The Dinh Dynasty and Le Dynasty in Vietnam had a standing army of 100,000.
It is said to be a standing army, but in fact it is not even as good as the Xiang Army of the Song Dynasty.
They do not recruit soldiers based on their household registration. Anyone who wants to be a soldier can sign up at will.
Moreover, the soldiers were not given any pay, only a morsel of food. Even some troops were not given food, and all the rations were embezzled by the generals. If there was a war and there were not enough soldiers, they would capture the strong men.
After the establishment of the Li Dynasty, a series of reforms were carried out.
One of the most important reforms was to provide food and salary to soldiers. The tax on one acre of land was increased by three liters of rice, and all the increased tax revenue was used to support the soldiers.
Men are registered in the Yellow Book when they are eighteen years old, and when they are twenty they are registered in the Yellow Book.
When recruiting troops, first recruit from the big yellow roll. If there is not enough, then recruit from the small yellow roll.
Exploded!
First, the combat power exploded, defeating all enemies at home and abroad.
Then came the financial explosion, with more and more standing armies. Bigger countries have more than 100,000 standing armies, and they all need to pay food and wages. Let’s not talk about whether to deduct or not, because the court must allocate food.
Annan has been disarmament for the past 20 to 30 years.
After being dismantled, there are only 50,000 to 60,000 standing troops left.
Now facing siege from all sides, our troops are stretched thin, and we have to recruit troops according to the big yellow book again.
"Your Majesty, the Jin-toothed Barbarians have agreed to withdraw their troops!" Grand Master Zhang Boyu hurried to the palace to meet him.
Li Yanghuan was overjoyed: "Really?"
Zhang Boyu said: "It's absolutely true."
The siege by the four countries will definitely be unbearable, and diplomacy must be used.
The Golden Tooth Kingdom, which had just become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, first broke the covenant to jointly send troops.
Anyway, the Ming Dynasty has canonized the Golden Teeth King, and getting this sign will give you legal authority. It doesn't matter if you betray the alliance and offend the Ming Dynasty, I won't recognize it even if you take back the king's golden seal. No matter how awesome you Ming Dynasty is, you have to cross the land of Dali and Annan to beat me.
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The Golden Tooth Kingdom naturally gained benefits by withdrawing its troops even if it offended the Ming Dynasty: Annan recognized the affiliated tribes in Laos as belonging to the Golden Tooth Kingdom in the future.
The battle on the southern front is still fierce.
Thirty thousand Annan troops faced off against 18,000 Champa and Chenla coalition forces.
The battlefield on the northern front seems to have stalled.
One after another, 40,000 Annan troops gathered in the Lang Son area. Yang Zaixing only let the native soldiers defend the passes and led the main force to attack Qiyuanzhou and Guangyuanzhou.
The two states were in emergency and asked Annan to send reinforcements.
Annan ignored him and was determined to defend Lang Son anyway.
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The guard general of Lang Son is called Yang Ying'er. He is very senior. He was also the minister of Tuogu ten years ago.
It was also Yang Ying'er who led the battle to defeat the Champa and Chenla coalition forces two years ago.
"The Taiwei, the Nong chieftains from Qiyuan and Guangyuan prefectures have sent people to ask for help again!" Sima from the army came to report.
Yang Ying'er said: "Don't worry about it. Even if the Ming Dynasty takes over there, there won't be many troops stationed there. As long as we hold Lang Son, we can take back the two states in the future."
Yang Ying'er smiled and said: "The enemy general is a fool. Instead of attacking Shenglong Mansion in one go, he divided his troops to attack corners and corners, giving us the opportunity to increase our troops calmly. This is a waste of time. Wait until the weather gets hot.
They will feel better then!"
Would Yang Zaixing not have thought of this?
"Lieutenant, Sumaozhou is gone!" A messenger rushed over.
Yang Ying'er was shocked: "Su Maozhou sent 5,000 soldiers to defend the city. Why did they suddenly disappear?"
Of course it was Yang Zaixing who went to Sumaozhou.
The only troops that attacked Qiyuan Prefecture and Guangyuan Prefecture were the Guangxi garrison.
Yang Zaixing's 6,000 new troops marched to Sumao Prefecture, where Yang Yao's navy cooperated with them.
Sumao Prefecture was located in the area of Mong Street and Haihe River in Vietnam in later generations, and its state government was within Haihe County.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, barbarians from Sumao Prefecture often invaded the border area, and Annan also sent troops from Sumao Prefecture to attack Qinzhou.
Even after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, barbarians from Sumao Prefecture would cross the border and plunder from time to time.
Must win!
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The naval artillery was carried to the shore and dragged all the way to the outside of Sumaozhou City.
This earthen city is not big, and usually only has a few hundred defenders. It is mainly used by Annan to suppress the local barbarians.
Dozens of artillery bombarded the city for two days. As soon as the city wall showed signs of collapse, the defenders inside the city began to flee.
They were frightened by the artillery. After all, it was their first time encountering this thing!
Yang Zaixing's new army and Yang Yao's marines took the opportunity to attack the city.
Killed hundreds of enemies and captured more than 3,000 alive.
"How to deal with so many prisoners?" Yang Yao asked.
Yang Zaixing said: "I haven't decided yet, I plan to kill them all."
Yang Yao smiled and said: "It is not good to massacre prisoners of war, but I have a way."
"What method?" Yang Zaixing asked.
Yang Yao said: "Some of it was transported back to Guangxi for mining, where there are many mines. I took some of it to Taiwan County, where the barbarians reclaimed the land on the island. I also took away the women and children. Taiwan immigrated to many singles and gave them to those singles as wives.
, to save them from having too much energy and causing trouble all day long.”
Yang Zaixing nodded and said, "Alright."
The two led their troops to stay in Sumaozhou City, waiting for domestic merchant ships to pick up the prisoners.
We can't wait in vain and attack the surrounding barbarians by the way. If we don't beat the barbarians badly, they will still plunder the border of Qinzhou.
Yang Zaixing's new army was divided into groups of several hundred men and dispatched, asking the prisoners for the address of the barbarian village.
If the barbarians dared to resist, they would attack them. No prisoners would be spared, and all the young women would be snatched away.
If the barbarians abandoned their stronghold and fled into the mountains, Yang Zaixing's new army would not pursue them, but would burn all the houses in the barbarian stronghold.
After destroying several barbarian villages in one go, Yang Zaixing and Yang Yao finally took a boat to the mouth of the Taiping River.
Annan had a professional navy. When it first invaded the Northern Song Dynasty, Annan's Eastern Route Army took the sea route to attack Qinzhou!
The two sides fought fiercely outside the mouth of the Taiping River. Annan's navy was defeated and refused to escape. It has been repeatedly entangled with the Ming navy.
Finally, Annan's navy was defeated.
"Wave the flag, don't chase!" Yang Yao ordered.
The Ministry of War and the Privy Council are not just for free!
The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites reviewed the historical materials and excerpted the cases of battles in Jiaozhi in the past dynasties. They then sent them to the Privy Council for the senior generals of the Privy Council to study strategies and tactics.
Yang Yao received operational guidance from the Privy Council, one of which was very important: pay attention to the ebb and flow of the tide, and do not blindly pursue enemy ships.
Because in Chinese history, someone overturned a car at the mouth of the Taiping River!
The Jiaozhi regime set up hidden stakes at the mouth of the Taiping River to lure Chinese ships in when the tide was about to ebb.
Jiaozhi's ships are smaller and have a shallower draft, allowing them to advance and retreat calmly in the estuary.
The Chinese ship, on the other hand, had a deeper draft and was driven out by the tide, stuck in hidden piles and unable to move forward or retreat.
"The enemy ship is here again!"
Yang Yao personally picked up the telescope and observed it, and immediately said with a smile: "It's just as expected by the Privy Council. Send an order, hit the enemy ships hard when they come, and don't pursue the enemy ships when they retreat."
Not long after, two Annan ships were hit, and the entire army retreated in panic.
But the Ming Navy watched from a distance without any thought of pursuing.
Annan's navy generals seemed to be very anxious. After forming a team, they ran to lure the enemy again. Because they were too involved in the acting, they did not retreat in time, and three ships were sunk by the Ming Navy.
At this point, the situation has become very clear.
There are hidden stakes at the Taiping River Estuary, and they know each other well!
The next day, taking advantage of the fact that it was still early before the ebb tide, Yang Yao led the Daming Navy to enter the Taiping River Estuary and remove hidden piles.
The Annan navy came to attack, but they were defeated and fled.
A few days later, Yang Zaixing and Yang Yao led his army along the Taiping River to Wu'an Prefecture City.
The Taiping River is too narrow and shallow, so large naval ships cannot enter. The only ones that can come are small ships and merchant ships.
Yang Ying'er also returned with his troops, leaving 10,000 troops to garrison Lang Son and 30,000 troops to defend Wu'an Prefecture. At the same time, he urgently recruited troops from Dahuang and recruited 10,000 peasant soldiers to assist in the battle.
There are 40,000 Annan defenders in the city.
Outside the city there were only Yang Zaixing's 6,000 men and Yang Yao's 1,000 marines.
It was a bad idea to defend blindly. As a veteran general, Yang Ying'er led 20,000 troops out of the city to test.
He sent five thousand soldiers to fight, and the rest of the troops were responsible for plundering the formation.
Yang Zaixing only sent 3,000 men, and the battle only lasted for more than ten minutes. Annan's army could not hold up the firearms and was defeated in a mandarin duck formation.
Yang Ying'er sent troops to respond. At this moment, the Ming Dynasty ships on the Taiping River suddenly fired at Yang Ying'er's Chinese army.
During previous battles between the two navies, the Ming Navy had been hiding the range of its artillery.
Yang Ying'er never expected that the artillery could shoot so far.
The central army of Annan's army was in chaos, and Yang Zaixing and Yang Yao took the opportunity to rush out with their entire army.
Yang Ying'er's troops scrambled to escape, and were captured by the Ming army. Nearly ten thousand people were killed, and thousands of soldiers were scattered in the countryside. With only two to three thousand soldiers, he fled back to the city in embarrassment and did not dare to come out.
The Annan garrison in the city suffered a direct loss of nearly half.
Yang Ying'er was so frightened that he could not hold on and wrote a letter back to Shenglong Mansion to request more troops.
"Stay here to attack the city?" Yang Yao asked.
Yang Zaixing said: "Kill all the prisoners and kill them all the way to Hanoi!"
Yang Yao said: "I'm afraid the military rations are not enough."
Yang Zaixing said: "Annan will send troops to fight against Champa and Chenla, and also divide the troops to defend Lang Son. How many troops can this small country have left? Just go around here and go against the Taiping River to kill Thang Long. The city in front will definitely
The troops are empty. Moreover, the Annan garrison here needs food, and the food and grass must be transported along the Taiping River, and the cities along the way are our food stations!"
"Okay!" Yang Yao is also a risk-taker.
Yang Ying'er stood at the top of the city and watched the Ming army retreat.
The ships of the Ming army carried grain and a small number of soldiers, while most of the Ming army walked along the river. They just walked around the city in a swagger, not caring about the grain road or the rear!
Before leaving, they also collected all the ships outside Wu'an Prefecture.
There were only a few dozen light cavalry, half of them were exploring the front and the other half were on guard at the rear.
Soldiers can't walk fast wearing armor, so they need to stay out of the enemy's sight and put the armor on a ship for transportation.
The fleet also divided into several ships, some exploring the way forward and some on guard at the rear to prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking and leaving the infantry with no time to collect armor from the ship.
How could Yang Ying'er let them leave calmly? He led his elite troops to attack at night that night.
As a result, the Ming army took off their armor when they were on their way, but took the armor from the ship and put it on before going to bed.
Yang Ying'er's night attack failed and he fled back to Wu'an Prefecture in embarrassment.
The next day, Yang Zaixing sent 500 elite troops to suddenly speed up in a boat.
Unexpectedly, they arrived outside the city on Beijiang Road ahead. The defense there was empty, with only a few hundred people guarding the grain and grass that were going to be transported to Wu'an Prefecture.
Take it in one fell swoop.
This city is only a hundred miles away from Thang Long, the capital of Annam!
Yang Ying'er, who was left behind, was impatient. Although he knew the danger was high, he could only lead his army to pursue him.
Another big defeat on the way!
You must know that in Annan's heyday, the army's combat effectiveness was overwhelming. However, when the Northern Song Dynasty army conscripted and mobilized northern elites to fight against it, Annan's army was still beaten and retreated.
Today, Annan has long since died. Not only has he been disarmament, but corruption and expropriation in the military has become more serious.
As for the morale, it was not much better than that of Song Huizong's Xiang army.
In the city of Shenglongfu, when they learned that the Ming army was hundreds of miles away, the civil and military officials were so frightened that they quickly gathered their belongings.
Zhang Boyu advised: "Your Majesty, please quickly hunt west and take hundreds of officials and soldiers to the Ailao Mountain to temporarily avoid the enemy. The Ming army wants the old land of the Song Dynasty, just give it to them, and you can get it back in the future!"
"How to get it back?" Li Yanghuan asked.
Zhang Boyu said: "The late emperor was also severely defeated by the Song State, but after the Song State withdrew its troops, it harassed the Song State's borders every year. The Song State could not bear the harassment and returned the territory it had stolen to us. This time
You can also do this. After the Ming Dynasty withdraws its troops, next year we will send troops to harass the border."
"Excellent, let's go hunting in the west." Li Yanghuan said.
Yang Zaixing is still a hundred miles away, and the leader of Annan has already run away with all the officials...
