In fact, the collapse of the whole army cannot be blamed on those Jiaozhi soldiers, although there are still more than 100,000 people, their morale has long been negative, and no one thinks that they can achieve victory, even if it is a short-term victory.

In this case, the collapse of the elephant army, which had placed its last false hope, was a matter of course.

All the Jiaozhi soldiers who went out to fight let out a terrible scream together, they threw away their armor, and scrambled to flee in the opposite direction of the Chinese army, everyone didn't know where they should flee to, but it didn't matter, as long as they could stay away from those red-clothed killing gods for a while.

The collapse of the hundreds of thousands of men was much more terrifying than when they attacked, and the fleeing soldiers crowded each other, trampled each other, and even slashed each other with their weapons, just to find a gap in the rear, and all the officers on the horses were pulled off their horses by countless pairs of big hands, and fell heavily to the ground, but no one had a chance to ride again, because everyone wanted to snatch a mount, regardless of whether they could ride a horse or not.

In the midst of the competition, some poor horses were torn apart by the crazy people!

In the crowd, people kept falling, and after that they never had a chance to get up, countless pairs of big feet stepped on them mercilessly, and the unlucky ghosts with broken bones screamed loudly, and they raised their hands in the air, but no one wanted to pull them.

The whole scene was so miserable that even the Chinese army felt a little unbearable.

"Tut-tut, that's pathetic."

Xu Daizhuo shook his head and commented in a somewhat contemptuous tone:

"However, if you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place?"

Poor people must have something to hate, and this is also the evaluation of the whole Chinese army on the Jiaozhi thief.

Amid the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the cavalry that had crossed the river in advance began to speed up, trying to pursue the collapsed cross-toe thieves.

Although there were only a few hundred people at this time, there was no threat to the collapsed enemy, and these cavalry were enough to chase after hundreds of thousands of routed soldiers and slash them at will.

The Chinese infantry did not need to pursue, but they also unconsciously began to speed up, advancing towards Thang Long Mansion, where the four gates were wide open.

If you don't occupy this thief's lair, the war will not really end, and the victims of Qinzhou and Lianzhou will not be truly avenged!

Fortunately, at this time, the Jiaozhi people no longer had any obstacles to the Chinese army, and the rest of the work was only to rush over and occupy the city.

The Chinese army quickly entered the city of Thang Long through the open city gates, and tens of thousands of soldiers controlled all key positions in the city, including the imperial palace, as planned.

A part of the Chinese army quickly took control of all the gates through the city walls, and then closed all the gates except the north gate to prevent the escape of important targets in the city, and of course, this also successfully blocked the retreat route of the ordinary Jiaozhi people in the city.

On December 27, 1796, the Chinese Southern Expeditionary Army conquered Thang Long Mansion, the capital of the Yue Kingdom.

Among the main targets pursued by the Chinese army, Li Changjie, the main culprit who invaded Qinzhou and Lianzhou last year and caused heavy human and economic losses, was found near the north gate.

At the last moment, he wanted to draw his sword and commit suicide, but he cut his neck with the Shang Fang sword given by the emperor of Yue for a long time, because he was afraid of pain, he didn't cause serious injuries, but only cut a layer of skin.

Several leading party members recognized the disgraced Li Changjie, and the Chinese soldiers immediately kidnapped him and took him away.

Li Qiande, the little emperor of the Yue Kingdom, was still in the dormitory with a few palace maids and eunuchs when the city was broken.

Hua Jun entered the Jiaozhi Puppet Palace, dragged the unclothed little emperor from the bed, draped him with a sheet and took him away.

The maids and the little eunuchs were kept separately - they were good slaves who could sell for a price.

The Empress Dowager Yilan of the Yue Kingdom, when the city was broken, disguised herself as an ordinary peasant woman and tried to escape.

But the Chinese army quickly closed the city gates, so that she could not leave the city.

After the Chinese army began to screen the population of the city, Yilan was afraid that she would be really treated as an ordinary peasant woman and handed over to the cave barbarians waiting for rewards outside the city, so she had to come out to identify herself and surrender to the Chinese army.

The woman was then taken away and held in solitary confinement.

Zong Tan, who once served as Li Changjie's deputy, led a small number of personal soldiers to flee the battlefield, but two days later, the desperate personal soldiers who were chased by the Chinese cavalry took down Zong Tan in his sleep and handed it over to the Chinese cavalry, begging for leniency.

Li Hongzhen, who did not lead the invasion last year, was found in the pile of corpses three days later, trampled to death by the rout of his own troops.

Other civil and military officials were captured alive or their bodies were found before his arrival in 1797.

At this point, the Great Yue Kingdom, which was once regarded as a hegemon in the Indochina Peninsula, officially perished.

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This is not the first time that the Chinese army has used the destruction of a country as a New Year gift to the country.

However, this Chinese New Year gift is definitely the fattest one.

Ordinary Jiaozhi people are definitely poor, but the Jiaozhi emperor and nobles at all levels are indeed very rich, because the gap between the rich and the poor of the Jiaozhi people is very large, and most of the wealth created by the Jiaozhi people in the hundreds of years since the founding of the country has flowed into the hands of these few people.

Most of these people gathered in Thang Long Province, and after taking control of the city, the Chinese army found gold, silver, and copper coins worth no less than 20 million taels from the Cochin Palace and the mansions of nobles of all ranks.

There are countless other types of silk cloth, pearls, gems, jade and antiques, etc., and it is impossible to calculate the specific value in a short period of time.

Of course, these treasures are not the biggest spoils.

The land and millions of people in the two years of Jiaozhi are.

Before the arrival of 1797, the Chinese army had captured almost 1.5 million slaves, and it was expected that in the next one to two years, another 3 million cochin slaves would be accounted for.

This figure does not include the part captured by the cave man.

In keeping with the Empire's tradition of dealing with newly occupied areas abroad, tens of thousands of young women from these captives were singled out and assigned to the Han Chinese immigrants who came to the area to colonize the area as mothers-in-law.

In addition, a large number of slaves will be transferred, except for the boys and girls who are sold to the domestic elite to make toys and slaves, and the able-bodied slaves will be used as serfs and scattered to local state-owned farms to do heavy work.

This includes the Great Northern Wilderness, which is in full swing in eastern Liaodong, as well as other border areas.

The Jiaozhi slaves living in the tropics were transferred to the icy and snowy Liaodong, and how many slaves died as a result of this environmental change was not worth mentioning for Huaxia at all.

Dead is dead, the demand for slaves in the empire is not high now.

As for those fertile lands, they were naturally distributed according to pre-war plans.

The empire directly controlled about three million hectares of fertile land on both sides of the Fura River, which was the most essential agricultural area in the Fura Delta, enough to feed millions of people.

The cabinet is certainly not going to give Annam (the new name of Cochin) so many immigrants right now – North China, Northwest China, and Liaodong are all now looking forward to more Jiangnan immigrants.

Therefore, the Cabinet decided to allow the vast majority of the 80,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force (about 60,000) to work professionally on the spot, and after allocating land and slaves, they would be reclaimed in Annam Province.