Chapter 432: Painting the Ground as a Dungeon
The big tent of Li Changjie in the south of Lang Son
The messenger stumbled into the tent and reported in great trepidation: "Your Majesty! Dashuai, something is wrong! Big things are wrong! There were six Song warships from the sea, General Li Zhaozhong led 10,000 troops to block, was bombarded by the other side with artillery, nearly half of the dead, the rest were all defeated, General Li Zhaozhong had one leg blown off, and he was unconscious, and now the Song army has almost advanced to Thang Long City! ”
"What?"
"What?"
Li Gande and Li Changjie exclaimed at the same time, as soon as Li Gande stood up, his whole body seemed to be suddenly drained of strength, and he fell down in a state of weakness, Li Changjie was even more sweet in his throat, and a stream of blood spurted out.
"Your Majesty!"
"Dashuai!"
The guards stepped forward one after another to support Li Qiande and Li Changjie, both of whom were pale and extremely decadent.
The mouth of the Red River is two hundred miles away from Thang Long City, and the distance from Lang Son to Thang Long City is about two hundred miles.......
The big one is over! The big one is over!
Li Gande suddenly stood up again, and shouted like a frenzy: "Quick, spread my will, and the army will immediately return to the capital, quickly!" ”
Li Changjie breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the blood from his mouth, and stopped: "Your Majesty, slow down, come!" Push out this gossip and behead it first! ”
Li Changjie pointed to the messenger who reported the news, and the messenger suddenly collapsed to the ground in fright, and argued in a loud voice: "The handsome man spares his life!" The villain did not deceive the crowd, what the villain said was true! The handsome man spares his life......"
Li Changjie didn't bother to look at him. The messenger was quickly pulled out and beheaded, and Li Changjie ordered to block the news at the same time, and whoever leaked half a sentence would be punished by the nine clans.
"Your Majesty, don't be impatient, it is specific to return to the capital, but you must make arrangements first, otherwise you will withdraw your troops in a hurry. Yang Yi pursued, the army would collapse, and not only would it not be able to save the capital. Our army of 100,000 will also be destroyed! ”
"Captain Li said quickly, what should I do now? My heart is in turmoil, everything will be decided by Mrs. Li! ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust. The old minister will die in revenge! Li Changjie finished giving a salute to Li Qiande and shouted to the guards: "Quickly send Li Qianmu to see Ben Shuai!" ”
Li Qianmu is Li Changjie's second son, and now he is also the person he can trust the most.
In the end, he asked Li Qianmu to lead 20,000 horses to defend Lang Mountain, and he and Li Qiande led an army of 80,000 to return to Thang Long City.
Li Changjie also knew that paper could not contain fire, and the sergeant of the army would know about the Song army's attack on Thang Long City sooner or later, but what could he do except for a dead horse as a live horse doctor?
Almost at the same time, Liu Zheng hurried into Yang Yi's Chinese army tent and reported to Yang Yi about the landing of the navy and the ninth general of Gyeonggi at the mouth of the Red River.
Yang Yi asked in a deep voice, "What is the specific situation?" ”
Liu Zheng said with a happy face: "My lord, the ninth general of Gyeonggi and the Hangzhou Navy army were noon the day before yesterday. It has broken through the defense line of the Vietnamese army at the mouth of the Red River, annihilated 4,300 enemies, and the rest have all been defeated. According to the itinerary, it should have advanced to the bottom of Thang Long City by now. ”
"Good!"
After shouting hello, Yang Yi realized that the Ninth General and the Hangzhou Navy had moved earlier. Now that the few tribes and the Vietnamese army are losing one or two thousand men and horses every day on Lang Mountain, Yang Yi's bounty order for killing two birds with one stone is very effective, so he still wants to consume it for a few more days.
It's just that I didn't expect Li Shangxian and them to come so quickly in order to make war achievements, and the sea contact was inconvenient, and Yang Yi couldn't make timely adjustments. So much so that the timing of the attack was somewhat unsatisfactory.
The matter has come to this point, it is useless to think about it, it is the right thing to take care of the overall situation.
Yang Yi shouted: "Someone! Drumming Gathering! ”
Soon after the rumbling war drums sounded, Yang Yi drove the army out of the camp and slaughtered towards Langshan Pass, and tens of thousands of tribal troops were also under Yang Yi's order, killing each small pass, and kept shouting to the Vietnamese army guarding the pass, declaring that the Song army had broken through Thang Long City, and demanded that the Vietnamese army surrender immediately to save their lives. …,
Li Qianmu tried his best to suppress it, but Li Qiande and Li Changjie led most of the retreat, which in itself made the left-behind Ding Zhuang panic, and the rumors spread rapidly in the army, and then listening to the shouts of the Song army, almost everyone believed it. If this is not the case, why did Li Changjie suddenly lead the army back to Dragon City?
It was better to have Li Qianmu in charge of Lang Son Pass, but the defenders of the other small passes had already thrown down their weapons and fled for their lives, and there was a scene of fallen trees and scattered trees everywhere.
The "miscellaneous army" was like a bamboo, and one by one the small passes were captured, and then under Yang Yi's order, they went to copy the back road of Langshan Pass, which made Li Qianmu very desperate, but Li Changjie gave him a death order, no matter what, he had to hold Langshan Pass for two days, even if all the small passes were lost, Langshan Pass must be supported for two days.
Because those small passes are okay with a small army, but it is difficult for the large army to pass, especially Yang Yi's tens of thousands of cavalry, which can only pass through Langshan Pass, as long as he holds Langshan Pass for two days, it is equivalent to dragging Yang Yi, for which Li Changjie also left a thousand elite Vietnamese troops to him.
But what people didn't expect was that it was this thousand elite division that had an accident, and the general Ruan Jinghua suddenly broke out at the gate, cut off Li Qianmu's head with a knife, and welcomed back his uncle Li Zhongming.
Without him, Li Zhongming would have been their boss. Dawn has been in charge of this army for several years, how can there not be some henchmen in the army?
After Li Zhongming seized control of Lang Son Pass, he immediately surrendered to Yang Yat. Fools know that Da Yue won't be able to hold on for long, and now he can still get a credit by surrendering.
Yang Yi did not disappoint him, and after praising him greatly, he made him the vanguard general, and continued to lead the 10,000 horses surrendered at Lang Son Pass to Thang Long City.
When he passed the customs, Yang Yi once again summoned the leaders of various tribes, and "weakly" emphasized the military discipline that all rape and captives must be beheaded, and his words were a bit formalistic and difficult for people to pay attention to.
Hey! You'd better not pay attention! It's better to plunder!
The current territory of Cochin is much smaller than that of later Vietnam, mainly confined to the Red River Delta, and the scorpion's tail is less than half the length of later generations. Places like Ho Chi Minh City are still part of the territory of Champ.
And the Red River Delta, that is, the area around Thang Long City. The terrain is relatively flat, which is conducive to cavalry combat, although Li Zhongming has received the position of a striker, in fact, he can't catch up with Liu Wu and them when he breaks his leg.
As soon as he passed the Langshan Pass, Yang Yi immediately ordered Liu Wu to lead 10,000 cavalry and pursue the 80,000 Vietnamese troops who had returned to Shenglong City at full speed.
Li Changjie's 80,000 horses walked for most of the day, but because they were infantry. It was still more than a hundred miles away from Thang Long City, and it was caught up by Liu Wu.
Li Changjie learned the news of the loss of Langshan Pass in advance, and vomited another mouthful of blood at that time. Dragging his tired body, he still made a final effort, concentrating 300 war elephants and 5,000 elites. Block Liu Wu at a place called Ruan Si Niangzi Ridge.
Ruan Si Niangziling's terrain is relatively narrow, but it is not dangerous, from a distance it looks like a woman lying on her side on the ground, and the road passes through the woman's concave waist.
Liu Wu's 10,000 cavalry rolled in, and the roaring sound of horses' hooves shook the entire Ruan Si Niangzi Ridge, and even the war elephants of the Vietnamese army became irritable, not to mention those Vietnamese soldiers.
Hu Zongyue, the general of the Vietnamese army who was in charge of the break, knew that he could not wait, Ruan Si Niang Ridge was two miles wide, and his 5,000 men were panicked, and the best battle plan was to immediately counterattack. Otherwise, the longer you wait, the lower your morale will be, and the more hopeless you will be.
Three hundred war elephants took the lead, and under Hu Zongyue's order, they rushed against Liu Wu and them. If it was the first time that the wind came to the war elephant, they would definitely be frightened by its amazing momentum, but Liu Wu and the others saw the war elephant now, except for sneering, there was nothing more.
When the war elephants rushed closer, the Song army immediately took off rockets in the sky. The entire sky suddenly burst into flames, like a fire net towards the war elephant cover of the Vietnamese army. …,
The war elephants are the most afraid of fire, Liu Wu and they only used two rounds of volleys, so that hundreds of war elephants were so frightened that they turned around and ran, but rushed into the large array of the Vietnamese army, trampled a large area to death, the Vietnamese army was in chaos, Liu Wu and they rushed over, like a torrent to cover the five thousand Vietnamese troops.
It can be said that if there were no these hundreds of war elephants, Liu Wu and they would not have won so easily, and these hundreds of war elephants seemed to be used to help them.
In half an hour, after Liu Wu collected more than 3,000 prisoners of war, he left 500 men and horses to guard them, and he led the army to continue the fierce pursuit.
At this moment, the Great Yue Kingdom is full of the image of a dead country, the soldiers have no intention of fighting, the people are dragging their families and fleeing in a hurry, Li Changjie is originally a group of untrained strong men, even if he has the ability, he can't turn the tide.
When the news of Hu Zongyue's 5,000 men and horses being rushed and crushed came, tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops immediately panicked, and many people took advantage of the generals' inattention to hide directly in the woods on the side of the road.
Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Li Changjie, who was helpless, had no choice but to order to set up camp, if he continued to march, the night was blank, I am afraid that without waiting for the Song army to chase after him, these tens of thousands of horses would escape overnight.
Now set up a large camp, which can not only block the Song army, but also prevent a large number of soldiers from fleeing.
What is called painting the ground as a prison, this is probably called painting the ground as a prison!
Soon after Li Changjie's camp was set up, Liu Wu and the others arrived, tens of thousands of cavalry, the sound of hooves was like a tide, earth-shattering, the hearts of the Vietnamese army were knocked numb, but their legs were weak.
"General Liu, do you want to fight?" Seeing that the lights in the camp of the Vietnamese army were bright and the military was uncertain, Han Zheng asked eagerly.
Liu Wujian smiled and said, "Do you still need military exploits to increase your prestige?" Don't worry, follow the adults to fight, I Liu Wu don't know anything else, but the battle merits will never be missing ours, and you don't have to rush to grab the merits. ”
"General Liu, the last general didn't mean that, the last general just thought, the enemy's army is unstable, it is easy to take this big battalion with our 10,000 horses, let's finish the work, and the marshal should go to Thang Long City to rest early."
"Hahaha! Less fucking bullshit! It is not difficult to defeat these tens of thousands of frightened birds, but the adults said, what do you want to build in Guangnan, one port and two roads, you need manpower, and now Li Changjie has set up the camp just right, we just need to trap him, if the camp is broken, this night is vast, not to mention tens of thousands of people, even tens of thousands of pigs for you to catch, you can't catch it! Trap him first, wait until dawn tomorrow to work, and don't even think about running away at that time! ”
"General Liu is wise!" Han Zheng lost no time in slapping a sycophant.
Liu Wu was extremely refreshed, laughing loudly, he divided 10,000 horses into four, and trapped the large battalion of the Vietnamese army.
10,000 people besiege 80,000 people, which is arrogant enough, but now Liu Wu and they do have the capital to be arrogant, who will make these four places flat?
On the plains, don't say that Li Changjie is just a strong man who was temporarily pulled in by seventy or eighty thousand, even if it is eighty thousand elite soldiers, Liu Wu is not afraid of him, if he can't beat it, he will run, can you still catch up with me on two legs? (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )