Chapter 1042: Attacking the Jinglong Golden Palace
Han Shizhong's cavalry corps, united with the Tibetan people to contend with the increasingly powerful Western Liao, because the supply was too difficult, so it was not possible to see the victory or defeat for the time being, and could only maintain a stalemate.
After some negotiation and bribery, the nobles of Bagan captured the lord Jiang Xituo and sent him to the imperial camp, so that Bagan disappeared and entered the arms of the empire relatively peacefully.
After the return of the Bagan Kingdom, Yue Fei and Zhang Shuye had no other obstacles, and the troops invaded the Jinglong Golden Palace Kingdom in two ways.
Jinglong Jindian Kingdom was located in the middle reaches of the Lancang River and the Mekong River, and Yue Fei immediately led the Seventh Army of the Empire to attack from the vicinity of the Lancang River, while Zhang Shuye's Eighth Army attacked from the area of the Mekong River.
The imperial army attacked, and now the lord of Jinglong Jindian Kingdom, Pa Yazhen, no longer needs to continue to disguise, and the mastermind behind the scenes, the Duan family brothers of the original Dali, finally appeared.
As for the specific information of the Jinglong Golden Palace, the Imperial Intelligence Bureau has long been clear, this country has a population of 8 million, more than 400,000 soldiers, and more than 9,000 war elephants.
Although the Jinglong Golden Palace Kingdom does not have as terrifying as the Western Xia, there are more than 400,000 soldiers who are familiar with the tropical jungle, and there are nearly 10,000 powerful war elephants, and the strength is definitely strong.
This time, because Li Nan was out playing, it was impossible for Yue Fei and Zhang Shuye to summon the dragon that restrained the war elephants, but don't forget, the empire also has a war elephant legion.
The War Elephant Legion can be regarded as the first class of troops in the Empire, second only to the Slave Infantry Legion, the predecessor of the First Legion of the Empire.
At that time, the Zhenla Empire dominated the Indochina Peninsula with the war elephant army, but after several major wars with the empire, not only the lord of the country died, but a large number of war elephants and elephant slaves in the army were also captured by the empire.
As many as tens of thousands of war elephants eat and drink an astronomical amount every day, and these most massive beasts on land are not yet able to adapt to the climate of the north, so the emperor kept half of the war elephants, and the rest of the elephants were sold to the people in the south to use them for cultivation and transportation.
This time, in order to deal with Bagan, Zhang Shuye and Yue Fei went to the emperor and asked for the support of the war elephant army, so the number of war elephants in the emperor also reached 20,000.
Compared to the battlefields in the north, the war elephant corps in the south also formed an artillery division, using two elephants to haul a new two-wheeled artillery of the empire.
The most famous artillery division of later generations was the Soviet Union, a mechanized infantry division of the Soviet army with more than 13,000 men, and an artillery division with a slightly smaller establishment of more than 11,000 troops.
The modern artillery division has four artillery brigades, namely a rocket artillery brigade, a howitzer brigade, a cannon brigade, and an anti-tank artillery brigade. The rocket artillery brigade, the howitzer brigade and the cannon brigade are all armed with 72 large-caliber heavy guns. As for the anti-tank artillery brigade, it was 48 anti-tank guns, and according to this figure, a Soviet artillery division had more than 260 guns. Both the caliber and the number have reached the first place in the world.
Of course, there were no mechanized artillery divisions in this era, and the empire could only form one artillery division with war elephants, but the number of artillery pieces reached five hundred.
In the dense tropical jungle of Indochina, a variety of trees and vines cover the land.
Today, in Indochina, the only areas with such dense jungles are the newly joined Bagan Province and the Jinglong Golden Palace.
The first thing the empire did when it occupied a region was to build roads, which would speed up the development of the regions, connect the whole empire, and most importantly, transport soldiers and baggage very quickly.
In the provinces of Cochin, Dali and Champang, the coverage of tropical royal forests has been greatly reduced, and those useless trees have been cut down and replaced with rubber trees and various fruit trees.
Now Zhang Shuye's Eighth Army has come to the Mekong River, and on the other side is the Jinglong Jindian Kingdom.
Zhang Shuye is a northerner, although he has been in the Indochina Peninsula for several years, he is still not as good as a native of the locals, so at this moment he is getting together with several generals in the army, looking at the map, and discussing the next strategy against the enemy.
The two generals who followed Zhang Shuye, one was called Fang Ding and the other was called Shi En, and the two young people were both from the Fang La lineage of the Ming Sect.
Facts have proved that when Fang La and the Eight Heavenly Kings under his command did not rebel, but put all their wisdom on the right path, they were still the elite among the people.
Fang La and the others lived in seclusion in the East China Sea Province of Jiaozhi, in addition to normal farming and labor, they would also talk about national affairs and teach their children and grandchildren.
Now the empire is conquering the east and the west, attacking the south and the north, and is threatening in all directions, and has a tendency to unify the world.
Fang La, who had long seen this, saw that the people of the empire were not worried about eating and drinking, and they were getting richer and richer. He knew very well that let alone rebellion now, even if he had this kind of thought, no one would follow him, so he completely let go of this thought.
Since they can't fight against the empire, then they will be completely integrated into this country, Fang La and the others have already predicted that the empire will send troops to deal with Zhenla, Bagan and Jinglong Jindian Kingdom, so they will train their juniors for this.
Now it seems that the hard work of Fang La and the others has not been in vain, whether it is Wang Ping under the command of Yue Fei's Seventh Legion, or Fang Ding and Shi En, who discussed the war with Zhang Shuye at this time, they have all been promoted to several levels and become the generals of the younger generation of the empire.
The Jinglong Golden Palace Kingdom is indeed a country with strong military strength in the Indochina Peninsula, but it is a pity that his opponent is a more powerful empire.
In this hilly terrain covered with tropical jungles, it was very difficult to make any surprise attack, so after discussing with Yue Fei, Zhang Shuye decided to adopt the encroachment tactics of growing up brightly, steadily and steadily, and taking one step at a time.
The tactics of these two famous generals proved to be very correct, and in charge of various wars in history, in fact, the side that used the stratagem was at a disadvantage most of the time.
Only when the strength is insufficient, you need to use all kinds of strategies, and like the two major armies of the empire to attack the Jinglong Golden Palace, there is no need for this at all, in terms of the game, you only need to level A.
When encountering a small group of Jinglong soldiers, the soldiers of the Imperial Regiment are waiting for them with muskets and grenades, and when they encounter a large group of enemy troops, the artillery dragged by the war elephant will bombard indiscriminately.
When the difference in the level of weapons between the enemy and us is too far, war is a very simple thing, in the face of the emperor's firearms and powerful artillery, whether it is the soldiers of the Jinglong Golden Palace Kingdom or their army of war elephants, they are all the targets of slaughter.
Li Nan took a few glances at the battle report from the south, and put it aside, he believed that Yue Fei and Zhang Shuye, two famous generals, would be able to capture the remnants of the Duan family in front of him.
What made Li Nan more concerned was the situation in the north, that is, the great melee between the Mongols, the Jin State and the Western Xia.
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