"What? Tamna? We've arrived at Tamna? Chai Kehong asked with surprise and joy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

More than 100 ships and 5,000 soldiers came across the sea in order to conquer Tamna Island, not wanting to encounter a storm halfway, and finally their more than 10 ships and the main force of the fleet were separated.

In this case, although Chai Kehong made the decision to continue north, he was still not sure where he would go next, but he didn't expect to be really reached by them.

"Yes, General. Last night we went ashore and had not been able to find the population of the village, so we could not get any useful information, and we did not come across a village until the morning. The adjutant general explained, pointing to one of the natives: "General, this person's name is Zheng Yuan, he is the head of that village, he went to Silla when he was young, and even understands some of our official dialect of the Tang Dynasty, that is, he told his subordinates that this is Tamna." ”

"Okay, that's it!" Hearing the news, Chai Kehong's face was full of joy.

Although he currently has only 800 soldiers in his hands, he has heard that there are less than 1,000 indigenous soldiers on Tamna Island, and if he uses them properly, even if he relies on these 800 people, he may be able to capture the entire Tamna Island.

"This is the credit of destroying a country alone! If you can make such a great achievement, do you have to worry about not being reused in the future? ”

Chai Kehong was a little excited in his heart, his father Chai Zaiyong was originally a general of Sun Ru's army, and surrendered after Sun Ru's defeat, and then although he was named the Gwangju Assassin for his merits in the process of attacking Shouzhou, Gwangju and other places, he was not a general who was not reused in Huainan.

As for the commander of the army who was promoted by Yang Wu to Zuo Tengxiang's army, he was stationed in Guangzhou for many years, but because of the lack of sufficient merits, it was still a little difficult for Chai Zaiyong to stand out in the Huainan army, which was full of talents.

As for Chai Kehong, although he is considered Yang Wu's trusted general, if he can't make great contributions, it will also be difficult to be taken seriously.

And this time, because of the storm, the expeditionary fleet was blown apart, which put the opportunity to capture Tamna Island alone in front of him, which was a godsend!

Of course, although there was some excitement in their hearts, Chai Kehong did not take immediate action, after all, they did not even know the actual situation on the island now, only some rough information from the scouts.

Listening to the details of the sword capital that accompanied the envoy to Tamna Island last time, there were only a few hundred soldiers on the island, but there were tens of thousands of people.

If it is calculated according to the ratio of the population to the strength of Middle-earth, it is impossible to say that the number of troops on Tamna Island will even be thousands, and the information obtained from careful investigation may not be accurate.

In addition, even if the army is really only a few hundred, Tamna Island is a country after all, and whether they have built a city or not is also an important question.

Although the Huainan army was good at attacking cities, they did not carry many siege weapons in a foreign land thousands of miles away.

So Chai Kehong temporarily suppressed his excitement and began to talk with the indigenous village chief.

It's a pity that although the indigenous village chief has been to Silla, but that was decades ago, although he can still understand some of the language of the Tang Dynasty, but there are still great difficulties in conversation, and after asking for a long time, except for reconfirming that this is Tamna Island, nothing else has been obtained.

Chai Kehong had no choice but to give up and began to rely on the current information to think about his next move.

Judging from the current situation, the natives of the island did not know about their arrival, and they could not even figure out where they came from, and perhaps the natives thought they were from Silla.

So now there are two options in front of Chai Kehong, the first is to use force directly, and launch an attack before the indigenous army knows the news of their arrival; Another option is to send someone to make formal contact with Tamna, and then make the next step in response depending on the specific situation.

The advantage of the former option is that you can attack suddenly and catch your opponent by surprise; The downside is that if there is a city on the island, or if there are many troops on the island, and they can't defeat their opponents in one fell swoop, then they may be in trouble next.

In the latter way, send people to contact first, and then attack after learning specific information, so that you can know yourself and your opponent and respond to various situations; As for the shortcomings, it will expose the existence of his own fleet, so that the other party is on guard.

The two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is not clear which method is better for a while.

After thinking about it for a while, Chai Kehong still decided that it would be safer to adopt the latter method.

Of course, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the star lord of the Tamna Kingdom, Chai Kehong decided to take only three hundred people ashore to contact the other party to find out the news.

Although three hundred people are not many, Chai Kehong believes that under his leadership, it is enough to protect himself.

"You sent someone to tell your star lord that we are the envoys of King Wu of the Tang Dynasty, preparing to go to the Silla Kingdom, and there is a storm on the way, and many ships are damaged, I hope to get some supplies here!" Chai Kehong didn't care whether the indigenous village chief could understand it or not, and directly said what he meant.

In fact, for these natives, except for a few people who know that there is an extremely powerful country called Datang in the depths of the sea, in the hearts of most natives, Silla is the most powerful country in the world.

Fortunately, after all, the indigenous village chief in front of him had been to Silla when he was young, and he knew the existence of the huge country of Datang, but he didn't know what King Wu was.

After sending someone to inform the government of Tamna, Chai Kehong immediately set out for the island with 300 soldiers, carefully observing the terrain and other conditions along the way.

In the afternoon, officials from the Tamna kingdom finally came to receive them.

It is said to be an official, but after all, Tamna is only a small country with a big palm, so where is there any official position? It's just a cronie by the Star Lord's side.

Of course, the reason why the lord of Tamna sent this person here was because this person knew some official dialect of the Tang Dynasty, and compared to the half-baked level of the village chief, this person's level was much higher.

"In Xia Fu Wen, I have seen the envoy of the kingdom!" As soon as they met, the official bowed and saluted, with great respect.

For the small Tamna Kingdom, Silla is their upper country, but this Tang Dynasty is the upper kingdom of the upper country, which is not at all something that the Tamna Kingdom can afford to offend.

This Fu Wen not only went to Silla back then, but even had the privilege of having a detailed conversation with a Tang merchant who had been to Silla, and from that businessman's mouth, he knew that there was a great country called Datang in this world, and even if it was now torn apart, its strength was still extremely strong.

With these cognitions, Fu Wen would naturally be extremely respectful to Chai Kehong and the others.

As for vigilance, Fu Wen didn't have it at all in his heart, after all, in his opinion, Datang was so powerful and rich, how could he take a fancy to them in such a poor and backward small place?

What's more, with the strong strength of Datang, if they really fancy the small place of Tamluo Island, they can't resist, after all, the difference in strength is too big, and it is useless to resist.

It's better to entertain each other well, as long as the other party is happy, they will surely leave here to complete their "mission" mission.

Therefore, the Star Lord of Tamna not only did not remain wary of Chai Kehong, but was extremely enthusiastic about their arrival.

When Chai Kehong and his party were about to arrive at the "capital" on the island, the star lord brought his prince and others out to greet him, giving Chai Kehong a very high courtesy.

The Star Lord treated them so well, and the people here were so simple and welcoming, that Chai Kehong felt a little ashamed in his heart.

However, this shame only lasted for a moment, and then it was filled with the desire to make a contribution. Hope to give instead.

"They are defenseless at all, the number of troops is also small, the level of weapons and armor and training is surprisingly poor, and the so-called capital is just a wooden wall, can this be considered a country?"

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chai Kehong would only be afraid that it would be difficult to imagine that there was such a weak country in the world, if it was placed in Datang, he was afraid that those bandits with a little strength would be able to destroy them.

"The strength is too weak, if it weren't for the great effect on my Huainan here, I really couldn't bear to destroy this small country. That's it, since these people are so enthusiastic about Ben Jiang, then Ben will try to protect the star lord after destroying them, and as for these people here, if you can persuade them to herd horses for me Huainan, it will also be a good choice! ”

Chai Kehong shook his head, thinking to himself in his heart.

The aborigines of Tamna Island have a habit of raising horses, and it is said that their ancestors were Donghu, who crossed the sea to settle here during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

However, more than 2,000 years later, the fierce style of the ancestors has long disappeared, but the habit of raising horses has been retained.

It's a pity that the horses raised by the locals are indeed too short to be used to haul things, but they are far from enough to be used as war horses to gallop across the field.

Three days later, when he felt that he knew enough about the situation on the island, he boarded the repaired ship under the pretext that he still needed to complete the mission, and left with the warm farewell of the local natives.

However, after leaving the coastline for some distance, they secretly turned back and landed again in the evening.

And this time it will not be the previous three hundred, but the entire fleet of eight hundred!

The reason for this arrangement was that Chai Kehong wanted to further relax the vigilance of the star lord in order to facilitate a surprise attack.

His goal was achieved, the star lord and the soldiers and civilians on the island were completely defenseless, and in the case of Chai Kehong personally leading the army to attack, only half a day later, the entire Tamna Island fell under his control.

The Huainan army's losses were only three wounded, while the casualties on the Tamna side were similarly small: not long after the battle began, the untrained indigenous army collapsed and surrendered to the Huainan army.