Elephant Forest City.

Because of its avoidance, it was renamed Linyi City 50 years ago.

A few decades ago, it was the southernmost city of the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhou region, and Rinan County.

Although it is only a small county town, because it is located in the sphere of influence of the Cham people, it is a mixed bag, except for a small number of Han people, a large part of them are local residents, and there are also indigenous people of the nearby Cham people.

The son of Gong Cao, named Ou Lian, took advantage of the internal and external troubles of the Han Dynasty to launch an uprising, captured the county, and announced his independence from the Han Dynasty and his own country.

At that time, after getting the news, Fan Yan, the assassin of Jiaozhou, immediately organized the county soldiers of Jiaozhi and Jiuzhen, with a total of more than 10,000 people to rescue him.

However, the soldiers and horses in these two places were reluctant to go because they were afraid of the remoteness of Rinan County, and it didn't take long for the two counties to mutiny.

Over time, Xianglin County became more and more powerful, and the rebel soldiers and horses changed from thousands at the beginning to tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Later, even if the Jiaozhou Assassin wanted to recover the lost territory, he was powerless, and he could only watch Xianglin County break away from Rinan County.

In the following decades, the history of Jiaozhou has changed one after another, and this problem has always existed, Jiaozhou is a place where many ethnic groups live together, and it has been difficult to ease the relationship between different ethnic groups.

Where is the opportunity to deploy more manpower to deal with the remote Linyi country?

And Lin Yiguo is also very honest, although he is independent, he hardly offends the Han court, but has been annexing the territory of the surrounding Cham people, and gradually developing further south.

Now that he has expanded his territory to the southbound coastal areas, after having enough strength, the king of Linyi has finally become more and more ambitious.

Finally, they waited for the opportunity, a few months ago, from the mouths of businessmen in the two places, they learned that the current Jiaozhou Assassin Shi Zhu Fu is fighting with a group of bandits, and is losing and retreating, not only the soldiers and horses of various counties and counties, but also the conscription again, which has caused the entire Jiaozhou to complain.

Many people are dissatisfied with the assassination of Jiaozhou, and even some people have begun to organize a rebellion in private.

The king of Linyi felt that this was an opportunity, and he organized 30,000 soldiers and horses as quickly as possible.

30,000 soldiers and horses are already the entire strength of the Linyi Kingdom, although the current Linyi Kingdom has hundreds of thousands of citizens, but these citizens are distributed in various places, and it is not easy to gather them all.

In addition to a part of the standing army, many of the 30,000 men were recruited from all over the country.

They planned to use these 30,000 men to launch an attack on Jiaozhou and capture the nearest Ninan County to Linyi Kingdom, so that their territory in Linyi Kingdom could be expanded a lot.

If there is an opportunity to occupy Jiuzhen County, then the territory of Linyi State will be expanded by a whole circle, and the annexation of the entire Jiaozhou will be just around the corner.

Just after they defeated Rinan County with lightning speed, the king of Linyi Kingdom naively thought that this was the opportunity for God to give them the rise of Linyi Kingdom, and at this rate, they could conquer the entire Jiaozhou in less than half a year.

Learn from Zhao Tuo, the martial emperor of Nanyue a hundred years ago, who occupied the entire Jiaozhou and fought against the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

But when a group of 10,000 soldiers and horses appeared and defeated the 20,000 army of Linyi again with miraculous speed, Fan Yi, the crown prince of Linyi, woke up from his beautiful fantasy.

Two days ago, Fan Yi fled back to Xianglin City from the front line with a tired body.

As the crown prince, when he fled back to Xianglin City in a hurry, he had already attracted the attention of many people, and the whole city was under martial law.

When King Fan Xiong heard that his son's army of 20,000 was defeated, he was even more shocked, and while reprimanding his son for being useless, he urgently recruited nearby soldiers and horses.

Because his son brought him back a piece of news, the Han court was ready to take action against them, and the soldiers and horses came directly to Xianglin City.

All night, Fan Xiong didn't sleep well and was in a nervous state of worry.

The strength of the Han court, he is clear, although Lin Yiguo is much stronger now than a few decades ago, but if the Han court really wants to use real character to deal with them, it is just a wave of the hand.

So Fan Xiong is thinking about how to face it.

At this time, Fan Xiong sat on the throne, thinking about whether he took the initiative to show weakness or put on a tough attitude.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong!"

Outside the palace, a small eunuch hurriedly walked in.

Fan Xiong, who was in deep thought, was interrupted by this shout, and immediately blurted out in surprise.

"Could it be that those big Han officers and soldiers are coming?"

Fan Xiong's questioning made the little eunuch stunned, but he immediately continued.

"No, Your Majesty, something is wrong, outside the city...... There were a lot of corpses outside the city! ”

"What corpse?"

"Just go and see."

The little eunuch didn't dare to say more, but just led Fan Xiong from the palace to the tower of Xianglin City.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the first batch of soldiers on duty appeared on the city tower, and they had already found a large string of corpses that were placed outside the city last night.

The corpses were placed indiscriminately outside the city, in piles of three or five, large and small, piled together, looking particularly cruel.

Those stumps and severed arms were scattered nearby, and the smell of fishy smells passed over, so that the entire Elephant Forest City could smell it.

Although a large number of corpses appeared outside the city, at this time, the gate of Xianglin City was still not opened, and the people in the city did not send people out of the city to clean up.

Because the generals in charge of defending the city already knew that a group of people would attack here, and they were afraid that this was the trajectory of the enemy army.

When King Fan Xiong led the crown prince Fan Yi and others to appear here, more and more people knew about it.

"What's going on?"

Fan Xiong's face was gloomy, standing on the city tower, he glanced outside the city, and after looking at the corpses all over the ground, Fan Xiong felt a shudder in his heart.

The general in charge of the guard immediately stepped forward.

"Back to Your Majesty, it rained heavily last night, and the people on duty did not stand guard in the rain, but hid in the pavilion, and when I got up in the morning, there were so many corpses here."

"Who did it, and who are these corpses? Where did it come from? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, according to our observation, these people may have been people who followed the prince on the expedition before and were arranged to be stationed in Lurong County, and I don't know how to be dumped here."

One of them recognized the corpses on the ground, and when he spoke, the faces of those present immediately changed.