Zhi Xuan

Overcast clouds hung over the southern capital city.

Since the beginning of winter, there have been few sunny days, with layers of dark clouds and continuous rain.The rivers and ditches inside and outside the capital skyrocketed one after another. Even Chinese people who are used to the wet and cold weather feel uncomfortable and rarely go out unless necessary.

The soldiers defending the city were leaning against the city wall with their long halberds on their shoulders, their heads were drooping, their backs were hunched, and they looked listless.

A large river passed around the city, and black lines appeared in the water, which were crocodiles lurking at the bottom of the river.Each is more than two meters long and is covered with hard armor, which can easily tear a farm ox apart.

There was a team coming in the distance, and they reached the river in the blink of an eye.

The person who came was wearing a coir raincoat and a hat on his head.The brim of the hat is decorated with gray feathers, which is very unique and symbolizes their identity.

The procession began to cross the river.

Because there is no bridge on the river, a group of people threw long bamboo poles into the water, supported the long poles in their hands, and stepped on them with both feet, as if walking on water, easily crossed the crocodile-infested waters, and reached the opposite bank safely.

"Open the door!"

The leader took off his bamboo hat, revealing a dark face.

The costumes of Nanyou Country are very distinctive, men and women don't like to wear robes.Women's sarongs are below the knees, revealing the ankles decorated with bracelets.Men wear short robes throughout the year and rattan armor in battle.After being concocted, the rattan armor is as hard as leather armor, and it is even better when double layered.

Women in Nanyou comb their hair and wear colored feathers and long hairpins on their hair.The body of the hairpin is hard, with sharp ends, which can be used as sharp edges when removed.

Men do not comb their hair in a bun, but tie a leather rope on their foreheads, and put various bird feathers on the rope.Warriors wear animal tails around their waists and animal teeth around their necks, symbolizing their bravery.

A group of people under the city returned from the border and brought back news of the Bei'an army.

The city guards did not dare to be negligent, swept away the slack before, quickly cheered up, ran down the city head in a hurry, and opened the city gate together.

With the creaking sound, the heavy city gate opened, revealing a deep and dark city gate hole.

The layout of Nandu City is very distinctive. The city is deep with three towers, the city walls are both high and deep, but the city gates are extremely narrow, allowing only one chariot to pass through.

The garrison in the outer city is similar to the Eastern Capital.

The inner city is divided into hundreds of squares, the King's Mansion and the Clan Square are located in the center, and the Guoren Square and the Common People's Square are arranged around it. It is not as clear as other places, and it looks very messy.

For most of the year, Nan Youhou neither went to court nor lived in the monarch's mansion, but left his beautiful wife and concubines to live alone in the beast garden, and he hardly went out of the garden.

Doctor Chao Zhongqing said that Nan Youhou would move back to the mansion for a few days.When the attention of the officials diverted, he reverted to his old ways, and even worsened, not showing up in court for several months.

For such a monarch, the clans superficially persuaded them, but in fact they felt relieved.

Although there are a lot of gossip, it doesn't affect the clan at all.As long as Nan Youhou is a puppet with peace of mind and doesn't disturb the muddy water at will, the clans are willing to continue pampering him.

Unexpectedly, this connivance caused trouble.

Nanyouhou, who is usually silent, would be fine if he didn't make trouble, and would cause great trouble when he made trouble.

It doesn't matter if you have a caravan under your command, it doesn't matter if you collect money and catch rare birds and animals, but even arresting common people from other countries as slaves, and being caught by the bitter master, is this going to challenge the laws of Zhongdu City?It's enough to arrest the common people, but also ordered people to massacre the clan, is it crazy?

The most terrible thing is that the one who was provoked was Bei'an!

At first hearing about this incident, the Nanyou clan felt as if struck by lightning, and couldn't believe it at all.It wasn't until the Marquis of Bei'an sent someone to the door, and the pedestrians scolded in front of them, that they really realized that the monarch had caused a catastrophe.

Things have happened, what can be done?

It is absolutely impossible to confess, and you cannot plead guilty if you are beaten to death.Doing these two things is Nan Youhou, who has no power and is also a monarch, representing the face of the country. Once he admits it, he will openly violate the laws of Zhongdu City and become an enemy of the clans all over the world.

The only option is to be an ostrich, stick your head in the ground, and try to escape.

The Nanyou clan knew that they were wronged, but there was nothing they could do about it. They could only procrastinate brazenly. If the other party loses their temper or encounters a major incident, they might be able to get away with it and simply lose money.

As the days passed, the Nanyou clan insisted on the word "drag" and carried the rascals to the end.

The pedestrians of Bei'an Kingdom were furious, but there was nothing they could do about this group of thick-skinned people.

During this period, the Xiyuan Kingdom raised troops to attack the Dongliang Kingdom, and chose to fight in autumn. They won a big victory in only March, and the first battle shocked the world.The young Marquis of Xiyuan is well-known in all countries, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he became famous in the first battle.

As one of the four major vassal states, Nanyou Kingdom also pays close attention to this battle.

The two powers were fighting each other, and everyone in the court thought that the battle would be in a state of anxiety. How could they have imagined that Dongliang Kingdom would be vulnerable to a blow, and was beaten to pieces by Zhixuan, and lost a large piece of land in just three months.

Not long after the destruction of the Eastern Capital, news of the sudden death of the Marquis of Eastern Liang came out.Soon Shiziba ascended the throne, took the initiative to offer soil for a truce, and then formed an alliance with Xiyuan Kingdom.

Nanyou country was greatly shocked, and many people began to worry about the anger of Bei'an country.If Bei'an country can't calm down, will Nanyou meet the same fate as Dongliang?

This is by no means unfounded worry.

The four vassal states have stood side by side for hundreds of years, and their military deterrence deters the Quartet.Among the four countries, in terms of combat effectiveness, Bei'an's army has always been prosperous and has always been the best.

The three armies of Nanyou Kingdom are certainly not weak, they can crush the surrounding small countries at will, defeating the Nanman, but they don't have any advantage compared with Bei'an Kingdom.If it wasn't for relying on the location, he would have been beaten over when the incident happened.

In response to this concern, there is no lack of opposition from the DPRK and China.

"Miasma is the barrier of the country, and the Northern Army cannot break it."

The clan that insisted on this point of view speaks with certainty, and it is also the mainstream trend in the court.They firmly believe that Bei'an Kingdom has nothing to do with the miasma, otherwise, how could they allow their own scoundrels to talk about it to this day.

Furthermore, the weather in the north and the south is very different, and the roads are dangerous. It is only next year that Bei'an really wants to send troops.

The Xiyuan Kingdom sent troops in the autumn, which delayed the autumn harvest, and could try to make up for it.If the Bei'an Kingdom dared to send troops in winter, the loss would be multiplied several times. If the Marquis of Bei'an insisted on going his own way, the Chaozhong clan would not agree.

"Sending troops in winter is absolutely impossible!"

The Nanyou clan is full of confidence and believes that Bei'an will not raise troops easily.Unexpectedly, reality quickly gave them a resounding slap.

Bei'an raised tens of thousands of troops, led by Gong Zihao, and marched southward in a mighty manner.During this period, roads were opened in the mountains, bridges were built in the water, and the marching speed was beyond imagination.

The acclimatization did not happen, and the poisonous insects that were hard to guard against also disappeared in the damp and cold.

The only miasma that can resist the army seems to be ineffective.If it weren't for the sudden heavy rain that caused the flash floods, the army would have already been destroyed and swept across the territory of Nanyou.

The scouts sent out came back in batches, and all they brought back were bad news.

Knowing that Gongzi Hao led the army to camp by the river and could not move forward in a short time, the Nanyou clan breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not dare to rest assured.

There is always a time when the rain decreases, the mountain torrent recedes, and the sword hanging above the head will eventually fall.

The clans gathered at the Monarch's Mansion and sent someone to invite Nan Youhou to discuss how to defeat the enemy.

Today, they have given up their illusions. Now that the Bei'an army has arrived, the national war is inevitable.If someone else is leading the troops, maybe they can still think of a way.It happened to be Gongzi Hao who came, and his bad name not only spread throughout the north, but also in the southern countries.

"Drove the Nanban past."

The clans didn't want to lose their troops prematurely, and for the purpose of testing the strength of the army, they wanted to see if they were really immune to the miasma, so they decided to drive out a group of Nanman tribes and ordered them to attack the Bei'an army camp.

"Tengman and Shanman are nearby." A minister spread out a map and pointed to Dahe where Zhao Hao's troops were stationed.

There are many Nanman tribes in Nanyou Kingdom. They live in no fixed place and rely on gathering and hunting for a living.

Unlike the northern vassal states that treat Di Rong, Nanyou State allows these tribes to exist, and occasionally opens up shops to them, allowing them to trade necessities such as salt.

But this does not mean accepting the Nanman.

When encountering a tribe that is not knowledgeable, or even pushes forward, the clan will send troops anytime and anywhere, so that the troubled tribe will learn a lesson.

The Tengman and Shanman that Qing mentioned are two larger tribes of barbarians, they are active on the border of Nanyou Country all the year round, and occasionally settle down for two or three months.During this period, in order to buy necessities such as salt, the tribe will send people to the city or contact the village.Occasionally, there will be unhappiness and conflicts.

In order to survive the winter, the two tribes were migrating along the river, getting closer to the camp of the Bei'an army.

The information brought back by the scouts just happened to provide ideas for the doctors.

"Send Lin Zu over there."

The Lin soldiers belonged to the Nanyou Kingdom's lower army, and they were infantry who were good at fighting in dense forests.They are few in number, good at climbing and tracking, and excellent at archery.In addition, he is also good at distinguishing and using poison, and played a huge role in hunting down and exterminating Nanman.

This pawn should have belonged to the monarch, and was under the personal control of Nan Youhou.However, the power of the monarch is not equal to the power of the ministers, the monarch is reduced to a puppet, and the three armies are all in the hands of the Qing, and the monarch cannot even touch it.

"Hurry up!"

The officials of Qing made their own plans, and never thought of asking the king for advice from the beginning to the end.

Nan Youhou watched coldly, he was used to this kind of treatment, and he never said a word, as if he was content to make a display and stay out of the matter completely.

Suddenly there was thunder, and the rain suddenly increased, and it became pouring in an instant.

The servants entered the hall and turned on the bronze lamp, only then did the officials think of the monarch, they all turned their eyes and pretended to ask the monarch for orders, as if it was a routine.

"Yun." Nan Youhou's voice did not fluctuate, and the beads covered his eyes, making it difficult for people to see his expression at the moment.

In the camp of the Bei'an Army, the servants and slaves were busily busy.

Several craftsmen gather together to select the long bamboos that the servants cut back, measure the length with leather ropes, and prepare to make bamboo rafts.

The servants took turns out of the camp with axes on their shoulders, and brought back the materials according to the requirements of the craftsmen.The slaves were busy weaving ropes, binding the bamboo rafts firmly, and throwing them into the water batch by batch.

The rain kept falling, but it couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd.

Not only the soldiers are eager to fight, but the whole battalion is eager to meet the enemy.

Before sending out troops, Zhao Hao announced in public that the servants and slaves would be rewarded for meritorious service in this battle.

This is the experience he summed up from the other party's letters when he and Zhi Xuan corresponded.Now it has been learned and applied flexibly, and it has been implemented in the army, and it has already achieved initial results.

In the big tent, Zhao Hao spread out the map and picked up a pen to add two rivers on the map.

The wind lifted the curtains, and the lights flickered on and off.

The swaying flames reflected on Zhao Hao's face, making his complexion more jade-like, quite unreal.

There is a wooden frame next to the case, and there are flat wooden boards on the frame.There are two carrier pigeons perched on the board. Because they haven't delivered letters for a long time, they have been bred to be chubby, very round and pleasing.

Zhao Hao stopped writing and turned to look at the wooden frame.After thinking for a moment, he took out a piece of silk and wrote a letter to Zhi Xuan.

I wanted to write about the military situation, but I made my thoughts into my thoughts.

Suddenly regaining consciousness, Zhao Hao's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't want to change it, so he simply continued to write until the entire plain silk was filled.