"This is the royal city of Funan?" Looking at the building in front of him, which is called the city, the ancestor said speechlessly.

Chang Zhu said: "You are from the original from the middle, and you are used to the fortified fortress there. Unless there is a natural danger to defend, there are few man-made large cities. ”

"In the Indochina Peninsula, Funan Wangcheng is one of the largest cities in the world. Don't look at it, the 7,000 allied troops who didn't help Li Xixing die here can't be taken here. ”

Zu Jizong said boringly: "Hey, I thought there was a tough battle to fight, but I didn't think it would be the case, disappointed." ”

Chang Zhu said: "The king often said that everyone is good at different things, and these natives are also good at things. ”

"They are not good at building cities and attacking tough battles, but when they go to the mountains and forests, they are like fish in water. If we let them flee into the mountains and forests, even if we can't do anything about them. ”

"When the First Emperor sent 500,000 troops to Lingnan for the first time, he failed to succeed, and even the main general was broken. The second time, another 300,000 people were sent into Lingnan before they could barely take it. ”

"During this period, there were heavy casualties, countless people stayed here forever, and the money and food consumed were incalculable. The natives of Lingnan rely on the mountains and forests to fight...... This is a lesson from the past. ”

Zu Jizong listened very seriously, and said with some shame: "Xie Chang Zongqi's teachings, I am grateful." ”

Seeing that he received the friendly signal released by himself, Chang Zhu was also very happy, so he couldn't help but say a few more words:

"That's why the king will adopt a policy of gentleness, first support the pro-Tang forces to raze and suppress, and then educate them."

"We are slowly drawing them out of the mountains to the plains to build towns and villages and cultivate farmland...... And the plains are our home turf, and there are ways to clean them up. ”

Zu Jizong finally understood Tang Guo's plan at the strategic level, and said with admiration: "The king's wisdom is far-reaching, which is admirable. ”

They were chatting on one side, and Li Xixing on the other side also attacked.

His methods were very vicious, and he built a wooden cart with a wooden frame several meters high on it, and hung Zhu Zhan Tan on it.

The siege soldiers pushed the cart behind, shouting that Zhu Zhantan was here, and the people in the city opened the city and surrendered.

Sure enough, the defenders at the head of the city were in disarray.

The arrows avoided the wooden cart, and the man who woke up from Li Xixing hid behind the cart and made it to the side of the moat.

Speaking of which, Zhu Zhantan is also a person with some ability, otherwise he would not have succeeded in rebelling back then.

After he became the lord of Funan, he has been guarding against man-made rebellion, and he has built the old nest royal city well.

A moat about ten meters wide was dug on the perimeter, and a wooden wall was built as an outer wall, and there was an inner wall made of earth and stone.

There are about 15,000 people living in this city, all of whom are his henchmen in the inner city, and 10,000 in the outer city are also his subordinates, and the total number of troops in the city is about 5,000.

There are also many tribesmen living in villages outside the city, ready to support the royal castle.

In the Central Plains, such a city is not as good as a larger county town, and it can be called an invincible fortress here.

Under normal circumstances, Li Xixing's strength would not dare to move this royal city even if it was three or five times more, but now he has the tactics and resources provided by Tang Guo to support him.

For example, to deal with this moat, under the reminder of the Tang army, they first prepared a large number of tree trunks with thick bowl mouths, and built a pontoon bridge with these tree trunks.

The way to deal with the wooden wall is also very simple, use a thick wooden board as a shield, and carry it to a short distance from the wooden wall. Throw the skin bag filled with fierce fire oil under the city and set it on fire with a rocket.

Zhu Zhantan also made preparations for fire attacks, but the preparations he made were all based on the tactical tactics of the Funan natives, and they all failed in the face of fierce fire oil.

The wooden walls were lit and the fire was blazing.

Li Xixing's coalition army let out an earth-shattering cheer, and the morale of the Zhu Zhantan army defending the city was greatly reduced, and they ran to the inner city one after another.

The army is still like this, not to mention ordinary people, who have already begun to flee.

They subconsciously wanted to run towards the seemingly solid inner city, but how could Zhu Zhantan's cronies let them in, and they fell down the city gate early.

Some of the people scolded and begged, but it was useless. In the end, they could only scatter like headless flies, and most of them fled in the opposite direction.

Li Xixing wanted to let people chase and intercept these routs, but was stopped by his ancestors.

"There are more than 10,000 people, and it will take at least half a day to capture them all, and with this respite, the defenders in the city can re-stabilize the morale of the army."

And the act of capturing the people will also arouse the fighting spirit of the defenders in the city, and make them determined to fight to the death. If the people are allowed to leave, it will in turn shake their fighting spirit. ”

"Therefore, it is better to let these chaotic people leave, and then take advantage of the enemy's unstable army to step up the siege of the city, and if you are lucky, you can't go down with a drum."

Although Li Xixing didn't know the specific identity of Zu Jizong, he knew that he was the person in charge of the cavalry of the Tang Army, and personally led the team to capture Zhu Zhantan, and he was a capable person.

That's enough.

So he immediately ordered the people to be let go.

In the inner city, seeing the people let go unharmed, there was a riot on the wall, but it was quickly quelled.

Finally, the battle began.

The walls of the so-called inner city are not very high, about four meters. Li Xixing first sent people to attack tentatively, but was repulsed without accident.

Then he took out the real siege weapon, the building car.

Li Xixing sent out all his most elite 100 soldiers - a team of 100 armed with 100 sets of weapons and equipment aided by the Tang State.

also hung Zhu Zhan Tan on the top of the building car.

Seeing this scene, Zu Jizong said: "This Li leader is willing to send this team of 100 people, which is a bit unexpected to me. ”

Chang Zhu said proudly: "His knowledge is good among the natives, otherwise we wouldn't have supported him." ”

Ancestor Jizong nodded and said, "It seems that this battle should be over." ”

Chang Zhu said: "Almost, the enemy was not prepared for the surprise attack, and the monarch became a prisoner before the battle...... The cart drove to the top of the city when they were defeated. ”

The fact is indeed as they expected, when the building cart was pushed to the bottom of the city, and a hundred elites armed to the teeth in the standard armor of the Tang Army were killed at the head of the city, the morale of the defenders in the city collapsed.

There was a small accident in the middle, Zhu Zhantan was shot to death by an arrow, and I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional.

But whether he dies or not has nothing to do with the overall situation, and Li Xixing's coalition army successfully entered the inner city.

Then, burning, killing, and looting inevitably took place.

When the coalition saw something valuable, they robbed it, cut it when they saw a man, and put it down when they saw a woman...... The royal city of Funan turned into a purgatory on earth.

Zu Jizong and Chang Zhu are both well-informed, and their faces are as usual.

Wu Zhen, Luo Fei, Ma Rui and others looked unbearable and disdainful, but they also knew that this kind of thing could not allow them to interfere, so they all held their breath and returned to their own formation.

Then he began to teach his subordinates that whoever dared to do so in the future would be killed.

Until the next day, the high-spirited Li Xixing found Chang Zhu and Zu Jizong and invited them into the city to talk.

Although the city has been defeated, things have only just begun.

Whether he can sit firmly in the position of the lord of Funan depends on whether the people of other tribes agree or not.