Chapter 890 Morning of Destiny

In the early morning of the 28th, the dark gray sky was already shining.The front river was covered with fog and there was no wind.

Several small boats side by side, with glass lanterns on their masts, appearing faintly in the fog, flashing orange and yellow lights, and from a distance they look like erratic ghost fire.

The wood pulp slashed in the water, making a crisp sound of water.

The boats ahead are leading the way because their vision is still unclear.

Behind the boat, there was a ball of light in the air.

At the location of the light, a huge black shadow slowly swam forward through the fog. The mountain-like scale is intimidating, like a dark monster, which at first glance gives people a suffocating pressure.

This is the outline of a treasure ship.

The sound behind was louder, and the ends of long oars on both sides of the ship were moving like propellers.Many sergeants were in the cabin, shaking their oars hard.

There are several treasure ships, plus various warships of all sizes, meeting along the wide front river, advancing in a long formation.

The sergeant who rowed the boat could take turns to rest, but General Chen Xuan didn't fall asleep almost all night.

He stood next to the railing of the treasure ship, and the cool and humid air in the early morning made him wake up a little.He said: The heavy fog may be a good thing for us.Then he turned around and walked into the official hall.

There are some maps and files placed on the wooden table.The map of Zhenla Kingdom among them was not personally explored and drawn by the official army; after all, the army had just arrived in Zhenla Kingdom.

Most of the maps come from Shi Jinqing, the envoy of the old port, and the old maps collected from Shenglong City, Annan Kingdom, may not necessarily be very accurate.However, Chen Xuan could only refer to these drawings temporarily.

There are many rivers along the coast of Zhenla Kingdom.Near Sai Kung Port, the sea outlets of the larger rivers on the map have been recorded, from north to south are the Tongnai River, Qianjiang River and Mekong River.

The Tongnai River and Qianjiang River are combined into one dozen miles from the coast. The Zhu Zhen troops of the official army and the Zhenla army are confronting each other nearby.

Qianjiang is the widest water surface and the deepest underwater river. The main force of the Ming Navy is the one who came in from Qianjiang.From yesterday evening to early morning this morning, Chen Xuan's warship had no trouble stranding.

To the north of the army camps on both sides, there is a tributary of the Tongnai River that flows from the northwest; the tributary can completely cut off the northern retreat of the Zhen La Army.

However, if the Ming army's treasure ship was about to enter this tributary, it might encounter shallows; it could only keep sailing in the middle of the river at all times, so that it might not be stranded and blocked the river.

Chen Xuan temporarily decided to send the sand ship and the Mengchong battleship into the tributary.

In addition, on the Mekong River, which reaches the sea to the south, from the estuary to Phnom Penh City, the river forms a large semicircular shape on the map.

If the Ming army could control this section of the river, it would completely encircle the main force of the Zhen La army.

However, such a thing seems unrealistic, just because the river section is too long.

According to the information provided by Shi Jinqing, the semicircle is estimated to have a diameter of more than 300 miles; it is far beyond the control range of the government forces.

Therefore, Chen Xuan only sent a team of partial divisions to find an opportunity to attack the back of the Zhen La Army.

Chen Xuan repeatedly speculated that the main force of the Zhen La Army could still escape.But the raided fighter plane was right in front of him, and if he didn't try it, he wouldn't be able to accept it.

Yesterday, Zhenla Manchu and the coalition forces raided the Ming army from the sea, thinking that the Ming army was not prepared.

As a result, Chen Xuan ambushed and counterattacked the enemy and caught him off guard. After the two sides had just fought, the truth of the military situation was still shrouded in the fog, and some absurd things might be vaguely possible.

Isn’t the fog of war just like the heavy fog in front of you?

...Before dawn, the real La people's sentry detects a large number of enemy ships on the front river.

The sergeant ran into a village where the central army was located, claiming that there was an emergency military situation to report to the commander, and was able to meet An En in a round straw hut house.

Two dark-skinned girls were holding their clothes and curled up on the blanket.

They were surprised by the sergeant who suddenly broke in, and the local villagers had never seen the world very much, so the villagers looked very scared.

The handsome Ann sat up naked, asked with a tired and sleepy look: What happened?

The sergeant general Qianjiang said the situation.

An En seemed to be dreaming at first, but when he woke up a little, he was a little unbelievable: The coalition navy only raided the Ming people's fleet yesterday. How could the Ming warship appear in Qianjiang?Could it be that the generals and the others failed? But the Ming people would not come so quickly...

The sergeant who reported the news repeatedly explained that he had to find someone else to testify because he was not the only one who saw the huge warship.

Only then did An En probably believe it.

Ann realized that the matter was a bit serious, and he hurriedly got up from the blanket, looking for him to throw the room full of clothes.

While he was anxious to wear it, he said: Go and send orders to the generals to the big tent to obey.

The two girls in the village hurriedly asked him where he was going and if he could take them away.

Ann was a little impatient, but she kissed one of the girls on the forehead and told her to wait here and come to them after completing the big thing.

The Zhenla nobles and generals were making noise in the Central Military Camp.

The matter was too sudden, and everyone had not figured out what was happening on the sea surface of Saigon Bay; the only thing people know about at the moment was that the Ming Dynasty ship entered Qianjiang and was approaching near the Zhenla Army camp.

A nobleman almost shouted and shouted loudly that Ann immediately ordered the entire army to break into pieces and immediately run northwest, and then run away first.

He was simply coercing Ann, which made Ann very uncomfortable.

Calm, a leader.As soon as you heard the news of the Ming army, you wanted to escape. How could this work?Ann looked at the nobleman in disappointment.

Another person suggested: We should send someone to inquire about the Qianjiang tributary.That river is too close to us. If the Ming people come from this river, there will be danger on our side.If we find the enemy, we should retreat quickly.

Ann agreed to this suggestion and immediately sent his personal guards and people to visit the west.

Some nobles also started to argue, but in Ann's view, they were all useless quarrels.

Several of them believed that the main force of the Ming army was indeed in dozens of military camps on the opposite side of the Tongnai River.

Based on this speculation, they determined that the enemy would use ships to cross the river to attack the Zhenla army at the intersection of the Tongnai River and Qianjiang River.

The nobles who were ridiculing them felt that the enemy's sea ship was strange and began to suspect that the main force of the Ming army on the land was a scam!

Just then, an old man with gray hair and beard stood up.An En and others took a look and recognized the old man as the king's envoy, the official in charge of Buddhist scriptures and history books in Angkor City, and the host of the royal temple.

The remarks of the King's Messenger also made Ann feel uncomfortable.Because the King's messenger spoke very much and slowly, it made people feel that he could not tell the difference and only cared about showing his wisdom.

The envoy said: This morning is very important, General Ann must be cautious.Perhaps this will determine the future of the Zhenla royal family and the fate of countless countries in the South China Sea (the ocean is in the south of the Zhenla Kingdom).

Ann didn't want to offend such a person, so he suppressed his unhappiness and nodded.

Then An En immediately raised his hands, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said decisively: Summon the army immediately and bring elite elephant soldiers.We went to the opposite bank of the enemy camp to form a formation to block the enemy's crossing the river and drove the enemy whose footholds were not stable down from the Tongnai River!

The nobles who had tried to coerce Ann immediately shouted frantically: Don't forget that our strategy is to lure the enemy into depth and drag down the Ming army.You are making decisions without authorization!

Ann was furious and stared at the nobleman and said, "I am a general, so I will take charge of it, otherwise I will listen to you quarrel here all day?"Besides, the current situation is not clear, so we should first stabilize our position and understand the situation, rather than act rashly.

What else the nobleman wanted to say, Ann immediately spoke impatiently and blocked his mouth: If you don’t accept it, you can take your followers away. But what awaits you will surely be the king's severe punishment.

Finally no one spoke.

So Ann ordered the battalions to gather troops and personally led elite soldiers to go east to control the banks of the Tongnai River.

After some preparation and dispatch, the sun had risen from the horizon.The fog has not yet dissipated, and a halo is shrouded in the red sun.

On the west bank of the Tongnai River, there are flags everywhere and the swords and weapons are shaking.

The solid and tall elephant soldier paced his feet anxiously, and occasionally let out low horns like horns.

The elite soldiers' thick skin is covered with a layer of hard leather armor, which is incomprehensible to swords and guns and cannot penetrate the crossbow. They have always been experts in charge.

After a while, An En was on the riverside and saw with his own eyes that many Ming soldiers gathered on the other side of the foggy.Their army seemed to be waiting for warships to come to pick them up.

An En's mood gradually calmed down from the panic in the early morning shock.

However, things seemed not to be moving towards his idea, and there was an unexpected military situation again.The spies came to report that Ming army warships were found on the tributary of the Tongnai River in the north.

Ann felt that there were only ships over there and there were no troops on land.He asked carefully and did not know what happened.

The nobles around him reminded: The ship may have loaded troops.

Ann immediately ordered with great pleasure and decisiveness: Order the left wing to go north and reinforce the northern river bank.He asked the nobles hiding in the camp to take their people to the north.

Not long after, the enemy crowds on the other side gradually boarded some flat-bottomed boats with small hulls.It seems that they will soon land on the shore to attack the West Coast.

An En shouted the guards to go to the battalions to send orders to the generals to rectify their troops and prepare for war.