"King Rong Cheng reported that many Tang troops were dredging water and land roads in Shaozhou and Yongzhou, and renovating the city defenses, and I heard that the history of the Daozhou Assassin was called Li Jifu, and he actually snatched and melted the bronze bells of the Buddhist temples in the territory, and asked the craftsmen to make a bell that did not look like a bell, and the cylinder did not look like a cylinder, and set it up on the battlements of the enemy's platform, and also spent money and grain to raise the children of the township, and took turns to garrison the city and build ships, which must be preparing to go south to recapture Guiguan."

Hearing this news, Huang Shaoqing and Huang Shaogong both speculated that the reinforcements of the Tang Army must have come from Dongting Lake along the Xiangshui River by boat, preparing to re-dig the Naling Canal, re-enter the Lishui, and then go south to Yong, Bin, and Yulin to fight a decisive battle with me.

As for what Huang Changchu said, the Tang army landed in Qinzhou, which was simply too magical: the Tang army's fleet reached the mouth of the Yangtze River, then went to Fujian, then passed through Chaozhou, Jieyang to Guangzhou, and then jumped thousands of miles by sea to Qinzhou, which is adjacent to Annam, traveling thousands of miles up and down, which was almost the most unlikely military route for the Tang army.

So Huang Shaoqing vetoed his son's worries, drew his sword and pointed to the east, and shouted: "That Du You's several armies have lost nearly half of them in the summer miasma, and they can only shrink in the area of Rongguan and Cangwu to survive. ”

It turned out that Huang Shaoqing was no longer satisfied with making a small fuss in Lingnan and Xixi, he just wanted to seize a relatively large city, ascend the throne and become emperor, and fight against the Tang Dynasty. As long as he entered Panyu City, he announced to the world that he would establish the 'Great Southern Dynasty' (well, the country name is this), and then choose the children of Lingnan to fight well, all the way out of Guiguan into Hunan, all the way out of the Great Yuling into Jiangnan West Road, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and win the world.

Then the big drum painted with exquisite patterns of flowers, fish, insects and birds sounded loudly again, and countless Huang Dongman, who were wrapped around his head and wearing red flower cloth battle clothes, raised their toes and began to launch a new round of attack on Rongguan Fucheng.

At this moment, Gao Yue took several battalions of soldiers from the Wuyi Army to climb the Qinzhou Tomb Mountain, and then said to Su Pu, the soldier and horse envoy of the flying artillery battalion under his command: "It is said that the slang people will join the alliance, and they must be summoned by those who are highly respected and powerful to beat the big bronze drum. ”

Originally, the Wu Yi Army was divided into three armies, left, center, and right, with an establishment of 6,000 people per army, and also canceled the "flower system" of the original team and implemented the "pure system", that is, the weapons of each team in the 6,000 people were "pure" that is, unified, divided into 16 teams of 800 people, 16 teams of cavalry 800 people, 4,000 long, sword, boring palladium, provocation, bow and crossbow, in addition to 400 gunners, a total of 65 light, medium and heavy tiger guns, and a number of chariots (not carried in this expedition to the south) - but for Gao Yue, There is also a "flying artillery army" of 2,000 people directly under the Jiedu envoy, which was born from the five battalions of Feishan during the Dingwu Army period, all equipped with pack horses, mules or oxen, and the "ten-section general cannon" with long pipe hoop iron, as well as the large bronze cannon used for siege, and the fire attack reserve at the level of Fang Town.

As a result, Su Pu waved the flag, and four ten-section bronze and iron general cannons, along with trolleys and four wheels, were pushed up the hillside.

The sound of cannons shook the Great Tomb Mountain, Qinzhou City and Anjing Mountain......

The first to come, is the original old officials of Qinzhou, some of them are Han people, some are slang, Huangdongman looted and burned Qinzhou a few years ago, they can only abandon their duties, take their families to hide in the stream cave, now I heard that a large number of elite kings are coming, they gathered at the foot of the tomb mountain, this is the first batch of people used by Gao Yue to unite people's hearts.

The Great Tomb Mountain is crying and shaking the sky, Gao Yue dismounted, personally warmed his words, and comforted these people who had been isolated from Wang Hua for many years, and said that you have worked hard, and the court and Bendao have never forgotten you, and now I just want to rely on you to attract the handsome and wealthy chiefs of this Qin and Lian land to appease.

"The slang marshals of Qin and Lian have always been loyal to the imperial court, and the Xiyuan thieves and Huangdong barbarians are absolutely different from the flow of pollution, this road came this time, with a seal letter, a letter and an official hat and badge, but all those who serve the official army, have official positions awarded, and there is another restraint outside Zhengzhou, giving farewell driving, Sima, county order, county Cheng, the main book, etc., the official is the Tusi, and can be hereditary."

For the first time in the history of this plane, Gao Yue used the term "Tusi", which was the opposite of Liuguan, that is, the official position held by the natives, that is, as long as the slang marshal of Qinzhou Lianzhou could assist the army, he could have an official position and have a certain degree of autonomy.

There is no way, at this stage, it is absolutely unrealistic to establish a county and county official system covering the entire Lingnan, which is tantamount to promoting the growth of seedlings, so the use of the Tusi system is also a policy of balancing rights and interests.

Sure enough, with the help of this group of old officials and soldiers in Qinzhou, the next day there were drums in several counties on all sides of the Great Tomb Mountain, and many local chieftains came, and even some came from Lianzhou, Leizhou and even beyond.

Next, Gao Yue did not use the cannon, but personally held the written inscription, in front of the local chieftain, solemnly paid homage to the tombs of Ning Mengli and Ning Changzhen, and asked the soldiers to cut down the weeds and weeds around the cemetery, and also reclaimed the "sacrificial fields" on the four sides of the tomb to express his admiration for the two generations of heroes of the Ning family in Qinzhou.

Then Gao Yue was full of humility, and told the truth to the slang chiefs one by one:

"Ning vigorously managed Qinzhou, did not try to fight with neighboring states, and then surrendered naturally, and never committed any rebellion."

"Ning Changzhen is the leader of the Qinzhou platoon (the platoon is the shield, and the platoon is a spear with a barb), and he has been fighting for the country for a lifetime (although it is the previous dynasty)." When Gao Yue said this, he could still rely on his excellent memory to recite Ning Changzhen's performance when he conquered Lin Yi: "The trapped beast is still fighting, paving the river of Xinyong, and going out of the sea of insulation." Thousands of thieves, twenty boats, Xudan banners, the deep sky does not stop. The public policy is in the standard, with the five boats of the building, and the division is organized to defeat the jackal. ”

When he saw the surname Ning from Lianzhou, Gao Yue was even more enthusiastic, "You are all Ning's family from Liandong, right?" At that time, Ning Mengli's younger brother Ning Xuan moved there with his family, and it was a blue thread on the road, which opened up a new county, which is amazing, amazing. ”

As a result, the Ning people in Qinzhou and Lianzhou immediately regarded Gaoyue as a god.

Others came together, what Wei, Gao Yue said that you are the descendants of Han Xin, and in order to avoid crime, you went to half of "Han" and changed your surname to Wei.

As for the surname Li, the surname Wang, and the surname Ouyang, Gao Yue all said their relationship with the Central Plains family with the same surname one by one (anyway, it's a ghost), everyone was convinced, smiling, and surrounded Gao Yue, the Duke of Weiguo, in the tomb mountain, and the atmosphere was very warm.

"Immediately, you will follow me to visit the tomb of another Ning clansman." Gao Yue suddenly made this request.

Soon everyone lined up in a long line, and when they came to the back of the mountain, Gao Yue held incense and said to a deserted tomb with great admiration: "Doctor Ning, the late Gao Yue has come to worship you......

The words engraved on the tombstone can still be distinguished, "The tomb of Ning Jun Yuanyi of the Tang Dynasty supervised by the doctor of the Tang Dynasty".