Qian Song

Chapter 172 Megatron Indochina Peninsula (ask for a monthly ticket!)
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Li Cunkai offered these six conditions for peace, none of which Champa could agree to.

In the eyes of the Zhancheng people, Li Cun is simply deceiving people too much, and he doesn't take them seriously at all.

The main fighters in Champa therefore detained the envoys sent by Li Cun.

This undoubtedly provided ample excuses for Li Cun to raise his troops on a large scale.

Without hesitation, Li Cun directly advanced by water and attacked Zhancheng at the same time.

On land, Li Cun took Wu Jie as his capital and commanded part of the Habayashi Army and part of the Annan Army to attack Amoluobodi in the south.

Li Cun personally commanded the waterway and directly attacked Champa Port, with the goal of Vijaya, where Sangapura, the capital of Champa, was located.

Before Zhancheng detained the envoy of the Huben army, he was ready to go to war with the Huben army.

In order to defeat Li Cun, Yang Bumadie actively practiced battle formations, trained soldiers, and devised a set of elephant formation battle methods: when winning a battle, drive the elephants forward;

But Zhancheng's self-proclaimed advanced tactics hit Wu Jie's arms. It can almost be said that Wu Jie completely copied the battle of Lang Son in Mu Nu Mountain.

Under the attack of the unconscionable cannons, thunderbolts, and tiger cannons of the Huben army, the war elephants in Champa turned around and ran away in fright, breaking through the defense of the Champa army.

What followed was a very smooth unilateral massacre.

The difference is that last time it was the Habayashi Army who made the move, but this time it was the Annan Army.

In the first battle, Wu Jie regained Amoluobodi.

However, although Wu Jie's speed was fast, he was still not as fast as Li Cun.

When Li Cun attacked Zhancheng Port, Yang Bumadie had personally led the Zhancheng army to defend along the coastline.

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

These wooden fortresses can not only deploy a large number of soldiers inside, but also have a large number of light trebuchets made for Champa by expatriates with advanced mechanical technology, which is enough to provide considerable support firepower for the Champa army.

In addition, Champa used ordinary infantry, war elephants and small trebuchets to form three front and rear lines in depth.

From the Champa's point of view, their defenses were impenetrable.

July [-]th, early morning.

Li Cun ordered Wu Lin to lead the [-] personal guards to quietly touch the beach in a small boat.

After Wu Lin's troops landed, Wu Lin first led a commanding force led by Tian Sheng to carry out a feint attack from the east to attract the attention of the Champa defenders in Mucheng.

Then there is the second detachment in the north, which also has a smaller number of three commanders.

And the real initiator of the strong attack was the [-] soldiers of the rear guard who detoured to the south.

Champa Port is located in Quy Nhon in the central part of 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.

In fact, this place is not particularly large, and the Champas have set up many watchtowers, so Wu Lin's actions were quickly seen through by the Champas who were fighting at home.

The Champas were going to attack the Huben army with bows and arrows and trebuchets, turning this battle into a medium-to-long-range confrontational consumption.

But although the idea of ​​the Champa people is beautiful, the reality is very skinny.

The tiger squatting cannon has a range of 500 meters, far exceeding bows and small trebuchets. At the same time, it can also fire shotguns, one big bullet and one hundred small bullets.

Moreover, the Hu Zun Cannon is still a mortar, which can be projected!

"Boom boom boom..."

Out of the range of the Champa, Wu Lin commanded the tiger squatting cannon, completely suppressing the Champa's bows and small trebuchets.

As for the war elephants of the Champa, they were useless against the tiger and ben army, which had long been experienced in fighting against war elephants. Not only that, they were also frightened by the sound of artillery and ran around, making the Champa lose their positions.

Seeing that Wu Lin suppressed the Champa's attack, Li Cun commanded the fleet to dock slowly, and then commanded the soldiers and civilian husbands of the Shenji Rear Battalion to calmly move the bed crossbow and heartless runner ashore.

The next battle is easy.

The wooden fortress that the Champas relied on for defense could smash a large piece of it with a single shot. A large number of Champas didn't understand what was going on, and even the wooden fortress they took with them was blown away.

Occasionally, when encountering fortresses that could not be blown up by unconscionable artillery, the Huben Army would use powerful bed crossbows to eliminate them on a fixed-point basis.

In the face of the bed crossbow, which has a huge range and can scatter, no matter how strong the fortress occupied by the Zhancheng people, they can only be crushed and beaten.

Then, wouldn't a pack of dynamite blow up your fortress?How about the hundred?
This is an extremely unequal war, and the military levels of the two sides are not at the same level at all.

But accidents always happen on the battlefield.

It was really not the army commanded by Wu Lin or Li Cun who first attacked Zhancheng Port, but the commander who had previously used it for a feigned attack.

Due to the fierce frontal attack of the Huben army, most of the attention of the Champa was focused on the front, but they were a little negligent about the attacks on the other two wings.

Seeing that his small team had been ignored, Tian Sheng suddenly attacked Champa Port.

Seeing this, Yang Bumadie knew that he had been defeated, and there was no point in resisting any longer, so he led the remnants to flee inland, and handed over a large amount of rations and the entire city to the Huben Army.

With Wu Lin as the commander-in-chief, Li Cun led [-] personal guards and [-] Annan troops to pursue Yang Bumadie, while he himself led the rest of the troops to attack Sangapura.

To Li Cun's surprise, not only did Yang Bumadie not run to Sangapura, but he didn't even send anyone to inform the people in Sangapura that he was defeated (maybe he sent a notification, but the person who received the order I don't know why this task was not completed).

The Sangapura people never thought that Yangbu Madie would be defeated if he couldn't resist for a day, and he was not prepared at all.

As a result, Li Cun caught the Singapura defenders by surprise, and the Huben army's weapons were too sharp, so they captured Singapura in one battle.

Soon, Wu Jie, who was going south, intercepted Yang Bumadie at the junction of Champa and the Angkor Dynasty. Then the two brothers Wu Jie and Wu Lin attacked back and forth, killing [-] to [-] people in Champa, and finally captured Yang alive. Bu Ma fold.

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

Since Champa is located at the southeastern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, it has long been influenced by the Indian-reading cultural area from the sea, and it is logical to take Pojiao as its core belief, and has little interest in China's Confucian ideas of governing the country.

Now that Li Cun conquered Champa, Li Cun must change the rule and belief in this area, otherwise how could there be long-term stability?

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

Li Renjie knew very well why Li Cun didn't use the people he brought to deal with the people and things here in Champa, but instead used him, a new minister, to deal with the people and things in Champa.

——The reason is easy to guess, nothing more than Li Cun wants Li Renjie to do the dirty work for him.

Li Renjie can deal with 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, not only took away all the wealth in the temple, but also captured all the priests.

In the process of dismantling Champa's rule, the strict hierarchy of Pojiao helped Li Renjie a lot.

Li Renjie was very ruthless and directly ordered people to execute all the men of the two upper classes who occupy a very small number in Zhancheng, and leave the women to the governor to reward those who have meritorious service.

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

And what Li Cun did personally was to liberate the low-level serfs and slaves who accounted for the largest number in Champa, and told them, you are free, and you will all be my subjects under Li Cun's rule from now on.

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

When Chen Yu came to Champa, what he saw was a sea of ​​blood and Champa, where the ruling class had all disappeared.

Li Cun did not tell Chen Yun that he had cleared the way for the Huben army to completely occupy Champa, but he just told Chen Yun that he would find a way to move 100 million Han people here, so that Chen Yun could manage Champa as never A piece of territory that will be separated from China.

Only then did Chen Yun know another advantage of Li Cun—responsibility.

Li Cun didn't leave this biggest trouble to him, but resisted with his own shoulders, so that he could really flex his muscles here in Champa.

Facing a wise and responsible monarch like Li Cun, Chen Yun really respected him besides admiration.

Chen Yun was still aloof, but this time he gave a rare "No" before going to talk to Li Renjie.

Li Cun renamed Champa as Dingnan Road, and Sangapura as Dingnan City.

During the time when he was having fun with the royal family of Champa and the daughters of the Zong family, including the daughters of senior priests, in the palace of Yangbu Madie, Li Cunshun changed all the places on Dingnan Road into Chinese names.

Soon, Li Cun officially ordered that Annan Road and Dingnan Road be 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 Li Cun as Fan Nabiao, and presented thirty beauties (ten of them were European beauties, ten were big food beauties, and the other ten were beauties). Khmer beauties), 1 golden Buddhas (each weighing more than [-] taels), and a large number of ivory, agarwood, yellow wax, black eaves, white rattan, jibei, floral cloth, silk twisted cloth, white bamboo mat, Rhino horn etc.

It can be seen that Suryavarman II was very afraid of sweeping the Li Dynasty and Li Cun of Champa, and then attacking his Angkor Dynasty, so he called Fan Nabiao this time, not only full of courtesy, but also full of gifts.

Li Cun said to the son of Suryavarman II: "I haven't formally established a country, and I don't want Nanping. It's because Li Dynasty and Zhanpo attacked my land, damaged my waterway, killed my people, and captured my people." In order to serve you, we will bring a large army to pacify your family, if your family is not like this, I will not send troops to attack your family."

Hearing Li Cun's words, the son of Suryavarman II felt relieved.

The Angkor Dynasty is slightly stronger than the Li Dynasty and Champa, but the Angkor Dynasty, Li Dynasty and Champa, especially the latter, have been fighting for so many years, but they have not been able to completely conquer Champa, which shows that their military strength is also weak. It may not be higher than Champa.

Looking at it this way, Li Cun, who even destroyed the two countries of the Li Dynasty and Champa in a short period of time, if he really wanted to destroy the Angkor Dynasty, then the Angkor Dynasty would definitely follow in the footsteps of the Li Dynasty and Champa .

Fortunately, according to Li Cun, the son of Suryavarman II, Li Cun was not going to continue to expand westward.

But before Suryavarman II's son was too happy, Li Cun said again: "However, I have some trivial matters, and I want your family to help me a little bit, and I hope your family will not refuse."

The son of Suryavarman II immediately guessed that Li Cun's "begging" from the Angkor Dynasty must not be a good thing, and it must not be a "trivial matter" that can be done easily, otherwise it has already shocked the Indo-China Peninsula. How could Li Cun use the word "begging"?
The son of Suryavarman II said respectfully: "Your Majesty has something to do, but please tell me, the small country will try its best to complete it."

Li Cun said: "When you are here, I will ask someone to talk to you later."

After speaking, Li Cun let the son of Suryavarman II go down.

Soon, Chen Kuutong and Liu Xuan went to the son of Suryavarman II and said to him: "My governor wants to buy 1000 war elephants, [-] cattle, and [-] million shi of grain from your house. Don't refuse."

The son of Suryavarman II was dumbfounded when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Don't be joking, sir, my family can't get [-] war elephants, but I don't have [-] head, and I can't get [-] cows, and I can't get food." There are no thousands of stones."

Liu Xuan translated Chen Kuutong's words and said: "It is said that your country is powerful and has 20 war elephants, but today you come to cry for poverty. Could it be that you deceived us and others who are ignorant?"

These 20 war elephant cattle were blown out by Suryavarman II himself. The purpose was to deter the neighbors, but whoever thought it was self-defeating.

The son of Suryavarman II hurriedly explained to Chen Kuopong that their Angkor dynasty really didn’t have so many war elephants, and this was all nonsense. If their Angkor dynasty really had 20 war elephants, they would have defeated Champa a long time ago. , How could it be impossible to defeat Champa for so many years?
Later, the two sides talked for a long time, and the son of Suryavarman II agreed to sell 500 war elephants, [-] cattle, and [-] million shi of grain (delivered in three years) to the Huben Army.

When it was time to negotiate the price, the son of Suryavarman II almost vomited blood, but Chen Kuutong and Liu Xuan kept the price extremely low, and they had to provide the elephants with personnel and translators who could operate them (Including the family members of these people have to bring it).

And this is not what made the son of Suryavarman II vomit blood the most, what made the son of Suryavarman II vomit blood the most was that the Huben army actually traded with the paper money issued by themselves.

Isn't this a clear robbery?
The son of Suryavarman II guessed right, Li Cun was almost robbing these things.

——Of course, in Li Cun's view, he was promoting the banknotes issued by Huben Army.

At present, the biggest threat to Annan Road and Dingnan Road is the powerful Angkor Dynasty.

The current stage is undoubtedly the weakest time for Annan Road and Dingnan Road.

Therefore, Li Cun knew that some force of the Angkor Dynasty must be abolished, and he gave up the idea of ​​the Angkor Dynasty, an aggressive dynasty, against Annan and Dingnan.

To be honest, the two roads of Annan and Dingnan have only been restored, and there are many problems, and Li Cun does not have much time to waste in Zhongnan, otherwise, Li Cun really has the intention of destroying the Angkor Dynasty.

You must know that the Angkor Dynasty is currently at its peak, and its wealth is by no means comparable to that of the Li Dynasty and Champa.

Perhaps, if Li Cun brought down the Angkor Dynasty, he would be able to have enough standard gold to vigorously issue banknotes.

But at the last moment Li Cun still held back his thoughts of blind expansion.

——It’s not that Li Cun can’t defeat the Angkor Dynasty, he really doesn’t have the talent to govern the Angkor Dynasty now.

As for cattle and food, they are needed for people's livelihood.

Moreover, in the next few years, the Central Plains will be particularly short of food. If Li Cun has a lot of food, it will be more effective than any weapon.

The only problem is how to transport these war elephants, cattle and food back?

Hmm... War elephants and cattle are really not enough, just go back slowly by land.

Food... Let’s transport it slowly, as much as you can transport back, if you really can’t transport it back, leave it to the people from Annan and Dingnan to eat.

Two days later, Duan Zhengyan, the lord of the Dali Kingdom, sent his important minister Gao Taiyun to Dingnan City with a large gift to meet Li Cun and call Li Cun a fan.

Li Cun repeated the old trick and bought [-] Yunnan horses from Dali with the banknotes he issued.

Although this Yunnan horse is not suitable for war horses, it is especially suitable for use as a pack horse because of its strong physique, short size, flexible movement, good mountain climbing, long-distance and long-term labor, resistance to rough feeding, and good adaptability.

Li Cun destroyed Li Chao and Zhancheng in less than two months, which not only showed his strong military strength, but also made people see Li Cun's aggressiveness.

Therefore, although it was not an easy task for Dali to gather [-] Yunnan horses, in order not to give Li Cun an excuse to invade Dali, Gao Taiyun agreed on behalf of Duan Zhengyan.

Afterwards, Queen Kingdom, Bagan, Fallapati, Java Kingdom, Three Buddha Qi Kingdom, and Siam Kingdom all came to Dingnan City to meet Li Cun, presented a heavy gift, and said that from then on, the eastern half of the Maritime Silk Road How to do maritime trade, you have the final say.

By the way, since Li Cun did not found a country, Li Cun, the governor of the Huben Army, was the one who publicized it to the outside world. It may be a translation problem. People here in the Indochina Peninsula gradually called Li Cun's country "Cunguo". Even if Li Cunjian was restructured later, they still like to use "Cunguo" to refer to the country established by Li Cun...

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