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Inside and outside the camp, one after another, Mo family soldiers knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy.

Some of them had already escaped, but they ran into the infantry brought by Liu Xinyu and Ding Jiasheng. There were not many infantry, and they only brought over a thousand people, while the rest continued to cross the river.

Liu Xinyu glanced at the prisoners everywhere and ordered: "Tell them not to panic. As long as they are not heinous people, the Datong Heavenly Soldiers will not kill them."

Immediately, dozens of military officials and civilian husbands ran to talk to the Vietnamese prisoners.

These officials and civilians are very special. Most of them come from the islands of Qinzhou, and a small number of them come from Yong'an Prefecture, which is later known as Fangchenggang and Beibu Gulf.

Probably during the Zhengde period, Mo Dengyong usurped the throne of Annan, and the whole of Vietnam was in constant war. Many Vietnamese people fled to the sea and fled to the coastal islands of Guangxi, where they have flourished for more than a hundred years. They became the Jing ethnic group in later generations of China. (By the way, Mo Dengyong was born in Dongguan and moved to Annan with his father. Mo Jingyu, who was beaten in front of him, is technically of Han descent.)

After Zhao Han captured Guangxi, these descendants of Vietnamese people naturally lived a new life.

During this expedition to Annan, all town, village and peasant and soldier cadres in those areas who could speak Vietnamese were transferred. Not only were they in Guangxi Division, but Li Dingguo was also with them, so communication was no problem all the way.

When fighting, they are translators.

After recapturing Annan, they became officials. The overall official rank was promoted to the third level, and those who performed well could even be promoted to the fifth or sixth rank.

Chen Haigui is a Yue town mayor. He walked to the captives and raised his voice to comfort the prisoners: "Don't be afraid, our Datong army does not kill people indiscriminately. Like you, my ancestors were also common people of Annan, but now I am a common citizen of Datong China." Your Majesty, the Emperor, treats all ethnic groups equally. The Han people are our elder brothers, and all ethnic groups are our brothers. From now on, we are all Yue people in China!"

One prisoner asked bravely: "My lord, are we really Dai Viet people?"

Annan Kingdom is China’s name for Vietnam. The Vietnamese themselves like to call it "Da Viet Country".

Chen Haigui scolded: "How can there be Dai Viet? From now on, there will only be Datong China, and you and I are all Chinese. I tell you, as long as the emperor rules this place, there will be no tinkou tax in the future, and there will be no need to pay labor labor! As long as you farm honestly Earth, I’ll make sure that all of you can have enough to eat!”

Most of the prisoners here are civilians. Even if they participated in burning, killing and looting, most of the looted property would belong to the generals. To put it bluntly, they were a bunch of bitter people.

After hearing what Chen Haigui said, they immediately became excited, but at the same time they felt half-convinced that it was untrue.

At this time, Annan got a script from the late Ming Dynasty in terms of people's livelihood.

The gentry and the powerful colluded with the government to avoid taxes and servitude. Bureaucrats, nobles, scholars, and soldiers do not have to pay taxes and serve in the military, and the entire burden falls on ordinary people.

Peasants or tenants, in addition to the regular land tax, also have to pay land tax, labor money, water conservancy money, etc. Even the funds for royal sacrifices, village and town god sacrifices, and imperial and rural examinations had to be collected extra from the people, and officials took the opportunity to make a fortune from it.

In addition, there are also a mess of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which has caused Vietnamese farmers, who have two or three crops a year, to live on the verge of starving to death at any time.

What’s even more funny is that there are many ethnic minorities in the mountainous areas of Vietnam, and the Vietnamese monarchs and ministers regard themselves as Chinese. They regard ethnic minorities as barbarians and allow village leaders in mountainous areas to govern themselves. Village leaders can be hereditary and only need to pay tribute to the central government for local specialties. In other words, in Vietnam, which is as big as a palm, there are still many mountain chieftains...including many chieftains from the Zhuang, Dai, and Miao ethnic groups.

Although he is said to be a chieftain, he can actually rule several villages.

For these mountain chieftain forces, the imperial court will send corresponding ethnic minority officials in the future. Anyway, there will be no language communication difficulties.

Facing the Vietnamese prisoners' inquiries, Chen Haigui simply asked the prisoners to gather together and said: "My grandfather's generation crossed the sea and escaped to the Guangxi Islands more than a hundred years ago. They did nothing else but fish on the beach. In China's Ming Dynasty, the officials were very bad. Fortunately, they didn't care much about the islands in the sea. They only asked the government to pay tribute to fish every year. But in the past few decades, more and more fish have to be paid as tribute. We fishermen There is often no fish to eat..."

"His Majesty the Emperor's heavenly soldiers are here, and they are followed by good officials. Your Majesty feels that the island is barren and cannot grow much food. He also feels that our fishing is hard and our taxes are very low. Because I can speak Chinese, I first became the village chief. , rose to the rank of mayor in a few years, and is now sent to Annan by His Majesty..."

"As long as you are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, you will all be able to live a good life in the future. You will not pay the Dingkou tax, you will not pay the labor payment, and the land tax will be paid according to the number of acres. If you don't have land, you won't have to pay a penny..."

Chen Haigui introduced good governance in a eloquent manner, which made the captives stunned. They wished that Annan would become Chinese territory as soon as possible.

Within the enemy camp, the final battle finally broke out.

Mo Jingyu saw that the morale of his elite troops was low and there were already signs of breaking up and fleeing. He issued an order: "As long as this battle is won, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Those who have made meritorious service in battle will be rewarded with five taels for each enemy killed. If they can kill, The enemy general will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and promoted to the third level!"

In this way, the morale of the army was finally stabilized, and those elite troops also had the courage to fight.

But there were dragoons from all directions, and Mo Jingyu didn't know where to attack. While he was observing the battle situation, the Crouching Tiger Cannon of the Datong Mountain Cavalry was also dragged into the camp by the war horses.

A squatting tiger cannon has a range of 500 meters, far exceeding that of a bow and arrow.

At the same time, it can also fire shotguns. A cannon was fired, one big bomb and a hundred small bombs.

This thing is also a mortar, it can be ejected!

"Boom boom boom!"

A long way away, a squat cannon with a gate tiger estimated the distance and fired towards Mo Jingyu's elite troops.

This style of play was really bullying. Even though the Mo army was far away, they found that stone bullets were falling all over the sky, like hail falling from the sky, which was more terrifying than being bombarded by serious artillery.

"Follow me to kill the enemy!"

No need to think about where to hit, Mo Jingyu drew his sword out of its sheath and personally led the troops to charge towards the source of the gunfire.

But one-fifth of his thousands of elite troops had been destroyed by the Tiger Crouching Cannon. During the charge, some soldiers were affected by the rout and wanted to escape in fear.

After finally rushing dozens of steps away from the Crouching Tiger Cannon, they faced hundreds of mountain cavalry. The cavalry all dismounted, lined up, and pointed their guns at the enemy.

At this moment, the scattered cavalry on their sides and rear also gathered together, preparing to seize the opportunity to charge.

"Bang bang bang!"

A volley of gunfire rang out from the front.

Immediately afterwards, cavalry rushed over from both sides, firing their guns on horseback, and then charged with their swords.

Mo Jingyu's elite troops were attacked from three sides. They subconsciously turned around and fled back. No matter how loud the coach shouted, they couldn't stop it.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunshots were also heard from behind, and these soldiers finally broke down and ran away aimlessly.

Mo Jingyu was riding a horse, dumbfounded on the spot. All his soldiers had fled.

"Haha, Qi Shaobao's squatting tiger cannon has done great work again!" Zhu Minru, the commander of the cavalry, laughed proudly.

The Tiger Crouching Cannon was invented by Qi Jiguang and was specially used to fight in mountains, hills or the south where there are paddy fields.

To deal with the Japanese pirates, not only the Mandarin Duck Formation was used, but the Tiger Crouching Cannon also made great achievements. One or two rounds of shotgun shelling can destroy the Japanese pirates. Moreover, this thing is very light and can be carried by horses or people to run. When encountering Japanese pirates, it can quickly reach the battlefield.

Later, Qi Jiguang fought with the Mongols, and the Crouching Tiger Cannon also became a weapon against the Mongolian cavalry.

At that time, Qi Jiguang organized a cavalry battalion. There were 2,700 cavalrymen in each battalion. They were usually equipped with 60 squatting tiger cannons, and each tiger squatting cannon was equipped with three cavalrymen as gunners. At critical moments, you can even attack the Mongolian cavalry with the Crouching Tiger Cannon on your back.

When encountering Mongolian cavalry, first greet them with muskets and rockets, and then fire shotguns from the crouching cannon. During the close combat, the chariots blocked the cavalry, and the infantry formed an improved version of the mandarin duck formation. The Mongolian cavalry retreated, and Qi Jiguang's cavalry pursued them. After catching up, they "dismounted and raised their cannons" and fired a volley - in fact, they dismounted and raised their guns, which was Zhao Han's dragoon routine, which Qi Jiguang had already used.

Nowadays, based on actual combat experience, the northern troops are also studying Qi Jiguang's tactics, and Lu Xiangsheng also wrote a memorial suggesting improved tactics. For example, re-establishing a chariot battalion will make it easier to go to the grasslands to fight in the future. This thing has no effect against the Manchus, but it is a powerful weapon against the grassland cavalry.

Zhao Han is also thinking about adjusting the organizational structure of the northern army. Not only should he add new tank battalions, but he should also list the Tiger Crouching Cannon as a standing weapon.

Mo Jingyu was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly hit his horse and ran away, and slashed at the defeated soldiers blocking the way with his sword.

This guy Zhu Minru was punished for a duel before the formation, but he still didn't hold back his temper at this moment. He was born as a martial artist and always wanted to show his strength. At this moment, he rode alone to chase the enemy general.

The Datong cavalry beside him naturally did not dare to neglect and rushed forward to follow.

Zhu Minru killed more than thirty defeated soldiers one after another and chased them from the west to the east of the camp.

Just when they were about to catch up, more than a dozen Datong cavalry rushed out from the side and killed Mo Jingyu in an instant.

Even the way of death for this King Mo seemed very perfunctory.

"I'm so angry!"

Zhu Minru was very depressed. The chance to capture the enemy general's head in the midst of thousands of troops was gone again. He was a military officer in the previous dynasty, and he couldn't use his skills. Every time he fought, he used muskets and artillery.

Outside the camp.

After learning that Mo Jingyu was defeated and killed, Liu Xinyu said to Ding Jiasheng: "We will divide our troops here. You go to Haiyang, and I will go to Shenglong Mansion. After taking these two cities, immediately go south to join forces with Li Dingguo."

"good!"

Thang Long is the capital of Annan, so its military achievements are naturally different.

Ding Jiasheng was too lazy to argue. He was a scholar and had a long-term vision. He was not as knowledgeable as Liu Xinyu, who was a miner.

As for the Mo family army, they have not been completely wiped out yet.

Mo Jingyu's son, Mo Jingrui, is leading troops to attack Shanxi.

Don't complain about place names. Taiyuan, Shanxi, Henan, Xining... these are all place names in Annan. Zhao Han will definitely change them in the future, otherwise they will sound too awkward.