Cochin country, mountainous north of Langzhou.

Three or four thousand Jiaozhi soldiers in disheveled uniforms and scattered banners were stationed in their camps.

The so-called camps are actually very scattered, and there are few tents. Although it was also in accordance with the battalion system of the Jiaozhi army, trenches were dug and fences were built. But the trench is less than half a person deep, and the fence is even more sparse, and even wild boars can't stop it, let alone the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

The main force of this Jiaozhi army was the division of Li Chongde, the Marquis of Chongxian. At that time, when Yongzhou and Li Qiande divided their troops, the number was as high as 50,000! After dividing 5,000 men to guard Yongzhou, they went all the way north, successively breaking through Hengzhou, Binzhou, Xiangzhou, and Liuzhou, and until they reached the city of Guizhou, the seat of governance on Guangnan West Road.

However, at this time, Guizhou City has been under the management of Shuai Si Zhou Lu and Cao Si Zhong Ling, and it has a little bit of solid momentum. The forbidden army and the box army stationed in Guizhou have made up for the quota and purchased equipment. The area around the city was also cleaned up, the people and food were collected into the city, and the village market outside the city was also burned. Ding Zhuang in the city was even organized into an army and practiced day and night.

In addition, the nearby Jinghu South Road also sent a general's reinforcements, and there were always thousands of people.

Li Chongde's troops were divided and reduced all the way (he also had to send troops to stay behind the road, and the troops would also die of illness and death), and when they arrived at the city of Guizhou, the number of troops was only 20,000. In the face of Guizhou Jiancheng, it was difficult to get hold for a while. Hit a few times, and the losses were heavy!

However, the Song army in the city did not have the courage to go out of the city for a decisive battle, but only defended it, so they had no choice but to defend the Vietnamese army.

Just when the war seemed to be protracted, the unbelievable bad news came - Li Chongde could ascend the throne and become emperor!

Li Chongde is certainly not a republican, so naturally he will not regard being an emperor as a bad thing.

However, the premise for Li Chongde to become emperor was that the Vietnamese army on the Eastern Road led by his emperor's brother Li Qiande was completely annihilated! Li Qiande himself became the first emperor - the information that Li Chongde got was not entirely accurate, and he did not know that his brother was taken prisoner. But the news of the annihilation of the army cannot be wrong!

Because the army left in Yongzhou City by Li Chongde complained to Li Chongde before the news of the "death" of the Southern Emperor Li Gande came!

Qinzhou, southeast of Yongzhou, was somehow captured by the Song army (the masterpiece of the new ironclad army that came from the sea), and the rear road of the Vietnamese army on the east road advancing along the coastline was cut off, so naturally there would be no good end.

At this time, Li Chongde, the Marquis of Chongxian, no longer dared to stay in the city of Guizhou, so he had to withdraw his troops in a hurry and rushed all the way to Jiaozhi China.

However, it is easy to march while the victory is victorious, but it is not easy to flee after defeat. Originally, Li Chongde's steps were unsteady when he marched north, and he wanted to fight a quick battle at that time, and he drove all the way forward, and did not occupy many cities and fortresses. Therefore, most of the prefectures and counties that were conquered by the Vietnamese army were still controlled by the magistrates or powerful people who finally entered the Song Dynasty.

When the Jiaozhi army just came, they were all a little caught off guard and didn't have time to organize resistance. But after a long time, all kinds of rebel armies sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, appearing behind the Jiaozhi army, constantly attacking the transportation lines of the Jiaozhi army.

When Li Gande was killed in battle and the news of the destruction of the Jiaozhi East Route Army came, the already active rebel army became even more emboldened. Even the brigade led by Li Chongde was constantly attacked on the way to retreat!

The Song army in Guizhou, which was originally unable to defend itself, also immediately launched a pursuit after receiving the military information from Guangzhou.

In addition, the new army of the Song army, which had recovered the city of Qinzhou, also divided part of its forces into Yongzhou and Pennzhou, and did not directly attack the cities of Liangzhou, but launched the heroic Tusi of the Great Song Dynasty everywhere, and completely destroyed and cleared the 500-mile road that retreated from Binzhou to Jiaozhi.

All the villages along the way have been relocated, bridges have been destroyed, and boats that can be used to cross the river have been scuttled!

Moreover, he also gave a "sky-high price" of 100 taels to the heads of the Jiaozhi soldiers, encouraging the local tyrants in Yongzhou and Binzhou to send troops to rob and kill small groups of Jiaozhi soldiers.

As a result, when the men were sleepy and the horses were tired, and the Jiaozhi soldiers, who had lost more than 30% of their troops, were defeated and retreated to Penn and Yongzhou, what awaited them was a 500-mile death march!

Roads and bridges have been destroyed, and there are no boats to cross countless rivers. On the 500-mile road from Penn to Jiaozhi Liangzhou, Li Chongde's soldiers and horses traveled for a whole month...... In the end, when the army passed through Pingxiangsi and entered the Liangshan Mountains, the total strength was only more than 2,000 and less than 3,000!

The 50,000-strong army led by Li Qiande ended even worse. In the end, only about 1,000 people returned to Langzhou.

Combined, the two armies are less than four thousand!

When he went there was 100,000 soldiers, and when he returned, only 4,000 remnants remained......

The 4,000 remnants of the army were now gathered in a col in Lang Son, waiting for the return of the man sent by Li Chongde to Thang Long to inquire about the news—on the way back to the army, Li Chongde heard the rumors that his brother had been captured and that the Song army was going to take Li Qiande across the sea into the Red River and then go straight to Thang Long.

If Thang Long had been lost at this moment, then Li Chongde would have no choice but to fall into the grass in the mountains north of Jiaozhi!

Time passed, and the subordinates sent to Thang Long did not return for a long time.

Li Chongde also became more and more restless, just when he was about to be driven crazy by this atmosphere like waiting for the death sentence. The great loyalist of the Cochin State, Nguyen Trung Xian, finally arrived with two battalions of "reinforcements" from the Zhou State......

"Junhou, the 30,000 land and water army of the Tyranny Song Dynasty entered the Red River with the emperor half a month ago, and now it is about to reach the Thang Long Mansion......"

As soon as Ruan Dazhongchen entered Li Chongde's camp, he cried and howled to report a desperate news.

The country of Da Yue is finished......

Li Chongde, who was originally standing, had a weak leg and stomach, and sat on the muddy ground with his buttocks. There was no one around him to help him, so he either stood stunned or cried loudly.

"Junhou, don't worry...... Ruan Zhongxian opened his mouth to persuade, but was interrupted by Li Chongde with a wry smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, it's all gone, what's the hurry?" ”

"Prince, Jiaozhi is not dead yet!"

"Not dead?" Li Chongde asked weakly, "There are still some loyal ministers resisting?" Who are they? ”

It has been more than 170 years since the founding of the country, and after four dynasties, of course, it is impossible to destroy it at once. It's normal to struggle for a few years or even more than ten years, and it may even turn around in the end!

But this has nothing to do with Li Chongde...... The fact that the country of Cochin can go through four dynasties in more than 170 years shows that Cochin is full of powerful people in the country, and the authority of the monarch is limited, so it is easy to be replaced.

And this time the Northern Expedition wiped out the capital of the Li Dynasty, and it seems that the Red River Plain, the heartland of the Li Dynasty, will also fall into the hands of the Song army. What else can Li Chongde rely on? Do you want to cling to those ill-intentioned border county heroes? That's giving away heads!

"Princes, there are many loyal ministers in the country, all of them have one side, and they swear not to surrender to the Song Dynasty." Ruan Zhongxian said, "In addition, the Great Zhou Republic in the north heard that the violent Song Dynasty had invaded the Jiaozhi Kingdom, and out of righteous indignation, they sent reinforcements!" ”

"What? The Great Zhou of the North? Li Chongde was stunned, "How is it possible?" The Great Zhou is thousands of miles away! ”

"Junhou, the ironclad elite soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty came by boat, and the 7,000-mile sea route will only arrive in twenty or thirty days." Ruan Zhongxian said, "The minister's Ninghai Mansion is now under the protection of the elite soldiers of the Great Zhou!" The minister also arrived in Langju under their escort......"

"What? The elite soldiers of the Great Zhou? Where is it? ”

"There are a total of 2,000 people stationed in the state capital of Liangzhou, and more than 10,000 are stationed by the Ninghai River." Ruan Zhongxian said, "Prince, Langzhou is not a place to stay for a long time, you should go to Ninghai Mansion with your ministers and station." When you arrive at Ninghai Mansion, you can get the protection of the Zhou army, and the prince will be foolproof. ”

"Are they really Zhou Jun?" Li Chongde is still a little skeptical.

"Really!"

"What are they doing here?"

"Naturally, it's to help me fight against Song." Nguyen Trung Hyun was fully aware of Lee Chong Duc's thoughts.

Zhou Guo doesn't look like a good person!

Sending troops from thousands of miles away, what kind of heart is Ande?

Ruan Zhongxian went on to say: "They must have intentions for me, but the Great Zhou is far away, and the Great Song Dynasty is near...... No matter how big Da Zhou's attempt is, it won't swallow my Jiaozhi! Now the Great Song Dynasty is going to destroy Jiaozhi, and the only thing that the prince can rely on is the Great Zhou State thousands of miles away. Don't hesitate any longer, Junhou! At this point, if you don't vote for Da Zhou, you will only have a dead end. ”

He had a point. Wu Haogu really didn't have the intention of annexing Jiaozhi, he only wanted a part, not a whole.

Because the Great Zhou Republic is only a country in the initial stage of capitalism, with limited appetite, it cannot digest too much population and territory - the capitalist state and the traditional feudal bureaucratic empire are completely different in terms of management mode, the former pays attention to refinement and efficiency. The latter is about scale and making it as big as possible.

Of course, this is not to say that capitalism does not like expansion, but when transportation, information, and productive forces cannot keep up, capitalist countries often do not blindly expand their own territory. Nor will they eat a colony that is difficult to handle.

The country of Jiaozhi is between the mainland and the colony, and it has a large population and is far from the hinterland of the Great Zhou. If you eat too much, it's easy to choke, with so many people, so complicated situation, is it better to treat it as a colony or as a local? It's so hard to do!

Therefore, it is the best policy to eat a little essence and carefully manage it as the overseas territory of the Great Zhou Republic.

With such a small but wealthy overseas territory, the Great Zhou was able to establish more colonial strongholds in the Nanyang region. And he was able to maintain his advantage in the southern sea in the case of turning his face with the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty court, which was far away in Kaifeng Mansion, also began to have a headache for the aftermath of the Battle of Jiaozhi.

Although the Great Song Dynasty was a bureaucratic empire, the national policy of guarding the inside and the outside had been implemented for more than a hundred years, and it had long become a habit, and the expansion route of Taoism in the early days had no good results, so the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers really didn't know what to do with the territory of Jiaozhi.

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