After the Jiaozhi Third Division moved back to Jiaozhou City from Taiyuan City, the outside world thought that Li Yuntian, who had put down the Jiaozhi rebellion, should return to the court, but to everyone's surprise, he actually stayed and handled the military and political affairs of Jiaozhi in a courtyard near the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division, without mentioning the matter of returning to Beijing at all.

Originally, Huang Fu, the political envoy of Jiaozhi, wanted Li Yuntian to work in the yamen of the political envoy department, but Li Yuntian politely refused, so as not to affect the daily operation of the political envoy department.

Li Yuntian did not leave, naturally no one dared to drive him, the supreme official of Jiaozhi, away, on the contrary, the officials still hoped that he would stay, and now Jiaozhi was in ruins, and Li Yuntian needed to come up with ideas to develop Jiaozhi's agriculture and commerce, and his position and role in Jiaozhi were unparalleled, and it was also a great deterrent to the remnants of the Jiaozhi rebels.

Although Li Yuntian was not in a hurry to return to Beijing, some people could not sit still, and in mid-March, two people came to visit Li Yuntian, these two people were Dogesa and Lundus.

Since following Li Yuntian into Jiaozhou City, Dogessa and Lunders have stayed in the city, and Li Yuntian arranged a depressing errand for the two, and even asked the two to write the national history of the Zhancheng State, which was clearly deliberately making things difficult.

Dogesa and Lundes are the big chiefs above 10,000 people under one person in Champa, how noble their status is, where can they write the history of the country, but since Li Yuntian has given the order, the two of them have to do it.

Before Lundes came to Jiaozhou City, he had already learned from Dogesa what was happening in the Champa Kingdom, and he was shocked to realize that the purpose of the Ming army in the Champa State was not simple, and Li Yuntian left him and Dogesa in Jiaozhou City obviously to put them under house arrest, making it impossible for the two to return to China to govern.

However, to the two of them, they secretly felt fortunate that since the capture of Li Li, the Champa army had already set off to return to China, and the two were really afraid that Li Yuntian would attack the Champa army.

After experiencing a difficult resistance battle with the Jiaozhi rebels, nearly half of the 60,000 Cham troops were killed in the battle, which can be described as a great loss of vitality, and they can no longer withstand Li Yuntian's toss, otherwise they will not be able to protect themselves in the face of the attack of the neighboring Zhenla, let alone against the Ming army.

As the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, since Li Yuntian has arranged an errand for the two, then the two can only be patient and let their subordinates complete it, secretly looking for an opportunity to return to China.

Originally, the two thought that Li Yuntian would soon return to the capital to report to Emperor Xuande, after all, Li Yuntian had completed the holy decree of quelling the rebellion, and Jiaozhi could not be compared with the prosperous Jingshi, so the two would find an excuse to bribe the officials of Jiaozhou City to return to Zhancheng.

But who would have thought that Li Yuntian would not leave for a long time, and actually started official business in Jiaozhou City, which made the two of them miserable in their hearts, the Ming army not only built a set of power system in the Zhancheng country, but also reduced taxes and taxes, and vigorously developed agriculture, fishery, etc., if the two did not go back, I am afraid that the people of Zhancheng would be bought by the Ming army's small favors.

Therefore, by the middle of March, the two of them, who were on pins and needles every day, could no longer stay in Jiaozhou City, so they came to see Li Yuntian and wanted to return to occupy the city on the grounds that they had been on the expedition for a long time and missed their families in their hearts.

"Two chiefs, this is the negligence of this official, who even forgot that your wife and children are still occupying the city."

Li Yuntian deliberately left Dogesa and Lundes in Jiaozhou City, in order to put pressure on the two of them and show that he would definitely win Zhancheng, so how could he let the two go back lightly, after learning the intention of the two, he groaned for a while, and said quietly, "Since the two miss their wives and children, then the official will bring the families of the two to relieve the pain of lovesickness between the two!" ”

Jiaozhou City is thousands of miles away from Zhancheng, and compiling the national history is an important task, so there is no need to go through a lot of trouble, and when the national history is compiled, we can reunite with our families." Dogsa was shocked when he heard this, he didn't want his family to be under house arrest in Jiaozhou City, so he hurriedly excused himself.

"Lord Commander, Chief Dogesa is reasonable, official business is important, and you must not delay your business." Lundes also reacted, and echoed the voice, he didn't want his family to be "invited" by Li Yuntian to Jiaozhou City.

"The two chiefs are dedicated to the public, and the official is deeply admired, and when the two of them have compiled the history of the country, the official will put the wine for the two to practice." Li Yuntian immediately laughed when he heard this, and pretended to be cordial and said to Dogesa and Lunders that he just wanted to make the two of them mess up and experience this painful ordeal.

Dogsa and Lunders were bored in front of Li Yuntian, and left after a few words of greeting with Li Yuntian, it seems that Li Yuntian made it clear that he wanted to trap the two in Jiaozhou City, and the history of the city country has hundreds of years, and it will take at least ten years to compile the history of the country, and during this time, the city has probably become the world of the Ming army.

On the afternoon of the second day after the two looked for Li Yuntian, just as they were discussing how to leave Jiaozhou City in their residence, Wu Qian, who had returned to China with the Zhancheng army, rushed over from Zhancheng in a hurry, bringing the two of them a shocking news:

Originally, it was believed that the outside world had died in the massacre of the rebels, Prince Deen'an was still alive and had returned to Kata, the capital of the city, which was originally a happy thing, but the first thing Prince De'en'an did when he returned to Kata was to gather the fifteen chiefs of the Champa country and announce that he would annex Champa to the Ming Dynasty, so as not to be harassed by the enemy again.

This took the fifteen chieftains by surprise, which meant that Champa would disappear from the rest of the world, so many chiefs objected, but some of the chieftains supported Prince D'En'an, and the two sides quarreled at the meeting, and almost got into a fight.

"Damn, this is definitely the means of the Chief Soldier." After learning this information, Lunders couldn't help but slam his fist on the table and said hatefully.

Obviously, it is not his luck that Prince Deen'an can escape a catastrophe, nine times out of ten he was rescued by Li Yuntian, and then coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, you must know that Prince De'en'an is only seven years old, and he is completely a stinky child, how can he make the decision to merge Champa into Daming? Someone was definitely behind the scenes who instructed him to do so.

Since Prince Deen'an was now under the "protection" of the Ming army, even Wu Qian could not see him, which made Wu Qian feel anxious, and hurriedly rushed to Jiaozhou City to report to Dogesa and Lundes, so that the two of them could take ideas and see what to do next.

"Looks like we've lost." Unlike the angry Lunders, Dogesa was surprisingly calm, silent for a long time, and sighed helplessly.

Li Yuntian not only succeeded in appeasing the people of Zhancheng, but also relied on Prince De'en'an to have a legal basis for annexing Zhancheng, as long as Prince De'en'an was in Li Yuntian's hands, then they were undoubtedly passive, and there was no chance of winning at all.

As for the soldiers' resistance, the combat effectiveness of the Xiaowu Army, Dogsa and Lundes, have witnessed it with their own eyes, not to mention the Xiaowu Army, even the soldiers of the Ming army occupying the city country in Jiaozhi are not opponents.

In Dogesa's view, the biggest killer weapon in his hands is that Zhancheng was listed as a non-conscripted country by Emperor Hongwu, as long as he can use this to compete with Li Yuntian, after all, this is the ancestral training of Ming Taizu, and it is also the foreign policy that the Ming Dynasty has been implementing.

However, if Prince De'en'an took the initiative to join the Ming Dynasty and let the city become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, then it would undoubtedly bypass the ancestral teachings of Emperor Hongwu, and then remove the last obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's annexation of the city.

"Just let Daming swallow us and occupy the city?" Seeing that Dogesa looked very pessimistic, Lunders couldn't help but grit his teeth and ask.

"What else, if I guessed correctly, he won't return to Beijing without getting Zhancheng." Dogesa shook his head gloomily, his words were full of helplessness, he finally understood why Li Yuntian had not returned to the capital at this time, it turned out that Li Yuntian had been waiting to annex the city.

"Father, then let him break the blood flow in Champa and retreat!" Wu Qian raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and couldn't help but interject, and said with a frosty mask, "It's a big deal to fight with them!" ”

"The national strength of the Ming Dynasty is a hundred times that of the city we occupy, and the general army has both civil and military skills, even the extremely fierce Jiaozhi rebels were defeated in his hands, once we fight, we have no chance of winning, but gave the soldiers' lives in vain!"

After all, Dogesa has passed the age of youth and vigor, and he smiled helplessly when he heard this, "Now our army's vitality is greatly damaged, and the morale of the Ming army is like a rainbow, and it is natural to deal with us to occupy the city, and the Ming army is buying the hearts of the people in Zhancheng, once the fight starts, it is not known how the people will choose." ”

"The general soldier is unparalleled in strategy, and the extraordinary people are comparable, and when dealing with the Jiaozhi rebels, he is supplemented by martial arts, and he is mainly Fu, and he gradually won the hearts of the people in Jiaozhi step by step, and also makes the Jiaozhi rebels fall into the abyss step by step, if he also uses this method to deal with us to occupy the city, how many percent of the chances can we have?"

Saying that, Dogesa looked at Lundes and Wu Qian with a gloomy expression, this is not because he is angry with Li Yuntian to destroy his own prestige, but because Li Yuntian is different, he is not like ordinary counterinsurgency generals who blindly fight, but he is patient to start from the people's livelihood to completely solve the root cause of the rebellion, such an enemy is really too terrible.

Dogesa is not afraid of death, if he can prevent the Ming Dynasty from annexing the city, he is willing to sacrifice his life, but in the face of Li Yuntian, he does not see the slightest hope of victory.

What particularly frustrated Dogesa was that the people of Champa were likely to fall into the arms of the Ming Dynasty because of the various policies implemented by Li Yuntian to benefit the people, so that his death would become meaningless, and perhaps even become a rebellion in the mouths of the people.

This is the "strategy of going to the army" upheld by Li Yuntian, showing strong strength to break the opponent's psychological defense, coercing the opponent to submit, and then achieving the goal of surrendering without a fight.

"Are we helpless and sit here and wait for Da Ming to swallow Jiaozhi?" Hearing this, Lundes' brows suddenly frowned slightly, and his expression became gloomy, how could he not know that the young Dingnan general of Daming was very difficult to deal with? I couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness in my heart.

"No, it's come to this, we can only have a chance of life if we take the initiative." Dogesa pondered for a moment, looked at Lunders solemnly, and said in a resolute tone, "Tomorrow we will go to negotiate with the Chief Soldier and strive to return home on the General Day." ”