The surviving Daman did not seek death after that, probably it was difficult for those who had died once to have the courage to do it a second time, but she scared the girls in the yard miserably. Because she will take turns to change her black clothes and white-short skirts every day, and every day she wears a white dress, she says that she is a little man...... The girl in charge of looking at her thought it was a ghost. They reported the matter to the Sun family, but the Sun family couldn't do it, so they invited a Taoist priest to come in and exorcise the ghosts to appease people's hearts, but Daman was still like that.

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The Annam Prefecture was located in Jiā Prefecture, which was not far from the straight line distance of Nanzhao, but the southern country was high in high mountains and dense forests, and the roads were rugged and difficult to attack. After receiving the edict to settle the war within two months, Du Hu Yang Siqiao felt that time was pressing, and he did not dare to slack off and immediately marched with his troops.

The Tang soldiers mainly gathered in the military town of Jiāzhou in Annam, and they had to mobilize and assemble relatively quickly, but the reinforcements of the five edicts were slow to gather. Yang Siqiao asked the Shaomin Alliance to converge at the Burmese village on the Nanzhao border, and first led 2,000 cavalry to the west. On the one hand, he ordered reinforcements from various tribes, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter to Nanzhao Dazhai to give Pi Luoge an ultimatum.

The letter demanded two things: to immediately stop the illegal attacks on the Heman tribes, to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Tang officials; Tie Pi Luoge to the Tang Army barracks and send Chang'an to ask for guilt. Otherwise, war will begin.

Of course, it is impossible for Pi Luog to accept this condition, isn't it a brain disease to take the initiative to be a prisoner, and now he still holds the military and political power of Nanzhao, and it seems that war cannot be avoided if he does not agree to the conditions. In fact, as soon as Yang Siqiao led his army into the territory of Nanzhao, he constantly faced small attacks and harassments, and the enemy soldiers inflicted slight losses on the Tang army officers and men by virtue of their familiarity with the jungle.

The reinforcements of the Five Edicts had not yet arrived, and the Tang army had no advantage in the field, but fortunately they brought a lot of local pro-Tang guides, otherwise the march would have been reduced to more numerous. The main opponents of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty, the northern nomads, the cavalry is relatively strong, but in the south, it is difficult to find even a flat land the size of a polo field, and the cavalry cannot play a role at all, but those elusive natives are more adapted to the environment. Therefore, the army led by Yang Siqiao took the heavy infantry of the front team as the main combat arms, and brought some mules and horses only for camel grain and grass baggage, and the vehicles were difficult to carry.

The march was still divided into three armies, the forward opened the road with many barbarians who were familiar with the local situation, the rear army escorted the baggage and the palace, and the Chinese army was the main force of the Tang soldiers led by Yang Siqiao himself.

He is a eunuch, but unlike most eunuchs in the Daming Palace, he does not look girly at all; It is not similar to the five big and three rough eunuchs like Gaolis. Yang Siqiao is dark and thin, and it is even darker after a few years in the south, and his appearance is not good, and he has a pair of small eyes, which are attentive but will make people feel cold. This ruthless guy is well-known in the south, and when he quells the rebellion, he often kills prisoners and kills innocents indiscriminately, and only because he won the battle did not have the imperial history to find him unhappy.

At this time, he was riding on a horse and holding a kettle and poured it up, his face was full of sweat, and he asked with a frown: "How far is the Burmese village?" ”

"It's only more than ten miles away."

Yang Siqiao nodded, looked up at the shade of the trees above his head, the leaves blocked most of the scorching sunlight, and the road was printed with colorful sunlight and tree shadows, but it was still very hot. The pavement and the shade of the trees and trees seem to form a big steamer, and it is as uncomfortable as it is. What was even more uncomfortable was that in order to guard against a sneak attack along the road, the soldiers had to march in armor.

On both sides of the road, some brutes were on guard, and as they walked, they watched the movements in the woods; In the center was a large queue of infantry, and although the formation still maintained its shape, everyone was untouched and barely spoken...... One word: hot. The people in armor felt like the iron on their bodies was roasted red, and no one's linings were dry and soaked with sweat.

Yang Siqiao shouted loudly: "Pass the order and put some salt in the kettle, otherwise people won't be able to stand it." ”

A general in the back asked curiously, "Yang Gong, isn't it more thirsty to put salt?" ”

Yang Siqiao only relied on a few years of experience in fighting in the south, and he couldn't say why for a while, but after thinking about it, he finally said: "Sweat is salty, and if you sweat too much, you must put salt in the water." ”

At this moment, a horse ran in the opposite direction along the road, ran to Yang Siqiao's horse and stopped, jumped down from the horse and knelt down on one knee and said, "Yang Gong, the forward has been ambushed!" There were potholes in the road, and the enemy soldiers rushed out of the woods, and there were many of them. ”

"Stop!" Yang Siqiao shouted.

A general stepped forward and said, "The last general is willing to lead his troops to reinforcements as soon as possible." ”

Yang Siqiao pondered for a moment and said: "Maybe it's just a feint, wait until Li Dayou can't stand it, and he will send someone again." ”

As soon as the words fell, another rider rushed behind and said urgently: "Report!" The enemy soldiers suddenly attack the rear army! ”

"The weight of grain and grass is their real plan, go to reinforcements quickly!" Yang Siqiao ordered, "Order Yang Meng, come and see you if you have lost your grain and grass!" ”

"Yes."

Yang Meng is Yang Simiao's godson, not a eunuch, just surnamed Yang and from a humble background, he simply recognizes Yang Simiao as his godfather, and has always been very reused by Yang Simiao, who is regarded by him as his left and right arms.

When the Chinese reinforcements galloped past, they heard only people shouting that the horses had been neighed, and several horses were running around in terror with fires burning on their backs. The road was narrow and not conducive to gathering people to fight, and Yang Meng's troops except for a few bands of soldiers and horses in the middle, everyone else was scattered among the mules and horses carrying supplies to fight with the rushing enemy. Those barbarians were shorter than the armored Tang soldiers, and they didn't have decent equipment or even like an army, but they were agile and jumped up and down like monkeys.

At this time, someone in the team shouted: "Reinforcements are coming, kill!" ”

The morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted, and they roared together in the battle, and suddenly they were able to pull out the mountain-like spirit, and the anger echoed between the mountains and rivers to be the cry of the Han soldiers in a distant country far away from home.

The Chinese army reinforcements took the lead in riding horses from the rugged road, followed by a soldier who resisted the flag, and wrote a big Chinese character on the flag: Tang.

At this moment, a "boring" sound was heard, and the handsome helmet was suddenly tilted to the side, and a short arrow bounced to the ground. The general didn't bother to hold his helmet to discern the momentum, looked up and saw a few figures on the tree, and immediately opened his bow and arrow "bang" a string, and the four Dan bows and arrows went away in response, and a moment later a monkey-like thing fell from the tree with a scream. The soldiers who followed him threw arrows at the tree, and the feathers of the arrows flew like a shower of raindrops, and the people above were hit by the arrows and fell down.

The reinforcements then killed the general from the side of the road, and at this moment, I saw a "bloody man" in front of him wielding a two-sided axe, who was not Yang Meng? I saw that the guy was nine feet tall and as strong as a mountain, and he never used strategy and tricks to fight, just one word in his name: fierce. The two-sided axe was as light as threading a needle and thread in his hand, and when it touched something, no one could get close to it when it touched something, and people's heads, arms, and broken weapons flew in the blood. There were still many arrows behind him, but seeing the light and fluttering arrows of Nanzhao in steel armor, I am afraid that they would not be able to penetrate.

"Brother Yang, I'm here!"

Yang Meng wiped the blood on his face and looked at it, and shouted in a rough voice: "Let's kill him together!" ”

The corpses are wailing all over the field, the mountain road is as terrifying as a slaughterhouse, although the number of Nanzhao soldiers is large, they can't kill the Tang soldiers, this has not yet formed a formation, and the combat effectiveness after the formation is even worse than the scattered group fight. After a long battle, countless corpses were left in the woods on the way, and the enemy soldiers finally retreated into the forest. The Tang soldiers could not pursue deep into the dense forest, so they had to cease fighting.

At this time, I don't know who shouted "Long live Datang", and the morale of the Chinese army was high in front of the battle, and then they raised their weapons and shouted: "Long live...... Long live the ......" shouted that the earth shook like an invisible pursuer, encircling and annihilating the confidence of the barbarians who retreated into the mountains and forests, and inflicted a huge blow on their hearts.

After a short rest, the Chinese army began to pack up and count the battlefield, and the loss of soldiers and grain and grass was not large, but there were a few mules and horses with grain and grass tied to their bodies and could not get rid of them after they caught fire, and they were burned to death. Yang Meng ordered: "Bury the burned horses and our people, and leave the monkey corpses alone, they will bury them themselves, we have to keep up with the Chinese army." ”

Foiled a large-scale raid, and the journey was much more peaceful. The attack encountered by the striker was really a feint, failed to defeat the striker, and retreated after a while, and the generals praised Yang Gong for being like a god.

The three armies continued to advance, and walked more than ten miles until late in the evening before approaching the target. There is a shallow river in front of it, and the cottage is faintly in sight on the opposite side. There are very few cities in the land of the Six Edicts, most of the jù points are the kind of cottages opposite, the city of Jiāzhou in the capital of Annam is an old city and not built by barbarians, I heard that it seems to be built by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when he destroyed Nanyue, and later it was only repaired many times on this basis. At this time, the southern kingdom was still very backward and still in a slave society.

Yang Siqiao climbed up the hillside and looked at the generals for a while and said: "This earthen village, if it weren't for the high mountains and dense forests, the siege equipment would be difficult to reach, and it could be bulldozed directly." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Yang Siqiao saw the sky and ordered later: "Set up camp and repair first, start the battle early tomorrow morning, and break the city within one day." ”

"The last general will obey!" Everyone listened very comfortably to Yang Siqiao's confident words.

The soldiers then divided the labor and cooperated, some felled wood, some piled up and set up camp on the riverside, there were many snakes and insects in Nanzhao, and there were all kinds of annoying poisons, and at night people lit bonfires around the camp, and sprinkled sulfur everywhere to set up sentinels, and then rested. The fire on this side of the river is bright, the flags are fluttering, and the people in the earthen village on the opposite side are under great pressure.

Yang Siqiao had not slept in the tent, and ordered his subordinates to put the four treasures of the study room to grind ink, he lifted the pen and dipped it in ink and pondered for a long time, and then wrote on the paper: Annan Du protected Yang Siqiao's head, and the minister led the army to the Burmese village on May 23, and attacked it in the morning of the next day, and pulled it out in one day.

Yang Meng, the godson who was sitting at the bottom of the house, asked, "What is the godfather writing?" ”

Yang Siqiao read it again, and Yang Meng smiled: "Before I fight, my godfather has written all the good news." ”

"There are still all kinds of troubles after taking this village tomorrow, so it's better to write it first and save a lot of money." A