Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Lin Tao observed his face carefully, and felt that there was no difference in appearance between him and ordinary Cholas, but the Brahmins and Kshatriyas Lin Tao had seen had obvious differences in appearance from ordinary Cholas.

Du Sang had already gone up to greet him, and respectfully saluted the other party with Zhuluo etiquette, and said: "His Royal Highness King Reyaba, thank you for coming to see us."

Reyaba laughed and said: "Dusang, my old friend. If you don't come to me this time, I will go to you to ask something. Do you know that a strange fleet has come from..."

Reyaba stopped talking suddenly, because he found that the entourage following Dusang was very special, it was a typical oriental face.Reyaba pointed to Lin Tao and asked, "This is?..."

Before Du Sang could speak, Lin Tao looked at Reyaba without hesitation and said, "King Reyaba, I am the envoy sent by the great Han Liang."

After the translation was finished, King Leyaba was startled and said, "The great man Liang Kingdom? But the Liang Kingdom that captured Sawady Port?"

"Exactly!"

"Then you brought the fleet that sailed into the strait these two days?"

"Exactly!"

After Lei Yaba heard this, he jumped up from the throne, pointed at Lin Tao and said, "Liang Guo is Zhu Luo's enemy country. You are so brave to come to me alone. Why are you here?" ?!"

Du Sang hurriedly persuaded, "Don't be impatient, King Leiyaba, this Mr. Lin is here to show you the way. At present, this Sawati is already in Liang Guo's pocket. Liang Guo's fleet will be ready at any time You can go south in a big way. The first and second largest armies of the Zhuluo Empire, as well as the third fleet are all defeated by them. Not to mention Langyaxiu, even if Funan Kingdom united with the southeastern countries, it is impossible to defeat the Liang army ..."

Reyaba said coldly: "Oh, that means you are here to talk about surrendering."

Lin Tao said indifferently: "That's right. There is an old saying in our Han that those who know the current affairs are heroes. Sawady has been opened up as Myanmar by Liang Guo in my Han land. In fact, you have cut off contact with Zhu Luo Guo. In fact, even if I Liang Guo If the country does not send a large army to conquer, just cutting off the sea trade route at the port of Sawady will make some small countries in the southeastern archipelago that cannot fully support themselves face disaster."

Reyaba snorted and said: "The descendants of our Brahmans can only make others submit to Lord Shiva, but not others. You should give up this heart."

Lin Tao still tried his best to persuade: "I advise His Majesty the King to think more about it. After you belong to Liang Kingdom, you can still be the king of this wolf tooth repair and continue to enjoy peace."

"There's no need to say more. If it wasn't for our brahmin's practice of not beheading the envoy, you would be sent to death row today. Get out of here quickly." Reyaba continued to say stubbornly.

Reyaba didn't really let Lin Tao and Dusang go so easily.But he had other ideas in his mind.Although he didn't want to surrender to Liang, he also didn't want to be the leader of the kingdoms and become an enemy of Liang.Otherwise, if Liang Jun really came to the door, everyone else would be like a turtle, and he could only bear it alone.

Therefore, Leiyaba's plan was to neither be friends nor enemies with the Liang Kingdom, first contact the Funan Kingdom, the peninsula and the archipelago states, and see how the situation develops.

Lin Tao wanted to say something, but Du Sang tugged at his sleeve, motioning him to leave quickly.The two of them and the interpreter quickly retreated outside the palace immediately.

This so-called royal palace is about the size of a county government office in Han.They walked out of the palace in three steps and two steps.At the door, they saw a guard running hastily into the house.

"My lord! My lord, it's not good. There are five galleons in the port outside the city. It is the fleet that our patrol boats spotted in the past two days!"

Reyaba was startled and said to himself, "You're knocking on the door so soon?" Suddenly, he thought of something again, hit his head and said, "Hey, I'm confused."

Then, he loudly ordered the guards on the left and right: "Quick! Go and arrest those two people just now. In addition, quickly send someone to notify the battalions inside and outside the city, and the navy to prepare for war!"

In the city of Langyaxiu, a flaming arrow soared into the sky, and exploded into a ball of fire when it flew into the air.It was a signal arrow specially made by Liang Jun.The shaft at the front end of the arrow is a hollow bamboo tube filled with half a tube of naphtha.After being burned for a few breaths at high temperature, it will deflagrate.Naturally, the sounding arrow was for the ships moored on the sea surface of the port.

At this time, dozens, nearly a hundred of King Leyaba's guards rushed out. These people were elite soldiers composed of Meng people and Shendu people, and they searched around the street.On the tower of Langyaxiu City, the alarm bell began to jingle.The entire city of Langyaxiu suddenly became noisy and chaotic, and people on the street hid in their houses one after another.

On a street next to the palace, a sharp-eyed Langyaxiu palace guard spotted Lin Tao and others among the chaotic crowd.

He pointed with a knife and shouted loudly: "They are there!" A large group of people were about to chase after them, but only heard a loud bang.A big hole was pierced through the wall of the royal palace in an instant. After the bricks and stone chips were splashed, the cracks radiated from the big hole to the palace wall.

At this moment, several huge stone bombs and fireballs are falling from the sky one after another.Successively hit several buildings in the city centered on the palace.These are the projectiles fired by the heavy ballista on Liang Guo's galleon.

These objects that fell from the sky and the huge roar and impact shocked everyone in the Wolf Fang Xiu, including the guards who were chasing Lin Tao and others.

After a difficult day, they came back to their senses.Continue to chase down.With a loud bang, a "fireball" landed on their way impartially, and the streets suddenly burst into flames.They were so scared that they retreated again and again. When the fire receded a little, they looked around and saw each other nowhere.

Lin Tao and more than [-] people had reached the south gate of Langyaxiu, which is the gate closest to the pier.More than [-] soldiers guarding the gate greeted them with their swords raised.

With a tearing sound, the tip of a wolf-tooth cultivator's knife tore through the shirt of a Liang Jun sailor, exposing the black steel armor inside.Before the Wolf Fang cultivator came back to his senses, Liang Jun sailor's Uzi steel knife pierced into the opponent's belly.

In just a quarter of an hour, more than [-] soldiers defending the city of Langya Xiu were beheaded one by one by these more than [-] people.The south gate of Langyaxiu was opened again.

When the city gate opened, the scene in front of Lin Tao was what he expected.Ten heavy horses were galloping across the open space outside the city. The corpses of black soldiers who were shirtless and held only a spear were lying on the ground in disorder.Some people still have heavy arrows stuck in their bodies.The rest of the black soldiers outside the city had long been scattered.

Hundreds of Liang Guo sailors and Dusang's pirates rushed into the city, joined Lin Tao and others, and went to kill the palace...

Chapter 317 False Brahmin

Stone bombs and "fireballs" fell on the streets of Langyaxiu from time to time. The civilians on the roads had already run away completely, and the streets were empty.

More than 100 people like Lin Tao galloped and whizzed by on the main street, and the iron hoofs of the ten heavy horses stepped on the stone road, making a loud and crisp sound.

The two towers at the south gate were also occupied, and several Liang Guo sailors who were born as longbowmen hid inside, waiting for the opportunity to shoot all the invading enemies.

Langyaxiu's defenders finally reacted and launched a counterattack.There was a shout in the distance, and three groups of Langyaxiu's soldiers rushed out from the barracks in the city, the palace, and the city wall respectively.

They met together on the main street and rushed toward Lin Tao and the others like a torrent.Estimate their number of troops, not one thousand, but eight hundred.And these people also brought a few neatly dressed war elephants.

On the city wall, there were also two small groups of people rushing towards the tower occupied by Liang Jun sailors.When they were still a hundred steps away from the tower, they heard the sound of arrows piercing through the air. The wolf tooth cultivator who was rushing to the front was instantly killed by heavy arrows. Before he could scream, he fell to the ground .Seeing this, the soldiers in the rear felt a chill in their hearts, and naturally slowed down their pace.

Those arrows were shot continuously at an extremely fast speed, and some of the Langya Xiu soldiers fell to the ground with strokes. In the end, the livers and gallbladders of these two small groups of soldiers were torn apart.Everyone knows that whoever rushes forward will die, and they all hope that others will be cannon fodder in the front. As a result, no one is willing to move forward, and no one dares to approach the tower.

In the city, the mighty Langya Xiu soldiers were within a hundred steps away from Lin Tao and the hundred or so people. More than ten people in Lin Tao's line took out their longbows and kept firing their bows and arrows.The random arrows quickly shot the spearmen rushing forward.

When the distance between the two sides was less than fifty steps, Langya Xiujun also began to draw his bow and shoot arrows, and the arrows were much denser than the opponent's.Fortunately, Liang Jun's side was all heavily armored and equipped with large shields, so no major casualties were caused.At the same moment, Liang Jun threw javelins, throwing axes, and lit "molotov cocktails" at the opponent.

With a bang, a throwing ax was striking a round shield.The shield hand suddenly felt that the hand holding the shield sank, and the shield moved down five inches. At this moment, a flying spear javelin passed the upper edge of the shield, piercing the shield soldier's chest.

Boom, a burst of flames rose again in the crowd of Spike Repair soldiers, and everyone dispersed like flies being chased away. One person was ignited by the splashing naphtha and sparks, and instantly turned into a burning man, howling Rolled on the flagstone floor.

Under the attack of these javelins, throwing axes, and Molotov cocktails, when the two sides were thirty steps away, the shield players of the wolf-tooth repair also became a mess.Several war elephants were also frightened and ran backwards under the flames of the explosion, and many soldiers of the wolf tooth repair soldiers died under the trampling of the war elephants.

Liang Jun's more than ten heavy cavalry launched an impact side by side, and more than ten cavalry guns lined up in a row, sweeping from the street.Where the heavy cavalry swept across, there were no longer any mace warriors who could stand. They were either pierced by lances, knocked into the air by huge war horses, or smashed to pieces by the opponent's mace.

The longbowmen of those Liang Guo sailors occupied some commanding heights in the city at some point.The rustling heavy arrows were shot from all directions from time to time, these were precise sniper shots, and almost every arrow could kill one person.

The rest of Liang Jun's sailors and infantry continued to charge and kill, and more and more corpses were piled up on the ground.Under such circumstances, the soldiers of Langyaxiu, who suffered continuous casualties, were devastated and had no fighting spirit.Soon, they were completely defeated, and the soldiers fled away one after another.Nearly a thousand people scattered like birds and beasts.

At this time, Liang Jun's sailors and Du Sang's pirates had a total of less than ten casualties.They rushed along the street full of corpses all the way to the gate of the palace.

There are still some Mon guards loyal to Reyaba who are desperately resisting.It's just that the swords and guns in their hands are difficult to pierce the steel armor on the opponent's body.However, the Uzi steel knife in the opponent's hand could easily split their bodies, which were also in thick armor, in half.

In less than a stick of incense, the resistance at the gate of the palace was completely disintegrated. More than 100 fierce spirits rushed into the palace.Those heavy riders were still on their horses, their heads were almost touching the beams of the house.There were bursts of women's screams and children's cries in the palace.

King Reyaba and his family members were all tied up in the open space outside the hall.Reyaba still feels as if he is in a dream. He is shocked that Lin Tao can capture Langyaxiu in such a short time.He was shocked that the messenger who just appeared in the palace was the leader of this evil army.

He begged Lin Tao: "Please spare our lives, I will bring my subjects to surrender to King Liang of the great Han."

Lin Tao said expressionlessly: "It's too late to surrender now. You are forced to surrender now. This cannot convince Liang Guo of your sincerity. My persuasion just now is your last chance."

Reyaba poked his neck and said, "You can't kill me, I'm a Brahmin, if you kill me, everyone in the other Brahmin kingdoms will be in danger and won't surrender to you."

Lin Tao sneered and said, "I killed a Brahmin, besides, you are still a fake Brahmin."

"Nonsense, you can kill me, but you can't insult me, why do you call me a fake Brahmin?" Reyaba roared red-faced,

But there was a hint of guilt in his tone.In fact, he knew very well in his heart that their family was just a Sudra untouchable who made a living by fishing.

His grandfather's generation encountered a hurricane while fishing in the sea to the east of Shendu.Drifting to the coast of the southeast peninsula, I found this "land of no man".The local indigenous blacks are still using stone tools.

After his grandfather sailed along the coastline and returned to Chola, he assembled a group of Vaishyas who were willing to open up a new world and a new life. With them, the city of Langya was built.

Lin Tao laughed and said, "I have the method to detect the real and fake Brahmans." After that, he took out a brush holder, and put the holder on the tip of Reyaba's nose and chin.

Lin Tao said: "Look, you may be a Brahmin if the pen is not pressed to your lips, otherwise you are definitely not. If your lips are crushed by this pen, you must be a fake Brahmin."

Lin Tao's remarks are of course groundless, but they are not made up by himself.It's the simple ethnographic method taught by the teacher who taught it.

Reyaba still wanted to argue, but Lin Tao waved his hand, and the sailors raised their knives, and Reyaba's head was cut off.All the other captured Chola officials and Reyaba's family members were also killed.

More than an hour later, the Meng officials in the city and the black middle-level generals outside the city all got the news and came to surrender one after another.Lin Tao said to Du Sang beside him, "From now on, you will be the king of Langyaxiu!"

Du Sang, who was holding a wooden stick to make gestures on his face, heard this, and the wooden stick in his hand fell to the ground with a thud...

Chapter 318 Beiming City of the Northern Territory Ambassador's Mansion

A golden eagle flitted across the sky, and it crossed a ridge on the edge of the Gobi with rocks at the south foot and forest at the north foot.A green grassland will appear in its sight.There is also a clear river flowing northward on the grassland.

This ridge is the remaining vein of Yanran Mountain in Mobei, and the river is the Orkhon River originating from Yanran Mountain.From here to the south shore of the North Sea (Lake Baikal) in the northeast is the most densely populated area of ​​the steppe people.

A sharp whistle sounded from the grassland, and the golden eagle fluttered down with its wings shaking, and landed firmly on the shoulder of a man riding a strong horse.This person was Lu Bu's scout. He had completed his inspection mission today, and he turned around and galloped towards the lower reaches of the Erwen River.

A moment later, a city that had already taken shape appeared in his field of vision, and that city was located on the banks of the Orkhon River.

After Lu Bu's army crossed the desert, they rushed to build this fortress.The Walled City did not use the rammed earth method used in the Central Plains, but used local materials, and built it with stones and wood from Yanran Mountain.

It is not only for Lu Bu's army to spend the winter, but it will also be built into a big city in the future.As the capital of the Northern Territory Minister's Mansion.Lu Bu named it Beiming City, which was related to Feng Yu's entrustment to him-to push the border of Han to the Beiming Sea.

In fact, the site selection of Beiming City is also related to Feng Yu's suggestion, and the reason why Feng Yu suggested to build Beiming City on the north of Yanran Mountain and on the banks of the Orkhon River is because——in the middle ages of the original world, it really ruled the entire world. The Mongol Empire on the Eurasian steppe, its capital and forests are also in this place.

At present, only temporary wooden city walls and some crude temporary wooden buildings have been built in this city.Most of the generals, including Lu Bu, the governor of the Northern Territory's chief envoy, still lived in the military tent.

At this time, the generals of the Chinese army where Lu Bu was located, generals at all levels, and scouts still came to this regular meeting on time to report the situation of all parties to Lu Bu.

"Which tribes are nearby, can you find out?" Lu Bu first asked a scout captain.

The captain of the scout immediately replied: "Report to Jiedushi. The tribes distributed in the vicinity are mainly some tribes of the Yuanhe tribe, in addition, there are also a few tribes of the Tiele tribe."

Lu Bu muttered softly: "Yuan He?" Obviously he was not very familiar with the Yuan He tribe,

Seeing this, a general from the Southern Huns added:

"Report to Jiedushi. This Yuanhe was a branch of the Tiele tribe of the Xiongnu in the early years. The Huns split from the north to the south, and Yuanhe belonged to the Northern Huns. More than a hundred years ago, the Northern Huns moved westward, but they were still in the desert. There were tens of thousands of people left in the north, and some tribes of the Yuanhe tribe were also among these people. After the rise of Xianbei, these people all called themselves Xianbei and were ruled by the Xianbei Great Chanyu."

Lu Bu nodded and said, "I see. Have these tribes troubled us recently?"

"Returning to Jiedushi, except for a few of our scouts who were harassed by the opponent's rangers, there has been no attack on our army so far."

Lu Bu said again: "If they don't provoke us, we shouldn't provoke them easily. The most urgent thing now is to build this city first, and then we can do other things. Then, how is the progress of Beiming City?"

A young but very ugly civil servant cupped his hands and said to Lu Bu: "I will report to Jiedushi that the main body of the city wall will be completed in about ten days. Most of the winter huts in the city are also almost finished. However, in order to hurry, these are temporary. Wooden buildings. My subordinates are sure that the barbarians will invade our army before the city is completed. So we must be prepared to prevent fire attacks."

"Oh, how are you sure that the other party will attack Beiming City within ten days?"

The other party replied indifferently: "Returning to the Jiedushi, the reason is simple. Those barbarians saw a Han army building a city where they had lived for a long time. They don't know what our purpose is. They must first think that we need to rely on the city to kill them. And It is also impossible for them to go far away when winter is coming. Therefore, they will definitely attack Beiming City before it is completed."

Lu Bu said disapprovingly: "According to your theory, they should attack us when we just started building the city. Why did they wait until the Beiming City has taken shape?"

The official replied easily: "That's because they need time to form an alliance. There is not a single tribe here that has the strength to challenge the Jiedushi's army. But now, based on common concerns, they must have formed an offensive and defensive alliance."

After he finished speaking, he added: "Not only did I predict that they would attack Beiming City, but I also concluded that they would harass our army's convoy transporting timber and stone between Yanran Mountain and Beiming City in the next few days." ...and even attack the logistical trains that provide us with food and grass across the desert."

Lu Bu's expression became serious, and he suddenly asked, "How come I haven't seen you before? What's your name? Any official position?"

The man cupped his hands and bowed to Lu Bu and said, "Report to Jiedu Envoy, his subordinate's surname is Pang, his name is Tongzi, and his style name is Shiyuan. He was sent by Liang Wang's Mansion to the Chief Envoy's Mansion in the Northern Territory. He just arrived here a few days ago. He did not pay homage to the Jiedu envoy, so the Jiedu envoy did not know his face."

A smile appeared on the corner of Lu Bu's mouth: "It turns out that you are Shi Yuan. The king specifically mentioned you in a letter to someone a few days ago. These days, a certain time was busy, and he even forgot to tell his staff to pay attention to your arrival. "

Pang Tong's family is a branch of the Pang family in Jingzhou, who lived in Dangyang for generations.After Liu Bei launched the Jiangling Mutiny.Some of the Pang family living in Dangyang fled for fear of being harmed.Pang Tong and his parents and brothers also fled to Xiangyang City, Liang State.

For these aristocratic families who fled to Liang, the local officials wanted to report the details to Liang Wang Feng Yu.Feng Yu was pleasantly surprised when he saw Pang Tong's name, and he was appointed in his year of crown.

Originally, Feng Yu kept Pang Tong by his side, but Pang Tong himself insisted on coming to Mobei, because he believed that there would be no wars in the Central Plains for a long time, and only in Mobei could he display his talents more.

Finally, Feng Yu agreed to him.In addition to Pang Tong's own strong request, Mobei really needs the military and joining the army to provide Lu Bu with staff.Moreover, the bitter cold place like Mobei is indeed not suitable for elderly people like Jia Xu, Xun You, Huang Quan, and Zhang Song to live.

When Pang Tong had just sat down, soldiers rushed into the big tent and shouted loudly: "Report, our army's transportation of stone and wood in Yanran Mountain was attacked by Hu Qi, and dozens of people were killed or injured. The surviving soldiers were trapped. On a hill. They asked Jiedushi to send reinforcements to rescue him!"

Lu Bu said indifferently: "Sure enough, Shi Yuan was right. I passed on my military order, the fourth and fifth battalions of the Heavy Cavalry Battalion, and follow someone to rescue the siege."

Pang Tong hurriedly said: "Jiedushi, this Huqi probably already has heavy troops lying around the besieged area. Just waiting for my reinforcements to enter the cage. And if the main force leaves Beiming City, they may also take the opportunity to attack Beiming. "

Lu Bu asked anxiously, "Then what should we do?"

Chapter 319 Yuan He's Trap

On the grassland at the foot of Yanran Mountain, a row of carts were parked.Dozens of Xianbei and Yuan He troops galloped over on horseback.They jumped off their horses, some misunderstood the draft horses that pulled the carts, and some rummaged through the contents of the carts.

After one of them untied a harness horse, he said happily: "It's a waste to use such a tall and big horse as a harness horse. How rich is Liang Guo in the Han area...".

Before he finished speaking, his voice was covered by another person's yelling: "Damn it, there is nothing, it's all stone and wood. Burn it! I burned it all!"

Another person laughed loudly and said: "This convoy came out of Yanran Mountain. Naturally, they pulled stones or logs. Let's burn them all quickly, and then bring the horses back to the tribe. If time comes, we will Maybe we can catch up with the battle to gather and annihilate the Liang army."

After a while, all the carts in this row were burning in raging flames, and these Yuan He cavalrymen took the horses and headed north.

An hour ago, thousands of Yuan He warriors attacked hundreds of Liang Jun's heavy soldiers transporting wood and stone here.The latter had only dozens of warriors escorting them. In desperation, they had no choice but to abandon these large carts, while sending fast riders to break through the encirclement and report to Beiming City, while fleeing in the direction of Yanran Mountain.

In the end, these heavy soldiers fled to a hill, and used portable engineering shovels and engineering hoes to dig ravines and build temporary fortifications, trying to use the terrain to resist thousands of war cavalry.

Yuan He's cavalry made a tentative attack, and after dozens of casualties, they gave up the strong attack.They started cruising around the hills, trapped Liang Bing on the hills, but never launched a new attack.

In fact, more Yuan He cavalry had been deployed around, waiting for Liang Jun's reinforcements to slip into their pockets.At the same time, they sent a small group of people to gather up the draft horses.

……

At the foot of the northern foot of Yanran Mountain, a certain hill.Near the top of the hill, a whole circle of ditches had been dug by Liang Jun's heavy soldiers. Hundreds of heavy soldiers hid in the trenches, peeking at Yuan He's cavalry circling under the hill from time to time.

The corpses of several Liang Bing fell on the grassland not far from the hills.Just now, they saw that the other party's horses were sparse, and they ventured down the mountain to fetch water from the Orkhon River not far away.