With the help of the Fuso and Goguryeo people, the military fortresses set up by the Vietnamese were destroyed one after another. According to the plan originally formulated by the King of Vietnam, this place must be turned into a grave for the Tang army. No matter whether there are children or the elderly below, they must now fight for the whole of Vietnam.
At the beginning, many people were really fooled by him, thinking that after the Tang army arrived, the local people would have no way to survive and would definitely be killed. However, when the situation on the battlefield was reported back, some people felt scared.
What they think in their hearts and what they do are completely different. Take the current situation for example. Although they want to fight with the Tang army, the problem is that they simply do not have the ability. The gap in strength between the two sides is too big. If you really want to fight, judging from the current situation, the people do not have the ability, the strength, or the confidence.
The King of Vietnam also went to the front line in person, but the troops he could muster were too small. At this time, his subordinates advised him not to gather all the troops together. If all were gathered together, it would be like our war in the north, and all our troops might be wiped out in one battle.
So the Vietnamese army is now dispersed. When Li Xiang received the report from his subordinates, he felt that there were still some capable people inside Vietnam. Just as they said, dispersing is the best way at this stage, but it can only delay their time. So after more than ten days, Li Xiang still surrounded the Vietnamese king in the southernmost city of Nangen.
This is a small city in itself and cannot accommodate too many troops. The King of Vietnam ran here with tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers, and the whole city was about to burst in an instant. Originally, there were only about 10,000 people in this city, but now there are four or five times more people. Whether it is eating, drinking water, or other activities, the whole city has come to a standstill and there is no order at all.
The common people in the city are different from the people brought by the king. These people have lived here for generations and don’t want to care about the affairs of the north at all, but they still know that the King of Vietnam is their ruler.
In everyone's impression, the ruler should have his majesty, but the current King of Vietnam is like a stray dog. He has no gorgeous clothes on his body, and is followed by some blood-covered followers. It is obvious that he was defeated in the front line. But the King of Vietnam did not say so. Instead, he said to his subordinates, "You came here to inspect, don't you even bring any food with you when you come out to inspect?"
Although there were several granaries in the city, they were only enough to feed a few thousand people for a while. With the sudden increase of several times in population, it was really unknown how to deal with the problem of feeding these people. Although the King of Vietnam also wanted to save some money and wanted to give everyone some food to fool them, the hungry soldiers didn't care about this at all and rushed directly into the granary of the city. By the time the King of Vietnam reacted, the food inside had been emptied.
The local people were immediately unhappy. "We stored this food here. If things don't go well during the New Year, this is our last resort. Now you've come and taken it all away. What are we going to do when we can't survive? Are we going to dive into the sea and drink the water?"
The King of Vietnam originally wanted to stop the riots, but unfortunately he did not have the ability to do so. The army he brought and the local people started fighting in the city. The cause was the food. At this time, food is the most important strategic material. If you can't even fill your stomach, how can you care about other things?
The people who came with the king think they are the emperor's close ministers. Let alone taking some of your food, even if they take your wives and children for themselves, what can you do?
But the local people also have their own opinions. If you had been giving us orders during the heyday of the Kingdom of Vietnam, we would have been powerless to resist and would have had no choice but to surrender everything we had. But now the situation is different. You have been defeated in the north, and our city is the only one left in the entire country. Are you still a king? Your men come and rob us, so why should we tolerate it?
Armed fights between the two sides took place in various places in the city. The King of Vietnam could not tolerate all this, but he had no way to stop everyone. His subordinates also told him that this was purely for survival. We can only stay here and try not to go out and cause trouble for everyone. Otherwise, the chances of us surviving are not great. Now people on both sides are bloodthirsty, will they care about you?
The King of Vietnam originally wanted to rely on his own appeal to call on everyone to lay down their arms. After all, they were all compatriots, and when the enemy was about to kill them, they should be more united. But when he was about to go out, he saw that the walls on the street were dyed red, so he simply didn't dare to go out. In such chaos, there was no difference between the life of the king and that of ordinary people, and they could be killed with one knife.
What's more, during the escape, the King's Guard suffered heavy casualties. The original 1,900 King's Guards now have less than 400 people left, and each of them looks like they are malnourished. Even under their protection, His Majesty the King did not dare to go out to mediate, and could only wait until the climax was over before cleaning up the mess.
But after the peak of the killing passed, the streets were littered with corpses. I had originally thought that I could rely on this city to clean up, at least to hold on for a while, giving myself time to prepare to escape overseas, but now the Tang army has not arrived yet, and the whole city is in chaos.
The large-scale fighting had stopped, but both sides had already killed many of the other side. Could it stop? The living wanted to avenge the dead. This was the mainstream idea. Whether it was those who had retreated with the king or the ordinary people who had grown up here, it was impossible for them to turn a blind eye to the corpses in the streets.
Over the next two days, the King of Vietnam completely lost control of the city, and even his own Royal Guards joined in the fighting...
