After two full days, the Lengshui River Bridge on the Lengshui River, which has as many as 36 piers and is 36 zhang long, finally has the appearance of a bridge.

With the exception of the three piers near the opposite bank, where no heavy planks were erected, the bridge over the Lengshui River has been largely completed.

The Yi soldiers on the opposite bank of Shaxiba also hid in the watchtowers and disappeared from the beginning, and now they are estranged and confronted with the officials and troops on the east bank of the Lengshui River.

The reason why the last three piers leading to the opposite bank were not completed was because of the continuous attacks and harassment of these Yi soldiers of Shaxiba.

The bows and arrows of these Yi soldiers are all small bows and short arrows, including the crossbows used, which are also self-made by Yi craftsmen, and the range is much smaller than that of the tendon and angle compound bow of the Ming court.

However, the poisoned arrows, which were widely used by the Yi soldiers, added a terrifying power to these bows and crossbows that did not have a long range.

Although the range of the bow and crossbow of the officers and soldiers is much longer, as long as they do not hit the vital point, they can generally only injure the enemy and cannot kill the enemy with one blow.

However, the bows and crossbows used by the Yi soldiers in Shuixi were habitually coated with the juice of arrow poison wood, which was the legendary poison that sealed the throat with blood.

Although not everyone who is shot will die, most of them will not survive such a poisonous arrow for two days in the Shuixi region, which lacks medical treatment and medicine.

How long you can last depends on your physique, and at the same time, it also depends on your creation.

It was precisely this kind of poisonous arrow that caused the Baojing native soldiers in Shuixi, who were the advanced army, to suffer a great loss, losing more than 200 people.

On the morning of the 10th day of the first month of May, rain and fog fell on both sides of the Lengshui River, and the heavens, earth, mountains and forests were vast.

Wu Zhiwang asked Peng Chaozhu to choose a tall and thin man with long arms and good at throwing guns from the team of Baojing native soldiers, a general of the earth commander named Xiang La.

Then he wrote a letter of only a few lines, wrapped in oiled paper, and had him tied to a throwing gun about four feet long.

The group came to the rebuilt Lengshui River Bridge, Wu Zhiwang looked at the general Xiang La, pointed to the surrender he was holding in his hand, and said: "Listen to Peng Xuanfu, you are the first to throw a gun among the soldiers of Baojing Xuanfu, but I don't know the situation in front of you, how far can you throw with all your strength?" ”

The local commander shook the throwing gun with something attached to it in his hand, looked at the Lengshui River Bridge in the rain and mist in the distance, and then said in a not very fluent Chinese: "One hundred and fifty steps, no problem." If an adult throws a book with a gun, he will not be dishonored in his humble position! ”

Hearing him say this, Wu Zhiwang nodded and said, "Go!" ”

Xiang Lama held a shield in one hand, a throwing gun in the other, walked on the bridge, the first half was a fast walk, to the second half, suddenly exerted force, ran quickly towards the other end, in the rain and fog only heard a low shout of "hey", Xiang Lama suddenly threw the throwing gun held in his right hand in the running.

In the rain and fog, I couldn't see the trajectory of the spear flying, but a moment later I heard a scream from the far other side, and then there was a chaos, only a panicked sound came through the rain and fog:

"Throw guns! It's the guns of the Baojing soldiers! ”

"The guns of the Baojing soldiers stabbed Aga to death!"

Of course, the voices that came over were all Yi languages that Wu Zhiwang, Chen Zizhuang and others couldn't understand, but Qin Gongming beside them followed his father Qin Minping to fight all over Shuixi, and the Shizhu area was not far from Shuixi, so he could understand the Yi language of the Yi people in Shuixi.

Soon, the general of the Baojing Tusi returned to the side of the official army at the bridgehead, knelt down on one knee to Wu Zhiwang and the others and said: "Report to your lordship, I am fortunate to be humiliated!" ”

Wu Zhiwang nodded at him and waved him away.

Most of the civil officials of the imperial court led the troops to go out on the expedition, that is, they saluted first and then the soldiers, and before the actual battle, they first asked the other party if they were willing to surrender.

Wu Zhiwang's side, in fact, can also be sent to capture a Yi mountain people who came to help open the mountain and repair the road and cut down trees and build bridges, as a messenger to deliver the letter of surrender, but these mountain people have been following the official army for several days, and they have a grudge against the officials and soldiers in front of them, worried that they will cross the river, and report the situation of the official army to the Tusi head on the opposite side.

It was precisely because of this consideration that he let this Xiang Lama use a throwing spear to throw the letter of surrender to the Yi soldiers on the other side of the river.

Those Yi soldiers who stuck to the bridgehead of the river bank in the rain and fog did not expect that the other bank would suddenly throw a throwing gun, and it was a spear master who was one in a million to throw it over, and there was a middle-aged Yi soldier named Ajia on the spot, who was nailed to the ground by the throwing gun that galloped through the rain and fog.

After the Yi soldiers screamed and panicked, someone finally noticed the letter tied to the throwing gun.

This letter of surrender was quickly sent back to the Tusi Manor not far away by the Yi soldiers stationed at the Qiaotou crossing, and to the hands of Luo Jiuzhong, the local Tusi of Shaxiba.

"It has been eight years since the rebellion of Lu'an, and the land west of the water has been devastated. This time, the imperial court requisitioned hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers from all over the world to attack on all sides, and if it did not remove the luxury, the first evil would not be withdrawn.

"Nian Ersha Xi Luo is not a descendant of the An family, and has been loyal to the court for generations, so he is given a chance to be cared for.

"Within two days, he crossed the river and returned, and the imperial army discussed the An family, and allowed the Luo family to still lead Shaxi.

"If you are obsessed and stubbornly resist, the day our army crosses the river will be the time when the Shaxi Luo clan will be wiped out. Don't be unpredictable! ”

After getting this letter of surrender, the current patriarch of the Shaxi Luo clan, Luo Jiuzhong, who was in the prime of life, hurriedly read the letter and fell into a deep entanglement.

Before An Bangyan's rebellion, Shaxi Dam had a Shaxi Inspection Division, which was commanded by the hereditary inspection department of Shaxi Luo's Tusi.

However, after An Bangyan's breakfast, Shaxi Luo's Toast rebelled with Shui'an's clan, and the previous inspection department also became Shaxi Luo's own manor or walled city.

Shaxi Luo's Tusi don't look at their surname Luo, but they are actually from the same ancestor as the Shuixian clan, but they belong to the side branches, and they are far away from the Shuixi'an clan.

The Shuixi clan was not originally surnamed An, they were different from the Song family in Shuidong, the Song family in Shuidong was born in the Han people, but the Shuixi clan was born in the Yi clan, and they did not have a surname.

After his ancestors were named the king of Luodian, they once took Luo as their surname, but when they arrived in the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people had a low status, and the Yi leaders who ruled Shuixi abandoned the surname Luo, and no longer gave themselves the Han surname Han name.

Therefore, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when it was attached to the imperial court, the first ambassador of Shuixi was called Ai Cui, neither surnamed Luo nor An.

It wasn't until later that the imperial court gave the Tusi of the Yi nationality in Shuixi to comfort the envoy surnamed An, and they could be regarded as having a Han surname again, and the name of "Shuixi An" was officially on the stage of history.

Therefore, the roots of the Roche in the boundary of the western region of the water are in the same vein as the An's.

But all this, after all, is the old yellow calendar hundreds of years ago.

It is impossible to say how much family affection the Shaxi Luo clan still has for the Shuixi clan from the bloodline.

But whether to surrender the imperial army so easily, Luo Jiuzhong looked at the letter of persuasion sent into the manor by his subordinates, but he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

In the third to fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou, led a large army to attack Shuixi, and was invincible all the way to the city, and once even hit Dafang and occupied the so-called royal city of Muorg of the Yi people in Shuixi.

But what about the occupation?

A few months later, didn't he run out of food and retreat, and then he was chased and killed all the way by the Yi soldiers under the command of Hao An, and the 60,000 troops of the imperial court were destroyed in one fell swoop?

Who can guarantee that this time the imperial army will enter Shuixi, and in the end, it will be able to exterminate Xuan Chongming An Bangyan and finish off the Shuixi clan?

In case it fails in the end like last time, at that time, the Shaxi Luo clan will really face the danger of destroying the family and destroying the clan!

"Jiuxi, Azuo, look, how should I Shaxi Luo choose a side?"

Jiuxi, Luo Jiuzhong's younger brother Luo Jiuxi, has a thin figure, carries a Yi knife at his waist, and has a long black "Ziti" wrapped around his head, which is the so-called "hero knot" of the Yi people, with a red and black complexion, a gloomy expression, and an unfathomable look.

This person is not only the younger brother of Shaxi Tusi Luo Jiuzhong, but also the mastermind of Luo Jiuzhong.

And Azuo, who is in his early twenties, is Luo Jiuzhong's eldest son Luo Longzuo, the next heir of Shaxi Tusi, with a white face and short beard, although he is also a Yi aristocratic outfit wearing a cyan "Zarwa" (Yi-style cloak) and a black "hero knot" on his head, but he has a gentle and elegant bookish atmosphere, and he looks like a person who has read books.

After Luo Jiuzhong finished asking this sentence, he handed the letter in his hand to the two of them.

After reading it, Luo Jiuxi handed the letter to Luo Longzuo, looked at Luo Jiuzhong and said: "Wu Oyiye, I heard from the people who escaped from Shuiwai that the imperial court has exterminated the Shuidong Song clan, and the jurisdiction of the twelve horseheads of the Shuidong Xuanwei Division has also been changed and returned.

"If my Shaxi Luo clan doesn't help the An clan at this time, or even helps the imperial court to enter Shuixi, and the An clan will be destroyed in the future, at that time, the imperial court will change the land in Shuixi and return to the stream, and my Shaxi Luo clan belongs to the Shuixi lineage, where should I go then?!"

"For the sake of the rise and fall of my Shaxi Luo clan, it is better to send someone to ask Mu Oge for help now, if his army comes to help, it can be guaranteed to win, and my Shaxi Luo clan will continue to follow the An clan.

"If he ignores it, my Shaxi Luo clan will not be able to support it and return to the Han government, and the An clan will not be able to hate me in the future, whether it wins or loses. In this way, it will be beneficial to me Shaxi! ”

Wu Oyiye is the name of each other between the brothers of the Yi nationality.

After Luo Jiuxi finished saying this, Luo Jiuzhong nodded, expressing his deep approval.

At this time, Luo Longzuo said: "Ah Da, there is a saying in the Han book called "good birds choose trees to perch, and there is also a saying that those who know the times are handsome."

"How can the land of Shuixi projectiles be compared with the land of the Ming Dynasty?!

"Although my Shaxi Luo clan is a branch of the Shuixi Xi'an clan, the family foundation for hundreds of years cannot be destroyed for the sake of the Shuixi clan.

"Even if Ann is as strong as it was a few years ago, it is only for a while. If the imperial army does not come, I, Shaxi Luo, will naturally choose to be strong.

"Now that the imperial army is coming, Shuixi and the imperial court, it is clear which is stronger and which is weak, what else can Ah Da hesitate about?"