Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 1057 Intimidation
"……seem?"

Hu Cang was a little angry. How could such ambiguity exist in military affairs?

Night raids are night raids, and no night raids are no night raids. It seems?
He narrowed his eyes and looked at the soldier who delivered the message, with murderous intent in his heart.

The soldier saw the dangerous look in Hu Cang's eyes and shrank his neck, but opened his mouth several times and didn't know how to describe the situation outside.

"Second...Second Prince, you, you will know if you come out and take a look."

The soldier held it in for a long time before finally uttering these words.

Hu Cang glared at the soldier fiercely, but still stood up and came to the door of the tent with many generals in the tent.

As soon as he lifted the curtain, Hu Cang was stunned.

Paper, paper everywhere.

Countless flying pages were scattered from the sky, swaying in the night wind, and the scene looked somewhat sad and beautiful. Such a strange sight disturbed the curious soldiers and made them unable to sleep. They walked out of the tents and pointed at the sky.

"Second Prince, look." A general pointed to the sky.

Hu Cang followed his finger and saw two huge hot air balloons in the sky, slowly moving towards the Annan Army camp. People kept dropping paper from the hot air balloons, and the flying paper was all over the camp.

A piece of paper spun and hit Hu Cang's face. Hu Cang snatched the paper from his face and held it in front of him to take a look.

Just one glance and his face turned pale.

"The Nguyen family has attacked Thang Long City." it read.

He stretched out his hand and copied down a few pages in the air, only to see that these pages were filled with various "urgent military information".

"The Ming army has sent troops to Annan", "Hu Quy Ly set himself on fire in Thang Long Prefecture", "The Nguyen family massacred the city of Thang Long Prefecture", "Ming reinforcements are approaching Wu Qu Port", etc. If anything written on the paper came true, it would be a disaster for Hu.

"Second Prince, this should be a strategy of the Ming people to disrupt the morale of our army." Seeing Hu Cang's pale face, a general could not help but remind him.

"Ahem, ahem... Of course I know this..." After being reminded, Hu Cang's complexion improved a little.

He calmed himself down and said, "Don't pay attention to such a crude psychological attack."

"They actually want to use rumors to shake the morale of our army... It seems that the Ming army has run out of tricks..." As he spoke, he stomped the paper on the ground hard into the mud, as if to express his disdain for the Ming army's strategy.

"Tell the soldiers not to be affected. Those who need to be on duty should stay on duty, and those who need to rest should rest."

"Conserve your energy and gather your strength, and tomorrow we will lead our troops to attack the city!"

After saying this, he turned around and wanted to lift the curtain and go back into the tent.

"Second Prince... I'm afraid this is not appropriate..." An Annan general stopped Hu Cang.

"Although these pages are nonsense, if we don't speak out to strengthen the morale of the army, some of our soldiers may believe the information in these pages. If we allow the morale of the army to be affected, how can we attack the city tomorrow?"

"There is one most crucial thing...that is, that thing..." The general looked up at the hot air balloon that was still floating slowly in the sky with a look of fear.

"That thing?" Hu Cang looked up following his gaze.

"That thing is flying in the air, and it's hard for bows and arrows to reach it." The Annan general looked worried. "If the Ming army doesn't use it to throw these pages, but to transport soldiers, or even to throw fire bombs... then, can our army resist it?"

Hu Cang's face froze.

Another Annan general also remembered something and said, "I heard that the Ming army has a new weapon called 'flying ball', which can go up to the sky and into the sea."

"In the past, when the Northern Yuan Dynasty's Grand Master led his army to attack Taiyuan, the Ming Dynasty's Jin Wang Zhu Gang used this flying ball to throw heavenly fire into the Yuan army's formation at night, defeating the Yuan army... I originally thought this was just a strange story meant to encourage the Ming army. Now it seems that the flying ball is this thing in front of me?"

"Zhou Wang Zhu Su is a famous general in the Ming court. If he could think of throwing papers to disrupt our army's morale, how could he not think of letting this flying ball loaded with kerosene and gunpowder be thrown from the air to kill our army?"

"Is this a demonstration?" An Annan general said as he looked at the papers flying down from the sky. "It looks like the Ming king Zhou is throwing papers to undermine the morale of our army."

"In fact, it was a demonstration to us: if they could throw paper over our heads, they could also throw kerosene and gunpowder over our heads."

"If we continue to besiege the city, the things written on the paper will come true!"

When he said this, everyone felt a sudden chill down their spine.

Yes, if the Ming army had thrown kerosene and explosives instead of paper tonight, they would have suffered heavy casualties under the city of Wu Qu, and the Hu family would definitely not be a match for the Ruan family.

And by then, what is written on those pages might become reality!

Hu Cang was sweating profusely, but he still forced a smile and said, "Are you all exaggerating? Perhaps, the King Zhou of the Ming Dynasty is overrated and has never thought of throwing kerosene on our heads..."

Before he finished his words, there was a sound of something breaking, which scared Hu Cang and the Annan generals.

Hu Cang turned his head in astonishment, and his face suddenly turned extremely pale: he saw that on the top of the big tent where they were meeting just now, a fire was burning fiercely.

"No, it's bad! The central army camp is flooded!"

"Hurry, put out the fire, put out the fire!"

The center of the army suddenly fell into chaos, and the soldiers panicked and hurried to find buckets of water to put out the fire.

Hu Cang's face was covered with cold sweat. He and the other generals were in that big tent just now. If they hadn't come out, maybe this fire would have burned him and all the generals in the army to death.

"It's the Ming army's kerosene cans!" a general said in surprise. He looked up into the sky and made sure that the Ming army had not continued to throw kerosene cans, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned to Hu Cang and said, "Second Prince, the Ming army did not continue to throw kerosene. It is obvious that they are demonstrating to us."

"If we are stubborn and still insist on besieging the city, I am afraid that tomorrow, what will be thrown down from the sky will no longer be pages of paper, but full kerosene cans!"

"Yes, Second Prince, let's withdraw! The Ming army is very powerful and we cannot defeat them."

"Second Prince, if my Hu family wants to gain a foothold in Annan, we still need the support of the suzerain state, the Ming Dynasty. We cannot offend King Zhou to death!"

"Second Prince, King Zhou has given us a way out. If we don't follow it, there will be a thundering disaster next!"

"Second Prince, our primary enemy is always Ruan Duofang. It is not wise to fight to the death with the Ming army here..."

A group of generals advised. They had long since given up the idea of ​​fighting the Ming army to death in Wuqu. This city built by the Ming people was nothing more than a turtle shell, with nowhere to attack.

If you continue to fight, not only will you not gain any military merit, but you may also die here at any time.

Hu Cang glanced at the burning tent, then at the still-flying pages, and swallowed. His desire to cherish his life finally overcame his desire to make a contribution.

"...We will break camp tomorrow and retreat to Thang Long City." Hu Cang gave the order.

(End of this chapter)