Chapter 172: Powerful Indochina (please vote for me!)

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Of the six peace terms that Li Cunkai came up with, none of them could be agreed to by Zhancheng.

In the eyes of the Champa people, Li Cun was simply too much of a bully and didn't even take their Champa seriously.

The war factions who occupied the city therefore detained the envoys sent by Li Cun.

This undoubtedly provided Li Cun with sufficient excuses to mobilize troops on a large scale.

Li Cun did not hesitate and directly advanced by waterway and attacked the city at the same time.

By land, Li Cun took Wu Jie as the capital and commanded part of the Yulin Army and part of the Annan Army to go south to attack Amarobohao.

Li Cun personally commanded the water route and directly attacked the port of Champa. The target was Vijaya where the capital of Champa, Sanghapura, was located.

Before capturing the Huben Army's envoy, Champa City had already made preparations for a war with the Huben Army.

In order to defeat Li Cun, Yang Bo Madai actively practiced battle formations, trained his soldiers, and devised a set of elephant formation fighting methods: when the battle was successful, the elephants would be driven forward, and if the battle failed, the elephants would be behind to hinder the enemy.

However, this self-advanced strategy of seizing the city played right into Wu Jie's favour. It can almost be said that Wu Jie completely copied the battle of Lang Son in Mu Nu Mountain.

Under the attack of the Huben army's heartless cannons, thunderbolts, and tiger cannons, the war elephants in the city were so frightened that they turned around and ran away, breaking through the defense of the army in the city.

What followed was a very smooth one-sided massacre.

The difference is that last time it was the Yulin Army that took action, but this time it was the Annan Army that took the lead.

In one battle, Wu Jie regained Amarobohao.

However, although Wu Jie is fast, he is still not as fast as Li Cun.

When Li Cun attacked Champa Port, Yang Bu Madie had already personally led the Champa army to defend the city along the coastline.

In order to resist the threat of pirates or the Northern Li Dynasty, Champa has already built a large wooden fortress with a circumference of about ten kilometers.

These wooden fortresses could not only deploy a large number of soldiers inside, but also had a large number of light trebuchets manufactured for Champa by expatriates who mastered advanced mechanical technology, which were enough to provide considerable support firepower for the Champa army.

In addition, when occupying the city, ordinary infantry, war elephants and small trebuchets formed three front and rear lines.

In the eyes of the Champa people, their defense line was impenetrable.

July 19, early morning.

Li Cun ordered Wu Lin to lead 5,000 personal guards and secretly landed on the beach in a small boat.

After Wu Lin's troops landed, Wu Lin first led a group of troops led by Tian Sheng to carry out a feint attack from the east to attract the attention of the occupying defenders in the wooden city.

Then came the second detachment from the north, which also had a smaller number of three commanders.

The real initiators of the forceful attack were the 3,000 rear guard soldiers who detoured back to the south.

Champa Port is located in Quy Nhon in central Vietnam in later generations. It is a semi-enclosed water area guarded by a peninsula, so it is an ideal haven for merchant ships traveling between the north and the south.

This place is actually not particularly large, and the Champa people have set up many watchtowers, so Wu Lin's actions were quickly discovered by the Champa people who were fighting at home.

The Champa people prepared to attack the Huben army with bows, arrows and trebuchets, turning the battle into a shootout at medium and long distances.

But although the people in Champa have beautiful ideas, the reality is very skinny.

The Crouching Tiger Cannon has a range of 500 meters, far exceeding that of bows and arrows and small trebuchets. At the same time, it can also fire shotguns, one large shell and one hundred small shells.

Moreover, the Tiger Zun Cannon is also a mortar and can be projectile!

"Boom boom boom..."

Outside the shooting range of the Champa people, Wu Lin commanded the Crouching Tiger Cannon, completely suppressing the Champa people's bows, arrows and small trebuchets.

As for the war elephants of the Champa people, they were of no use against the tiger and battalion troops who had long experience in fighting war elephants. Not only that, they were also frightened by the sound of cannons and ran around, causing the Champa people to panic.

Seeing that Wu Lin suppressed the Champa people's attack, Li Cun commanded the fleet to slowly dock, and then directed the soldiers and civilians in Shenji's rear camp to calmly move the bed crossbows and heartless runners ashore.

The next battle is simple.

The wooden fortress that the Champa people relied on for defense could be destroyed by a single shot of the unconscionable cannon. A large number of Champa people did not understand what was going on, and even the wooden fort with them was blown away.

Occasionally, they would encounter a fortress that could not be blasted by unscrupulous cannons, and the Tiger Army would use powerful crossbows to eliminate them at targeted locations.

Facing the extremely powerful crossbow with a very long range and scattering effect, no matter how strong the fortress they occupied, they could only be beaten.

Then, isn’t it true that one explosive charge can’t blow up your fortress? How about a hundred?

This is an extremely unequal war, and the military levels of both sides are simply not on the same level.

However, accidents always happen on the battlefield.

The first one to attack Zhancheng Port was really not the army commanded by Wu Lin or Li Cun, but the troops commanded by the men who had been used to feign an attack before.

Because the Huben Army's frontal offensive was too fierce, most of the Champlain's attention was focused on the front, but they were somewhat negligent in attacking the other two wings.

Seeing that his small team had been ignored, Tian Sheng suddenly launched an attack and invaded Champa Port.

Seeing this, Yang Bu Madou knew that he had been defeated and there was no point in continuing to resist, so he led his remaining troops to flee inland, handing over a large amount of military supplies and the entire city to the Huben army.

Li Cun, with Wu Lin as the commander-in-chief, led 2,500 personal rear guards and 20,000 Annan troops to pursue Yang Bu Madai, while he was responsible for leading the remaining troops to attack Sangha Puluo.

What surprised Li Cun was that not only did Yang Bo Madai not run to Sangha Pulua, he did not even send anyone to inform the people in Sangha Puluo that he was defeated (maybe he sent someone to notify him, but the people who received the order

I don’t know why I didn’t complete this task).

The people of Sanghapura never thought that Yangbu Madai would be defeated after not even being able to withstand it for a day, and they were not prepared at all.

As a result, Li Cun caught the Sanghabula defenders by surprise, and the weapons of the Tiger Army were too sharp, so he captured Sanghabula in one battle.

Soon, Wu Jie, who was going south, intercepted Yang Bo Madai at the junction of Champa and the Angkor Dynasty. Then the two brothers Wu Jie and Wu Lin attacked back and forth, killing 30,000 to 40,000 Champa people, and finally captured Yang alive.

Bu Ma stack.

As a typical ancient Southeast Asian country, although Champa is directly connected to the Li Dynasty in the north, there are huge differences in language, culture, customs and social systems.

Since Champa is located exactly at the southeastern end of the Indochina Peninsula, it has long been immersed in the Yindu cultural area via the sea route, and naturally has Po religion as its core belief, and lacks interest in China's Confucian philosophy of governing the country.

Since Li Cun captured Champa, Li Cun must have changed the rule and beliefs of this area. Otherwise, how could long-term peace and stability be possible?

Li Cun scanned the people he brought with him one by one, and finally appointed Li Renjie as the envoy of occupying the city, and asked Li Renjie to help him handle the matters after capturing the city.

Li Renjie knew very well why Li Cun did not use the people he brought to deal with the people and things in Champa, but instead used him, a newly surrendered minister, to deal with the people and things in Champa.

——The reason is easy to guess. It is simply that Li Cun wanted him, Li Renjie, to do his dirty work for him.

Li Renjie can do anything to his own country, let alone Champa, who has always had a grudge against him?

Therefore, after Li Renjie took office, he sent people to capture the temple without hesitation, and not only took away all the wealth in the temple, but also captured all the clergy.

In the process of dismantling the rule of Champa, the strict hierarchy of the Po religion helped Li Renjie a lot.

Li Renjie was very ruthless and directly ordered that all the two upper-level men who occupied the very few in Champa be executed, while the women were left to be rewarded by the governor to the meritorious people.

Of course, Li Renjie still very considerately selected all the daughters of the royal family and Zong clan in Champa, including the daughters of senior clergy, and sent them to the governor.

What Li Cun did personally was to liberate the low-level serfs and slaves who accounted for the largest number of people in the city, and told them that you are free, and from now on you will all be subjects under my rule, Li Cun.

At the same time, Li Cun also treated the farmers and merchants, who accounted for the second largest number of people in the city, fairly and fairly, and gave them the status of civilians.

When Chen Tuan arrived at Champa City, he saw a sea of ​​blood and a Champa City where all the ruling class had disappeared.

Li Cun did not tell Chen Tuan that he had cleared the way for the Huben Army to completely occupy Champa City. He only told Chen Tuan that he would find a way to move one million Han people to him and let Chen Tuan govern Champa City forever.

A territory that will not be separated from China.

Only then did Chen Yu know another advantage of Li Cun - responsibility.

Li Cun did not leave this biggest trouble to him, but resisted it on his own, allowing him to really show off his talents in Champa.

Facing a wise and responsible monarch like Li Cun, Chen Tao not only admired him, he really admired him.

Chen Yu was still aloof, but this time he rarely said "promise" before going to hand over to Li Renjie.

Li Cun renamed Champa City Dingnan Road, and Sangha Puluo renamed it Dingnan City.

While he was having fun in the palace of Yangbu Madie with the royal family and the daughters of the Zong family in Champa, including the daughters of senior clergy, Li Cun conveniently changed all the places on Dingnan Road to Han names.

Soon, Li Cun officially ordered that Annan Road and Dingnan Road became his eighth and ninth roads following Jiangnan Sixth Road and Liuqiu Road.

End of July.

King Suryavarman II of the Angkor Dynasty sent his son to pay tribute to Li Cun, and presented thirty beauties (ten of them were European beauties, ten were food beauties, and the other ten were

She is a Khmer beauty), eighteen golden Buddhas (each weighing more than 10,000 taels) and a large amount of ivory, agarwood, yellow wax, ebony wood, white rattan, gibe, flower cloth, silk twisted cloth, white mat,

Rhinoceros horns etc.

It can be seen that Suryavarman II was very afraid that he would attack his Angkor dynasty after sweeping away the Li dynasty and Li Cun who occupied the city, so he called Fan Na Biao this time, which was not only full of courtesy but also full of gifts.

Li Cun said to the son of Suryavarman II: "I haven't officially established a country yet, and I don't want Nanping. It's all because of the Li Dynasty and the Champa invaded my land, destroyed my waterways, killed my people, and captured my people."

If you want to fight, we will raise a large army to bring peace. If your family does not do this, I will not send troops to attack your family."

After hearing Li Cun's words, the son of Suryavarman II felt a little relieved.

The Angkor Dynasty was slightly stronger than the Li Dynasty and Champa, but the Angkor Dynasty, the Li Dynasty and Champa, especially the latter, failed to completely conquer Champa after so many years of fighting. This shows that its military strength is also

It may not be any higher than Champa.
To be continued...