The two Ngô kings marched on Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, who refused to obey them from his mountain base at Hoa Lư; after more than a month they gave up and went home, taking his son Đinh Liễn to Cổ Loa as a hostage.
Siege
Ngô attack on Hoa Lư
- 951 CE
- Southeast Asia
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