On the day of the departure of the 30,000 Tang Army, the Cham country south of Annan was also going to send troops to attack Annan.

Speaking of Champa, it was originally a Chinese territory during the Han Dynasty and belonged to Ninan County. Later, it became independent as the Cham state, introduced Brahmanism, and the cultural customs were completely naturalized, completely separated from the Chinese civilization circle.

When Annam had not yet split out of the Central Plains, Cham fought many wars with the Central Plains Dynasty. Later, Annan also split out, and Cham fought against Annan again.

In Annan's eyes, Cham is a barbarian. Annam attacked the Cham many times, occupied three cities of the Cham Po, and forced the Cham state to claim the title of minister Nagong. The two countries have long been a feud.

In the original history, this year, the Yuan army should conquer the city and set up the province of Zhancheng. However, because of the butterfly effect, Japan was captured, and the second expedition to Vietnam was advanced, and the Yuan army did not conquer the city.

History has changed.

At this time, Vijaya, the capital of the Cham state, gathered more than 70,000 troops from all over the country.

The Cham king Indravarman VI, the man with this scorpion-tailed beard, was stirring up the morale of his men.

"Lord Shiva manifests in all things, he is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipresent. The brahmins of the temple of Bhanagar told me that Lord Shiva will grant us wisdom, courage, luck..."

The Cham kingdom takes Brahmanism (Hinduism) as its state religion, so it believes in Shiva and the Great Freedom Heavenly King (Cham version of Brahma)

Indravarman VI, holding an ivory to make a gem-encrusted "linga" (unspeakable), seems to be imbued with the power bestowed by the gods:

“… The powerful neighbors in the north, who believe in Confucianism and Buddha, have been insulting and invading us for a hundred years, they have despised the omnipotent Shiva, they have ignored the supreme King of Freedom, they have trampled on the noble Brahmins... Emperor Annam is the Great Demon King! ”

"Brave Kshatriya, go on a campaign, take revenge! The Yuan army in the north is the warriors sent by Lord Shiva to help us, they are attacking the land of Annam, so that the arrogant Annamite people will become as powerless as women! ”

"This is a gift from the gods! Go on the expedition and get revenge! Take back our lands, capture them, and make them lowly Shudras! ”

The Kshatriyas (nobles and warriors) who acted as generals raised their swords together and shouted: "Be with the Great Freedom Heavenly King!" God forbid! God forbid! God forbid! ”

Indravarman VI was very satisfied with the morale of the Cham soldiers, he took off his golden helmet and said to a young man who looked like a merchant from the Central Plains beside him: "Mr. Xu, you have a grudge against Annan, don't you really follow this king and go north for revenge?" ”

His Chinese was stiff, but barely understood.

The young man shook his head and smiled: "My lord, I don't know how to fight, I'm afraid of killing people, so I'd better stay in your country." ”

The king of Cham laughed, if the young man hadn't given him a lot of benefits, he would have laughed at the other man's cowardice.

"Let's go! Revenge goes! King Cham no longer persuaded the young man surnamed Xu to go along, and finally issued an order to go out.

"Boom Boom ......" Thousands of elephant soldiers of the Cham king, as well as only 3,000 cavalry, went first, and then more than 60,000 infantry rumbled out of the city of Wangjing Vijaya.

Tens of thousands of the people of the city respectfully prostrated themselves on the ground to see off their king. The Brahmin high priest, dressed in a golden silk robe and holding a scepter, personally prayed for the blessings of the armies.

Before the Champa king set out on the expedition, he used only 3,000 sailors to blockade the sea area near the junction of the two countries, and strictly guarded the border, strictly blocking the news of sending troops.

The Annan Navy was in mourning, and the army was all confronting the Yuan army, so they had no time to pay attention to the movements of the Cham country.

It is not surprising that the Cham country has always been suppressed by Annam and is afraid of being beaten. Annan didn't pay attention to the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Cham country.

The prince of Cham led an army of 70,000 to the north, leaving only a few thousand soldiers and horses in the country, and also arranged them in the west to prevent the Zhenla Kingdom. As a result, the entire southeast region is extremely empty.

Cham and Annam are bounded by Hengshan Pass, although Hengshan Pass has always been in the hands of Cham, but every time Annan goes south to attack Cham, he will hardly attack the dangerous Hengshan Pass, but directly attack the hinterland of Cham with a water division.

But it is precisely because Hengshan Pass is in the hands of Cham that this time Cham sent troops, and Annan was still in the dark.

Hengshan is very close to Vijaya, but it is only two days away. On March 28, the king of Cham arrived at Hengshan Pass.

The Cham merchants who had been sent to Annam reported that the hundreds of thousands of troops in Annam were all defending against the Yuan army in the Hong'an area, and there were almost no troops to defend south of Hong'an, which was extremely empty.

The king of Cham was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the whole army to go out of the pass, attack the Tianchang Mansion two hundred miles away, burn and loot fiercely, and it was best to attack the ancient city and kill all the monarchs and ministers of the Chen Dynasty.

What Indravarman VI didn't know was that just as he was out of the pass to attack Annam, a huge fleet of 30,000 men was riding the wind and waves to the south, forcing the empty defense of the Cham kingdom.

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Vietnam, Kuaizhou City.

Kuaizhou is an important town, as the forefront of the Hong'an defense line, the most defensive pressure, and the most critical place, at this time by Chen Rixian personally guarded.

After the defeat of Jiangbei, Chen Rixian collected the remnants of Chen Guojun's army, and the forbidden army under his command reached 100,000. After he crossed the river in the upper reaches of the Baiteng River, he came to Kuaizhou non-stop.

Chen Rixian summed up the lesson of the defeat in Jiangbei that even if he had twice the number of troops, he would never be able to fight a head-on battle with the Yuan army with high morale on flat ground, and most of them would lose.

Chen Rilian's arrangement was that in addition to the 40,000 soldiers and horses in the city and the 20,000 soldiers and horses guarding the pass road, the remaining 40,000 people were all in battalions (500 people), carrying a large number of poisoned arrows and beast cards, and scattered into the jungles on both sides of Kuaizhou.

As a famous general, Chen Rixian knew very well that the Hong'an defense line was too large to really defend against the Yuan army. Even if there are cities and jungles, they can't stop the army of more than 100,000 yuan from going south.

His purpose was not to prevent the Yuan army from entering the Tianchang Mansion in the first place. He just wanted to delay the Yuan army for more than a month. It was delayed until the spring rice was ripe and harvested, and until the three million people in Viet Central could carry grain into the mountains and forests.

As long as the soldiers and civilians of Dayue bring food into the mountains, even if they temporarily throw Yuezhong to Yuan Kou, it is not impossible. Wait until the Yuan army is not accustomed to the soil and water, and the morale is sluggish, and then go out of the mountains for a decisive battle.

According to Tanma, the Yuan army had been staying dozens of miles north of Kuaizhou for a few days, perhaps blocked by the jungle, or unfamiliar with the terrain, the Yuan army did not continue to advance, but temporarily stationed outside the jungle.

At this time, more than 300,000 troops had been deployed in an area of 200 miles from Hongzhou in the west to Anxian in the east. The city and the jungle swamp are intertwined. All the roads were also blocked by heavy troops.

In such a situation, there is no problem in persevering until the spring rice harvest.

But for some reason, Chen Rixian has always been restless in the past two days, and feels that he has missed something very important.

Chen Rilian has been in a good position recently, and his thoughts are all on the Yuan army in the north, and he has no time to care about anything else.

He looked at the map for a moment, and suddenly understood something.

Chen Rixian raised a slightly haggard face, and asked a general in a hoarse voice: "South and west, is there any news?" ”

South and West? The general was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

"Your Highness is talking about Cham and Ailao? It is said that there is no movement. These barbarians are scared of being beaten by Da Yue, shouldn't they dare? ”

"Don't dare?" Chen Rixian stood up with a sneer, his handsome and elegant face became gloomy like water, "Usually they don't dare." But right now... Hmph, no movement, that's the biggest movement. ”

Another general said, "Is Your Highness too worried?" "Da Yue has always suppressed the Cham and Ai Lao out of breath, and for a hundred years, almost all of them have been sent out by Da Yue to recruit troops, and they have long been scared.

Chen Rixian looked at the dark shadow under the oil lamp, which was the closest to the oil lamp, but it was the place where the oil lamp could not illuminate.

It's dark under the lights.

"Cham, mourning, although a small country is widowed, barbarians. Before that, he was a deterrent and surrendered to the Great Vietnamese soldiers. But now that Dayue is too busy to take care of himself, how can they not have different hearts? If the Yuan Kou sent people to contact them and lure them to their advantage, they would most likely take advantage of the fire to rob them. ”

When Chen Rilian said this, he looked at the map again, pointed his finger to the location of the Yuan army, and knocked it again.

Why didn't the Yuan army march for a few days? Li Luo is obviously not a mediocre talent, and he is also very decisive in using soldiers, how can he waste his efforts in vain and hesitate?

Suddenly, Chen Rixian laughed, but his smile was full of bitterness. The generals were a little puzzled when they saw it.

"The Yuan army is waiting for the Cham to send troops!" Although Chen Rixian smiled, there was no smile in his eyes. "If this marshal is not bad as expected, Cham and Ailao are afraid that they have already sent troops."

The generals' expressions have changed greatly, if this is the case, then the more dangerous it is!

"Hu Shi, you hurry up and inform Chen Chaojun of Hongzhou, and ask him to transfer 30,000 soldiers and horses from the Hongzhou Defense Area, and he will personally command the west, and prepare to resist Niu Roar Man (Ailao)!" Chen Rixuan didn't have time to verify his idea, so he ordered directly.

"No!" The general Hu Shi quickly left the account.

Chen Rilian called his own soldiers to wear armor and shouted: "This commander wants to personally lead 30,000 foot cavalry to the south, and solve the Cham army first!" ”

The general said: "Your Highness, if Champa sends troops, it will definitely pour out, and there are at least sixty or seventy thousand soldiers and horses, these thirty thousand soldiers and horses..."

Chen Rixian said: "The Hong'an defense line can't be drawn too many soldiers and horses, hmph, this commander's 30,000 soldiers and horses are enough to deal with that Yi chieftain." After the Cham army was destroyed, the commander came back. You must hold on to the city for more than half a month! ”

"Chen Xin, you send someone to Guli City, report to the Emperor, and let him take precautions!"

After Chen Rixian finished speaking, he hurriedly led the only 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry to the south. He himself led 10,000 cavalry first.

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The place where Li Luo chose to garrison was a small city called Fuliang City. The reason why the troops are stationed here is that they are closest to the front line, and secondly, they can also receive information from the Special Investigation Bureau.

"Chen Rixuan led his army south." Li Luo said to the generals, "This is news from someone who wants to serve Dayuan. ”

Of course, this news was sent by the spies who had been lurking in the city for a long time.

"General, why did Chen Rixian go south at a critical juncture?" Su Dieer was very puzzled.

Li Luo said: "Ben Shuai sent a letter to the king of Cham before, asking him to go north to attack Annan. It should be the Cham army. ”

He did not write this letter to the king of Cham in the name of the general of Zhengnan, but it was just to fill the loophole and prevent the Yuan court from grasping his handle, and he did not expect a letter to let the Cham country send troops.

The fact that the Cham state was able to send troops was, of course, the credit of the Special Investigation Bureau. This letter is to clear his suspicion of "colluding with the Song Army".

Su Die'er suddenly realized: "No wonder the general stayed here for a few days, it turned out that he was waiting for Cham to send troops." Now that Chen Rixian is gone, let's hurry up and join the army. ”

The best route and strategy for the march had already been formulated, but Li Luo had never ordered the attack, and the generals were very puzzled, but now they understood.

Li Luo shook his head, "When Chen Rilian left, the defense had already been arranged, and within ten days and a half months, our army would not be able to break through." Even if it can break through, the casualties will be large. Wait. ”

Su Die'er and the others didn't know what Li Luo was waiting for. But since Li Luo took over as the general of Zhengnan, he has been winning battles and has never suffered losses, as if Zhizhu is in his hands, they are more and more convinced, and it is not easy to ask.

What are Li Luo waiting for? Of course, it is to wait for the bull to roar and send troops.

After Niu Roarman learned the news of the Cham army, if he also sent troops, the Vietnamese army would definitely be even worse, and the Hong'an defense line would send tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

In this way, the most vulnerable time for the Hongan defense line has arrived, and that is the time to attack.

It is not easy for an army of more than 100,000 to pass through jungles and swamps, and also to capture cities.

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Due to the emptiness of the troops in Vietnam, the Cham army still entered a no-man's land after leaving the pass. The complacent Indra VI burned and looted all the way, which was really unpleasant.

The people of Annam never imagined that they had not seen the Yuan army, but they would suffer in the hands of the Cham army first.

The sub-line is a mountain wolf, and it is rampant with pride. The long-suppressed Cham army was no less ferocious than the Mongol army at this time, and even the way they treated the Annamite people was even more outrageous, with the strange evil methods of ancient Hinduism.

In just two days, more than 100,000 people of Annam died tragically.

If Cui Xiuning knew that the Cham army was so frenzied, he would definitely regret instigating the Cham army.

This group of Brahmanical armies is not only cruel, but also evil that the Mongol army does not have, which can be summed up as more than just cruelty.

"Break into the Tianchang Mansion and destroy Emperor Annan!" The king of Cham said to his spoil-snatching generals that this man had never felt so powerful as he was today.

However, the king of Cham was only two days proud, and he was less than two days away from the Tianchang Mansion, when he received news that shocked him.

Chen Rilian, the king of Zhaowen of Annan, personally led tens of thousands of troops, and had already pounced on him.

What's going on? Isn't Chen Rixian defending against the Yuan army? How did you come to deal with yourself so quickly? He doesn't care about the Yuan army?

When the king of Cham heard that Chen Rilian personally led an army against him, he immediately hesitated.

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, who in the Cham country does not know Chen Rilian? This is Annan's No. 1 general.

Since Chen Rixian became an adult, he has made the Cham people suffer a lot, and has defeated the Cham and Niu Roar several times.

"How many soldiers and horses does Chen Rixian have?" King Cham did not believe that Chen Rilian could send too many troops and horses to deal with him, and it was impossible for him not to worry about the Yuan army.

This time, he personally led his troops to deal with himself quickly, and it is estimated that he will solve himself as soon as possible, and then return to the division to resist the Yuan army.

"At most, there are thirty or forty thousand people, and there are only tens of thousands of cavalry around him, and the infantry army is still more than 100 miles behind." Horse Exploration returns.

King Cham was immediately relieved, although Chen Rilian was good at using soldiers, he had more than 70,000 people, more than twice as many as him. This battle can be fought by yourself.

"Brave lion-like Kshatriya, pass on the king's command, let the majestic elephant attack, and the whole army will be pressed! Kill that man named Chen Rilian! Whoever cuts off his head will get gold the size of his head! ”

King Cham shouted, and as soon as his knife was raised, a bunch of flies on the knife flew away. But his movements stopped, and the flies scrambled to his knife again.

"God forbid! God forbid! God forbid! ”

The Cham army was majestic for two days, and all of them had high morale, screaming and arranging in an untidy line to meet Chen Rilian.

At the same time, Chen Rilian, who was heading south to intercept the Cham army, also listened to the cry of a scholar who had escaped on the side of the road.

"Your Highness, the Cham soldiers are cruel and vicious, and what they do is outrageous! Wherever the Cham soldiers went, it was hell on earth... What is inhuman, and even more so ...... of the Tartars"

When Chen Rixian heard the scholar's cry, he was furious and shouted: "The waves of the East China Sea are broken, and the evil is inexhaustible!" The bamboo of the South Mountain is hard to write! He suddenly pulled out an arrow and said in two paragraphs: "Nan Yi'an dares to do this!" I will not destroy the Champa, like this arrow! ”

Chen Rilian threw an arrow on the ground and ordered: "Advance the army!" In the past, Wuhou went deep into the barbarians to pacify the barbarians, and today the barbarians have entered our realm, how can they be immortal! ”

The general persuaded: "Your Highness is angry, at the moment our army only has 10,000 cavalry, and Cham is afraid that there are 70,000 or 80,000 people, the last general thinks that it is better to wait for the infantry army to keep up with the ......."

Chen Rixian said angrily: "Are you afraid? If you don't fight at this time, why don't you teach Nanyi to continue to harm the people, and no one cares about it! I have 10,000 elite riders, why not be afraid of Nanyi! Retire! ”

"No!"

Chen Rilian's 10,000 cavalry rumbled southward, and under the rage, everyone fought bravely to be the first, and the momentum was like a dragon.

Soon, the two armies met outside the city of Jianxing on Liren Road.

"My gods, the cavalry of Annam, the cavalry of the Great Demon King is here! But so what? Kshatriya, your elephants, rush up to me and trample on the horses that intimidate the Great Demon King! ”

"Shiva gives us luck, and King Brahma gives us courage. Today, the lotus flowers of the Cham kingdom will bloom, and the captive Shudras (untouchable slaves) will make you rich masters! ”

King Indravarman VI of Champa once again raised his ornate sword, which was favored by flies.

More than 1,000 war elephants, with heart-palpitating roars, long noses, long fangs, and long sharp horns (false horns) on their heads, trampled on the crops under the control of the elephant soldiers, lined up in a horizontal formation for nearly two miles, and rushed towards the Vietnamese army with great momentum.

Although the war horses of the Vietnamese army are accustomed to seeing elephants, they still snort uneasily when they see so many war elephants charging.

Chen Rilian's expression was solemn, he only had 10,000 cavalry now, and the 20,000 infantry army had not kept up, and the head-on duel could not withstand the impact of more than a thousand elephants at all.

Although the war elephant is not fast and has a bulky body, it has rough skin and thick flesh, and its defense is very strong, so it is difficult to deal with.

However, Chen Rilian had already made up his mind. He led a large group of cavalry to appear in front of the Cham army, the purpose of which was to lure the Cham elephant army to charge and destroy the Cham elephant army first.

It was this battlefield terrain that he deliberately chose.

Behind the Vietnamese army, there was a grooved ground (cross-section pot bottom terrain), and as soon as the elephant army of Cham attacked, the Vietnamese cavalry guided the elephant army to retreat to the grooved pot bottom terrain according to Chen Rilian's order.

When the elephant soldier drove the elephant over, he was faced with a downward slope, and under the effect of gravity, the speed increased greatly.

At this time, the Vietnamese cavalry had already crossed the bottom of the pot and rushed up the gentle slope opposite.

Immediately afterwards, more than 1,000 war elephants also swooped into the bottom of the pot, facing a gentle slope on one side.

This gentle slope is not steep, and the war elephant can definitely go up. But to keep up the speed, it's impossible. As a result, the originally invincible elephant army, like encountering an intercepted torrent, the speed of the impact suddenly dropped. The war elephant at the front, rushing to a third of the gentle slope, turned into walking.

The Cham infantry that rushed over with the war elephants were blocked by the stagnant elephant army in front and could not rush up.

At this time, the Vietnamese army became condescending.

Chen Rixian pulled out the saber on his waist and pointed at it, the Vietnamese cavalry dismounted, and the condescending ten thousand arrows were fired, and the elephant soldiers on the back of the elephant were immediately killed and wounded, and the infantry behind them were also hit by arrows, and the war elephants suddenly panicked.

Chen Rixian seized the opportunity, raised his long sword again, and the Vietnamese cavalry got on their horses and raised their spears together, and swooped down in the style of two wings. Under the acceleration of the gentle slope of nearly 100 zhang long, it is like two torrents rushing down, unstoppable.

The Cham army was in unfavorable terrain and was suddenly defeated under the onslaught of the Vietnamese cavalry. The elephant soldiers were almost completely slaughtered, and even the tens of thousands of infantry troops that charged with the war elephants also suffered more than half of the casualties, and only a few thousand fled back. And the war elephants of the Cham army were almost lost.

The first battle between the two armies, a quick battle, ended with a great defeat of the Cham army.

"Oh my God!" The Champa King Indravarman's eyes widened in disbelief, this man was still ready to attack with the whole army, but he couldn't imagine that the front army would be defeated so quickly.

Seeing that only a few thousand infantry had fled back, the tone of the Cham king was filled with tears.

"My God, my Kshatriyas, have I failed?"

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