People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

Chapter 318 The fall of the Li Dynasty

There was complete chaos outside Zhilengguan.

Hundreds of artillery shells struck, and there were explosions and earth and rocks flying everywhere.

Dust and smoke filled the air, and countless Vietnamese soldiers fled in all directions.

What a coincidence.

It happened that the musketry team here covered the artillery and went up the mountain, built the fort and fired, and the Vietnamese army over there attacked in full force.

As a result, tens of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers swarmed out of Zhileng Pass and rushed toward the battlefield outside the pass.

Then the cannonballs all over the sky fell into their formation, and they suddenly fell on their backs.

The most important thing is that a cannonball happened to fall next to the Dai Viet Emperor Live Ma, killing him and several ministers around him.

In an instant, the Vietnamese army's command system was paralyzed.

After losing the top-level command, the remaining middle- and lower-level generals were unable to organize an effective formation, and all the soldiers scattered.

On September 8th, although it was already late autumn, the weather in Jiaozhi was still very hot.

In early September, the Song Army surrounded Thang Long, and countless dignitaries in Thang Long City surrendered to the Song Army.

The excuse of the Song Dynasty for supporting the Li Dynasty was to support the previous dynasty. Since the Li Dynasty itself was unpopular with the people, they had to rely on the Song Dynasty to maintain their rule.

In this way, the Song Dynasty indirectly controlled Vietnam, giving them a legal cloak to garrison Annan and safeguard their own interests.

However, after this battle, it was difficult for the Song army to continue to besiege Shenglong Mansion. The Song army was plagued by miasma, with more than half of its casualties, and its military rations were exhausted. As a result, although the Yue Kingdom could be destroyed just across a river, it was already difficult to do so, and they had to agree. Vietnam peace talks.

It’s just that Yue people naturally don’t understand.

To be precise, it was very hot.

But how could King Qin’s army assemble so quickly?

They could only immediately mobilize all the troops and horses from nearby state capitals, and they could barely muster 30,000 people to defend the Furiang River.

However, at this time, the Song Dynasty dispatched not many soldiers and horses. Although the army was indeed infected with the disease, the main targets were local Xiang troops and border minority soldiers.

It's okay now.

The Vietnamese army and the Song army faced each other across the river. In addition to dozens of warships of the Vietnamese army on the river, there were also elephant soldiers composed of hundreds of elephants on the other side of the river.

Di Qing also took advantage of the situation and issued a public notice, saying that the Song Dynasty had no intention of annexing Annan, but the Li Dynasty was disrespectful and repeatedly invaded the Song Dynasty's borders. The power of the Song Dynasty was inviolable, so the punishment was imposed, and the Li Dynasty was bound to be overthrown.

Cannons roared, elephants fled in all directions, and countless Vietnamese soldiers were trampled to death. The warships on the river were also destroyed, and the Vietnamese army once again retreated to Thang Long City.

Everyone has come to the capital, and Dai Viet is about to be destroyed.

Di Qing could not clearly see the specific situation of the Vietnamese army in the distance, but after dozens of rounds of shelling, there was no need to see what was going on.

In the entire flat area with a radius of several kilometers outside Zhileng Pass, tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops were scurrying around like headless flies. Especially those heading towards the gate of the pass were so crowded.

After the bombardment was over, he issued the order for a general attack.

By mid-August, after learning about the situation in Thang Long Mansion, Li Foma's son Li Rizun hastily succeeded to the throne, surrounded by the remaining ministers, and called on the country to resist the Song army's attack.

Only the Le Dynasty not only usurped the throne, but also the Le family and his son were rebellious and cruel. Even the Vietnamese historian Wu Silian compared them to Xia Jie and Shang Zhou in ancient China, believing that "they contributed to their demise without any reason."

In this battle, the Dai Viet Emperor and several important ministers were killed, thousands of Vietnamese soldiers were killed, and more Vietnamese soldiers died in various accidents.

This river will be the Red River in later generations.

This shows that the Li Dynasty was not popular among the people among the three dynasties.

However, in front of the Song army's firearms, the elephant soldiers obviously became extremely ridiculous.

The firearms army strictly abided by military orders such as boiling water and repelling mosquitoes, and the injuries and injuries were not serious.

But the Song army has already entered the Red River Plain. The vast plain is rich and peaceful, suitable for elephants to gallop.

Isn’t it good to run your country well? You have to commit suicide.

Many people believe that Emperor Li of the Dynasty repeatedly harassed the Guangnan West Road of the Song Dynasty and angered the Celestial Kingdom, which led to the current disaster of weapons and weapons.

The Li Dynasty made the country very peaceful in terms of governance, which made the people of Annan very recognized the rule of the Li Dynasty and sympathized with the experiences of the Ding Dynasty.

Historically, the Song army fought here during the Xining War between Song and Yue. Despite the spread of disease in the army, they defeated the Vietnamese army in one battle and even the princes and princes of the Vietnamese army were killed.

The Song army won a complete victory, killing more than 20,000 enemies and capturing more than 30,000 people. Most of the entire Yue army was lost.

In fact, this was Zhao Jun's special instruction.

In late August, the Song army arrived at the Furiang River.

Occasionally a cannonball landed at the gate of the pass, killing dozens of people in an instant. The entire battlefield was in collapse and chaos, and the Vietnamese army suffered heavy casualties.

This is Annan's last trump card.

So although the weather was unbearably hot, the roads were rugged, and there were leeches and mosquitoes everywhere, they were still able to march.

Among the three dynasties in Vietnam, the Dinh Dynasty is the founder and has good prestige in the hearts of the people.

Countless people were pushed down by their own people, trampled to death, and bombed to death by artillery shells.

The firearms army did not move, and Nong Zhigao's ethnic minority troops flooded toward the Vietnamese army like a flood.

At the same time, he sent people to search for the descendants of the nobles of the previous dynasty and prepared to support him as the new Emperor Annan.

The reason why it was not used before was because whether it was Langzhou or Zhilengguan, the terrain was not open and it was not convenient for the elephant soldiers to dispatch.

Therefore, although the Li Dynasty's governance was good and popular among the people, it could not help but be complained by the princes and nobles.

The air was so humid that water seemed to be wrung out of clothes.

Thang Long, the capital of the Dai Viet Empire, was quite large. It was slightly larger than Yongzhou City on Guangnan West Road in the Song Dynasty. It was considered the largest city in the remote southwest.

But compared with Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of the Song Dynasty, it is as different as clouds and mud, and they are not the same.

At this moment, there are countless fields in the wilderness outside the city. The roads are covered with banana trees. There are dense paddy fields all over the place. The lush rice is swaying in the wind.

Unlike most places in the Song Dynasty, which only had two crops a year at most, Vietnam's unique climate allows them to achieve three crops a year.

You must know that the Liao Kingdom at the same time had a land area of ​​nearly 5 million square kilometers and a population of only 9 million. Xixia has an area of ​​800,000 square kilometers and a population of only over 1.8 million.

The northern Vietnam occupied by the Li Dynasty only had an area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers, but had a population of 2 to 3 million. By the Southern Song Dynasty, it had reached 5 million, and more than 500,000 troops were mobilized to fight the Mongolian invasion alone.

This shows how rich the grain production here is.

So the problem that plagues Vietnam has never been food, but plague and disease.

If cinchona is in place, malaria, the most important part of the plague, will be solved, and the grain, rubber, wood, and spices produced will become the main raw material production areas of the Song Dynasty.

On the fertile Red River Delta, on both sides of the wide river, countless villages stand at a glance, and many people look at it from a distance.

The Song army outside the city had cut down trees and built a camp. On the wall, Di Qing was observing the city.

He did not order the bombardment of Thang Long.

In the future, the Song Dynasty will still need to station troops here. Di Qing does not want to destroy this city unless it is absolutely necessary.

He just waited quietly, giving Li Chao a deadline in his heart.

If you continue to resist stubbornly.

A dead end.

But in the city, it was another scene.

As early as the Song army defeated the Vietnamese army on the south bank and began to cross the river, the city was already in chaos.

Those who should run ran away, and those who stayed behind were locked up in the city and could not get out.

Every house was closed, shops were closed, and there was almost no one on the street except the soldiers coming and going.

At this time, the new emperor Li Rizun was organizing the mobilization of troops and horses on the top of the city to guard against the Song army day and night.

Vietnam, a small country with few people, cannot be compared with the Song Dynasty. Therefore, once a war breaks out, the emperor often has to personally lead the army. Especially in Vietnam, the tradition is for powerful ministers to usurp the throne and have deep control over military power.

At the juncture of the confrontation between Song and Yue inside and outside Shenglong City, Feng Zhizhi, the minister of the Right Jinwu Guards, had just come down from the east city wall and returned to his mansion to take a rest.

He guarded the city wall all night last night. He had previously proposed that he could raid the Song army at night, but was scolded by Li Rizun. Now he was extremely exhausted physically and mentally.

After returning to the mansion, two confidant generals asked to see him. Feng Zhizhi let them in and talked with them in the small hall in the backyard.

The three of them sat and complained to each other.

"Tao Chuzhong and Li Zhengxian will only ask His Majesty to send envoys to ask for peace, but the Song Dynasty has made it clear that they are here to destroy me, Dai Viet, so how can they agree?"

"Now they have surrounded the city. Although they haven't launched the black ball yet, what should we do if this continues." "Oh, I don't know what to do. The Song army is powerful. I told the late emperor to let him Don't harass the Song border repeatedly. Now that they have repulsed Xixia and Liao, they will use their hands free to destroy our country, Dai Viet."

Several people shouted and hissed, extremely pessimistic about the current predicament that the country of Yue was suffering.

In fact it's not just them.

The same is true for the other princes and nobles in the city.

The Song army was overwhelmingly powerful, and their army of more than 100,000 people from the Dai Viet Kingdom had almost no power to fight back.

Many princes and nobles are already worried about the future of Yue.

If this continues, I'm afraid there will only be four words left for them.

Dai Viet is about to end!

"General, I heard something."

At this moment, Feng Zhizhi’s confidant general Ruan Dan said.

"what's up?"

Feng Zhizhi asked.

Ruan Dan said: "I heard that the Song Dynasty did not want to annex our country, Vietnam. It was only because the late emperor and Taizu harassed the Song Dynasty border many times that they became angry."

"Yes, I have also heard about this matter. Now Song Jun is publicizing this matter outside the city every day."

Another general also said.

"Ah."

Feng Zhizhi narrowed his eyes and nodded slightly: "I have heard about this before, what do you mean?"

Ruan Dan said solemnly: "This matter was originally caused by Taizu and the late Emperor, and His Majesty sent envoys who refused to agree. Looking at this situation, the Song army will definitely not be able to destroy our country, Vietnam, if it is a general."

Feng Zhizhi was noncommittal, still squinting his eyes and saying nothing.

Seeing that he was indifferent, Ruan Dan continued to persuade: "General, think about it. After the Song Dynasty destroyed the Li Dynasty, it retreated. Then who should make the decision in Vietnam? If the general takes the opportunity to raise troops, maybe."

Another general also advised: "General, don't hesitate any more. When His Majesty inspects the east city, we will swarm up, capture him, and send him outside the city. With such great achievements, the Song army will not treat us badly." "

"Even if Li Rizun is not captured, we can still open the east city gate and let the Song army in. Our country is remote, and the Song Dynasty may not really want to embezzle us. In the future, won't Dayue be ruled by generals?"

Ruan Dan lobbied again.

"Well"

Feng Zhizhi pondered for a moment, but he was actually hesitating.

Logically speaking, for this reason, if you have such an opportunity, you might be able to give it a try.

But after all, it is a matter of losing your head, so I will definitely think about it a little bit.

But I didn’t think about it for too long.

As a military general, Feng Zhizhi was not an indecisive person, so he immediately shouted: "Okay, let's do it like this."

So they had no intention of continuing to discuss and quickly arranged countermeasures.

Li Rizun would patrol the city tower every day to stabilize the morale of the troops. Their countermeasure was very simple, which was to defend the city.

First, he hoped to have peace talks with the Song army.

Secondly, he hoped to delay time and wait for the Song army to run out of food.

The third time I came was to wait for the reinforcements from King Qin from various places to arrive.

Therefore, Li Rizun had to stand on the city wall to stabilize the morale of the soldiers.

At the same time, it is also to prevent someone who cannot bear it and becomes a mole, secretly opening the city gate and bringing in the enemy.

In the afternoon.

Feng Zhizhi arrived at the east city gate again.

Not far to the east of Thang Long Palace is the Furiang River. Since it is too close to the river, it is not suitable for a large-scale attack, so there is only a small force of the Song Army here.

The main force of the Song Army was outside the North City Gate, which was also the area Li Rizheng wanted to defend.

However, since the Song Army also had arrangements outside the East City Gate, Li Rizun naturally needed to pay attention here at all times, so he often came to patrol.

By mid-afternoon, the sky was still bright, and the sun seemed to have no intention of setting. The setting sun was shining high, and the entire earth turned into an orange-red dusk, reflecting Feng Zhizhi's slightly nervous face.

Rows of Vietnamese troops patrolled the east city gate all the time. Feng Zhizhi stood on the tower and looked at the Song army in the distance. The Song army did not form a formation outside the camp, but they were always paying attention to what was going on in the city, as if they too It's like waiting for a mole in the city to open the door.

"His Majesty is here!"

At this moment, with the high-pitched shout of the eunuch from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a large number of people fell to their knees on the city top.

A young man wearing a Yue Dynasty dragon robe slowly walked over.

Feng Zhizhi quickly ran over to greet him.

"See Your Majesty."

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"What's going on outside the city?"

That young man was Li Rizun, also Li Shengzong of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam in history.

The Vietnamese Li Dynasty can also be regarded as a more glorious dynasty in their history.

After four generations of hard work by Li Taizu Li Gongyun, Li Taizong Li Foma, Li Shengzong Li Rizun, and Li Renzong Li Qiande, the Li Dynasty at that time reached a very prosperous stage.

So much so that the Li Dynasty often compared itself to the Celestial Empire and wanted to be on par with the Song Dynasty. And it actively expanded externally, never forgetting to invade the borders of the Song Dynasty.

Finally, decades later during the Song-Yue-Xining War, he was woken up by a big blow, and he finally understood the gap between him and the real Celestial State.

It's just that this time, there is no time for Li Rizun and his son Li Qiande to create the heyday of the Li Dynasty.

Feng Zhizhi replied: "It's still the same as yesterday, there is no movement."

Li Rizun nodded and said, "Well, you must always be vigilant."

"Yes."

Feng Zhizhi responded, then suddenly pulled out the knife from his waist, slashed at the guard next to Li Rizun, and shouted angrily: "Do it!"

Several surrounding Feng Zhizhi's generals and close soldiers immediately began to attack, encircling and suppressing the attendants led by Li Rizun.

Li Rizun was shocked.

For a moment, there was chaos at the east city gate.

In fact, this chaos did not last long at all.

Feng Zhizhi is the guard of the East Gate, and here are mostly his trusted generals and soldiers.

Li Rizun never thought that his troops would rebel, and soon all the hundreds of guards he had with him were killed, and he was also captured alive.

At the same time, the movement and chaos on the top of the city also alerted the Song army outside the city, and hundreds of people came out of the Song camp.

"Open the city gate!"

Feng Zhizhi controlled the chaotic situation and issued the order after capturing Li Rizun.

Then he looked at Li Rizun, who was tied up with five flowers, with a evil smile, and said: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, all this is because Taizu and the late emperor wanted to invade the Song Dynasty. If you want to blame them, I can only blame them. I don't want to accompany you." Let’s die together with Li!”

Li Rizun arrogantly cursed: "Feng Zhizhi, you despicable beast, even if a knife and ax are thrown at me, I will never let you go."

"Save your strength to talk to Song Jun."

Feng Zhizhi waved his hand.

Soon the east city gate opened wide, and Feng Zhizhi escorted Li Rizun out of the city to surrender to the Song army.

A large number of Song troops entered from the east city gate, and the entire Shenglong Mansion fell in an instant.

The Li Dynasty, which lasted for more than thirty years, was shattered.

(End of this chapter)