open sea

Chapter 472 Nhean
Chen Mu had never seen such a scene, and neither had Zhang Shijue.

On the coast of Annan, when there were still forty miles away from Yanzhou, Chen Mu and Deng Zilong led the fleet and sailed to their target beach.

His destination is Nhean between Zhujiang and Lanjiang, which means peace in the world.

Before the boat docked, they crossed the white and soft sandy beach. Through the binoculars, Chen Mu saw a road piled up high not far away, like a paddy field road common in Guangdong. One side of the road is adjacent to the beach, and the other side is not densely populated. Low forests, residential houses and dilapidated wooden boats on the shore are located along the coast.

As we get closer, there are feather arrows stuck on the broken wooden boat turned over on the beach. It seems that the house used to have a yard, but now there is no fence.

The wooden door of the hut has already collapsed, and several windows are broken. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like there are still people living there.

Farther away, the sparse forest beside the road exposed the farmland that had been barren for an unknown period of time, and several black smoke rose into the sky from an invisible direction.

Huge ships raised balloons along the edge of the beach, and the large ships of the fleet anchored along the coast, and each released their military boats. Teams of helmeted and armored soldiers landed on the eight-mile-long beach, and the soldiers who disembarked first felled trees to collect It is expected to build a wooden fence to reject horses, and several groups of horse infantry went out to investigate around.

Adhering to Chen Mu's fine tradition, it would be nice to have one cavalry out of ten banner troops.

The ship did not send any news of the enemy's presence in the vicinity. Chen Mu walked out of the troop transport boat, and several banners of the Nanyang Army Mansion stood on the land belonging to Annan Yi'an Mansion.

"I thought this was already the rear of the war."

Chen Mu's boot stepped on a pebble, and the thin steel sheet on the boot made a crisp sound. When he was on the boat, he noticed that Chen Mu had been looking at the abandoned houses on the shore. Falling from the horse, he shook his head at the lord and said, "There is no one there, the property and cloths in the house have been swept away, the beams have been unloaded, and there is not a single grain of rice left."

"On the official road, there are several marches of a large group of people and horses. They are very messy and can't be traced. We only know that they all went south. There are deep ruts, and there are also footprints of cattle and horses' hoofs." Juniper clasped his fists and said: "Between ten and a month , the fleeing people brought their families and mouths, the rebellious army and the volunteer army came through the forest corridor, and the Mo family's army swept in."

Jun Jun spread his five fingers and said: "There are knives, spears, feather arrows, crossbows, and gunballs in the house. I don't know how many times there have been battles."

"Let all the flag officers cheer up. Annan is in troubled times, and we have already set foot on the battlefield." Chen Mu bent down and picked up the broken arrow shaft without arrow clusters among the shell fragments on the beach. After examining the writing on the tail of the arrow, he held it in his hand and said: "The scouts traveled north and south along the official road and drew a sketch. The map given by the Chief Secretary of Guangxi is too sloppy in the south."

There are two copies of the Annan map of the Chief Secretary of Guangxi. The map of the Yongle Year earlier can still be used, but the roads, fields, mountains and forests have changed in a hundred years, so we should not be biased.

The second copy was presented by the ancestor of the Mo family, Mo Dengyong, when he begged for surrender 40 years ago, but the terrain in the south of Thang Long was not as detailed as that of the Yongle Nian.

In particular, there are many mountains, forests and highlands here, and the rivers are intricate. The Jiaozhi Cheng announced that during the Zhengsi era, there were 36 prefectures, 180 prefectures and [-] counties.

Neither of the two pictures could meet Chen Mujun's combat needs, so they needed to draw again.

"General, I found the enemy's situation." Zhang Shijue came forward with a few flag soldiers, and presented a drawing: "The surrounding terrain has just been drawn after boarding the ship. There is smoke from the kitchen in the southwest, and small groups of enemy troops are infested; the furthest to the north is General Deng's ship. When we land, it should be thirty miles away, and the enemy is about twenty miles away."

Deng Zilong is located at the southern end of Yanzhou, and Chen Mu is located at the northern section of Nghe An. The distance is more than [-] li, which is the limit of what the ship can observe.

At this distance, soldiers, horses and warships must not be able to see the flags clearly, and the number of ships and soldiers is all guesswork.

The map drawn by the boat on the coast is much more concise, but it is very useful. Besides discovering the enemy's tracks, it also proves that this narrow road like a field ridge road is not an official road. Eight miles away.

Moreover, when I got off the boat, I saw the location of Nghe'an Fucheng, which was located in the south and west, and the distance was too far to see the situation of the city, but if you can see the city from this position, it can only be the Fucheng.

"Let the flag army clean up, then get on the boat and head south." Chen Mu said, looking at the huge figure of the boat on the coast, and said: "Let the boat collect the ball, it's getting dark, and I don't even know when it lands Where to fish."

The so-called small group of enemies, the flag army on the watch balloon on the boat, carefully marked the number as five hundred on the sketch. In fact, no one who read the picture believed it, so they just took a rough look.

Chen Mu guessed that there were troops twenty miles away between the Hundreds and Thousands, and he planned to take care of them now.

However, half an hour after the short landing, Chen Mu could already have some guesses about the course of the war between the Mo family's northern dynasty and the Li family's southern dynasty.

The Banner Army took a leisurely walk on the coast for a while, and shaking on the boat for two days had a great impact on the Banner Army's combat power. Let them exercise their muscles and bones, and board the boat again, and it's time for dinner.

After dinner, the sky darkened, and the fleet slowly drifted southward along the coast at a slower speed. Chen Mu summoned the generals on the Chihai ship to discuss the next battle situation.

"The Mo family has completely pushed the front line to Nhe'an and divided the Le family. Mo Jingdian led the army to fight the Li family's Zheng Song in Thanh Hoa, and Ruan Juan led the army to go south to Nhe An. This is the news I learned when we were in Qiongzhou."

"Nowadays, a small group of enemies have been found more than [-] miles outside the city of Nghe An. The battle situation is not good for the Le family. If Nghe An is already fallen, Nguyen Juan will continue to attack Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, and Hue in the south, but he has not yet Let's go, I think the two armies will be in a stalemate in Nghe An."

Chen Mu said, beating the cabin table with his hand, and said: "I'm not too late. I want to send a boat to the mouth of the Nghe An River and try to enter the Fucheng. Ruan Juan has a lot of troops. It's best to defeat him with Li's soldiers in one fell swoop, and then lure them. Go north, confront Mo Jingdian in Tsinghua."

Zheng Song of Tsinghua is now a power minister of the Later Le Dynasty. The current form of Annan Kingdom is very similar to the Japanese shogunate regime, and it is even more violent. Just last year, Zheng Song just killed the King of the Li family and established a seven-year-old young master.

Regardless of character, Zheng Song led the troops to fight very well, and once attacked Shenglong, Chen Mu felt that he could stop Mo Jingdian.

Zhang Shijue bowed his head and said nothing, Chen Mu asked, "What do you think?"

"General, Annan is torn apart. The Mo family in the Northern Dynasty started in Gaoping, and the family ancestors were usurpers. After Qinghua, Li survived in name only, and Zheng Song was a traitor. I can't believe it."

"It can be relied on for a while, the coalition forces, I'm afraid it won't last forever."

Hearing what Zhang Shijue said, a smile appeared on Chen Mu's face. Annan in the chaos of war is like a Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is very exciting.

Zhang Shijue mentioned all the generals in Annan's separatist regime, but he didn't mention the Wu family who guarded Xuanguang.

Chen Mu said: "What you said is not bad. At this time, I can only wait to use his strength to attack the Mo family together. After this battle is over, we will let the Wu family come out from Xuanguang, take over the ascending dragon, and give the river bank Let's see it!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)