The Battle of Menzhou was just an accident for the Chinese army, and it was a thriller story for the Great Yue Kingdom alone.

When the results of the battle reached Thang Long Mansion, the Taifu faction headed by Li Changjie and the clan prince faction headed by Li Hongzhen were arguing over how to rescue Menzhou.

Li Changjie hoped that Li Hongzhen would be able to lead his troops to attack, and that he should arrive at Menzhou as quickly as possible, flank the northerners who surrounded Menzhou, and at the same time sweep away those Youjiang cave barbarians who were making waves on the north bank of the Fuliang River.

Li Hongzhen agreed to send troops, but he asked Li Changjie to hand over the command of the Son of Heaven to him - after all, it was the Fourth Army, and the combat effectiveness and equipment level were higher than that of the princes' personal guards.

Then, he opposed sending troops immediately, but thought about replicating the Battle of Yongzhou in reverse, so that the Chinese army could quickly cross the river to rescue and repel the Chinese army when the soldiers were tired and sleepy.

After that, I will go to clean up the cave barbarian who has lost the backbone.

Li Changjie did not want to hand over the Upper Fourth Army to Li Hongzhen, these troops nominally belonged to the little emperor Li Qiande, but in fact the little emperor was raised by him, and naturally it was also one of Li Changjie's biggest capitals.

If the Fourth Army is handed over to Li Hongzhen, this is tantamount to distributing his military power to the prince of the clan, which is of course impossible.

As for when to rescue Menzhou, there is some talk about this.

But just when the two sides were still arguing, news came from Jiangbei: Menzhou had fallen.

Now it's okay, there's no need to argue, because Menzhou doesn't need to be saved.

"Sixty thousand troops! The army of 60,000 will be gone in an hour! Li Hongzhen thundered in the court: "Even if it is 60,000 pigs, it is not so fast!" ”

Li Changjie had a gloomy face and watched Li Hongzhen's performance without saying a word.

The Menzhou guard is his man, and most of the 60,000 troops belong to his faction (because of this, he is in a hurry to force Li Hongzhen to save him), and it is gone in an hour, which is indeed a shame for him.

In addition, with the loss of 60,000 soldiers and horses, Li Changjie's status in the Dayue court has also been reduced, otherwise, how could he allow Li Hongzhen to point at Sang and scold Huai like this?

Instead, Zong Tan whispered on the side: "Prince Hongzhen, Menzhou has been lost, and it is useless to talk about these things now, so let's think about what to do next." ”

"Humph! What else can I do? Anyway, you can't cross the Fura River for a decisive battle. Li Hongzhen snorted coldly: "You can't defend the city, and you can't fight in the wilderness, so you can only defend the south bank of the Fuliang River." ”

"But, the North Shore is rich, will you just give up?" The little emperor who sat at the top asked uneasily: "There are half of the household registrations there......

Li Hongzhen did not dare to say that he would give up, and who would dare to say that he would give up half of the population? This is Z Zhi suicide.

"Pull people back." In the end, it was Li Changjie who made a decision: "Try to withdraw all the people, Jiangbei scorched earth!" ”

"That's all there is to it."

The monarchs and ministers of the Great Yue Kingdom sighed at the same time.

That's all there is to it.

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The so-called plan to withdraw the people of Jiangbei and implement the scorched earth strategy is just empty words to comfort oneself.

Menzhou fell so quickly that the Dayue monarchs and ministers were not prepared—neither physically nor mentally, and as a result, in many places in Jiangbei, the order to retreat was almost arrived with the Chinese army's troops.

How does this retreat?

In addition to Menzhou, there is not even a city wall on the north bank of the rich Fuliang River, not to mention the Chinese army, even the Youjiang Cave Barbarian, who is only ferocious and has actual combat effectiveness that is not even as good as a monkey, can't stop it!

Those ferocious cave barbarians are returning the tyranny inflicted on the Han people last year to the Jiaozhi people, and all kinds of torture and torture that break through the lower limit have been staged countless times in the villages and towns of the Jiaozhi people.

On the contrary, the Chinese army is much more civilized - although they also kill and plunder, they do not torture and kill, and looting is also more efficient and does not cause too much waste of collective cleaning.

Ding Zhuang who was captured was usually killed by a fifth, and the rest of the population was tied up in a string and taken to China to be sold as slaves, and there would not be much loss on the way, and the minimum rations could be guaranteed - because in China, the price of a strong slave Ding Zhuang was equivalent to a cow, which was not cheap.

After the slaves were sold to China, the money obtained would be distributed to the front-line troops as bonuses, so in addition to deterring and killing, the Chinese army really did not have the idea of large-scale killing.

Of course, for the Jiaozhi people, this actually doesn't mean much, and it won't seem to be more benevolent to the Chinese army.

It will only make it easier for those Jiaozhi people to surrender to the Chinese army.

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After the battle of Menzhou, the Chinese army progressed very smoothly, whether it was the small court of Jiaozhi, the army of the Jiaozhi people or the ordinary Jiaozhi people, the will to resist was very weak, on the contrary, it was the Dongman who nested in the north of Jiaozhi and the remnants of the Dongman who fled to Jiaozhi in Zuojiang resisted several times.

However, the Dong barbarians also had no combat effectiveness at all, Liu Ji, Huang Jinman, Shen Jingfu, Wei Shouan and other big cave masters were killed or captured one after another, tens of thousands of barbarian troops were defeated, and Fengzhou Province, Beijiang Province, and Haidong Province north of the Fuliang River were occupied successively.

After the Chinese army arrived on the bank of the Phu Ray River, the Vietnamese army had been waiting for a long time again.

Under heavy pressure, Li Changjie, Li Hongzhen and others temporarily put aside their prejudices and divided the defense area into sections to jointly resist the attack of the Chinese army.

Among them, Li Changjie was in the center, commanding 40,000 troops, on his east side was Zong Tan, who had 30,000 troops, and then to the east by the sea, Li Hongzhen's 40,000 soldiers, and on the west side of Li Changjie was Li Changwen, another sect, with 30,000 soldiers.

In addition, there were 400 warships and 8,000 sailors on the Fura River.

The Vietnamese army was still able to piece together 150,000 troops, which was really a lot of people, but their combat effectiveness and will to fight were all very suspicious, and everyone, including Li Changjie and Li Hongzhen, lost confidence in repelling the Chinese army head-on on the battlefield.

Therefore, they could only rely on the geographical advantage of the Fuliang River to prepare to spend the rainy season and force the Chinese army to retreat.

This caused another trouble -- in order to prevent the Chinese army from grabbing the strength of the ships on the Fuliang River, Li Changjie towed all the civilian ships to the south bank of the Fuliang River, and issued an order that "except for the warships, the plates must not go to the sea."

This order is tantamount to completely abandoning all the Jiaozhi people who did not have time to retreat to Jiangnan.

At the end of October, about 400,000 desperate Jiaozhi people gathered on the riverside, crying for help in Jiangnan, and some wealthy families held high gold, silver and silk satin, and made a heavy promise to the warships patrolling the river, only to pull them to Jiangnan for refuge.

However, none of the ships dared to dock, and all the defenders watched as the Chinese army and Youjiang Dongman appeared on the riverside, grabbed all the refugees gathered on the north bank, tied them up in different categories, and dragged them away in strings like cattle.

These refugees delayed the Chinese army for a while, and it took five days for the Chinese army to dispose of all the prisoners.

Those captured Ding Zhuang chose one of the five, dragged directly to the river and beheaded, and threw their bodies into the Fuliang River on the spot.