Qiming 1158

Chapter 1372 Going south to the Dragon City

On the fourth day of the battle, seeing that the war situation was hopeless, Su Xiancheng was heartbroken, and after thinking about it, he wrote another letter and sent someone to Thanglong City to give it to Li Tianzuo.

Your Majesty, it's time to run away, the old minister is incompetent, since he can't stick to Langzhou for you, he can only die to repay the country's kindness.

Once Lang Son falls, you must not stay in Thang Long City, and you must not make big bets. You must retreat south to a place with dangerous terrain.

At the same time, be careful with Ming's new firearms.

After the letter was sent, Su Xiancheng took it and prepared to go to the battlefield to command the battle in person. As a result, it rained on the fifth day, and the Ming army stopped attacking.

After being stunned for a short time, Su Xiancheng was overjoyed and immediately realized that it was because the rainy weather threatened the gunpowder of the Ming army that they did not dare to fight, so this was the only chance for the South Vietnamese army!
We must fight back in the rain, regain the lost commanding heights in the rain, and turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop!

So Su Xiancheng gave an order, and a considerable part of the South Vietnamese troops stationed in the Lang Son area turned from defense to attack, and began to launch a powerful offensive against the Ming army garrison point, trying to turn things around.

This is the third misjudgment made by Su Xiancheng.

He misunderstood that the strength of the Ming army was mainly due to firearms, and that a large part of the Ming army's combat power was brought about by firearms. Without firearms, the Ming army was no big deal.

But the fact is that when there are no firearms, the Ming army is just as powerful.

The South Vietnamese army turned to the offensive, and the Ming army followed the trend and turned to the defensive, from the offensive side to the defensive side directly, defending the stronghold of the commanding heights, and began to fight defensive operations. The beating stone gave them huge damage.

The South Vietnamese army's attack was blocked, but Su Xiancheng was unwilling to give up this precious opportunity to counterattack, and forced the army to invest more troops to launch a strong attack on the Ming army.

The South Vietnamese army was forced to devote a large amount of troops to the stage of the strong attack, and launched a difficult upward attack against the rain of arrows and rolling stones.

The Ming army just stood firm and did not take the initiative to attack at first, but when the South Vietnamese army was exhausted and retreated, the Ming army took the initiative to attack.

Condescending and powerful, this advantage was used by the Ming army in turn. On the battlefield of several strongholds, they defeated the besieging South Vietnamese troops with counterattacks. They pushed back and pushed them to a very dangerous position for the South Vietnamese troops. .

Su Xiancheng was dumbfounded.

What is it that stealing chickens can't be counterproductive?
That's about it.

Fighting back and forth, a mountain was not recaptured. Instead, the soldiers were destroyed. The morale of the army and the physical strength of the soldiers were destroyed. fight back.

Su Xiancheng and the South Vietnamese officers are now really aware of a problem they were unaware of before anyway.

The strength of the Ming army is all-round.

The rain stopped from the morning of the fifth day to the evening, and in the early morning of the sixth day, the sun was shining brightly.

On the seventh day of the battle, two-thirds of the military strongholds in the entire northern mountainous area of ​​Lang Son were occupied by the Ming army. The death-defying charge was never to be seen again.

Scared of being beaten.

Su Xiancheng didn't give up and tried to sneak around the rear of the Ming army, and even sent troops to storm the Great South Pass, but the results were not good.

The Ming army seemed to have anticipated it long ago, and made corresponding arrangements. The South Vietnamese army that attacked the Dananguan Pass was completely wiped out, and Su Xiancheng's last-ditch effort was ineffective.

When the combat situation in the northern mountainous area of ​​Lang Son deteriorated, and some South Vietnamese soldiers even started deserting stalls, some subordinates persuaded Su Xiancheng to run as soon as he could. If he didn't run, it would be too late.

The failure of this war is already a sure thing, and the South Vietnamese side can't come up with any way to resist the attack of the Ming army.

Su Xiancheng sighed deeply, feeling very painful about this.

In the face of good persuasion from his subordinates, Su Xiancheng did not agree after all.

He wasn't going to run away, he was going to stay and fight until the end.

"Your Majesty trusted me, handed me the army and important defense areas, promised me important powers, and put the country in my hands. did not succeed.

I have betrayed His Majesty's trust, lost important defense areas, and caused heavy losses to the army. Faced with such a failure, how could I return to Thanglong City to escape with them?Only one death. "

He rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to take him to other places to avoid the limelight, and was ready to continue the deadly fight.

But on the eighth day of the battle, the entire mountain defense line had been destroyed by the Ming army in seven or eighty-eight ways, completely losing the ability to stop the Ming army. Su Xiancheng's own garrison point had been exposed to the artillery attack of the Ming army.

The entire South Vietnamese army collapsed, and a large number of soldiers fled. Su Xiancheng's order was completely meaningless.

When the Ming army attacked, his subordinates suggested for the last time to take Su Xiancheng to break out of the siege. Su Xiancheng refused and decided to dismiss his subordinates and allow them to escape by themselves. He decided to take the remaining soldiers for the last resistance.

After the Ming army used artillery to destroy almost the military facilities, they dispatched infantry to start the siege. Su Xiancheng led the last dozens of soldiers who were unwilling to leave in the final battle.

The Ming army successfully conquered the last hill and successfully controlled the entire Lang Son mountain area. Then Zhao Yucheng dispatched cavalry to pursue the fleeing South Vietnamese soldiers and successfully intercepted a considerable number of South Vietnamese soldiers fleeing south as prisoners.

Afterwards, Zhao Yucheng sent troops to attack the entire Langzhou, and the entire Langzhou was taken into his pocket. The entire military operation ended successfully in early March of the ninth year of Hongwu.

The Ming army defeated more than 5000 South Vietnamese soldiers in Langzhou with [-] troops, killed about [-] soldiers, and captured more than [-] soldiers. It was a very tragic military defeat.

Zhao Yucheng announced the good news to Su Yonglin, and prepared the army to lead the army south to attack Shenglong City.

After seeing the "strong combat effectiveness" of the South Vietnamese army, Zhao Yucheng built up full military confidence. He believed that even if they were given time to mobilize their troops to defend, they would still fall apart under the Ming army's offensive.

The journey to Thanglong City is smooth, and South Vietnam will definitely lose.

Su Yonglin, who was in Huizhou, quickly received a military briefing from Zhao Yucheng. He learned that the battle of Lang Son took nine days to end. He was very satisfied and had further confidence in Zhao Yucheng's military capabilities. Yucheng has already led his army south to attack Thanglong City.

Su Yonglin thought about it for a moment, and decided to send someone to quickly send orders to Zhao Yucheng, so that Zhao Yucheng could surround Thanglong City, but don't attack.

(End of this chapter)