On the fourth day of the battle, seeing that the situation was hopelessly reversed, Su Xian felt as if he was sincere. After thinking about it, he wrote another letter and sent someone to Shenglong City to hand it over to Li Tianzuo.

Your Majesty, it’s time to run away. The old minister is incompetent. Since you can’t stand firm for Liangzhou for you, you can only die to repay the country’s kindness.

Once Lang Son is lost, you must not stay in Tsing Long City, and you must not make a big bet. You must retreat south to a place with dangerous terrain.

At the same time, be sure to be careful of Mingguo's new firearms.

After the letter was sent out, Su Xiancheng accepted it for a while and was about to go to the battlefield to command the battle. As a result, it rained on the fifth day and the Ming army stopped attacking.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Su Xiancheng was overjoyed and immediately realized that it was because the rainy day threatened the Ming army's gunpowder, which made them dare not fight, so this was the only opportunity for the South Vietnamese army!

We must fight a counterattack in the rainy days, take advantage of the rainy days to regain the lost commanding heights, and reverse the decline of the battle in one fell swoop!

So at Su Xiancheng's order, a considerable number of the South Vietnamese troops stationed in Lang Son area switched from defense to offense and began to launch a powerful offensive at the Ming army's garrison, trying to turn the tide.

This is the third misjudgment made by Su Xiancheng.

He mistakenly believed that the power of the Ming army was mainly due to firearms, and believed that a large part of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was brought about by firearms. If the firearms were lost, the Ming army was no big deal.

But the fact is that when there were no firearms, the Ming army was just as powerful.

The South Vietnamese army turned into an offensive, and the Ming army followed the trend and moved into a defensive, directly from the offensive side to the defensive side, defending the commanding heights, and began to fight defensive operations. Facing the flocking South Vietnamese army, they used bows, arrows, and wooden rocks to give them huge damage.

The South Vietnamese army's attack was blocked, but Su Xiancheng was unwilling to give up this precious opportunity to counterattack and forced the army to invest more troops to launch a strong attack on the Ming army.

The South Vietnamese army was forced to invest a large number of troops into the strong attack, and launched a difficult attack against the rain of arrows and rolling wood and rocks.

The Ming army just stood firm and did not take the initiative at the beginning, but when the South Vietnamese army retreated one after another, the Ming army took the initiative.

Condescending and unstoppable, this advantage was taken advantage by the Ming army in turn, defeating the South Vietnamese army that was coming to besieged with counterattacks on several stronghold battlefields. With a wave of counterattacks, it pushed to a very dangerous position for the South Vietnamese army.

Su Xiancheng was stunned now.

What does stealing a chicken without backfire?

That's probably it.

After fighting, a mountain was not recaptured, but instead it lost its troops and generals, destroying the morale of the army and the physical strength of the soldiers. A lot of military supplies were consumed, but there was no result and even the Ming army was attacked against each other.

Su Xiancheng and the officers of Nanyue are now really aware of a problem that they had not realized in any case.

The strength of the Ming army is in all aspects.

The rain fell from the morning of the fifth day to the evening and stopped. On the morning of the sixth day, the sun was shining brightly. The Ming army was ready to go, took out gunpowder and fuse, and launched a new round of offensive.

When the battle reached the seventh day, two-thirds of the military strongholds in the entire northern mountainous area of ​​Lang Son were occupied by the Ming army. The South Vietnamese army became increasingly afraid to resist and had less will to fight. At the beginning, the resolute charge that was about to die was no longer visible.

I was scared of being beaten.

Su Xiancheng did not give up and tried to take a detour to attack the rear of the Ming army, and even sent troops to attack Danan Pass, but the result was not good.

The Ming army seemed to have expected it and made corresponding arrangements. The Nanyue army that sneaked into Danan Pass was completely wiped out, and Su Xiancheng's last attempt also lost its effectiveness.

When the combat situation in the mountainous areas in the northern part of Lang Son deteriorated completely, some South Vietnamese soldiers even began to run away from the stalls. Some subordinates persuaded Su Xiancheng to run while he was still able to run away. If he didn't run, everything would be too late.

The failure of this war is a foregone conclusion, and the South Vietnamese side cannot come up with any way to fight the Ming army's attack.

Su Xiancheng sighed and felt very painful about it.

Faced with his subordinates' kind words of advice, Su Xiancheng finally did not agree.

He was not ready to run away, he was ready to stay and fight until the last moment.

"Your Majesty trusts me to hand over the army and important defense zones to me, promises me important power and to hand over the country to me. This is what I should do and is the responsibility I should bear, but I did not succeed.

I failed His Majesty's trust and lost important defense zones, causing heavy losses to the army. Faced with such a failure, what else can I have to face to return to Shenglong City to escape with them? I can only die."

He rejected his subordinates' suggestion that he wanted to take him to other places to avoid the limelight and prepared to continue fighting to die.

However, when the eighth day of the battle, the entire mountain defense line had been destroyed by the Ming army, and completely lost its ability to block the Ming army. Su Xiancheng's own garrison points were exposed to the Ming army's artillery attack.

The entire South Vietnamese army collapsed and a large number of soldiers fled. Su Xiancheng's order was completely meaningless.

When the Ming army was attacking artillery fire, his subordinates suggested that they take Su Xiancheng out of the siege for the last time. Su Xiancheng refused and decided to dismiss his subordinates and allow them to escape on their own. He decided to take the remaining soldiers to make a final resistance.

After the Ming army used artillery to destroy the military facilities, they sent infantry to start the siege. Su Xiancheng led the last dozens of soldiers who were unwilling to leave to launch the final battle. They were all shot dead by the Ming army's musketeers and died on the way to charge.

The Ming army successfully captured the last mountain and successfully controlled the entire Lang Sang mountain area. Then Zhao Yucheng dispatched cavalry to pursue the fleeing South Vietnamese soldiers and successfully intercepted a considerable number of fleeing South Vietnamese soldiers as prisoners.

Subsequently, Zhao Yucheng sent troops to attack the entire Liangzhou and took the entire Liangzhou into his pocket. The entire military operation ended successfully in early March of the ninth year of Hongwu.

The Ming army defeated more than 60,000 South Vietnamese troops in Liangzhou with 35,000 troops, killed about 13,000 and captured more than 40,000 people. The fleeing South Vietnamese soldiers were only a few thousand. It was a very tragic military failure.

Zhao Yucheng reported good news to Su Yonglin, and prepared the army to lead the army south to attack Shenglong City.

After seeing the "strong combat effectiveness" of the South Vietnamese army, Zhao Yucheng established full military confidence. He believed that even if they were given time to mobilize the army to defend, they would collapse under the offensive of the Ming army.

It is a smooth road to Shenglong City, and Nanyue will undoubtedly be defeated.

Su Yonglin, who was in Huizhou, soon received a military notice from Zhao Yucheng. He learned that the Battle of Lang Shan had taken nine days to end. He was very satisfied and had further confidence in Zhao Yucheng's military capabilities. Then he learned that Zhao Yucheng had led his army south to attack Shenglong City.

Su Yonglin thought for a moment and decided to send someone to quickly pass the order to Zhao Yucheng, just let Zhao Yucheng surround Shenglong City, but don’t attack.
Chapter completed!