Of course Fan Jun is not a reckless man, he is a person who fought on the battlefield, and it only took a look to see that Lin Yizhi had never fought, not only because his skin was white and his body was not strong, but more importantly, he was equipped with a sword at his waist, not a knife.

Fan Jun has seen a lot of Han warriors, but he has never seen a sword, Han warriors are accustomed to using ring-headed swords, and most of the swords are scribes.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Fan Jun, who originally wanted to kill Lin Yizhi, heard that Lin Yizhi despised him, so he directly grabbed the conversation, and regardless of King Jin Chen's bitter pleading, he had to fight with Lin Yizhi. His purpose, of course, was to take this opportunity to justifiably kill Lin Yizhi, and then drag Jin Chenguo onto their chariot and fight Yue Guo to the end.

However, what he never expected was that it was a fact that Han warriors practiced ring-headed swords, and it was also true that most of the swords were scribes, but it was definitely not a fact to say that scribes did not know martial arts. The real Han people advocate the dual cultivation of civil and military skills, but they don't like barbarians like Fan Jun like to take the level of martial arts as the only criterion for judging, they pay more attention to talent learning between talent and martial arts, but this does not mean that there are no masters between them, on the contrary, there are very few skilled scribes among Han people, such as Cao Pi, Cao Zhi brothers, such as Shen Xuan, such as Lin Yizhi in front of him.

Fan Jun suffered a loss of ignorance, as soon as his knife was pulled out, he was stabbed in the wrist by Lin Yizhi, disarmed, and the second sword was pointed directly at his neck, so frightened that he didn't dare to move.

Things developed too fast, Fan Jun didn't expect it, King Jin Chen didn't expect it, and the guards who followed Fan Jun didn't expect it, when Lin Yizhi injured his wrist with a sword and the two swords pressed his throat, they didn't even pull out the knife.

Lin Yizhi shook his wrist, the tip of the sword flicked, and he made a cut on Fan Jun's chin. Lin Yizhi frowned, withdrew his long sword, and said with some self-reproach: "I'm really sorry, my swordsmanship is not good, and I can't control it freely, I'm ashamed to hurt you." ”

Fan Jun was so angry that his eyes darkened, if it weren't for the serious injury to his wrist and the inconvenience of his left hand, he really wanted to pounce and fight with Lin Yizhi. A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, Fan Jun may not know such a learned word, but he understands this truth, and it is purely self-deprecating to make trouble any longer, he covered his injured wrist, glared fiercely at the very aggrieved King Jin Chen, and walked away with his personal guards.

It's so stupid to be blameless, how did things get to this point? That's two sentences before and after.

Lin Yizhi was still very ashamed to say that he was not good at learning, and he just wanted to learn from each other, but he didn't expect that his strength was not well controlled, and he actually stabbed Fan Jun. At this time, Wu Yi didn't care whether he was intentional or unintentional, he turned around anxiously twice, and said earnestly to Lin Yizhi: "Since your country's sailor has arrived in my Jin Chen country, no matter what, I should go to meet General Cui and talk about the friendship of the landlord." Please also ask the envoy to lead the way. ”

Lin Yizhi laughed so much that his stomach cramped, he didn't expect things to go so smoothly, this Fan Jun is really a barbarian, he was fooled as soon as he was excited. Funan has no way to take Yue Guo now, and if he wants to be angry, he can only scatter it on Jin Chen's head, so King Jin Chen is not to blame, he wants to greet Cui Qian is fake, and see if Cui Qian can block Funan's attack is true.

At this time, Lin Yizhen didn't know Fan Jun's true identity, let alone that there were 5,000 Funan troops not far from Dunxun, otherwise he wouldn't be out of order. Otherwise, he would definitely inform Cui Qian in advance to let the soldiers stand more majestic. Despite this, Wu Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the majestic Five Thousand Water Division. The number of everyone is about the same, and the Yue Guo Water Master looks to be superior in terms of equipment and spirit, and the ruthless-looking General Cui in front of him is the ruthless character who has just defeated the Funan Water Master with less victories and captured Fan Jinsheng alive, so it should not be a big problem to deal with Fan Jun.

Forced to a dead end by accident, there was no way to do it, so he had to euphemistically express his wish for the help of the Yue Guo Marine, Cui Qian readily agreed, and then rushed back to Cui Qian to prepare for Cui Qian to take over the wind and wash the dust, labor army and other related matters.

Waiting for Wu to leave, Cui Qian sneered: "Zijia, this King Jin Chen is an old slippery head, he doesn't really want to submit to my Yue Kingdom, he is using our strength to bargain with Funan." Be careful, don't be fooled by his face. ”

Lin Yizhi smiled proudly: "The general is reasonable, but when the matter has reached this point, how can he control it?" As long as he agrees to let us land, the initiative will not be in the hands of the general in the future? ”

Cui Qian gritted his teeth and nodded, he thought the same thing.

"What I'm worried about is whether Funan has sent a large army over, how many people there are, that envoy looks like a murderous spirit, maybe a general who leads the army, they know our strength, but we don't know their strength, and we lose one before we fight."

Cui Qian frowned, nodded and said, "I know, I will immediately send scouts to investigate." When you negotiate with King Jin Chen, don't agree too quickly, he should know the details of the Funan people. Besides, we can't fight to the death and let him take advantage of him in the end. ”

"Of course." Lin Yizhi smiled and nodded again and again, with a look of yin damage that did not match his elegant and chic image: "If you want to take advantage, we can only take advantage, when will it be their turn to take advantage?" In my opinion, we can give him a strong voice at most, and if we really want to go to war, we have to go first with the people of Jin Chen Kingdom. Jin Chen is the choke point to the east, whether the king can calmly subdue the southern countries depends on whether he can hold Jin Chen, and we have to deal with more than just these Funan soldiers in front of us. ”

Cui Qian's eyes flashed, and he stopped talking, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "Zijia, can you get the map of Jin Chenguo?" The more detailed, the better. If possible, it would be best to find out the deployment of Jin Chen's troops. ”

Lin Yizhi touched his nose and pondered for a moment: "I will do my best." ”

"Good." Cui Qian's eyes showed appreciation: "The king didn't mistake you, you are really good at screaming and biting." ”

Lin Yizhi's face suddenly fell, no matter how you listen to this sentence, it is not a compliment.

King Jin Chen knelt in front of Fan Jun without blame, weeping bitterly, while reviewing his carelessness, while asking Fan Jun to stay and protect Jin Chenguo, otherwise, with the thousand soldiers in his hands, he would not be able to stop the Yueguo Naval Division, if they forcibly landed, Jin Chenguo would no longer be owned by Funan.

Fan Jun's face was very bad, he was not a fool, of course he could hear the threat in the blameless words. Wu Zhi is telling him that once you leave Jin Chen, then Jin Chen may be "forced" to join the Yue Kingdom, because Jin Chen only has 1,000 soldiers, and he will not be able to stop the attack of the Yue State Naval Division.

"King Jin Chen, don't worry, the king believes in you, and I, Fan Jun, also believe in you." Fan Jun patted King Jin Chen's shoulder with his uninjured left hand, and said with a smile: "The Great God Brahma will also bless you, don't worry, I won't leave." ”

"That ......" pointed helplessly to the guards who were ready to go, as if a child was looking at their parents who were about to leave far away.

"You don't know." Fan Jun lowered his voice: "Yue Guo defeated our sailor, do you know why?" It's because their ships are stronger than ours. Did you see their ships too? ”

Wu Yi nodded hurriedly, and as soon as he saw the dozens of warships, especially Cui Qian's tall Golden Ou, a sense of fear rose in his heart. He had seen the big ships, and every year there were always some big ships passing by Dunson Harbor, but those ships were cargo ships, and they were slow to move, and they always felt like a heavy ox, and they didn't have the domineering spirit that this building ship brings. In order to convince him, Cui Qian also specially raised the thunderbolt and giant crossbow hidden under the deck, and demonstrated the clap rod, when Wu Ji saw the clap rod roaring down with the sound of the wind, hitting the water columns that rushed to the sky, he lamented in his heart, and believed the news that Cui Qian had annihilated the 8,000 Funan sailors.

"We don't have a sailor now, and it's impossible to defeat the Vietnamese at sea." Fan Jun comforted and said: "However, we have enough strength on land, our strength is comparable to theirs, we still have fifty war elephants, and more importantly, we still have you." ”

"Me?" Blameless and trembling, his eyes full of doubt and fear.

"Yes, you are the key to our victory." Fan Jun's face showed a fierce look. "King Jin Chen, if I'm not mistaken, you must have already asked the Yue people for help, and the Yue people must have promised you, right?"

Wuyi's face changed, and he was about to shake his head, but he didn't dare. Fan Jun stared at his eyes, like a hungry wolf staring at a sheep: "You don't have to be afraid, if you don't go, I will ask you to go." If you can lure them ashore, the merit is yours. ”

Wu Yi immediately showed a happy look, and hurriedly nodded and said, "The general is wise, the general is wise." ”

"Do it well, and I'll send someone to inform you." Fan Jun stepped on the horse and walked away. Wuyi had been standing with his waist bowed, with a humble smile on his face, but there was always something strange in his eyes. It wasn't until Fan Jun's figure disappeared into the distance that he straightened up.

Two days later, Lin Yizhi came to the palace again and conveyed to King Jin Chen the terms of the negotiation of the Yue Kingdom, Jin Chen declared himself a vassal to the Yue Kingdom, and paid taxes - this amount was half lower than what Funan demanded - Dunxun Port became the garrison of the Vietnamese naval division, Jin Chen was responsible for the supply of fresh water, grain and other burdens, responsible for the reception of the Han merchants passing through, and reduced the commercial taxes of the Han merchants, and the Yue Guo set up an office here and sent officials to be responsible for the management of the Han merchants. Detailed clauses like these are written on several sheets of paper.

King Jin Chen calculated, the conditions of the Yue Kingdom are relatively favorable, at least compared to the conditions of the Funan Kingdom are much more favorable, although the commercial tax of the Han merchants cannot be decided by the King of Jin Chen, but in general, the King of Jin Chen still has income. But he took into account that Fan Jun's army was pressing, and although the Yue Guo Naval Division was good at fighting, it was a guest army after all, and he might not be the opponent of the Funan Army when he went ashore, so he was dealing with Lin Yizhi on the one hand, and asked the Yue Guo Naval Division to help defend it, and on the other hand, he complained to Lin Yizhi intentionally or unintentionally, Funan is strong, and the little Jin Chen Guo is difficult to be a man in the middle, so please Lin Yizhi give a little time.

Because he didn't get a clear promise from King Jin Chen, Cui Qian didn't dare to go ashore, Fan Jun was ready, but when he saw that the fish didn't take the bait, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, and sent people to urge King Jin Chen to deceive the sailors of the Yue Kingdom to go ashore.

This delay is more than three months, and the time is already June of the fourth year of the Han Republic, and it has entered the hottest season. Cui Qian saw that the negotiation was progressing too slowly, so he asked King Jin Chen to temporarily stay in a harbor in Jin Chenguo, if everyone could negotiate in the end, then naturally there was nothing to say, if it could not be negotiated, he was willing to pay Jin Chen the corresponding fee for this time.

King Jin Chen hesitated, but finally agreed. He already knows the strength of the Yue Guo Naval Division, and the other party can politely discuss with him, instead of directly forcibly stationing him, which has already given him a lot of face, otherwise with his strength of only a thousand foot soldiers, he will not be able to stop the Yue Guo Naval Division from entering the port.

Comparing the two, King Jin Chen felt that it was more comfortable to deal with the Yue Guo sailors, at least not as unreasonable as Funan, and Cui Qian was not as blindly threatening him to cooperate with the action as Fan Jun.

Fan Jun was really anxious. The Yue Sailor has never dared to go ashore, he can only look at the Yue Sailor and drool, no matter how powerful the war elephant is, he can't go into the water to fight, although the Yue Sailor is very close to him, he is helpless. In addition, the things that made him angry came one by one.

Two months ago, a large group of pirates suddenly appeared on the sea near the country of Funan, and these pirates were numerous and well-armed, and they caused great trouble to the country as soon as they appeared. As the country guarding the eastern exit of the Malagu Strait (Strait of Malacca), they have not dealt with pirates, but this time the pirates came too fiercely and strongly, which made them scratch their heads very much. In the past, the pirates were all small boats, at most a boat of thirty or fifty people, and one or two hundred people came, and they came and went quickly, as soon as the sailors of the fallen country appeared, they immediately fled. This time it was different, the boat they drove was the same as the warship of the Touching Falling Division, and it was even stronger, and the number of people also increased, as soon as they set out, there were five or six hundred people, and sometimes even thousands of people, and they actually fought head-on with the Falling Naval Division. The two sides engaged several times, and the water division did not take advantage.

In order to regain their dominance over this part of the sea, they had to go all out, mobilize all their forces, and it took nearly a month to finally find the traces of the pirates. But no one ever thought that when they were inseparable from the pirates, the Yue general Wei Wen led the sailor to arrive, completely breaking the balance of the battle, the water division was not the opponent, the loss was more than half, and the defeat fled, and then Wei Wen and the pirates took advantage of the victory to pursue, first the naval battle, and then the land battle, the momentum was like a bamboo, less than half a month, the king was killed, and the country changed masters.

The defeat of the country made the other subject countries greatly shocked, they faced the aggressive Yue sailors and preferential conditions, they have fallen into the arms of the Yue country, there are two small countries with Funan friendship hesitated a little, the coastal areas were attacked by the pirates, their sailors went out to fight, either directly killed by the pirates, or when they were fighting with the pirates, they were beaten by the Yue sailors who rushed to the news and had a blue nose and swollen eyes, and finally had to surrender.

Of course, the treatment of surrender and the treatment of active dependence cannot be compared, and those who actively depend can obtain more favorable conditions than Funan, and those who surrender can save their lives is good, otherwise when it comes to compensation, I am afraid that it will not be enough for them to pay out all their belongings.

What's worse is that when these subject countries were threatened by the Yue State Naval Division, they all sent a signal for help to Funan, but Funan's reinforcements could not arrive for a long time, and there was not even any news at all. Funan conquered them by strong force, and now that Funan has encountered a stronger opponent, of course they have no obligation to accompany Funan to be unlucky.

Fan Jun got these news, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but he couldn't do anything, he had an army of 5,000, but there were also 5,000 Yue Guo sailors on the sidelines, once he went south, the Yue Guo sailors seized Jin Chen, his army was cut off, and it was very likely that the whole army would be wiped out.

Fan Jun was helpless, on the one hand, he urged King Jin Chen to fulfill the obligations of the vassal state, and on the other hand, he was anxious to Fan Man.

Fan Man was already very anxious. Sun Shao used the captives to create public opinion, those Funan natives who had the benefits of the Yue country were unwilling to serve in the military anymore, and they were forced to do it, so they moved their families to sneak into the sea, dragged their families to the sea, and simply went to Sun Shao, Fan Man was afraid of causing a rebellion, and did not dare to forcibly conscript, but to appease, and those non-indigenous captives who hated Sun Shao did not dare to serve in the military again, even if they were forcibly conscripted, they did not dare to fight with the Yue people again, and if they were caught again, this life worth a pig's money could not be saved. Fan Man was originally able to recruit 100,000 troops, but now the subject countries south of Jin Chen can't send soldiers even if they have soldiers, and the subject countries north of Jin Chen have sent soldiers over, but the conscription of Funan itself is very unfavorable, he is considered to be a quick response, but he only recruited more than 30,000 people, less than half of the plan, with more than 20,000 subject soldiers, a total of less than 60,000 people.

And these 60,000 people are also very unsmooth, Fan Jun was pinned down in Jin Chen Guo and could not move, and Fan Chang's more than 30,000 people in the Changshan area are also very unsmooth, because the advantage of troops is not obvious, Fan Chang in the face of the Wu-Yue coalition army's defensive offensive skills, has not been able to break through, the two sides in the Changshan area repeatedly fighting. The only thing that is really quiet is Temu City, Fan Man originally thought that Sun Shao would take the initiative to attack Temu City, but he didn't expect Sun Shao to be interested at all, he lived on the island for more than three months, patiently waiting for Fan Man's flaws.

Fan Man was anxious, nearly half of the subject countries were pocketed by Sun Shao, and nearly sixty percent of the commercial taxes became Sun Shao's spoils, and more importantly, Funan could not do anything about it, and the remaining subject countries had doubts about Funan's strength, and they all began to wait and see, which further weakened the attack of the Funan army.

Fan Man, who was trapped internally and externally, became irritable, and his originally healthy body also showed his old state, and he began to lose his temper for no reason, whipping his attendants to relieve the depression in his heart. He couldn't understand why Sun Shao, who should have been in a hurry to fight, was now safe and stable, while he, the main army, was passive everywhere, he had fought for so many years, and he had never fought such a battle.

Fan Jinsheng, who exchanged ten war elephants for him, had been thinking about it behind closed doors at home, not going out of the door, and not stepping out of the second door, and on this day, he suddenly received a summons from Fan Man. Fan Jinsheng was very surprised, but he still cleaned up and rushed to the palace to meet Fan Man. As soon as he saw Fan Man, Fan Jinsheng was startled. Fan Man, who was originally full of red face, now has a very bad face, some of his black hair is all white, and the wrinkles on his face have also increased a lot, and he is as old as a drooping old man of seventy or eighty years old.

"It's a very bad situation." Fan Man didn't talk much nonsense, threw Fan Jun's urgent report in front of Fan Jinsheng, and said straight to the point: "The commercial tax of the rising sea was robbed by King Yue, and our income will be reduced by at least half this year, in order to appease the people, we have spent a lot of money, if we don't solve the current dilemma immediately, there will be half a year at most, and we will be unable to continue." ”

Fan Jinsheng glanced at the emergency report, and cried bitterly in front of Fan Man: "It's all my son's incompetence, I buried 8,000 sailors in the first battle, and gave away the rising sea, but now I can only watch the Yue Guo sailors run rampant but can't do anything." ”

"Humph!" Fan Man looked at Fan Jinsheng and sneered twice, but his words showed deep sadness: "You can't be blamed for this matter, we were all deceived by him, Fan Zhan, Fan Xun, you, including me, all fell for this King of Yue." He deliberately annihilated our army's sailors several times, first bluffing, and then hiding his strength, from beginning to end, in order to lure us into the fool. Alas, no one expected that the strength of the Yue Guo Naval Division would be so strong, if we had known earlier, how could we let you take the risk. ”

Fan Jinsheng was very uncomfortable when he heard it. Fan Man has never served anyone in his life, but today he showed a tone of regret, which shows that the situation has hit him very hard, so big that it almost crushes his confidence. Fan Man is the foundation of the entire Funan country, if he is shaken and has no confidence, then the future of Funan is very worrying.

"Although Ah Chang is not going well, he will not be defeated in a short period of time, there is a dense forest to cover it, even if there is a small setback, Wu Yue people do not dare to drive straight in." Fan Man said to himself: "The most anxious thing now is Jin Chen, the Yue people have captured so many subject countries and occupied the rising sea, if we can't defeat them as soon as possible, take the subject countries back, and they have a firm foundation, it will be difficult for us to recover." Therefore, I would like to personally levy Jin Chen. ”

"Pro-conscription?" Fan Jinsheng was taken aback, and after a while, he shook his head again and again: "King, if you are not in Temu City, what if Sun Shao comes to attack the city?" ”

"I don't do it myself, who else can reassure me." Fan Man looked at Fan Jinsheng with pity, originally Fan Jinsheng was a suitable candidate, he had great achievements, and he was his eldest son, if he rushed to Jinchen with more than 10,000 people, Fan Jun would definitely not have any ideas, it should be no problem to take Jinchen and open up the passage to the south. But now that Fan Jinsheng has been captured by the Yue, his own confidence has been shattered, and his prestige in the army is gone. In this case, the only way to do this is to let him defend the city and take people to Jinchen to relieve the siege.

However, Fan Jinsheng's worries are not unreasonable, if Fan Man takes someone to Jinchen, Sun Shao may attack Temu City, once Temu City is lost, Funan Kingdom is not dead, and those vassal countries will definitely turn the spearhead, show their sharp teeth to him, and rush to serve King Yue. Fan Man knew that he was not as polite as Sun Shao when he conquered these subject countries, and at least half of these subject countries had a blood feud with him.

Fan Jinsheng thought of it, and of course Fan Man thought of it, he sneered and looked at Fan Jinsheng with fierce eyes: "I'm not afraid of him coming, I'm afraid that he won't come." ”

Fan Jinsheng suddenly realized.

(To be continued)