Jiaozhi Kingdom, the mountainous area in northern Liangzhou.

Three or four thousand Jiaozhi soldiers with messy clothes and scattered banners were guarding their camps.

The so-called camps are actually very scattered, with few tents. Although they were also dug trenches and trenches according to the battalion system of the Jiaozhi Army, the trenches were dug and the trenches were trenches less than half a person deep, and the trenches were even sparse, and even wild boars could not be stopped, let alone the great Song Dynasty soldiers.

The main force of this Jiaozhi Army was the troops of Li Chongde, the Marquis of Chongxian. When they were divided into Yongzhou and Li Gande, the number was as high as 50,000! After dividing 5,000 people to defend Yongzhou, they headed north and successively conquered Hengzhou, Pennzhou, Xiangzhou, and Liuzhou, and fought to the city of Guizhou, the capital of Guangnan West Road.

However, at this time, Guizhou City had already become a little impoverished under the management of the commander Zhou Yan and the Caosi Zhong Yizheng. The imperial guards and the wing troops stationed in Guizhou all made up for the quota and added equipment. The surrounding area of ​​the city was also cleaned up, and the people and grain were collected into the city, and the villages and markets outside the city were burned to pieces. Ding Zhuang in the city was even formed to train day and night.

In addition, a general's reinforcements were sent to the nearby Jinghu South Road, and there were always thousands of people.

Li Chongde's troops were divided into troops all the way (he also had to send troops to stay in the back road, and the troops would die of illness and death in battle). When he arrived at the city of Guizhou, his troops were only 20,000. Facing the city of Guizhou, it was difficult to succeed. After fighting several times, the losses were heavy!

However, the Song army in the city did not have the courage to go out of the city to fight to the decisive battle, and just defended to the death, so they could not help the Yue army.

Just as the war was about to endure, the unbelievable bad news came to Li Chongde as the emperor!

Of course, Li Chongde was not a republican, so he naturally would not regard being an emperor as a bad thing.

However, the premise for Li Chongde to become emperor was that the entire East-Road Vietnamese army led by his elder brother Li Gande was wiped out! Li Gande himself became the late emperor Li Chongde's news was not completely accurate, and he didn't know that his brother was a prisoner. However, the news that the entire army was wiped out was impossible to be wrong!

Because of the army left by Li Chongde in Yongzhou City, Li Chongde was anxious before the news of the Southern Emperor Li Gande's "death" came!

Somehow, Qinzhou, southeast of Yongzhou, was captured by the Song army (a masterpiece of the new iron armored army that came from the sea). The eastern route of the Vietnamese army was cut off, so naturally there would be no good ending.

Now Li Chongde, the Marquis of Chongxian, dared not stay in the city of Guizhou anymore, so he had to withdraw his troops in a hurry and run wildly to Jiaozhi.

However, it is easy to advance while victory, but it is not easy to escape. Li Chongde was unstable when he advanced north. At that time, he wanted to fight quickly and advance rapidly, but did not occupy many cities and forts. Therefore, among the prefectures and counties that were captured by the Vietnamese army, most of the territory was still controlled by local officials or powerful men in the Song Dynasty.

When the Jiaozhi Army had just arrived, they were caught off guard and didn't have time to organize resistance. But over time, all kinds of rebels appeared behind the Jiaozhi Army like mushrooms after a rain, constantly attacking the Jiaozhi Army's transportation lines.

When Li Gande died in battle and the news of the destruction of the Jiaozhi East Route Army came, the already active rebel army became even more bold and arrogant. Even the brigade led by Li Chongde was constantly attacked during the retreat!

The Song army in Guizhou, which could not be defended, immediately launched a pursuit after receiving the emergency military sent by Guangzhou.

In addition, the new Song army, which recovered Qinzhou City, also divided some of its troops into Yongzhou and Pennzhou. Instead, they directly attacked the two prefectures and prefectures. Instead, they launched powerful chieftains from the Song Dynasty everywhere, and completely destroyed the 500-mile roads retreated from Pennzhou to Jiaozhi.

All villages along the way were moved, bridges were destroyed, and ships that could be used to cross the river were also sunk!

He also offered a "sky-high price" of 100 pieces to the heads of the generals of Jiaozhi, encouraging the local tyrants in Yongzhou and Binzhou to send troops to rob and kill a small group of Jiaozhi soldiers.

As a result, when the Jiaozhi army, who had lost more than 30%, retreated to Pennsylvania and Yongzhou, what awaited them was a 500-mile death marche!

Because the roads and bridges were destroyed, there were no ships to cross countless rivers. From Pennsylvania to Liangzhou, Jiaozhi, Li Chongde's troops walked for a whole month... Finally, when the army passed through Pingxiangsi and entered the Liangshan mountain area, the total force was only more than 2,000 or less than 3,000 left!

The other 50,000 troops led by Li Gande were even worse. In the end, only more than 1,000 people returned to Liangzhou.

The two armies added up to less than four thousand!

When they left, there were only 4,000 remaining soldiers when they returned...

Four thousand remaining soldiers are gathered in a valley in Langshan, waiting for the people sent by Li Chongde to find out the news back. On the way to retreat, Li Chongde heard the rumors that his brother was captured and the Song army was about to escort Li Gande to the sea into the Red River and then go straight to Shenglong Mansion.

If Shenglong had been lost at this moment, Li Chongde could only become a bandit in the mountains in the north of Jiaozhi!

As time passed day by day, the troops sent to Shenglong were not back for a long time.

Li Chongde was becoming more and more anxious. Just when he was about to be driven crazy by the atmosphere of waiting for the death sentence. Ruan Zhongxian, the Da Zhongliang of Jiaozhi Kingdom, finally arrived with two battalions of Zhou's "reinforcements"...

"June, the 30,000-sea and land army army of the prosperous Song Dynasty took the emperor into the Honghe half a month ago. Now it is about to arrive at Shenglong Mansion..."

As soon as Ruan Dazhongchen entered Li Chongde's camp, he cried and howled and reported a desperate news.

The Great Yue Kingdom is over...

Li Chongde, who was standing, had his calves softened and his butt sat on the mud. No one around him helped him, either standing stupidly or crying loudly.

"June, don't worry..." Ruan Zhongxian advised him, but was interrupted by Li Chongde with a wry smile: "No, don't worry, the country has been destroyed, why are you still anxious?"

"June, Jiaozhi has not yet died!"

"Not dead?" Li Chongde asked weakly, "There are still some loyal ministers resisting? Who are they?"

The Jiaozhi Kingdom has been established for more than 170 years and has gone through four dynasties. Of course, it is impossible to be destroyed in an instant. It is normal to struggle for a few years or even for more than ten years, and it may even turn the tables in the end!

However, this has nothing to do with Li Chongde... The Jiaozhi Kingdom can go through four dynasties in more than 170 years, which means that there are many powerful people in the Jiaozhi country, and the authority of the monarch is limited, so it is easy to be replaced by others.

This Northern Expedition has completely destroyed the capital of Li Dynasty, and it seems that the Honghe Plain, the heart of Li Dynasty, will also fall into the hands of the Song army. What else can Li Chongde rely on? Will he rely on those tyrants of the border county tyrants? That is giving his head away!

"The king and lord have many loyal ministers in the country. They all occupy one side and swear not to surrender to the Song Dynasty." Ruan Zhongxian said, "In addition, the Great Zhou Republic in the north heard that the violent Song Dynasty invaded the Jiaozhi Kingdom, and out of righteous indignation, reinforcements were sent!"

"What? The Great Zhou in the North?" Li Chongde was stunned, "How is it possible? The Great Zhou is thousands of miles away!"

"June, the iron-armored elite soldiers of the Great Zhou came by boat. The 7,000-mile sea route will arrive in just 20 to 30 days." Ruan Zhongxian said, "My Ninghai Mansion is now under the protection of the elite soldiers of the Great Zhou! I also arrived in Liangzhou under their escort..."

"What? The elite soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty? Where are they?"

"There are 2,000 people stationed in the city of Liangzhou, and more than 10,000 people are stationed on the Ninghai River." Ruan Zhongxian said, "Junhou, Liangzhou is not a place to stay for a long time. You should go to Ninghai Prefecture to station. When you arrive at Ninghai Prefecture, you can get the protection of the Zhou army, and Junhou will be foolproof."

"Are they really Zhou Jun?" Li Chongde was still a little skeptical.

"real!"

"What are they doing?"

"Of course I helped me resist the Song Dynasty." Ruan Zhongxian knew exactly what Li Chongde was thinking.

Zhou Guo doesn’t look like a good person either!

What kind of heart is that if you send troops thousands of miles away?

Ruan Zhongxian continued: "They must have an attempt toward me Jiaozhi, but the Great Zhou is far away and the Great Song Dynasty is close... No matter how big the Great Zhou's intention is, they will not annex my Jiaozhi! Now the Great Song Dynasty is going to destroy Jiaozhi, and the only thing the King and the Lord can rely on is the Great Zhou Kingdom thousands of miles away. Jun and the Lord, don't hesitate anymore! Now, if you don't commit to the Great Zhou Dynasty, you will have a way out."

His words make sense. Wu Haogu really didn't have the intention to annex Jiaozhi. He only wanted part of it, not a whole.

Because the Great Zhou Republic is just a country in the primary stage of capitalism, with a limited appetite and cannot digest too much population. The capitalist countries and the traditional feudal bureaucratic empire are completely different in management models. The former emphasizes refinement and efficiency. The latter emphasizes scale and makes the scale as large as possible.

Of course, it is not that capitalism does not like expansion. It is just that when transportation, information and productivity cannot keep up, capitalist countries often do not blindly expand their homeland and will not eat a colony that is difficult to deal with.

The Jiaozhi Kingdom is between the local area and the colony, and has a large population, which is far away from the central area of ​​the Great Zhou Dynasty. If you eat too much, you will easily be choked. With such a large population and such a complex situation, it is better to treat it as a colony or as a land for a lot of land? It is very difficult to deal with it!

Therefore, it is best to eat a little bit of essence and carefully manage it as the overseas local area of ​​the Great Zhou Republic.

With such a small and wealthy overseas land, the Great Zhou could establish more colonial strongholds in the Nanyang region. And he could also maintain his advantage on the Southern Sea while turning against the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty court, far away in Kaifeng Prefecture, also began to have a headache about the aftermath of the Battle of Jiaozhi.

Although the Song Dynasty was a bureaucratic empire, it had become a habit for more than 100 years to implement the national policy of protecting the internal and external weaknesses. The expansion route of the Daozong in the early days did not have any good results, so the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty really didn't know what to do with the territory of Jiaozhi.

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