Now, in the imperial palace of Thang Long Mansion, the capital of Cochin, the Empress Dowager Li Shi, the Emperor Li Qiande, the national teacher Li Daocheng, and the general Li Changjie are studying in detail the plan to exterminate Little Helen.

Empress Dowager: "Ladies and gentlemen, I say, it's not very appropriate for us to put our army and people under the command of the Angkor people, if they use our army as cannon fodder in the battle and hide behind to pick peaches, then we are not very bad?" ”

Emperor Li: "Alas, there is no way to do this. We want to exterminate the little gold diamond, but also want to leave a way back for ourselves, if we want to fight the little gold diamond, but we don't want to show our faces, then we can only use their banner and secretly exert our strength. As for the troops we sent out, I had already been mentally prepared, and I knew that these people and supplies would all have to be consumed. ”

Li Guoshi: "Your Majesty, don't be too pessimistic. General Li and I basically agreed with the Angkor people that the Yongtian Mansion where Xiaojinzuan is now building the capital is a quadrilateral, and our troops attack one side, and their troops attack three sides, theoretically, the probability of everyone's death or life is basically equal. ”

Emperor Li: "Actually, to deal with the little golden diamond, I think the most unpredictable thing is their big airship flying in the sky, who knows when that thing will fly on people's heads and throw something that can burn and explode, it can hit us, and we can't help it!" How depressed! ”

General Li: "So, Your Majesty, we have repeatedly told the people of Angkor that our strategy is that when we give an order, everyone must work together and attack it in groups." In this way, this little golden diamond has a flying machine and an artifact magic weapon, and it has time to slaughter the millions of troops before our millions of troops rush to her? We have to use flesh and blood to make a time difference. Let the little golden diamond die under the elephant's hooves and annihilate in the river mud! ”

Queen Mother: "Well, how did she fight us last time in Pakse?" How did she destroy our 100,000 war elephants last time? ”

Li Guoshi: "Alas, well, we don't know the details of the battle until now, but afterwards, I went to see the scene, in the small forest, the trees were seriously damaged, and they should have been destroyed when the war elephants went crazy." There were no traces of burning or explosion of firearms at the scene, which shows that the other side's gunpowder weapons are expensive and the other side is very economical in their use. As for how those elephants, people, horses, etc. were caught by Xiao Jinzuan, I really can't figure it out, it is estimated that some kind of magic such as ecstasy and big fǎ confused people's minds, so they all left with her in a daze. ”

General Li: "This little golden diamond is a big ghost, and most of those who were captured were sent to Luzon and Liuqiu, and even the families of these captives were secretly transported out of the country afterwards. And now, the people working in Yongtian are either tall white people in Europe or small black dwarves in South Asia, and they can't inquire about the language barrier. ”

The Queen Mother: "Then you have to think of a foolproof plan this time, don't repeat the mistakes of the past and make a loss-making deal again." ”

Li Guoshi: "Some time ago, we bought a large number of kerosene lamps, so we accumulated a lot of kerosene. This kerosene is really a good thing, it burns easily, and the fire is big. This time, we have prepared 1,000 small stone throwing machines, ready to put a stone throwing machine every 50 meters on the periphery of Yongtian City, at that time, at the same time, under the order, thousands of machines will be launched, and the rán burning bombs we have researched and developed will burn down the 50 kilometers of wooden fences in Yongtian City in the raging fire and turn to treat our wooden horses. ”

General Li: "In the plan, let's let the fire burn for one day first, so that the Yongtian City of Little Golden Diamond will be gone, and maybe, just by such a fire, Little Golden Diamond and her Siam City will be wiped out." ”

Queen Mother: "If this battle is so easy to fight, then we will do it ourselves, why drag the Angkor people in, they are not good at stubble, they are here to share the dividends of the war." ”

Li Guoshi: "Queen Mother, this matter has to be looked at from two aspects, on the one hand, if we are very handy, if the little golden diamond is burned by us and we are powerless." Then we will immediately break into Yongtian City and rob money, goods and people......"

General Lee: "At that time, we could even let the infantry cavalry, who was the first to rush into the outer ring, throw the rán incendiary bombs we developed in the east, west, and south directions, and throw them at the Angkor people. This elephant is very afraid of fireworks, and if we do this, the elephant herd of the Angkor people will definitely be chaotic, and it is very likely that they will retreat without a fight. ”

Queen Mother: "Well, I have a question. Why do you say that when we found out that the little golden diamond side had no power to fight back, we could break into Yongtian Mansion with an order, and the people of Angkor would not be the same as us, seeing that the little golden diamond was not working, they also rushed into Yongtian Mansion? ”

General Li: "Li Guoshi is very right, although if the small golden diamond about the turtle in the urn fails, we and the Angkor people can see it at the same time, but when we attacked on the northern front, what crossed us was a six-meter-wide artificial river, and there were five very strong wooden bridges on the river, which were the kind of big wooden bridges that could not be used by several elephants. And in front of the eyes of the Angkor people in the other three directions, is the Mekong River. The Mekong River here is more than 200 meters wide at its narrowest point; At its widest point, it is 3 kilometers. There is no bridge on it, and when we talk to the Angkor people, we deliberately avoid the problem of boats, so the Angkor people come from the land, and they don't bring boats, so if they let the elephants wade through the water, this speed is slow, even if they are clever at this moment, one step ahead, we can also catch up and seize the opportunity. ”

Queen Mother: "Oh, it's a bit complicated. Well, can you guys estimate that? If we destroy the little gold diamond at once, how many war dividends will we have? ”

Li Guoshi: "Well, I can't say clearly. Because, now the Yongtian Mansion where Xiaojinzuan built the capital, there is nothing in the outer circle that can be seen. And generally gold and silver treasures, valuables, and artifacts should be placed in her palace. Of course, her palace should be in the inner city of Yongtian Mansion, looking at it from a distance, the flags in the city are fluttering, and none of the government departments have fallen. However, this gate is so tightly guarded that it is impossible to enter at all, so the inside story is unknown. ”

Emperor Li: "National Teacher, just now you said one aspect, one aspect that we are comfortable with. So, the other aspect? You say, I want to hear it too. ”

Li Guoshi: "That's another aspect, I think so. In fact, to this day, we still don't know much about this little golden diamond. After we arrived in Liuqiu, after seeing Xiao Jinzuan and Hu Erke once, we didn't see her for more than ten days. According to her, she and Hu Erke went to Batong in northern Vietnam to visit Hu Erke's parents. Hum! It's nonsense, there is no Hu Erke in the world, where are Hu Erke's parents? After returning to China, I carefully asked the people in Qitong, Badong, and Jiudong, and they all said that no strangers had been to them recently! Therefore, I estimate that this little golden diamond is hiding somewhere to practice art in retreat, maybe he is practicing some kind of ghost and god technique, and he is upgrading his points in customs clearance. And that Hu Erke, I know from the mouth of the light bulb and the tail, she can fly now. She is the concubine of the emperor's cold palace, how can she fly? It must be that these days, she is also practicing martial arts with Xiao Jinzuan, and trying to advance to the next level......"

General Lee: "Slow! Slow! Slow! Slow! What are you talking about? Are you talking about that horse master Hu Erke? Are you talking about that champion Lang Hu Erke? What does this Hu Erke have to do with the emperor's concubine? ”

Queen Mother: "Alas! O General! You're about to change your costume and enter the palace as a great eunuch, and I won't hide this from you anymore, in fact, this is like this......"

General Lee: "Oh! That's what happened! You've been hiding it from me! Oh, I remembered, what happened to the light bulb and tail next to Hu Erke? I think they have a problem too! ”

The Queen Mother: "The two of them, there is a problem, I am quite good at castrating them before releasing them." Alas! O General! Great eunuch, this is the thing, these two ......"

Li Guoshi: "General Li, I'm begging, I'm talking to the light bulb and the tail, you're all wrong!" Now you know! Alas! The price is not small, you have to be a eunuch to know ......"

The Queen Mother: "National Teacher, what you said is ——,, alas, the general can be regarded as sacrificing his life for the country!" ”

Li Guoshi: "That's it, General Li, you are now a great eunuch Li, you can always understand." Thinking of me as a teacher of a country, how can I have any evil thoughts about the bulb and tail that are neither male nor female? I was needed for work, and I was going to check their butts, and you were jealous, weren't you? It's really a big teacher for me. ”

Queen Mother: "Okay, okay, what do you mean by those misunderstandings in the past?" National teacher, you should continue what you just said! ”

Li Guoshi: "Yes, Queen Mother." Where did I say? Oh, I said that the little golden diamond may have practiced peerless martial arts. We saw it in Liuqiu, and the Wu Liugui was tossed naked by the small golden diamond in the ring. In the ocean, she can wreck, burn, blow up ships, and ship ships at will. So, we can't be too careless. I think that if there is another extreme, our soldiers and horses and Angkor's soldiers and horses will fail to tackle the key problems, or return with a big defeat. I think we should be prepared for both, and at that time, we should cover up and kill the Angkorians. In this way, from the point of view of Xiao Jinzuan, we are helping her, we are not her enemies, but her friends, and we still have no face with Xiao Jinzuan, or we are friends. As far as we are concerned, we should be able to capture some of Angkor's men, horses, and elephants by attacking the water dogs, and in this way, we can also make up for the losses of the cannon fodder we have sent. Oh, yes. General, the horses and elephants we sent under the command of the Angkor people will be given to the old, weak, sick and disabled. Ambush your elite soldiers by the way the Angkor people must flee, and if you check it well, this wallet will be bigger than we have dropped. ”

General Li: "Another point, very important, we must be vigorous in encircling and suppressing the little golden diamond, because the flow is the biggest reliance of the little gold diamond, and now the flow of the request is because the wedding is postponed, so the wedding seven days of happiness have become the twenty-five days of the wedding." Now there are fifteen days left before the end of these twenty-five days, and we will get the little golden diamond done in these fifteen days. The best time to attack is when you are most busy. In this way, when the flow of begging has taken a breath, we have already finished here, and then they will not be able to reach it, and it will be too late to regret it......"

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Now, as a Buddhist priest, Wu Sangui is still leading the Angkor wedding delegation to stay in Liuqiu, and as a military officer, Wu Liugui has already mixed in the fleet of Cochin, passing through Thang Long to return to Siem Reap, the capital of Angkor (now the provincial capital of Siem Reap Province in Cambodia, located about 311 kilometers north of Phnom Penh), in later generations, the city developed slowly, but in the present era, Siem Reap is the religious, political, economic, and cultural center of the region, and it is on the edge of Angkor Wat, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. At this time, Angkor Wat was still beginning to take shape, and its completion was only completed during the reign of Suyavarman II, but the "Sangxiang Buddha House" which means "the temple of Vishnu" here has been completed, this Buddha House is a very exquisite and meticulous building, and its significance in Buddhism is even greater, so the Buddha is angry, popular, and it has become the capital of Angkor now. The current king here is called Jayavarman VI (r. 1080-1107). He was originally a prince of a vassal state in the city of Bimai on the Nakhon Ratchasima Plateau. Due to the internal rebellion of Angkor, the war with Champa was lost. He rose to the occasion and seized the throne of Holysabman, becoming the founder of a new dynasty. He claimed that he was a descendant of the mythical Princess Cambodia Po Sayyahuwa and his wife, rather than a true royal ancestor.

Now, Wu Liugui is reporting to him the bits and pieces of the journey, and the special focus is, of course, the founding of Little Helen. For the founding of little Helen, this king Jayavarman VI is very nervous, first of all, the name of this little Helen's new country is "Siam", and now the capital of our Angkor is called "Siem Reap", what does she mean? She's clearly here to argue with us! Secondly, Jayavarman VI did not inherit the throne himself, but also took advantage of the internal and external difficulties of the previous king, Holishavarman III. Now, I heard that this Holishavarman III was not dead, but was hiding in the hills of the north, and he had also gone to Hemingway, the wise man of Helen Jr. Of course, Jayavarman VI was very worried, worried that this little Helen would not only establish a new kingdom, but also that if she came to question the legitimacy of my royal power and support the fallen Holishavarman III, then her own trouble would not be the slightest bit. Thirdly, this little Helen was originally the princess of Cochin, but now she is reversed, so she must not get along well with the current emperor of Cochin, on the contrary, now the relationship between Cochin and Angkor is quite good, then, for little Helen, the friend of the enemy is also the enemy, and it will be difficult for us to get along with this new neighbor anyway.

This Jayavarman VI felt that this battle with little Helen was inevitable, and since this was the case, then take advantage of the fact that little Helen had just moved the capital from Pakse to Wensi, and she was not on her feet, so we took her by surprise, leveled her new nest, overturned her, and captured her alive, so that it could be used by me.

Jayavarman VI ordered the troops, because I heard that this little Helen is still a bit powerful, so this time he sent troops, known as a million!

Angkor is still quite powerful, with 200,000 war elephants alone. In this crusade, 150,000 war elephants are going to be sent over, and one war elephant carries three elephant soldiers, that is, there are 450,000 elephant soldiers on this part.

Wu Liugui said that he asked for 50,000 war elephants, 150,000 elephant soldiers, 50,000 infantry cavalry, plus 100,000 people, or 300,000 people. Wu Liugui said, if we gather another 100,000 foot cavalry, and all the people use Jiaozhi, then there will be a total of 850,000 people, known as a million army, which cannot be counted as an imaginary number.

Wu Liugui said that he had sent people to reconnoiter Yongtian City, where Xiao Helen now built the capital. The Yongtian City is extremely guarded, and there is no way to sneak in and peep, and the construction workers there are all white people from Europe and small black dwarves from Nanyang, so once a person like himself is mixed in, it is clear at a glance, and he can't follow the shadow.

Wu Liugui said that he had fully communicated with the national teachers and generals in Jiaozhi. We have come to a consensus that this little Helen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and has some strange skills, but she is alone and has a limited number of men, and our way to deal with her is to attack her in groups, so that she is overwhelmed, and she cannot take care of the whole situation. So, this time the Cochin people were also very wise, they gave us the command of their army, they also provided a thousand stone throwers and a large number of kerosene rán bombs, I thought about it, how this battle could be fought in the end, it's really hard to say, but, after a fire, after 200,000 elephants trampled, no matter how big that little Helen is, what's the use? Her capital is gone, her administrative center is gone, the yamen that have been built in her city are gone, the officials in those yamen are gone, and if there are some gold and silver treasures in her city, they will definitely be gone. So, wait, wait, her little Helen can still live, can she still have the dream of founding a country? Can she still yell at five and drink six? Will anyone else follow her? Therefore, after this battle, it is difficult to say anything else, and it should not be a problem to break the dream of the founding of this little Helen. Moreover, if we do a good job, after the war, we can wrap most of the soldiers and horses of Jiaozhi on our side, and we should be able to get more than 100,000 people into the account, as well as some stone throwers, kerosene, and war trophies. We can still settle down in the disputed sphere of influence, and we can finally get our feet on the north side of the Mekong......