Chapter 241: Destroy the Li Dynasty of Vietnam
On the second day of Huang Zhong's journey on the waterway, a sudden rainstorm fell in the sky, causing the water to rise sharply upstream, and began to pour water frantically towards the downstream estuary.
Several troop carriers were directly overturned by the increasing flood, and Huang Zhong and his men had no choice but to give up advancing by water and go ashore on foot.
And this god seemed to be against them, they went ashore for less than half a day, the torrential rain stopped, and the water in the river began to gradually subside, but at this time Huang Zhong and they were already some distance away from the place where the troop transport ship was docked, Huang Zhong did not want to delay the time to go back and take the boat again, and decided to move on.
In order to guard against all kinds of poisonous insects and poisonous snakes in the woods on the shore, Huang Zhong and the others tied the cuffs and trouser legs tightly with ropes to prevent those poisonous insects from sneaking in.
However, doing so would make the clothes unbreathable and very stuffy, and soon the dark clouds in the sky would soon disperse completely, so that the dazzling sunlight shone down, roasting the woods so stuffy and hot, making everyone feel as uncomfortable as a steamer.
Luckily, after another day's drive, it was not far from Thang Long City, the capital of Vietnam.
And as they got closer and closer to Thang Long City, Huang Zhong and his team also encountered some villages and towns in the process of marching along the river bank, and there were few defenders in these villages and towns, so Huang Zhong and the others easily captured them, and even none of the people inside could escape.
Then Huang Zhong and the others asked some Japanese soldiers to put on the clothes of those Vietnamese people, disguised themselves as Vietnamese civilians, and quietly infiltrated Thang Long City.
As for why don't the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire disguise themselves, this is that the regular soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire usually eat too well, and their bodies are too strong, and because of the cultivation of martial arts, this spirit is far from being comparable to these poor civilians in Vietnam, even if they are dressed in the clothes of local civilians, they can't pretend to be. The second is that this mission is still dangerous, you can't wear armor, and you can only bring some short soldiers with weapons, if you are discovered by the enemy during the mission, it is easy to be killed by siege.
So in the end, Huang Zhong still let those Japanese soldiers carry out this task. And those Japanese soldiers were very happy after receiving this task, thinking that this was a great opportunity for them to make meritorious contributions, so they signed up very enthusiastically, but Huang Zhong only needed a total of 200 people, otherwise it would be easy for the Vietnamese defenders to notice that something was wrong if there were too many people.
In the end, after the internal competition and elimination of these Japanese soldiers, the Japanese warriors with the best martial arts in 200 meters won the quota to participate in the mission this time.
Not to mention, because these Japanese warriors used to live not very well, and it was difficult to even eat white rice, so their body shape actually didn't look very strong, plus the Japanese people were generally short, and after wearing the service of local civilians, they all dressed up quite similarly, and the only flaw may be that these Japanese people like to bow to people at every turn.
So before leaving, Huang Zhong conducted an emergency special training for these Japanese warriors, asking them to greet and talk to people during the simulated mission, and if anyone accidentally bowed, they would immediately be whipped with a stick. Speaking of which, this trick was taught to them by Ye Tianlong! In Ye Tianlong's words, those Japanese people eat this set, and the effect of this spiritual injection stick is not too good for them.
After doing this a few times, these Japanese warriors quickly got rid of their bad habit of bowing to people at every turn.
Huang Zhong nodded with satisfaction and let these guys officially set off.
At this time, due to the continuous attack of the army led by Wang Qing and Tian Hu, many refugees fled to the famine, and Thang Long City, as the capital of Vietnam, was very prosperous, so there were many displaced people who fled here. The group of Japanese soldiers was divided into several groups and blended in, which went smoothly and did not arouse any suspicion from the local defenders.
After entering the city, this group of Japanese soldiers first quietly observed the size of the defenders of the four gates of Thang Long City and the pattern of shift changes.
It may be because most of the soldiers and horses have been transferred to the front line to resist the attack of Tian Hu and Wang Qing's army, so there are not many defenders in this Shenglong City, and the defenders at each city gate are only more than a hundred people.
After discovering this, these Japanese soldiers couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then quickly split up and began to operate.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, four groups of Japanese soldiers launched a surprise attack on the defenders at the city gate almost simultaneously.
First, several grenades were thrown into the middle of the defenders, and after a few explosions, more than a dozen defenders were directly killed, and twenty or thirty people were wounded.
At this time, the Japanese soldiers also quickly took out their flintlock pistols and opened fire on the defenders who were still standing.
After a round of firing from fifty Japanese soldiers, few of the defenders who were still standing were gone, and they were all stupefied by the sudden attack.
Under the frightened eyes of the surviving defenders, the Japanese soldiers took out daggers and short knives from their bosoms one by one, and quickly approached them, and then each of these surviving defenders was almost stabbed seven or eight times, and soon fell in a pool of blood.
Then these Japanese soldiers replenished the swords of the defenders who had fallen to the ground one by one, so as to prevent some of these guys from playing dead.
After mending everyone's swords, only about five minutes had passed, and after the Japanese soldiers had opened the city gate, they fired a signal flare into the sky to notify the army to come.
After Huang Zhong saw the signal flare, he immediately led more than 8,000 cavalry under his command to kill it as soon as possible, but it took less than ten minutes to rush to the city gate.
At this time, the other defenders in Thang Long City finally reacted, and some defenders began to come to try to recapture the city gate, but those Japanese soldiers fought very bravely in order to make meritorious contributions, and they actually relied on 50 people to resist the enemy counterattack of at least hundreds of people at each city gate, and killed at least hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers during the period.
When the enemy cavalry arrived, the morale of the Vietnamese soldiers who had not been able to regain control of the city gate completely collapsed, and one by one they began to flee towards the city.
And Huang Zhong and the others were not polite, and immediately accelerated their horses to chase after them, taking the opportunity to slash and kill the Vietnamese soldiers who had fled, so that these guys would not regroup and counterattack later.
In this way, Huang Zhong and the others slashed all the way to the palace of Vietnam, and at this time, the emperor of Vietnam, Li Qiande, had just received the news that there were enemy troops in the city, and he did not know that the enemy army was about to kill his door.
Because of this, Li Qiande completely missed the opportunity to escape, and was quickly surrounded by Huang Zhong and them in the palace.
This is actually one of the reasons why Huang Zhong asked those Japanese soldiers to sneak into the city to carry out a surprise attack, after all, if he led a large army to attack the city, as long as these Vietnamese were not blind, they would definitely find out, and what should Li Qiande, the Vietnamese emperor, do when he sees that the situation is not good.
And now this is very good, relying on a surprise attack to take Thang Long City with lightning speed, and the other party has no chance to react and escape at all.
When Li Gande found that his palace had been surrounded by thousands of ironclad cavalry, he was indeed dumbfounded, and then faced with the persuasion of the enemy army outside, Li Gande didn't want to surrender so quickly, he put on armor, and personally led more than 1,000 palace guards in the palace to charge against those enemy heavy cavalry, wanting to repel these heavy cavalry and break out of the siege with a bloody way.
It's a pity that he really overestimated the combat effectiveness of this group of guards under his command, and less than ten minutes after they rushed out of the palace, more than 1,000 palace guards under Li Qiande's command were completely wiped out by Huang Zhong and them.
Li Qiande naturally did not escape, and was captured alive by Huang Zhong on the spot.
After capturing the Vietnamese emperor, Hoang Trung immediately had him write letters of surrender and send them to the defending generals, officials, and nobles everywhere.
Although few of those guys would surrender directly because of such a letter of persuasion, presumably after learning that the capital had fallen and the emperor had been captured alive, those guys would definitely be distraught, and the soldiers under their command would also be prone to unstable morale.
And this was enough for Hoang Chung, taking advantage of the fact that all the enemy troops in those places were unstable, he led a large army to kill, and Wang Qing and Tian Hu attacked them on both sides, making it difficult for those enemies to take care of each other, and quickly disintegrating these main armed forces of Vietnam.
I have to say that although Huang Zhong's strategy was not very clever, the effect was excellent, and less than a month after he took Shenglong City, he successfully joined Wang Qing and Tian Hu.
At this time, most of the regular officers and troops in Vietnam had also been cleaned up by them, and only a small number of defenders still existed in some relatively remote places.
In the face of those leftovers, Wang Qing and Tian Hu's corporals and generals, who had been fighting with the Vietnamese for several months, were not interested at all, and just wanted to repair them well.
However, the generals and soldiers from the Three Kingdoms world under Huang Zhong's command are still the leading soldiers, and they are still leading the army to attack continuously, not letting go of any of the enemy's slipping through the net.
And just when Huang Zhong and the others had begun to sweep away the last bit of the enemy's escape, Ye Tianlong's side also encountered an annoyance.
After he led the army back to Tokyo City, there were constantly officials urging him to go to the folk to draft girls and enrich the harem.
Those officials are not untargeted! After all, there is no selfish business in this day! As an emperor, everything must be considered for the stability of the regime, and it is a good way to stabilize the state power by giving birth to a prince as soon as possible, so that the country can have an heir.
On the contrary, an emperor like Ye Tianlong, who is busy fighting everywhere all day long, and there is still not a single woman in the harem, in the eyes of most officials, is very incompetent.
In order to allow himself to distract himself and avoid the urging of those officials to marry, Ye Tianlong changed into a gray-black coarse cloth dress worn by civilians that day, and then carried a fishing rod and started fishing by a small river on the outskirts of Tokyo.
As a result, he had just thrown the rod here, and he couldn't catch a single fish, so Song Jiang found this guy, and I don't know how this guy was able to find him so quickly.
As Ye Tianlong expected, this guy is also here to urge marriage, Ye Tianlong helplessly, sighed and explained to Song Jiang, it's not that he doesn't want to enrich his harem, it's really that he doesn't like to marry those strange women who haven't even met a few times, after all, in Ye Tianlong's opinion, after these women are accepted into the harem by him, it is likely that they will get along with him for a lifetime, so this character and temper must taste with him, otherwise, if they are forcibly combined, they will definitely be unhappy in the second half of their lives.
Therefore, Ye Tianlong said that even if he wants to marry, he must go to those women who know something, and know that there is nothing wrong with the other party's personality and temper.
But those show girls obviously can't everyone come and get along with Ye Tianlong slowly and get to know each other! There are so many show girls, how much time does it take! The youth of those women will also be delayed in vain.
So Ye Tianlong simply didn't delay those women, and he never chose to draft girls in the private draft.
After listening to Ye Tianlong's confession, Song Jiang could be regarded as having a preliminary understanding of His Majesty's thoughts, so he then asked: "Then does Your Majesty have the kind of unmarried woman who is more familiar with each other now, and whose personality and temper are satisfactory to you?" ”
Ye Tianlong heard Song Jiang's question, and after hesitating for a moment, he still answered truthfully: "Yes, yes..."
"Oh! I don't know who it is? Can Your Majesty let the subordinate officials also go to meet first and help Your Majesty check the gates! ”
"You actually know this person, so you don't need to take Lao Song to meet you anymore!"
"Yes! Xia Guan has seen it, it can't be Miss Jamila, right? ”
"No, it's my master... Li Rufeng! ”
"What! It's her! ”
Song Jiang was also very surprised when he heard that name from his majesty's mouth, after all, Li Rufeng was the other party's master! So Song Jiang didn't think about her at all, this apprentice married a master, isn't that against ethics!
However, since His Majesty likes it, then I am afraid that Li Rufeng will enter the harem sooner or later, and even if he stops him, I am afraid that he will not be able to stop it, after all, after this period of getting along, Song Jiangke can also see that this Majesty is usually very easy to talk to, but for the things he believes, no matter how much others persuade him, he will not listen, especially this kind of private matter related to his own.
And when Ye Tianlong saw Song Jiang's surprised look, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Look! I knew you guys weren't going to approve of me marrying her. I shouldn't have told you this! ”
After Song Jiang heard Ye Tianlong's sigh, he had already considered his words in his heart, but he opened his mouth to comfort: "Your Majesty, this is wrong, the lower officials think that you choose to marry Duke Li Rufeng first, this decision is extremely wise, except for you, no one else is qualified to marry Duke Li Rufeng!" ”