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In fact, it was Ruan Gan, the ancestor of the Ruan family, who led the soldiers and civilians into the mountain at that time.Zheng Jian, the ancestor of the Zheng family, came to seek refuge in the middle of the journey, and made a fortune by being Ruan Gan's son-in-law.

They didn't work hard in the mountains for 13 years, but spent 13 years as turtles.

In the end, he was able to restore the country because Mo Dengyong angered Emperor Jiajing, and the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had already reached Zhennan Pass.Mo Dengyong was so frightened that he peed his pants, and personally led all the ministers to Zhennan Pass to confess his guilt to the Ming army and ask for surrender.

The ancestors of the Nguyen and Zheng clans seized the opportunity to send troops to retake Ngee An and Thanh Hoa.With the help of Ngee Ann and Qinghua gentry, they recruited the peasant army for the Northern Expedition, and finally recaptured Thang Long Mansion.

After the restoration of the country, the Ruan family and the Zheng family fell out, and the Zheng family also played tricks to usurp power. The Ruan family fled to the south to establish a separatist regime.

Of course, in the Zheng family's propaganda, the Ruan family is the traitor, and the restoration of the country depends on the Zheng family's efforts.

At night, Zheng didn't sleep soundly, and was always worried about the future development.

Suddenly there was the sound of shouting and killing, and Zheng woke up suddenly.

Zheng Zuo came over with his own soldiers and said anxiously: "Father, go quickly, the Han soldiers are coming!"

Zheng Jing said: "Why so fast? Can Han soldiers fly?"

Chapter 650 [Many acts of injustice]

Of course the Datong Army can't fly, but Zheng Tao's side is really too slow.

Li Dingguo asked the soldiers to bring three days of dry food, but it turned out that he was overthinking.The vanguard of the Datong Army only took half a day and midnight to catch up with Zheng Pi's army.

One side is procrastinating, carrying a lot of luggage, and most of them are peasant husbands and bravery.

One side rushed at full speed, only brought a small amount of dry food, and all of them were elite troops. .

In other words, even if it is replaced by Vietnam's elite troops, the situation will not change much.Zheng led an army of [-] to march south, but wasn't it overthrown by Ruan's [-] elephant soldiers?

This bad old man is purely addicted to food. He doesn't know how to fight, but he always fights himself.

Yuan Shizhong was the first to catch up.He abandoned the infantry, took the cavalry of the whole division, and hurried along the official road on horseback.Then he abandoned his war horse, temporarily transformed into infantry, and ran all the way with his equipment.

He was not afraid of going the wrong way at all. Zheng's tens of thousands of troops trampled countless crops along the way, and he could see even if he was not blind.

More than 2000 soldiers came after us in the early hours of the morning holding torches.Fun Court

Zheng Pi's tens of thousands of troops were still sleeping, and they didn't even bother to set up camp, and there was no way to set up camp because there were paddy fields all around.They just lay on the field ridge, or several people sat together, resting back to back with each other.Fires were lit every three to five times, and there was no open flame, only wet grass was used to smoke mosquitoes, and each fire was filled with grass on duty.

It was the soldier in charge of fuming mosquitoes who saw the Datong army coming with torches and shouted in fright: "The pursuers are here, the pursuers are here!"

Zheng Jun who was nearby fried the pot in an instant. His first reaction was not to defend against the enemy, but to jump into the paddy field and scatter for their lives against the muddy water.

It's not easy to line up in this broken place during the day, let alone being attacked at night.

Yuan Shizhong heard the chaotic shouts ahead, and immediately ordered: "No need to wear armor, no firecrackers, kill the enemy immediately!"

After the order was passed on, more than 2000 fellow soldiers put down their armored stomachs one after another.He didn't even want Huo Tong, he just threw it on the edge of the field, and rushed up shirtless with a cold weapon in hand.

"Kill!"

Datong soldiers, holding torches in one hand and waist knives in the other, ran quickly along the field ridges, and from time to time some people slipped and fell into the fields.

When encountering a fork in the field, they are automatically divided into several teams, so as not to prevent the whole army from forming a long snake.

Zheng's army stretched for several miles, and at this moment, wave after wave collapsed.Those who were far away from the Datong Army didn't even know what was going on, so they subconsciously ran away.

There are also some diligent gentry who took the night attack of the Datong Army as a good opportunity and ran away with the bravery of their village.Otherwise, they will follow Zheng through the valley, and they will be able to return to their hometown sometime.

Under the moonlight, torches danced wildly, causing chaos.

Due to the hot weather, the Datong army went into battle shirtless, with only cold weapons in their hands, and more than 2000 people chased tens of thousands of enemy troops.

As for Zheng Pi, Zheng Zha and his son, they could only control the troops on a few ridges around them.They also didn't know how many pursuers had come, they only heard that they were fleeing in all directions.

Fortunately, Zheng Pi has experienced many battles. Although he has not won any battles, he has a lot of experience in defeating battles. The old man in his 70s seemed to have had an adrenaline rush, and led his troops to escape quickly in the first place.He has seen this kind of situation a lot, and he didn't get dizzy from fright, knowing that the most important thing is to save his life now.

Yuan Shizhong chopped down several people one after another, and knelt on the ground in front of the field ridge.

Yuan Shizhong shouted angrily: "Get out of the way, those who surrender go to the field, don't block the road on the ridge!"

It's a pity that he didn't bring a translator, and the enemy soldiers couldn't understand it at all.

But, the waist knife in the hands of the Datong Army is the universal language of the world.After cutting out the corpses all over the ridge, the enemy soldiers understood that very few people dared to kowtow on the ridge.

This kind of terrain is easy to defeat the enemy, but it is not easy to kill and capture the enemy.

More than [-]% of Zheng Zha's tens of thousands of troops escaped successfully.They ran sideways in the rice fields, and they couldn't tell the direction, as far as they could run.

Most of them will flee back to their hometown, and some may gather as bandits.

After all, Zheng Zha was still too old, and after only running for a few dozen steps, he was so tired that he was out of breath.

He ordered his soldiers to flee with him on their backs, but the ridges of the fields were already narrow, and it was even more difficult to keep balance while carrying someone on their backs.Running and running, the soldier stumbled and stepped on the air,

Fall into the field with Zheng Pi.

Zheng Zuo looked back at the Datong army who were chasing closer and closer, and then at his old father who fell into the paddy field.After a little hesitation, he gritted his teeth and left, pretending that he didn't know anything.

The soldiers managed to get up, seeing that the pursuers were approaching, they didn't care about Zheng Bing, and ran away rubbing the muddy water.

Zheng Pi, who was over seventy years old, struggled in the paddy field, finally climbed back to the ridge, and said angrily: "Nizi, come back and save your father!"

Zheng Zuo heard the words and ran faster.

For this old father, he has saved several times.The situation is similar, that is, the army was suddenly defeated, and then he took his father and fled the battlefield quickly.

This time there is really no way to save it!

Li Shenzong, Li Zhenzong and his son were squatting by the field and shivering.

Yuan Shizhong led his troops to chase after him, but Li Zhenzong quickly hugged his head, pretending that the ostrich could not see anything.

But Li Shenzong stood up and shouted in the Chinese he learned when he was young: "I am Emperor Li...I am the Supreme King of Annan, I wish to send soldiers from heaven, I wish to send soldiers from heaven!"

Yuan Shizhong stopped quickly and asked, "Are you the Lord of Annan?"

I am," Li Shenzong pointed to his son and said, "I am the supreme king of Annan, this is the king of Annan, please help my father and son to restore the country! "

Yuan Shizhong laughed loudly: "Keep a few people and take good care of these two!"

Li Shenzong said again: "The traitor of the Zheng family is running over there, the general is going to chase him down."

Yuan Shizhong laughed even more happily: "I remember that you have made great contributions to guiding the way!"

Zheng Pi felt that his waist was broken, and his back hurt every step he took.He simply abandoned the field ridge and hid in the paddy field, using the knee-deep seedlings as cover,

Crawling among the seedlings like a dog.

Really let him run away!

There are really too many deserters, and there are too many deserters, and the Datong soldiers can't take care of them at all.

Whenever he felt that pursuers were approaching, Zheng would lie down in the seedling field, even pressing his face into the muddy water.When a wave of pursuers passed by, he continued to crawl, and climbed several fields in a row.

Climbing until dawn, he managed to escape and fled to a village covered in mud.

It is estimated that rout soldiers have come here, and the villagers are so frightened that they hide at home, not even a ghost can be seen in the surroundings.

Zheng Pi didn't dare to stay longer, and felt more and more pain in his waist, so he limped towards the outside of the village.

The bad old man in his 70s was really tortured enough, half his life was lost.He stopped and rested, and he didn't know how far he had walked. Anyway, the sun was about to set, and he finally came to the second village community hungry.

Tired and hungry at this moment, Zheng Pi touched his waist, there was only a scabbard left, and his saber was lost somewhere.

Zheng dared not enter the village, so he wandered outside the village for a long time, and finally saw a shepherd boy returning home from herding cattle.

"Little brother!" Zheng shouted with a smile on his face.

When the shepherd boy saw that he was covered in mud, he thought he was a beggar, so he laughed and said, "Beggar, don't take a bath, you're ashamed!"

Zheng Zha suppressed the anger in his heart, took off the jade pendant around his waist, wiped the mud and said, "What do you think this is?"

The shepherd boy's eyes lit up: "It's so beautiful."

Zheng Zhe said seductively: "You go home and get some food, and this jade pendant will be given to you. Remember, don't tell others that they will come to snatch this treasure."

The shepherd boy spread his hands: "Give it to me first."

"You bring the food, and I'll give you the jade pendant." Zheng Pi had already made up his mind that as long as the shepherd boy brought food, he would take the opportunity to strangle him to avoid revealing his whereabouts.

But the shepherd boy said, "Give it to me first!"

Zheng was so hungry that he had to hand over the jade pendant, and then hid himself until the shepherd boy came back with food.

The shepherd boy grazes cattle for the landlord's family, and the family has nothing to eat.After a long time, I brought some bran rice porridge in a bamboo tube, handed it to Zheng and said:

"Take it and eat it. I saved it. I'll be hungry if I eat it for you."

Zheng Pi grabbed the bamboo tube and poured it into his mouth.The rough bran was so unpalatable that it made him want to vomit, and it rubbed against his esophagus, making it difficult to swallow.

After swallowing it abruptly, Zheng Pi saw the shepherd boy turn and leave, he quietly chased after him and stretched out his hands.

"Woooooo~~~"

The shepherd boy was suddenly strangled by the neck, subconsciously grabbed Zheng Pi's wrist, and struggled wildly with a painful expression.

The strength of the struggle became smaller and smaller, and finally died gradually.

With a grim expression on his face, Zheng let go of the shepherd boy's body, turned around and fled further away.

But after walking a few steps, Zheng Pi suddenly clutched his lower back.He was thrown with a slight bone fracture last night, crawling and walking all the way, and now strangled the shepherd boy to death, finally making the fractured bone more serious.

Zheng couldn't walk anymore, he couldn't even crawl, and as long as his limbs were exerted, his waist hurt so badly that he almost passed out.

Night falls.

The body of the shepherd boy was lying there, a few meters away, Zheng Pi couldn't move half a step, and finally could only lie on the ground waiting to die.

Time slipped back to dawn.

Zheng Zuo ran away with dozens of soldiers, running less and less along the way.Some of the soldiers pretended to fall, and after falling into the paddy field, they fled sideways for their lives staring at the muddy water. Some soldiers were caught, although they could not communicate with each other, but in order to make meritorious deeds and survive, they yelled and pointed out the direction of Zheng Zuo's escape.

Zheng Zuo didn't know where to flee. The Shenglong Mansion was gone, the Zheng family in Qinghua was also copied, and the army was completely disbanded. Even if he fled into the mountains, he could only be a savage.

"Pfft!"

Zheng Zuo finally lost his legs and fell, and the soldiers behind him hurriedly helped him up.

Then, the classic show was staged.

A soldier said: "The Thang Long Mansion is gone, I don't know if our family is still there."

Another soldier said, "Is this still going into the mountains?"

"Go into the mountains to graze?"

"I won't run away, I was on my way yesterday, and now I'm exhausted!"

"If you don't escape, you will be caught and beheaded."

"Arrest this guy to ask for credit, and he will definitely survive."

"Yes, arrest him for meritorious service!"

"Dog thing, the seller is begging for glory, let me go!"

Several soldiers tore off Zheng Zuo's belt and tied up the guy's hands and feet.

They went back the same way, and when they met the Datong army, they shouted: "The son of Zheng Wang is here, the son of Zheng Wang is here, the son of Zheng Wang has been captured!"

Chapter 651 [I destroy your country, you have to thank you]

Thang Long Mansion.

The two Annan kings were brought back to their capital.

As far as the eye can see, it is devastated.

The streets and alleys are full of blood stains that have not been washed.Walking through the streets and cities, you can occasionally see houses that have been burned by fire. .The once-prosperous city of Thang Long was plundered by Mo's army for a few days, and the population has been directly halved.

Of course, not all the lost population in the city died unexpectedly, and many families fled elsewhere.

Li Shenzong, Li Zhenzong and his son rode in the same carriage and were dumbfounded after entering the city.

Li Dingguo said to Li Shenzong: "I will fight against the sky, and I will not harass the people. These are the sins of Mo and his son."

Before everyone arrived at Lord Zheng's mansion, Zhang Dai had already brought officials to welcome them.

Zhang Dai served as a diplomat very early. When the Datong Army marched northward to Shandong, Zhang Dai was ordered to recruit Zuo Liangyu.Now, he is Zuo Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and after completing this mission, he will be promoted to Minister of Honglu Temple after returning to China.

Li Dingguo and Zhang Dai bowed to each other, Li Dingguo asked: "General Liu and General Ding are not in the city?"