Li Luo left the Taishang Palace, and soon the spy Chen Yu came to report.

"My lord, Chen Yiji has been frequently contacting Wu E and other generals who have surrendered to the army during these days, intending to master the soldiers and horses."

Li Luo sneered: "Wu E and the others have already reported this matter to me. Chen Yiji, this person is greedy for life and afraid of death, ambitious and talented, and can't afford to stir up any storms. Chen Yu, you've been in Annan for half a year, right? ”

Chen Yu said: "Five and a half months. ”

"You don't have to stay in Annan, go back to Haidong, go back and see your wife and children. Madame will give you credit. Li Luo patted Chen Yu on the shoulder.

Chen Yu said: "Then the subordinates will return to China as ordered." The lord's body is my Tang dynasty, and I ask the lord to take care of everything. ”

He did miss his family, especially his newborn son.

Li Luo said: "You go back to Haidong and tell Madame." If the remnants of the party army who went to Haidong did not return to obedience, they would all be disarmed and imprisoned and used as coolies. Including the later Khitan Army and the Jurchen Army, the same is true. ”

Chen Yu thought for a while, "My lord, the remnants of the party and the Khitan army dare not say it. But the Jurchen army should be submissive. Shi Mo Huaide's father is named Shi Mo Shiming. Shi Mo Shiming is the concubine of the Jin Kingdom, and the Taigong is the king of the Jin Kingdom, and he is the uncle of Shi Mo Shiming and the uncle of Shi Mo Huaide. ”

Li Luo groaned: "This widow knows. But when Jin died, Shi Mo Huaide had just been born, and he had never met the uncle Taigong. Besides, his father, Shi Mo Shiming, is a person who descended to the Enlightenment, and his relationship with the Taigong should not be good. ”

Chen Yu said: "This matter still has to fall on the Taigong." Presumably, the lady and the princess have already taken care of it, and the lord does not need to be distracted by this matter. ”

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“…… Yelu Zhongjie and Shi Mo Huaide went south to Champa, and fell into the tricks of the Song army in the valley of the Po Ya River, the war horse was poisoned, and the stomach was diarrhea, and then encountered 20,000 Song troops, of which 5,000 were ......"

"After a bloody battle, the Khitan Jurchen army was almost completely annihilated, and a few surrendered to the enemy. Although the Song army used tricks, it won a tragic victory and suffered a great loss of vitality, so it could only abandon the Cham Po. Escape by boat! ”

A few days later, a good and not bad news reached the Yuan army camp.

The bad thing is that the Khitan Jurchen army, which went south to attack the Song army, fell for a trick and was wiped out.

The good thing is that Yelu Zhongjie and Shima Huaide did not die in vain, they inflicted heavy losses on the Song army, so that the Song army took the initiative to abandon Champa. In this way, Cham will fall into the hands of Da Yuan.

Da Yuan only spent more than 10,000 Khitan Jurchen cavalry to get the Cham, which can be regarded as earned.

Especially Sudieer, I am very happy. Both Yelu Zhongjie and Shi Mo Huaide were offended by him, and of course he hoped that the two of them would be finished. Now that both of them died in the Champa battle, and let Dayuan take the Cham by the way, that is, of course, the result he wants most.

And the real details of the matter, of course Li Luo knew what was going on.

The strength of the Khitan Jurchens, the route of the march, Li Luo had already given it to the Special Investigation Bureau. Then, the 20,000 Tang troops who returned to Cham once again were arranged according to the plan.

In the Poye River Valley, where the water and grass are the most abundant and the Khitan Jurchen army must pass through, the Tang army sprinkled a large amount of croton powder and light salt water into the grass.

Where will the war horses of the Khitan Jurchen cavalry let go of the abundant green grass sprinkled with light salt water? Suddenly there was a sharp gnaw.

When Yelu Zhongjie found out that something was wrong and quickly stopped the war horse, it was too late.

It didn't take long for a large number of war horses to lose their strength, and even a few war horses died of dehydration. And the Tang Army, which had been ambushed according to intelligence for a long time, also appeared on the battlefield in due course.

The Khitan Jurchen cavalry was an excellent cavalry second only to the Mongol cavalry in the Yuan court, but because they were too familiar with cavalry and archery, once they dismounted and fought on foot, they were not the opponents of the infantry army with a strong array. As a result, the Khitan Jurchen army, which dismounted and fought on foot, failed in the first battle.

The combat power of the "Song Army" shocked the Khitan Jurchen Army, and it was completely unthinkable that the Song Army was so elite.

In the entire Great Yuan Dynasty, there was no more elite infantry than the "Song Army".

But the Tang army did not annihilate the Khitan Jurchen cavalry, but only pressed the siege step by step. The Khitan Jurchen cavalry was trapped for three days and three nights, and they were exhausted. In the end, Hugu and Dulie, who were Jurchen generals, finally persuaded Shi Mo Huaide to surrender.

As soon as the Jurchen army surrendered, the Khitan army could not support it alone, and Yelu Zhongjie could only surrender.

Then, more than 10,000 Khitan Jurchen troops were disarmed and sent to the fleet of the Tang Navy Division.

At this time, I'm afraid that I'm about to reach Haidong.

Li Luo was very happy when he got the news. The strategic purpose of conquering the south has achieved another one.

He used to watch the Water Margin, and felt that Song Jiang and others often used conspiracy or deception to get others to join the mountain, and felt that others would definitely not be convinced.

But now, he found that the Water Margin was not wrong, and it was he who complicated the ancients.

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In the blink of an eye, the Yuan army's cage policy has been implemented for nearly a month. The mountainous court became more and more difficult.

"Your Majesty, the forbidden army and the township army are fighting each other for food today, and thousands of people have been killed and wounded."

In a rainforest deep in the Tianchang Mountains, in the makeshift simple "palace", Li Wenxiu, the political minister of Pingzhang, was reporting a message to Chen Huang with a bitter face.

Chen Huang was wearing arrowroot cloth, wearing mango shoes on his feet, and a bamboo cane on his hand, dressed like a master in the hidden mountains and forests. But at this moment, he did not have the slightest hermit's indifferent tranquility.

"What? Fighting for food? How bold they are! Chen Huang was furious.

Even if it has been mixed into the mountain court, Chen Huang's imperial majesty still makes the courtiers who accompany him feel pressure.

Since entering the mountains and forests, it has been almost a month, and there has hardly been a single piece of good news, and every time bad news comes, Chen Huang's temper has become a little bigger.

Chen Rilian was martyred, Chen Yiji was imprisoned, the Yuan army blockaded and encircled, and many officials and people who drove into the mountains surrendered......

These bad news are also accompanied by the crisis of food shortage and material shortage in the mountain court.

For these, Chen Huang can still stand up. Zhao Chang, that despicable and shameless grain thief, can hold on in Java, why can't he, the son of Dayue, hold on?

But hearing that the forbidden army was killing each other, Chen Huang was really a little panicked.

The biggest pillar of the mountain court can be maintained, the last 10,000 forbidden army, 20,000 township army. This is already Chen Huang's biggest reliance, and it is the capital of his turnover.

If the last bit of escort force is gone, Dayue will really be finished.

"Come on, let the generals of the two armies come to see me!" Chen Huang paused heavily, the bamboo cane in his hand, coupled with his gray hair, and cloudy eyes, were completely old.

In fact, Chen Huang is only in his early forties. It's a misfortune that makes people grow old.

Soon, several generals were brought by the guards.

Chen Huang scolded with his head and face: "Bastard! Waiting for a thief? For a mouthful of food, they actually fought each other like robbers, and there was no military commander in Dayue! Do you still take me seriously? What a daring! ”

Several generals knelt down and bowed together: "The ministers are guilty, please calm your anger." It's just that there is really a shortage of food, and the soldiers are hungry..."

How could Chen Huang really ask a few generals to be guilty? It's nothing more than a reprimand, a beating, a beating. He looked at Li Kuo, who was in charge of grain and grass, "Li Xianggong, you tell me honestly, how much grain is there in the mountains?" ”

Li Kuo smiled bitterly: "Back to Your Majesty, there are only hundreds of stones of grain." ”

Chen Huang almost fell from the stump of the tree when he heard this, and looked at Li Kuo's eyes, full of incredible anger.

Well, no, I guess I heard it wrong.

Thinking that he had misheard, Chen Huang's expression softened a little, and said with a smile: "You tell me clearly, how much grain is left?" ”

Li Kuo sighed in his heart, and could only bite the bullet and say: "Only... Less than three hundred stones. ”

Li Wenxiu also said: "Your Majesty, the exact number is two hundred and fifty stones!" In fact, except for the people in the palace and the ministers of civil and military affairs, the soldiers have run out of food. ”

"Two hundred and five..."Chen Huang heard it really clearly this time: two hundred and fifty stones.

A panic that he had never felt before suddenly made the left side of his face spasm wildly, and a large mosquito flew to his eyebrow, so frightened that he quickly flew away.

"Ahem..."Chen Huang couldn't believe it was true. When I entered the mountain, there were still 70,000 or 80,000 stone of grain, and it was only a few days, so why was it gone?

Not only Chen Huang, but Emperor Chen Huang was also stunned, like five thunderbolts.

The dozens of ministers who accompanied him were all ashamed and didn't dare to look at Chen Huang.

Chen Huang tried to calm the flames of anger, and said with a spasm on the left side of his face, "What the hell is going on? What about my grain? Aren't there still tens of thousands of stones? ”

Chen Guangqi had no choice but to tell the truth: "Brother Huang, did you see a fire in the mountains and forests the day before yesterday?" ”

Chen Huang suddenly understood, and the left side of his face spasmed wildly, "You want to tell me that the fire is not burning the forest, but the grain?" ”

Chen Guangqi nodded with a heavy expression, "What is burned is indeed grain." The emperor's brother was not in good health, and the younger brother was afraid of hindering the emperor's brother's recuperation, so he dared to hide it. ”

Chen Huang took a deep breath, "It's good, why is the grain burned?" ”

"It's a spy of the Yuan army." Chen Guangqi's face turned pale, "They have already mixed in and burned the grain with fire oil. ”

The spies of the Yuan Army in Chen Guangqi's mouth are, of course, the spies of the Special Investigation Bureau.

Chen Huang said: "The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to be annoyed. Let's think about how to remedy it. Well, pass the decree and let the people in the mountains contribute a bucket of food to help the emergency. ”

In any case, the soldiers and horses accompanying the driver cannot run out of food, and the minister of civil and military affairs who accompanied him cannot run out of food. As for the people, it was time for them to sacrifice for the Great Viet.

The grain requisition order of the mountain court was struck, and the people who entered the mountain suddenly suffered unspeakably. Hand over a bucket of grain, and they'll go hungry.

As a result, a large number of people fled from the mountains again with what little food they had.

Not long ago, they entered the mountain with the Emperor Taishang, and they were sincere. Now he took the initiative to escape from the mountain, and he was sincere.

People's hearts...

What is the will of the people? The will of the people is food.

At this time, another group of people who fled into the mountains fled out of the mountains again. They chatted as they drove along the mountain road.

"Did you hear that? His Royal Highness said that as long as you go out of the mountains and return to your hometown, you can harvest your own crops, and you are afraid that you will not have anything to eat! Being bullied by the Yuan court is better than starving to death in the mountains. ”

"Alas, I just feel sorry for Da Yue, I'm sorry for the emperor."

"So what? King Zhao has descended, Marquis Zhangxian has also descended, so many big officials have descended, why can't we and the grass people descend? What if we don't descend, what can we do if Dayue is going to die? ”

"Yes. Nesting in the mountains is worthy of His Majesty the Emperor, but our whole family will starve to death, and if we don't starve to death, we will be killed by the Yuan army in Soushan. Now, the court itself is not careful, and the grain has been burned by the Tartars, but we have let the grass people contribute food, how can we care about our life and death? ”

"Oh no, run, the forbidden army is catching up!" Suddenly, a man from behind rushed over panting.

But as soon as he took a few steps, he heard a "whoosh" sound, and a feathered arrow shot out of the forest, piercing him through the heart. The people only had time to snort before they fell headlong and despaired.

Immediately after, a group of forbidden troops in iron armor rushed out of the forest, and the bows and arrows in their hands were aimed at the fleeing people.

"How dare you defect! Hurry back to the mountain, or you will be killed! One of the forbidden soldiers clashed his head and shouted, "Go back!" ”

The fleeing people, who were talking about it just now, were silent, and they didn't dare to take a step forward, so they could only turn back tremblingly.

A small officer who looked like a little officer suddenly whispered to Du Tou: "Du Chang, these more than 100 people are carrying food, it is better to simply..."

Du Tou frowned and said: "But they are all Dayue people, and they have no disobedience, how can they be killed?" ”

Shi Chang said: "It's no wonder that the chief is long, and his subordinates know that they shouldn't be killed?" It's just that now that food is so scarce, the brothers can only eat half full, and I heard that in two days, the porridge will not be able to drink... They all brought rations. ”

Du Tou couldn't bear it, but when he saw that almost everyone in this group of people was carrying rations, a cold color slowly rose in his eyes.

"Not only did you defect, but you also dared to rebel against orders, kill me!"

With a wave of their hands, there was a sound of bowstrings twisting, followed by screams and curses.

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred unarmed civilians were killed by their own army, and not a single one was left alive.

What made the Vietnamese army raise a butcher's knife against its own people was nothing more than a little food.

This is not the most terrifying, at least you know how to forcibly decharge the crime and kill people. What's even more terrifying is that the Vietnamese army accompanying them actually began to openly kill people and steal food.

Even the officials who stopped it were killed by the forbidden army, which was getting out of control more and more.

The matter was reported to Chen Huang, and Chen Huang was speechless for a long time.

There was a shortage of food in the mountains, and the Yuan army outside the mountains blocked it. Even the communication with the north of Vietnam is gradually cut off, and the last bit of soldiers and horses are suddenly rebellious, how long can it last if it goes on like this?

The food problem has become a deadly noose. Without the Yuan army attacking, the mountain court will not be able to hold on.

Under the strict and cruel cage policy, the Yamanaka Imperial Court not only cut off the supply of food and materials, but also the government decrees.

Chen Huang is still the emperor of Annan, but in fact, he has become a mountain king.

"Your Majesty, today the commander of a forbidden military camp defected and surrendered to the Yuan, taking away a full five hundred soldiers and horses."

"Your Majesty, the servant of the Ministry of Justice, Zhou courtesy, absconded from the mountain with his family."

One by one, disgusting news reached Chen Huang's ears, and Chen Huang's anger at the beginning slowly turned into habituality, and now he is even more numb.

"The sky will rain and the mother will marry, let him go." Chen Huang sat on a tree stump, drinking a bowl of pheasant mushroom soup. Chen Huang, who was a food in the early years, now knows that wild meat must be eaten in the mountains to be more delicious.

It seems that in his opinion, no battalion commander or any official servant can compare to this bowl of pheasant mushroom soup.

"Where is the Yuan army?" Chen Huang asked lightly.

"I heard that Mt. Seyuki has been found in the north." Chen Guangqi replied. This captain also looks like an old man now. But in fact, he is younger than Chen Huang.

"Spring rice is being harvested, but unfortunately, it has become the food for Li Luo and Chen Yiji." Chen Huang squinted his eyes, "Ladies and gentlemen, if anyone else wants to leave, I will not stop you." ”

The only two dozen or so ministers all looked desolate and compassionate, and it seemed that they would never abandon Chen Huang.

"The ministers swear to follow His Majesty Taishang to the death, in order to recover!"

Chen Huang shook his head, "If the spring rice is in hand, it is not impossible to recover Dayue." But now, there is no chance. Li Luo and Chen Yiji are in cahoots, even if they don't fight to death, they will be trapped and starved to death. ”

What he meant was already obvious.

PS: I ask for a ticket and all support! Hurry, everyone!

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