Chapter 468: Sweeping Nanyang IV

Li Yexu imitated Chen Tianxi and formed the Ten Slave Department of the captured Sri Buddha, and the concentration camp was renamed the Ten Slave City, leaving 3,000 troops to defend it.

After everything was arranged, Li Yexu sent four generals out, divided troops to attack the remaining thirteen cities of Sri Buddha's death, lasted half a month, seven battles of all sizes, except for Bengkulu on the west coast of the island, twelve cities fell into the hands of the Tang army.

In order to facilitate management, Li Yexu moved the deceased of Sri Buddha, who occupied the twelve cities and many villages he had broken, to live in the city of ten slaves. The number of the Ten Slaves suddenly increased to more than 300,000, causing the vast area of nearly 100,000 square kilometers at the southeastern tip of Sumatra to be almost completely populated.

Two months later, Li Wenchang personally led 5,000 elite soldiers to join forces with Li Yexu, totaling 8,000 cavalry, and went south to attack the Tamara Kingdom that controlled both sides of the Sunda Strait.

The two sides fought at the southernmost tip of Sumatra, and later fought in Bandar Lampung.

When the battle was in full swing, the Tamora army was attacked from the flank by a thousand elite cavalry of the Tang army, and the Tamora army, which had no cavalry and no experience in fighting cavalry, was suddenly defeated, and was covered by the Tang army for more than ten miles, and almost the entire army was wiped out. With only a few dozen people left with him, the king of Tamara hurriedly fled by boat to Jawa Island.

Only five days later, with the help of the South China Sea Fleet, the combined forces of Li Wenchang and Li Yexu landed at Zhilegon on Jawa Island, defeated the 4,000 Tamora army that came to block the attack, pursued the victory, and captured the king of Tamara in the capital of his country.

Located in the middle of Jawa Island, the Heling Kingdom was greatly frightened when it heard the defeat of the Tamora Kingdom, and learned that the Tang Army not only did not stop but continued to march to the east of the island after learning that the Tang Army had destroyed the Tamora Kingdom.

King Heling dispatched 20,000 elite soldiers from all over the country to the capital to wait for the Tang army.

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After receiving the victory of the South China Sea Fleet over the Combined Fleet of the Four Nations in the naval battle, Chi Xunyu, the governor of the Boni Prefecture, swung his army from the northeastern coastline of Borneo to the east through Xianna County, which was occupied by the pirate Yang Wuyang, who had been granted the rank of official.

Because there is no indigenous kingdom on the east coast, only some natives who live on the coast and live by fishing and hunting, the number is pitiful and I don't know what nationality, when they saw thousands of Tang troops coming, they have long been frightened and hid in the depths of the rainforest and moved to settle elsewhere.

In more than two months, Wei Chi Xunyu lightly seized the vast area on the east coast of Borneo, entered the south coast of Borneo, and bordered the Governor of Dianzhou on the west coast of Borneo at a distance of two or three hundred to the west.

In order to achieve actual control over the local area, Wei Chi Xunyu adopted the old method of setting up nine garrison envoys from the north to the south coast in turn, all of which were made of local materials, cutting down teak, mahogany, and ironwood with thick trunks of rot-resistant trees, and building a fortress with a mixed civil structure and excellent defense. Each guard made the city leave 300 soldiers, and put the main and deputy guards to capture the town and guard the town.

Knowing that Li Yexu and Li Wenchang had joined forces to land on Jawa Island to destroy Tamara and were marching towards the Kingdom of Haling, Wei Chi Xunyu wanted to share the great merit of seizing Java Island, which had the most fertile soil and the best agricultural conditions among the Nanyang Islands, so he crossed the Java Sea south with about 200 small boats carrying grain and grass with his army, and landed on Madura Island, which was only separated by a narrow Surabaya Strait in the eastern part of Java Island. It took only five days to conquer the island of Madura, which is more than 5,000 square kilometers and is home to nearly 10,000 indigenous people.

In addition to dozens of fair-skinned and beautiful young Madura women who were left as military (harmonious) prostitutes, only a thousand young men were killed as servants of the Tang army, building cities and roads.

Wei Chi Xunyu built a garrison on the island to capture the city, left 300 soldiers, and then led the remaining 2,000 elite soldiers to cross the Surabaya Strait westward, landed in Surabaya in later generations, waved his army to kill a number of Madura villages living nearby, plundered grain for military supplies, captured the young and strong servants and guided the capital to stand in the middle of the island, and marched to the capital of the Heling Kingdom in the area of the Yogyakarta Special Region in later generations.

The Heling Kingdom gathered the elite soldiers of the whole country in the capital to wait for Li Yexu and Li Wenchang to come to the west, and the scouts were all sent to the west of its territory, and they were not only unguarded to the east, but also defenseless.

Wei Chi Xunyu led the army to march from east to west, marching all the way for more than 300 miles, and the Heling Kingdom was unaware of it, until it approached the capital of the Heling Kingdom, Yogyakarta, less than 100 miles, and was discovered by the Heling officials who were sent to the east to collect grain.

When the monarchs and ministers of the Heling Kingdom heard the news that a Tang army was coming from the east, less than a hundred miles away from the capital, they were so frightened that their faces were pale.

The advance of the Tang army from the west, the Heling Kingdom reported almost every day, and it was still nearly 500 miles away from the capital, and the Xunren people living in the central and western part of the island fought fiercely and marched slowly.

But in the east, a Tang army approaching the capital suddenly appeared, which was completely unexpected by the monarchs and ministers of the Heling Kingdom.

The only thing that was fortunate was that after many detailed reconnaissances by the scouts, it was determined that the number of the Tang army in the east was more than 2,000, and the number of Madura people who were captured as slaves was only about 3,000.

"More than 2,000 people dare to attack our capital city, and the Tang army will underestimate our country too much."

After the initial panic, King Heling calmed down and felt that his blood was surging, so he gathered 20,000 elite soldiers from all over the country in the capital, and the Tang army dared to come to pick up the tiger's whiskers with more than 2,000 people, and he didn't take Heling Kingdom in his eyes at all.

The Tang army's strong combat power was recognized in Nanyang after several battles, and it was often able to win more with less, and it could also achieve big victories. But those were all away battles from the Nanyang countries, and the Tang Army was at home.

This time, the Heling Kingdom was the home field, and the Tang army came from afar, and the disparity between the two sides was far greater than before.

But the Tang army was still victorious, and the fierce killing came, and the Heling monarchs and ministers who felt underestimated were extremely angry.

The gathering of 20,000 elite soldiers in our capital is not a pig, so we have to give the invading Tang army a little color.

The whole army of the Heling monarchs and ministers who were surging in blood was dispatched to the fertile fields in the northeast of the city, and the soldiers all over the mountains and fields came from afar, and the soldiers of the Tang Army, who seemed to be sparse in comparison, were fluctuating.

Wei Chi followed Yu to climb the heights to observe the military situation of Heling, and there were tens of thousands of people, not to mention that it was still an army that was making noise, and the hustle and bustle made the four wild beasts extinct.

After some observation, Wei Chi Xunyu found that although the Heling army was numerous, there was no military formation to speak of, and tens of thousands of horses and horses stood together to form a military formation of different thicknesses.

For example, the south of its military formation happens to be the confluence of several streams, the terrain is flat and open, and most of the Heling army is gathered here, which is extremely dense. In the north, there happens to be a river running through from north to south, rushing out of a small river valley, but the Heling army gathered on the west bank of the river valley is only three or four thousand people, but the honor guard of the Heling monarchs and ministers is still placed here, obviously to climb high and watch the Tang army command the battle.

Wei Chi Xunyu had a smile on his face, and took the binoculars to repeatedly confirm that there was no cavalry in the Heling army, and there was no decent spearmen in front of the formation to deal with the cavalry charging into the formation.

Wei Chi followed Yu and rode back to his phalanx, laughing all the way, which made the Tang soldiers who were frightened of the many soldiers of the Heling army and the deafening noise look at him in puzzlement.

I wonder if the governor has gone crazy? The enemy army is huge, they are only 2,000 people, and there are no reinforcements to die, and he still laughs?

"Do you know why so-and-so laughed so much?"

Wei Chi Xunyu was in a good mood and asked the soldiers.

The soldiers shook their heads and said they didn't know.

"That's because I saw that our army would win a great victory today, and in one fell swoop he would destroy the Heling Kingdom and create an immortal feat for future generations to sing."

The generals were confused, the enemy army of 20,000 people fought at home, or they waited for work, and our soldiers and major generals came from afar, and even the grain and grass were plundered all the way.

A big victory today?

Dudu, are you sure that you are sure that you can win, or are you like Cao Cao to draw plums to quench thirst and boost the morale of the army?