Chapter 454: Overwhelming
(Cat flutter Chinese) PS: Anti-theft chapter, to be revised later
On the fourth day of the fourth month of the fourth month of the third year of the last century, Xue Ne led 50,000 troops to cross the Tsushima Strait under the transportation of more than 200 ships from the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea and landed on the coast of the Tsukushi Kingdom of the Japanese State, repelled the 20,000 Japanese troops who came to block it, and beheaded 8,500 people.
Three days later, the Tang army successively pulled out the defense and beacon towers along the coast of the Tsukushi Kingdom, and broke the water city of the Tsukushi Kingdom that was specially built to defend against the Tang army after the naval battle at the mouth of the Baijiang River. On the tenth day of the first month, Ono Castle was broken, and on the twelfth, the rafters were broken, and the sixteenth soldier besieged Dazaifu Castle, and the siege of the city was broken for two days, and Dazai Shaoji Sugawara and Wood were captured.
On the 16th, the Tang army turned north and marched northward, and on the 19th captured the southern shore of the Maguan Strait, an important waterway, Fengguo County, and on the 17th, occupied the northern shore of the Nagato Kingdom, Fengpu County.
Xue Ne immediately divided his troops into three routes, with Li Shangdan leading 10,000 troops as the northern route army, and continued to attack the Changmen Kingdom in the north and advance into the Zhou Defense Kingdom. With Gao Chongde leading 10,000 troops as the Southern Route Army, he conquered the remaining Japanese states on Kyushu Island.
Xue Ne led 30,000 Chinese troops and waited for the arrival of the naval fleet, preparing to use the Seto Inland Sea as the middle route to break through and realize the plan of directly attacking Kyoto.
At the same time, Su Mingxiu, who occupied Iwami, also led his army at the junction with An Yunguo, and blocked the onslaught of 50,000 Japanese troops for 15 days at the junction of Anyun Mountain, and the Japanese army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and had to temporarily retreat.
PS: Anti-theft chapter, to be revised later
"Look at Daphne!"
Under the stage of the lantern tower built by Mingyue Xuan, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man in the crowd waved and shouted excitedly when he saw twelve beautiful women wearing snow-white dance clothes and blonde hair on the stage, reminding his companions around him.
"Why is their skin as white as snow?"
Under the stage, some of the older ladies couldn't help but touch their yellowed faces when they saw their snow-white faces.
"May I ask if Daphne is the bearded girl on the stage? Is it twelve people or one person? The little fat Taoist priest patted the shoulder of the person in front of him and asked curiously.
The person in front turned his head to see that it was actually a little Taoist, and there was an old Taoist priest next to him who was staring at the stage without blinking, and he saw that the Taoist robe had several patches, and it was really weird for the two to get together.
Don't know about Devine? The person who was questioned by the little fat Taoist priest despised the other party very much in his heart. As a native of Chang'an, he was very proud to look down at the two sloppy Taoist priests and introduced the new famous prostitutes in Chang'an.
"Look, Devany is the most beautiful one standing at the front of the stage, I heard that it's Hu Nu, anyway, they all came from the west with Hu Nu from the Western Regions."
The little fat Taoist priest looked in the direction of the other party's finger, and his eyes were instantly attracted.
Wow, it's really a beautiful girl, and the lights at night can't hide her snow-white skin.
"Listening to the news from Ming Yuexuan, these twelve little ladies don't seem to be Hu Nu, they are from some Rome, which is farther west than the Western Regions." A person next to him interjected.
"You're only half right, but I heard from Mingyuexuan's guys that they are called Slavs, not bearded girls." The other person listened to the news about Daphne from the two next to him, and his eyes were very disdainful, and he proudly told the true news he knew.
"Who are the Slavs?" The people around him were stunned for a moment, and turned back to ask the person who had told the news.
"How does so-and-so know? This is what Mingyuexuan's guy said. "Just now, the Slavic middle-aged man with a long beard threw an expression around him: you ask me, who I will ask.
"Slavs?" The old man who stood next to him and didn't say anything all the time said.
"Master, do you know the Slavs?"
Lao Dao stared at the stage and shook his head: "I don't know, I have read all the ancient books and the Hu merchants of the Western Regions have also intersected as a teacher, and I have heard of the Slavs since the end." ”
The little fat Taoist priest pursed his lips and bragged again.
"Their appearance is also quite different from that of Hu Nu, I have never seen Hu Nu have blonde hair, and her complexion is much whiter than Hu Nu." Lao Dao compared them to the bearded girl he had seen at the orchid restaurant.
Beside Lao Dao, a young man wearing a white round-necked robe and a hat was squeezed out of the crowd at some point, and he couldn't help but smile after hearing Lao Dao's words.
"This Taoist chief is right, they are indeed very different from Hu Nu, blonde hair with snow-white skin is more beautiful than Hu Nu, coupled with the slender body that can sing and dance, and the dance music that is different from the Western Regions of Shenzhou and has never heard of, can be popular all over Chang'an in just a few months!"
The twelve girls on stage are divided into two groups of six.
I saw a group sitting on the stage, each holding a musical instrument, they were in charge of several large instruments such as the lyre and kisara, the wind instruments were the Afros pipe, the pan flute-style Sirins, and the other two were holding small drums.
The leader of the other group lined up the dance formation on the stage, and standing in front was the famous Daphne.
Devany looked back, and Irini, who was the instrument leader, held the lira in her hand and nodded to Daphne looking back to signal that the scripture was ready.
"Knock"
"Boom"
As the snare drum hits, other instruments play beautifully.
Looking at the audience, Daphne took a deep breath and sang a song from her hometown, and her graceful body danced with it.
Her five companions moved with her singing, and the six of them used songs and dances to interpret their loneliness and longing for their hometown hidden in the East.
Dancing and singing on stage, Daphne's mind kept flashing through the experiences of the past few years.
She still vividly remembered that her tribe was called Ross who lived by a large river. At the age of ten, she was sold by the tribal chief, along with several girls from her tribe, to Roman merchants who had come to trade goods.
They were taken by Roman merchants to a city of stone she had never seen before, and a few streets were inhabited by more people than the entire population of her tribe.
The merchant picked her and a dozen other good-looking ones from among the girls he had bought, and the others had heard that they had been taken to the market and sold.
The merchants arranged special teachers for the dozen or so girls they left behind, who taught them how to dance, sing, and use musical instruments.
A year later, a merchant named Tiberius bought her and several other talented girls from her original owner. In the days that followed, the new owner bought a dozen more girls with the same fate as hers, and soon set out on the road to the East.
After nearly two years of arduous trekking, we finally came to the Oriental Silk Country, which the owner often talked about on the road, and only 12 of the more than 20 girls who set off finally reached the end, and she was one of the lucky ones.
When she reached the end, she stood in the caravan and was as shocked as the rest of the procession, a city bigger and more populous than Constantinople, which she had lived for more than a year and considered the largest city in the world.
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