Given the current situation, Zhao Huan is fortunate.
Jiaozhi is a fertile land, with three harvests a year, and its fruit yield is also very abundant.
It was Zhao Huan's ideal granary, but attacking Jiaozhi was not so easy, at least there was no reason to send troops.
But Jiaozhi brought this upon themselves, so Zhao Huan was lucky.
Fifty years ago, Jiaozhi fought a war with the Song Dynasty and was defeated by the Song. Emperor Li Renzong, who supported Li Changjie's invasion of Song, died last year.
Logically speaking, Jiaozhi (Vietnam) wouldn't be so foolish as to invade Song on a whim, given the precedents they had to follow.
But Jiaozhi was just that stupid, or rather, the newly enthroned King Li Yanghuan of Jiaozhi was just that stupid!
Of course, there are reasons for his stupidity.
Besides having intellectual disabilities, he also suffers from the inferiority complex and fragile ego that most teenagers have.
Because he was not Emperor Li Renzong's biological son, but his nephew, in order to prove himself powerful as soon as possible and establish his authority in front of the ministers, he listened to the lies of the envoy sent by Shen Tu Xin, and was also misled by He Jing, the general of the Imperial Guard who fled south to Jiaozhi.
This guy believed that the Song Dynasty was in chaos and that the emperor of the Song Dynasty must be an idiot.
This is truly a stroke of luck!
When I first ascended the throne, and I was truly ready to make a name for myself and make you bunch of scum kneel before me, I decided to start by attacking the weak Song Dynasty!
Come on! Send 100,000 troops north!
Kill that brat Zhao Huan!
Unfortunately, in order to ease tensions in the court and increase his own political capital, Regent Zhang Boyu also agreed to the young emperor's whimsical idea.
Thus, the Vietnamese, oblivious to their own fate, sent an army of 100,000 into Guangnan West Road.
This matter reached Zhao Huan's ears.
Holy crap! I was just thinking of a reason to get back at you, and you jumped up like that!
Why don't you just obediently wash your neck clean, kneel there, and wait to die?
How could I refuse such a base request?
If one is not satisfied, it would truly be contrary to the way of a benevolent ruler!
Yue Fei, take 10,000 men and go kill Jiaozhi!
And so a series of subsequent events unfolded.
Yue Fei's military achievements not only impressed the military leaders within the Song Dynasty, but also directly influenced the attitudes of Champa and Zhenla.
Moreover, and most importantly, it plunged Jiaozhi into political turmoil.
Li Yanghuan, the King of Jiaozhi, had barely settled into his post when he had hoped to first seize Zhao Huan's Guangnan West Road, then force Zhenla and Champa to assemble an army of 300,000 and continue northward.
But now it's all just nonsense.
Fortunately, Li Yanghuan had no ambition; his only pleasures were drinking, eating meat, and playing with beautiful women.
Since the Song Dynasty is so powerful, we should just leave it alone.
They can't possibly defeat them anyway!
But the ministers were worried.
In the court of the Ly Dynasty of Giao Chi, the pro-war and pro-peace factions were engaged in daily verbal battles.
But the war of words ended quickly.
On June 15th of the second year of the Jingkang era, Yue Fei led a total of 30,000 troops, including those conscripted from Guangnan West Road and the new army, across the border between the Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi, and advanced into Jiaozhi territory.
When the military intelligence reached the court in Jiaozhi, the entire court was shocked.
Upon hearing this news, Li Yanghuan, who was enjoying himself with beautiful women, remained calm and continued drinking, eating meat, and playing with the women.
Anyway, Yue Fei would never be able to conquer it. Just like fifty years ago, when the Song Dynasty sent 300,000 troops into Jiaozhi, they ultimately failed because they couldn't adapt to the local climate and water conditions.
However, Liu Qingtan, a minister who advocated peace, could not remain calm.
He rushed to Li Yanghuan and berated Zhang Boyu, accusing him of spreading heresy and inciting the emperor to wage war against the Song Dynasty. He demanded that the emperor immediately hand Zhang Boyu over to the Song army to quell the war.
Upon hearing this, the impetuous young Li Yanghuan immediately jumped up and compromised with the Song army.
No! It can't be done!
Let them attack, let's see if they can win!
Have we forgotten the lessons of fifty years ago?
No matter how capable Yue Fei was on the battlefield, could his soldiers withstand the miasma and poisonous snakes of Jiaozhi?
Li Yanghuan berated Liu Qingtan and drove him away.
Zhang Boyu immediately mobilized an army of 150,000 in Jiaozhi and sent General Ruan Jing north to intercept Yue Fei.
Starting from Siming Prefecture, Yue Fei divided his troops into three routes: the left route was led by Yang Zaixing, the right route by Zhang Xian, and he himself led the central army.
The three armies advanced into Jiaozhi in separate routes. Within five days, the left and right routes cleared out Su Mao and Menzhou respectively, completely cutting off the Jiaozhi army's route for outflanking maneuvers.
The Song army was like three sharp flying swords, unstoppable, soaring across the eastern border of Jiaozhi, turning all obstacles into dust in its wake.
This route is the same one taken by the Song army when they marched south during the reign of Emperor Shenzong fifty years ago.
The Song army had 300,000 troops that year, and they pressed forward all the way, causing the Jiaozhi army to suffer repeated defeats.
This time, Yue Fei led only 30,000 troops, yet his forces remained unstoppable.
On June 25th, Yue Fei's central army had arrived at Fuliang River.
The same old method was used: the Jiaozhi army deployed 300 ships on the Fuliang River to block Yue Fei and prevent him from continuing south.
Li Changjie, the commander of the Jiaozhi army at the time, blocked the Song army here. After being misled by the Song army, he rashly launched an attack and was beaten by the group, losing his teeth on the ground.
If it weren't for the sudden illness in the Song army, Jiaozhi would have been recovered during the reign of Emperor Shenzong.
This time, Nguyen Kinh Ha learned from the experience and lessons of Li Thuong Kiet fifty years ago, holding firm and preventing any movement, and tightly guarding the Phu Luong River.
He believed that the Song army was isolated and deep in the wilderness, suffering from acclimatization problems and difficulty adapting to the climate. He thought that as long as the Song army was prevented from crossing the river, the two sides would be deadlocked for less than a month, and he would be certain to win!
To Ruan Jinghe's surprise, this time, the Song army actually set up camp on the north bank of the Fu Liang River and stayed there peacefully.
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