If the Tang Empire won, it would say to its opponents: "You damn well behave yourself in the future, or be careful that I wipe out your entire clan. Pay tribute obediently every year!"
<...Yue Fei continued, “Among the 100,000 troops of Jiaozhi, there must be soldiers from Champa and Zhenla. Champa and Zhenla were forced to submit to Jiaozhi by force. Therefore, although Jiaozhi may seem to have 100,000 troops pressing on the border, their morale is not high. With our 10,000 elite troops, defeating Jiaozhi will be as easy as turning our hands!”
Zhang Jun was even more surprised, because when Yue Fei spoke, he gave people a very down-to-earth and steady feeling.
However, when he brought up the war, he didn't seem to care about Jiaozhi at all, which showed that he believed he was sure to win.
The two hurried towards Qinzhou City.
In February of the second year of the Jingkang era, fifty-one years after the last Song-Vietnam War, the Kingdom of Jiaozhi, citing the Song emperor's "indiscriminate killing of innocent people and the suffering of countless lives," and under the banner of saving the common people, dispatched 100,000 troops northward into Song territory to launch an invasion of the Song Dynasty.
The Jiaozhi army split into two routes. One route, led by General Li Huai'an, advanced towards Qinzhou City.
One route, led by General Ding He, advanced towards Lianzhou.
The Jiaozhi army, like a giant steel fork, thrust into the southwestern heart of the Song Dynasty, attempting to swallow up the Guangnan West Circuit of the Song Dynasty.
On the third day of the third month of the second year of the Jingkang era, the imperial court issued the "Imperial Edict to Punish Jiaozhi," and Yue Fei led an army of 10,000 southwards, stationing the army in Qinzhou.
The souls of 100,000 Song Dynasty citizens who were massacred by the Jiaozhi (Vietnam) 51 years ago still linger on the walls of Qinzhou!
In that battle, Jiaozhi successively captured Qinzhou, Lianzhou and Yongzhou of the Song Dynasty, massacring nearly 300,000 Song people, which was comparable to the Nanjing Massacre in later generations!
PS: It was released at midnight on January 1st. I'll release the next chapter together at midnight to release more chapters.