In the dense jungle, there is an army passing through a small road overgrown with weeds, Hu Yanping wiped the sweat on his face, looked up at the sun that was covered by the dense forest, and estimated that the time was almost noon, so he instructed a middle-aged native general beside him: "General Li, let the soldiers stop and rest, and then move forward after lunch!" ”

"Yes! The villain is going to give the order! After hearing this, the native general immediately agreed, turned around and ran to convey the order, and after a while, the entire advancing army finally slowly stopped, which also made Hu Yanping nod with satisfaction.

The local general who gave the order was named Li Rixing, who was a military general who originally occupied the city, but although he served in the city, he was not originally a Champong person, but a Jiaozhi person, and he also had some relatives with the king of Jiaozhi Li Rizun, Li Rixing was still Li Rizun's cousin, but when Jiaozhi attacked the city many years ago, the army led by Li Rixing was surrounded by the Zhancheng people, and as a result, Li Rixing surrendered to the city in order to save his life, but he didn't expect that the city was defeated later, and he didn't have the face to go back, so he has been living in the city.

Some time ago, the Great Song Dynasty occupied the coastal area of the city, Li Rixing seized the opportunity to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty again, and actively cooperated with the actions of Hu Yanping, which also made him very valued by Hu Yanping, this time Hu Yanping organized the native army to attack the inland forces that occupied the city, Li Rixing became Hu Yanping's right and left hand, and he worked very hard, which won Hu Yanping's attention.

After seeing the army stop, Hu Yanping also found an open space, but he didn't dare to sit down rashly, because the ghost place of Zhancheng was full of poisonous insects, snakes and ants. If you're not careful, you might even get your life into it, so he first used a knife to scare away some bugs after a few strokes in the grass. He put a thick piece of cowhide on the ground and sat down.

Previously, Hu Yanping received an order from Zhao Yan to organize an army to attack those forces in the interior of the city that were unwilling to surrender, and after these forces were annexed to each other before, there were ten strong forces left, and now Hu Yanping had destroyed three of them.

Hu Yanping led the army, which was mainly composed of natives, in addition to a small number of Great Song soldiers. This time I went to attack one of the forces called the Qingjian Tribe, which was a force under the control of the Great Patriarch of the tribe, and it was considered a relatively powerful one among the remaining forces. If it can be destroyed, maybe the remaining forces can surrender on their own.

From the morning to the present, Hu Yanping is indeed tired, especially in the hot weather of Champa. Sweat as long as you move. It's just that Hu Yanping is a burly northern man, his body type is really not suitable for this hot environment, the clothes on his body are also wet and dry, and now they are sticky to his body, although he feels very hungry in his stomach, but he has no appetite, but Hu Yanping still took out the dry food and gnawed on it without a mouthful, otherwise he would definitely not be able to support it this afternoon.

At this time, Li Rixing came back from arranging the rest of the army. Seeing that Hu Yanping had no appetite for dry food, he immediately stepped forward. He took out a glass bottle from his arms and said with a smile: "The weather is hot, the general must not have much appetite, but I still have a bottle of chili sauce here, the general might as well try it!" ”

"Huh? You haven't even finished your chili sauce yet? Hu Yanping looked at the bottle of red and bright chili sauce that Li Rixing put in front of him, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva, because the weather is hot here in Zhancheng, many soldiers from the Great Song Dynasty are not adaptable, and other aspects are fine, but because of the hot weather, the soldiers have no appetite and make people have a headache, after all, if they don't eat enough, they are more likely to get sick, and diarrhea here in Zhancheng may pull people to death.

After Zhao Yan knew about this, he thought that the meals in Southeast Asia in later generations were generally inseparable from chili peppers, because they wanted to use chili peppers to stimulate people's appetite, so he sent a batch of chili sauce to Champang, no one thought that it would be really useful, chili peppers can indeed enhance people's appetite, and finally solved a problem for the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

After the chili pepper was tried by Zhao Yan in the capital, it has spread to all parts of the country in recent years, but the cultivation of chili pepper has not yet formed a scale, so the chili sauce that Zhao Yan can purchase is relatively limited, plus the evil ghosts on the Luzon side also need chili peppers, which leads to a shortage of chili sauce in the army. It's just that they have been walking on the road for a few days, and Hu Yanping's chili sauce has long been eaten, but they didn't expect Li Rixing to have it.

"Hehe, the last general has long been used to this hot weather, so it doesn't matter if he eats chili sauce or not, so he deliberately stayed to honor the general!" Li Rixing said with a flattering smile, he was determined to hug Da Song's thigh, so he spared no effort to tie Hu Yanping.

Hu Yanping never knew what politeness was, he patted Li Rixing's shoulder and praised the other party a few words, then took the chili sauce and sniffed it deeply, the familiar cold and spicy taste immediately made people appetite, and at that moment he wiped his hand on his body indiscriminately, stretched out his fingers and dug out a piece of chili sauce and wiped it on the dry food and ate it, although he was sweating all over his head, he couldn't stop at all.

"General, you can't swallow good things alone, bring me some too!" At this time, the other Song soldiers smelled the smell of chili peppers, and they all came up and shouted, Hu Yanping didn't have time to hide it, but he was snatched by a group of subordinates and eaten up, and he scolded his mother angrily, but unfortunately these veteran ruffians didn't care at all, and when the bottle returned to his hand, it was like being licked by a dog, and he couldn't even float out of the oil star when he poured it into the water.

After a few days of arduous marching, Hu Yanping and their army finally reached the sphere of influence of the Qingjian Department, and this big tribe also learned the news that Hu Yanping led the troops to clear the news, but they were not willing to be captured, but organized their troops to prepare for defense, so as soon as Hu Yanping arrived here, he immediately started a big battle with the Qingjian Department.

Hu Yanping organized 30,000 native troops this time, and there were also 2,000 Great Song Dynasty soldiers, of which 30,000 native troops were naturally the main force of this time to clear the local forces in Zhancheng, and the 2,000 Song army soldiers were mainly responsible for the use of firearms, when the attack of the 30,000 native army was hindered, they would use firearms to tear open a hole in the opponent's defense, this tactic was almost a hundred trials and tricks in Zhancheng, after all, for the Cham people who were still in a semi-ignorant state, firearms were simply like the weapons of the legendary gods, and they could not compete with them at all.

Qingjian Department almost all adult men armed, ready to fight to the death with Hu Yanping's army, at the beginning of the 30,000 native army attack was indeed very unsmooth, and the casualties were also very large, and finally Hu Yanping had to send firearms again, speaking of the climate here in the city is hot and humid, firearms are easy to be damp and cannot be used, so in order to ensure the use of firearms, it is necessary to invest a huge cost to preserve and transport firearms, such as a cannonball must be wrapped in waterproof oilpaper first, and then packed in a lime box, The outside is wrapped with a waterproof tarpaulin, so as to ensure that the shells will not get wet, it can be said that the cost of using a shell here is much higher than in the Song Dynasty, so Hu Yanping is not willing to use firearms unless it is absolutely necessary.

As soon as the firearms come out, who will compete? The Qingjian Department also had no resistance in the face of firearms, which made Hu Yanping's next war very smooth, and finally it took less than ten days to break through the main city where the Qingjian Department was located, and captured the big chief of the other party, and finally Hu Yanping left a part of the army to temporarily manage the Qingjian Department, and then there would be officials to replace them, and he himself escorted the prisoners of war back to the capital of Zhancheng.

Qingjian was so easily destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty, so that the remaining six major forces in the city were also greatly shaken, and soon a few forces were not as good as the forces of the Qingjian Department to the Great Song Dynasty to express their submission, and the remaining forces were also hesitating, Hu Yanping was very tough on this, and once again sent troops to destroy the largest of them, as a result, those hesitant forces also all expressed their submission, and handed over their military power, and at the same time, the officials sent by the Great Song Dynasty also arrived at these forces to take over the local administration, For a time, the entire city of Zhancheng was finally completely controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, of course, nominally the king of Zhancheng was ruling the city, but the day when the Great Song Dynasty completely annexed the city was not far off.

After the unification of the city, Hu Yanping can finally take a breath, during this time in the city of Champa everywhere to fight, the process of fighting is very smooth, but the march on the road is very hard, in fact, most of the time they are in the jungle shuttle, the clothes on their bodies have not been dried all day long, and there are many generals of the Great Song Dynasty who died in the jungle, some were bitten to death by poisonous insects and beasts, some died of illness, this non-combat attrition is very serious, fortunately, the main force of this war is those natives, Otherwise, if the Great Song army is used, I don't know how many casualties will be caused in the end?

In addition, with the unification of Champ, Zhao Yan's plan to annex Champa finally began to prepare, first of all, he planned to build the same cement road in Champa to reduce the blockage of traffic in the jungle, so that all parts of Champa can be closely linked, increase the rule of the Great Song Dynasty over Champ, as for the choice of road repair is also very easy, before Hu Yanping captured a lot of prisoners of war, now these prisoners of war can just be used as the main force to build roads, as for cement, don't worry, several major cement factories built in the south have begun to supply cement, and it is definitely no problem to build a few roads in ChampongIn the end, the king of Zhancheng asked the Great Song Dynasty to submit a letter to request that it be attached, so that the Great Song Dynasty could justifiably accept the territory of Zhancheng.

However, just when Zhao Yan was preparing to annex the city, he suddenly received a secret letter from the Thang Long Mansion in Jiaozhi, and when he finished reading the content of the letter, he couldn't help but shout: "God help me!" (To be continued......)