Wu Changwen was confused and desperate. When he woke up, he didn't even have time to wash his face when he received the explosive news that Tanglin County had been captured.
At this time, the 30,000 guan of silver sent by Wu Riqing was still in his house and he had not had time to put it into the cellar for storage.
The reason why Wu Changwen was desperate was that he knew that he might have been tricked. Zhang Zhaojun, the governor of Guangzhou and Guangxi and the South Korean prince, did not want his money at all, but his life.
Now the troops of the Chu State are rushing down from the Xidao River (Red River). It must be only one side. The main force of the court is expected to attack from both water and land.
Good things don't work, bad things work. Soon, before Wu Changwen started to call the remaining nine envoys to discuss the defense, urgent news from the northeast arrived.
It turned out that Nong Minfu secretly sneaked back to Guangyuan Prefecture from the Chu vassal state, and then helped the imperial army deceive Menzhou's natural dangers.
Menzhou is the Zhennanguan Pass in later generations. From its name, you can guess how important the terrain is. If it were not a dangerous place, the word "men" would not be used.
Originally garrisoned in Menzhou were a large Han family, the Chen family, and thousands of Baiyue people under their control.
During the Wu Quan period, the power of the Jinghai navy belonged to the Wu family, so they were married to the Chen family of Menzhou and had Ya soldiers stationed there.
But later, the Wu family's power was stolen by Yang Sange. Chen thought about his past kindness to Wu Quan and no longer listened to Guluocheng's orders.
When Wu Changwen took back the throne of the Wu family, because he was not the legitimate son, the Menzhou Chen family had always supported his brother Wu Changqi.
Therefore, Wu Changwen never had time to win over Chen, which resulted in the current negative consequences.
End of February.
The imperial army conquered at a very fast pace. South Korean Duke Zhang Zhaojun led Qu Yanqing as the commander, Pan Mei and Cao Bin as the left and right vanguards, and Hou Renbao as the marching commander. He led 10,000 elite infantry and cavalry, and 8,000 Nong soldiers. After surrendering, After the Chen family in Menzhou was a local snake, they quickly defeated Langzhou (Lang Son) and marched to the north bank of Bai Dang River.
Regarding this river, it can be said to be a sad river for the Central Plains court in history, because Annan's group of rebels defeated the Central Plains court three times on this river.
The first time was seventeen years ago in 938, when the Southern Han Dynasty sent King Liu Hongcao to lead a fleet to land at the mouth of Halong Bay. The fleet sailed upstream and prepared to reach Hanoi City.
Wu Quan buried wooden stakes at the mouth of Baiteng River in advance to attract the Southern Han army to attack. When the tide receded, the Southern Han fleet was carried back to the sea by the tide.
Due to the shallow water at low tide, the warships hit the wooden piles and huddled together and sank one after another. Liu Hongcao, the King of the Southern Han Dynasty, was captured and killed. Only General Liang Kezhen and more than a thousand people of the 30,000 soldiers successfully retreated.
This battle caused the Southern Han Dynasty to completely lose control of Jing Haijun. Wu Quanzhi was so proud that he began to think about independence. This was the beginning of Annan's separation from the court.
The second time was in 981 AD, the second year of Taiping's reign in the Song Dynasty. Brother Zhao learned of the civil strife in the Annan Ding Dynasty and ordered Hou Renbao and other generals to attack Annan in an attempt to regain the lost territory.
Needless to say, Brother Zhao, although his fighting skills are not very good, still has a lot of spirit.
In this battle, Hou Renbao showed great power. First, he defeated tens of thousands of Annan troops in Lang Son and beheaded thousands. Then he chased to Bach Dang River and defeated the Annan army again, beheading more than 2,000 people and capturing hundreds of warships.
As a result, the regiment training made Sun Quanxing, a fool, afraid of the danger of going deeper into Annan territory, and insisted on waiting for another Song general Liu Cheng to arrive with his navy before advancing, thus missing the best opportunity to pursue the Annan army.
Hou Renbao was furious, but he did not have full command, so he could only lead thousands of vanguards to go ahead. Sun Quanxing waited at the same place for seventy days, until Liu Cheng and his navy arrived, and then slowly set off.
At this time, Hou Renbao had arrived near Zhilingjiang River, Hanoi was in sight, and the situation was still favorable to the Song army.
As a result, the four idiots Sun Quanxing, Liu Cheng, Jia Shi, and Wang Zhen saw that all the credit in front was Hou Renbao's. They were jealous and deliberately delayed in getting closer to Hou Renbao, who was the forward.
Upon seeing this, Li Huan, the founding emperor of the Li Dynasty in Annan, immediately seized the opportunity. He first pretended to send someone to ask for Hou Renbao's surrender, and when Hou Renbao relaxed his vigilance, he used his soldiers to sneak attack Hou Renbao, who only had a few thousand troops, in the early morning.
In this battle, Hou Renbao died in battle, and thousands of elite soldiers in the vanguard were wiped out. Sun Quanxing and others were so frightened that they ran away. They were pursued by Li Huan for hundreds of miles, and the entire army suffered heavy casualties.
After this war, the Northern Song Dynasty, as the central court, was forced to recognize the independence of Annan. This was the beginning of Vietnam's true independence.
The third time was in 1288, when Kublai Khan sent generals such as Tuo Huan to attack Annan. However, at this time, the Yuan army encountered a freak, Chen Guojun, King of Xingdao of the Chen Dynasty of Vietnam.
This person and the famous Vietnamese general Nguyen Hue during the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be said to be the most famous generals with genetic mutations in the entire Annan history.
These two people can be said to be very dazzling existences in Chinese history. Considering that the platform for them to display their talents is only so large, it can be said that if they were placed in China, their achievements would be even more incredible.
In this battle, Chen Guojun almost annihilated the Yuan army in Bai Teng River, and the river turned red.
The impact of this battle is also very far-reaching.
Because looking at the world at that time, no matter the Jin Kingdom, Xixia, Southern Song Dynasty, Dali, Xiliao and other big countries in the world, they were all destroyed by the Meng Yuan.
Only the Chen Dynasty of Annan defeated the Yuan army several times, and even achieved such brilliant results that the Yuan army had to admit that it would no longer invade the Chen Dynasty.
With this achievement, Annan was proud and proud. Both Chen Renzong and Chen Guojun of the Chen Dynasty believed that the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, the Chinese mainland was destroyed, and the Central Plains was lost to the Huru. Only Annan preserved the vitality of the famous religion, and he was a well-deserved Tiannan Xiaoxiao. China.
They even think that this small word can be removed.
In this proud atmosphere, the people of Annan, whether they were the former Annan Han people or the Sinicized Baiyue people, no longer took pride in being Han people, and gradually formed a national consciousness based on the Red River Plain where Hanoi is located. .
Because they basically lived around Hanoi, the capital, they called themselves Kinh people, considered themselves Chinese, and called other Vietnamese barbarians. With the slogan of civilizing barbarians, they continued to expand westward and southward, and later formed the Kinh ethnic group, the main ethnic group in Vietnam. .
It can be seen that Annan's independence was not formed all at once, but was gradually strengthened. When the Southern Song Dynasty perished and the Annan Chen Dynasty defeated the Yuan Dynasty, it could never be regained.
After that, although the Ming Dynasty regained control of Annan, national consciousness had been formed. There were only Jing people here and no Han people. Therefore, no matter whether the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty were honest or corrupt, it would not help.
Some people said that the Ming Dynasty should have sealed the British Duke Zhang Fu there to suppress it, but in fact it would not succeed.
Unless Zhang Fu has the courage and capital to kill 500,000 people and move 500,000 people back to the Central Plains to exchange blood for Annan.
Well, these all happened in history, which makes people sigh but cannot change the slightest thing, but at this time, who is born to call me Zhang Shengren.
At this time, it is simply the best time to regain Annan, because both the Wu family and the Shishijun, although they have a desire to be independent, still admit in their hearts that they are Han people and understand that they are traitors.
And at this time, they have been fighting for more than 20 years, fighting to the detriment of the people, and the people are eager to regain peace.
Therefore, when Qu Yanqing came to Bai Dang River, Wu Changwen didn't even have time to implement the traditional technique of placing wooden stakes in the Bai Dang River.
Qu Yanqing ordered Hou Renbao to supervise hundreds of stern ships to cross the river. With one impact, he dispersed more than a thousand navy soldiers in the river, and controlled the last and most critical line of defense of Hanoi City without any suspense.
. . . .
In Guluo City, except for Wu Riqing, who had been captured by Zhang Cheng, the other nine envoys came. Together with Wu Changwen, they made up ten more envoys.
Now that things have happened, they finally stopped fighting each other with their own motives, because they knew in their hearts that they were nothing if they left Annan. If they were defeated, whether they were killed or moved away, it would make no difference at all.
Wu Changwen looked left and right, and finally focused on Chen Lan, known as Chen Minggong. After all, they had been fighting each other for so many years, and everyone knew who had the most leverage.
Chen Lan has the smallest territory and the poorest land, but the Chen family's Ya soldiers are the best at fighting, and Chen Lan's ability to lead troops is also the strongest.
Well, this is also true from a historical perspective. In later generations, the Twelve Envoys were destroyed and the Ding tribe established the Ding Dynasty in Vietnam. It was Chen Lan who promoted and even entrusted the Ding tribe to establish a great cause.
Chen Lan also saw the look Wu Changwen was looking at. When the time came, he did not refuse. Without waiting for Wu Changwen to say anything, he immediately jumped on the table and shouted loudly:
"If you want to be executed by the imperial court, you can continue to waste time here, but if you still want to keep your head, then listen to a few words."
Although the other eight envoys knew Chen Lan's ability, Chen Lan was the least powerful. Some of them still felt uncomfortable, but Wu Changwen immediately jumped out and chose to support him.
Of course he had to support it, because the Wu family was the leader, and it was his father Wu Quan who killed King Liu Hongcao and proclaimed himself king.
To put it bluntly, everyone else in this room may have a way to survive, but the Wu family definitely does not.
Seeing Wu Changwen supporting Chen Lan, everyone immediately stopped arguing. They still had a hard time choosing between face and life.
Chen Lan stood on the table and said: "The imperial army is attacking from two sides, with many cavalry, and guys like the Nong family and the Menzhou Chen family leading the way. We have no way to escape.
There is only one way for now, and that is to consume. After June, when the weather is hot and the miasma is everywhere, we should be able to drive away the imperial army. Then we can go to plead guilty, and maybe there will be a way to survive. "
When everyone heard this, they thought this was the truth, but they immediately became discouraged. The Baiteng River was gone, and the Chu vassal army also came from the upper reaches of the Xidao River (Red River). What would they use to hold on?
Chen Lan immediately pointed his finger to the northwest and southwest, "Guluo must not be able to hold it anymore. There are still five or six days before the imperial army will arrive. You will go down immediately to make arrangements and prepare to retreat to Jiaozhou City and Go to Cochin City.
The two cities are horns to each other, with waterways leading to each other, allowing them to help each other.
If we really can't hold it, we will take a warship to the Zhuyuan River to Changzhou. If Changzhou cannot be held, we will go to Jiuzhen of Aizhou. As long as we are not captured, we can always bargain. "
The Zhuyuan River is the downstream of the Red River. Now the ancient Jiaozhi City and Jiaozhou City are one in the northwest and the other in the southwest, cutting off the Red River.
Because they have been fighting for these years, wooden stakes and other obstacles in the river are ready-made, as are hundreds of naval forces. They do have the capital to hold on. If they cannot hold on, it is not difficult to escape.
After the discussion was completed, no one objected, so they immediately went down and started to set up defenses.
In mid-March, Zhang Cheng's Chu army captured Guluo City. Since they were in a hurry to retreat to Jiaozhi City and Jiaozhou City, Wu's Ya soldiers did not have time to destroy Guluo City. They set a few fires and encountered an enemy. It rained heavily, so it didn't ignite.
On March 20, Qu Yanqing's troops captured Nanding County in Jiaozhou, completely blocking the connection between the wealthy eastern states and Jiaozhou City.
After Wuding County was captured, Qu Yanqing left Hou Renbao with more than a thousand cavalry to guard the city, while he took the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry to Guluo City to meet Zhang Cheng.
The two sides joined forces and established the Annan camp in accordance with Zhang Zhang's order. Yizhang became the general manager of the Annan camp. Whether it was the imperial army, the Chu vassal army, or the private soldiers of the Nong family and the Menzhou Chen family, they were all commanded by Zhang Cheng. .
Zhang Cheng knew very well that after June in the land of Annan, the weather would be like fire, and the water would be steaming, making it easy to breed various poisonous miasma (germs). About half of his troops were from the north, and the number of people who were not acclimated to the climate would increase greatly. .
At the same time, when the weather gets very hot in June, cloth armor and iron armor will no longer be worn, and one's own advantages will be greatly weakened.
This was the historical Battle of Xining between Song and Yue. Because the war was postponed to May, although the Song general Guo Kui killed all the princes and princes of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam in Fuliang River, diseases were rampant in the army and he could only hold on to hatred. withdraw troops.
Therefore, Zhang Cheng only allowed the two armies to train together for three days, and then began the deployment.
Zhang Cheng saw Chen Lan's plan at a glance. Did you not want Jiaozhi City and Jiaozhou City to be at each other's horns, communicating with each other by boats on the river, attacking Jiaozhi City and Jiaozhou City to come to the aid, and during the attack on Jiaozhou City, the troops in Jiaozhi City came out to harass them? Well.
Then I'll just attack the two cities together and see how you can help!
As for the problem of not being able to encircle the city due to the two-sided fight, Zhang Cheng no longer cares about it.
Because he had ordered the Wu Man Cuan clan and the Nong clan of Guangyuan Prefecture to recruit a large number of fishermen from the upper reaches of the West Daojiang River (Red River) and Baiteng River to form an inland river navy, and he planned to simply let the Wu family wait for them to escape south along the river before pursuing them.
Even if you can't catch up, you can still occupy the rich land of Jinghai Navy, and wait until the cold wind starts in October before using the army to continue the pursuit.
Anyway, the first priority now is to break Jiaozhi City and Jiaozhou City first.
Zhang Cheng's two-flowering strategy really made Chen Lan's arrangement completely ineffective.
Originally, Chen Lan believed that the main force of the imperial army consisted of 10,000 Chu vassal troops and more than 20,000 imperial troops and forbidden troops. The Jing navy combined also had 7,000 tooth soldiers, more than 20,000 auxiliary troops, and several civilians. Wan can help in the fight.
With such a ratio, Zhang Cheng, who is attacking the city, would not dare to attack the city twice. Even if there are two flowers, the offensive power will be greatly weakened and will not pose a threat.
But as soon as the war started, it was completely beyond Chen Lan's expectations. Whether it was the imperial army or the imperial army, their combat effectiveness was extremely powerful.
Even Chu Fan's Beifu Army and Nanfu Army were quite elite, and their combat effectiveness was even higher than that of Jing Hai's tooth soldiers.
At the end of March, Zhang Cheng used large ships to transport six built catapults from the upper reaches of the Xidao River (Red River). There was no shortage of wood in Annan, so the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry who accompanied the army built them quickly.
At the same time, Qu Yanqing, who was in charge of attacking Jiaozhou City, used severe punishment to lock up 30,000 Annan Han people and ordered them to build mountains of earth day and night. In just ten days, two mountains of earth were piled outside Jiaozhou City. It is more than ten feet high, higher than the capital of Jiaozhou.
These mountains of earth were already intact. Although Jiaozhou City was still protected by a moat, Qu Yanqing first ordered his sergeants to place a tornado cannon on it and use stones to destroy the Fuyuan Crossbow on Jiaozhou City.
Then he ordered the crossbowmen and the cyclone cannon to block the northern city of Jiaozhou, so that Jing Haijun's soldiers did not dare to gain a foothold on the city.
The soldiers of the surrounding army in the city took this opportunity to forcefully cross the moat, cover the engineers and bury the coffin gunpowder under the city wall. Then there was a loud bang, and a gap several feet wide was blown down in the North City of Jiaozhou.
Pan Mei, Cao Bin, and Zhang Deqing, three generals, wore three layers of heavy armor and led their soldiers to charge in. The morale of the army was like a rainbow. After fighting for about an hour, more than two thousand Ya soldiers, the main force of the Jing navy, were killed, and the rest of the state and county soldiers were directly killed. It was defeated and countless people died.
Jing Haiyan's generals (envoys) Ruan Kuan, Li Kui, and Ruan Shoujie were killed in the battle, and Lu Tang was captured.
Wu Changjun, who had retreated to the inner city, still wanted to defend. Yajiang Jianshun, who was following him, suddenly took action. He rushed over and stabbed Wu Changjun through the neck with a knife.
At the same time, the tooth soldiers around Jiao Shun also started to take action, either killing Wu Changjun's tooth soldiers, or going to kill the soldiers at the nearest city gate.
Well, it's very characteristic of the fifth generation, and Jiao Shun has reason to do this, because his father is Jiao Gongxian.
In the past, Jiao Gongxian was defeated. Jiao Shun was a bastard, and the Jiao family was very powerful in Jiaozhou. Therefore, after Jiao Gongxian and his legitimate son were killed by Wu Quan, he was the only bastard left to rule some marginal areas. This appeases Mr. Jiao.
And Jiao Gongxian asked for help from the Southern Han Dynasty when he competed with Wu Quan for the position of Jiedushi. Later, Liu Hongcao, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, died in the battle of Baiteng River. This was caused by this, which can be regarded as a less independent force in the Jing navy.
Historically, the evil plan of Nguyen Ai Quoc as a thug in Indochina was defeated by Vietnamese nationalism. After Le Duan, who represented nativism, came to power, he ordered his subordinates to write articles to denounce Chiu Gong Xian and Mo Deng Yong, and will The two men were vilified as traitors and aroused widespread hatred among the people.
The Le Duan group is actually using the past to criticize the present, using the insinuations of Jiao Gongxian and Mok Thein Yong to 'smear' the pro-China factions such as Vo Nguyen Giap, Chu Boon Jin, and Huang Wenhuan who were still alive at that time, and completely pulled the monthly payment to the big brother who supported them. its opposite.
Therefore, Jiao Shun and his uncle Jiao Gonghan are the only ones among the ten envoys who have a chance to be villains.
Of course Wu Changwen knew this very well, so he placed the uncles and nephews Jiao Gonghan and Jiao Shun in Jiaozhi City and Jiaozhou City respectively, intending to make him use two powerful weapons.
But, at this time, Jiao Shun would not care about the life and death of his uncle Jiao Gonghan. Similarly, if Jiao Gonghan had the chance, he would not care about Jiao Shun's life and death.
As soon as Wu Changjun died, the south gate of the inner city was opened. Cao Bin immediately took the lead in entering the city and quickly eliminated the remaining enemies in the city.
At the same time, Zhang Cheng's Perak Chariot (large catapult) outside Jiaozhi City was also installed. Suddenly, rocks rained down, causing panic at the top of Jiaozhi City.
Seeing that the situation was critical and Jiaozhou City had fallen, Wu Changwen and Chen Lan did not dare to defend any longer, so they immediately decided to flee while the imperial troops were not encircling them.
In the tenth year of the Shaoming Dynasty, AD 955, on March 17, Wu Changwen fled from the southern water gate with Chen Lan, Fan Baihu, Du Jingshuo, Yang Jili, Jiao Gonghan and others.
When they fled, they also set a fire, burning most of the family members and civilian husbands who stayed in the city. The fire almost burned Jiaozhi City into ruins and blocked Zhang Cheng's pursuit.
On March 25, Zhang Cheng personally led a hundred warships and caught up with Wu Changwen and others at the mouth of the Red River, near Thuan An, Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam.
Wu Changwen and others did not expect Zhang Cheng to arrive so quickly. They had just settled in under the acceptance of the Shun'an clan, and before they could recover, they could only raise their troops to resist.
Zhang Cheng took advantage of the many stern ships in the battleships and quickly dispersed Wu Changwen's fleet. Jiao Gonghan, Yang Jili, Fan Baihu and others were killed in the battle, and thousands of Jing navy soldiers and men fell into the water.
Wu Changwen, Chen Lan, Du Jingshuo and others almost escaped with their lives and led more than a hundred people to rush south to Jiuzhen County in Aizhou, which was the territory of Jiuzhen County in the Han Dynasty.
In mid-April, Zhang Cheng led his troops to pursue Jiuzhen County. Wu Changwen and others had long disappeared. Zhang Cheng took the opportunity to break the resistance of the Li family of Jiuzhen Han people and regain Aizhou.
At this time, the hot summer was approaching. Zhang Cheng ordered Pan Mei to serve as the governor of Aizhou and the supervisor of the soldiers and horses of Aizhou to guard and search for traces of Wu Changwen and others in Aizhou. He himself led the army back to Jiaozhou to station.
In June, Zhang Cheng eliminated all resistance in Jing Haijun territory. At this time, Shu Fei Li Ruoliu's letter was also delivered to him.
Originally, Zhang Cheng was unwilling to kill more, but as a result, Zhang Cheng became a bit superstitious, believing that a general like Bai Qi would harm his longevity and moral integrity by trapping and killing.
Secondly, after these battles, there are only 300,000 Han people left in Jinghai Navy. If they continue to be killed, their vitality will be damaged.
But at this moment, when he saw that Jing Haijun was actually going to be handed over to his daughter and son-in-law, Zhang Cheng immediately transformed into a full-blooded human being and slaughtered him.
From June 13th to June 16th, Zhang Cheng went on a killing spree throughout the Jinghai prefectures.
The Ten Envoys, including the Wu family, except for the Jiao family, the upper echelons of all families and all officers who had been ten generals (one hundred people) were all killed by Zhang Cheng. A total of 20,000 people were killed, which was close to the Han population of Jinghai Navy. One-tenth of.
At the same time, more than 60,000 Baiyue natives in Jinghai navy were killed together with them. In just three days, more than 80,000 people were killed in one go.
After killing these 80,000 people, Zhang Cheng wrote to Zhang Yan, requesting that 20,000 people from the Jiao family be moved to Chaohi Province to help Yan King Murong Nobunaga develop the Guandong Plain of Chaohi.
At the same time, he requested the imperial court to move 10,000 poor Han people from Yongzhou, Leizhou, Danzhou, and Qiongzhou to the prosperous land of Jiaozhou.
Killed all those with grievances, moved away those who were dissatisfied, and moved in those who were grateful from poor places to share large houses and high-quality paddy fields.
Zhang Daguan is indeed a good father-in-law!
In mid-July, Zhang Yan agreed to all Zhang Cheng's requests, and came with rewards from the officers and soldiers.
Due to his meritorious service, Zhang Cheng was granted the title of Duke of the State, with a settlement of 1,000 households. He was also given the title of "Yangwu" to punish the heroes who had rebelled against the country. As a reward, he basically completed the Jin Ou for Zhang Zhou.
At the same time, Zhang Gao abolished the titles of Jinghaijun and Annan Protectorate, and established the Lingnan and Guangnan provinces in the old land of Jinghaijun. He renamed Jiaozhou City as Zhennancheng, and became the Pingzhang of the Lingnan and Guangnan provinces with a chapter, and governed Guangnan with integrity.
Menzhou and Liangzhou belonging to Jiaozhou were assigned to Lingnan Guangxi Province, and Pingzhang Yuanhuan, Lingnan Guangxi Province, was ordered to build Xiongguan in Menzhou and named the town Nanguan.
Linxi Prefecture, Gantang Prefecture, and Dujin Prefecture, which originally belonged to Jiaozhou, and later the upper reaches of the Red River in northwest Vietnam were all assigned to Zhang Xiancun's Chu vassal state.
This was regarded as a reward for the Chu vassal state to send troops. On the other hand, it also allowed the Chu vassal state to occupy the upper reaches and maintain the suppression of Jiaozhou's current Nanguangnan province outside the mountains.
In the future, the expansion of Lingnan and Guangnan Province will definitely focus on restoring the homeland of Rinan County to the south.
At the end of September, after the trade wind weakened, Lin Renzhao finally led 20,000 officers and soldiers of the Guangdong and Guangdong Navy to Jiaozhou.
At the same time, Pan Meili, the governor of Ai and the military supervisor, reported that Wu Changwen and others had defected to the Champa Kingdom and were tempting the Champa King Indravarman II to go north.
At this time, the Chu vassal state's army had returned, and Zhang Cheng immediately informed Zhang Xiancun. At the end of September, Chu vassal general Zhang Yongde personally led 5,000 elite Chu vassal northern troops to Jiaozhou again.
At the same time, Zhang Cheng also mobilized the Lingnan and Guangnan provinces, especially issuing recruitment orders to the peasants and wealthy farmers.
Nong Minfu knew that his opportunity had come, and immediately mobilized 20,000 soldiers from the Liao, Nong, Sha and other tribes and 100,000 civilians in the 100,000 mountains west of Yongzhou in the Guangxi province of Lingnan.
At the end of October, tens of thousands of Champa troops led by Wu Changwen finally arrived, and latent elements in Lingnan and Guangnan Province also began to respond. They killed officials everywhere, cut off roads, and spread information.
On October 28, the Cham Army arrived in Anshun Port outside Zhujiang, Aizhou, in more than 300 warships, which later became Thanh Hoa, Vietnam.
Zhang Cheng deliberately delayed in Xupu, dozens of miles away, pretending that he would not arrive in time. Therefore, the Champa people were relieved to land in Anshun, and while descending to the village, they unloaded supplies from the ship.
That night, Zhang Cheng selected 8,000 elite troops from each army, each with three horses, each with a title. The horses picked bells, made rice at the first watch, set out at the third watch, and suddenly attacked the Champa army camp from more than 60 miles away.
The Champa people never thought that the war could be fought like this. Zhang Cheng's eight thousand cavalry had already ridden in their faces. The Champa people were still sleeping and had no time to resist. The 40,000 Champa and Ni The party coalition forces were immediately defeated.
By three o'clock in the morning, the Zhujiang River was filled with floating corpses, blocking the river to the point where it stopped flowing. The Champa people trampled on each other, killing and injuring tens of thousands.
The Champa prince and later the Champa king Yayindravarman I also had his neck broken by Cao Bin with a horse in the melee.
The remaining Champa people wanted to escape by boat, but Lin Renzhao suddenly arrived with the Guangdong and Guangdong naval forces. More than 10,000 Champa naval forces were wiped out and more than 200 warships were captured.
Jinghai's tooth generals Chen Lan and Du Jingshuo were killed, and Wu Changwen and a general named Ding Huan were captured alive.
This Ding Huan was Ding Buling, the founding emperor of the Ding Dynasty of Vietnam in later generations. Buling was his official position, and Huan was his real name.
Zhang Cheng immediately ordered that Ding Huan and the hundreds of captured Jing Haijun soldiers be beheaded on the spot. Wu Changwen immediately escorted them to the court and asked Zhang Shengren to hold a prisoner offering ceremony as a sacrifice in the Ancestral Temple.
Taking advantage of the situation, the army marched by land and water and went south to regain the lost territory.
On November 15th, the four counties of Zhuwu, Bijing, Lurong, and Xijuan in Rinan County were recovered one after another. Zhang Cheng ordered Nong Minfu to lead 100,000 people of various ethnic groups to the area to suppress them, leaving him to farm cattle, train elephants, and Armor, weapons, etc.
He also promised that he would ask the imperial court for meritorious services and become the Prince of Rinan, under the command of the future King of Tang.
The army continued to move south. On November 23, the conquering army captured Xianglin County. At this time, Xianglin County was called Indrapura and was the capital of the Champa Kingdom.
After the army entered the city, they looted the city for three days, killing more than 40,000 people in the city and capturing more than 100,000 people. They destroyed the temple commemorating the first king of Champa, Qu Lian, the son of the traitor Xianglin County Gongcao.
They also destroyed the tombs of the Champa kings of the past dynasties, and the proceeds were piled up in mountains of gold, silver, ivory, blood coral, pearls, various spices, leather, etc.
The Champa king Indravarman II fled to Bintong Long (southern Vietnam, north of Saigon).
Zhang Cheng originally wanted to continue fighting, but along the way he defeated the Champa Kingdom and seized mountains of goods. Even the lowest soldier got at least twenty guan worth of property.
Of course, a male Kunlun slave can be worth ten guan after training and sold back, and a female Kunlun slave can be worth more than five guan. Of course, everyone can make a lot of money.
Therefore, Jun Wu Zhan had no intention of going back as soon as possible, so Zhang Cheng had no choice but to give up and take all the plundered training elephants, gold, silver, slaves, etc. with him and return to Zhennancheng.
In early December, Zhang Cheng led his army and left Pan Mei as the supervisor of the Japanese army. He led 4,000 navy and army troops to stay in Xianglin County to help Nong Minfu gain a foothold and train Nong's soldiers to guard against Champa. The country is trapped and the beast comes to fight.
On the day when the army was reorganizing, Nong Minfu sent his cousin Nong Mincun northward to ask the court to allow them to change their farming status to farmers, call themselves Han people, and write "descendants of the Shennong family" on their genealogy.
After writing this chapter, the book is officially coming to an end, because in the timeline of this book, the limit of control has been reached, and future expansion will at least be after the population explosion in a few decades.
Therefore, there are about fifteen chapters left in the main body of this book, and about ten extra chapters, which are expected to be completed in July.
Since I have to prepare a new book, the information is not yet available, so the update in July may not be stable. I have not asked for leave from my book friends one by one. I will try my best to update every day. If there is no update, it will definitely not be updated. Write it down.
In addition, the new book will most likely cover Nanyang. The timeline is expected to be a few years before the murder of Emperor Taksin of Thonburi. It is difficult to find information about this time period. I don’t know how much I can collect, but I will try my best to provide it for everyone. Restore the political and economic situation at that time, but how to write it specifically is still just an idea. I hope that it will not disappoint everyone by then.
(End of chapter)
