Ji Yao exactly what he had experienced in the Ming army's tent.
At the end of the sentence, Hu Jiyou's expression softened slightly and he said coldly:
"I don't need the Ming Dynasty to intervene in Annan's domestic affairs. A mere 200,000 people are not worth mentioning at all."
"The matter of the Ming army has come to an end for the time being. We will monitor the river every day. We only need to send the Ming army away safely. We don't need to interfere with other matters."
Hu Jiya came to the final conclusion on the matter, and everyone else kept their mouths shut. Until the meeting was about to end, Hu Jiya said to Chen Zheping again:
"Your Majesty, there has been a lot of resentment among the people in Annan recently. Please ask the king to issue an edict to appease the people."
This is the highlight of the day. Hu Jishen wants to firmly pin the **** basin of plundering the people on Chen Zheping's head, so as to lay the most solid foundation for him to take further steps in the future.
"Hu Aiqing, although this matter is my order, it is also for Annan. Is it biased to only let me issue the edict to sin against myself?"
Naturally, Chen Zheping didn't want to take the blame. After all, the idea of plundering the people came from Hu Jiya and had nothing to do with him.
However, as soon as Chen Zheping finished speaking, the originally quiet Minister of Civil and Military Affairs knelt down directly in front of Chen Zheping and said loudly:
"Please ask the king to issue an edict to appease the people of the world."
A wave of sorrow and anger surged into his heart. In the civil and military affairs of the dynasty, no one was loyal. This made Chen Zheping feel both angry and extremely sad.
"I am a man... I am a man... I am a man who sins against me."
Humiliation, unwillingness, anger, all kinds of emotions rushed into my heart, but in the end they only turned into a compromise.
Hu Jiya was so satisfied that he personally drafted an imperial edict for Chen Zheping, which was completed in one go.
Afterwards, without any hesitation, Hu Jiyou stamped the royal seal on his own and announced it to the world.
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Hanoi Province.
In order to put down the southern rebels as soon as possible, Minister of War Zhao Ran traveled day and night, resting for only two hours a day and spending the rest of the time on the road.
Haiphong Port is only four hundred miles away from Hanoi. In order to get to Hanoi before the rebels arrived, Zhao Ran could only rush so hard to get to Hanoi in advance.
Fortunately, the road was all plains, and the march went extremely smoothly. After two days and two nights of traveling, Zhao Ran finally blocked the northward path of the Annan rebels at Longxing Road.
Longxing Road is located one hundred and fifty miles southeast of Hanoi, only a day and a half away. If Zhao Ran hadn't arrived in time, the rebels would have swept through the entire Hanoi Prefecture.
After Zhao Ran arrived, he sent people around to check the military situation. It must be said that as Annan's Minister of War, Zhao Ran still had two skills.
Zhao Ran, who intercepted the rebels, did not send out troops in a hurry. Instead, he first set up camp in a dangerous place to ensure that he was in an invincible position first.
Then sentries and cavalry were sent out in all directions, vowing to find out the situation of these rebels before attacking.
As the saying goes, only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle.
Soon, news of the Sentinel Cavalry's investigation came back.
The rebels were indeed outnumbered, and their clothes were ragged, and they did not look like an army at all.
But for the leader of the rebels, it seems that it is not simple. The camps built by the rebels stretch for several miles and look chaotic, but they are connected end to end and rely on each other.
Zhao Ran didn't take this discovery seriously. After all, the rebel leader must have some ability to pull up such a large team and go all the way north from Haicheng Port to attack the government and the county.
But that's it. Now that we meet him Zhao Ran, we must cut him into pieces in order to act as a deterrent and let the people of Annan understand that untouchables are untouchables. Anyone who dares to rebel will be killed. Absolutely.
After observing for two days, Zhao Ran found nothing special, and immediately decided that 100,000 troops would march out tomorrow to fight the Ming army.
On the second day, Zhao Ran led an army of 100,000 people in high spirits and formed an array to face the rebels on the Hanoi Plain, intending to defeat the 200,000 rebels in one battle.
The rebel generals were not afraid at all and pulled out all 200,000 rebels and formed an array three miles away from Zhao Ran.
The autumn wind is bleak, the two sides are at war with each other, and the war is about to break out.
Before the war, Zhao Ran specially sent someone to persuade him to surrender, but he was flatly rejected by the leader of the rebels and was almost shot on the spot.
Zhao Ran was so angry that his orifices were smoking, and he decisively ordered the whole army to attack. He wanted to crush all these mud legs.
The formations of both sides slowly approached. The Annan army formed a neat formation, all wearing black military uniforms, and looked extraordinary.
As for the rebels, not only were their lines in disarray, most of them had no clothes to cover their bodies. They didn't look like an army at all, but more like a group of beggars.
Zhao Ran pointed at the chaotic array of rebels and laughed. In his opinion, when the two sides fight, it will be the time when these mud-legged soldiers will die without a burial place.
But when the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred steps, the rebels' front line suddenly collapsed, exposing the rear ranks.
At first, Zhao Ran was full of ridicule when he saw the collapse of the rebel front army. He felt that it was because the rebels could not withstand the pressure of their own army, which directly led to the escape of the front army.
Just when he thought the battle was ending without any suspense, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Although these rebel front troops collapsed, they began to retreat from both sides of the array, while the following rebels were not affected at all. After careful observation, Zhao Ran could not help but gasp.
The rebels in the rear were completely different from the rebels in the front.
If the rebels in the front line are a group of beggars, then the rebels in the back line are the real elites.
These people walked in neat steps and had firm faces. Although they were dressed in tatters, it did not affect their aura at all.
Seeing the rebels like this, Zhao Ran suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart. Where did these elites come from?
But now that the arrow was on the string, it had to be fired. The distance between the armies of the two sides was once again narrowed. When they were about to enter the attack distance of the 80-step archer, bursts of popping beans suddenly sounded on the battlefield.
"Bang bang bang!"
Listening to this familiar voice, Zhao Ran didn't know where he had heard it before, and he felt extremely frightened in his heart.
His instinct told him that something was wrong, so run! Run backwards immediately!
However, Zhao Ran quickly calmed down, and his reason suppressed his fear, but this reason did not last long, because he saw a familiar scene, and this scene happened not long ago.
The sound of popping beans came one after another, and with the sound of popping beans, the battlefield began to fill with smoke. However, the archers of the Annan army opposite the rebels had blood blooming on their chests, their eyes widening in disbelief, and slowly fell down.
"Ming Army!! It's Ming Army!! Run away!!"
I don't know who shouted such a voice on the battlefield, and then the most spectacular scene in Annan's history was staged at this moment.
I saw that Annan's 100,000-strong army, which was originally organized into a strict formation, began to retreat in less than half a quarter of an hour of fighting. Everyone ran backwards like crazy.
What they were thinking about at this time was that that tragic night last month, the fear of being dominated by the Ming army had become everyone's nightmare.
Zhao Ran stared at the changes in front of him dumbfounded, but his personal guards directly pulled Zhao Ran and started to flee backwards.
When he came to his senses, he was furious and turned around to stop the retreat of the army. However, he was defeated. In front of nearly 100,000 deserters, Zhao Ran's strength was negligible.
Even though Zhao Ran shouted loudly, no one was willing to stop. At this time, everyone knew that they had been completely defeated. If they could not outrun the robe beside them, they would be captured.
When Zhao Ran saw that no one was paying attention to him, he directly drew his sword and killed two soldiers, intending to shock the morale of the army.
But his behavior got him into big trouble.
