Gao Ding's clean-up operation against domestic violence ~ chaos not only killed a lot of people, but also captured more people. Especially when the Jiuzhen County was captured, the number of prisoners reached 50,000.

Jiuzhen County (present-day Thanh Hoa City, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam) was an important stronghold of the Shi family, with 46,000 households and a population of more than 209,000 people. At that time, it was a very prosperous county, especially in Jiaozhou, a land far away from the Central Plains, and it was commendable that such a population could be reproduced.

Jiuzhen County's culture and economy have developed well, but its military strength is very weak, and it is not vulnerable to Gaoding's army at all. Gao Ding asked the soldiers to throw a few thunderbolts on the city wall, and the defenders were frightened and peeed. The Gao Ding army easily took the city.

After Gao Dingjun entered the city, the Shi family carried out a cleansing of the Shi family's power, and the Shi (Huang + 有, pronounced yǐ), like his eldest brother, was taken to Panyu County for house arrest. After that, the Gao Ding army marched all the way, and did not encounter any decent opponents until Rinan County, and it was not until they arrived in Rinan County that they seriously fought a battle.

Rinan County is the southernmost territory of the Han Dynasty, and further south after Rinan County, it belongs to the land of Linyi Kingdom. Although Linyi is a very small country, it is a sovereign country no matter how it is said, and if Gaoding attacks further south, it will be tantamount to invading other countries.

However, this time, Gao Ding did not need to find an excuse to start a war with Lin Yiguo, because after the chaos in the Central Plains at the end of the Han Dynasty, Lin Yi Guo did not try his best to fish in troubled waters to reap the benefits. However, the huge force of the Shi family was sitting in Jiaozhou, and they did not dare to go north too much, but gradually occupied some places in Ninan County.

After Gao Ding came to Rinan County, he was worried about what excuse he had to start a war against Linyi State, he remembered that Liu Hou had told him before he sent his troops that he would fight until he saw the southernmost part of the continent, and he had been marching towards this goal.

But now there is a Linyi country in the way, and in order to open up the Indochina Peninsula and reach the southernmost tip of the mainland, this small country must be uprooted. However, the war is not said to be fought, in this era, innocent invasion of other people's territory is against the Confucian scriptures, and in the future, when you return to the court, I am afraid that you will be impeached by those corrupt Confucians.

In ancient China, wars have always been paid attention to the need for teachers to be famous, even if there is no famous hall, you must fabricate a high-sounding hall of fame to publicize it, otherwise, it is unrighteousness, it is tyrannical, don't look at Gao Ding is a general, but I still know a thing or two about these ways in the war between the two countries.

Now it's okay, the other party took the initiative to send an excuse to the door, and Gao Ding looked at it after arriving in Rinan County, but it was annoying! The small Linyi barbarian country dared to invade the territory of my glorious Han Dynasty, haven't you heard that "those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away"? With this crime, it is enough to destroy his country and destroy his temple.

So, Gao Ding immediately ordered his staff master to write a gorgeous and passionate crusade ~ text, and let people send it to the capital of Linyi to give their king a look, and then waved his army non-stop to attack the army of Linyi State.

He wrote this article firstly to disgust the king of Linyi Kingdom, and secondly, to block the mouths of the world, so that he would not fall into passivity in public opinion. It can be seen that Gao Ding is still relatively mature politically, and he is not a brainless person.

The king of Linyi has long known that the Han army has been going south all the way to fight ~ the Vashi family, worried that they will threaten the security of their own country, in fact, they are mainly thieves, because they occupy other people's territory, and they are afraid that others will take it back, so they mobilized 30,000 troops to display in Rinan County, intending to confront the Han army here.

30,000 people is already half of the army of Linyi, which shows that the king of Linyi has also calculated a lot of capital in order to deal with the Han army. He knew from the spies that although the Han army was carrying tens of thousands of prisoners, there were only more than 10,000 real soldiers, and those tens of thousands of prisoners were just used as a baggage team to help the Han army carry supplies.

He was very confident that his 30,000 elite soldiers would definitely be able to scare the Han army and make them dare not act rashly, even if the Han army dared to use force, his 30,000 horses could easily destroy the invading enemy. However, he never expected that his 30,000 horses were not taken seriously by Gao Ding at all, let alone intimidated by them.

After Gao Ding issued the document, he did not wait for the other party to have an envoy to come to negotiate, and directly commanded the army to fight. However, this war was fought very hard. After all, Gao Ding's troops are not all-firearms troops, but only have a small number of fire~ guns and some thunderbolts and explosives~ packets, and they have consumed a lot in the early battle.

If it weren't for these firearms, he might have lost the battle. The 30,000 troops of Lin Yi are indeed elite, with very strong combat effectiveness, and all of them are brave and ruthless, and they are not afraid of death when they fight. On the contrary, Gao Ding's troops originally belonged to the second-line troops in the Han army, and most of them were converted from prisoners, and there was still a certain gap between their combat effectiveness and that of the regular army.

With 30,000 to more than 10,000, the Lin Yi army had an advantage in numbers. In addition, the soldiers of Linyi are familiar with the local terrain and are accustomed to the local climate, which is also a great advantage. When the Han army first arrived, although they found a lot of local guides, they were never able to ~ know the terrain as well as the Lin Yi troops, so they couldn't lay out calmly.

The climate here is hot ~ wet, the Han army from the Central Plains is extremely unadaptable, coupled with many mountains and forests, many miasma, many poisonous insects and poisonous snakes and other objective factors, even if the Han army is equipped with a lot of doctors, do a lot of preventive measures, but it is still inevitable to be affected, these objective factors make the Han army ten percent of the combat strength at least three or four percent.

Lin Yi army also has a killer feature, that is, elephant soldiers, using elephants to fight is a characteristic of the armies of some countries in Southeast Asia, but the soldiers from the Central Plains have hardly seen elephants. The first time they saw these behemoths, most of the soldiers were frightened and weak, but fortunately, Gao Ding reacted quickly and let his subordinates cast thunderbolts in time to disturb the elephants, which saved the defeat.

In short, this battle of the Han army fought very fiercely, from all aspects of the comparison, the Han army is at a disadvantage, the only advantage is to have a small number of firearms, it is by virtue of this pressure on the bottom of the firearms, the Han army finally turned defeat into victory, defeating the army of Linyi State.

In this battle, 30,000 people of Linyi were defeated, about 10,000 were killed and wounded, about 5,000 were captured, and the rest fled into the mountains and forests without a trace. The Han army was also uncomfortable, with more than 7,000 dead and wounded, and hundreds of people missing.

After this battle, the Gaoding troops no longer had the strength to attack south, so they had to be stationed in Ninan County to rest. There are several reasons why Gao Ding chose to be stationed here, one is that there are a large number of wounded people who need to recuperate, and if it is very troublesome to carry these wounded for a long distance, it is better to be stationed on the spot and it is convenient to treat them on the spot;

The second is that this is the border line, and he wants to garrison it here to prevent the army of Linyi from opening their eyes and running over to take advantage; The last reason was that he received a document from the imperial court that the Empress Dowager, the two princes, and Xu Jing, the former prince, were going to be sent to Rinan County, and he had the responsibility of monitoring these Qin criminals.