At the beginning of February, the envoys of Chang'an City finally arrived in Dongou City.

This time, the envoy was still Li Danghu's acquaintance, his second brother Li Jiao.

Li Jiao, who was an official at Li Yunze's side, brought the Son of Heaven to agree to the request of Dongou to annex the country, and changed this place to Minzhong County.

Minzhong County is a county set up in the former Qin period, when the world was in turmoil at the end of Qin, the Dongou Kingdom and the Minyue Kingdom divided this county in the south and the north.

Li Yunze appointed Li Danghu to concurrently serve as the county guard of Minzhong County, and after the recovery of Minyue Kingdom, the two places were merged into one and reunited.

Ou Wang was named the Marquis of Guannei, and returned to Chang'an City with Li Jiao with a group of nobles from Dongou Kingdom.

The rest of the things here will be left to Gongsun Ao and them.

Gongsun Ao was not interested in local affairs, and he was bent on going south to Minyue as soon as possible.

Li Danghu, who was appointed as the county warden of Minzhong County, was busy transporting people and materials by sea ships and building harbor roads, but he delayed the matter.

urged several times, but all he got was shirk, and Gongsun Ao was also angry, and directly found Li Danghu, who was supervising the construction of the harbor.

"Li Junshou."

Gongsun Ao's face was unhappy, and his tone was also very straight, "Today, you give Ben General a quasi-word, when will the fleet go south to Dongye (Huzhou)!" ”

Li Danghu was not angry, and smiled first to invite Gongsun Ao to sit down, and then poured him wine affectionately, and then said, "Let the general know that it is not that he is unwilling to transport soldiers and horses south, but that a batch of new ships have been launched at the shipyard and will be able to enter soon."

When the time comes, it will join the fleet, and it can transport nearly 20,000 troops at a time, and the capture of Dongye will inevitably increase greatly. ”

After drinking a glass of wine, Gongsun Ao's anger also decreased slightly, and he asked again, "When can I go?" ”

"Next month." Li Danghu explained, "After the new ship is launched, it must be tested in many ways before it can be put into the list. However, he assured the general that he would arrive at the port by the end of next month at the latest. ”

After a pause, he continued, "And at that time, this harbor will also begin to take shape, and it will be convenient to board ships. It also hoarded a lot of grain and grass military materials, and once Dongye was taken, it was convenient to transport military funds to the past. ”

After drinking another glass of wine, Gongsun Ao simply got up and walked out.

Before leaving, he left a sentence: "If you can't go to Dongye at the end of next month, you will be the son of heaven!" ”

Li Danghu sent Gongsun Ao away, but he was not very angry.

After all, in the final analysis, Gongsun Ao went to attack Minyue Kingdom, and he was helping him.

After all, he, the county guard of Minzhong County, still has half of the land in the hands of Minyue Kingdom.

Li Danghu is also a man of his word, and at the end of March, the re-expanded fleet was finally assembled outside the harbor dozens of miles away from Dongou City.

Nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses boarded ships of different sizes one after another through several plank roads that were urgently built deep into the sea.

After several days of boarding, the fleet headed south and headed straight for Dongye.

From Dongou City to Dongye City, the straight-line distance on land is about seven or eight hundred miles.

It may not seem too far, but in fact, this distance is densely forested, with many rivers, lakes and swamps.

Passing over from the land, even if the Minyue Kingdom was open to let the Han army go, it would not be possible to go in a few months.

The reason is very simple, under such complex and difficult terrain conditions, the greater the number of soldiers and horses, the greater the logistical support required, and the number of personnel and materials has increased to a certain extent, which is naturally difficult to walk in such a place where there are almost no roads to speak of.

It can be walked from the sea, then it is different.

The fleet set off from Dongou, although the wind direction was not very good, but it only took four or five days to come to the open sea of Dongye.

Looking at the looming land in the distance, Gongsun Ao, who was in a good mood, immediately ordered, "Landing on the shore!" ”

This kind of thing is not to say that you can just find a place on the shore and go up.

For example, the cliffs on the coast are naturally not too much to say, and you can't get past them at all.

And the reef-covered places are also not suitable for amphibious landings.

There are mangroves and swamps on the shore, and you can't go to them.

The most suitable thing is actually the beach.

And it has to be a beach far away from the city, otherwise once it is detected, it will lose the suddenness of the attack.

Encountering a head-on attack when landing can cause great losses and even fail as a result.

Although they have little experience, Li Danghu and Gongsun Ao have made the right choice.

I chose a good place when I was in Dongou City before, and now when I go to Dongye, I also choose a beach dozens of miles away from Dongye City.

It's very barren, and there is not even a fishing village.

In fact, the soldiers and horses of the Minyue Kingdom who had been defeated under Dongou City before had not figured out how those Han troops appeared behind them until now.

Naturally, Dongye City would not have thought that the Han army came from the sea.

After all, in this era, there has never been a large-scale amphibious landing.

Moreover, the Han Dynasty is a vast and sparsely populated country, and the Minyue country, which is densely forested, is naturally no exception.

Even the fishermen did not appear in this vicinity, which naturally gave the Han army the opportunity to land calmly.

In fact, there are many small islands in the open sea of Dongye City, and these small islands are quite suitable for landing.

It's just that this time the target is Dongye City, and if you go to the island, you have to cross the strait again, so you just go ashore.

It took several days of hard work, and through the transportation of barges again and again, more than 10,000 Han troops and corresponding military funds were finally sent to the beach.

Gongsun Ao, who had gone ashore, immediately sent horses and horses to the shore with supplies, and only established a camp a few miles from the shore.

The reason is very simple, when I landed in the sea off Dongou City before, because of my inexperience, when the sea tide rose at night, I flooded a lot of materials on the coast and took away a group of people.

If you have suffered a loss, you naturally cannot fall in the same pit twice.

After a little trimming, when the mental state of the soldiers who came ashore recovered a little, Gongsun Ao hurriedly took the soldiers and horses and went straight to Dongye City.

At this time, after learning that the Han army had joined the battlefield, Minyue had made corresponding preparations.

They mobilized men and horses to set up defenses along the border to block the attack of the Han army.

Minyue is bordered by the sea to the east and Yuzhang County of the Han Dynasty to the west, and soldiers and horses are arranged at important intersections along the border.

Especially in the north of the border with Dongou State, it is heavily garrisoned.

As for the south, it is the South Vietnamese State.

Here, Minyue has sent an envoy to Panyu to ask Nanyue to send troops to help on the grounds that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold.

It can be said that Minyue has done everything he can.

However, they didn't expect that although the Han army had deployed a lot of men and horses in the outer Yuzhang County and other places, it was all used for containment, and the real attack turned out to be from the sea.

At this time, Dongye City, which was in the hinterland, felt that there was a sea as a barrier, and there were not many defenders left.

Therefore, when Gongsun Ao personally appeared outside Dongye City with a large army, there was no doubt that the city was in a huge panic.

In the palace, the Minyue King was incompetent and furious, "Where did these Han troops come from?!" ”

It was only at this time that the smart people reacted, "King, the Han army should have come from the sea." ”

"At sea?"

Su Ying's face was full of incredulity, "How did more than 10,000 troops come from the sea?" ”

"I don't know about this."

In terms of the backward production conditions of this era, being able to send more than 10,000 soldiers and horses across the sea and thousands of miles to land is already beyond the imagination limit of most people.

What seemed extremely simple to the people of the later industrial age, in the eyes of the people of this era, was a divine soldier from heaven.

After some panic, the ministers of Minyue proposed to send people to the border as soon as possible and mobilize the soldiers and horses stationed at the border to come back to the rescue.

But the problem is that these messengers who were sent out of the city were intercepted and killed by the knights of the Yulin Army arranged by Gongsun Ao.

Although there were not many knights of the Yulin Army who came with them, and there were many horses that died on the ship, there were still many seasick soldiers from the North who did not come with them.

But even the more than 100 cavalry feather forest troops who followed Gongsun Ao were enough to block the road and intercept the messenger.

When Gongsun Ao and his foot soldiers directly besieged Dongye City, there would be no chance to send envoys.

In terms of the level of communication in this era, the soldiers and horses of the Minyue State arranged on the border want to know the news that the national capital Dongye has been besieged, at least it will take more than a month.

This is still a chance to wait for them to get no news from Dongye City for a while, and send an envoy to investigate in confusion.

And such a long time is enough for Gongsun Ao to conquer Dongye City.

Don't look at Dongye City as the capital of Minyue Kingdom, you can talk about the national strength of Minyue Kingdom, where to build a strong city wall.

What is used here is still the city and city defense left over from the pre-Qin period.

Moreover, the garrison in the city was empty, and there were not many defenders stationed.

Once the national capital Dongye City was captured and its lords and noble ministers were taken, the rest of the Minyue Kingdom was basically a matter of transmission.

After all, the lord of the country has fallen into the hands of others, and the people outside are still a fart when they cut off logistics supplies and reinforcements.

The siege was lackluster, and the Han army was a master of regular warfare, filling in the moat step by step, pulling out the strongholds and defensive facilities outside the city, and building siege equipment.

During this period, the fleet made two trips back and forth, one to transport a large amount of grain, grass and military supplies, and the other to transport more than 10,000 militiamen according to Gongsun Ao's request.

The common name of siege warfare is called siege reclaim, and as the name suggests, it is to fill the city wall in the name of the soldiers.

Gongsun Ao was reluctant to take out the elite of the two armies from the north and south to fill the city, so he encouraged the militia who spontaneously followed the army to consume the strength of the city.

And he also offered a reward, whoever can make war exploits can be directly hired as a regular soldier.

Stimulated by such rewards, the militia risked their lives to attack the city, and although they failed to break through Dongye City, they also greatly consumed the strength of the defenders.

Its defense equipment, bows, arrows, crossbows, and even the defenders were all consumed.

When the defenders ran out of strength, Gongsun Ao sent regular soldiers to fight.

Three walls lured the enemy to feint, and one city wall was the main attack.

When the elite of the Han army, wearing armor and holding shields, jumped to the top of the city through the ladder without fear of death, the resistance of Dongye City also collapsed.

After paying thousands of losses for the militia, the Han army conquered Dongye City, and captured the entire family from the king of Minyue, to the noble ministers of the country.

At this point in the war, the overall situation is basically decided.

After a warm greeting, the king of Minyue, Su Ying, agreed to surrender and annexed, and also sent envoys to go everywhere with the Han army to recruit all parts of the Minyue country.

In a few months, they won both countries one after another.

The high-spirited Gongsun Ao stood on the head of Dongye City, and his eyes involuntarily looked to the south.

Over there, it is the last of the three Yue, and it is also the strongest Nanyue country.