Sun Bin, who was standing in the wooden building watching the battle, did not expect that the Annan army was so inexperienced. The Chinese troops had not yet launched a counterattack, and they were defeated on their own.
"Order all the troops to attack, Coast Defense Governor Le Yu cannot escape!"
"The last general takes command!"
Ye Chenglin responded loudly and raised his hands, turned around and went downstairs to summon troops to join the attack.
Sun Bin's order was passed to the various troops on the position through the flag soldiers on the wooden building. The machine gunner at the front line put down the handle of the machine gun, picked up the prepared Dresser rifle, and ordered the three ammunition handlers:
"You stay and guard the machine guns. This officer wants to go to the front line to kill the enemy!"
"Sir, just leave one person to guard the machine gun, and let me follow you to kill the enemy!"
Annan's troops were defeated in one blow, and the ammunition man was unwilling to give up the easily obtained victory.
"Okay! You stay and guard the machine gun. The other two will follow my officer to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service!"
The machine gunner designated the kicked soldier to stay behind and immediately issued orders to the other two ammunition handlers.
"Yes, sir!" The two ammunition handlers looked happy, wielding two old-fashioned muskets and followed the machine gunner out of the position.
Wave after wave of Chinese troops rushed out of their positions to pursue the Annan army, causing the Annan army's rout to continue to expand. The front army collided with the rear army, and the well-organized Annan troops were scattered by the rout, forming new rout troops that continued to charge towards the rear.
, and finally formed a great rout of the entire army.
"Defeat, defeat, it's all over!" Looking at the defeated army driven by the Chinese troops, the commander of Annan's army was so frightened that he fell off his horse.
"General, general!" The soldiers around him saw the master falling from his horse and immediately gathered around him to help him up.
"The general is in trouble, the Tang people are rushing towards us!"
As soon as Chen Wuyuan sat on his horse with the help of his own soldiers, he heard bad news.
"Retreat immediately to Haiphong City!" Chen Wuyuan saw Chen Shangfa, who was holding knives in both hands and charging towards him with a fierce look. His face, which had just returned to normal, instantly turned pale.
"General, the Governor is still in the camp. Should we inform the Governor?"
"Idiot, Governor Gao Mingyuan has ordered you to get the news in advance and leave first. If you don't return to the main camp, the guard camp will immediately withdraw to Haiphong City!" Head of State Chen Wu glared at the talkative soldiers angrily, and swung his whip and hit him hard.
Sitting down on the horse, the horse was in pain and roared, carrying Chen Wuyuan's fat body and running. More than two hundred other mounted soldiers saw this and immediately followed.
"Battal Commander, they are riding away and our brothers can't catch up!"
"Damn, you cheap and stupid Annan grandson!" Chen Shangfa gasped, looked at Chen Wuyuan who was running away bitterly, and said loudly: "Brothers, hold on for a while, the Annan people's high-ranking officials are in the military camp.
Don’t let anyone else catch him!”
"Brothers, hold on!" Li Yu is a high-ranking official in Annan. Catching him is almost the first achievement of this battle. When the more than 200 mountain camp soldiers who were chasing him heard about the capture of Li Yu, they suddenly felt sick.
A force.
"Okay! Capture Li Yu alive and break into Haiphong City!" Chen Shangfa shouted and continued to attack with his soldiers.
In the Annan army camp, Li Yu stayed in the tent uneasily. Hearing the shouts of killing getting closer and closer outside, he became even more panicked.
When he attacked the Chinese camp in Halong, Lai Yu thought that he would be sure of success. Who knew that he had just handed over the command to Chen Wuyuan and before he returned to the camp, he heard bad news about the setback of the attack from the front. At that time, Lai Yu thought that the Chinese troops had suffered a setback.
Surrounded by more than 10,000 troops, the attack was frustrated because the Chinese resisted desperately, so they just ordered Chen Wuyuan to continue to increase the number of offensive soldiers on the front line. However, he did not expect that within a short ten or twenty minutes of the order being conveyed to the front line and the camp, the battlefield situation would change.
Big changes.
The officer who conveyed the order had not yet returned to the camp, but as the number of defeated troops outside increased, a bad thought came to Li Yu's mind. "Is the army defeated?"
"Report! Lord Governor, it's bad, all the frontline troops have been defeated, we have been surrounded by the Tang people!"
While Li Yu was worried, an injured officer ran into the camp. It was the officer he had just sent out to convey the order.
"How could the army of more than 10,000 national dynasties be defeated? Where is Chen Wuyuan? Where is he!"
"General Chen ran away with his soldiers. Lord Governor, the entire army of ten thousand people is dead!"
The reporting officer knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
"I promoted Chen Wuyuan at a young age, how could he treat me like this!" Li Yu threw his official hat on the ground in grief and anger, dropped everything on the table, and said madly: "Chen Wuyuan wronged me, Chen Wuyuan wronged me!
"
"My lord, take heart! I will protect you to the death and break out of the encirclement!"
Officer Annan, who came back to report the news, knelt on the ground and said loyally.
"It's too late, it's too late! The army has been defeated. How can I see your Majesty, your consort?" Li Yu was heartbroken. He pulled out his sword and wanted to kill himself, but the sword just touched his neck and he couldn't move.
"Governor-General, the pillar of the country, don't commit suicide!" Li Yu's move shocked hundreds of guards in the military tent. They all stepped forward and took the sword from Li Yu's hand, and urged: "Victory or defeat is a common matter for military officers. Besides,
The failure of this war is entirely due to Chen Wuyuan abandoning the army and fleeing. The fault does not lie with the Governor. The Governor must not commit suicide. The country has constant internal and external troubles and cannot leave the Optimus Prime of Your Excellency!"
Many soldiers and generals spoke sincerely, and Li Yu finally found a reason to live and save his face as a scholar.
"The current situation in the country is difficult, so I have sacrificed my personal honor and disgrace and retained a guilty person to serve the country."
"Your Majesty the Governor, bear the humiliation and bear the heavy burden. I will never let the rebels harm you at all!" Li Yu had no intention of dying, and the generals in the camp breathed a sigh of relief and immediately gave their assurances.
Since the Peasant Army troops entered Annan, there have been constant battles between the two parties, but there have been no real high-level casualties. Because the Peasant Army is fighting in a foreign country, killing captured Annan officials is to offend Annan's ruling class, and will usher in the other party's complete defeat.
Hostility and counterattack, therefore whenever the peasant army captured Annan officials, they would often demand a certain ransom before releasing them. Annan officials at all levels also tacitly recognized the existence of the peasant army and did not kill them.
The reason why Wu Yazhong incurred the hostility of all Annan officials was because he broke the tacit agreement between the peasant army and Annan officials. Not only did he massacre captured Annan officials, he also purged Annan officials and gentry in the occupied areas and robbed their property.
Wu Yazhong was very ambitious and always wanted to fight back to Taipingfu to rebuild the Dacheng Kingdom. He did not care about the opinions of Annan officials. The leader of the Tang people in Halong was also a scholar and would not be as careless as Wu Yazhong.
Li Yu and his soldiers did not choose to resist fearlessly. After a while, they were captured by Chen Shangfa, who was the first to arrive. As Li Yu was captured, the defeated Annan soldiers raised their hands and surrendered. Some soldiers who were hiding also left their hiding places and surrendered.
The actual fighting time between the two sides in the Ha Long Attack and Defense Battle was only about an hour. For most of the following day, the Chinese troops were busy capturing prisoners all over the mountains and plains.
At the end of the battle, more than 9,000 Annan soldiers were taken prisoner. Excluding the more than 1,000 people who died in the battle, less than 2,000 Annan soldiers escaped.
The commander was captured, the troops in the two provinces were wiped out, and the defenses of Guang'an and Haiphong provinces were empty. Sun Bin immediately ordered that 500 young and strong men be left to cooperate with the old and young in the camp to guard the prisoners, and the other young and strong men would cooperate with the entire army to attack and occupy the surrounding areas.
Three days after the Battle of Ha Long, Quang An and Hai Ninh provinces were completely occupied. On the fourth day, Annan general Tran Moo Yuan, who fled back to Hai Phong City, abandoned the city again and fled. Hai Phong City fell into the hands of the Chinese troops. With the fall of Hai Phong City, Hai Phong Province
Several small counties under its jurisdiction all surrendered voluntarily and were brought under the control of Chinese troops.
Three provinces fell, 10,000 regular troops were wiped out, and a loophole appeared in the defense force of northern Annam. Encouraged by the actions of Sun Bin's troops, the remaining Annam rebels took the initiative to stage an uprising in Taiyuan Province under the banner of descendants of the previous royal family. Then the rebellion quickly spread
As far as Bei Kan and Yi Quang provinces, the Annan troops were unable to fight back under the attack of the rebels and could only huddle in a few key cities and wait for assistance from the Hue court.