In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, on July 11, Zhao Meiqiu and other forty-one people were sent to the west coast of Erhai by a new warship of the Tiance army.

There were seven people missing, and the seven people led by Yang Zifen insisted on reporting all the things to Ge Luofeng, and then they were beaten to death by the other forty-one people.

"Yang Qing, it was the Lone King who harmed you!" After listening to everyone's narration, Ge Luofeng shed tears of grief, kowtowed to the altar, bowed three times, then turned around, and said sadly: "The two countries are fighting each other, and they will not be killed!" That Xiao Qu was so mad that he killed Yang Zifen to sacrifice the flag!

Everyone has seen it, the Tang army even did such a thing as killing envoys, and last night they burned to death 36,000 soldiers of our Nanzhao, they are going to kill all our Nanzhao people!

From ancient times to the present, the lone king is the minister of the Tang Dynasty who does not invade or rebel, and Nanzhao has no heart to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, and the sky can learn from it! However, the Tang Dynasty has repeatedly forced each other and repeatedly committed this unjust discussion; Lonely and bent on returning to the Tang Dynasty, the Tiance Army wantonly slaughtered my Nanzhao soldiers and killed the envoys.

Everyone, if the Tang army wants to kill all the people of my Nanzhao, what should we do? ”

"Fight with them! Fight to the death! ”

"Fight! Fight to the death......"

Under the altar, tens of thousands of Nanzhao soldiers and civilians were filled with righteous indignation, and there were still people who wanted to desert before, but now they are all angry with the enemy, and they have been forced to a desperate situation by the Tiance army, coupled with the instigation of Ge Luofeng, the Nanzhao soldiers and civilians at this time are full of grief and indignation, vowing to fight to the death with the Tang army!

The scene was painful, but there was always someone who ruined the atmosphere. After everyone roared angrily in unison, Zhao Meiqiu was stunned and said, "King, the king of Lanling still said." If we surrender early, put our heads with him, and then go to fight the Tibetan army, we can use the heads of the Tibetan barbarians to atone for the lives of ourselves and our families! ”

"Stupid!" Ge Luofeng shouted violently, turned his head and said loudly to the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians under the altar: "Then Xiao Qu is sick and even kills the messenger, what else can't be done?"

If you surrender, you will be dead. Even if we are not treacherously killed by the Tiance army, they will use the hands of the Tibetan army to consume us. In the end, it is still death!

That Xiao Qu is sick and has such a vicious plan, didn't you listen to him? We killed 200,000 Tang troops, and they will never forgive, for the sake of the present. We have to fight to the death!

Ladies and gentlemen. As long as we hold out for another eight days, the Tibetan reinforcements will arrive! ”

Of course, Tubo will not arrive within eight days, according to Ge Luofeng's conservative estimate, it will take at least 12 days, he is afraid that the Nanzhao army and people will not have confidence.

For a while, Zhao Meiqiu had no choice but to keep silent, and then the worship ended, and everyone returned to their respective posts. Fierce soldiers, united as one. Defend it!

Because they had just returned from the Tang camp, Zhao Meiqiu and the other forty-seven people were not arranged, and they all went home first, or went to find a trustworthy person who knew each other, and said what they didn't say to Ge Luofeng just now.

A former Tang Dynasty official named Jiang Ruzhi secretly found Zheng Hui (the one who wrote the Dehua Monument), Lou Jing and others, who were also captured Tang Dynasty officials, and introduced the real situation: "The Tiance army is about to fight, the king of Lanling is really a disciple of the gods, the god of war of the Tang Dynasty, Ge Luofeng and Nanzhao must not be able to hold it, we can't accompany them to die."

We are officials of the Tang Dynasty, now is the time to make meritorious contributions, King Lanling said, as long as the Tiance army kills us tonight, we make meritorious contributions, all the previous sins can be avoided, and we can also let me and others manage the land of Nanzhao, if there are people like Yang Zifen, who are loyal to Ge Luofeng and Nanzhao, and are obsessed, the whole family will not leave ......."

Duan Mingyi, a young general of Nanzhao, returned home, and then, his two uncles Duan Quange and Duan Jianwei (his descendant Duan Siping established the Dali Kingdom) also found an opportunity to return home, and the three of them came to a secret room.

Duan Mingyi said excitedly: "...... This time, our Nanzhao will definitely not be able to defend it, the Tiance army is too powerful, their strong crossbows can shoot our shields in more than a hundred steps and then kill us;

Their armor is light and strong, and I have tried it, and within fifty paces our bows and arrows cannot penetrate their armor, and when we are close, we cannot hurt them in the slightest with our swords, and only the spear rush will break through the armor even an inch, which will not kill anyone.

I heard from their people that such a suit of armor was worth six hundred taels, and that each soldier had more than a thousand taels. The Tiance Army is really rich, so the equipment is so good.

In addition, they also have lightweight, three-person crossbows and catapults that can be operated by three people, as well as the fierce fire oil of yesterday, and their soldiers are also very strong and powerful, and if the two of them are put right, I can't even win one! ”

Duan Quange and Duan Jianwei glanced at each other, and their hearts were also full of shock, they had been blushing at the excellent equipment of the Tiance Army before, and they had also defined it, saying that the Tiance Army was smashed with money.

Now it seems that this is the case, in the case of such a huge disparity in the quality of weapons, the intelligence of the opposite side is not weaker than its own, and even better than its own, and now the Nanzhao naval division is completely annihilated, and Nanzhao is no longer geographically advantageous, and it is almost impossible to win.

"There is also King Nalanling, he is an immortal disciple, with infinite strength, and he has the treasure of the immortal family on his body. He had a nine-stone bow, which could shoot more than 400 paces away, and when we left, he shot a big stone on the east shore of Erhai Lake at the edge of a water with one arrow, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of stones were shot into countless pieces; He also said that he once knocked down the gate tower of Mulu with a single arrow. ”

"Nine stones strong bow, one arrow shot up a thousand pounds of stones, one arrow shot down the city gatehouse...... Immortal disciple, how is it possible? ”

Duan Mingyi swore that he had seen it with his own eyes, and the big stone was definitely more than four hundred steps away, it was indeed a big stone, and it was shot to pieces. Then he began to talk about the threat of Xiao Qu's illness, if he didn't surrender to kill the Tubo soldiers or didn't exchange the heads of the Nanzhao soldiers for his life, he would kill all of us, even his family members and children, and buy our heads for one hundred people.

Duan Quange and Duan Jianwei's foreheads began to sweat, and at this time, Duan Mingyi threw out even more exciting news: "King Lanling also secretly told me that as long as our Dali Duan clan surrenders to the Tang Dynasty." And for the Tang Dynasty to attack Tubo, we can make Dali Duan the lord of Nanzhao and change the country name. Create a new vassal dominated by the White Barbarians and defend the southern border! ”

Before the Six Edicts, the people here were divided into Wuman and Baiman, the social system and cultural and technological level of Baiman was more advanced, and Wuman was more primitive, or more barbaric, but in mutual struggle and annexation. But Bai Man has always been at a disadvantage, so that when the Six Edicts were issued, Bai Man was basically ruled by Wu Man.

The six edicts are all barbarians. Duan is the surname of the Baiman aborigines, although the Duan family is very prosperous in Nanzhao, except for Ge Luofeng and Feng Jiayi's father and son, the first and second generals of Nanzhao are Duan. But Bai Man's status in Nanzhao is very low.

Nanzhao was a slave state. Although the white barbarians are smarter than the barbarians, and various crafts such as farming, pottery, and winemaking are far superior to the barbaric barbarians, nearly eighty percent of the white barbarians are slaves, and most of the rest are civilians who rely on their crafts to eat.

And the barbarians were mostly slave-owning nobles and soldiers, so to speak. In Nanzhao, Baiman is responsible for production and feeding Wuman. The barbarians were in charge of fighting and fighting everywhere.

Although the Duan clan was reused because of its high cultural literacy and ability to fight, in fact, it has always been suppressed and excluded by the barbarian aristocracy, if it is not with the help of external forces, it is almost impossible for the Bai Barbarian to turn over and be the master, and it is almost impossible for the Duan clan to be the king, because the Bai Barbarian can't beat the Wu Man.

Now is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity, as long as what Duan Mingyi said is true, as long as the king of Lanling can really defeat the coalition army of Nanzhao and Tubo, it is not impossible for the Duan clan to replace the Mengshi (Nanzhao is also known as Mengshe Zhao, Ge Luofeng is actually surnamed Meng), and the white barbarians replace the Wubarians to rule (govern) here!

Duan Quange said excitedly: "King Lanling really said that? Also, What does Dali Duanshi mean? ”

Duan Mingyi scratched his head and muttered: "The ghost knows what is wrong with the brains of the Lanling King and the Tiance Army, I told them that we are not the Dali Duan Clan, but they insisted that we were the Dali Duan Clan, and asked me if I would ...... with a Yang Finger and a Six-Vein Divine Sword."

Duan Jianwei was stunned, although he also felt that this Lanling King was a little inexplicable, but inexplicably he also felt that the name Dali was good, and he was also a very smart person, so he could naturally see that Xiao Quai's proposal was simply too good for them.

Nanzhao Wu barbarians killed 200,000 Tang troops, and the king of Lanling came here to let Nanzhao destroy the country, but he couldn't stay here all the time, and he definitely had to find an agent, which means that he found his two brothers.

His eyes lit up suddenly, and he said to Duan Quange very seriously: "Second brother, if the King of Lanling and the Tiance Army can really push the withered and decayed to attack the hinterland of Nanzhao this time, we will take the opportunity to vote for the King of Lanling, capture Nage Luofeng alive and present it to the King of Lanling, and make meritorious contributions."

In the future, we will be called Dali Duan, if the king of Lanling can really speak, the country we will establish in the future will be called Dali country, okay? ”

At the same time, a remnant of the former Shi Langzhao named Pang Luopi found his clan elder and told him about the determination of the king of Lanling to kill the soldiers of Guangnanzhao, as well as the conditions for exchanging human heads for lives.

It didn't take long for the wise and shrewd Nanzhao generation of British masters to notice that something was wrong, and at this time, the news that the forty-one people brought back had spread widely.

Inside Nanzhao, it is not without contradictions, Pi Luo Ge and Ge Luo Feng father and son are all heroes in the world, in a short period of time, unified the six edicts, and later defeated the Fu clan, from a small tribe, to the current scale, Nanzhao really belongs to the headquarters of the Mengshe Zhao is actually not much, this time 20,000 water troops were wiped out, 10,000 Luo Tho died and 6,000 soldiers and horses, and the headquarters of the soldiers and horses are even less.

Before, because Ge Luofeng was wise and martial, had the means, could unite people, act, and sensationalize, the other remnants of the five edicts annexed by them were naturally bent on following Ge Luofeng. But now that Ge Luofeng has suffered such a big defeat, these remnants of the Five Edicts are naturally moved by people's hearts and minds.

Although Ge Luofeng sensed that something was wrong at this time, he didn't know what it was, and there was not much to do for a while, because after all, Meng Shezhao's cronies have always been a minority, and if the response is too drastic, it is easy to force the other remnants of the Five Edicts and Bai Barbarians to rebel; However, if you don't deal with it, the unknown danger is the most frightening, and the people are not aligned, and it is even more difficult to hold on to the Tibetan reinforcements.

Just when Ge Luofeng felt an incomparably headache and was thinking about what to do to boost morale and make all the Nanzhao people hate the same enemy, Xiao Qubing took two thousand sailors to kill him.

For more than three days, craftsmen and soldiers came with the army. Working overtime, five three-masted battleships with a length of nine feet and six feet and a width of two feet and seven feet were assembled. With this as the main force, the others are hundreds of small wooden boats and bamboo rafts, which crossed the Erhai Sea to kill the generals.

The Tang Army's naval division made a small circle to the north of Taihe City near the west bank, and then went all the way down the river, landing three times during the process, burning five villages and towns, and defeating three teams that arrived at the first time. At the cost of not killing a single person, more than 3,000 soldiers of Nanzhao were killed, and more than 2,000 adult men from nearby villages and towns were killed. When there were more and more follow-up troops, the Tang army set fire to block the road, and then calmly retreated to the ship and drove away.

When Ge Luofeng arrived with an elite cavalry team. That's what you see. He was so angry that he scolded his mother, but there was no way, who called the ship of the sailor on his side all burned.

What made him most depressed was that in the past two days, the Tang Army's sailors did not sail far, but approached the shore and went downstream, all the way south to Taihe City and Longwei City.

It was a densely populated area of Nanzhao, and there was no way, so Ge Luofeng had to lead this cavalry team of only 3,000 people in Nanzhao to follow on the shore.

And I didn't dare to get too close to him. The young commander of the Tang Army turned out to be a unique condor archer in the world, and he could shoot more than 400 steps away with a single bow. The arrows are not missing. It's like a deliberate performance, more than 100 Nanzhao soldiers and civilians were shot to death by him along the way, and what is even more annoying is that sometimes he really can't shoot people, and he also shoots cattle and sheep on the shore.

Nearly five hundred paces away, at least the Nine Stone Treasure Bow, he actually shot a hundred arrows and still had the strength to continue shooting, and the Nanzhao cavalry on the shore who followed behind and witnessed the whole process were all stunned.

Is this still human? This is simply a god, otherwise how can he have so much strength and not be tired?

In addition, the five three-masted battleships were equipped with hundreds of eight-ox crossbows, and all houses, crops, etc., that were close to the firing range, would be attacked, using the kind of oil that could burn on the water, drifting all the way, and then setting fire all the way.

It didn't take long for the 2,000 Tang army sailors to travel to eight miles south of Taihe City, less than seven miles away from Longwei City, and almost the southernmost point of Erhai Lake.

However, no one in the Nanzhao army was happy to successfully defend this time, although Ge Luofeng made an inspiring speech, but the effect was not good, his side was beaten lightly, and he had no power to fight back, and he felt very frustrated in his heart.

On the other side, those who secretly heard the news that the Tang Lanling King was an immortal disciple, and Nanzhao would definitely not be able to keep it this time, after this time, they lost confidence in whether Nanzhao could hold it, and became more and more sure that the Tang Lanling King was an immortal disciple!

If you weren't an immortal disciple, how could you do such an unbelievable thing that exceeded ordinary human power? Someone counted one hundred and fifty arrows, and the arrows were more than four hundred paces, and the arrows hit the target.

The people's hearts were even more confused, panic and pessimism were spreading everywhere, this time, even Ge Luofeng lost confidence in whether he could hold the hinterland of Nanzhao and hold out until the arrival of the Tubo reinforcements, and began to consider whether the strong man should break his wrist, just like the other five edicts that were attacked by his father before, and migrated to other places with his cronies and clansmen to temporarily avoid the edge.

But he is a very ambitious person, the business of several generations of his ancestors, the twenty years of hard work of the father and son, and the exhaustion of the organs, only to have his current achievements, how can he say that he will give up?

Just when he hesitated left and right, and his scalp hurt when he thought about it, his personal guards and attendants came to report again: "King Qiyu, the three thousand heavenly army has landed twelve miles northeast of Taihe City, and after the eight bull crossbows and strong crossbows have defeated the defenders, they are currently building positions in situ, digging trenches, placing deer barricades and horse rejection guns, and preparing to defend strictly, half of their ships have returned, ready to return to the camp to transport troops in a steady stream." ”

Hearing this news, Ge Luofeng's hands trembled obviously, and he glanced at Feng Jiayi, his lips trembled a little: "This is to force us to death......

The young and vigorous Feng Jiayi jumped up angrily: "He won't let us have a good time, and we won't let us have a good time, only three thousand people dare to land, and they simply treat us as nothing, I will lead my troops to kill them all now." ”

"Feng Jiayi is not allowed to underestimate the enemy, and the army dared to do this that day, so naturally he had no fear." Ge Luofeng stood up and ordered: "Point all the troops and horses that can be mobilized in Taihe City, and this king will personally lead the army to attack." ”

When Ge Luofeng arrived at the battlefield with more than 30,000 troops, the temporary position fortifications of the 3,000 Tiance army had been constructed, two trenches had been dug, and the gap in the middle was full of thistles, and behind the second trench was a circle of deer, and behind the deer was a circle of repellent pistols.

Similar to the original formation in Champa, behind the horse rejecting guns was a dense military formation of four layers, the first row was iron shield pikemen, the back three rows of strong crossbowmen, and on both sides of the military formation were catapults and eight-ox crossbows. There were a total of three directions, four military formations, five trebuchets and eight-bull crossbow phalanxes, ready to fight.

This is the first positional battle between the two sides, originally the Nanzhao army should be the defender, but they didn't hold it in front, and now it has become the attacking side, because just as they can't break through this military formation, the 20,000 Tiance army will be continuously transported, and Taihe City may be broken within a day.

Therefore, even if the other party was so tightly prepared, even if the armor of the Tiance Army was far superior to theirs, Ge Luofeng still ordered a strong attack from three directions.

Although Ge Luofeng brought a total of 34,000 soldiers and horses this time, the terrain of the battlefield was so large, more than 30,000 people could not go up together, and could only land in batches.

These Nanzhao soldiers, who were forced to a dead end by the Tiance Army and instigated by Ge Luofeng, rushed to the reef of the Tiance Army one after another like a tide, and then were smashed one after another before they could rush to the ground.

The firepower of the Tiance army is too strong, long-range shooting, the Nanzhao army is not an opponent at all, they can only wear armor and charge with a shield, but before they can rush into eighty steps, it is a round of arrow rain volley, their shield armor can't resist at all, these extremely brave Nanzhao soldiers want to cut wheat and are shot down by strong crossbows.

Then on several occasions, when they finally rushed to the trench, the opponent's catapults and eight-bull crossbows had already fired enough fierce fire oil canisters on the road, and at this time, someone ignited them with rockets, and the attack was resolved in an instant, and then until the flames were extinguished, they could not continue the attack, and all those who rushed close to the trench before were killed by the crossbows.

For an hour, Ge Luofeng tried all kinds of methods, and more than 10,000 people got in, but they didn't even break through the first layer of trenches, and at this time there were reports that those returning warships were actually not transporting troops to reinforce here, but actually transporting cavalry to land elsewhere, 800 cavalry, all the way to break through the Nanzhao defenders of more than 5,000, and were sweeping between Taihe City and Longwei City, all the Nanzhao defenders.

"King, this can't be done, what we can't attack is for now, and we can only defend the ...... with the city" (to be continued.) )