In fact, Feng Sanhu's interception and killing of the envoys of the Yue Kingdom objectively helped Li Changjie once.

Before Feng Sanhu killed the envoys, the culprit who invaded the Great Zhou last year and caused countless killings was in a dangerous situation of shaking his position because of the huge defeat under the city of Yongzhou.

One thing to mention here:

Those countries in the south whose military strength is quite good, including Dayue, Dali, Donghu, Siam, and other countries, have a certain convergence in terms of military systems.

Taking Da Viet as an example, the Vietnamese army can be roughly divided into three types: standing army, township soldiers, and Yi soldiers.

Among them, the so-called Yichu is called the mountain and wild people by the Han people, these people are poorly equipped, but they are barbaric by nature, they do not need to prepare food and grass and military salaries, they only need to let them plunder to meet their ambitions, which can be said to be very good cannon fodder.

Every time there is a war, the Yue country must mobilize the cave barbarians to participate in the war as much as possible, for example, during the invasion of Zhou last year, Li Changjie mobilized more than 100,000 cave barbarians.

The second is the village soldiers.

Theoretically, all the men of the Yue Kingdom were soldiers, and the vast majority of them were township soldiers, and this type of army was a non-full-time army of half peasants and half soldiers, which was actually very similar to the previous Xiang army of the Great Zhou.

The village soldiers were poorly equipped, had little military training, and only cared about fleeing when the war was unfavorable, and worse, they usually could not escape.

Moreover, after the township soldiers are mobilized, their officers will do everything possible to eat empty salaries, embezzle their military rations and salaries, and harm the public and private interests.

But as a farming people, the village soldiers are at least hard-working, as long as they are given a little food, they can hold out for a long time.

In addition, the village soldiers can at least strengthen the strength of the troops, and when the war is going well, these people are not all useless.

The last troops, which are also the standing army of the military core of the Yue Kingdom, can be divided into several parts - Su Zhi, which belongs to the emperor; The guards belonging to the princes (the Yue Kingdom is different from the Huaxia system, all princes can be called princes, and they also have some of their own soldiers and horses); and the personal guards who belonged to the ministers.

To put it bluntly: the emperor, the family of the clan and the powerful ministers.

It is precisely because all political forces have some of the most combat-effective standing armies, so even if Li Changjie supports the empress dowager and the young emperor to take charge of the government, there is still a strong anti-Li Changjie force in the Yue court.

This is also the reason why Li Changjie took advantage of the end of the Great Zhou Dynasty to launch an offensive last year - the Lord Shaoguo suspects that Li Changjie must obtain enough shocking military merit and wealth from abroad to appease the domestic opposition for the sake of his political status.

At first, he did it, but after the defeat and loss in Yongzhou City, all the loot and prestige he had gained in the early stage were in vain, and even some officials who were previously attached to Li Changjie's group have now switched to the prince's group headed by the emperor's younger brother and other sons.

Those people even once imagined that the now young little emperor, the Queen Mother, would be sent to the north together with Li Changjie, Zong Tan and others to calm the anger of the Chinese people.

Unfortunately, their envoys were also killed by Feng Sanhu.

As a result, Li Changjie, whose status was crumbling, finally stood firm, and the little emperor also ordered his Taiwei to be promoted to Taifu, and rewarded him with a lot of gold and silver slaves.

Li Changjie once said to his co-defendant Zong Tan with a smile: "We should be grateful to that Feng Sanhu, otherwise the Great Yue Kingdom would have been defeated without a fight." ”

But Zong Tan replied coldly: "Let's thank him after we really win, Feng Sanhu killed the envoy because he thought he could destroy my Da Yue, and he would never let go of the heads of the two of us!" He wants a complete victory! ”

"Then why be afraid! I have six million people in Dayue, one million in Ding, and he doesn't even have 100,000 soldiers! ”

"Eighty thousand soldiers, all Chinese troops."

Zong Tan sneered:

"The last time he defeated us in Yongzhou City, how many soldiers did he have?"

Li Changjie's face also turned cold, he didn't like to listen to Zong Tan's disobedience.

But Zong Tan thought he had to say:

"The domestic soldiers and horses have been beaten by Feng Sanhu, even if there are really a million soldiers now, they may not be able to stop Feng Sanhu, we must face the reality and think of other ways!"

This is reasonable, since the miracle of 800 to 200,000 (propaganda of the Chinese newspapers) under the city of Yongzhou occurred, the soldiers and horses in the country of Yue have no confidence in defeating China head-on, and the northern border has been shocked overnight, and the Chinese army has not yet attacked, and the people and defenders there have fled to the rear every day.

There is a little wind and grass, and the northern defenders will even bomb the camp directly!

Li Changjie was ruthless, killing hundreds of people in a row on the charge of disturbing the morale of the army, so that he could barely let the defenders of the northern border collapse on their own.

However, this also made Li Changjie lose the opportunity to withdraw to the people on the north bank of the Fuliang River and create a scorched land belt on the north bank of the river - because Lord Taifu did not let the army retreat, if only the people did not withdraw the army, then the army was likely to collapse on the spot.

"If we don't let the army of Jiangbei (Fuliang Jiangbei, the same below) withdraw, then we will have to go north to rescue at that time!" Zong Tan said with a sad face: "At that time, we will have to fight a field battle!" Who dares now? ”

You can't help it, otherwise it's a dead place, who will help you stick to the dead land?

What's more, Jiangbei is also the essence of Dayue, half of the population is there, who would dare to throw them to the ruthless Chinese?

It's nothing that there are many dead, anyway, it's not Li Changjie and Zong Tan who died.

But if the princes of the opposition use this as an excuse to attack Li Changjie, it will be troublesome.

"When the time comes, if you don't dare to fight, you have to fight!" Li Changjie said viciously: "Let Hong Zhen and them lead the troops!" If they lose, it will weaken their strength! If they dare not go ......, hum! ”

In addition to civil strife in the death of the opposition and the killing of the Chinese army, there are always similarities between filthy people.

"Prince Hongzhen, they are defeated, and the Chinese army is pressing on Fuliangjiang, what should we do?" Zong Tan then asked.

"Defend the Fuliang River." Li Changjie's answer is very simple: "When the rainy season begins, the river water soars, and the northern Yankee has no chance!" ”

Since the rainy season, poisonous insects, poisonous snakes, and various diseases and diseases will also increase, and the soldiers and horses from the north may be defeated without a fight.

"How do you stay until the rainy season begins? That's five months away! ”

"Zong Tan, if you have any ideas, you might as well say it directly!" Li Changjie said angrily: "In addition to questioning, what else will you do?" ”

"I'm reminding you to use some tricks outside of the battlefield." Zong Tan looked relatively calm: "That Feng Sanhu killed all our envoys, don't you think this is a good opportunity?" ”

"Opportunity?"

"That's right, Feng Sanhu killed all the envoys, and not a single one was left!" Zong Tan smiled proudly: "This is equivalent to blocking the channels of their court's external contact, which is equivalent to him encroaching on the rights of their court, as a military general, this is the most taboo point of the Beiyan!" ”

"You mean, Feng Sanhu has the idea of supporting the army and standing on his own?"

"I don't think so, because Feng Sanhu loves to kill, it's possible that he just wants to kill." Zong Tan replied: "But even if he doesn't, we can say that he does!" ”

"As long as their court is suspicious of him, we have a chance!"