Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 393 Night Attack

Finally, when Jia Rui inquired, he learned that the North Korean king had been frightened by the Chinese army. In order to appease the Chinese army and prevent a change of dynasty in North Korea, he almost wiped out the entire treasury of North Korea.

In addition to the North Korean treasury being depleted, even the nobles had to contribute food in order to stabilize and please the imperial army.

Although Jia Rui felt a little embarrassed, he naturally accepted all the food delivered to his door.

If these grains cannot be used up, they can be exchanged for money when transported back to the Central Plains.

However, in order to make North Korea feel the pressure, Jia Rui still asked the North Korean king to continue to provide food and grass.

The King of North Korea did not dare to give in to Jia Rui's request, and immediately began to send officials to collect grain throughout the North Korean countryside.

Of course, the King of North Korea did not resist. During the period when Jia Rui was stationed in the army, the King of North Korea also sent a memorial to the emperor and the Supreme Emperor, hoping that they could restrain Jia Rui.

The emperor still attached great importance to the memorial of the King of North Korea. After all, the Celestial Kingdom still wanted to save face. He even wanted to issue an order to reprimand Jia Rui.

But before he even sent it out, the Supreme Emperor expressed his position.

"Jia Rui reduced the burden on the court, which was a meritorious service."

With just such a sentence, everyone in the court who was ready to move was suppressed.

It was precisely this sentence that made North Korea have to pinch their noses to provide food and grass for Jia Rui.

A few months later, they heard that the Southern Barbarian Kingdom was destroyed by Jia Rui, and then they felt lucky that their choice was correct.

Jia Rui spent a month to complete the construction of his supply base, and then left 10,000 elite infantrymen. At the same time, he forced North Korea to mobilize 50,000 troops for joint defense, and then he left with peace of mind and went straight to the Nanman Kingdom.

In fact, Nanman's country was also in turmoil during this period.

You must know that the pirates who were eliminated were almost all the water forces of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom. Once they were all eliminated, they would not be able to compete with any country on the sea within more than ten years.

In addition to these, what is even more worrying is the fear that the Celestial Kingdom will raise troops to attack.

Therefore, the Nanman general ordered all the princes in the Nanman country to immediately prepare for war and respond to attacks from the sea at any time.

The Southern Barbarian Kingdom at this time was different from the unified dynasty in the Central Plains. It was composed of countless small princes and one large prince.

As for the Nanman King, he was just a puppet.

This time, Jia Rui's army followed the strategy of capturing the thief first and the king, and headed straight for his capital, Xindu.

You must know that the area near the new capital is the most prosperous place in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, with almost all its wealth and industry concentrated there.

As long as this place is taken down, the military strength of the entire Southern Barbarian Kingdom will be greatly reduced.

When Jia Rui's fleet arrived at the sea outside Xindu, the Nanman general sent his only warship to block it, but this was just a mantis trying to act as a chariot.

After these Nanman warships were destroyed, Jia Rui's army arrived at the Xindu Pier without encountering almost any obstruction.

Jia Rui looked at the bustling rivers and lakes, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, as if something had grown.

"After passing the order to invade the new capital, you will have three days of free movement."

After saying this, Jia Rui immediately returned to the cabin and didn't care about anything.

As the real controller of the navy, Tang Zhen's face lit up with excitement after hearing Jia Rui's words.

This is the capital of a country, and the wealth in it is self-evident. If you can move around freely for three days, from top to bottom, I am afraid that everyone will not make a lot of money.

As Jia Rui's order spread throughout the army, the entire battleship burst into cheers.

After that, the march went very smoothly. Although the first batch of landing troops encountered strong resistance, the eyes of these lower-level soldiers were red now. They risked their lives in order to grab more gold and silver.

Although the people of the Southern Barbarians are fierce, they are short in stature. Compared with the tall Central Plains people, they are almost like children who have not grown up and are beaten violently by adults.

Therefore, the landing battle only lasted an hour and ended.

Next, under the command of Jia Rui, the army began to sweep around.

However, the southern barbarians did not give up resistance. Although the battle of the urban structure no longer existed, these southern barbarians were burrowing around like mice, and when they came out, they gave the Chinese soldiers a break.

Faced with this situation of indistinguishable between ourselves and the enemy, Jia Rui was scratching his head, and finally had to gather the troops and regroup them together, so that the enemy's sneak attacks from time to time would end.

Finally, Jia Rui discussed with several generals and felt that the reason why the enemy was in this situation was because of the help and cover of the Nanman people. Without the Nanman people, these people would not have been able to get close to the army.

So Jia Rui simply ordered that all the Nanman people he could see were executed, regardless of age.

This military order released the military's hands and feet.

Within the next day, all the southern barbarians that the army could see could not escape the fate of being shot or beheaded.

Those southern barbarians who were good at sneak attacks could no longer hide among the common people. In the end, their living space was slowly squeezed out, and they were finally forced to set fire to themselves in a luxurious house on a street. In this way, Xindu, the largest city in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, was occupied.

However, what Jia Rui occupied was an empty new capital, and there were piles of corpses. In order to prevent the plague from appearing, Jia Rui had to use soldiers to organize it for four or five days, and finally buried all the corpses.

Only then did the stench over the new capital dissipate, and Jia Rui got off the ship and arrived at the new capital.

At this time, the general of the Nanman Kingdom who had fled to the old capital of the Nanman Kingdom also issued a recruitment order, calling on all the princes in the world to work together to resist the invasion.

To say that the Nanman Kingdom was indeed united when the country was in danger during the period when Jia Rui was repairing the new capital, nearly 300,000 people were actually gathered by the Nanman General outside Edo City.

Jia Rui stood on the city tower, looking at the dense crowd of dwarfs outside the city, and rubbed his forehead, feeling that there was some trouble.

Although these people are said to be weak in individual combat, they are very fierce. If they really fight, these 300,000 people will not be easy to deal with.

Fortunately, I have enough supplies that I can use in Edo City and the Nanman. As long as the enemy cannot move Edo City for a month or two and the morale of Edo City drops, then my side will have hope of victory.

So Jia Rui ordered the army not to leave the new capital.

The Nanman people below are not as patient as Jia Rui. You must know that the new capital is a symbol of the status of the Nanman general. If he loses this city, his status will also be unstable.

So the general, regardless of the actual situation, urged the southern barbarians to start a frantic attack on the new capital.

As for Jia Rui's army, they strictly abide by Jia Rui's orders and defend the new capital city. In addition, there are not many troops, the equipment is very well-equipped, and they are defending the city, so it is relatively easy.

However, the Nanman Army was not so relaxed. In the first day of the attack, they lost nearly 10,000 people. This was not a small number. In ancient times, even if an army of hundreds of thousands lost so many people, it would still be a loss. May shake morale.

Fortunately, the Nanman people have always been relatively disciplined, so even though so many people died and people were upset, they still launched the attack on time the next day.

The next day, the Southern Barbarians suffered even more heavy casualties. Nearly 20,000 people fell under the city wall that day, not counting the injured.

Now, no matter how well-disciplined the Nanman people are, they can't hold on any longer.

Seeing this scene, the Nanman general knew that he could no longer attack the city, so he could only order a temporary retreat and prepare to spend time in the new capital with Jia Rui.

However, Jia Rui did not have this spare time, and spent several months with him. That night, Jia Rui gathered all the cavalry in the army, a total of 20,000 people.

These 20,000 cavalry are the total number of cavalry in Jiangnan.

Jia Rui personally wore a halberd and, as the leader of this cavalry, rushed out of Edo City and went straight to the Nanman Army camp more than ten miles away.

The Southern Barbarian Army had no experience in dealing with large-scale cavalry. By the time they discovered that Jia Rui's cavalry had arrived, it was already too late to organize a defense.

Therefore, their fence-like wall was broken through by the cavalry led by Jia Rui.

As the leader of this cavalry, Jia Rui holds a Fangtian painted halberd and shoots his bow from left to right. There are almost no enemies he meets.

Under the leadership of Jia Rui's arrow, the Chinese cavalry cut into the cheese like a sharp ox knife.

The morale of this southern barbarian army was already low during the two days of siege, and with Jia Rui's interference, it immediately became chaotic. They didn't care about what was at stake and fled in all directions.

Jia Rui was not interested in the Nanman soldiers who had run away. His target was the most gorgeous tent in the camp.

At this time, thousands of Nanman elites had gathered around the tent.

These people were either wearing bamboo armor or iron plate armor, and each of them had a long knife in their hand.

Just looking at this outfit, he should be an elite member of the Southern Barbarian Army.

And Jia Rui was fighting elites, so he and his cavalry rushed towards this side like crazy.

These southern barbarians did not have any fear of the incoming Jia Rui cavalry. They held their swords and went up to fight the cavalry in hand-to-hand combat.

With this kind of bravery, not even the Celestial Empire has such an army.

But no matter how brave they are, facing the cavalry who want to speed up, their bravery is just an embellishment of the cavalry.

In just one round of fighting, more than half of the elite Southern Barbarians had fallen in the past few days, and almost everyone who remained was injured.

Therefore, Jia Rui's army made a difficult circle in the enemy's camp. When they came back and charged again, the elite disappeared.

After the last resistance force was eliminated, he rushed into the enemy's main tent and found that the commander inside had disappeared.

Faced with this situation, Jia Rui shook his hands in anger, just a little bit worse.

In the end, with no other option, Jia Rui had no choice but to disperse his soldiers and carry out the greatest destruction and killing of the Nanman camps.

(End of this chapter)