The heavens start from saving Daming

At the beginning of February, the envoys from Chang'an City finally arrived at Dongou City.

This time the messenger was Li Danghu's acquaintance, his second brother Li Jiao.

Li Jiao, who was an official next to Li Yunze, brought the emperor's request to agree to the attachment of Dongou, and changed the place to Minzhong County.

Minzhong County was established during the Pre-Qin Dynasty. When the world was in chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Dongou Kingdom and Minyue Kingdom divided this county between the south and the north.

Li Yunze appointed Li Danghu to concurrently serve as the governor of Minzhong County. After the Minyue Kingdom was recovered, the two places were merged into one.

Ou Wang was granted the title of Marquis of Guannei, and he returned to Chang'an City along with Li Jiao, along with a group of nobles from the Eastern Ou Kingdom.

The rest of the matter here will be handed over to Gongsun Ao and the others.

Gongsun Ao is not interested in local affairs, he just wants to go south to Minyue as soon as possible.

But Li Danghu, who was appointed as the sheriff of Minzhong County, was busy transporting population and supplies by sea boats and building roads to the seaport, so he delayed the matter.

After urging him several times, all he got was evasion. Gongsun Ao was also angry, and went directly to Li Danghu, who was supervising the construction of the harbor.

"Mr. Li."

Gongsun Ao was upset, and his tone was very straightforward, "Today, you gave me an accurate word. When will the fleet go south to Dongye (Huzhou)!"

Li Danghu was not angry either. He first invited Gongsun Ao to sit down with a smile, then poured him a glass of wine affectionately, and then said, "So that the general will know, it's not that someone doesn't want to send troops south, but that the shipyard's boss There is a batch of new boats being launched nearby, and they will be able to enter soon.

They will serve in the fleet and join the fleet when the time comes. They can transport nearly [-] troops at a time, and their chances of capturing Dongye will definitely increase. "

After drinking a glass of wine, Gongsun Ao's anger also slightly subsided, and he asked again, "When can I leave?"

"Next month." Li Danghu explained, "After the new ship is launched, it needs to be tested in many ways before it can be put into use. However, I assured the general that it will arrive at the harbor by the end of next month at the latest."

After a pause, he continued, "And by then, the seaport here will also take shape, which will be convenient for boarding. We have also stockpiled a lot of food and military supplies. Once Dongye is captured, it will be convenient to transport military supplies there."

After drinking another glass of wine, Gongsun Ao simply stood up and walked out.

Before leaving, he left a sentence, "If I can't reach Dongye by the end of next month, I will definitely be the son of heaven!"

Li Danghu sent Gongsun Ao away, but he was not very angry.

After all, in the final analysis, Gongsun Ao was helping him when he went to attack Minyue.

After all, he, the governor of Minzhong County, still has half of the land in the hands of Minyue Kingdom.

Li Danghu was also a man of his word. At the end of March, the re-expanded fleet finally assembled outside the harbor dozens of miles away from Dongou City.

Nearly [-] soldiers and horses boarded sea ships of different sizes one by one through several urgently built plank roads deep into the sea.

After several days of boarding, the fleet headed south and headed straight for Dongye.

From Dongou City to Dongye City, the straight-line distance on land is about seven or eight hundred miles.

It doesn't seem too far, but in fact this journey is covered with dense mountains and forests, numerous rivers, lakes and swamps.

Going by land, even if the Minyue Kingdom opened up and let the Han army go, it would take a few months to get there.

The reason is very simple. Under such complex and difficult terrain conditions, the more soldiers and horses there are, the greater the logistical support will be required, and the number of personnel and materials has increased to a certain level. Where it is said, it is naturally difficult to act.

But walking from the sea is different.

The fleet set off from Dongou. Although the wind direction was not very good, it only took four or five days to reach the open sea of ​​Dongye.

Looking at the faintly visible land in the distance, Gongsun Ao, who was in a good mood, immediately ordered "Go ashore!"

Landing on the beach does not mean that you can just find a place on the shore and go up.

Needless to say, the cliffs on the coast are simply too difficult to get through.

And places densely covered with reefs are also not suitable for amphibious landings.

The shore is full of mangroves and swamps, and you can't go there.

The most suitable, in fact, is the beach.

Moreover, it had to be a beach far away from the city, otherwise, once it was noticed, it would lose the suddenness of the attack.

If you encounter a head-on attack when logging in, it will cause great losses, or even fail as a result.

Although they have little experience, Li Danghu and Gongsun Ao made the right choice.

I chose a good place when I was in Dongou City before, but now that I am in Dongye, I also chose a beach tens of miles away from Dongye City.

It is very barren here, not even a fishing village.

In fact, the soldiers and horses of the Minyue Kingdom who were defeated at Dongou City hadn't figured out how those Han troops appeared behind them until now.

Naturally, Dongye City would not have thought that the Han army came from the sea.

After all, in this era, there has never been a large-scale amphibious landing.

Moreover, the big man's land is sparsely populated, and the densely forested Minyue Kingdom is no exception here.

Even the fishermen did not show up here, which naturally gave the Han army a chance to land calmly.

In fact, there are many small islands in the sea outside Dongye City, and these small islands are quite suitable for landing.

It's just that the goal this time is Dongye City, and they have to cross the strait again when they get to the island, so they just go ashore directly.

It took several days of effort, and through barge transportation again and again, more than ten thousand Han troops and corresponding military supplies were finally sent to the beach.

Gongsun Ao, who had landed on the shore, immediately ordered his men to take the supplies to the shore, and only established a camp several miles away from the shore.

The reason is very simple. When I landed in the sea outside Dongou City, because of my inexperience, when the sea tide was high at night, it flooded a lot of supplies on the coast and took away a group of people.

After suffering a loss, naturally you can't fall twice in the same pit.

After making some adjustments, when the mental state of the soldiers who went ashore recovered a little, Gongsun Ao hurriedly led his soldiers and horses straight to Dongye City.

At this time, here in Minyue Kingdom, after learning that the Han army had joined the battlefield, they had already made corresponding preparations.

They mobilized their troops and set up defenses on the border to block the attack of the Han army.

The east of Minyue Kingdom is the sea, and the west is bordered by Yuzhang County of the Great Han Dynasty. Soldiers and horses are deployed at important intersections on the border.

Especially in the north bordering the Eastern Ou Kingdom, it is heavily guarded.

As for the south, it is Nanyue Kingdom.

The Minyue Kingdom has sent envoys to Panyu to ask the Nanyue Kingdom to send troops to help them on the grounds that their lips are dead and their teeth are cold.

It can be said that Minyue Kingdom has done everything it can do.

However, they never thought that although the Han army deployed a lot of troops in the outer Yuzhang County and other places, they were all for containment, and the real attack came from the sea.

At this time, Dongye City, which was in the hinterland, felt that there was the sea as a barrier, and there were not many defenders left.

Therefore, when Gongsun Ao appeared outside Dongye City with a large army in person, the city undoubtedly fell into a huge panic.

In the palace, Minyue King Zou Ying was incompetent and furious, "Where did these Han troops come from?!"

It wasn't until this time that the wise man realized, "Your Majesty, the Han army should have come from the sea."

"maritime?"

Zou Ying's face was full of disbelief, "How did the army of more than ten thousand come from the sea?"

"This, I don't know."

Considering the backward production conditions of this era, being able to send more than [-] soldiers and horses across the sea and thousands of miles to the land is already beyond the limit of most people's imagination.

In the eyes of people in the later industrial age, things that are extremely simple, in the eyes of people in this era, are magic soldiers from heaven.

After some panic, the ministers of Minyue proposed to send people to the border as soon as possible, and mobilize the soldiers stationed at the border to come back to rescue.

But the problem is that these messengers who were sent out of the city were intercepted and killed by the Habayashi Army knights arranged by Gongsun Ao.

Although there were not many knights from the Habayashi Army who came over, and many horses died on the boat, there were still many Habayashi Army from the North who were seasick and did not follow.

But the hundreds of Habayashi troops following Gongsun Ao were enough to block the road and intercept the messenger.

When Gongsun Ao led the infantry and directly besieged Dongye City, there would be no chance to send envoys.

In terms of the level of communication in this era that basically relies on roaring, it will take at least a month for the soldiers and horses of the Minyue Kingdom deployed on the border to get the news that the capital Dongye has been besieged.

This still has to wait until they don't get any news from Dongye City for a period of time, and they have a chance to send envoys to investigate under suspicion.

And such a long time is enough for Gongsun Ao to conquer Dongye City.

Even though Dongye City is the capital of Minyue Kingdom, considering the national strength of Minyue Kingdom, where can we build a strong city wall?

The city and city defenses left over from the pre-Qin period are used here.

Moreover, the defense in the city is empty, and there are not many defenders stationed.

Once the capital, Dongye City, was captured, and its lord and honorable ministers were taken down, the rest of the Minyue Kingdom would basically depend on the proclamation.

After all, the lord of the country has fallen into the hands of others, and when the outsiders cut off the logistics supplies and reinforcements, they are still playing a fart.

The siege battle was lackluster. The Han army was a master of regular combat. They filled up the moat step by step, pulled out strongholds and defensive facilities outside the city, and built siege equipment.

During this period, the fleet made two trips back and forth, one trip brought a large amount of food, grass and military supplies, and the other trip brought more than [-] militiamen according to Gongsun Ao's request.

The common name of siege warfare is called filling the city, as the name implies, it is to use the names of the soldiers to fill the city wall.

Gongsun Ao was reluctant to use the elite from the Northern and Southern Second Armies to fill the city, so he encouraged those militiamen who spontaneously followed the army to consume the city's defenders.

And he also issued a reward, whoever can make military exploits can be directly hired as a regular soldier with an exception.

Stimulated by such rewards, the militiamen risked their lives to attack the city. Although they failed to break through Dongye City, they also greatly consumed the strength of the city's defenders.

Its defense equipment, bows and arrows, and even the defenders were all consumed.

When the defenders had no strength left, Gongsun Ao sent regular soldiers to fight.

Three walls lure the enemy into a feint attack, and one wall is the main attack.

When the elite Han army wearing armor and holding shields bravely jumped to the top of the city through the ladder, the resistance of Dongye City also collapsed.

After paying the loss of thousands of people, mostly militiamen, the Han army captured Dongye City, and arrested the whole family from the Minyue King Zou Ying to the noble ministers of his country.

The war has progressed to this point, basically the overall situation has been decided.

After a warm greeting, Minyue King Zouying agreed to return to Neifu, and sent envoys to accompany the Han army to various places to recruit and surrender to all parts of the Minyue Kingdom.

In a few months, the two countries were successively won.

The high-spirited Gongsun Ao stood on the top of Dongye City, looking south involuntarily.

Over there is the last of the Mitsukoshi and the most powerful Nanyue Kingdom.