Although the politics are incorrect, but in the long run, if a big country can survive its own civil war, it will often complete a metamorphosis, and then go through its own rise road, there is a British civil war in front of it, although there are countless casualties, even the king has hanged, but after the revolution, Britain has been on the territory of the country for hundreds of years, and a foreign war is also smooth.

Another example is the American Empire, whose civil war broke out in 1865, and after the war, the country unified its thinking, no longer messed around, and climbed to the top of the world after only 30 years.

Later generations of time-travelers are very fond of sending their own troops to participate in other people's civil wars, and even hope to make some benefits from them, but for the time-travelers, theoretically, preventing the outbreak of the American Civil War and allowing them to continue to maintain a southern slave-owning economy and plantation economy is the greatest interest of the time-travelers! As long as half of the United States continues to grow cotton and sell it to the British for profit, then he is almost a harmless baby!

Of course, there are many types of civil wars, if it is the kind of civil war with ideas and organization, it must be the victory of the strong, and the survival of the fittest after the victory is also very normal, which is the greatest benefit, just as Xu Hao did at this time, to help the European aristocracy consolidate their rule, if it can be done at the level of 1984, everything will be fine.

The elders knew that in the future Europe would become a terrible powder keg, with the help of the papermaking technology introduced from China, a large number of civilians began to read, that is, in this process, the literacy rate of Europeans surpassed that of China, and all kinds of people began to resist one after another, and this kind of population pressure usually turned into the driving force of Europe's external expansion.

Of course, civil wars are different from civil wars, just as people are different, sometimes more than people and pigs.

Why and the civil war, there are also high and low, the so-called division out of the nameless, the division out of the famous, the gap is huge, as an ordinary soldier, for the sake of robbery to send troops, and for the sake of revenge, for the sake of justice, that is very different.

Of course, for Li Xiaoming, a captain of the elephant soldier squad under King Nguyen Phuc Lan, this day was unimaginable.

Just after the New Year, he had eaten and drunk well, and the king suddenly appeared and gave wine and meat, especially elephant soldiers like him, each of whom had a pot of wine and a roast chicken, which was just like a festival.

Under the military system under Ruan Fulan's rule, there are not only five people under a military commander, but one army and one elephant, such an elephant has to eat dozens of catties of forage every day, eat bananas, drink water, not to mention the armor and colorful clothes, if it is lost, it is the whole family sitting!

However, if it is on a frontal battlefield, the elephant soldiers are put out and have no brains, which is really a retreat of the three armies, and it is reused like the tank troops of this era.

Even in the Battle of Annam, which was fought by the old man in Vietnam, the Qing army, which had the advantage of troops and equipment, drank and celebrated on the first day of the New Year, but the Vietnamese were just the New Year, pouring out of the nest, attacking with elephants carrying cannons, and a group of drunk cats panicked, they were trampled to death more than killed by the enemy, but this elephant is a sharp weapon in Vietnam, where the traffic road is difficult.

Of course, Ruan Fulan's elephant army is also a hasty army, most of them are plundered from the southern Champ, and many things can only be explored by themselves, after all, the actual input-output ratio of elephants is extremely poor, even Ruan Fulan has more than 10,000 professional soldiers, and he can only afford to raise more than 30 elephant soldiers if he is anxious to mobilize 100,000 cannon fodder.

Li Xiaoming is in charge of a few of his own people, and the elephant needs to wear good equipment, the Vietnamese army in this era has not been like later generations, extravagantly loading small cannons on elephants, turning them into elephant artillery for combat, basically stampede and charge combat, and in later movies, sitting on elephants and pulling bows and arrows is basically too cute.

This is simply impossible, first of all, in a country like Vietnam, it is impossible to have the manufacturing technology of crossbows, crossbows, is an absolutely high-tech existence, and when it comes to bowing, sitting on a bumpy elephant, if someone can shoot arrows well, it is too funny, this cost ratio is too low.

As far as elephant soldiers are concerned, they either sit on the elephant and chase and slash with cold weapons, but the main thing is to charge and trample.

Therefore, the elephant soldier is really fighting, and the loss rate is huge, and the elephant, looking at the huge body, is actually very squeamish.

But this is also a good thing, Le Xiaoming's troops belong directly to the king, and they march next to the king, and their baggage is naturally specially prepared, speaking of which, although the geography of Vietnam has few plains, it is not without a good road.

Nguyen Phuc Lan's Northern Expedition was actually very simple, and his Hue capital sent troops for dozens of miles, which was where the "national border" was located.

Historically, North and South Vietnam took the 17th parallel of north latitude as the dividing line, and the Trung Nguyen clan also used this as the dividing line, and the general difference is not large, and there are many internal reasons, but the geographical location is definitely a big point.

A few rivers are the city defenses on both sides, although they are not as fast as the Yangtze River, but they are spacious enough and dangerous enough.

Li Xiaoming naturally will not be the first batch of people to cross the river, although there is a lot of river water in Guangping, but it is by no means a river as wide as the Yangtze River, there is a dozen meters and snickering, it is not the flood season, and the water is not deep, in fact, people with good water quality can directly wade through the water, and what needs to be transported is just those equipment.

While waiting for the ship to transport his elephant, Li Xiaoming muttered to another Wu commander: "I heard that the northerners themselves are in internal strife this time, and the interior is very empty, we don't have to make any moves, just hit the north......"

"Everything else is fine, I'm afraid that my elephant won't have enough to eat, this time the grain is enough to eat for a few days, everyone can be everyone, this elephant doesn't know how to be patient."

"Isn't it, I've seen the river, how to search for food, the grain transported in the rear must first ensure that people eat rice, anyway, I heard that this time the troops are not very prepared, at least the bow and arrow will not be ready......"

"Don't talk nonsense, when the time comes, let's make up for it on the spot, this elephant has to eat hundreds of catties of food a day, and if you don't serve these ancestors well, you won't be able to live."

Elephants are not too demanding to eat every day, this is true, leaves, fruits, twigs, bamboo can be, but the amount of food is very huge, and, let people go to war, you have to eat something good, and each elephant if you only eat 400 catties of food every day, 35 elephants, this is 14,000 catties, this is still every day, as for the water that needs to be drunk, it is a big head, and there is a large pile of manure pulled out, which also needs to be treated.

Elephant soldier is such a squeamish thing.

The other side has already transported several waves of their own people, and there seems to be no sound of war, and suddenly there is a tsunami-like cheer from afar, Li Xiaoming and people look at each other, although they don't know why, but it seems to be the victory of their own people?

Thinking of this, they became excited, although the army was hasty this time, it sounded like a posture of taking advantage of the opportunity to pick up cheap, since the Zheng clan and the Ruan clan started the war twenty years ago, they have been pressed and beaten, this kind of war that has always been in control of the initiative is particularly uncomfortable, although there are only three or four really protracted wars, but the small-scale battles have not stopped, but basically they are all launched by the north, which is almost Li Xiaoming's biggest fear.

Elephant soldier training is very strict and trivial and dangerous, Li Xiaoming still remembers that a few years ago when he was just captured as a soldier, the captain, when he was training elephants, because of an accident, angered the elephant, causing the animal to trample to death.

With this jewel in front, although Li Xiaoming was cautious, he still couldn't avoid being injured and worried, but the military law was like a mountain, and under the urging, he could only pull the big and small objects onto the boat one after another, while calming the panicked elephant, while slowly crossing the river.

There was even another boat, because the elephant was pushed into the boat and was alarmed, and sure enough, the boat went to the middle of the river, jumped up, and fell into the river at once, causing the people and things on the boat to fall into the water, but fortunately, the elephant itself can swim, but when it gets into the water, it is really difficult to drag it to the other side.

Fortunately, there are many people with great strength, so naturally someone will come to the rescue, and they will not mention the cleaning.

Li Xiaoming packed up everything, fed the elephants under his management properly, brushed them clean, and placed them in a temporary shed, still at night, if it is a big country to send troops, it is true that it will take a long time to prepare for it, and it will be extremely troublesome, but here, it is always ready for war, and the distance of sending troops is only dozens of miles, so naturally everything goes smoothly.

At night, he saw that in the central camp, there were crowds of people, coming and going, and in the distance, he was sitting on a wooden chair, holding a shining thing in his hand, if you look closely, you will find that it is a statue, which is really dizzying.

Li Xiaoming and others were pointing at each other from a distance, and some people had already preached it everywhere: "Our King Ruan is supported by heaven and given treasures, this is the meaning of unifying Dayue." ”

Many people didn't know what was going on, and they all knelt down one by one, and Ruan Fulan, who was sitting there, was naturally satisfied, and grabbed the statue more tightly.

He received the news, originally just intended to test lightly, but found that the enemy camp was very empty, the first few hundred people to test it, and then kept retreating, and now received a report from the scouts in front, at least within twenty miles, there was no one who had run, and several villages also obediently offered surplus food, and sent Zhuang Ding as a precursor for King Ruan.

This is of course a good thing, but he is going to take out this statue and have fun with the army, although Vietnam is a Hinayana Buddhism, but it itself is not much different, and the believers are very obedient to the existence of this can shine at night, like a miracle.

The spring breeze was proud, Ruan Fulan ordered to reward the three armies, of course, most of them were because of the food to the enemy, and the locals sent all kinds of food, this time the battle was too smooth, and the timing was accurate.

Chen Ding's father and son, who came to deliver the letter before, still left, in return, it was naturally full of official pockets, Chen Ding, as an expatriate of the Ministry of Rites, naturally also had his own style, although he still didn't know that he was an official who relied on his son's TOEFL, but he was still satisfied and left, and when he left, he naturally got the letter in his hand.

Thinking of that letter, Ruan Fulan sneered, this time to send troops, of course, thanks to the reminder of the people from the Celestial Empire, gritted his teeth and took such a risky action, in fact, if this army failed, a lot of money and food were lost, and a large number of soldiers died on the march, if so, it may lead to the collapse of the army afterwards.

But such a gamble is definitely worth it, this time to send troops, even if you can't annex the Northern Dynasty in one fell swoop, it is still very simple to eat the territory of a few counties, although Vietnam is poor, but in essence because of the problem of road transportation, if you manage it well, it will definitely not be so miserable.

As for the letter written before, the letter is naturally written in the Spring and Autumn Period, indicating that this time the troops are to relieve the people from hanging, save the Li people, and cooperate with the Celestial Empire, but although the Celestial Empire itself shows a posture of intervening in the Vietnamese civil war, he still can't look down on it, this kind of small country definitely cares about the actions of the Celestial Empire, although it may not send too many detailed works, but it still understands some of the military and political dynamics of the two Guangzhous, at this time, the soldiers who can be taken out by the two Guang to interfere in the war in Vietnam definitely do not exceed 10,000 people, and the money and food are also very weak, that is to say, There are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys are kings.

Later, Churchill once worriedly told Stalin that the Pope might want to declare support for Hitler, but Stalin contemptuously said, Pope? How many divisions does he have?

This is not rough, a man is high-sounding to fight for interests, in the final analysis, it still depends on whether the following is hard or not...... Oh, is the younger brother below ruthless enough, his hands are not hard enough, what kind of morality and etiquette, what are all of them?

It has always been difficult for the Celestial Empire to transfer troops to Vietnam, but the people led by him Nguyen Phuc Lan can easily get supplies when they arrive here, this is the big difference!

Thinking of this, he was full of excitement, as long as he took the most land and guarded Liangshan and a few other passes that had always been regarded as resisting the invasion of the Celestial Empire, he could have no worries about everything from now on, and close the door to be the real emperor!

Especially the treasures in your hands, you don't want to let go after you get them, even if the handsome soldiers go out, they always carry them with you.

Thinking of this, he stood up, held the jade statue, and ordered a few times to stabilize the military camp and prepare for the battle tomorrow morning, and then turn back to his inner tent.

Back to the inner tent, put the jade statue in a critical place, but it was a cruel smile, a blanket on the ground, is tied to a local captured woman, he smiled and undressed, while looking at this body, after taking off his clothes, but coughed twice, but he didn't care, the weather has been a little cold recently, busy with troops every day, some illnesses are naturally normal, he is a middle-aged man, but at this time he is still strong without a woman, and his body is very strong!

(End of chapter)