In the conference hall of the General's Mansion in Guizhou City, Li Nan looked at the map hanging on the wall in a daze. Ｘ

It had been a few months since he had returned from the Roman world, and winter had come in the north, but Lingnan had not been affected.

By the time of these days, Ashur and Ludia had learned some Chinese, and it was no longer a problem to communicate with others, so Li Nan, who was short of people, put them all in handy.

Ludia is good at interpersonal communication and ruthless, so she mingles with Sun Erniang and Pan Jinlian and participates in the training of the team of killers.

Dorcot and Spartacus entered the slave army as instructors and commanders.

If you want to know more about slaves, there are probably few people who know more about slaves than Docot, who moved the set of the Luth gladiator training ground here.

Originally, the Roman slaves were brainwashed with glory and freedom, but now they were replaced by freedom and land, and he used the gladiator training method to educate the slaves from Cochin every day.

Spartacus had participated in the Roman army, so his task was to get these slave soldiers to quickly familiarize themselves with the Roman army.

Li Nan considered the equipment of the army under his command, although he has money now, but if he wants to form troops according to the configuration of the Song Dynasty's army, it is useless to have money alone, and he also needs a lot of iron, and this thing is precisely the material strictly controlled by the Song Dynasty.

Slave soldiers were considered a consumable in Li Nan's eyes, so it was a good idea to have them use large shields and short swords made of bamboo and wood to form a traditional Roman infantry phalanx.

In order to expand his territory, he secretly used coercion and inducement and secretly attacked and killed officials, and controlled other state capitals on Guangnan West Road, but there were many hidden dangers.

Although Li Nan did not openly rebel, in fact, what he did was no different from rebellion, Sun Erniang and Pan Jinlian trained manpower has been deployed on the Wuling Road leading to the Central Plains, and during this time more than ten batches of messengers sent to Tokyo have been killed.

Li Nan can only rely on this dangerous and dangerous way now to gain some time for development, but the mouth of the defense is worse than the defense of Sichuan, it is estimated that this kind of thing will not be hidden for long, and it will be exposed sooner or later, and when the time comes, the Song Dynasty will inevitably send troops to collect it.

The most important thing at the moment is to quickly increase his strength, so that even if he is discovered by the Song Dynasty, Li Nan will have the strength to compete with it.

Money was supported by a steady stream of Ponzi schemes, with three crops of rice in Champa a year, and there was no shortage of food, what Li Nan needed most was the manpower to form an army.

The east of Guangnan West Road is Guangnan East Road, and the north is Kuizhou Road, although there are not many soldiers and horses in these two state capitals, they cannot attack for the time being, otherwise they will directly declare a rebellion, so they can only force force on the southwest Dali State and the Jiaozhi State in the south.

After scanning the surrounding forces on the map on Guangnan West Road, Li Nan finally locked his eyes on Guangyuan Prefecture and Qiyuan Prefecture in the southern Jiaozhi Kingdom.

The history of the country is a bit interesting.

In 214 B.C., Qin Shi Huang pacified the settlement of the Baiyue ethnic group in Lingnan and established three counties of Guilin, Nanhai and Xiang, of which Guilin and Nanhai were in today's Guangxi and Guangdong respectively, and Xiangjun included today's southeastern Guangxi and northern and central Vietnam.

According to the Jiaozhi people, this was the beginning of the large-scale Chinese invasion of Vietnam.

After the death of Qin Shi Huang, the division of various places became a common practice, and Longchuan, Nanhai County, ordered Zhao Tuo to take the opportunity to establish himself as the king and build the "Nanyue Kingdom". In 111 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty restarted the cause of unification, conquered the "Nanyue Kingdom", and divided its land into nine counties. For about a thousand years from then to the end of the Five Dynasties, this area has been part of the ** dynasty of ancient China.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu changed the system of not paying taxes but only paying tribute in the Jiaozhi area, and sent officials to the local area to collect taxes.

In 40 A.D., the daughter of a certain general rebelled, and his sister Zhenger immediately responded. The uprising defeated the garrison of the Han Dynasty, obtained sixty-five cities, and established himself as the king on the side of the expedition, and the uprising led by him is known as the "Second Expedition Uprising" in history. The Zheng regime lasted for three years and was pacified by Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

According to the "Book of the Later Han", the Zheng sisters were captured and beheaded, "passed on the head of Luoyang", and the historical legend of Vietnam believes that the Zheng sisters were loyal and unyielding, and committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river on the sixth day of the second lunar month in 43 AD.

After Ma Yuan quelled the rebellion, the general system was abolished in the Jiaozhi area, and the county system was improved, and according to the Jiaozhi State, the Zheng sisters who rebelled against the Han Dynasty were also revered as goddesses in the continuous interpretation of legends.

Later, things were basically the same, when the Jiaozhi country was in trouble, they would send envoys to the Central Plains to ask for help, and when they were a little stronger, they would bite their masters like mad dogs.

In 1052 A.D., Nong Zhigao of Guangyuan Prefecture in the north of Jiaozhi raised troops to invade the Great Song Dynasty, and the initial attack on the city was unstoppable, but then the Song Dynasty sent the famous general Di Qing, and Nong Zhigao's army was defeated and pursued all the way to Dali.

In 1069 AD, Wang Anshi implemented the reform for the purpose of enriching the country and strengthening the army, which caused strong controversy in the country, and the 100,000 army of Jiaozhi took the opportunity to attack the Song Dynasty under the leadership of the Auxiliary State Taiwei, and occupied Qin, Lian and Yong Prefectures, "slaughtering more than 58,000 people, and Qin and Lian Prefectures, and hundreds of thousands of people died", Yongzhou Zhizhou Su was outnumbered and killed 36 people in the whole family.

In such a brutal war of aggression, the reason for sending troops was that the Song Dynasty carried out a law change to kill the people, and Vietnam "asked the teacher to ask for it, and wanted to save it".

Today's Li dynasty of Jiaozhi country calls itself Hua, and in their eyes, the Great Song Dynasty is the Northern Dynasty, Jiaozhi is the Southern Dynasty, and the rest of the surrounding small countries are Yidi.

Although Jiaozhi was beaten as a grandson by the Great Song Dynasty a few years ago, when they faced small countries such as Champa, Zhenla, Dali and Bagan, they were extremely fierce and fierce.

Li Nan set the target of the attack as Cochin, and the purpose was threefold.

First, because the two major ethnic groups of local servants and Miao on Guangnan West Road have been oppressed by Jiaozhi for many years; secondly, the army of the Cochin country is very weak; The third reason is that Li Nan remembered some things that happened in later generations, and he was unhappy when he looked at Jiaozhi people.

Now Li Nan has three troops in his hands and tens of thousands of soldiers, but there are not many who have actually seen blood on the battlefield, and these soldiers who have not experienced real battles are not considered to have combat effectiveness.

Li Nan has great ambitions, so he will definitely fight with the brave Liao and Jin armies in the future, so it is not only safer but also necessary to take soft persimmons to train the troops now.

After the plan was decided, Li Nan began to instruct everyone, and dispatched 2,000 Zhennan troops, 2,000 Dinghai navy and 1,000 Jiaozhi slave soldiers to Yongzhou.

This is the first battle of the army under his command, in order to see the combat effectiveness of Jiaozhi and his own army, so Li Nan left Meng Li and Pang Qiuxia to sit in Guizhou.