Zheng Jie was in the big tent, drinking to drown his sorrows.
Logically speaking, now that the two armies are fighting, it is not the time to drink. However, he was drinking, and had been drinking for more than a day.
The people around him tried to persuade him, but he didn't listen. When he got tired of the advice, he just waited for him. In this way, no one dared to persuade him anymore.
At this time, Zheng Zhi knew very well that he could not win this battle with the Ming army. The result of losing is not only the collapse of the Zheng family's power, but also the loss of life.
In fact, he had this hidden worry in his heart ever since he heard that the Ming Emperor led his troops to conquer Annan himself. How could a place as small as Annan compete with the huge Ming Empire?
But at that time, he was still taking a chance. For this reason, he did not hesitate to send his son as a hostage and unite all the forces that could be united to try to win this battle.
However, in the few days after the war started, the Ming Emperor mercilessly trampled on all the cards he thought he had. If he were in the position of the Ming Emperor, he would not be playing cat-and-mouse like this, but would attack with all his strength. This war is over.
As for whether there was any internal support from the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty within the Allied Forces, Zheng Zhi at this time actually knew it very well. It was basically a plan to alienate the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The fight against his own family was also taking advantage of the fact that the Annan Allied Forces were divided into several forces, just to further the discord within the Annan Allied Forces.
Already possessing great strength, but still having so many conspiracies and intrigues, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was really energetic and very interested.
Is it fun to bully people like this? Sometimes, Zheng Zhi often made such angry accusations against the Ming army camp in his heart.
It doesn’t matter, there is wine today and you will be drunk today, and you will be worried tomorrow. While you can still give orders and drink and have fun, drink more of the world's delicacies!
At this time, Zheng Zhi, who was almost seventy years old, had seen through it all, and that was it.
Compared with him, the young Ruan Phuc Bin was in his prime. Although he felt powerless in the face of the Ming army's strength, he still wanted to struggle. He didn't even think about conserving his strength. When the Ming army grabbed Zheng Jun and beat him, he asked his men to rescue him with all their strength. As a result, he saw a scene that made people lose all confidence. The elites he sent out were also crushed by the Ming army.
By this time, Ruan Fulin could finally see clearly. The reason why the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not launch a general offensive like a cat-and-mouse game was because he was a little afraid of the artillery of the Western Yi troops in the Annan Allied Forces and did not want his men to suffer heavy losses.
Ruan Phucin didn't drink. He stayed on the watchtower at the camp gate every day, looking at the Ming army's camp, often with envy in his eyes.
If I had such an elite army, I would have unified Annan long ago! In that case, although it is unlikely that the behemoth Ming Kingdom will be conquered first, there will be no problem in expanding westward...
Every day, Ruan Phuc Bin was daydreaming, thinking about the days when he would dominate the situation and make clouds and rain with his hands under hypothetical conditions. Apart from that, there's not much that can be done.
Withdraw troops? He had thought about it; however, the morale of the Allied forces was very low now. If one force withdrew its troops, it would inevitably lead to the collapse of the entire Allied forces. In this way, no one on Annan's side can escape. Therefore, Ruan Phuc Bin gave up the idea.
Now we can only pray to the gods and Buddhas to let the emperor of the Ming Dynasty die suddenly, or someone in the Ming Dynasty suddenly rebels. Only in this way can Annan survive this disaster!
Waiting, always waiting, waiting for the miracle to come!
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On this day, it was the same as before, drinking and drinking, sleeping and looking around, there seemed to be no difference. On the Ming army's side, it's the same as before. If you don't fight, they won't attack.
However, there is a time to break through such days.
The commotion first started in the rear camp of the Zheng Army. The originally quiet military camp was filled with panic and screams, as if they were defeated and about to be killed. It can be described in one word: despair!
Even though Zheng Zhi was drunk, he was still alarmed by this movement.
"Where is the noise coming from?" Zheng Zhi stood up with a wine glass in hand and shouted loudly at the camp gate, "Send the king's military order to kill the person who is the leader of the noise!"
The guard at the door heard it and agreed.
However, just after a while, the camp door was opened and someone rushed in.
Zheng Jie hadn't even sat down yet when he heard the noise, he raised his head and looked around with drunken eyes. He found that it was the leader of his personal guards. His face darkened. When he really wanted to ask, he heard that the leader of the personal guards had already called to him in fear. He shouted: "Your Majesty, it's not good. Your Majesty has sent an urgent envoy and is about to be surrounded by the Ming army. Please send your troops back for rescue!"
Zheng Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and asked subconsciously: "Where did the Ming army come from? Isn't it just..."
When he said this, he suddenly woke up and stopped, dumbfounded.
Before setting off, Zheng Zhi had never thought that the Ming army would come from the north or other directions, so he sent a detailed investigation to find out. But he did not receive any news that a large army was gathering, so he prayed that there would be no Ming army. Otherwise, what else can we do with this little force?
Now the situation is very clear. The Ming emperor has not taken the initiative to attack. He is obviously waiting for the Ming army from other routes to attack his home base!
Although Zheng Zhen had arranged for troops to stay behind, if another large army from the Ming Dynasty came to attack, those troops would definitely not be enough! Listening to the content of this urgent report, it is obvious that the remaining troops cannot stop the Ming army at all.
After the guard leader finished his report, he stared at King Qingdu with a panicked look, wondering what the prince's countermeasures were.
However, after Zheng Zhi came back to his senses, he suddenly burst out laughing: "Hahaha..."
The sudden laughter stunned the leader of the guards. He thought that what he said was right and that the prince had heard it wrong. Therefore, in a hurry, he had to speak immediately, interrupting Zheng Zhi's laughter, and loudly reported again: "Your Majesty, it's a bad thing. The Ming army sneak attacked our army. From the rear, the king asked us to return to the rescue!"
Zheng Jie stopped laughing and stared at the leader of the guards with a cold face, staring at him so hard that he did not dare to say another word. Then, Zheng Zhi was seen drinking all the wine in the glass, and then slamming it to the ground with a "pop" sound, and the wine glass broke into pieces.
"Hahaha……"
Seeing the prince laughing wildly again, the guard leader finally understood. The prince heard clearly that the reason why he was still like this was because he was scared out of his mind!
Thinking like this, he was a little undecided. He didn't know what to do next.
At this moment, several more Zheng Jun generals rushed in. Apparently they had heard the news and wanted to know what Zheng Zhi's arrangements were. However, when they saw this scene, they were stunned, wondering what was going on?
So, they turned to look at the leader of the guards and asked with their eyes: "My lord, what is going on?"
The guard leader's face had a sad look on his face, and he slowly shook his head.
These generals of the Zheng army did not understand what this meant. When they really wanted to ask questions, they saw the Hongyi commander Aibi De also barging in. Seeing the situation in the big tent, they were confused about what was going on. However, he didn't care so much and immediately started shouting and asking,
He was chattering and his tone was very urgent. When combined with his expression, you could tell how anxious Abid was.
However, before the translator could start the translation, suddenly, Zheng Zhi picked up the small wine jar and drank directly into it. However, most of the wine in the small wine jar flowed out from his mouth and flowed along his beard and onto his chest. The skirt of his clothes suddenly got wet, but he didn't care at all and continued to drink heavily.
At this moment, even Abid knew something was wrong. At this time, he turned his head and glanced at the other people in the big tent, asking with his eyes, is this crazy?
When the leader of the personal guards saw him and was about to speak, he suddenly heard another "pop" sound, and saw that the small wine jar had also broken into pieces on the ground, and the remaining wine spilled all over the floor.
"Good wine, good wine..." Zheng Zhi did not wipe his beard, letting the wine drip on his beard.
Seeing this, Abid didn't care and started chattering again in a very fast tone.
His translator immediately followed up and translated in a panic: "Your Highness, the fleet of the Zheng family from the Ming Dynasty has also come to Annan?"
If they are defeated here, as long as they escape, they can escape on their own battleship. But if the Zheng family's fleet comes, they will also be blocked here, and it will be over.
Zheng Zhi didn't know this before. When he heard this, he was a little surprised. He turned to look at the leader of his personal guards. When he saw the leader of his personal guards nodded, he laughed again and said: "Okay, okay, okay, okay Catching turtles in a jar, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty wants to catch us all in one fell swoop, he is so ruthless, good, good, good..."
After he finished speaking, he went to open another small bottle of wine. It was obvious that he wanted to drink more.
Seeing his action, everyone understood. King Qingdu had no idea at all, he had already given up.
Thinking of this, the Zheng army generals didn't care and immediately jumped out of the Chinese army's tent. And Aibi, too, rushed out following the Zheng army generals.
Meanwhile, on Ruan Jun's side, he couldn't figure out what was going on at first.
However, Ruan Phuc Bin knew that something big must have happened and immediately sent someone to inquire. In fact, there was no need to inquire, the news that everyone knew about Zheng Jun spread quickly here.
As soon as they heard that the Ming army had entered Annan and cut off their retreat, the Ruan army was immediately in chaos. But relatively speaking, it's a little better than Zheng Jun's.
Many generals immediately rushed to Ruan Phuc Lin's side to see how His Royal Highness would respond.
Ruan Phuc Bin was not as desperate and crazy as Zheng Jie. Instead, after being frightened, his first order when he came back to his senses was to shout loudly: "Quickly, withdraw the troops, withdraw quickly. If it's too late, you won't be able to leave." . Let’s go back to the south, go directly south..."
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