Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 113
The court lasted until December, and the assembled troops exceeded 50.

Then officially attacked Annan on the first day of the first lunar month. The country in Annan was in the Chen Dynasty, and it was heard that the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was brutal and used to massacre the city. Naturally, it had been prepared for this. The enemy, occupying the geographical advantage and harmony with the people.

The Yuan army was divided into six groups, with Tuo Huan, the ninth prince of Zhennan Wang, as the commander of the six armies.

The war lasted until the end of January, and the Yuan army attacked very smoothly, even conquering a large area of ​​land. Naturally, there was no military discipline along the way, burning, killing, and looting.

Especially seeing the word "Kill Tartar" tattooed on the arms of Annan's army, it aroused even more ferocity, and repeatedly killed prisoners and slaughtered the city.

Such brutal actions made the Annan nobles feel anxious for a while, and many people chose to surrender to the Yuan court, but it made the Annan people more determined to resist the Yuan.

In order to gain time to defend against the enemy, King Chen Huang of Annan sent Princess Anzi to the Ninth Prince as a concubine, but the war continued.

Until March, the Annan Kingdom was defeated again, the capital Thang Long Mansion was breached for the second time, the king and his ministers retreated to Champa, and the southern part of Vietnam, the Northland had completely fallen at this time.

For Annan at this time, it was like a disaster that wiped out the country, but the vital forces were still there, and they were still plotting to fight back.

And because of the brutality of the Yuan army, the people supported Annan's army even more, hiding in the deep mountains and jungles to harass guerrillas everywhere.

At the end of March, Prime Minister You instigated Du to lead an army of 50 to Champa, where he joined forces with other Yuan armies in Uri Prefecture (now Quangzhi Province).

At this time, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Annan's army not only had the advantages of manpower and location, but also the timing of military tactics was on their side.

In addition, the supply line of the Yuan army was stretched, and they were repeatedly harassed by local tyrants. Food and grass were in short supply. In addition, some Annan troops who surrounded the rear wing of the Yuan army changed into Song army costumes, which made the Yuan army mistakenly think that the Southern Song Dynasty had returned to the country.

The main force of the northern army and the southern army had fought for decades, and their will to resist the southern army was extremely deep. Therefore, seeing this scene, most of the Yuan army had no doubts and was terrified in their hearts.

Even so, the Ninth Prince Tuo Huan still insisted on attacking Zhancheng and launched a decisive battle. At this time, due to the hot weather, the Yuan army was not acclimatized, and the army suffered from epidemic diseases, and its combat effectiveness dropped sharply.

At the same time, due to the intolerance of the war horses to the heat, a large number of people died of fever, which made the cavalry, which the Yuan army was proud of, unable to perform.

Under the influence of many factors, the Yuan army was defeated in the decisive battle, and the Ninth Prince Tuohuan had no choice but to withdraw his army in defeat.

The retreat of 50 troops without effective organization can easily turn into a rout.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Annan's army launched multiple attacks from the mountains and jungles, causing the retreating Yuan army to be defeated.

The right prime minister instigated Du to be attacked and died on the way to retreat, and Li Heng, the Yuan general who had besieged Xiangyang and defeated Wen Tianxiang, also died here.

The failure of the second conquest of Annan made Kublai Khan extremely furious. Feeling that his authority was being challenged, he issued an order to punish the Ninth Prince for having sex, but he still gave him another chance.

Let him reintegrate the army in the south and attack Annan again.

The Ninth Prince Tuo Huan believed that the failure of the second expedition to Annan was due to the fact that the northerners did not adapt to the hot climate in Annan.

Therefore, in the south, the new affiliated army of the Southern Song Dynasty was marched, combined with the army that had fled back to China before, and once again combined 30 troops.

In January of the following year, he continued to attack Annan. This time, Zhang Wenhu, a rebel general in the Southern Song Dynasty, was in charge of commanding the water army and transporting grain by sea to prevent the grain road from being cut off.

But there was only so much he could learn.

Due to the low morale of the newly attached troops in the Southern Song Dynasty, and most of them were forcibly conscripted to attack Annan, they secretly hated the Northern Army. Therefore, many people in the Southern Song Dynasty who transported food by water had contacts with foreign enemies and sent information to them. Leaked to Annan's forces.

As a result, 70 shi of grain was transported to Yuntun, but it was robbed by Annan's army. The new attached army responsible for transporting grain and guarding grain and grass basically did not make much resistance.

The Ninth Prince burst into anger, even though the entire army knew about the robbing of 70 shi, grain and grass, so that morale was low.

However, he still persisted in leading the army to attack the Baiteng River, intending to recapture the grain and grass.

This time, Annan's army, which had already learned the information, set up an ambush on the side of the Baiteng River. When the Yuan army entered the ambush circle, Annan's army attacked the new attached army first.

The new attached army had no fighting intentions at all. Even though their equipment and tactics were far superior to their opponents, they were still on the verge of collapsing. The defeated army was chased by Annan elephant soldiers and charged the Northern Army headquarters in the rear, and directly smashed the Northern Army headquarters in one fell swoop.

As a result, the whole army was in chaos, and countless people were driven into the river and drowned, and those who fled into the jungle were killed by Annan's soldiers and civilians.

In the end, of the 30 troops, less than [-] fled back to the country.

After Kublai Khan heard the news, he fainted in the court on the spot, and even the historian dared not record the incident. Later generations of Yuan Shi recorded very little about this war and had no history at all.

The only way to find the war records on the Vietnamese side is to look through the complete book of the Dai Viet Historic.

After waking up, Kublai Khan humiliated the country by losing his teacher and ordering him not to enter the pilgrimage for life, and the last nine princes died in depression in the south.

During the two years of Mongolian Yuan's attack on Yue, the imperial court completely ignored Fan Zhuoyuan.

The failure of the first expedition to Annan, it is not that no one has accidentally mentioned Fan Zhuoyuan, a famous general who has destroyed the country, and suggested that he be responsible for transporting grain and grass and guarding the retreat.

As soon as this proposal was put forward at the court meeting, it was immediately reprimanded by a group of important ministers from the north, regardless of Han, Mongol or Hui.

In fact, there is no need to explain at all, the reason why Fan Zhuoyuan is not used is because he is a southerner, and he is a famous general among the southerners!

Based on Meng Yuan's precautions against southerners, even civil servants are not allowed to serve in the central government.

For a strong man like Fan Zhuoyuan, the imperial court wanted him to die immediately, just like Liu Zheng and others who surrendered in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the Song Dynasty is destroyed, die in depression as soon as possible, and don't make things difficult for the court.

Most of the people who can stay and appoint are sycophants like Fan Wenhu. Only in this way can the Yuan court rest assured.

The court's deliberate ignorance of Fan Zhuoyuan gave Fan Zhuoyuan great freedom.

Without supervision, Fan Zhuoyuan used various means to quietly transport 30 people to Japan in Jianghuai, Jiangnan, Huguang and other places.

His elder brother, Fan Pengcheng, also reported to the imperial court through official channels, and went to Japan first to preside over the various interests in Japan.

Fan Pengcheng is good at dancing, even if his prestige in the army is not as good as Fan Zhuoyuan, it is enough to bind hundreds of thousands of soldiers together as a bond.

In addition, Fan Zhuoyuan had a premonition and suspected that he might not be able to go to Japan, so he made various strategic plans for the future, such as changing customs, turning Japanese into Chinese, developing maritime trade, building ships to guard the sea, opening up Southeast Asia, migrating population, etc. Wait, it's recorded in a booklet.

It also writes in detail the manufacturing methods of artillery, firecrackers, and granular gunpowder. By the way, it describes in detail the training and tactics of the arquebus troops, as well as various tactics such as the coordination of cold and hot weapons.

It was only then that Fan Pengcheng knew that this younger brother had actually shown up so far. In terms of strategy, the two brothers had discussed a lot since they were young.

But in terms of technology and military strategy, he really didn't know that Fan Zhuoyuan still had such abilities.

So after getting the affirmation from the DPRK and China, he went to Japan with the last wave of immigrants a year ago.

As soon as he arrived in Japan, he and Fan Zhuoyuan started implementing the strategic plan step by step.

In the past two years, although Fan Zhuoyuan has not performed any system tasks, he has improved his strength to Shengju Dzogchen through diligent training.

At this time, he was able to observe the direction of the blood in each vessel in a more subtle way, and his ability to control the essence and blood was raised to another level.

After the Great Consummation of Shengju, the boy's kung fu realm directly entered the initial stage of the condensing gang realm.

At this level, the essence and blood are completely fused with the major viscera at the nodes of the five viscera and six viscera, and each viscera contains a little function of the heart.

Even if the heart is injured, other viscera can be temporarily replaced and the heart can be gradually repaired.

But if the heart is completely destroyed and the key nodes of essence and blood disappear, the rest of the viscera cannot completely replace the heart, and can only gradually wither and die.

As the essence and blood nodes in the internal organs become more and more condensed, the aroused qi is more pure and thick than before. Even when there is no exercise in normal times, the cavities in the body can be filled with qi.

In this state, it naturally has a certain resistance to certain heterogeneous zhenqi and spiral zhenqi.

If you concentrate on it, this resistance can continue to be strengthened.

Therefore, Fan Zhuoyuan can also have a certain resistance in the face of Jiuyang Zhenqi and Xuanming God's Palm, and is no longer in a state of naked defense.

Reaching this level, I reminded me to combine the Tendon and Bone Forging Chapter obtained two years ago with the Tongzi Gong, and added two abilities: softening the muscles and bones and tactile perception.

(End of this chapter)