On the third day of the ninth month, Zhennan Bo Li Laosi led an army of 150,000 and entered the northern part of the Yue Kingdom. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The purpose of this expedition was to occupy the entire Indochina Peninsula, so a large number of troops were used. Including 60,000 Yizi battalions, 50,000 warrior troops and 40,000 tiger soldiers, it can be said that Li Zhi's surplus soldiers and horses were all dispatched.

At the end of last year, Li Zhi recruited 40,000 recruits in Shandong and Tianjin. After 10 months of training, the recruits were transferred to Japan to carry out military management. The original 40,000 veterans in Japan were replaced and participated in the southern expedition commanded by Li Laosi.

This was a huge expedition, and it was the first time that Li Zhi had mobilized so many manpower and material resources in a war. The heavy men who accompanied the army alone conscripted 100,000 people.

It took Li Zhi half a month to send 250,000 people to the border between Daming and Yue, and this is still under the condition of a large number of steamships.

It was the first time that the Yoshiji Battalion and the Samurai Army had taken a steamer, and they were very excited along the way. This epoch-making means of transportation also made the two newly joined armies even more in awe of Li Zhi, and they were glad that they had followed the right person.

In order to meet the logistical needs of the expeditionary force, Li Zhi conscripted half of the civilian steamships in one town and nine provinces, and used more than 200 steamers to transport the mountain-like materials to Fangcheng, Qinzhou, Guangdong -- the administrative division at this time was different from that of later generations, and the coastal zone in the south of Guangxi Province belonged to Guangdong in terms of administrative division, and Guangxi had no outlet to the sea.

After the grain and military supplies were transported to Fangchenggang, they were not transported by land, but were sent by steamship to the coastal areas of Vietnam. The land of the Vietnamese country is basically close to the sea, and transportation from the sea can reduce the risk of the logistics line being interrupted by the enemy. Wherever the troops in front hit, the steamers will send military supplies.

Not only are the ships and people on the front line busy, but also the warehousing and logistics personnel in the rear. In the rear, all kinds of material resources were transported to Tianjin in an endless stream, and they were loaded onto ships one by one. It can be said that the whole of Tianjin was mobilized because of this expedition.

Li Laosi commanded an army of 150,000 all the way south and encountered the Yue army in the east of Beijiang City in the north of the Yue Kingdom.

The number of Vietnamese troops is also quite large.

It is clear that the Trung family in the north of the country and the Nguyen family in the south have united. Under the threat of annihilation, in the face of Li Zhi, an unprecedented enemy, the two old enemies of the north and the south gave up their past grievances and formed a coalition army of about 120,000 people.

According to Li Laosi's intelligence, there are 90,000 members of the Zheng family and 30,000 members of the Ruan family.

The two armies confronted each other on the impact plain in the east of Beijiang City, each lined up for more than ten miles, and it was mighty.

Li Laosi set up the Chinese army on a high mound and used binoculars to observe the troops of the Yue Kingdom.

To the west of the Yue army was the army of the Zheng family. The soldiers of the Zheng family were very backward in equipment, they were all spears and knives, and they didn't even have armor on their bodies. The Ruan family's army in the east looks much more elite, and the Ruan family's soldiers are wearing chain mail, and I don't know if they bought it from Westerners or produced it themselves.

There were also 6,000 arquebuses in the ranks of the Nguyen family's 30,000 people. The arquebus was completely Western-style, and Li Laosi changed to a high-powered telescope to take a closer look at it and confirmed that these firearms were all from white Europeans.

In the queue of the Ruan family, there were more than 100 artillery pieces. However, the guns were small cannons, and the heaviest was no more than twelve pounds.

These are commonplace things, and they can only be considered obsolete weapons.

The only thing that surprised the soldiers under Li Zhi was the more than 100 war elephants in the middle of the Ruan family's queue.

Li Laosi had never seen those war elephants, and they were all two or three meters tall. The war elephant was draped in huge chain mail, and two soldiers sat on their backs. The man in front is the man who controls the elephant with something resembling a horse's reins. The man in the back was holding an arquebus, which was the long-range fire of the war elephant.

The war elephants had been trained for a long time and had apparently become very tame. At this time, the war elephant stood in the middle of the military formation, almost motionless, and looked extremely solemn.

These war elephants look enormous. Although the soldiers and horses on both sides were separated by five or six miles, the soldiers on Li Laosi's side had already seen the towering back of the war elephant.

The soldiers of the Tiger Army are fine. The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army are all veterans, and after countless bloody battles, they have all kinds of advanced weapons in their hands, and of course they are not afraid of these animals. But it was the first time that the Yoshiji Battalion and the Samurai Army had encountered this most powerful creature in nature, and they were a little surprised when they looked around.

What to fight these war elephants? The samurai army's katana is definitely useless. Can the newly issued rifles of the Yizi battalion kill these war elephants?

When Sanada Nobuyuki saw the war elephant, his face was full of disbelief. He looked at the cannon of the Tiger Army, and then at Li Laosi, his expression a little nervous.

Li Dingguo was also a little worried, and arched his hand at Li Laosi and said, "Uncle, this Annan man actually has more than 100 war elephants. The power of this war elephant is not insignificant, how can we defeat the enemy? ”

Li Laosi looked at Sanada Nobuyuki and Li Dingguo and was silent for a few seconds.

Then Li Laosi said: "Don't worry, in front of the Tiger Army, even these war elephants that are more than three meters tall are vulnerable tricks!" ”

Li Dingguo was stunned, looked at Li Laosi, and didn't dare to ask again.

Li Laosi thought for a while and said: "In this battle, the Yizi Battalion and the Samurai Army will observe from the side, and see how my Tiger Army destroys the enemy!" ”

Sanada Nobuyuki said, "Fifty thousand samurai will also go into battle to make meritorious contributions..."

However, before his words could be translated by the translator, he was interrupted by Li Dingguo. Li Dongguo arched his hand and said: "Listen to the dispatch of Zhennanbo!" ”

The two armies confronted each other for an hour, and the soldiers and horses of the Yue Kingdom began to attack.

At the beginning, the Ruan family released the war elephants. One hundred and thirteen war elephants let out a huge roar and slaughtered the Tiger Ben army, walking in front of the 120,000 Yue soldiers.

Each elephant weighed four or five tons, which was terrifying. The heavy elephant's feet stomped on the ground, causing the ground to shake slightly.

The dozen or so war elephants at the front are more than three meters tall and look like a group of unstoppable giants. The soldiers of the Yue Kingdom did not dare to walk next to the war elephants, for fear of being trampled to death by the war elephants.

The soldiers of the Yizi Battalion were born as thieves, and they were not as brave as the Tiger Army. Seeing the huge creatures that surpassed humans rushing over, some of the soldiers of the Yizi Battalion had panicked looks on their faces and began to look left and right.

According to Li Zhi's military discipline, it is a violation of discipline to look left and right in the army! This action will cause a significant drop in morale, and in severe cases, it can be killed on the spot. Li Dingguo frowned, and the officers of the Yizi battalion rushed forward and violently whipped the soldiers looking left and right with leather whips.

Li Dingguo finally stabilized the soldiers, and the war elephant had already traveled three miles away.

Li Laosi waved his hand.

"Knock knock knock!"

Loud war drums beat.

The soldiers of the Tiger Army pushed out two hundred and twenty-dozen twenty-pounder rifled guns.

The artillerymen skillfully loaded the cannon charge, loaded the fire door with mercury thunderate as a firing charge, and aimed the cannon at the war elephants who were showing off their might in the middle of the battlefield.

Li Laosi waved his hand again.

"Woo~~~"

The desolate horn sounded, and the artillerymen of the Tiger Ben Army slammed the cannon ropes. Two hundred and twenty rifled guns spat out huge tongues of fire, firing more than 200 conical shells at the war elephants three miles away.