Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty

West in the city.

The news about the army of mercenaries coming out of the city has reached here. King Le Li, who had regained power, called an emergency meeting and called all his courtiers in front of him to discuss a strategy to withdraw from the enemy.

“About 25,000 people? They have increased their troops again?” After hearing the scout general report the number of enemy troops, Crown Prince Le Thai Tong was the first to lose his color on the Imperial Court Assembly , Conditioned to ask such a sentence.

No wonder he was so surprised. The previous news said that mercenaries are only more than ten thousand people. Now that there are nearly half of them, it is reasonable to be surprised. To say that this is the disadvantage of lagging intelligence. Since voluntarily abandoning Hanoi City, no news about Hanoi City has come out. Many spies who had stayed in the city have been turned up, and some who were lucky enough to be undiscovered were sent out of Hanoi City. The beach went straight to the little Ryukyu Islands, and became a tragic spy who called the sky not working and called the ground.

Without internal news, they would naturally not know that Hong Jin had formed a Vietnam mercenary with a number of 30,000.

In fact, not only the face of Crown Prince Le Thai Tong turned pale with fright, but the other civil and military ministers were all discolored. There were more than 10,000 mercenaries that gave them a headache before, and even the country was lost. Now that mercenaries have doubled their strength, how can they deal with it?

Although the king Le Li was shocked, his face showed too much not at all. How can I say that he is also the king of a country. If he is in a mess, wouldn’t it be right? Are you going to mess around?

“Why panic?” Seeing the panic on the faces of the Civilian Court Official officers below, even Crown Prince Le Thai Tong could not be as calm as he was at the beginning, Le Li said with a dark face. When everyone’s eyes turned to him, he neither fast nor slow said: “In this way, immediately send someone to inform General Lati to let them move closer to us, and if possible, bite the mercenary’s tail and wait for the right time. At the time, we adopted a two-sided attack. By the way, tell him to tell him to be more careful not to be targeted.”

“Wang Shangying.” All Civilian Court Officials. Hearing that he was about to join forces with General Lati, all of his faces became more relaxed. Yes, don’t they still have reinforcements? In total, there are 400,000 people. Compared with the mercenaries with more than 20,000 men, they have nearly twenty times the advantage in number. They are also defensive. It seems that there is no possibility of failure.

Some civil and military ministers feel relieved because of the king’s words. But there are some people who are still terrified. Among them is Crown Prince Le Thai Tong.

He used to be able to serene, or even neither fast nor slow, because he has Jiuzhen County as the foundation. As long as there is no chaos, he will have a retreat and help. But now, even there is occupied by mercenaries. He has lost his foundation. A Crown Prince who has no foundation, can imagine that he is afraid of lack of self-confidence to do anything.

Suddenly the mercenaries left Hanoi City north and went straight to the west of Yucheng. This news naturally reached General Lati of Kingdom of Lao in a short time.

Now that he has arrived in Vietnam, Lati is ready to fight the mercenaries. Seeing that everything happened as he expected, he began to mobilize before the war to assemble the army.

The distance from Xiyu City to Yinglou City where Lati was located was only less than four hundred miles away. Soon the scouts sent by King Le Li arrived. After receiving the rescue Signal from the King of Vietnam, Lati led 95,000 people out of Yinglou City and rushed behind the mercenaries.

Five thousand people were left to guard the city of Yinglou. In addition to the existence of two thousand Vietnam troops in the original city, there will not be any problems with how to guard the city. Even Lati wished someone would come to attack the city? In this way, he could return quickly, and later on both sides inside and outside the city, giving the mercenaries a good look.

But what he did not expect was that the mercenaries simply didn’t mean to attack the city. Yang Chendong has said more than once that if you save people and lose land, you will get both people and land; if you save land and lose people, you will lose both people and land.

According to the meaning of Yang Chendong, the main purpose is to destroy the other’s vital forces. As long as the main army of Vietnam is eliminated, those cities cannot be moved or moved. Isn’t it what they think Occupy when it is time?

Lati took the army out of the city, but the marching speed along the way is not very fast, it is 20 li a day, so that we can better maintain the discipline of the team and pay attention to each other. Below, once a force is attacked, it can be guaranteed to be rescued at the fastest speed. And the five thousand cavalry in his hand was regarded as the existence of a rapid reaction force.

Of course, the reason for such a slow speed is also because of the news from the front. After more than 20,000 mercenaries came to the city of Xiyu, not at all, they were eager to attack, but stopped outside the city for 10 li The land, a face of confrontation.

Although I don’t understand why the mercenaries don’t attack the city right away, Lati no longer thinks about that many. In his opinion, this is his own opportunity. Once he can successfully move to the mercenary Behind him, at that time it was time for him to cooperate with the Vietnam Army on both sides.

I don’t believe that if the army of more than 300,000 people is suppressed, or under attack together head and tail, what kind of climate can the 20,000 people of the other side become?

It can be said that until this time, neither King Le Li nor General Lati had no doubt about the division of the mercenaries. They did not know that Vietnam mercenaries alone accounted for 18,000 of the 20,000-plus army.

At the same time, Nie Tong, the commander of the Second Navy Regiment, had commanded the soldiers of the two battalions to march towards the Changshan mountain range under the Great Ming flag.

Although the number of this army is not very large, in order to create enough momentum, a squad held a Great Ming sun and moon flag. From a distance, it was full of banners and full of morale.

The existence of mercenaries was discovered in the east of Kingdom of Lao, which frightened King Oun Heuan of Kingdom of Lao.

Oun Heuan inherited his father Ban Ya and became the new King of Lancang. Under his governance, the country can be considered stable, but because the site is too small, there is no good opportunity for external development.

When mercenaries suddenly appeared in Vietnam, they noticed. After all, Vietnam is their neighboring country, and the site is not small. Until now is one of Kingdom of Lao’s goals for external expansion.

I originally wanted to wait for the Vietnam army and the mercenaries to fight for a both sides suffer, they are taking advantage of it. Unexpectedly, the mercenary with a small number of people was full of momentum, even winning streaks, and eventually the Vietnam army lost even the country.

If two people are evenly matched, the third party may still have a chance. But when one party can only be beaten, the opportunity to take advantage of it will naturally not exist. Just when King Oun Heuan was still having a headache, why this mercenary who suddenly appeared so powerful, the Emissary of the King of Vietnam Le Li arrived and brought a letter from the King of Vietnam for help.

In the letter, King Le Li first expressed his personal sincere greetings to King Oun Heuan, and then pointed out the ups and downs of Vietnam’s situation, requesting Kingdom of Lao to send troops to help out for generations of friends and neighbors, and After the war, he promised to divide the three states including Nichinan and send it to Lancang. At the same time, he also said that the mercenaries are so powerful that if they are not restrained, how they can deal with Vietnam today, they may deal with the Kingdom of Lao tomorrow.

The so-called death with cold lips and teeth is the reason.

The words of King Le Li have some truth, plus the benefits of the three states can be given to himself, which is an excellent thing for the development of Kingdom of Lao. Of course, the most important thing is not at all a clear understanding of the strength of mercenaries.

Musket? This thing sounds very difficult to deal with, and it’s not that King Oun Heuan, who has never seen it before, has a heart of underestimation. In his opinion, Vietnam is the power of a country after all. It’s basically impossible to conquer. Even after a long period of time, they might solve the problem themselves. In that case, the benefits of the three states would be lost.

Ignoring the word “advanced” in “advanced gun” completely, Oun Heuan made a decision that he would regret for a lifetime, that is, with a wave of his hand, he agreed to support Vietnam and dispatched hundreds of troops.

The war once happened in Vietnam before, even if it is fierce, King Oun Heuan will not have any intuitive understanding. Until suddenly I received news that mercenaries entered the Changshan mountain range straight to the national capital of Vientiane City. In addition, news came from the front, saying that a border patrol army with 500 men had encountered this mercenary who entered suddenly, but it was just one encounter that dropped more than 300 corpses and was defeated.

All this is naturally what Nie Tong meant. To make Kingdom of Lao scared, not only has to advance with great fanfare, but more or less have to fight two battles. Although the place where the navy can better exert its strength is still at sea, this does not prevent them from dealing with small groups of enemies on land.

Like this 500-man Kingdom of Lao patrol, with some bad luck, it became the target of the two Cold Front battalions of the Navy. Under Type 95’s round of shooting, where could 500 people be opponents?

The mercenary who broke in caused a panic among the leaders of the Kingdom of Lao. In line with the idea that Fellow Daoist would not die Poor Daoist, King Oun Heuan sent an order to let General Lati lead his troops back to China.

…… The Lancang Nation’s army of 95,000 people has rushed forward for five days.

From the earliest fear that mercenaries would volley, and now that he has not seen an enemy when he has walked 100 li, General Lati’s alertness is declining, and he has even begun to consider whether It can speed up the march, and when it reached the situation where the Vietnam army flanked the mercenaries on both sides, suddenly the king’s order arrived.