On April 20, Li Laosi looked at the city gate of Vientiane, the capital of the Southern Palm Kingdom, and frowned with some doubts.

After half a month of repairs in Cambodia, after the Lantern Festival, 150,000 troops divided into two routes, attacked Nanzhang from Cambodia and Vietnam at the same time, and reached Vientiane in three months.

Nam Trung was called Laos by the Vietnamese, but the territory of this country was much larger than that of Laos in later generations, and it controlled a large area of land in the north-central part of the Indochina Peninsula, and the land area was two or three times that of Laos in later generations.

However, at this time, the armed forces of Nanzhang were very weak and vulnerable in front of the Tiger Ben army.

The Nanzhang Kingdom is composed of large and small "Meng". Like most of the Theravada Buddhist states in Southeast Asia, the Namsho Kingdom could divide its territory into two categories: the first was the "Gyeonggi" region, which was directly ruled by the king, and the "Zhivassal" region, which was ruled by the king's cronies. The second category is the "outer domain" of the hereditary chieftains of the frontier regions.

In the "Gyeonggi" and "Zhifan" regions controlled by the king, the soldiers and horses were no match for the Tiger Army. Often, there was a burst of gunfire from this side, killing hundreds of people on that side, and the army directly belonging to the king of Nanzhang was dispersed.

In the territory of the hereditary chieftain, Li Laosi's army encountered some resistance. Many local nobles tried to attack Li Laosi's supply lines.

But it is a pity that the productivity of this southern country is too backward, and those chieftains not only control a sparse number of people, but also have backward equipment. A spear and short sword made of inferior iron is an opponent for a samurai who escorts grain and grass?

Fifty thousand samurai formed a grain and grass escort and suffered more than a dozen attacks, but all of them repelled the enemy.

By 20 April, two-thirds of the eastern and southern parts of Nanzhang had been occupied by Li Laosi.

It only needs to capture Vientiane and capture the king of Nanzhang, Sorina Wangsa, and the Nanzhang Kingdom will be destroyed.

However, surrounded by the Tiger Army, the appearance of Vientiane City is very strange.

Several gates of Vientiane City were wide open, and there was not a single soldier on the city wall, and it was completely undefended in front of the Tiger Army.

Li Laosi smiled and said, "Is there an empty city plan?" ”

Li Dingguo carefully observed the situation in the city with a telescope and said: "Uncle, there are a lot of soldiers and horses hidden in this city, if the Tiger Ben army rushes in with rifles, they may be blocked by the houses and temples and fall into a white-knuckle battle. ”

Shimazu Hisamitsu, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, stood aside and said in broken Chinese: "Unfortunately, the samurai are all in the grain and grass, otherwise, use the samurai to kill it!" ”

Sanada Nobuyuki was frightened in Vietnam and died after the New Year. On the one hand, Li Laosi asked Sanada's body to be sent back to Japan for burial, and on the other hand, he asked Li Zhi to transfer Shimazu Hisamitsu from Japan.

Shimazu Hisamitsu was the lord of the Satsuma Domain, and he was quite famous in Japan, and he could suppress the ronin of the samurai army. On the other hand, Shimazu Hisatsu, the Japanese princes who followed Li Zhi since the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, are also relatively reliable. Let Shimazu Hisamitsu command the Japanese samurai army and the ronin samurai recruited later, Li Zhi and Li Laosi are more at ease.

Shimazu Hisamitsu has studied Chinese hard for many years, and now he is able to have simple conversations.

Li Dingguo arched his hand and said: "Uncle, at this moment, I can only use the righteous word camp to kill with handcuffs." ”

Li Laosi pondered for a while and said: "Mobilize 40,000 handguns, mobilize 10,000 soldiers of the Yizi battalion, and let the soldiers of each Yizi battalion attack with four handguns!" ”

Li Dingguo shouted the order and went to mobilize troops and horses.

The 10,000 Yizi battalion soldiers quickly completed their armament. The soldiers carried two well-loaded handcuffs, and two well-loaded handcuffs pinned to their waists, and attacked Vientiane City.

10,000 people entered the south gate, and there was no movement in Vientiane City.

The soldiers continued to advance and began to enter the house to search for any hidden soldiers.

Suddenly, a dull trumpet sounded in all corners of the city. Tens of thousands of soldiers directly under the king of Nanzhang who were ambushed in the houses in the city came out with scimitars in their hands.

Li Dingguo walked at the front of the Yizi battalion, and suddenly saw dozens of barbarians rushing out of the houses on both sides of the road. These Nanzhang soldiers had no armor on their bodies and only a scimitar in their hands, but they guarded the national capital with hideous faces and seemed ready to fight to the end.

Li Dingguo took a step back, stood back to back with the soldiers behind him, raised the handcuff in his right hand and shot at the brute soldiers on both sides.

The gunshot rang out, and the blood on the small barbarian on the left, who was closest to Li Dingguo, bloomed on his body, and he fell to the ground screaming, rolling and moaning.

The caliber of the handcuffs produced by Li Zhi is very large, which can ensure that the person who is shot will lose his combat effectiveness at one time.

Not only did Li Dingguo open fire, but gunshots rang out everywhere in the entire Vientiane City, and it was obvious that the Yizi battalions on various streets had begun to exchange fire with the enemy.

After shooting a handcuff, Li Dingguo's palm let go of the handcuff and let the handcuff fall to the ground, and quickly handed over the handcuff that had been loaded with ammunition in his left hand to his right hand, and fired at the Nanzhang soldiers who rushed out of the room on the right.

"Smack!"

The distance is only two meters, and Li Dingguo, who has been practicing handcuff shooting for several months, will obviously not miss. The soldier on the right was shot in the stomach and fell to the ground clutching his stomach.

Li Dingguo threw away the handcuff in his hand, pulled out the handcuff on his waist, and shot at a Nanzhang soldier holding a spear in front of him.

The guards around him were also firing constantly. Although a single handcuff could not be fired in tandem like the pistols of later generations, the effect of these four handcuffs in relay firing was just as amazing. Li Dingguo and more than a dozen guards behind him killed and wounded more than 30 Nanzhang soldiers in the blink of an eye.

The soldiers of Nanzhang who rushed out of the house thought that they could enter the white-knuckle battle. But they didn't expect the Yizi Battalion's handcuffs to be so fierce and more able to shoot continuously.

Li Dingguo raised his fourth-in-command handcuff and aimed it at the head of a Nanzhang officer wearing fish scale armor. I only heard a snap, and the white and red on the head of the thin Southeast Asian officer shot out, and he fell to the ground without saying a word.

After this gunshot, the Nanzhang soldiers near Li Dingguo were completely frightened. They no longer dared to charge at Li Dingguo's personal guards, but turned around and fled to Beicheng.

"Reload!"

Li Dingguo quickly reloaded the handcuff in his hand, and then shouted loudly: "Support other streets!" ”

The firepower of the Yizi battalion was too fierce, and it didn't take long for all the Nanzhang soldiers in the city to flee and surrender.

A battalion of soldiers rushed into the palace and captured the king of Nanzhang, Sorina Wangsa, and hundreds of civil and military ministers of Nanzhang.

Li Laosi walked into the MixC and walked all the way into the palace of Nanzhang.

After inspecting the palace, Li Laosi shook his head and said, "In the land of barbarians, the culture is really backward. ”

"Immediately write a Tang newspaper and report to His Highness that the Southern Ruler Kingdom has been destroyed by us."

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