The lights in Guangyuan City were colorful, and everyone was celebrating Li Nan's claim to be king, but the Song army camp outside the city was gloomy.

Zhang Shuye, who was sitting behind the bookcase, was already in his fifties, although he was a civil official, he had lived in the military for many years, so he was quite athletic, and he was usually silent, his face sank like water at the moment, and he slowly put down the secret letter in his hand to send back.

In front of the bookcase, there were two men standing on their bows, they were Zhang Shuye's sons Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong. The two went out with their father and made many achievements, and now they are each in charge of an army of 10,000 people.

Seeing Zhang Shuye's bad face and a somewhat impatient temperament, Zhang Zhongxiong asked, "Dad, there's bad news from the south?" ”

"I said, you are not allowed to call me Daddy in the army!"

"Yes! Dashuai, the last will know his mistake! ”

After reprimanding the second son for a few words, seeing Zhang Zhongxiong admit his mistake, Zhang Shuye nodded slightly and said: "The Zhenla army has withdrawn to the country, and the traitor Li Nan has led the army to Guangyuan Prefecture. ”

"How so? Doesn't the Zhenla Empire claim to have 200,000 war elephant troops? When Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong heard the news, they were immediately stunned.

"Alas!" Zhang Shuye sighed: "That traitor... Oh, now he should be called the traitor Li Nan. He personally led a large army to annihilate the Jinla general Miao Lun in Shanluo City, and then faced the Zhenla lord Bafar in the royal expedition, it is said that Bafar was assassinated in the fierce battle, and the Zhenla country was defeated and retreated, with countless losses. ”

After a moment of silence, Zhang Bofen asked worriedly, "This... Does the marshal know how many troops Li Nan has now? ”

Zhang Shuye said slowly: "The number of archers is not clear for the time being, there are 4,000 heavy infantry, more than 50,000 infantry, and ......more than 80,000 war elephants."

"Shhh The sound of the Zhang brothers gasping for air was heard in the military tent.

Zhang Zhongxiong, who was frightened, forgot his father's lesson just now, and said urgently: "Daddy, we have broken through the Guizhou City of Li Thief, occupied Guangnan West Road, and killed many of his cronies and subordinates. Now that this man is leading a large army here, he will definitely come to take revenge, let's... Let's get out of the way! ”

"Withdraw?" Zhang Shuye shook his head and said helplessly: "Even if Sun Fu agrees with us to withdraw our troops, then what next?" Who will guard the southern Xinjiang of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Bofen said: "Although there are a lot of soldiers in the Wulu Prefecture Mansion, they are all Xiang troops who have been trained for a long time, and if Li Nan leads the war elephant army to attack, they will definitely not be able to resist in this plain area. Why don't you retreat to Qinzhou, Yongzhou and other cities, block it for a while with the help of high walls, and ask the court for help! ”

"Well......" Zhang Shuye stroked his long beard and nodded in praise: "What Bo Fen said is reasonable, then I will go to talk to Sun Fu of the prison army, presumably he doesn't want to die here." ”

Don't mention the Song army's side, just talk about Guangyuan City's side.

At this moment, in the Yin'an Hall in the Zhennan Palace, Li Nan sat on the throne at the head of the palace, and there were many wives and concubines of Pang Qiuxia, Hu Sanniang, Li Shishi, Huang Caier, and Cen Yulu.

Kress said loudly: "Lord Wang, now that our soldiers are strong and strong, tomorrow I am willing to lead the troops to level the Song camp!" ”

Spartacus glared at Kress with disdain, and said, "You rest, lord, send me anyway!" I will surely avenge those dead soldiers! ”

"Spartacus, don't think I can't beat you!" Kress yelled unconvinced.

Spartacus hooked his hand and said defiantly: "Come on, do you still think that you are still the invincible god of war?" ”

Seeing that the two generals under his command were about to fight in this Yin'an Palace, Li Nan helplessly stopped: "Enough! ”

Spartacus and Kress were not afraid, but they were still in awe of the mysterious Li Nan, and immediately glared at each other and returned to their original positions.

"What are you fighting for? Unpromising! ”

Li Nan said to everyone: "Now the Song army outside the city is all garrisons from various state capitals, and the armor is unfavorable, the morale is low, and they have not been trained for a long time. Even if Zhang Shuye has the ability to reach the sky, he can't lead a group of rabbits to defeat us. ”

Spartacus and the others all knew the strength of the Song army, so they all thought deeply of Li Nan's words.

Raising his hand to the west, Li Nan said solemnly: "Zhang Shuye and his Fifth Route Army are just a joke to me, what we really have to worry about is the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

The Western Army is the general name of the field army and frontier army in the northwest region during the Northern Song Dynasty.

In a narrow sense, the Western Army includes the forbidden army stationed in the border parts of Western Xia, such as Shaanxi Sixth Road, Hedong Road, Linzhou, and Fuzhou, as well as other types of troops such as Fan soldiers and archers.

After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin collected the elite soldiers of the feudal army into the central government in several steps, and formed the field force "forbidden army".

After the alliance between the Song and Liao, the relationship between the Song and Liao countries gradually eased, and the pressure on the northern battlefield suddenly decreased, until the rise of Western Xia later, and the main force of the forbidden army was gradually concentrated in the northwest battlefield.

Since the rebellion of Yuanhao in Western Xia, the Song-Xia War has been intermittent for nearly 90 years, and the Western Army is an elite unit trained in this war situation.

Zhang Shuye, who has been in Lanzhou for many years, can also be regarded as a member of the Western Army, which shows the ability of the generals of the Western Army.

If the box army led by Zhang Shuye now is a group of rabbits, then the soldiers of the Western Army are fierce wolves.

If the Western Army is given a reliable commander and the checks and balances of the civilian supervision army are removed, the army from the northwest will have the ability to tear apart all the enemies.

If Li Nan thinks a lot, then Spartacus and Kress belong to the kind of straightforward tough guys who don't ask how many enemies there are and how strong they are, but only where the enemies are.

The two who were about to fight just now immediately said in unison: "Whether it is the Xiang Army or the Western Army, no matter who dares to invade my territory, I am confident that I will defeat them!" ”

The speeches of these two Roman visitors inspired the momentum of the other people in the hall, and seeing their demeanor, Li Nan smiled with satisfaction, his subordinates have this confidence, so even if they face the Western Army, what is there to fear.

After talking a few words about not coming, Li Nan glanced at everyone in the hall, and suddenly found that there were a few people missing, and hurriedly asked suspiciously: "Why didn't Ludia, Sun Erniang and Pan Jinlian come?" How many of them are there? ”

“……”

After this sentence was asked, the originally joyful and festive atmosphere in the Yin'an Palace faded, and many people who knew the inside story bowed their heads slightly, avoiding Li Nan's scrutinizing gaze.

After a while, Pang Qiuxia, who was still by Li Nan's side, whispered: "The three of them are missing......

"What?" Li Nan said in shock and anger: "What happened, why hasn't anyone told me about it all the time?" ”

Pang Qiuxia explained: "You just came back from another world, and besides, we are being attacked from all directions, so I am afraid that you will worry about ......."

"You... Alas! Li Nan wanted to reprimand Pang Qiuxia, but considering that she also meant well, she had to sigh and swallow her words back.

"Now tell me, what's going on?"

It turned out that since Li Nan took Ashur and others into the team battle world, the three daughters of Ludia, Sun Erniang and Pan Jinlian followed the trade route that was originally in charge of Ashur.

Before leaving, Li Nan had told the people left behind that the money and food in his territory were enough at present, and there was no need to obtain money from the Ponzi scheme, so that they would immediately stop the matter and withdraw all the relevant personnel.

Human greed is endless, especially in the face of this earth-shattering scam that has unfolded, and a large amount of money can be harvested for every day of existence.

After some deliberation, everyone decided to follow Li Nan's instructions when he left and put an end to the deception that had lasted for several years. In order to clean up the mess, Ludia took the other two daughters to the Song Realm, ready to withdraw to Jiaozhi with everyone and the last batch of gold and silver.

At this time, Zhang Shuye, who was sent by the Great Song Dynasty to Guangnan East Road, contacted the soldiers of the other four state capitals and began to besiege Jiaozhi and Dali, and the news of the two parties was cut off, and Ludia and others have lost their news since then.

After knowing the cause and effect, Li Nan thought silently for a while, and muttered: "Ludia and Pan Jinlian are wise, Sun Erniang is martial, and there are many elite guards around them, it stands to reason that they will be fine, but they should still send someone to find them as soon as possible." ”