Chapter 35: The Battle of Annam

Just when Su Le was accumulating strength, news came from Annan on the other side of the Indochina Peninsula: The 500,000 troops of Meng Tong Kingdom are coming, please come to the rescue immediately!

If Annam was occupied by the Meng Dian, Su Le's small territory that Su Le had just worked so hard to establish between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochina Peninsula would be over, and it would definitely not be able to stop the iron hooves of the Meng Dian's army. www.biquge.info So Su Le immediately gathered cavalry and naval troops, and marched to Annan to help.

Only a few infantry and warships were left in Tianlu City to maintain order, and Su Le told the generals who stayed behind: "If the Meng people come over, you don't care about anything, abandon the city and flee immediately, and if the ship can be loaded, take some locals with you." ”

After all the explanations were made, Su Le, Athena, and Izuki Sugiko galloped to the capital of Annam with the elite troops and the ninja troops.

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According to the practice of bluffing, Meng Bai's army may not have 500,000, but the number will definitely not be small, and the leader of the army is Li Heng, although it is a Han name, he is actually not an authentic Han person.

Li Heng's family was originally Hu people, and later entered the Central Plains to serve the emperor of China, and was given the surname "Li" for his merits. Later, the Li family also founded the country, but this country established in northwest China has been surviving in the cracks, and was finally destroyed by the Meng people.

Due to the long-term and unremitting resistance before the fall of the country, in this case, the Meng people generally slaughtered the city after breaking the city, and most of the royal families and elites gathered in the capital were killed, although in the end the lord general listened to the persuasion to stop this barbaric act, but there were not many people in the city who survived.

Therefore, Li Heng is also a remnant of the country destroyed by the Meng people, but unlike Su Le, he integrated into the Great Meng Tong country, entered the army of the Meng Bai country and achieved a high position, and now leads an army of various nationalities to destroy another country.

Although the two chose to be different, unified or divided, the order was still chaotic, but it did not mean that Su Le's choice was necessarily more correct than Li Heng. The other two also have different positions, Su Le is now a separatist who destroys the order, and may be a dictator who intends to conquer the world in the future.

After Li Heng's army came to Annan, he immediately captured the capital of Annan, but most of the soldiers he brought here were soldiers from northern China, and it was the summer of the northern hemisphere at this time, and the weather in Annan was extremely hot, and many soldiers could not stand the illness and fell ill.

At the same time, the incidents of soldiers being killed occurred one after another, especially the soldiers from the Meng people, which made the soldiers who were already suffering from homesickness even more panicked.

"What's so good about this place of the hell? It's better to go back to the grassland and stay. ”

"It's hot all day long, and it's stuffy and hot."

"It scares people to death when it rains!"

At first, it was just ordinary soldiers who said this, but later even senior generals began to put forward the idea of withdrawing troops, and Li Heng finally decided to withdraw his troops.

The army slowly retreated, and after entering a jungle, suddenly there was a continuous explosion with a boom! Meng Bai's army was a little chaotic, and a report came from the troops in front: "The bridge on the river has been blown up!" ”

"What is there to be afraid of, how many troops can Annan have? We are fighting back while building bridges and paving roads! Li Heng ordered.

Just as the army was about to turn around to meet the enemy, the troops that had been lagging behind and were now rushing forward were suddenly attacked by a rumbling explosion, which made people roll on their backs.

"What's going on? Rush forward for me, send those southern barbarians back to the capital, this time I must slaughter these stubborn guys to the end! ”

Li Hengda shouted, but he didn't know what kind of difficult situation the troops were facing. Su Le had already mobilized the elephant cavalry troops to block outside the mouth of a canyon, and not far from there, there were cavalry teams waiting to rush back and forth, and it was impossible to break through.

At the same time, Su Le and Izuki Shanzi released rockets outside, blowing up the corpses at the mouth of the canyon, so that no one dared to rush out.

At this time, although Li Heng had hundreds of thousands of troops, he was blocked by the river in the east, and there were high mountains and mountains in the west and south, like a pocket surrounding the army. After the bridge was blown up, the only exit was the canyon, which had now been sealed by Su Le, and the army could not be deployed at all.

It didn't take long for the generals to be unable to maintain their formation, and the soldiers began to flee, and when they found that the bridge to cross the river was gone, they all threw away their armor and jumped into the water, trying to swim across the river, regardless of whether they could swim or not, and they did not hesitate to do so.

Seeing that Li Heng's army had been routed and no one dared to rush out of the mouth of the canyon, Su Le ordered the elephant cavalry to be the vanguard and break into the canyon, and then the cavalry followed, attacking the enemy back and forth, squeezing Meng Yan's army in a very small space.

The archers who were ambushed in the mountains appeared at the right time, raining arrows at the dense Li Heng army, in this case, it was almost a hundred shots, and Li Heng also fell from his horse because of an arrow in his knee. The soldiers who guarded Li Heng carried the bloodied commander on their shoulders, and finally fled to the other side.

However, there are not many people who swim to the other side like them, and Su Le makes people constantly shout on the battlefield "Those who surrender do not die"!

Therefore, a large number of soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered, and many of those who had just entered the water swam back to the shore to surrender, after all, it was still very difficult to swim to the other side of the river. In addition, even if you swim over, eating and drinking are not guaranteed, and with the corpses of the arrows scattered on the river, it is obvious that there is a better chance of survival if you surrender.

After the end of this battle, Su Le captured more than 100,000 troops, and dealing with these people was also quite troublesome.

Most of the ordinary soldiers were actually Han Chinese, and Su Le conveyed the following meaning: "If you are willing to stay here to clear the wasteland and assist yourself in fighting against the Meng people, you can stay and open up the wasteland or become a sailor, although it is a little hard, but you don't have to endure the oppression of the Meng people." ”

There are a lot of people who have no worries or are not happy in their hometown who are willing to stay, so that Su Le has more strength to expand his living space, but the problem of having more boys and girls is also more prominent. In this regard, Su Le planned to go to the mainland and the East China Sea to buy some young girls to come over, because of the previous years of war, there were many more women than men in these places.

The rest were mostly people who wanted to go home, and Su Le arranged for ships to send them back to the southern coastal areas of China, and then they had to rely on themselves to return home.

However, the Meng people and the generals loyal to the Great Meng Tu State's concept of "conquering the world to eliminate the estrangement and wars of different countries" were all strictly guarded.

Su Le let these people who did not like him look at him shackled to open up the wasteland, because of the difficult living conditions, the intensity of the work, and the area they reclaimed were the most dangerous places, not only Bengal tigers were infested, but also there were many poisonous snakes.

The captives were killed one after another, and their personnel were quickly reduced, and soon they all disappeared into the rainforest far from home.

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Li Heng finally returned to China, but the arrow in him was poisonous, and the poison had already spread, and the injured foot was swollen to a thickness greater than his waist, and after a few days of suffering, he still couldn't escape death.

This person probably likes to fight, and he is not bad, and in the first half of his life, he has won many battles and achieved a very high status with the expansion of the Great Meng Tong Kingdom. However, this last battle shows that he is not much smarter than others, if he was not smooth sailing in his early years, looking so "able to fight well", maybe it would be a better result for most people.

In that case, Li Heng himself would not stand tall and fall hard, and even the expansion of the Meng people would be somewhat blocked, and the civilization around the world might be less destroyed.