Time passed slowly. Within a few days, Zhao Xuening sent people everywhere to inquire for information, searching for surviving Chinese throughout the Mekong Delta region, and found some surviving Chinese groups one after another.
They basically fled and were in panic all day long.
After meeting Lan Fang's army, they learned that Lan Fang had sent people to rescue them and were still suspicious. Some people were willing to follow Lan Fang's people back to the care camp, while others remained skeptical and did not dare to approach.
So Zhao Xuening found some surviving Chinese who had some reputation and face here to go with the soldiers to persuade them. This time, the efficiency was much higher. In just three days, more than 20,000 surviving Chinese came to guard the camp.
At this time, the number of Chinese survivors Zhao Xuening rescued exceeded 40,000.
Fortunately, Zhao Xuening expected that the number of people would increase, so he sent soldiers to cut down trees and set up camp, expanded the area of the care camp, and built many temporary barracks, so that everyone could not camp in the open space.
As the number of Chinese arriving at the care camp increased, food was almost running out. Fortunately, two days later, the first transport fleet to transport Chinese civilians back to Lanfang brought reinforcements and more food aid, as well as A larger number of transport ships.
With a battalion of reinforcements and a larger amount of food and transport ships, Zhao Xuening has greater confidence.
While he arranged for more Chinese to board the ship and leave this sad place, heading straight for the big island of Borneo, he also expanded the search area, looking for surviving Chinese everywhere, searching for enemies, looking for the whereabouts of the Xishan Army, and ascertaining the whereabouts of the Xishan Army. movement.
Three days later, on February 23, Zhao Xuening's enemy search force discovered a Xishan Army of more than 2,000 people and more than 6,000 Chinese prisoners of war in the southwest of Jiading.
Zhao Xuening personally led the troops to attack, annihilated the Xishan Army of two thousand people, and rescued the captured Chinese.
Within the next four days, Lan Fang's army annihilated more than a thousand Xishan soldiers and found more than 30,000 Chinese survivors. The total number of Chinese rescued exceeded 70,000.
So Zhao Xuening once again asked the fleet to return to Seoul and asked for more transport ships to be allocated to take people.
Because he didn't want to leave any Chinese who could be taken away or willing to go with him, Zhao Xuening decided to stay longer, but doing so was also risky.
Although the Xishan Army in the Jiading area was basically eliminated, on February 25, Zhao Xuening still received news that a Xishan Army with more than 10,000 people was approaching Jiading.
It is no surprise that what is coming will surely come.
The Xishan Dynasty was obviously aware of the sudden incident in the Jiading area. It is estimated that the Xishan Army, which was defeated by Lanfang's army, broke and fled and then reported their disastrous defeat in Jiading, which aroused the vigilance of the top brass of the Xishan Dynasty.
In addition, Zhao Xuening had previously arranged a fleet to attack the Taishan Dynasty's military port in Quy Nhon Province. The fleet came back and reported that it had successfully completed the mission, sinking seven enemy ships and destroying the military port pier.
This matter should also be known to the senior officials of the Xishan Dynasty.
But Ruan Wenyue may not know that Lan Fang took action.
There was little contact between Lanfang and the Xishan Dynasty. The previous contacts were mainly between Lanfang and Chinese groups in the Mekong Delta. The Xishan Dynasty was a peasant uprising army and had only established state power for a few years. Zhao Xuening had no contact with them.
In this way, even if the Xishan Dynasty knows the name of Lanfang, it does not know the reality of Lanfang.
Otherwise, they should not only send 10,000 people, but tens of thousands more.
After additional troop support and the return of the wounded and sick, Zhao Xuening currently has 5,000 light infantrymen, as well as an artillery team composed of more than 100 artillery pieces and gunners, with extremely strong firepower.
Judging from their previous battles with the Xishan Army, as long as their equipment and training are not equivalent to those of the Lanfang Army, the 10,000 Xishan Army is by no means a match for the Lanfang Army.
But they still came, obviously knowing that a very capable Chinese armed force had appeared in the Jiading area, and they could not tolerate the previous failure, so they came to attack Jiading.
As a strategic location and the former jurisdiction of Nguyen Phuc Anh, it is natural for the Tay Son Dynasty to want to seize this area.
However, they arrived in time. Zhao Xuening was worried that he did not have enough heads to build a sufficiently intimidating view of the capital.
The personnel transfer has not yet been completed. Although Zhao Xuening has no intention of destroying the Xishan Dynasty now, since the other party has people here, he cannot let them walk around arrogantly and delay his sending people back to Lanfang.
So Zhao Xuening personally led people to choose a place far away from the guard camp as the battlefield, and sent people to approach the army sent by the Xishan Dynasty, deliberately guiding them closer to himself and the army, and guiding them away from the direction of the guard camp.
On February 27, the commander-in-chief of the Xishan Army sent someone to try to contact Zhao Xuening, asking about his origins, purpose, and what he had done before, and whether the Xishan Army in the area had been defeated by him.
The other party wants to know what roles these people are.
Zhao Xuening did not look down upon the envoy and told him to give a message to the commander on the opposite side.
Wash your neck, Zhao Xuening, the President of the Lanfang Republic, is coming to chop off your head!
Wu Wenchu, the commander-in-chief of the Xishan Army, was shocked and angry when he heard this.
Anger is very simple. Anyone who tells him that they want to chop off his head will make him angry.
It’s normal to be surprised.
The names Zhao Xuening and Lan Fang are not only very loud in the Spice Sea, but also spread throughout the Nanyang region. Basically, the Chinese know it, so it is natural for the senior officials of the Xishan Dynasty to know such a number one figure and such a number one regime.
"I heard that the Lanfang Republic defeated the Western red-haired barbarians who were entrenched on the southern island. They obviously have some strength, but why did they come here? And they are against us?"
Lu Chang, the counselor next to Wu Wenchu, was very puzzled and guessed: "Could it be that he knew about the massacre of Han people in Jiading before, so he sent someone here?"
"A group of people who are neither relatives nor friends, even the Qing Dynasty will not care about it. He is far away in Borneo, how can he care about this matter?"
Wu Wenchu shook his head: "I don't think so. It's very likely that Lan Fang is planning to invade our country, but we didn't have any grudges before. What's going on?"
"this…………"
Lu Chang said in surprise: "Waging an undeclared war is not something that the head of a country can do, right? Even if a war is really going to start, it must be announced in advance. There is no reason to start a war without making any noise. How can military and national affairs be such a child's play?"
"Who knows what that thief is thinking?"
Wu Wenchu stopped thinking and said angrily: "No matter who he is, no matter how capable he is, if he invades my territory and slaughters my troops, that is a declaration of war! That is the enemy! I will never let him go! Send an order to the three armies! Advance! Break!" enemy!"
Lu Chang said hurriedly: "We don't know much about Lan Fang. The art of war says that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will be able to fight a hundred battles. Shouldn't we make more calculations?"
"The enemy is invading my territory right in front of me, how can I just sit back and ignore it?"
Wu Wenchu shook his head and said: "But since he can defeat our army, he must be quite capable. Please arrange for someone to return to Renfu quickly to inform him of the relevant news. Please make more preparations, so that if our army cannot destroy them, we have backup plans." .”
"As commanded."
Lu Chang went to do things immediately.
Afterwards, Wu Wenchu immediately ordered preparations for war, ready to show off his skills to let the arrogant and ignorant Zhao Xuening know what it means to use troops.
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