Chapter 179: Under the Great War

Sun Bin, who was standing in the wooden tower and watching the battle, did not expect that the Annan army would be so ineffective, and the Chinese troops had not launched a counteroffensive, so they were defeated on their own first.

"Order the entire army to attack, you can't run away from Le Yu, the governor of coastal defense!"

"The last general commands!"

Ye Chenglin replied loudly, turned around and went downstairs to gather troops to participate in the attack.

Sun Bin's order was passed to the troops on the position through the flag soldiers on the wooden building, and the machine gunners in the front-line positions put down the grips of the machine guns, picked up the Dresser rifles prepared in advance, and ordered the three ammunition men: "You stay and guard the machine guns, and this officer will go to the front line to kill the enemy!" ”

"My lord, just leave one person to guard the machine gun, and let me kill the enemy with you!"

Annan's troops were crushed in a single blow, and the ammunition men were unwilling to give up their low-hanging fruit.

"Good! You stay and guard the machine gun, and the other two follow the officer to kill the enemy! ”

The Heavy designated the kicked soldier to stay behind and immediately issued an order to the other two ammanators.

"Yes, my lord!" The two ammunition men looked happy, wielding two old muskets and following the machine gunners out of position.

Wave after wave of Chinese troops rushed out of their positions to pursue the Annan troops, so that the scale of the rout of the Annan troops continued to expand, the front army collided with the rear army, and the complete Annan troops were scattered by the rout, forming a new rout to continue to charge to the rear, and finally forming a great rout of the entire army.

"Defeated, defeated, it's all over!" Looking at the defeated army driven by the Chinese troops, the commander of the Annan army was so frightened that he fell off his horse.

"General, General!" When the soldiers around him saw his master fall off his horse, they immediately surrounded him and helped him up.

"The general is not good, the Tang people are rushing towards us!"

Chen Wuyuan had just sat on his horse with the support of his own soldiers when he heard bad news.

"Immediately retreat, retreat to Haiphong City!" Chen Wuyuan saw Chen Shangfa, who was rushing towards him with a knife in both hands, and his face turned pale instantly when he had just returned to normal.

"General, the Governor is still in the camp, should we inform the Governor."

"Stupid, Lord Governor Gao Mingyuan ordered, I will definitely get the news in advance and leave first, and if you don't return to the camp, the escort battalion will immediately withdraw to Haiphong City!" Chen Wu's head glared angrily at the mouthy soldiers, waved his whip and hit the sitting-down war horse, the war horse was in pain, and ran with Chen Wuyuan's fat body with a roar, and the other more than 200 horse-riding soldiers saw this and immediately followed.

"Battalion commander, they rode away, and the brothers couldn't catch up!"

"Damn, Annam's grandson on a cheap dog day!" Chen Shangfa took a breath, looked at Chen Wuyuan who was running away hatefully, and said loudly: "Brothers, support for a while, the senior official of the Annan people is in the barracks, and no one else can be allowed to catch him!" ”

"Brothers, hold on!" Li Yu is the chief official of Annan, and catching him is almost the first merit of this battle, and the more than 200 mountain battalion soldiers who came after heard that Li Yu was captured, and their bodies suddenly gained strength.

"Good! Capture Li Yu alive and enter Haiphong City! Chen Shangfa shouted and continued to attack with his soldiers.

In the camp of the Annan army, Li Yu stayed in the tent restlessly, listening to the shouts and killings that were getting closer and closer outside, and became even more panicked.

Attacking the Chinese camp in Xialong, Li Yu thought that he would be able to get nine out of ten, but who knew that he had just handed over the command to Chen Wuyuan, and before he could sit down in the camp when he returned to the camp, he heard bad news from the front line that the attack had been frustrated. At that time, Li Yu believed that the Chinese troops were surrounded by more than 10,000 troops, and the frustration of the attack was caused by the desperate resistance of the Chinese, so he only ordered Chen Wuyuan to continue to increase the number of front-line attacking soldiers, but he did not expect that the situation on the battlefield would change dramatically in just one or two minutes after the order was conveyed to the front line and the battalion.

The officer who delivered the order had not yet returned to the camp, but as the number of routed troops outside grew, a bad thought came to Li Yu's mind. "Is the army defeated?"

"Report! Lord Governor, no, the front-line troops are all routed, and we are already surrounded by the Don! ”

Li Yuzheng was worried when a physically wounded officer ran into the tent, which was the officer he had just sent out to deliver the order.

"How could the army of more than 10,000 countries be defeated, Chen Wuyuan? Where is he! ”

"General Chen ran away with his own soldiers, Lord Governor, the entire army of the Ten Thousand Kingdoms Dynasty is finished!"

The messenger knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.

"This official promoted Chen Wuyuan to Weimo, how can he treat me like this!" Li Yu threw the official hat on the ground with grief and indignation, threw everything on the table and said madly: "Chen Wuyuan misunderstood me, Chen Wuyuan misunderstood me!" ”

"Cheer up, sir! The last general swears to protect the adults to break through! ”

The Annan officer, who had returned to report the news, knelt on the ground and said loyally.

"It's late, it's late! The army is defeated, what face do I have to see the saint and the horse! Li Yu's heart was so dead that he pulled out his sword and wanted to kill himself, but the sword just touched his neck but he couldn't get his hands down.

"Your Excellency, the pillar of the country, don't take your own life!" Li Yu's actions frightened the hundreds of guards in the military tent, and they all stepped forward to snatch the sword from Li Yu's hand, and eagerly persuaded: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and the failure of this war is all to blame for Chen Wuyuan abandoning the army and fleeing, and the fault is not the governor." The Governor must not commit suicide, the country is constantly suffering from internal and external troubles, and he can't leave the Optimus Prime of his lord! ”

Many pro-soldier generals spoke earnestly, and Li Yu finally found a reason to live and save his face as a scholar.

"The current affairs of the dynasty are difficult, so the official gave up his personal honor and disgrace and kept the guilty body to serve the dynasty."

"The Governor bears the humiliation, and I will definitely not let the rebels hurt your Excellency in the slightest!" Li Yu lost his intention to die, and the generals in the camp breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately spoke out to reassure.

Since the peasant army troops entered Annam, there have been constant battles between the two sides, but there have been no real high-level casualties. Because the peasant army was fighting in a foreign country, killing the captured Annan officials was to offend the ruling class of Annan to the death, and would usher in a complete hostility and counterattack from the other side, so whenever the peasant army captured Annan officials, they often demanded a certain ransom and then released them, and officials at all levels in Annan also tacitly agreed with the existence of the peasant army and did not kill the killers.

And the reason why Wu Yazhong attracted the hostility of all Annan officials was because he broke the tacit understanding between the peasant army and Annan officials. Not only did they massacre captured Annam officials, but they also cleansed the Annam officials and gentry in the occupied areas and plundered their family property.

Wu Yazhong is ambitious, and he has always wanted to return to Taiping Mansion to rebuild Dachengguo, and he doesn't care about the opinions of Annan officials. And the leader of the Xia Long Tang people is also from a scholar's background, and he will not be as careless as Wu Yazhong.

Li Yu and his own soldiers did not choose to resist fearlessly, and were captured by Chen Shangfa who arrived first a moment later, and as Li Yu was captured, the defeated Annam soldiers raised their hands and surrendered, and some of the soldiers who had been hiding also left their hiding places and came out to surrender.

The actual battle between the two sides of the Xialong offensive and defensive battle lasted only about an hour, and for most of the following day, the Chinese troops were busy capturing prisoners all over the mountains.

At the end of the battle, more than 9,000 Annam soldiers were taken prisoner, and less than 2,000 Annam soldiers escaped, excluding more than 1,000 people killed in the battle.

The commander was captured, the troops of the two provinces were completely annihilated, and the defenses of Guang'an and Haiphong provinces were empty.

Three days after the end of the Battle of Ha Long, Quang An and Haining provinces were all occupied, and on the fourth day, the general Chen Wuyuan of Annam, who fled back to Haiphong City, abandoned the city again and fled, and Haiphong City fell into the hands of the Chinese troops.

The three provinces fell, 10,000 regular troops were wiped out, and the northern defense force of Annam was instantly porous, encouraged by the actions of Sun Bin's troops, the remnants of the Annam rebels raised the banner of the descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty, and took the lead in Taiyuan Province, and then the rebellion momentum quickly spread to Beigan and Yiguang provinces. Unable to fight back under the attack of the rebels, Annam's troops could only retreat to a few key cities and wait for the aid of the Hue court.