The status of the Japanese captives and the Jiaozhi girls was not high, so the things they knew were also very limited, and Li Nan only deduced from their words that the situation of his family was very bad, otherwise it would be impossible for these scattered Japanese people to commit crimes on the coastline.

After confirming that the place where everyone was located was Quang Pyeong, Cochin, Li Nan knew that this place was not far from Thang Long City, so after consulting with everyone, he decided to take the first step and immediately rush back to preside over the overall situation.

With the exception of Hattori Hanzo and Docot, Li Nan left the rest of his followers to the artisan team, and after bringing enough food and water, the three quickly rushed into the dense jungle.

On the way to Thang Long City, Li Nan discovers that the small southern country has undergone tremendous changes since his rule over Cochin.

The first is that the area of jungle has been reduced, a large amount of farmland has been reclaimed, and secondly, there are relatively smooth gravel roads between many villages and towns.

Patrolling security forces can be seen near the villages and towns in the interior of Cochin, because of their presence, there have been no massacres in seaside fishing villages in these places, and it is estimated that those Japanese pirates will not dare to come to confront these security forces equipped with grenades.

Li Nan did not stop in these towns, but after collecting more than a dozen war horses, he went straight to Shenglong City day and night.

Li Nan, who was anxious, galloped day and night, and finally saw the largest city in Jiaozhi on the morning of the next day.

All the soldiers knew Li Nan, the de facto ruler of Jiaozhi, and the soldiers guarding the city hurriedly rushed to the palace to report to him.

When Hu Bing, who was in a wheelchair, and Li Daocheng, a white-haired general, came out, they saw Li Nan, who was a little haggard with a sweaty face and dust.

Hu Bing's face was full of tears of excitement, and she sobbed and said, "Nan... Brother, you're finally... It's back! ”

Li Nan took two steps closely, didn't care about other people's eyes, hugged Hu Bing in distress, and whispered in her ear: "I'm back, you have worked hard!" ”

"I'm fine, but... But many of our men died in battle. ”

Even those Japanese pirates dared to do evil in Jiaozhi, Li Nan had already guessed that there would be a lot of bad news waiting for him, he let go of Hu Bing and took a few deep breaths, and then asked, "Who has had an accident?" What's the situation like now? ”

"We were beaten very badly, Li Chen, Li Huang, Li Lu, Meng Li, and many others died in battle......

"What?" Li Nan was a little shocked.

Hearing about these children brought and cultivated by himself from Tokyo City, as well as the death of Meng Li, who had followed him from the beginning, Li Nan felt a pang of cramping in his heart.

After half a ring, Li Nan asked in a deep voice, "Who is the person who commanded the troops of the Great Song Dynasty?" Why are we beaten so badly? ”

Li Daocheng replied instead of Hu Bing: "The previous pacification of the Great Song Dynasty made Zhang Qi easily defeated by Spartacus's troops, and half a year later, a civil official was sent from Tokyo City, this person is called Zhang Shuye. ”

"Zhang Shuye?" This name Li Nan felt a little familiar, and tried to recall it for a while, and then remembered the origin of this person.

Zhang Shuye, the word Ji Zhong, a native of Kaifeng, after the official eunuch, he liked to talk about military affairs when he was young, and when he grew up, he joined the army as a secretary of Lanzhou with his ancestral shade.

Lanzhou was located on the border of the Song Dynasty at that time, relying on the Yellow River moat, and when the Yellow River froze every winter, it had to be on alert to prevent the Qiang people from invading.

Zhang Shuye thought that this was not the way to go on for a long time, so he personally crossed the river to investigate, and found that there was a place called Tiandu, which was the key point between the five roads, and every time the Qiang people invaded, they had to assemble here first. According to the nearby terrain, Zhang Shuye seized Dadu and built a defensible city called Xi'an Prefecture in Dadu to guard the northwest border.

This move effectively curbed the invasion of the Qiang people, alleviated the anxiety of the frontier instability for the imperial court, and also exempted the soldiers from the fatigue of being trapped near the river and unable to relieve their armor for many months, and there was no Qiang trouble in Lanzhou from then on.

Later, Zhang Shuye served as the governor of Xiangcheng, Chen Liuzhi County, and Shu, Hai, and Taizhou. During the Daguan period of Song Huizong, he was a member of the treasury department and a young man of Kaifeng Mansion. Soon after, he was given the background of Jinshi and moved to the right division of the foreign lang.

Zhang Shuye relied on Zuyin to enter the ranks, and relied on the merits of guarding Lanzhou to enter the civil official sequence, I have to say that he is an extremely smart person.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the dictatorship and rebellion of the five dynasties of the martial arts were frequent, Yin Jian was not far away, and the emperors and civil ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty were more or less suspicious of the military generals, and some civil officials even took "emphasizing literature and light martial arts" as the ancestral family law.

During the Taizong period of the Song Dynasty, he was more guarded against those military generals who were good at fighting, and used cautious and mediocre people as the commanders, and abused the supervising army and relatives, which was one of the reasons for the many major defeats in the Liao war during the Taizong period, and the death of the famous generals Guo Jin and Yang Ye had a great relationship with the supervising army.

When Song Zhenzong was in power, some Wenchen pointed out that China has a tradition of Confucianism since ancient times, and it is not uncommon to "go out and enter the prime minister". The literati commander will not be as arrogant and arrogant as the military generals, and the soldiers will be self-respecting, and the literati will command the battle with many strategies and resourcefulness, while the military generals only rely on the courage of a husband.

Since then, Wenchen has been in charge of military affairs more and more, including Fan Zhongyan, who is known to later generations, and Chong Shiheng, the founder of the Wenzhuan Military Force, who is now defending the Western Xia frontier of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Shuye is a talented person, but if he wants to make a difference in the Great Song Dynasty, he also needs the appreciation of the upper officials, and this time it was no one else who recommended him to go to the south to quell the rebellion, but Cai Jing, a political tumbler in the Song Dynasty.

Normally, if you want to get the position of Jingluo pacification envoy in charge of the road from Cai Jing, there is only one way, which is to spend money to buy officials as ruthlessly as Li Nan did at the beginning, but Zhang Shuye didn't take a penny, because his younger brother is Zhang Kegong, the imperial historian.

The last time Cai Jing was impeached, it was Zhang Kegong and others who made a fatal move, so this old guy who has been in the political arena for half his life made an inspiring move to drive the tiger and the wolf.

Whether it is Li Nan, who used to be very close to him and is now openly rebellious, or Zhang Shuye, the brother of Zhang Kegong, the imperial historian. Both of them can be regarded as Cai Jing's enemies, no matter who loses or wins after these two battles, Cai Jingjing is the final winner.

Although Zhang Shuye guessed that it was Cai Jing's plan, he still came to Guangzhou, the seat of Guangnan East Road, with confidence. He did not lead the troops to attack recklessly like his predecessor Zhang Qi, but settled down to train the soldiers and find out the news.

Li Nan was originally the pacification envoy of Guangnan West Road, and later captured the three small countries of Jiaozhi, Dali and Champang, and the current territory is not small, and there are many places that also need to be defended.

After Zhang Shuye learned about the general situation in Li Nan's territory, he immediately sent the Wanyan army to Song Huizong's hands as soon as possible, and finally obtained several wills.

There is Kuizhou Road in the southwest of Guangnan West Road, Jinghu South Road in the northeast, Guangnan East Road in the east, and Dali is bordered by Chengdu Fu Road and Zizhou Road in the north.

If you think that this is the end, it is too much to underestimate Zhang Shuye, and he also contacted the island country, Goryeo, and the most powerful country in the south, the Jinla Empire.

Although Zhang Shuye did not look down on the strength of Goryeo and the island state, he hoped that these two small countries could send naval armies to create some trouble for Li Nan on the long coastline of Jiaozhi.

The Zhenla Empire has long looked at Li Nan unpleasantly, and no one likes a strong enemy next to their country, so the king of Zhenla immediately agreed to Zhang Shuye's suggestion and ordered the generals Marato, Miao Lun, and Ge Danwei to lead 100,000 war elephants to invade Dali, Jiaozhi and Champa respectively.

Li Nan, who had figured out what was going on, sighed, in the face of the invasion of eight enemies, it was no wonder that his side would be so embarrassed, it seemed that this book was really a great opponent.