Li Changjie was defeated so quickly under his men, but Cai Dao never underestimated this opponent of the dead eunuch.

Sun Tzu has a cloud in the art of war, knows himself and knows his opponent, and will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

But throughout the ages, how many people have really done this?

For example, in the battle of Thang Long City, Li Changjie no longer knew who the commander of the two routes of the Song army was, so he rashly chose Guo Zhongxiao's Northern Route Army as the breakthrough point.

However, Li Changjie ignored another thing that he didn't understand.

The commander of the Song army's eastern route, who was not a madman, dared to ignore his own back road, so he rushed straight in the direction of the imperial city.

If Li Changjie knew how to empathize with this method, he would definitely gather a large army and stop Cai Dao's Eastern Route Army outside the imperial city. The previous military operations of the Northern Route Army have actually exposed the style of its commander-in-chief.

Steady and steady, but did not go straight to the imperial city, indicating that the lord general was extremely cautious, either lacking enough courage, or his troops were insufficient, and it was not enough to threaten the safety of the imperial city.

Therefore, before setting off from Leizhou, Cai Dao had already sent people to find out Li Changjie's detailed achievements in the past, and he was not a vain marshal. He fought countless battles in his life, and except for the Battle of Furajiang, he rarely lost his life.

Unexpectedly, the Song army, which was advancing southward, actually encountered the army of the Cham country and Zhenla who took advantage of the fire to rob. For the sake of several cities over there, the generals of Zhenla took the initiative to retreat after weighing them, and the Cham country actually dared to make a move against the Song army.

Of course, the territory of the Dayue State is indeed taken from the Cham State, but what does this have to do with the Great Song Dynasty.

When the Song army did not march south, the Cham state itself ceded the land of Dili, Maling, and Buzheng to the Dayue State, and it had actually bowed down to Li Qiande. At this time, if he wanted to pick up the leaks of the Great Song Dynasty, he was looking for the wrong object.

The reason why Chenla and the Cham kingdoms were not notified was because of this consideration. I don't have any skills, and I want to get a piece of the pie.

Cai Dao decided to personally send troops to deter the Cham country, and if he didn't give some compensation, he didn't mind taking another country at all. Anyway, Champa was originally the homeland of the Great Qin Empire.

When Cai Dao's old-fashioned flagship Weizhou Island appeared in Indra Buluo, the capital of the Cham country, the king of this country that bullied the weak and feared the hard, and had constant civil strife, saw this behemoth, and sure enough, he immediately took the initiative to succumb.

What Cai Dao didn't expect was that the national army not only gave a heavy salute, but also sent the head of the general who issued the order to take the initiative to attack the Song army. For the attitude of the lord of the Cham country, Cai Dao was very satisfied.

Considering that after the arrival of the rainy season, the Song army naturally could not hold the cities south of the Red River, so Cai Dao decided to make a deal in the Cham and Zhenla countries.

The land of the three states of Dili, Maling, and Buzheng can be exchanged for Cai Dao to the Cham country, but the land of one state is equivalent to one million pieces of gold and silver treasures. Cai Dao remembered that in later generations, South Asian countries seemed to wear more gold jewelry, so he had this plan. Even, Cai Dao is also ready to sell half of the weapons obtained from Da Yue and half give them to the Cham country, specifically

The trade item is rice.

You must know that the earliest two-crop rice in China is the early rice introduced by Song Zhenzong from Zhancheng, and later generations also call it Zhancheng rice.

Now that the land reform of the Great Song Dynasty has just been promulgated and implemented, there is still a great shortage of food, and the land here in the Cham country is fertile, the rain is abundant, the climate is pleasant, and the rice is abundant, so naturally there is no shortage of food. Although Cai Dao has already scavenged a lot of grain from the Dayue Kingdom, if he can exchange more grain from the Cham Kingdom, it will be very beneficial to his base construction on Yizhou Island.

Because, Cai Dao scavenged a lot of girls under the age of fifteen from Dayue and sent them to Yizhou Island, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty who moved here before were mainly young men, so in this way, about five years later, Yizhou Island will usher in a population explosion.

As for Zhenla, it is also the same price, and as much as you can pay, you can get as much land as you can get, as well as weapons.

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Cham country was once glorious, and when he heard the price offered by Cai Dao, he really took out a lot of gold, silver and jewelry at once. Of course, there are also Cai Dao's own reasons, he estimated the price of some of these diamonds that he didn't know where to get them, and he recognized that the price of these treasures could be exchanged for the land of Sanzhou.

And the Zhenla Kingdom also got the land of the three states of the Great Yue Kingdom.

pinching his fingers and counting the days, after returning from the transaction, Cai Dao immediately summoned all the Song troops back, anyway, the looting had been completed, and Zhao Xu's instructions after knew that they had not yet been conveyed.

Self-knowledge, self-loss.

Anyway, Cai Dao has already searched the rich land of Dayue Kingdom, so even if he takes the initiative to give up this Han and Tang Dynasty hometown, Cai Dao does not feel pity.

Therefore, Cai Dao ordered all the cities to be abandoned, and the others immediately left the Great Yue Kingdom by boat and returned to Leizhou.

If, after arriving in Leizhou, Zhao Xu still did not receive follow-up instructions, Cai Dao was ready to leave the Southern Expeditionary Army and take a boat to Bianliang City by himself. Because, Cai Dao guessed that there must have been an unexpected change in the Great Song Dynasty, which made Zhao Xu drag on until now without giving him any follow-up instructions.

This is completely different from what Cai Dao discussed with Zhao Xu when he left Beijing.

As for the people of the Song Dynasty who were already preparing to settle down in Dayue, Cai Dao could only say sorry.

Even if the soldiers of the Southern Expedition were recruited from Lingnan, they were not necessarily able to adapt to the long rainy season in Dayue. What's more, the combat effectiveness of the border army in the north of Da Yue is very strong, and it is not something that the Southern Expeditionary Army, which has already consumed a lot of troops, can cope with.

After the news of the first batch of Lingnan people who had gained a lot in the Great Yue Kingdom spread throughout Lingnan, the young and middle-aged people of the entire Lingnan almost flocked to Leizhou. There were so many people that in the end, money had to limit the age of the second group to go to Da Viet - they had to be at least 20 years old, and those who were over 30 years old were not allowed to apply.

In this way, the second batch of money was pulled to the country of Da Yue, and the number of people strong exceeded 50,000.

Cai Dao used a lot of money to pick up some of it and replenish it to the Southern Expeditionary Army.

However, Cai Dao himself didn't expect that the first time he would lose his trust to the people was after a hearty victory.

Fortunately, the people of Lingnan can understand Cai Dao's distress.

Of course, Cai Dao also gave enough compensation to the people who traveled across the ocean to Dayue in western Zhejiang.

"I broke my promise!" This is the only thing Cai Dao can say to these people.