Chenla, White Horse City.

White Horse Taishou Condon also heard about the atrocities of the Vietnamese army, and now the Vietnamese actually came to White Horse City, and just now he actually drove away his savior.

"Quick! Go and bring the Zhenla Heavenly Army back! ”

Jin Pan, the official outside the White Horse Castle, was still thinking about how to escape, but after learning that the White Horse Taishou had invited him into the city, he made up his mind that if the Vietnamese knew the difficulty and retreated, he would take the White Horse Castle, and if the White Horse Castle could not be defended, he would surrender the city.

On the other hand, Kampong Son had received information from the congregation that a Vietnamese army was running rampant in Kampot province.

To be honest, the growth rate of the number of Vietnamese troops was a bit scary, and in a few days, the number doubled.

However, according to the interpretation of the holy scriptures, the Vietnamese army was replenished with only a few strong men and masters, and these people had to go through at least a few major battles to form combat effectiveness, and at present, only two places in Kampot Province were relatively rich, Bai Ma Cheng and Jian County, but as you can tell from the name, the latter is by no means an easy place to attack.

Ambrosius also supported the clergy's request to attack the new Vietnamese army before it could become combat-ready and destroy the living forces of the Vietnamese army, after all, Kampong Son was short of manpower, and it was easier to concentrate his forces and take advantage of Austria's advanced weapons and tactics than to defend passively.

But if Franz would have stopped their madness here, Kampong Son originally had only a force of more than 1,000 men, plus 3,000 militiamen trained temporarily, the total number was only 4,000, and some people had to be left to defend the city, and I am afraid that there were not many people who could mobilize.

The intelligence shows that the Vietnamese army has plundered at least 100,000 people, which is of course an exaggeration by the local believers, but even if it is discounted, this number is quite scary, plus those Zhenla people who may jump back at any time, Franz really does not know how to win.

The reality is that the Europeans of this era did not know what defeat was, and since the Spaniards defeated the 80,000 troops of the Inca Empire with 169 men, countless legends mixed with rumors have occupied the mainstream of public opinion.

And the brainwashing work of the church has also been very successful, and these improvised armies of parishioners do not ask how many enemies there are, they only want to know where the enemies are.

The Church's mobilization capacity also far exceeded Franz's estimates, with 590 of Kampong's more than 600 Europeans ready to fight, and in addition to 800 cathars and 3,000 improvised militiamen, 5,000 parishioners were mobilized to transport supplies.

Outside the city of White Horse, the black-pressed Vietnamese army began to set up camp, cut down trees to make ladders, and even pushed a few pieces of artillery weighing 1,000 pounds from nowhere.

Don't look at the weight of these guns, but in fact the caliber is not large, but the workmanship is backward.

These cannons of the Vietnamese are more of a deterrent, otherwise there would be no need to cut down trees to build ladders.

The gates of White Horse City were closed, and an envoy was sent to Pham Zhu's barracks with gold, silver, and food, hoping to get the Vietnamese to retreat.

However, Fan Zhu directly cut down the envoy of White Horse City, and asked his subordinates to tell White Horse Taishou that if the city gate was not opened, the day the Vietnamese heavenly soldiers broke the city, they would slaughter the whole city of White Horse.

In order to calm the emotions of the civilians in the city, the White Horse Taishou Condon told the civilians that the 8,000 soldiers of the Chenla army had entered the city, and there was no need to fear the Vietnamese outside the city.

However, this point happened to be used by the Vietnamese spies who mixed into the White Horse City, they propagated that the Vietnamese were only here to suppress the Kou, not to slaughter the city, it was the collusion between the White Horse Taishou and the rebels that angered the Great Vietnam, as long as the city gate was opened and the Vietnamese army entered the city, the Shangguan of the Great Vietnam State would definitely let them go.

So, there was a big chaos in the White Horse City, and the North City Gate was really captured by the civilians, and the Vietnamese naturally would not let go of this opportunity, so they stormed the North City Gate, and after a day of fierce fighting, the two sides had mutual losses, but the morale in the White Horse City had fallen to the lowest point.

At this time, Guan Jinpan was regretting why he did not choose to stay in Kampong Xun, but chose to come to Kampot to grab the land in a daze.

Guan Jinpan's troops suffered heavy losses, and they all looked at the city wall with frightened eyes, as if a monster would rush in at any time outside the city, and the defenders of White Horse City did not know why they had suffered such a catastrophe, and they all hung their heads in despair.

At night, there were still occasional battles in the city, and the Vietnamese outside were not idle, using the old guns they had collected from all over the place to fire a few shots, which could terrify the defenders of the city.

In the daytime battle, the Vietnamese army lost nothing more than some improvised strong men, who were not Vietnamese at all, but Zhenla.

To say that these strong men are really fighting for their lives, obviously there are only more than 3,000 people, but they once rushed into the White Horse City, which has 10,000 defenders, although more than 2,000 people were broken, but the Zhenla people who were hacked to death do not know how many times as many times as theirs.

Pham Zhu treated these surviving strong men well, and they will become the pillars of the Vietnamese army in the future. In today's attack, Fan Zhu just wanted to test the strength of the defenders in White Horse City, but he obviously overestimated the opponent, if he attacked the North City Gate with all his strength today, I am afraid that the Vietnamese would have taken White Horse City at this time.

But if today's riot at the North Gate is just a trap for the Zhenla, then he will have to pay a huge price for it.

Fan Zhu planned to use Zhuang Ding for three days first, after all, most of the defenders in White Horse City were only civilians and the so-called Zhenla Rebels, they could not adapt to the high-pressure environment of the battlefield, and they could scatter their spirit after harassing them for three days in a row, and then send the main Vietnamese force to wipe out the rebels in the city.

Obviously, Fan Zhu regarded the remnants of Zhenla in White Horse City in front of him as the team that destroyed Ren Yu and Luo Jian, and he thought that as long as White Horse City was broken, he could completely destroy Zhenla's resistance forces.

The three days of fighting had exhausted the strength of the Zhenla people in White Horse City, and many of the officers and soldiers defending the city had become nervous because they had not slept well, coupled with the continuous fighting and incessant riots.

And the main force of the Vietnamese army, which had been recuperating for three days, was waiting for the cannon fodder at the North City Gate to launch a fourth attack.

At the same time as the cannon fodder launched the fourth attack, the main force of the Vietnamese army will attack from the south gate, and the news in the city should have already arrived, just wait for the main force of the Vietnamese army to arrive, the south gate will be opened.

At that time, the Vietnamese army will be able to drive straight into the city and annihilate the Chenla army in one fell swoop.

The battle at the North Gate was bloody and brutal, and the strong men rushed towards the city with a roar under the drive of the Warlords.

The officers of the city whipped the coolies with whips, and the coolies were asked to carry ammunition and stones up the city.

The old cannon let out a dull roar, shattering a battlement, sending rubble and the defenders of the city screaming.

Some cannonballs landed among the strong men under the city, bringing out a flesh alley.

At the same time, the southern gate was quickly captured by the Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese soldiers who swarmed in were killed on sight, with no intention of fulfilling their promises.

Everything was as Pham Chu had expected, but just as the Vietnamese army entered the city of Kepa Horse, an army from Kampong Son appeared behind them.

There should be another chapter in the evening, and the plot of Zhenla will end as soon as possible.

(End of chapter)