Chapter 979: Attack on the South Vietnamese Kingdom
Everything was ready, Han Xuening summoned a group of generals to have a meeting before departure, this time striving to take South Vietnam within half a month.
Mr. Win explained the situation in South Vietnam, which has four cities, all of which are relatively small. Each city has a maximum garrison of 30,000 troops, and the four cities have a total of 100,000 troops.
There were almost 500,000 civilians in South Vietnam, and this attack on South Vietnam was a strategy of defeat. Yes, the people mainly surrendered, mainly laid down their arms, and they could not be killed.
Han Xuening divided the 100,000 army into five legions, each legion of 20,000 troops, and the first thing to break was the nearest city near Dali, which was roughly garrisoned with 25,000 troops, and tried to break it within a week.
In order to speed up the capture of Nanyue, the city closest to Dali was attacked by two legions. The other three legions attacked the city behind it, which had 20,000 men and horses and should have been easy to take.
Da Mao and Xiao Mao are strong in martial arts, and they still lack experience in fighting, this time Han Xuening asked the two to follow the two little generals as pioneers, so as to accumulate experience in war.
Da Mao and Xiao Mao are very happy, they have always hoped to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and now they have finally got their wish.
From Dali City to the first city of Nanyue at the southern junction of Dali Kingdom, it takes less than half a day. On the morning of the third day, Han Xuening led the army to prepare to set off.
The entire army has been divided into five legions, a legion led by Han Xuening will attack the first city as the main force, and Xiao Dong will lead a legion to cooperate with Han Xuening.
In addition, there are three legions, one led by the old witch doctor, one led by Mr. Wen, and one led by Zhao Tianyun.
As soon as she arrived outside the city, Han Xuening asked the army to rest for an hour, eat some dry food by the way, and after an hour, attack the small city on all fronts.
The other three legions continued on their way and attacked the next city, with Mr. Wen as commander-in-chief.
An hour later, Han Xuening sent a forward force of 2,000 men to break through the city gate, assisted by a group of archers and other troops. At night, the gates were forced and a large number of troops entered the city.
Many of the people in the city fled through the south gate, the recalcitrant enemy troops were beheaded, and the troops cleaned the city for a night, and the next day, the entire city was under Han Xue's control.
Han Xuening didn't see that this siege went so smoothly, two days later, the city was already full of troops of the Great Wei State, the city was in order, and the thousands of enemy soldiers captured were all imprisoned.
Han Xue Ning left a few thousand people to guard the city, and she continued to set off with the army to the next city.
By the time she arrived at the next city with an army of more than 30,000, Mr. Wen was the commander-in-chief of Liu Wan's army, which had already taken the city of 20,000 soldiers.
Mr. Wen said that it took them one day to conquer the city, and after two days of clearing and rectifying the city, the entire city was completely under the control of the army of the Great Wei State.
In the whole battle, Mr. Wen's side suffered less than 3,000 casualties, and it was easily won.
In only four days, they have already won two cities in South Vietnam, and everyone is very happy.
However, the next city is the main city of the Nanyue Kingdom, which is relatively large, with more than 30,000 soldiers in the city.
Han Xuening suggested that the army adopt the strategy of fighting from the periphery to the middle, first taking the remaining city with only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and finally, the army surrounded the main city of Nanyue from all sides. Even if they can't fight for a while, they can still get out of the main city.
Mr. Wen felt that Han Xuening's plan was feasible, and after everyone discussed, he left 3,000 soldiers and horses in this city, and the rest of the 90,000 soldiers, divided into two parts, two armies and 40,000 soldiers, to attack another small city. The other two and a half armies of 50,000 soldiers attacked the main city directly.
After the soldiers who captured the small city completely controlled the city, they sent troops to support, and the army surrounded the main city of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, so that the destruction of the South Vietnamese Kingdom was only a matter of time.
In the main city of Nanyue, the king did not expect that the army from the Dali country would capture their two cities so quickly, and when they reacted and were discussing how to counterattack, the army of 50,000 had already pressed the border and surrounded their main city.
The people in the city panicked all at once, these armies came too quickly. It has only been three or four days since entering the South Vietnamese country, and the main city has already been surrounded.
The people in the city were panicked, and the king of Nanyue was also worried.
He first sent envoys on the city wall to negotiate peace with the army of the Great Wei State outside, however, Han Xuening sent people to tell them directly that they had participated in the joint army of the Great Wei State and came back to attack the southern Xinjiang City, which caused the father and mother of the emperor of the Great Wei Kingdom to die, and this enemy emperor must take revenge.
Therefore, your South Vietnamese country must perish, and there is no other choice.
After the army led by Han Xuening was trapped outside the city for a day, she sent someone to shout directly to the army in the city. As long as the soldiers who surrendered were disarmed, the Great Wei State would not kill, and the stubbornly resisting army would be killed.
Han Xuening also asked those scribes to write a lot of proclamations, and used bows and arrows to shoot into the main city of Nanyue, which was to call for surrender. In one day, the people in the main city were panicked, not only the people were in chaos, but also the army.
Some of the little generals began to talk about it, if they didn't surrender, there would be fierce Great Wei troops outside, and they would definitely not be able to defeat them. Even if the army from this side can't attack the city, if they keep surrounding the main city, they will run out of food in the city. When the time comes, there will be no food, and you will have to starve to death. So, only surrender is the only way out.
However, some small generals believe that even if they die in battle, they must defend the Nanyue Kingdom, otherwise if they are really attacked by the army of the Great Wei State, the Nanyue Kingdom will be destroyed.
Two days later, Han Xuening asked his subordinates to send an announcement to the soldiers in the main city, and the final countdown was limited to one week, and after one week, if they did not surrender, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Wei State outside would attack the city on all fronts. All the soldiers were killed.
In fact, this Han Xuening estimated that he exaggerated the strength of the troops and increased the punishment to scare and scare the soldiers and generals in the city.
The desire to survive is something that everyone has, and the only way for these people to live is to surrender. There are hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Wei State outside, and there are 30,000 defenders in the city, how can they be opponents?
Sure enough, after the announcement was issued, the main city, which was originally panicked, became even more chaotic.
There were vicious cases in the main city, not only did the people begin to have a tendency to rebel, but even some soldiers defending the city began to want to rebel after seeing the endless stream of Great Wei troops outside the city.
Three days later, the 40,000 troops who went to attack the last small city had already taken the last small city, and after completely controlling the small city, the 30,000 troops returned to join Han Xuening's 50,000 army, so that a total of 80,000 troops surrounded the main city of Nanyue.