Chapter 135: Occupy the Kingdom of Da Viet

For the war against the Great Yue Kingdom, as early as a year ago, Chen Can had a plan.

Since four years ago, after Chen Can occupied the southwest, the Great Yue Kingdom has offended the border several times, and there have been several small frictions between the two sides.

Although Da Yue basically loses more and wins less, because of the forbearance of the Dragon Kingdom, the other party is made to carry out various temptations again and again.

Later, after the trade of the Dragon Kingdom began to develop, the Great Yue Kingdom began to put its mind on killing people and robbing goods.

Now, in the past four years, at least most of the murder and robbery have been related to the power of the Great Yue Kingdom.

In particular, their local border soldiers have now become semi-professional bandits, not only extorting all kinds of caravans from incoming caravans, but also coming to trade without capital from time to time!

The resources of Da Yue are actually very rich, but the utilization rate is too low, and as for commerce and trade, it is basically in a primitive state.

The Great Yue country does not look at the country as a small person and a poor person, but in this era, their ruler Li family is quite ambitious.

They even took advantage of the chaos between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia and Liao States to raise the idea of the Great Song Dynasty several times, and even slaughtered tens of thousands of people in the Great Song Dynasty and forcibly occupied several cities in the Great Song Dynasty.

Not only the Great Song Dynasty, but they also took a lot of advantage in the war with Dali, and this kind of battle in which the weak defeated the strong repeatedly increased their arrogance!

The Great Song Dynasty in this era is really miserable, it seems that commerce and trade are very prosperous, but in fact, the external environment is full of jackals, tigers and leopards.

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To describe the Great Song Dynasty of this era in one sentence, it is probably "majestic on the outside, empty in it"!

Let's not talk about Menghu like Liao, for hundreds of years, the Great Song Dynasty has basically been beaten as a child, and now the Great Song Dynasty has to make offerings to the Liao State every year!

The two sides are already a blood feud, and now the friction at the border has almost never stopped!

The jackal of Western Xia developed step by step in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, and in the end, the Great Song Dynasty could only let the Western Xia establish the country and become the emperor.

In addition to the Liao State, the Western Xia, and even a small shrimp like Da Yue did not have any reverence for the Great Song Dynasty, and in the war against the Song Dynasty, Da Yue even won several battles!

But just when the Great Song Dynasty was in decline, the Great Song Dynasty produced a "male lord", and in history, this emperor was called the last "male lord" of the Great Song Dynasty!

This person is Song Zhezong Zhao Xu!

As early as seven years ago, Zhao Xu launched a war against Western Xia, and finally the two sides fought a decisive battle in Pingxia City.

In the first battle of Pingxia City, the two sides won and lost each other, and finally the Western Xia dispatched 500,000 soldiers and horses to capture thousands of Song troops, a small victory!

Because of this small victory, the arrogance of Western Xia increased even more, and he harassed the border of the Great Song Dynasty several times!

Zhao Xu hated the white-eyed wolf of Xixia and decided to completely subdue this white-eyed wolf!

Just the year before last, Zhao Xu launched the Second Battle of Pingxia City!

As a result of the war, the Song army defeated the 400,000 troops of the Western Xia with 200,000 troops, and the Western Xia was beaten down at one time, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly asked for help from the Liao State!

Under the armed intervention of the Liao army, the Western Xia did not destroy the country in the end, but it could only bow to the Great Song Dynasty, not only ceding the land and salt ponds, but also sending envoys to apologize, and finally the two sides redrew the border last year!

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Zhao Xu is indeed the last "hero" of the Great Song Dynasty, leaving the last afterglow for the Great Song Dynasty!

And this male lord died of illness last month at the age of twenty-five!

It was precisely because of Zhao Xu's sudden death that Chen Can finally decided to immediately launch a war against Da Yue!

Although this world is a parallel world, but the historical events are similar to the official history, after Zhao Xu's death, his successor Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, the famous "Emperor of Calligraphy and Painting" completely put the Great Song Dynasty on the road to ruin.

Time waits for no man!

Zhao Xu's death escalated the friction between the Great Song and Liao borders again, and the Western Xia, who had just surrendered, began to be a little restless again.

And Wanyan Aguta, who is in the territory of Liao, has unified the Jurchen tribe in the north, and it is about to set off a storm!

In the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, because of the continuous wars and the heavy domestic taxes, the common people were miserable

In other words, there are many rebels in various places, and it has reached the end of the dynasty!

During the Song Huizong period, historical figures such as the famous Song Jiang and Fang La began to shine.

The destruction of the rebel army further made the Great Song Dynasty have no time to take care of the border, and finally watched Wanyan Aguda establish the Jin State, and finally pushed sideways, first destroying the Liao State, and finally completely annexing the Great Song Dynasty.

After the Wanyan Agu in the north unified the Jurchen tribe, he began to stir up the storm in the territory of the Liao State, and Chen Can in the south naturally would not be willing to be left behind!

The war against the Great Viet has all been formulated!

In 1100 A.D., on the fourth day of the fourth month of April, the Dragon Kingdom gathered 50,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, 20,000 logistics soldiers, known as 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the soldiers were divided into three routes, respectively from Qinzhou, Lianzhou and Yongzhou and other places, to launch an attack on the Great Yue Kingdom!

10,000 cavalry took the lead and attacked all the way, like no man's land!

Li Qiande, the fourth emperor of the Li Dynasty of Dayue, was shocked and angry when he learned that the enemy was coming.

Li Gande, the longest reigning emperor of Vietnam in history, has been emperors for 55 years, but it is estimated that because of the appearance of Chen Can, history will be completely changed!

Li Qiande, who is Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today, is in the prime of life, and when he learned that the foreign enemy was coming, he immediately put on his armor and gathered the army!

The Great Yue Kingdom of this era is known as the "Golden Age", and the total domestic military strength is claimed to be 500,000!

Although this "claim" is a bit exaggerated, the strength of the Great Yue Kingdom is quite a lot!

As soon as Li Qiande gathered, he gathered nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, and then personally drove the expedition!

Among the 100,000 soldiers and horses, the main ones are infantry, including 3,000 cavalry, more than 1,000 elephant soldiers, and more than 100 chariots.

Chen Can was wearing purple clouds and black armor, and followed into the five thousand guards from front to back, left and right, all of them were neat and neat black-armored cavalry!

The armor on these black-armored cavalry is made of steel, and the long knives in their hands are made of multiple forging processes, and the hardness is far beyond the crafts of other countries in this era!

Even the horses they rode under their crotches were all Western Regions horses, and after several years of running-in, now this cavalry has finally really appeared!

In addition to the cavalry, the chain mail on the infantry is also made of fine iron, and the spears in their hands are all made of steel, because everyone has practiced Shaolin horizontal martial arts, and that fierce spirit seems to be like a dark cloud covering the top!

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What does it mean to be strong, this is!

In just five days, the soldiers and horses of the three routes captured twelve cities one after another, and every battle ended in a big victory!

Originally, Chen Can also wanted to show off his magic skills and boost the morale of the army, but he didn't need it at all!

Everywhere they went, in the face of the offensive of thousands of troops, the resistance of that group of monkeys was not vulnerable at all, and along the way, they basically did not encounter decent resistance!

Chen Can really overestimated the army of this era, maybe it wasn't that the enemy was too weak, but that his side was too strong!

Although his own martial arts are invincible in the world, Chen Can has always been cautious in the face of a country, for fear of capsizing in the gutter!

Therefore, in response to the attack of the Great Viet Kingdom, Chen Can asked the Ministry of War to formulate a perfect war plan.

As early as a few months ago, a war plan had been formulated, and in the past few months, after being thoroughly perfected, it was finally decided to carry out this war of annihilation!

In the past few years, the caravan of Southwest Yi has traveled through almost all the surrounding countries, and the map drawn has been piled up in several warehouses, preparing for future wars at all times.

Although Chen Can has not yet established the country and claimed the title of emperor, the monarchy has been implemented internally, and the division of various departments has long been clear and clear!

After learning that Li Qiande was personally on the expedition, Chen Can immediately ordered the army to slow down the attack.

With this kind of attack speed, Chen Can was worried that Li Qiande had just set off, and his side would hit the opponent's lair, so it would be meaningless!

Just save your energy, rest on the spot, and wait for Armageddon to come!

As the spies gathered the information one by one, Chen Can finally felt a little interesting!

The two sides fought a decisive battle, and finally chose a place called Ningnan, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides were separated by a shallow river, in the middle of a plain, across the river!

The distance between the two sides in a straight line is about two or three miles, and the crowd of black pressure is waiting for the order to finally charge!

Li Qiande is mount is a four-meter-high horse, surrounded by thousands of elephant cavalry majestic, within a radius of several miles, tens of thousands of soldiers are already ready to go, waiting for the Armageddon to begin!

If you look at the number of people, the army of Dayue Kingdom far exceeds that of the Dragon *** team, because Chen Can deliberately slowed down the army's offensive speed, so that the troops from all over Dayue Kingdom arrived one after another, and finally formed a huge team of nearly 300,000.

On the side of the dragon *** team, 10,000 cavalry formed a triangle and arranged in the plains on both sides, waiting for the final charge.

There are nearly 50,000 infantry left, forming battle formations one by one, waiting for the enemy to attack!

Yes, this time the Da Viet army is the attacker, and the dragon *** team is the defender!

300,000 PK 60,000!

The Great War is imminent!

Li Qiande couldn't help it at this moment, and the hatred that he had been waiting for for many days could finally be vented at this moment!

With a wave of his hand, the horn of the attack sounded, and the thousands of elephant cavalry at the front heard the horn and began to make a heavy "stampede" sound.

The picture of thousands of elephants attacking together is shocking!

The reason why Da Yue has been so brave over the years is that these thousands of elephant cavalry are their real hole cards.

The average cavalryman, facing a two-person tall elephant and a body of several tons, really made the soldiers panic!

Between the elephants and horses, there were hundreds of chariots, and behind them, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were densely packed, like beggars.

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In Chen Can's opinion, the soldiers of Dayue are indeed similar to beggars, and even worse than the beggars of the beggar gang!

These hundreds of thousands of infantry basically have no uniform clothes, and even their weapons are not uniform, and the weapons of the eighteenth squad of knives, forks, and sticks are all on board.

Most of the soldiers were wearing straw sandals on their feet, barefoot, and even Chen Can saw several half-sized men with bare buttocks, holding a black burning stick and following the crowd!

Chen Can sighed deeply, it's time for such a war to end!

Chen Can had a calm face, raised his right hand, and the flag soldiers behind him were ordered, waving the flag, and the horn sounded in the team.

As the uniform army began to move and change formations, hundreds of trebuchets were suddenly launched on both sides of the strait!

The briquette-like stuff is put on the trebuchet, and then ignited and launched, all in one go!

A huge fireball, drawing a parabola, smashed directly into the elephant rider herd!

The frightened elephants no longer heeded the horns, and began to make frightened "moo-moo" calls, and then scurried around, and many even turned their heads and ran back!

Many of the elephant cavalry on their bodies were directly thrown off by the irritable behavior of the elephants, and many of them were trampled flat by the huge elephant's feet before they could get up!

Li Gande, who was in the middle of the elephant cavalry, was full of horror at this time, holding on to the fixed seat tightly, and the surrounding guards shouted to escort him, but unfortunately at this time, hundreds of thousands of horses charged, where was there anyone who cared about Li Gande's safety!

Chen Can on the opposite side looked at this scene coldly, in view of the weaknesses of each team, the Dragon Country Military Department had already formulated various methods.

The only one in the Great Yue Kingdom who poses a threat to the soldiers of the Dragon Kingdom is the thousands of elephant cavalry.

And the best way to deal with elephants is to attack with fire!

In fact, there are a lot of elephants in the southwest, and even before, there were some forces that had elephant cavalry.

But that thing is clumsy and heavy, and the most important thing is to eat a lot, and if you raise an elephant, you can raise several horses, so after Chen Can occupied the southwest Yi, he immediately canceled the elephant cavalry!

Although the elephant cavalry was frightened, causing a lot of chaos and casualties to the Da Viet army, the number of elephants was still too small after all, and hundreds of thousands of infantry soon began to disperse, and finally they fought all the way towards the Dragon Kingdom!

As the horn of the attack sounded, the cavalry of the dragon kingdom began to gather and charge, and the infantry that followed also followed the feet of the cavalry

Step and start charging!

The two armies intersected, like ink dripping into clear water, and the black quickly melted......

It's too weak!

Chen Can raised the long knife in his hand, without using any internal force, the horse under his crotch barely had any pause, and he killed directly all the way!

Looking back, Chen Can looked at the Dayue soldiers fleeing in all directions, the corpses were all over the field, the blood water stained the canals red, and seeing the gunpowder smoke in the distance, Chen Can felt bored for a while!

On April 23, 1100 A.D., Li Qiande, the lord of Dayue who drove his personal expedition, died!

On April 27, the army of the Dragon Kingdom captured the capital of the King of Dayue, and the Kingdom of Dayue officially died!

From the launch of the attack to the fall of the Great Yue Kingdom, it only took 23 days!

Chen Can really didn't expect that Da Yue Guo would be so unbeaten!

After capturing the Great Yue Kingdom, the territory of the Dragon Kingdom has more than doubled, and it is time to harvest the fruits of victory!

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The resources of the Great Yue Kingdom are actually much richer than those of the Southwest Yi region, which has the largest coal mine in Southeast Asia, and the iron ore is also extremely rich, and the most important thing is the rich mine, which are the war resources that the Dragon Kingdom urgently needs now!

In addition to coal and iron, the current grain production of Da Yue is four times that of the Southwest Yi region, and the population is also twice that of the Southwest Yi, which are excellent war resources!

After occupying this land, all of this belongs to the Dragon Kingdom!

For this land, Chen Can's heart is actually complicated!

Chen Can has already made a decision, no matter what will happen here in the future, but during his reign, this land, he will carry out a thorough reform and make this land completely sinicized!

After conquering Dayue, Chen Can's next goal is Dali!

Today's Dali Kingdom is actually already in Chen Can's bag.

In recent years, compared with Dayue's provocation, the relationship between Dali and Longguo is simply a honeymoon period.

The business activities of both sides have been completely integrated, Dali provides raw materials, Southwest Yi produces goods, commodity prices, that is called a good quality and low price, the people on both sides, have benefited!

If the Dragon Kingdom is given another ten years, Chen Can believes that without a single soldier, the Dragon Kingdom can annex the Dali Kingdom.

But time is running out for me, now is the best chance!

The "male lord" of the Great Song Dynasty had just died, and Zhao Ji of Song Huizong had just taken office, so he used the new law and reused Cai Jing and his ilk, causing the people to be miserable, and Song Jiang, Fang La and other rebel armies rose up, and in the next few years, the Great Song Dynasty would take care of itself!

And the Western Xia in the west, last year's land reparations, lost a large number of soldiers and horses, caused a lot of vitality, and now can only protect itself!

And the other overlord, Wanyan Aguta in the territory of Liao State began to rise, and the Jin State began to be born in the bud!

At this time, Tubo and other places are still tribal, and it is impossible to pose a threat to the Dragon Kingdom!

This is the right time to lose!

All the forces today have no time to take care of the barbarian land of Southwest Yi!

And now, it is the best time for the expansion of the Dragon Kingdom, occupy the Dayue Kingdom, and annex the Dali Kingdom!

Just give the Dragon Kingdom a few more years to completely integrate the resources of the three places, and at that time, the real competition for the Central Plains is just around the corner!

Why are you grieved?