Two days later, Li Changjie woke up quietly in Shenglong Mansion.

I have to say that his luck is pretty good, at least he was not trampled to death by his mount.

Uh... or it would be better if you fall off a horse and die like this? Then at least you don’t have to worry about the war that will definitely be defeated.

As the commander, since he is still alive, he can only do his best to strive for the illusory last hope.

"What's the situation with the Northern Thieves now?" Li Changjie, with a pale face, asked quietly.

A personal guard replied: "They fired guns to destroy the navy and are still building ships on the north shore."

"Is the navy finished?" Li Changjie asked in surprise.

"Yes, Taifu, the navy is finished..."

"How many ships did the Northern Thieves build?" The fait accompli is powerless to change, so Li Changjie can only continue to ask.

"have no idea……."

"I don't know? The Northern thieves are building ships by the river. Do you dare to say you don't know?" Li Changjie said angrily: "Go and check!"

"But..., but there is a demon on the shore looking at it. People say that the demon can capture the soul. The master, your golden body, has fallen off the horse. How dare we show our face in front of the demon..."

Before the invasion of the Great Zhou Dynasty last year, Li Changjie burned incense at Huanglong Temple. At that time, the host of the temple announced that Li Changjie had a golden body to protect his body and would definitely be invincible.

This incident was once widely publicized to boost morale of the Vietnamese army. Now it is better, the golden body is broken, and the benefits obtained through superstition have now had to be repaid twice as much.

"Trial tutor, surrender, we can't win..." The guard lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "The Han people can restrain the use of the demons. The boys below were frightened. In the past few days, many people have fled in each battalion, but they can't stop it. Even the officers have fled. There is no way to fight this battle..."

"Come." Li Changjie seemed to have not heard him muttering, and tried his best to increase the volume, called other personal guards, and then ordered: "Drag this traitor who disrupted our morale and was killed."

The Grand Tutor of the Great Yue Kingdom was still a bit authoritative. The guards did not dare to face the Chinese army, but they were still ruthless in killing their own people. Before the frustrated guard could beg for mercy, the others rushed up and held him down, dragged him outside the door and beheaded directly on the spot.

A scream came from outside the door, and the bloody head was put on the tray and brought back.

"Send a supervision team to kill all deserters, one person fleeing, one team fleeing, one team fleeing, one battalion all fleeing, one battalion will kill one battalion!"

Li Changjie took the initiative. Anyway, he would definitely not get a good end if he fell into the hands of Hua Jun. So he might as well do his best to fight to the death!

"I am the commander of the commander, summoning Zong Tan, Li Hongzhen, and Li Changwen's troops, and immediately approach the commander."

After thinking it through, Li Changjie seemed to have recovered some energy. He leaned half on the bed and ordered coldly:

"Tell them that I will fight the Northern Thiefs in Shenglong Mansion!"

The Fuliang River stretches for thousands of miles, and the 150,000 Vietnamese troops can only defend separately.

Moreover, the Vietnamese army was not completely unprepared for the direction of the sea. After all, the Chinese Navy landed once last year, and they are now blocking the coast of the Great Vietnamese Kingdom and seriously sinking any ships that want to enter and exit the Great Vietnamese port.

In fact, Li Hongzhen's troops, whose defense zone is located close to the sea, are troops used to defend the coast.

But now it seems that there is no need. The Chinese Army gathered in the north bank of the Fuliang River facing Shenglong Mansion. They seemed to have no intention of circling around the river, just taking the shortest route to attack Shenglong Mansion.

Since that's the case, Li Changjie doesn't mind taking a gamble, shrinking his defense line, concentrating all his troops near Shenglong Mansion, striving to take advantage of his military strength and make a last-ditch effort.

...

Things usually get worse when you think things are already bad.

After the emperor and ministers of Dayue learned in despair that Li Changjie fell off a horse and fell into a coma, and that most of the front-line troops fled, some people had begun to suggest that the young emperor and Empress Dowager Yilan give up the "Southern Shou" of Shenglong Mansion.

At first, the small court really thought this was a good idea. Although they didn't know where to escape to avoid the Chinese army, they were much better than staying in the big target of Shenglong Mansion.

Maybe you can hide until the rainy season comes?

But the issue of "Nan Shou" was just put on the agenda, and Li Changjie woke up. The powerful Taifu, the Grand Tutor, immediately sent his own troops to clean up any person who dared to flee, whether it was an ordinary soldier or an important minister of the court, all of them were beheaded!

What's even more terrible is that news came from the south that it was a feud with the Great Yue Kingdom. The Chameng Kingdom, which was conquered by Li Changjie a few years ago, took advantage of the opportunity when the Yue Kingdom was beaten by the Chinese army and sent troops to attack the former Chameng Kingdom homeland that was annexed by Li Changjie.

In order to fight against the Chinese army, the elite troops of the southern defenders had been transferred to the vicinity of Fuliang River, where only some old and weak were left. Therefore, the Vietnamese army was defeated one after another, not only lost the territory that the Taifu had previously annexed, but also many of the territory that originally belonged to Dayue were also thrown to the Chameng people!

Losing troops and territories is a small matter, but cutting off the retreat of the court's southward migration is a big matter.

The king and minister of Jiaozhi could only stay in Shenglong Mansion, which was already a dead place, and could not go anywhere.

Fortunately, other generals and generals also knew this. At the last moment, they finally let go of their prejudices (it was the case) and quickly led their troops to approach Shenglong Mansion.

Therefore, the Great Yue Kingdom still has more than 100,000 troops, which can be used to make a last-ditch effort.

Or, the capital to surrender with the conditions?

On December 15, several Jiaozhi civil servants representing the little emperor and Empress Dowager Yilan, with the support of Li Hongzhen, sneaked across the Fuliang River and brought new negotiation conditions for the Jiaozhi monarch and ministers to the Nanzheng Army Headquarters:

1. The State of Yue is willing to surrender to China and only retains the territory south of the Fuliang River.

2. Yue Kingdom was willing to take the title of emperor, and was named the princes of foreign countries outside the Goryeo Act.

3. The Yue State is willing to compensate Qin and Lian states for losses and military expenditures of the Chinese army.

At this point, the Yue Kingdom offered a price of 30 million taels of gold, and the envoy made it clear that if it was not enough, the compensation could continue to increase, and the Yue Kingdom could use royal family members and noble women to pay the debt.

The Jiaozhi people even offered a large list of 30,000 people, including all princesses, princesses, county lords, wives, concubines and daughters of nobles at all levels, as well as all palace maids and beautiful women among the people.

In other words, the State of Yue was willing to hand over all noble women and beautiful women among the people except the Empress Dowager Yilan and the Queen of the Little Emperor Li Qiande.

Then there is Article 4: Jiaozhi pays tribute to China every year, and Article 5: The people of Jiaozhi are willing to hand over the rebel Li Changjie.

To be honest, Feng Sanhu himself was still a little moved when he saw this condition of summoning - this was not much different from the direct destruction of Jiaozhi.

Unfortunately, although he was the commander of the Southern Expedition Army, Feng Sanhu did not have the right to negotiate, and he did not even have the right to hand over the envoy to the Honglu Temple.

The orders given to him by the Cabinet and General Staff are very simple and clear:

Destroy the country and extinguish the sacrifices!
Chapter completed!