Sure enough, the slate charcoal ash that had been held at the entrance overhead had been removed by the brute soldiers, and a lot of black and white charcoal ash was falling in the cellar, and for a while the light band shining from the outside world was filled with floating dust. The people in the cellar coughed and looked up in horror at the entrance above.

At the entrance were two ugly brute soldiers with their heads sticking out and looking down, they didn't know if there was really anyone inside, but the cries of the children were getting louder, and the screams of women and men made them curious to rummage around the house, and they stumbled upon this secret entrance under the stove.

"Go and call the captain, there's someone down here!" A small leader-like brute commanded the other, then squinted down again. Standing in a well-lit place is impossible to see in the dark, all of them are the same, whether they are brutes or beasts, and the villagers in the darkness below can see the eyebrows and beards of the brute leader in their entirety. This brute soldier had a face full of flesh, because he often participated in battles, his face was covered with scars, his teeth were black and yellow, and he was blind in one eye, and at this time he looked down, and all the villagers below stopped crying, even the children who had been kicking and kicking before.

"Get it all out of here!" The brute shouted loudly in Annamite. "If you don't come out, you'll set it on fire!"

The people below looked at each other, not knowing what to do, and they all turned their heads to look at the old man holding the child. The old man sighed, "Let's get out, we have no other way out here, and if we really set fire to it, we won't be able to escape." ”

Not long after, the thirty or so people climbed up the stairs one by one, and stood in a circle surrounded by more than a dozen brute soldiers.

At this time, the captain of the brute army came, this captain was wearing an iron armor, a pot helmet on his head, the upper lip skin had probably been cut off in the previous battles, his teeth were so abruptly exposed, and there was a knife mark on his face. He stepped forward, carefully examined the more than thirty people, and then said a few words to a barbarian soldier next to him, and the brute immediately said in Annan dialect: "The captain has shown kindness, so that the old man and the child can leave, but now there are still people arresting outside, so you better hide in first." ”

The old people looked at these barbarians in amazement and felt incredible, didn't these barbarians kill and loot and burn them all everywhere? How can the elderly and children still be kept? They didn't think much about it, and hurriedly put on those little children and returned to the cellar under the escort of several brute soldiers, but the crying child made a fuss again, and his mother hurriedly rushed up to hold the child, but was kicked to the ground by a brute soldier on the side, and then pulled out a sharp iron blade and put it on her neck. The barbarian holding the child froze for a moment, probably wanting to return the child to the woman, but was snatched away by a small leader of the barbarian and scolded: "You fool, this child is a burden, what are you doing with it?" Do you want to be a son? He slapped the brute again, and walked viciously to the cellar entrance. Seeing that all the old people and children entered the cellar, they took the little child and slammed it into the cellar. The child's crying stopped abruptly, followed by the exclamations of the cellar and the cries of the woman outside the cellar.

"Pour oil! Set! The captain of the brute soldier paid no attention to these things, and ordered indifferently. A few brute soldiers at the entrance of the cellar hurriedly pulled out the stairs of the cellar and stepped on it into several sections, and a few barbarians outside the house walked in with a few cans of oil that they didn't know what kind of oil they were, lit them with fire, and smashed them directly into the cellar. The burning oil spread rapidly in the cellar, and the old man and the child screamed in the flames and tried to extinguish the flames on their bodies one by one, but in the blink of an eye, they became burning people one by one.

"See? The old man and the child are not able to work, it is useless to catch them, and there is no meat, and the taste is not very good, and they are the best to eat. Saying that, the captain of the brute smiled and touched a few handfuls of the woman who had fainted from crying, "Take it with you, this woman has just given birth, remember to feed it, the fresh milk at this time is delicious!" He gave two commands, and then he took the lead and walked out of the house.

The brutes around him drew their weapons and scolded the young men to go out, while the women were asked to strip naked, "From now on, you don't need clothes anymore!" Work hard to get something to eat, or we'll kill you for meat!" "A brute kicked a woman who was unwilling to take off his clothes and said loudly in Annamite with his foot." Hurry up! So as not to be so troublesome to take off your clothes when Lao Tzu enjoys it! Hurry up! ”

Not long after, after a scream came from the house, several women who refused to take off their clothes were killed to the ground, and the remaining women honestly followed the group of brutes naked, and then the brutes threw torches onto the thatched roof of the house.

The black smoke from the burning rose rapidly in the flames, and the pungent smell of smoke mixed with the smell of burning grease and roasted meat quickly dispersed, and the men outside the house were gathered on the side of the village beacon and asked to kneel to declare their willingness to become Clovhan's slaves, and those who did not want to be killed with their swords drawn. The women, on the other hand, had already been gathered together and taken to a nearby house.

The screams mixed with the smell of smoke and barbecue wafted over, and the more than a dozen piers on the Yishan beacon tower couldn't help but be angry, but there was nothing they could do. There are at least more than 300 of these barbarians outside, and there are only more than 10 of them, and it is already thankful that others do not come to fight them. One by one, they looked out at the village through the battlements of the beacon tower, and they could also see the women who were naked and wantonly by the barbarians reaching out for help, and they felt angry and ashamed at this time. These barbarians came every year, and in recent years they had been plundered with increasing intensity, and the peasants were taken away from whole villages, and mountains of grain, cloth, ironware, and boxes of treasure were transported to the south in carts. The army of the Nguyen clan of South Vietnam had twice fought a great battle with the marauders of Klohan, and the result was a one-sided defeat, although the army of Annam was brave, but it was not at all pleasing to the cavalry of these marauders, and these barbarians were not afraid of death, and dared to rush up in the face of the bows and spears of the Annam soldiers, and once they caught the soldiers of Annam, they all cut off their hands and feet and threw them on the side of the road to wait for the captives to be sunburned alive. After the two defeats, rumors began to circulate on Annan's side that the barbarians were invincible, and finally until now, if there are no soldiers ten times more than the barbarians, the generals will not allow their subordinates to go out to confront the barbarians. The evil consequence of this situation is that once the barbarian army invades the north, all the Annam troops will shrink into their own garrisons or cities and will not be able to leave, and there will be no troops available in the entire territory of Annam.

Fortunately, these barbarians only came north to plunder food and the population who did not have time to escape, and they did not have enough siege equipment for the city and the garrison to break the city, so the annual loss of money, food and population was acceptable. The magistrates, on the other hand, quietly erased these "acceptable" losses, so that the annual reports submitted to the Nguyen lords of South Vietnam were always lightly brushed aside. But Lord Ruan knows very well about the handwriting of these officials, and naturally knows that they are tired of playing. But his current soldiers were terrified of the army of Clovhan Nanban, and even if they were asked to attack the Wu Dynasty army, they were not so afraid. After the two big defeats, he also saw the thousands of corpses without hands and feet on the side of the road, and his heart was also terrified.

At this time, Nguyen Lord Nguyen Phuc Nguyen was sitting in the side hall of his palace, reviewing the urgent recitals sent by the magistrates below. "It's Nanban again!" He flipped through several pieces of music in distraught, and really didn't see a few that were not in a hurry.

"Your Majesty!" The voice of the eunuch sounded outside the door, "Her Royal Highness Princess Ji has arrived." Saying that, the eunuch in the side hall stepped forward and opened the door, and a eunuch wearing the same blue linen robe outside the door walked into the side hall with a book in both hands, and then knelt on the ground and walked a few steps to Lord Ruan's desk, and raised the book above his head. The eunuch who was serving on the side walked over and took the recital and gently placed it on Lord Ruan's desk.

"Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness Princess Ji's recital." The eunuch slowly stepped aside and whispered.

Lord Ruan impatiently waved his hand at the eunuch kneeling below and said, "Go out, go to the inner treasury to get two coins of silver." ”

After receiving her daughter's recital, she was finally in a better mood, the pace of this group of southern barbarians going north was only so fast, and by the time these barbarians arrived at Champa Port, Champa Port should have been prepared, and it is estimated that there will be no losses. Thinking of this daughter, he was in a much better mood, he had no son, only such a daughter, he originally planned to recruit a horse and then let his grandson follow the surname Ruan, and in the end he would give the throne to his grandson. But although this daughter has been full of interest in poetry and literature since she was a child, her biggest interest is to march and fight to govern the country. In order to follow his daughter's temperament, he gave the entire Champa area to his daughter after occupying the Champa area. What surprised him was that his daughter actually established a port of Champa near the Wu Dynasty, which had developed into the largest trading port in the whole of Annam in the past five years, and had paid a huge amount of silver to himself every year, so that he was not as overstretched in funds as before when he governed the country.

The daughter's recital describes how a group of people from overseas occupied a beacon tower on the border of Anyun in the Wu Dynasty, and then used this beacon tower to establish an "Oriental Port" in just two months. They possessed sharp firearms and exquisite products, and by this time they had already focused their trade on the port of Champa. The daughter also signed a treaty with the Oriental porters, in which the Oriental porters would train a crack army and provide the army with sophisticated firearms on the condition that they would trade tax-free in the port of Champa for three years.

"Can you go into battle now?" When he saw that his daughter actually wrote in the recital that her new army had completed its training and was about to be able to fight against the Clovhan barbarians, he couldn't help but cry out for a while. The eunuchs and palace maids serving around them were so frightened that they quickly knelt on the ground.